office of the president. so we go in the order of where the positions are in the bylaws. so we start with the office of the president and move on to the office of vice president. >> commissioner walls. >> thank you. i would like -- i would like to nominate commissioner for another term as the president of this commission. i do that for any number of reasons but they include her un failing good humor. particularly at very long meetings. her commitment to the department , herren enthusiasm learning everything a department

does. all of the challenges that it faces and her willingness to get in there and try to solve or to advance ordeal with those challenges all the while maintaining her wonderful sense of humor. and because i think this is a job that takes well more than a year to master. i've been really impressed by the degree to which she has mastered the jobs and the inns and outs of the department and the commission and the confidence she shows now in running meetings with lots of people in the room, compared to when she did it in the beginning i think that she's earned another year in this position. i think she deserves another year in in this commission. i think we will all benefit from having her as our president

again. >> i am so humbled. >> we need a second. >> commissioner. >> do you accept the nomination? >> i do, yes. thank you. [laughter] gladly. >> i was surprised. thank you. >> any further discussion? >> it would be wonderful to have you serve another year. >> thank you. >> commissioners at this late hour speak into the mics. we move slowly back. so, is there no further discussion, is there public comment on this item? seeing none, all those in favor of the -- i'm going to do a roll call. on the nomination of the

commissioner as president commissioner bermaho. >> aye. >> commission commissioner waltz >> aye. >> oyoys. >> stevenson. >> aye. >> stevenson aye. >> the nomination passes. [applause] i'm very proud. thank you so much. >> did you hear what she said? she has i love this place. >> and now commissioner stevenson. we are on the next nomination, ok. >> so as she always does, commissioner waltz takes all the good words and makes them sound perfect. which is part of why i would like to nominate her to continue as our vice president of the commission. i think that her lifelong commitment and this category, her devotion to this commission for how many years now?

>> um teen. >> a lot. [laughter] >> has just done nothing but benefit this city day in and day out. even though she will always steel the beautiful articulate way of saying things, i would like her to continue on as our vice president. >> thank you. >> i would like to accept. >> ok. is there any discussion? >> second. >> discussion or second. >> i'd like to second the motion >> ok. >> is there any further discussion? >> seeing none. is there any public comment? >> seeing none. we will do roll call vote on the nomination of commissioner waltz for vice president. aye. >> waltz. >> yes. >> yes. >> yes. >> commissioner stevenson. >> yes. >> commissioner juan is excused. nomination carries. [applause] congratulations. >> could i just say something.

i want to thank you all. and i also just want to say that i know, this is a very unusual time. we're all in it together. and we'll see as we march forward with our new mayor and what will happen in six months, i think that the things that i know i want to focus on is the future of the commission and making sure that everybody in san francisco knows the great work that we do here and how we reach out to so many communities and we don't leave anyone behind i think that's the best of san francisco. and i look forward to continuing with all of you. so thank you very much. [applause] >> i just want to say ditto for me. >> ok. >> thank you. i see no further discussion. we will now move onto the next

item which is item 13. highlights of the january 17th, 2018 operations committee meeting and the december 11th, 2017 and january 8th, 2018 policy committee meetings. >> ok. so we had a meeting last week, most of which you got the highlights today. we did a big dive into the budget and we got to talk about short falls, funding and we went through department area by area and saw how the funding was working there. we did our homework. i'm glad we passed everything today. we had a great presentation on help me remember the name of th. a presentation but the name of the -- >> the equity initiative is a cross departmental initiative in the city to make sure all of our communities are being considered with all of the different

deficient we're making as a department. so what i loved was that they now every initiative we undertake as a department there are questions that we have to ask and the questions are things like who does it serve? what are we not thinking about? making sure that the equity lens over lays everything so we don't have environmental justice program that is mostly thinking about environmental justice but that everything we do as a department has a justice lens over laid. the several of the staff have been trained in it and the training will be on going over the next year and it's actually happening across the city and all the departments, that was very exciting to see that. >> thank you. at our december 11th meeting the policy committee heard a presentation on the programs or the movement towards use of

renewable fuels and by city agencies in addition to hearing from the department. we heard from the sustainability with the support of san francisco and san francisco international airport discussing their various contributions to december. we also had a presentation by the citizens climate lobby regarding a proposed carbon feet and dividends, it's bipartisan support in congress this issue is going to come before the commission shortly. and then just earlier this month on january 8th, we received an update from chris giger and his colleagues regarding the department's december hearing on the implementation of the 2017 reduced risk pesticide list and

we received the first version of the 2018 pesticide list. we reviewed a document that summarized the issues raised in public comments to date as well as the department's responses and we heard from chris that there has been a 95% reduction in the use of the most hazardous herbicides within city limits. we also began a discussion of the new restrictions under the reduced risk pesticide list and those of you who had been here before, but not you, know that this will come before us as well but not until may, right. >> july. >> ok. >> we have some work to do. it will be a few months before

we actually are finished with the recommendations for you to take action on. >> questions for the committee report? >> thank you for all the hard work. >> i had a question regarding when the c.c.l. carbon fee and dividend issue will come before the full commission. do you know when? >> i think in march. >> march should be the earlyest. this commission meeting had been full and the february meeting was full so march would be the earliest. >> ok. >> i can't make a comment about it can be? >> why not? >> i just think it's interesting i think we need like it's a policy committee meeting it was one of those passive presentations where you hear what they have to say.

i just do know that car been feet and dividend is taking the carbon revenues giving them to the general public like done in alaska around fossil fuels. there's other groups out there including the 350s of the world and a lot of groups that don't think it's the best use of the money. i am a little reluctant to -- we can have that discussion that's the protocol but i love the opportunity to engage it more before we have to take a vote. i don't know what the process or path pathway is. i don't feel like we got asked at the policy committee meeting or did we have a chance to invite other people who feel differently. they're smart, committed, aggressive, they got on our agenda. plus it already passed here a while ago, which is also interesting. >> sure. in this conversation it would be kind of a recaping of the conversation that was had in the committee meeting. the conversation of the merits

of whether or not the action item should come before the commission would be a conversation for new business. >> which is later. >> which is next. >> rafael. >> i agree with you commissioner at the end of the policy committee meeting the policy committee did not affirmly act. he was hoping you would but you did not. i feel like there's room here to talk about whether a resolution would come forward and what it would say. we have not started crafting anything. so if we would like to, we could revisit perhaps at the next policy committee meeting. to have a discussion. >> i'd like to do that. there's a lot of ways to invest carbon revenues and lots of wayt interrogate the other ways and a lot of those ways are ways environmental justice allies prefer. which is investment into low income communities and those kinds of things.

>> and there are other environmental groups have other ideas. >> new energy. >> i'm going to interrupt the conversation. this has to be just a recap of the conversation that had happened in the committee meeting. again, if we want to have a discussion about the merits of whether or not this discussion should continue at the commission that would be for new business. >> which is next. >> which is next. >> any public comments. or any other comments? or next item. >> seeing no public comments seeing no further discussion, we'll move onto the next item. the next item is announcements. this item is for discussion. >> all right.

>> meeting tomorrow. we'll meet tomorrow and what is the address? the retirement. >> market. >> into the microphone. >> ok, yes. >> let me pull out my calender. >> i believe it's 1145 market street on the sixth floor. >> ok. thank you. >> seeing no further discussion an announcements, seeing no public comments. we move onto the next item, item 15 new business agenda items. the speaker is anthony val december this is for discussion and possible action. excuse me. commissioners, the next meeting of the commission will be a special meeting on wednesday february 21st at 2:00 p.m.

and we are having it at the port of san francisco offices bay side conference room peer pier 1 we've had a flurry of meeting here at city hall so the department has decided the offer the opportunity to take the meeting out into the community into one of the city facilities there at the beautiful offices there at the port of san francisco. so at the commission's request the department is doing a deeper dive into the information that was received at the community meetings. so, the outreach team will present more of the data received during the community meetings. the commission will also be considering the annual report, the commission on the environment annual report, followed by a discussion with the city attorney also at the commissioners about meeting laws so if there are any -- i'm sorry >> meeting laws.

the brown act and sunshine act rules surrounding meetings. so if any of you have any questions, please submit them to me so the city attorney can prepare. you may also ask questions at the meeting but just in case there's any particular issues that you would like covered, please let us know. and the commission is also planning on having its regular meeting in march. right now the date is march 27th , 2018. but we are in the process of polling commissioners to find a date because there's a conflict with that date. so just a heads-up we will look to change that date as well. thank you. >> so this is new business.

so to pick up where i left off. i think i just want to be clear that i feel like we need to investigate, interrogate if you will, examine, other carbon investment pathways before inviting one where there's just a very active and engage organization pushing for it. city resolutions and commission resolutions are part of the strategy so they sought us out. i don't think that's a valid reason to invite them to present it here without looking at other investment pathway through revenue and considering the constituency. i am not saying i oppose it but groups and other environmental

groups have other investment ideas about how to use carbon revenues. in the state of california has been a leader in an equity based investment strategy and it's distinct from what citizens lobby is proposing. having said that, they do really good work around around the bipartisan solution caucus and other exciting things but i didn't feel like we can leap frog from the policy committee meeting from this meeting without a broader examination of other policies. or whether we want to take action on that. i think it's just something we have to realize that they were pushing an agenda and we have to discuss what our vision is. >> comments? >> new business. >> can i have a clarification question. i understand just, i thought that they said that the supervisors several years ago,

had supported a resolution in support of the end dividend. is that correct? in which case, it might already be on the books and i don't know why we would need to renew that commitment. >> that is my recollection too. i do agree the chair of the committee can decide whether or not to calender this item at all for discussion or to go deeper and that will be something that we can discuss at the policy committee under new business as well. >> ok. >> think about it so that you have a view. >> my view is that i definitely would want to invite other groups up to the plate. >> i understand that. i just meant whether or not you have a view on whether or not we should do this. because it doesn't make any sense why think. to begin this process if at the end, you are going to feel that

it isn't worth it for us to do it. >> i don't think it's a high priority. especially if we can get the question answered about whether there's already action on the books a few years ago in which case it doesn't seem like the best use of our time, i feel like we can discuss this at the policy committee meeting but there's a lot of other things where we are moving the ball or where are we on the waste questions we've come up with or just a lot of things. >> so could we ask you director rafael to at least find out the answer to that. >> certainly. >> and would it be possible for you to e-mail me and lisa and maybe we will not write that. >> i will let anthony know and he will figure out how the best way to get the information out. >> with the answer to that question. has the city already gone on record on that matter. >> yes, we will find that out. >> thank you.

>> any other items under new business? future agenda items? any public comment? >> all right. >> ok. >> i know we're late. i guess one question i have is about -- i guess in the state of play around where we are in zero waste, not for something that has to come up right away, i know it's an issue that comes up with the policy committee first. it's an issue that continues to be vexing and there's been technological upgrades and good things that are happening and at the same time, there's still issues and so i'd love an update there. at some point in some venue that makes sense. >> our plan is to actually do a fairly deeper dive on the zero waste plan and what kind of metrics makes sense and get the commission guidance on that.

we haven't determined how best to do that yet. is it the policy committee first and the full commission or is it some separate meeting we're trying to workout right now with the best way is to first frame the questions and the problem statement and figure out how to engage the commission. but you are absolutely right. it's time this year in 2018 is the time to really look into zero waste policy. >> it would be good to take up our climate summit, how we are going to engage around that. i know that jennifer was dealing with the mayor's office on it. but it might be nice to take that up in mayor something so it's a few months out. >> i've asked you about that before. and there was still a lot of things that were up in the air but maybe by may. >> i wasn't trying to -- >> no, no, no. >> why think that maybe not the

next one or the one after that i don't know the right time but i'd love an update on green purchasing now that we have the new technology system in place and we're supposed to be able to track that appropriately now. so i'd love to know how that's going. >> see no further discussion. and seeing no public comments. we will now move on to item 16, adjournment, the time is 9:46p. m. thank you, everyone.

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>> i was born and raised in the desert of palm springs, california. my dad was the rabbi in the community there. what i got from watching my father on stage talking to the community was learning how to be in the public. and learning how to do public speaking and i remember the first time i got up to give my first school assembly, i felt my dad over my shoulder saying pause for drama, deliver your words. when i was a kid, i wanted to be a teacher. and then when i got into high school, i decided i wanted to get into advertising and do graphic art and taglines and stuff like that. by the time i was in college, i decided i wanted to be a decorator. but as i did more work, i

realized working my way up meant a lot of physical labor. i only had so much energy to work with for the rest of my life and i could use that energy towards making a lot of money, helping someone else make a lot of money or doing something meaningful. i found the nonprofit working to save the rainforest was looking for volunteers. i went, volunteered and my life changed. suddenly everything i was doing had meaning. stuffing envelopes had meaning, faxing out requests had meaning. i eventually moved up to san francisco to work out of the office here, given a lot of assembly through los angeles county and then came up here and doing assemblies to kids about rainforest. one of my jobs was to teach about recycle, teaching students to reduce, reuse, recycle and compost, i'm teaching them they

have the power, and that motivates them. it was satisfying for me to work with for the department of environment to create a message that gets to the heart of the issue. the san francisco department of environment is the only agency that has a full time educational team, we go into the schools to help teach children how to protect nature and the environment. we realized we needed animal mascot to spark excitement with the students. the city during the gold rush days, the phoenix became part of the city feel and i love the symbolism of the phoenix, about transformation and the message that the theme of the phoenix provides, we all have the power to transform our world for the better. we have to provide teachers with curriculum online, our curriculum is in two different

languages and whether it's lesson plans or student fact sheets, teachers can use them and we've had great feedback. we have helped public and private schools in san francisco increase their waste use and students are working hard to sort waste at the end of the lunch and understand the power of reusing, reducing, recycling and composting. >> great job. >> i've been with the department for 15 years and an environmental educator for more than 23 years and i'm grateful for the work that i get to do, especially on behalf of the city and county of san francisco. i try to use my voice as intentionally as possible to suppo support, i think of my grandmother who had a positive attitude and looked at things

positively. try to do that as well in my work and with my words to be an uplifting force for myself and others. think of entering the job force as a treasure hunt. you can only go to your next clue and more will be revealed. follow your instincts, listen to your gut, follow your heart, do what makes you happy and pragmatic and see where it takes you and get to the next place. trust if you want to do good in this world, that >> they tend to come up here and drive right up to the vehicle and in and out of their car and into the victim's vehicle, i would say from 10-15 seconds is all it takes to break into a car

and they're gone. yeah, we get a lot of break-ins in the area. we try to -- >> i just want to say goodbye. thank you. >> sometimes that's all it takes. >> i never leave anything in my car. >> we let them know there's been a lot of vehicle break-ins in this area specifically, they target this area, rental cars or vehicles with visible items. >> this is just warning about vehicle break-ins. take a look at it. >> if we can get them to take it with them, take it out of the cars, it helps. and chair of this committee and i want to acknowledge charles kreminek at sfgov tv for broadcasting our meeting and making sure they're available to members of the public. mr. clerk, would you please call the roll? >> item one, roll call.

[roll call] we have quorum. >> thank you very much. and may we take a motion to excuse commissioner cohen and commissioner fuhor. mr. clerk, can you please call the next item? >> item two, chair's report. this is an information item. >> thank you. and i do not have a report today. and may we take public comment on this item? seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. item number two. can we please call the next item.

>> item three, executive director's report. this is an information item. >> chair kim, commissioners, i'm pleased to report on some recent developments at the policy level. we've been track federal and state autonomous vehicle legislation with interest and with some concern in late last year of october. sfmta director sent a letter for the deployment of driverless vehicles in california. we are appreciative of the incorporation of several of our prior comments but remain concerned about several aspects of the proposed regulation, including training requirements being inclusive as our interactions between pedestrians and bicycles with these new driverless vehicles, we're concerned about the ability of local law enforcement and first responders to have access to crash data as well as the potential to allow the vehicles in testing to offer commercial services for higher services. in addition, in november, the

u.s. house of relatives and senate passed their respective bills on federal legislation governing development of autonomous vehicles. we're appreciative of the federal role in regulating the vehicles themselves. we are concerned, however, that the legislation in both houses, as drafted now, pre-empts state and local governments from legislating the performance of those vehicles. which we believe has always been the per view of the states and the enforcement of the performance, local law enforcement would also be pre-empted. we continue to work with a coalition of state and jurisdiction and other stakeholders to try to move that in the right direction. we really appreciate senator feinstein and others who have raised this issue and put a hold on the legislation and proposing some amendments to deal with the pre-emption provisions. we continue to work with partners on various aspects of the funding plan. we also await the final approval of our federal grant,

which will allow us to build the toll system as well as pilot autonomous vehicle shuttles on the islands. over the recent holiday break, by the way, my family and i were able to ride one of these shuttles that is being offered and operating in las vegas. the vehicle did have an operator on board who was able to take over, if needed. but the half mile loop was very smooth. the ride was smooth and the vehicle did operate quite well. if needed, the pilot on board would be able to take over the service as i mentioned. interestingly, we learned that the city of las vegas did not contribute to the operation. it has been privately sponsored by a.a.a., but did put out -- did prepare some of the plans and install some equipment to support the pilot. locally, we've been working on the transit pass and the affordability programme i mentioned earlier and friended these to the transportation research board annual conference in washington, d.c. there are many, many agencies and companies working on past

solutions, and by now the technology is quite advanced so we want to continue to work to integrate transit, ferries, car share, bike share and toll roads and parking all into one payment system using fast track and clipper, our regional pricing and payment systems. and really appreciate the abilities of m.t.c. and others to take a leadership role in those arenas. and finally on the island project infrastructure side, we mentioned that we were closing the on and off ramps on the westbound ramps and will initiate procurement of the east -- on the eastbound off ramp and south gate road relocation and west side bridges starting this fall. and the pier e2 has been in the news where cal trans is proposing to complete some -- to leave some of the piers in place and provide a nice, open space and pedestrian bridge with fishing and recreation opportunities so we're working

together with cal trans to develop that along with our partners, tida, transportation development authority as well. thank you. >> thank you so much, director chang. i did see that i did have remarks. but it is ok. at this time, we are going to take public comment on the director's report. see -- oh. >> excuse me k. yes. i would have gotten up on the first time. but this is my first time coming to the treasury -- what is it, the treasure island management. but i have a statement on support of what she's saying so you won't say i'm off the sci. i'm here making a statement and i'm going to be making it throughout the campaign because all y'all politricking and i'ves been politicking. but i've been around longer than all of y'all. other than peskin, who's been here longer. but before he was here, i was here. but not in the capacity i am now. let me say i support that so we keep that going. yes, i am the creator of what

y'all looking at right here, tv channel. i don't want the credit because that ain't nothing. i'd rather have cash. i don't want no credit for it. right now here i'm telling you. everybody, all the policymakers, movers and shakers, politician and everybody from room 200 all the way down to the janitor's room, yours truly ace on the case in your face and now in your place! is returning back to city hall, y'all. back by popular demand. and i'm going to have this camera in my hand. so bottom line right now, what i want to say to all the politicians, movers and shakers, policymakers, that we as african american black negroes, however you want to call it, i'm on the campaign. i'm on a mission and i don't need yo permission. i'm coming back here with my tv show and i'm going to have a show where each one of you supervisors can participate in called the roundtake project. -- roundtable project and that means all the supervisors will have a chance to talk more than

with the fake news and alternative news is doing. my name is ace, and i'm on the case. but all ease i got 20 seconds. i know how to do this, y'all. i ain't knew to this. ha ha. i'm true to this. black history month next month, it's the shortest year of the month. i'm going to forecast all the blacks here at city hall, y'all. my name is ace. that's all. >> thank you so much. is there any other public comment on the director's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we please call the next item? >> item four. approve the minutes of the december 12, 2017 meeting. this is an action item. >> can we take a motion to approve the minutes? is we can take a motion from commissioner p/esskin and commissioner yee and we can do that without opposition. >> public comment? >> ok. thank you. can we take public comment on item number four?

seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. we have a motion in the second and can we do that without opposition? thank you t. motion passes. mr. clerk, can you please call item number five? >> item five, election of chair and vice chair for 2018. this is an action item. >> thank you, commissioners. i see that commissioner peskin would like to make a nomination. >> thank you, madame chair. i would, if you are willing, like to nominate you to continue as chair and nominate commissioner yee to serve as vice chair. >> thank you, commissioner peskin. i'm happy to accept. commissioner peskin has nominated myself as chair and commissioner norman yee as vice chair. is there a second to this motion? there is a second by commissioner ronan. are there any further nominations?

seeing none, nominations are closed. and at this time, we will take public comment on this item. seeing no members of the public commenting on this item, public comment is now closed. on the motion in favour of electing myself, commissioner kim for chair and commissioner norman yee has vice chair, can we take a roll on this motion? >> yes. on the motion of appointing commissioner kim as chair and yee for vice chair. [roll call]

>> proved. >> thank you for your support of nominating and voting me in as chair of the treasure island mobility management agency. i look forward to serving with commissioner norman ye, e in 2018. >> item seven, public comment. >> thank you. commissioners, any new items that you would like to propose or comment on. seeing none, we'll open it up for public comments on both item six and general public comment item number seven. any members of the public like to speak on either items? seeing none, public comment is closed. mr. clerk, any other items before this body? >> no other items. >> meeting is adjourned. thank you, colleagues can. we'll see you in a few hour

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wear perspective and making things that are really thoughtful and mindful, mindful of the end user, how they're going to use it, whether it's the end piece or a he hwedding gown, are they going to use it again, and incorporating that into the end collection, and so that's the direction i hear at this point. >> the reason we are so enamored with the work we do is we really do see it as a platform for changing and making the city something that it has always been and making sure that we're sharing the opportunities that we've been blessed with economically and socially as possible, broadening that

>> a way of life in san francisco. when the next major quake hits, the city hopes a new law requiring seismic upgrades to five story buildings will help keep more residents safe and sound. tell me a little about the soft story program. what is it? >> it's a program the mayor signed into law about a year and a half ago and the whole idea behind it was to help homeowners strengthen buildings so that they would not collapse. >> did you the soft story program apply to all buildings or building that were built in a certain time frame? >> it only applies to buildings built in the time frame of 1978 and earlier. it's aimed at wood framed

buildings that are three or more stories and five or more units. but the openings at the garage level and the street level aren't supported in many buildings. and without the support during a major earthquake, they are expected to pancake and flatten ~. many of the buildings in this program are under rent control so it's to everybody's advantage to do the work and make sure they protect their investment and their tenant. >> notices have gone out to more than 6,000 owners of potentially at-risk properties but fewer than one-third have responded and thousands might miss an important deadline in september to tell the city what they plan to do. let's talk worst case scenario. what happens in a collapse? >> buildings have the tendency of rolling over. the first soft story walls lean over and the building collapse.

in an earthquake the building is a total loss. >> can you describe what kind of strengthening is involved in the retrofit? >> one of the basic concepts, you want to think of this building kind of like rubber band and the upper three floor are very rigid box and the garage is a very flexible element. in an earthquake the garage will have a tendency to rollover. you have to rubber band analogy that the first floor is a very tough but flexible rubber band such that you never drive force he to the upper floors. where all your damage goes into controlled element like plywood or steel frame. >> so, here we are actually inside of a soft story building. can we talk a little about what kinds of repairs property owners might expect? >> it's a very simple process. we deliberately tried to keep it that way. so, what's involved is plywood, which when you install it and make a wall as we have done here already, then you cover it

with this gypsum material. this adds some flexibility so that during the earthquake you'll get movement but not collapse. and that gets strengthened even more when we go over to the steel frame to support the upper floor. >> so, potentially the wood and the steel -- it sounds like a fairly straightforward process takes your odds of collapse from one in 4 to one in 30? >> that's exactly right. that's why we're hoping that people will move quickly and make this happen. >> great. let's take a look. so, let's talk steel frames. tell me what we have going on here. >> well, we have a steel frame here. there are two of these and they go up to the lower floor and there is a beam that go across, basically a box that is much

stiffer and stronger. ~ goes so that during the earthquake the upper floor will not collapse down on this story. it can be done in about two weeks' time. voila, you're done. easy. >> for more information on how to get your building earthquake ready,. >> my name is angela wilson and i'm an owner of the market i worked at a butcher for about 10 years and became a butcher you i was a restaurant cook started in sxos and went to uc; isn't that

so and opened a cafe we have produce from small farms without small butcher shops hard for small farms to survive we have a been a butcher shop since 1901 in the heights floor and the case are about from 1955 and it is only been a butcher shot not a lot of businesses if san francisco that have only been one thing. >> i'm all for vegetarians if you eat meat eat meat for quality and if we care of we're in a losing battle we need to support butcher shops eat less we sell the chickens with the head and feet open somebody has to make money when you pay $25

for a chicken i guarantee if you go to save way half of the chicken goes in the enlarge but we started affordable housing depends on it occurred to us this is a male field people said good job even for a girl the interesting thing it is a women's field in most of world just here in united states it is that pay a man's job i'm an encountered woman and raise a son and teach i am who respect woman i consider all women's who work here to be impoverished and strong in san francisco labor is high our cost of good ideas we seal the best good ideas the profit margin that low but everything that is a laboring and that's a challenge in the town so many people chasing

money and not i can guarantee everybody this is their passion. >> i'm the - i've been cooking mile whole life this is a really, really strong presence of women heading up kitchens in the bay area it is really why i moved out here i think that we are really strong in the destroy and really off the pages kind of thing i feel like women befrp helps us to get back up i'm definitely the only female here i fell in love i love setting up and love knowing were any food comes from i do the lamb and that's how i got here

today something special to have a female here a male dominated field so i think that it is very special to have women and especially like it is going at it you know i'm a tiny girl but makes me feel good for sure. >> the sad thing the building is sold i'm renegotiating my lease the neighborhood wants us to be here with that said, this is a very difficult business it is a constant struggle to maintain freshness and deal with what we have to everyday it is a very high labor of business but something i'm proud of if you want to get a job at affordable housing done nasal you need a good attitude and the

jobs on the bottom you take care of all the produce and the fish and computer ferry terminal and work your way up employing people with a passion for this and empowering them to learnthi