i have been out for four weeks. it is good to be in america. one thing, i would like to say is -- [indiscernible] one thing i would like to say. i would like the commission to look into the preference of holders [indiscernible] something was brought up many times before they changed the redevelopment agency. it is important that the grandkids of the certificate holders, like myself, grandkids

have the opportunity. they will be relocated. now that we have the new mayor, we have a commissioner in the district and a supervisor, i think it is time for them to push this and make it happen. so i just hope the commissioners look into that because it is important to those certificate holders. [indiscernibl

[indiscernibl [indiscernible] you guys supported the agenda. and the also the mission district. i go where they allow me to go. sometimes i go out in the city, sometimes it is cheaper than in the city. i know that there is a lot of people who lived in south park.

you will find none of the places in the area now and what happened? they need certificates so they can move back into those areas with the low rent certificate. i have a bunch of family and friends who live down here and they need to have the opportunity to move back there also. thank you very much. it is good to see you. you guys keep up the good work. you are doing a wonderful job. you guys are working very hard. i commend you. thank you very much.

>> thank you. >> the commissioners are doing an excellent job. i would say here, briefly, but firmly about the obligations. now, let me be frank with you. you all do a good job with the rest of the city. [indiscernible] you know who i am talking about. but right now, as said in the

presentation, the san francisco trend. the san francisco trend, the population is going down. the budgets are going sky high. what would it be without us. i am sick and tired. [indiscernible] you might as well bring it all back because back in the days you gave respect to activists like me. [indiscernible] we will change things in the city.

y community assistance, service. we are going to make money for enterprise. in our community, you need to come up here, we have the oversight board. [indiscernible]

>> no more speakers? >> we are closing public comment. bring the next item. >> the next item of business is number 7. the next order of business is item 8. report of the executive directors. item 8a report on compliance of october 2017. for the redevelopment areas. discussion, madam director? >> this item is talking about

the community benefit programs. phase i and phase ii. as we discussed several meetings ago, we agreed that once a year, the developer will look at the ideas. we continue to see improvements. the developers demonstrated that there are efforts to comply with the commitment. we see two issues they are working on. we see development and we expect to see more improvement in the next reporting. with job training and community building programs. this is just an informational item unless there are specific questions. an attachment to the developer outlining the review of the

report as well as areas where they need to work on. >> in the citlet me stick to my here. now, this commissio-- i don't k the heck you are all doing. just wasting time. all that stuff is toxic and everything. so the bottom line right now,

you sit down. when we first came here, when there was redevelopment, this was at one time. you go through all of the names of all the characters. i brought a books now. it is time to tell the history. it ain't no mystery. there is a lot of conspiracy. when you look at the book. it is about faces, places, all part of the case. i am not a lawyer or preacher or teacher. i don't know what is going on. i am going to sit down. i will sit down with the federal

government. i want to s i want to sit down with those who sign the contracts. listen, they sign the contract. you can ignore me if you want, but it is on the record. we will investigate. this is a federal issue. [indiscernible] so in closing, i will say this, you know, [indiscernible]

anyway, it is a game changer. >> oscar james. i have been dealing with since 1973. and on the committee. i told them then about the yard. and also, i went back to washington, d.c. when the honourable bill clinton was president and i brought it up to him for environmental justice

law was signed about the toxins in the yard. anyway, some of that about the shipyard and what they are doing, i know in the program, they are talking about having money for a facility. the extension of a health centre behind the park. and funds for that building. it was a two storey building has been approved by the city. we need additional monies. with what is happening in the

shipyard. there will be needed more health care needed in the community. also, your community developers will -- the organization is still in existence, we want them to have say so on employment and job opportunities for people in the community. if we don't work, nobody works. i will say any time to anyone, make sure all are recognized. we started a program in 1970.

[indiscernible] the we -- we want to make sure all are recognized and are given the due diligence they deserve. there is more on my mind. thank you very much. i think the commissioner is doing a tremendous job. she is making sure the community is involved. the commissioner is committed to making sure that the benefit package is being moved forward. all the residents are recognized. thank you very much. keep doing the good job you are doing. thank you. >> i do have one more

announcement. i wanted to give an update to the commissioners. so far, i see back in the summer, the city, asked the department of public health to retest. they found nothing other than the bill. other than that, all they have was the recurring substance. so they deemed it safe. my expectation is they will release a report concluding that work is completed. they also started a2 and they are about to wrap that up. the expectation as of today, they have not found anything. they were expecting to get a

report finally put out from california department of public health on a1 and then a2 which will conclude the cleanup of the retest of the 1 and 2. what to come on phase ii will be provided. >> thank you. >> i wawe are looking forward t work with you and setting the agenda for the coming year. >> thank you, director. >> i look forward to working with you. let's go back to the commissioners. are there questions on the compliance report? commissioner scott has --

>> i really commend the community benefits project. it is amazing. and i am literally in tears when i read it. grateful. i am in tears. it is wonderful outreach. great help. the grant scholarship. and going over to page 36, again, the -- i think it is close to the very next to last, implement committee expenditures continued. and it says granting san francisco housing development corporation. 116-24. that is page 36. implementation. phase ii. okay. so then it says, to provide financial empowerment services to expand the financial

capability of 100 moderate income households in district 10. how do you select the households for this? so the implementation committee is under a separate package. it does not provide oversight for this. it is outside of the jurisdiction. it is the implementation committee that determines this. the developers has provided the information to get a picture. it is under a different package. >> does that go for the other entities? >> yes. >> okay. thank you so much. >> any other questions from fellow commissioners? >> i do have one request. i would ask at the next board

meeting to have the organization who manages be brought up. you know, we just want to hear from the legacy foundation. if they could give us an update. like everything is great on paper. i would love to also hear from them. i think it is time to hear from them. i think we were here when it was approved. but i would like information on the next report. thank you for being here. >> there is one more. >> the report, the background --

some of the pages i could not read with a magnifying glass. plain white. thank you very much for being here. madam secretary. call the next item. >> the order of business is item 9. the commissioners questions. madam chair. >> fellow commissioners. do you have any questions? >> i have one. i would like to end this meeting in honour of the man who left a great legacy and a great mark to

the community, especially the african-american community. he provided a lot of information that this commission had been working on all these years to try and make sure that, you know, folks who live in a redevelopment area got the information, the certificates of the workshops. he passed away. and i think it is important for us to just end this meeting in his honour if we can, madam chair. >> of course. we will do that. anything else? >> thank you. i just wanted to mark 6 years of the commission . december 2012 is when i started the journey. at the time i felt more than --

like i was in kindergarten on some of the topics. i want to thank the staff and the executive directors for having the patience to train me and teach me and give me a wonderful experience as a commissioner. i want to say happy holidays to the fellow commissioners. and to staff. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner. you are not saying good-bye are you? >> to 2018. >> i was with you. both of us were appointed at the same time. 6 years. happy anniversary to both of us. and to the commission. also the commission. and to the staff. thank you very much. and for all the work that you

have put into in making us grow. and achieve all the lists of projects that we have to project. we will see you at the party. >> i am going to the party. i don't know about all of you. and, okay. any other questions? commissioner questions and answers. >> okay. so madam secretary, please call the next business. >> there are no closed session items. the next order of business is item 11. adjournment. >> yes, thank you. we adjourn in honour.

>> the motion to adjourn? >> second. >> moved and seconded by commissioner scott. thank you all for being here. it is 3:25. the meeting is adjourned. shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services within our neighborhoods, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine

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>> i lived in the mission neighborhood for seven years and before that the excel see your district. 20 years a resident of the city

and county of san francisco. i am the executive director of a local art space nonprofit that showcases work that relate to the latino community and i have been in this building for seven years and some of my neighbors have been here 30 year. we were notified from the landlord he was going to sell the building. when we realized it was happening it was no longer a thought for the landlord and i sort of had a moment of panic. i heard about the small sites program through my work with the mission economic agency and at met with folks from the mayor's housing program because they

wanted to utilize the program. we are dealing with families with different needs and capacities. conversations were had early in the morning because that is the only time that all the tenants were in the building and finally when we realized that meda did have the resources to buy the building we went on a letter writing campaign to the landlord and said to him we understand you want to sell your building, we understand what you are asking for and you are entitled to it, it's your land, but please work with us. what i love about ber nell height it represents the diversity that made me fall in love with san francisco. we have a lot of mom and pop shops and you can get all your

resources within walking distance. my favorite air area of my homes my little small patio where i can start my morning and have my coffee an is a sweet spot for me and i in this san francisco office, there are about 1400 employees. and they're working in roughly 400,000 square feet. we were especially pleased that cleanpowersf offers the super green 100% clean energy, not only for commercial entities like ours, but also for residents of the city of san francisco. we were pleased with the package of services they offered and we're now encouraging our

employees who have residence in san francisco to sign on as well. we didn't have any interruption of service or any problems with the switch over to cleanpowersf. this clean power opportunity reflects that. i would encourage any large business in san francisco to seriously consider converting and upgrading to the cleanpowersf service. it's good for the environment, it's good for business and it's >> for the first time in nearly two decades fishers have been granted the legal right to sell fish directly to the package right off their boat -- to the public right off their boats in san francisco. it's not only helping local fishers to stay afloat but it's evoking the spirit of the wharf by resurfacing the traditional methods of selling fish.

but how is it regulated? and what does it take for a boat to be transported into a floating fish market? find out as we hop on board on this episode of "what's next sf." (♪) we're here with the owner and the captain of the vessel pioneer. it's no coincidence that your boat is called the pioneer because it's doing just that. it's the first boat in san francisco to sell fish directly from the boat. how did you establish your boat into such a floating fish market? >> well, you know, i always thought that it would be nice to be able to provide fresh fish to the locals because most of the fish markets, you would have to do a large amount of volume in order to bring in enough fish to cover the overhead. when you start selling to the public that volume is much less so it makes it hard to make enough money. so being able to do this is really -- it's a big positive thing i think for the entire

community. >> a very positive thing. as a third-generation fisherman joe as his friends call him has been trawling the california waters for sustainably caught seafood since an early age. since obtaining a permit to sell fish directly to the public he is able to serve fish at an affordable price. >> right now we're just selling what a lot of the markets like, flat fish and rock fish and what the public likes. so we have been working for many, many years and putting cameras in them. there's the ability to short fish and we have panels that we open and close so we target the different species of fish by adjusting the net. and then not only that but then the net sort out the sizes which is really important. >> joe brings in a lot of fish, around 20,000 pounds per fishing trip to be exact. >> we had one day one time that we sold almost 18,000 pounds. >> it's incredible. >> i know, it's hard to imagine. >> but this wasn't always the case for joe. >> the markets that we have left

in california, they're few and far between, and they really are restrictive. they'll let you fish for a couple months and shut you down. a lot of times it's rough weather and if you can't make your delivery you will lose your rotation. that's why there's hardly any boats left in california because of the market challenges. my boat was often sitting over here at the dock for years and i couldn't do anything with it because we had no market. the ability to go catch fish is fine, i had the permits, but you couldn't take them off your boat. >> that was until the port commission of san francisco rallied behind them and voted unanimously to approve a pilot program to allow the fish to be sold directly to consumers right off their boats. >> the purpose of the program is to allow commercial fishers to sell their fish directly from their boats to the end consumer in a safe and orderly manner for the benefit of the overall fishing community at the port of san francisco. we have limited the program to

certain types of fish such as salmon, halibut, tuna and rock fish. crab is restricted from this program because we did not want to interfere with the existing crab sales on taylor street and jefferson street. so this is not meant to favor one aspect of the fishing industry more than another. it's to basically to lift up the whole industry together. >> and if joe the program has been doing just that. >> it was almost breathtaking whenever i woke up one morning and i got my federal receiver, my first receivers license in the mail. and that gave me permission to actually take fish off my boat. once we started to be able to sell, it opened things up a bit. because now that we have that federal permit and i was able to ppetition the city council and getting permission from san francisco to actually use the dock and to sell fish here, it was a big turning point. because we really didn't think or know that we'd get such a positive response from the

public. and so we're getting thousands of people coming down here buying fish every week and so that's pretty cool. they like the fish so much that they take pictures of it when they cook it and they send us all of these pictures and then they ask us, you know, constantly for certain types of fish now. and when they come down here the one thing that they say is that they're so amazed that the fish is so fresh they could eat a little bit during the week and it's still fresh all week in the refrigerator. so that's really cool. >> the fish is very fresh and the price is super. i don't think that you can get it anywhere in the bay area. i can see it, and i can stir fry it, wow, you can do anything you want. i just can say this is a good place to shop and you have a good experience. >> this program supports the strategic plan in terms of

engagement, people being connected to the waterfront, and also economic vitality. because it's helping the fishermen to make ends meet. they have no guarantees in their businesses, not like some people, and we want to do everything that we can to help them to have a good and thriving business. >> how does it feel to be able to sell your fish locally kind of in the traditional way, like your grandfather probably did? >> when i was a kid and i used to work in my dad's fish market, a lot of the markets that we sell to now are second and third and fourth generation markets. so i remember as a kid putting their tags on the boxes of fish that we shipped out of monterey and ship down to l.a. so it's kind of cool that we're still dealing with the same families. and this is probably about the only way that anyone can really survive in california is to sell your own fish. >> one of the advantages of this program is the department people

that pull in the fish, they can find out where they caught it and find out more about the fisherman and that adds to their experience. the feedback from the fishers has been very good and the feedback from the customers have very good. and there's a lot of people coming to the wharf now that might not have done so. in fact, there's people that go through the neighboring restaurants that are going to eat fish inside but before they go in they see the action on the dock and they want to kind of look at what's happening on the boat before they go in and they have a meal. so it's generated some conversation down at the wharf and that's a good thing. >> as you can see by the line forming behind me getting ready to buy fish, the pilot program has been a huge success. for more information visit sfsport.com. (♪) (♪)

>> good morning. today we are here to member -- to remember, commemorate, mayor ed lee. [speaking foreign language] >> there will be a lot of speakers and a lot of people we need to acknowledge, the first off, i want to start with a moment of silence. [speaking foreign language] >> let us pray. [speaking foreign language]