a pedestrian that was crossing, and this -- this street already has a pending project to do another set of h.i.p.s this state route, and this will probably not in project and completion in 2019, and the last crash was at broadway near rock t stockton, and that crash involved a pedestrian crossing the block being hit by a vehicle early in the morning, and that construction was under completion. [inaudible] >> -- such as the broad case, and then, projects that are pending implementation where we have projects that are coming but they didn't, unfortunately, come soon enough for the fatal

that happened. this was a picture that we did on manzell, again, this is -- mansell, this is just an indication that this is not a safe place to pass other people. we are looking at more changes along the corridor, but again, this is a project that had recently been completed, so it had a lot of other projects built into it. like i said, construction can be an issue. this is a case where we worked chosely with public works in the case of the fatality that happened on broadway. we wanted to make sure that the construction was not a cause or a contributing factor to any of the crash details, so public works staff was on the field with police department immediately after the fatality, and i was able to be at the site at well and talk to people about the crash details. so that's the case of a project that is now completed.

there was a ribbon cutting yesterday for the broadway project that has additional improvements in terms of pedestrian sidewalk areas. for the second quarter, fatalities included ocean and victoria which we discussed as a senior fatality last week. we are making a series of changes to ocean in terms of signal timing and markings, and based on your request, commissioner yee, we are also doing a no turn on red for victoria at ocean, so that will be implemented shortly. there was a fatality at 19 avenue and winston, where we visited the site at night where the crash happened and discovered a streetlight light wasn't functioning, so we indicated that to the sfpuc. arthur and cargo way was kind of a case linked to a criminal

activity. vehicle ran and crashed into an intersection. we did not feel that there was a lot of engineering things that we could do at that intersection for the crash itself, but we do have a pending project there to make some changes. at 20 and castro was another case of a fatality where a tow truck lost control of a vehicle and it slid into a work site and it killed one of our fellow city co-workers, a very tragic incident. and this was considered to be a crash, but again, it was more of a work related incident with a tow truck and the work site, so we have not looked at that location for engineering changes, but instead, other parties are following up, including the parties that investigate the tow truck and the work site conditions. and the embarcadero and sansome, this involved a pedi cab driver being hit by a motorist in a corridor that was

under study for cycle track and other. . s and staff has also gone out to the site and looked at other things we can do, shorter than the long-term projects. and finally, the fatalities that happened in july, a fatality happened at 16 and mission, where a pedestrian was walking midblock and was hit at mission. we are doing some changes at the intersection of 16 and mission in terms of extending a transit bulb. we had already done a red lane project on that street. and then, finally, the crash we had just discussed with caltrans at 36 and sloat, where caltrans the prior week had activated a new h.i.c. beacon, and the pedestrian was crossing the street. >> supervisor yee: okay. thank you very much for your presentation. by the way, i'm really happy that we have this response team that's been created so that the different departments can actually share the same

information and data and do the analysis together because it seems like in the past, there's been a lack of coordination. from your presentation, i can see that you're doing a lot more what we call reactive strategies, i guess, after the fact. and one of the things from even last week that i mentioned is that we can't forget to also be proactive in trying to get this -- use the information you're getting to look at other situations to say even though it hasn't happened in the particular intersection, let's be proactive and just go ahead and do the -- whether it's engineering projects to improve the intersections or to put a signal or whatever, you know. i think those are important steps that we take.

thank you very much. >> yes. i was to emphasize that my presentation is purely focused on a reactive part of the work we do. i think it's important, but obviously, the agency and the city are also working on a proactive basis to look at where could the next fatal happen, install traffic signals, signal beacons, additional markers, regulations. we're retiming the entire downtown area, and we're looking at what additional safety recommendations we can do. there's a very proactive component as well, and whatever lessons we learn from the crashes, severe and fatal, we also try to extrapolate and figure out how can we learn from these so they don't repeat themselves and apply them in a proactive fashion where they don't happen again. >> supervisor yee: thank you very much for your work and your presentation, mr. oleja. >> thank you. >> supervisor yee: any public comment on this item?

come on up. >> thank you. kathy deluca. we know that vision zero is just bigger than responding to individual crashes but it matters to people who are impacted, to communities who are impacted, so i just want to thank the sfmta for their quick work and responsiveness. >> hello. commissioners. my name is kristin lecke. in the days following the hit and run on the embarcadero, i was regularly in touch with people who new kevin manning, the pedi cab operator who eventually passed away from injuries from the crash. i am concerned about the people

who are impacted by these traffic collisions are not yet being supported. in the days following kevin's death, we were immediately working with his close friends and family for a ghost bike memorial event. where was the c.r.t. then? then, we turned out for an m.t.a. board meeting. while we appreciate the condolences from director ed reiskin, there was no mention of the rapid response team or the results of their engineering team to bring near term improvements to the embarcadero. time and time again, it is instead up to the friends and family who are grieving after loss to push for more. on behalf of our 10,000 members, we urge the city to do more and to do it faster. if even the loss of life isn't enough for immediate street safety improvements, our city is failing our people. commissioners, thank you again for bringing this to the attention and let's keep pushing our city departments to do more. thank you. >> supervisor yee: thank you very much. any other public comments on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. any othermen comments, colleag?

seeing none, then, this informational item -- let's move quickly to item six. >> clerk: item six, update from vision zero community groups. this is an information item. >> supervisor yee: miss deluca. >> good morning, noonish, good afternoon. good afternoon, chair yee, and commissioners. i am kathy deluca, the project coordinator for walk sf. so first, i'll start with the senior and disability work group. so this group forms in -- formed in 2016, and ad vocates

from several departments came together and decided we needed to do something. it wasn't okay that two was killed. we knew that market was a high injury corridor. so we quickly formed this group, and we actually rallied together and made some changes. we were able to get leading pedestrian intervals on market street after we joined together. we got better turn restriction signage because we know on the safer market street project there are a lot of turn restrictions, and is it ae confusing -- and it's confusing, and we were also involved in the city driver training, so we've been getting a lot of good things accomplished together. the city has been putting in a lot of protected bike lanes, which is really good, but there are a lot of consequences, and

so we got a group together to talk about this. basically, when you have protected bike lanes against the curb, you lose access to the curb, so folks who used to pull up to the curb and get out on the curb, which is really important for seniors and folks with disabilities, that access is gone. and now if you're getting out from the curb, you have to cross a bike lane. so we wanted to really talk about this and make sure that improvements that are really important for bicyclists that should happen could also work for seniors and people with disabilities. so we had a big workshop in march. we invited city staff from all different agencies, advocates, consultants, and we even had folks from oakland department of transportation come. and we had a great day really opening up this conversation and talking about the challenges that these communities face and coming up with solutions. so -- and i just wanted to give you a few examples because i think visuals help kind of

understand what we're talking about. so when we have transit islands, when the bike lane's against the curb, and we have a transit island, it could be harder fore people with disabilities and seniors to get off the island. is it a ramp and only on one end of the island? that could be difficult for seniors and person with disabilities. if you're blind or a person with low sight, and you're used to going to the curb to find your bus stop, and then somehow the bus stop moves out into the street, how are you supposed to find out where that is? so we were talking about how can we make this work? we talked about sidewalk level bike lanes, which is the city is planning in some of our corridors, which again for seniors and people with disabilities there are a lot of concerns with that mixing. we know that those people are more at risk if they're in crashes, so we talked about how to design these so that they

were safe. floating parking. so if the bike lane is protected by parking, this is -- this is causing all sorts of challenges for folks with disabilities and seniors. so again, you used to be able to step out of your car onto the curb, but now you're stepping out from your car into this hatched zone. so sometimes folks find that hatched zone isn't big enough to get your walker or stroller out. sometimes instead of, again, you used to be able to step right onto the curb. now you have to travel down this zone and try to get onto the curb which is a longer distance to cross. and the group also found there were few you are accessibility parking spots. we could go into this forever, and i like to -- oh, again, post protected bike lanes, just an unintended consequence is how are folks who need to get to a destination right at that location accessing it?

it's blocked now. so we had this great discussion where we talked all of these -- these problems out, and we came up with a handful of solutions. and so the group really talked about hey, if we had raised crossings across the bike lanes, that would really help pedestrians be safe and visible. if we had really visible and predictable crossings, that's going to help people find these transit islands. universal design was talked about a lot, which is just making sure a street -- a design of anything, street building, works for everybody, so we talked about that. the group also -- you know, we tried not to get mired in write offs, so this group just thought we needed more space for people. and then, flexible designs where you can try things --

this was a short-term low case transit island that the city put in, and trying these out and seeing how they work. and finally, the group found the need for multiple access and crossing points. sometimes the island is really long, and there's only one ramp at the end. so that is a ton of info -- okay. that's a ton of info, but i skbru just wants to raise this info because i don't think the group was talking about it, and we want to make sure that vision zero includes everyone. we're continuing this conversation, and the senior and disability work group is -- we're actually going to form a temporary design review group with the city to make sure we're looking athe some of these new designs and really getting some standards down that will work. we're also going to be putting together a toolkit with all the information that's easy to digest that we can handout and

share with other cities because we've gotten input from other cities because it's really not happening elsewhere, so that's the power of this group. >> supervisor yee: could you remind me this group, when did it finish meeting and come up with these solutions? >> these -- so we met -- this charrette, this workshop was in march. so we have been meeting with the city since then to figure out next steps, and then, we recently decided to form the design review group, and so we're still working on this toolkit, too, so we're going to get that done in the next month or so. so that's kind of a lot of information for you about the senior and disability work group. we're going to keep working on the protected bike lane work because we're not done yet. and then this year, we're going to work on safe streets for people with disabilities. we love the safe streets for seniors program, and we really want to see an equal focus on folks with disabilities.

so that is the first group that we are fortunate to be involved with. the other group is near and dear, i know, to supervisor yee's heart, san francisco and bay area families for safe streets. so commissioner stefani, i don't know if you've had a chance to hear about this group yet, so i'm excited to get to tell you about it. so walk sf has the great privilege of working with this group and supporting this group, which is why i'm here to tell you about it. so sf bay area families for safe streets is a group of people who have survived crashes or who have had loved ones who had have been in crashes or loved ones killed in crashes, and they came together to basically support each other and advocate to the end of preventible injuries and deaths on our streets. so they're an amazing group of individuals, super inspiring. here you'll see one of our members. elvin lester, speaking with acting mayor breed in the beginning of the year to really

announce that vision zero victory last year. this group has accomplished a lot in two years. they formed two years ago, and then, subsequently put an event on in 2016 and 2017, and every year, participation has just gone through the roof. so really great way to raise awareness of this problem. last year, we were super excited, our members -- so we're a bay area wide group, not just san francisco. some of our members live in san jose, and they lunched their first day of remembrance in san jose, so we're really excited to continue that again this year. automated speed enforcement, which we all know about. this group, san francisco bay area families for safe streets was the heart behind getting this bill to sacramento, was the heart of getting this bill sponsored and the heart of getting this bill the furthest any bill has ever gotten for

automated speed enforcement. they haven't given up. they're going to keep meeting with folks and keep testifying and keep working so that no one has to die from speeding in this city. they worked a lot with the department of public health on a traffic fatality response protocol. it's not the one that ricardo was talking about. that's the rapid response. this is when a traffic fatality happens in san francisco, this is a protocol that all of our city agencies work to come together to basically make sure when someone's killed in a crash, there's a quick response, tfamily gets sort of a -- not sort of, gets a quick response. a lot of times, the victim gets blame. they should have had a helmet on. that sort of language does not work for people suffering trauma, so the families were able to work with city agencies, talk to the police

department, talk to fire, talk to the department of public health, and the city respond does with this amazing protocol, which i think is really a model for the whole country. the group has been involved with ad campaigns with the sfmta and john knox white, to really spaed awareness of traffic campaigns in our city. we had our first retreat this summer where we came together and stepped back and start today do some planning, so that was really exciting. and then finally, just last week, the group won the golden wheel award from the san francisco bike coalition which was a really big honor and big deal. so i will end by telling you what we're going to do now. they're going to go to new york in december for the nshl bike cities conference. we're planning day of remembrance, which will be november 18, and we're hoping you'll all join us, and we're doing a lot of foundation

building for the group. we kind of got out of the group really quickly with a.s.e., and now we need to step back and get some things in place. but we're really strong and really excited, and so i hope that the group can come -- i hope some members can come and meet you all. it's hard. some of the members have full-time jobs and they don't live in the city, but i hope you can get to meet some of them in person because i'm just a full-time representative. so that's all. thank you. >> supervisor yee: thank you for your presentation and any questions? seeing none, any public comments? >> hello, again. i'm kristin lecke from the san francisco bicycle coalition. i just want to take a minute to thank walk sf and the working group for the great charrette they held this past march on

how the city can design bike lanes that are safe and accessible for all pedestrians. through my own work to extend healthy saturdays year-round, i've been lucky enough to work alongside rec and park and the mayor's office on disability in regards to access ibltiblity -- accessiblity issues in the park. we're very excited to be a part of these conversations and we look forward to making more spaces accessible for all ages and abilities in the city. thank you. >> supervisor yee: okay. any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. i -- oh . okay.

so the recommendations from the disability community, i know you're putting it altogether, and i know at some point, the -- i guess sfmta would look at it, but in our next meeting, i want to make sure it's on the agenda that we get a response in terms of what has -- how sfmta will be utilizing some of these recommendations and -- and whether or not there's a plan to move forward with some of these recommendations. so that should be on our next agenda. okay. thank you very much. so this information item, can i have the item number seven. >> clerk: item seven, bold ideas update and next steps for action strategy. this is an action item. >> supervisor yee: bold ideas.

>> good afternoon. my name is ryan reeves. i work at m.t.a. at our vision zero program lead. i'm going to talk to you very quickly because i know we're the last item about a recent workshop we held for the bold ideas and how that feeds into the next action strategy that we're developing. so we held this some response to the vision zero coalition as well as supervisor yee's office to really think about the longer plan for vision zero. our goal was to talk about what else we needed in the city to really move the needle beyond -- move the needle for vision zero. we had more than 70 people attend, including about half representing community groups or advocacy organizations, and

we also offered a scholarship or a stipend for people who wouldn't otherwise be able to taebd to increase our -- attend to increase our outreach and participation. these are long-term initiatives that we want to advance that might have significant political challenges, perhaps have high costs, perhaps are equity concerns to really think through carefully or might require legislative changes to achieve. so these are the six bold ideas that were elevated by our community groups who attended the workshops, and i'm just going to briefly go through these. we also have a report in more details that we can share with you. so the first is this idea for major street redesign is that we could really continue to do these even more transform ative projects as part of a larger

citywide conversation about a lot of the tradeoffs that tend to hold us back. in terms of high visibility community engagement, so this is really thinking about a culturally per sesive marketing campaign about behavior change? think about something like an antismoking campaign. something we've been thinking about is how we can get our vision zero out more on an informational level? how can we really extend our marketing and -- excuse me or education and outreach to really reach the broader bay area. for automated enforcement, this is building not only on automated speed enforcement but also thinking about enforcement opportunities for things like illegal turns? so this is something that would require legislative change for us to pursue? curb side management, so this

is really about how we are currently using our curb space and are we really reflecting the flexibility of the needs of the curb that we're seeing today for pick ups and drop offs? again, this would require a larger city conversation around parking relative to other needs in the kmubt. the next one is about changing urban speed limits? so this would involve legislative change that would allow you to change the methodology in terms of how we set our speeds, and it would reflect safety and mobility goals a little bit more than our current methodology that we're authorized with? so again this is something that would require political support and legislative change. and this last one is pricing, which is really a demand management strategy that has potential cobenefits for safety? and they're really opportunities to think about this beyond just a citywide pricing strategy but also like

a quarter pricing or pricing for emerging mobility services. and so we would need a citywide conversation on the value of doing something like this. so this is just the beginning of the conversation, and these are the gold ideas that community and citigroups at our workshop really elevated that they're looking at us to think about more. so in terms of how theed bold ideas feed into our next action strategy, we're developing that to release in march of next year as a policy platform for some of these bold ideas. so our first action strategy in 2015 really laid what the vision zero and established public safety as a public health crisis. in 2017 we moved beyond the five e's that are defined at safety and started thinking about vision zero as a safe systems approach? and now we see this next action strategy as a real opportunity

to elevate these bold ideas as a policy platform. so just at a very high level, some things that we're envisioning that would be different. again, this policy platform for our leaders to think about at our next meeting, what can we think about pursuing. synergy is thinking about the cobenefits that we need to achieve our other citywide goals to really accomplish and achieve vision zero. within safe streets, we really want to emphasize engineering aspects, and so thinking about how do we link more of our capital improvement program into our action strategy. lastly, for safe vehicles, our current action strategy is

really focused on city fleet, and we've seen with all the emerging mobility trends that we really want to better address how we're going to think about autonomous vehicles and other emerging technology. and across all of these, we will continue to have a strong focus on equity as a core principle. so we're currently in our outreach process for action strategy, and we'll be developing content in the fall with the goal of releasing in march of next year? and for my last slide, i just want to briefly highlight some of the outreach that we've been doing? so we had a workshop yesterday with the community? we had about 70 people attend a four hour workshop to talk about the new ideas and the things that are important to them as we move forward? we're going to be holding something now that we're doing that we're calling coffee talks in your districts as well as across all the districts in san francisco to really go to the community and to the public to make sure that they are engaged -- people who aren't

otherwise to spend half a day with us to talk about the action strategy? so we're going to places like senior centers, food pantries, to really get that input. so we really want to make sure in this action strategy, we're reflecting what we've heard from the community? and we look forward to sharing more with you as we move through the outreach process. thank you. >> supervisor yee: thank you. could i ask, with the strategy -- not the congestion, but the one before that, with the -- >> yeah, the speed limits? >> supervisor yee: the speed limit. what was the thinking beyond that? >> i -- i think it was -- just from what we heard, being able to reduce speeds across the city, and there's been some

state legislation that would look at changing the methodology in terms of how you can set speeds to better reflect safety? that state legislation has changed a bit in terms of the scope, and it's now being proposed as a state task force to sort of explore these issues more? so we don't see the actual legislation moving forward in its original state, but it's an opportunity to really think at a state level of how do we better think about safety in terms of setting speeds. >> supervisor yee: what's -- what are our restrictions for setting speeds in san francisco? i know -- >> [inaudible] >> supervisor yee: i know if it's caltrans or whatever, it's a little more difficult. it took forever to slow down monterey boulevard, but we were eventually able to do that, and

we were able to do the school zones to be 15 miles per hour. is this something that the state controls or can we just lower speeds? >> hi, commissioners. i'm an engineer with the sfmta. currently in the state of california, we're required to follow the provisions in the california netcd for setting speed limits based on the 85th percentile of flee flree flow traffic, so our hands are kind of kind of tide when it comes to reducing speed limits. we typically do a speed survey, we sample 100 vehicles in free flow conditions, we take 85th percentile of that speed, we then round up our down to the nearest five miles an hour increment, and we can typically reduce that on things such as

land use, population density -- we typically take that reduction in all studies that we do given the land use and density in all areas of the city. >> supervisor yee: so i think i heard that same explanation for monterey boulevard in which they originally said they couldn't slow down because they tested it, and it -- are there waivers to that or is it just just you have to follow that particular requirement area? and then, the question i have, i don't know if you mentioned this, but london, the city of london is exploring or maybe implemented for the city core area, central area, that they're going to slow their traffic down to 20 miles per hour, so is that something that we're thinking about for san francisco? at least, if not everywhere, i mean, in the core area of the

downtown and financial district and so forth? >> i can answer your first question. in terms of waivers from the 85th percentile, speed seeding methodology, we can arbitrarily set lower speed limits, but they're not enforceable through electronic means, meaning sfpd cannot issue citations using lidar or radar if there's not a valid 85 prs tile speed survey. in terms of -- i'll turn the mic back to ryan in a bit, but in terms of setting speed limits as part of our north of market and south of market retiming project that ricardo was describing earlier where we're retiming about two thirds of our signals citywide, we are

typically lowering it to 20 miles an hour, so we are trying to do as much as we can under the legal framework that we operate under. >> supervisor yee: thank you very much. >> on your second question, it's not something we're currently exploring that i'm aware of. i think this bold idea that we heard from the community groups is really just about changing the methodology to give us more flexibility and better reflect safety as a real goal in speed setting. >> supervisor yee: okay. which means that we're really thinking of the lower speeds. >> yeah. >> supervisor yee: okay. thank you very much. >> and i think linda from the t.i.d. did have a few comments on connectsf, is that right? >> supervisor yee: what? i'm sorry? more presentations? >> i'm sorry. maybe i misunderstood. no -- then no other comments. thank you. >> supervisor yee: okay.

did i ask for public comments on this already? any public comments on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor yee: i guess there's no other comments on this item, so this is an informational item. next item, please. >> clerk: item eight, introduction of new items. this is an information item. >> supervisor yee: no. >> clerk: item nine, public comment. >> supervisor yee: any general public comments? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor yee: and so is meeting adjourned yet? >> clerk: yes, no other items. >> supervisor yee: okay. meeting is adjourned.

[applause] >> mayor breed: while. what a beautiful group of people. welcome to district five. [cheering] it has been a real honor to serve as a supervisor for the district that i was born and raised in. i am so excited today because this is a special community. it is a community that has had a challenging past. iit is a community that has consistently come together to solve our most challenging issues. it is a community that is such an amazing place, full of people who care about rolling up their sleeves to get the job done.

not only to make their neighborhood a better place, but to make san francisco a better place. so when i was thinking about someone who is just really a strong communicate just community advocate, someone who is focused on delivering for the residents of district five, i could think of no one better than valley brown. [cheers and applause] i first met valley brown over 15 years ago before she was even a legislative aide at city hall. she was actually in the lower elite with her own picker picking up trash. i thought, this really reminds me of what my grandmother used to do. she used to clean the steps were

relived. she used to make us clean up in our neighborhood and i thought, that is pretty amazing that someone would just take it upon themselves to go out there and clean up the community. she has been actively engaged, not just in her area where she has lived for so many years, but she has touched the lives of so many people across the entire district. when i reached out to residents in this neighborhood for feedback on someone to replace me as the district five supervisor, time and time again, i heard people tell me stories about what vallie has done to help them, to basically help plant a tree or remove a tree that was dead, to deal with a pothole, or to help here in the western addition with many of the challenges that you all know we face when we were dealing with some of the worst violence in the history of our city. vallie has been there for us.

cavalli has rolled up her sleeves. [cheers and applause] to not only get the job done for folks throughout the district including as far out as the inner sunset, but she has focused on the broader issues. the issues around equity. the issues around neighborhood preference. she was by my side on putting together that legislation to deliver neighborhood preference for the residents of the city where people who live in the community have a right of first refusal and access to the affordable housing built in their community. because of the history of redevelopment and what has happened here, you had a fierce advocate on my team to fight for what was right. because of it, you know the results of the kennedy apartment. we are able to get 23 african african-americans in the

apartment at 39 of those 98 units went to residents of this community. time and time again, when reviewing legislation, vallie has been the eyes and ears of the community character she listens to the needs of our small businesses and community members, and she makes sure that when legislation is introduced, that she proposes amendments or raises questions, or other issues so that the legislation and the work we do at city hall can actually have a positive impact on our community. this playground where we are here today, she was instrumental in working with the hayes vallie neighborhood association. working with the western addition to bring the community together and to help with city resources to raise the funding and to make this a place where all feel welcome. that is what she is about. bringing people together.

covering all parts of the district. young people, seniors, everyone has a place in the vallie brown administration. i am just excited because -- and what some of you may or may not know, vallie brown worked for me as a legislative age. she worked for a previous supervisor as a legislative aide to. let me tell you. i don't know how many arguments i have had with her over decisions, regularly. she stands her ground. she stands her ground to do what is right and to do what makes sense for the people of this district. we will have no more fears of an advocate on the board of supervisors than the amazing vallie brown. it is my honor today -- [cheers and applause]

it is my honor today to administer the oath of office to my friend and a friend of our district, vallie brown. [cheers and applause] [laughter] >> mayor breed: ok. do we want to do it in the microphone? ok. all right. come on, vallie. come on. hang on. i'll just hold it. >> mayor breed: i vallie brown. >> i vallie brown. >> mayor breed: do solemnly swear. >> do solemnly swear. >> mayor breed: that i will support and defend. >> that support and defend. >> mayor breed: the state of california. >> the state of california. >> mayor breed: against all

enemies. >> against all enemies. >> mayor breed: foreign and domestic. >> foreign and domestic. >> mayor breed: that i bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution of the united states. >> that i bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution of the united states. >> mayor breed: and california and i take this obligation freely without any mentor -- mental reservation. >> and that i take this obligation freely without any mental reservation. >> mayor breed: i will well and faithfully discharge. >> i will well and faithfully discharge. >> mayor breed: the duties upon which i'm about to enter. >> the duties upon which i'm about to enter. >> mayor breed: and i hold the office -- i hold the office of member of the board of supervisors. >> and i hold the office of a member of the board of supervisors. >> mayor breed: and the san francisco county transportation authority. >> and the san francisco county transportation authority. >> mayor breed: of the city and county of san francisco san

francisco. >> of the city and county of san francisco. >> mayor breed: congratulations. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. >> mayor breed: supervisor vallie brown! [cheers and applause] >> crazy. i have to take a deep breath. this has just been a few hours that i have even realized that i am actually going to be the supervisor. i am. thank you. thank you. i am sure that will not be the last time you tell me something i need to know. [laughter] but i am so honored to be here today with everyone that i respect and admire. mayor breed, thank you for your confidence and trust and appointing me as the district five supervisor. i know it wasn't easy for you. because we have so many amazing

residents and advocates. when you told me and when you called me and told me congratulations, supervisor brown, but you said, not even skipping a beat, you better take care of my district and residents --dash residents. i knew that was the reason why it came to work for you in the first place. it is amazing to be at hayes vallie playground. everyone, this is such an amazing thing. the buildings and the grounds are beautiful. i walk by this place every day when i come to work. i see the community tending the flowers, picking up the trash, and making it their community space. i will tell you a little history. we used to call the building that was here eight leading to. because i think, th the coordinr here held it together with duct tape. i was an aide when we received bond money to renovate the

building. unfortunately, we were short about half a million dollars. when the city's early budget was revealed, this funding was not in the budget. so we decided to put it in adds back. and as a supervisor snow here, $500,000 for one place and add back can be a really hard push. but we fought really hard for the funding. it was really the neighborhood association that activists and advocates in the fillmore, western edition, cheryl davis, and then mayor breed was ed of the arts and cultural complex. she came out to city hall in force. and got this through.

got this ad back through to actually build this building. and now it is absolutely beautiful. what i really was about this experience is that as your supervisor, i cannot do it alone. it is the community that makes it a reality. it will be you, the community, that helps guide me in city hall. hall. i am your voice in city hall. i moved to san francisco three decades ago. i was looking to create a community without other artists and like-minded people. we lived in warehouses throughout the city, but then, as now, we were evicted and pushed out. one landlord, in particular, a good landlord, came to me and said, why don't you pull your money together and by the place? 's own three friends i bought a place. it was falling down, but it was

our home. right now in san francisco, families, teachers, nonprofit workers, and bartenders, they are struggling to stay in san francisco. i am not seeing the same housing opportunities we had back then. even as artists with part-time jobs, we were able to pool our money together and buy something. keeping people housed in a neighborhood that they love and creating more housing, affordable housing, it will be one of my top priorities as a supervisor. not far from here, i started my community activism. we worked to create a supervisor -- supervisor breed mentioned we work to create a neighborhood association and we cling to the streets. we helped the school, the elementary school. we improve the public safety. we planted trees. i realized that the power of a community coming together to tackle issues in a neighborhood.

it wasn't easy. it taught me that it is possible. i also discovered that i love community work. yes. [laughter] i'm not sure i will -- it will always love me but i loved it. it really was my springboard to take the next step to work for the residents in district five as a legislative aide. for over a decade, i worked for two supervisors and with the city to improve the neighborhoods in district five. the life i built in san francisco is a very different one than the one i grew up with in utah. i grew up with a single mother working odd jobs to support me, my sister and my grandmother. i never knew my father. i knew the fear of not having stable housing. we moved often. one day, when i was at school, i overheard a girl tell everybody that my mom was a deadbeat mom and she didn't pay the rent. that is when i realized that

nothing is guaranteed to. by the time i was 14, my mother and my grandmother had passed away. and it took a community to raise me. so you can say, good or bad, i am a product of community development. [laughter] now i stand before you today, your community partner, your district supervisor, your neighbor. i am ready to jump in now. i'm ready to jump in to work with japan town, the valley, alamo square, and the fillmore. shout out! and inner sunset. ashbury, cold valley, i i think i said lower hayes. when avista, lower pack heights. thank you to residents of the

five. [cheers and applause] [♪] . >> my name is dave, and i play defense. >> my name is mustafa, and i am a midfielder, but right now, i am trying to play as a

goalkeeper, because they need a goalkeeper. >> soccer u.s.a. is a nonprofessional organization. we use sports, soccer in particular to engage communities that can benefit from quality programs in order to lift people up, helping to regain a sense of control in one's life. >> the san francisco recreation and park department and street soccer u.s.a. have been partners now for nearly a decade. street soccer shares our mission in using sport as a vehicle for youth development and for reaching people of all ages. rec and park has a team. >> i'm been playing soccer all my life. soccer is my life. >> i played in the streets when i was a kid. and i loved soccer back home. i joined street soccer here. it was the best club to join. it helps me out.

>> the tenderloin soccer club started in the summer of 2016. we put one of our mini soccer pitches in one of our facilities there. the kids who kpriez the club team came out to utilize that space, and it was beautiful because they used it as an opportunity to express themselves in a place where they were free to do so, and it was a safe space, in a neighborhood that really isn't the most hospitalable to youth -- hospitable to youth playing in the streets. >> one day, i saw the coach and my friends because they went there to join the team before me. so i went up to the coach and asked, and they said oh, i've got a soccer team, and i joined, and they said yeah, it was he for everybody, and i

joined, and it was the best experience ever. >> a lot of our programs, the kids are in the process of achieving citizenship. it's a pretty lengthy process. >> here, i am the only one with my dad. we were in the housing program, and we are trying to find housing. my sister, she's in my country, so i realize that i have a lot of opportunities here for getting good education to help her, you know? yeah. that's the -- one of the most important things that challenge me. >> my dad was over here, making some money because there was not a lot of jobs back home. i came here, finish elementary in san francisco. after that, i used to go back to my country, go to yemen, my country, and then back here.

last time i went back was a couple years ago. >> i came here six months, i know nobody. now i have the team has a family, the coaches. amazing. >> i'm hoping for lifelong friendships, and i'm super inspired by what they've been able to achieve and want to continue to grow alongside them. >> i love my family, i love my team. they're just like a family. it's really nice. >> street soccer just received a five year grant from the department of children, youth and family, and this is an important inreflection point for street soccer u.s.a. because their work in our most important communities is now known beyond just san francisco recreation and park department, and together, we're going to continue to work with our city's most vulnerable kids and teach them to love the beautiful game. >> i want to tell everybody

back home, i hope you all make it over here and join teams like this like street soccer u.s.a., and live your life. get a better life. >> right away, just be patient, and then, everything will be okay.. >> hi my name is jason jones a xaefrp and communication capture at the san francisco water department i hnlt a high volume of calls and radio communications i enjoy coming to work i still find it challenging i still learn everyday and i'm going to have the level of

activity if zero to 60 in a matter of minutes i take bride pride in handling the emergencies. >> have are you available the work order is 2817827 that's one of the great things of sfpuc they offer work shops to help you get ahead you have to care about the job and go above and beyond to find out as much as you can the three puc i so no glass ceiling the opportunities are end

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