utilities commission that s been in progress for 2.5 years, and we have students from 9 through 12 grade that are working with p.u.c. experts and teachers that are going out for sternships at the p.u.c. to build curriculum that has the academic skills but also the career readiness to be able to enter into skilled trades pathways that were preefg mentioned by kathleen curtis. so the p.u.c. and wastewater, we have 55 families that resides in the bayview. really excited to hear about the community center and how there ll be this aalignment between sfusd and the public utilities commission and city college. and that is what we ve been doing at o connell. we re really hopeful if you have any questions of me. it s really exciting to see our students working right now with green infrastructure. we have 8th and 9th graders designing homes, anticipating what would happen with earthquakes, and we have students working on in our environmental technology pathway working with green powe
[applause] on behalf our group, we wanted to say thank you. it s an honor to have the opportunity for us to give this small ceremony. we humbly are here offering these dances in honor of our elements of mother earth, wint and fire most importantly honoring our community. before we end, one of the things we wanted to really convey to you all, in building community is keeping the strong heart. i thank you from our elders, we are homegrown group from san francisco. we re here, very happy to be able send off to see them grow and develop all the beautiful people and agencies. thank you very much. in honor of our ancestors from mexico i wanted to say thank you before we end. please do not take pictures. now this is in honor of men and women and our elders, those who have passed on and our children. we ll be facing the east in honor of the men. we are joined in a circle of community for love. i want to thank our partner, chinatown c.b.c., norman, thank you. chinatow
something that should probably be in the public realm and chris supporting it, so we are supporting him to keep that. good morning, my name is john chan. just retired commission secretary. so i worked with chris. i just want to say that this is a reappointment, and this is an opportunity to get somebody who does a good job, and if the person in there is not doing a good job, the time to change horses midstream. that s not the case in this case. chris is so committed to this thing, he made my job a living hell because he wouldn t let things slide. there was just too much at stake, too much importance. open source voting has been a life, and it should be a life for the city. chris is the person you need to have on this. he set up the website for the technical advisory committee. he chairs the technical advisory committee, as well as when he was president of the commission he chaired the committee, so there s a lot at stake. you don t want to jump back to square one, and wit
sonjso we can do projects liking this faster. it shouldn t take years to gets a project that is 100% affordable housing done anywhere in the city. people need housing now and this will give us an opportunity to make sure that it doesn t take years reverend fong. i know you re ready to build it. i they re ready to be incredible community partners so that we have more housing in this particular community. more importantly, when we buildabuilding a housing, 40% be of the work we did years ago to pass neighborhood preference legislation. 40% of the units built in any affordable housing built in this community will go to the residents of this community first. that is significant. now supervisor ronan won t get all those compliments from her residents about folks who may not have access. we re going to make sure that the resources are provided so that the residents are submitting applications for the affordable housing that s built in your community. i m so indicated. i m always ex
[applause] we like to start tonight with a long-held tradition of blessing of this land by pop [indiscernible] plaza draw your attention to the powerful ceremony. [applause] on behalf our group, we wanted to say thank you. it s an honor to have the opportunity for us to give this small ceremony. we humbly are here offering these dances in honor of our elements of mother earth, wint and fire most importantly honoring our community. before we end, one of the things we wanted to really convey to you all, in building community is keeping the strong heart. i thank you from our elders, we are homegrown group from san francisco. we re here, very happy to be able send off to see them grow and develop all the beautiful people and agencies. thank you very much. in honor of our ancestors from mexico i wanted to say thank you before we end. please do not take pictures. now this is in honor of men and women and our elders, those who have passed on and our children. we ll be