Francisco bay community, we respect all the people who have been here for generations, we respect you, we respect the community. We honored the work that you have done. Its hard work to allow people to recognize whats right and wrong and do the hard work. Its the hardest work that we have to do today, whether youre holding a public office, being a minute center or bei minister or community activist, its hard job, but it serves our community and our children, and we must try to do better. This has been an important home to gobs of community meetings, employment workshops, to incubators for employment opportunities, and its also been a place where sadly, weve also had to send people away, who died in violence or met an early death. All of those aspects of life that are challenging the city, its happening in a microcosm there at 3rd baptist in a collusive and collaborative way. So im just sharing thisome things, but ill also share with you some strong feelings with people that ive got to hire in the community, doing entertainment work, doing community work, doing leadership work, trying to save more people, trying to get them out of condemnation and into salvation. Were all trying to do it, and in a large part, a lot of what i have to do is save more lives and make sure people live more robust lives in the city, the city sometimes where people say there are a lot of inequities. 3rd baptist is about equity. Its n its about finding love and support. Thats why it deserves to be recognized in our hall of landmarks, so i say to the rest of our country, you ought to be embracing the right principles when youre endorsing landmarks. You ought not to be endorsing symbols of racism and oppregnano oppression. This role that our community has played, this building will be known for when we place the final signature of landmark status. This is our history. This is your history. Youve shared it with us. Its our history, its the nations history, right here in the middle of San Francisco, we celebrate 3rd Baptist Church and everybody associated with it. Thank you for being here, thank you for being witnesses to this wonderful important occasion for all of our citizens. Thank you. Thank you mr. Mayor, and i just want to again thank the cosponsors of this amazing legislation. Supervisor malia cohen, supervisor aaron peskin, and supervisor mark farrell, and with that, id like to bring up our leader to give us a history, abbreviated, reverend brown, we aint in church. We trying to sign this today. Amen . Amen. Amen congregation. Reverend brown, our leader, come on up. Good afternoon. Madam president of our board of supervisors, supervisors peskin, cohen, to our city administrator, our friend, miss naomi kelley, i see other Department Heads here, but time would not permit me to name them all, and indeed to our fine mayor, my friend and servant of the people, mayor edwin lee, give him a big round of applause. And to all the members and our officers of 3rd Baptist Church, we have with us the chair person of our deacons ministry, deacon alfonso campbell, chair person of our trustee ministry, trustee preston turner. This is a tender and touching moment for me, for i am privileged to stand to celebrate a fateful day, a day in which our honored mayor will sign this legislation that w l defines a Faith Community as a landmark, a mark, a memorial of what all faith communities should mirror. 3rd baptist was not founded in 1852 to just equip people with knowledge of spiritual things. Thi3rd baptist was born out of struggle. She was founded on the anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the british west indies, and that struggle has continued cross the weighted span of these now 165 years. I want to acknowledge here that william duboyce celebrated his 90th third day at 3rd baptist on april the third, 1958, when paul roberson, after he had been maliciously ma lined and wrongly accused of being a communist, first came back to the united states, it was 3rd Baptist Church that opened its doors to a man who needed befriending. Dr. Martin luther king, when he had inaugurated the Montgomery Movement had his first appearance in the hallowed walls of 3rd Baptist Church in 1957. I said again that this is tender and touching for me, for i was introduced into this struggle at the age of 15 years old, when i organized the first Youth Conference of the National Organization of the advancement of colored people in the wake of that malicious brutal murderering of em emma teal, and it was one year later that megawale evers asked my mother if i could come to San Francisco to attend the National Convention of the naacp, and on that sunday morning of the convention, where did i worship . At 3rd Baptist Church, and i was as a young lad from mississippi, so impressed overseeing Frederick Douglas haynes, sr. , standing before that sacred desk who had the presence and the elequence that was greater maybe than that of Prince Albert as a gentleman, as a scholar, as a pretty muche mucher preacher, and a social activist, so that impacted my life further, and to think were here today with mayor lee, members of Department Heads, and citizens with the city of San Francisco to honor this struggle with this designation, and because of this designation, there will forever be known that 3rd baptist was here, was reckoned with and made a difference in the lives of people for the better. Thank you, mayor lee, thank you all of you who gathered today for we have set the bar high. Im a woman, but im wise. Im an immigrant, but im industrious, im gay, but im godly, im saint, but i am sensible. That is the feeling of 3rd baptist, and thank you mayor lee for signing this document, so that in all common generations, it will be known that we knew more than how to walk the walk skb talk the talk as members of the human family. God bless you all and thank you all for honoring us this day. Thank you, reverend brown. We had church a little bit up in here. He going to give it to you good on sunday. You all aint ready for the chapter one, chapter two, and Chapter Three on sunday. He got some making up to do after today. Thank you, reverend brown for always being there for our community and just really protecting our history and reminding us how important it is to remember what happened in the past so that we can celebrate that and continue to push and advocate towards the future, and so with that, i want to welcome up deacon campbell to just say a few words, and then, were going to get to the ceremony. Deacon campbell, come on up. Good afternoon. To mayor lee, supervisor breed and president of the board, to my Fisk University alum, supervisor malia cohen, supervisor peskin, and all others who are here, it is a pleasure and to reverend brown. Dont let me forget to say that. It is a pleasure and an honor for me to have an opportunity to say a word or two on this historic celebration. This morning, i woke up thinking about what would i say because of the origin of 3rd Baptist Church out of racism and say it, and the development in the home of two members has led to this. I just know that god is good. I just know that this was meant to be, and with all of the preparation and the organization and all the things that have been done, this is the payoff. I can remember Martin Luther king, in one of his many speeches, made the statement that the arch of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice. This is justice; and we try to do that at 3rd baptist. We do it. We show as mayor lee said, respect to everybody, and we make every effort to show justice to love mercy, and to walk humbly with god. With that, i will just end by saying thank you and the fact that as long as there is a San Francisco, there will be a 3rd Baptist Church. Thank you. Okay. I just wanted to acknowledge supervisor jane kim and thank you for joining us today, and with that, lets get down to business. Reverend brown, its time. Its time. Come on over here. [ inaudible ] to mayor lee, and all the other folks around here, i just want to say thank you for all you have done for 3rd Baptist Church. You know, when i came here, i joined 3rd baptist right off, cause ive always been impressed with the church, but the biggest thing this church has done for me, it has so much carin caring, careing, or caring, i dont know which one. But any way, theyre so caring. We have back on track to help young folks, because if young folks cant make it, its no excuse, cause 3rd baptist has got it. We have a beautiful senior extension group, and oh, boy, i cant wait to get to that because we play bingo and all kinds of exercise and things for the seniors. But we also have a Music Department thats out of this world. You have to come to some of the concerts because you cant beat it. But the thing that has helped me is that caring way. Let me give you an example. This morning, one of the members called me and said, mama smith, make sure you dress warmly cause its raining outside. Wasnt that beautiful . Give her a hand. And not only that, this is what has happened to me in 4. 5 months, ill be 100, and i have to give 3rd baptist part of that because god works through a good church, so im just thankful to be here, and im so thankful for you all who have done so much for this church. Keep on, because we are for what is right. We are going to be there forever, and we thank god for it. Amen. [ singing amen ] [ applause ] bayview. A lot discussion how residents in San Francisco are displaced how businesses are displaced and theres not as much discussion how many nonprofits are displaced i think a general concern in the Arts Community is the testimony loss of performance spaces and venues no renderings for establishes when our lease is up you have to deal with what the market bears in terms of of rent. Nonprofits cant afford to operate here. My name is bill henry the executive director of aids passage l lp provides services for people with hispanics and aids and 9 advertising that fight for the clients in Housing Insurance and migration in the last two years we negotiated a lease that saw 0 rent more than doubled. My name is ross the executive directors of current pulls for the last 10 years at 9 and mission we were known for the projection of sfwrath with taking art and moving both a experiment art our lease expired our rent went from 5 thousand dollars to 10,000 a most. And chad of the arts project pursue. The evolution of the orientation the focus on Art Education between children and Patrol Officer artist we offer a full range of rhythms and dance and theatre music theatre about in the last few years it is more and more difficult to find space for the program that we run. Im the nonprofit manager for the Mayors Office of Economic Workforce Development one of the reasons why the mayor has invested in nonprofit displacement is because of the challenge and because nonprofits often commute Technical Assistance to understand the negotiate for a commercial lease. Snooechlz is rob the executive director and cofounder of at the crossroads we want to reach the disconnected young people not streets of San Francisco for young adults are kicked out of the services our building was sold no 2015 they let us know theyll not renew our lease the last years the city with the nonprofit displacement Litigation Program held over 75 nonprofits financial sanction and Technical Assistance. Fortunate the city hesitate set aside funds for businesses facing increased rent we believable to get some relief in the form of a grant that helped us to cover the increase in rent our rent had been around 40,000 a year now 87,000 taylors dollars a year we got a grant that covered 22 thousands of that but and came to the minnesota Street Project in two people that development in the better streets plan project they saved us space for a Nonprofit OrganizationNational Anthem and turned out the Northern California fund they accepted us into the Real Estate Program to see if we could withstand the stress and after the program was in full swinging skinning they brought up the Litigation Fund and the grants were made we applied for that we received a one thousand dollars granted and that grant allowed us to move in to the space to finish the space as we needed it to furniture is for classes the building opened on schedule on march 18, 2016 and by july we were teaching classed here. Which we found out we were going to have to leave it was overwhelm didnt know anything about commercial real estate we suggested to a bunch of people to look at the nonprofits Displacement Mitigation Program you have access to commercial real estate either city owned or city leased and a city lease space become available there is a 946,000 grant that is provided through the Mayors Office of Economic Workforce Development and thats going to go towards boulder the space covers a little bit less than half the cost it is critical. The purpose of the Organization Trust to stabilize the arts in San Francisco working with local agency i go like the Northern California platoon fund that helped to establish documents of our long track record of stvent and working to find the right partner with the organization of our size and budget the opportunity with the purchase of property were sitting in the former disposal house theatre that expired 5 to 10 years ago we get to operate under the old lease and not receive a rent increase for the next 5 to 7 years well renting 10,000 square feet for the next 5 to seven years we pay off the balance of the purpose of this and the cost of the renovation. The loophole will that is unfortunate fortunate we have buy out a reserve our organization not reduce the services found a way to send some of the reserves to be able to continue the serves we know our clients need them we were able to get relief when was needed the most as we were fortunate to arrive that he location at the time, we did in that regard the city has been weve had tremendous support from the Mayors Office of Economic Workforce Development and apg and helped to roommate the facade of the building and complete the renovation inside of the building without the sport support. Our lease is for 5 years with a 5 year onyx by the city has an 86 year lease that made that clear as long as were doing the work weve been we should be able to stay there for decades and decades. The single most important thing we know that is that meaningful. It has been here 5 months and even better than that we could image. With the Economic Development have announced an initiative if ours is a nonprofit or know of a nonprofit looking for more resources they can go to the office of Economic Workforce Development oewd. Com slashing nonprofit and found out about the mayors nonprofit Mitigation Program and the Sustainability Initiative and find their information through Technical Assistance as much as how to get started with more fundraising or the real estate assistance and they can find my contact and reach out to me through the circles of the city through the good afternoon and welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. I am the actinging chair k aaron peskin, joined on my left supervisor katie tang and siting in for todays meeting, supervisor jeff sheehy, our clerk is ms. Alyssa samara. Do you have any announcements . Yes. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices, completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of a file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the december 5 supervisors board of agenda, otherwise stated. Thank you, madame clerk. Call items one, two, and three together. Yes. Items number one, two, and three are ordinances amending the general code and zoning map to add the 1629 Market Street special use district and approving a Development Agreement with stratta brady l. L. C. With various Public Benefits including open spaces in support of Affordable Housing and making appropriate findings. Thank you. This project has been a long time in coming and we are delighted that it has got ton the board of supervisors. I want to thank the mayor and his staff, of course, the Plumbers Union local 38 and the cosponsors of th