1 quadrillion. so literally we're -- the problem we're facing is one like in 2008 but bigger. a collapse will happen, and if we do not have a public bank in place, by the time it does, we will be in trouble. we'll face what we faced in 2008, and analysts are saying this is going to happen in years, not decades. so... [inaudible] >> good afternoon. my name's curtis. i'm with the public bank sef coalition. we're a new coalition. i just want to say we're really excited about this? i just want to first commend molly and the treasurer's staff. i think they've done really an amazing job for what they were given? i just think personally, it may actually be good not t foc on specific issues yet and just

basic -- focus on the basics of how to create a public bank 'cause the issues could very well change over time. i mean, i totally agree affordable housing is the issue now, but if we put all hands on that, what if it changes in a few years? i think we need to focus now on just ow to get a bank going, and then it can change over time, renewable energy, affordable housing, infrastructure, etcetera. and i think that the main reason we're doing this is because of divestment because public bank is inevitable and we're doing this because sf has always led the way with banning plastic bag, day marriage, and public bank tz. so i think sf can really lay the way in how to do this? i think when you look at what these current wall street banks invest in, bampg of america

poured 14 billion into fossil fuels, and the taxpayer. so when you factor in the externalalities, it's too expensive not to do a bank? so yeah, i'm just really excited. i think we need an all hands on deck approach, just like the golden state warriors approach, pass to whoever's open, but let's get this ank thu. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, curtis. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is trevor martin and a member of the berniecrats and public bank coalition. i would also want to commend everyone on their work on a public bank. thank you everyone at the treesher treasurer's office. i'd like to say i'm glad they've moved past the feasibility question. everyone says it's feasible,

but a question of good policy, i don't think there's a question of whether it's good policy. mr. brooks gave you numbers. i'll tell you what's not good policy, investing inu industries tre kaling and brutalizing our communs. you know, fossil fuel industry and the gun manufacturing industries, and the prison industries. it is good policy to -- to use our money to benefit ourselves and our communities, and i would also just like to say that the solution -- you know, i just want to ensure that the solution is a public bank, a municipal bank. and i'm -- and i'm -- whether -- you know, i understand that's going to take steps to get there, and i don't want everything at once. i understand that, but i want the end outcome to be a public

bank. as commissioner pollock said, i've been with the sfd fund apo as billion, after four years, we got to that meeting at sf'ers, and i felt like something was going to happen, and we just came out of there with another plan to make a plan, and it just infeweriated me. like you said, th should have happened a decade ago. we need to make this happen. we need a public bank. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, chairman. next speaker, please. >> thank you, chair fewer and commissioners. chad holtsman, senior policy analyst for 350 bay area but speaking for myself as a language time san franciscans. i want to thank the treasurer and the great staff for the great attitude which i don't departs.r city

i do think that, i guess the ents bcurtis and trevor are worth -- this is kind of focusing on the positive aspects of the bank, potential positive aspects, and i think what we're highlighting is the taverted negativets of doing this, which is -- which is also i want to bring into the room, have led the campaign to divest your om fossil fuels and there is some movement on that, but getting the city itself to stop money where its mouth isn'tould be a great start. really love this rank choice distribution of norms or goals, rather? i just want to highlight as so many used to do qualitative and quantitative data mining, that the three in the middle are for all intents and purposes, the same. you can't really say that 33 and 31 are different, like, in any significant factor? so i happen to be an

infrastructure fan, so i'm kind of propg up infrastructure. 2, 3, and 4 are kind of the same, so moving forward, i would hope you would consider them such. going forward, i think more constituencies are better? so think one thing focusing on what to start the bank around is that thing bank? and nationwide, i think it's going to get framed as such, and then, the folks who don't want the land to be taken by affordable housing will oppose the bank, whereas the bampg is around two or three things, all of those constituencies can support that. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. is there any further public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor fewer: so i don't think we have to make an action item on this item. so i am wondering, madam clerk, could you please call items six

and seven together? >> clerk: [agenda item read] [agenda item read] >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. colleagues, my apologies, but i must make a motion to continue these two items due to the time constraints. again, my apologies for being here late, too. i just have another meeting right after there, so i would like to make a motion to continue these two items until the next meeting of lafco. >> clerk: madam chair, we still need to take public comment, though. >> supervisor fewer: yes, and now i'd like to take public comment on items six and seven seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor fewer: colleagues, so can take that motion without objection to continue the item? thank you very much. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor fewer: madam clerk, can you please call item eight? [agenda item read] >> supervisor fewer: thank

you. is there any public comment today? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor fewer: madam clerk, is there any further items? >> clerk: we still have item number nine, future agenda items. >> supervisor fewer: okay. we need to open thatup. here any further agenda items? >> eric brooks. since you're in a hurry, i'll make this quick. it is vital that on your next agenda, and i've spoken to brian about this, this you take up legislation that is in sacramento so that we can make some decisions about it, particularly sb -- or ab 813, which unfortunately i recently discovered for some unknown crazy reason cal cca is supporting and that does not make sense. and so we need to have a discussion of this, and i can't

highlight enough that loretta lynch who's a former kpafl public utilities commission president, i gave brian her -- california public utilities commission president, i gave brian her e-mail to get herrin put on why ab 813 is so drastically bad and we need to oppose it. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. is there any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor fewer: madam clerk, is there any other business today? >> clerk: that concludes the business for today. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. the meeting is now adjourned.

>> i want to welcome you here to the civic center hotel my name is gale dill man, the c.e.o. of community housing partnership. in 2015, this was the second

navigation center to open its doors and welcome over 92 individuals living inen ca encampments in the street. this announcement will ensure that before individuals hav the opportunity to enter shelter and navigation centers, they can receive vital services and treatments that they so much need and deserve. and on an on going basis. on behalf of all of community housing partnerships, and the 91 navigation center individuals here at this site, we are so excited and honored to introduce our mayor mark farrell. [applause] >> thank you, gale. good morning, everyone. i want to thank you all for joining us here today. as we all know, san francisco and the rest of our cntry, and cities around our country, are dealing with an opioid crisis hitting our streets. it's unfolding in our

neighborhoods and in our sidewalks in front of our very eyes. fighting this fight means that we not only have to use existing programs but if we're really going to solve the issue and make a dent, we have to be .rea we have to come forward with new policies and new will make a difference on our streets. and that is why we're here today. to announce a significant investment in a new, addiction treatment program with our street medicine team. the street medicine team has long been a part of how san francisco seeks to deal with the health of individuals on our sidewalks and in the streets of san francisco. the street medicine team is on the front lines every single day here in san francisco. bringing service and treatment to those who need it here in san francisco. the small but vital team works every single day to care for those were in a traditional

clinic or hospital, it's simply not the answer and it's not working. their work is rooted in compassion and acceptance and meetineople where they are. including streets, our shelters and our navigation centers here in san francisco. with this new investment of over $3 million a year, we are adding 10 new staff and increasing resources to focus on the drug addiction on our streets of san francisco. and to address the opioid epidemic, right here on the streets of san francisco, the team will be expanding the work that they started with the pilot that started last year and expanding this program across the entire city. i am proud that san francisco is gointo be the first city in the nation to take this approach. san francisco is a leader in so

many areas and once again, we are stepping up with professionals that know how to get job run right. leaders willing to take bold approaches to address the issues confronting san francisco residents and those that need our help on our streets. by providing this medicine out of a traditional clinic setting, we're expanding our outreach capacity and taking every opportunity to help those individuals that are on our streets suffering from drug addiction. the program, which sometimes i have trouble saying, is an important part of our larger strateere in san francisco and with our department of public-health, to address those struckelling with addiction. which includes detox to residential treatment services. this investment, let me be very clear about this. this investment will ultimately

help save lives. and it will improve the conditions on the streets of san francisco. i want to thank a number of people who have brought this program to light today. first of all, director barbara garcia from our department of public-health. [applause] >> dr. sven for his leadership and ingenuity. we knew he would get the loudest applause and he deserves it. our department of homelessness and their partnership in leadership as well. and all the other providers and healthcare leaders that are behind me here today that are working so hard every single day in san francisco. to get those that are on our streets with the help that they need. whether it's homelessness o drug addiction or the other issues plaguing those on our streets, our goal in san francisco is to be compassionate

and get people off the streets, on to their own two feet and on to better lives. thank you for being here today andh th i love to turn it over to director garcia for remarks. [applause] >> good morning. commitnt to the effort of treatment access for those suffering from opioid addiction. i'm barbra garcia. i want to acknowledge all of the d.p.h. staff here that work every day to heal and support san franciscans who are in need of healthcare. i'd like to give them another round of applause. [applause] we know sciencas proven, for a long time, with many personal stories and the medication assisted treatment works. addiction is a challenge of a lifetime treatment and recovery happen and people do get better. mayor lee, a year and a half

ago, asked me is there something else that we can do? we need to reach people on the streets who are clearly suffering and in the grips of addiction. what else can we do? we know that some of our traditional approaches of adn, tioat is, waiting for people to be ready to come to us to seek help. it doesn't always work for those suffering from addiction and especially if they are homeless. all of our services are voluntary and we have to develop care relations to engage people into care and it does take time. but i really want to thank dr. barrie sven who took this challenge for mayor lee and myself and add this service to his existing street medicine team. medication assisted treatment. to the streets where he goes daily providing care to the homeless people in need. that is how this program was born. in the fall of 2016.

we have served over 95 people since then bringing medications to fight opioid addictions directly to them on the streets. by expanding the program today, we are first taking a big ste towards our ability to combat the ooid addiction in this city. the new funding will allow us to directly serve 250 new individuals but we also know geat we can serve more once we those engagements and those relationships because in all of our clinics, we can access ice a medication. so this program is a big step forward to saving lives, lost to heroine, fentanyl and methamphetamine addictions and overdoses. homeless people who use drugs are especially vulnerable and our health system is adapting going directly to them with compassionate outreach and expertise. we're able to help a group that tsissed in the traditional structure of visits and appointments.

our low barrier medication program is just one piece of a city-wide effort to increase treatment. we are also providing emergency rooms at sucker burg general hospital and implementing a new addiction consultant service within our hospital to ensure all physicians at the hospital have access to treatment experts for their patients. the doctors from this service are also here today. so again, i want to thank mayor farrell for supporting all of our efforts to address those with substance abuse disorders and continuing our efforts to save lives. with that i'd like to introduce dr. barrie sven. [applause] >> well, thank you very much, mayor farrell and director garcia and the city of san francisco for the opportunity to do this. i have been working with people experiencing homelessness in san francisco since 1991.

my philosophy in this work is do what works, do what is needed. i didn't come into this work with a preconceived notion of what it is that is going to work. when we see what the problems are, then we develop what are the possible solutions? it doesn't feel like it's a great innovation to say if people are not able to come into a clinic let's go out and see them where they are. i think what feels like an ininnovation about that is many people have the pre conception or the stereo type that a person experiencing homelessness doesn't care about their health. a person with a substance use disorder isn't very concerned about their health. what we see, day after day, one person after another, is that people are deeply concerned about their health. they may have more compelling

concerns. where are they going to eat? where are they going to lay their head down and if they pend on drugs,here w will they get drugs to prevent themselves from having severe and awful withdrawals. if we' out there with our team and this is absolutely about a team, not about me as a single physician, doing something, if we're out there as a team we're able to meet people where they are. we see and talk to people about the harms related to their substance use. we also see what the damage to the community related to that substance use is. and we're talking to people about treatment. you've heard the term bupinorfine. that is our medication that we are primarily using. we're also often recommending and referring and assisting people when it's appropriate, to

get to methadone treatments and we're using another mtionedca to treat opioid use disorder. having these medications have changed my attitude towards seeing heroine users. earlier in my career, not that i didn't like heroine users, but i never felt like i had something to offer. now they're my favorite patient. i have something that can immediately change your recollection with the drugs you use andha your circumstances are. many people who we see have heard about it and they haven't had the opportunity to talk to medical providers who have expertise and get prescriptions.

the basic idea is bring it to people where they are, get people stabilized, and then th're able to move into those next steps because when you are strung out on heroine, when you need to use or else have awful withdrawals, every four to six hours, it's really hard to do anything. what we need to do is provide something that is at least as compelling to people as what is happening to them on the streets. medication is absolutely necessary. human contact, treatment and caring for people is the other thingsary neces with those things in place, and this program expansion, is allowing us to do that, we have the opportunity not only to reach the 250 additional new patients but that really has an amplifying effect. when one person is on the street

felfeeling hopeless and sees thr buddy getting help, that is a tremendous boost to that person being able to take maybe that one more step to say, maybe things aren't absolutely hopeless, maybe there's something i can do. maybe that other person doesn't even have an opioid use disorder. maybe they don't use heroine. maybe they have a problem with alcohol? maybe they have a problem with mental health disorder. seeing that hope where someone is hopeful. the most positive, most effective thing i've seen in this program is one person telling another, hey, i got this medicine from the street medicine team. i saw dr. evan, i saw one of their nurses. that person saying well, i can't believe it. you were the least likely to succeed guy. you were the worst-off person. you are the person with the worst addiction i know and now you are telling me you are not

using? that's tremendous in building hope and that's what we need to do as we address the problems that we see. so i'm going to introduce chris, one of our initial low barrier buprenorp hine patients. someone who will tellou about his experience. so thank you. [applause] >> good morning. my name is christopher rafino and to piggy back on what dr. svens said, one rainy morning, as i got out of jail, and i contacted dr. sven, via the mail and telephone and to other people, i did not want to use anymore. i had tried many, many attempts unsuccessfully of shaking my addiction to heroine of 28

years. nothing worked. i tried everything. residential programs, everything. well, dr. sven met me out in the rain with my bicycle in hand and the clothe on my back and spoke to me for 25, maybe 30 minutes. he said look, i'm going to do isor you. dodo not let me down. i don't believe i have. three and a half years ago, that occurred right over here. three blocks away from here. my life has changed dramatically. i am a substance abuse councilor myself. i work in a facility across the bay. my life has changed. i have everything back i lost. i owe my love to dr. sven and buprenorphine. out that i was loosing hope you but i got it. i'd like to introduce someone from the homeless outreach program or the homeless program,

jeff >> thank you, chris. [applause] >> my name is jeff with the department of homelessness and supportive housing. i want to thank you all for being here today. i want to thank the department of public-health. homelessness is a complex problem and it requires the partnership amongst many city departments and individuals and peoplexperiencing homelessness to resolve this issue and this is just one of many steps that we need to take. we're very excited about expanding this pilot that we started with d.p.h. many, many months ago. i believe it was in late 2016. i want to thank mayor farrell for his leadership in expanding this important program. so thank you again for being here today and we'll take questions over at the side. thank you. [applause]

>> 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 o 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 it's something that tk 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 user 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 happenn a tech campus. it's basically where we bring the hardware, the culture, the operating system. >> so right now, i'm eating ingsothhat 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 ourses 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 bestts 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. thinkn 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 >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their showing up and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop & dine in the 49 san francisco owes must of the charm to the unique characterization of each corridor has a distinction permanent our neighbors are the economic engine of the city. >> if we could a afford the lot

by these we'll not to have the kind of store in the future the kids will eat from some restaurants chinatown has phobia one of the es the most unique neighborhood shopping areas of san francisco. >> chinatown is one of the oldest chinatown in the state we need to be able allergies the people and that's the reason chinatown is showing more of the people will the traditional thepg. >> north beach is i know one of the last little italian community. >> one of the last neighborhood

that hadn't changed a whole lot and san francisco community so strong and the sense of partnership with businesses as well and i just love northeach community old school italian comfort and love that is what italians are all about we need people to come here and shop here so we can keep this going not only us but, of course, everything else in the community i think local businesses the small ones and coffee shops are unique in their own way that is the characteristic of the neighborhood i peace officer prefer it is local character you have to support them. >> really notice the port this community we really need to kind

of really shop locally and support the communityly live in it is more economic for people to survive here. >> i came down to treasure island to look for a we've got a long ways to go. ring i just got married and didn't want something on line i've met artists and local business owners they nee money to go out and shop this is important to short them i think you get better things. >> definitely supporting the local community always good is it interesting to find things i never knew existed or see that that way. >> i think that is really great that san francisco seize the vails of small business and creates the shop & dine in the 49 to support businesses make people all the residents and

visitors realize had cool things are made and produced in san f just about expensive eat but food for everyone and there's organizations in the city that are doing really good work making sure that healthy food it assessable to everyone. more and more as follows are are becomi interested in upper arlthd they want to joy the open green pace sea know where their food it coming from we'll look at 3 programs talking ushering agricultural and garden to new

heights. so what exactly it, your honor agricultural >> it the growing food or flowers within city limits traditionally we've been referring to communities gardener that is a raised bed over and over upper argument has a more a farming way of farming. >> so tell me 0 what's growing in this garden. >> a rea at all plant. in the one oe rare places, you know, people have access to green space 24 is one of the places to grow things like the purplefloor. it is sort of recognizing that the more diversity in given

space the better not to just have one thing by everything supported each another >> it provides the community with an opportunity to get their hands dirty and reach 0 out and congressmen with the community in ways they might have not otherwise to engage with one other. >> now the dpw urban planning program so see how the garden community. >> so i grew up on a farm in air force base we picked the foods open the trees and share with other families and as i drive around san francisco i see any trees with apples or mrumdz and lemon trees i can see the food going to waste and brought that idea back to the department

many of the trees where the fruit would go to waste we origin or crop and pick other fruits and delivery this to food banks or she toseople who need them. >> i'm here with nang w hello nang. >> hello. >> i need to understand house th gleaning work. >> we come and harvest like for example, we'll come over here this is the lemon and plug it like this. >> (laughter). >> made that good, good and ease. >> the trick how not to hurt the branches. >> like the thing. >> i'm so excited about this.

the people are so passionate about where the food goes to the private property owners give us the food they're happy that no of a t is going to waste >> oh. thank you. thank you. again job aura natural >> (laughter). >> from backyards to back lots let's take a look at the food and community bonding at the free farm. >> my idea was to start growing food and giving it away. and getting my neighbors to who had space and having a kind of event that brings people together not to run our food

program this time around but to share the wealth of the abundance of our welfare. we were all divorce and as part of our philosophy of working togethnd working together. >> what's the most rewarding aspect of volunteering for the free farm stand. >> well, we could is a generalic satisfaction but something about giving food away it's giving something i brought that in and sort it and gave it to you it's primitive to be able to give something some basically to someone else. >> now serving number to 49 come on down. >> we have the cility of producing this food and in san francisco you can grow food all

year round so the idea we're capable of prougdz food in our own backyards we're here to demonstrate an bans of food and i think that giving it away for free we show individuals it in have to be a comedy. >> we build time together and it's the strength of any ideas of the connections we'll turn that connection and the more connections you make no mistake about it the more you can have a stronger power and not have to rely on money that's the people power. >> in this episode we've seen the urban farms and gardens

provide more in fruits and vegetation people canave th special produce available it can be a pce to give back by donating food to others and teach our children the connection to the earth and environment it's truly. >> shop and dine the 49 challenges residents to do they're shopping with the 49ers of san francisco by supporting theer withinhe feigned we help san francisco remain unique and successful and rib rant where will you shop the shop and dine the 49 i'm e jonl

i provide sweets square feet potpie and peach cobbler and i started my business this is my baby i started out of high home and he would back for friends and coworkers they'll tell you hoa you need to open up a shop at the time he move forward book to the bayview and i thinks the t line was up i need have a shop on third street i live in bayview and i wanted to have my shop here in bayview a quality dessert shot shop in my neighborhood in any business is different everybody is in small banishes there are homemade recess pesz and ingredients from scratch we shop local because we have someone that is here in

your city or your neighborhood that is provide you with is service with quality ingredients and quality products and need to be know that person the person behind the products it is not like okay. who - >> tenderloin is unique neighborhood where geographically place in downtown san francisco and on every street corner have liquor store in the corner it stores pretty much every single block has a liquor store but there are impoverishes grocery stores i'm the co-coordinated of the healthy corner store collaboration close to 35 hundred residents 4 thousand are children the medium is about

$23,000 a year so a low income neighborhood many new immigrants and many people on fixed incomes residents have it travel outside of their neighborhood to assess fruits aegetabs it can come senator for seniors and hard to travel get on a bus to get an apple or a pear or like tomatoes to fit into their meals my my name is ryan the co-coordinate for the trloin healthy store he coalition we work in the neighborhood trying to support small businesses and improving access to healthy produce in the tenderloin that is one of the most neighborhoods that didn't have access to a

full service grocery store and we california together out of the meeting held in 2012 through the major development center the survey with the corners stores many stores do have aess and some are bad quality and an overwhelming support from community members wanting to utilities the service spas we decided to work with the small businesses as their role within the community and bringing more fresh produce produce cerebrothe neighborhood their compassionate about creating a healthy environment when we get into the work they rise up to leadership. >> the different stores and assessment and trying to get them to understand the value of having healthy foods at a

reasonable price you can offer people fruits and vegetables and healthy produce they can't afford it so that'hy i want to get llow it involved and we just make sure that there are alternatives to people can come into a store and not just see cookies and candies and potting chips and that kind of thing hi, i'm cindy the director of the a preif you believe program it is so important about healthy retail in the low income community is how it brings that health and hope to the communities i worked in the tenderloin for 20 years the difference you walk out the door and there is bright new list of fresh fruits and vegetables some place you

know is safe and welcoming it makes. >> huge difference to the whole environment of the community what so important about retail environments in those neighborhoods it that sense of ity and community safe way. >> this is why it is important for the neighborhood we have families that needs healthy have a lot of families that live up here most of them fruits and vegetables so that's good as far been doing good. >> now that i had this this is really great for me, i, go and get fresh fruits and vegetables it is healthy being a diabetic you're not

supposed to get carbons but getting extra food a all carbons not eating a lot of vegetables was bringing up my whether or not pressure once i got on the program everybody o everything i lost weight and my blood pressure came down helped in so many different ways the most important piece to me when we start seeing the business owners engagement and their participation in the programt how proud to speak that is the most moving piece of this program yes economic and social benefits and so forth but the personal pride business

owners talk about in the program is interesting and regarding starting to understand how they're part of the larger fabric of the community and this is just not the corner store they have influence over their communit >> it is an owner of this in the department of interior i see the great impact usually that is like people havingecia espy with a small family think liquor store sells alcohol traditional alcohol but when they see this their vision is changed it is a small grocery store for them so they more options not just beer and wine but healthy options good for the business and good for the community i wish to have

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