more than one antique ones and other fashioned from the community. and we're trying to have an and do you think. it's going to be. it's going to are so exciting, the meeting will come to order. this is the april 29th, 2024 rules committee meeting, and i'm going to start over just in case the meeting will come to order. this is the april 29th, 2024 rules committee meeting. i'm supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. i'm joined by committee vice chair shamann walton. and believe it or not, ladies and gentlemen, committee member, supervisor ahsha safaí is on

time today. don't. that is just messing with you is fake news. don't say that into the record. our clerk is victor young and i would like to thank susie enos at sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? yes. public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda. when your item of interest comes up and public comment is called, please line up to speak alternatively, you may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways. email them to myself. the rules committee clerk at victor argue young at sfgovtv. org if you submit public comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisor and included as part of the file. you may also submit written comment via us mail to our office at city hall one doctor carlton b goodlad place, room 244, san francisco, california, 94 102. please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the

clerk. items acted upon today are expected to appear at the board of supervisors agenda on may 7th, 2024, unless otherwise stated. that completes my initial announcements. thank you so much. can you please read item number one? item number one is motion to approving rejecting the mayor's nomination for the appointment of lydia su. term ending june 30th, 2026 to the planning commission. thank you so much. and miss zo is here. joining us. good morning. good morning. good morning. chair ronen, supervisor safaí and supervisor walton. first, i'd like to thank you for your continued support of my public service journey over the past decade. i'm a chinese american immigrant from hong kong, a native cantonese speaker. i live in san francisco more than half of my life. i'm raising my child here in the mission and we love our city. as an architect, a

problem solver, and a mom, i continue to build bridges and get things done on the commissions and nonprofit boards that i served. most recently, my ten year serving on the sfmta board of directors. has been a very illuminating and humbling experience. i'm very proud that i know how to drive our muni electric bus, but besides that, i have to emphasize the dire situations we're facing, the struggles we have on the streets are real. the fear of lack of public safety are real. people living at the last straw of their life before becoming homeless are super real. with all that said, i believe everyone deserves to feel safe. we deserve to have a sense of belonging and have a place to call home. simply put it this way, everyone deserves to have a roof over their heads when i become a planning commissioner,

i will prioritize my focus on improving our housing governance and policies to address our immediate needs and adapt to our future population growth. i will champion transit oriented mixed use housing development for affordable homes. i will embrace the significance of our community's history and equity. i could not think of any more suitable commissions to serve with my unique skill sets. as an architect, real estate, land use urban planner i have hands on experience in transportation, historic preservation, affordable housing, public art, and community outreach all together. i hope that with the support of the board of supervisors and the mayor's office, i am ready to get to work yesterday already. thank you for your leadership and consideration to my appointment.

thank you. well, thank you so much for your willingness to serve and everything you've already done for the city, let alone your willingness to do even more. colleagues, do you have any questions? supervisor safaí no, i just want to say i've had some good conversations with, commissioner over the last few years. and so i think it's nice when you have someone that brings a level of qualification that she has to the table, the work that she's done on at the historic preservation commission , being a licensed architect and planner and just, you know, being a mom, raising her kid in the city from all different perspectives, i think all of those things will add a significant, perspective of being an immigrant, being, bilingual, speaker. all of those things bring a unique perspective to the planning commission. i'm happy to hear you say that. you you're

interested in transit oriented development and smart growth for our city. i think those are all really important factors. and so i look forward to supporting you and happy that you're going to be serving on the planning commission. thank you for your willingness to serve. thank you. thank you. and we'll have more questions and comments after public comment. but right now i'm going to open this item up for public comment. thank you. thank you. yes. members of the public who wish to speak on this item should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. there will be a soft chime when you have 30s left and a louder chime when your time has expired. we have, one person with accommodations online. hello caller. good morning. you may begin. can you hear me? yes, i can hear you.

thank you. good morning, supervisors, chairman and supervisors. safaí and supervisor walton. my name is nancy, i'm here today in my personal capacity to speak in support of the nomination of lydia fell, and her confirmation. i've had the pleasure of serving with, director. so that and the mta board of directors, for the duration of her term. and while i'm very sad to see her go, i think she is an ideal fit for the planning commission as she has laid out for you. she has a very unique skill set of understanding, historic preservation, but also in this time of the housing element and all the things that are before

the planning commission, we need people who have smart transportation experience, and we will have had experience with mta as we tried to really fold in our transportation system with our housing. i'm thinking specifically about the west side and all of the developments that are hopefully be occurring there. we need people who know the west side, the transportation challenges of the west side. and so i believe that, director chau has that the , very unique and appropriate skill set for the planning commission and is the person we need, to be our next planning commissioner. so i urge you to approve her nomination. thank you. thank you. are there any

other speakers in the room who would like to make public comment on this matter? please approach the podium and line up at this time. good morning, honorable members of the committee, my name is doug chan, just to refresh your memory, i've served on a variety of commissions over four decades. and it. this morning, it's particularly gratifying to speak in favor of a nominee who is so extraordinary, highly qualified, to perform, and to conduct the people's business at the city planning commission during my presidency of the chinese historical society of america, lydia sat on our building and grounds committee, and it is rare to have a nominee who has this combination of skills, both in terms of design, project management, a good feel for the

economics, particularly for nonprofits in capital improvement projects. she also runs her own firm and i think has a great feel for the needs and concerns of small businesses. she's an extraordinarily well qualified side, nominee who actually reflect the soundness of your process from the historic preservation commission, prior to that, on the art commission. now, currently serving as a member of the board of directors of the sfmta. so you are getting a multidisciplinary, candidate, perhaps more important, and that is many, san franciscans. all they ask of city commissioners is to be fair and impartial jurors. and you're getting someone who is well attuned to the collaborative process and should be able to accommodate all the concerns of those, persons and parties who appear

before the commission and its quasi judicial capacity. you will see no finer candidate for this commission. and i'm proud to support your forwarding her nomination for confirmation by the full board. thank you. good morning, commissioners. my name is rosa. i am a director of community planning and policy at chinatown community development center. and on behalf of ccdc, we're very honored to support lydia on her nomination for the planning commission. we are very excited to have someone who is so community minded and through her experience and being in multiple commissions and her work, we think she is the perfect fit for the planning commission, through my time working with her, she has constantly put the community first, making sure that the community is constantly being outreach to and communicated to for every single project that's being worked on. and if there were any situations that arise

that had problems, she's constantly finding a solution with the city and with the community to come together and find a joint solution that works for everyone. i think that's very hard to come by, i think constantly, it's very hard to balance community and what the city needs. and she definitely does that very, very well, and in my time of working with her a lot, she's definitely very community active with us about every single project she's done. and i think with her experience with working with the chinatown community and the city in general, she just has so many experience and knowledge that she can bring forward to the planning commission that we haven't seen in a very, very long time. and so we're very excited to see her join the planning commission, especially as an api woman on the planning commission again. so thank you very much. and thank you for supporting her on this nomination. morning, supervisors . you know, this is okay. i read it because it's kind of early

for me, as you guys know, right way early. so i want to read this. so my name is stephen lee. i'm a small business owner and community leader in chinatown. i have known commissioner. so when i first started my own public service, in 2012, it's amazing how many appointments and commissions and nonprofit boards she serves, i like to share a few things that i admire about commissioner. so first off, she's self-employed, single mom, small business owner, and a founder of her own architectural management firm. commissioner soul has a rich experience in design, urban planning and transportation. before opening her business, she worked at a large, at a large and oldest american architectural firm in the country and was the first aapi woman to be promoted as a technical associate. expanding her, engineering and design

capabilities, and here's what i know commissioner soul believes in. she believes in housing for all, making neighborhood transit friendly, ways to fight climate change and historic preservation, and concerned about public safety, she's also, improved living environments, cultural equities and families of business owners in the bay area. now that i share a working experience in the aapi community with commissioner soul before she was appointed to sfmta, we served together on. the portsmouth square garage board, where we actually worked on, less car break ins, financial, rebuilding and cleaning and beautification, also when she was on sfmta's or she is on the sfmta board, we worked on a lot of the miscommunications. okay. thank you. oh, please support

commissioner soul. are there any additional speakers on this matter? there are no additional speakers. thank you. supervisor walton. thank you so much, chair . thank you so much, chair. ronen. and again, just want to thank you, commissioner. so i remember when you first came to rules committee as a candidate to serve on the historic preservation commission. and i read about your qualifications, had a chance to talk to you. and like i said before, you were qualified then, and you're qualified now and just want to appreciate all the work that you've done for the city, serving on that commission and going on to mta board of directors, and now being willing to serve on the planning commission. it's a lot of work, working on the planning commission. but do look forward to working with you on making sure that our city is continue

continuing to push towards equitable design and making sure that everyone can live here and benefit from san francisco. so just want to thank you for being willing to serve. thank you, supervisor safaí. thank you. thank you. it's wonderful to hear some of your colleagues and other people in the community speak on your behalf. for all the tremendous work that you've done and the qualifications you bring. i just i would be remiss this morning, you know, given the city's mandate to do 82,000 units citywide and the steep climb that that is, you know, you're taking on this role, you're going to be one of the voices for how we lead and plan and achieve that goal. my question is, one of the things that the state came down and said is that there's a lot of internal barriers within the planning department. there's things that the planning department has imposed on itself . and project sponsors as an architect has gone through that process. i know you know it

intimately, but there's things that we need to remove as part of the internal review process that will help streamline the development of housing, that will help us to achieve those goals if it's even achievable, 82,000 units over the next eight years. and some of it is our own barriers, some of it's just the economy, right? the lending markets, the cost of construction. investors are not investing in. it's something that's not unique to san francisco, but i would like to hear you to speak a little bit about the internal barriers within the planning department that are self imposed, and what you might do to take on working to remove some of those to help streamline the development of housing and construction in the city. thank you for the question. supervisor ahsha safíi . and thank you for all the amazing, comments about, me taking on to this journey, speaking of, how do i go about

looking at internal organizations, i do believe that i have a pretty good track record of building consensus and also understanding different divisions had and team. what what are they working on so hard of? and then what are the areas where we can also streamline and , be able to more, be more efficient and cut down, continue to cut down more barriers. so i will look at the organizational, structures for the planning department. my understanding with my tenure there serving as a historic preservation commissioner, we, the planning department, had already reorganized itself three times. i think there might be a need to do more of this, and when i joined the planning commission, being able to see the entire department instead of just one division, and also there are a lot of inter-agency processes that we need to also tackle with. so it's not just within

just the planning department, but it's all the other agencies that had, that had collaborations with to in order to get things done for example, is the mayor's office of disability, dbi and dpw and sometimes it's puc. and then if we got fortunate enough that we will have to also talk to pg and e. so i will do all of that, and i will be able to pick up the phone and also ask with the support and help with all the amazing talent we have in the planning department and also, each of your supervisors districts, your amazing legislative a is also be able to really be helpful to, chime in to, to get a collective processes of understanding where are there a lot of issues. but then we need to distill down to what are the most critical culprit. and then we need to

focus on, bringing them down. bring the barrier down. thank you, thank you. well, i am very excited to be supporting your nomination, and i just want to express my gratitude to you for being willing to serve again in this new role. and with all your experience on so many different city commissions, is it? i think it'll it'll be such an asset to the planning department that you'll be able to understand the inner workings of how mta historic preservation, the arts commission work, and they all intersect with with your work on on the planning commission and the fact that your single mother living in district nine, you could not be a more perfect candidate for this supervisor. so it is my honor, to make a motion to remove the word rejecting from line three and from line 11 and move this to

the full board with positive recommendation. yes. on the motion to amend and recommend, as amended. vice chair walton, i , walton i supervisor safaí safaí i chair ronan i ronan i the motion passes without objection. thank you. thank you for your support. thank you so much. mr. clerk, can you please read item number two? item number two is ordinance amending the administrative code to allow city departments to enter into and amend agreements for construction goods and services and real property leases with government entities without complying with solicitation requirements that would otherwise apply and without adhering to provisions of the municipal code that impose obligations on contracting parties as a condition to agreements with the city. thank you. and super president peskin, would you like to make any comments? i want to thank you, madam chair, for scheduling this item and just briefly say that i

think this responsibly removes some contracting barriers for agreements with other governmental entities. and while we have a host of provisions in a number of codes, that uses our buying power to effectuate, public policy goals, this ordinance would, as it relates to contracts between us and other governmental entities, eliminate and otherwise waive those provisions, this would be a benefit to a host of departments and i was convinced after hearing a wide range of examples, from public health and the airport and the public utilities commission about missed opportunities and opportunities that take too long and are otherwise thwarted, that

this was a long overdue piece of legislation, and where we could take advantage of, the expertise of the united states geological survey for various work or work with other airports. in other cities that would be beneficial to our airport without, a set of bureaucratic hurdles, and with that, it is my pleasure to turn it over to jeremy spitz from the public utilities commission, who has a presentation. thank you. good morning, mr. smith. good morning, chair ronen. good morning, supervisor walton. and thank you, supervisor peskin, president peskin, for sponsoring this ordinance. we're all very excited about it, as you said, i'm jeremy spitz with the sfpuc presenting on behalf of several departments and the sponsor. so as you know, departments often enter into agreements with other government entities such as caltrans, ucsf, bart, the national park service, tsa, and

on and on. as you can see on this slide, these agreements are generally for noncommercial purposes, such as mutual aid, regulatory requirements, or to support critical health or education services that only another government entity can provide. these other government entities are generally not willing to abide by all of the city's contracting requirements, or have their own governing law in the subject matter department s are required to obtain several waivers for each of these agreements, each of which takes significant staff time and resources. so the ordinance before you today proposes changes to the administrative code, enabling city departments to contract with other government entities without having to adhere to typical solicitation requirements. it proposes to remove obligations typically imposed on contractors engaging with the city, aiming to streamline processes and remove barriers to agreements with other government bodies. this ordinance allows the city flexibility to enter into an agreement with another government entity using the other government entities terms,

if needed, and the process would be significantly simplified and shortened. the city's regular internal procedures relating to contracting authorities, such as budgeting, delegation of authority and approval would still be in effect, and it does not alter charter section 9.118, so it would not change the agreements that come to the board. just to give you a sense of the universe of agreements that we're talking about here, we worked with the city administrator's office to pull some data. there were about 540 intergovernmental contracts within the last five years by 29 departments. the median value of these contracts is $200,000. and the total of all of them was 2.3 million. so we're not talking about a huge chunk of anyone's budget. these are very narrow and specific agreements for specific services that only these other government entities can provide. and as you can see on this slide, the majority of these agreements over the last five years were with other cities and counties, all of which were in california or all

of which were in california, and the majority of which are our neighbors in the bay area. the rest are state or federal agencies, educational institutions such as city college and ucsf, and regional entities like bart, the housing authority, the bay conservation and development commission, the transbay joint powers authority. and to conclude, we're talking about a very small set of agreements here that would not otherwise be going to private contractors, the ordinance before you is intended to be a time saving, good government reform, and with that, i am here to answer any questions. i'm also joined by several colleagues from sfo, who are here to answer questions as well. thank you very much. fantastic. thank you so much, supervisor walton. thank you. chair. ronen, thank you so much for the presentation. and i do want to just appreciate the briefing that i did receive on this. i had concerns, until i fully understood, but i do just want to make sure and make clear that this doesn't let private contractors off the hook for any

labor requirements or community benefits requirements that we have here in the city. thank you, supervisor, for the question through the chair. correct, these would not have any impact on any contracts with any private contractors. i don't think there's any more questions. so thank you so much for your presentation. thank you very much. and we can now open this item up for public comment. yes members of the public who wish to speak on this item should speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. are there any speakers for public comment on this matter? i do not see any speakers at this time seeing none. public comment is closed. i want to thank president peskin and the puc and all the city departments for bringing this forward. i am so in favor of removing bureaucracy when it no longer serves a meaningful purpose and i'm thrilled to join, this this measure as a

co-sponsor. please and i think we need to do more of this type of work that, you know, we might have placed a extra bureaucracy on something at some point that served a purpose. but when our departments are all coming to us , telling us that it does not serve a purpose anymore, then we need to save time and money and get rid of that bureaucracy. so i appreciate this legislation and, i'm happy to make a motion to send this item forward to the full board with positive recommendation. thank you, madam chair. yes. on that motion, vice chair walton i walton i supervisor safaí safaí i chair. ronen i ronen i that motion passes without objection. motion passes unanimously. thank you, president peskin. thank you. mr. clerk, can you please read item number three? item number three

is an ordinance approving a surveillance technology policy for the san francisco municipal transportation agency. use of driver safety video analytics. thank you. and we have sohail warsi here to present. good morning. hi. good morning everyone. my name is suhail warsi and i'll be presenting our video safety driver safety video analytics policy. so just to describe what the technology is, this technology uses the audio and the video, in our, vehicles, what it does is it just triggers a, the recording of the audio and the video whenever there is a predefined, events are triggered, for example, if a driver has a sharp turn, the g forces will be taken into account. and based on that, it will start the recording process. if there's a sudden

stop, it will also record that because these are all the events that are already preprogramed in the system, if a driver is using the cell phone while they are also operating the vehicle, it will also record that information as well. so there are different triggers that that initiates, and then it records that, this technology is currently is in place. and all of our rubber tire, we are in the process of developing an rfp to introduce the same technology in our lrvs as well. just to give you an example, this is the example. as you can see, that there are two cameras facing one, for the driver's side capturing, the driver and also the point of view of the driver. what driver sees as well from, front facing camera. this is, the report that we get in pdf format, that identifies the

driver's name, the event number vehicle that the drivers were driving. what triggered that event, the behavior and then the our contractor puts their comments saying that this is what they think happened. and, sfmta's staff reviews that. and based on that, make the decision that it is really happened or it is something that needs to be further investigated, the use case, again, it is there to identify the collusion dynamics, causation. and the other factor, investigate passenger fall event , exploring a potential safety improvement. also infrastructure because when the vehicle is just driving around our city, we also check to see if the trees are kind of blocking, any signage, for example, or anything that needs to be fixed. we also get that information as well, also review any customer complaints, as well in there, identify any operator training issues because

again, all of this, the main purpose is to train the operator also at the same time commend them for their good behavior at the same. and also there's a opportunity for training also provide that as well. with regards to the life cycle of this technology, the collection happens only when an event happens. this is all predefined event. like i said earlier, it will be the g-forces. for example, certain stop of the vehicle sharp turns, anything that you can think of, we have programed it there and it just triggers only for that. and this recording is only not more than 12 seconds, so it records, let me confirm that. i think it's, eight seconds before the event happens. and. the four seconds after that event happens. so the total of 12 seconds that it records. so it doesn't record anything beyond that. so it's not really quite surveillance technology. it's more of the kind of see where event happened and see how we can investigate

and make things better for the future. so that is the collection process, and also when the events trigger with regards to sharing of the data, we have identified, staff member within the department that uses their unique password to log into the system and see that we also do share this internally with the sfpd, if it is requested, city attorney's office and public defender. however, we do not share this outside of our city and county of san francisco unless there is a subpoena issued to us then within the range. if we have that record, then we do share that, retention, we keep all of the data for 365 days. and the pdf version that i showed earlier where it was showing all the driver's information, vehicle information, we keep that longer because not really quite pii, personal identifiable information is just that event happened and we are keeping that, to investigate and to any disciplinary action, for example, if we need to take so

with regards to disposal of this data on the 366 day, we get rid of all the data. so we don't really keep that. and again we are talking about only the 12 seconds of data. not more than that. but we keep it for 365 but 366 day. we delete that, the data is stored of course, in the local sd, drive and download it on the 24 hour basis from the vendor's cloud, we have, introduced this, technology went through the same, back in january of 2023. we got approval from them, on february 24, 2023. we also presented this policy to the committee on information technology on april 20th, 2023. and it was also recommended to bring it to the board here. with that, i have my colleagues as well to answer any questions that you may have about this technology. thank you so much, colleagues. any questions? no. is there i just have one

question. is there any, anybody opposing this legislation at all that you know of, there was some, changes that were suggested by the pccep. it was more like we were using very generic or very kind of wide term saying that we don't see that there will be any impact. and they say change it a little bit to say that potentially. so we just change those words. but other than that it was approved. okay, i think it's very thoughtfully done. and i just want to appreciate that it's potentially used to commend drivers who are particularly successful in, in a, in incidents and for those training purposes as well. i, i think that oftentimes we use all this surveillance technology only as, you know, something to reprimand workers. but i really, really appreciate the fact that you included also commending workers

for the fabulous work they do every day. so i just wanted to appreciate that. thank you, and we can now open this item up for public comment. yes. members of the public who wish to speak on this item would speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed to allow two minutes. are there any are there any speakers on this matter? there do not appear to be any public commenters on this matter. public comment is now closed, mr. clerk, i'd like to make a motion to send this item to the full board with positive recommendation. yes. on that motion, vice chair walton, i walton i supervisor safaí safaí i chair. ronen i ronen i the motion passes without objection. motion passes unanimously. thank you so much, mr. clerk. are there any other items on the agenda? there are no additional items on today's agenda. then the meeting is adjourned. thank you

[♪♪♪] >> i just don't know that you can find a neighborhood in the city where you can hear music stands and take a ride on the low rider down the street. it is an experience that you

can't have anywhere else in san francisco. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> district nine is a in the southeast portion of the city. we have four neighborhoods that i represent. st. mary's park has a completely unique architecture. very distinct feel, and it is a very close to holly park which is another beautiful park in san francisco. the bernal heights district is unique in that we have the hell which has one of the best views in all of san francisco. there is a swinging hanging from a tree at the top. it is as if you are swinging over the entire city. there are two unique aspects. it is considered the fourth chinatown in san francisco. sixty% of the residents are of

chinese ancestry. the second unique, and fun aspect about this area is it is the garden district. there is a lot of urban agriculture and it was where the city grew the majority of the flowers. not only for san francisco but for the region. and of course, it is the location in mclaren park which is the city's second biggest park after golden gate. many people don't know the neighborhood in the first place if they haven't been there. we call it the best neighborhood nobody has ever heard our. every neighborhood in district nine has a very special aspect. where we are right now is the mission district. the mission district is a very special part of our city. you smell the tacos at the [speaking spanish] and they have the best latin pastries. they have these shortbread cookies with caramel in the middle. and then you walk further down

and you have sunrise café. it is a place that you come for the incredible food, but also to learn about what is happening in the neighborhood and how you can help and support your community. >> twenty-fourth street is the birthplace of the movement. we have over 620 murals. it is the largest outdoor public gallery in the country and possibly the world. >> you can find so much political engagement park next to so much incredible art. it's another reason why we think this is a cultural district that we must preserve. [♪♪♪] >> it was formed in 2014. we had been an organization that had been around for over 20 years. we worked a lot in the neighborhood around life issues. most recently, in 2012, there were issues around gentrification in the neighborhood. so the idea of forming the cultural district was to help preserve the history and the

culture that is in this neighborhood for the future of families and generations. >> in the past decade, 8,000 latino residents in the mission district have been displaced from their community. we all know that the rising cost of living in san francisco has led to many people being displaced. lower and middle income all over the city. because it there is richness in this neighborhood that i also mentioned the fact it is flat and so accessible by trip public transportation, has, has made it very popular. >> it's a struggle for us right now, you know, when you get a lot of development coming to an area, a lot of new people coming to the area with different sets of values and different culture. there is a lot of struggle between the existing community and the newness coming in. there are some things that we do to try to slow it down so it doesn't completely erase the communities. we try to have developments that is more in tune with the

community and more equitable development in the area. >> you need to meet with and gain the support and find out the needs of the neighborhoods. the people on the businesses that came before you. you need to dialogue and show respect. and then figure out how to bring in the new, without displacing the old. [♪♪♪] >> i hope we can reset a lot of the mission that we have lost in the last 20 years. so we will be bringing in a lot of folks into the neighborhoods pick when we do that, there is a demand or, you know, certain types of services that pertain more to the local community and working-class. >> back in the day, we looked at mission street, and now it does not look and feel anything like mission street. this is the last stand of the latino concentrated arts, culture and cuisine and people.

we created a cultural district to do our best to conserve that feeling. that is what makes our city so cosmopolitan and diverse and makes us the envy of the world. we have these unique neighborhoods with so much cultural presence and learnings, that we want to preserve. [♪♪♪] testing.

>> could. to that the 43 san francisco good government awards excited to be here when i all tonight i'm aliza the cfo for spur they host those awards every year we believe so strongly in the power of local government to have a profound impact on people's lives and it is important to occasionally shine a light on the people that make those contributions with you do everyday serving the people of san francisco the

contributions are experienced by a really broad community the labor that going into that it is invisible to have a motel to connect to the people is really, really exciting i'm excited to kickoff the program with the woman had a successful round of dependency san francisco's very own mayor london breed (clapping.) all right. good evening, everyone. >> i am still a little bit jet lagged please forgive me if i forgot something but start by expressing my gratitude of our public centuries and staff that

spends evidence of doing the incredible work for the city and county of san francisco. so many amazing departments and individuals in those departments are being honored for the work to help continue to make san francisco a shining example of had that mean to run a city more effectively and efficiently and sprinkling from a little bit of fun every now and then i want to say to all six the folks from rec and park, the port of san francisco, the sheriff's department and animal care and control, and laguna honda there the department of public health to all the honorees we are recognizing today thank you for your service and your work and i want to say what an hour to have the family of conferencing a

extraordinary leader in rec and park (clapping.) our city is made better because of his work and commitment to san francisco our city is better we have extraordinary people. as the mayor of stock that i come up with a grand idea and i take all the credit when necessary succeed this is why it is important to me to be here i want you to understand i'm i mayor, i served as an assistant for the city and county of san francisco. i once served as a commission secretary a development specialist and worked in various capacities doing doing the work and not always recognized for how challenging it is to go through the process get the district attorney's office david chiu to

get to, yes takes commitment to get projects and housing built our infrastructure in place and to get things completed just yesterday, we cut the ribbon another the 9-1-1 center by public utilities commission by the department of telecommunications and how beautiful it looks and today a small the champion with that but you know what didn't stop us from taking the 9-1-1 calls we have a back up that's what we do in san francisco (yelling) thank you, to our amazing workforce and welcome to the family and friends to celebrate the honorees tonight i have the privilege of doing i guess i think we're like the same age but a lifetime achievement award. for ben rosenthal has

been in city government more than half his life ben started at age 23 working for as a a deputy budget director in the mayor's office and that's when i started as interim we go back a really long time and the eventually become the budget director and went on to the deputy city administrator and those who love three 311 raise your hand? ben says you're welcome helped to get the system implemented as well as the 10 year capital plan we're making investments in our city properties to make sure they are earthquake safe and work for the public and governor gavin newsom appointed him to be the controller he step up to the plate and had the skills

necessary to do do job but focused on transparent building and accountability creating a system that made it a little bit more user friendly for the public to understand what the controller's office does and the held own to that money real tight if you couldn't explain why the money was being spent ben would not let it be spent people love in government accountability and i'm also someone who values a dollar and wants to make sure that city is spending every single dollars willis we can appropriately pay you are workforce and the equipment and all the things we need so those of you taking too many - stop that or ben is coming out of retirement and thank you to him leading the

city through a great recession and now as we deal with the deficit his responsible, responsibleness with the budget and holding open resources we're able to balance the budget and have resources propriety it is a lot of the great work he has done during the covid pandemic we had to historically didn't have a written playbook to deal with a won in a century pandemic and spending public dollars requires accountability ben was an instrumental part of us getting the dollars out the door as soon as possible to insure that we had remember dp e to make sure we got the sheltered in place the hotels around the vaccines and so many work and so many

resources and paperwork had to be done in a way that protected the city accountability and make sure that that was done right. he also helped to address some of the tax reform measures to do as well as being fiscally san francisco has enjoyed a good bond rating we pay the money back and people are willing to loan to to us as - that's the work that ben has done (clapping.) i can go on and on but he's turning red so ben has 90s not been the kind of person comfortable with being talked about in this capita keep his head done a quiet good for in the city and county of san

francisco and treated people with went and kindness and worked with everyone and focused on this was always in the best interests of the city and county of san francisco. and so as much as i wanted to reach offer me deck and put two hands to get him to stay he earned the right to move on from this position after everything he's given to our city so it is appropriate that tonight we honor him with the legacy award for his public service to the city and county of san francisco.

(clapping.) and no public dollars were used in the purchase of the family or the persistently of the certificate. >> thank you, mayor. for the reminder of how young i was and i loved this event for many, many years as a junior budget analyst in the first year my first boss with the city the mayor's budget director handing me a folder of nomination of people nominated by points department heads as exemplar leaders i'm sitting down later on this week with an advisory panel to make recommendations

who to recognize i want you to do research on it for a few days spent a couple of days working with them and with the work product and still remember that moment was really an important one in my career early on. um, it was an surprising to me those are the people i wanted to be working with the work i wanted to be doing the kinds of things to work on and for that reason i stated involved in different capacities and found it surprising for as important as mayors are and thank you for your leadership mayor for this historic period we've been introduce and important to as is attorneys and administrators i like to say as controllers are

um, i recognized through the supervision from this event over the years and my xreshgs working in the place like the real massing i can happens with those behind us those working identified in circumstances, and in environment has been often hard to navigate to make things better for the place and solve small problems and push things ahead always without recognition and you'll never read about work in the paper the folks that are making things happen. >> so this is event has been that to me and want to express my thanks to alisa for the recognition tonight and express an, an honor to share the folks that will be following me up here that continue do the work everyday for those many others

in the room um, the true heros thank you, so much (clapping). >> um, thank you so much. mayor london breed you're remarks and ben congratulations i um, really happy we got to kickoff for recognizing ben tonight i know many of us in the room working with him over the years inside of the city government we imagine the concept the embodiment and in many ways i think we all know he's a smart person and strategic and confident person but heard in in his racks

tonight i think that kind of the essence of good government gracious and kind and respectful and humble did you hear him talk about himself in those remarks not a word and working with ben over the years how much h he put his commitment to the service about sincerely the community and also the common thread among the honorees we are recognizing for the service for the community and what we can do when we put service first everyone that is recognized tonight faced a challenge to accomplish an institutional or financial exchange relational perhaps all of the above everything was hard to do and we see what happens when people

look at that challenge, stand in the face of advisor i know what they role and what i'm going to be contributing and using my leadership to give services to others that's how local government has a profound impact on people the service i'm very, very excited about the rest of honorees we're going to be recognizing now and i think um, it is going to be really enriching to see the ways people use they're love and perseverance so kickoff we're to start by recognizing the laguna honda hospital team. laguna honda objective an institution for over one hundred and fifty years and thanks to the work of this team will be for many years to come.

>> laguna honda is wonderful for the care. and addressing mats feeds of the whole person and certified generations of people principally in the dire times of need. from more than one hundred and fifty years laguna honda has sort of woven into san francisco history we heard laguna honda didn't regain the certification your hearts sink. >> the medi-cal and medicare took away laguna honda participation and it's programs that is extremely heartbreaking for the program a way for you

laguna honda it funded and able to keep the doors open and laguna honda takes that very seriously and look forward for the incidents appropriately and pms come out to review those facilities that happens during that is an unfortunate cycle the cycle is only 6 months so, so deficiencys noted have to train your staff and the entire time the clock is ticking. >> our office legal strategies to figure that out we could use federal government and the - which was an important part in allowing the facility to not transfer any more events out of this facility but to buy additional time and funding for

a year to allow the facility to do all the important changes that were necessary to survive the federal government didn't just expend the funding of the centers but set out to have requirement for the improvements that laguna honda many to do to survey the facility and inspect the facility for my interpretation and surrounding surveys around interpreting the laws and regulations that applied to the facility and assisting with you. >> the survey we have and we identified gaps in knowledge whether to be closed before our next monitoring. >> turn around was hard but had to do it because of the

timeline for the recertification and had 13 hundred staff on average community-based though the modules everyone had a really and to take care of the residents and the communities and people who are traditionally thought of in the facilities to a huge support it was really exciting. >> relationships with our federal and state partners medi-cal and medicare in the department of public health is for the open lines of existence we had from the beginning will service very well, for the long term success. >> congratulations to our teams from the city attorney's office for saving laguna honda hospital you helped to secure

the future of our healthcare system and the staff of laguna honda and with grace and passion and tenacity. >> congratulations for your support through the services the future is bright for laguna honda hospital. >> congratulations. >> (clapping) hi good evening over i'm director of health and on behalf of the district attorney's office and the department of health and i think more importantly the residents and their families of laguna honda the 14 hundred employees we are

proud to call that recertification team up to the stage. (clapping.) i'm david chiu you're city attorney and, yes madam mayor and on tonight's academy awards for good government my honor to bring up to the stage 6 individuals let me say there were countless folks for saving laguna honda and bring up to the stage 6 folks we want to congratulate jennifer way (clapping.) listing a who. >> . >> (calling names.) >> troy williams and henry

lipton. >> (calling names) (clapping.) and all of the staff at laguna honda for that well-deserved award. >> good evening, everyone and as you can see from the video laguna honda is such a special place a place that is um, a jewel of the city. i speak for laguna honda team both on stage and in the audience as well as those carrying for residents 24/7 institutions up there we have tremendous pride for working at laguna honda. we have pride in serving our residents and families we figured out hard and that is why we're here. we are part and so proud to be part of the city that invests in quality nursing care regardless of incomes and immigration

status it is admirable not every city does that san francisco has done that we love for that and tonight expectation for all of us to share in the award. >> we had a couple of challenging years as you can see. but we are come together we are now stronger and we have a bright future brighter than ever and thank our residents once again our loved ones for their support. there are motivation and full of gratitude for the partners including our unions and health commission and mayor london breed and supervisor melgar advocates on our behalf and amplifies the work when thinking about that award and thinking how we got to be

successful we thought about the concept and the word that means loosely transmitted i am because we are a sense of humanity we couldn't have done what we did without everyone and staff includes all the departments and teams and wish every single person could be here with us and the staff members that join us thank you. (clapping.) >> and quo knew in the beginning would talkal 14 hundred of us to be successful in recertifications we're almost there watch out we're going to get there an honor to be part of this group to be recognized and a special thank you to the folks

behind me. >> (calling names.) >> thank you to spur for tonight's recognition and it is jewel laguna honda and will be here for other one hundred and fifty plus years bigger and brighter and stronger thank you. (clapping.) >> okay. our next good government awards is - >> she as a visionary approach for redefining the departments.

>> (video). >> as the port of san francisco we're the gateway to the city and the port of san francisco manages the water shed waterfront we have dedicated staff doing the work and a third of the staff at the port we have every trade that is represented in the care of the port and i'm proud of collaboration for the relationships building be able to accomplish especially with the union partners and not when something is wrong but to for proactively work with them we're thinking of the different policies and how they impact the membership and though day one

have those hours that are dedicated. we staff that daily and so that we are successful and available. so the jurisdictions we were impacted by pandemic and of the in our staffing level all h.r. has transformed not only to increase the staffing the challenge of folks to look at how we do our work with with job fairs and programs. we are working hard to make that an employer of the choice and show anyone who is interested in coming to the port there are people that are are welcoming as part of the port. we are making a concerted effort to bring training into the organization and brought in staff to help to facilitate the

compensation and breakdown the motions we impediment with each and everyone than with with our families and our staff we are more than job classification we have cultivated had matters and meaning for the skill sets and capability and on the incredible she's incredibly kind and thoughtful moving people we can have more (unintelligible) and use our human resources to help people in their careers and been in the city for over 20 year to year and not leaving and in terms of our human resources as a procedure to an organization that is a lot more employee

support. >> good evening. i'm e lane the executive director of port of san francisco and have a huge honor of introducing someone is a treasure to the port and she's a treasure to everyone who gets to work with her i'm known her over 20 years i reflect even any career i served next to suzette let's bring her on (clapping.) good evening over everyone. >> wow. >> (laughter). >> so as i accept this award

by spur i'm profoundly grateful to my family for their unwavering support and their love and guidance has been the anchor throughout my career and in addition, i my acknowledgement my work family and merpts and colleagues guided me in it my 25 years their wisdom has shaped my journey and thank you for the relationship i built throughout my program and deeply move forward and honored and remind of the profound principle to represent the port of san francisco in a collective propriety the acknowledgement of our work especially involves the behind the scenes serve as a testament to the commitment we

hold tarts the betterment of the city. i expand my gratitude to forbes for her unwavering support and the recognition. it is through the collaborative effort and encouragement of dedicated folks like doctor forbes that we can amplify the endeavors. i'd like to express my gratitude to the florida port leadership team and the commissioners who steer us towards economic and resilience. beyond the bureaucratic framework my dedication is for the information at you are disposal for enforcing regulation but also as the means to have compassionate and finding and empathy in the realm

of human resources that overshadows the human the essential human element. my belief has been a consistency in our approach is paramount. in the words of my mother not what you're saying but how. the leadership the human resources has a delicate balance where actions should be speaking louder with the human aspect is not overshadowed by enforcement and future recognize the importance of the building a team that mirrors san francisco. in doing is so we are strengthening our organization but create the more inclusive and representative body resonating the rich exist i'm

honored to stand here before you as represent port of san francisco committed to the continue pursuit of excellence thank you. (clapping.) >> our next honoree is leading a technology transformation in the sheriff's department she's the information officer. >> (video). >> part of my plan of cfo for the sheriff's is two things for a preview work and make sure we

have to make sure we're providing customer experience and information for the strategy plans we have. and accountability and finding. for it is a commodity. for right owners and the table benefits we understand has this for the city that is intangible and in a way putting in a light bulb and it is important in the business process he able to do things; right? (unintelligible) as partners; right? and transpires what is happening today and this is an action. we get a phone

call impacts communities and lives and for the city is critical - now we have to have partners to make sure we get the work we need and the greatest accommodation and one thing i want it leave my audience would be kind to people and nice to people. and whatever job our month active is about challenges - i - i think of other things support the organization. >> martin is spectacular with

his fearless information and data sharing and enhanced by hi presence and in terms of being with citywide agencies and the criminal justice partners has been a member of justice to be a leader there well we're sharing him with everyone else but happy with his experience with us and the work he's brought to us. >> (clapping) good evening, everyone here in san francisco and very, very happy and honors to be the person who is about to bring martin up on stage i want to mention i have a privilege of actually reaching across the country to ask martin to come

join the team he came at the beginning of what we all know with the pandemic. and the hit the ground running and who he's been to not just in the sheriff's office but to the city family and nothing short of amazing i'm honored right now to bring up to the stage martin (clapping). >> all right. thank you very much. >> again my name is martin the officer for the sheriff's office where does the city go next? i had a chance to travel last week and once again out there and traveled government needs to do more just not in the u.s. but what does that mean? one of the

things is about safety and didn't feel safe to the i came back objective people need to feel safe in san francisco and some of the deputies and officers are providing to make sure we provide they need to be successful and san francisco is successful. and thank all my family is here and them and all the support and the members in the departments and a few people carmen chiu and thank you and many others to support us so welcome the sheriff's office and part of the enforcement look forward to supporting the city -

the city move forward because of us and because of your responsibility and collective responsibility we're here because of collective responded by more importantly accountability that's what the city boards it makes us successful. thank you very much. (clapping.) our next honorees is the team this tragedy as figured out innovate partnerships and programs to keep people together with the pets the animal control. >> (clapping). >> (video). >> on the shelter and take the pets in any condition from

raccoons to cats and dogs and fish and lizards with the adoption that is an important part of our work to help the animals a huge increase in what we do over the years a lot of that animal cares can be adopted and because of domestic violence we protect a pet and take in animals from people evicted or burned out of their homes because of investigations throughout the years have been incredibly challenging we're at capacity for animals pretty much every week, we have amazing partnerships with the animal control help us with the giving

us funding to help 3457b8 0 control and partner with belly bust we also partner with the sheriff's office and prisoner legal service help us get niche with the incarcerated who may not know where their pets are and partner with a low cost veterinary service but access to the equipment to help out and there this by the realized the need was great so through cap we got $150 grant helps the residents get those resources and the mayor's justice project partnered with sf human service agency and the supportive

housing we utilize their database and for the record to track which clients qualified for needed services we called the so we have one hundred and $90 and surrendering the animals we provide services to the veterinary program and other program. so we are hoping those individuals a can keep their animals instead of surrendering them to us and have aid for animals. >> we believe we gear to keep the pets with the families that didn't change and our residents have been able to stay with their pets has been grateful full and especially in any

career i've seen people don't want to surround their pets but the best thing to let them stay in our home had truant e opportunities provides a way for looking at this differently in a crisis and hoping to keeping the families intact. >> we or proud of animal team at animal controller they got permission in the forefront of their minds helping the people and the animals working with the departments across the city the organizations outside of the city. um, they pull everything together in a but that helps animals and their people. um,

when things are tough we are not a by virtue of division one department and one shelter. i think they showed that um, in the project they show that everyday. >> (clapping). >> hello, i'm virginia the director of animal control. i'm honored today to bring to the stage an incredible team that embodies our commitment to the human animal bond. arian and amy and justine (clapping.)

and good evening mayor london breed and family and friends it is an honor to be standing up here to receive the good government awards thank you, virginia for allowing the creativity opening up barriers to help people in san francisco. we want to thank the volunteer friends of ac c to help to fill the gaps and make sure we have what we need to be a safe and safest place for man's and specifically the county of los angeles joseph for helping with the database (laughter) to navigate the vision of the programs being celebrated here today. >> thank you to the team.

>> (calling names.) >> that's you (laughter) they're providing accessible high qualities veterinary care and proud to be part of that and for the expansion for paula for moving barriers and meeting the animals experiencing hardships. >> thank you to help the san francisco reveling medical care to the pets and to the mayors sf human and the dhs dhs and thank you to all the donors who helped to keep the pet pantries full and give generously you can rest make sure your donations will help thank you for the

compassion to do important for the community outside of our pays you make the world go around wouldn't have done it without you and thank you for putting your trust in us we consider it a serious responsibility and finally thank you to the incredible team of professionals at sf they're the ones doing the work cabin branch major snap to help reunite pets and to insure they're comfortable and giving voice to animals or taken care of of each other you're the beating heart of the team and we're proud to be part of that team. thank you very much.

(clapping). >> lastly we're honoring benny until the passing in 2023 left the legacy of love for the people and it's partner i'm proud to invite fisher moore. >> i just i want to start by really giving appreciation to spur for recognizing benny tonight this is a typical type of honor so meaningful and want to acknowledge you'll hear and get to meet daughter emily and

grand sorry about that lucus so benny is watching and listening today right now. he's touched but also a little bit embarrassed. actually quite humbled by the attention and my sport coat (laughter). >> his life was one of the extraordinary duo vocation and service from the distinguished 20 years career in the united states navy and i combaeg in in his single-handedly saving the lives of thirty plus lives in 9/11 to our director of operation bennys life was

defined by values certainly not among the awardees but lost luster in 2024 and service and humility i lived a life of things that mattered no clutter or no mess. his cage demeanor and dry witness helped to manage the storms of americans urban partnerships and leadership across 10 work division with 85 employees and to the rejuvenate nations of unusual to the managing the expensive covid response and benny's impact was

of the in every corner of our operation this specific accomplishments are perhaps too many to mention but built systems and nourished people help the systems and nourished people. that attracted and managed the lifecycle of 15 hundred linear feet and people that allowed the apprenticeship and scrips and water convolution programs to thrive and the communities income and disparities to make sure that regardless of the people have access to open space and benny serves as the secretary that handles with every consul

general want to see statutes and the chief meteorologist and had weather data like a zillion different tracking and beyond that cheecht lies in the people he inspired and mentored and culture strategy ate it for lynch to mantra is as important. he was a proud man but extraordinarily humble and never he liked attention and like person that worked in silence highlighting the good work of others. he was a wise and exceed hand a source during the challenging times and gratitude of everyone and benny took pride

in hi performance plan and appraisals for the reports and each document was written like a model for feedback. he was responsible for ghost offering on my beef and is nominations for conspiracies good government awards and is good at submitting the application the rec and park manages won one of the awards 5 times under his watch two of the people are here our submissions was considered the best practices and told people we can't giving those things every year to you. >> ben green space any was not

a stand-up come men but a commentator on the money part simon and about construction and project management part of the work he often reminded me good and there was fast and there was cheap but i was only to get two, that was generous and during the crisis he remind me everything was all right in the end but? it is not all right. not the end and recommend me never to overlook the easy bottom sitting on hi desk or a division was straightforward hadn't been touched in weeks or might be broken it works. that was easy.

>> benny we were an odd pair he had a midwestern sensibility a military person dressed nice and made and ate his lunch in his office and rarely lost his cool never cursed and i reflected on our partnership best be described in the paul simmons play the odd couple first about 60 years ago we were the two characters i was oscar. denny had one other saying that

resonates with me i'll carry with me for the rest of my years owe often said inexpressed gratitude is useless and for denver any i know you're some place watching i want to say thank you for the i'm a better leader and and better human being because of you and our park system is great because of you. you, you or a blessing my great honor to bring up his wife to present the public excellence

award. >> (clapping) >> that was easy. >> it really wasn't (laughter). >> this is is not going to be easy bus um, just looking at the picture makes me - um, if you know the jewish tradition going to cry denny was all of those things but mostly to his family. he was a man who put his family first, only right next to his job he loved his job his son said in his spatially given the choice denny would walk to ma

clarion lodge until he passed away he did that we had to retire him against his will in october when necessary is declining. he loved the city and this job. and all of you. with his whole heart. he came home everyday and told stories about the people who worked for him and what a wonderful job they were doing and how hard they worked and how they did 2 without any body saying at the did their skrobz and did that well and during the pandemic not very many people went to work everyday and people that kept the parks beautiful had to go to work everyday so denny walked to the office and worked from there

instead of working from home i even had to work for home during the pandemic but he went to work everyday and will find his people and so many have here tonight thank you, phil for your fabulous words. yes, we were felix and oscar he loved phil and talked about what a wonderful leader and made it good the job we appreciate hearing those stories and i see some of you out there katie you're here i saw i walk in hi katie i've not seen i get in a while but if we were here tonight he would have been embarrassed not accepted the nomination for this award i came back from indiana on monday

night and um, as young boy he was a boy scout and became the youngest boy square foot in the state of indiana no one has surpassed him as 13 and oscar made eagle scout that camp the man what were there raised money to build a new nature center and named that the benny nature center and dedicated to him, i was there last weekends and heard the stories about him as young man and the boy and heard he was the one camp clourlt had a heart for the children that came one week with syndrome and talked about the animals he

captured the animals he captured? he likes animals. >> yes. he taught everyone about animals i came home and said to our friends he captured wild animals and taught children about them a wonderful xraerns to here those stories had a heart for public services and when he left the navy i loved being in the navy was great fun for me couldn't have felon an airplanes but could have gone to work as what they call a beltway bandit for work for the government he said "no." i want to stay in public service we decided to come to san francisco he looked more than a job in

public service this is the one he found and the favorite job all of you made it wonderful for him thank you so much and thank you, spur for having this fabulous event every year for san francisco (clapping). >> thank you so much katie for sharing those thoughts and memories. >> thank you all of you to honor for folks are having public service and the evening is not done help ourselves at the bar and continue the celebration of you

>> making to may grandkids a program all about pop ups, artists, non profits small business in into vacant downtown throughout the area for a three to 6 months engagement. >> i think san francisco is really bright and i wanted to be a part of it revitalization. >> i'm hillary, the owner of [indiscernible] pizza.

vacant and vibrant got into safe downtown we never could have gotten into pre-pandemic. we thought about opening downtown but couldn't afford it and a landlord [indiscernible] this was a awesome opportunity for us to get our foot in here. >> the agency is the marriage between a conventional art gallery and fine art agency. i'm victor gonzalez the founder of gcs agency. thes program is especially important for small business because it extended huge life line of resources, but also expertise from the people that have gathered around the vacant to vibrant program. it is allowed small businesses to pop up in spaces that have previously been fully

unaccessible or just out of budget. vacant to vibrant was funded by a grant from the office of economic workforce development that was part of the mayor's economic recovery budget last year so we funded our non profit partners new deal who managed the process getting folks into these spaces. >> [indiscernible] have been tireless for all of us down here and it has been incredible. certainly never seen the kind of assistance from the city that vacant to vibrant has given us, for sure. >> vacant to ibvooerant is a important program because it just has the opportunity to build excitement what downtown could be. it is change the narrative talking about ground floor vacancy and office vacancy to talking about the amazing

network of small scale entrepreneur, [indiscernible] >> this is a huge opportunity that is really happy about because it has given me space to showcase all the work i have been doing over the past few years, to have a space i can call my own for a extended period of time has been, i mean, it is incredible. >> big reason why i do this is specific to empower artist. there are a lot of people in san francisco that have really great ideas that have the work ethics, they just don't have those opportunities presented, so this has been huge lifeline i think for entrepreneurs and small businesses. >> this was a great program for us. it has [indiscernible] opening the site. we benefited from it and i think because there is diverse and different [indiscernible] able to be down here that everybody kind of benefits

from it. locals. >> (music). >> the work go ahead offered i didn't the rec and park friday's local young people between 14 and 17 to be part 6 the workforce and eastern responsibility and professionalism and gain job skills and assignments in neighborhoods parking and recreation centers and includes art and crafts, sport, cooking, gardening and facility support and so many more.

>> (multiple voices). >> i think we're part of the this is the fact we're outdoors and it is really great to be in nature and workreation is great first step to figure out what you would like to do workreation covers real life working skills and expansion can be allowed (unintelligible) it is a really great program because um, students get placed all the time for what they like. join us in the experience and opportunity and i really like the workreation program it is fun to workout at the summer camp with all the kids each is different and the staff is really nice. >> why? is because i used to go

to the local park often when i was a little kid. with my mom i often had to translate for my mom i applied in the hope to provide assistance for other people with first language was for the english. >> i like this job we have fun and working and i feel welcome. >> hi. >> like how a job actually works like maybe before then i didn't know like all the jobs i don't know any of that now i do. >> it has to be self aware of things and independence of value of this taught me how to be progressiveal but still learning as i go on.

>> i learned a lot like a got to adapt and challenges and obstacles come up everyday and . >> i like that we're able to really work with other people and gaining experience like how in the real world hoe how he work with other people. >> if you're looking to develop your live skills as well as cash and working in the parks, and meeting great people and working with great staff i definitely recommend the corporation. >> it is fun. >> i definitely do the scombrifrm again that the workreation and park and i'll do that again. >> i will

[music] so, can you tell us what it was like for you during your first encounter with the san francisco fire department? >> yep. it was super cool! i got to learn about the dry standing pipe correction. it is actually called, dry sand piper just stand pipe. tomato. you know. yea. >> so, what is coming up next for what is that for? >> oh , firefighter backsterinvited mow to a fire station to see the cool stuff firefighters use to put out fires. you have seen the had doors open like a space ship from out of nowhere. i close my eye its is like i'm there right now!

wow! whoa. watch out, man. what is that for? >> what is this? these are fire engines they might look alike they are both red. white top and red lights on top. this is a new 2021 fire engine and this is an older 2014 fire engine. if you can't tell, this one is shorter and narrower than our older fire engines. they have cool things like recessed lights. roll up doors. 360 degree cam ares and more that is important as the city is moving toward slower and safer streets adding parklets and bulb outs and bike lanes we need to decrease our footprint to keep us and the community safer on

emergency scenes. >> what's back there? >> when is not guilty fire engine. great question. i want to see, sure. >> let's go back and look at the equipment and the fire pump on the fire engine. >> this is a fire pump. it is cool all the colors and all that. this fire pump and this engine holds 500 gallons of water that is a lot. >> a lot of water. >> it is push out 1500 gallons a minute of water. we can lose our 500 gammons quickly. why we use hoses like this to connect to a fire hydrant and that gives us unlimited amount of water to help put a fire out temperature is important we have enough fire engine in san francisco to put fires out. so we can reduce the injuries and minimize loss of life and minimize property damage. [music]

>> mr. will. mr. will. will! >> oh. daydreaming. thanks, everybody for watching! bye! [music]

>> good morning everyone! good morning, good morning! so, normally when we gather on these stairs at there department of emergency management, it is not for great news, okay? sometimes we are up here talking about stuff going down for other things about warning people, but today we are here and so thrilled to celebrate and so we will get into why we're here, but mostly it is to celebrate the ribbon cutting of new 911 dispatch operation center. [applause]