The support and guidance of former District Supervisor jane kim resulted in a project that always puts the community first. Please welcome former District Supervisor jane kim. Thank you so much. It has really been a long journey to get to where we are today. I just want to acknowledge a number of people who made this project, not just possible, but the project that is sitting before you today. A project that is going to achieve 40 affordable and middle income housing, including very lowincome housing. A project thank you for the applause. A project that is going to achieve open space and arts and also much needed housing here in San Francisco. But it took a lot of folks to get us here today. And first i want to acknowledge all of the members of our community. Particularly here in south of market who get involved and engaged on every single new development here in our city, because this is our neighborhood. Like many of the folks im about to acknowledge, i also live one block away from this development site, so it matters to me what we get to be a part of when we build this community. I want to acknowledge west bay filipino. Podco. Tenderloin Filipino Community association. And the mint mall resident building and their leader stefani. And of course, united players. [applause] the many years that we spent in putting this project together, i still remember the first meeting i had with hearse when they told me the project would be coming to me within a year or 14 months for approval. I smiled. About five years later we had them come before the board of supervisors, but there was a small group of folks that worked to make this happen. Now brookfield, jack and alexis and Karen Johnson and april ng and many of our Community Leader who told us what they wanted to see. Ensuring that as we build more housing and grow this neighborhood, that those who have lived here, can afford to live in this development as well. While 40 is not equal in every development, its important to know that 40 part of 5m is for formally erly formerly homeless. Its important as we build, to include those struggling, but working to live in the city. Im so proud of this project. Thank you to everyone involved. Especially the ladies. They were involved in the negotiation room. Alexis, april, karen, in the office, it was a pleasure to see this through. Thank you very much and congratulations to brookfield hearst. Thank you, former supervisor kim. United players says its takes a hood to save a hood. So organization has been active and participatory in the creation of the 5m program. Please welcome united players executive director rudy corpus. [applause] thank you, jocelyn. First of all, i want to say thank you, god, for giving me this opportunity to be here to share with you guys. And be up in here with the mayor, the arest of the you guys. When i walked in earlier today, several people asked me, what you doing here . I said i live here. Right down the block. Why shouldnt i be here . So i say that because, in order for us to stabilize our community where you have over 100 years of filipino history, you have to be a part of the decisionmaking that is happening in your community. So when you ask to take the hood to build the hood, i am the hood. Ive been here all my life. I used to run up and down these alleys down here and make bad choices, but im still here. Me and our organization and other organizations here like west bay, the oldest Filipino Organization on the west region, we been here. But its important for us to build relationships. To understand, to be a part of the solution and to be at the table with the people who are here also. Thats what community is all about, building relationships. We all going to agree . No, were not, but we got to sit at the table to figure out what is the best for our people that exist in this community right now. Otherwise, were not going to have no Filipino Community. You got a building right here, 90 of the people that live here is filipino. We have so many good ideas, but you have to make sure youre sitting with the people that is currently living here to build them bridges. Im into building bridges, not walls. If you want to come to a neighborhood where im at, come see me. Because were going to be here. Thats right, come see me. Matt is the District Supervisor, but im the godfather of this neighborhood. Believe that. So i finally want to say this to all my united players to did all the amazing work. We have over 200 kids right now, mayor breed, in this community that were working with. Kids from all over the community. They cant be because they have programming right now. So i want to say. I was asked to come here to be a part of this groundbreaking. We going to use this shovel right here. This is symbolic shovel and i share with you why. Green door, other ones, right, was also supported by the late mayor ed lee and the current mayor london breed and jane kim. We melted them guns down for mothers who lost their kids to gun violence. We put the gun parts in a furnace at 3,000. We melted it down and made 50 shovels. This shovel right here for the commemoration of Martin Luther king, had a 50th anniversary when he was assassinated in april, they planted a cherry tree. This is the shovel that was used. His greatgreat granddaughter used this, to plant a tree for Martin Luther king. Where him and his wife was buried. We use soil from a man who was lynched because he looked at a white woman and they said, you cant look at white women. They use his remains because they burnt him. And they threw him in the ground of the river. The mothers who lost their kids to gun violence, we melted it down and made this shovel. Then when i came back to San Francisco, we used this shovel when mayor ed lee died. And we planted this tree. The Mahogany Tree by the library. So this symbolic shovel is being used to plant things that are really special. So now we breaking ground with this to plant this building right here. So everybody is doing something positive and productive and constructive is with this right here. May the earth again be free. In the bible it says, that swords would be turned into plow share. This is one right here. So you cannot touch nothing unless you using all the right energy and the spirit of love that came from m. L. K. , Martin Luther king, jr. , mayor london breed. This is made out of guns, you all. This is going to break ground for our community and our people. Im always here to acknowledge my filipino people and everybody from this community that has been here. Because when im done finished speaking and breaking ground, guess where im going . Walking right back to my neighborhood. Thank you. Thank you, rudy. Thank you to all our speakers. As you can see, we have plenty to grow here. And as we all together break ground, its a special momentous occasion. So before we move on with our program, wed like to ask our speakers to take a celebratory photo down here by the trees. Because we have plenty of room to grow as a community together. But also wanted to share with everyone as we celebrate together, we have amazing artwork that is done and we have bags, so please join us in the continuous making of art together with the community. And at this time id like to ask the speakers to walk down. Mayor breed going to turn the dirt. Okay. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 [cheers and applause] [ ] good morning, everyone how are you all . So, welcome. Im with the Hotel Council and i want to welcome you all to our first love our city. Its the second love our city event but its the first one that is a tourism and Hospitality Industry have helped organize. So today we have over 700 people here in also waiting out in the neighborhood. [applause] im joined by our chair of our board, mr. James lamb who is here with us today. [applause] and this event is hosted by the Hotel Council of sf travel but it really came together because of a lot of different people working on the event and i want to thank mayor breed and the city of San Francisco and her team for partnering with us on this love our city event. So please give a big hand to them [applause] we also couldnt have done it without our partnership with the Public Works Department and larry stringer and darlene prom, fromand i want to thank all of m fork working with us. Raichal gordan as well. Their team has been incredible to work with. We also have, you can see the signs out here today, im going to call off and make sure we recognize the groups as well. Each of our groups cbd. [applause] our tenderloin cbd. Our fisherman warf cbe and our embarcadero and financial district group. And last but not least our soma groups. [applause] we know that you all clean up all youre long and daily around your hotels and businesses. And it really is a 24 7 job. We want to thank you for everything that you are doing. We also want to thank wreckology. They sponsored our tshirts so thank you for working with us. [applause] a special thank you as we look out on the hyatt region see for sponsoring us with breakfast as well. Thank you very much. If that was designed to bring us to Work Together and partner with the city and our mayor has announced in the last, since she took office, an incredible amount of programs, new funding and new resources all to help clean this city and help make this city safer. So i want to thank the mayor from our hospitality and Tourism Industries for making sure shes doing everything that she is doing. Lets give her a big round of applause. [applause] and last but not least our partners at sf travel who have come together to work with us on this event as well. Its my pleasure to introduce our mayor, london breed. Thank you good morning, everybody now, i will troy to be short because i would love for you all to get out there and do what you came here to do and clean up San Francisco let me just start by saying thank you. We know that we have a lot of challenges in San Francisco. We have far too many People Living on our streets. We have far too many challenges with housing and housing affordability. I know our Small Businesses are struggling. The city is finally making the kinds of investments that i hope will make a difference in your everyday lives as you work in this great city. I was born and raised here and i grew up in public housing. You know, my grandmother, when we were kids, she would make us go out and clean up. She would always say clean it up. Ike like mama, why, would want to clean up. You know how kids are. We would should i look, its our responsibility to keep our community clean. Now here, take this bucket and put water and soap and clean up. You know, at the time as a kid you are like i dont want to do this but then, as you get older, its just a part of who you are. I find myself doing it in my community, doing it where i used to work at the African American culture complex and really feeling good about the investment that ive made and also the example that ive set for other young people to be better stewards of San Francisco. So what you all are out there are doing is not just picking up trash and erasing graffiti and painting, you all are stewards for San Francisco. You are taking care of the city. You all are showing how much you love San Francisco and other people when they see you doing what you are doing, theyre less likely to drop that trash on the ground and actually take it to the trash can. It does make a difference. So i want to thank all of you and all the Community Business districts and the people who are out there every single day. I especially want to thank the department of public works and the many thousands of employees because they are out on the streets everyday. Downtown street teams and so many other folks trying to keep San Francisco clean, green and beautiful. I love our city. I know you all love this city. Thank you for showing your love by taking care of San Francisco today for this amazing event. Have a wonderful time out there thank you so much, mayor. Id like to introduce from district 6 our supervisor matt haney who will be working with the groups as well. Please help me welcome supervisor matt haney. Thank you, thank you. How is everybody doing this morning make some noise if you love our city [applause] make noise if you are ready to pick up a broom and do some cleaning today who would have thought we could call this a cold day in San Francisco. Were glad the temperature came down a little bit but its still a Beautiful Day to demonstrate to everyone in our city we care and were going to do some cleaning up. Im the supervisor of district 6 and i want to give a special shout out to the different communities and cbds of district 6. The tenderloin where i live, soma, union square, everyone who is here, we really appreciate how much you do everyday. I see folks here from the hotel. Make some noise if you are representing the hotels in our city. This is a city that is still a worldclass destination. People come here from all over the world. We want to make sure that when they come here, they understand that theyre going to have an incredible experience and theyre going to see clean and safe streets and theyre going to see the people of San Francisco care about our community. Thats what you are demonstrating today. I want to thank mayor breed for the investments shows made in making our streets cleaner. If you look out there, theres things we can do. We need more trash cans on our streets, we need more bathrooms that are open for longer hours, and we need more street cleaning and deep cleaning and so what you are doing today is not just demonstrating to your residents that you care, you are demonstrating to us, the city, that you care and we need to do more as well. Lets get out there today. Im going to be in the tenderloin and pick up a broom and i just want to say thank you all so much. Have fun. Lets love our city. [applause] thank you supervisor haney. Next id like to introduce our partner from sf travel. We have the share and the board of sf travel with us, mr. Peter gamez. [applause] wow good morning, everyone. This is a great day for us. As many of you know im the board chair and this is one of the issues weve all rallied for all year. This is a special day for all of us. Thank you everyone for coming out and joining the hospitality and Tourism Industry to love our city. Together, here today, we are showing the strength of our industry and the collective passion and commitment we share for San Francisco. I want to thank firstly our awesome mayor breed, im also a native San Francisco an and i completely relate to you how we took pride in all of our neighborhoods and the importance of cleaning our streets. Your leadership and commitment for cleaning our streets and keeping us safe and were very thankful. Were proud to partner with the department of public works. The total council of San Francisco and many of our Community Partners to do tour part to keep San Francisco clean, safe, and welcoming to all. Together, we are a gene that gives back to the city we love and we can not be more excited to work side by side to make San Francisco the most wonderful destination in the world. Thank you. Last id like to introduce the director of public works and his team is a group weve been partnering with on this. [applause] all right are we ready to go to work all right let me begin by joining all the speakers here to thank all of you for coming out to help keep our city clean. Love our city everyday, right everyday the Public Works Department and many city agencies do this everyday but i can tell you, your coming out means a lot to us. You are giving us the extra hands and the extra help that it needs to continue to make our city be the destination where people come and enjoy and people clean up and make our city the most beautiful city in the world, right. San francisco ill be really short. Today we have over 45 different sites. Some people are going to be painting poles, weeding, cleaning, some are going to be sweeping. All that is going to make a difference. The number one thing that when you leave here is, when you are out there, please, be safe. Safety is a high priority. Weve been having these events for over 20 years and we have not had a single incident. How do you be safe . All of you in different work teams and every work team has got someone who will be wearing a vest like me who will be showing you what to do. If you see something that you are in doubt of whether its glass or needle or something in your mind is doubtful, just ask that person and they will deal with it appropriately and they will work with you. Other than that, enjoy yourselves. Its a nice day. Again, im very appreciative for everyone coming up. Lets have fun love our city everyday [applause] thank you. Thank you, very much. Before we close out, were going to do a group picture. Stay where you are. No one move. Just stay still for a minute and well take a group photo. I love that i was in four plus years a a rent control tenant, and it might be normal because the tenant will for the longest, i was applying for b. M. R. Rental, but i would be in the lottery and never be like 307 or 310. I pretty much had kind of given up on that, and had to leave San Francisco. 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