>> thank you, barbara. ms. miss hartley. i know my colleagues want to wrap up so i will ask you a few short questions if they don't have -- they may have questions as well. every year we go through the budget process and every year we think we know what financial policies we are setting. it is always a little disturbing when -- an agency like yours, which always says they don't have enough money for small site acquisitions in the region the paper one day, wow, they have money to cover this shortfall and you said yourself, how in the heck, as the appropriators, does that happen? what trade-offs are being made, and what is being delayed? moreover, insofar as we are the appropriators and the mayor proposes on the board disposes, we really should know in march

14 september that there could be a large cash call. we have two different relationships. one between the housing authority which is technically not a city agency, and the other within the city between the executive branch on the legislative branch. the bottom line is, we are learning about this after the fact. i. i'm not even sure how i can read in the newspaper that you've got 20 million bucks to spend. anyway. those are my questions. >> great, thank you, supervisor. i am very happy to be here to be able to address that question. first of all, as you know very well, the budget is comprised of multiple sources of funds that have their own sets of restrictions on them. so we are limited in the way in which we can use funds depending on the type of project and where that money is coming from. we have been saying, indeed,

that we have limited money for a new small programs and new land acquisitions and new construction. that is largely a function of the fact that our projections for our inclusionary housing fees and our job housing linkage fees for 18 and 19 have dropped off quite a bit. those are the funds that we use for small sites and we use for land acquisitions and we use for new construction projects. because of the drop off in market rate projects going forward to provide the in lieu fees, despite there having been entitled, the amount of inclusionary and jobs housing fees are lower, we now are really working hard to make sure that the pipeline projects that we have in place that need in the neighbourhood of 100- $120 million can move forward to. which is why we are saying no to some projects now.

as you know, our budget is complicated and it is multi year it is comprised of these different sources. that doesn't mean that other projects that the board has previously authorized come to a screeching halt. in 2016, the board approved the leveraging of the housing trust fund, $75 million in debt, $51 million of which would go to public housing revitalization. at that time, we were embarking upon rad which is a 2 billion-dollar transaction. it was on unprecedented in scope and risk. there were many times during those years where we thought that r.a.d. would fall apart. we had to put in our loan agreements. really unique language to say that if we did not deliver on resources, that developers could walk away. we've never done anything like that. but the risks were so high. immediately out of the gate in

the 51 million-dollar allocation , we spent about $21 million to get started and then we held reserve funds for permanent financing take out. and in case something went wrong because this was such a high risk proposition. so fortunately, as the r.a.d. project of phase one is complete , they have completed. they are very successful. we have all been at the grand openings and we are proud of that work and grateful to our nonprofit developer partners who did the hard work. we have avoided any major catastrophe that would have called upon those reserve funds. at the same time, the needs of people have accelerated. the habitability conditions are terrible in potrero and we want to make sure that our hope s.f. projects move forward so we have been shifting the focus of the remaining housing trust fund

money that was allocated to public housing to hope s.f. as the risk in r.a.d. has diminished. we had $20 million that we were intending to put into sunnyvale and potrero, emergency rehab needs for the board process authorization in 2016, and now we have this situation. so, in answer to your second question, we did not know -- we did not know the magnitude of the financial crisis. in march and april when the original shortfall noticing happened, h.u.d. staff were literally sitting side-by-side with housing authority staff, going through, line by line, the budget. the budgeting is extremely he so tarik. a normal accountant or finance person cannot sit down and look at the voucher management system entries and look at this

two-year utilization tool and say, i see the errors. it takes a very specialized knowledge base. so we weren't rat liens on the fact that h.u.d. was sitting with the housing authority and saying, you know, we urge you to continue issuing vouchers. >> i am with you on that -- that is why there is nine out of 11 agencies in the bay area that have a shortfall. we are used to that. that is not how you miscalculate your reserves by $6 million. that is just -- i mean, that is just been caught -- unconscionable. >> it was terrible incompetence. we know now on the part of the finance staff. i'm o.c.d. and the city staff have no way of checking that. we are reliant upon h.u.d. and reliant upon the data we get from a separate, independent agency.

and so, as h.u.d. moved forward and said, you rok, issue vouchers, we move forward too. so we feel that this is a very appropriate use of funds to protect tenants. that is to cover the housing assistance payments contracts for december of 2018 on these existing obligations. because what we have here is essentially the equivalent of a bankruptcy. >> kate, i am not disagreeing with you about the importance. what i am quibbling about is the fact that if the board of supervisors appropriated $51 million for certain uses and you want to spend them on other uses, i think that policy conversation is supposed to happen. i am trying to force the policy conversation. i think that -- may be this is a question for the controller or the city attorney, you have to

come back and say we would like to be appropriate these dollars to this. instead of what is happening, which is, hey, i am sitting on $30 million of contingency money i did not have to spend. i will spend it over here. i don't think it works like that >> i disagree with you that this use of funds is different than the original appropriation. it was for public housing revitalization and we are using these funds to protect the public housing revitalization in the form of the r.a.d. housing assistance payments contracts. because we cannot let those buildings go into default. that is what we are using those funds for. the original intent of the appropriation. >> they are not being used for tenant vouchers? >> and to protect the tenant -based vouchers, yes. but without this allocation of funds to us, the projects cannot cover their december 2018 payments either. >> yeah,.

i will take it off-line with your department and the controller in the city attorney 's office and we will read the language and decide. my larger point is, you have to keep the appropriators in the loop as a matter of practice and policy and good government. and that is part of the reason i i'm having this hearing today. i don't know if there are any other questions from this board. you want to have lunch and get on with your day instead of a three and half our special meeting and there are people here from the public would like to comment. i believe we have one really important question for the controller. i want to thank the budget and legislative analyst for being here. i don't know if she is still here but i don't think we need to rehash your 2013 report at this point. i do think there may be a role for the b.l.a. and controller's office relative to some real oversight, which clearly, i don't think, no offence, i don't think there has been strong oversight or we would not be in

this mess right now. to the extent that conditions coming from h.u.d. are that we take -- the city take over that there is a role for the controller's office and the budget and legislative analyst. and this board and making sure that it is taken over appropriately there may be a role for your department. here is my big question in the same vein to the controller's office you are mark. >> correct. >> i know one of the recommendations from the report is there a financial system mesh with ours. can you speak to that on the status of that as barbara spoke to? that is a critical step number 1 we cannot rely on their numbers right now because we cannot see their numbers. >> i speak a little bit more. that was one of the recommendations that we let out

back in 2017. we believe that if the san francisco housing authority leveraged the new system that we have, that it incorporates finance purchasing and human resources, that there will be some deficiencies. and i can -- it will connect the way they process things. from the staff is provided by the authority, i believe they have not implemented that. i know that they have been in dialogue with the city. >> but you have made that offer clear to them? >> correct. >> they have not yet availed themselves of it we? >> i will have the authority speak on that. >> in the list of recommendations, we did say that we have not implemented -- implemented that. we have worked with the city auditor on a number of special projects. but we have not tried to incorporate our financing into

the city. i don't know if you want to hear from b.d.o., but the voucher management system is very complicated and very unique and does require special expertise. >> i hear you. there were 26 recommendations in the report. twenty-five in the city service auditor's report. twenty-five of which you accepted and 19 that you have implemented and five you have partially implemented and to you have not implemented. this her once you agree to implement. i understand the two-year tool is complicated and that vouchers are complicated but i also understand that the city is only going to be as good as we can interact with your numbers, particularly if you are going to be incorporated by the city. without getting into the details of it, i would love for that recommendation to be implemented first as quickly as possible, if we are going to absorb you.

>> thank you. yes. >> thank you. madam chair, in the interest of time, i will truncate this. we can do this all afternoon, but why don't we open for public comment. >> at this time, we will open up for public comment. it is not that any of us need to eat lunch, but we do lose coram at 2:00 pm. supervisor brown wanted to make sure she was available. we will open up for public comment. >> i will show you why you have this shortfall. i talked to hartley k.? one of the department building -- apartment buildings that came available out of her office, the lowest income requirement for one of those builders was 80% of the a.p.i. it is like 80 or $90,000 a year. i made an appointment to talk to her to demonstrate that she is discriminating against low income bracket people. by you setting the requirement

to move into each and every building that comes out of her office, it is so high that the housing authority is giving vouchers to pay that much money results in a sucking of their funds. that is why they have a negative cash flow now. because of hartley and the developers. they are paying an exception for the klute -- inclusionary rules of the developer won't have low income tenants in their building and pay that fee. the department is making $2 million a month. is that clear? you better audit on her department on how much money they have in their reserve. you will find that when a developer pays that fee, so he won't have to have the most vulnerable people will be attending in their building, they take that money and start up a new construction project and sets the requirement at a higher rate with still low

income bracket people, the most vulnerable people who can't afford to live in the building and you displace low income people out of housing. she is scandalous. i tried talking to her about that. i said how can you say that is a low income affordable housing when you have the lowest income to move in that building at 80% of the a.p.i. and that is about $90,000 a year? since when is a low income, affordable housing project, and the lowest income is like 80-90 god damn thousand dollars a year do an audit on her account. that's why there is so much money in that account and you are shortchanging the housing authority. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> mr wright. thank you. >> oh, my god. listen. i only have two minutes. first of all, let's clear the air. we will talk about it later. it is not her fault. i commend her department because

her department was ran by -- when she came on, she is doing a fantastic job. we will talk about that later. right now, peskin you are the master of legislation in city hall. because you are the one, years ago, when they had to reenvision , you are telling them they were wrong then. here they are again. i commend you. valley, district five, i see you here and i hate to say it, you are protecting room 200. i not say any names. that is why you were appointed. i call it a disappointment. here we go now. you are talking about the housing authority and accountability. peskin, did you know who is running oewd? that is somebody named -- what is his name? he is the director of oewd and he is also the president of the housing authority. therefore, how can you have mr

torres as the president of the housing authority and now he has been selected, like you have, bad selection, london, i have to tell you. i agree to disapprove. you have two individuals that come from oewd that are protecting d. you know who i am talking about. somebody there. i am so glad that mr pestis -- mr peskin, the master of legislation is using the real thing. i am glad i'm here to get all this information. i am appalled at city hall. i am appalled. and i want to talk to h.u.d. they have the money. h.u.d. controls everything. that is a federal government. that is why i want f.b.i. to investigate city hall. that is all. >> are there any other public comments on this item? saying none, public comment is closed.

>> thank you to the folks in the housing authority and the mayor 's office of housing and the budget and legislative analyst and the controller's office for spending your afternoon with us. i think where we need to focus is on how the transition process of s.f. ha to the city will work i would like to have some oversight over that and i would like to continue this item to the call of the chair so that perhaps at our next visit, we can talk about what the plans are and make sure that they are actually going to work and so this continuing trouble department will not remain troubled when it becomes a closer part of the city. i do totally acknowledge and appreciate the r.a.d. program has been, despite this great risk and challenges, a remarkable success. an increase in the amount of vouchers that we all support.

we have to live with inapt -- within our means. when we are having conversations at the board of supervisors about minimum compensation ordinance and all of the analyst competing priorities, we have to know when we are getting an unexpected cash call. with that, thank you, colleagues for your indulgence and support. >> i want to thank vice chair peskin for calling for the hearing. i think, as you have seen in the number of cosponsors, it demonstrates the amounts -- immense amount of concern of the board of supervisors has about what has occurred. i just want to concur with his comments. if we decide to determine that this is a priority for the budget, dollars should be allocated. we need to ensure better oversight process for this moving forward. i want to thank supervisor brown who extended her time in order to be able to be at this hearing because she has public housing in her district as well.

i will take that motion. >> before we do it, to miss partly, the reason that it is important it is because -- this has happened in my experience. the board has come just come back and said, pay, one -- what unallocated money from previous budget cycles is out there? we vacuumed that all up and redistributed it after having a policy conversation. had i known there was $31 million, we might have had a conversation and said that we want to put it in small sites acquisition. i realized that the colour of money is a different colour of money, without is actually conversation that we got elected to have. so it's important that you, back in with the 11 of us. this is an opportunity to do it. >> thank you, again vice chair peskin. at this time, we have a motion to continue this to the call of the chair and we can do that

without objection. are there any other items before this committee? >> there is no further abyss -- no further business. >> meeting is adjourned.

>> when i open up the paper every day, i'm just amazed at how many different environmental issues keep popping up. when i think about what planet i want to leave for my children and other generations, i think about what kind of contribution i can make on a personal level to the environment. >> it was really easy to sign up for the program. i just went online to cleanpowersf.org, i signed up and then started getting pieces in the mail letting me know i was going switch over and poof it happened. now when i want to pay my bill, i go to pg&e and i don't see any difference in paying now. if you're a family on the budget, if you sign up for the regular green program, it's not going to change your bill at all. you can sign up online or call. you'll have the peace of mind

knowing you're doing your part in your household to help the environment. >> 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.

>> we will call role for the commission on the environment. [roll call] >> there is decorum. >> thank you, very much. i am president on the commission of status of women. i wanted to thank everyone for being here today. i particularly wanted to thank the staff of the two departments the department of the environment and the status of women for this amazing meeting tonight. i know is a lot of work. it is something that the president and i talked about several months ago before the

climate action summit. our mayor showed such extraordinary leadership. this has been a vision coming together for a couple of months. i wanted to thank you. as well as director rafael. i wanted to highlight a couple of things about the department on the status of women and the commission on the status of women for those of you who may not be familiar with our work. we invite you -- we have our regular schedule commission meeting on the fourth wednesday of every month. 4-6:00 pm in city hall. all are welcome. we would appreciate your input. join us there. we were created for 40 years ago and that was to help lift to the economic security and the status of living for all women in san francisco. we serve 49% of the a hundred 50,000 residents of san francisco. we are the only commission in the country. this is something that was voted in by the voters of san francisco. we are the only commission in the country that has a department.

we are the strongest commission in the country and that is something that we continue to appreciate in the leadership of our mayor and elective family. in 1990 a, another point of pride, i think for the residents of this city, he became the first city and the country to enact a local ordinance on the extension to end the elimination -- the extension to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women. this was an international treaty america is one of the only handful of countries that has not passed this treaty through our federal government. in san francisco, the residents took leadership and we passed it ourselves. it is really a point of pride for the city. in 2014, the mayor and the first lady launched a organization. we are taking that leadership to cities across the country. we have over 75 cities that have followed our lead. we appreciate the ongoing work

of the department to continue that leadership. i know -- i will now pass it to the president. >> welcome to our commission meeting, our joint commission meeting. it is a real honor to serve with my good -- good friend. i have had the opportunity to work with 70 people on the commission on a lot of things. it is very nice to see this and to welcome you and talk about ways that we will collaborate today and moving forward. and thank you for everything for putting this together. i know that this takes a lot of work and anthony, thank you so much. [indiscernible] >> i want to talk a little bit about this pic sometimes people

don't always know what this department does. also, they wonder what exactly the department of the environment does. i will use some numbers. zero, a.d., 100 and ward ward to department staff work with zero waste to the landfill or the black been and 80% are sustained by walking, biking or transportation. we work to power the city by 100 % renewable energy. those are the roots. is our work to heal the planet through vital diversity, urban forestry and remove in carving from the air. there are many things that the department does. i will give you one example. i will give you an idea of the wide range of the things that we do. it is not just about composting or biking. the department of the

environment has worked with a nonprofit organization for converting public housing developments. our team is working to make sure that both energy, thank you, both energy -- of this is better [laughter] >> let me restart that. we do a lot of things to showcase the wide range of things that we do. the department of the environment has worked with a nonprofit organization who are converging and retrofitting public housing developments. our energy team is working to make sure they are energy efficient, while at the toxics team works to help with integrated task management in a way that is less toxic. today you will hear about two other initiatives of our department, including the collaboration with the department on the status of women. anthony, please read the next item.

>> the next -- we will take a public comment on this item. >> public comment is welcome. >> all right. next itemization three. presentation of commission on the status of women accommodation and the commission on the environment serve as a supervisor katy tang. this item is for discussion and action. >> thank you. both the commission on the environment and the commission on the status of women would like to recognize individuals and organizations whose work supports the mission of our organization. today we are proud and honoured to recognize supervisor katy tang in the mission science workshop. both will be receiving the resolution from the commission on the status of women and the environmental service award from the commission on the environment. >> commissioners, directors and members of the public, how this

will work is that we will present the resolution and the commendation. then we will ask all commissioners to step aside and go out in the front for a photo after each resolution. then we will ask those who are honoured to make comments and then we will ask for comments from the commissioners and the directors and then we will take public comment. >> it is my honor to present our service award to supervisor katy tang. [applause] >> during her tenure on the board of supervisors, supervisor katy tang has been an incredible champion for the environment and for the city's climate action goals. as a city leader, she has recognize the urgency and the importance of local action in addressing global climate change

and as a legislator, she has lead by example and demonstrating what cities and counties can do to change behaviour and protect our environment. as supervisor, she has stone -- she has shown an unparalleled commitment there are legislative and neighbourhood work. she has helped push the city farther towards the goals of achieving zero waste through legislation to reduce single use disposable items like straws and cups. zero waste is more than just good public policy for supervisor katy tang. it is a personal commitment. she has really spotted in our district or at city hall without a reusable bag or a reusable mug in hand. she is truly a model and a champion for our program. supervisor tang has also been an instrumental partner in helping us tackle clean transportation for our city. whether it has been by

championing vision zero and promoting walking and biking throughout her district, or through her work with accelerate greater adoption of zero emission vehicles for the city's own fleet of vehicles. she recognizes that electrified transportation is a key part of how we shift away from fossil fuels. as supervisor, she has spearheaded groundbreaking legislation to require all new developments in san francisco to be electric vehicle ready. and have the capacity for electrical vehicle charging. >> supervisor tang, you have been an incredible advocate for women as well. thank you for your leadership on the board. i wanted to mention a couple of things you have done at the neighborhood label -- level that have been incredible. you have helped green at the sunset district. the front yard and master program has transferred dozens of front yards. by breaking a concrete replacing it with drought tolerant plants that help retain water and sequester carbon.

for your leadership, the city has launched a cigarette butt litter pilot program. this is one of my favourites. we need is in district a as well it has seen significant results or was it -- reducing letter among commercial corridors throughout the sunset. we have so much to be thankful for, soup -- supervisor tang when it comes to your leadership you have been an incredible partner and advocate. on behalf of the commission and the status of women and the department of the environment, and the commission on the environment, we thank you for your environmental leadership and your stewardship. for your commitment to climate action and for dedicated service to the city and county of san francisco. we honor you. thank you. [applause] >> i will ask for a quick point of guidance. anthony are we doing the vote first and then the photo? or should we do the photo? schema -- >> we will take the vote at the end after we take public comment

>> should be take the photo now? >> yes. >> we will come down and take a photo and hear from you and hear from the other commissioners and then the public. we will come down to take our photo. [laughter] >> we all have to go back -- that way. [laughter] [laughter] >> you guys have a bigger budget than we have. [laughter] >> you are helping us out. >> congratulations. >> thank you, thank you.

>> thank you, for everything. [indiscernible]

>> that is a great idea. and if you could actually -- there you go. >> we will leave this up here. [indiscernible] [laughter] [cheering]

[applause] >> thank you, thank you. ok. [laughter] >> they will not bring it back down. [laughter] >> all right. >> ok. thank you to everyone who helped make that photo -- the photos happen. supervisor tang, we would love to hear from you. >> it is so nice to be part of this historic joint commission meeting. i am glad to see two of my favourite commission his meeting together. really, this is my opportunity to thank everyone else who has been a huge partner with our office on all of these initiatives. whether it is about the environment or supporting women in the workplace and all the work we have done together.

a lot of grassroots advocacy work has been done predating my time on the board of supervisors i simply see myself as the vehicle with the legislative tools to make some of these changes actually a reality. i definitely want to start by thanking both department heads. debbie, emily, thank you, so much. i see you sitting there. you helped us draft legislation as well. i want to thank ashley from my office. i could not do this work without her. she happens to be a signed -- part of your departments. i apologize if i leave anyone out. jack, peter, sunshine, alexa, am i missing someone? did i say charles? charles. tyrone. he was working at the liaison. so many people helped to make this work possible. i really hope that there will be continued leadership on the board of supervisors even after i'm gone to work on

environmental issues, issues impacting women. i thank you for this honor and recognition. i look forward to staying in touch even when my term is up in january. thank you, again. [applause] >> ok. we are now very excited for our next award. to the mission science workshop commissioners, lisa and the vice president for the commission on the environment, breanna. commissioner? >> oh, yeah. [laughter] >> can we allow the other commissioners and other opportunities -- an opportunity to speak about supers dot -- supervisor tang? >> sure. absolutely. thank you for your comments. colleagues, any comments you would like to give?

go ahead. >> if i can do this, except, supervisor, you have to come up. i. i can't see you. [laughter] >> i am so thrilled that we have this opportunity to recognize you as not just as a leader, not only an amazing supervisor, but as a woman leader. there is such a need now for all of us to be surrounded by powerful women. women who are smart and vocal and thoughtful and good listeners. those are qualities in leadership that we all admire. you embody everyone of them. i believe, very strongly, the world is run by those who show up and i'm so grateful that forever short -- part however short it was, you decided to show up as an elected official. i can imagine it is not easy.

i can imagine there are days where you wondered why be in public service when you are treated so poorly sometimes? i hope you know that we notice your leadership and we appreciated it and i personally am going to miss you deeply. you have been a wonderful colleague and a wonderful leader and i am really grateful that we had the chance to say thank you. >> thank you director raphael. >> supervisor tang, on behalf of the commission and the department, we want to thank you and your tremendous staff for changing the landscape for women in the workplace. your work on the accommodation precipitated by ashley's becoming a mother has really improved so many lives for women who are just trying to juggle having a family and working, the lactation accommodation work in

san francisco has been adopted in some form at the state. it has been a tremendous contribution to not only san francisco, but to this stage. i wonder if my colleagues on the commission would like to say anything? >> thank you. i am so honored that we are on arising -- honouring supervisor tang today. she has been a leader in a very collaborative manner that we don't see. it is less and less often. i appreciate that you and your office solicit feedback, which a lot of our elected officials sadly do not do. they want to make life easier and not have any dialogue. but i see the legislation that comes out after public feedback and feedback from other people who are in city hall. it really does make a difference that you have a solid legislation. i wish the best to you. i know you are not going to ignore what happens in the city being a native san franciscan and i am proud to also share

level high school with you. and also bring to light, especially scientific issues within our city. i speak more to that when we are on our mission science --dash when we honor mission science. >> i just wanted to say, i echo everything that has been said. you have made a real difference and we thank you for that. i will hate to see you go too. you have been a friend and incredible on the board. i wish you all the luck in your next chapter. you will be greatly missed. >> thank you all, so much. >> hello. in addition to being on this commission, i work at the national sierra club and from that perspective i know how deeply valuable to leadership at the city level is on the is really pernicious issues that we have like plastic pollution. a lot of us have heard that stat that there will be more plastic in the ocean then finished by the year 2050 if we don't make radical changes. changes the changes that you had helped inspire whole new

generations to think differently about single-use plastics. it is really inspirational to our kids and communities. i want to thank you for that. >> commissioner shorter? >> you know that i can't go without saying something. you know what i really love about you? you have said -- set such a high standard in terms of public service. and i think that we now have a new -- it is not an acronym, but it is ww kd. what would katy do? [laughter] and as we look at, not only -- no issue is singular. i have really appreciated your genius to recognize that. clearly from the status of women , clearly from our colleagues here that are representing the environmental justice issues.

there is a whole myriad of other issues. you have always been one to see the cross-section between issues you take it seriously and really involve community and really involve different opinions and different ideas and really come up with what has been the best of both ideas. i want to thank you. i also want to thank you for your love of animals. my dogs love you. they miss seeing you around. but most importantly, your love for san francisco and all of us that work to exist together. thank you. [laughter] >> thank you, so much for your thoughtful comments and hopefully i will see some of you at the salary negotiation workshop this week on thursday. thank you. [laughter] [applause]

>> just a reminder, we will take public comment after both resolutions. we will move to the next one. >> now we can move on to commissioner lisa. >> thank you. i have the good fortune to talk about mission science workshop along with another commissioner who will also speak. the science workshop, for those who don't know was founded in 1991 out of a garage in the mission district. it goes to show you that not only tech companies have been started out of their garages. he didn't set out to create a hands-on lab for science -- for kids. he happened to have a lot of instruments, rocks, fossils and bones, animal bones. kids starting hanging out in the garage and wanting to get to work or play with his collection of materials. he saw young people with deeply -- were deeply interested in learning and he committed to ensure that they would have the

opportunity to create and explore scientific endeavours in a more permanent way. fast forward 27 years. mission science workshop no longer operates out of his garage. it is going to include two bilingual community science centres. one at mission high and one in the excelsior. kids come to tinker and explore and build an experiment and feed animals and look for fossils and generally develop the problem-solving and fun having skills. these are the kinds of experiences that all kids, but particularly girls, must have to nurture their curiosity and to build confidence. mission science workshop serves more than 40 public schools and dozens of community-based organizations and my two boys went there numerous times. they went to flint which is

multi latino but very diverse spanish bilingual public school in the mission. that was our go to spot. we have been there tons of times of my kids have grown and expanded their interest in science because of it. so now my counterpart will be speaking. thank you, so much. >> i am honored to speak about something near and dear to my heart which is education and science. many children from san francisco 's neighbourhoods come to the workshops during the week on a classroom field trip and they serve as many as 11,000 a year. one of the most rewarding things is not only that these children come on these field trips, is that they will come back and bring their families on the weekends. there is never enough to do and to see and to learn and to experience. it is really a testament to the work that is going on at the

mission science workshop that they are really engaging students and children in different ways and that they want to more. there is always more to learn and sparking that curiosity that will continue for a lifetime. so i am really happy today that we are honoring an organization that nurtures confidence, curiosity, courage and collaboration. we know that these are vital skills when it comes to addressing some of the biggest challenges and we salute to the mission workshop for making sure that all children in san francisco get a chance to develop a deep love for science and learning. >> other commissioners? >> let's not electrocute ourselves. >> there is some science there.

i wanted to commend this particular program. when i was growing up in san francisco, i had the benefit of a program called lexa tory laboratory. for those of you who are towards the end of the baby boomer generation, there are not enough places for students to really get exposed to science. every child has an aptitude for meth and science. it is the early exposure. it is the constant curiosity and it is programs like mission science that help nurture our young people. satterlee, statistics that have come out with san francisco -- sadly, statistics that have come out in san francisco means that lots of students aren't ready. it makes people more ready for high school. other statistics show that if dennis don't take enough meth and science in high school, they effectively cut off over 60% of possible majors in college. this is particularly relevant for young women and that

commensurately has issues when it comes to lifetime earnings. i hope that we can all join and continue to support a program and it even goes into other neighbourhoods. i am so proud to know that this program exists in san francisco and for his longevity. >> i too am a lucky parent of a parent who gets to go to mission science workshop. we just signed on this year to be part of the program and every one of our graves gets to go two or three times a year. our faculty club, as we sit and decide, we spent a lot of time trying to raise money to help augment the programs that our schools can offer. it was a no-brainer for us. it was the first thing we said we wanted to add this year and in a year where we had to keep everything as is or cut programs mission science was when we really highlighted and decided

to prioritize and i appreciate and respect all the work you do. the kids are buzzing about it. >> i want to share a fun fact about ziggy that some people may not know. if you have been to the mission science centre, you will see there is the skeleton of a 25- foot long humpback whale. and that skeleton did not magically appear in the building all put together. it was, first and foremost, a carcass of a decaying whale that washed up on pigeon point. and said he was out there with her elbows -- elbow deep, not knee-deep, may be that too in blubber as she extracted that skeleton to bring it back and share with the students. so this is a labor of love. it was a labor of love from the founder. it is a labor of love from the people who work there and of course, the kids are what make

it worth it and for all of us who are scientists and educators at heart, we know the importance of the dedication of staff. thank you for being up to your elbows every day unsure. >> either other comments from our colleagues? >> thank you so much. this recognition means a lot to us. and that day after the beach, no one would sit next to me on bart on the way home. but thank you so much for all of your comments. i want to do one less thing which means it means a lot to us to try and make as much impact as we can with the families of our students. so that what