a process of roughly 3.5 months to undertake that triage that i described a minute ago, and it takes just over 13 months on average to bring an investigation to -- to closure, whether by settlement or otherwise. i also wanted to take this opportunity to let you know and to let the public know, if they didn't already, that the enforcement division is also called more thoroughly the enforcement and legal affairs division, and this division holds primary function for fulfilling the legal requirements under the sunshine ordinance and legal lemgs lation. in the last six months, the commission has received and filled 32 public records requests, ten of those since we saw you last, so about 30% of them in the last two months. that means, on average, we get

more than a request every week. occasionally, in responding to that request, the answer is that we have no records that would respond to the questions that a requester has put to us, but in other instances, we have an overwhelming number of records that would respond to the questions of a requester. so the scope of response varies from zero records to upwards of 10,000. and you'll see notes that it takes, on average, about 12 staff hours every week to fulfill those requests. staff have produced to the public in the last six months roughly 20,000 pages of records related to the business of the ethics commission, and staff are currently collecting and reviewing an additional 10,000 for production in the coming weeks. i would add, lastly, that the person who currently serves as

the commission's public information officer is thomas maclean. he was senior investigator and legal analyst. he came to us from the san diego district attorney's office. director pelham introduced him to you about six months ago, and he's done an excellent job for the commission, learning a new area of law, understanding the requests that we received, applying the law to those requests, and coordinating with staff how to generate and produce the records that the public are entitled to. and he shoulders the bulk of staff time in responding to these requests, so when i say that we spend roughly 12 hours a week on these, i mostly mean thomas. and in addition to his responsibilities on the records side, he, of course, has investigations for which he's responsible as an

investigation. >> commissioner chiu: so jeff, is there a -- any way that we can get him more help to -- another shoulder at the wheel to help with the heavy lift on identifying documents, reviewing documents, and then producing those documents? because 12 hours per week is a significant amount of time, and it probably wasn't -- whatever he's doing on records requests is not -- it takes away from the time that he can spend on investigations. >> yes, thank you, chair chiu. historically, the job of public information officer fell to the deputy director, so previously, jessica bloom shouldered the bulk of this responsibility. under staffing transitions, we divided some of that up. the responsibility of the public information officer

could be fulfilled by the director of enforcement in lela farlela -- legal affairs. i have a smaller shoulder than thomas, but i'm willing to offer it, so we have talked about, going forward, some work that i might do to free him up to conduct investigations. long-term, if the volume of requests persists as it has over the course of the last six months, i think the commission will seriously have to consider requesting some additional staff resources because although we take very seriously our transparency obligations we also take seriously our enforcement obligations, and we want to see all of those are fulfilled to the fullness of the mandate. >> commissioner chiu: agreed. one idea, would obviously leave this up to you to determine, but if there are any salary savings from the open

positions, if that would be something worth exploring. i just understand that there's -- and applaud your effort to meet both the request of the public for transparency but also don't want to meet those obligations at the expense of making progress against the caseload that only continues to grow. >> thank you. >> commissioner chiu: sorry. i interrupted you as you were going through. >> oh, that was the end. >> commissioner chiu: okay. >> i'm happy to entertain other questions. >> commissioner chiu: any questions from commissioners? public comment? okay. agenda item number nine, discussion of the executive director's report and update of various programatic and operations of highlighted staff activities since the

commission's last monthly meeting. >> thank you, chair chiu. there has been a lot going on over the last couple of months since the commission last met. we've been able to take advantage of that time at the staff level to make some progress -- significant progress on some hiring and some staffing. i would first note as my report does announcing for you formally that jeff pierce was appointed permanently since we last met, so we're really lucky to have jeff's experience as an investigation, boots on the ground, but also just a lot of really great experience and insight from his prior work experience and his -- his background and training, which is, as you see from the -- my report, extensive and fascinating. so jeff's really -- we're just glad that he's on board to take on this additional role. and i think have a lot of exciting things ahead in the

coming year with that. with his permanent appointment, we will be backfilling the senior investigative position that jeff had previously served. i'll get to that in just a moment, but i also am happy to announce that we were able to fill the fourth position in steven massey's electronic data and -- disclosure and data analysis, our i.t. team, that we have now filled that fourth position. as you saw from the previous report, steven and his team continue to do really terrific work in helping the public access information so that it's not in dusty file cabinets. they've also really helped us as an office move into the 21st century really quickly with how we do our work. so having four of them work together, i think we're going to again, continue to see major progress. maron calderon, he's called

ronaldo, he joined our staff last month. he was formerly with the department of public health doing information systems work as a business analyst there and has terrific experience that's relevant to the kinds of tools and efforts that we're making, so we're just delighted that he was interested in coming over to us, and he -- he's now rounding out that team, so we look forward to bringing him to the meeting and having a chance to introduce himself to you all, as well. today at 5:00 is the deadline for five terrific positions. we were able to make progress to get those five remaining positions that have been a part of our hiring plan posted out in the world. we've tried to extensively notify colleagues, other organizations, other networks, to -- to get applicants so that we have, again, as we've been seeing, a terrific pool of people interested in working with us.

we did extend the deadline by one week because we thought it was important with the commission meeting materials being out in public and the sort of dog days of summer, we wanted to make sure it was on folks' radar, so that deadline is today, but we will be working with our support over at d.h.r., the department of human resources, to try and fill those positions as soon as possible. they are also service positions, and as you know, that process can take sometime. it is likely we will see people in chairs at the end of the year -- calendar year, if we're lucky. we're going to continue to be as aggressive as we can, but sometimes it's dependant on getting rooms where the tests have been administered, but we're going to keep working on that. i would also note that -- two other things over the last month. as you know, we've been in a mode of office renovation. the controller's office has been extraordinarily gracious with our team, housing us over at 314 city hall, and in their

annex with some other staff and real estate department as well and allowing us to use some space in 25 vanness. we've been working to finalize deadlines and at the same frames. this week's progress is there is now carpet that has been laid in the office which will now enable the work stations to be installed by next week. all of this is to say we are targeting october 4 as the day we will be back in our office at 25 vanness, and we will hopefully make that a very seamless transition between now and then. we know it's been daunting for the public to sometimes find out where we are, but we're very much working to provide seamless service over the next couple of weeks so that it won't impact any services or communications that we have. if anybody does have concerns about that, i hope that you will please share them with me and let me know that that we can be on top of it, and the same goes for members of the public that might be experiencing some of that, but

we are looking forward at being back in our space and having everybody regularly seeing each other. we've missed each other. the last thing i would say, the other thing we've been able to do over this last month, as you might recall, every year, we establish individual goals about how our work supports the overarching organizational goals that we have as a commission, we know with you have our blueprint for our budget process that describes the kinds of goals that we've continued to work at tleez past three years. we want to take a step back with staff and make sure our individual goals are aligning with those. it's part of an annual performance review process where we establish those goals and have conversations with each other, we completed that process so that all supervisors have met with all staff in the office at the -- as of the end of the summer. and that's -- it's a good chance for everybody to have a once a year conversation about how we're doing and where we're going. so that was very helpful, i

think, to take time to do that and to -- to do it well, and we'll keep focusing on that going forward. i think with that, i'm happy to answer any questions you might have for me, but i would just say from all of us on the staff, we do appreciate the flexibility and support that everybody's shown with this period of transition with the office move. we're looking forward to being back and also to reporting more good news as we go forward this fall on hiring and the progress on the work that we're doing. >> commissioner chiu: wonderful. well first off, i'd like to congratulate you, jeff, on your appointment to the director of enforcement. i think that you are off to a great start, and look forward to continue to work with you and to see more great things coming out of your department with your team. and also, kudos for getting through the annual review and performance review conversation process. it's -- it's a really important thi

thing to do, and i know that it was an ambitious goal that you set, but to have set the goal and met it, i think it a testament to both your leadership and also the commitment of your leadership team to make sure that they do right by -- by all the staff who are working, so keep up the great work. any other -- commissioner lee? >> thank you, madam chair. it's great to hear that you may be move back home october 4, before the election. i wonder if there's been a practice that you have open house to welcome the public because this would be a great opportunity as part of your public engagement and outreach initiative to really not bring in the folks who's followed you for many years, but the new communities, the folks who may not know the commission that well, this may be a good opportunity for them. and also, we have so many new

staffers, it would be good for folks to meet with you. i know that we won't be able to serve coffee and cookies, but at least have people to see the beautiful new office. >> thank you for that. i do make a mean chocolate chip cookie, i will say. we do have coffee in the office, but i think that's a very helpful suggestion. i think we're excited about sharing the newness of being back and sharing it with people outside of your four walls -- our four walls may be a terrific suggestion in the future. i think that's something that would be great to do. >> commissioner chiu: terrific idea. >> i'll bring desert. >> commissioner chiu: any other commissioner comments? questions? public comment? charlie. >> well, speaking of hospitality it is

hospitality, it is an august occasion we've just passed, and that was commissioner kopp's 90th birthday, and i wanted to extend my compliments to him on his amazing anniversary. and also, i'm sure the commission would agree that if you can throw in a birthday cake in the office opening on october 4. >> too many calories. >> well, make it a calorically sensitive birthday cake. >> commissioner chiu: have a small slice. >> well, i don't think we can give you a cake, the public, but you can give us a cake, and you're not bribing us, you're the decision makers. so that's the thought. i was wondering who could bring the cake. and i think if the staff provides the cake, that would

work. >> commissioner chiu: thank you. >> happy birthday, commissioner kopp. >> commissioner kopp: thank you, mr. marstellar. >> commissioner chiu: any other public comment? okay. item number ten, discussion and possible action regarding status of complaints received or initiated by the ethics commission, possible closed session. >> commissioner kopp: madam chair woman, i'd request a closed session on the confidential report from the executive director. >> commissioner chiu: is there a second? >> commissioner renne: i'll second it. >> commissioner chiu: okay. public comment on this item? no, no public comment. okay. we'll take a five-minute break, and then, when we come back, we'll go into closed session we'll go into closed session

we are back in open session. following agenda item number 10, i'd like to move to keep the -- to maintain the confidentiality of the discussions held in the closed session regarding the status of complaints received or initiated by the ethic's commission. can i get a second. >> second. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> agenda item number 11. discussion and action on items for future meetings. >> commissioner renne. >> back in about march of this year, i had referred a subject about possible legislation dealing with limitations on

special -- or on non candidate expenditure committees. provided to the staff some materials that have been produced both dealing with legislation in florida and i believe in massachusetts. i was made inquiry of pat about where that stood. he pointed out to me that when we get our priority list, that particular independent expenditure committee legislation was not one of those that was the top priority. so i would ask that we put on the october agenda that subject

matter of possible legislation relating to independent expenditure committees and limitations on them. i told pat that i have six more months on this committee -- on this commission, before my term runs out. one of my goals is that we act on the draft legislation that has been presented to the staff. we move it as a priority item at the october meeting. >> so this was the -- to put it on the agenda, would that reason you'd like to revisit the policy

prioritization discussion we had? >> my understanding is october is when we do a reanalysis of the profile -- of the priority. clearly, i would ask that it be placed as a priority item for action by the commission within the next six months. >> we have october is the right quarterly period where we said we would bring back the prioritization plan for a check-in and what we can do is attach -- make sure that material information about that legislation is attached to that so it can inform your discussion about where you'd like to place it. >> i'd appreciate it. >> ok. >> and then pat is flying solo until we can hire his replacement, is that right? >> yes. so hopefully we'll have someone

on staff about the the end of the year and we can get to all these policy priorities. >> i think you will find that there is a lot of volunteer activity proposed draft legislation with a draft ordinance and with back up memoranda as to potential constitutionality questions that might be raised by it. and the staff can get volunteer work, we would be happy to assist them in pushing this forward. >> any other items from commissioners on item 11? >> yes. i want to be sure that staff

investigate the former director of public heath of the city and county of san francisco over an allegation of directing city contracts to her wife. i won't ask if such a request has been filed. i hearby ask tha hear herei hern investigation be commenced. secondly, this does not come from staff i am informed and believed one of the candidates for mayor, whose request for public financing was denied, has filed a million $300,000 claim

with the controller of the city and county for i for fo for intl action for public financing. i can't think of anything in the last months more frivolous. i want to go on the record to say that if, after 90 days, and that claim has been rejected by the controller of the city and county, a san francisco or other county superior court suit is filed, i will make a motion to direct the commission's attorney, not simply to demur to

my such complaint but also to move for sanctions under california rules of court and the california code of civil procedure for the filing of a frivolous lawsuit. >> ok. we'll see how that unfolds. public comments. >> good afternoon commissioners. members of the public. ethics commission. i am here to -- >> what's your name? >> my name is louis dillon. and i have been following, apart from last month when there was no meeting, but following the ethic's commissions over all

operating procedure and the subsequent claims and filings of people regarding campaign finance and gifts and so fourth. it seems like there is compliance with the city attorney's office to enable, a abet, coerce and not expos these campaign finance issues. this is evident because you don't really have to prove the case. you just have to prove more likely than not.

x and y do not equal z. the fact that we're living in san francisco, which comparatively speaking to the rest of the nation, is the belly of the beast. i mean, this is where all the negative, atrocious allegations towards a supreme court nominee come from, this city. in context from that, we can further deduce that san francisco is adept at putting the wrong people in service of the public, in service of monitoring the public and in service of refereeing who gets to make decisions in san

francisco. the effect of this lack of refereeing, policing, investigating the finance that puts these people into positions of public trust clearly a case can be made that the city attorney's office is aiding and abetting these people to get off. they are enabling these people to get off due to the fact that they're suppressing evidence, not playing by the rules, not giving a fair shake to people who have complaints, and treating them like they're adversarial. thank you. >> thank you. >> any other public comments? agenda item number 12. additional opportunities for public comments on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. bylaws, article 7, section 2.

>> move we adjourn. >> don't we want to --

>> last call for public comment. >> my name is antonio. i had a question in regards to are you guys going to be going through with any of the hiring for the committee that was mentioned earlier today? in regards to -- i know there's stuff going on with the sunshine ordinance. i know there were people needed to do research on some of the things regarding the -- how do you say, there was a thing

yesterday on the -- you say the oversight, overhauling of the -- how do you say this? this is the proposal for sf open source voting. will there be any people doing research on this that are going to be needed for here or as liaison. people that go to act between this and the mayor's office on technology? >> i am not familiar with this initiative. i don't know if anyone on staff is familiar with the initiative. >> if i may, if you are speaking about the open source voting

system. >> yeah, that and liaison to the mayor's office on technology and the sunshine ordinance committee. anything relating to the open source voting. >> so sorry to have to redirect you, but the open source voting effort is something that's within the jurisdiction of the elections commission. this is the ethic's commission. it's a separate body. if you want to get more involved in sunshine ordinance matter, there's a separate body called the sunshine ordinance task force that meets separately from this body. >> i'm fine with everything. i didn't know if you were needing people for that. i know it was mentioning earlier there were things needed between the mayor's office on technology and what not. and various committees in the -- how do you say it, in city hall. >> i'm sorry, i'm not familiar with that part of your question. sorry about that.

>> you guys mentioned earlier that there was a -- that should be fine. yeah. thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioner kopp, your motion to adjourn. >> yes. so moved. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> we are adjourned. [music]

>> san francisco city clinic provides a broad range of sexual health services from stephanie tran medical director at san francisco city clinic. we are here to provide easy access to conference of low-cost culturally sensitive sexual health services and to everyone who walks through our door. so we providestd checkups, diagnosis and treatment. we also provide hiv screening we provide hiv

treatment for people living with hiv and are uninsured and then we hope them health benefits and rage into conference of primary care. we also provide both pre-nd post exposure prophylactics for hiv prevention we also provide a range of women's reproductive health services including contraception, emergency contraception. sometimes known as plan b. pap smears and [inaudible]. we are was entirely [inaudible]people will come as soon as were open even a little before opening. weight buries a lip it could be the first person here at your in and out within a few minutes. there are some days we do have a pretty considerable weight. in general, people can just walk right in and register with her front desk seen that day. >> my name is yvonne piper on the nurse practitioner here at sf city clinic. he was the first time i came to city clinic was a little intimidated. the first time i got treated for [inaudible]. i

walked up to the redline and was greeted with a warm welcome i'm chad redden and anna client of city clinic >> even has had an std clinic since all the way back to 1911. at that time, the clinic was founded to provide std diagnosis treatment for sex workers. there's been a big increase in std rates after the earthquake and the fire a lot of people were homeless and there were more sex work and were homeless sex workers. there were some public health experts who are pretty progressive for their time thought that by providing std diagnosis and treatmentsex workers that we might be able to get a handle on std rates in san francisco. >> when you're at the clinic you're going to wait with whoever else is able to register at the front desk first. after you register your seat in the waiting room and wait to be seen. after you are called you come to the back and meet with a healthcare provider can we determine what kind of testing to do, what samples to collect what medication somebody might need. plus

prophylactics is an hiv prevention method highly effective it involves folks taking a daily pill to prevent hiv. recommended both by the cdc, center for disease control and prevention, as well as fight sf dph, two individuals clients were elevated risk for hiv. >> i actually was in the project here when i first started here it was in trials. i'm currently on prep. i do prep through city clinic. you know i get my tests read here regularly and i highly recommend prep >> a lot of patients inclined to think that there's no way they could afford to pay for prep. we really encourage people to come in and talk to one of our prep navigators. we find that we can help almost everyone find a way to access prep so it's affordable for them. >> if you times we do have opponents would be on thursday

morning. we have two different clinics going on at that time. when is women's health services. people can make an appointment either by calling them a dropping in or emailing us for that. we also have an hiv care clinic that happens on that morning as well also by appointment only. he was city clinic has been like home to me. i been coming here since 2011. my name iskim troy, client of city clinic. when i first learned i was hiv positive i do not know what it was. i felt my life would be just ending there but all the support they gave me and all the information i need to know was very helpful. so i [inaudible] hiv care with their health >> about a quarter of our patients are women. the rest, 75% are men and about half of the men who come here are gay men or other men who have sex

with men. a small percent about 1% of our clients, identify as transgender. >> we ask at the front for $25 fee for services but we don't turn anyone away for funds. we also work with outside it's going out so any amount people can pay we will be happy to accept. >> i get casted for a pap smear and i also informed the contraceptive method. accessibility to the clinic was very easy. you can just walk in and talk to a registration staff. i feel i'm taken care of and i'm been supportive. >> all the information were collecting here is kept confidential. so this means we can't release your information without your explicit permission get a lot of folks are concerned especially come to a sexual health clinic unless you have signed a document that told us exactly who can receive your information, we can give it to anybody outside of our clinic. >> trance men and women face

really significant levels of discrimination and stigma in their daily lives. and in healthcare. hiv and std rates in san francisco are particularly and strikingly high were trans women. so we really try to make city clinic a place that strands-friendly trance competent and trans-welcoming >> everyone from the front desk to behind our amazement there are completely knowledgeable. they are friendly good for me being a sex worker, i've gone through a lot of difficult different different medical practice and sometimes they weren't competent and were not friendly good they kind of made me feel like they slapped me on the hands but living the sex life that i do. i have been coming here for seven years. when i come here i know they my services are going to be met. to be confidential but i don't have to worry about anyone looking at me or making me feel less >> a visit with a clinician come take anywhere from 10

minutes if you have a straightforward concern, to over an hour if something goes on that needs a little bit more help. we have some testing with you on site. so all of our samples we collect here. including blood draws. we sent to the lab from here so people will need to go elsewhere to get their specimens collect. then we have a few test we do run on site. so those would be pregnancy test, hiv rapid test, and hepatitis b rapid test. people get those results the same day of their visit. >> i think it's important for transgender, gender neutral people to understand this is the most confidence, the most comfortable and the most knowledgeable place that you can come to. >> on-site we have condoms as well as depo-provera which is also known as [inaudible] shot. we can prescribe other forms of contraception. pills, a patch and rain. we provide pap smears to women who are uninsured in san francisco residents or, to

women who are enrolled in a state-funded program called family pack. pap smears are the recommendation-recommended screening test for monitoring for early signs of cervical cancer. we do have a fair amount of our own stuff the day of his we can try to get answers for folks while they are here. whenever we have that as an option we like to do that obviously to get some diagnosed and treated on the same day as we can. >> in terms of how many people were able to see in a day, we say roughly 100 people.if people are very brief and straightforward visits, we can sternly see 100, maybe a little more. we might be understaffed that they would have a little complicated visits we might not see as many folks. so if we reach our target number of 100 patients early in the day we may close our doors early for droppings. to my best advice to be senior is get here early.we do have a website but it's sf city clinic.working there's a

wealth of information on the website but our hours and our location. as well as a kind of kind of information about stds, hiv,there's a lot of information for providers on our list as well. >> patients are always welcome to call the clinic for there's a lot of information for providers on our list as well. >> patients are always welcome to call the clinic for 15, 40 75500. the phones answered during hours for clients to questions. >> >> >> growing up in san francisco has been way safer than growing up other places we we have that bubble, and it's still that bubble that it's okay to be whatever you want to. you can let your free flag fry

he -- fly here. as an adult with autism, i'm here to challenge people's idea of what autism is. my journey is not everyone's journey because every autistic child is different, but there's hope. my background has heavy roots in the bay area. i was born in san diego and adopted out to san francisco when i was about 17 years old. i bounced around a little bit here in high school, but i've always been here in the bay. we are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to emp. we don't turn anyone away.

we take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. the most common thing i hear in my adult life is oh, you don't seem like you have autism. you seem so normal. yeah. that's 26 years of really, really, really hard work and i think thises that i still do. i was one of the first open adoptions for an lgbt couple. they split up when i was about four. one of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my biological mother, who is also a lesbian. very queer family. growing up in the 90's with a queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here, i felt safe. i was bullied relatively infrequently. but i never really felt isolated or alone. i have known for virtually my entire life i was not suspended, but kindly asked to

not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change. the school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. one of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so they know what it's about, but my parents wanted my life to be safe. when i have all the neurological issues to manage, that was just one more to add to it. i was a weird kid. i had my core group of, like, very tight, like, three friends. when we look at autism, we characterize it by, like, lack of eye contact, what i do now is when i'm looking away from the camera, it's for my own comfort. faces are confusing. it's a lack of mirror neurons in your brain working properly to allow you to experience empathy, to realize where somebody is coming from, or to realize that body language

means that. at its core, autism is a social disorder, it's a neurological disorder that people are born with, and it's a big, big spectrum. it wasn't until i was a teenager that i heard autism in relation to myself, and i rejected it. i was very loud, i took up a lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space let everybody else know where i existed in the world. i didn't like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared. i was very difficult to be around. but the friends that i have are very close. i click with our atypical kiddos than other people do. in experience, i remember when i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me because it hurt. i remember throwing chairs

because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it meant that i couldn't cope. i grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i got development cal -- developmental psychology from all sides. i recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of that, and not everybody's in a position to have a family that's as supportive, but there's also a community that's incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. it was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what? i'm just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male. i have a two-year-old. the person who i'm now married to is my husband for about two

years, and then started gaining weight and wasn't sure, so i we went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth control, so there's no way you can be pregnant. i found out i was pregnant at 6.5 months. my whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. i think i've finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. i think the access to irrelevant care for parents is intentionally confusing. when i did the procespective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. we have a place where children can be children, but it's very confusing.

i always out myself as an adult with autism. i think it's helpful when you know where can your child go. how i'm choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy. how do -- speech therapy. how do you explain that to the rest of their class? i want that to be a normal experience. i was working on a certificate and kind of getting think early childhood credits brefore i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in san francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i don't really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight person's perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience,

and i'm like absolutely. so i'm now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. i love growing up here. i love what san francisco represents. the idea of leaving has never occurred to me. but it's a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. what i've done with my life is work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that we're still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a resource center, and this resource center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. i would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. so many things that i would love to do that are all about

changing people's minds about certain chunts, like the transgender community or the autistic community. i would like my daughter to know there's no wrong way to go through life. everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all of those things are temporary. >> 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.

>> good morning. thank you, everyone, for coming to our first mayor's disaster council meeting of the year, the fiscal year, the first under the leadership of our new mayor, london breed. and the first for me as director of emergency -- department of emergency management. appreciate you all being here today. i'm going to call the meeting to order and i'm going to pass it on for opening remarks. >> thank you. and thank you, everyone. you know, i know there's been previous disaster council meetings, but this is a very special occasion for me and for the mayor. it's really an honor to be here representing the mayor and also too be here with all of you to be part of this critical conversation around keeping our communities resilient and prepared. and i know we'll be talking a lot about connected