Commissioner other questions from the board at this point . Commissioner this is very informative. It seems it would be easier to be more successful than the other plans. I think the integration definitely helps. But i think the other plans can also do it. We hit 44 in two years. Trying to virtually integrate and then the cure system would help us. Well, again, i thank you for the presentation and the work youve done particularly in your recycle bins in the pharmacy. Kaiser, without a doubt is the large largest prescriber of prescription drugs in the county and finally the bins started showing up. My household was lighter because of it so thank you. You asked about the dentist. I met with assemblyman wood who is a dentist and the California Dental Association to work on this together. Our kp pharmacists will call the dentists if we see a large prescription. If you have a root canal and it hurts three days you dont need 30 pills. Commissioner thank you very much. Paige, do you have Closing Remarks on this topic at this time . Do i not. Commissioner all right. Well, we thank you each of the plan representatives. We thank aon for providing the overall leadership to this effort in terms of this presentation and for those who have made presentations today. We again thank you for that in terms of this particular topic. Its win of these things im sure one of these things im sure as were doing renewal process well get more data on what the cost impact of this is. Todays effort was not so much about cost and im pleased to say the plans didnt start with that message because it isnt that alone. It really is about the health and safety of our members and how the issue is impacting them and that was the focus so thank you again. All right. Nothing more on that. Madame secretary. Public comment im sorry. Yes. Remind me anytime i dont do that. Dennis krueger being active retired firefighters and significant others. I made this statement the last time you had the discussion on opioids and im going to make it again. California and the way everything is described here is in pretty good shape with opioids though we have an abundance of prescriptions. But all the Health People here put so much pressure on the pharmaceutical industry to create a bridge drug. Something that goes from opioid to nonopioid. The creation is when they stop them, its cold turkey and thats what puts people on the street looking for drugs. It puts people raiding other peoples medicine cabinets, any way at all. And until they find something to ease people off of it it wont go away. We have people from the health and optum here one of the biggest pharmacies in the country they need to put pressure to come up with a drug to take these people slowly off them and back into society. Commissioner thank you for your comment. Is there any other Public Comment . Hearing and seeing none well move toite been item six. Vote on whether to hold the closed session for update on Health Service system executive director search for Ralph Anderson and associates. Weve been engaged in the process of finding a successor to a recently retired executive director. We are moving along at a very good pace and im pleased to report that we are hopefully coming to some of the closing interviews around this physician. Its necessary for us as a berd board to talk about the next steps in the process. As the next steps become clearer to us well ultimately be sharing them with you. So im willing to entertain a motion to go to closed session. All right. Its been properly moved and seconded we go to vote on the director. Is there an questions by the board . Hearing and seeing none were ready to vote. Is there Public Comment. Were ready to vote. All in favor signify by aye. Opposed . Its unanimously cared. Well be going to closed session. Thank you we reconvene moving to item eight. Its been properly moved and seconded we not disclose our discussion held in close session or comments from the board on this motion. If not, were now ready to vote. Those in favor say aye. It passed. Im ready to vote on acts taken in the closed session. Its been properly moved we do not report on the action in the closed session. Its been moved and seconded. Is there comment perfect the board. Hearing and seeing none were ready to vote. Those in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed. Carries unanimously. The meet being of the board of directors for the sitting county of San FranciscoHealth System is now adjourned. [pounding gavel grkd i just want to say for all of you that are here, it has been just great. I mean, its taken a long time, like 10plus years to make this happen. Yeah. [ applause ] but its because of all of you that this has been possible. I dont want to do too many thank yous, but i want to introduce phillip stone, who is the treasurer of the board. Phillip and i came in here at the same time when this place was falling around. And when you opened the doors, they fell off their hinges. Yes. He even got threatened by one of the staff people at booker t. Who threatened to beat him up and grabbed him by the collar. So thats what it has been like. But the three of us, including larry griffin, who is our board claire, have been around this project for a long, long time now. What we really ended up doing is having great supporters like alice barkley. Where is that girl . Alice represented us legally pro bono for years and years and years. [ applause ] outside of saying, pat, shut up. You dont know what youre talking about. Just do what im telling you to do, and youll be all right. Phillip just wanted to say a brief word before we introduce our incredible mayor, mayor edly. Thank you. Welcome to all of you and thank you for coming. I just want to larry will introduce the board of directors but i just want to tell you what the programs going to be. Were going to introduce the board of directors and many, mayor lee, willie brown, london bree and kevin killburn will give a few statements. After that there will be a ceremonial ribboncutting outside. So for those of you who want to take pictures of the ribboncutting, before it starts, you should go outside. Its a better pick from outside than inside. The other thing is that there are people you see with these name tags that are typed. Thats part of our staff and thats part of our board. If you have any questions whatsoever, talk to them. Pull them aside and test them. Okay . I hope they read their cheat sheets. Okay. And i give you larry griffin, president. Yea. [ applause ] good afternoon, folks. And thank you, everybody, that is here. This whole project was a community effort. It wasnt just one or two people. It was a lot of people led by phillip and by pat, so. Our Board Members that are here today, our Vice President is carlos reid. Carlos. Whew. [ applause ] hes also the Athletic Director for drew that uses our gym quite frequently and andrea pattonhousely is in the house. Shes here. Andrea. [ applause ] and there is one person i cannot forget to mention and that is ferris mackris. Yes. Thats an incredible member of our board. We do have a couple of people missing today. However, we have a couple of folks here. And ugee is here. Ugee worked here for a long time as a youth counselor. This is ugee tom, right here. [ applause ] ugee has been absent for a while now because shes in medical school at u. C. Davis and she will be coming back to us as dr. Tom one day. Thats right. Yes. The adam is not here. That, i think eric is here. Oh, eric sapphire. Where is he . Yea [ applause ] oh, eric. My god. Come on up here. Eric is this is really a good thing to see eric, folks. Yeah. Yeah. How are ya . [ applause ] okay. No, no. You still have shelly. Oh, my god. Shelly bradfordbell. Do i need to say anything about shelly bradfordbell . I dont think so. I think most folks know the bell. Okay. Folks, according to my speaker, i have the honour of introducing someone behind our project 125 , and thats mayor ed lee. Can we get a round of applause for him. [ applause ] thank you, larry patton, phil. I remember being here when we turned the spade of dirt. Its been a long, long time. But youre all still here for the ribboncutting. I remember art agnos, john and willie brown. Were still here to turn over the dirt. Yeah. [ applause ] its taken a while. Its taken too long for the purpose set out by the community, for people working with board president , london breed, for way too long waiting for this. Because some of the youth we wanted to serve, theyre adults now. We still have got more to do. This is only 50 units. But it took a long time. And its one of those examples where when we have got something important, we ought not to have lawsuits stop them. Yeah. We have to do a better job as a community if we are going to serve them. And booker t. Has been there since day one. And i want to say, booker t. , thank you for doing all of the work, all of the good work. [ applause ] so so before someone accuses me of being too long, im going to say thank you to everybody. I know it was a barrage of different sources of money, not just the city, not just equity, not just john stewart, not just the state. Not just raymond james, not just cit ibank. Citibank. All of them putting together youths, the service center. Im looking forward to the young people who come through whose lives will be touched and changed so, when they say theyre part of booker t. , theyre part of the city, theyre part of the future. This is San Francisco. Love and compassion for everybody. Thank you. [ applause ] supervisor breed has reminded many he we have not told everybody what this project is. We have 50 units of housing, half for young people that have aged out of foster 0 care or are at risk of homelessness. So those 25 units, more than half of them are filled now. We also have 24 units and 50 , 60 at 50 , 60 median income. That means it is, the rent is about 50 a month. I just had someone ask the city to buy that for 800,000. It was rick. Thats right. Thats exactly who it was. So we have for those 24 units, we had 1,300 applications. Wow. So the housing situation here, particularly for young people and for poor people is really acute. And i will definitely be on hand tomorrow when mayor lee signs this sequel legislation because its absolutely needed. And theres nothing else i can say about it. We have to cut through the red tape so we can create more housing for the people who live here. Our kids cant afford this. Yeah. Yeah. I want now to answer. Yes. What . The Community Center london is on me again for not explaining stuff. We have a Community Center that now has youth radio studios, so well have a San Francisco radio over here eventually. Right now we have a media and tech center. We have childcare. And jimmy john is organizing the childcare. They were here two weeks ago. It is great to see these 2yearolds running around this place that weve never seen before. Weve got another playground that was built by the parents and the children. They designed it. It was built with the help of lucas film and disney. We have a full nba gym that can be divided into two smaller gyms. We are in partnership with drew school. Drew school came to our rescue because we had to have an unemcouple bettered site to build this. We had a half a million mortgage at 10 interest and drew paid it off. [ applause ] whew. So weve continued to do what weve also done which are programs for young people and afterschool programs for those young people between the ages of 5 and 18. We have a mind Body Health Center now in addition to the gym, and we have a music studio. So were ready to go. The other thing we do, is we teach cycling. And we have 50 bicycles. And we have a Cycling Center downstairs. We teach kids how to navigate the streets of San Francisco. And we teach them how to do minor repairs. You will notice that the two principal things we have, cycling, which is which is one of my passions, and radio, which is another one, are here in this center. Im sorry about that. But thats thats how that happened. Yes. Yes . Okay. We wanted to also point out that we have some elected officials here today. And other than the president of the board of supervisors, we have supervisor jeff sheehy here with us today. [ applause ] and we also have state senator, scott weiner. Thank you both for joining us. All right. Its hard to introduce a man with blue suede shoes, but it can be done. Id like to ask the former mayor, speaker of the assembly, the honorable willy blue suede shoes brown to join us. [ applause ] let me thank you who have waited so long and put in so much time and energy. I think that the evolution of booker t. Washington Community Center in to the facility that was described by pat a moment ago and including, clearly, the 50 units of housing. The ad vent of john burton being as dedicated as he has been for multiple chores. He assumed the responsibility a long time ago on behalf of all of the elected types to do something about kids who reached 18 years of age and who were then free allegedly, but without the kind of support and services needed to allow them to grow into full adults. Johns undertaken all of that. And to acknowledge that here at booker t. Washington is a good thing. Some of you may or may not know, but booker t. Washington Community Center was exactly two blocks from where i lived. I lived at 2547 sutter, apartment 326, right here in the west side housing, public housing. Thats right down the way. My uncle had the rental arrangement and, in those days, nobody checked. And so he had he had some other relatives living there with him and i was one of those other relatives living there with him. And booker t. Was where youd go. And then, of course, you know, over the years, i morphed in to being a participant and lots of things around the city. And i started to coach a team, a little basketball team. We called it the globetrotters. And it was i mean, it was a great team. We, clearly, won games at every Community Center, whether we played at booker t. , whether we played the ones at woo cannotin, whether we played the ones at cannon kip. We would do what guys do. Id go to washington and get the best player out there. Id go to mission and get the best player out there. I would put together all of the best players. Leroy doss was the best player. He was the Number One Center on the team. John will remember and probably agnos as well that the only alive black republican in the world ran booker t. Center. His daughter and his son and it was amazing how this was designed and people participated. Jim stratton was here and he was the booker t. Washington executive director. A mean son of a bitch but in every way and when in College London the organizations called i guess you would call them alpha, calpa, all of us. This is where we played when there was a fraternity league going booker t. Is where we did exactly that. We didnt know about all of the People Living out in hunters point. They were foreigners. We didnt bring them over here because we had a black community that was incredible and booker t. Was near the center of that black community. And it was just a wonderful thing. And to now have it redone to seat it this day in age, it is a godsend and and to have it redone in this day in age, it is a godsend and as said, you can look to do with the right kind of resources, the right kind of leadership and the right kind of dedication in a city that is dedicated to facilitating. And booker t. Suffered through all of those years and all that approval and all of the other places can learn from booker t. And do it with greater speed. Mmhmm. But not with any more love. Thank you. [ applause ] as most of you know or most of you dont know, this center is broken into two parts. We have our Community Center on the far right here. And then we have the housing complex which is where everybody is over here. Were where the 50 units of housing are. And that housing is named after a gentleman named john burton since ive known when i was knee high. He was knee high, too. He wasnt an adult yet. This was the john burton housing complex funded largely by the john burton foundation. And wed like to have john come up and say a few words. Please, sir. [ applause ] whew. And while johns on his way up, id like to mention that rick moriono is here who is the president of the board of directors of the john burton foundation. Whew. [ applause ] thanks a lot, larry. I would first like to thank our Board Members, rick and mariono who played a big role. Because he knows development and trying to help pat through some of this snake pit stuff that they go through, including the fact that one of the city agencies was not going to elect it wasnt the Mayors Office. He told us that thats giving it to him. But they would not let us park cars because there was a little piece of paper that hadnt been signed. And pats very polite. I would have said, screw them. Tow the mayors car away and see how he gets there. But rick mariono and there she is. Who . Who else is here . Who . Tammy. Oh, yeah. Tammy and i had a stroke. I dont remember. [beep] and this is us talking. I was a ymca kid. We were playing in the tenderloin. We were playing basketball at booker t. Probably the most troubled guy was jones and willy will remember. This was west side that had a church and gym. First united presbyterian had a gym. A lot of churches had gyms where young kids could play. And it doesnt happen anymore. In the rebirth of this, its just a really great thing. And im so happy that we could be part of it. Because this is going to be a real Community Center. And i believe after the neighbors around here and pat will tell you how many were supportive and how many werent. No, i dont know that much. But people will see what can happen when a Community Gets together and does something for young people. It improved the community. And as the mayor goes, they could build homes not for people that do not have homes. So there is a big difference. Im proud that we were part of this. Ive known larry, you know, worked with pop herman and willy going back to the corpses the corps days and senator weiner who took over my district, twice