year. add the blue shield of california bsc medicare advantage prescription drug,

passive ppo plan for medicare members, and offer the existing blue shield of california hmo access plus and trio and ppo plans to the non-medicare split family covered lives in families with at least one covered map. passive ppo plan covered life with the 2025 plan year rate cards contained in the material and discontinue the united health care mapd passive ppo plan uhc non medicare select ppo plan, uhc, medicare doctors ppo plan and uhc non-medicare ppo plan. this is an action item and will be presented by abby sfs, executive director, good morning commissioners and members of the public, we have done extensive presentations on the deck that is in the materials that were posted for you today, my clerk, our chief actuary from aon, and michael visconti, our contracts manager, are both here to answer

any questions that you might have today. but we did not feel it was good use of our time to represent all of those details. thank you. executive director yan. colleagues, do we have any further questions for either mike or michael? no, if not, then i'll entertain a motion on this item. excuse me, chair. how can i ask, can we get numbers on those individuals that how many of our members will be impacted, when we if we discontinue to the mapd pass ppo plan, the non-medical care we get numbers on that. is it possible we do that now? and it hasn't been. sure, executive director yet. do you have the answer? there's about 17,000 members in the uhc plan to date as as you're aware, we produce a very detailed demographic report that's posted

on our website. for more detail. thank you. good morning. good morning, mike clark chief actuary. just to add to that, there's about a thousand covered lives in the non medicare split family plans. so about 17,000 is executive director yan said. and who are medicare plus 1000 additional non medicare covered lives will be transitioning from united health care to blue shield. thank you very much. any other questions before we take a motion. all right. so i, i move to accept the staff request for proposal for the medicare plan medicare advantage prescription drug, passive ppo for the 2025 plan year. and i don't know if it's necessary for me to read all of it. so but that's the motion i write up for item number three. second, it's been

properly moved and seconded. we'll open it up for public comment with in person public comment first, and then to our online public comment. and holly will read the instructions. public comment is now open, in person. public comment will be first and then virtual public comment for anyone waiting in person. you're welcome to approach the podium. now. each speaker will be allowed three minutes to comment in length unless the board vice president deems new public comment time limits. during the meeting, all public comments are to be made concerning the agenda item that has been presented. a caller may ask questions of the policy body, but there's no obligation to answer and engage in dialog with the caller. the health service board will hear up to 30 minutes of remote public comment total for each agenda item. remote public comment from people who have received an accommodation due to a disability will not count toward the 30 minute limit. members of the public attending the meeting via phone can dial in by calling (415) 655-0001, and to access

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for those who submitted written public comment, that is your opportunity to address the board and will not have the space today to do so in person. we thank you to sfgovtv and media services for sharing the meeting with the public. as chair, howe announced, we will go with the one minute mark and anyone who is waiting can form a line and approach after each. all right, hang on one second. let's get your time. tell me when you're ready. ready? okay. this motion was voted down on june 7th by a full board. and i'm looking at the governance policies in terms of reference, director yant, on page 25, number 4425, number 45, a motion to reconsider a board action can only be proposed by a board member who voted with the prevailing side. so who voted with the prevailing? who? who made the motion just now? okay, you can't vote. you can't make a

motion on this according to these governance policies in terms of reference. so that's not legitimate. okay. and another reason here that i want to bring up is the ratings star performance according to your, your market for medicare advantage time is expired. the star rating of 4.0 or higher and your time is expired. it only has a 3.5 out of 4.5. thank you for your comments. one minute everyone. order, please. i announced earlier that public comment will be limited to one minute, so that we can have have the opportunity to hear from

everyone who is present here today, as well as those who are waiting patiently online. and as a reminder, there will be a soft ding that will give you the 32nd reminder and then a final ding for your time is expired. good morning. my name is adam wood. i'm the secretary of the firefighters union, local 798. i'm also vice president of our san francisco firefighters cancer prevention foundation, and i urge you to reaffirm your june 7th decision to reject the staff recommendation. i understand the challenge you face and the responsibility you have to be fiscally responsible in the current world of health care spiraling costs. but there's also an obligation to the quality of care for the members. and if this cost becomes the sole factor for a decision as it appears it was in this staff recommendation, we risk a hasty race to the bottom. i believe you made the right decision on june 7th. i would

urge you to make the same decision today on behalf of all the members who benefit from the current plans provided by the board. thank you. thank you for your comments. good morning. board. my name is chad hautala. i'm a retired firefighter, a medicare recipient, and a member of the uhc health plan. i'm here to voice my concern and that of virtually everybody in this room who is a retiree to the actions that have culminated in today's meeting. june 7th was a meeting at which the full board, then constituted, voted to reject the blue shield proposal and to affirm uhc. the letter, which i believe you all received, dated june 15th from former chief joseph fusaro, should be in the record. it addresses the scoring system regarding the difference

between uhc at 69.52 points, compared to 51 points for blue shield of california. it also refers to the item addressed by the first speaker that this this board has never accepted plan, and your time has expired before for, blue shield. as a ratings below for uhc has a rating above four, and we'd like to we'd like to your comment. thank you for your the comments end at one minute, and we'd like to move on to our next comment to give time for everyone today, everyone gets one time period for public comment. there is no seating time for public comment. i urge this board to reject the political influences which have obviously tainted. thank you, thank you. speaker. following the june 7th meeting as well, the june 14th meeting notice things are a travesty in the panoply of government actions in

san francisco. we all sit here. you should all be calling upon the mayor to reinstate doctor follansbee, who asked very strong questions which were not answered by the staff. thank you. speaker. thank you. thank you. speaker. we'd like to invite the next caller and the next speaker members sitting here today. time has expired, mr. chairman, who is excused, that should be reaffirmed. that's good governance. this is a sham. your one minute begins now. okay members of the board on june 7th, 2020 for the health service board voted to keep united health care rather than switch to blue shield of california. on june 13th, the health care board met and approved the rates and contributions of the united

health care. could you speak into the microphone, please, plan approved by the board on june 7th. we were stunned to find out that the items did not pass. united health care rated higher than blue shield of california in all categories. related to quantity and service and care, which is extremely important to us at this special meeting of the health service board today. do not overturn your previous vote to retain united health care as the provider of insurance for retirees on medicare, please do not make cost your only concern when you cast your vote. we want united health care. thank you for your comments. your time is expired and we'll invite the next comment. and hang. your

time has begun. good morning board. sfmta's employees and all a lot of other people i know is his microphone on. can't hear you. peter, can you hear me now? so i'll reset the time. thank you. if you could not hear, the mic was not on. thank you. it is now. okay. thank you. my name is peter tan and i'm a retired sfmta employee. and along with a lot of people i know, i've been very satisfied with united health care, but not with blue shield in the past. and urged the board to reaffirm its june 7th decision. and i think quality we should be more important than cost. cost should be considered, but quality needs to be considered and i 30s remaining 30s and i, i would, personally be happy to pay somewhat of a more premium for a

better plan like united health care and a specific concern. it says that the two former formularies of the two plans are closely aligned, but that doesn't mean they're the same. i'm taking a anti-cancer drug that costs almost $190,000 a year. that, fortunately, is covered by insurance, and i'm really worried if blue shield doesn't cover this. thank thank you for your comments. oh, hang on one second time, begins herbert weiner. protect our benefits now with the sun replacement doctor follansbee, i'm wondering if the replacement has a full grasp of the issues at hand in such a short period of time, and i'm wondering if she should recuse herself now with the budget prediction for

next year. it's only a prediction now if the economy booms next year and we're stuck with an inferior work plan as blue shield will be left to hang out and dry. so i encourage you to stand by the june seventh decision. thank you. thank you for your comments. your time has begun. thank you. commissioners my name is john ski tosenovsky and i'm with the retired employees of the city and county of san francisco, i'm falling apart. i'm almost 75 years old. i have multiple medical conditions going on. i'm looking forward to getting knee replacements before too long. i've already got them lined up with united health care, etc. and i'm scared of blue shield from all the things i've heard

about it. with the rejection and their reviews, united health care i haven't had any problem with my wife, hasn't had any problem with and we're falling apart. we need good medical care in united health care, where we see it. thank you. thank you for your comments, everyone, i know that you feel very passionately about this, but we ask that you refrain from applauding. and also i do want to reaffirm the one minute time limit for public comment, and we will be holding to that. and so in the event that you go past your one minute comment, you may be escorted off the podium. thank you. order thank you. we're ready for our next public comment. your time has begun. my name is liana

dewitt. i'm a retired san francisco police sergeant. well, i don't understand why this is even here today. i agree with commissioner breslin. there was some improper actions taken. this was voted on at your previous meeting. and today i'm hearing the same arguments. and i wasn't at the other meetings, but i watched all of them. this is identical. you guys are doing a de facto reconsideration, which by the way, can't be done at a later meeting, had to be done at the same meeting. so what's happening here is a de facto rescission, which is illegal. and this is going to subject all of you open to legal arguments, which i think is going to happen. and i think you should really hold stop this right now and do the proper procedural motions in order to do this. and it's not at this meeting. thank you. thank you for your comments. your time has begun. phyllis harding, retired

health department, i don't know why you are trying to torture retired employees negotiating the health care system. even in this city, is very difficult. try having to go back and reaffirm providers who may or may not take blue shield is going to be a difficult process and time consuming and difficult for all of us. i just got through doing this for united health care because my internist retired. so quit torturing us. give us united health care. thank you for your comments. your time is begun. hi. good morning. my name is floyd rollins. i'm president of the san francisco firefighters local 798. this is not a decision about money. this is a decision about people who have honorably served the city and county of san francisco in their positions. they are comfortable. they have conditions that they are dealing with and fighting

with currently. and to pull the rug out from under them now, for now is a disgrace to the service that they have given to the city. they say that they we say that we protect our employees. we say that we serve honorably, but at the very same time, to pull this action in reverse of what was already taking place in a democratic society. that's what we base ourselves on. that's what we say we are doing. but at the very same time, this particular action is unfair to people who have served honorably and people who may be fighting medical conditions. us give them what they are asking for and if not, then give them the opportunity to explain themselves. that's what they deserve and that's what they should be do. thank you. thank you for your comments. time has begun. good morning commissioners, i'm larry p borsetti. i am the secretary of the san francisco veteran police officers association and the chief financial officer of

protect our benefits. the members have asked me to describe to you their horror at being given what they believe through experience, my own included, and inferior health care system for only a fraction of what the city's budget for the next two years will be, is the difference between the two plans. why would you do this? why would you cause all of these people who served this city faithfully for all the time they did and did the things they did, why would you subject subject them to the to the pain, the suffering of having to change from a plan they trust to a plan they do not trust, and for good reason. please vote no on this item. thank you. thank you for your comments. you know my name is rena ravignani. i'm a retired police sergeant and a retired police attorney. you should have a motion to adjourn this meeting because it's illegal. you never did a motion for rescission, and

you needed two people that voted for defeating that motion or affirming that motion to have been the ones that requested another rescission. so it's illegal. thank you. thank you for your comments. commissioners dennis krueger, retired firefighters and spouses. i feel like i'm watching the movie groundhog day, i'm going to repeat something, doctor mosby said. how can you sit there and say, you're going to give us the same exact plan, but for 22,000, $22 million a year less? that's really, when you think about it, almost impossible to do. as i said last time, blue shield will be back next year asking for adjustments to whatever they bid. they've done it in the

past, they'll do it in the future and they also hide fees, which this board has found in the past. so i ask you to reject this and stay with united health care. thank you for your comments. my name is donna hayes. i was a counselor at city college of san francisco for 30 years. i have been involved with both blue shield and for, with united health care. and i have found united health care to be a much superior, health care system, i am very upset and concerned as everybody else has said here, and i believe that you should stay with united health care because that is what we deserve. thank you. thank you for your comments.

your time begins now. fred sanchez, president. and protect our benefits. member of our ccsf. member of kara, given one minute is, like, impossible, i mean, what the doctor did was show integrity. i mean, i'm having a hard time. i know this is an illegal meeting. we've talked to council. this will not end today for sure, it will cost the city far more in legal costs. i just didn't think this would happen in america. maybe some other country. never. this is a sham. you guys all should be embarrassed. thank you for your comments.

good morning. i'm pat martinez, retired san francisco firefighter, just in case the board members don't know, a lot of the retirees who work for the city and county of san francisco have ongoing medical problems that resulted from their employment with the city and county of san francisco. and if the city and county of san francisco won't stand by its employees to help them, even when they're done with the job, then how can we trust anybody to work that wants to work for san francisco to be supported by the san francisco government? and that's something that you should think about. have a conscience. thank you. thank you for your comments. my name is romelia scott. i'm a retired san francisco firefighter native and a resident of san francisco. currently what is going on here

right now? seems very sneaky and unethical, do not balance the budget on the backs of the retired members of the san francisco city. it's wrong. and someday you all may be in this position that we are in right now, and it will not feel good for you. thank you for your comments. we're still within the in-person public comment time period. if anyone else would like to approach the podium. if not, we'll we will move to our remote public comment, which is limited for at 30 minutes. so as of now, we have 35 members

in the public comment. two people have raised their hand. so i'll begin with unmuting the first caller, and your one minute will begin on. welcome, caller. yes. my name is maureen noonan, a recent retiree in the city college of san francisco's retired faculty registered nursing program. logging in to voice my strong objection to dropping united health care in favor of blue shield. in my experience, blue shield has proved significantly inferior. i've been impacted by breaks of continuity, continuity of care. i've had care at cpmc terminated because negotiations were not moving forward. i've had, the fear of losing access to ucsf due to failed planning in addition to the inferior coverage, we would not need to be. we don't want to be faced

with this stress. i have an older adult relative that had a serious, complicated wound being treated at a local hospital. the family was advised to plan for hospice. the family chose to take this relative to ucsf, where she received life saving surgery and is now healing. if she did not have that choice, she would have died. this is a possibility with blue shield. i urge you to vote no to terminate united health care services. thank you for your comments. we'll move to our next caller. welcome, caller. caller, you've been unmuted. am i you're i have been unmuted. yes. is it my time to speak? yes. hello, commissioners, this is lois scott, vice president of protect our benefits. please consider the voices of retiring members

and your own board's policy on not selecting plans with a cms center for medicare services rating below for. this is an industry standard, and any plan with a rating below four is considered sub-par by your own board. i see the action you took december 9th, 2021. the evaluation reports and process on the two bids you recently received for mapd ppo plans surely clearly show that blue shield of california received a 3.5 rating on quality of service , in spite of promised lower costs. blue shield of california has a deservedly poor reputation and quality of service. we have 35 callers in the public comment queue. one more person has raised their hand. i'll unmute the next caller. welcome, caller

. caller you've been unmuted. that caller has lowered their hand. i'll give five more seconds for any of those people in the queue. as of now, 35 people. we've had one more person raise their hand. i'll unmute the next caller. welcome, caller. your time is begun. good morning. this is commissioner kremen. i'm very disappointed. i was unable to make this special meeting call today for a previous engagement. engagement that i made months ago to be out of town, i've been watching it on tv and listening to all the comments, and i've not heard anything that would change my mind from my vote that i did

last time of a nay for this, i hope i will get a chance to, to hear everybody's comments again live, soon. 30s remaining. thank you for your comments. i'll put you back on mute. we have 36 people in our queue as of now. we have one more person that's raised their hand. i'll unmute the next caller. caller, your time has begun. yes. hi, i worked at worked for city and county since i was 22 years old. even way back then, i knew how important insurance was. when you retired. it was one of the things that kept me for working there for 40 years. and now i'm so disappointed that i finally get my health insurance after retirement and it's going to be going downhill. i do not like blue cross. i am happy with, a united health care and my

husband is happy with united health care, and i implore you to not go with blue shield, blue cross, you should check the open forum, that was in the chronicle about this man that kept getting everything denied and he, you know, had stage four cancer. it's pretty disgusting. that's all i have to say. thank you. thank you. caller placing you back on mute. we have 35 callers in the queue. i'll give five more seconds for anyone who may want to raise their hand by pressing star three. we have one caller who's joined the queue. i'll unmute the next caller. caller, your time has begun. your time is begun. hello? hello my name is carol fregly and i am calling you as a member of the

retirees group from city college of san francisco. i find this entire process to be very flawed. why would you not put this up to us as a vote and allow us the option of being able to add to our monthly payments so that we can keep what we have? thank you, thank you caller i'll place you on mute for any of those callers in the queue. we have 35 callers. you can press star three to be added to the public comment queue to speak. i'll wait five more seconds for anyone to raise their hand. i'll unmute the next caller. welcome, caller. hello? can you hear me? yes. your time has begun. okay, my name is rita varner. i also work for san francisco general and, also work

in san francisco. i'm currently getting treatment for cancer at ucsf. i am not clear whether blue shield will cover my care and take all my health care providers. it's really important to me to have continuing of care. and we voted on this. you voted on this last week and i really don't understand why you are revoting just to cut costs. we are your retirees. we worked for the city and county of san francisco and we deserve better care through united health care. thank you, thank you caller placing you back on mute. we have 35 callers on the line. if anyone would like to join the public comment queue to speak, please raise start press star three. we have three colors that have their hands raised, two of

which have already spoken. there's one caller. that may be trying to get through. i'll give five more seconds to press star three. with that, this is the last reminder for anyone who would like to call in press star three who's waiting in the public comment queue. we have one person that's joined the public comment queue. i'll mute the caller now. welcome, caller. hi, this is cynthia serwetnyk, and i just want to say that it's obvious that if you had both blue shield and united health care as options, that blue shield would probably not get enough people opting in for them to, participate. so this is

really shoving this down the throats of every retiree who served the city and county of san francisco. thank you. thank you for your comments. i'll place you back on mute. this is a reminder to all callers on the line. there are 34 people in our public comment queue. press star three to be added to the public comment queue to speak. there are no more callers with raised hands. i'll check one more time. five more seconds for anyone to raise their hand. there are no more callers in the public comment queue at this time in our virtual public comment. with that, i'll make a

note for our written public comment. the board received over 400 emails by the deadline last night, three of which were in favor of the sf. ihss recommendation. the remaining were opposing and with that public comment is now closed. thank you. and thank you everybody who spoke during public comment, so i do want to reiterate that we find ourselves here today in this meeting because both the recommendation for the blue shield ppo plan for our retiree, for our medicare retirees, and the continued content continuing the uhc, mapd, ppo plan, they were both voted down. and so that left us in a position of having no medicare ppo plan for our retirees. and so that is why we find ourselves here today to re agendize both items. so okay. nevertheless yes. and so we are

here too. and so. order please. and she is. as to the concerns as raised about the prevailing party being able to reopen or re reopen an item for discussion, my understanding is that that may not, whether that applies to the situation, it is i, i don't have an opinion about that, but the but the prevailing but the prevailing party is associated with the position, not the incumbent. and so we've had turnover on this board, which provides the opportunity to the new incumbent of that position to be able to participate. so i'd like to make a comment. so i

believe as the replacement, for the sake of clarity, i'm in the position that had oops, sorry, that had been the previous prevailing party that had voted against blue shield. so in this role, i move that we consider blue shield ma plan as described previously. your offer. you're not the voter. doctor follansbee made a vote and you are not him. you can't do that. you are not him. all right, so thank you. so board, do we have any comments or questions before we take a vote? supervisor dorsey, you made a comment at the last meeting that this board would not use the health care system for retirees to balance the budget. sure. i'm happy to conscience. oh, i will, i absolutely have a role to play and a duty a fiduciary duty of prudence and care to the trust

and it is in good conscience, in good conscience. i am going to vote to support the staff recommendation. as i expressed today and as i expressed last week, we went through a competitive bidding process that was exhaustive and meticulous. i feel strongly as i just said, that this is my fiduciary duty to the trust, to honor the integrity of a process that was careful and thoughtful and meticulous ticketless. we had a lengthy process that presented on that that process, i believe that presentation was numbered into the 80, pages i read it through. i was confident that this was something that was that was a thorough process. yes, i would have needed to see evidence that it was not i would needed to have seen evidence that there was going to be harms to the actual delivery of care, to have reached a different

conclusion than i did as a member of the board of supervisors. i would also just say that this is this is a budget season where we are going to be saying to a lot of, organizations and nonprofits that that we're not, that we are going to have to, hurt people's the things that they're asking for. this is not one of those. i do not believe that this is something that is going to hurt in any way, the care of the people who are being served by it, and the other the other point that i, the other point that i would make is that right now in the health care system, we have a situation where that is where most of the, the, the inflationary costs are going through the roof. the way that we can manage that is through a competitive bidding process. it would be unthinkable if we were to go through the competitive bidding process as exhaustive and as meticulous as we did with the integrity that it observed. and then at the end of that, to

decide that we are not going to take the best bid. that is not how competitive bidding works. that is why i moved for it. and i understand this is the part of my job is to part of my job involves, you know, having people who aren't happy with where i come down. but i am confident that i am and i stand by my conscience in supporting the staff recommendation, please be respectful of those of us on the board. excuse me? we are respectful of listening to your comments. please be respectful of our position and our. commissioners, i respect you. you voted for us last time. yes. and i will vote again in favor of members and my colleagues. but i ask you all, please. we've worked for the city. we know protocols. let's have a little respect for all of us so we can

all be heard and have an opportunity to speak, regardless of our positions. thank you very much. i'm happy to see all of you here. it says you're interested and involved, and i support that strongly. i'd even like to see double the room, but thank you for coming. but please give us the opportunity to speak. we'll give you the opportunity to speak. thank you, commissioner sass? yes. i just wanted to, answer a couple of the of the emails that i read suggesting that, perhaps none of us have uhc up here on the dais. i've been retired for 12 years. my wife and myself both have uhc as our health plan. we have no problems with it. it's been excellent. i agree it's a good plan, but i am confident that that medicare advantage and ppo can be effectively managed by blue shield just as well as it can by united health care and

that we cannot ignore that we can't ignore the financial difference, which is really being paid almost entirely by the city, not by the members. members pay, i pay, i pay nothing for my health insurance, and my wife pays 50% of the of the because i'm the retiree and my wife pays 50. that's the way that it's set up in the city. and that's probably the way it is for most of the other retirees here. the vast majority of that premium is being paid for by the city, and we cannot ignore that issue when we're when we're making a decision. but more importantly, it was a fair rfp process. we didn't know how it would turn out. we gave scoring information on ahead of time to all the respondents. they knew what the rates were. they knew what was important. one and uhc decided not to make any concessions on price, but to continue to project cost price

costs going into the future at the same rate we've been seeing them going up in the past. it was consistent with that. so the decision that was made by the as a result of the rfp process was a it needs to be considered and is an important element to any decision that we are here to make. i intend to support, the, replacement of uhc with blue shield. thank you. thank you to our deputies for coming in. i think we're okay, though. we all know each other. we all respect each other. let's be chill. somebody just stole my line. i thought i was the oldest fart up

here, but. okay, so i just wanted to express my, concern, you know, new to the board, third meeting. wow, you know, just you know, my priority is the membership, and i. you know, the concerns that are expressed are my concerns. and, you know, i think, you know, quality of care is what we all want. and, i mean, i know i've worked closely with the health service system. i know their due diligence. i understand that i just my fear is, is that they're going to have a lot of work to do this next year to clean up the blue shield mess. that's because what i'm hearing, but actually my biggest fear is, those thousand folks that aren't covered, you know, that are, that don't have medicare, that are dependents, that are out somewhere in the country where it will be hard to find a blue shield provider, blue card provider. those are the folks i'm concerned with. so i pray that you know, the health service system will be able to help those folks. you know, if this passes. but, you know, i personally, you know, would want united health care as my

provider. but, you know, i know we're in this position because we're in this position. so you know, i totally understand their concerns. i wish we could go another year with united health care and, you know, and then you know, revisit this. but, you know, i we're going to do what the board decides, right? so thank you. thank you, commissioner howard. any other comments or questions from the board? seeing no further discussion, we'll take a roll call. vote and i'll just repeat our motion. yes. to the approve the staff recommendation for agenda item number three. that was moved by supervisor dorsey and seconded by doctor fiona wilson. a roll call vote, starting with vice president howell i supervisor dorsey i commissioner howard nay commissioner sass i doctor wilson. commissioner doctor

wilson i and commissioner zawinski. no that's two noes and four yeas. the ayes have it. so the motion passes and which renders the next agenda item null. and so i call this. meeting adjourned. thank you. a german at 953.

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attention to us. and cared about when we gave culturally and economically to the city >> here is your new drag laureate for the city and county of san francisco! i'm getting the call from the mayor i was chosen was fantastic day. i will always remember. i thought that it would just be about the bay area. because of what happening in the world it became a national story. i hope it can shine a light on san francisco and how they take care of the drag community and the lbgtq+ community. i hope that i can help carve out this position and create a role with programs and events this can be passed down to future drag laureate this is come after me and can set a stage and

standard for what this program is in san francisco and national low and inner nationally. there is a rich history in san francisco. that the drag community has been part of. i'm very proud to follow in their footsteps and able to maintain what the drag community has done in the past and move forward with creating a bright future. my job is to elevate and celebratetelevision.

>> (music). >> my name is vet at a original artist based in san francisco. >> i love it i love it i've never seen something else and we see how the people see which is happening and what is going on. kind of cool i wanted to be part of that. >> i saw it 2, 3, 4, 5 minutes you yeah. >> so we have you - yeah. i started going when i was young

but not the type of kid would get food but this is something i really have been progressing on a talent from like other artists. >> this is amazing. >> this is so good yeah, it is so good like the artists. >> i love it. >> what a great project. >> part of the part for have i grants. >> yeah. i love it. >> i serve in for 2 two years now and i really am fortunate to live in a place for art. >> an effort creating places it serve san francisco soul and that makes them want to see this place; right? with the

experience of art in san jose experience in from the get-go sometimes our environmentalist has created tests but we have an opportunity for that and have artists in the storefront part of project you can walk in and experience and hoping we'll be there for a long time. >> this is the first farther easy way of going to spaces i didn't know how it is really cool it would be and we're forced to be in the moment when we're test and creating something really cool. >> makes us feel good. >> as far (unintelligible) done all temporary and took them

down i like the temporary aspect base (unintelligible) (microphone distorted) not permanent can enjoy it. >> television. >> (music). >> we're going to show you how to pay for parking with the smart phone app the quickest way

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(laughter). >> hi, i'm pilipinas chi chai mateo and am the artist here. i'm current working on a title meaning together and the reason why i choose that theme because celebrating the legacy of some of the latin tennis especially with the power that put us together as formed when he come together and before us putting for our recognition and housing. but through our art culture and we see that today which we're together and it is always a hope

for the generations after us. >> here in this district where we revising the languages and culture but in yes or no answer why we do this i get to see kids come out of this kind mr. ryu rattle where they came from and we are here. such an honor to be part of this legacy of togetherness and those opportunities have painting a mural such as this but teaching different skwashgs and learning more about my culture i thought i already knew but so much more to this is beautiful we have so much to give each other and

we're also willing to work >> there are kids and families ever were. it is really an extraordinary playground. it has got a little something for everyone. it is aesthetically billion. it is completely accessible. you can see how excited people are for this playground. it is very special. >> on opening day in the brand- new helen diller playground at north park, children can be seen swinging, gliding, swinging, exploring, digging, hanging, jumping, and even making drumming sounds. this major renovation was

possible with the generous donation of more than $1.5 million from the mercer fund in honor of san francisco bay area philanthropist helen diller. together with the clean and safe neighborhood parks fund and the city's general fund. >> 4. 3. 2. 1. [applause] >> the playground is broken into three general areas. one for the preschool set, another for older children, and a sand area designed for kids of all ages. unlike the old playground, the new one is accessible to people with disabilities. this brand-new playground has several unique and exciting features. two slides, including one 45- foot super slide with an elevation change of nearly 30 feet. climbing ropes and walls, including one made of granite. 88 suspension bridge.

recycling, traditional swing, plus a therapeutics win for children with disabilities, and even a sand garden with chines and drums. >> it is a visionary $3.5 million world class playground in the heart of san francisco. this is just really a big, community win and a celebration for us all. >> to learn more about the helen diller playground in dolores park, go to sfrecpark.org. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> so i grew up in cambridge, massachusetts and i was very fortunate to meet my future wife, now my wife while we were both attending graduate school at m.i.t., studying urban planning. so this is her hometown. so, we fell in love and moved to her city. [♪♪♪]

[♪♪♪] >> i was introduced to this part of town while working on a campaign for gavin, who is running for mayor. i was one of the organizers out here and i met the people and i fell in love with them in the neighborhood. so it also was a place in the city that at the time that i could afford to buy a home and i wanted to own my own home. this is where we laid down our roots like many people in this neighborhood and we started our family and this is where we are going to be. i mean we are the part of san francisco. it's the two neighborhoods with the most children under the age of 18. everybody likes to talk about how san francisco is not family-friendly, there are not a lot of children and families. we have predominately single family homes. as i said, people move here to

buy their first home, maybe with multiple family members or multiple families in the same home and they laid down their roots. [♪♪♪] >> it's different because again, we have little small storefronts. we don't have light industrial space or space where you can build high-rises or large office buildings. so the tech boom will never hit our neighborhood in that way when it comes to jobs. >> turkey, cheddar, avocado, lettuce and mayo, and little bit of mustard. that's my usual. >> mike is the owner, born and bred in the neighborhood. he worked in the drugstore

forever. he saved his money and opened up his own spot. we're always going to support home grown businesses and he spent generations living in this part of town, focusing on the family, and the vibe is great and people feel at home. it's like a little community gathering spot. >> this is the part of the city with a small town feel. a lot of mom and pop businesses, a lot of family run businesses. there is a conversation on whether starbucks would come in. i think there are some people that would embrace that. i think there are others that would prefer that not to be. i think we moved beyond that conversation. i think where we are now, we really want to enhance and embrace and encourage the businesses and small businesses that we have here. in fact, it's more of a mom and

pop style business. i think at the end of the day, what we're really trying to do is encourage and embrace the diversity and enhance that diversity of businesses we already have. we're the only supervisor in the city that has a permanent district office. a lot of folks use cafes or use offices or different places, but i want out and was able to raise money and open up a spot that we could pay for. i'm very fortunate to have that. >> hi, good to see you. just wanted to say hi, hi to the owner, see how he's doing. everything okay? >> yeah. >> good. >> we spend the entire day in the district so we can talk to constituents and talk to small businesses. we put money in the budget so

you guys could be out here. this is like a commercial corridor, so they focus on cleaning the streets and it made a significant impact as you can see. what an improvement it has made to have you guys out here. >> for sure. >> we have a significantly diverse neighborhood and population. so i think that's the richness of the mission and it always has been. it's what made me fall in love with this neighborhood and why i love it so much.