years now. those places where -- you made a special trip to the house of bagels and you made that part of your agenda and part of your week. he went to the balboa theatre and i did not go that much to fireside camera but i know where you are and that is a great place to be. i just want to thank you. these are truly legacy businesses and the whole idea that you are retaining the destination as part of the neighborhood is absolutely terrific. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> my first movie was at the balboa theatre. i grew up right down the block on fulton and you are the one left on that street that is from back in the day except for that bar across the street. hockey haven or whatever it is. but i think, and my girlfriend and i who always visited and

went to the theater when we are in middle school still remember all the movies. we continue to hold great memories and the house of bagels , i only grew up with the house of bagels. that was the only bagel i knew and i knew what a difference between the real bagel at a fake bagel was. i am so happy. these are two legacy businesses that i grew up with and i'm so happy that you are here and that we can support you. >> thank you. >> i echo the comments that the other commissioners made. there is just one thing that really struck me. which is the presentation considering the house of bagels. there are several references that were made to expatriate east coasters. this is important because there were no bagels in san francisco as far as i have been able to determine, before world war ii. after world war ii when so many

people moved here, one of my older relatives said bagels were an entirely new phenomenon and many people couldn't figure out what they were or why anyone would want to eat one. but obviously, there was a great audience and a great demand for them and the house of bagels participated in that. >> thank you. >> yeah. i am one of those jewish ex-pats i grew up and my dad had a friend who had a deli and we had east coast bagels coming out here. it was very frustrating to search around for bagels because things like noah's and others were just not bagels. i so appreciate. they are not real bagels. as we just found out, they did not exist here until even the early sixties when the house of bagels opened. i was also thrilled to find out the fireside camera was named

for someone who is named fireside. i just assumed it was just a nice generic name. also, i wanted to mention that if you have been there -- if your staff and you have been there for 30 and 40 years, you are the legacy. that is the thing that is so impressive for me. the people that make them are the legacy. you guys are san francisco. as well as the fact that the business might have been there before you. you are the ones who are making sure that it is a legacy and continues to be a legacy. also balboa theatre have been there many times and have interesting memories of different movies that were on the marquee at the same time. it is before your time, probably in the nineties, where there would be contrasting film names, is almost a joke. it was just a great part of the

legacy of the theater itself. thank you. >> thank you. >> i am a fan of all three businesses. the word destination does apply here. none of these businesses are anywhere near where i left but i go there and they make a special effort to go there. i wanted to mention the camera store. it is a rarity that the camera store, there is a brick-and-mortar camera store anywhere. so i really congratulate your tenure and the fact that you have done whatever it took to stay there. the internet competition is pretty rough. >> thank you. >> thank you. i just wanted the businesses that are here today to be informed that we are going to be launching. is that right shelley and rick? we will be launching our logo and marketing campaign for the legacy business and it is officially going to happen at

our next meeting. can you come up and share? just as a further promotional point for all of you, i think it is important for you to hear. >> short. i'm with a legacy big -- legacy business program manager. we will be presenting our logo. we had hired a company who started working in january, ten months ago and we had a legacy marketing and branding committee of people including the commissioners and the office of small business staff in a couple of commissioners from the small business commission. we have a logo and we will be presenting it to the small business commission on monday and then also they have been working on a marketing promotion and branding plan. they will be touching upon that a little bit. and then your next meeting will be presenting the same presentation about the logo. so we are excited to bring that to you.

if you have any questions i am happy to answer. >> thank you, very much. >> is there a motion to forward these with the the recommendations? >> i move we support the three recommendations for a legacy business. >> second. >> thank you, commissioners. on that motion to adopt recommendations for approval on all three matters. [roll call] >> so moved. that motion passes unanimously 6 -0. finally, staff is requesting a continuance of item 11. the façade retention part for informational presentation to december 5th, 2018. >> is there anybody in the public who wishes to make a public comment about the continuance of this matter? seeing and hearing none, we close public comment. do we have a motion to continue this item? >> i move to continue.

>> second. >> on that motion to continue item 11 to december 5th. [roll call] >> yes. >> thank you. that motion passes unanimously. >> i believe our hearing is now adjourned.

>> i moved into my wonderful, beautiful, affordable housing march 7th. i have lived in san francisco since i was two-years-old. i've lived in hunters view for 23 to 24 years now. my name is vlady. i use titus and i am the resident commissioner for the san francisco housing facility. from the very beginning, this whole transition of public housing and affordable housing was a good idea. but many, many residents didn't think it would ever actually

happen. it's been a life changing experience. and i'm truly grateful for the whole initiative and all those that work on the whole sf initiative. they've done a wonderful job accommodating the residents, who for many years have lived in delap tated housing. now they have quality housing. i was on a street where the living room and the kitchen and stairs. it wasn't large enough to accommodate. the children are grown. i had the accomplish of having a dishwasher in my home. i really like that. [laughter] i really like not having to wash dishes by hand. we still do it from time to time. the mayor's office has been a real friend to us, a partner. we know that our city supports

us. i love san francisco. just to be able to stay in my community and continue to help the residents who live here and continue to see my neighborhoods move into new housing, it's been a real joy. it's been a real joy. >> 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. >> hello. my name is gloria berry, and i'm running for board of supervisors san francisco district ten. i was born here in san francisco in 1969. i was also raised here. i went to public schools for six years, and then, when my mom got frustrated with the public school system, she used her child support check to put me in private school here in san francisco. in my senior year of high school, i panicked because my family could not afford college, so i went ahead and joined the navy. i figured i could get a skill and get educational benefits. during that time in the navy, which was 12 years, i was entrusted with writing policy and making decisions that affected thousands of people.

that position wasn't a 9:00 to 5:00 position, it was 24 hours a day. i had to respond to juniors needing help with housing, food, mental health issues, getting training to advance their skills, and i was also responsible for providing the educational benefits education they needed. what i want to do for district ten. most important for me is education. district ten has the lowest test scores in the state of california and that is not acceptable. what i want to do to fix that is i want to aggressively get funding for the after school programs with one source being excess city funds, and i want to also partner with several corporations to get tutors in after school programs where it's one-on-one tutors. i know this works because i have experience in that. i'm a math tutor, and a group of

friends of mine, we started a school on our on saturdays, and all our students grazed were raised. and they all graduated from high school. something else dear to me is the shipyard. we need to get independent testing done at that naval shipyard. you see, my ship was stationed there in 1996. i actually did maintenance on antennas that radiated and i did testing on nuk reclear weapons. we need to stop everything at that shipyard until testing and everything is done right. another concern of mine is police accountability. another area i am experienced in. i worked eight years in law enforcement, and i was an expert at deescalating. i had feared for my life, i've

had to fight violent people, i've been injured, but i never wanted the person that did those things to me injured further or worst of all, killed. all i wanted was for them to be handcuffed and brought to where they needed to go. in law enforcement, i also wrote policy and made decisions that affected thousands of people. i held investigations, and i did hearings. i'm a fact finder. so at the end of the day, we have to decide, do we want a supervisor who can only present mediocre change or results, that just move the needing 1% or 5% -- needle 1% or 5% or do we want experience that turned a whole division around, a whole operation around. if you're ready for change, please vote for me. gloria berry, d 10 supervisor. my website is

berrysmart2010.com. thank you. my name is asale-haquekyah chandler, and i am running for district 10. i want to give a voice to the disenfranchised people of district ten. i lost my son, murdered on san francisco streets, and nothing was done to curb this type of senseless violence that took my son's life. he was only 19 years of age. san francisco is setup so that only elected people or their appointees have the power and resources to make real change for any community. i am running to give the people here in district ten a share in these resources so that all members of district ten can thrive. the most important issues that have been plaguing district ten

for decades, it is the lack of educational opportunities for our children, the lack of economic opportunities for the people of district ten, and the lack of opportunities to own a home here. the lack of opportunities to own a business, the police creating a police state, and an act tiff police brutality in district ten, the racial profiling and the murdering of our children, and the homelessness is a big problem. to address the lack of educational opportunities, i will create a system where tech companies will pay their employees to tutor our children in exchange for tax write offs on their payroll taxes, and to address the lack of business and economic opportunities, i will use my position to use the e.b.-5 investor immigrant visa programs to directly fund small businesses and create hundreds of jobs.

and to address the lack of home ownership opportunities, i will do my best to get the city of san francisco out of the deal that sold the naval shipyard to a huge developer. and i will ask the f.b.i. to investigate how the buyers broke the laws of the e.b.-5 program in raising funds to build luxury homes. and when i get the city to take the land back, i will propose that the city sell the land to the individuals of district ten, lots of land at 3,000 square feet in size and will be sold for $10,000 and allow individuals to buy a house up to 1400 square feet on that lot of land, and each home should cost under 100,000 when built by independent construction companies. and to address the police state, i will mandate a higher education requirement, a passing

of a test that demonstrates that officers under the united states constitution and how it applies to policing district ten and stop the practice of shooting to kill and replace it with an m-a-b technique and the deescalation technique used as hospitals during a crisis. i will also write the disciplinary agreement that the city has with the police association so that we may get rid of bad officers instead of shuffling bad officers around. and to address the homeless situation, i will breakdown the issue as to why they are homeless. there appears to be four types of homeless people. one is the mentally ill, people with drug addictions, number two, people with economic suffering, number three, and young people who think it is a cool thing to do. for the mentally ill population, we have to get them back into

state hospitals. and for the drug addicts, we have to offer them drug counseling or n.a. and help them when we give them needles. for the poor and the homeless, we should allow them a chance to park r.v.s on city owned land that is not being used in exchange of them maintaining the streetscape. and for the youth that thinks it's cool, we should get them to join the california conservation corps and their work can have a big impact on preventing the huge wild fires that we have seen throughout the state. thank you so kindly. i am looking forward to being district ten's next supervisor. >> my name is theo ellington. i'm a san francisco native and candidate running for district ten supervisor.

our city has lost its way. when my grandfather moved here from the south, he was able to get a good paying job as a laborer and save up enough money to purchase a home. if my grandfather was alive today, that dream would not be possible, and he would not be able to afford to live in san francisco. my mother and i raised my brother and i on $18,000 a year. if we were to relife that moment, my family would not be able to afford to live in san francisco, and that's why i'm running. i want to make sure every family can afford to live here in san francisco, not just the wealthy. we know our city is faaing trying times. the cost of living is sky rocketing. homelessness has become a public health crisis, and public safety on our streets and in our neighborhoods has become an issue. all of the cities inequalities man test right here in district ten. high unemployment, the worst performing schools in the state, and multimillion dollar homes

being sold next to the highest concentration of homelessness. i stood up to the community and filed a lawsuit when greedy corporations lied about the environmental disaster at the hunters point shipyard, putting profits before our health. as commissioner for the redevelopment successor agency, i led the creation of over 15,000 housing units, including 1,000 units of affordable housing, and 242 homes for formerly homeless families. as human rights commissioner, i worked to defend the city's antidiscrimination policies and sanctuary city so that all san franciscans can feel safe in their communities. i am the only candidate in the race as private sector experience cht as director for the golden state warriors, i worked to create over 3,000 good paying jobs for san franciscans and helped negotiate deals that would bring us more transit,

better workforce opportunities and increase quality of life. on top of that, $14 million in additional tax revenues for much needed city services. with this election, we have a crucial decision to make about the future of our san francisco. i'm a district ten native, a homeowner, and deeply committed to this community. and over the course of my career, i've fought to bring up needed resources to the southeast side of town. we deserve a supervisor who isn't afraid to fight for our community and will do what it takes to address the inequalities. it's time we elect someone who will standup for the neighborhood we deserve with honesty and integrity. today, i urge you to join the mayor, firefighters, health care workers, small business owners, environmentalists, labor organizations, housing advocates, in voting theo ellington for district ten supervisor. thank you. >> for is a years, i've worked with neighbors to save and

create affordable housing. to get nuclear waste and air pollution out of our neighborhoods, to turn vacant lots in parks and save neighborhood schools. i'm running for district ten supervisor because for the past few decades, i've seen my neighborhoods pushed out of san francisco. let me tell you what i've been hearing, knocking on doors in the neighborhood. my neighbors in bayview and visitacion valley tell me that nine times out of ten, they've never had a candidate knock on their door in their lives. they know they children have a 14 year shorter life expectancy than other children in the city. they know that way too many of their neighbors live on one meal a day. they know that the average income in bayview and visitacion valley doesn't even qualify for our city's affordable housing. when i hear those stories, i

think back to my own. my mother worked for the american can company and died of cancer when she was 44. my father died homeless at the corner of first and mission streets 33 years ago, so i will fight for what is right when i see that my neighbors have to sleep on the sidewalk. i've been evicted twice, once by an earthquake, once by an owner moving in, so i will fight what is right, when i see my neighbored pushed out, locked out, and forced out. we demand to live in a city that isn't trying to price us out, we will never build us out of this affordable crisis by building luxury condos that none of us can afford. that's gr i'm -- that's why i'm seeking to build 100% public housing on 100 percent percent

city land on 100% city bank. while politicians and governments have been covering up falsified documents, why people who are in charge of the cleanup of the shipyard today cannot be in charge of it tomorrow. we need to uncover the racism in city government that ignores the health disparities in our community. we demand solutions to properly address the homeless crisis. i'm proud to have been a coauthor of proposition f in 20 serve, which is a predecessor to a measure on the ballot in november .

we demand to have safe neighborhoods to go home to. we need to address the root cause of crime, which is poverty, so we need to expand free city college to provide training for jobs in the health care, hospitality and sectors, not just jobs in construction and tech. we need to provide teacher housing to row tain our experiences, high quality educators, we need to increase programming for youth, keep our rec centers open, providing services when needed. we need to work together to make our neighborhoods safer. last, but not least, we deserve to have access to our supervisor's office every sickle day of the year. that's why i'm planning to hold office hours in the district every day, sunday, christmas, every day, so that i will continue to listen to your

concerns. so listen, how is the status quo working out for you? do you feel represented by city hall? we all know friends that have been forced out of san francisco. if we don't change these policies, a lot of us, families, workers, art activities, tenants, immigrants, we will be forced out, too. we need a community advocate. i'm the only major candidate in district ten with a corporate free campaign with no contributions from any developers or lobbyists. that means that you know i'm the one who will put people over profits. so please, join our people powered corporate free campaign. we've already knocked on more than 25,000 doors, and we need your help. you can join us at tonykellysupervisor.com. let's work together for a better district ten.

>> hi. i'm shamman walton. i'm a candidate for supervisor district ten. this run for me is personal as someone who's from public housing in the district, who's lived in public housing in bayview-hunters point, as well as potrero hill, and someone who's also held leadership in the district. as a director of the potrero family resource center and currently e.d. as one of the biggest nonprofits in san francisco. i know the issues that our residents share and the concerns that we have in our communities. i'm raising children in the district, sending my children to public schools and making sure i improve this district. we're going to continue to fight for affordable. i've already built 59 units of all affordable housing as well as 156 on the way ad can't will

stick point. we need somebody that's going to make sure that the cleanup at the shipyard happens, and that not only do they test and find everything, but we bring in someone that doesn't have a conflict of the city or the conflict of government agencies that have already been in place because our community has lost a lot of trust. i want to make sure that our transportation is improved, that we improve our schools, and that we make sure that we continue to provide opportunities, jobs, mental health supports, and substance abuse services for our homeless families. written a proposal already with hunters point families, aepiscopal community services and five keys to bring a navigation center to the district at 125 bayshore. when we talk about leadership and when we talk about someone that can really represent our district, we need someone who's

already gotten things done and provide positive out comes in the areas that we feel we suffer from the most. we're an isolated and disenfranchised community in many ways. we need to bring our communities together, our neighborhoods together, so that we can come up with a comprehensive plan and strategy to make sure that our southeastern neighborhoods are viable and receive the support and resources they need. and we need somebody who knows how to work well with others to get that done. i'm currently endorsed by the sfresk democratic party, the san francisco labor council, many elected leaders in this city, eight members of the current board of supervisors, our assembly members, our state senators, and people who understand what leadership is and what it's about. i have the ability to get together and get things done from day one if we're fortunate

enough to be elected on november 6. i want to be the supervisor of this district because i know and understand what needs to happen, who we need to work with to get things done, and i've been someone who's brought people together, who's organized people to make sure that we have positive out comes versus being divisive, and we need someone in office who can make sure so goes district ten, so goes san francisco. proven leadership today is not a cliche, but it's a certainty if you vote for shamman walton through early voting or at the ballot box on november 6. thank you. >> hi, i'm with building san francisco. and we have a special program of stay safe today where we're going to talk about what you can do to your home after an

earthquake to make it waterproof and to be more comfortable. we're here at spur in san francisco, this wonderful exhibit of safe enough to stay. and this is an example of what your home might be like after an earthquake. and we have today with us ben latimer from tvan. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> we'll talk about things you can do you don't have to be a professional contractor to make your home more livable after an earthquake. >> i want to talk about things a homeowner can do. we have comfort and we have things like a little bit of maybe safety if your front door is ajar and waterproofing if you have a leak in your roof, or if you have broken glass on the window. >> so unr, one of the most important fib use is keeping outside out and inside in.

let's look at windows. >> let's assume this window is broken in the earthquake. we have wind and rain blowing in. one of the most important things you need to do as a homeowner is secure the plastic properly. if you just take staples or nails and put them into the plastic, we're going to get a strong wind and rip it right off. what i'm going to have somebody do is they're going to have -- this is an old piece of shingle. you might have -- everybody has a piece of wood in their basement. it doesn't have to be fancy. they take out this rusty screw begun, and hopefully you have one of these. >> there is one at the neighborhood support center. >> at the neighborhood support center. you're going to wrap this plastic around this board, take your screw. and then screw that in. >> you need a permit for this? >> you do need a permit for this. and you can contact the former head building inspector to get that permit. that's it. now when the wind blows, it's

tight and it's not going to pull through, having a single point of contact. >> great. what about this door? take a look at this door. what can you do? let's say it doesn't shut tight. what can you do? >> for the sake of argument, we're on the inside. i can't lock my door at night. i have a very similar, very similar idea. i'm going to take my 2 by 4. i can put it across the jamb in the door. one. two. maybe i want another one up here, maybe another one down there. but i can go to sleep. and that quickly, i can get it off in the morning. >> terrific. what about the roof up here? we see people throw blue tarps over their roof after an earthquake. that seems reasonable. >> i think the blue tarp is reasonable. the things that people want to know that they need to know is if you have multiple tarps, how you overlap.

starting from the bottom and moving up so that you're overlapping this way. so, rain running down doesn't slide under your tarp. >> right. >> and the same technique we did over here, as silly as it may sound, wrapping the end of that blue tarp with your board and then securing that if you can underneath, if you have to on top is fine. but making sure that you don't have an area where the wind is going to get under and bill owe that tarp. >> the wind can rip it right off. >> and then you're back up there again. >> let's go inside and check out what we can do inside. >> old fun. here we go. >> so, ben, i see you have nails, universal tool right here. >> man's best friend. duct tape. let me show you a couple things we can use this for after an earthquake. this window right here, because it's off kilter, we have open seams all along. i have a lot of air coming through. i want to stay comfortable at night. i want to keep that air out. it's as simple as that, all the way around. >> excellent. >> now i don't have any air coming in.

let's say this one is one that would annoy me. everything is a little off. my doors won't stay closed. i take a piece of my favorite duct tape here, close it up. and at least it will stay out of my way when i'm trying to live throughout my day. if we're not talking about pressurized water, we're talking about just the drain, sometimes they're going to get a crack here. >> right, sure. >> and you're going to get a leak. duct tape around that is going to help us get through until we can get a plumber out and get that fixed as well. let's say we only have electricity in one room, so we're running extension cords across the house. if i'm going to run an extension cord from one room to the other, i don't want kids tripping on it. i don't want to trippon it. i take my trusty duct tape, tape it to the floor, and i don't have to worry about it getting kicked. >> great, great. look at this. let's look at the duct tape here because we see a big -- >> yes. in the event of an earthquake, i don't think we're going to have too many -- too much debris that's safe to put into a plastic bag, even as strong as it might be.

these are called vice bags. this is what they use to put rice and things when they ship it. this is something where i take my glass, i can take broken pieces of wood, i can take anything sharp and fill it. and it's not going to puncture and come out. it's not going to fall all over the floor. i've not going to have it sticking out, maybe scratch myself, cut myself or anything like that. these are a great thing to have. >> you have a little go-to box for emergencies. that's great. thanks very much for joining us, ben. it's really been interesting. and i want to thank you all for joining us here at the spur urban center. and we'll see you again

>> this is one place you can always count on to give you what you had before and remind you of what your san francisco history used to be. >> we hear that all the time, people bring their kids here and their grandparents brought them here and down the line. >> even though people move away, whenever they come back to the city, they make it here. and they tell us that. >> you're going to get something made fresh, made by hand and made with quality products and something that's very, very good. ♪ >> the legacy bars and restaurants was something that was begun by san francisco simply to recognize and draw attention to the establishments. it really provides for san francisco's unique character. ♪

>> and that morphed into a request that we work with the city to develop a legacy business registration. >> i'm michael cirocco and the owner of an area bakery. ♪ the bakery started in 191. my grandfather came over from italy and opened it up then. it is a small operation. it's not big. so everything is kind of quality that way. so i see every piece and cut every piece that comes in and out of that oven. >> i'm leslie cirocco-mitchell, a fourth generation baker here with my family. ♪ so we get up pretty early in the morning. i usually start baking around 5:00. and then you just start doing rounds of dough.

loaves. >> my mom and sister basically handle the front and then i have my nephew james helps and then my two daughters and my wife come in and we actually do the baking. after that, my mom and my sister stay and sell the product, retail it. ♪ you know, i don't really think about it. but then when i -- sometimes when i go places and i look and see places put up, oh this is our 50th anniversary and everything and we've been over 100 and that is when it kind of hits me. you know, that geez, we've been here a long time. [applause] ♪ >> a lot of people might ask why our legacy business is important. we all have our own stories to tell about our ancestry. our lineage

and i'll use one example of tommy's joint. tommy's joint is a place that my husband went to as a child and he's a fourth generation san franciscan. it's a place we can still go to today with our children or grandchildren and share the stories of what was san francisco like back in the 1950s. >> i'm the general manager at tommy's joint. people mostly recognize tommy's joint for its murals on the outside of the building. very bright blue. you drive down and see what it is. they know the building. tommy's is a san francisco hoffa, which is a german-style presenting food. we have five different carved meats and we carve it by hand at the station. you prefer it to be carved whether you like your brisket

fatty or want it lean. you want your pastrami to be very lean. you can say i want that piece of corn beef and want it cut, you know, very thick and i want it with some sauerkraut. tell the guys how you want to prepare it and they will do it right in front of you. san francisco's a place that's changing restaurants, except for tommy's joint. tommy's joint has been the same since it opened and that is important. san francisco in general that we don't lose a grip of what san francisco's came from. tommy's is a place that you'll always recognize whenever you lock in the door. you'll see the same staff, the same bartender and have the same meal and that is great. that's important.

♪ >> the service that san francisco heritage offers to the legacy businesses is to help them with that application process, to make sure that they really recognize about them what it is that makes them so special here in san francisco. ♪ so we'll help them with that application process if, in fact, the board of supervisors does recognize them as a legacy business, then that does entitle them to certain financial benefits from the city of san francisco. but i say really, more importantly, it really brings them public recognition that this is a business in san francisco that has history and that is unique to san francisco.

>> it started in june of 1953. ♪ and we make everything from scratch. everything. we started a you -- we started a off with 12 flavors and mango fruits from the philippines and then started trying them one by one and the family had a whole new clientele. the business really boomed after that. >> i think that the flavors we make reflect the diversity of san francisco. we were really surprised about the legacy project but we were thrilled to be a part of it. businesses come and go in the city. pretty tough for businesss to stay here because it is so expensive and there's so much competition.

so for us who have been here all these years and still be popular and to be recognized by the city has been really a huge honor. >> we got a phone call from a woman who was 91 and she wanted to know if the mitchells still owned it and she was so happy that we were still involved, still the owners. she was our customer in 1953. and she still comes in. but she was just making sure that we were still around and it just makes us feel, you know, very proud that we're carrying on our father's legacy. and that we mean so much to so many people. ♪ >> it provides a perspective. and i think if you only looked at it in the here and now, you're missing the context. for me, legacy businesses,

legacy bars and restaurants are really about setting the context for how we come to be where we are today. >> i just think it's part of san francisco. people like to see familiar stuff. at least i know i do. >> in the 1950s, you could see a picture of tommy's joint and looks exactly the same. we haven't change add thing. >> i remember one lady saying, you know, i've been eating this ice cream since before i was born. and i thought, wow! we have, too. ♪ - >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their showing up and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant

so where will you shop & dine in the 49 san francisco owes must of the charm to the unique characterization of each corridor has a distinction permanent our neighbors are the economic engine of the city. >> if we could a afford the lot by these we'll not to have the kind of store in the future the kids will eat from some restaurants chinatown has phobia one of the best the most unique neighborhood shopping areas of san francisco. >> chinatown is one of the oldest chinatown in the state we need to be able allergies the people and that's the reason

chinatown is showing more of the people will the traditional thepg. >> north beach is i know one of the last little italian community. >> one of the last neighborhood that hadn't changed a whole lot and san francisco community so strong and the sense of partnership with businesses as well and i just love north beach community old school italian comfort and love that is what italians are all about we need people to come here and shop here so we can keep this going not only us but, of course, everything else in the community i think local businesses the small ones and coffee shops are unique in their own way that is

the characteristic of the neighborhood i peace officer prefer it is local character you have to support them. >> really notice the port this community we really need to kind of really shop locally and support the communityly live in it is more economic for people to survive here. >> i came down to treasure island to look for a we've got a long ways to go. ring i just got married and didn't want something on line i've met artists and local business owners they need money to go out and shop this is important to short them i think you get better things. >> definitely supporting the

local community always good is it interesting to find things i never knew existed or see that that way. >> i think that is really great that san francisco seize the vails of small business and creates the shop & dine in the 49 to support businesses make people all the residents and visitors realize had cool things are made and produced in san

sustainability mission, even though the bikes are very minimal energy use. it still matters where the energy comes from and also part of the mission in sustainability is how we run everything, run our business. so having the lights come on with clean energy is important to us as well. we heard about cleanpowersf and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. it was super easy to sign up. our bookkeeper signed up online, it was like 15 minutes. nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. it's an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around climate change and it's so easy that it's hard to

not want to do it, and it doesn't really add anything to the bill. >> chair a. peskin: good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority meeting for today october 16th. our clerk is mr. steve stamos. mr. clerk, if you could please call the roll. >> clerk: item 1 roll call, commissioner brown. brown present. commissioner cohen absent. commissioner fewer present. commissioner kim absent. commissioner mandelman present.