We run all of this. This is a whole new this. This is a challenge to make this operate smoothly. I was worried. Last night i was like i wonder what it will sound like, the entrance and exit. Friday should be the ultimate challenge meltta metallyca and e symphony. We have to transform to your question as an organization completely. This is a whole new thing not just a Basketball Team. We are Sports Entertainment operation. We have to run the things going on, restaurants outside, ingress, egress, so many things we have to do. If we can do that Going Forward we can do more. We can maybe become a bigger organization to do more things. Now, rick, with the warriors there are two football teams and two baseball teams one basketball name. The golden state name is in the entire area. You were involved in the Community Coming together for this. You think of the entire bay area. Where the warriors fit in the community and the community as septs and resources it took for this building with the kid righting buyin the bike the touchstone of memories for everybody in the bay area for years and years, give me a thought how people pulled together from all different communities knowing this is the new spot. The warriors are representing the entire bay area. That is what i said all last year. Our whole organization did. We were leaving a of course, not leaving a city. Oakland is an integral part who we are and will remain that way in the future. One of the things i am most proud of iskaiser permanente. All of our offices are here as of now. We moved everybody here from downtown oakland headquarters which was our practice facility. We have this amazing facilities to repurpose. With kaiser we are taking those basketball courts that had to be reserved for players. We will teach more kids to play basketball and taking the business offices and repurposing those for the not for profits the war warriors sut for space where they are focused on different aspects trying to improve educational and career outlooks for kids. It is powerful. We have one if the in the east bay. The other foment now is firmly planted here. This always will be the bay area team. [applause. ] very well said. Before you had joe breathing down your neck, you were a player agent, and you know in terms of different perceptions, different cities have and the warriors have changed that perception in this building now adds to it. When you deem with colleague deal with colleagues around the league and you see the practice facility overlooking the bay and see the amount of every asset that could be there for our players within the basketball operations campus right here. How does that enhance where the warriors it is within the nba . Speaking of my prior life as an agent, you get a sense from the players standpoint what organizations speak to them and places they would like to go, and i remember as an agent i was talking to a client. I said golden state wants to work out and the guy looked at me and said what is that . I said the warriors are in california. He said yeah, yeah, i have to work out for them . I said it is a high pick. This is 10, 15 years ago. It is amazing now to see what we have become and really testament to joe and people like rick that spearhead this thing. When you are in the position i am in with intense pressure from an owner like joe you want the tools to succeed. Pressure is fine. Everybody that chooses this job. Joe, pressure is to embraced. If you are afraid of it you should probably do a different job, buts when you are out there in the world of trying to recruit four or five or 10 of the best people at what they do, you better come with something very good. You better come with good ownership, good coach, pay these guys. You better provide a great place to go to work. Even if you do that it is hard. With this arena, i feel like we are now able to check all of the boxes. If we lose a player it is not because we are de efficient in a area. Sometimes they go another way. If we dont want to lose any ties. I think a place like that you win every tie. I dont care how cynical. Players are young with great options. Take any player in the league walking in the locker room that you may or may not have seen. They will say wow, this is prettpretty good. When you can provide a place to work where they can get excited to go. Those excited to go to your job knew what that feels like. You perform better. Thank you to everybody that built this place. It is unbelievable. The construction workers. I dont know how many thousands it is going to help our Basketball Team to win more wherever the banners are up there. More of those. I want to add one thing. You have done a great job, really. Great job, however, we can keep going on the next question. I want to say one thing thiss is the San Francisco chamber of commerce, is it not . We must remember we do have a goal here. We have a new goal. That is to bring a championship to San Francisco in this building. [applause. ] why basketball . I see in rick welch the architect of the dream team the first professionals in the olympics. That spawned others the 7 billion people in the world we watched the most talented 450 individuals. It is a team sport where they say great athletes do for themselves. Really greatness is doing for others. What is it about basketball . You enhanced the nba in addition to the partnership of the warriors. Sports in what we do. Iin japan weep we own champions. You know, we love the association with organizations like this and the nba because there is a crossover between the values when you think about it from a business standpoint and sports standpoint. You can have the best players in the world, best employees and talent in the world. If they dont come together as a team, you will get beat. If they are not innovating on the court and we are trying to innovate in business, you are going to get beat by somebody else. If you are not putting in the extra hours, you are not going to be successful. For us there is so much, so much between the businesses that we are in and then that connection point with the fans. There is that passion, emotion that sports brings. That is when we feel like we can connect with people in a very authentic and meaningful way. We believe sports is the way to do that. We seek out opportunities within sports to find that connection. We are very fortunate to be able to take that globally. Joe, the final word you said in addition. That was the final word. It is your building. I will let you finish. With two with two 00 events 0 events. You wanted to hear feedback for any event here. I would like to give joe the opportunity to give his cell phone to anybody. If you have any issues starting on friday, this is the guy. He said he wants to hear about everything in the building. I think given the bay area starting friday you will hear a lot of feedback. You will get exactly what you were hoping for. How many years have you worked for the team, bob . 25. I want to make sure. Look, the truth is rick will take your calls. laughter we would both take your calls is the truth. Anything you see that is wrong with this building, anything that you are not being treated properly, it is on us. We want to make this not only a great Basketball Team and great building to look at. We want to make this a great experience to everyone in the building. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to improve it. Chamber breakfast is fun. It signifies the beginning of basketball season. As we finish up. October 5th lakers in this building. The first basketball game. Thanks for having us. We appreciate the support. Open up chase center the right way. Thank you very much. [applause. ] working with kids, they keep you young. They keep you on your tones on your toes. Teaching them, at the same time, us learning from them, everything is fulfilling. Ready . Go. [ ] we really wanted to find a way to support Women Entrepreneurs in particular in San Francisco. It was very important for the mayor, as well as the Safety Support the dreams that people want to realize, and provide them with an opportunity to receive funding to support improvements for their business so they could grow and thrive in their neighborhoods and in their industry. Three, two, one because i am one of the consultants for two nonprofits here for entrepreneurship, i knew about the grand through the renaissance entrepreneur center, and through the Small Business development center. I thought they were going to be perfect candidate because of their strong values in the community. They really give back to the neighborhood. They are from this neighborhood, and they care about the kids in the community here. When molly molly first told us about the grant because she works with Small Businesses. She has been a tremendous help for us here. She brought us to the attention of the grand just because a lot of things here were outdated, and need to be uptodate and redone totally. Hands in front. Recite the creed. My oldest is jt, he is seven, and my youngest is ryan, he is almost six. It instills discipline and the boys, but they show a lot of care. We think it is great. The moves are fantastic. The women both are great teachers. What is the next one . My son goes to fd k. He has been attending for about two years now. They also have a summer program, and last summer was our first year participating in it. They took the kids everywhere around San Francisco. This year, owner talking about placing them in summer camps, all he wanted to do was spend the entire summer with them. He has strong women in his life, so he really appreciates it. I think that carries through and i appreciate the fact that there are more strong women in the world like that. I met dandrea 25 years ago, and we met through our interest in karate. Our professor started on cortland years ago, so we grew up here at this location, we out he outgrew the space and he moved ten years later. He decided to reopen this location after he moved. Initially, i came back to say, hey, because it might have been 15 years since i even put on a uniform. My Business Partner was here basically by herself, and the person she was supposed to run the studio with said great, you are here, i started new Nursing School so you can take over. And she said wait, that is not what i am here for i was by myself before for a month before she came through. She was technically here as a secretary, but we insisted, just put on the uniform, and help her teach. I was struggling a little bit. And she has been here. One thing led to another and now we are coowners. You think a lot more about safety after having children and i wanted to not live in fear so much, and so i just took advantage of the opportunity, and i found it very powerful to hit something, to get some relief, but also having the knowledge one you might be in a situation of how to take care of yourself. The selfdefence class is a new thing that we are doing. We started with a group of women last year as a trial run to see how it felt. Theres a difference between selfdefence and doing a karate class. We didnt want them to do an actual karate class. We wanted to learn the fundamentals of how to defend yourself versus, you know, going through all the forms and techniques that we teaching a karate class and how to break that down. Then i was approached by my old high school. One once a semester, the kids get to pick an extra curricular activity to take outside of the school walls. My old biology teacher is now the principle. She approached us into doing a selfdefence class. The girls have been really proactive and really sweet. They step out of of the comfort zone, but they have been willing to step out and that hasnt been any pushback. It is really great. It is respect. You have to learn it. When we first came in, they knew us as those girls. They didnt know who we were. Finally, we came enough for them to realize, okay, they are in the business now. It took a while for us to gain that respect from our peers, our male peers. Since receiving the grant, it has ignited us even more, and put a fire underneath our butts even more. We were doing our summer camp and we are in a movie theatre, and we just finished watching a film and she stepped out to receive a phone call. She came in and she screamed, hey, we got the grant. And i said what . Martial arts is a passion for us. It is passion driven. There are days where we are dead tired and the kids come and they have the biggest smiles on their faces and it is contagious. We have been operating this program for a little over a year all Women Entrepreneurs. It is an extraordinary benefit for us. We have had the Mayors Office investing in our program so we can continue doing this work. It has been so impactful across a diversity of communities throughout the city. We hope that we are making some type of impact in these kids lives outside of just learning karate. Having selfconfidence, having discipline, learning to know when its okay to stand up for yourself versus you just being a bully in school. These are the values we want the kids to take away from this. Not just, i learned how to kick and i learned how to punch. We want the kids to have more values when they walk outside of these doors. [ ]today. clapping. ive been working in restaurants forever as a blood alcohol Small Business you have a lot of requests for donations if someone calls you and say we want to documents for our school or nonprofit ive been in a position with my previous employment i had to say no all the time. My name is art the owner and chief at straw combinations of street food and festival food and carnival food i realize that people try to find this you dont want to wait 365 day if you make that brickandmortar it is really about making you feel special and feel like a kid again everything weve done to celebrate that. So nonprofit monday is a program that straw runs to make sure that no matter is going on with our business giving back is treated just the is that you as paying any other bill in addition to the money we impose their cause to the greater bayview it is a great way for straw to sort of build communicated and to introduce people who might not normally get to be exposed to one nonprofit or another and i know that they do a different nonprofit every most of the year. People are mroent surprised the restaurant it giving back i see some people from the nonprofit why been part of nonprofit monday sort of give back to the program as well answer. Inform people that be regular aprons at straw they get imposed to 10 or 12 nonprofits. I love nonprofits great for a local restaurant to give back to community thats so wonderful i wish more restrictive places did that that is really cool. It is a 6 of nonprofit that is supporting adults with autism and down syndrome we i do not involved one the wonderful members reached out to straw and saw a headline about, about their nonprofit mondays and she applied for a grant back in january of 2016 and we were notified late in the spring we would be the recipient of straw if you have any questions, well be happy to answer thems in the month of genuine we were able to organize with straw for the monday and at the end of the month we were the recipient of 10 percent of precedes on mondays the contribution from nonprofit monday from stray went into our post group if you have any questions, well be happy to answer theming fund with our arts coaching for chinese and classes and we have a really great vibrate arts program. We we say thank you to the customers like always but say 0 one more thing just so you know youve made a donation to x nonprofit which does why i think that is a very special thing. It is good to know the owner takes responsibility to know your money is going to good cause also. It is really nice to have a restaurant that is very Community Focused they do it all month long for nonprofits not just one day all four mondays. We have a wall of thank you letters in the office it seems like you know we were able to gas up the 10 passenger minivan we were innovate expected to do. When those people working at the nonprofits their predictive and thank what straw is giving that in and of itself it making an impact with the nonprofit through the consumers that are coming here is just as important it is important for the grill cheese kitchen the more restrictive i learn about what is going on in the community more restrictive people are doing this stuff with 4 thousand restaurant in San Francisco were doing an average of 6,000 a year in donations and multiply that by one thousand thats a lot to they are joining us today because we know this work is not easy. Im joined here today by the director of Mental Health reform, grant colfax who is our director of the department of Public Health as well as yolanda who has been a client here for some time and she will be speaking to you later today. Thank you for being here and all the folks who are doing the hard work. We know that Mental Health there is a Mental Health crisis here in San Francisco and i know that we often times hear that were being thrown around loosely. But the fact is that as someone who grew up in San Francisco and know that we have had challenges in this city, including issues around homelessness, what i see is something that ive never seen in my lifetime of growing up in the city and that is people who are in serious, serious crisis. Serious need. And the fact is, in San Francisco, the frustration is that we have a lot of resources. We have a lot we have a lot of dedicated revenues to help spousht support people, but we have discovered that the coordination has to be better and more efficient to really help people that we know are struggling. So we have people who have, as we unfortunately know, theyre homeless. They have challenges with addiction. They have a number of other ailments, including Mental Illness, and unfortunately have nowhere to go but the streets. We need to make sure were prepared to meet people where they are. We know that people are cycling in and out of our Emergency Rooms and only to be released, to be back right on the streets where they came from. Our jails and th