Immigrant immigrants, he developed early on a profound sense of community. A commitment to helping others. His father was a veterans, and his mother a seamstress. They instilled in him a humility and selflest work ethic that he maintained throughout his entire life. The mayors father passed while he was just a teenager, but heart break could not derail him. Ed earned a scholarship from Boden College a prestigious liberal arts college in maine, and after graduating, he relocated to the bay area where, like so many of us, he fell in love with the city that he would call home for the rest of his life. He attended balt law school at the university of californiaberkley and joined the asian law caucus. Ed lee fought against discrimination, working on the front lines to keep tenants from being evicted. He was, from the dawn of his career, an advocate for the powerless and the voice for the overlooked. As a director of the Human Rights Commission and the director of the department of public wo
Please place your speaker cards in the basket to the right of the lectern and they will be called in the order received. Will you please show the slide. Its our custom to begin and end with a reminder, the office of Small Business is the only place to start your new business and best place to get answers to your questions about doing business in San Francisco. The office of Small Business should be your first step when you have a question what to do next. You could find us online or in person at city hall, best of all, all of our services are free of charge. The commission is a place to voice your concerns about policies that affect Economic Vitality of if you have questions start here. Thank you. And welcome. Item 1, call to order and roll call. Commissioner stephen adams. Here. Commissioner kathleen dooley. Here. Commissioner mark dwight. Here. Commissioner ortiz cartagena is absent. Commissioner irene yee riley. Here. Commissioner zouzounis. Here. Public comment allows the public to
Actually starting to see the fruit of that strategy long before there was this data. President buell commissioner harrison. Commissioner harrison ornamental beds, was it the absence or they were not kept well . A park is never punished for a feature that the park doesnt contain. Its only what is at the park that is not maintained. You talk about ornamental bed, what is that . Its a piece of landscape that has planting. Its not necessarily a box, but it could be. If you look in a different neighborhood playground, center beds might be considered around port smith for example, the beds that align sort of the kearney and stockton around the perimeter of that park. We have a mix of landscapes. We have lawn, we have so the ornamental bed. Lawn is different, but where were actually planting plants and arranging beds, we consider those ornamental beds. Using port smith as example, that is a problem. That area. Considering that, and then getting to the equity like the commissioner mentioned, i
Im jane grass, im ceo of mercy housing nationally. But i was in the role that doug is in and im delighted to be here and see the development come to fruition. Its been a few years. Some of us remember 1989 and then the long moment of what are we going to do, what are we going to do . Heres what were going to do, were going to develop 108 units of Affordable Housing in this wonderful neighborhood. There are a lot of people to thank. Im not going to thank them all today. Im sure youre happy to hear that. Theres a long list. Just know you are all thanked and some of the speakers will acknowledge all of you, no one is to think theyre being left out on purpose. When we step into the completed property in 18 months or however long it is, well do the official and proper thank yous. This is a village obviously and we acknowledge that. This is a great legacy of our former mayor, ed lee. And we all have been shocked by his passing and you cant start an event like this, which really does, you kno
Comment during the meeting is limit today three minutes per speaker, unless otherwise established by the precider of the meeting. Speakers are encouraged but not required to state their name. Please place your speaker cards in the basket to the right of the lectern and they will be called in the order received. Will you please show the slide. Its our custom to begin and end with a reminder, the office of Small Business is the only place to start your new business and best place to get answers to your questions about doing business in San Francisco. The office of Small Business should be your first step when you have a question what to do next. You could find us online or in person at city hall, best of all, all of our services are free of charge. The commission is a place to voice your concerns about policies that affect Economic Vitality of if you have questions start here. Thank you. And welcome. Item 1, call to order and roll call. Commissioner stephen adams. Here. Commissioner kath