Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

As such, the timing of receipt for the fiscal year will continue. This is the last slide. The approach is considered are centralized, decentralized or a dom bcombination. Whichever system is selected, aside from functionality and cost, also taken into consideration is tha that this n investment needed to be scaled to future needs and not limit future potential. As noted earlier with utilities, water, gas, electricity and theyre being looked at as a part of the same exercise that the distribution needs to be reconfigured to meet the layout of the spaces. And it should be noted that capacity is adequate. So it is expected that in december, a summary of the findings, along with a cost estimate will be provided, at which point detailed schedules can be developed when procurement timelines are understood. And thats the end of my report. Any questions . Yes. As a board of directors, im happy to see the information about leasing the commercial and retail spaces because this revenue will help to alleviate the payments that ac transit has to make to the center about operations, maintenance and bus storage, including those two items that you have in the consent calendar. So very happy. Thank you. Good news. No other questions, direct . Thank you for the update and exciting to have our first tenants starting next week and thats great news. It was on one of your slides that there has been some delays and when we expected tenants to provide to open their shops at the Transit Center and i just want to better understand the lease structure. When that happens, i assume that, basically, the normal lease we dont get any rent while the delays are happening, regardless of whose side of the fen theyre on. Whether theyre our delays, providing the tenant space or the tenants delays in finishing things they need to do. Whats the relationship between start of collecting rent and the delays that people are seeing . So the way the lease is structured, there are triggers, but if the trigger is because were taking longer at something, then, of course, that impacts when the tenant can start their work. But once we do our part, then the normal time frames apply, so they would be they would are to start rent per those triggers in the lease. And do we have a good balance and handle on the things we have to do and sort of the risk sharing between us and tenants and when that starts up . After were done with landlords work, they have 120 days to open for revenue. Were trying to do here is expedite the process. I dont think any of them will be within the 1 120 days. In this fiscal years budget, we made assumptions they would open because assumptions we made we would be doing landlords work along with improvement work, working parallel with Onsite Dental and thats why theyre able to open with sf fitness. And phil has elected to do the tent improvements until were done with the landlord work and thats why theyre opening in january but we should be in the timelines of the leases. Were trying to expedite the process. So, for example, we have a meeting this next week with one of the restauranteurs who wants to work i us on seeing how we can compress the timeline, just like we did with fitness sf and Onsite Dental. Thats good. It seems we have 25 of the space as we look through those trying to make sure were not the only ones holding the bags on delays, would be what i wanted to make sure were building into those leases. We know some things will be on our side and theirs and sorting through all of that. Just a note, verizon actually wanted to open in december and we told them were bringing the lease here today and so were going to work with them and try to open in january or february. Theres no i participate in calls with the tenants every week and they want to be open. Good. We want them to. [ laughter ] thank you. Thank you. I would like to make an announcement. I sat through a report that mark devilla will be leaving us and i want to thank her for the great work shes done the two and a half years. Shes our facility manager. And shes set up a good system for us to follow. So thank you. My pleasure, thank you. applause . On behalf of the board, also, i want to say thank you. Its been quite a journey to get the center. So its great news were here today and we enjoy yourdayold reportyour detailedreports and e on our way. So thank you for all of your great work. Thank you for saying that. I appreciate it. We have one member of the public that wants to comment. Mr. Patrick . Sorry, you must be getting tired of seeing me, jim patrick, patrick and company and i want to talk about security for a moment. I would like to develop a numeric system of some sort on our successful or lack of success in our security management. And how many homes people have we dealt with and how many arrests have been made and how many interfaces with ambassadors . Right now were saying security is great. I believe it is great and working good and i havent seen any homeless people, so i would like to set that bar high and then i would like to do a Trend Analysis of making sure we keep it high. I believe we can improve on our security reporting. Thank you. That concludes members that wanted to comment and we can move on to your next item. Item 8 is a Citizens Advisory Committee update and we have the chair, derick holt, with us. Good morning, board members. Im derick holt and thank you for continuing to hear the updates from the tgpa cac, we appreciate the updates from the staff including martha, dennis, sidney, chris and our guest at the cac meetings and were happy that the Transit Center is doing so well with great pedestrian activity, security, rooftop, and theres clear signage thats increasing, an increasing number of riders who know where to go and get on and off the buses, the to staff and ambassadors are answering questions and theres clear security there. And Center Security and sfpd, the rooftop park is being use im utilized by Community Members and people using the center and there are great activities at the center. Operationally things are smooth with significant process and the great news that martha shared about the progress there and were excited about that. And we still want to make sure that the appropriate parties are held responsible for the delays that have taken place over the last ten, 11month period of time but were glad theres a significant momentum. We appreciate the presentation from highspeed rail and the synergy Transportation Plan expose there arplans andthere ay highspeed trains and Pedestrian Safety but the highspeed rail teams say they have that as a priority, as well. Our cac gratitude goes out, again, to lewis zernoga and his associates from the sfcta peer review update. And it sounds like well hear some supportive, positive news from them, hopefully, regarding releasing funds and moving forward with the agreed upon plans up to the twoyear milestone and we do have some concerns if we have recommendations regarding reorganizing the tgpa and the powers that be as far as thats concerned. So hopefully theres good thousands on that front. And the cac representing numerous counting speeding into San Francisco highly focused on ensuring its easy to ride a train into San Francisco and easy to get into the transit to connect with mass transit within San Francisco. Or get off from work and easily connect from the Transit Centre to transportation leaving the city and that ties us into the dtx and ease of access to the Transit Center, especially from people outside of the city. We hear concerns from many people, from around the entire region, as well as within the city and this does affect commerce and the freedom and eight to enjoy that all San Francisco has to offer. The cac believes the dtax can help San Francisco shine brighter as a good steward of the environment and taking care of the residents in multiple ways. The cac is aware and concerned with the educatio escalating ang costs and without progress on the already voterapproved progress. Were asking for your support. Youre pushing the levers and buttons getting the powers to be to move forward and those are our comments. Thank you. Any questions . Thank you. Move on to your next item. Item 9 is public comment, an opportunity for the members of the public to address the authority on matters not on the calendar and have not received any indication that members which to address this and well move into the consent calendar. All matters listed are radio tunroutineand no separate discun unless the public would request to have an item severed from the calendar and considered separately and we have noted any indication a member of the board of the public wishes to have it discussed separately and your items are item 10. 1, approving the minutes of the september 12, 2019 meeting, approving the bylaws to establish 425 mission street, sanfrancisco as a Principal Office for the business of the tgpa effective september 23rd, 2019. Item 3, authorizing the executive director to execute a Lease Agreement with po connection houske houseon the ge Transit Center and 10. 4, to complete negotiations and complete a Lease Agreement with spring fertility with 2500 square feet of retail feet for a 15year term and item 10. 5, authorizing the director for 133 square feet of retail square feet for a tenyear term. I have to excuse an item on the minutes since i wasnt here. Well call the minutes separately. For 10. 2 to 10. 5, a motion in . A motion to approve . First and second, director brinkman. role call . We have six ayes and 10. 2 and 10pointa ar10point. 5 are appr. All those in favour . The minutes of september 12, 2019 are approved. Move into your regular calendar. Item 11, San Francisco county Transportation Authority, peer review panels, sign a report. We have lewis. Good morning. Im the project management to the Transportation Authority and as you know, at the request of our board, we have been conducting a review of the management oversight governance and project delivery for the dtx project and months ago, you saw a presentation of the preliminary findings of that study and today, you will be hearing about the final observations and recommendations from the panel. Over the last few months, we have been working with the principal stakeholders, the tgpa, highspeed rail, comtrain, mtc to develop a memorandum of understanding for the implementation of some of the recommendations. And so, that is moving well and we hope to have the finalized this mou in the next few months. In addition, we have been working with the tgpa staff for and allocation of 11 million to restart the engineering for the dtx and were hoping to take that to our board for approval in december. So with us today, we have john fisher, who is one effort members of the panel and he will be making the presentation. Thank you. Good morning, directors. Its good to be back. I was here in august with an update on our progress for the panel and so its my pleasure to be back and give you a summary of recommendations now that the report is final and has been adopted by the sfcta board earlier this month and obviously happy to answer any of your questions. Just a reminder of our process in engaging the stakeholders within the city family but also a number of the operators in the region, california highspeed rail and, as well as spur, and, of course, the Mayors Office and really appreciate mr. Zelvanye and his time of the stakeholders that have participated in to board that have given helpful input to shape this going forward. This is our panel members, really a Diverse Group of project Delivery Experts with backgrounds in funding and finance and procurement that came to this with the singular goal of improving the delivery options and performance for realizing Train Service in the sales port Transit Center as soon as possible. One of our panel members, john bicari, saying megaprojects are a process of neardeath experiences. The other goal was to learn from some of the similar challenging projects across the country and across the world and bring those Lessons Learned here to phase two, to dtx to try to put it on a track to avoid some of the pitfalls, if possible. And this is a reminder of our process, a methodology we went through in april, a series of workshops with the stakeholders and the panel on a lot of the areas of governance and oversight, project delivery, funding and finance and we k a d we did a series of interviews, indepth with stakeholders in the region, as well as sessions with the tgpa looking the current project information which was extremely helpful to inform our process. Finally, we embarked on five case studies of megaprojects indepth in the apendices of the report. The panel did develop a twoyear plan for the agencies involved and those aredayold more in the report and i wont go into them here but happy to engage on any questions around that if we get to it. So just jumping in, really the primary, early Panel Recommendation was repositioning this project which, i think, has erroneously perceived by some as a project benefiting just sanfrancisco. Theres been a lot changing in the region since the inception of phase 2, dtx, not the least of which a transbay crossing is looking at tying the region together and this project, we see as vital to that and really, needs a Value Proposition kind of reset to make the case of the regional importance and really retagging it a project of Regional National significance which is also a hook to federal funding from surface authorizations in the past. Clearly, the engagement of the elected officials at every level needs to occur and i think the panel felt that this includes engaging the public directly and really articulating the benefits, both on a social equity, environmental and certainly economical developments that are as a result of this magnificent downtown for phase two and its critical from the panels perspective to identify champions, both inside the project and clearly externally and do so over generations. This takes awhile. It wont be just one person. This is a longterm investment. The panel felt that it is critical to hit this reset now to be competitive. The federal funding landscape, we in california are not just competing nationally but competing against other megaproperties in the l. A. Region, but right here in the bay area and we need to be very clear on our Value Proposition and our funding and finance plan needs to be credible to garner that support. I wanted to underscore that this is these recommendations are really around just this twoyear period. I think one of the activities in the twowork plan is to dive into a look, deeper look at the overall governance longterm and project delivery. We did not embark on doing that and it was more of a focus on how to harness the agencies in the region, focused on project delivery phase and clearly there will be more discussions about that but i wanted to make that point. The recommendations, which a lot of what we heard today focusing on phase one and closeout of those activities, a lot of understanding of the operations and maintenance of the facility is clearly a core focus and that was recognised by the panel. I think the mr. Zeranogas report about an mou in progress, that was the panels understanding, is theres a lot of details to work out through that process, but the overarching recommendation was to lover strength in the regions to strengthen the delivery of dtx, including caltrain, california highspeed rail, mtc, the city and county of San Francisco and sfcta, city and county of San Francisco could be filled by sfmta, city planning, i think the panel was deferring that to the mayors decision but making sure that all players were in the boat. There are in addition to dtx, obviously a number of other related projects underway, pennsylvania avenue, 22n 22nd street station, fourth and king and theyre all very relate and all champions need to be a part of that process, we felt. This group would be the project delivers to this structure, the incidenintegrated program team e end of the year. I think thats ambitious but i think as weve heard, theres been a lot of discusses on the mou to date to move that forward. Within that structure, like other megaprojects that inform this recommendation, it would be development of an executive Steering Committee which would be compromised of the executive directors of each of the agencies i mentioned that would be developing attack or oversight body of a lot of the staff that would be responsible for helping to advance some of these decisions that comes to the efc within this twoyear work plan and help to expedite inteinstead of requiring to evey board to move decisions up to this board for final approval or rejection. And i wont list all of these but a couple of the other areas that the panel felt strongly about that would require concurrence by the executive Steering Committee before coming to this board would be selection of the Program Director for the rail portion of this project for dtx and, also, developing a phasein plan or an initial operating segment that is fundable, affordable and is going to require some hard decisions. But the panel felt very strongly that was critical to do to achieve service by 2028, which is in our report as a target goal. And finally, i think the twoyear work plan really, as i said before, would end with a procurement in 2021 and it was not envisioned this would go beyond that and that would be up to the stakeholders involved to assess and make decisions at that point. And so we didnt opine on that in the report. The panel felt it was critical to separate some of the high confidence and low confidence Funding Sources in the current funding plan and this increases overall confidence in the ability to access these fund sources and that includes establishing an affordability limit to give the confidence to all levels of government that the project maybe seek additional funds from, that theyre able to use them and deliver on a set timeline. There was a lot of discussion spent on how to do that and we offered some recommendations, but its clearly going to take additional work. Its critically important, a s i mentioned, this reset on the Value Proposition is making this a National Case of the significance of making this connection and that needs to be conveyed to the congressional delegation with very clear priorities and parameters. Finally i mentioned the phasing and as you heard earlier, there is a movement to restart targeted engineering and the panel felt that this initial operating phase was going to require additional analysis and it should. I think it was also recognised and clearly understood as the rod was secured during the development of this report that any of these looks should not impact the success in that milestone of achieving the rod, so that would be the envelope upon which this second look would take place. And i think its also important to restate the opportunity to look at dtx in the context of the larger megaprojects going on in the region. And i will say the delivery options report, which i think is taking another look at the procurement, what is the best procurement methods for delivery . I think the current status was a design build approach and i think there was a lot we can learn from the industry on the delivery option expos options ak things have changed. Updating the cost estimate from 2016 is a start from that. I will say i think the other opportunity is to really work with caltrain and highspeed rail and bring them together on what are the capacity needs and when does each operator need them . We did wait and receive the caltrain business plan, which was a very similar conversation with options of service and its a robust, healthy discussion and really bleeping . We have to evacuate and well decide whether to continue this or come back. It will be an hour before we can get back in the building. So i will call the meeting as an adjournment and probably work with mark and figure out questions. The meeting is adjourned. Barrage. In 201,755. 7 million passengers traveled through San Francisco International Airport. We have on average 150,000 people traveling through the airport every day. Flying can be stressful so we have introduced therapy dogs to make flying more enjoyable. The wag brigade is a partnership between the airport and the San Francisco therapy Animal Assistant Program to bring therapy animals into the airport, into the terminals to make passenger travel more enjoyable. I amgen fer casarian and i work here at San Francisco International Airport. The idea for therapy dogs got started the day after 9 11. An employee brought his therapy dog to work after 9 11 and he was able to see how his dog was able to relieve passengers jitter. When we first launched the program back in 2013, our main goal was to destress our passengers however what we quickly found is that our animals were helping us find a way to connect with our pang. Passengers. We find there are a lot of people traveling through the airport who are missing their pets and who are on their road a lot and cant have pets and we have come in contact with a lot of people recently who have lost pet. I love the wag brigade. One of my favorite parts is walking into the terminals and seeing everybody look up from their device, today everybody is interacting on their cell phone or laptop and we can walk into the terminal with a dog or a pig and people start to interact with each other again and its on a different level. More of an emotional level. I just got off an 11. 5 hour flight and nice to have this distraction in the middle of it. We look for wag brigade handlers who are comfortable in stressful situations. I like coming to airport its a lot of fun and the people you talk to are generally people who are missing their dogs. They are required to compete a certification process. And they are also required to complete a k9 good citizen test and we look for animals who have experienced working with other orgorganizations such as hospits and pediatric units and we want to be sure that the animals we are bringing into the airport are good with children and also good with some of our senior travelers. I think toby really likes meeting kids. That is his favorite thing. He likes to have them pet him and come up to him and he really loves the kids. Our wag brigade animals can be spotted wearing custom vets and they have custom patches. There is never a day that repeats itself and there is never and encounter that repeats itself. We get to do maximum good in a small stretch of time and i have met amazing people who have been thrilled to have the interaction. The dogs are here seven days a week, we have 20 dogs and they each come for a two hour shift. There is a lot of stress when people have traveling so to from these animals around to ease the stress and help people relax a little bit. I think its great. One of our dogs has special need and that is tristine. He wears a wheel around. He has special shoes and a harness and we get it together in the parking lot and then we get on the air train. He loves it. Little kids love him because he is a little lower to the ground so easy to reach and he has this big furry head they get to pet and he loves that. He doesnt seem to mind at all. Probably one of the happiest dogs in the world. Many people are nervous when they travel but seeing the dogs is just a wonderful relief. What i absolutely love most about it is the look on peoples faces, so whenever they are stressed and flying is stressful these days you get these wonderful smile. I am the mom of lilo the pig and she is San Franciscos first therapy pig. Lilo joined the wag brigade as our firs first pig. Wag brigade invited us to join the program here and we have done it about a yearandahalf ago. Our visits last 1. 5 to 2 hours and it does take a little bit longer to get out of the terminal because we still get a lot of attention and a lot of people that want to interact with lilo. I feel honored to be part of the wag brigade. Its very special to meet so many people and make so many feel happy and people that work here. Its been a great experience for me and a great experience for to totoby. Its been an extremely successful program, so the next time you are here, stop by and say hi. Good to have you here. Welcome. I am the s. F. O. Airport director. Thank you all for being here. Thank you. [ applause ]. Thanks so much. You know, its a pleasure to welcome everyone here today. This is such an important day and were so excited to celebrate this unveiling and recognition and commemoration of our late mayor. Were so pleased to have the family here of ed. Thank you, anita, to have you here, eds wife. Eds daughters tania and rihanna, welcome to both of you, and natasha, the granddaughter, is also here, welcome. Pansie for being here, thank you for being here. 94 years young and she traveled from seattle to be with us today along with other members of the family. I understand eds brothers and sister are here, edmond and manny, welcome and thank you for being here. It is a real honor for me to be here as well as the airport director and to celebrate this wonderful commemoration of our late mayor ed lee and his life time and legacy. Such an important place to have this commemoration. This is an appropriate dedication to our late mayor, as he was such a driving force in connecting our city to the rest of the world for business as well as cultural enrichment. He was so supportive and proud of our efforts to create such an amazing Passenger Experience and create the standard of a worldclass airport. He would say he wanted everyone to feel like you were walking through a fivestar hotel lobby when you travel through our airport. I think we achieved that vision. With a coalition of asianpacific community organizations, the Airport Coalition wanted to honor the mayor and formed a special advisory naming committee. Their job was to review the various proposals befitting of the honor that was proposed of our late mayor. I have to say it was a Truly Engaged and collaborative process. The committee came up with a unanimous recommendation to the Airport Commission, which also received unanimous approval for the Airport Commission which received permission from the departure hall in his honor. [ applause ]. You know, there was Community Involvement in this and we created a special advisory panel, including anita and members of the committee that were helping guide the implementation of the various elements of what this honoring of our late mayor would be, including the wood wall which we will get to see a little later on, including this mural behind me, which in the future will be replaced with a plaque, as well as a statue and a video about ed and how important he was to the city and county of San Francisco. It will be this lasting commemoration in our airport of the extraordinary significance our late mayor ed lee had on the city and county of San Francisco. With that, i thank you all for being here today. It is my pleasure to introduce the 45th mayor of San Francisco, who served out the remaining term of mayor lee and who we all congratulate on her victory to a full fouryear term as our mayor, welcome, mayor london breed. Mayor breed thank you, ivar. Im really excited to be here today, especially with members of the lee family, members of our Airport Commission, and people that i served with on the board of supervisors when ed was our mayor, president of the board of superviseors, thank yo, supervisor yee, for being here. When mayor lee was mayor, we were like his kids. We really were. We would go into his office. We would ask for things all of the time. In most instances, he was almost always so supportive. He cared about this city. He cared about the people of this city. He cared about doing good things for San Francisco. When i first sat down with him as supervisor and told him that Public Housing was my priority, of course we bonded over our shared experience of growing up in Public Housing. He said, yes, we will work to make the condition of residents and Public Housing better. I will tell you since ive been mayor, weve been going to a lot of those Public Housing developments where the promises of our city have been fulfilled and the conditions have changed significantly. Its because of his leadership and his work and his love and care for people. [ applause ]. Mayor breed his work for our Public School system and our children, his work for Public Safety and for making sure that we are a city that focuses on making the right decisions, especially for future generations. You know, most mayors wouldnt say this, but since ive been mayor, i am really a beneficiary of all of his hard work. So when i go and i do those ribbon cuttings. When i go and were saving buildings that mayor lee put in motion with funding and support, i know its because of his hard work that were able to make peoples lives better. I only wish, i only wish that he was able to be here with us to see what an amazing job he did for the people of San Francisco. [ applause ]]. Mayor breed so many of his friends are here, people who worked and served with him, people who loved and supported him. Again, i want to thank the lee family for just your continued support of San Francisco, your continued involvement in the things that we do to improve the lives of people in San Francisco. This is at least legacy. I along with other emerging, elected officials, we are part of his legacy. The work that we did together in San Francisco has really transformed our city and put us on the right path to continue to improve San Francisco so it is fitting, as we dedicate the International Airport to mayor lee to just also remind ourselves of the work that he did, but as the First Chineseamerican mayor in San Franciscos history, the man was like a rock star. He was like a rock star. [ applause ]. Mayor breed now, ed didnt need a lot of attention, but i didnt let him not get the attention he needed. I remember when we went to china, we went to beijing and shanghai, and so many people with their cameras and Everything Else and just i mean, you would have thought that it was beyonce and j. Z. It was mayor lee getting love and to smile like it wasnt a big deal. I would tell him to soak it up and not get excited. That was his personality. He didnt need the attention or the fame. He was about the work. He was about the results. He was about the people. As we honor him here today, it is only fitting because he was an international figure, that when people come to this city, the first thing they see is mayor ed lee greeting them. When people leave this city, they can see the same thing. Its the impression that they get, and that is that he was an important figure for the city and county of San Francisco, so much so that he is acknowledged in such a significant way. Thank you all for being here. Thank you all to a lot of the airport workers that are here, the family, the people from the african and chinese communities, people who have come from far and wide to honor someone who was really such an incredible figure and incredible inspiration, and has done a lot to set our city on the right path. So it is only fitting that we honor him in this way today at the San Francisco International Airport. His legacy will continue to live on through us. Thank you. It is now my pleasure to introduce a former president of the board of supervisors. He worked with mayor lee on many issues. A warm welcome for California State Assembly member, david chu. Good morning, San Francisco. This is a San Francisco day. I was thinking of how to start my thoughts, and maybe i would start with the following which is i am going to be short because he was and i am. Thank you all for being a part of the community of San Francisco and so many of the Community Leaders who led to this day, to this wonderful naming dedication. Of course we want to salute anita and your family for your family, your sacrifice, and your love. All of us have countless memories of the mayor, and im going to relay just a few quick ones. It was exactly ten years ago to the day that i was in this International Terminal with thensupervisor chu and mar. The three of us were the First Chinese supervisors to serve together. We were heading on a goodwill trip to southern china. We were joined by members of the Chinese Chamber, some of who are here. What was historic about that event for me ten years later is that we were joined by one incredibly competent, selfless, humble, and smiling city administrator, ed lee. I remember on that trip, those of us who were elected officials, we were new to our roles. We observed him as he interacted with our diplomatic counterparts, as he brought good will from this city, as he fosters economic and social ties with other parts of the world. That is the ed lee that became mayor that we honor and respect today. A second memory involving this very airport. The first week the current occupant of the white house was inaugurated. He issued an executive order that said that airports were about to become the site of his new walls to keep out refugees. Im going to quote something that mayor lee said because he was always so mild minored, but not on that day. As the son of chinese immigrants, i am disgusted by the president s executive order to target muslim communities, to ban immigrants from entering the united states. These actions are a direct betrayal of our american values. We were also proud of him on that day because for our former mayor, it is important for him to lead a city where love trumps hate, where civility trumps rudeness. Mayor lee stood for everything that is good about compassion and tolerance for all of our diverse communities. [ applause ]. Let me end with my final memory of mayor lee, as anita knows. You and your husband like to make fun of me for not having a kid. I regret that my son lucas will not get to know uncle ed lee. What i can tell you is because of this photograph, because of this naming decision, we will have millions of kids from around the world, from china, from asia, from africa, from latin american and europe who will come through these halls and say im the child of immigrants, but maybe some day i can run a city. I am the son of a cook and a se seamstress, but maybe some day i can run a city. Mayor lee has given us hope in our future. That is why we are here today and that is why it is wonderful to be part of our San Francisco community. Thank you so much and god speed. And now my pleasure to welcome up a district 4 supervisor turned supervisor by mayor lee. Please welcome carmen chu. Hello, everybody. So happy to be here with all of you and to see this day come forward. So many people who are here today from all different parts of mayor ed lees life, his family, the community who loved him, and of course the citys family who adored him and saw him as a mentor for many of us. I think the trip that we took was spoken about. When you travel with him, just like in relationships, they say it really reveals someones true character. Can you travel well together, were they fussy, were they hard to get along with, and so on. I have a memory of mayor ed lee on that trip. On that trip we were walking through these beautiful gardens where you can see the scenery around. I see our mayor who wasnt mayor at the time, who was a city administrator, and he was looking at the trash can. He was looking at the trash can to understand whether the design of the trash can was something that we should mimic and bring back here to San Francisco. So i think revealing the character that was our mayor and i think the family knows this too for all the times he brought you out to do cleanups, our mayor cared about the details to run the city and run it well and he did so with every part of his life. He could have been doing something different, but he was looking at a trash can. The mayor that i knew and the one that all of us came to love came from humble beginnings, someone who has struggles in the family, who didnt have very much, where you saw your own family struggle with the language, and where somehow, some way, you became a lawyer who advocated for civil rights to make sure that injustices were not something that could be tolerated in our community, to be someone who cared about how we run our city for the benefit of the public, he became the mayor. One of my proudest moments as a daughter of immigrants was walking down the hall in the rotunda after selecting ed lee to be our mayor. That was probably one of the best votes i ever made as a supervisor. If there was one thing i could have left behind as a legacy would be that i selected and supported that San Francisco had our First Chinese mayor. [ applause ]. As were gathered here today to watch this unveiling and to see all of this, i think it brings us hope and pride, david spoke about this earlier, all of the people who will come through the San Francisco International Airport, all of the people who will look up and say who was this person and how was this person relevant to San Francisco, and say im walking through this place, an international city, a place that sets the worlds trends and to know that this man not only moved San Francisco forward, but that he is a man who enexpires so many generations to come. My parents cooked in restaurants and theyre proud that we have a voice and we can stand up and fight for the injustices and see that when people are attacked in our community, we can stand up. It doesnt matter in youre chinese or latin american or another other background, i cant tell you how meaningful this is to have his remembrance at the International Terminal. Thank you. [ applause ]. Next we have someone who worked with mayor lee on housing policy issues. Now as our very own Airport Commissioner, malcolm young. [ applause ]. First of all, i need to apologize to Assembly Member chu. I think i laughed a little too loud at your short jokes mayor lees short jokes. And then carmen nudged me as well. Thank you for that. When the press asked me about why i was so adamant about seeing this terminal named after mayor lee, i gave a response that in a city that was home to the chinese exclusion act, it is fitting that this gateway be named of a chineseamerican civil rights advocate, someone who devoted his entire career to breaking down barriers. In that context, i want to point out the naming of this terminal is incredibly ironic and important. If you ask me without the press around in a quieter moment why i was so adamant about this, i want to give a much simpler answer. Ed becoming mayor made me proud to be an asianamerican. In a city and state where asianamericans had a long and unrecognized role of building, ed lee becoming mayor was important and this is a point we continue to mirror as a community. I wasnt surprised when there was so much unity from our community when we first started organizing the committee and the campaign to bring this after mayor lee. The commissioner said the airport damn well name the terminal after ed, because ive never seen so many people who dont like each other in the same room pushing for the same thing. And maybe to put it in terms that our elected officials and advocates can understand better, this naming campaign got the president of the Community Residents association out staples it got the head of the realtors out for an entire year. I got asked the question, when is that ever going to happen again . Thank you, ed. Ed is not the only person that we need to thank, but we love that youre here and this is amazing. I want to talk a little bit about the effort that it took to get us here. This was a 13month campaign and it was led from and came from the chinese american community. I want to say thank you to all of the supporters who came on board to push for this. I want to call out some individuals and groups in particular, and i know we will do that more later. There were some folks who steppedup. First and foremost i want to acknowledge annie chung. Annie was on the naming committee. Annie was the moral compass of this effort, but also i want to thank you for stepping out early. Your leadership in this community and this effort really i think lent the credibility that we needed to make sure that this is something that everybody got behind. Thank you so much, annie. Annie just got back from hong kong yesterday, so were glad youre here. I want to call out and thank guretta louis. I want to thank you for getting this rolling. When she called us, we thought she was inviting us for a free lunch. It turns out she was setting out our work plan for the next 13 months. I also want to acknowledge walter wong. I know that losing ed was very important. Your leadership also lent an incredible amount of effort to this and we want to thank you. Your leadership to the Chinese Chamber of commerce, so many leaders from these organizations were there every step of the way. I see ringo in the back. Pitman, eddie, everybody who showed up at hearing after hearing. And the same is true for our