authority about caring kari. in this fast lane makes her mind race faster. i m honored now in my captain of chair of the capital campaign to nouns some fun stuff it s 32 1/2 millions and we ve received many million dollars in new tax credits we ve raised $10 million in private contributions to date from our mayors board and a if i other good friends of ac t. today, i m to nouns one gift it s a $5 million equivalent from an awe moms duo donor. with those gifts our campaign is 6 and a half million dollars (clapping) arrest so we re getting close but we need hope kari and a allen told me to say that percent this is as picasso said it s first an act of distribution so bring down the hammer. next up my good friend and an awesome mayor, mayor ed lee (clapping) thank you well jeff and kari congratulations. i ve just been allotted a tour with s o m and plant organizations to take a at the theatre. let me tell you it is transform active for this corridor. i know how hard supervisor
pieces together and transportation mayor we heard about this today. all the pieces are coming together when this fall 20 neighborhoods will bespectacled as promise zones. that will be the culmination of our effort to build on this credible model we re seeing happen before our eyes. the mission district is an inspiration. i can t thank you enough mr. mayor and louis the entire village to create what i see in front of me today. you are an inspiration and i ll go back to washington and talk to the president and make sure that this example lives up to the expectation because no child should grew up because of the zip code they were born in arrest thanks for hosting this today. let s take some questions questions? as you know we re not out of a housing authority sites and are you saying we should get away from the housing authority model and it s innovate truly a private-public partnership but a nonprofit partnership so this is not the way to go. so first of all, this is a h
yeah. waving that thing around so today s a very special day and i welcome you all of you and on behalf of the mexican museum this has been a dream and sometimes a dream becomes a nightmare because you have to work to make that dream come true and muffling king said i have a dream. now our dream has come through it s been a realtor now after 20 years of struggling (clapping). and it s historical in nature because we got the board of supervisors vote 11 to zero. which is historical in nature because a lot of times they don t agree; right? which is loophole right but they all agree on this one. we thank the board of supervisors for that 11 zero vote and ed lee for preventing the project going forward. but that s today and i want to go back 20 years because prior to 20 years there was a map with a vision pete rodriguez which we ll hear more about later and he started the mexican museum in the district of san francisco. but 20 years ago it was an elected official who i
the project going forward. but that s today and i want to go back 20 years because prior to 20 years there was a map with a vision pete rodriguez which we ll hear more about later and he started the mexican museum in the district of san francisco. but 20 years ago it was an elected official who i have had the pleasure of working with on many occasions on doing many things in our community who at the time was the supervisor jim gonzales who was here today who at that time, made sure we got this piece of land to build the mexican museum and thank you, mr. gonzales and at the time there was unfortunately, he couldn t be here - the bells are ringing but we had manual gonzales and he was the president of the commission so i want to honor him bike like i honored mr. gonzales two years ago to make sure we got this land and you know what you talk about a mexican museum. well, let me tell you there has been (speaking spanish). people from coz restrict and people from venezuela and al