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meeting. and then, our most -- what would have been our most recent meeting, the one in november , was cancelled. >> commissioner stevenson? >> for -- on october 17, we had a meeting of the operations committee along with our finance and administration program manager, he gave us an update on the budget. there was a slight change between the budget that was presented to the commission in january and the budget that the mayor approved? we went over that, and then, kara gurney, who's a senior engagement specialist at the department gave us a presentation on all the outreach efforts that happened for the new bins in certain neighborhoods, so we still got to learn about that. and finally, the outreach program manager, she gave us an update on the bin top or battery
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recycling program. multifamily residences have an orange bucket where they can put their batteries to recycle, and single-families can put their batteries on top of their black bin in a plastic bag. so a lot of people didn't know about that, and they did more outreach on how to recycle the batteries. >> commissioners, any further comment on the public report? any public comment on this item? >> yeah, eric brooks just as a public citizen. my building doesn't have a battery bin, so what do i do to make sure that it gets one? >> good question. director rafael? >> with the permission of the chair, i will answer the question? so that is a great question, and for anyone who's listening, if you are in an apartment building that does not have a battery
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bin, you can call recology and let them know, and they will deliver one to your property manager? if for some reason that is not successful, though it really somebody, call our department, and the receptionist will get you to the right person in the zero waste program, but recology is the deliverer of orange buckets, and they would be happy to make sure your property manager has one. >> thank you. next item. >>clerk: the next item is item 10, announcements. this item is for discussion. >> is there any announcements, commissioners? no announcements? any public comment on this item? hearing none, next item, please. >>clerk: the next item is new business, future agenda items,
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charles sheehan, chief policy and public affairs officer. the explanatory document is the 2019 commission on the environment meeting schedule. this item is for discussion and possible action. >> and anthony will do the report in the -- in charles's absence. >> thank you. good afternoon -- good evening, commissioners. in your packet is the list of meetings for the commission and the committees in 2019, so please mark your calendars for those dates. the next commission meeting is tuesday, january 22nd, at 5:00 p.m. here in room 416. the commission will be hearing the recommendation from the operations committee about the department budget. the commission will also be reviewing its annual report. just one note on that, as i work with the department to develop the annual report, all of you had gone to 18 events during the global climate action summit, and i wish we could have been at all of them to take pictures, but if you have any photos from
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gcas, if you can actually send them to me so we can add them to the annual report or any other photographs of you at work for the department. the other item for the commission meeting is officer elections will happen in january , and we are still developing other presentations, as well. the december policy committee meeting is cancelled -- oh, that's not true. the december policy committee meeting is absolutely happening. it will be -- i don't have the date, but it will be the second monday. >> it's like the 10th. >> the 10th. there it is, of december. the next operations committee meeting is wednesday, january 16. >> okay. thank you for that clarification. any comments on anthony's report
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for charles? any public comment? please come forward. >> one last time at the mic. eric brooks, san francisco green party, and local grassroots effort, our city. couple of things. you may have noticed that not many of the opponents of most pesticide use came to your final hearing on that and that's because up to that hearing, we had not been reached out to by staff to engage in a dialogue, so we gave up, and we didn't come. so i hope in the next year, we make much more progress on the pesticide issue so that that side of the issue is being heard and we're coming up with some compromises at least on pesticide use. and the other thing just that i would say, once again, taking off my organizational hat is
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just to repeat -- well no, i'll just put on the one for clean energy, californians for clean energy choice, it would be good if you couldie agendaize the ise that's going to be in sacramento around energy and the wildfires so that there can be recommendations hopefully coming from this commission. that i think is really important because this is -- 2019 is going to be a war of the people against these big corporations that are causing these problems, and it would be great to get you all involved in it. and then, now taking off the organizational hat, just to get back to bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, i know that i can help. so those of you that want to move forward with that, and you do, please do contact me, and i don't mind giving this out, even if this is broadcast, it's my last name and my first initials,
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brookse brookse@igc.org, i can help you decide what to use bitcoin and cryptocurrency for, and i can do it for free, to please do contact me. thanks. >> thank you. next item. >>clerk: the next item is item 12, public comment on all matters pertaining to the subsequent closed session on public employee performance plan and appraisal report. >> before we vote to move into closed session to review director rafael, we will take public comment on all matters related to closed session. is there any public comment on this item? hearing none, okay. so then, i think the next item,
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anthony, is we need to vote, correct? so we need to vote on whether to hold closed session to evaluate the performance of the executive director, deborah rafael. do i hear a motion to move into closed session to evaluate the performance of the director. commissioner wan? >> i move. >> and that was commissioner aun? thank you. okay. any discussion? okay. i guess any >> we are back in open session, and we need a motion to not
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disclose any of the discussion held in closed session. do i have a motion? so moved by commissioner oyos, commissioner stephenson seconded. is there any discussion? any public comment? all those in favor, signify by saying aye. [voting] >> any opposed? motion carries. okay, and then, the next item. >>clerk: the next item is item 15, vote on whether to make a recommendation to the department of human resources to increase the compensation of the executive director fell, this is a discussion item and action. >> this is a new item where the commission can make a recommendation to the department of human resources on the compensation of director rafael. i'll need a motion to start the discussion. that motion -- that motion that we would vote on is to recommend to the department of human
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resources to increase the compensation of director rafael. may i have a motion? >> i move. >> second. >> been moved by commissioner wald, seconded by commissioner oyos. any discussion? any questions? all those in favor? [voting] >> any opposed? and then, we can -- >> we should say based on the conversation that we had during the full -- the full and complete conversation that we had during the closed session, i move that we -- i recommend that she get a raise. >> just maybe at a high level, you can state what your reasoning is that isn't about the closed session. >> okay. for extraordinary performance in the last year. >> second. >> it's been moved by
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commissioner wald and seconded by commissioner sullivan. >> and just acknowledge that there's no public in the room. >> and there's no public currently present. all those in favor? [voting] >> any opposed? motion carries. >>clerk: all right. the next item is item 16, adjournment. the time is 9:03 p.m. >> we are adjourned. good night. food in san francis
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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san francisco, 911, what's the emergency? >> san francisco 911, police, fire and medical. >> the tenderloin. suspect with a six inch knife. >> he was trying to get into his car and was hit by a car. >> san francisco 911 what's the exact location of your emergency? >> welcome to the san francisco department of emergency management. my name is shannon bond and i'm the lead instructor for our dispatch add -- academy. i want to tell you about what we do here. >> this is san francisco 911. do you need police, fire or medical? >> san francisco police, dispatcher 82, how can i help you? >> you're helping people in their -- what may be their most vulnerable moment ever in life.
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so be able to provide them immediate help right then and there, it's really rewarding. >> our agency is a very combined agency. we answer emergency and non-emergency calls and we also do dispatching for fire, for medical and we also do dispatching for police. >> we staff multiple call taking positions. as well as positions for police and fire dispatch. >> we have a priority 221. >> i wanted to become a dispatcher so i could help people. i really like people. i enjoy talking to people. this is a way that i thought that i could be involved with people every day. >> as a 911 dispatcher i am the first first responder. even though i never go on seen -- scene i'm the first one answering the phone call to calm the victim down and give them instruction. the information allows us to coordinate a response. police officers, firefighters, ambulances or any other agency.
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it is a great feeling when everyone gets to go home safely at the end of the day knowing that you've also saved a citizen's life. >> our department operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. >> this is shift work. that means we work nights, weekends and holidays and can involve over time and sometimes that's mandatory. >> this is a high stress career so it's important to have a good balance between work and life. >> we have resources available like wellness and peer support groups. our dispatchers of the month are recognized for their outstanding performance and unique and ever changing circumstances. >> i received an accommodation and then i received dispatcher of the month, which was really nice because i was just released from the phones. so for them to, you know, recognize me for that i appreciated it. i was surprised to even get it. at the end of the day i was just doing my job. >> a typical dispatch shift
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includes call taking and dispatching. it takes a large dedicated group of fifrst responders to make ths department run and in turn keep the city safe. >> when you work here you don't work alone, you work as part of a team. you may start off as initial phone call or contact but everyone around you participating in the whole process. >> i was born and raised in san francisco so it's really rewarding to me to be able to help the community and know that i have a part in -- you know, even if it's behind the scenes kind of helping the city flow and helping people out that live here. >> the training program begins with our seven-week academy followed by on the job training. this means you're actually taking calls or dispatching responders. >> you can walk in with a high school diploma, you don't need to have a college degree. we will train you and we will teach you how to do this job. >> we just need you to come with an open mind that we can train you and make you a good
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dispatcher. >> if it's too dangerous to see and you think that you can get away and call us from somewhere safe. >> good. that's right. >> from the start of the academy to being released as a solo dispatcher can take nine months to a year. >> training is a little over a year and may change in time. the training is intense. very intense. >> what's the number one thing that kills people in this country? so we're going to assume that it's a heart attack, right? don't forget that. >> as a new hire we require you to be flexible. you will be required to work all shifts that include midnights, some call graveyard, days and swings. >> you have to be willing to work at different times, work during the holidays, you have to work during the weekends, midnight, 6:00 in the morning, 3:00 in the afternoon. that's like the toughest part of
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this job. >> we need every person that's in here and when it comes down to it, we can come together and we make a really great team and do our best to keep the city flowing and safe. >> this is a big job and an honorable career. we appreciate your interest in joining our team. >> we hope you decide to join us here as the first first responders to the city and county of san francisco. for more information on the job and how to apply follow the links below. >> hello, i'm the deputy assistant manage and project manager for the control system bureau i consider any department as my extend family i know every
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member of my department the folks are that that talented and skilled and have their credentials since the people in the site are coming to before they're put in operation it's a good place to visit we share information and support each other the water system is a program we got 26 national level with regards because of the dedication of any team the people are professional about their work but their folks they care about their community and the project i did this is a great organization with plenty of associations in you work hard and if you really do your job not only do you enjoy it but the
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sky is the limit we had a great job >> well, thank you all. we are going to start. welcome to the bristol hotel. my name is randy shaw. i'm the director of the tenderloin housing clinic. see, i wasn't -- see, i thought, i didn't prepare remarks. why don't we keep people moving in the door here. thank you all for coming. it's really a special day
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because the bristol is a special property. i don't know that a private bath hotel that would be for lease for formerly homeless people, and the bristol hotel, i would say half of these rooms are bigger than any of our 21 other hotels that we lease. it's big rooms, quality hotels. right where you're going to take a picture, there's going to be a kitchen installed. it's in the building department now. i want to give some background how we got to this point. i think it's important to realize that when we met with the owner to do the hotel, we agreed on a certain price, but then, there was a private donor who was willing to pay more. i contacted mayor breed the day after she was elected. it took a while, because she
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was busy and i was out of town. i got together to see what we could do with the property. a lot of people would say hey, we don't have that money in the budget. we can't get into a bidding war with private developers. but that's not what mayor breed said. jeff buckley was with me. she said, do whatever it takes to get that hotel. i said okay, mayor. i called bill, the owner of the hotel. i called bill, and i said bill, look. we can offer to pay a little more. mayor breed said she really wants the hotel. i'll tell the private people we don't want to use them, this is the key thing where we get mr. bennioff involved.
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we had an agreement, but we had no funding source for the hotel. so time was passing, and i'll let the mayor pick up the story, but i got a text one friday at 6:00 from mayor breed, saying i got the money for your hotel. and i'll let her tell you -- i'll have her tell you how she accomplished it because it was no small feat. with no further adieu, mayor london breed. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, randy. it's really exciting to be here today. when we have an opportunity to provide housing like this to so many people who we know are living on the streets, we have to do whatever it takes to get access to this housing. and so when randy and i talked about this in my office, and he told me this was a newly renovated hotel that could
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provide 58 units of step-up housing, i just got super excited because this doesn't come along every single day. so i started making the phone calls. and not everyone said yes, but mark benioff said yes as soon as i asked him about this project. as soon as he said yes, i immediately called randy and said tell bill to hold off because we have a generous supporter helping us address homelessness here in san francisco. mark and lynn benioff have been absolutely instrumental for addressing these issues. thank you, mark, for being here today. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: well, we are here to celebrate this along with a number of other things i know we will be
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able to accomplish in san francisco to address what we know is a real crisis. we have 58 units of step-up housing which creates exits for people who are living in permanently supportive housing who are now able to live independently, and it will also create 58 vacancies in our existing supportive housing that can go to people who are in our navigation centers and who are in our shelters. because of the activism of people like randy shaw in the tenderloin housing clinic and the generous support of mark and lynn bennioff, we are able to turn this into housing for formerly homeless adults. we all know there's not a one-size-fits-all. we all have a story of our own
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of challenges of people we have tried to personally hope. i work alongside jeff kozinski who manages the department of homelessness, and there's not a day we don't talk about people we are trying to help. we know that this is no small task. it's been an issue in san francisco for decades, but through bold and innovative solutions, we know that we can make a difference in people's lives. it's not sometimes just housing, it will be supportive services, it will be shelter beds, it will be all that we need in order to address those issues because sadly, we do know that so many people who are struggling with homelessness are struggling with mental illness and
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substance abuse disorder, and those are challenges that we have to address in addition to providing a place, a safe, affordable place for people to call home. we know the voters recently approved additional funding to homeless programs, and i'm committed to clearing any additional hurdles that this funding may face. but we can't stop. since july, we have helped 500 people overcome homelessness, and i am working to open 1,000 new shelter beds, this will clear the shelter wait list so that everyone has a place indoors. and our new one system, a central database tracking individual case management and responses is ahead of schedule in signing people up. we had a goal to reach about 2,000 individuals by the end of october. we are almost at 4,000 people
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in our one system, which is our coordinated system to try and track and help people out of w
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introduce the man that's stepped up to the plate and made it happen for us, mark benioff. [applause] >> okay. well, make a little adjustment here. well, good morning, everybody.
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good morning. and to mayor breed and to jeff and everyone from the city, to randy shaw, and everyone from the tenderloin housing clinic, to all of our friends who are here, and our partners from these amazing n.g.o.s, like our good friend, tamika, larkin street, glide, catholic charities, so many of you who are doing god's work, working on homelessness every single day. thank you for your work. we are ending the crisis of homelessness in san francisco. and we have a very serious crisis of homelessness in san francisco. everyone knows this is my number one priority. we have over 7500 homeless individuals on our streets, we have over 1200 homeless families, many with two kids each, and it is time to bring
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this to a close. that is why lynn and i are excited about this announcement, and we are thrilled to be making it today here with the mayor. this is an example of the difference that we are going to make with public-private partnerships, the city, business, philanthropy, and n.g.o.s. this is the path, this is the formula to bring homelessness to a close in our city. when mayor breed, a champion of the homeless, knew that the bristol hotel needed funding for housing units, she swung into action. she contacted me, and i agreed that this is something we want to do. i glagreed to give $6 million towards improvement of the bristol hotel working to get
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out of homelessness. bras the because the experts tell us, and the medical research shows that when a homeless person finally gets a home, which is what it's all about, when a homeless person finally gets a home of their own, it's transformative. it's a catalyst for change. it's a reduction of all symptoms and all issues in their life. and i'm told that these units are going to go to people who are living in lodgings where they have to share bathrooms. these people are on our mind, especially at this season of the year. that's part of what having a home is all about, the basic dignity that every person deserves, and that is why it is my number one priority for our city. randy said getting the call was
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lik like a miracle, but i'll tell you, when it comes to ending homelessness in our city, it doesn't take miracles, it doesn't take miracles, it takes money, and it takes a lot of money. so this is a solvable problem. there are programs that work. we have many great examples of programs that are working, like randy's program, like tamikay's program. but we need a scale of these programs, and that is going to take a lot of money. that is why with the passage now of proposition c, the city will start collecting that money january 1. that is the miracle. that is the miracle that i'm so excited about. and a result of the campaign, we identified so many new ideas and so many new opportunities, like the partnership that brings us here today, and many others that we plan to announce in the coming weeks. bristol hotel is a preview, and
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this announcement here today, is a preview of what is to come because the city will finally have the money to do it. not just to do this, but to do so many other things that are on our list. it's the beginning of a whole parade of new investments to end homelessness in our city. and i want to make one final point. starting january 1, starting january 1, the biggest, the wealthiest, the most important companies in our city, like mine, salesforce, the city's largest employer, will pay more, about one half of 1% of our revenue to help homelessness. that is very exciting. a lot more buildings like this are going to open up, a lot more shelters, a lot more services, a lot more capablities. that is very exciting. that is the miracle of this season, but that doesn't let anyone off the hook. it doesn't, in any way, absolve
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the rest of us. it doesn't absolve me, it doesn't absolve you from giving what we can and embracing our responsibilities as citizens and as neighbors. prop c doesn't replace philanthropy as today is evidence of. it complements it. that's why jeff tullio has given $1 million to homelessness. that's why the chair of airbnb has given $5 million to homelessness. i challenge every c.e.o. in our city to join us, to join sales force, to join the city, to join all of our n.g.o.s as we work to get everyone in a home. join us in the wisdom of st. francis. st. francis, who is the name
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sake of our city, who said, it is in giving that we receive. that is why we are here, that is what we are doing, that is what we are committed to doing, so we all must be committed to restoring the greatness of our city. this is a san francisco that takes care of its people. it always has. this is a san francisco that is a fabric of tolerance and diversity and inclusion, but it is a city that is a fabric of compassion and love, especially at this time of the year and especially when we look at our city's most neediest, when we walk down the streets and see our homeless and say wow, there through the grace of god goes i. thank you all for being here today, thank you, mayor breed, for your wisdom and your incredible work, and we can't wait to have this opened it up and getting it used for great order. >> thank you. >> thank you. [applause]
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>> thank you. i do want to say, if you look at the actual practical effect, if mark benioff and his wife had not stepped up, they would have been renting these units out for $2,000 a month, as compare today the 50 -- compared to the 500 to $600 a month. coming up, our next speaker, gail, who is a tenant in one of our other s.r.o.s, who has to share a bathroom. >> my name is gail seagraves, and i'm a collaborator at the s.r.o. and i'm a tour guide for
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the tenderloin museum, and i'm also very active in the community. but today, i'm here because i am so excited that the bristol will be opening soon as a much needed step-up hotel. i've been living at the elk hotel which is a supportive s.r.o. for over ten years now, where i have to share a bathroom, and i have to share a shower, and i've woken up many times in the middle of the night because tenants have issues. and this is why this is so important for people like myself. when i came here to san francisco 12 years ago, i came here for a job. and then, life hit me hard, and the job fell through. and then, when i went through my savings, i had to stay in a shelter, and then an s.r.o. so after working on certain areas of my life, i became ready to move onto a more
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independent life, you know, where you can have your own rest room and a community kitchen and laundry, those simple yet very, very needed things for a person. not only that, but when people like me that are independent and can live independent when we leave, that will open up so many s.r.o. rooms for those on the streets, for those in shelters. it's just going to be amazing. i have talked to anybody that would listen, i mean, anybody, that we need step-up hotels and it would just go right around and help everybody. so i am grateful to see this happening with the bristol, and this is a win-win situation with the homeless, and thank you for this opportunity, everybody. [applause] >> so the mayor and mr. benioff
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will be available to answer any questions, so we're concluding this event. and there will be a tour after you've talked to the mayor and mr. benioff, i'm happy to take people to some of the rooms. i want to give you that. [applause] >> usf donates 100-120 pounds of
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food a night. for the four semesters we have been running here, usf has donated about 18,000 pounds of food to the food recovery network. ♪ ♪ >> i'm maggie. >> i'm nick. >> we're coe-chairs of the national led organization. what food recovery does is recover and redistribute food that would go wasted and redistributing to people in the community. >> the moment that i became
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really engaged in the cause of fighting food waste was when i had just taken the food from the usf cafeteria and i saw four pans full size full of food perfectly fine to be eaten and made the day before and that would have gone into the trash that night if we didn't recover it the next day. i want to fight food waste because it hurts the economy, it's one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. if it was a nation, it would be the third largest nation behind china and the united states. america wastes about 40% of the food we create every year, $160 billion worth and that's made up in the higher cost of food for consumers. no matter where you view the
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line, you should be engaged with the issue of food waste. ♪ ♪ >> access edible food that we have throughout our lunch program in our center, i go ahead and collect it and i'll cool it down and every night i prep it up and the next day i'll heat it and ready for delivery. it's really natural for me, i love it, i'm passionate about it and it's just been great. i believe it's such a blessing to have the opportunity to actually feed people every day. no food should go wasted. there's someone who wants to eat, we have food, it's
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definitely hand in hand and it shouldn't be looked at as work or a task, we're feeding people and it really means so much to me. i come to work and they're like nora do you want this, do you want that? and it's so great and everyone is truly involved. every day, every night after every period of food, breakfast, lunch, dinner, i mean, people just throw it away. they don't even think twice about it and i think as a whole, as a community, as any community, if people just put a little effort, we could really help each other out. that's how it should be. that's what food is about basically. >> an organization that meets is the san francisco knight ministry we work with tuesday and thursday's.
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♪ ♪ by the power ♪ of your name >> i have faith to move mountains because i believe in jesus. >> i believe it's helpful to offer food to people because as you know, there's so much homelessness in san francisco and california and the united states. i really believe that food is important as well as our faith. >> the san francisco knight ministry has been around for 54 years. the core of the ministry, a group of ordain ministers, we go
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out in the middle of the night every single night of the year, so for 54 years we have never missed a night. i know it's difficult to believe maybe in the united states but a lot of our people will say this is the first meal they've had in two days. i really believe it is a time between life or death because i mean, we could be here and have church, but, you know, i don't know how much we could feed or how many we could feed and this way over 100 people get fed every single thursday out here. it's not solely the food, i tell you, believe me. they're extremely grateful. >> it's super awesome how welcoming they are. after one or two times they're like i recognize you.
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how are you doing, how is school? i have never been in the city, it's overwhelming. you get to know people and through the music and the food, you get to know people. >> we never know what impact we're going to have on folks. if you just practice love and kindness, it's a labor of love and that's what the food recovery network is and this is a huge -- i believe they salvage our mission. >> to me the most important part is it's about food waste and feeding people. the food recovery network national slogan is finding ways to feed people. it's property to bring the scientific and human element
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>> the meet willing come to order. welcome to the november 28, 2018 rescheduled meeting. to my right is vice chair supervisor ronen and supervisor peskin. mr. clerk, do you have any