salvador. they are actually planning another endeavor in january, so looking forward to the reports from them when that happens. also as noted on november 22, thank you commissioner president nakajo. we graduated a class of 12 new ems and so they are already on the ambulances, this is day before thanksgiving. chief [indiscernible] did a good job providing background for apec activity. i want to note, there was a very huge lift on the part of ems and community paramedicine to prepare for this event. we started i think planning in about march and then as the days coming up there was a lot of ramp up in terms of just trying to address the staff

issue and needs changing every day, every hour sometimes. chief choker, our ems section chief operations he was really on the task of trying to just get everybody in line. we had 3 ambulances to participate in the president motorcade. three per day for the vise prez sident. one for the first lady and then 3 ambulances for china. when you think of the number of ambulances and personnel required to staff all these units, we are talking about 24/7 coverage and getting our members to work off-duty on overtime to staff all the units. in the end we probably staffed about a third of our people on extra shifts to be able to cover whether the motorcade, events and as well as some of

the special events happening around the city. we had also brought in three strike teams. these are teams that come from the state that was pre-planned. three ekeble 3 ambulances per strike team and leader. so 17 additional ambulances in the city to support any of our incidents. they were part of our regular 911 system and that just provided a extra level of service so if there was something that was catastrophic or something significant we had to address, where call volume increased significantly, they were able to be part of the system. so we did utilize them over the 3 and a half days they were here, about 23 percent of the ems calls they responded to. also wanted to note that our street crisis team also did a lot of preparation prior to the

event and during the event to insure the areas thin city where all folks that needed help were addressed. we also had issues because of the perimeter within the moscone center was so strinth, there is time the street crisis team were requested to assist a resident or other folk that was in that perimeter to be able to get to appointments and address services needed during that closed-in period so the street crisis teams were there for that. we also had number of ems captains and safety captains staff the eoc, the city emt our fire operation center as well as police operation center and myself, chief [indiscernible] and chief choker staffing the multi-agency coordination center. all this was just supported by a number of captains in the

field and logistic staff. we use a lot of extra apparatus, that means a lot of extra equipment. that means everybody had to be prepared all the things we needed to really ramp up and staff up all the apparatus was a pretty much a full time job for all. in the end, this was a great learning experience. it was a great opportunity to partner with a number of outside agencies within the state on the federal level as well as in the city, and i think we all learned a lot and we are going to be taking a lot of lessens we did learn during this event to move forward and better plan for anything that might happen in the future. so, in this month we had a different way of showing some of the daily or monthly activities operation activities and you usually see in a narrative form.

i ask chief to come up with a different way of looking at some of the numbers. this just pretty much gives more a trend i suppose and showing the number of average runs we have, the time on task of our incidents, what our market share is and our narcan use and additional information specific to cardiac arrests. there hasn't been huge shift in any of the averages and are during apec, even though we were highly prepared for increase in call volume, our call volume basically stayed the same. fortunately for us that did happen, but there was nothing particularly new in terms of some of the numbers over the past three months. now to community paramedicine. chief simon--i think i mentioned chief was on the operation chief for that report.

for community paramedicine, we had section chief of community paramedicine mike mason who attended a two day conference in alexander virginia for the national science foundation. we have partnership with the son jose university partners, dr. warten and [indiscernible] they received a grant from the national science foundation to look into [indiscernible] this was to provide some guidance from that leadership and there was a opportunity for them to collaborate with other awardees. november 9, chief pang represented the department at a city hearing with public safety and neighborhood service board of supervisors committee to discuss the topic of treatment on demand. chief pang was able to provide

a variety of data support and narratives that spoke to the department's position and understanding of the current state and demand for treatment and services. our [indiscernible] we had two of them in october and november. in october we had the department of public health comprehensive crisis director, stephanie felder. she spoke to our division and department members regarding the role the comprehensive crisis team. and also in november, we had the department of public health coordinated care and staff robin chandler and maureen edwards and spoke about our partnership and work with them. here we see data from ems6. i wanted to note there was a change in the way we report some of the data around encounters. from october and november we now have a different way of

tracking our encounters and this reflects the changes that have been made on a national level in the data fields we now collect, so the way we were collecting data changed to now reporting it in a different format, so you will see that reflected in this from now on from november on. here we just have again summary data on our street overdose response team as well as street crisis response team. we continue to provide suboxon to opioid overdose and these numbers include the ones provided from sort as well as from our ambulance personnel who now are able to provide this medication. and finally for the feel good section, thanksgiving there were a number of activities.

in the upper left corner you see a collaboration between ems and cp divisions where we got together at 1415 evans for on-duty meals. captain bird for our ems captain who came the day before and prepared 12 turkeys for all of them and then there was a bunch of other sides and everything else and then they also in that middle section you see a crew also frying turkeys on thanksgiving as well. chief mason attended the interfaith thanksgiving prayer break fast. in the middle bottom you see sumand staff and ems and fire representatives that were at the self-help for the elderly thanksgiving meal day. a couple ambulances deliver meals to the homes of the elderly not able to attend the actual event. and in the right corner and upper right hand corner chief

pang and myself along with the rest of the command staff were at the saint anth an giving thanks on golden gate. had a picture with giant outfielder austin slater more for my cousin then me. a huge fan. chief was able to serve hot chocolate with him and i got baseball tips for his kids. that is my report. thank you very much. >> thank you very much chief tong. we'll take public comment. >> we have somebody approaching. >> i don't think anything that you said can be taken seriously. [indiscernible] because i do

believe, sorry-i don't want to insult anybody. if you live in fantasy land you won't be part of the future here. if you think for example that you are surgeon when you are not, you live in fantasy land. the future will be with the truth here. [indiscernible] we don't play with fire, so it applies especially to this commission. it is not a joke. this can't last for too long anymore. we don't care, so don't [indiscernible] the end of the year. do what you want, but next year, serious guys. you can travel. >> madam secretary, anybody else from the public wish to

give public comment at this point? >> there is nobody else approaching the podium and nobody on the public comment line. >> public comment is closed. commissioners, any comments, questions for cd4 chief tong? commissioner fraser. >> thank you. thank you chief tong. what a great report. so many interesting statistics. >> could you speak into the microphone, please? >> sor ey. thank you for your report. so many interesting statistics you all collect ed. i look forward digging into more of them. i did attend the community paramedicine round table, lecture series which was interesting and the collaboration and challenges with collaboration across agencies, so congratulations to everybody on that. one thing that caught my eye on when you were presenting, which i guess i missed before, was the number of narcan

admissions, amount of narcan you are using in the field. it looks like it has gone down a bit and wondering if you attribute that to more availability in the community of that or maybe it is just random. i don't mean to make a big thing of it, but i did notice it. >> i think it is somewhat random. it fluctuates up and down. >> the services is terrific you are doing with the narcan and bup bupo more 15 interesting report and love the new format. thanks for that. >> thank you commissioner fraser. at this point, vise president morgan. >> yeah. thank you for your report chief. i just want to commend carlos martinez for firefighter of the

year. great accomplishment and i want to reiterate to all the rest of the department of all the great work you guys did during the apec convention and you know, working with all the different agencies and conjunction with all the different agencies and being prepared for anything that might happen, god forbid. i know that was a lot of preparation and planning for you guys and i just want to commend you guys and thank you guys for keeping us all safe. i would like to hear--there was something else here. thanks for saving all the victims of cardiac arrest. i see it was a lot in that report here. that makes me feel better walking down the street. that's great work there. the treatment on demand, maybe

later we can maybe have chief pang elaborate on that a little bit if okay with the president. >> of course vice president morgan. would you like to hear that? >> after the rest of the questions. >> sure. >> curious about that. that's all. that's all i have. thanks for your report chief. >> is it appropriate to get chief pang up here to address the commissioner's question? good morning to you chief pang. you heard vice president morgan's question? >> good morning president nakajo, vice president morgan, commissioners feinstein, commissioner fraser, chief luttropp, command staff. simon pang, assistant deputy chief community paramedicine. treatment on demand is annual hearing oen the status of available treatment on demand in our city.

the health department spoke, the fire department was represented as well as many other city departments and also community based organizations. our narrative was and our observation, the community's demand and interest in treatment is very low. as you could see from our statistics, most people choose to remain in the community. while our connection rate to care for street crisis and street overdose are quite good, we did note our reengagement rates are very high. we might bring someone to a hospital because they have cooccurring medical needs or might bring someone to alternative destinations such as shelter or community clinic or treatment and then we did a

lot of deep diving into the data and recognize within 72 hours the rates of reengagement with somebody either by ambulance or street crisis overdose were very high. we presented that, so we wanted to stress that people are not staying connected to care. they wanted to just highlight the fact that any transfer point because a lot of the system that are in place require transporting someone to one clinic and then intake hours at another organization and then waiting a few hours and finally getting into wherever their intended destination is and the more transforpoint the more opportunity someone to change their mind. also the more waiting time there is, the more opportunity there are people to change their mind and ultimately

people in need don't want the resources the city are offering. finally, i stress that in our opinion that residential treatment for people experiencing homelessness really would be the way for greatest success and just wanted to stress the continuing need to improve our system. >> thank you very much chief pang. vice president morgan, would you like to do follow up? >> no. that was great. thank you chief pang. thank you chief tong. >> hold on please chief pang, looks like commissioner fraser and commissioner feinstein would like to respond. please. >> commend you chief pang on your forthrightness, because i think that is what all san franciscans see and feel, and

until there is a whole lot of change that goes on not just in the law via prop 43, but in our local perceptions and coming together of people as to how we are going to go about getting these folks into treatment, because i did note and wasn't going to bring up, but i noted the reengagement and the notes and by there way, i really like the new format of the report. thank you very much. i think you need to use us, call upon us if we can be of help as a commission to help address this, because it must be incredibly frustrating for the members that are working on this and i see it, the 72

hours, when i see sort or skrt on the street and see the same person back 2 or 3 days later and yet that is just needs to come to a end or we are just going to be chasing our tails so to speak. i commend you for not painting a picture that is just rosey, because you are here and presenting information, but that is accurate and true, and it really points out what the problems and frustrations that we all are confronting, so i thank you for your forthrightness and of course your really very diligent work and not giving up on this. since i have been on the commission you have had your nose to the grindstone on

starting with ems 6 and you keep at it, so thank you for your perseverance and really appreciate your as i said, forthrightness. thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioner fraser. >> thank you chief pang. thank you to my sister commission, what she said. i agree. i just wanted to note that the lecture series i attended this was a topic. it not completely in the open it was definitely a topic and what you said about the clients don't want the services that we have to offer is a really important point. i think we can all embrace that. we witness it every single day on our streets and i think we are ready to help do whatever we can to change that because it is really become to the point of being obsurd that

people want residential treatment and we don't have any. very very very little compare today the need and thank you for the report. >> you're welcome. >> that you -thank you very much commissioner fraser. my only comment, thank you very much for your comprehensive report and also to you chief tong, thank you for your dedication. just your hard work and i do feel we all do, hope you feel better. thank you very much. madam secretary. >> item 5, fire commission meeting calendar 2024 discussion and possible action to adopt the 2024 fire commission regular meeting calendar. >> colleagues in your packet is the dates for 2024 that hopefully you reviewed at this particular time from january and again please note that the month of november 13, december

11, 2024 there is only one meeting in november as traditionally we schedule as well as in december, there is only one meeting as of today, which is the last meeting of the calendar year. this has been introduced. any comment, questions in terms of adoption of the calendar please? >> do we need a motion? >> madam secretary, >> yes, we do. >> i move we adopt the calendar. >> thank you very much commissioner fraser. >> we also need to call for public comment. >> excuse me, let me have public comment. >> there is nobody approaching the podium. and nobody on the public comment line. >> alright. the public comment is closed. i think i jumped the gun and had commissioner fraser do a motion and vise president morgan- >> i second to adopt the calendar. >> vice president morgan adopts the calendar.

[roll call] the calendar has been adopted. the motion was unanimous. >> thank you very much. >> item 6, commission president report and update. report and update from fire commission president steven nakajo. >> thank you very much madam secretary. i basically asked the secretary to put this on the agenda knowing this is the last meeting of the calendar year and i wanted to touch base on very short items in terms of information. as you all know, we have been indicated we are now in the process of putting the job description announcement for our positions office. if you recall, there was an e-mail sent from hr asking the commissioners to give any indication or input in terms of that job description. internally, that falls as a

point of cd3 and generally as the interviews, recollecting from past practice, these resumes come in, there is a team that we have comprised of chief nicholson, command staff that looks at these paper interviews, screening of resumes and then there is interview process that occurs. question that was posed because this is our [indiscernible] engagement of the fire commission, it is conversation between myself and chief nicholson and i have expressed desire to have one of our commissioners be part of that first phase interview stage, if you will. i would like to as president of commission use the prerogative of appointing and asking

commissioner fraser with all her experience being a retired nurse, i still believe practice in some ways legitimately. just putting that out there because there is a process one has to go through to still be practicing. >> yes, i have a valid license. >> alright. thank you for that commissioner fraser. i asked commissioner fraser if she would sit with the chief and command staff in the first preliminary interviews. the goal of that is to bring two candidates as last time that we went through a interview with the office and the full commission has the prerogative to do interviews with the two top candidates and basically select with input from cd 1 and command staff and our liaison, commissioner fraser. commissioner fraser, have you indicate your willingness to participate on that level? >> yes, i have.

i discussed it with you and the chief and happy to participate in the interviews and report back to the full commission as we hopefully get great candidates. >> thank you very much. we are now part of a process that--please give feedback on the job description. the point internally of cd3, now we have commissioner fraser involved as well so we can start the process. point of information, dr. [indiscernible] is i believe leaving retiring in march? >> correct. >> is there a date? >> i do not have the date. >> i thought the end of march i believe. >> i the goal is try to have dr. [indiscernible] present in the process to start this off and again, we are mid-december, so i just wanted to announce that movement in terms of the

physician's office. my second item is that, we adopted the calendar as you know. officially as president of the commission my duties will end january 24, 2024. we have one more meeting in january on january 24. we have our regular meeting i will facilitate and then have commission elections. with the result of that election, the new president and vice president will start their process on the month of february. just everybody wanted to be aware of the calendar and next process occurring within that. the third thing i have on the calendar and i checked with the mayor's appointment office is three of the commissioners were up for reappointment on january

15, 2024, vice president morgan, commissioner feinstein and myself. generally you-just commenting, we usually don't know what the status is. it is the prerogative of the mayor, and generally in my experience, this is middecember, we usually don't know if our status is going to be to continue. i believe all the commissioners have indicated willingness to participate and remain on the commission, and i did get a check-off with the mayor's staff person on that to make that announcement that we have been reappointed by mayor breed, which is myself, commissioner feinstein, commissioner morgan, which i wanted to announce as good news.

congratulate-- >> [indiscernible] >> vice president morgan and again commissioner feinstein, myself. at this point, i know all are grateful for the mayor in terms of her trust and confidence in our appointment. for me personally,b it is a great joy to be able to work with our colleagues on this commission. i think we have a great team with commissioner collins, commissioner fraser, commissioner feinstein, commissioner morgan and myself and just totally excited to be able to do that. somewhere along the line i believe around january 15, there will probably be an official swearing in, so i hate the use the word official or legitimate, but the way san francisco is and things are, you don't know until all the signatures are on the paper, so i wanted to say that as well and announce that to the command staff and to the public so everybody is knowledgeable.

the last item is what i call the holiday comment and good wishes. all the commissioners at this point will be given opportunity. i particularly just wanted to thank and wish all well of all the members of the command staff. some who are here. chief luttropp, fire marshal and director corso, chief thompson, chief baker, chief tong, chief [indiscernible] chief pang, chief ma, chief buford, captain tom, madam secretary, city attorney, grateful grateful so much for your participation and for your support to the fire department and this commission, and from the bottom of my heart all the best wishes to you and your family and good health and enjoyment.

commissioners would you like to say anything at this point as we conclude this segment? >> sure. yeah. thank you for letting you be of service and thank for successful year and i think it was a good year, especially following what the apec convention and like chief luttropp said, we barely noticed fleet week. it came and went. a lot of events this year and i think you guys handled yourself with upmost class, best of class and like you always do and represent the city well. it is honor to serve you guys, it really is and i like to continue on and have another great year in 2024. whatever i can be of service and help you guys out and any of your tasks, please feel free

to get at me and we can work it out, alright? thank you. >> thank you very much vice president morgan. commissioner feinstein. >> yes. thank you mr. president. of course i echo all of your comments and vice president morgan's comments. i have to say that when i was contacted and an indication came from the mayor's office that she was going to be seeking to reappoint me for another term, which means for those of you that have to do it, you get to fill out yet another form, 700. i think i'm now up to 2 dozen in my governmental services, but it is worth it and i have to say, i'm particularly interested because there has yet to be a meeting where i

haven't learned just a tremendous amount. i find the work that each of you does so diverse and done by a diverse group of individuals and it's courage, it's strength, it's training, it's a fearlessness. i need to cut that tower picture out of my packet, because it just gives me goose bumps to look at it. i have so much respect for all of you in this room today as well as all those people in the fire house or on a rig of some kind at this point, and you all have been so helpful and

instructing and sharing and showing up and just being there. when they say the fire department is a family, i really believe that. i didn't know that four years ago when i started, and you're all there for each other and you're there for us and there for the citizens and in so many different ways. it is just amazingly impressive and i'm just very very proud to be sitting here. we'll see come january if i'm still sitting here or not, but with any luck i will be and i wish you all a happy holiday. i hope they are quite. one never knows, but hope they are quite and enjoyable and you enjoy your friends and family, because know you are greatly appreciated by all of us and i know that for sure.

all the happy that go with the holidays, enjoy them and thank you. thank you for your dedication, service and self-lessness and willing to share that what you know with the rest of us that will continue to learn. thank you. >> thank you very much commissioner feinstein. commissioner fraser. >> keeps blinking. alright. thank you president nakajo. i would like to say that president nakajo speaks for us very well and thank you for your comments president nakajo. my fellow commissioners, i have to say i have been on lots of committees in my life and this is one that i truly experience the feeling of a colleague and colleagues and friends in the work we do together, and that's i think attributable to you and

the reason we are all here, which is san francisco fire department. i know you didn't get to vote on us, but hope you vote yes as we go forward into 2024. i get that feeling. i am often asked by friends and people in the community, how do you like being on the fire commission? i answer with the same way every time, i love it and i truly love it. what i love about it is, everything i learn, the ways i feel impressed and mostly grateful for the service and many things commissioner feinstein has already mentioned. i enjoy the work, i enjoy being part of something as i think the chief said it. we do a lot and always ready to do more, and that's the kind of attitude that it makes life better to be part of a group of people that feel that way and work that way. so, i will see you all on my next tour of the fire house

decorations ck that is coming up. good time last year. i was sworn in on zoom, but being here in person with all of you is absolutely wonderful so i wish you a healthy holiday season more then anything that you all stay healthy and enjoy time off with family and friends. thank you. >> thank you very much. as always message of appreciation goes out to the command staff. all in the room, but it goes beyond this. chief nicholson and commissioner collins and every member within this department. with that, thank you so much and we are going to go into our next item. madam secretary. >> we need to call public comment on this item. >> on my item? >> item 6, correct. >> public comment on item 6. >> there is nobody approaching the podium and nobody on the public comment line.

>> public comment is closed. >> item 7, public comment on item 8. public comment on all matters pertaining to item 8 including public comment on whether to hold item 8b in closed session. >> madam secretary, any public comment on item 8? >> no. >> sir. >> yes. it is last one. it means you are going to be in closed session, right? i hope--it isn't a conspiracy when it is closed session because if the public can't know what you are talking about. it is always a story anyway. okay. at some point, sorry i will be sarcastic, i apologize, i shouldn't apologize. at some point you have to

answer because you didn't have the situation in san francisco when there is a fire and trees don't burn, but at some point you have to [indiscernible] because you should know we are different so called wild fires going on around here and the trees don't burn. >> i'm going to interrupt you on item-- >> yes. >> the settlement. >> absolutely. never mind. have a good meeting. >> thank you very much. madam secretary, anybody else? >> there is nobody approaching the podium and nobody on the public comment line. >> public comment is closed on this item. at this time-- >> now we will vote on whether to conduct items 8b in closed session. the commission may hear item 8b in closed session pursuant to government code section

54956.9a, c, and d and administrative code section 67.10d1. >> alright. commissioners we need a vote to go into closed session. >> i like to make a motion. >> thank you very much. >> second it. >> commissioner fraser second. >> president nakajo, aye. feinstein, aye. we will now go into closed session on unanimous vote at >> [meeting back in session] >> okay, we are back in open session. december 13, 2023 at 1056. item 9, report on any action taken in closed session as specified in california

government code section 54957.1 in the san francisco administrative code section 67.12b. the commission voted unanimously to recommend that the board of supervisors approve the settlement. item 10, vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussions held in closed session as specified in san francisco administrative code section 67.12a. >> thank you very much madam secretary. at this point colleagues, we will need a vote if you wish to vote on this item. or motion. >> i like to make a motion not to disclose. >> thank you very much vice president morgan. we need a second. >> second. >> thank you very much commissioner fraser. >> president nakajo, aye. commissioner feinstein, aye. >> the motion issuenanimous to

not disclose discussion held in closed session. item 11, adjournment. >> the meeting is adjourned. [meeting adjourned]. >> (music).

>> the ferry building one of san francisco most famous that as many of 15 thousand commuters pass through that each gay. >> one of the things that one has to keep in mind regarding san francisco is how young the city we are. and nothing is really happening here before the gold rush. there was a small

spanish in the presiding and were couriers and fisherman that will come in to rest and repair their ships but at any given time three hundred people in san francisco. and then the gold rush happened. by 182948 individuals we are here to start a new life. >> by 1850 roughly 16 thousand ships in the bay and left town in search of gold leaving their ships behind so they scraped and had the ships in the bay and corinne woods. with sand the way that san francisco was and when you look at a map of san francisco have a unique street grid and one of the thing is

those streets started off in extremely long piers. but by 1875 they know they needed more so the ferry building was built and it was a long affair and the first cars turned around at the ferry building and picking up people and goods and then last night the street light cars the trams came to that area also. but by the late 1880s we needed something better than the ferry building. a bond issue was passed for $600,000. to build a new ferry building i would say 800 thousand for a studio apartment in san francisco they thought that was a grand ferry building had a competition to hire an architecture and choose

a young aspiring architect and in the long paris and san francisco had grand plans for this transit station. so he proposed the beautiful new building i wanted it wider, there is none tonight. than that actually is but the price of concrete quitclaim two how and was not completed and killed. but it opened a greater claim and became fully operational before 1898 and first carriages and horses for the primary mode of transportation but market street was built up for serve tram lines and streetcars could go up to the door to embarcadero to hospitals and mission street up

to nob hill and the fisherman's area. and then the earthquake hit in 190 six the ferry building collapsed the only thing had to be corrected once the facade of the tower. and 80 percent of the city would not survive the buildings collapsed the streets budges and the trams were running and buildings had to highland during the fire after the actuate tried to stop the mask fire in the city so think of a dennis herrera devastation of a cable car they were a mess the streets were torn up and really, really wanted to have a popular sense they were on top of that but two

weeks after the earthquake kind of rigged a way getting a streetcar to run not on the cable track ran electrical wires to get the streetcars to run and 2 was pretty controversial tram system wanted electrical cars but the earthquake gave them to chance to show how electrical cars and we're going to get on top this. >> take 10 years for the city to rebuild. side ferry use was increasing for a international exhibition in 1950 and people didn't realize how much of a community center the ferry building was. it was the center for celebration. the upper level

of ferry building was a gathering place. also whenever there was a war like the filipino war or world war two had a parade on market street and the ferry building would have banners and to give you an idea how central to the citywide that is what page brown wanted to to be a gathering place in that ferry building hay day the busiest translation place in the world how people got around transit and the city is dependent on that in 1915 of an important year that was the year of our international exposition 18 million living in san francisco and that was supposedly to celebrate the open of panama differential but back

in business after the earthquake and 22 different ferry boats to alamed and one had the and 80 trips a day a way of life and in 1918 san francisco was hit hard by the flu pandemic and city had mask mandates and anyone caught without a doubt a mask had a risk ever being arrested and san francisco was hit hard by the pandemic like other places and rules about masks wearing and what we're supposed to be more than two people without our masks on i read was that on the ferry those guys wanted to smoke their pipes and taking off their masks and getting from trouble so two would be hauled away.

>> the way the ferry building was originally built the lower level with the natural light was used for take it off lunge storage. the second floor was where passengers offloaded and all those people would spill out and central stairway of the building that is interesting point to talk about because such a large building one major stairway and we're talking about over 40 thousand people one of the cost measures was not building a pedestrian bridge with the ferry building and the embarcadero on market street was actually added in and in 1918 but within 20 years to have san

francisco bay the later shipbuilding port in the world and the pacific we need the iron that. as the ferry system was at the peak two bridges to reach san francisco. and automobiles were a popular item that people wanted to drive themselves around instead of the ferry as a result marin and other roots varnished. the dramatic draw in ferry usage was staggering who was using the ferry that was a novelty rather than a transportation but the ferry line stopped one by one because everyone was getting cars and wanted to drive and cars were a big deal. take the care ferry and to san francisco and spend the day or for a saturday drive

but really, really changed having the car ferry. >> when the bay bridge was built had a train that went along the lower level so that was a major stay and end up where our sales force transit center is now another way of getting into the city little by little the ferry stopped having a purpose. >> what happened in the 40 and 50's because of this downturn we were trying to find a purpose a number of proposals for a world trade center and wanted to build it own the philly in a terrible idea objective never gotten down including one that had too tall

towers a trade center in new york but a tower in between that was a part of ferry building and completely impractical. after the cars the tower administration wanted to keep americans deployed and have the infrastructure for the united states. so they had an intrastate free plan the plan for major freeway systems to go throughout san francisco. and so the developers came up with the bay bridge and worked their way along embarcadero. the plans were to be very, very efficient for that through town he once the san francisco saw had human services agency happening 200 though people figure out city

hall offender that the embarcadero free was dropped and we had the great free to no where. which cut us off from the ferry building and our store line and created in 1989 and gave us the opportunity to tear down the free. and that was the renaissance of ferry building. >> that land was developed for a new ferry building and whom new embarcadero how to handle travel and needed a concept for the building didn't want- that was when a plan was developed for the liquor store.

>> the san francisco ferry building has many that ups and downs and had a huge hay day dribbled adopt to almost nothing and after the earthquake had a shove of adrenaline to revise the waterfront and it moved around the bay and plans for more so think investment in the future and feel that by making a reliable ferry system once the ferry building will be there to surface. >>

>> who doesn't love cable cars? charging emissions and we're free which we're proud of you know, it's not much free left in the world anymore so we managed to do that through donations and through our gift shops. you got a real look and real appreciation of what early transit systems are like. this was the transit of the day from about 1875 to about 1893 or later, you know. cable car museum is free, come on in. take a day. come down.

rediscover the city. you can spend as time you want and you don't have to make reservations and it's important to be free because we want them to develop a love for cable cars so they do continue to support whether they live here or other places and people come in and say, yes, i have passed by and heard of this and never come in and they always enjoy themselves. people love cable cars and there's none left in the world so if you want to ride a cable car, you've got to come to san francisco. that what makes the city. without the cable cars, you lose part of that, you know, because people who come here and they love it and they love the history ask they can ride a cable car that has been running since 1888 or 1889. wow! that's something. can't do that with other historical museums. rarely, have i run into anybody from outside who didn't come in and didn't feel better from knowing something about the city. it's a true experience you'll remember. i hope they walk away with a

greater appreciation for the history, with the mechanics with people are fascinated by the winding machine and i hope the appreciation, which is a part of our mission and these young kids will appreciate cable cars and the ones who live here and other places, they can make sure there will always be cable cars in san francisco because once they are gone, they are gone. it's the heartbeat of san francisco that founded the cable and the slot and without the cable cars, yeah, we would lose something in san francisco. we would lose part of its heart and soul. it wouldn't be san francisco without cable cars. [bell ringing]

when i shoot chinatown, i shoot the architecture that people not just events, i shoot what's going on in daily life and everything changes. murals, graffiti, store opening. store closing. the bakery. i shoot anything and everything in chinatown. i shoot daily life. i'm a crazy animal. i'm shooting for fun. that's what i love.

>> i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer for the last i think about 20 years. i joined the chinese historical society. it was a way i could practice my society and i can give the community memories. i've been practicing and get to know everybody and everybody knew me pretty much documenting the history i don't just shoot events. i'm telling a story in whatever photos that i post on facebook, it's just like being there from front to end, i do a good job and i take hundreds and hundreds of photos. and i was specializing in chinese american history. i want to cover what's happening in chinatown. what's happening in my community. i shoot a lot of government

officials. i probably have thousands of photos of mayor lee and all the dignitaries. but they treat me like one of the family members because they see me all the time. they appreciate me. even the local cops, the firemen, you know, i feel at home. i was born in chinese hospital 1954. we grew up dirt poor. our family was lucky to grew up. when i was in junior high, i had a degree in hotel management restaurant. i was working in the restaurant business for probably about 15 years. i started when i was 12 years old. when i got married, my wife had an import business. i figured, the restaurant business, i got tired of it. i said come work for the family business. i said, okay.

it's going to be interesting and so interesting i lasted for 30 years. i'm married i have one daughter. she's a registered nurse. she lives in los angeles now. and two grandsons. we have fun. i got into photography when i was in junior high and high school. shooting cameras. the black and white days, i was able to process my own film. i wasn't really that good because you know color film and processing was expensive and i kind of left it alone for about 30 years. i was doing product photography for advertising. and kind of got back into it. everybody said, oh, digital photography, the year 2000.

it was a ghost town in chinatown. i figured it's time to shoot chinatown store front nobody. everybody on grand avenue. there was not a soul out walking around chinatown. a new asia restaurant, it used to be the biggest restaurant in chinatown. it can hold about a 1,000 people and i had been shooting events there for many years. it turned into a supermarket. and i got in. i shot the supermarket. you know, and its transformation. even the owner of the restaurant the restaurant, it's 50 years old. i said, yeah. it looks awful.

history. because i'm shooting history. and it's impressive because it's history because you can't repeat. it's gone it's gone. >> you stick with her, she'll teach you everything. >> cellphone photography, that's going to be the generation. i think cellphones in the next two, three years, the big cameras are obsolete already. mirrorless camera is going to take over market and the cellphone is going to be better. but nobody's going to archive it. nobody's going to keep good history. everybody's going to take snapshots, but nobody's going to catalog. they don't care. >> i want to see you. >> it's not a keepsake.

there's no memories behind it. everybody's sticking in the cloud. they lose it, who cares. but, you know, i care. >> last september of 2020, i had a minor stroke, and my daughter caught it on zoom. i was having a zoom call for my grand kids. and my daughter and my these little kids said, hey, you sound strange. yeah. i said i'm not able to speak properly. they said what happened. my wife was taking a nap and my daughter, she called home and said he's having a stroke. get him to the hospital. five minutes later, you know, the ambulance came and took me away and i was at i.c.u. for

four days. i have hundreds of messages wishing me get well soon. everybody wished that i'm okay and back to normal. you know, i was up and kicking two weeks after my hospital stay. it was a wake-up call. i needed to get my life in order and try to organize things especially organize my photos. >> probably took two million photos in the last 20 years. i want to donate to an organization that's going to use it. i'm just doing it from the heart. i enjoy doing it to give back to the community. that's the most important. give back to the community.

>> it's a lot for the community. >> i was a born hustler. i'm too busy to slow down. i love what i'm doing. i love to be busy. i go nuts when i'm not doing anything. i'm 67 this year. i figured 70 i'm ready to retire. i'm wishing to train a couple for photographers to take over my place. the younger generation, they have a passion, to document the history because it's going to be forgotten in ten years, 20 years, maybe i will be forgotten when i'm gone in a couple years but i want to be remembered for my work and, you know, photographs will be a

remembrance. i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer. this is my story. >> when you're not looking, frank's there. he'll snap that and then he'll send me an e-mail or two and they're always the best. >> these are all my p

>> i'm connie chan district one supervisor and welcome to the richmond. >> i'm an immigrant and came to san francisco china town when i was 13 years old with my mom and brother. my first job is at the community organizer for public safety with san francisco state. and land in the city hall and became a legislative aid to sophie maxwell. went through city departments when kamala harris was our district attorney i'm proud to represent the richmondad

district supervisor. [music] we have great neighborhood commercial corridors that need to be protected. the reason why we launched the neighborhood business for supporting the [inaudible] for 15 years special more. we have the legacy business program the business around for 30 years or more and thought, you know, we gotta make sure the next generation contains for generations to come. am i'm ruth the owner of hamburger haven we came back on july 11. we were opened in 1968 at that time i believe one of the owners of mestart today went through a guy named andy in the early 70s

and my father took it mid 70s. >> originally was just a burger joint. open late nights. then it changed over the years and became the breakfast staple. we specialize in breakfast, brunch come lunch now. i love this neighborhood. i grew up here. and it feels like home. i walk down the block and recognize people of people say hello. you say hello you talk and joke. has that familiar environment that is enjoyable and i have not experienced anywhere else. there are many things i would like to see improve ams the things we might see are making sure that our tenants stay housed our small business in tact and those are the solutions that will contain to push to make sure that you know our

communities can take root, stay and thrive. >> i'm proud of you know, welcoming folks to the richmond. everyone loch its we got farmer's market every sunday there. the you see really business at the noaa. ice cream at toy folks and going to chop for book like green apple. and that's when you like the deal is pizza place haall families love. you will see a lot of great chinese shops that is readily available for everyone. >> and that is just thein are richmond there is more to do in the richmond. what is love is the theatre. >> i mean adam and with my wife jamie, own little company called cinema sf we operate the balboa theatre.

the vocabularying theatre on sacramento and soon the 4 star on clement. >> balboa theatre opened in 1926 and servicing this outer richmond neighborhood since then. and close on the heels the 4 star opens since 1913. >> when you come in to a movie theatre, the rest of the world has to be left behind. but you get e mersed in the world that is film makers made for you. that is a special experience to very much we can all think of the movies that we saw in the big screen of with everybody screaming or laughing or crying. it is a shared human experience that you get when you go in to places that are gatherings and artist presented to you. >> a shared experience is the most precious. and the popcorn. [laughter]. at the balboa especially, we

stroif to have movies for people of every generation from the pop corn palace movies on the weekend mornings, for families and kids. this is for everybody of all ages. >> what is great about the richmond is it is a neighborhood of the immigrants. belongs to immigrants not ap i immigrants you will see that there are also a huge population of rush wrans and ukrainian immigrants they stay united you am see that the support they lend to each other as a community. and cinderella bakery is another legacy business. if you go on the website it is known as a russian bakery. the first thing you see their pledge to support the ukrainian community. you will see the unity in the

richmond i'm so proud of our immigrant community in the rich monthed. >> my dad immigrate friday iran the reason he stayed was because of the restaurant. has more centamential value it is the reasonable we are in this country. when he had an opportunity to take over the instruct he stayed that is why we are here part of our legacy and san francisco history and like to keep it going for years to come. >> another moment i'm proud to be supporting the richmond and the only asian american woman elect in the office and as an immigrant that is not happen nothing 3 decades. you see it is my ability to represent especially the asian-american community. in my case the chinese speaking elders in our community that really can allow me to

communicate with them directly. i'm program director of adult day centers. i have been here for 7 years i love to help the communities and help and the people with disability. i foal a connection with them. i am anim grant i love helping our community and new immigrants and improvements. >> if you want nature, richmond is the neighborhood to go we are between ocean beach heights and golden gate park. >> i love the outer richmond. for me this is the single best neighborhood in san francisco. everybody knows each other. people have been living here forever. it is young and old.

the ocean is really near by. and so there is that out doors ocean vibe to it. there are places to seat golden gate bridge it is amazing. businesses are all small mom and pop businesses. houses get passed down generation to generation. it has a small town feel but you know you are in a big city at the same time. it's got a unique flavor i don't see in other neighborhoods j. it is about being inclusive we are inclusive and welcome the communities, anybody should feel welcome and belong here and shop local, eat local. we believe that with that support and that network it come in full circle. it is passing on kinds knows. that's when richmond is about that we are together at once. welcome to the richmond. [music]

>> my name is alan schumer. i am a fourth generation san franciscan. in december, this building will be 103 years of age. it is an incredibly rich, rich history. [♪♪♪] >> my core responsibility as city hall historian is to keep the history of this building alive. i am also the tour program manager, and i chair the city

advisory commission. i have two ways of looking at my life. i want it to be -- i wanted to be a fashion designer for the movies, and the other one, a political figure because i had some force from family members, so it was a constant battle between both. i ended up, for many years, doing the fashion, not for the movies, but for for san franciscan his and then in turn, big changes, and now i am here. the work that i do at city hall makes my life a broader, a richer, more fulfilling than if i was doing something in the

garment industry. i had the opportunity to develop relationships with my docents. it is almost like an extended family. i have formed incredible relationships with them, and also some of the people that come to take a tour. she was a dressmaker of the first order. i would go visit her, and it was a special treat. i was a tiny little girl. i would go with my wool coat on and my special little dress because at that period in time, girls did not wear pants. the garment industry had the -- at the time that i was in it and i was a retailer, as well as the designer, was not particularly favourable to women. you will see the predominant designers, owners of huge

complexes are huge stores were all male. women were sort of relegated to a lesser position, so that, you reached a point where it was a difficult to survive and survive financially. there was a woman by the name of diana. she was editor of the bazaar, and evoke, and went on and she was a miraculous individual, but she had something that was a very unique. she classified it as a third i. will lewis brown junior, who was mayor of san francisco, and was the champion of reopening this building on january 5th of 1999. i believe he has not a third eye , but some kind of antenna

attached to his head because he had the ability to go through this building almost on a daily basis during the restoration and corrects everything so that it would appear as it was when it opened in december of 1915. >> the board of supervisors approved that, i signed it into law. jeffrey heller, the city and county of san francisco oh, and and your band of architects a great thing, just a great thing. >> to impart to the history of this building is remarkable. to see a person who comes in with a gloomy look on their face , and all of a sudden you start talking about this building, the gloomy look disappears and a smile registers across their face. with children, and i do mainly

all of the children's tours, that is a totally different feeling because you are imparting knowledge that they have no idea where it came from, how it was developed, and you can start talking about how things were before we had computer screens, cell phones, lake in 1915, the mayor of san francisco used to answer the telephone and he would say, good morning, this is the mayor. >> at times, my clothes make me feel powerful. powerful in a different sense. i am not the biggest person in the world, so therefore, i have to have something that would draw your eye to me. usually i do that through color,

or just the simplicity of the look, or sometimes the complication of the look. i have had people say, do those shoes really match that outfit? retirement to me is a very strange words. i don't really ever want to retire because i would like to be able to impart the knowledge that i have, the knowledge that i have learned and the ongoing honor of working in the people's palace. you want a long-term career, and you truly want to give something to do whatever you do, so long as you know that you are giving to someone or something you're then yourself.

follow your passion and learn how to enrich the feelings along the way. >> shared spaces have transformed san francisco's adjacent sidewalks, local business communities are more resilient and their neighborhood centers are more vibrant and mildly. sidewalks and parking lanes can be used for outdoor seating, dining, merchandising, and other community activities. we're counting on operators of shared spaces to ensure their sites are safe and accessible for all. people with disabilities enjoy all types of spaces. please provide at least 8 feet of open uninterrupted sidewalk so everyone can get

through. sidewalk diverter let those who have low vision navigate through dining and other activity areas on the sidewalk. these devices are rectangular planters or boxes that are placed on the sidewalk at the ends of each shared space and need to be at least 12 inches wide and 24 inches long and 30 inches tall. they can be on wheels to make it easy to bring in and out at the start and the end of each day. but during business hours, they should be stationary and secure. please provide at least one wheelchair accessible dining table in your shared space so the disability people can patronize your business. to ensure that wheelchair users can get to the wheelchair accessible area in the park area, provide an adequate ramp or parklet ramps are even with the curb.

nobody wants to trip or get stuck. cable covers or cable ramps can create tripping hazards and difficulties for wheelchair users so they are not permitted on sidewalks. instead, electrical cables should run overhead at least ten feet above sidewalk. these updates to the shared spaces program will help to ensure safety and accessibility for everyone, so that we can all enjoy these public spaces. more information is available at sf.govt/shared spaces.