i've been dealing with redevelopment agencies since 1967. when we first started coming to the commissioners, trying to fight and do things for the community. at that time, the commission didn't look nothing like you guys. so to me, it's a blessing to have each and every one of you here serving, okay? go back to when mayor shelley was mayor. that's how long i've been dealing with the redevelopment agency. i got a job with the redevelopment agency, where i could be a real inside watchdog, watching the agencies to make sure that they did what they were supposed to have done. the senior on this commission is commissioner singh. i saw him when he first came here. but with so many commissioners who have came of different

ethnic backgrounds since the time that i first came to the redevelopment agency. and each and every one of you guys should be proud of yourself because of what you do to help build our communities to make them stronger and watch out for everyone. i want to thank each and every one of you. dr. scott, i'm glad to see you up there representing bayview-hunters point and the city and county of san francisco as a whole. it's a blessing to me to see you up there with bustos and all of you, tremendous people. a lot of people say i be brown-nosing. yeah, i'm brown-nosing because of what you do to better our community. [laughter] you know, it's one thing to sit on -- sit in that seat. i sat in that seat as a commissioner. and i know what it means to put your heart into something that you really believe in for the betterment of the community and people in the community come and blast you guys and say what you

are not doing and negative things. if they can see what you've done and what you are doing, they would be provided, because you are looking out for them and their kids and their grandkids and i commend each and every one of you. you know london breed, honorable london breed, was a commissioner on this commission. that sets a precedent for one of you guys to take her seat when she leave. [laughter] that's what we need. we need people who do community work to get these positions because they know what happens in the community. and those are the people that we need to look out for. you see what i'm saying? and london sits, you know, as she's been active in the community just like all of you have been active in your communities. we need grassroots peoples to take the leadership and do what you guys are doing.

so i want to say thank you and keep up the good work and god bless each and every one of you. >> chair mondejar: thank you, mr. james. >> clerk: no more speaker cards. >> chair mondejar: i will close public comment. madam secretary, please call the next item. >> clerk: item 7, report of the chair. madam chair? >> chair mondejar: no report. thank you. >> clerk: item 8, report of executive director. 8a, informational memorandum on notice of intent to advertise and solicit proposals for infrastructure engineering support services for candlestick point-hunters point shipyard project areas. discussion. >> director sesay: we have in your packet, notice of intent. this is for engineering support for candlestick point-shipyard

project area and the scope would increase conceptual planning, utility systems, transfers and so on. this would be the first phase the intent is to release the r.f.p. today and allow for one or more consultants to continue to work with us through the department of public works in mapping and utility, so you would get up -- we'll come back to you once we select a contract or contractor and you would take action on that item. also wanted to raise that mission day south seeks 6 mission bay boulevard received its certificate of occupancy end of july and occupancy will commence in 2018. it's 143 total units building,

1, 2, 3, with implementing a preference and also want to note that the there will be a grand opening that will keep you abreast of as well as marketing outcomes report, which will come shortly after. i want to touch on the shipyard cleanup. we talked about phase 1, parcel a, happening as we speak. the navy has released the work plan for parcel g, which was part of the -- a portion of the parcels that were supposed to have been transferred a year or so ago that got caught up in the cleanup. and the idea is that it's been on the street for 60 days, public comment period. the 60 days coming up on august 14. so the expectation is -- i'm

saying this because potentially there may be a flurry of public comment that could lead to news articles and how the agency's responding or reacting to the work plan on the street. as you know, president malia cohen had a public hearing in may. she called for another one in september. i will keep you posted. the expectation is that at the end of september, there may be a follow-up on that. and at some point, in discusses with the chair and vice chair, we would want to bring something to the commission to get an update and so just wanting to make sure that we are transparent in our process as we move forward. it will be nice for once to have the navy and the e.p.a. just do the retest, because that's

happening. it's a lengthy process. we continue to be bombarded with press and the process was happened in the past and we're losing sight of what is continuously going on, which is making tetra tech accountable and e.p.a. and having them retest the shipyard. >> chair mondejar: thank you. thank you for that update. i think it's very helpful. i'd like us to be more proactive with the community and not simply react to comments or questions or media inquiries. i think it's important to keep the information going. so i thank you for doing that. stating that here, we're being very proactive of what's happening and what's going on and what's being done by our

partner agency. so thank you, director sesay. are there any -- please call the next item. >> clerk: item 9, commissioners' questions and matters. madam chair? >> chair mondejar: are there any questions from -- [laughter] >> commissioner singh: almost done. >> chair mondejar: next item. noted, commissioner singh. please call the next item. >> clerk: next order of business, item 10, closed session. there are no closed session items. next item, item 11, adjournment. >> chair mondejar: meeting is adjourned and thank you and welcome commissioner scott for gracing our commission. i need a motion to adjourn. >> commissioner singh: i move. >> i second.

>> chair mondejar: okay. and motion carries. you didn't call -- we're adjourning. thank you so much. thank you, everyone, for being here. it's 3:10 p.m.

. >> i love that i was in four plus years a a rent control tenant, and it might be normal because the tenant will -- for the longest, i was applying for b.m.r. rental, but i would be in the lottery and never be like 307 or 310. i pretty much had kind of given up on that, and had to leave san francisco. i found out about the san

francisco mayor's office of housing about two or three years ago, and i originally did home counseling with someone, but then, my certificate expired, and one of my friends jamie, she was actually interested in purchasing a unit. i told her about the housing program, the mayor's office, and i told her hey, you've got to do the six hour counseling and the 12 hour training. she said no, i want you to go with me. and then, the very next day that i went to the session, i notice this unit at 616 harrison became available, b.m.i. i was like wow, this could potentially work. housing purchases through the b.m.r. program with the sf mayor's office of housing, they are all lotteries, and for this one, i did win the lottery. there were three people that applied, and they pulled my

number first. i won, despite the luck i'd had with the program in the last couple years. things are finally breaking my way. when i first saw the unit, even though i knew it was less than ideal conditions, and it was very junky, i could see what this place could be. it's slowly beginning to feel like home. i can definitely -- you know, once i got it painted and slowly getting my custom furniture to fit this unit because it's a specialized unit, and all the units are microinterms of being very small. this unit in terms of adaptive, in terms of having a murphy bed, using the walls and ceiling, getting as much space as i can. it's slowly becoming home for me. it is great that san francisco has this program to address, let's say, the housing crisis that exists here in the bay

area. it will slowly become home, and i am appreciative that it is a bright spot in an otherwise

>> the teams really, really went above and beyond and is continuing to do that today. this past year, the san francisco public utilities commission water quality division started receiving many more requests to test for lead in the public school system here in san francisco as a result of legislation that had passed from the state requiring all of the public schools to do lead testing. and so as a result, the public utilities commission and the water quality team in particular was asked to meet with the san francisco unified school district to begin to prioritize which schools to test to meet that state mandate. >> the team that tests, we're a

full service environmental laboratory, and we take care of both the needs of the water quality division and the waste water enter price. and on the water quality enterprise, we have to also have drinking water that meets all federal and state quality regulations. and lead in schools, we're playing a problem in remediating this problem of lead in schools. >> our role here in communications is being able to take the data that we have that we know is protective of public health and safety and transmit it, give it to the public in a way they understand we are really doing our jobs well and making sure that they are safe always. >> the public learned very quickly all the accurate facts and all the critical information that they needed to know, and it's up to these individuals and their agencies and their commitment to the city. >> i enjoy the work because i can help people, and i can help

the utilities to provide a better water quality, make sure that people feel that drinking hetch hetchy water is actually a pride. >> hats off to the water quality team because between them working on late nights, working on the weekends when the schools are closed, and working as a partner in the school district for the times they found a higher lead sample, they worked through to address that, so the team went above and beyond and is continuing to do that today. >> hi. welcome to san

francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the

time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day?

>> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground swallowing people into the ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the tv shows. >> the earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes.

>> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't tough. >> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many

of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future? >> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to

go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, it's not a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. >> you want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter scale?

>> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the richter scale was early technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ? >> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the

bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross that line. it's much more damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for

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as latinos we are unified in some ways and incredibly diverse in others and this exhibit really is an exploration of nuance in how we present those ideas. ♪ our debts are not for sale.

>> a piece about sanctuary and how his whole family served in the army and it's a long family tradition and these people that look at us as foreigners, we have been here and we are part of america, you know, and we had to reinforce that. i have been cure rating here for about 18 year. we started with a table top, candle, flower es, and a picture and people reacted to that like it was the monna lisa. >> the most important tradition as it relates to the show is idea of making offering. in traditional mexican alters, you see food, candy, drinks,

cigarettes, the things that the person that the offerings where being made to can take with them into the next word, the next life. >> keeps u.s us connects to the people who have passed and because family is so important to us, that community dynamic makes it stick and makes it visible and it humanizes it and makes it present again. ♪ >> when i first started doing it back in '71, i wanted to do something with ritual, ceremony and history and you know i talked to my partner ross about the research and we opened and it hit a cord and people loved it. >> i think the line between engaging everyone with our culture and appropriating it.

i think it goes back to asking people to bring their visions of what it means to honor the dead, and so for us it's not asking us to make mexican altars if they are not mexican, it's really to share and expand our vision of what it means to honor the dead. >> people are very respectful. i can show you this year alone of people who call tol ask is it okay if we come, we are hawaii or asian or we are this. what should we wear? what do you recommend that we do? >> they say oh, you know, we want a four day of the dead and it's all hybrid in this country. what has happened are paper cuts, it's so hybrid. it has spread to mexico from the

bay area. we have influence on a lot of people, and i'm proud of it. >> a lot of tim times they don't represent we represent a lot of cultures with a lot of different perspectives and beliefs. >> i can see the city changes and it's scary. >> when we first started a lot of people freaked out thinking we were a cult and things like that, but we went out of our way to also make it educational through outreach and that is why we started doing the prosession in 1979. >> as someone who grew up attending the yearly processions and who has seen them change incrementally every year into kind of what they are now, i feel in many ways that the cat is out of the bag and there is

no putting the genie back into the bottle in how the wider public accesses the day of the dead. >> i have been through three different generations of children who were brought to the procession when they were very young that are now bringing their children or grandchildren. >> in the '80s, the processions were just kind of electric. families with their homemade visuals walking down the street in san francisco. service so much more intimate and personal and so much more rooted in kind of a family practice of a very strong cultural practice. it kind of is what it is now and it has gone off in many different directions but i will always love the early days in the '80s where it was so intimate and son sofa millial.

>> our goal is to rescue a part of the culture that was a part that we could invite others to join in there there by where we invite the person to come help us rescue rescue it also. that's what makes it unique. >> you have to know how to approach this changing situation, it's exhausting and i have seen how it has affected everybody. >> what's happening in mission and the relationship with the police, well it's relevant and it's relevant that people think about it that day of the dead is not just sugar skulls and paper flowers and candles, but it's become a nondenominational

tradition that people celebrate. >> our culture is about color and family and if that is not present in your life, there is just no meaning to it you know? >> we have artists as black and brown people that are in direct danger of the direct policies of the trump a administration and i think how each of the artists has responsibilitie responded ss interesting. the commit.

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>> good evening, everyone, and welcome to our first meeting back for the new school year. it's our regular board meeting of the san francisco unified school district board of education. today is august 14, and this meeting is now called to order. roll call, miss casco. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> clerk: thank you. >> thank you. if you would, please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> thank you for leading us, dr. merase. section a