discussion. i -- what i heard was that the existing services or system that we have to help those that are already homeless are helping a certain number every year move out of homelessness, and what we're seeing at the same time as many come into the system that's new that was not homeless. so i guess from my perspective is not so much about when somebody's in jail -- this is a bad analogy, but not when they're at their worst, but how do you prevent it from getting there? and so i think my priorities, you know in regards to a policy or how we want to look at our budget is in regards to

additional resources would leave towards the prevention side and if we have limited resources. so my priorities would be that we continue and maybe increase that -- the rapid rehousing program. the second priority that i would have -- and it wasn't even talked about today, but i asked the budget office -- i don't know if i have an answer yet. the question i asked was last year, mayor lee added $2 million to fund child care for homeless children in which we know that it -- if they're not in those child care systems when they're very little, there's just no stimulation. what is the answer? is it ongoing or one year of

funding. >> it was ongoing funding. >> supervisor yee: okay. then i won't ask for additional for that. the other -- i think mental health, as i mentioned before, whether it's for children. my emphasis would be for children, but i think for all age brackets, we really need to do more in that area. no matter how we discuss it, regardless if they're homeless or not homeless, children or adults, the services are needed and we just have not been able to catch up with that. the -- i think the he housing subsidies should be increased. i think we go through that real quickly. i also want to support the tenants rights lawyers -- or eviction # lawyers that will help tenants. and then, i guess the heart --

what is it? the one item that i'd really like to see happen -- it's not the only thing, but if there's one thing that i'd like to see happen in terms of a facility, is i'd like to see a navigation center put up. it's not to say that i'm not going to support anything else put up, but these are my priorities. >> supervisor cohen: all right. i'm glad to here these priorities 'cause colleagues, i will be circling back to your offices tomorrow and also on monday the language for the resolution that we will be introducing hopefully collectively on tuesday of next week, so i want to make sure that i -- supervisor -- provid supervisor yee, those priorities that you laid out, make sure that you or your staff, you can communicate it -- perfect.

you've got them written down. supervisor sheehy? >> supervisor sheehy: yeah. i was going to say a lot of what supervisor yee said. the housing opportunity for young people, and getting a tay homeless navigation center i think is a fundamental gap. if we could get housing and a navigation center, i think we could start to address a problem that's been largely under served, and i also don't -- we did hear from kate hartly that the mayor may include in his budget already, but i think encouraging him to do that, the funding for eviction defense attorneys, i think is a critical piece. there were some other good ideas we heard today, but those, to me, really stood out as big priorities, and again, thank you supervisor cohen for a great process. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. and i want to thank you all for sticking with us. it's been a long day. i think this is going to be one

of the longer policy discussions. i don't anticipate this length of time in the future, but i'll try to manage the conversations a little bit better. let's see...what's next? madam clerk, is there -- obviously -- i've totally lost my bearings. my god, i've been at this since 1:00, 10:00 -- >> clerk: madam chair, would you like to take an action on this hearing item? >> supervisor cohen: no, no need to take an action. i think what i'd like to do, we'll file it as heard, as the hearing is heard, and we will revisit the conversation at the appropriate time and we will continue to move forward. >> supervisor cohen: is there a second? second by kathrin stefani, and if i could take this without objection, and i would like the record to reflect that supervisor fewer just had to leave about 15 minutes ago. all right. we can take that without objection.

thank you. and to the members of the staff, thank you very much. budget legislative analysts, ladies and gentlemen, i appreciate it. ladies and gentlemen that have been with us in the audience, i appreciate it, and madam clerk, is there any other news or business before this body? >> clerk: there's no further -- >> supervisor cohen: all right. we're adjourned. thank you. hi, i'm lawrence. w

doing a special series about staying safe. let's look at issues of water and sewer. we are here at the san francisco urban center on mission street

in san francisco and i'm joined today by marrielen from puc and talk about water and sewer issues. what are things we should be concerned about water. >> you want to be prepared for that scenario and the recommendation is to have stored 1 gallon per person per day that you are out of water. we recommend that you have at least 3-5 days for each person and also keep in consideration storage needs for your pets and think about the size of your pets and how much water they consume. >> the storage which is using tap water which you are going to encourage. >> right. of course at the puc we recommend that you store our wonderful delicious tap water. it's free. it comes out of the tap and you can store it in any plastic container, a clean plastic container for up to 6

months. so find a container, fill it with water and label it and rotate it out. i use it to water my garden. >> of course everyone has plastic bottles which we are not really promoting but it is a common way to store it. >> yes. it's an easy way to pick up bottles to store it. just make sure you check the label. this one says june 2013. so convenient you have an end date on it. >> and there are other places where people have water stored in their houses. >> sure. if you have a water heater or access to the water heater to your house, you can drink that water and you can also drink the water that the in the tank of your toilet. ; not the bowl but in your tank. in any case if you are not totally sure about the age of your water or if you are not

sure about it being totally clean, you can treat your water at home. there is two ways that you can treat your water at home and one is to use basic household bleach. the recommendation is 8 drops of bleach for ever gallon of water. you add 8 drops of bleach into the water and it needs to sit for 30 minutes. the other option is to boil water. you need to boil water for 5-10 minutes. after an earthquake that may not be an option as gas maybe turned off and we may not have power. the other thing is that puc will provide information as quickly as possible about recommendations about whether the water is okay to drink or need to treat it. we have a number of twice get information from the puc through twitter and facebook and our website sf

water.org. >> people should not drink water from pools or spas. but they could use it to flush their toilets if their source are not broken. let's look at those issues. >> sanitation is another issue and something people don't usually or like to think about it but it's the reality. very likely that without water you can't flush and the sewer system can be impeded or affected during an earthquake. you need to think about sanitation. the options are simple. we recommend a set up if you are able to stay in your building or house to make sure that you have heavy duty trash bags available. you can set this up within your existing toilet bowl and once it's used. you take a little bit of our

bleach. we talked about it earlier from the water. you seal the bag completely. you make sure you mark the bag as human waste and set it aside and wait for instruction about how to dispose of it. be very aware of cleanliness and make sure you have wipes so folks are able to wash up when dealing with the sanitation issue. >> thank you so much,

test text1 underline >> let's gather, let's gather round. we are going to have a very quick joyous program today, happy passover, happy easter, happy extravaganza, happy reopening of the koret children's playground. >> i -- i am here with my dear friend and partner drew becker of the san francisco parks alliance and we are your emcees today. drew, you want to say a few words? >> thank you, easter bunny.

no, very happy to be here, it is, you know, it's a happy day here in golden gate park and koret playground and excited to be a part of it and the outpouring to get the playground back open. thank you so much, thank you for being a member of the parks alliance and for loving your park. back to you, phil. >> heart of the matter, a lot of people that stepped up to get the playground reopened and no way we were going to keep kids off it. but today the true, true, true heroes are the young, young men and women in orange today. the young kids from stepping preschool, you can clap for yourselves. who kicked this all off on their own by raising $283.17 in lemonade and donuts out there on irving street and presented it

to our beloved mayor lee and said please fix our playground. and the rest was history. so, a big round of applause to stones. [applause] all right. of wonderful speakers who have led and made sure the project happened. drew and i have made a personal promise to the mayor of san francisco whose schedule is filled with parades and community events and all kinds of things today that we would be brief, which is not something that comes naturally to us. >> so, that means under an hour here. >> yes, no, yes. so, what drew and i, are you ready to go? what drew and i thought we would rather than a long boring speech, i offer mr. mayor, an welcome to koret children's playground fixed up, children ready, let's play. because of your, your loving generosity. forget to tip your waiters, i'll

week. mr. becker. >> so, phil called me about this like last night and said i want you to do an haiku, i thought it very sweet, here i go. ashes, ashes sad. children playing happy face, playground back. >> well done. all right. and without further ado, my great honor to introduce the mayor of the city and county of san francisco, mark farrell. [applause] >> thank you, mr. ginsberg. i don't have an haiku for you today, sorry about that. i want to say thank you to stepping stones preschool, to kids, you are awesome. this is so amazing to the future city. you know, when this playground burnt down, it captured the imagination of our city, and so thankful for everyone who stepped up, i really want to pay mayor, ed lee, who made this a priority, here in san francisco, before he

passed away, it was without his support this would not have happened at all. and so a huge, how about a round of applause for his leadership in this. you know, my wife is here today, we have been taking our three kids here to this playground of their birth, and to see it rebuilt, to see the kids back on the concrete slide is amazing, and what's also amazing, though, i think we need to recognize, what a legendary playground this is and city of san francisco. standing with some other guys earlier today also born and raised san francisco kids and we came here when we were little and remember the slide and the cardboard and getting some air off of some of the jumps. but what an amazing place this is. look, parks are the heart and soul of our city. we are all about. we have such amazing leaders ginsberg. thanks so much to the parks alliance and drew,

congratulations to everybody. happy easter, happy passover, have a great weekend, everyone. >> thank you, mayor. give it up for mayor farrell again. next up, we could not do this would you tell us the leadership of the rec and park commission and here representing them is commissioner alan lowe. thanks, drew. also want to thank our general who really brought us together but really the stepping stone kids to tell us old folks hey, let's get this fixed. this is a great example of the city coming together in a time of need and just getting it fixed and done. of the recreation and park commission, thank you san francisco to save our recreation sports as well as the parks alliance and the koret foundation, and also thank mayor lee who is looking at us from heaven saying well, we got it done. thank you. >> thank you, alan. i also want to give a very, very

special shout out, i see some folks in uniform today, both the san francisco fire department and the san francisco police department were immediately on when actually this all went down, and reminder of how important you all are, and how much, how hard you work to campaign our city safe. and this would have been a lot worse without the amazing quick response of the san francisco fire department. so thank you very much, very [applause] and then just so you all know, on that other side of the fence, san francisco fire department is locked into a fierce battle with the san francisco police department and the san francisco recreation park department, it is our version of top chef, name show, it is the barbecue competition of the year, and it is very serious business. so i invite everybody to come get a taste of the fire department, police department park department

barbecuing and then vote for the parks department, ok? we -- things like this happen and unexpectedly and you know, like it -- it's hard to kind of make a half a million dollars lift and get this fixed as fast as we wanted to do it, so we need supporters, friends, supporters. koret foundation, truly amazing. this is the koret children's playground, so the foundations caring investment and support in created it at the outset, and what is so amazing is that when this came down, and we said we needed a little help, koret said we are here, and that's what they do city in so many different ways and we are so anita freedman, for your support. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. i'm anita freedman, as phil

said, the volunteer president of the koret foundation, and we have here also our professional leadership, danielle foreman and her family. where is danielle? and it's because this foundation is one of the largest philanthropic foundations in san francisco and we believe in children, believe in families, in san francisco, we believe in bringing them all together in wonderful places like this to make san francisco one of the best, one of the wonderful places for families and children in the world. and that's our commitment to san francisco and i know it's all of commitment, too. now, i personally remember having been here one of the first times, who remembers what if you -- if you know, you get a genius point. ok. i happen to have here, happen to have here tickets, the ticket i

bought here for a free ride on the carousel when we dedicated the carousel. ok? phil, can i use this still? >> you can. >> i came here with my family, my son joseph, who was two and a my son adam, who was six months, and aaron, my third son is here someplace, he was but not a physical form yet, and now they play here, we came here on this day we dedicated this and granddaughter margo and granddaughter nava, so my family as all of your families understand how important it is to the life of the city to have resources like this. so, thank you, thank you for leadership. thank you for making this happen. thanks to all of you and now let's play. [applause] much, anita. yes, that is still valid, there is no question in my mind that

as anita noted, parks are so important to san francisco, the first city in the united states of america, 100% of us live in ten minutes walk of a park and over the last ten years, in capital investment all over the city, and that is in large part, because san francisco loves their parks and also the political leadership in the past generation. and there has been no bigger park champion than our next president of the board of supervisors, london breed. >> good morning, everybody. i am so excited to be here today. i grew up in san francisco and one of the highlights of my life was when we took our annual field trip in school to this playground. and we would always try to find cardboard so we could slide down that slide. so, mayor mark farrell and i later, we are going to get some

cardboard and slide down that slide. know, i just want to say when this park was vandalized last year, when makes me love san francisco so much is how so many people came together, to raise money for the purposes of making sure that we got this done and we got it done quickly for our young people. and i just want to say how proud of the kids from stepping stones preschool. [applause] i remember last year when they visited mayor lee to present a check to the city after doing a lemonade stand and raising money and what amazing young people to just step up and want to help and do all that they can. i mean, how amazing is that. i'm so proud of each and every one of you for everything that you did. you are the future of this city and you are going to make sure that this playground is here for

generations to come. thank you to the parks alliance, thank you to the koret foundation for not only helping to renovate the playground in the past but chipping in right away when we needed additional money to get it done quickly, thank you to phil ginsberg for leading the effort. i call him mr. parks. everything he does is ensure that our playgrounds and our parks are safe, that they are clean, and that they are fun for kids all over this city. what a wonderful event. thank you all each and every one of you for being here today. [applause] >> thank you, president breed. dressed in green today for parks. we go. next up, it takes a village to and we have another great partner to help bring this play ground back to life. san francisco, sports and recreation, tricia weaver moss.

>> good morning. mayor farrell and commissioner lowe, and everybody here on behalf of san francisco for sports and recreation, i'm thrilled to be able to support the reopening of this historic park. historic playground. i would like to thank phil ginsberg and drew becker, and commissioner lowe and everybody at the parks department and the parks alliance and the parks commission for making our park system in san francisco one of the greatest in the country. we are really the envy of the nation. i would also like to thank our partner, alexandria real estate, here today for their extremely generous donation to this project. am i on here? ok, a little close to the mic. thanks, alexandria. especially like to thank my

colleague, david brentlinger, for his enormous effort to lead the improvement of public spaces around the city of which this is one. thank you very much, david brentlinger. you know, our organization, san francisco for sports and recreation, genesis in court advocacy. but my colleagues had the opportunity to have literally thousands of personal conversations with people from san francisco, every walk of life, every age, to every corner of the city and when we learned in those conversations is there is a real yearning among city dwellers for even better parks. not just better tennis courts, which what we were initially interested in, but better pools, and better basketball courts, recreation centers. and most importantly,

so, we learned that public spaces in general, places to play in general, but particularly playgrounds and the koret playground in particular, are really the heart of the city. and indeed, little children breathed new life into this playground with their grassroots advocacy. and without them, getting the ball rolling, who knows how long it would have taken our diverse group of project sponsors to come together to get this going. so, with that, let's have some fun, enjoy the park, and have a great day. >> thank you, trisha. >> before we bring up the stars conclude our program, just a few additional thanks. first of all, acknowledge derek brown from the mayor's office neighborhood services is here, comes to every park event, lends a hand. i want to thank my own team,

lisa, nathan, david, here, our superintendent of golden gate park, my capital division, karen ruppert here, and the folks who managed the project, this is truly a team effort and you can tell by the fact that no kid is listening to us at this point. just how special it is. all right. the stars of the show are stepping stone preschool, what i would like to do is gather all the kids and bring up lizbeth and mary, come on up. and where is j.p.? so you know how you know who j.p. is, j.p. was the guy with the cash or check? >> cash. >> it was cash. it was cold hard cash. >> it was bitcoin, phil. >> that stepping stones presented to mayor lee, $283. so, j.p. you were telling me about your lemonade salesmanship.

what was your strategy? >> like we, i guess like we just wanted to raise money for like the children's playground. and lend a hand. >> right on. like, what was it like meeting mayor lee? >> it was like to meet mayor lee, so we needed to fix the playground. >> well, you guys proud that you did it? >> yes. >> right on. well, i want to say a big, big thank you on behalf of the recreation and parks department to you guys, and i want to present this certificate to stones on this day because this doesn't happen without you guys, and then i would love mary and lizbeth to say a few words and selfish personal note, my daughter, turns 18 tomorrow, went to stepping stones preschool.

>> on behalf of all our parents and the stepping stone families, we are so happy you are here today. this -- this whole experience is really kind of part of what stepping stones is all about. the children came here on their weekly outing to the ca ro you -- carousel park we call it, and it was burnt down and upset. and instead of the punitive measure on the bad people they came up with a fix. a lot of talk what to do, lemonade stand is what they did, and turned basically a bad situation to something amazing. and it just so happened this they had already scheduled a field trip to city hall and so our amazing director, could not be here today, called them and said hey, can you have someone

show up in a suit so that the kids can hand over the money and so ed lee came down, which was amazing. >> fabulous. >> rest is history. >> our team, and one picture and then let's have usually it's the kids saying screaming out and saying thank you, we'll have a picture with the mayor and president breed and everybody here. let's move this. we'll come around the picture on three, i'll have the adults say thank you, stepping stones. or thank you kids. thank you kids. stones kids on three. all right, everybody gather in. let's go, come on, come on, everybody gather in. all right, on three, thank you stepping stones kids. 1, 2, 3. thank you stepping stones kids! [applause] thanks for coming out, everybody. enjoy your day.

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>> the renovation of balboa park, the oldest in the city of san francisco, and now it is the newest part in the city of san francisco. through our partnership, and because of public investment from the two thousand eight fund, we are celebrating a renewal and an awakening of this park. we have it safer, happier, more joyous. >> 3, 2, 1, [laughter] =--[applause] >> it is a great resource for families, to have fun in the city, recreation. >> this is an amazing park. we have not revitalized it

without public and private investment. the critical piece of the process of this renovation was that it was all about the community. we reached out to everyone in this community. we love this park dearly and they all had thoughts and ideas and they wanted to bring their own creativity and their personality to bear on the design. what you see is what the community wanted. these ideas all came from the residents of this community. as a result, there is a sense of ownership, pride and responsibility that goes along with what is going to be an exciting park.

>> i call this meeting to order. anthony, will you let us begin. >> good evening, this is a meeting of the san francisco commission on the environment, the date is wednesday, march -- special meeting, the date is wednesday, march 14, 2018, and the time is 5:04 p.m. reminder that the use of cell phones and electronic devices are prohibited. the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any persons responsible for the ringing of use of cell phone, or electronic devices. there will be opportunity for public comment on every item on the agenda as well as opportunity for general public comments on items that are not