>> roll call coucilmember circo commissioner josefowitz commissioner stephenson commissioner wan we have the introduction by the commissioner in the opening remarks please final this is san francisco director ralph. >> thank you, monique and thank you, everyone for coming together this is a very special meeting i think we're excited to be here at the commission i'll

josh i'm the president of the commission our vice president angela king will be joining us that's because we are all of us you talk about the environment and we immediately think about and a half the air water, and a lot of time we forget about people and this effort is to connect with the people and laurino about the environmental work we're existed just you've heard espanol. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> we say an exciting agenda we are scheduled to have the opening remarks from supervisor

campos he's at the time board of supervisors we said so we're going to continue until his arrival it's thoughts and welcome to the folks here tonight i know that mr. jose couldn't be here he is proud to talk about the work that was done here at city college mission campus we wanted to come to support of the sustainability of this campus we talk about the sustainability of the campus and we have a local architect they're proud of the sustainability and the designs bell said he challenges anyone here violinist at the commission to find a trash can here at the campus as opposed to the blue benefit and the green bin i'd

like to move forward and introduce our department director she joined us a few months back but taken our department into exciting new directions and worked hard to bring us here as a commission a and the san francisco environment commission so let me introduce deborah write ralph (clapping.) thank you want and hello commissioners and everyone at the campus tonight, i'm thrilled to be here this is the second time in a year that our commission meeting has ventured but out of city hall we do that because we believe that environmentalism must be inclusive and must be relevant to the community we serve so by the end of tonight i hope i'll

be taking back areas of focus things our department can do better to serve the community we find ourselves tonight he have thank you's it's important to understand doing a meeting like this go isn't easy it take a lot of planning i want to honor the work that be various people have done to make sure that everything we have tonight runs smoothing and mrunlly thanks to the mayor's office you've heard an introduction for giving us the translation (calling names) and sarah sorry that was a last name that was difficult but beautiful thank you it's wonderful to have the partnership of the mayor's office to help departments like

obvious that didn't have the skill set in house i also want to thank sunshine she was out on the street with here volunteers to let people know about this meeting i ran into her on mission street when i was also knocking on doors she's done a lot to get people here we put adds in the newspaper my motto for community work the world is run by those who show up so i want to thank you for showing up tonight and promise to work with you to change the world so thank you (clapping.) thank you debbie and i think we're joined by vice president angelo king and to reiterate thanks to donny you want to do this at the start you don't want to forget so thank you to donny

and clark and page miller and the department our fearless monique for all the work to bring us here we had additional outreach mission housing, ed and labors 2 61 and thank you for getting the word out and please if you haven't enjoy the food with a woman owned cooperative and thank you sfgovtv for setting up the facility to report tonight decision to learn for time to come i want to remind the colleagues and commissioners and myself to be be honest and the presenters to be mindful of the pacing of

our presentation because the services as we know b will be simultaneously trailed the into spanish and cantonese so be mindful of having an easygoing pace to our presentation we're looking forward to tonight so commissioners unless there's further comments from the commission before we move into public comment on this item all right. any public comment on our welcoming remark all right. seeing none, monique next item. >> commissioner for accident jurisdiction and your personality. >> so any members of the public so any member of the public that wants to come forward and talk about anything at all on not on

the agenda you have 3 minutes. >> okay. i'm anastasia i came to talk about natural areas problem in san francisco i'm sure you're aware of it is nothing by natural it kills trees it provides value services to everyone in the whole earth carbon they fight pollution and the clean air provides it prevents landslides and habitat and they are be r being destroyed and plan to be more destroyed through significant land management and this problem being a natural thing it is how

the toxics destroy the tier one and tier two, that has tons of reconcussions so i forgot what i prepared to say so instead i have an article in the san francisco examiner they claim is leads to insensitivity imagine a metropolitan city they have trees they demolish thousands of trees and eucalyptus trees on operating the trees in - why fix what isn't broken the city

has thousands of trees all to destroy trees the correction of the natural program started in 1995 to preserve smaller remnants by something that is some people according to some people we're growing in a certain area for a selected appointing this vegetation (inaudible) it was a problem that people could support the support showcase has vanished they have recreational uses i will skip some because i don't know how the time will run out in embarking upon a quest to

please have the grassland and manager will use toxic herbicides on the properties significant natural area includes the following acts striking about 18 thousand 5 hundred healthy trees and anastasia if you want to leave us with a copy we can be copy it, too city attorney says no. >> but if you want to leave us a letter. >> it is not in good shape. >> we specialize in things not in good shape (laughter). >> it's not natural to talk about the other - >> for future agenda.

>> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm robin share i wish i had ann starbucks article i'd continue reading it one of the things we're dealing with is climate change and they is oh, killing a few tries didn't matter one hundred trees were cut down in mclaren park i notice that rec and park was killing trees at glen park i drove by beautiful eucalyptus that had been housing owls and they were lying there cut down and i had already given up going to pine lake i used to go driver's license it was like you were not in the city you couldn't see the houses or they

you it is now completely okay. but there's what a quarter of the trees that needs to be there and as you walk down the valley you feel like people are looking at you and the cutting of the trees is not stopping there i think that the natural area program could be fin i wish they would go out and work by the cow palace and leave the trees alone i tried very hard to make changes to the roads policy that was recently passed the it originally said trees would be cut down and they changed all the words to vegetation would be saved so the whole thing is ridiculous we're trying to turn san francisco back into a sand brunner mountain and we have a san burner mountain we have trees that stop the fog and stop

the wind from blowing sand in it captures the water and keeps the hill if eroding and keeps the hospital quiet on mount suzette 0 restraining order the trees are why not a historic landmark but i would strongly urge go natural ear and stop cutting trees leave the trees alone and the eucalyptus alone the u lynn lips are fine if you say they should be removed because their nate not native only the people that are native are mexicans we're not native the golden gate park is not native the school is not native yet we're hawk away at our trees please save the

trees. >> any other speakers all right. seeing none, no further comment going once public comment is closed. moaning item 4. >> for the investment in neighborhoods (inaudible) and substantial committee for the concord district (inaudible) at the director for (inaudible) 24 protocol. >> thank you, monique i know that our first personality you can't keen the director of the department of workforce development is 5 minutes away but his he's chairing the housing authority

but i know his very capable partners in this effort are present what would be the thought? and just to explain the idea as we talk about the work we do in the environment commission one of the things we want to highlight his efforts to sustain the local community in the mission focused on e.r. or in around the latino culture and community we're going to hear inform initiatives the first is invest in the neighborhoods and the next will be the adequate restraining order latino cultural district maybe we will we're projecting probably down to 4 minutes i can't blab four

minutes my colleagues won't let me but perhaps we'll hear about the investment in neighborhoods >> good afternoon. i'm with the office of economic workforce development i'm with the investment team i'm with my colleagues and she's the liaison to lower 024 with that, we're going to get started to present a quick overview on the investment and move into a detailed conversation on what's happening on 24th with the neighborhood. >> so the initiative was created in the early 2012 has mayor ed lee proposed the 17 point jobs plan and this initiative is create to address some of the economic needs that would cost the city faced by the

small business commercial district to create a viable corridors across the city 25 neighborhoods with or selected so there a very long progress 3 things social capital and economic opportunity and needs in those neighborhoods as you can see they were selected for multiple reasons you might ask the theory behind our work 4 major components one to provide services and programs to the businesses to make sure the businesses are thriving this is denouncing so the corridors have the resources from our office second is high quality of life to make sure those districts have a programming program services from the various departments that deal with graffiti and crime and other associated concerns and needs

another component to assure those corridors have the good sidewalks and good awning and the trees thing that actually make a state more toxic to additional foot traffic to make sure the foot traffic is supported another component is strong community capacity this piece for us we find to be important because if we have a stronger community groping group they can let us know what the needs are in the neighborhood you might ask for examples this is a look at examples this is a handful for example, for the existing loan programs to provide to small businesses in the corridors and those funds are available citywide for event and activities and pro tem's and captions and so forth

quality of life crime preservation working with the sfpd and people tricked to those conditions we have a facade program and straight improvements and strong capacity to make sure there's a benefits district or a strong merchant group in the neighborhood you mate ask how do we make 24 happening we have baseline services they're all the services in the neighborhood so sfm someone at city hall like us we're working closely with the merchant groups to provide the leadership in the neighborhood and we have a tracking system and muni grant and a job squad two members go out and blanket the neighborhood and talk with the citizens and

share information from various departments and it's a way to collect information. >> may i ask a quick question i want to make an announcement we have a car that's going to be towed it is a white car it will be towed by the police. >> the despair if we try we could turn everything off your director knows what she's doing sorry to interrupt. >> so based on the services in some cases their citywide second element of our work is the assessment the profiles so

in partnership with the planning department and the local plans we developed an assessment a quick snapshot of the commercial district in terms of what is currently there back in 2012 when those were produced so the democrat graphic data there were interviews done with stakeholders to see the needs noting in the neighborhood i encourage you to look at them go to investment.org you can find all the profiles on line through the profiles the baseline service and also our community engagement we learned about the needs of the neighborhood so based on those needs we find out we developed customized services their diluted based on the needs of the neighborhood we've heard

from merchant groups and resident groups those are examples for example, we have again, i mentioned the six program we target the cords for a need for physical improvements those facilities we make sure they are aware to upgrade the businesses to have a lawsuit we go to neighborhoods and work with businesses that are in the neighborhood or neighborhood that needs to build capacity so this those are the 3 elements the baseline services and the community engagement and the development of the services this is how we dloil all 25 neighborhoods i'm going to turn it over to my colleague to talk about the service line for the lower 24th. >> thank you.

>> hi good afternoon, everyone and commissioners okay so today is an example one of our 25 commercial corridors in the latino cultural district is an example of the services we have a tailored to a neighborhood but before we get into that i want to say our relationship with the neighborhoods began and i want to highlight some of the accomplishments in working with the neighborhoods association before the investment neighborhoods including the economic development report on our website through the lower 24th we work with the community and came up studied the area and came up with the data and have recommendations based on the

needs out of that a strategic plan put in place that the community helped to implement including the trees replanting and sidewalk reconstruction and alley repaving so some of the examples that came out of our partnership with the merchant association so now the investment neighborhood boundary in terms of the commercial cord is the burgundy you see on the street and follows 24th up to katrero after the district that was acknowledged by the board of supervisors it is katrero avenue and caesar chavez so the entire area you see on the screen my colleague talked about the neighborhoods we talked about

the neighborhood profile we look at data across the board to compare corridors and from the data big part of that actually is talking to the community and 4th of july what the proprietors are so out of that is the customized service plan gets developed so for lower 24th it the strengthening for the technical things came out of a strong priority in the neighborhood in providing the technical assistance to the existing businesses and in addition the strengthening of the cultural corridor to strengthen the corridor for the economy and the quality of life for the neighborhood some of the identified needs include the access to small

business programs and in spanish to make our programs not only in translating the language and the flyers and things like that but building relationships with the community that was important not only making it assessable by translating documents and expiring short time leases it is a huge concern in the neighborhood many of our businesses 6 years ago when the economy was down the rents are increasing so that's a huge concern the increasing rents and the airbnb losses is causing businesses to be displaced they get suited and can't make the improvements the changing market and the competition 80 how to

parking meter with the new businesses in terms of the krltd aspect beyond our businesses we have very strong institutions in the neighborhood that contribute to the fabric of the neighborhood we also wanted to address those and not ignore those in addition it builds the whole economy of the district and fabric to be included they're not businesses they're not part of our entire strategy so we're extending some of the same things we're seeing in businesses in the nonprofits and the institutions and extending those services to them so specific some of the programs were some of the needs we created services that tailored to those we've been providing pro-bone services to the businesses that want to negotiate their leases and we are also, we have ada we offer

free intersection? >> to businesses to know how to be compliant and we've concluded 18 inspectors on 24th street and identified 3 meditations projects we'll be working on and in general we provide referrals and assistance and go door to door we created a very comprehensive business centralizing program we understand that sometimes changed is not easy for businesses we must go to them and fidget wasn't they need and trailer it and provide them with a menu of different options we create a one-on-one consultant

with those businesses so as i mentioned culture preservation is strong for the neighborhood and for the city so some of the things and programs that based on those needs have come up and the importance those are some of the projects and the funding sources we've allocated for the district to help support those efforts so the latino right now there's a citywide cultural complexity e context statement that collects the information for the latino through our preservation committee through our office it's about a year and a half long process in documenting the history of the latinos that's an important document that helps to support 24th street we also the board of supervisors approved the resolution in may on may 20th to recognize the latino cultural