quite -- it's not so pinpointed that they can tell if you're five feet over. so i mean, i do think part of the answer is, you know, eyes on the street. you know working with like the bird watcher program, we're trying to have our people out there who are stopping and addressing bad behavior in a face-to-face contact. it's one thing to look at the soone come to you and say, ve hey, you're not supposed to do that. right now, i don't think the tech is specific enough to be able to determine where you're at. we do cordon off in our app as well, places where riding is strictly forbidden. like on the promenade in santa monica, or other places, we put a big red mark on so peoplno kw not to ride there.

but as far as the g.p.s. knows, it needs to get along further. >> co-chair blacksten: we're running tight on time. i know there are more questions. is there anymore from staff? let's go to the bridge line? >> i want to thank her for the fantastic presentation, hit every point, nail on the head perfectly about the concerns that the new products are raising.

as someone who uses a wheelchair, i've been impacted by more obstacles on the sidewalk. and i'm just very concerned with how this program even launched. i think it was in very bad faith, just littering the sidewalks with hundreds of these things. i've only seen people ride them on the sidewalks. and i agree with miriam that locking them up, having like the way the ebikes are locked up, for the equipment, and i really am concerned that a lot of this is being pushed onto the drivers and not onto the companies to be held accountable for what is happening here. because i don't think users are going to just magically change. i mean, the government has been spending millions of dollars to get people to quit drinking and driving, yet 10,000 people a

year die in drunk driving accidents. that's a high number. so this is a problem for the companies that are introducing into the public streets, which they are littering this new product. and the burden should not be placed on the consumer. i want to say, i also notice there is no helmets, pads and i'm very concerned about the people that are paying to use the scooters, even if they're riding in the streets, are taking a great safety risk in san francisco. i would like to see the companies do something about that. but i think miriam really lai it all out. the issue of equity and accessibility for people of all financial brackets as well, is another concern with the product. and -- concerned that another obstacle to -- and we're going to be -- on us to report --

[line breaking up] -- more obstacles. >> co-chair blacksten: let's allow them to respond. >> no, they don't respond. >> co-chair blacksten: i'm sorry. >> just to clarify, the council has the opportunity toor with the presenters to help provide response to those responding to public comment. >> co-chair blacksten: thank you for clif that's what i thought. can we have a response? if you care to. >> you know, addressing the issue of helmets, i know that is a state law that everyone is required to wear a helmet while riding and they offer helmets free to all users in the app. i have one myself. and speaking of somebody who actually lives in santa monica

and was a little frustrated with the way bird launched there, too, when it came out. part of the reason i joined the company, just two weeks ago as a matter of fact, i believe they were reaching out to me, the shared street activist, because they're working in good faith to learn from the initial bumpy ams takes to improve what i believe personally can be a genuine asset for someone like me who doesn't own a car and doesn't want to. and have what i'd like to call, an ecosystem of diverse transportation opportunities for people of all abilities and financial backgrounds. that's where we can be heading with this and that's why we're all here today, to make sure that's where we go. >> co-chair blacksten: thank you very much. if there is not any more comments from the bridge line, we want to thank you for your presentations.

this was great. now we're going to public comment. >> tiffany from diverseability. >> hi, my name is tiffany, two quick things here. if the scooters aren't allowed on the sidewalk, why are they allowed to be parked there? because they're free standing, can they be parked on the streets similar to the scooters from that company scoot? and then the second thing, if they're going to be treated like bikes, there are so many rules that were outlined in the mta presentation around all of the places they can't be parked, but can we just limit it to they can only be parked in the places where bikes can be parked? >> co-chair blacksten: thank you for your comment. i think we have a second one. >> we do.

>> hi, everybody. golden gate regional center. mstion is first it feels like education, community engagement, accessibility weren't weaved into the fabric of the business plan from the beginning. it sounds like the companies know that government and legislation is slow, so you just did things and then asked for forgiveness. is this the first conversation you've had with the city, with disability communities? how many of these conversations have each of you had to gher feedback before launching? >> co-chair blacksten: we appreciate your comment. are there any more comments from the public? >> no. >> co-chair blacksten: all right, well this has been a great time to have a conference with you. we expect to continue this conversation going forward. so i think that's going to

conclude the 8 information item on scoers a now let's proceed to number 9, information item. improving the quality of muni/bart elevators at powell and civic center stations. our presenter is tim chan. welcome to the mayor's council on disability. >> hi, thank you for having me. my name is tim chan, i'm the acting group manager for bart in the station planning program. so this is my baby. this is my project. we worked really hard in partnering with sfmta and hunters point family to deliver this project. i'm going to tell but it and what we have heard and some of the data we received from the first three days. it's no surprise, right, to anyone what goes on in the

eleators and it's been going on for a long time. much to the frustration of our customers, both bart and muni, as well as the staff. the minute ourleaners come in to clean it, right behind it, someone goes in d does stuff. it's never ending battle. so we were really inspired by the pit stop program. that is run by public works. and i meet with them on a very regular basis to cover all issues around the bart stations in san francisco. and so as i learned more and more about first the program, the successes around the program, and then also the partnership with hunters point family, we started to have conversations maybe we need to do something similar with the elevators as a pilot. and that's what we did. so we had many meetings with sfmta, they're a funding partner for this pilot. and then probably the eventual

rollout of the program, but then also with hunters point family, we wanted to make sure that the organization was going to deliver what it's reputation is with the city. and in fact,he ty have. so essentially the scope of the pilot is that we have elevator attendants, they're in the elevators at all times. they are operating the elevator. they're the ones pressing the buttons at the street level and also at the platform level. they don't exit out of the elevators unless there is a specific need. so for example, if our cash handling people are coming in, they step out, allow the cash handling staff to go into the stations and then go right back into the elevators to operate it. they're there from the moment the station opens around 4:00 a.m. in the morning to the time it closes at 1:00 a.m. and their job is to do a few things. first, they greet our customers, bart and muni.

they greet the customers and take information about the types of customers that are using the elevators. they do an actual count, every time someone comes in. and record that information. so first, i'd like to give you data and then i'll tell you about the responses we've heard from many people. so we have always known the elevator was well used, i don't think we had a sense of how well used it really, really was. and we think with all of the promotional and the marketing and the stories around the elevator attendant, that increased that number. but i am happy to report, so the first three days, we saw an average at civic centre, almost 1900 users. so your jaws can drop, because mine certainly did. we also did capture different types of users. we cover people with bikes, people with strollers, luggage

and ada. i want to be clear, we don't ask people if they're disabled. we dootsk that question, but if they're obviously physically and visually impaired, and mobility-impaired then we note that. so when i give you a number, average is 192 civic center, know that there could be more than that, because we don't capture all of that number. that's what we're seeing at civic center. and at powell street it's almost 1800 users and of that number, about 128 are clearly ada. so we're incredibly encouraged by the numbers. and what it does, it makes the case to our executive team, to our managers and then also to the board that this is a service that is so critical and desperately needed. so we expect it to continue.

our budget goes for adoption to th boa ihink on june 14. so this for a full year, will be included in the budget. i don't think our board is going to reject it. i think it's going to continue all the way through fiscal year 19. and then from there, we will also look at rolling it out for future years as well. now, we do -- we have already received questions about whether or not it can be rolled out, expanded to other stio ant'a question that we're going to have to really figure out. we've already had early conversations. nothing identified or confirmed. but know that the cost of r a ful ar, it's about $1.2his million. that is not for bart staff charging, that is not for sfmta bart staff charging, that for a hunters point family to deliver all the support they need for the program. so $1.2 million, that's for two

stations if we were to roll out to other stations, we have to double that, or triple that. and that means that bart and mta have to have the difficult conversation about what we're not doing. and it's not to say it's not worth it, we know it's worth it. we have to have the tradeoff discussions. the feedback we've gotten has been tremendous. through social media, all the e-mails we received, sent to our customer service. it has been overwhelmingly positive. yesterday i wasn't to see the folks over at sfmta to give a similar presentation. i don't get applause very often, but certainly people there were happy and the d applaud this effort. i don't think they're applauding me, just the effort. i'm just so happy, at atime when public transportation and

our pjend conditions are so challenged in the , that we've got some wins going on and it's really making a big difference. i wanted to share that with you all. and i'm open for questions. >> co-chair blacksten: thank you for the presentation. that's great. alex? >> council member madrid: thank you for coming. i have two questions. one is that when you said about the cleanliness of those two stations, right now it's very clean around are they going to continue to clean the elevators?

becausen i -- staffing maintain, because it's pretty clean so far. and the second question is, i ride bart and go to 16th and 24th stet,nd it's pretty disgusting. >> oh, i know. >> council member madrid: i'm just being blunt. have you guys, i understand the money issuesti and the question is, how come those stations are not included for

this time around? and the last question is reaching -- possibly thinking about adding this muni and bart budget to maintain this program? >> ok, so i think the first question is, the answer is yes. i mean, even though -- so our aten dapts, part of the negotiation with the unions, they were not going to do any union work. and so that's why we limited their scope in terms of really just saying hello, how are you, greeting the customers and then doing recording, but they're not supposed to do any work that is associate ourth system service workers, our janitorial staff, custodial staff, station agents. so they're not there to clean.

in the event there are incidents around safety, security and cleanliness, their job is to immediately notify the right people who will immediately dispatch the safety security, our police officers, our commun officers and then cleaners to address the situation. you know, in terms of the pilot, we wanted to not be too ambitious, right? so in a pilot, we wanted to make sure we keep the scope relatively tight. we did identify civic center and powell as the mosthallenged of all the stations we have, it was a no-brainer to select those two. that's why we didn't do 16th and 24th. however, we're already having conversations and we know the elevator cleanliness challenges at those two stations. and that's part of the tradeoff discussion, how much more is it going to take, probably another $1.2 million, to cover 16 and

24th and what is it we won't be doing as a result of that? and bart, our system is 50 years old and i think you know we have challenges. we're delivering new rail cars, they're not completely funded, we have rail cars to think about and a bond program, but that doesn't pay for cars. we have a lot of deferred maintaenance we have to start taking care of. there is a lot of stuff that is part of the mix. and that's part of the discussion at the staff level, executive level and board level. know it's on the radar. so don't think we haven't or won't forget about it. >> co-chair blacksten: fantasti fantastic. >> i wanted to make inquiry about a thing that happened in the station with the drugs, how is that received by the people

of san francisco and by -- >> i'm sorry, with the drug, with the recent stuff? yeah. so it's been very, very well received. and so what happened, last week, there was a walk-through with the mayor, three of our bart directors, as well as our general manager and other staff to really look at the conditions of civic centre. they already have seen the video, right? they've seen that and so they did a walk-through and it was really fantastic to hear the mayor, you know, acknowledge the challenges that we face at that station and the station area. and really to dedicate police staffing to help bart. we are short almost 30 bodies in the bart police department. we are desperately trying to hire high quality candidates, but it's very difficult. as we are continuing to try to hire, we need help from the san

francisco police department and that's what the mayor and chief scott has helped us with. on wednesday, i was there in the morning doing site visiting and immediately, i saw san francisco police department at the top of the top of the entrances and patrolling in the concourse area. and i started to receive lots of compliments from people. they're cheerful, just again, adding that positive energy we desperately need at that station. this will continue. we had a follow-up meeting with the mayor and his team. this partnership is going to continue with sf police department and we're excited about that and it's going to be fantastic for our customers. >> co-chair blacksten: sounds good. any more questions? >> council member mcdonald: i don't understand how it costs $1.2 million to service two stations. i mean, why does it cost so

much? >> they are paid $15 an hour, so we start with that. they're not $3.50. but there is also a fair amount of administrative support costs. so it's not just the attendants, it's t sit supervisors, the project managers, the executive staff. and they're not charging full-time, but they arepending some time on this. there are people entering information into the computer. there are uniforms we need to purchase. there is a lot of other direct costs and administrative support costs we had to add to the attendant program. we're staffing about 35 attendants right now, because we're talking about 21 hours. so we have i think five people doing 7-hour shifts and there are three shifts. so you can begin to see why it's about $1.2 million for the whole

year. >> co-chair blacksten: really appreciate the clarification. if there is no more comments from the council, i know it's about qrter to 00, i nee to go to staff. any questions from staff? >> hi, thank you so much for being here, i'm nicole bohn. on behalf of the mayor's office -- i want to applaud bart. >> don't forget mta. >> the civic centre space is a portal to our office, so we're appreciative. my question is around some of the data and wondering a couple of things. it might be too early, but i'm wondering with the attendance, if you're seeing breakdowns happen less frequently. and as a follow-up to that, i'm wondering if part may be able to consider using some of this data

you're collecting. >> first of all, i'm happy to report, so we are tracking that metric. multiple metrics. we've collected it before we rolled out the pilot, and we're going to keep tracking around elator availability as well as cleanliness. so the number of service calls that are needed each time. and so we will be able to start reporting that 6 months to a year time frame. i am also very excited to report and this is something i'm working with sfmta and transportation authority. we know that if one elevator is down, that's it. we've heard time and again from our frustrated customers where they have to backtrack and go to a different station and pray that elevator is working. that's just not acceptable. so we're working with the other

agencies on putting together a design study to identify -- and we've done station modernization plans, so we have aense of where the redundant elevators are going, we just need to take to it the next level of design. the plan is to put an extra street elevator on the other side of market street somewhere. and then at the concourse level, we have like civic center and at powell street and montgomery, they're serving both bart and muni. not only that, it's not easy to get to. so what we're doing, those it in a bart paid area.o enclose and we're going to identify a new muni-only elevator in the muni paid area. and what is going to happen, on the bart side, that elevator will also serve muni in the event of emergency or repair or

something. and then the muni-only elevator will serve bart for the same reason. but know there is always going to be redonendaredundancy. but it's so needed and we're moving forward with that. >> thank you so much, that would be another great presentation when you're close to that plan. i know we're short, but it's really important to ask, what does bart need to terms of letters of support, or advocacy to continue the program do you think? what would be most helpful? >> you need money, that is always helpful. [laughter] so anything you all n help us with in terms of identifying potential grant opportunities, that would be fantastic. being our biggest advocate is also great. but when we do the grant stuff, is when the letters and all that

really comes into play. you kn, it never hurts to write letters to our general manager, to ed riskin, to our board, bevan, nick, latifah and just letting the now how happy, rilled youre with this and love to see the program continue. i think that would be fantastic. >> thank you. >> co-chair blacksten: all right. >> thank you so much for coming. i called you last minute and you jumped at the opportunity. as a regular bart customer for the past 12 years, coming from west oakland to san francisco to civic center, i personally want to thank you, because i've gotten way less sick since you started that program. there is also this area, it's also high employment area for people with disabilities.

and we also are beginning to realize that sometimes we have to wait in line to use the elevators because everybody else wants to use the elevator. so it's no longer just a disability access point, it's a universal access point. we have seniors, we have bikers. so now up until that program started, nobody wanted to use the elevator. and iwa just the cleanliness, but also the safety. over the last two years, i've been assaulted, i've been sick, i've been pickpocketed in the elevator. and based on where it's located for the elevator, there is areas not patrolled by bart police. tripped over individuals who were passed out, injecting. it was pretty horrible.

so, i would say, as you're beginning to think to calculate tradeoffs, really start thinking about the safety issue that you're taking care of. and the potential lawsuit. and liability that comes with that. for many of us, we have no other option but the elevator. it felt like we were on the bottom of the food chain. and you know, thank you so much for that program. i had an opportunity to talk to director and there are other issues, but the safety is a huge one. >> thank you. >> co-chair blacksten: thank you. all right, let's go to the -- if there is no more comment from staff, let's go to the bridge line. >> anyone on the bridge line?

>> yes. zack here, i'm going to have be to the odd person out, i do not share enthusiasm for this project. i'm very -- bart has a very poor track record for the disabled, i'm a wheelchair user in san francisco. i cannot buy a onetime disabled pass to get on bart. many bart stops don't have restrooms which is why people urine ate in the pel viator, but -- elevator, which bart police have targeted and i don't want to see people being brutalized more because they need to relieve themselves and they do it in an inappropriate way. i'm concerned whether or not these people, in the elevators are going to be armed.

i do not feel safe with bart people who are armed with their track record of shooting people in the back. bart has a poor track order of taking disabilities into account. there have been elevators not working continuously, there is always one elevate that doesn't work. this is constant. and this is just an example of how muardoes not rioritize people with disabilities. and again, like i cannot buy a disabled one-time pass, getting onto a bart train. >> co-chair blacksten: thank you for your remarks. >> -- so i'm very skeptical about the goal of this. i do want cleaner elevators that people have mentioned, i do want safer elevators as well. i'm concerned at the motivations here and i would like to see restrooms at more bart stations

at the same time as something like this is considered. thank you. >> co-chair blacksten: thanks for your comment. all right, so we have one person, public comment here. >> >> hi, just a quick comment. i thihat is great, you are creating jobs and i would urge you to actually hire people with disabilities as the attendants or people experiencing homelessness. given the fact it costs half a million dollars for each station, i'm curious if you're looking into other alternatives like increasing video surveillance, et cetera. >> co-chair blacksten: i want to thank you for the comment. for the speaker, i want to just simply say to you, this is -- you're doing a lot of greet work. we want -- great work. we want to continue having a conversation with you, collaborating with you and i

want to simply say from my perspective, as a guide dog user, there is an additional safety hazard for me. i have to go to the civic center, bart station quite often. we walk across needles and many other things. and it's a risk to her. so you need to be aware there is a guide dog user community out there, and we have to deal with it, too. and so, you're doing great work, thank you. i'm going to close this item out. great discussion. that's all i can say. all right, so now public comment. are there any comments from the public that is not on the agenda today? >> brief comment. i just want to thank everyone here today for the time. i think there has been great

discussions. tolly looking forward to l. hearing from people and continuing the conversation. and lastly, i just want to ask, to mod in a general suggestion, concern, for local organizations, i'm really concerned about the response time for a request, a communication request around accessibility. as well as request to speak to a supervisor. i bring these two issues up, because i've had many experiences where i've waited weeks or months for a reply from sfmta and other organizations. and have sometimes been refused to be able to speak with a supervisor. so i'm just kind of wanting to follow up on that. and that seems not right to me, so i would love to work with mod fstaf possibly to look into those issues. thank you.

>> co-chair blacksten: thank you. we'll make note of your suggestion. and move forward accordingly. are there any more public comments? we always want to hear them. all right. not hearing any. let's move on to item number 12 -- i forgot correspondence. >> there is not any correspondence at this time. >> co-chair blacksten: thank you. now we go to council member comments and announcements. are there any from my colleagues on the council? none. no comments. i don't have any either right now. you'll hear further report from me next month. this has been a great meeting. i appreciate you all coming. if any of there penters are around, i'm sure you may get questions. we want to continue collaborating and talking with

you. with that, i think, hey, we're right on time, just about 4:00. do i hear someone to adjourn? >> i move that we adjourn. >> co-chair blacksten: all right, we're adjourned. one of

was asked to do is water system improvement program and one thing i looked at is about the 4.8 billion dollars wurthd of work and a lot of the work was regional. we looked at how can we make sure that we provide opportunities for san franciscan's and people in the region and so we looked at ways we can expand our local san francisco lb program. so, we thought about it and worked with general manager at the time to form an advizry committee to talk about how to include local businesses in the region. >> i was on the first committee back about 10 years ago and the

job changed over time. in the beginning, we just wanted people to know about it. we wanted to attract contractors to come into the system which is a bidding system and bid on some of these projects. our second job was to helpthe sfpuc to try to make themselves more user frndly. >> i like that they go out of their way, have contractors trying to teach and outreach to small businesses and lots of creative ways. help the community as well. there is so much infrastructure going on and repair, new construction that i think is helping to get construction back on its feet. >> my faiv rlt part of the committee has been that we have played a opportunity for many

small businesses. [inaudible] women owned business to come in and [inaudible] sfpuc. it is a great opportunity because some are so small they have been able to grow their companies and move up and bid other projects with the sfpuc. >> everyone i was talking about with any contractor [inaudible] and super markets and things like that and i realize the transition was on the sfpuc. he got that first job and knows about the paperwork qu schedule and still works on this type of job, but he works with general contractors that also did other things. pretty soon it is like he did that one and that one.

it completely changed his business. >> my name is nancy [inaudible] the office manager and bid coordinator for [inaudible] construction. worked on 10 plus puc, lbe contracts. today we are doing site maintenance on the [inaudible] chr site and currently the gentlemen behind me are working on every moving and basic specs of plants. in order to be success you need to hardwo bid low and keep a look at sfpuc website for future bidding opportunity. >> this is a successful program because it provides opportunities to regional communities that might not have opportunities to work for large scale projects. the sfpuc is a fortunate agency we have a lot of capital program that span

over 7 counties who also to see how some businesses like [inaudible] and bio mass started as small micro businesses grow and expand and stay in the program and work on several projects before they graduate from the program. that is what warms my heart. >> my name is college willkerson, the principle for bio mass. bio mass has been in business since . 3 partners. small businesses fill a niche but apply and being a part of the program helped us be more visibland show the city and county of san francisco we can also perform services. >> this program had tremendous impact to the region. in fact,

the time we rolled the program out was during the recession. this has h a major positive impact and certified over 150 firms in the rejen and collectively awarded $50 million in contracts, and because of the lbe certification it open many opportunities to work with sfpuc. and, i significantly helped the business. it is one of the major contributors to our success. >> it's great to see everyone kind of get together and prove, that you know, building our

culture is something that can be reckoned with. >> i am desi, chair of economic development for soma filipinos. so that -- [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and it's also our economic platform, so we can start to build filipino businesses so we can start to build the cultural district. >> i studied the bok chase choy her achbl

heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy. working at i-market is amazing. you've got all these amazing people coming out here to share one culture. >> when i heard that there was a market with, like, a lot of filipino food, it was like oh, wow, that's the closest thing i've got to home, so, like, i'm going to try everything. >> fried rice, and wings, and three different cliefz sliders. i haven't tried the adobe yet, but just smelling it yet brings back home and a ton of memories. >> the binca is made out of different ingredients, including cheese.

but here, we put a twist on it. why not have nutella, rocky road, we have blue berry. we're not just limiting it to just the classic with salted egg and cheese. >> we try to cook food that you don't normally find from filipino food vendors, like the lichon, for example. it's something that it took years to come up with, to perfect, to get the skin just right, the flavor, and it's one of our most popular dishes, and people love it. this, it's kind of me trying to chase a dream that i had for a long time. when i got tired of the corporate world, i decided that i wanted to give it a try and see if people would actually

like our food. i think it's a wonderful opportunity for the filipino culture to shine. everybody keeps saying filipino food is the next big thing. i think it's already big, and to have all of us here together, it's just -- it just blows my mind sometimes that there's so many of us bringing -- bringing filipino food to the city finally. >> i'm alex, the owner of the lumpia company. the food that i create is basically the filipino-american experience. i wasn't a chef to start with, but i literally love lumpia, but my food is my favorite foods i like to eat, put into my favorite filipino foods, put together. it's not based off of recipes i

learned from my mom. maybe i learned the rolling technique from my mom, but the different things that i put in are just the different things that i like, and i like to think that i have good taste. well, the very first lumpia that i came out with that really build the lumpia -- it wasn't the poerk and shrimp shanghai, but my favorite thing after partying is that bakon cheese burger lumpia. there was a time in our generation where we didn't have our own place, our own feed to eat. before, i used to promote filipino gatherings to share

the love. now, i'm taking the most exciting filipino appetizer and sharing it with other filipinos. >> it can happen in the san francisco mint, it can happen in a park, it can happen in a street park, it can happen in a tech campus. it's basically where we bring the hardware, the culture, the operating system. >> so right now, i'm eating something that brings me back to every filipino party from my childhood. it's really cool to be part of the community and reconnect with the neighborhood. >> one of our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantown or little saigon,

there's little communities there that act as place makers. when you enter into little philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve. >> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of

the mayor and all of our community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000 for every event. undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being

acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. when you're positive and committed to using that energy,

>> right before the game starts, if i'm still on the field, i loo 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 thisjob, 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

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