Starting their outreach to local businesses, to make sure that they were bayview and the remediation portion and the buildout and there would be bayview businesses, especially black businesses on every phase of this development and to see them here now 20 years later speaking and talking about how successful those programs have been not only to them as pro firproprietorship and owners ane want to see to continue to improve and expand. I believe this project gives us an opportunity as a community to move forward and to see some stability around that. And then, also, i wanted to say thank you again to oscar james, Linda Richardson and miss scott. And just knowing that we have a legacy of generations in San Francisco and we do still have that historic tie and knowledge still here present and seeing this project go forward with people being able to see that which has been kind of one of the biggest issues with the whole redevelopment agency, as well as cop program. The only comment i have is that i know currently Small Businesses were not included in the october 7, 2008 meeting and i was mainly done for residential, be bu but if thereg in to do moving forward to possibly add in something around cop businesses as the project moves forward, thank you. Thank you, commissioner. Commissioner ros aralis. My comments are brief. I think we studied, listened and heard from a technical standpoint, but what moves me as a commissioner and a San Franciscoan is for the community to tell us what moving this project moving forward at every level. My own experience as a commissioner tells me that i can trust lenar and five point to follow through. Early in my days, when i first heard about this project, i had a you wont say a doubt, but a question, and i wanted to make sure the community was fully backing the plans, that this was not a city thing or that kind of thing and ive been convinced through not just the records that weve heard, the reports wave beeweve been given and thb Development Programming and the Small Business development, the numbers, of course, and making sure the numbers are real. We rely on our staff for all of that and the community to tell us and so im impressed with the work thats been done so far. I think the becauseview community is incredibly resilient. Were talking about folks on this commission that have been experiencing and the room, thiawaiting this moment, if you will, for a long, long time and i am in full support of these items. Thank you, commissioner rosalis. I just want to say that, you know, i was on this commission when and i said this before, when it came to redevelopment. I was appointed by mayor nusome, as a redevelopment commissioner, and i remember the long hours of discussion regarding this project. But i cant believe its happening. And having grown up in the mission, the southeast, part of our city has been historically neglected over and over again. And to see us be able to do something right, i think were still lucky, especially the last few years, you know, weve been working with the lawyers and the chase center and everything we asked them to do, they did. They hired locally. They got local artists. They got local vendors. It was a Community Building and it was a Community Effort and i feel equally as bless ed this weve been working with i cant even they should be lucky to have you, coffey, your passion for running a business but lifting a community, which most people say cannot happen and you proved that it can. Cheer char. And you put a team together. Be proud knowing this is one of your legacies. This project has been able to bring out some of our most incredible leaders. Ann leaders who didnt agree all of the time, like dr. Jackson. [ laughter ] you heard her and never made her feel like she wasnt heard and lifted her up, even when she didnt agree and that says a lot. Of course, we have others that have spoken before us today. And so, i just want to say thank you, thank you to all of you. Thank you to the future workers of this project, to the future janitors, the future residents, to all of you who know that this project has come in a concontinuum of grace, passion, of hard work and this is one of the thingthe thingsill be the. Fellow commissioners, well take these three items, 5b, 5c and 5d as one vote. So being a chair, i cant move this item, but i would ask for a motion, commissioner scott some. Yes, i would love to make the motion. May i have a second motion . I would like to second the motion. Madam secretary, please talk your roll call. Please announce your vote for 5b, 5c and 5d. Pai roll call . Mr. Chair, the vote is four ayes. [cheers and applause] madam secretary, please call the next item . The next is item 6, Public Comment on nonagenda items and we have one speaker card. Oscar james. Mr. James. Oscar james again and you know the last commission, something has been on my mind since that time when i first brought up the mission during the model citys area. Larry decarlos was a director when we started programs in the mission. So thats been on my mind, to get that name to you guys. When you have senior moments, which you guys will be there pretty soon, you will come back to the same first step. You think of something, you go down to your basement and forget and go upstair. This is me coming upstairs, where i had that senior moment. But i want to commend this Commission Like i do several times a year. Your dedication and the cac, their dedication didnt our community to make things happen. Without both of you, things wouldnt be possible. Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. James. Anybody else wishing to speak and if not, ok, im closing Public Comment and well go to item. Auto report of the clear . No report. The next is item 8, report of the executive director madam director. None, ok. The next order of business is commissioners questions and matters. Any questions, seeing none, hearing none. Next item. Item 10, closed session and next is 11, adjournment. A motion to ajourn. I move we ajourn. I second. Thank you. Well, well, we have one of the most exciting projects in district 11 in over a decade. Supervisor safai, for the past 10 years, no one has been able to get a Housing Project of this significance built in this community, and guess what . You made it happen. [applause. ] 116 new units, 50 affordable units for family of four making up to 123,000 a year. How incredible is that . This will provide housing for low income families and for foster care youth. I mean, this is how you get housing done in San Francisco, working together, working in partnership with sammy and people who love. The fact is people who love this community and didnt have to go above and beyond in providing higher affordability on this project but wanted to do something to support the city and county of San Francisco and what we are dealing with as it relates to our housing crisis. We are grateful for you and the community is here, and i also know your family is here. I am so excited. This will make a difference. On top of that, that is not even all. 40 of the units that are built of the Affordability Housing will go to the people who live in this neighborhood first, neighborhood preference. The legislation that i worked on back in the day when i was on the board of supervisors. It is going to be used on this project so that we can make sure that the community who lives here, where they might be struggling to hold on to their unit and whatever capacity, they will have a real shot of being a part of this incredible new community. I am excited about this project. I am grateful to supervisor safai for his leadership. I cant wait to be here when we open the doors for people to walk in their new places, and it is absolutely amazing. The person who led this effort to make this happen, who also did more than just help get this project through the process but also makes some zoning changes to make it possible to have as many units as we can on his site no other than supervisor safai. [applause. ] supervisor safai thank you, mayor breed. I feel like i am at a family reunion, but i did joke with sia and sammy i think we could put a runway strip here. This is the Largest Development in the history of this neighborhood in this community. There has never been any family Affordable Housing built in this community. I remember sitting with them a decade ago when they laid out the vision of wanting to do something to give back to the city that they feel made their family anal and lifted them back up after going through a revolution in their country they. They came here with very little and they have worked 50 years to build what we are seeing happen today. This is truly a gift to the city and county of San Francisco. This is not something that is required. This is completely private land, privately financed by a family that wanted to give back to the city. I want to say thank you to the family for everything and you will their children and siblings and relatives for everything they did to make this happen. It is truly a gift. This even out paces the giants Ballpark Development omission rock, which is 40 affordable on public land. 50 will below market rate. Homesf set the income. He said he wanted lower than what we laid out in the city. We tried to do the remaining 50 as rent control. Sometimes the city gets in its way. I know they will continue to keep these rents affordable for this community. They are doing so much to give back to the city and county. We talked about this over a decade ago. We sat down with mayor lee before i became supervisor. He said he would prioritize this. The reason i bring that up is because this mayor has made not anything more of a priority than building housing. That was when we sat down with mayor lee, that was in the middle of 2016. We are going to the end of 2019. Even with everything that and i would get monday my phone would ring. Every monday i would get the call from him and family members. We are still over three years into getting this project done. This was supposed to be one of the highest priority projects in the city and county of San Francisco. I know this mayor is dedicated to finding a way to cut through the layers. When a family wants to give a gift to the city, we have to wait almost three and a half years to get this done. Besides all of that, i want to shout out to crazio. She guided this every step of the way on behalf of the Mayors Office. My team was guiding this every step of the way. The planning department, the Mayors Office of housing, city attorneys, all of the people working on behalf of the mayor. There is more to come, there are two more projects that are 100 affordable. She dedicated an additional 53 million in the budget. We break ground in october next year on two more projects. Out of all of those together, almost 600 units, 65 will be affordable below market rate units in this community and affordable to the People Living here. That is a big accomplishment. I am so lucky to have a partner in the Mayors Office who prioritizes this Community Like no mayor has done in over 20 plus years. [applause. ] i could go on and on. I will hand it over to the patriarch of the family, the mind that doesnt let any little thing get away from him, but he has to be that way. Three and a half years, he has to be that way. Someone was bragging about him the other day. He knows how to get projects built in San Francisco. He really does. I am honored to have him as a friend and invest in this community. [applause. ] thanks everyone. Mayor, my good friend, supervisor and my family and everybody who is here. This wouldnt have happened without participation of everyone for this to happen. He is right i call every monday morning. If i wouldnt have done it, it would have taken seven years. This happened in three andahalf years. I want to tell a story about my life, how i am here. I came with my wonderful life about 40 years as an immigrant from iran. I have been here 1973 i came here to San Francisco. I was a student and i fell in love with the city. I still love this city. I always said we have got to do something. Whatever i have, i got it through hard work. Being in this wonderful diversified city. We talked a lot about it. This came about in 2007 when there was a melt down and i was able to purchase these. That is when me and sammy, she is an advocat of foster and homeless kids. This came about. I said maybe we can do something about it. Finally here we are. Thernext step is the foundationd get the super structure. I want to thank the wonderful mayor. I am so proud of you. You are a wonderful mayor. You are a great person. I want to tell my brotherinlaw who designed this property, my kids and this is all my family. I love them all. It is great to be here. Too many persons. laughter . It is a great thing. I am so blessed. I asked my wife to be by my side. If i make a mistake she will say stage right. I think i have done go, right . She gave me a list and said memorize this. I said i will do this. That is not me, i have to talk how i feel. That is how i do it, you know. [applause. ] i want to thank the Mayors Office of housing. Wonderful job. I forgot about my wonderful friend tom. He is a big support. Thanks a lot. My son and i was living in my car. We was in and out of shelters in San Francisco for almost about 3. 5 years. I would take my son to school. We would use a public rest room just for him to brush his teeth and do a quick little wipeoff so it seemed he could take a shower every day. It was a very stressful time that i wish for no one. My name is mario, and i have lived in San Francisco for almost 42 years. Born here in hayes valley. I applied for the San FranciscoAffordable Housing lottery three times. My son and i were having to have a great happened to have a great lottery number because of the neighborhood preference. I moved into my home in 2014. The neighborhood preference goal was what really allowed me to stay in San Francisco. My favorite thing is the view. On a clear day, im able to see city hall, and on a really clear day, i can see salesforce tower. We just have a wonderful neighborhood that we enjoy living in. Being back in the neighborhood that i grew up in, its a wonderful, wonderful experience. Now, we can hopefully reach our goals, not only single mothers, but single fathers, as well, who are living that. Live your dream, live your i went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. I am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. I am a community ambassador. We work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. What i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. They ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. Checking in, you guys. Wellness check. We walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. You never know. Somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. You never know if they are alive. We let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they dont want to call the police on, they dont have to call the police. They can call us. We can direct them to the services they might need. We do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. There are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. It is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. When we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311. They give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick it up. We take pride. When we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. It makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. The stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. You can see the community ambassadors. I used to be on the streets. I didnt think i could become a community ambassador. It was too far out there for me to grab, you know. Doing this job makes me feel good. Because i came from where a lot of them are, homeless and on the street, i feel like i can give them hope because i was once there. I am not afraid to tell them i used to be here. I used to be like this, you know. I have compassion for people that are on the streets like the homeless and people that are caught up with their addiction because now, i feel like i can give them hope. It reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i where i used to be and where i first off, i want to give a huge shout out to the Domestic Violences consortium and fearless leader of the event, beverly upton. [cheers and applause] Domestic Violence is an issue that spans many departments and agencies here in San Francisco. As a safety, we have worked very hard to develop strong partnerships. I want to welcome supervisor Catherine Stefani. [cheers and applause] supervisor safai, City College Trustee i. V. Lee, fire chief janine nicholson, we welcome her david lazar. Representing San Francisco airports, front seth francesca garcia, and on her way is the sharp director Kelly Densmore who is the new director of the office of Sexual Harassment and assault response and prevention. So tonights t