For. Keeping. Good morning and welcome to the grand opening dedication ceremony. Celebration of the internet africanamerican museum in. Charleston, South Carolina. I am so honored be with you this morning. And as i look out into jacksons walk into harbor where over ten 100,000 africans first touched the soil of the United States. America right here where are seated. Its a lot lot. Yes. This location, one of the most prolific slaving warehouses in operation ins in history. But now, today, we reclaimed land and honor. The countless lives lost and enslaved with a monument to our history, our families, our heritage our contributions and our future the waters. The shores here are the same waters that connect us back to africa, the same waters which carried our ancestors and dreams, the hopes and dreams preserved inside the museum above us. And just as the water holds memory and brings alive tide pools behind you ebb and flow across the shadows. Those who did not make it beyond this site, bu
For. Keeping. Good morning and welcome to the grand opening dedication ceremony. Celebration of the internet africanamerican museum in. Charleston, South Carolina. I am so honored be with you this morning. And as i look out into jacksons walk into harbor where over ten 100,000 africans first touched the soil of the United States. America right here where are seated. Its a lot lot. Yes. This location, one of the most prolific slaving warehouses in operation ins in history. But now, today, we reclaimed land and honor. The countless lives lost and enslaved with a monument to our history, our families, our heritage our contributions and our future the waters. The shores here are the same waters that connect us back to africa, the same waters which carried our ancestors and dreams, the hopes and dreams preserved inside the museum above us. And just as the water holds memory and brings alive tide pools behind you ebb and flow across the shadows. Those who did not make it beyond this site, bu
House. It seems to me we can increase housing on the sites we hold and so it teams to me we should target the projects if only we can get the financing resources available. Id like to work with you and if theres not a way ive been asking the nonprofits to do and the city and our staff here to to look at the projects coming up not as individual projects but theres efficiencies if youre going to build 2,000 units of housing. The first three sites, is there not a way to have efficiencies in designs and operations that can being looked at where we pull resources. Perhaps its negotiating in advance the fee paid to general contractors or an insurance policy backed up by the city to be used by the Nonprofit Developers on Treasure Island. Perhaps special subsidy programs for the projects. Theres a list of things that can be looked at. And i would ask your office work with us to think of ways in which we might be able to get those resources and use them more efficiently. For one thing San Franc
The vhhp and one of the projects here is going to be applying for that. Well be relying on the state for that support. Another piece of the pie is local capital. Thats why im here. Our sources include our Housing Trust fund, the 2015 general Obligation Bonds for Affordable Housing. We have inclusionary fees. In 2016 we passed proposition c and theres different sources of funds that all go in the pot and these projects will be eligible for some and well also in addition to capital were often in the position of providing direct rental assistance or federal government assistance. We had the operating support for homeless households and theres projectbased rental systems through Family Housing at hud and cpd and housing for persons with aids. I want to draw a picture for folks about all the things people are going to need to do to successfully implement the housing and the village it will take with our federal partners. And were getting most of our money from impact fees and inclusionary f
Here. Chairperson rosales. Here. The next order of business is item two, announcements. A, the next regularly scheduled meeting will be june 7th, 2016 at 1 00 p. M. At city hall room 416. B, announcements of prohibition of souped producing Electronic Devices during the meeting. Please be advised the ring and use of cellphones, pagers and similarly sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal of the meeting room of any persons responsible for the ringing of or use of cellphone, pager or a similarly sound producing electronic device. C, time alotment for Public Comments. Please be advised a member of the public has up to 3 minutes to make comments on each agenda item unless the Commission Adopts a shorter period on any item. Its recommend the members of the public who wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card and give to the Commission Secretary. The next item of business is item three. There are no