Are trying to get people out of the hall of justice. Can you talk to that . I was just made aware of that fact myself very recently. We are in discussions with the Police Department to see if we can rectify the situation. It is not, unfortunately, uncommon for city departments to take over a vacated space. As soon as one unit moves out, before i can move another unit in, someone will take squat the space. I think this is a different situation. I think we are trying to get everyone out of the building. We see hundreds of millions of dollars and people trying to do that. When it moves in, it is a little concerning because, quite frankly, my next question is, is this Budget Committee going to be expanded to prove approve expenditures to relocate the unit . If i can interrupt, i share that concern and we are in discussions with the Police Department that they will have to sell their space needs elsewhere and we cant, as part of the ho jay exit, absorbed that cost. So they moved into the bu
Ownership rights. For veterans, thats an irrational choice. Okay, thank you very much. Do you have any questions supervisor mar . How important is it that diversity be on this committee . Absolutely. The majority of the veterans i serve are veterans of color, low income, disabled, housing and food insecure, Substance Abuse experience, and what im here to say if youre going to put a white dude on the panel, im the one you want. [laughter] since coming back from the military, like, you could find me when were protesting on the streets of oakland. Im eyeball to eyeball with the police. Im standing between the police and the community, inviting the tear gas and rubber bullets on me to buffer between the Violent Police and the december Desperate Community demanding justice. Im here to leverage those privileges to elevate the communities affected by these terrible policies. Thank you. Next speaker. Chair ronen, supervisors walton, mar, fewer, hello. Im a fifth generation San Francisco native
Today in the omi in district 7 [cheers and applause] they say it takes Broad Strokes to make something truly incredible, people to enjoy and thats the message we have here today. Theres no better person to articulate the vision for advancing Economic Opportunity and equity in our city than our next speaker that is joining all of us and leading these efforts with us today and that is our mayor, london reed. Hello, lakeview hello i am so excited to be here let me tell you, this centre is long overdue in the Omi Community. [cheers and applause] i want to start by thanking supervisor safaye, who is really, i think the best supervisor district 11 has ever had. Let me tell you, because of his work and advocacy, we are bringing more resources than ever to this community. We saved 21 units just on Mission Street where low income families were facing eviction. He took the leadership, we purchased that property and protected those units for generations to come. [cheers and applause] we know that
Kevin stall, and a rider of the bus line. And a major advocate for Pedestrian Safety and a lot of the changes here will help improve the corridor a lot. One of the major thoroughfares south of market with a lot of people walk, ride their bikes, drive, and take muni down this street. And with the number of people who are going to be moving into the neighborhood with the new projects, the potential of having a lot of families with children and possibly seniors and maybe people who are disabled who frequent this corridor a lot, the changes will most definitely help the people feel safe, and unfortunately we have 22 people in our city killed, pedestrian fatalities and the number is growing. So, any and all improvements to make sure people feel safe is much needed, and i fully support the project in its entirety. Thank you very much. Thank you. Paul, cat, simone. My name is courtney, here on behalf of supervisor matt haney, district 6. I think its a rare evening when the board of supervisor
Goals. Fifty of the contracts of 45 million in fiscal 1718 were awarded to those and a total of 45 million. Of those, 87 were professional services, and 43 in construction. Nineteen was local participation. Workforce participation, and 905 San Francisco residents that performed over 298,000 hours. I wanted to say, just to point out the housing efforts really are a result of the joint effort of everybody at the ocii staff, so i just want to point out, everybody is doing their part. It is totally a Collaborative Group effort. The legal team, the project area managers, contract compliance, and our real estate folks, and then i pointed out our housing staff who are here. With that, im happy to entertain any comments or questions. Thank you, mr. White. Before we call any speaker cards , because of the interest of time, because we have another commission right after us, i am going to have Public Comment be only two minutes per speaker. All right. Are there any speaker cards for this item . Y