clapping. piano. singing. i want to be ready with jesus comes ive been in chains but the lord has lifted me up clapping. i have seen the glory of the glory of the lord of the coming of the lord his truth is marching on glory, glory had will yllelujah glory, glory hallelujah i cant his truth is marching on his truth is marchingi ant his truth is marching on his truth is marchingnt his truth is marching on his truth is marchit his truth is marching on his truth is marchingt his truth is marching on his truth is marching his truth is marching on his truth is marching on clapping. singing great is the water, great is the water children. Great is the water clapping. the community of choir senior Choir Community of voices please round of applause thank you. clapping. thank you thank you choir microphone feedback. how is that. I think were fine mr. Charles okay. He think were fine everyone can you please see if we have enough chairs for people to seat wed like for you to take your places yeah. Okay lets start i am so delighted so honored to be standing housekeeper today my name is linda im a board of the Bayview Hunters Point Center for the chair of the groundbreaking and Ribbon Cutting summer want to give honor to god let me repeat i want to give honor to god. clapping. for the opportunity to be standing here on the podium with the mayor and all the dignitaries and with the community of looking out i see that judge davis family and i see about everyone this is a great day for the bayview Hunters Point this is a great day for the community clapping. what this is vision people dont perish a man that is responsible was responsible for bringing all of us here today his vision was to insure that our seniors have a place they could live and die gracefully he reached out to a lot of people in the city it has taken decades for us to get here but look at where we are today in his absent the vision and legacy folks are realized today, i want to essentially thank the mayor ed lee for his presence by the way, if you look at across the city that kind of setting back is taken care of all over the city this man has a passion to help seniors and youth and do it all over it is left for us to make sure we have to publicize the kind of things and trying to him him get his record straight without further ado, were expecting former mayor willie brown horrified you oh, my god oh, my god you see we have held everything until he got here mayor willie brown as always a fine gentleman and leader of the city thank you so much, sir fewer presence and helping us and made your time for the Little People to come out every time to make an event like this happen we thank you and may god continue to bless you, your the next person on the agenda youll help us to get this program you know going you thank you, sir. clapping. thank you, very much. Linda it was a pleasure to have as a part of group of people over the years have been given the proper approval to every single one of the steps that have been taken to make that particular place what it is today for those of you who dont know not having an opportunity to see it youre on the inside you will not want to leave the nature of each one of the Living Spaces the kinds of things that have been done plane overhead. . laughter i cant believe it caltrain would do that to me. laughter the nature of the space and the way in which it is incredibly plagued and excused ive got to tell you i came out on more than one occasion as the process was unfolding ive been so much a part of original effort that george had made to address the needs of seniors in the bay area and in particular, the bay area part of Bayview George worked for me and one of his obligations to Pay Attention and do something and move the city to be r07b8g9 responsible to the needs of People Community particularly seniors the vision always was a choosing campus a senior campus with something of everything welcome george youve got to know this is exactly what happened clapping. i have to tell you mr. Mayor i would come out here and you do women doing the painting and all the sculpting i dont know any women paternity in the union and were black and having a good time and the music waltz played and serving coffee it was amazing the nature of how this board you think folded and believe me ill wonder who was here nor there and ran into kathy and the architects were great every time they thought was a perfect design kathy was stuck r recurrent them and a kitchen you have to die for that kitchen could feed everybody on one setting back that god feeds 3 a times a day it is just that incredibly expressive the Senior Center is the same way and a quiet room mr. Mayor a space for you and i the george davis room a chair the spirit of everyone or everything is absolutely right here on this across it is a real celebration thank you to the city of San Francisco. clapping. and and im delighted to be part of ceremony before we go too much further we need prayer prairie need some prayer i dont know about the rest of you but after last night i need prayer so come on over here our georges pastor and you must bring it in. Thank you thank you mayor willie brown let every are heart player father god we thank you for giving us dr. George davis the vision to build it Senior Citizen collection some 25 years ago when the center was broke probation officer, and on top of you called him home now 8 years ago when the dream was just in its yes, maam brisk stage some of us became discouraged but he left his widow here kathy davis who was endowed with the same vision as she was in able to inspire others to get a glimmers of that vision and come together in unity and brick it to fruition. And thats why were 0 grateful that we are able to stand here right now this moment with scissors in our hands to cut the ribbon that will allow us to go in and really show our combruld for what you have enabled us to accomplish but shirley there is much more work to be done here and the southeast sector of this great city San Francisco so were praying that you give us all of the vision just as you did with dr. Davis and also with your great saint st. Francis of the ostracize give you that faith we can pray the way he prayed grant dosido god i may have been able to work in our vineyard there where there is injury let me sow seeds of potters where there is hatred love, where is a darkness, light. For it is in giving that we receive so lord grant that i may not sow but seek to be loved as to love to be understood as to understand to be comfortable as to comfort it is in giving we receive, and it is in dying that we are born into each others life in jesus name we pray amen. Amen. Mr. Mayor that was january of 1996 and we were altogether in front of the Martin Luther king fountain a dreary day not one as magnificent as this when reverend walker got up to say prayers the sun is shining its been shining since then reverend walker how aau code compliant to the houshld willie brown we all respect and love to the distinguished mayor of the city and county of San Francisco mayor ed lee to our distinguished guests that are being with us along with today id like to at this time call all of the members of the board of directors to stand with me come and stand with me. clapping. now ill introduce them one by one in a couple of minutes and to all of my fellow citizens of the city of st. Francis by the way of the golden gate and the bay bridge and you cant San Francisco as we know a worldclass city you cant have a worldclass city expect you have a worldclass leadership you cant have a worldclass city without a worldclass bayview Hunters Point and the Seniors Service center itself well, there goes the train again ladies and gentlemen, id like to introduce the Board Members ms. Arrest lay nixon. clapping. treasurer of dr. Czar cellist well. Our main fundraiser mr. Melvin hall. clapping. and the person that helped and pulled this program together and structured and organized it linda richardson. clapping. and overlook one gentleman that is on the board the president and this is mr. Walker. laughter clapping. also like for the very fiscal and person that gets things done kathy davis to come and stand. clapping. piano. she is the effective mover executive director of this particular program that the reason why were here could i i want everybody to hear and understand and you dont have to talk about it you can look at at the reflection all around us this board stepped up and take advantage and make sure this would happen on today as kathy out leading giving us direction i want everybody if you be so kind if youre incapacitated dont have to stand but id like everyone to stand and give this board and kathy a great round of applause. clapping. i believe you can do better than it you can do better than that. clapping. thank you very much you may be seated id like to leave this point on one occasion the daughter of her one of the major freeways going to do business for the family and all of a sudden a terrible horrific storm arose and the wind and rain and lightning was so bad until cars began do pull over and stop and the daughter said dad should i pull over and stop he said keep on driving after awhile the big wheel and trucks began did pull offer and stop she mind dad the big wheelers are pulling over why not stop he said keep on driving and after awhile they droech out of the storm beyond the storm the subpoena as silencing hike today and the dad said daughter pull over just pull over they pulled over he said lets get out of car and walked back to the back of the car he said daughter look at the storm is still happening back there but you kept on driving we drove out of storm my point we have storms we have storms to get where we are today but the walker pastor walker dr. Walker said keep on driving and we are here today thank you clapping. a medicaid waiver sermon but nevertheless, a sermon laughter it is now my great pleasure to have a man who literally picked up what other mayors have started couldnt complete because they didnt keep on driving he kept on driving and we are now in the sunshine and were celebrating because mayor ed lee kept us heeding in the right direction mayor ed lee. clapping. hello bayview yeah. Well, i just want to say a couple of things obviously my friend former mayor willie brown in 1996 been 10 years since the dream and discussion when i wanted people to know is something that ive often said in the bayview were not doing anything new even though this is new housing in a new centering were here to fulfill old promises in the city is that right. clapping. and he know in 1996 or somewhere going close to that mayor willie brown tapped me youll be on the team we have to get stuff done and thats kind of a few years later i tapped me for the hardest work the department of public works an appointment all in two minutes and my head was swirling since that time but all in the spirit of saying if you help us get the promises done dont make any new promises but the ones done and for the bayview in particular for you community here the promises that we have been making around equity and equal jobs and december sensitive housing for our seniors not new promises old promises and be it takes time to get here and, yes 10 years is a heck of a long time to fulfill a promise but were glad were here and were glad were fulfilling other promises at the same time look around bayview is not what it was 10 years ago and ive got a goal of thirty thousand Housing Units in the city guaranteed half of them affordable to low income were on the way what is happening in the shipyards under construction and happening in Alice Griffith under construction what is happening in Hunters PointHunters Point and west brook and shipyards and candle stick all under construction we are fulfilling all promises in getting things done we will always wanted your help were not doing in alone im here to say kathy davis keep an bugging my office and keep on coming in and telling me willie used to call on people which of any bureaucracies aint working and ive learned that lesson well, because as a student of mayor willie brown you tell me what is not doing the job well recreate it as we recreate ours Housing Authority never to be isolated and poverty housing in partnership with hud thank you Housing Authority and hud and leader pelosi for your wonderful leadership i want to be i want to be with leader pelosi and the on the floor of congress because we need to End Gun Violence in this country we need to do that and also want to say thank you to senator leno because were working at the state level with his help were able to get the governor to releases another 5 million more Affordable Housing work with our new Redevelopment Agency ocii and doing that getting things done in all of those areas excluding the private sector and were getting people jobs at the same time well deserved family oriented jobs for everybody so i want to say thank you to the community thank you to the partnerships like salazar and hud and all of the agencies mayor willie brown and thank you for allowing us to fulfill the wonderful legacy of dr. Davis thank you for being here today. clapping. mr. Mayor thank you very much for your study and responsiveness to the needs this section of San Francisco as well as many other sections of San Francisco and you mentioned the name of the person tony salazar tony come up here youve been responsible for this my guess is working with kathy working with olsen lee and the city and Michael Baine you didnt do it alone. Youre right mr. Mayor. I wasnt going to say that im glad you brought it up and laughter and if the time to renegotiate ill please thank you i appreciate that. Let me say you know it takes a village to raise a child it takes a strong committed compassionate village like the one that mayor ed lee is creating in the city to care for seniors and to help them grow and thrive and as seniors should continue in a very comfortable fashion someone has to build that village and plan and design and operate and maintain it and that would be me and it takes a lot of people to do that ill introduce a lot of people in the mini want to say a couple of things about me standing here on a personal note as during the groundbreaking that many of you were with here he shared the story of meeting dr. Davis him inviting me to San Francisco and talking about his vision and wanting someone to take his vision and turn it into reality and after multiple visits and meetings and mraifg pool and dominos and eve peach cobbler after the Fourth Meeting he be finally said youre my developer youll do and i said at this point, i was questioning whether i really wanted to do this but he said you have to meet with any board he r i met with the board they said who is this guy coming up from la this mexico guy were trying to have it an all africanamericans and after three or four meetings with the board they finally said well, your close enough. laughter you can be our partner and i just wanted to share that with you because there was a vision created my job to translate that vision into this and it is very hard when george passed because i if have anybody to ask a question is that the right is this what it is supposed to look like and feel like and kathy davis fortunately to be my partner and help turn that vision into reality but it takes a village so build a village i want to acknowledge people here that are here today, there recent a lot of peoples fingertips on the building and david barker was the architect and several people here i think that kevin wilcox and the contractor was baine and a joint venture old friends lots Work Together this city is fortunate to have those kinds of professionals here and to make sure those kinds of things happy mr. Mayor couldnt have been possible your department focused and the Mayors Office of housing, ocii, olsen lee and pam is here, eqt and tiffany bohe those people have raised their hands thank you for getting those kind of things and the City Public Health department margo, Housing Authority my old colleague Barbara Smith and nicole is very helpful always also want to notwithstanding my nonprofit the bayview Hunters PointMulti Purpose team center theyre our nonprofit Partners Development partner theyre providing the social services clapping. placing a big role and kathy davis for being a spiritual and Business Partner and helping to get things done i want to the people i want to acknowledge last are just you know were managing to property and stephanie is the project manager but the people that spent day to day everyday working on getting this project done from our staff inform o from mccormick and salazar are here. clapping. there he is stand up. clapping. im telling you that is one of the senate it more intelligent tallest handsome it dbi a great asset to San Francisco and hans and flores is also here i want to thank all those individuals for giving everything they have lastly im hopefully and i pray that dr. Davis is looking down on us today and is pleased with what he sees im hopeful that i and all the professionals i introduced you to i hope we exceeded his exceptions because we worked hard not just getting him his vision but to steady his vision and finally, i want to wish good health and much happiness to the seniors that entered this live building and live here and thank the city mr. Mayor for the opportunity to bring any skills