small part of everybody's worked at the pesticide work is. which had a deep impression on me. we only think about the pesticide part, but in fact, it is, as i said, a small part of the ongoing programs and learning about those programs. it is really fascinating. on september 17th, we address the pesticide program and we approved the resolution that you all approved earlier tonight. we also heard a presentation from jesse and troy on the 2017 greenup report, what you all approved earlier tonight, as well. that is it. >> commissioners, any questions? is there any public comment? next item, anthony. >> the next item is item 11,

future agenda items. we have a speaker from the policy affairs. >> good evening, commissioners. and the chief policy and public affairs officer. i will be briefed although we do have a couple of action-packed meeting is coming up. our next special commission meeting is october 24th. is a special meeting. it starts at 4:00 pm. we are still working on the location. this is the joint meeting with the commission on the status of women. director raphael, the director of the commission on the status of women, at the president, and their president, that they met last week, or last month to plan and there are a couple of presentations and development right now in a joint resolution that is being drafted. but we are still looking for a meeting location. if you have any leads, it needs to accommodate 15 commissioners. if you do know of any place, let anthony or i know and we will investigate further.

november 27th, that is our regular meeting time in november will be doing a deep dive on blocking and the implications on the long-term sustainability goals. we will also be conducting the director's performance review in that meeting as well. the next policy committee meeting is october 22nd. and the next operations meeting is october 17th. >> any questions? any public comment? seeing none, next item. >> thank you. we skipped an item. we will move back to item ten. announcements and items for discussion. >> any announcements from commissioners?

[laughter] >> i'm giving everyone the opportunity. any public comment? on item ten? ok. we will go back to the next -- the last item. >> the next item is item 12, adjournment. the time is 7:04 pm. >> thank you, everybody. thank you for being here and congratulations to all the new folks. [applause]

>> good morning sunshine. all right. let me begin by introducing myself. i am mohammed nuru, the director of san francisco public works. [cheers and applause] >> i want to welcome you. we are here today to celebrate urban forest and the many benefits that trees bring to the environment. volunteers joined city workers in the tenderloin and the south of market this morning to plant 80 trees. among those trees were at the london breed tree. [laughter] >> and myrtle woods. today we will all have an opportunity to do a little planting also. today, we are also expanding our

urban forest. as thousands of delegates are coming to town for the upcoming global climate action summit. our mayor, london breed, has made environmental stewardship a cornerstone of her administration and is making sure that san francisco continues to lead the fight against global warming. let's give her a hand for her leadership. [cheers and applause] >> we are honored to have her here with us this morning. without further ado, let's welcome our mayor back london breed. [cheers and applause] >> mayor breed: thank you all for being here today. you know, randy just asked me, why am i and the tenderloin almost every day we i was here cleaning up on saturday, i continue to do walks in this neighborhood and a make phone

calls to many of the city officials because we know that there are a lot of challenges, not just in the city, but especially in this community. this community needs a lot of love. we have to continue to provide the support correct bring the attention here and supports many of the residents here. i am committed as mayor to doing that. thank you, mohammed for choosing this location. this week is the global action climate summit which is taking place right here in san francisco. people from all over the world, not just the united states, will be here in san francisco, to talk about ways in which we can improve our environment. san francisco can't do it alone. we need partners all over the world to take real action appeared here in san francisco, we have been a leader in environmental change. [cheers and applause]

>> mayor breed: i am proud that san francisco is joining with other cities, state and regional governments to promote the policies to protect our environment. locally, we are confronting climate change on several fronts from embracing green building practices, to leading the nation in zero waste efforts, to working to meet our 100% energy goal through clean power ss. if you haven't joined already, please join and become a super green power member. [cheers and applause] >> mayor breed: another way we support our environment, is supporting a thriving urban forest. trees combat climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the air, storing carbon and releasing oxygen into the atmosphere. they also improve air quality. we will show how, with data, here in a little bit, that

thanks to the tree benefits calculator, which i just heard of, data that clearly shows these trees are key in helping to save our environment. planting more trees not only improves the environment, it also makes our neighborhood greener and more beautiful. every neighborhood in san francisco should have a thriving urban forest. the city is committed to working with our nonprofit partners like friends friends of the urban forest, to plant trees throughout our city. [applause] >> mayor breed: earlier this morning, as mohammed nuru said, we planted over 80 trees in the tenderloin and south of market neighborhood. [cheers and applause] >> mayor breed: these trees join over 250,000 trees, not only in our city, but also in our parks.

in 2016, san francisco voters passed at the street tree san francisco initiative which sets aside $19 million a year to maintain and care for our street trees. we just didn't pass it at the ballot, the ballot manager got nearly 80% of the vote in the person who lead that effort is right here with us today. state senator, scott wiener. [applause] >> mayor breed: the overwhelming support for this measure shows our community's desire to take care of the trees we have, as well as planting new ones. growing our urban forest will help us meet to goals of the global climate action summit. creating sustainable communities , and promoting transformative climate investments. the summit is a great catalyst for real action to make a difference in protecting our earth and i hope you can join us at any of the many events that

will be taking place all week throughout our city. thank you all so much for being here today. and now, at this time, i want to introduce, senator scott wiener kahclo again, as i said, authored a bill that helped provide the $19 million to take care of our trees when he was a member of the board of supervisors. he has been a leader in san francisco and is now a leader in sacramento, pushing for the record numbers of legislation that will help san francisco become a better place, and especially for our planet. ladies and gentlemen, state senator, scott wiener. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, mayor breed. i really want to say how proud i am to be a san franciscan for many it, many reasons. but having a mayor who deeply cut deeply gets it when it comes to climate, makes me very proud.

thank you for all of your incredible work. [applause] >> i also want to welcome to san francisco and the tenderloin, my colleague assembly member, eduardo garcia from the coachella vallie area. who last year authored a marquee climate bill. he is a real leader on climate. one of the real honours of serving in the legislature, is in addition to representing this community, you work with people from all over the state and you have to try to learn and understand the different communities. they are all very different. different than your own. one thing that is for sure is that when it comes to climate, when it comes to the problems that climate change is causing, we are all in this together. it might manifest in slightly different ways and in different

parts of the state, but it is affecting all of us. we all have to pull together and understand each other's needs and make sure that we are addressing the existential threat. the conference is happening here in san francisco but this is about all of california, and frankly, the entire world. about whether we will stop strangling this planet and keep it alive and healthy and vibrant for our kids and our grandkids and i were great grandkids and whether we will really have that forward-looking approach planned for the future and make sure people can live here. i also want to say that i want to join in my gratitude that this is happening in the tenderloin. although i did not represent the tenderloin on the board of supervisors, i always made sure to know what the challenges were in this neighborhood. they are many. the tenderloin and south of market as well, there's not enough open space. a lot of kids but not a lot of open space.

not nearly enough trees and streets that aren't very safe. too many people are being injured and killed in streets on the tenderloin and south of market and we have all been working very hard to have a new great open spaces. new parks. more trees. traffic calming so we understand that the neighborhoods are not just about the cars that go through but the people who live here and the children who are here every day. so i want to thank -- [applause] >> i want to thank public works and recreation and park for the changes to the urban forest for all of us working together to make sure that the tenderloin and other neighborhoods are clean, green, healthy unlivable for everyone. thank you, very much. [applause] >> thank you, scott. trees net incredible

environmental benefits. one way could we have been able to qualify this is with the tree benefits calculator. i will ask erica, our natural resource specialist with dave eat treat company and with the usda forest service to come up and demonstrate how this tree benefits calculator works. where is erica clete come on up. [applause] >> thank you, so it is a software suite that was developed by the u.s. forest service. it came out in 2006. it has been around for quite a while. we have several different tools within it. some very entry-level tools and some that are more comprehensive but the point of them is to assess the urban forest and then to tell the benefits about them so we can use it for advocacy and management purposes. so if you guys want to play along, you can get your mobile

devices out. you need to use chrome or firefox. and madame mayer, you might want to play along with. >> mayor breed: ok. >> so you can turn this on. and i have it set up. i will go back. this is i tree planting. google it. and then hit on start a project. he will get to the location tab. we want to point in our location can you see that klee. >> she is filling out the different drop-down menus. we do it by state and then county level, city level. perfect, yet -- yes. you can scroll through to the next button and what you've got on the next page is the project parameters. those are the basic ones.

they are already filled in for us. you can change them if you want to but we will keep them as they are right now. and then we've got where we can fill in the tree. do you want to pick one of the trees that was planted klee sycamore or brisbane klee ? >> mayor breed: so many trees. >> there is quite a big list of their. >> mayor breed: i'm not on the list we ? >> you are not on the list. i did look up the box trees. those are both in the drop-down menu. if a tree is not on here that you want to use, then you will want to pick a similar species in size, structure and whether or not it is deciduous. >> mayor breed: we will pick sycamore right here. all right.

so now you can put you in it is flush to the building. this will give us energy bit it -- information. it cannot be a detriment to the building if it is an evergreen tree that is blocking son in the wintertime. that can be a detriment to your energy savings. we will go ahead and keep the species. built after 1980. i doubt that building is like that but we will keep it and there peerk unless you want to change it. it probably just has heat. let's say the tree is an excellent condition. it is probably in part son. you can use that drop-down. it is probably with all the buildings around here. that is the end of that tab

where you are on the tree tab and then you hit next. you get all of the output. then you can see here, you have your summary of what we put in, we have estimated, for 40 years, with the benefits will be, and then you can't -- here we go. we are talking about carbon. this tree, in 40 years, i think we originally put in it was 1 inch. in 40 years, this tree would grow and give us an avoidance of 595 pounds of carbon dioxide. that is huge. on the sequestration is 720 pounds. the avoided is what is avoided from energy output. you don't have to keep that building. the power plant is not putting out those emissions. the tree is doing the work for it. and then you can scroll across the top here and you can do the other categories.

you can do air pollution, rainfall interception, biomass, storm water damage. there's lots of other benefits that come out of this. [cheers and applause] >> thank you for playing along. >> mayor breed: of course. now i know how to use it. >> it is important that we know how to use the tree benefit calculator because we are able to know how much carbon offset we have. that carbon offset turns into caps on it allows us to buy more trees and continue to grow our tree canopy which san francisco desperately needs. growing the tree canopy so we can be compared to other cities. we will get there peerk these tree calculator is going to make this happen, right? thank you for all that. next we will hear from mark. he is executive director of city forest credit. it is an organization which helps companies reduce carbon

footprints by funding tree planting initiatives in the fight against global warming. come on up. [applause] >> thank you, very much. there is one group that is not here that we want to be here. that is the corporate citizens of san francisco. they are here? great. thank you, very much for those of you that are here. because public funding is stretched to the max. we need to find out a way to bring in corporate residence and corporate citizens to help us keep san francisco healthy, green and equitable. my organization is a nonprofit in seattle. we are making it possible for local projects during carbon plus credits. we hope to generate a whole new source of generating revenue for urban forest. so i will keep it quick. and let jenna take over.

[applause] >> ok. before i bring you up, thank you for keeping that quick. i know all of you know that green urban forest is not about one government agency or one organization or a group of volunteers. it takes a commitment from all of us. like they say, it takes a village, it takes all of us. just for tree planting today, we had a lot of great parties. i will start with the public works department. the burke bureau of urban forestry for taking the lead. [applause] >> we have, from the department of environment, commissioners, directors and all staff for helping us. please give them a hand. [applause] >> we have a nonprofit partner, friends of the urban forest. thank you very much for coming out. [applause]

>> we have city forest credit his, who you heard from. we have california relief, and we have california urban forest. we also had many volunteers from the neighborhood. excitement. simon and the tenderloin community benefit district, thank you all for being a great neighbor. i know you will help look after those trees that we planted. i'm counting on you. and our friends at u.c. hastings college. they were also out today in numbers helping us. let's give them a big hand. [applause] >> another partner who we will hear from is my friend, mr clean s.f. and we have mr parks here as well. phil ginsberg is a general manager of recreation and park. we have over 131,000 trees and 4,000 acres. let's hear from phil ginsburg. thank you. [applause] >> thank you mohammed.

we are the recreation and park department are very proud to be part of the green team. captained by our mayor mayor, my favourite tree. [laughter] >> but with the incredible partnership and help of private and public partners. and mohammed's incredible leadership. it does take a village, as mohammed noted. he also noted that we have 131,000 trees in our park land in san francisco on 4,000 acres of parkland. these 131,000 trees were planted over 150 years in the very birth of this city's park system. interesting that we have about ten trees or so that surround the spots. this used to be a parking lot 30 years ago. and now admittedly, it is a fixer upper, but if you come back because we break ground on a beautiful renovation to the

site in january with mohammed's partnership and we hope to cut a ribbon on a beautiful new space with even more trees here in july of 2019. [applause] >> as everybody noted and as the benefits calculator will verify, our trees absorb co2 and other air pollutants. but they also have absorb stormwater. every 100 mature trees observes 200,000 gallons of rainwater. yet another strategy in our fight against climate change. also not referenced in the incredible biodiversity that we have in our canopy. in the panhandle alone, which is essentially a botanical garden, we have 65 different species of trees. and as important as trees are, it is not the only strategy to fighting climate change. they are just one piece of the puzzle. it includes waste diversion.

the parks department diverts 97% and reuses 97% of the greenways. [cheers and applause] >> i'm very proud to say, that in 2021, golden gate park will be the largest urban park in the nation maintained entirely through recycled water. [cheers and applause] >> together, we are all doing our part. for this neighborhood, there is so much love and attention and a push like never before to create healthier communities. in addition to all the trees that were planted, and in addition to this playground renovation cap just a few blocks away, it is another playground which undergoes a renovation and january 9th -- of 2019 as well we celebrate other parts. there are elements of health and vibrancy just blossoming in this neighborhood. the last thing i want to say is it is really important. it is one thing to plant a tree and another thing to maintain it

we need to be so thankful and appreciative of the men and women in public works and at recreation and park at all of the volunteers to help us maintain the urban canopy, and representing the recreation and parks department are two of our most incredible and devoted gardeners. thank you for being on the ground and keeping our planet healthy. thank you, everybody. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, very much. also helping sponsor today's tree planting event, is the american forest. it is a nonprofit conservationist organization. joining us from american forest is the president and c.e.o. of the organization. welcome, john. [applause] >> thank you. although i come from that strange place called washington d.c. where people aren't sure if climate change is real, i can tell you that it is.

and that those of you standing over there in the shade are enjoying this surprisingly hot september day in san francisco a lot more than the folks are standing in the blazing sun. which is why a lot of folks headed off under that tent which is like a fig tree. when we think about what urban forest means for climate change, we need to think into lanes. we need to think about climate action and what they're doing to slow climate change down and we need to think in terms of climate justice. whether -- whether there are protection for climate change impacts. even here in san francisco there are extremely hot days. and what they can do to bring shade and other protection. i will tell you, even though i am from far away, i feel this one in my soul. my grandmother lived here in the tenderloin for 30 years, working for the city of san francisco. she was a real champion for equity and diversity in this city. i knew -- i know if she were here today she would think about

what we are doing and it would be the perfect synergy of climate action and climate justice. i want to give you a couple of numbers to hold onto. we talked about really local numbers and what can one tree duke. i to roll that up a bit. here is your first number. 7.2%. urban trees across america reduce energy use for heating and cooling by seven to -- by 7.2%. translate that in your head to the carbon initiative. he did not have to use all that energy for heating and cooling our homes. the next number is 100 million. that is the metric tons of carbon dioxide that are sequestered by urban trees all across america, every single year. that is about two% -- 2%. one of the most powerful things we can do is what we're doing right here.

bringing more tree canopy cover into the city and taking better care of the tree canopy cover. i will give you one more number, and this one speaks about climate justice issues. the number is ten. there was research done by some folks at the rollins university a public health. they project about by the middle of the century, not some high-tech -- fantastical time in the future, we will see a tenfold increase in heat related deaths. guess what we that will not be among -- guess what we ? that will be predominantly people in neighborhoods like the tenderloin. that is why we need to be here planting trees for climate action i'm planting trees for climate justice. the second thing i want to talk about is, this is another thing. this isn't about american force or about any one of the private partners or anyone in the public sector today. this is about all of us pulling together. we all came together to create

this event. we have not yet had a chance to recognize the corporate partners by playing a huge role in funding this work and making up the gap in funding that we need for what money we are not getting from the public sector. we have a rich brown today from bank of america -- [applause] >> he has been an anchor to partner with organizations. we are doing the same thing all over the country. a national organization helping local organizations to be successful. that is made possible because a bank of america's support. and the other corporate partner that has helped us find this planting here today is epsilon. these are companies that are huge champions for urban forestry across the country and they are providing part of the missing increment of funding that we need to take this work to scale. it will take all of us pulling the ropes together to fully deploy urban forest.

we really thank you all for being here today to lift this issue up and lift this opportunity up and give it the attention it deserves so we can carry it forward. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. we are coming to the closing of our program. we have two important things left. ben and jayda will leave you -- lead you down -- around the corner to plant a tree. they left one for us to finish the job. we asked for one so we could have one. trees are very close to our hearts. so this memorial planting is appropriate. seconds, erica will be available to talk more and show you how the tree calculator works. this is a new thing that everybody should be able to use. we can calculate how much benefit we can get if we can continue to build to the tree

canopy and build the streets of san francisco. thank you very much for coming and i appreciate everyone. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> hi. my name is carmen chiu, san

francisco's aelectricitied assessor. today, i want to share with you a property tax savings programs for families called proposition 58. prop 58 was passed in 1986 and it was helped parents pass on their lower property tax base to their children. so how does this work? under california's prop 13 law, the value we use to calculate your property tax is limited to 2% growth peryear. but when ownership changes, prop 13 requires that we reassess properties to market value. if parents want to pass on their home or other property to their children, it would be considered a change in ownership. assuming the market value of your property has gone up, your children, the new owners, would pay taxes starting at that new higher level. that's where prop 58 comes in. prop 58 recognizes the transfer between parents and children so that instead of taxing your children at that new higher level, they get to keep your

lower prop 13 value. remember, prop 58 only applies to transfers between parents and children. here's how the law twines an eligible child. a biological child, a step child, child adopted before the age of 18, and a son-in-law or daughter-in-law. to benefit from this tax saving program, remember, you just have to apply. download the prop 58 form from our website and submit it to our office. now you may ask, is there a cap how much you can pass on. well, first, your principal residence can be excluded. other than that, the total tap of properties that can use this exclusion cannot exceed $1 million. this means for example if you have two other properties, each valued at $500,000, you can exclude both because they both fit under the $1 million cap. now what happens hwhen the totl

value you want to pass on exceeds $1 million. let's say you have four properties. three with current taxable value of $300,000 and one at $200,000, totaling $1.1 million in value. assuming that you decide to pass on properties one, two, and three, we would apply the exclusions on a first come, first served basis. you would deduct properties one, two, and three, and you would still have $100,000 left to pass on. what happens when you pass on the last property? this property, house four, has been existing value of 2 -- has an existing value of $200,000, and its existing property value is actually higher, $700,000. as i said, the value left in your cap is $100,000. when we first figure out your portion, we figure out the portion that can be excluded. we do that by dividing the exclusion value over the assessed value. in this case, it's 50%.

this means 50% of the property will remain at its existing value. meanwhile, the rest will be reassessed at market value. so the new taxable value for this property will be 50% of the existing value, which is 200,000, equaling 100,000, plus the portion reassessed to market value, which is 50% times $700,000, in other words, 350,000, with a total coming out to $450,000. a similar program is also available for prepping transfers fl interest r from grandparents to grandchildren. if you're interested in learning more visit our website or food in san francisco isn't just about expensive eat but food for everyone and there's

organizations in the city that are doing really good work making sure that healthy food it assessable to everyone. more and more as follows are are becoming interested in upper arlthd they want to joy the open green pace sea know where their food it coming from we'll look at 3 programs talking ushering agricultural and garden to new heights. so what exactly it, your honor agricultural >> it the growing food or flowers within city limits traditionally we've been referring to communities gardener that is a raised bed over and over upper argument has

a more a farming way of farming. >> so tell me 0 what's growing in this garden. >> a really at all plant. in the one of the rare places, you know, people have access to green space 24 is one of the places to grow things like the purple floor. it is sort of recognizing that the more diversity in given space the better not to just have one thing by everything supported each another >> it provides the community with an opportunity to get their hands dirty and reach 0 out and congressmen with the community in ways they might have not

otherwise to engage with one other. >> now the dpw urban planning program so see how the garden community. >> so i grew up on a farm in air force base we picked the foods open the trees and share with other families and as i drive around san francisco i see any trees with apples or mrumdz and lemon trees i can see the food going to waste and brought that idea back to the department many of the trees where the fruit would go to waste we origin or crop and pick other fruits and delivery this to food banks or shelters to people who need them. >> i'm here with nang wong

hello nang. >> hello. >> i need to understand house this gleaning work. >> we come and harvest like for example, we'll come over here this is the lemon and plug it like this. >> (laughter). >> made that good, good and ease. >> the trick is how not to hurt the branches. >> like the thing. >> i'm so excited about this. the people are so passionate about where the food goes to the private property owners give us the food they're happy that no of a t is going to waste

>> oh. thank you. thank you. again job aura natural >> (laughter). >> from backyards to back lots let's take a look at the food and community bonding at the free farm. >> my idea was to start growing food and giving it away. and getting my neighbors to who had space and having a kind of event that brings people together not to run our food program this time around but to share the wealth of the abundance of our welfare. we were all divorce and as part of our philosophy of working together and working together. >> what's the most rewarding aspect of volunteering for the

free farm stand. >> well, we could is a generalic satisfaction but something about giving food away it's giving something i brought that in and sort it and gave it to you it's primitive to be able to give something some basically to someone else. >> now serving number to 49 come on down. >> we have the capability of producing this food and in san francisco you can grow food all year round so the idea we're capable of prougdz food in our own backyards we're here to demonstrate an bans of food and i think that giving it away for free we show individuals it in

have to be a comedy. >> we build time together and it's the strength of any ideas of the connections we'll turn that connection and the more connections you make no mistake about it the more you can have a stronger power and not have to rely on money that's the people power. >> in this episode we've seen the urban farms and gardens provide more in fruits and vegetation people can have the special produce available it can be a place to give back by donating food to others and teach our children the

connection to the earth and environment it's truly >> my apartment burned down 1.5 years ago in noba. my name is leslie mccray, and i am in outside beauty sales. i have lived in this neighborhood since august of this year. after my fire in my apartment and losing everything, the red cross gave us a list of agencies in the city to reach out to and find out about various programs that could help us get back on our feet, and i signed up for the below market rate program, got my

certificate, and started applying and won the housing lottery. this particular building was brand-new, and really, this is the one that i wanted out of everything i applied for. and i came to the open house here, and there were literally hundreds of people looking at the building. and i -- in my mind, i was, like, how am i ever going to possibly win this? and i did. and when you get that notice that you want, it's surreal, and you don't really believe it, and then it sinks in, yeah, i can have it, and i'm finally good to go; i can stay. my favorite thing about my home, although i miss the charm about the old victorian is everything is brand-new. it's beautiful. my kitchen is amazing. i've really started to enjoy cooking. i really love that we have a gym on-site. i work out four days a week, and it's beautiful working

outlooking out over the courtyard that i get to look at. it was hard work to get to the other side, but it's well worth it. i'm super grateful to the mayor's office of housing for having this for us. you. >> as a voter you have a choice on how you can vote you might cast your vote by mail or vote earlier in city hall if you choose to vote earlier you'll go to our powell plays might be a church or in regards garage they'll make the voting as uncomplicated as possible yes what does 3 take to be a

poll working and what exactly does a poll work working do letting meet some. >> aim jack. >> i'm co-author la. >> i'm tiffany and charles and my name is elizabeth i'm jeff i'm bruce hi, i'm karin a full-time student addressed city college i've been a pole working for 10 years. >> for 13 years your 10 or the 9 or 10 years. >> those poll workers and thousands are an essential part of election day 31 they provide the safeguarding of democratic processed there's a feeling in the poll place you're a feeling of something that has a special place in the world the democratic process in the united

states is model to the rest of the world. >> it's a relay sequence e sense you're part of that history and being able to keep that going and it is really does feel good. >> i feel overhead this is a great civil dude and get a different idea. >> in my residential area i dale feel i'm transbay joint powers authority to the community as a wloel in the communi community. >> so san francisco poll workers have a service based mission the first to protect the voter rights we make sure they understand the rights on the ballot and the right to an essential polling place and many languages around english. >> it's like someone that didn't know how to read i'm more

happy to help you like i'll help you. >> the second part to serve the voters like workers and language they respect the voter and finally the last myths is offsets the which i see to come to the polling place. >> this takes a lot of pole working for each election they higher 26 hundred pole workers to staff over 5 hundred polling places this chose 6 senate victories and thousand clerks and high school students. >> look at the address of our polling place on line or visit it a day beforehand. >> every pole worker has been trained the election department holds for one hundred hundred clads a month before the

election they vary into one and a half to 3 hours and classes focus on the right to voters including language and other access right for voter and step up polling place and equipment and procedures for voting and vote and mail. >> the election office is constantly streamlining the process so there the good of the training in order to tap into the continuing better process in their creating. >> pole workers learner about clothing procures like completing the posted ballets and transferring the memory packs and others materials for the traffic officers or deputy sheriff. >> i like how the training every year improves. >> so as the inspector the first is all introduce user to the collect and assign them

their job cards. >> a polling place nodes someone to supervisor and that pole working is called an inspector and responsible for that four or five clerks they get hands on experience. >> you're also going to be doing other things at 12 o'clock and 3 o'clock to the inspector needs to hang into this. >> the inspector makes sure that the polling is smooth and greets people in a way with respect to make sure they're going to the procedures so not only in the step of that but in the actual process during the day and the process of breaking the equipment down and tab latino making sure all the numbers gets to the sheriff's deputy and to the city and county. >> they're a key holder on

election day they wear a i can rove that hat audience this is the voting machine. >> after the training inspections pickup bottles and other supplies their polling places need on election day. >> this is for the briefing. >> inspectors are responsible for the chain of custody of ballot they sign for the battles and have you ever had your deposition taken transfer it to a deputy sheriff's at the end of the day. >> that's one of the things i thought attracted to this to learner about the voting process and knowing that at the end of all this we take great pains to make sure that the routes are secure and save and delivered back to the ballet department. >> their seals rewe having to put occupy the equipment and make sure that carry the key it secures the ballot machine so we have to be keen you know

i'd say and areas open on dale what was going on election die when the voter voted if they messed up we've got to void that we have to keep track and get for every step as well as the procedural exponent to transfer the battles at the end of the nicest to the sheriff's detective and the memory card and data make sure those don't get tampa everyday with. >> each inspectors manual excludes the cards that lifts different pole workers dudes. >> there's one person that sets up the booth and others that set up equipment and again, we follow it step by step. >> we willfully with such

culture diversities san francisco has many languages spoken everyday to meet of diverse challenge the department of election assigned chinese pole workers spanish speakers to 2 hundred and 17 predicts and filipino to one hundred and thirty predictability and vietnamese and japanese to 7 priblts and there's a lot of chinese speaking people so there's been at least 2 people on staff that speak chinese and really comes in handy. >> they choose that pen. >> i'd like to say that 70 percent of powell workers come back election after election that's inspiring they're returning. >> many people are glad to see us we know we're in the predict we are there in the election

before. >> i know people expect to see me now it is a regular occurrence so oh, you're working this one yeah. >> there's a sense of trust they believe in us and they'll be protected. >> working as a precinct worker learners about the process. >> once you see the process you gain a new respect so i'll encourage 80 anyone to get the experience. >> the department of elections needs new workers they're looking for new powell its go to sf election.org

>> neighborhoods in san francisco are as diverse and fascinating as the people who inhabit them. today we're in the sunset, where we'll join supervisor tang for the inspiration of this show, where we explore san francisco, one neighborhood at a time. hi i'm katy tang the district 4 supervisor in san francisco, which is comprise of sunset and parkside neighborhoods. i think what makes district 4 unique is that we have so many different cultures here. we have so many different generations of people. different experiences and that makes it a vibrant neighborhood. for example, which you go down urban street you can do to a

japanese restaurant, chinese restaurant, american restaurant, and the cultural diversity is just what makes it so amazing my name is ching le, and i'm the owner of the kingdom of bounty. 17th san francisco, 94116. we make the most authentic and different kinds of dumplings and dim sum. recently more and more popular because they are vegetables and meats that we use fresh vegetables and meats in the business. it's really inspired to start discover your district series, because i wanted to find a way for neighbors to come and get to know our small businesses and our neighborhoods. get to know each other, get know our office, and do so in a setting that was unintimidating and fun. so i launched this idea call the

"discover your district," where we go every month to one or two small businesss in district 4 and we have done things such as learning how to make dumplings that we're learning today and there are so many different activities that we have exposed our residents to. >> today is the very special day, because the city of san francisco hosting this for san francisco city. learning how to make dumplings and knowledge of dumplings. they love to do it and all enjoy it. >> this is definitely not my first time making it, so i have definitely improved a lot. the first couple of time s i tried to make dumplelings they looks inedible. they have definitely improved. there is a special dumpling eating contest, which is amazing.

everyone those eat the dumplings that they made and see how many they can do. i'm curious as to how many they going to be able to down today? >> don't forget to write down what you are eating today. >> we make all different kinds of dumplings and enjoy what they made. so after that, we'll have contact how many pieces of dumplings they can eat and announce the winner today.

>> good morning. i'm president of speak, with you is sunset action project action committee. we are active in a wide range of issues. neighborhood issues. speak is excited to be a cosponsor of this event much i'm also the -- i'm also the vie president of the coalition for san francisco neighborhoods. another cosponsor of t