and dinner. 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

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meaning together and the reason why i choose that theme because celebrating the legacy of some of the latin tennis especially with the power that put us together as formed when he come together and before us putting for our recognition and housing. but through our art culture and we see that today which we're together and it is always a hope for the generations after us. >> here in this district where we revising the languages and culture but in yes or no answer why we do this i get to see kids come out of this kind mr. ryu rattle where they came from and

we are here. such an honor to be part of this legacy of togetherness and those opportunities have painting a mural such as this but teaching different skwashgs and learning more about my culture i thought i already knew but so much more to this is beautiful we have so much to give each other and we're also willing to work (mus

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of the moments i thought to myself we have to have the worse business in a lifetime or the best. >> we created the oasis out of a need basically so other people bars and turning them into a space and when the last place we were performing wasn't used turned those buildings into condos so we decided to have a space. >> what the pandemic did for us is made us on of that we felt we had to do this immediately

and created this. >> (unintelligible). >> where we would offer food delivery services with a curbside professionalism live music to bring spectacular to lives we are going through and as well as employ on the caterers and the performers and drivers very for that i think also for everyone to do something. we had ordinary on the roof and life performances and with a restaurant to support the system where we are and even with that had terribly initiative and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt had to pay our rent we decided to have an old-fashioned one we created club hours where you can

watch to online and or be on the phone and raised over one quarter of a million dollar that of incredible and something that northbound thought we could do. >> we got ourselves back and made me realize how for that people will show up if i was blown away but also had the courage but the commitment now i can't let anyone down i have to make the space serviceable so while this is a full process business it became much more about a space that was used by the community. and it became less about starting up a business and more about the heart of what we're doing. this

building used to be a- and one of the first one we started working on had we came out what a mural to wrap the building and took a while but able to raise the money and pay 5 artists to make a design around many this to represent what is happening on the side and also important this is who we are this is us putting it out there because satisfies other people we don't realize how much we affect the community around there when he i want to put that out there and show up and show ourselves outside of those walls more fabulous. and inspires other people to be more fabulous and everyone want to be more fabulous and less hatred and hostility and that is how we

change the >> i am supervisor melgar. i am the supervisor for district 7. [music] i am a immigrant to san francisco. my family came when i was 12 from el salvador during the civil war. this place gave us security, safety and an opportunity to thrive, so i love the city deeply, and as a mother of three kids who have grown up as city kids, i'm grateful for everything the

city has to offer for people like me and families. i have been politically involved my whole life, either in government or a non profit worker and i care about the community. i care about people around me, and i want to make sure that as the world changes around us, other people have the opportunity that my family did. >> we are back in san francisco post pandemic. so important to be out supporting our businesses, supporting our neighbors. >> i'm the first woman to represent the district, believe it or not. i'm the first latina elected to the board of supervisors without an appointment first ever, so i do think that (indiscernible) i want immigrants to be represented, women, moms, people that have different experiences because that brings richment to our decision making and i think it makes for betting decisions so that inspired me to run.

district 7 is one of the most diverse districts in san francisco both in economics and ethnicity. it spans north from golden gate park. it includes all the institutions in the park, the wheel. the music concourse, mew seem to the south to the daly city boarder and west to the organization. includes the zoo (indiscernible) all those fun things and to 280 oen the east. includes city college, san francisco state. i had ucsf parnassus so very large geographically. it is mostly single family homes, so it is the place where for generations family (indiscernible) nice parks, lake merced, mount davidson. >> this is like a village within the city, so we

are very close nit community. we tend to band together and try to support one another and it is a friendly place and families and people to have a cup of coffee and check out the park. >> ocean avenue, which is the southern end of our district is vibrant commercial corridor that mostly cater tuesday the local neighborhoods and the students. as you go further west you have the mall which has some of the best pan asian food offerings in the city. if you haven't been there, it is really fun. as you go up a little bit further, there is west portal avenue, which is a very old school commercial district where you can still find antique shops and cobbler shops and as well as like more modern restaurants. it is definitely hopping and full of families on any weekday. >> i'm matt roger, the coowner or

(indiscernible) >> carl, other coowner in west portal. >> we are a neighborhood hardware store. been a community institution since it was founded in 1936. we had a little bit of everything. (indiscernible) to gardening or gift buying. >> my entire experience in san francisco is this community. it is a very small town feel for a big city. the community is caring and connected. >> what makes me excited doing business in district 7 is i know it sell well. i grew up here. i knew a lot of customers, parents of friends. it is very comfortable place and feels like home. >> if you go up north, you have the innerpz sunset commercial corridor which has a awesome farmers market on weekdays and plethora of restaurants. there

is everything you need. >> friendly and safe and (indiscernible) i love they bring their kids with them. they teach them how to use their money, and it is something you dont see in too many markets in other communities. i love to see the kids come and talking to you. it is something different then i see from (indiscernible) >> the ev access to transit in inner sunset and ability to do a lot of shopping on foot, and now the improved biking with jfk closed to cars, because we have a 4 and a half year old who rides her bike. we now have a safe place to go and ride bike jz don't have to to worry about traffic. >> graffiti continues to be one of these things that during the pandemic just got out of control everywhere in the city and i do think that it

is hampering our recovery of commercial corridors, so some of the volunteers on west portal avenue, some of the merchants got together with interns at our office to do some hands on abatement and we have been doing it regularly. we are doing it once a week and we have a wonderful neighbor, carrie organizing and storing the paint and supplies in her office on west portal, but this needs more then just a volunteer efforts. >> i'm grateful for the collaboration. we passed legislation at the board and put $4 million in the budget over the next 24 months to help the department of public works hire laborers and labor apprentices to abate the graffiti on private property on commercial corridors. i think that for a couple years this recovery strategy so we can get back up as normal

after this awful pandemic. participatory budgeting is a pot of money that is available every year for district 7 neighbors to propose projects that improve the neighborhood and the district. anyone, any organization in the district can propose a project and then it's a vote. it is popular vote. we have 14 projects just approved and they span from you know, a vegetable garden at aptos middle school to pedestrian safety projects on (indiscernible) it runs the gamut, but it is wonderful because it allows people to be engaged in a real way, and then to see the outcome of their energy and work, because the things get improved in front of them. >> i like it is really

close to the parecollect parks and bunch of businesses as well as a calm feel. it is a very peaceful feel even though it is close to a lot of things. (indiscernible) also not boring. there is stuff to do too. >> so, there is lots to see and experience in district 7. [music]

>> good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting for today, tuesday april 30, 2024. madam clerk, would you please call the roll? >> thank you mr. president. supervisor chan, present. supervisor dorsey, present. supervisor engardio, present. supervisor mandelman, present. supervisor melgar, present. supervisor peskin, present. superv