Of Affordable Housing throughout San Francisco required the collaboration of a host of public agencies, developers, consultants, contractors, funders, and, most importantly, the residents of Hunters Point eastwest and westbrook themselves. The program demonstrates the citys commitment to leaving none of its residents behind and we are very proud to have been part of it. None of this would have been possible without the vision and leadership of our local elected and appointed officials, many of whom are here today and well do some shoutouts a little bit later. Thank you for celebrating with us. Lets get started. It gives me special pleasure to introduce our first speaker. Ill tease you a little bit here, see if you can think about who that would be. Shes a native san franciscan. A former Redevelopment Agency and Fire Department commissioner. Former executive director of the africanamerican art and culture complex in the western addition. President of the board of supervisors. You might
Show up and vote, bill, because i think your call to me involved a very large check as well. Donate as well. He left that part out, but feel free. Bill, i hate to break it to you. When john arrived, you were not only the oldest guy, but not quite the funniest guy either. John, were going to give credit where its due. Bill, thank you, very well said. Next up is another of our codevelopers and the lead provider of Supportive Services for our residents here at Hunters Point eastwest in westbrook. David sobel is the c. E. O. Of the Housing Development corporation. A 31yearold communitybased nonprofit located here in bay view, Hunters Point. Over the last six years david has assembled support and staff. Under his leadership, the organization has grown from four people to a staff of 30, which provides Housing Development, preservation, financial empowerment, counselling, Supportive Services, Economic Development opportunities to over 5,000 low and moderate income residents every year. Also w
Dersnd. Slickitsne repte d you think about the security . I likethe fact that they want to keep me safe. Reporter just spoke with one of the festival directors. They say so far, so good. There have been very few bottlenecks at the new security checkpoints, everybody playing by the rules and ose ear backpack ive got to say going in, i wasnt a huge bluegrass fan, but im changing my mind about all this. Cornell, tell us some of the facts on stage who are this years headline performers . Reporter lots of people performing this weekend, larry. Weve got robert plant from led zeppelin fame, emmy lieu harris, judy collins. Tank and the bangas from new hiphop, funk. They definitely put the hardly in hardly strictly bluegrass. Now the question, its not only that festival butle week. Spencer christian has our forecast. Were off to a good start. Nice sunny skies today. Let me give you a look at a couple camera shots. You can see how brighik that. Lets go to our festival. Heres our hardly strictly
The process, which means that we need people who really meant what they want to do to be in that committee. The civil grand jury members are volunteering 500 hours per year. Nonpaid. You, the board of supervisors in here are paid. Please, take some time to read the recommendation, work with Department Heads to do the work. Started from the effectiveness from the information, website, safety working with the police and the San Francisco m. T. A. We talk about recommendation, and we also know that there is no accountability. Whether people do it or not the civic grand jury members the former or current one will not be able to come in after you or the board of supervisors and Department Heads to implement what we recommend. So we are asking you since you are paid and elected and you wanted to do the best to prevent death and safety for people in San Francisco, i urge you to follow the recommendation and findings. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. Thank you very much for having me, s
The e. V. Readiness would cover some of those properties that you mentioned that are in the planning or entitlement or yet to be built phase. So when theyre built, they will be e. V. Ready. That will take care of all New Buildings going forward. The existing multifamily unit dwellings, thats still a challenge. We started with the e. V. Readiness ordinance. Were now working on this initiative for private sector garages. Weve done the same for our municipal garages. So that is a bit of the next frontier. Its something weve been looking at, but its challenging from a infrastructure and cost perspective, but its still something were working on. Because the need for charging as we transition the entire fleet is going to continue to grow. Were on step 2 or 3 here and there is a few more after that. Supervisor peskin i look forward to having those conversations with you and your office going forward. Any questions, supervisor safai . Supervisor safai yes, thank you. First of all, i would like