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[roll call] clerk commissioner taylor, you have a quorum. Vice president taylor so as im sure the public has noted, were using a different platform. Members of the public who wish to make Public Comment on the items in this agenda, the number is 4084189388, and the access code is 1469442932. As always, members of the commission, ill a and presentl ask you to mute your mic until its time for you to be heard. Hopefully, things will go smoothly again. If not, let us know in advance. Im going to give two minutes for Public Comment tonight. Clerk thank you. So for the members of the public, this meeting is being televised by sfgtv. If youre interested in making Public Comment, dial 4084189388, and the access code 1469442932, then pound, and pound again. When its time for Pub ....
More gratifying by the incredible support that we have by our leaders and i dont take that granted at all. Were privileged to have it. I cant tell you how much we appreciate your remarks and the steadfast and unwavering support for all of us in the work that we do. Our staff, us, i look around and i see people who have dedicated many years, entire careers, have paused their retirements to continue work for us and everything you do for this city and the people who live here just means an incredible amount. From the very beginning of this pandemic, our staff has been on the front lines everyday, no matter what you do, if its taking care of patients, keeping the hospitals clean and safe for patients, visitors and staff, fe feeding people, testing, opening new units. The creative ways you do them has been endless in the past three months. The importance of the work, the quality of the work, the amount of work, not to mention the pace has been nothing, nothing short of heroic. Its an amazin ....
So today we have a different situation. We have a situation where the landlord and tenants are not the same people or even the same company. So we face the difficult challenge of trying to find a solution to continue a great institution, the flower market, even though there are different interests between the two parties. That being said, we made tremendous progress by resolving the financial terms and the agreement between kilroy, the flower market and the tenants. They are mostly finished, which im happy to say. However, we are not near closure with respect to the design of the physical market. It has always been the understanding by the flower market and by the tenants that one of the Community Benefits that would come with the project was the continuation of the flower market and as john kilroy himself told us, we would have a world class flower market. But as of today, the documents defining the flower market are not yet ....
And a half or two hours for work. We easily found so many workers in our coalition who were super commuters. There was one woman who traveled three hours three hours one way from stockton so she could have a good job in San Francisco but had to travel three hours. This jobs housing mismatch has a real cost and its the cost to people like bernadette. So this is why im here, our coalition is in full support, because we need this report. We need this datadriven approach to really fixing our housing crisis. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. Cynthia gomez, our union represents the dishwashers and Food Service Workers at the airport as well as people who are able to after much struggle and fight are able to afford to earn a living wage and to be able to afford something a sustainable lifestyle in this expensive city, which is no small feat. And we applaud the leadership ....