looking is here we need the best of our city government workers and the best of our community to help folks. we want to be astronomer active for them so when google said they're to come in a volunteer i smiled because they started with the affordability how about free muni for youth for the next 23 years how about wifiing our parks so monoanyone can use this afternoon how about the rally for life how about all the wonderful grants give to impact people's lives in a positive way and to join the volunteers.

those are the wonderful things and supervisor farrell is going to talk about how hocking to improve project homeless connect is just the beginning of tropics it was never both going to be the end when you touch people's lives and they start opening up their lives that's about the engagement how to grab the challenges and work with them that so thank you people from houston. one of the security staff said how did howe house the road i don't in houston we don't have that here we have tech rodeos; right? >> (laughter). >> right. but this is all my way of saying

with outline sincerity you have a great deal mayor we're going to work hard with you to make people astronomer their lives i want to start the foundation and please continue to help and get our employees and employers involved and your family and friends and let's make tropics a real vision and thank you. let's celebrate project homeless connect (clapping.) thank you so i just want to mention as i bring up the next speaker many of the key staff out here providing services are in from our department of public health we couldn't do this without them let's give them a shout out. now i have the opportunity to

bring up our rock star of public health. barbara garcia has been in the front when it seemed like we couldn't have health care there's things about the affordable health care it's going to cover health services and without coverage no better partner than our health advocate barbara garcia >> good morning how many are first time advocates. all right. so i see workday workday folks raise our hands. we hope you'll have 10 more years and hopefully by that time we'll have the opportunity to

house many more people. one of the things we are going to be doing as you see the incredible amount of services but daily connect it wouldn't look like this it will be our staff going to into the shelter for signing up people for my glasses and homes. we have the advantage of getting people into one hundred percent homes. it's going back going to be beneficial as mayor ed lee talked about also being able to get them housed and the department of public health i think we find it's worst a hand in order to complete somebody's health care and be in the best

health they need a home. i want to thank you you you're going to have tired feet from walking in the concrete so make sure you come back and we're going to look for you in the next 10 years thank you very much (clapping.) so it's been mentioned this the the tenth anniversary of project connect and also the tenth anniversary mayor newsom partnered with another colleague and pulled a plan together to end chronic homelessness. as the mayor indicated we've cut that in half 63 one hundred and others are chronically homeless. one of the main goals was to

develop 3 thousand new units of permanent permanent howard's now we've got to 28 hundred and i think that demonstrates we can be successful and i also want to say that was 40 percent of our jail population was homeless now we're down to 20 percent. i bring those issues up because supervisor farrell give him a round of applause. supervisor farrell is our last speaker a great friend to the mayor and myself and others i'm glad to say he's held one meeting already and laid a road map for many hearings we talk about homelessness and reflect

over and over on our services a 20 percent drop for veterans and so we're happy to have our supervisor supervisor farrell >> thanks how about a big round of applause for mayor ed lee and all the department heads. so i want to first of all, thank for being here today. what you're doing is what we're all about in san francisco volunteering our time and taking time out of your workday no pun intended for the work folks. the magnitude we have 35 hundred people every night sleeping on our streets. we have mothers and fathered and sons and daughters those are people we need to care about this is a human issue and to be part of our city's effort we

can't do it as a city government alone we do things together and all our cooperate sponsor to google who contributions not only their money but your efforts this is what we do together in san francisco. please know how important it is that you come here today and we keep cowboy her in the city of san francisco. we're going to have more meetings like this we've introduced legislation to double our outreach team to pasture we have important workers reaching out to the street folks. so thank you and please come back and wear those stlirts today and other it days with pride so you're being san franciscans and thank you very much for being hebeing here foo

just about expensive eat but food for everyone and there's organizations in the city that are doing really good work making sure that healthy food it assessable to everyone. more and more as follows are are becoming interested in upper arlthd they want to joy the open green pace sea know where their food it coming from we'll look at 3 programs talking ushering

agricultural and garden to new heights. so what exactly it, your honor agricultural >> it the growing food or flowers within city limits traditionally we've been referring to communities gardener that is a raised bed over and over upper argument has a more a farming way of farming. >> so tell me 0 what's growing in this garden. >> a really at all plant. in the one of the rare places, you know, people have access to green space 24 is one of the places to grow things like the purple floor.

it is sort of recognizing that the more diversity in given space the better not to just have one thing by everything supported each another >> it provides the community with an opportunity to get their hands dirty and reach 0 out and congressmen with the community in ways they might have not otherwise to engage with one other. >> now the dpw urban planning program so see how the garden community. >> so i grew up on a farm in air force base we picked the foods open the trees and share with other families and as i drive around san francisco i see any trees with apples or mrumdz

and lemon trees i can see the food going to waste and brought that idea back to the department many of the trees where the fruit would go to waste we origin or crop and pick other fruits and delivery this to food banks or shelters to people who need them. >> i'm here with nang wong hello nang. >> hello. >> i need to understand house this gleaning work. >> we come and harvest like for example, we'll come over here this is the lemon and plug it like this. >> (laughter). >> made that good, good and ease. >> the trick is how not to hurt the branches. >> like the thing.

>> i'm so excited about this. the people are so passionate about where the food goes to the private property owners give us the food they're happy that no of a t is going to waste >> oh. thank you. thank you. again job aura natural >> (laughter). >> from backyards to back lots let's take a look at the food and community bonding at the free farm. >> my idea was to start growing food and giving it away. and getting my neighbors to who had space and having a kind of

event that brings people together not to run our food program this time around but to share the wealth of the abundance of our welfare. we were all divorce and as part of our philosophy of working together and working together. >> what's the most rewarding aspect of volunteering for the free farm stand. >> well, we could is a generalic satisfaction but something about giving food away it's giving something i brought that in and sort it and gave it to you it's primitive to be able to give something some basically to someone else. >> now serving number to 49 come on down.

>> we have the capability of producing this food and in san francisco you can grow food all year round so the idea we're capable of prougdz food in our own backyards we're here to demonstrate an bans of food and i think that giving it away for free we show individuals it in have to be a comedy. >> we build time together and it's the strength of any ideas of the connections we'll turn that connection and the more connections you make no mistake about it the more you can have a stronger power and not have to rely on money that's the people

power. >> in this episode we've seen the urban farms and gardens provide more in fruits and vegetation people can have the special produce available it can be a place to give back by donating food to others and teach our children the connection to the earth and environment it's truly -

>> good afternoon. welcome. >> good afternoon. >> i want to welcome you to city hall and the mayor's office celebration of women's history month i other people emily i have the prestige of serving on the department of women by a showing of hands how many live in san francisco so actually, i work for you and the mayor we've been having an women and girls since 197540 years i want to recognize our commissioners on the status of women please stand

nancy vice president andrea and commissioner young and commissioner amy and julie sue. >> (clapping) >> we're joined by many members of our city family if you could hold our applause chief suhr anyone, etc. and board of appeals director and mayor's office of housing and mayor's office education hydra mendoza and al and city administrator naomi kelly and many members of the mayor's office staff please help me welcome those members. i want to acknowledge any hard working staff cynthia vasquez and policy director and