Of Chinese Hospital . Of Chinese Hospital. Now we have had the hearing we hope that gives it more traction to move forward. I understand there is leadership change at dph and a bit of turnover and we have gone through a transition period. Respectfully, as you said we had this conversation with doctor garcia. I know that we made some serious progress with dignity, and that got paused because of change in leadership over there. We have gone through a change in leadership in a couple of different places. I want to say myself and supervisor peskin want to invite to sit down. We want to move to get this done. That would be very helpful. We look forward to participating. I want to say for the record. Can you speak a little bit about the kent field. I will ask the chair to continue this so we can come back to say where we are in terms of numbers of subacute. We want to hold the department accountable and ask the Hospital Council to step up so we can come back with concrete numbers. We are continuing to have conversations with dignity. They are currently having conversations internally and with other external partners about what will happen with the st. Marys space. It was our first go to because they have a Space Available that could be converted. Consent field is provide consent field is pro kent field is doing the subacute. The conversations were moving to proposal stage when the leadership change occurred. The message from dignity now is the conversation is on pause and they anticipate coming back to the department in november with the status if they are willing to move forward or pursue other options. Does it mean the department is done with the conversations with dignity . We have conversations about why it would be helpful for the city and county of San Francisco to keep subacute as an option. It would be important to have a timeline. Can you talk about the conversation . There is a conversation between Residential Care versus acute care and hospital care. Can you talk a little bit about that. For the department . Just in general to get to the 50 to 80 subacute beds are these all hospital based . No, because the department doesnt have any authority over hospitals to say you have to put in a subacute. We are currently looking at all options how we could bring it into the city. The next opportunity that we can see happening most quickly would be by talking to freestanding Skilled Nursing facilities as in the report. We had them and the department outreached all providers doing prestanding Skilled Nursing skill in the city about willingness to open new beds or if they have facilities struggling, which will are in the city some Skilled Nursing facilities having issues, whether they could become sniff subacute. In that conversation does the city and county, are we involved in reimbursement, hoping them . Are we doing subsidy for the care . We have just begun having outreach conversations. Initial feedback that was not preferred choice. The choices for hospital based dwindled we opened up lines of communication at the same time so we would be able to explore all options rather than no options. The expectations is likely we will enter Public Private partnership. The structure is open for discussion. We havent had sit downs with those partners yet. I think if we were to say in 90 days, if you were to come back at some point we will continue this at call of the chair. We want an update on that and need to move aggressively with conversations with dignity and Chinese Hospital. The outline was that we want clear proposals to bring back to the board by november and then hopefully have a decision by december to begin implementation. That would be 60 days. October november. We will try to get something to you by november and have Implementation Plan by december. We will try to stay on track. We appreciate how important this is to to city and to the board. Thank you. I wanted to ask you two more questions. Supervisor stephanie, did you have questions . We will wait. We have a couple questions. Just trying to wrap my head around what to do as policymakers to provide subacute beds or ask the hospitals to partner to do that. Why doesnt Southern California have the same shortag shortage e and what are they doing to have this care readily available . I am trying to understand why we have a lack of beds here. One thinks financial, of course, but you can help me understand that, that would be great. I think it is real to state when you look at Southern California, there is a great deal more acreage of land to build these kinds of facilities. The other thing is the bay area has Free StandingSkilled Nursing facilities offering this level of care, but i think that the bay area struggles very much with many competing care vulnerable populations that need support and care and that is true for the department of public health, particularly over the last 11 years that i have been with them. It is selfish who are you going to serve with the limited resources we have available to us, and i think it is a constant struggle to prioritize. We are at a point where it is clear that sniff subacute is one of the population we need to put the time and energy to. What are the implications on the acute bed population if the patients arent able to be discharged to subaccute beds. Do those patients stay longer than necessary in acute care . Absolutely. Have we looked at the cost of that . I think getting cost of care the cost of care in a hospital the hard. We have some sort of projected numbers. We didnt want to put that into a presentation when it was such a soft number. We want to spend time to give it validity. We will be working towards that. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor. My question is what is the plan for the space at davies . It is licensed for smithsub acute now . What is the plan. Well, through the regulatory bodies, those beds are sub acute is a sub designation of sniff so they are licensed for sniff now. They go through a process by which they are termed active Skilled Nursing beds versus subacute. Wwe currently have nine beds remaining for subacute. Holding one available in the event there is a need for one of the patients to develop respiratory infection and needs a room by themselves. The ones not sub acute are just remaining sniff. Correct. That is your longterm plan currently . Yes. The floor is licensed for 17 sniff sub acute or are the rest not licensed as subacute. You said nine are. You converted them back to sniff . Correct. So what i want to ask, and i said this to doctor brown yesterday, i would like at a minimum to reconsider keeping the nine that you have as subacute to be part of the larger conversation to get us to 80 citywide beds. I know there are other hospitals. I am not just asking this today of cpmc. We are asking the entire Hospital Council to step up, st. Marys, Chinese Hospital, dignity, kaiser, everyone in San Francisco needs to be part of this solution. It wouldnt be on cpmcs shoulders at some point we made a decision to move away from it. Now we realize that was a mistake. You are not obligated legally as part of the Development Agreement to maintain these beds, but you are obligated to be part of the solution so we would like you to reconsider that, if you would take that back to your leadership, if you could. Of course. Would you also since you are the only one speaking today, would you commit to being part of this conversation to work with Chinese Hospital and dignity and others to come up with a longer Term Solution . Yes, of course. That is it. Thank you so much for answering the questions today. I will close by saying quickly, chair, thank you for taking the time today to speak about a very important topic. It is something that i felt compelled to be a part of, as i said in my opening statement. St. Lukes is a lifeline for my district and neighborhood. So many people come across like supervisor stephanie with a Family Member with a correction or born in st. Lukes or have a personal relationship with someone working there. I am thankful that cpmc committed to keeping the hospital open. It is important for our community. We then transferred the conversation to cpmc davies. Now this is where we are. We do take responsibility as a city as well because we made mistakes in this conversation, and the decisions made have impacts on peoples lives. We have to figure out a way to get to 80. I am glad she is here to say in 60 days we will get an update. We are looking for dignity, Chinese Hospital, cpmc, kaiser, everyone that is part of this system in San Francisco to be part of the solution to get us to the right number of subacutes beds, and 50 to 80 is a starting point. I am hopeful we will get a better idea what that needs to be in the overall conversation. This was not a comfortable conversation. It was very uncomfortable and personal to visit the families in their current state, and i appreciate the families for inviting us down, and i appreciate all of the folks that come out here from cpmc and add row advocates. We want everyone to be part of this conversation. We think it is that important for our county. Thank you, mr. Chair, for giving me leeway in this conversation. I would continue this to the call of the chair, probably in about 60 days we will come back for an update, not as long of a hearing. We will get a quick update and engage with the different hospitals to move this conversation forward. Thank you. You have made a motion to continue to the call of the chair and we will take that without objection. Mr. Clerk any more items before us today. Clerk no further business. All right, then we are adjourned. Good morning and welcome to the street scape project and muni project. I certainly as the public works director for the city and county here and i want to thank you for all coming out to celebrate this very exciting project that will improve the lives of the many people who use this inner sunset corridor. The project which spans all the way from aguelo to 19th avenue will improve the quality of life and Transit Services of this diverse neighborhood, which serves families, students, merchants and tourists alike president the street scape improvement is a collaborative project with the ms works and the utilitys commission. For the past two years, theyve been working together to make crucial improvements to the inner sunset street scape and nearby Transit Services that not only make the area more vibrant and more accessible, safe and reliable. When you look around the surrounding streets, you see the vibrant landscapes that add to the neighborhoods charm, improve seating, as you can see, visitor striving, new street trees. All of this creates a healthy environment and a great carbon footprint. What many do not see are the upgraded traffic signals, the repaved roads and all of the help to improve thed safety and transit service. Theres many components to this project that has not been seen. We have improvements to the underground sewer line and improvements to our water lines, our firefightings were upgraded or replaced, all to increase capacity and to minimize any destructions that will provide more Reliable Service to the community. Also, as a part of this project, theres more than 3,000 feet of pipe that was installed for the department of technology for future fiber optic cables and this is a great partnership. As we do many projects on patrero were installing pipe and well have the pipes electric in and, of course, less destruction to the neighbor while the projects happen. With all of that said, it brings me great joy to see the work that all of these agencies are doing together and how we come together to improve the quality of life of this diverse neighborhood in San Francisco. San francisco. I want to thank john thomas and our project manager, johnny farm, harlin kelly and his team from the puc and mr. Maguire and, of course, our contractor, who was out here everyday making sure that we got this job done. And now, the person who helps to make all of these projects happen, the person who makes our neighborhoods better for everyone, the person looking out for the future of San Francisco, without future delay, let me introduce our mayor, london breed. [cheers and applause] its so good to be back. I remember when we first set on the path to do this project for this neighborhood, andrea, i just noticed you were over there and its great to see you and martha and so many folks from the community. You all did the work because you wanted Something Better for this community. We have kids everywhere and these kids from stepping stone preschool are joining us today. And youll get your snacks in just a minute, so dont worry. [cheers and applause] we have kids, we have families, seniors, people who, basically, love this community and so many amazing restaurants, so many amazing places to shop. This is like really a jewel in San Francisco and, in fact, when improve was supervisor, i came to this community a lot to hideout and relax. And it was great. What was so important was to make it a lot offer annua and dl with safety and Public Infrastructure improvements. One of the things that i spent time with some of the neighbors doing is standing on the corner of ninth and irving and many of you know the familiar sound of some of the onl old muni trains which still come through this way, how loud and heavy they are. Remember i said the new trains will be much quieter. Did you just hear how much quieter the new trains are . A loa lot of the promises to ths community are finally happening and it was because of your patience. We know that it was very challenging to come in and the construction and the loss of parking and tearing up the streets and digging in and you all, through this whole challenge, you were very patient and we really appreciate that, because now we are here realizing just really a dream for community, an improvement to the sidewalks, an improvement to the infrastructure and an improvement to our water pressure system so that when there is a fire or emergency, the pressure i know this is not probably that interesting, but it makes all the difference when dealing with any emergency that water suppression and our equipment and the systems actually work when we need it the most. The fiber optic cables, improvements to the sidewalks, all of the Amazing Things that will make this community not just safer but more boost and sobeautiful. I want to thank thet park neighbors, at the time of the leadership of andrea yaguin, that you pushed us to give some attention to this community and shine a light on the challenges that exist here is why were here, as well as the inner sunset merchants association. The merchants here who serve the community, this is really not just a place where so many neighbors enjoy and eat and go to the Hardware Stores and pick up glasses. People from ucfs spend a lot of time here during lunch and people from the park spend a lot of time here and this community has come together as a force to make amazing projects like this happen. So im really excited. Looking forward to doing even more, because i have not forgotten about the wires over on ninth and irving and what we need to do to underground those wires. I know thats important and were talking about right down the street, the gateway on gaten lincoln and ninth and to really transform this community because its a jewel in our community. Thank you to the department of public works, to mta, all of the contractors, all of incredible workers who basically not only worked in this community but spent money at the restaurants and this was definitely a great effort and took time and here we are, a celebration of just really an amazing project that is going to change the quality of life for the residents who live here. So enjoy it and next up, i want to take the opportunity to introduce your supervisor, valley brown, who as you remember was out here on a regular basis working with you all to move this project forward. She drove me a little crazy because she was running out of patience with the city bureaucracy and trying to get it done. And now she gets to enjoy the fruits of her labor. Ladies and gentlemen, your supervisor, valley brown [cheers and applause] you know what they say what doesnt kill us makes us stronger and thats how i feel about this project. I want to say im sorry to everyone. It was her fault. She started it and then i had to come in and finish it, right . [ laughter ] yeah, im not going go over everything weve done because i know mohamed nurue gave you all of the sexy details. But what i see is this neighborhood coming together and saying, ok, this is painful and especially the merchants, but we know once its finished, it will be amazing and 21 million later, yeah, it looks pretty amazing, id say. I want to thank people and i have to read this because i always forget one person and then i get in trouble after wars. Afterwards. So thank you, mayor, breed for starting it, city administrator, naomi kelly and mohamed nurue from public works. I mean, this is something i have to say was he really jumped in and said, lets make this happen and lets make it as less painful as we can. Acting director for sfmta, tom mcguire and San Franciscos puc. I would call everyone on this list and said if there was a pile of dirt and they couldnt park their car at 7 00 at night. So the responsiveness of their teams were amazing. I want to thank all of their teams because every week we had an issue, whether it was the veterinarian or people getting dirt in their driveway and couldnt park their car. Park driveway, this is all things that they really stepped up. I put 75k into budget so we could do a Pilot Programme called curb management. And this something i would think about because barbara, i dont know where barbara is from the neighborhood, she would tell me everyday when i walked by her house how we had people parking in her driveway or doubleparking to run in and get the ubers and stuff to get the food from the merchants. We said, how can we solve these issues . They said, parking is so horrible here. I heard that, no [ laughter ] with these parking, so really having to look at creatively looking at curb management, so were in the process of right now of actually having a Community Engagement of this curb management and how do we make it easier for people to park and easier for businesses to have people be able to come in and get what they need and get out so theyre not parked there for hours. How do we, you know, get the uber eats and all of the other deliveries, where they have a place to park and can get in and out so theyre not parking in barbaras driveway . So this is actually happening now and once again, the inner sunset park neighbor and merchants are at the tables saying well work with you and this is the only way i like to work because i came as a neighbor activist and i didnt like it when people did things in my naked an neighborhood andt when i walked out the door that it was done. So thank you to everyone for being here today. Im really excited for all of the work thats done. Its amazing. And should i bring up naomi . Naomi so now i would like to introduce naomi kelly, a city administrator. This was her baby to manage, all of the different people to make sure it was done right. And so naomi. Thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you, supervisor brown and mayor breed and director of public works. This project has more meaning to me because i live in the neighborhood. I spend so much time here on these corners, going to amazing fantasy with my kids, burn sf, jamba juice, you name it, so i live through the construction and understand the merchants and the pain you went through. But boy, did this turn out beautiful ive been to many scape improvements in different commercial corridor and i have to say these seats and planters are some of the best ive seen in all of San Francisco. So you all did a great job on that. [cheers and applause] again, i want to thank mohamed nurue and john thomas is completing this project because it was done on time. Public works delivers many Key Construction projects throughout the city and having it done on time so were not disrupting the merchants for longer than we should is very important. You heard this specific project was 21. 3 million and its connect the to residents and were more resilient. As chair of the tenyear capital plan committee, we have done a lot to make sure that we have coordinating our projects. It was putting in our new sewer lines and water line and thats important for someone who lives in this neighborhood because i can tell you where every sinkhole was. I was drawing diagrams and handing it to the sf puc saying these are the most important parts to touch in the sunset. Underground, weve put in more than 4,000 the mayor is right. That was the large effort budget item at 7. 3 million. , along for the water and sewer line to appreciate upgraded protection for this community in case of a potential earthquake. Also groun underground, we put n municipal fiber providing secure signals to this community. At the street level, pedestrian and muni riders will see improvements as you can see with the curb ramps and that was approximately 5. 7 million. But not just here in the inner sunset aisles, but public works have resurfaced 644 blocks across the city this year and we Work Together as one city, connected, and im pleased to introduce tom maguire, the interim director of transportation. [cheers and applause] its great to be here and celebrate the puc, public works, city administrator and the elected officials who helped get the funds together and get the wills together to make this happen and the street scape is basically but when i look at it, i dont just see beautiful planters and trees but safety. I see muni riders getting on and off trains going by and we see them getting off on a nice, safe sidewalk. Theyre not getting off into traffic like they do elsewhere in the city and this is the experience we want. We know this is the lifeline of the sunset, one of the busiest corridors and the streets in this area are some of the streets that are high injury vision zero and we want to make sure transit riders are safe, not just on their journey on the trains but when we get on and off on beautiful street scape. So thank you to the community for your patience as we have been working with our fell lets agenciefellowagencies to get thd thank you to everyone who fought for the funding and fought for the design to get this project done. Thank you. Now after listening to all of us, after im sure youre bored, i want to bring up andrea jabli to give her viewpoints of this project as a neighbor, thank you. To the people who live here and work here and the merchants who come here, we didnt just do this as a photoop. We did it because there are two important reason for people in this neighborhood to have this happening and one is the muni, the end juda will be faster. Youll get to work faster and home faster and anyone who does that everyday understands how important that is. Its also going to be safer for you. Now youre not going to be hit by cars trying to squeeze in between the boarding ramps. Most importantly, ninth avenue and irving is an intersection that is painful for people who walk around this neighborhood on a frequent basis. Youre sometimes stopped at a light for up to two and a half minutes while waiting for trains to come and go and bikes, muni, all that stuff. Now that the stops have been reconfigured so that the buses get through the light before they have to stop, that intersection will be so much more pleasant for all of us to experience. So thats why were here and why we did it and everyone who has put up with the noise and all of that, give yourself a round of applause. [cheers and applause] thank you, lets give the project is big hand. This is a great improvement. Our mayor is challenging us to continue do more projects like this and public works and the partnership with all of the agencies will continue to deliver for you. So with that said, we will cut the ribbon and so, where is the ribboncutting team here . We have behind us. And would the folks like martha, barbara and other Community Members feel free to come up and cut this rib bin. Ribbon. This is for your community and we want to make sure youre a part of it. Are we ready . Yes we sure . 543 youre not even counting. Are we ready . Yes clam 54321 valencia has been a constantly evolving roadway. The first bike lanes were striped in 1999, and today is the major north and south bike route from the Mission Neighborhood extending from market to mission street. It is difficult to navigate lindsay on a daily basis, and more specifically, during the morning and evening commute hours. From 2012 to 2016, there were 260 collisions on valencia and 46 of those were between vehicles and bikes. The mayor shows great leadership and she knew of the long history of collisions and the real necessity for safety improvements on the streets, so she actually directed m. T. A. To put a pilot of protected bike lanes from market to 15th on valencia street within four months time. [ ] valencia is one of the most used north south bike routes in San Francisco. It has over 2100 cyclists on an average weekday. We promote bicycles for everyday transportation of the coalition. Valencia is our mission fits our mission perfectly. Our members fall 20 years ago to get the first bike lane stripes. Whether you are going there for restaurants, nightlife, you know , people are commuting up and down every single day. I have been biking down the valencia street corridor for about a decade. During that time, i have seen the emergence of ridesharing companies. We have people on bikes, we have people on bike share, scooters, we have people delivering food and we have uber taking folks to concerts at night. One of the main goals of the project was to improve the overall safety of the corridor, will also looking for opportunities to upgrade the bikeway. The most common collision that happens on valencia is actually due to double parking in the bike lane, specifically during, which is where a driver opens the door unexpectedly. We kept all the passengers the passenger levels out, which is the white crib that we see, we double the amount of commercial curbs that you see out here. Most people arent actually perking on valencia, they just need to get dropped off or pick something up. Half of the commercial loading zones are actually after 6 00 p. M. , so could be used for fiveminute loading later into the evening to provide more opportunities or passenger and commercial loading. The five minute loading zone may help in this situation, but they are not along the corridor where we need them to be. One of the most unique aspects of the valencia pilot is on the block between 14th street. We worked with a pretty big mix of people on valencia. On this lot, there are a few schools. All these different groups had concerns about the safety of students crossing the protected bikeway whether they are being dropped off or picked up in the morning or afternoon. To address those concerns, we installed concrete loading islands with railings railings that channel channeled a designated crossing plane. We had a lot of conversations around how do you load and unload kids in the mornings and the afternoons . I do like the visibility of some of the design, the safety aspects of the boarding pilot for the school. We have painted continental crosswalks, as well as a yield piece which indicates a cyclist to give the rightofway so they can cross the roadway. This is probably one of the most unique features. During the planning phase, the m. T. A. Came out with three alternatives for the long term project. One is parking protected, which we see with the pilot, they also imagined a valencia street where we have two bike lanes next to one another against one side of the street. A twoway bikeway. The third option is a Center Running twoway bikeway, c. Would have the two bike lanes running down the center with protection on either side. Earlier, there werent any enter lane designs in San Francisco, but i think it will be a great opportunity for San Francisco to take the lead on that do so the innovative and different, something that doesnt exist already. With all three concepts for valencias longterm improvement , theres a number of tradeoffs ranging from parking, or what needs to be done at the intersection for signal infrastructure. When he think about extending this pilot or this still this design, theres a lot of different design challenges, as well as challenges when it comes to doing outreach and making sure that you are reaching out to everyone in the community. The pilot is great. It is a nobrainer. It is also a teaser for us. Once a pilot ends, we have thrown back into the chaos of valencia street. What were trying to do is incremental improvement along the corridor door. The Pilot Project is one of our first major improvements. We will do an initial valuation in the spring just to get a glimpse of what is happening out here on the roadway, and to make any adjustments to the pilot as needed. This fall, we will do a more robust evaluation. By spring of 2020, we will have recommendations about longterm improvements. I appreciate the pilot and how quickly it went in and was built, especially with the Community Workshops associated with it, i really appreciated that opportunity to give input. We want to see valencia become a really welcoming and comfortable neighborhood street for everyone, all ages and abilities. Theres a lot of benefits to protected bike lanes on valencia , it is not just for cyclists. We will see way more people biking, more people walking, we are just going to create a really friendly neighborhood street. [ ] well, well, we have one of the most exciting projects in district 11 in over a decade. Supervisor safai, for the past 10 years, no one has been able to get a Housing Project of this significance built in this community, and guess what . You made it happen. [applause. ] 116 new units, 50 affordable units for family of four making up to 123,000 a year. How incredible is that . This will provide housing for low income families and for foster care youth. I mean, this is how you get housing done in San Francisco, working together, working in partnership with sammy and people who love. The fact is people who love this community and didnt have to go above and beyond in providing higher affordability on this project but wanted to do something to support the city and county of San Francisco and what we are dealing with as it relates to our housing crisis. We are grateful for you and the community is here, and i also know your family is here. I am so excited. This will make a difference. On top of that, that is not even all. 40 of the units that are built of the Affordability Housing will go to the people who live in this neighborhood first, neighborhood preference. The legislation that i worked on back in the day when i was on the board of supervisors. It is going to be used on this project so that we can make sure that the community who lives here, where they might be struggling to hold on to their unit and whatever capacity, they will have a real shot of being a part of this incredible new community. I am excited about this project. I am grateful to supervisor safai for his leadership. I cant wait to be here when we open the doors for people to walk in their new places, and it is absolutely amazing. The person who led this effort to make this happen, who also did more than just help get this project through the process but also makes some zoning changes to make it possible to have as many units as we can on his site no other than supervisor safai. [applause. ] supervisor safai thank you, mayor breed. I feel like i am at a family reunion, but i did joke with sia and sammy i think we could put a runway strip here. This is the Largest Development in the history of this neighborhood in this community. There has never been any family Affordable Housing built in this community. I remember sitting with them a decade ago when they laid out the vision of wanting to do something to give back to the city that they feel made their family anal and lifted them back up after going through a revolution in their country they. They came here with very little and they have worked 50 years to build what we are seeing happen today. This is truly a gift to the city and county of San Francisco. This is not something that is required. This is completely private land, privately financed by a family that wanted to give back to the city. I want to say thank you to the family for everything and you will their children and siblings and relatives for everything they did to make this happen. It is truly a gift. This even out paces the giants Ballpark Development omission rock, which is 40 affordable on public land. 50 will below market rate. Homesf set the income. He said he wanted lower than what we laid out in the city. We tried to do the remaining 50 as rent control. Sometimes the city gets in its way. I know they will continue to keep these rents affordable for this community. They are doing so much to give back to the city and county. We talked about this over a decade ago. We sat down with mayor lee before i became supervisor. He said he would prioritize this. The reason i bring that up is because this mayor has made not anything more of a priority than building housing. That was when we sat down with mayor lee, that was in the middle of 2016. We are going to the end of 2019. Even with everything that and i would get monday my phone would ring. Every monday i would get the call from him and Family Members. We are still over three years into getting this project done. This was supposed to be one of the highest priority projects in the city and county of San Francisco. I know this mayor is dedicated to finding a way to cut through the layers. When a family wants to give a gift to the city, we have to wait almost three and a half years to get this done. Besides all of that, i want to shout out to crazio. She guided this every step of the way on behalf of the Mayors Office. My team was guiding this every step of the way. The planning department, the Mayors Office of housing, city attorneys, all of the people working on behalf of the mayor. There is more to come, there are two more projects that are 100 affordable. She dedicated an additional 53 million in the budget. We break ground in october next year on two more projects. Out of all of those together, almost 600 units, 65 will be affordable below market rate units in this community and affordable to the People Living here. That is a big accomplishment. I am so lucky to have a partner in the Mayors Office who prioritizes this Community Like no mayor has done in over 20 plus years. [applause. ] i could go on and on. I will hand it over to the patriarch of the family, the mind that doesnt let any little thing get away from him, but he has to be that way. Three and a half years, he has to be that way. Someone was bragging about him the other day. He knows how to get projects built in San Francisco. He really does. I am honored to have him as a friend and invest in this community. [applause. ] thanks everyone. Mayor, my good friend, supervisor and my family and everybody who is here. This wouldnt have happened without participation of everyone for this to happen. He is right i call every monday morning. If i wouldnt have done it, it would have taken seven years. This happened in three andahalf years. I want to tell a story about my life, how i am here. I came with my wonderful life about 40 years as an immigrant from iran. I have been here 1973 i came here to San Francisco. I was a student and i fell in love with the city. I still love this city. I always said we have got to do something. Whatever i have, i got it through hard work. Being in this wonderful diversified city. We talked a lot about it. This came about in 2007 when there was a melt down and i was able to purchase these. That is when me and sammy, she is an advocat of foster and homeless kids. This came about. I said maybe we can do something about it. Finally here we are. Thernext step is the foundationd get the super structure. I want to thank the wonderful mayor. I am so proud of you. You are a wonderful mayor. You are a great person. I want to tell my brotherinlaw who designed this property, my kids and this is all my family. I love them all. It is great to be here. Too many persons. laughter . It is a great thing. I am so blessed. I asked my wife to be by my side. If i make a mistake she will say stage right. I think i have done go, right . She gave me a list and said memorize this. I said i will do this. That is not me, i have to talk how i feel. That is how i do it, you know. [applause. ] i want to thank the Mayors Office of housing. Wonderful job. I forgot about my wonderful friend tom. He is a big support. Thanks a lot. I lived in the Mission Neighborhood for seven years and before that the excel see your district. 20 years a resident of the city and county of San Francisco. I am the executive director of a local art space nonprofit that showcases work that relate to the Latino Community and i have been in this building for seven years and some of my neighbors have been here 30 year. We were notified from the landlord he was going to sell the building. When we realized it was happening it was no longer a thought for the landlord and i sort of had a moment of panic. I heard about the Small Sites Program through my work with the Mission Economic agency and at met with folks from the mayors Housing Program because they wanted to utilize the program. We are dealing with families with different needs and capacities. Conversations were had early in the morning because that is the only time that all the tenants were in the building and finally when we realized that meda did have the resources to buy the building we went on a Letter Writing Campaign to the landlord and said to him we understand you want to sell your building, we understand what you are asking for and you are entitled to it, its your land, but please work with us. What i love about ber nell height it represents the diversity that made me fall in love with San Francisco. We have a lot of mom and pop shops and you can get all your resources within walking distance. My favorite air area of my homes my little small patio where i can start my morning and have my coffee an is a sweet spot for me and i good afternoon, the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the september 27, 2019 special meeting of Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee. I am supervisor mandelman. To my right is supervisor stefani and mr. Walton. 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