and that is really disappointing. we'd like to see a lot more outcry against that and the sweeps that are happening.

>> that's really gross when i am talked about in this way. >> clerk: thanyou wife your comments. next speaker, please. >> how many homes are indeed neighbourhoods that were developing by all of these new buildings from eastern neighbourhoods? last week, on one of our gems,, we interviewed kaci is an exfinancial officer remarking about the remedy for the '08, '09 financial crash. a remedy government undermining auto loans and mortgages, the

advantage to keep people in their homes, to stabilize the community and stabilize even the banks. and far far cheaper. less debt, bring our government back home. that's kind of that wha what wee trying to do here now. far healthier outcome for the communities, less costly and more efficient. smart government. instead we got the banks who have a lot of dollars. they kept their bonuses and brought back their stocks and starved, villages, towns, citizens, homelessness as part of the syndrome. where do we find dignity homes? who can support them? sba 27, the resolution,

statewide coverage of california's remedy it for denser housing. it should be shipped out of the state completely. i wouldn't mind bringing, signing a recall. the wrong direction completely. we need to take responsibility in our own neighborhood and our own communities. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> this is some of the... >> clerk: can you speak directly into the microphone? >> okay. i need to pick up this image if you place it over here. >> clerk: if you place it under the projector, we should be able to pick it up. >> okay. >> clerk: i will start your time. >> this is just some of the, this is what some of the housing

looks like for six as a construction worker's, temporary construction workers and temporary housing in oslo, norway. they can house 6,000 constructor -- construction workers. we should be able to house 6,000 or 7,000 homeless individuals just as easily. but i wanted to talk on the food service contract. the food service contract includes bottled water, card milk that is calorie dense, and inmates are physiologically incapable of digesting it and jails do not provide water fountains given that san francisco has a high rate of

tuberculosis relative to the rest of the nation. so, yeah, it would seem obvious that they would do that, provide water as an option but i am not sure that they actually do. >> clerk: thank you for your comments, sorry. next speaker, please. >> thank you madame clerk. president breed, ladies and gentlemen of the board, i am an involuntary psychiatric outpatient in this city and have been for ten years. more than ten years. i am getting tired of the hypocrisy. i heard about of course the man who was tortured at the airport. we have all heard about that. i don't want to minimize anybody else's suffering and i am to become homeless and less than four years, by the way. but i have been tortured for more than ten years. i have been treated with sodium

cyanide and nonlethal doses. i have been treating with asthma inducing substances. i've been reduced to lying on the floor of my rent-controlled unit, gasping for breath for hours because of my political activity. supposedly protected by the constitution. and you are funding this. you are paying over a million dollars a week to citywide case management community focus. to do this to me! and i have had enough! madame clerk. >> clerk: thank you, sir, keep your comments formal. next speaker, please.

next speaker, please? >> just wondering if we have a coram. >> clerk: reducer, i am beginning your time now. >> thank you. i guess i am wondering what y'all are going to do about solutions? i think somebody needs to call for a hearing as to what is the city going to do regarding a solution? i think we can start by putting more toilets in our communities. >> hello, hey, everybody, how is it going. they were talking to somebody else. >> clerk: this is your time, sorry. >> all right but i am just, maybe we could bring more toilets into the community. more sanitation like leaning into the community. we need more solutions. i am asking that y'all actually do something to get to some solutions to deal with some of the problems in our community.

it seems like a very violation that the city voted for as the sweeps and no housing. so, the lawsuits are coming, especially when they come from me. i have already filed and i'm hoping you know. but, i guess i am just wonderi wondering, the sweeps, the lawsuits, it just seems like there's no protections for the homeless when they go to these service providers and get abused. the committee, the local homeless coordinating board, they aren't doing enough i mean it is overwhelmed by service providers. i mean we go to these areas and we get abused and it seems like, you know, this body and everybody else is apathetic. and when do we get to the compassionate san francisco that

is in the manuals and in the advertisements for the people? >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. are there any other members of the public would like to address the board? please line up to your right. >> do we have 20 minutes or three? >> clerk: you have two minutes and if the lady next to you would like to speak she has two minutes as well. >> you can speak. >> we are here because we run a homeless dinner and have done for 15 years in chinatown, north beach and in the financial district. we know the budget is coming up soon and that all of you will make those important decisions on how to spend our city's resources. we are here to recommend highly that those resources be spent on the short term rental office and on any enforcement unit, for instance within the city attorney's office second closer look at the by outlaw that you yourselves passed in 2015 and was put into effect of march of that year.

here is what is going on for us to see about 100 people a month. some of them the same and some of them different people from those three areas of the city that i mentioned earlier. many people are being bought o out, "if we looked at the federal fair housin housing lawd the requirement that people be accommodated, those people would not be able to be evicted. they have sometimes mental disabilities, sometimes alcoholism, other problems, but right here in the city, we are talking about spreading or giving more latitude to the conservancy loss, but what we are effectively doing by allowing these people to be pushed out onto the street, as we are on conservin and conservy people who are already inside and deserve our help, to serve our assistance. they can be given that help, if with the city's attorney's office and with the short-term rental office in other ways of enforcing the laws that we have, making sure these people are not being pushed out. we know of a couple in north beach who, in 2016, at they are in their seventies, were pushed

out because they were quote a nuisance. they were then bought out. even though it was 2016, it is still not registered, legally as required by law. they are not registered as having ever been bought out, why? because the owner, who we know of, has avoided the law. so again, it seems there is no easy enforcement mechanism to help find out where are those buyouts being done illegally and pushing people out who deserve to be inside? thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. madame president? >> supervisor breed: thank you either any other members of the public would like to provide public comment at this time? public comment is now closed. madame clerk, please read the items for adoption without reference to committee. >> clerk: i teams 18 through 22 are being considered for adoption of that committee reference. we will call the vote now. [roll call]

>> supervisor cohen: i just want to speak to you about item 18. >> supervisor breed: supervisor fewer? [roll call] >> supervisor breed: no other concerns of the remaining items. madame clerk, please call the role. [roll call] >> supervisor breed: those items are adopted unanimously. madame clerk, please call item number 18 [roll call]

>> supervisor breed: supervisor tank we. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. i know there are concerns. i do want to make sure that colleagues have also seen the letter that came from the animal legal defence fund which has been very supportive of sb 1024 and i wanted to make sure we are all away -- all aware of some of the corrections that they wanted to address. one of them is that there was a concern that it would significantly increase fines associated with the various cruelty offences. and to be a lgf wanted to point out that it does allow for a find to go up to $2,000 versus $1,000. however, it would still be up to the discretion of the court in terms of imposing whatever level of the. the idea behind the increase was to allow for more funding to actually enforce sb 1024 if it

were to pass. secondly, there was a concern that fb 1024 imposes a mandatory mental health treatment and that the treatment provider could have the power to send someone to jail for failing to comply with the treatments. i wanted to clarify that sb 1024 actually imposes mandatory mental health evaluations, not treatment. for only at specific types of crimes. and those are the crimes that are most associated with underlying behavioural disorders. and when i first introduced this particular resolution talk i noted there was a study that found that and 90 % of the cases where there was an on-campus shooting, that the person who committed the crime had a history of animal cruelty and abuse. so those are the two main points we wanted to point out. again, this was a resolution to support sb 1024. i know colleagues have concerns. like a it is fine if you are not

in support of this but i wanted to at least set the record straight for those two main points. >> supervisor breed: thank you supervisor. >> supervisor fewer: i agree animal abuse is a serious issue and this is a well-intentioned effort to provide mental health treatment for the perpetrators of animal abuse. but i would not be able to support this resolution in support of sb 1024 because i am concerned about the implications it would happen -- have on the criminal justice system. this bill would allow an increase in fines in the criminal justice system which are already to be too high and devastating to low income communities. this would also give mental health care providers the power to decide if someone should go to jail for not complying with this mental health evaluation requirements. judges can already require -... and they have authority to revoke someone's parole if they do not comply. i'm concerned about handling just handing this authority over to a mental health care provider especially when we do not allow

this for any other criminal offenders including child abuse and domestic violence. those are the reasons. i must devote no. >> supervisor breed: thank yo you. supervisor cohen? >> supervisor cohen: i will not support this item today. i remain concerned about the broad language in senate bill 1024. it contradicts the legislation the president to breed and i introduced and sponsored amending the ministries of codeo abolish criminal justice fines and fees. senate bill 1024 where to add access fees including $2,000 fine into many offences. this 2,000-dollar fine is higher than the existing $1,000 fine for animal mistreatment. in response to the letter sent by a lgf, which supervisor tang referenced like the key thing is fines and fees are different. it is fine fine is in the

judge's discretion,, but the fees are mandatory. the difference between these two are quite frankly worlds apart. and the fee and california is added on top of the fine. if the judge says define as $1,000, fees are automatically assessed that increase it to four times the level. four times greater than $1,000. i am uncomfortable supporting this bill. i'm uncomfortable supporting the bill that finds and adds fines to people navigating the criminal justice system and i just wanted to go on the record because i object is something that could potentially send more people to jail by compounding their dad to the court system. and so with that, i hope you will join me in voting know against this measure. thank you. >> supervisor breed: thank you. seeing no other names on the

roster, madame clerk, on the item, please call the role. [roll call] >> supervisor breed: if you want to talk, you have to put your name on the roster spee so -- >> supervisor peskin:, that is tantamount to having been sent to committee. >> supervisor breed: second appearance, supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: my back. >> supervisor breed: thank you. i see no other names on the roster. madame clerk, please call the role. [roll call]

>> supervisor breed: so the resolution fails. madame clerk, please read the in memoriam. >> clerk: yes the meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. on behalf of supervisor trent four, on behalf of supervisor peskin, and mr lee radner. >> supervisor breed: colleagues cactus brings us to the end of our agenda. madame clerk, is there any other business before us today? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >> supervisor breed: we are adjourned. thank you, everyone. [♪]

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>> today, i wanted to kickoff and welcome you to the first every family well forum (clapping.) >> compromising is carmen chu currently which this of the family forum we put this event dough went to a lot of community meetings and we're he and she about families worries and troubles aaron planning for the future and ahsha safai for buying a home and college and retirement and for many of the seniors how to passing on their prompts to their kids. >> the family forum benefits throughout san francisco i'm supervisor norman yee representing district 7 people are homeowners fritter buyers

and they don't thinks the planning. >> what you'll notice if you walk around today's activities multiple languages transactions available for people in the seminars and 101 counseling and the today, we not only have vendors that have come here the seminars where people are lining about important topics was of most unique pieces we have one-on-one free counseling for people so important that people understand about taxes and how you transfer your assets to our next generation because we do it wrong as you may know to lose much money. >> we did if grassroots on the radio and worked with all nonprofit and partners to get the word out we personally went to community meeting to tell people about this event we'll have a whole line of people that

will wait to ask skews i'm thinking about passing on my property or so glad i can speak but i cannot speak english well we created in first every family forum and hope that will bring a lot of people good information to plan for their future three hundred people signed up for 101 counterand we so hope that is a model for success for the future and hope to do more if we learn from this one to be better ♪ >> about two years ago now i had my first child. and i thought when i come back, you know, i'm going to get back in the swing of things and i'll find a spot. and it wasn't really that way when i got back to work.

that's what really got me to think about the challenges that new mothers face when they come back to work. ♪ >> when it comes to innovative ideas and policies, san francisco is known to pave the way, fighting for social justice or advocating for the environment, our city serves as the example and leader many times over. and this year, it leads the nation again, but for a new reason. being the most supportive city of nursing mothers in the work place. >> i was inspired to work on legislation to help moms return to work, one of my legislative aids had a baby while working in the office and when she returned we had luckily just converted a bathroom at city hall into a lactation room. she was pumping a couple times a day and had it not been for the room around the hallway, i don't

know if she could have continued to provide breast milk for her baby. not all returning mothers have the same access, even though there's existing state laws on the issues. >> these moms usually work in low paying jobs and returning to work sooner and they don't feel well-supported at work. >> we started out by having legislation to mandate that all city offices and departments have accommodations for mothers to return to work and lactate. but this year we passed legislation for private companies to have lactation policies for all new moms returning to work. >> with the newcome -- accommodations, moms should have those to return back to work. >> what are legislation? >> we wanted to make it

applicable to all, we created a set of standards that can be achievable by everyone. >> do you have a few minutes today to give us a quick tour. >> i would love to. let's go. >> this is such an inviting space. what makes this a lactation room? >> as legislation requires it has the minimum standards, a seat, a surface to place your breast on, a clean space that doesn't have toxic chemicals or storage or anything like that. and we have electricity, we have plenty of outlets for pumps, for fridge. the things that make it a little extra, the fridge is in the room. and the sink is in the room. our legislation does require a fridge and sink nearby but it's all right in here. you can wash your pump and put your milk away and you don't have to put it in a fridge that you share with co-workers. >> the new standards will be applied to all businesses and

places of employment in san francisco. but are they achievable for the smaller employers in the city? >> i think small businesses rightfully have some concerns about providing lactation accommodations for employees, however we left a lot of leeway in the legislation to account for small businesses that may have small footprints. for example, we don't mandate that you have a lactation room, but rather lactation space. in city hall we have a lactation pod here open to the public. ♪ ♪ >> so the more we can change, especially in government offices, the more we can support women. >> i think for the work place to really offer support and encouragement for pumping and breast feeding mothers is necessary. >> what is most important about the legislation is that number

one, we require that an employer have a lactation policy in place and then have a conversation with a new hire as well as an employee who requests parental leave. otherwise a lot of times moms don't feel comfortable asking their boss for lactation accommodations. really it's hard to go back to the office after you have become a mom, you're leaving your heart outside of your body. when you can provide your child food from your body and know you're connecting with them in that way, i know it means a lot to a mommy motionlely and physically to be able to do that. and businesses and employers can just provide a space. if they don't have a room, they can provide a small space that is private and free from intrusion to help moms pump and that will attract moms to working in san francisco. >> if you want more information

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their supportive and nourished and sponsored united states and excited about the future. >> my name is is jack listen and the executive director of a phil randolph institution our goal to have two pathways to sustaining a family here in san francisco and your union jobs are stroen to do that i have this huge way to work with the community members and i think i found my calling i started in 1996 working for willie brown, jr. i worked in he's mayor's office of housing in the western edition and left 3 years went to law school of san francisco state university and mayor brown asked me to be the director of the taxicab commission and through the

process i very much card by the contracting process and asked me townhouse the city purchaser and worked with me and i became the deputy administrator and . >> having trouble struggling to make ends meet folks will not understand what importance of voting is so we decided to develop our workforce development services after a couple of years offering pathways to sustainable jobs. >> (clapping.) >> we've gotten to a place to have the folks come back and have the discussion even if participation and makes sense we do public services but we also really build strong communities when i started this job my sons were 2 and 5 now 9 and 6 i think so the need to be able to take a call from the principal of school i think that brings a

whole new appreciation to being understanding of the work life balance. >> (clapping.) >> i have a very good team around me we're leader in the country when it comes to paid and retail and furiously the affordable-care act passed by 3079 we were did leaders for the healthcare and we're in support of of the women and support. >> in my industry i feel that is male dominated a huge struggle to get my foot in the door and i feel as though that definitely needs to change this year needs to be more opportunities for i don't know women to do what tell me dream i feel that is important for us to create a in fact, network of support to young people young women can further their dreams

and most interested in making sure they have the full and whatever they need to make that achieveable. >> education is important i releases it at my time of san mateo high ii come back to the university of san francisco law school and the fact i passed the bar will open up many more doors because i feel a curve ball or an where you can in the way can't get down why is this in my way we have to figure out a solution how to move forward we can't let adversity throw in the

>> all right. so good morning, everyone. thank you for joining us today. you know, for the past four months, as mayor of the city of san francisco, i have from reside residents across our entire city up and down the ladder about the streets of san francisco. our streets are filled with trash and debris, and it is unacceptable, and i've said from day one the cleanliness of our streets is going to be one of my biggest priorities as mayor of the city of san francisco. san francisco residents are fed up with the conditions, and i am the first to say that i feel their pain, and we are doing something about it. so last week, along with a number of people who are here behind me, we announced a comprehensive budget proposal that we're going to move forward with to aggressively

cleanup our streets here in san francisco. we are no -- we know that our conditions on our streets exist across our city. it's not confined to one neighborhood. every single neighborhood is feeling this pain, including right here in the castro district. so this plan that we announced last week includes 44 new street cleaners throughout the city of san francisco, four in each supervisorial district that will have material impact in the conditions of our neighborhoods, in particular our commercial corridors. we're adding five new pit stops to address the feces and urination issues that we are seeing in many different neighborhoods here in san francisco. and also talked about and announced a dedicated team to picking up syringes and needles across the entire city of san francisco. family members and individuals should not have to step over needles on the way to school, on the way to work. it simply doesn't need to be part of our landscape here in san francisco. and we are also growing our fix

it team, sandra, who runs or fix it team, and does such an amazing job. how about a round of applause for her. [applause] >> the hon. mark farrell: we are expanding it to ten new districts in san francisco. because they do such an amazing job in san francisco. when there are areas to be picked up, when there is anything that needs to be done, they are there doing it, doing such an incredible job. but we need to do more. we need to put our foot on the gas pedal, and as mayor, until i leave office, i am going to do it, and street cleanliness is something i am going to address. we have a big effort to cleanup our streets. san francisco residents do, as well, and now today we're going to have some bigbellys to help us with that effort. and sorry, i had to go there with that line. so today, we are announcing

five new bigbelly trash receptacle here in the castro district and 15 others in different neighborhoods throughout san francisco. now these bigbelly trash cans, as you will see, there's going to be a demonstration at the end, are different than your normal trash cans. they have automatic compactors inside, allowing them to hold five times the amount of waste of any normal garbage can. they tick recycling, compost, and trash, and they're outfitted with wireless technology, real-time technology that alerts those when these are full to come pick them up and empty them. that means no more wasted trips to pick up half full garbage cans. you know, we are the technology capital of the world. we should not be afraid, and you know i believe as mayor, we should embrace technology to benefit the daily lives of our residents, and we are doing that today. we are making this investment now in partnership with our

small business leaders. our community benefits districts are the ones that really do the work on the ground. i want to thank andre who is here today for all of your work in the castro, and we are partnering with them to install these new bigbelly trash receptacles, but also to maintain them going forward. we are going to cleanup our city here in san francisco. we made a number of announcements last week. today is just another step in that direction, and i want to make sure to reaffirm my commitment to the residents of san francisco that cleaning up our streets is going to be one of my biggest priorities, and we will not stop again until the day that i leave office. i look forward to seeing these trash cans across the city of san francisco. we are going to swallow up the trash with our bigbelly garbage cans, once again. so with that, i want to thank everyone for being here. we have a number of speakers, and i would like to introduce and bring up supervisor jeff

sheehy, who's right behind me. and i want to make a quick comment about supervisor sheehy. there has been no one, since i have become mayor, who has been more forceful in his advocacy of cleaning up the streets of his district than jeff sheehy. you can clap. it's great. we have gone on neighborhood walks. we have walked this commercial corridor right here with our department of public works. there's no supervisor more focused on cleaning up the streets of his neighborhood than supervisor sheehy. and with that, i'd like to hear from him. supervisor jeff sheehy. >> supervisor sheehy: thank you, mayor farrell. thank you for those kind words, and i really want to thank you deeply for your leadership on this issue. it's been a challenge, but the inno-nateti innovation that you're bringing

to this, the resources, it's making a difference, and i know the people in my district, we're grateful. i also want to thank the department of public works because they have been so steadfast, so diligent in cleaning up this neighborhood, in cleaning up the district. it's a struggle because we know that this is an ongoing problem, and i think your new initial initiatives are going to help us turn the corner on this. we are moving forward on this. i want to thank the community benefits in the castro for their leadership. these things are great. compacts, signals when the trash is full. and i do want to note that recology is here. recology is doing a great job. this is allow them to be enormously more efficient, so as the mayor said you're not emptiying half empty trash cans, you empty them when they're full. we've seen the problem. we have the open trash cans, people rummage in them.

they overflow, and sometimes that creates a mess. so andre, thank you for your partnership with recology, with the mayor. i'm going to address you, but sandra zuniga, i can't say enough about you. she comes in, she solves problems, she works so closely with the community to identify problem areas and find solutions. she was telling me, for instance at glen park park, we have a little flower stall that was graffitied up. and you know, she just went and painted it herself. that's the type of attitude she brings towards san francisco. that's how much she cares about this city, so i am honored to introduce sandra zuniga, who's director of the mayor's fix it

team. >> good morning, everybody. thank you for that introduction and thank you to both mayor farrell and supervisor sheehy for their leadership in this city. special thank you to mayor farrell for giving me this assignment. being able to work on these bigbellys has been fun. so fix it, i run the fix it team, and what we do z we work closely with communities, talking to residents, listening to residents to find out what concerns they have, and we want to act quickly and effectively to help address those. in the castro, we've been working here about two years, and we've seen improvements, a lot of great improvements to the castro. one of things that's a great concern is litter and the amount of litter we see around our city, especially trash cans, when they've been rummaged through or overflow especially when the wind blows and blows them away. so we're happy today to show

you not just an efficient can but a very pretty tran ca-- trh can in the castro that we hope will bring new life, new energy to people who are shopping here, passing through here to use the handing, throw their cigarette butt or bottle away in the right place. today's announcement is part of a larger strategy that fix it has to make improvements in neighborhoods based on what we hear about from residents, so we plan to implement new strategies in neighborhoods across the city, and find out what works and when something works, we can replicate it in other neighborhoods with confidence. i really would like to thank all of the community benefit districts who are working with me on this project. of course f andre aiello with the community benefit district,

and several others who will see their bigbellys this summer, and a special shout out of course to public works, recology, economic and workforce development and kevin from bigbelly, who will give you all a demonstration soon. so with that, i would just like to introduce a wonderful partner in this who has been tremendously hard working and really fast at turning around a lot of giving us, you know, ideas, information, feedback, andre aiello, for getting the -- from the castro c.i.d. for getting the first big belly on the ground. >> thank you for that. the castro community benefit district is so excited to be the first neighborhood that will be getting these bigbellys in a special program that has been sponsored by mayor farrell, and i want to thank

the mayor so much for his dedication to keeping the neighborhoods clean, not only just downtown but the neighborhoods. and we are -- we'll be working with the city to develop metrics on how do we evaluate and measure these to make sure they're effective. and as everyone has been describing, the bigbellys work because once you put the trash in, you can't take the trash out, and that includes limiting and preventing overflowing trash cans, which i think we've all seen all over the city. the wind is blowing, and the wind takes the paper or the cup out of the trash can, and there's a mess all the way down the sidewalk, and it blows it all the way down the sidewalk. so we're really excited that this is going to help keep the benefit district really clean. the castro neighborhood benefit district works tirelessly to

keep the neighborhood clean, keep it vibrant. we have a lot of different strategies around cleanliness, around safety, economic vitality, greening. we have live performances in the jane warner plaza? the summer every weekend. everything fits together in a puzzle to encourage more people and more pedestrian traffic in the neighborhoods and in an urban environment. cleanliness is probably the first thing because nobody wants to walk around a neighborhood where there's trash and other things, and worse than just trash in a neighborhood. it's community benefit districts working collaboratively with public works who has been absolutely fantastic as a partner and recology all working together to pitch in and keep san francisco clean -- or cleaner, and a great city. so i want to thank everybody and thampg the city family. they have vust been absolutely great. we've pushed through this

contract in like a month, so that's unheard of. so thank everybody. i want to thank the mayor for hez creativity and initiative on this. and now, i think we're going to have kevin give a demonstration on how these wonderful things work. take care. >> one, two, three, go! [inaudible] . >> the san francisco carbon fund was started in 2009. it's basically legislation that was passed by the board of supervisors and the mayor's office for the city of san francisco. they passed legislation that

said okay, 13% of the cost of the city air travel is going to go into a fund and we're going to use the money in that fund to do local projects that are going to mitigate and sequester greenhouse gas emission. the grants that we're giving, they're anywhere from 15,000 to, say, $80,000 for a two year grant. i'm shawn rosenmoss. i'm the development of community partnerships and carbon fund for the san francisco department of environment. we have an advisory committee that meets once or twice a year to talk about, okay, what are we going to fund? because we want to look at things like equity and innovative projects. >> i heard about the carbon

fund because i used to work for the department of environment. i'm a school education team. my name is marcus major. i'm a founding member of climate action now. we started in 2011. our main goal it to remove carbon in the public right-of-way on sidewalks to build educational gardens that teach people with climate change. >> if it's a greening grant, 75% of the grant has to go for greening. it has to go for planting trees, it has to go for greening up the pavement, because again, this is about permanent carbon savings. >> the dinosaur vegetable gardens was chosen because the garden was covered in is afault since 1932. it was the seed funding for this whole project. the whole garden,ible was about

84,000 square feet, and our project, we removed 3,126 square feet of cement. >> we usually issue a greening rft every other year, and that's for projects that are going to dig up pavement, plant trees, community garden, school garden. >> we were awarded $43,000 for this project. the produce that's grown here is consumed all right at large by the school community. in this garden we're growing all kinds of organic vegetables from lettuce, and artichokes. we'll be planting apples and loquats, all kinds of great fruit and veggies. >> the first project was the dipatch biodiesel producing facility. the reason for that is a lot of

people in san francisco have diesel cars that they were operating on biodiesel, and they were having to go over to berkeley. we kind of the dog batch preferentials in the difference between diesel and biodiesel. one of the gardens i love is the pomeroy rec center. >> pomeroy has its roots back to 1952. my name is david, and i'm the chamber and ceo of the pomeroy rehabilitation and recreation center. we were a center for people with intellectual and development cal disabilities in san francisco san francisco. we also have a program for individuals that have acquired brain injury or traumatic brain injury, and we also have one of the larger after school programs for children with special needs that serves the

public school system. the sf carbon fund for us has been the launching pad for an entire program here at the pomeroy center. we received about $15,000. the money was really designed to help us improve our garden by buying plants and material and also some infrastructure like a drip system for plants. we have wine barrels that we repurposed to collect rain water. we actually had removed over 1,000 square feet of concrete so that we could expand the garden. this is where our participants, they come to learn about gardening. they learn about our work in the greenhouse. we have plants that we actually harvest, and eggs from our chickens that we take up and use in cooking classes so that

our participants learn as much as anybody else where food comes from. we have two kitchens here at the pomeroy center. one is more of a commercial kitchen and one is more setup like a home kitchen would be, and in the home kitchen, we do a lot of cooking classes, how to make lasagna, how to comsome eggs, so this grant that we received has tremendous value, not only for our center, for our participants, but the entire community. >> the thing about climate, climate overlaps with everything, and so when we start looking at how we're going to solve climate programs, we solve a lot of other problems, too. this is a radical project, and to be a part of it has been a real honor and a privilege to work with those administrators with the sf carbon fund at the department of environment. >> san francisco carbon grant to -- for us, opened the door

to a new -- a new world that we didn't really have before; that the result is this beautiful garden. >> when you look at the community gardens we planted in schools and in neighborhoods, how many thousands of people now have a fabulous place to walk around and feel safe going outside and are growing their own food. that's a huge impact, and we're just going to keep rolling that out and keep rolling that

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>> president breed: good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, may 8, 2018. madame clerk, please call the roll. breed present. cohen not present. fewer present. kim present. peskin present. ronen present. safai not