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Announcement because many of the people in this room are looking for that opportunity from all walks of life, from every community in San Francisco they see this as a city wide projected, not just on the waterfront. Its everybodys future. Everybody has to be heard and i know that even this weekend there was a telephonic ability to talk to people online and the telephone. There were over 4,000 people that engaged themselves with a conversation and the warriors and about what this project meant. Its incredible. I also want to give a shout out to the port and i know monique is here and theyre working hard with our team and continuing this ongoing dialogue and we will have more announcements to make. Right now this is just the beginning of this project but its a great beginning because usually when people talks about jobs and who gets to work on the project and i know supervisor avalos we have been through that and in the publicly fund ....
Advocates here in San Francisco. Without further adieu i would like to introduce our mayor ed lee. Thank you jennifer. Good morning everyone. Today is a pretty good announcement of another milestone that we have reached with the Golden State Warriors but before i say that i want to continue thanking the people who are very interested in the city of this city, the future of sports, the future of the waterfront and all the neighborhoods that we know that are continuing to want to have a great positive Economic Future for the city and also create jobs at the same time. Supervisor david chiu is here and he and i have talked quite a few time bs this project and what it means to the city. I want to also thank Supervisor John Avalos and he being a very stron ....
Goi want to thank everybody that is here. We are on our way and it will take a while. It will take some time. We are about once we do the fiscal feasibility which was never required with these projects in the past. Once we get past this hurdle we go into the Environmental Quality process and everything will be heard about the impact of communities and around the city but i think the warriors and all of us want to give you a vision of where were going and that needs to be kept in front of us and we cant use this opportunity where we have a fantastic investment in our city. Confidence is growing in our city and we will have our gollen state warriors here in 2017. Thank you to everybody for being here today. [applause] well, you cant have a 25 local hire commitment and a 50 local hire apprenticeship commitment with a private Public Partnership without a private partne ....
Supervisor eric mar. [applause] the architect of our local hire law john avalos. [applause] and our board president david chiu who i would like to say a few words. [applause] good morning. On behalf of the board i am very happy to be part of the celebration of this milestone and just want to take a moment for all of us to look around this room. We talk about the diversity of san francisco, but its not everyday that we come together in the way that we are this morning. I also want to start by thanking the warriors, management and your organization for playing ball with the city for making sure we are setting a standard for how we do privately funded projects and on behalf of the board i want to thank you for that and thank those that have been warriors for this concept to making sure local projects involve local employees. From the Community Partners and chinese for affirmative action entailed what the issue was and our employe ....