funds have gotten much more competitive over the years. so there is a reliance on local dollars to address those capital repairs when they come up. and we do it through a nofa process. and then when you say local dollars, you really mean general fund because bond dollars cannot accommodate that bond dollars, i believe i believe you're correct. so those would generally be either cdbg. so federal dollars could be used for repair work, our housing trust fund can be used for that. and i believe i believe, yes. correct. those two sources i think those are the challenges that i am trying to understand and that as we continue to acquire for these small sites, which is a good thing, i'm glad to see a dedicated $30 million. and on top of that, 42, in this one fiscal year, i, i am wary about the balance between acquiring the sites as well as

providing a long term sustainable structure for capital, and potentially also rental subsidies, i do have one last question, and maybe this is more for like lydia. lydia. and it's really a bond dollars. and we're really thinking about sites acquisition, not small sites acquisitions, you know, not a not a building but really land. knowing that this is the time when we can see that there is a market. this is a market for us to acquire land that we can potentially build affordable housing as a city, can the bond dollars actually go to acquire land? and for land acquisition or actually, in fact, land banking, so to speak? yes. a land acquisition is an eligible expense for bond dollars. so that's and so there's nothing that precludes us from using bond revenues for acquisition. again, to invoke the hoped for

knock on wood regional bond that we are looking toward november. it will almost certainly allow us to engage in more aggressive land banking. don't tell landowners this. but so we would we would want to look at site acquisition in, in particular for the reasons that i just mentioned that the matching sources at the state to actually advance some of the production are not going to be there on the same timeline. so to use some of those resources to acquire sites to kind of extend our pipeline, i think will make total sense, so there's nothing that prohibits bond. bond proceeds from, from from their use to acquire sites. and we would look to do that. and this is just a curiosity. it's not really about budget, but just kind of thinking about, again, making sure that our dollars actually go further is specific specifically for small sites, acquisition is the city in position to also be able to for

small sites acquisition dollars that when we acquire a site, is the city in the position to be able to acquire sites that are through auction process? well it's, i think we likely i don't think today we would be able to do that, it's a question of, having the authority to expend funds without, frankly, board approval and to be able to move quickly in an auction context, we're we've been benefited in recent years, both in the acquisition work that the city engaged in to acquire properties for permanent supportive housing. as well as recent nofas for land acquisition and land banking, you know, the market's soft. so sellers are patient. and so you can enter into a purchase agreement or an loi and, and take the time you need for the underwriting and the kind of administrative and board

approvals that are needed as the market heats up. that's going to be that's going to challenge our, our, our network and our systems, so i don't think we'd be precluded from, buying, properties through auction, but we would likely need a programmatic infrastructure that would give us the authority to move on an administrative level that we do not currently have. i say this only because i think as corporate landlords in san francisco, especially some that owns thousands of units and seems like going through a process of potentially, you know, putting their property up for auction, just the thoughts and then to see what is it that the city can do. i think that that's probably a, a feasible a financial feasible model for some of our non profit houses that can be in partnership with us with, with given the fact that some of those units are probably market rate units, but then be able to maintain and stabilize those rent, will be

very helpful. and for the tenants and those units. and with that, i don't see any other name on the roster at the moment. thank you. so much, director adams. this is your first budget. congratulations. budget i survived. thank you. all right. not yet. you still have next week to go. sorry. my apologies very much. that you can only be survive. if mr. gonzales said you did. so, with that. thank you so much for your time. thank you so much for your team and your work, and everybody being here. and then. so next we're going to go to the pub to go to, public works. and just want to say that this is actually the because we already did planning. so then this is public works and then next we have human services

agency and then we will be going to the board of supervisors. and then we'll be done for the day. i think. good afternoon, chair chan. supervisors carla short, san francisco public works i want to start by thanking the mayor's office and the board of supervisors for your continued support. i also want to thank the mayor's budget office, the comptroller's office, and the budget and legislative analyst, as well as my cfo, bruce robertson, and our finance budget staff in developing this budget during difficult budget year. i just wanted to show this slide as an introduction to our budget. our current fiscal year budget is 453.2 million, but our overall budget for capital projects, which sources may come from grants, bonds and funds from other departments, total 2 billion. so our overall budget totals almost $2.5 billion. public works to make san

francisco cleaner, safer and more beautiful. morning, noon and night. our mission and goals drive how we prioritize resources, and i'm pleased to share a preview of our next five year strategic plan. the process has allowed us to evaluate how we can meaningfully meet and measure the demands of our evolving city. we are looking to a more focused approach, reflecting the most urgent and important priorities for the department over the next few years. the new goals will guide our organization in three key areas value our people delivering impactful projects and services and revitalizing the city. our objectives will serve as our plan to achieve those goals and we anticipate rolling out our new strategic plan fully next fiscal year. all right. the department's proposed fiscal year 25 spending plan is on the left, with fiscal year 26 on the right. the budget allocations proposed here

dedicate resources for the care, maintenance and building of the city's assets. our spending plan prioritizes the cleaning of public spaces, building and repairing our city owned facilities, and the maintenance of our urban tree canopy. as you can see, our largest expense is our labor budget. we have a budgeted fte of almost 1800 employees. we also have capital and equipment budget. these expenditures are for things like curb ramps, paving, pothole repair, roof and elevator repairs, tree planting, and establishment to advance san francisco's climate action plan. recycled water system for sunset boulevard and a fourth street bridge repair project. our inter-departmental services include services provided by other departments, so primary expenditures here are for rent at 49 south and nest. our work order to central shops, pt and environment rent for the solid waste impound account. next up

non personnel. this is our base rent debt service, professional services, training, software licensing fees and systems consulting, our facilities maintenance and programmatic programmatic projects include our graffiti abatement pilot, our nighttime median maintenance crew love our neighborhoods, permitting, and the solid waste funding for trash receptacles as well as our pit stop program. our debt service is for our cop for street resurfacing and then we also have our city grants program, which includes the rest of the pit stop funding our tl clean grant, the block sweeping grant, and pressure washing. these are all workforce development grants. our proposed major capital programs include just over 1,000,001. i'm sorry, just over 100 million in capital budget funding for fiscal year 25. i do want to note this includes all the funding sources, not just the cip funding. some of the key projects are highlighted here. i want to note the goal of our

street resurfacing program is to really maintain our pavement condition index of 75 by resurfacing 500 blocks in each fiscal year. we have invested over the last 15 years in achieving this pavement condition index score, and we really want to try to maintain that. our program focuses on providing the right treatment at the right time to prevent unnecessary and significantly larger costs in future years. the street resurfacing allocation, at 23.8 million, is about 35% less than our funding request, though the fy 25 shortfall could potentially be addressed by the proposed healthy, safe and vibrant san francisco go bond if that passes in november of 2024, our curb ramp right of way renewal and roof and elevator program and tree planting and establishment reflect citywide priorities to focus on core services, improve public safety and accessibility, and citywide economic vitality

and resilience. the roof and elevator program pilot began last year, wherein capital funds are consolidated under public works to allow for greater efficiency in project delivery and streamline administration for projects with similar work. scopes. public works received 1.3 million in fiscal year 25 to advance our tree planting and establishment efforts. these funds will support the full funding plan for our justice, jobs and trees project, for which we received the largest grant in california, $12 million from the inflation reduction act . primary goals of that project are to plant and establish trees in federally disadvantaged census tracts, to improve the long term health, success and resilience of those neighborhoods amid a changing climate. also, to create green jobs, recruiting, hiring and training for permanent employment and urban forestry careers from the city's disadvantaged communities. as also, i just want to highlight the sunset boulevard recycled water project will modify existing irrigation system to

use recycled water from the oceanside oceanside sewage treatment plant, which would allow us to then implement the sunset boulevard master plan, and finally the fourth street corrosion repair. we have 2.5 million in cops to address critical repairs of corrosion damage on the underside of the fourth street bridge, just showing a few of the performance measures and the data that we collect. our performance performance measures, data evaluation and minimum cleaning standards are all evaluated by public works and sanitation and streets commissions and internally through a program we call public works stat. meanwhile, the department continues to respond to other critical requests for street cleaning, curb ramp construction, graffiti abatement, block pavement, and mechanical sweep sweep street sweeping of our streets. we also get input and support from external parties such as our commissions and the controller's office, all of which we use to track and monitor our efficiency and performance. i do want to

highlight that, over the past several years, the overall requests for street cleaning have gone down. we think that this is a result of the investment the city has made, both in our illegal vending program, as well as the supplemental appropriation that we received that i do want to note, expires at the end of the next fiscal year. our graffiti abatement pilot program. and then a real focus on our part filling general labor positions, all of that shows the positive impact and results from this funding and our success in hiring. as i noted, our organization is nearly 1800 strong. we have four divisions representing seven distinct bureaus, each providing service in the areas of street cleaning, design and construction, street use and mapping, urban forestry, building and street repair, and our backbone services within general administration. chair chan, you asked for a historic look at our staffing, so this

slide shows the historic staffing levels for the last five fiscal years and including the proposed budget years. i really want to give a shout out to our hr team. they've continued to make great strides in implementing standard processes, reducing hiring times, and implementing best practices to expedite hiring. we have many project funded positions, which allows our department to flex up and down based on the level of work requires required. it also represents an area of higher vacancy due to the type of position that they are. okay, within these difficult budget times, our goal was to prioritize funding for core services, minimize service reductions, and have no layoffs. our budget achieves all three of these. the department's general fund reduction target of 9.66 million was achieved through one revenue projections and minor fee increases. two our ongoing reductions from the mid-year reductions in 2023, we did

anticipate salary savings for ten fte that we will that will remain vacant, as well as uninitiated employment services program and some pit stop savings. we also have a programmatic projects that were identified. we identified additional reductions due to program slowdowns such as our serp and aesop repair program, sidewalk repair programs. and then we did identify some street cleaning reductions, primarily, general fund attrition and temp salary reductions. and then we took 1 million from the solid waste fund saving in each fiscal year. we do anticipate some changes to the pit stop program hours and locations, but the department is holistically evaluating optimization of all our grant programs to minimize service level impacts. and lastly, there were a few technical adjustments that occurred between the department and mayor. phase dealing primarily with our centrally loaded work orders and our

overhead reductions. supervisor, i want to thank you for the time today. as you can see from the data, with the additional funding we received in the last budget cycle, public works has been making significant progress in improving street conditions. however that budget supplemental will end one year from now, and with the reduction of about 20 ftes. we are concerned, so i hope that there will not be any additional reductions in our core street cleaning services. however, we recognize this is a difficult budget year and we will do our best to minimize any adverse impacts. with that, i'm happy to take any questions you may have. thank you. i think you mentioned so what happened was in the fiscal year of 2324, that march of 2023, we the board allocated roughly about 25, actually, really exactly $25 million of supplemental and can

you remind me or can you let me know how much of that 25 million exactly actually wrote into your 24, 25 fiscal year? so we ended up with about 16.9 million and primarily those funds were used to increase our block cleaners, which are temporary positions. so that's where we would anticipate approximately 20 ftes, reduction when that expires at the end of next year. and then because what i'm seeing right now here is that, so it looks like the 24, 25 fiscal year is $450.8 million, which is inclusive of that, 16.9 million of which is 20 ftes. and then here in 25, 26, you're now dropping like almost 50 million to $404.9 million for your annual budget. so but that's more than the $16.9 million

difference, though. where else are you cutting? yeah, that has a lot to do with the capital budget being reduced. and then specifically is it because the anticipation for the revenue bond, i mean, sorry, the general obligation bond that will actually help you fill those gap for the capital. so that will help us fill a gap, we hope for our paving program, we're about $13 million short on the paving program, but there are as as you know, supervisor. there are other capital, smaller capital projects, and there was an overall reduction in in the capital plan. so we took a subsequent reduction in our capital budget. so how do you anticipate you're going to mitigate for your 2526. that's a 50 almost $50 million gap. well, yes. i mean, happily for us, that's not part of our operating budget primarily. so those are funds that we use to then deliver certain projects, so we

do not anticipate layoffs as a result of that reduction of capital. but how do you how do you address the 20 fte of the $16.9 million if it expires? so then that 20 ftes will have to go so that 20 fte will have to go, right? so that is a layoff, well, these are temporary positions. so we expect not to actually lay anyone off, but to essentially use the attrition from those short term positions. there to 91, 66, 99.16 9916 yeah. my apologies. thank you. okay. thank you. that's all the questions i have. i don't see any name on the roster. thank you, thank you, thank you, chair chan. and the next, we will have human services agency.

good afternoon. committee members. while we're queuing up, trent rohr, i'm the executive director of the human services agency. nice to see you all. i'll just start. you don't need the slide for the first. you don't need to see it for the first couple of slides. so the human services agency, as you know, is comprised of two independent city departments, the department of disability and aging services, whose department head is, kelly dearman and then the department of benefits and family support, of which i am the department head, and then human services agency, which is me as well, both of the departments have a, a chartered commission. as you can see now, on the slide, our mission, broadly of the human services agency, we're committed to delivering essential services that support and protect people,

families and communities. we partner with neighborhood organizations and advocate for public policies to improve the well-being and economic opportunity for all san franciscans, and how do we do this? on the next slide, seven broad areas of service across the human services agency, the first being economic, income support, generally, cash grants through our entitlement programs for single adults and families, direct client care programs such as in-home supportive services, adult protective services, as well as support for kids in foster care. our workforce development services, which are employment training, job placement for individuals who are receiving services in one of our programs to help increase the income into the household food support, which is done principally through our calfresh program, which is federally and state funded, as well as a whole range of community food support programs provided by community based organizations. housing assistance is generally in the form of rental assistance.

that's tied to some of our entitlement and other programs, and then other ancillary services and community support services, the committee asked to see an org chart. this is an extremely high level org chart of our 2437 budgeted fte. as you can see, just at a very high level, about 20% of hsa's staff, are dos employees, about 16% are allocated to administration or h.s.a, and then about 65% to the department of benefits and family support, which are across four programs being child welfare, county adult assistance, sf benefits net and our welfare to work in calworks programs. on the next slide, you'll see our budget, which is, largely, of course, given the city's budget situation, a status quo budget, any increases , you see, in our proposed budgets are due to, colas for

staff. cost of doing business, increase for cbos, and then excess costs due to, wage increases, within, benefits and family support. the budget is allocated. you can see, as i just listed cap program sf benefits net, which is medi-cal and calfresh, the calworks program, workforce development and child welfare. you know, i should say, just because i don't have a slide on this just in terms of what is this budget paying for the human services agency's reach across san francisco is vast. we serve about 250,000 unduplicated san franciscans every year. and our medi-cal program alone, we touch almost 140,000 households with over 200,000 people on medicaid, on medi-cal. next slide, and you can see in our proposed budget where principally are we are we spending our $1.24 billion, about 500 million close to is on

aid payments or ihss wages and other aid assistance. the next largest, spending categories, of course, our staff, our employees . and then the third is our grants to our cbo partners. the next slide shows, is important for the human services agency. the source of funds, as you know, most of what the human services agency does is mandated by federal and or state laws. and as such, most of the funding comes from the feds or the state about 40% from the state, about 30% is federal dollars. and then the rest is county general fund. it's important to note, though, of the about $410 million in county general fund, much of that is required spending in order to draw down that federal those federal and state dollars either through matching requirements or through maintenance of effort or maintenance of existing county funding. so even though our agency budget is about 1.3

billion as proposed, about 410 million of which is county general fund, the true discretionary general fund is really only about $65 million. and so the reductions in order to meet the mayor's target, are off of that discretionary 65 million. and you can see from the table we really we really were were in a position where we could meet the target without any, service cuts short of the goal of maintaining services. so we looked at augmenting our revenue from the state and federal government through various programs, increasing salary attrition a bit above its normal. normal attrition rate, right sizing contracts, and including attrition in contracts . so just like the human services agency, as you know, nonprofit agencies have staff turnover time to fill those positions. we're attempting to recapture that savings through that attrition and then the last are some pauses in service expansion, largely in the department of disability and

aging services, our performance measures, as you might expect with this department our size, we have dozens of them. i wanted to point out a few, a couple, as you know, in our benefit programs, our goal is always to help increase the income that's going into the household or for the individual, either through employment or other means, such as getting individuals on to federal disability benefits. two performance measures that that i note here are our success in, job retention. keeping people employed, who we have placed in subsidized jobs, as well as getting people onto disability through our cap program. the other areas are performance related to benefits, access and these are largely driven by not only the effectiveness and efficiency of staff, but certainly staffing levels and when you have lower staffing levels in these programs, obviously you can't process applications as quickly. you can't really determine benefits as quickly. and you can see that we're not meeting our targets

here. however, in all but one of the programs, we are meeting, the state mandated performance timelines, which is we try to our own performance metrics. we try to, do better than what the state requires. and it's just good government service. and then the last slide before i turn it over to director dearman, there's just the state budget risks, given the significant almost $50 billion budget deficit at the state and the fact that we get 40% of our funding from the state. what's happening in sacramento can negatively impact us. the governor's proposals in january and in may total about $30 million, potentially of lost state revenue to us, principally in our calworks program. however the legislature's tentative budget agreement that's now being negotiated with the governor restores much of those reductions. so at this point, we're just waiting to see what kind of deal struck between the governor's office and the legislature. so with that, i'll hand it over to director dearman

for dos. thank you. good afternoon, chair chan, and members of the board of supervisors. my name is kelly dearman. i am the executive director of the department of disability and aging services, and just wanted to, give you just a couple of thoughts about what's going on in dos, so first, similar to what director rohrer just presented, i wanted to speak a little bit to our annual performance report and our performance measures, and, what you'll see here is that the in-home supportive services program is unfortunately not in compliance with the community first choice option reassessment, compliance rate that is set by the department of social services and, that rate is set at 90. we're currently at 87, so we're not quite there. but i will note that the ihss caseload has increased over 10%

since fiscal year 2021, and that the average ihs caseload for our case, carrying social workers is , on average, 270 clients per social worker. and the program has approximately 12,400 clients who are enrolled in the program as the community first choice option. so we are making progress. but with the expanded, the increased caseloads, you can imagine, it's rough, but we're getting it done. okay. next slide. so in terms of our risk, the may revise proposed many cuts to our programs as outlined here. and we're waiting to hear, what is going to happen on the state level, and once we find those out, we'll be able to give you a better idea of where we

stand with the home safe funding , and with adult protective services, which is a really important safety net in this city. and so we need to make sure that is funded at adequate levels. and i just want to add here that i thank all of you members of the board of supervisors for your for continuing to express that the, that what happens to seniors in the city is a priority for you all. so i am much appreciative of that. and then finally, last slide about the dignity fund, we're happy to see that we're getting our, $3 million in growth funding. this slide shows examples of programs that are included in the service areas for fiscal year 2425, and some examples include access and empowerment services, caregiver support services, and housing support services, there will not be any growth to our programs in these service areas, but rather

the dollars will be used to backfill general fund cuts. that would be implemented to meet the agency's reduction target. and while it's really nice to have this funding to offset cuts, we will not be able to increase programing as was intended. but we understand that everyone has to make hard choices this year. and executive director rohrer and i are available for any questions as, my apologies. i don't understand why are you backfilling with that $3 million? what? what exactly are you. what cuts was it that you're exactly. or so. so every year we're supposed to get okay, so $3 million. we're supposed to get $3 million. yeah $1.7 million is being used for the cost of doing business. and that other 1.3 is being used to, to, to fund some of the other

general fund cuts that were that we were asked to make. but is that how we can use the baseline for dignity fund? i thought the dignity fund has, as a baseline, has to be dedicated to the senior programing that is listed there. so all 3 million should be going to that and not not like what you have. just what i'm seeing here as half and half . good afternoon committee. my name is celia pedroza and i'm the budget director at h.s.a, what we're describing in this slide is one of the strategies that the agency is using to meet our budget target and to cover costs of doing business increases. so we're utilizing the $3 million in dignity fund growth for those two purposes. half is used to cover our programs that are currently dignity fund eligible but supported with general fund. so in lieu of using general fund

next year we're going to use part of that dignity fund growth. so again, just to clarify that we are using this growth for dignity fund eligible services fees. and then the second portion of the growth is used to cover cost of doing business increases for the contracts that are supported by the dignity fund baseline, supervisor melgar. thank you, no . stay there because i'm i'm also just as skeptical as as supervisor chan. so, you know, for many years we have had this issue with the dignity fund about the cost of doing business. and folks in the community. the advocates have been, you know, rightfully, talking about this for many years. it's a structural problem that we've had in terms of, you know, the cost of doing business with the dignity fund and how, the wording went to the ballot. so just let me rephrase what you

just said. so instead of, sort of addressing that in terms of the non profits that are awarded contracts, we are using the increase is towards the cost of doing business. and then substituting for general fund is that what you're saying. so we're we're using the $3 million in growth for two in growth in growth. the $3 million in growth for two two uses, part of it we're using to cover cost of doing business increases for the contracts that are supported by the dignity fund baseline. and that is an approach that we've used in prior years. this isn't anything different in yeah, i take your comment. yeah. and then the second part is that in the dos program or in the dos budget, there are dignity fund eligible services that are funded by the dignity fund baseline. and there also dignity

fund eligible services that are funded with general fund through mayoral initiatives. your generous add backs. and so it's in lieu of using general fund to continue to support those services or at a reduced amount. we're going to use part of the growth. okay. and so through that approach we achieve a 1.5 million in general fund savings. but doesn't that short change the activity because we used to have, you know, the dignity fund. eligible stuff in the dignity fund, and we used to have general fund for, you know, whatever else we could. so we're now effectively kind of short changing that population, right? yes. so it's, generally our overall strategy in managing the budget reduction targets was to look for opportunities where we

could kind of stretch our resources as far as possible to maintain existing services. and this is kind of the result of that approach. we're redirecting dollars that would have otherwise been used for expansion, and instead using them to maintain services for existing clients. okay. thank you. sorry. now i'm just i guess i do understand, i just want to make sure i, that i really do understand. so, you know, the baseline of dignity fund. it's three, $3 million per year. and if the, there's a threshold for the deficit and then if it's if it doesn't, it doesn't trigger, you can continue to grow by $3 million per year. and so this year we're saying, yes, we're ready because last two fiscal year we did not grow. we will only stuck at the baseline. so this year finally we say, hey, on top of that baseline we get to grow by 3 million. and out of which that 3 million, half of it help us sustain the existing

baseline. and then the other half that we're using it to for cost of doing business. so half of it is used to maintain services that are outside of the baseline. the base budget. so if you think about the dos budget in general, there's a portion that's funded by the dignity, fund base. and then there's also a separate portion that's funded with general fund and other sources. and it's that portion that we're using. the growth the growth. yeah. okay. okay thank you, thank you. thank you. i think last year with, human services agency, what we had dedicated and in fact, upward substitution, that we went a little bit back and forth about, along with the food security increase. i assume that, those like fte sustain from last year,

supervisor sharon, just so i understand the fte for to support the community food programs. yes, they are sustained in the budget. thank you. i appreciate, the presentation and of course, thank you so much for all your work for the entire san francisco population. i think it's a very tough time, given the sort of state and federal reduction that we're facing. so thank you for holding the population together. and with that, we're going to go to our last city departments. and after that, this city departments, our board of supervisor does have a budget and legislative analyst report. and then we will then go to public comments for today. thank you. thank you.

oh, yes. and item 16. my apologies. that is the assessment appeal fee that we need to discuss. thank you, madam chair. item number 16. apologies. one second. item number 16. his ordinance appropriating 400,000 of assessment appeals. fee revenue from filing fees, hearing fees and finding of fact fees collected in fiscal year 2023 to 2024 to support the assessment appeals boards costs of operation, including the development of an online assessment appeals application filing system. madam chair, thank you. it's interesting that you're on that side, madam clerk, but please go ahead.

members of the committee, chair chan and residents watching this on sfgovtv or here in the chamber. angela calvillo, clerk of the board. doctor edward diaz is the department's administrative deputy and finance officer. and we are honored to be before you to present the board of supervisors budget, the june presentation, the we have a quick set of slides for you, slide one depicts the department's mission, the highlights of our core work and ongoing projects. we work in a highly regulated department. everything that we do there is a manual that allows us to make sure that we are getting it done properly. and of course, in your offices, you are all audited, doctor diaz handles the audits and typically we are number one. or there is perhaps one thing that they find, but your audits come up mostly very

clean, the current year highlights identify our day in and day out work through this work the clerk staff receive high compliments and, you know, they're the courtesy that our staff provide and the timeliness of their work, oftentimes we are complimented on the org chart. truly represents our employees, but you can't tell the energy and the commitment and the service to the residents. everything that we do, our staff, including your legislative staff, is to do what we can to assist all of our constituents and clients. the department fte count remains steady at 94 full time positions, as it has for the last 20 years. we have 59 commissioner seats in the department, which similar to full time positions, requires significant staff resources to onboard offboard to the review compliance, ensure payroll and

benefits. as of june 2024, the department has two vacant positions, one in the clerk's office and one legislative assistant. we know that, that the recruitments are happening currently for these positions, and both are sure to be filled by july. in mid-july. moving to the slide three. this shows the department's current budget and the changes for the proposed, budget amount in february. the budget and finance committee approved a $23.2 million budget, which included ongoing general fund, a general fund, reduction of 330,000 since february, the largest increase in the budget year is mainly due to mou wage growth, mandated colas and fringe benefit costs, and increases to work orders, offset by one time funding for a legislative management system, which will, increase the

department's expenditure budget by $224,684, or 1, in the out year. the department's expenditure budget increased by 558,989 $36, or 2.3, from the budget year. also reflecting mou changes, cola and fringe benefit costs and work order increases. this is the first year that the san francisco board of supervisors submitted a proposal for the urban areas security initiative, otherwise known as the oac grant funding. we were hoping that priority would be given to a department that historically has not applied or received funding. we did not receive that funding. we were hoping to expend those funds on a mode of communication between members and their staff, who potentially could be in the district, during an incident, and we will continue to seek out that $150,000, from additional,

sources. the fourth slide depicts for requests only two are budget focused that we are requesting the committee to consider for funding in the department. the first one would restore the legislative expense account, from 5000 back to 8000. as you know, the district offices utilized the legislative expense account to fund their official business. we were told last week that particular cost was increasing. we did not want to leave just a few dollars in your legislative accounts, and so we're going to request that that $33,000 be replaced as additionally, we are, authorizing the consultant facilitation to be utilized by the offices for many years, we've gotten requests that members use facilitation services both in their with their constituents and in their

offices. and now we are going to allow the use of, the legislative expense account for that purpose, we are asking to reclass the budget of $122,000 of temporary staff to assist the assessment appeals board in processing the increase of assessment appeals, finding, filings the comptroller provided attrition savings to our department, to the aabb specifically for temporary staff. we're grateful to the comptroller for that assistance, and the mayor's office, and but we wanted it to be reflected for temporary staff so that we could use it specifically for the arb, there is a cost of living adjustment for the budget and legislative analyst we did add a placeholder for the bla cola. we didn't put enough in the line item, only because we didn't know what the actual mou cost would be with local 21, as we

typically and it is contract language that we tie the cola for the bla increase to the labor negotiated mou in for the local 21. and then lastly, just wanted to point out to you that the lafco did approve its budget, we have the actual amount for that. and so we have what we need in the budget. the last significant issue on hand is the slide five, which illustrates the cost recoveries for the assessment appeals board. in a typical year, our forecast of approximately 286,000 in revenue to be provided to the general fund. you can see in all previous years, the excess revenue is routinely incorporated into the general fund. that provision that originally, was approved for the filing fees. the hearing fees and the finding of fact

fees stipulated that those monies would be utilized for the operation of the assessment. appeals board. so item 16, which the clerk has called, it's an ordinance which would allow us to capture the extra revenue this year. as you've heard, it is $400,000 to pay for the, assessment appeals board, a new system that we'd like to build in house. to date, the assessment appeals board has processed over 7973 new applications for appeals in fiscal year 2324. it is a significant increase, and with the increase comes the projected revenue. and so we are asking that you would approve this ordinance earlier in this conversation. madam chair, you did have a conversation with the assessor, we do have the administrator here from the assessment appeals board, alistair gibson, who would be happy to answer your question. as it pertained to the commercial and residential

property numbers, our final slide, and then i'll turn it over to mr. gibson is that we request the committee approve the following items. number one, approve, 33,000 to be returned to the legislative expense account, state that you would reclass the rb 122,000, in ongoing reduced attrition savings, except the budget and legislative analyst cola adjusted amount of 41,853 and approved the department's budget. with these changes. additionally, approving item 16 would be really helpful as well. there is one matter that i am working with the mayor's budget director on, and that is the city attorney work order, we did agree with the city attorney's office that we would begin to pay the findings of fact, work that the city attorney's office conducts for us at the rb. if we

triple the current amount, that's still south of 50,000, it does not tie to the $284,209 work order. that's been placed in our budget, but i am working with the mayor's budget and policy office on that. and so that concludes, my presentation and would invite, with your permission, madam chair, mr. gibson, up to answer the two the questions that you had on the residential and commercial. thank you. good afternoon, madam chair jan and members of the committee, alastair gibson, administrator for the assessment appeals board, in fiscal year 23, 24, through the month of may , we received approximately 8000 new applications, and by may 31st, we have 6320 applications pending a hearing. approximately

56% of the applications pending a hearing consist of commercial properties, including apartment buildings, office buildings, hotels and motels, commercial stores, possessory interests, vacant land, and all properties with four units or less. excuse me? four units or more, nearly 44% of the applications pending a hearing consist of residential properties with units of four units or less, 1810 applicants have elected to appear before a hearing officer program, and about 4500 applicants have elected or must appear before a three member board panel to qualify for a hearing officer program, the property must be a residential property or it's a property with four units or less. without a commercial property attached to the parcel. 29% of the elected hearing officer have elected hearing officer program from that 7000

to 8000 number that i have previously stated and about 71% has elected or must appear before three member panel, i welcome any questions that you may have and thank you for your time. thank you. thank you. okay . i this the bla sorry. my apologies. it goes to the boa report chair and members of the committee, our report on item 16 is on starts on page six of our report. the proposed ordinance would appropriate $400,000 in assessment appeal revenue generated in fiscal year 2324, the current year to a continuing fund for the assessment appeals board. the funding would be used to help fund the procurement of a new online assessment, appeals filing system. due to due due to an increase in assessment appeals fee revenue is projected to be approximately 400,000 more than budgeted in the current year. processing and hearing

fees must be used for the assessment appeals board's operating costs and funding. finding fees must be used for to fund fact finding expenses incurred by the county. the ordinance also places $58,700 on controllers reserve pending receipt of revenue. due to the uncertainty of the final collections in the current year, according to the deputy director of administration and finance for the board of supervisors, the assessment appeals board's current filing system is more than ten years old and beyond its useful life. in addition, the current system will not be able to accept data from the accessory recorders. new assessment filing system. the total estimated cost for the assessment appeal board's new filing system is actually 1 to $2 million, and no other funding has been secured. the clerk of the board may wish to consider creating a special fund for excess assessment appeal. revenue for the system or for

other operating costs of the assessment appeals board. we do recommend approving the proposed ordinance and that the board consider requesting the clerk of the board to create a special revenue fund to deposit the excess assessment appeal revenue so that it could be, it could fund future operating costs of the assessment appeals board. and we're available for questions if you have any. thank you. and it sounds to me it seems, though, it's that, controller wagner, please explain. thank you, chair chan, so we're we're just discussing, over here among the team, the $400,000, that is listed as a source for this revenue, i believe is also reflected as surplus revenue in the nine month report, meaning that it contributes to the fund balance that's assumed in the mayor's

budget. but if you would be willing, i would like to take a moment to just, confer with the department and make sure that that, statement is accurate, and then we can circle back with you , we just want to make sure that we're not, double counting those revenues in two places. thank you. and we have to go to public comments on this item, so we will. and i think in the events that after public comments, it doesn't resolve, then it probably means we just have to continue it. and i'll probably continue to call chair until we can further, until we can figure this out. it is still my intent that i, i want to say i am in supportive of what, clerk calvillo has suggested and recommended as it to us, to appropriate this $400,000 specifically, and to just, i think there's a few things happening here. one is that, you

know, we are now also tasked to pay, or, you know, to, to be responsible for the city attorney fees is, no, for the appropriate for the appeal board, for staffing appeal board as a work order. yes. the additional costs related to the city attorney is offset by additional revenues proposed in the budget. similar to additional costs were incurring at the assessor's office. the city attorney's office and the treasurer's office to help manage, the volume of appeals and litigation. so across citywide, those additional costs are cost neutral. but because it is a cost neutral, as in they're supported by citywide revenues. but it does to appropriately show who is paying the work order, that the work is being requested by the assessment appeals board and to the city attorney's office. it shows up as a cost in the board of supervisors budget, and then a

recovery in the city attorney's budget. but it is paid for not with additional general fund dollars by the board of supervisors, but additional general fund revenue. however, it is showing as a line item that the supervisor, the board of supervisor, is paying for that work order, but then the board of supervisors overall budget, which is i think that it makes sense for the for the appropriation of this assessment appeals fee back to this board of supervisors so that we can then show that the supervisor is the one that actually is receiving that fee and that we're now appropriate that or paying out for the work order. yes yeah. the, the work order is showing where one department is requesting the service of another department. there is a cost associated with it. but like i said, that cost is offset in with general fund revenue. that does not that general fund revenue will not show up as a

line item in the board of supervisors budget, but it will be paid for by additional revenue. i okay, do we have a resolution or do we know now, i think if we could, if the board of supervisors team would be willing to just take a day to confer with us, and we'll work with them to try to, come come up with a way to resolve it. i think that would be my request. just so that we're not, counting in two places through the chair to the controller. absolutely. and the mayor's budget and policy office, just as long as the findings of fact fees are not going to be the source of revenue for the city attorney's office, except for the fact when they are reviewing the findings of fact, then we're happy to use that as the source. and supplant of the general fund. but we can work through the details. thank

you. thank you, members. thank you. and so with that, let's go to public comment for item 618. and again for the public coming for public comment. this is only for item 16. and if you want to address the board address, the committee for the all the city departments came before us today. you will have to wait until the end when we go to the public comments for the day. so this is only public comments for item 16. and yes, we do invite members of the public who wish to address this committee regarding this ordinance, for the assessment, sorry, this, ordinance appropriating, the funds to the assessment appeals board. madam chair, we have no speakers. thank you. seeing no public comments. public comment is now closed, and, colleagues, i would like to make the motion to continue this item to call chair, as we have to continue this discussion on and, with

that second by supervisor walton and then, a roll call, please. and on that motion by chair chan, seconded by member walton, that this ordinance be continued to the call of the chair. vice chair mandelman mandelman i member melgar. melgar i member walton. walton i member. dorsey. dorsey i chair. chan i chan i we have five ayes. thank you. and the motion passes. and, with that, i think we are. do we have any other city departments before us today scheduled, that does conclude our trailing legislation. yes thank you. and then now we could go to public comment, for these for the, for item 6 to 8. yes. we now invite members of the public have joined us today who wish to speak on the annual appropriation and salary ordinances to line up, to speak now, along the windows to your right, my left. and please come forward to the lectern. and as the chair noted at the beginning of the meeting, that all speakers will have one minute to speak. also mentioned at the beginning of the meeting, we did have, we did arrange to have

interpretive services in chinese and spanish available today, but unfortunately they are only available through 4 p.m, if those in line are amenable, kindly cede your place, and hopefully we can, we can get through as many speakers as we can before how we have to let them go, and with that first speaker, please. let's be clear. the organization of this endless meeting was exclusively designed to tire everybody in order to prevent everybody here to have enough width to know exactly what's going on. that's why it doesn't make sense. this in order to lose the core of the issue here, everything in the budgets from coming from the mayor's office cannot be valid for a very simple reason is because the mayor has to go,

because she's been told several times on the record to promote through san francisco. so san francisco incidents, the concept of responsibility and critical thinking, which is nowhere to be seen. as i said yesterday, i think clearly enough that you need in order to be happy, you need to focus everything you do on beauty, which is not the case here, because time has expired. thank you much. next speaker, please. ready? please begin. okay. good afternoon. supervisor my name is jessica rubio. i am the policy director at mission economic development agency. i am here to thank you for supporting our existing community serving programs at meta and throughout our city, but also to urge you to not cut funding from our partner

organizations at sfp at this is a network of 25 lead organizations, 25 latino led agencies and organizations that are part of that we are part of and that in total, we serve over 60,000 latinos or wrap around services are critical to our most vulnerable community members and promote long term stability in our partner. organizations that focus on arts and cultural programs are deeply impacted by these budget cuts. so please continue to invest in our programs and our allies who have the skills and proven track records to serve our community. thank you. i thank you much, jessica rubio. and again, we do request, that you do cede your line for those who may need interpretive services, as we will have to let them go at any minute. now but that is only a request. next speaker, please. thank you. good afternoon, supervisors. and my name is sophia rios dorantes. i'm the deputy director for elaborator latinas. and my pronouns are she

her, i'm going to thank you for, for all this year of support, your support to the trans latinx community, actually, to the trans latinas here in, mission, bay area. thank you for giving us, this time to speak. and as latinas, we advocate for, sustain and help trans latinas. to survive. we struggle up to five times to survive, help us to continue providing our life saving programs. no cuts for any trans latino or latinx organizations. public safety for trans latinas and all the, latinx communities. housing opportunities, better work opportunities. thank you so much . and thank you for addressing this committee. next speaker, please. hello my name is lucia obregon. i'm the director of the san francisco latino peridinin equity coalition. and in honor of the arts that are represented

in our coalition, i wrote you all a poem. so in the shadow. cast by budgets. blade. communities of color fade. each cut a wound, each slash a scar. the promise of progress feels so far. youth left adrift. dreams deferred. families please go unheard. immigrant hopes caught in the fray. arts stifled, silenced and pushed away. oppressive cycles spin anew. old chains reforge fresh yet cruel investment. scarce futures dim injustice signs sings its ancient hymn. yet in these hearts resistance burns. for every cut. the will return to rise. to fight, to break the chains and end the cycle of our pain. thank you, thank you. sarah bergen, next speaker. hello, i'm rosa deanda. i am the

executive director of the day of the dead in san francisco marigold project. i want to thank walton. i want to thank mandelman and any other supervisor that has supported us in the past. this year, we have received $0 from this, body. they are pushing us aside to grants for the arts. grants for the arts does not have a budget for organizations like ours. a small budget with tremendous impact. we're in the schools. we counsel children with grief. we teach poetry, and we teach dance. we teach ceremony, we teach the education that our ancestors and your ancestors have given us. and that is to take care of this planet. we're in great crisis. we need to pay attention to this. our small

investment that we put into this community. it is. thank you so much for addressing this committee. next speaker, please. hi. my name is annie rivera. i'm the executive director of galeria de la raza and a member of sfl pic, our beloved community anchors contribute to the city's cultural diversity and to rebuild its economy. according to data from americans for the arts, economic drivers report, every individual spends about $43 per lb outing. that said, our our organizations present over 50 events in one year and that support the latino population of 256, 324,000 people in san francisco. if my math is correct, the latino population infuses $11 million into the local economy and yet we cannot get a commitment to support the latino art and culture. ask of 1.6. we also want to bring visibility to the hardship that we've encountered

with grants for the arts. we need to improve that system. we are forced to work two quarters of the year without a contract in place. that is a huge burden on art and culture. organizations that are already surviving on a shoestring budget. we ask you that you please look at these details and uplift the arts and culture. expired. thank you. and before i call the next speaker to those holding signs up, just out of respect to people viewing the procedures, if you can keep it. thank you much. next speaker. hello, supervisors. my name is paloma tracy, and i coordinate the sf latino parity and equity coalition. the city is divesting from the latinx community in this city, and it is unacceptable. over the past five years, city departments have consistently not met the latinx budget requests. these cuts caused direct negative impacts to the latinx people, as well as immigrant communities and the overall city. as the latinx

people hold up, many of the city's essential services, these latinx people live in every district of this city and have played a significant role in building this city. the latinx community continues to grow as newcomers settle here with the hope of building vibrant and prosperous lives. divesting from the community is inequitable and unacceptable, and not only can we not afford for the services to be cut, but they must be grown and augmented. the arts are essential social services that uplift culture and make our streets safer. there's a lot of talk about public safety going on, but these cuts directly undermine that goal. thank you much, paloma. tracy, thanks. next speaker, please. hi. we are excelsior works. my name is carla rodriguez. we are here representing our organization as a member of the people's coalition. my organization is demanding a restoration of our services and increase investment

in our communities. specifically, in district 11, we are seeing great numbers of evictions, family arriving who are living on the streets, our food program that was servicing 120 people, half chinese, half latino, is being discontinued. these essential services we were relying on to ease the struggle and pain of food insecurity and economic, as a service provider, i feel i feel heartbroken interm people down. please continue to invest in our children, our seniors, and no cuts to outreach workers. thank you. carla rodriguez, boise, idaho august. hi icu's coleman. come on. chenco pfizer vaccine. are you saying it like it sounds work? segment say yes. sigma chi.

thank you. i supervisors, my name is xiao ping leong. i am a resident in the third district. we're here today to ask that we extend the funding for the food pantry in district 11. since 2024, excelsior works has provided me with, healthy food. please do not cut the food pantries in district 11. my family that my family depends on . and let's keep the pantries open. thank you. oic something now i want go. hi slc. coleman come on. go i think. sperm chirurgicum. tong leong yee sam. lin. eli. go! i associate jacek venmo, a korean taichung city man. ten more. seven in jakarta.

yun. what mordecai. hi. licensing venture. jen psaki coleman. kin hong jin zo d.o.j. as supervisors. my name is wu dong huang. i'm a resident in excelsior district. i'm here today to ask that we extend the funding for the food assistance program in district 11. since 2023, excelsior works has provided me and my family with healthy food. please don't, cut the food pantry in district 11 that my family relies on and let's keep the food pantry open. thank you. thank you much to the speakers for addressing this committee. and thank you. tenki wong, for your assistance. next speaker, please. good afternoon,

supervisors marnie regan, larkin street youth services co-chair of hesba and the homeless workforce collaborative. we are extremely concerned about multiple department reductions to workforce programs. some of our member orgs with h.s.a homelessness employment services contracts were told to expect 25% funding cuts. in fact, x just got their letter today showing their cut. it really feels like there is no collaboration between departments because h.s.a dcyf and cdd are proposing significant homeless workforce cuts. these are hugely consequential collective reductions without employment and workforce development funding. our clients will be incredibly challenged to pay rent, sustain housing, buy food and afford child care. our clients are working really hard to overcome trauma from being unhoused, and they work really hard every day to avoid returning to the streets. the 2024 pit count shows an increase in overall homelessness in san francisco, defunding support services like workforce and

outreach is not the way to reverse this troubling trend. thank you. thank you much, marty regan. next speaker, please. good afternoon, members. my name is hector romero, and i'm an immigrant immigrant from mexico and a long time san francisco resident from the mission district. the community ambassador program matters because it's a unique program and opportunity to help community members to find a purpose in life. as a community ambassador, we ambassadors, we provide resources that our city is providing for the community members. the impact of eliminating the cap would be devastating. the community members are in need of our support as for as for where to get medical support and for other provided resources from the city that we that will benefit them as it will impact me and all the community ambassadors. because in many situations, we are the only ones

that share these resources to them. we depend on this job because we are for the community and its members, and we all take pride in doing so. thank you. thank you much, hector. next speaker, please. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is maricela alvarez. i am a resident of the sunset district and i'm a mother of three, children who are part of the school district. i am also a city employee. however, today i'm speaking on my own behalf. i was just assaulted a few months ago, going to lunch and, just the incident. give me anxiety. just to work to bart after work hours, thanks to the community ambassador program for providing safety escorts, it just a big relief, and i will beg you to consider cutting funding for those programs that provide, reassure, sense of safety and our neighborhoods. and i really appreciate the support of all of you to consider, restoring funding for

this program. thank you. and thank you much for your comments. next speaker. hi. my name is. i'm speaking on my behalf. i live in district ten. i am a dedicated city worker, a single mother of three, and a caregiver for my sick mother who relies on dialysis. today i stand before you in staunch support of the community ambassadors program, a vital initiative originating in bayview hunters point cap has been instrumental in enhancing safety and fostering community engagement in the neighborhood that has historically been marginalized and overlooked. as a resident of hunters point, i'm deeply grateful for cap's impact, but also expressed grave concerns regarding its potential elimination on behalf of the senior students unhoused individuals, i urgently urge the board to reject any proposed cuts to cap as it would profoundly affect not only myself but countless others who depend on its services. thank you for your time and thank you for addressing this committee. next speaker. good afternoon. my name is elena ruiz, and i'm a

city employee, but i'm speaking upon myself, i'm here to ask for the full support in reinstating full funding of the oca community ambassador program. during each team meeting, i've heard stories of how they've saved lives, then provide safety to vulnerable community members along with city workers. these folks are the true san franciscans of san francisco that constantly create impact in their own communities. every day . don't cut cap. thank you for your comments. next speaker. good afternoon everyone. my name is pj eugenio. i'm the workforce counselor for the saddle market community action network, and i'm here representing my organization as a member of the workers rights community collaborative and the people's budget coalition. the in-language outreach that we do is essential to connect workers experiencing labor violations to the right tools and resources to exercise their labor rights. the city just passed a new amendments to the existing

language access ordinance and a board resolution yesterday to strengthen and expand the current law. the san francisco's language access ordinance ensured the city provides fair language access. it is one of the strongest local language laws in the nation. cutting the budget of wcc undermines wolski's ability to implement the language access ordinance by defunding in language worker rights outreach, consultation, support through the claim process, passing a new amendment to the existing law is a step forward, but cutting essential services that support this ordinance is too, is a two step back. thank you and thank you much. our next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. i live in nob hill and i'm here today as a member of the public to speak in support of the community ambassador program. i have experienced multiple safety issues while walking in the city in the past couple of years. i feel much safer seeing community ambassadors as escorts and a safety presence in neighborhoods

across the city. cap is essential to improving public safety in san francisco and ensuring the city is a safe and welcoming place. please support continuation of this vital and transformative program. thank you and thank you much for addressing this committee. next speaker good afternoon, board members. my name is alejandro garcia. i'm representing the la raza centro legal, specifically the workers rights program. we are a part of the workers rights community collaborative, and i'm also here representing the people's budget. unfortunately, the mayor is proposing about a 50% cut to the workers rights community collaborative. we focus on doing outreach and informing workers of their rights, but not only doing outreach and education, but we also represent workers. the type of workers that we represent are low wage immigrant workers, oftentimes monolingual speakers who are having to do two, three, four jobs even to survive in this city. and so providing cuts to this program is going to impact a whole bunch of folks. and just to give you some

numbers as far as the type of services that our collaborative does, our workers rights program in the last year has provided 262 consultations for san francisco workers. we have recovered over $985,000 for workers who need every single cent to survive in this city. i think it's important to reimagine what community safety looks like. community safety looks like informing people of their rights and supporting them, and we need to stop providing a huge but thank you much. a boost to the addressing this committee. next speaker, please. next speaker. hi, chair chan and other members of the budget committee. my name is jenny huang. i'm here from chinese progressive association. we serve low income chinese immigrant youth families and workers here in san francisco. cpa is members of both the workers rights community

collaborative and the people's budget coalition. just last week, cpa celebrated a worker victory where we were able to secure $60,000 for former workers of lee's deli. this victory was made possible by our collaborative partnership with the osce, and over the last two years, we've been able to outreach to over 23,000 workers in ten languages and recoup almost $2 million in compensation for workers. and now the mayor is trying to cut our budget in half. we're asking you to pull from the reserves and to make cuts to any inefficiencies in the budget in order to stop the cut to our collaborative and other cuts to community programs. as a city, we will only make our current economic situation worse by turning our backs on low income communities. cpa stands in solidarity with our fellow community organizations and service providers, and demand that you stop the cuts and find inefficiencies in programs for addressing this committee. next speaker, please. good afternoon.

my name is helena saint john, and i'm here to share my story on advocate for the crucial role of the community ambassador program. community ambassador program plays a vital role in our community by assisting those who are in the dire situations, including individuals overdosing on the streets. it's more than just a service. it's a beacon of hope to countless individuals, including myself. i was once among those struggling on the streets battling substance abuse, use and homelessness. i never imagined that i could become a community ambassador, but here i am. look at what cap did for my family. starring a public service as a public service trainee, i worked my way up through various positions within cap and now as a supervisor and a senior team lead for the mid-market community ambassadors, i am able to give hope to others. this is an essential aspect of being an ambassador and i hold my position with immense pride. the community was served. we serve

appreciates the work we do and cutting cap would only jeopardize their safety, but also diminish the progress we've made in supporting individuals like myself. thank you much, john. next speaker, please. my name is david mckinley. i'm a city employee. i'm here on behalf of myself. i'm a san francisco native living in the sunset district. i work for the community ambassador program, and in the last 20 years, i've dedicated myself to serving homeless, low income, and marginalized communities in our city and i've never worked with a program as powerful or as poignant as the ambassador program. the ambassador program was the first ambassador program that came out of the city and county, and it provides opportunities for city residents, including those who are multicultural, multilingual, peer based and newly arrived to work within the city and for the city. this gives them the opportunity to have meaningful impacts in the neighborhoods where they live, and cap works in direct partnership with dozens of nonprofit organizations, providing thousands of engagement to outcome referrals. every month.

not only does cap operate to high standards of the city and county, but it is also uniquely trauma informed for both employees and for the community, i would ask you to consider restoring the funding to cap. and thank you for addressing this committee. next speaker. hello, supervisors. my name is moon and an immigrant from china and have lived in bayview for eight years. i'm a new community ambassador working with the district ten team, the community ambassadors program is important because this program is really helping the community. osseo community ambassadors are trained for cpr and narcan and can help the people on the street right away. and also they are working really hard on the 311 report. i can tell that less illegal dumping on the street. lastly, they always have great relationship with the merchants. for example, some merchants don't know where to find the information about the graffiti on the store, and community ambassadors can give out fliers on applying different online. on some owners of the merchants

don't speak english, and many community ambassadors like myself can speak multiple languages, which can really help the owners of the merchants interpret on any situations. thank you. thank you moon for addressing this committee. next speaker. hello everyone, i am an employer of the community ambassador program and i am the assistant team leader for the district team. i'm also a new immigrant to the united states. the community ambassador program, helping me get back on my feet in the new country. it helping me building the confidence and training me a lot of different skills and training me be a excellent employer. training me to be an excellent leader. i am be helping and i am also giving back to the community and help the people like me and the order of the community ambassador program was

because an asian elderly was pushed off to the trade, agent and i hope i can continue to move forward with the organization in duration of the program to make the community more equal and homeless. so please don't cut off the community based program. thank you. thank you for your comments. next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is daniel ibarra and i live in district 11, in the balboa park neighborhood. i'm a city employee and representing myself to share the importance of the community ambassador program and testimonies. when i received a phone call from community members or merchants about de-escalation, checking on someone who was passed out or sleeping on the curbside outside their doorstep or business, or helping someone experiencing psychosis. it's because they believe in my skills and my skills and my team skills. they

know we are making a difference. the public understand my no non law enforcement safety presence that bridge the gap within the community, and we have never disappointed san franciscans. what i do makes them feel even safer. it's not a one time comment or compliment i received while walking in my orange jacket, hearing, thank you for talking to us from the unhoused communities after we engage with them. and thank you for saving lives from passersby, including paramedics. when they see us administering narcan and bringing someone back to life means a world to me and the team. time has expired. thank you. thank you for addressing this committee. next speaker. good afternoon. my name is tony zachary. i was born and raised in san francisco. i currently live and work in district five. being an ambassador has allowed me to contribute to positive changes in my community, contributing to changes in my contributing to the well-being of my community has given me a sense of purpose and fulfillment . i'm constantly reminded by members of my community that what i do is so important, even

if it's something as simple as helping an elderly person across the street or something lifesaving, such as reversing an overdose. the changes i help make within my community as an ambassador matter, and i think that this budget cut will not only hinder the progress we've made within our vulnerable communities, where we provide support and services to those in need. but this budget cut will also negatively impact the many san franciscans who also work as ambassadors. thank you and thank you much for your commentary. next speaker. hello, my name is george lucas and i also work at district five, i'm from twin peaks, i live there. and also we had a business on, richmond district on geary, but i had to sell because we didn't. for some reason, nobody listens to the community. it seems like everybody, you guys do what you want to do, and you don't listen to us, like. like like how many people say how beautiful? even tourists come here and say, i

came back to san francisco, and i look so much better. even the people and the and the and the unhoused people, we're seeing a big difference. less and less of them. it's working. it's working. and now to cut it, it's a shame. it's a shame. yeah. thank you, thank you guys. and thank you for your testimony. next speaker. hi. my name is leanne panky, i have been in san francisco for two years. i have i am currently unhoused. i'm living in one of the shelters, i have been employed with the community ambassadors. this is helping me, get on the right path to a better life. more productive life. and i feel more . i feel positive because everything i do every day, it helps me. it grows my confidence every day. if we were to cut this, you would be going to be backpeddling to what the problems are. homelessness. i see homeless every day. i'm happy that i'm un. i am happy

i'm in a safe place. but i think we need to keep doing, keep going forward instead of backwards. thank you. thank you much for your commentary. next speaker. good afternoon supervisors, my name is christopher. i'm a community ambassador working in district four, residing in district nine. i'm speaking solely on my own behalf through through cap. i've realized that i'm worth several fold than how i perceived myself initially, and that i was only a fraction of the person of who i can become. this line of work has been equally challenging, gratifying, and humbling. the type of impact that i can make is immeasurable, and the help i can provide comes in many forms, in ways i recall my teammates and i escorting a senior with memory loss, mobility issues from 25th of noriega back to her home in 20th and ortega safely. even though it took us past our working hours, can also recall

helping an unhoused individual experiencing mental health challenges. named ryan, who was at a low point in his life when we first encountered him, he persistently reached out to him and supported him throughout his ebbs and flows. one day, he reached a breaking point and i had to intervene. speakers, time has expired. but thank you, christopher, for addressing this committee. next speaker hi, my name is carol svoboda. thank you for this opportunity to speak. we're i work on the 300 block of ellis with the nonprofit. i'm a co-director of ywam and we benefit greatly from community ambassadors. it would be a devastating loss to have them taken off their program, defunded. they we run a food pantry. we've been running one for 14 years. we serve food to 270 seniors in the tenderloin and the community ambassadors are there every week to help us,

to help the seniors, to get on the street safely, and also for distribution of food and being there as a huge help for us. it would be devastating not only for the community ambassadors to lose their income, but for us to lose their services. i've been in the tenderloin, lived and worked for 17 years. i knew what it was like before the community ambassadors and after, and they brought a tremendous presence of safety as everyone has mentioned. and please do not cut the funding of cap program. and thank you, carol svoboda, next speaker. hi, supervisors. rich whipple with osseo, speaking on my own behalf, wanted to add some important clarifications to what's been shared today. both what we do as an ambassador program and who we are. our ambassadors are, to be clear, a safety program. this is evidenced in the thousands of safety escorts, hundreds of 901 calls, and dozens of narcan and overdose reversals that are done on a regular basis. the other

thing i wanted to flag is who this team is, to be clear, these are city workers. there are over 60 ambassadors, i think, previously was shared 30. but if you add the participants who are in jobs now, we're looking at a loss of 60 plus city employees who are all city residents, 100, 85% bipoc, 60% multilingual. and another language other than english and overwhelmingly directly impacted public benefits recipients experiencing homelessness and other issues. so i hope you've been listening closely to the words of the folks who do this every day. they love this city so deeply, and i'm really grateful for all of you and sharing your stories. and thank you, rich whipple, next speaker. hello, my name is jamie richardson, and i am a san francisco resident and i live in district eight. i'm also a city employee. i've worked for osseo for over nine years, but i'm here to speak today in my own capacity to support the restored funding of the community ambassadors program. i'm honored to get to work alongside these community ambassadors, and i'm humbled to call them not only my coworkers, but my friends. cap

is truly special. you will not you will not see osseo ambassadors posted up on a street corner or outside buildings, but you'll see them highly mobile. they're checking on merchants. they're administering narcan. they're supporting every single person they encounter. they don't just stand there. they support the community in so many ways, from food pantries and beyond, as rich mentioned, ambassadors are city employees. so that means they're trained with anti-harassment and discrimination. like all city employees, they take transgender 101 and 201 trainings. what other city ambassador program in the city really has those types of trainings, cutting cap completely out of the city's budget is cutting a major artery to the services that go directly to our most vulnerable residents. and so i urge all of you to remember today and don't cut cap. thank you. thank you. jamie richardson, next speaker, please, good afternoon, supervisors, my name is lydia sandoval. i'm the mission team leader of community ambassadors. i also lived in the mission neighborhood, and while i was

doing my job conducting outreach on the street, i came across these people who had just crossed the border, often without knowing anyone or speaking the language. my job as community ambassadors involves connecting people to resources during the outreach and neighborhood engagement. i didn't hesitate to help this family, providing immediate assistance to families stranded in the foreign land, one family recently helped, stuck in the mission with all shelters closed. my manager and i are paid my money and i pay off our packet to get them a hotel room until the shelters reopen, preventing them from being on the streets. this is just one of the testimonies. if i were allowed to speak to, the whole day would be enough to explain all the stories. eliminate this program. when we know only vulnerable families without support, speakers time has expired. but thank you to sandoval for addressing this committee. next, speaker. hello,

my name is maria bautista and i'm a first generation latina plus a san francisco native. that's growing up and currently still living in district five, specifically the tenderloin neighborhood. while living in the neighborhood, i've noticed that community ambassadors always work with compassion and dedication to what they do. mostly the unhoused. but apart from being a safety presence, they also offer information and service information that the city provides and other nonprofit organizations and different languages that help out the community, mostly the tenderloin community. it would be a shame if the cap program were to be cut, because all those communities that speak a different language wouldn't be able to receive the information that they do now. thank you. thank you, maria bautista. next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors and valeria suarez. and i'm a city employee running the dream s.f. fellowship, a city run fellowship for migrant

youth. today, however, i'm here speaking for myself and my experience as a migrant navigating san francisco and the crucial role that community ambassadors have played in this experience, i can only echo the powerful statements you've heard from our ambassadors today. ambassadors are not only saving lives on the daily, but providing and connecting people to necessary resources to in their home languages. at the end of the workday, the ambassadors retell stories of reviving people in the streets while the rest of us might have just spent that day sending some emails, the city is asked to prioritize. safety must mean safety for all community members. as a migrant, undocumented community leader who works with a network of nearly 200 community members, i can confidently say no one makes us feel safer in this city than the community ambassadors. please support the full restoration of funding for the for the community ambassadors program. thank you and thank you for addressing this committee. next speaker. good afternoon, chair chan and supervisors, my name is chima hernandez gil and i'm here on behalf of seiu local

1021 and our 60 000 members to speak in support of the community ambassador program and the workers right community collaborative, both truly exceptional programs that deserve public investment and support. we urge you to work with the mayor's office to make both programs whole and ideally, find a way to expand them so they so that our impacted members can continue keeping san francisco and its and its diverse community safe. thank you. and thank you. kim hernandez gil, next speaker hi, chair chan and members of the budget and appropriations committee. i am anaya, the coordinator of the people's budget coalition. i'm here today to spotlight some of our demands to backfill these cuts through pulling more from the reserves, during an economic crisis, it's prudent to invest in our communities, not to increase the crisis ongoing by making cuts to them. we also want to point out that the general fund is increasing in this year, and if

the general fund is increasing, how are community taking cuts, it's because we are being cut. 1 to 1 so that there can be increases in law enforcement, we urge a more holistic view of public safety. how can we say that we're investing in public safety if we only invest in cops and in law enforcement, and not in violence intervention programs, children's services and programs to keep us housed and fed in san francisco. thank you. tanya and before i call the speaker, this is last call for those who wish to address this committee regarding, the budget for today, otherwise, we'll take this last speaker. next speaker. good afternoon. my name is vincent, i am the chinatown team lead district three, team lead for community ambassadors. i'm solely representing myself. i started off as jobs now with the intention to serve the community

. and i rose up to being a team lead. learning on the way, learning, skill building and learning leadership skills. well, during the first few months when i was working in mid market, one thing that was really impactful was was just connecting with the community. and there was an individual named charlie, and he was really having a bad week, and we prevented him from inliving himself. and we don't just have a drug problem, we have a human connection problem. thank you. and thank you, vincent. and with that, madam chair, that completes our q thank you. seeing no more public comment, public comment is now closed. thank you, public comment is now closed for the item today, and, mr. clerk, do we have any item before us today, madam chair, we do need to dispose of the, of

the hearings and the ordinances. the 6 to 8. yes. and then so far and hurt, no. we continue. yes okay. okay. and on that motion by chair chan, seconded by member walton, that the hearing and item six and the ordinances as item seven and eight be continued to the june 13th meeting of this committee, which is tomorrow. vice chair, mandelman mandelman i member melgar. melgar i member. walton a walton i member. dorsey. dorsey i chair. chan i chan i we have five ayes. the motion passes. so, i assume we don't have any other business, that concludes our business, madam chair. thank you. the meeting. today's meeting is adjourned.

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

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

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

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>> i think a lot of times we get in adult lives we are afraid to follow our passions and think life can't be that easy. but i truly do believe i followed my heart this time in my journal in city government i did not know that is where my passion lied. i kept following it and ltd. to great opportunity to serve the city.

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san francisco whether they are looking to stfrt a new business or expand or perhaps they are feeling with issues. our office is here as a point of information for anyone with a business that has 100 or nower employees. >> i was growing up i had many ideas of when i wanted to do. i wanted to being an olympic swimmer. and i wanted to men be an architect, you name it i had many ideas for what i wanted do when i grew up. and i never anticipated entering in politics. this opportunity came along wh started working for former supervisor carmen chu and she became the district 4 sunset district supervisor. that was my firstent row in politics and government in a

different level. and so when i was finishing up my time working for legislative aid i thought, i will go off and do something else. may be explore opportunity outside of city government what was then approached by this opportunity to also serve as a district 4 supervisor. if not the traditional route that many people think of when you enter in politics. a lot know that is manage than i want to do and run for office. that was not part of my culture and upbringing with manage my parents were wondering why i wanted to go in that role this legislation and important because so many women when have it return to work after having a child feel embarrassed or don't feel comfortable asking their supervisor for will any lactation accommodations. i saw it as an opportunity you could use the position where you

have tools creating legislation and pass laws and where people listen to to you help the community and pass cause catharsis important to the city and individuals. my family immigrated to the united states from taiwan. and they came here in pronl probably late 20's almost 30. and so, they came also in the knowing english limp barely read or write but had to quickly understand english to i can't haveigate services and find a job in america. i grew up in the san francisco sunset district i spent most of my childed hoo up until i went off to college. so when i started working in city government, i think i had mixed reactions about my involvement working government because for some of our parents generation, there is i bit of distrust in government. i think there are questions

about why i was entering in this field of work. i think you know when i went in city government i thought about my parents like so many other who is have to navigate city services and resources english first language and help the individuals both navigate, intercept that is on an application approximate signage. it is fulfilling to mow to help people like my parent and feel like government is there to support them and not to harm them. my parents are happy that i retired early from politics and being a district 4 supervisor i could have continued on for a couple more years approximate decided to leave early. i think that over all they were able to see some of my work appear in the chinese newspaper. through that they were able to see i was able to help communities in a tangible way. >> the member of the board of

supervisors. >> transportation authority. for the city and county of san francisco. congratulations. >> i think about one importance when i was worn in as district 4 supervisor. years ago, and someone actually came up to me during the swear nothing ceremony and said, wow, i'm traveling here from canada, and i just i could not believe i saw an asian female worn in in this role a leadership role this meant so much that someone would say that and felt they were inspired by the scene. so -- i hope that as more people see people that look like them and more women coming in positions of leadership than i feel they can doing the same. person this inpyred me is carmen chu who is our city add administrator but also was district 4 supervisor when i

worked with her as a legislative aid. at this point, i too, was skeptical of going in politics. i saw someone who had herself never seen herself in politics. got thrown into it and put her heart and soul and dedication to serve people. and it gave me the confidence to pursue that same job and i honestly would not have either chosen or accepted or considered serving on the board of supervisors were not for carmen. >> if you want to make your business accessible. >> in my role in city government where i have seen the most challenge is people who don't know you and you are here to serve and help them that they classify you as our city government and here to hurt you. so, people will talk to you and -- and just you know treat you disrespectfully. and sometimes i noticed that they might do more to me as a

female compared to my male colleagues. but you know i try to be empathetic. one of the most significant barriers to female empowerment we feel like we have to be 100% meeting all of the qualifications before we think that we are qualified to do a job. if we look at a job description or an opportunity to come your way well is self doubt about whether you can fulfill the obligations of that role. i think that the confidence is huge and sometimes i think we make up for it by trying to gain more experience. more and more and more in whatever we can put under our belts we'll feel better. that may not be the case. we might be qualified with when we have already accomplished.

i started rock climbing indoors a couple years ago as an activity to try to spends time with my husband and also to try something new and i finds that rock climbing there are so many parallels to life. you know when i'm on the wall i'm concentrating and trying to make it to the next piece without falling. there are daying you think i'm not making progress. you come back and wow, i hit another level. and so i feel like in our daily lives and w we think we are not making enough of i change in the city. and sometimes we have to take out time to reflect every day as long as you try and give it your all and you look back you will have made a significant contribution there is no limit to where you go in terms of rock climbing. i want to reminds myself of that in terms of daily life.

>> follow what it is you are interested in, what makes you feel excited about wake up every day. you never know and be open to all the possibilities and opportunity. [music] you're watching san francisco rising with chris manors. today's special guest is jeff tumlin. >> hi, i'm chris manors and you're watching san francisco rising. the show on starting, rebuilding, and reimagining our city. our guest is jeff tumlin and he's with us to talk about our transportation recovery plan and some exciting projects across the city.

mr. tumlin welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> i know the pandemic was particularly challenging for the m.t.a. having to balance between keeping central transportation routes open, but things have improved. how are we doing with our transportation recovery plan? >> so we just got good news this week. we're getting an extra $115 million from the american rescue plan and this is basically the exact amount of money we finally needed in order to close the gap between now and november of 2024 when we'll have to find some additional revenue sources in order to sustain the agency. in the meantime, i finally have the confidence to be able to rapidly hire, to restore services and to make sure muni is there for san francisco's larger economic recovery

because downtown san francisco doesn't work without muni. >> quite right. i guess the other impact of the pandemic was that some projects like the valencia bike improvements had to be put on hold. are we starting to gear up on those again? >> yes, so it's an interesting case study. of right before covid hit, we were about ready to invest in quick build bike lanes. arguably the most important bike order in san francisco. that got stopped with lockdown and then as you'll recall, during covid, we invented all kinds of other new programs like shared spaces in order to support our small businesses as well as sunday street light events for neighborhood commercial streets where streets were closed off to cars and turned over to commercial activity. those successes now that they've been made permanent actually interrupt the draft design we had put together. so we've gone back to the

drawing board and we are looking forward to having some additional community conversations about other design ideas for valencia.e coa quick build project on this calendar year. >> that's such good news. valencia is a really great street for biking. so there are two huge and exciting projects that are about to be or have just been completed. let's talk about the bus rapid transit project on van ness avenue. how extensive have the improvements been? >> what's called the van ness transit rapid project is in fact more about complete reconstruction of the street and most importantly, the 100-year-old utilities underneath the street. so all of the water, sewer, telecommunications, gas lines under the street were basically rebuilt from market street all the way to lumbard. the part on the surface which provides dedicated bus lanes

for golden gate transit and muni, that was relatively straight forward and we're so excited we're going to start revenue service for muni on april 1st. >> that's fantastic. i understand there were some sidewalk improvements too. >> there were sidewalk improvements. we planted 374 trees. there is new storm water treatment including infiltration in the sidewalk, there's a bunch of art. there's all kinds of things. we put in new street lights for the entire corridor. >> finally, the other big news is about the central subway. can you briefly describe the project and give us an update. >> yes, so the central t-line project, another stop at union square that connects directly into powell station and a final

stop in the heart of chinatown at stockton and washington. that project has also run into challenges. it's 120' under muni, under bart, 120' down and out under chinatown in some unexpectedly challenging soils. but that project is nearly complete. it's at about 98% completion right now which means we're testing trains, we're testing the elevators and escalators and the final electronics and we're still on track to open that in october presuming all of the testing continues to go well. so fingers crossed on in a one. we're really looking forward to allowing people to have a subway ride from the heart of chinatown all the way to the convention center to the caltrans station and all the way down to bayview and

visitation valley. >> it's great to see all these projects coming to completion. we're all grateful for your team's hard work and i really appreciate you coming on the show, mr. tumlin. thank you for the time you've given us today. >> my pleasure. thanks for having me. >> and that's it for this episode. for sfgov tv i'm chris manors. thanks for watching. >> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an

earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you

do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it

happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground swallowing people into the ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the tv shows. >> the earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. >> it's not going anywhere. we

are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't tough. >> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably

have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future? >> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there

anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, it's not a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. >> you want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter scale? >> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in

for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the richter scale was early technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ? >> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally

independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross that line. it's much more damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for

>> i don't think you need to be an expert to look around and see the increasing frequency of fires throughout california. they are continuing at an ever-increasing rate every summer, and as we all know, the drought continues and huge shortages of water right now. i don't think you have to be an

expert to see the impact. when people create greenhouse gases, we are doing so by different activities like burning fossil fuels and letting off carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and we also do this with food waste. when we waste solid food and leave it in the landfill, it puts methane gas into the atmosphere and that accelerates the rate at which we are warming our planet and makes all the effects of climate change worse. the good news is there are a lot of things that you can be doing, particularly composting and the added benefit is when the compost is actually applied to the soil, it has the ability to reverse climate change by pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil and the t radios. and there is huge amount of science that is breaking right now around that.

>> in the early 90s, san francisco hired some engineers to analyze the material san francisco was sending to landfill. they did a waste characterization study, and that showed that most of the material san francisco was sending to landfill could be composted. it was things like food scraps, coffee grounds and egg shells and sticks and leaves from gardening. together re-ecology in san francisco started this curbside composting program and we were the first city in the country to collect food scraps separately from other trash and turn them into compost. it turns out it was one of the best things we ever did. it kept 2.5 million tons of material out of the landfill, produced a beautiful nutrient rich compost that has gone on to hundreds of farms, orchards and vineyards. so in that way you can manage your food scraps and produce far less methane. that is part of the solution. that gives people hope that

we're doing something to slow down climate change. >> i have been into organic farming my whole life. when we started planting trees, it was natural to have compost from re-ecology. compost is how i work and the soil biology or the microbes feed the plant and our job as regenerative farmers is to feed the microbes with compost and they will feed the plant. it is very much like in business where you say take care of your employees and your employees will take carolinas of your customers. the same thing. take care of the soil microbes and soil life and that will feed and take care of the plants. >> they love compost because it is a nutrient rich soil amendment. it is food for the soil. that is photosynthesis. pulling carbon from the atmosphere. pushing it back into the soil where it belongs. and the roots exude carbon into

the soil. you are helping turn a farm into a carbon sink. it is an international model. delegations from 135 countries have come to study this program. and it actually helped inspire a new law in california, senate bill 1383. which requires cities in california to reduce the amount of compostable materials they send to landfills by 75% by 2025. and san francisco helped inspire this and this is a nation-leading policy. >> because we have such an immature relationship with nature and the natural cycles and the carbon cycles, government does have to step in and protect the commons, which is soil, ocean, foryes, sir, and so forth. -- forest, and so fors. we know that our largest corporations are a significant percentage of carbon emission, and that the corporate community has significant role to play in reducing carbon emissions.

unfortunately, we have no idea and no requirement that they disclose anything about the carbon footprint, the core operation and sp360 stands for the basic notion that large corporations should be transparent about the carbon footprint. it makes all the sense in the world and very common sense but is controversial. any time you are proposing a policy that is going to make real change and that will change behavior because we know that when corporations have to disclose and be transparent and have that kind of accountability, there is going to be opposition. >> we have to provide technical assistance to comply with the state legislation sb1383 which requires them to have a food donation program. we keep the edible food local. and we are not composting it because we don't want to compost edible food. we want that food to get eaten within san francisco and feed

folks in need. it is very unique in san francisco we have such a broad and expansive education program for the city. but also that we have partners in government and nonprofit that are dedicated to this work. at san francisco unified school district, we have a sustainability office and educators throughout the science department that are building it into the curriculum. making it easy for teachers to teach about this. we work together to build a pipeline for students so that when they are really young in pre-k, they are just learning about the awe and wonder and beauty of nature and they are connecting to animals and things they would naturally find love and affinity towards. as they get older, concepts that keep them engaged like society and people and economics. >> california is experiencing many years of drought.

dry periods. that is really hard on farms and is really challenging. compost helps farms get through these difficult times. how is that? compost is a natural sponge that attracts and retains water. and so when we put compost around the roots of plants, it holds any moisture there from rainfall or irrigation. it helps farms make that corner and that helps them grow for food. you can grow 30% more food in times of drought in you farm naturally with compost. farms and cities in california are very hip now to this fact that creating compost, providing compost to farms helps communities survive and get through those dry periods. >> here is the thing. soil health, climate health, human health, one conversation. if we grow our food differently, we can capture all that excess carbon in the atmosphere and store it in unlimited quantities

in the soil, that will create nutrient dense foods that will take care of most of our civilized diseases. so it's one conversation. people have to understand that they are nature. they can't separate. we started prowling the high plains in the 1870s and by the 1930s, 60 year, we turned it into a dust bowl. that is what ignorance looks like when you don't pay attention to nature. nature bats last. so people have to wake up. wake up. compost. >> it is really easy to get frustrated because we have this belief that you have to be completely sustainable 24/7 in all aspects of your life. it is not about being perfect. it is about making a change here, a change there in your life. maybe saying, you know what? i don't have to drive to that particular place today. today i am going to take the bus or i'm going to walk. it is about having us is stainable in mind.

that is -- it is about having sustainability in mind. that is how we move the dial. you don't have to be perfect all the time. >> san francisco has been and will continue to be one of the greener cities because there are communities who care about protecting a special ecosystem and habitat. thinking about the history of the ohlone and the native and indigenous people who are stewards of this land from that history to now with the ambitious climate action plan we just passed and the goals we have, i think we have a dedicated group of people who see the importance of this place. and who put effort into building an infrastructure that actually makes it possible. >> we have a long history starting with the gold rush and the anti-war activism and that is also part of the environmental movement in the 60s and 70s. and of course, earth day in 1970 which is huge. and i feel very privileged to work for the city because we are on such a forefront of

environmental issues, and we get calls from all over the world really to get information. how do cities create waste programs like they do in san francisco. we are looking into the few which you are and we want innovation. we want solutions.