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Test test test i pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. To the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [reading items] we do have speaker card. Aaron thorton and then kevin carol. Hello my name is aaron thorton. I am from stacy architects. Im speaking on behalf of of the project today which has been continued. Im here to speak anyway. Ive been to the groundbreaking of the ground project that came before the Court Commission about a year ago. Really excited to see that project started on a really look forward to the groundbreaking. They have been great partners as we have been developing the project area im excited to see that freeway site developed. I just wanted to add our support to the project. Thank you very much. Thank you. Kevin carol and then bill hannon good afternoon commissioners. ....
Everybody, i think were going to get started. Our honorable mayor is here, and i know that we have a huge crowd and some big celebrating to do, so i want to welcome you to the groundbreaking for 88 broadway and 75 david street. So im cynthia parker, and im the president and c. E. O. Of Bridge Housing, and i am the cohost today with our partner, john stewart, but what i want to do is acknowledge all of the people here in the audience who have helped us get here today. So with us, we have mayor london breed, our honorable and esteemed mayor, welcome. [applause] we have supervisor aaron peskin, whos been a big supporter, and thank you, supervisor peskin. We have Elaine Forbes whos executive director of the port of San Francisco. Thank you for coming and your help. [applause] we have many reps from bank of america. Liz, thanks ....
John stewart, but what i want to do is acknowledge all of the people here in the audience who have helped us get here today. So with us, we have mayor london breed, our honorable and esteemed mayor, welcome. [applause] we have supervisor aaron peskin, whos been a big supporter, and thank you, supervisor peskin. We have Elaine Forbes whos executive director of the port of San Francisco. Thank you for coming and your help. [applause] we have many reps from bank of america. Liz, thanks for coming. [applause] we have bruce cantor whos a member of the northeast Waterfront Advisory Group. [applause] and we have bob carrier whos a member of the Barbary Coast neighborhood association. So thank you for coming. [applause] this group thats sitting here today sort of do ....
Whether youre a senior, whether youre someone who lives in Public Housing, whether you just simply cant make it because of the salary that youre living on, well, i think weve done it. Weve done it. Its a start. Is this going to answer every question . Probably not, but this is going to be a big, big achievement for San Francisco for us to put 600 million for Affordable Housing for our residents. [applause] president yee ill tell you this right now. I wont outline what mayor breed what she had already outlined. It was a battle. We had to fight, we had to claw, we had to prove our point. This came from labor, it came from everybody. Even the middleincome folks to came in and say we need help also, we hear you. We will put something in there for the middleincome, as well as lowincome. I am so proud of the process that we ....