discussions we had and the -- you know, various back and forth around trying to balance, you know, building out what is now a relatively difficult part of san francisco to access, and the ultimate vision of a true urban place with, you know, people moving around in this part of san francisco the way they move around in a lot of other parts of san francisco. so this is -- so this is picking it up, and we do feel that the additional provisions really drilling down into recognizing and reflecting that link between parking and trips is appropriate, given where we are now. >> so from my peculiar spective, thspec -- perspective, that all sounds fine. but from amending it on the fly, we have a few stakeholders

here, as well, but i'm presuming that sf mta staff is okay with this. >> sf mta is okay with this. >> from the developer, are you okay with this? >> yes. >> okay. very good. and the supervisor, see how she did that so efficiently with just a thumbs up? you're the best. >> they were working over the weekend, everybody. this is a -- >> yeah. so for the record all three constituents were involved and approved this. okay. so director ramos has proposed that amendment. is there any public comment on that amendment? see pg none -- oh, -- seeing none -- oh, i didn't get a second. is there a second to director ramos's amendment? yes. okay. we've already discussed that in significant public detail. is there any public comment? seeing none, we'll close public comment and take a voice vote. all those in favor of that amendment, please say aye.

any opposed? >> clerk: you do have public comment on the item. >> okay. understood. so now, we are back to the item as a whole. thank you to staff. thank you to the folks from the developer for coming down, and you know enforce and with your -- was it ceo, is that your title of the -- [ inaudible ] >> look, it's meaningful when the head of the company comes down to talk to us. we take that seriously. and you didn't say anything. you don't have to say anything, but just being here to support the project is meaningful to me and meaningful to the other directors, as well. so with that, unless there are clarifying comments from the directors, i would like to open it up to public comment. okay. miss boomer? >> walter johnson, at the here? lot l lottie titus, and linda

richardson, followed by dr. veronica honeycutt. >> ma'am, thank you for coming down. >> thank you for having me. good evening, board of directors. i am honored to stand in front of you to ask the proposed revisions to the candlestick point hunters point shipyard phase two transportation plan and hunters point shipyard phase two development infrastructure plan be approved. i thank you for working closely with us. my name is lottie titus, and i am a bayview resident, working closely with us for the sf bayview development. sf mta worked very closely with the whole city to ensure that we had transportation during our time of transition. i come to you, asking you the same thing once again, for this project.

i ask that you put transportation in place and you stand with us as residents, and as part of our city, a big entity in our city, a great entity, which provides transportation, to ensure that we are able to get around on all of this new development that is about to transpire. we're excited about it, and i want you all to be excited about it, as well. thank you. >> thank you very much. most appreciated. >> linda richardson followed by veronica honeycutt. >> good afternoon, commissioner vice chair heinicke, and fellow commissioners. i want to give a shout out to your commissioner rubke, and it's going to precede what i'm going to say here. for the last 20 months, her and i actually working with the

port of san francisco on the master land use plan. i chaired the transportation committee, and this is very significant because we're talking about the southern waterfront, which is the india basin, which is where the hunters point shipyard project is located. and i also wanted to see here it's taken us 18.5 years. i was the chair of the land use and transportation plan. we yielded the candlestick point project to the shipyard. we anticipate that this is going to be a great, a great development. guess what? sf mta was in there with us. you provided your staff. we also have counseling from sf cta, the mtc, and all the major agencies in the city. we had actually put together a master plan and conducted a larger feasibility study. what i need from you and i'm

going to implore that you give us your blessing today. i'm going to say that, to move this forward, but i'm going to ask for special request. where we are at right now, you will find that a lot of studies have taken place. i need for your leadership to begin the master plan. the city obligations is the developers you have just seen, they've done their due diligence. it's making sure that the developers inside the transportation. we are taking that model in the tdm. what is lacking right now is the implementation of the long range transportation plan which you, sf mta, sf cta, with the water emergency transportation is also in the area, all of you need to come together, vice chairman, to help us out. so thank you for your time on

passing this project. >> thank you. dr. honeycutt. >> good to see you. i am dr. veronica honeycutt, and i am the chair for the c.a.c. for the shipyard. and i want you to know that we at the c.a.c. have meticulously -- i can't tell you how many hours we've put in in reviewing all aspects of the plans, including the transportation plans. and i like the word robust. it's been used about three or four times today, but i'll read right to it. it is a robust and comprehensive plan. it is improved, as you can tell. and to be honest with you, the southeast deserves this kind of a plan. we deserve something really nice out there, okay? so we on the c.a.c. urge you to approve the concept plan. now in my role as the chair of

the c.a.c., and as the volunteer and advocate for god knows how many years, i am an advocate for the shipyard, and i'm also an advocate for the community because you know i was raised in the western addition. i remember the days i ran with the folks who were the movers and the shakers of that time span and was blessed in being able to do that. but i am an advocate fore the community, and people come to the c.a.c. sub committee meetings and full c.a.c. meetings and they share their transportation concerns and other concerns with us. so i would like to make a suggestion to all of you. i would suggest that there be a convening to discuss today's transportation issues in the southeast. you need to hear what people are saying about the transportation, and there are either joys in what they're able to access or their inabilities to access transportation, and there is an

inequity there. thank you very much for allowing me to speak with you. >> thank you, dr. honeycutt for all your work on this project. next speaker, please. david springer, are you here? okay. most efficient speaker yet, mr. springer. ma'am, welcome. thank you for coming. >> hello. my name's maxine pawson, and i'm a resident at alice griffith public housing, and i kind of want to follow with what dr. honeycutt said about the residents and their accessibility for their current transportation. these are some of the recommendations that they'd like to prioritize for current improvements till 2035, till the project is done. one is a more reliability of lines, especially the east-west ones that bring you to and from

the train. next is more enforcement of sidewalk and illegal street parking, which there's quite a bit of in the bayview. also, even recently, the scooters and bicycles also on the sidewalks. number three go wz that is that there are many obstacles for pedestrians, especially disabled ones. just basic accessibility issues, like paved roads, curb cuts, and just basic -- there's a lot of places, there are no sidewalks. number four is better response from the city, the 311 calls about safety and lighting outages. anywhere else you'd make a call, you'd get a much faster response than the ones you get in the southeast. that's it. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much.

next speaker, mr. mason, welcome back. >> thank you, directors. my basic two questions: one, who will the residents be in this new development? are they going to be san francisco employees or are they going to be san mateo and santa clara county employees? or are we going to have a company town with the r. and d. that's going to be there? i would hope that the transportation plan is going to be flexible to either accommodate the private commuter buses or the samtrans express bus study that's underway right now. everything is directed towards muni and sending and the transportation plan to go downtown. but private commuter buses are here based on pilot programs and everything else we've got. so i -- who's going to really be living in this area?

are they going to be san francisco employees or are we building a bedroom community for santa clara and san mateo counties? and i would hope that that would be considered. thank you very much. >> very good. any other public comment? >> i have no more speaker cards, mr. chairman. >> okay. very good. are there any -- yes, director ramos, please. >> i skbrust want to express my sincere gratitude to everybody that worked on this within the sf mta, miss jones and mr. mcguire, everybody else that worked on this has done a great job of accommodating a lot of the concerns that we've heard and that the pag at least, and i want to express my gratitude to the development teams that responded to the concerns that we brought up. this is a true demonstration of good faith. i'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out. most importantly i want to thampg the residents and the supervisors' office for all of

their partnership and leadership, really, in getting us to this place, so i'm going to move that we support the motion. >> okay. is there a second on the proposal? >> second. >> okay. there is, and before you vote, since you thanked everybody else, i will thank you. sometimes we don't thank our fellow board members, and sometimes people take leadership roles, so director ramos and director rubke, thank you for what you have shown individually. >> hear, hear. >> -- on this complex project and making sure the interests of the city are met. so with that, we have a motion. all those in favor, please say aye? any opposed? okay. and to the supervisor's office and to the staff and developer in particular, congratulations. you all did it the way you should do it, and i personally appreciate that. >> mr. president, item 13.

[agenda item read]. >> nobody's turned in a speaker card indicating they're interested in addressing you on this matter. >> i'm here to report back to you on the shared electric moped program which you approved last june, and there were a few concerns that we wanted to report back to. my colleague andy that i had

promised to come back and report. >> yes. >> so that is why i'm here. a quick refresher. we had a permit trial policy that the' pilot program was based off of. in the permit program that you approved, we had lifted a permit so that people with mopeds could park at any rpp curb, so that's the main difference there. as of now, we've only had one service provider, and that's scoot networks, and they're obliged due to the network to give us certain data, so they let us know where the scooters are, how long they've been there, monthly utilization reports and user surveys that they actually shape and we help them work on. looking at some of the preliminary data, these are just average daily rides pervehicle and average idle time between reservations. it's a good story. the reservations have gone up

since the program was made permanent, as well as the idle times have gone down, which makes sense. the more reservations, the let time they would be sitting around squl so what you' around. >> so what you're succeeding even though they came to us. >> yeah. >> it's late in the evening. >> but back to the sort of main issue, it's the 8 foot curb, and you wanted to know what would happen if we lifted it. what we've learned is the citations for scoots being in driveways have gone down. [please stand by for captioner switch]

>> a little more interestingly is exactly what trips are being replaced. we see transit here, which is not a trip we're looking to replace. one little bit of contract is this does not take into account time of day. we know that these are late trips where people get off at work at 1:00 or 2:00 in the

morning and they might not feel safe to wait for a bus. i know scoot is here and bob wants to talk about those late-night trips and in any case it's one little caveat. you can see 21% and 5% are tnc or one way or another. so in general, we're happy with how this program is coming along. we'd like to tune up a few things. we're working with scoot to expand what they offer in terms of multi lingual user facing experiences so whether it's and we're working with them on offering that in other languages and they have made progress on that to date. >> the one thing that isn't in this data right here, but sort of relates to that and it may be off program is safety. my understanding is no significant number of accidents in fact the training program is working and we really have reason to believe that this is not only a alternative way to

get around but a safe one as well. >> correct. we don't know of any particularly bad crashes or not fatal crashes. >> i just think it's important to our record. ok. >> we'd like to see them expand throughout the city and so to whatever extent we can help them stretch south and west we've been working on city-owned properties but they're working on that as well. finally, we're aware that mopeds parking in motorcycle parking could impact the supply for the two-wheeled is universe so we're watching. >> that's not before us today. >> no, it's not. that concludes my presentation. >> so procedurally this is a report. we don't have to take any action. would you be disappointed if i didn't call you up to speak. congratulations on all you are doing. thank you for the report. board members are there any questions or concerns raised by this report? >> yes. >> please, ok.

do we have public comments. >> no one has turned in a speaker card and i don't see anyone moving forward. >> i'll call public comment on this. anyone wants to comment on this item. seeing none we'll close public comment. >> quickly, comparative models of the electric bike versus this versus the potential scooters we just passed, is there a way to measure which ones are being utilized more? >> sure, that would be part of the data that we collect. in terms of compared to bike share, these scooters are shared about four and a half times a day during the summer and three and a half times a day during the winter and bike share is about two. they are used pretty consistently, about 1200 rides a day. >> very good. thank you. with that, we will move on to item 14. discussion vote as to whether to envoke the attorney-client privilege and conducted a closed session. >> so i forgot to thank all staff on that last presentation. which is very well done.

thank you. >> move it. >> is there a second. >> second. >> all those in favor going in closed session please say aye. >> aye. >> ok. anybody opposed. no. we go into closed session. >> all right, it will take me a >> you are back in open session. the board of directors met in closed discussion and the attorney of the board voted to approve the case. it will be a motion to disclose are not disclose the information discussed. >> such a motion. >> i'll take that as a motion not to disclose what has been seconds. all those in favor a aye. >> aye. >> opposed? that motion carries. the meeting is adjourned. >> well done mr. chairman. >> commissioners, i know you are watching at home, welcome back.

>> on december 28, 1912. san francisco mayor, sonny jim

rolph stared into the crowds of those who have gathered. a moment in history. the birth of a publicly own transit system. san francisco municipal railway. muni as it would become to be known. happy birthday, muni, here is to the next 100 years. the birth of muni had been a long-time coming. over the years the city was disjointed privately owned companies. horses and steam and electric-powered vehicles. creating a hodgepodge of transit options. none of them particularly satisfying to city residents. the city transit system like the city itself would have changes

during the san francisco earthquake. the transition that will pursue from this aftermath would change san francisco's transportation system once again. facilitated by city boss, abe ruth, ushering in the electric city car. the writing was on the wall. the clammer had begun for the experiment including public transit people. owned by the people and for the people. the idea of a consolidated city-owned transit system had begun traction. and in 1909, voters went to the polls and created a bond measure to create the people's railway. would become a reality three years later.

on december 28, 1912, mayor sonny rolph introduced the new geary electric streetcar line and the new san francisco railway. that he said would be the nucleus that would host the city. and san francisco gave further incentive to expand the city's network. a project by way of tunnel leading into chinatown by way of north beach. in december the first streetcar was driven into the tunnel. just two years after its berth, muni had added two lines. and k, l and m lines that span

out from westportal. in 1928, the j line opened heading west to the beach. in 1944 san francisco voters finally approved muni take-over of the market street railway. by then motor bus and trolley bus improvement had given them the ability to conquer san francisco's hills. after the war most of the street-car lines would be replaced with motor or trolley bus service. in 1947, the mayor recommended replacing two lines with motor coaches. and it appeared that san francisco's iconic cable cars had seen their final days. entered mrs. cluskin, the leader to save the cable cars. arguing that the cable cars were

a symbol of the city, and she entered a charter placed on the november ballot. it passed overwhelmly. the california street cable railway was purchased by the city in 1952. there were cut backs on the cable car system and in 1957 only three lines would remain. the three lines that exist today. in 1964 the cable car's future as part of california's transit system was sealed when it was proclaimed a national historic landmark. in february, 1980, muni metro were officially inaugurated.

in that same year, muni received its first fleet of buses equipped with wheelchair lifts. in 1982 when the cable car had a shut-down, they added an alternative attraction to the cars. the festival was a huge hit and would continue for the next four summers in a permanent f-line that would extend all the way to fisherman's wharf, by 2000 the f-line was in place. and in 2007 muni extended the third line to the southeast corner and returning to third street. for the first time in 60 years. in the course of last 100 years,

muni's diverse workforce forged by men and women of innovation have reflected the many cultures that flock to the city. muni's ground-breaking antidiscrimination has guaranteed equal opportunity for all. the city's policy mandates the course for the future, as they work diligently to increase options and increase multialternatives, and deduce -- reduce the carbon footprint. it continues to improve the systems. during this sen -- centennial year we reflect on the transit system. driven notgood morning, everyon.

good afternoon. i want to thank you all for being here today to talk about not only the success that we've had here in the garage in the mca with the police department, but also talk about what we're doing around car break-ins. i want to thank the director, scott, peskin and stefani, who have been at this and talking about this for some time. you know, we have and have had a car break-in epidemic in the city of san francisco. in 2017, we had 30,000 break-ins in the city of san francisco. as we talked about for months and i have as mayor, it should not be a gamble to park your car on the streets of san francisco. this affects people who visit the city of san francisco, the people that work in the city of san francisco and it affects the people that live in the city of san francisco. and the current conditions on the street, is something that is

unacceptable. i want to commend chief scott. at the end of last year he implemented reforms, creating a dedicated unit in the police department and increasing foot reforms, we've seen 17% decrease this year alone, but as we talk about all the time, we're not resting on our laurells, it's still unacceptable what is happening, so we're moving forward. we're here in the stockton garage. this is a garage that is one of the most popular in the city. right next to the financial district, right next to union square, right next to places that people come to visit. last year, 2017, it was a hot spot for car break-ins. a high of 62 one month. but thank foss the reforms, we have seen a dramatic decrease in the amount of car break-ins here

in the stockton garage. specifically an 83% decrease in the amount of car break-ins here. so in january, we had 44 break-ins. in february, 12. in the month of march, 9. and knock on wood, this year, so far -- this month so far, we've had zero in the month of april. so if you think about that from a high watermark of 62 last year per month, to now zero so far in the month of april, we need to acknowledge, celebrate and respect this as the city of san francisco. and we need to think about moving forward and what we're going do do about it. we thank chief scott, dedicated foot patrol officer here in the garage, which i know we can't replicate everywhere, but we've installed cameras, done fencing around the infrastructure to reduce the loitering.

a ton of software and hardware upgrades, entry kiosk, monitoring system. simple but effective hardware and software upgrades making a difference for the people that park their cars here in the garage. it's with great excitement we're here to celebrate that. we're doing this in other garages, six throughout the city of san francisco. a garage that supervisor stefani represents, when i was a district 2 supervisor was the bane of our existence on pier street, now down 55% thanks to the efforts of the mta and the police department. i want to thank captain engler representing the area. we are doing it right and the sfmta and our city garages are doing it right. this is where we can lead by example. we can control this property. and we can focus on efforts that

are going to work for car break-ins. so today, we are not only celebrating and honoring what we have accomplished so far, at stockton and these other six garages, but we're announcing also today that all 22 city-owned garages, by the end of next year, we'll be implementing all of these reforms at all of our city-owned garages. car break-ins are epidemic, but don't have to be moving forward. just the other week, we launched the parks mark campaign, a number of announcements are coming in the next weeks and around street cleanliness and homelessness, but as it relates to car break-ins, what we're doing now is working and we're going to now put the pedal to the metal and make sure that every one of our city-owned garages republiclicates what we

seen. we all want to see it replicate the success we've had here as well. thank you for coming here today. with that, we'll introduce the chief of police, bill scott. >> thank you, mayor farrell. first let me say thanks to mayor farrell and supervisors peskin and stefani for their leadership. keeping the focus on the issue is important in terms of us moving the needle and turning the epidemic of car break-ins around. i'm going to talk about mr. ed riskin, head of mta, but today's approach, we know is the way to go. we have to be a more resilient city. we talk a lot about prevention, don't make yourself an easy target, but there are other things we can do to be more resilient and prevent the crimes from happening in the first

place. the things that have been implemented here, the fencing installed, to stop unauthorized entry, the lighting and the surveillance cameras to discourage would-be thieves, this is a team effort. and this is what collaboration brings to the table. again, go back to mayor farrell and his leadership and before him, mayor lee in order to force this issue, force a collaborative partnership that has led us to some success this year. we are working hard to continue the effort as the mayor said. this is going to be spread to all the city parking garages. although the deployment is part of that factor, we'll do what is necessary in terms of having the visibility and the presence to make sure that people know we're out here. that was part of our doubling of the foot beat. the people that are apt to

victimize others need to see us, they need to see their police officers out here visible. i think that gives everybody not only a sense of security, but also it deters these crimes from happening in the first place. we know we can't have a police officer at every corner every hour of the day, and that's why we need other measures, fencing, lighting, cameras to help us identify people that are apt to victimize others. so with this initiative, we believe that we will continue in the direction that we're going in terms of reducing these types of offenses and as the mayor said, we have about a 17% decrease year-to-date which is over a thousand less victims. i think that's something we can all be pleased with. but we still have a lot of work to do. i would like to introduce ed riskin, the head of mta.

>> thank you, chief. good afternoon. we're happy to be able to be here. it may not be sexy stuff, but parking garages are an important part of the transportation system here in san francisco. we want people to be able to find parking and feel their car is going to be safe when they leave it, whether it's on the street or off the street. the parking garages are ways for people to find parking, not spend time looking for parking on the street, and we want them to know when they leave their car in a public parking garage in san francisco that their car is safe. so we have been working on this in a number of different ways, partner with the police department, the leadership of chief scott has been critically important. a lot of the success that you heard the mayor and the chief talk about at this garage in particular has really been the presence of san francisco police department. and we work with them in districts around the city where we have our garages to try to

focus their resources as strategically as we can, because as the chief says, we can't have a cop in every garage all the time. to that end, we're using old technology and new technology to make more sustainable improvements in the garages, so that we need to -- so that we can really rely on the police only when we need them. the old technology as you heard, it's fencing, lighting, signage and we've seen some pretty good results already from some of those activities. and then there is the new technology. a number of years ago, doing an assessment of our garages, what we determined was that a lot of the technology in our garages was old and out of date, not just from security perspective, but operational and revenue collection. so we developed a program a number of years ago supported by mayor lee and board of supervisors and the mta board of

directors, that culminated in a three-year project to modernize and upgrade all our garages. we're about a third of the way through this 3-year project and these improvements do include things like high-definition cameras that hope us both monitor activity in realtime, but also help the police after an incident make positive identification of suspects so they can -- and particularly they can identify repeat offenders and really target their investigative resources appropriately. it includes more secure gates for folks getting in and out. communications equipment so that patrons can communicate with garage staff. a number of other improvements to make our garages safer and secure facilities. as you heard from the mayor, the initial results at the pier street garage which i used to

hear about from mayor farrell back when he was supervisor farrell and supervisor stefani, it had been a problem area. you heard the results, 55% reduction since the new improvements were in place. this is success we hope to replicate everywhere. we're not declaring victory here. you see a park smart sign, not a mission accomplished, because as the chief said there is more work to do, but we'll continue and complete these installations by 2020. we'll continue to coordinate with the police department and the d.a.'s office and are grateful for the strong leadership we have in our mayor and board of supervisors and the mta board of directors to ensure that our garages can be safer for people to park. thank you. >> thank you. and for your leadership. i would like to bring up two members of the board of supervisors who have been focused on the issue for a long

time now, and have been leaders on this, supervisor peskin and supervisor skef stefani. >> thank you, mayor, chief scott, ed riskin, the working men and women of the police department. i want to note a number of great cases that the cops have made in the last number of days, 11 arrests out of northern, central and southern stations, so thank you, captains, for that work. and then supervisor stefani and i are doing our part today by funding that $32.5 million which is to say that we're parking here and those parking validations, those parking costs go to pay that. we're always worried about the money. this has been extremely frustrating, not only as a supervisor, but somebody who had his car broken into on the street. and i cannot tell you how delighted i am that we are

addressing it. and those numbers are extraordinary numbers. 83% drop in this garage in a few month's time is really something to celebrate. i was just across the street at my optometrist and she said they have noted the immense change. so i heard about it from people on the street before i actually heard about it right here from the mayor. i want to thank you again and look forward to getting it to zero. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor peskin. last month at the budget committee, we approved the resolution of transferring this back to the sfmta and i raised questions about their greater public safety measures at this location and all the garages under their jurisdiction. i was motivated to do so not only on the terrible story of someone's dog thrown off the garage, sorry to bring that up, but it was devastating to many people and its owner.

and the only way the police were able to identify the perpetrator was because of a private dashboard camera that captured the crime. but i was able to do so based on my own experience sitting in the pier street garage and witnessing sophisticated criminals staking out cars while i tried to call it in. they laughed at me while i was on the phone with police. this is criminal tourism and it must stop. this is a garage in desperate need of help and i want to thank the sfmta for their attention to these issues. we've heard everything that has been done in the garage and after the installation of 12 cameras, new lighting, signage, the pier street garage saw a significant decline in break-ins. with a 55% reduction in six months after the upgrades. i cannot thank everybody enough. i hear from constituents every day they do not feel safe and

we're responsible and accountable for the safety of our community and cannot allow opportunities for people to be victimized. i am encouraged by their progress we have seen here, due to the measures put in place through our partnership with the mta. improving public safety and reducing car break-ins takes a multi-pronged approach and we have to use all of the tools available to us. i applaud the sfmta and the police department for working together to address this epidemic. this type of collaborative approach will combat future problems. i'd like to thank mayor farrell for his amazing leadership to make sure all departments are working together to make significant improvements in the area. as the numbers show, special attention and the presence of security enhancements actually do work. it is my priority to fight for these resources. we know that when captain joe engler of northern station

assigned police officers to the palace of fine arts, a hot spot for auto break-ins, there were zero break-ins. we know what works outside the garages and inside them and we must invest in those resources to keep our communities safe. these initiatives are just the beginning to tackling this crisis head on. last month, i called for a hearing to review the progress of safety measures in place at our city-owned parking lots and garages and that hearing will take place in june. this is yet another chance to learn about initiatives at these sites and to receive updates on what is working. i know today that we all agree that residents and visitors to san francisco should not be fearful of break-ins or their own personal safety in parking garages or lots and we must do everything we can to keep them safe. thank you, mayor farrell, chief scott, supervisor peskin, all those who worked to improve the safety in our garages. thank you very much.

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>> third thursdays at the commons is a monthly event series to really activate krisk centkrisk -- civic center, fulton mall, and other locations through social operation. >> in 2016, an initiative called the civic center progress initiative was launched, it was launched by a bunch of city agencies and community partners, so they really had to figure out how to program these places on a more frequent basis. i'm with the civic center

community benefit district, and i'm program manager for the civic center commons. also, third thursdays will have music. that was really important in the planning of these events. >> we wanted to have an artist that appeals to a wide range of tastes. >> i'm the venue manager. good music, good music systems, and real bands with guitar players and drummers. >> we turned uc center and fulton street into a place where people want to be to meet, to laugh, and it's just an amazing place to be. there's a number of different exhibits. there's food, wine, cocktails, and the idea, again, is to give people an opportunity to enjoy what really is, you know, one of the

great civic faces in america. when you look from the polk street steps, and you look all the way down the plaza, down market street, daniel burns' design, this was meant to be this way. it's really special. >> the city approached us off the grid to provide food and beverages at the event as kind of the core anchor to encourage people who leave a reason to stay. >> it's really vibrant. it's really great, just people walking around having a good time. >> this formula is great food, interesting music, and then, we wanted to have something a little more, so we partnered with noise pop, and they brought in some really fun games. we have skeeball, we also have roller skating

lessons, and we've got a roller skating rink. >> if you're a passion jail skeeball player like me, and you're deciding whether you're just going to roll the ball up the middle or take a bank shot. >> our goal is to come out and have fun with their neighbors, but our goal is to really see in the comments that it's a place where people want to hold their own public event. >> i think this is a perfect example of all these people working together. everybody's kind of come together to provide this support and services that they can to activate this area. >> there's no one agency or organization that really can make this space come alive on its own, and it's really through the collective will,

not just of the public sector, but both the public and our business partnerships, our nonprofits partnerships, you know, neighborhood activists. >> i really like it. it's, like, a great way to get people to find out about local things, cuisine, like, it's really great. >> it's a really good environment, really welcoming. like, we're having a great time. >> we want to inspire other people to do this, just using a part of the plaza, and it's also a good way to introduce people if they're having a large scale event or small scale event, we'll direct you to the right people at the commons so you can get your event planned. >> being a san francisco based company, it was really important to connect and engage with san franciscans.

>> how great is it to come out from city hall and enjoy great music, and be able to enjoy a comtail, maybe throw a bocci ball or skee ball. i find third thursdays to be really reinrig rat reinriggating for me. >> whether you're in the city hall or financial district or anywhere, just come on down on third thursdays and enjoy the music, enjoy an adult beverage, enjoy the skee ball; enjoy an adult playground, if you

>> right before the game starts, if i'm still on the field, i look around, and i just take a deep breath because it is so exciting and magical, not knowing what the season holds holds is very, very exciting. it was fast-paced, stressful, but the good kind of stressful, high energy. there was a crowd to entertain, it was overwhelming in a good way, and i really, really enjoyed it. i continued working for the grizzlies for the 2012-2013 season, and out of

happenstance, the same job opened up for the san francisco giants. i applied, not knowing if i would get it, but i would kick myself if i didn't apply. i was so nervous, i never lived anywhere outside of fridays know, andfridays -- fresno, and i got an interview. and then, i got a second interview, and i got more nervous because know the thought of leaving fresno and my family and friends was scary, but this opportunity was on the other side. but i had to try, and lo and behold, i got the job, and my first day was january 14, 2014. every game day was a puzzle, and i have to figure out how to put the pieces together. i have two features that are 30 seconds long or a minute and a 30 feature. it's fun to put that altogetl r

together and then lay that out in a way that is entertaining for the fans. a lucky seat there and there, and then, some lucky games that include players. and then i'll talk to lucille, can you take the shirt gun to the bleachers. i just organize it from top to bottom, and it's just fun for me. something, we don't know how it's going to go, and it can be a huge hit, but you've got to try it. or if it fails, you just won't do it again. or you tweak it. when that all pans out, you go oh, we did that. we did that as a team. i have a great team. we all gel well together. it keeps the show going. the fans are here to see the teams, but also to be entertained, and that's our job. i have wonderful female role models that i look up to here

at the giants, and they've been great mentors for me, so i aspire to be like them one day. renelle is the best. she's all about women in the workforce, she's always in our corner. [applause] >> i enjoy how progressive the giants are. we have had the longer running until they secure day. we've been doing lgbt night longer than most teams. i enjoy that i work for an organization who supports that and is all inclusive. that means a lot to me, and i wouldn't have it any other way. i wasn't sure i was going to get this job, but i went for it, and i got it, and my first season, we won a world series

even if we hadn't have won or gone all the way, i still would have learned. i've grown more in the past four years professionally than i think i've grown in my entire adult life, so it's been eye opening and a wonderful learni

we have both the march 20th and the april 3rd commission meetings. are there any changes, directions,