ground. so if there are critical -- market street is a vital core door for i don't know how many lines. i would hate to see that not addressed in phase one, and then to see a meltdown happen. >> okay. >> thank you. >> thank you, commissioner kim. are there any other commission questions? is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you for that information item. mr clerk cap next item, please. >> item 13. >> i'm sorry to interrupt you, at 11:00 pm, we are going to take a brief recess, and then we will reconvene. next item, please. >> item 13 is update on the transbay transit centre on the study of governance management, oversight and delivery of the downtown extension. this is an affirmation item. >> good morning. i will start with the transbay

transit centre fracture issue. a little bit of history here for clarity of the records. a fracture on flan to the steel girder was discovered. a second smaller crack was discovered on a parallel beam in the same location. today to, no additional cracks have been found. there is continued monitoring going on. at the request of the san francisco and oakland mayor's offices, the empty sea has convened a peer review panel to work with tjpa. the review panel consists of five structural engineering and materials experts. they are working with the key stakeholders, being the structural engineer of record, the general contractor, the steel subcontractor, steel fabricator, m.t.c., ourselves, a.c. transit and the department of building inspection. there are challenges to assess the load capacity, which they

have done already. developing a sampling and testing plan, which frankly is almost complete spirit i want to elaborate further. determine the cause as everyone wants to know, assess the current condition of other structural elements to make sure that everything is safe for the public, and finally recommend a repair solution. where we stand today is that a preliminary finding will be presented to the tjpa board this coming thursday at the board meeting. we have dennis here, a construction manager for the tjpa if you have any further questions. the repair options are being analysed and developed. the completion of the repairs depends on the lead time for the steel members in that regard. so that is going to dictate the completion and the timing. when we have more information, we will invite m.t.c. here to

provide further information, hopefully in the next month or 1212 months. that concludes this portion of the updates. if you'd like like to ask questions now, we can. i am hoping to take them. >> the big question here, is when, and the answer is we don't know. >> that is true. correct. we do not know. we have speculation, but i would rather have the peer review experts and tjpa be able to address that to their board on thursday, preliminary findings are being developed right now. >> okay. i'm not exactly sure why they -- why we even put this on the agenda. >> we were hoping to have more today and we apologize for that. it is something where we are aware of all the stakeholders and all the independent experts. we are airing on the side of

caution before preliminary findings are presented. we are working through the final repair options. it is a very complicated issue from restructuring engineering standpoint. >> do you want to add anything for this commission? >> good morning, commissioners. i am with the tjpa senior construction management. to add to what he has just said, we were also in parallel with the preliminary findings. we have been able to start developing the fix at fremont. it is anticipated that loss will be presented to our board on thursday as well, along with various other analyses to show how much effort has been going in to this project since september 25th. so there's a lot to be presented , hopefully in the next couple of days. >> i don't know what will happen between now and 48 hours from now, but would you like to speculate for the transportation

authority and for the public as to when these fixes will be effectuated? >> i can put framework on that to show you there are two paths that will happen. we will talk about the repair. everyone has been focused on the repair. that is part of the report. it will assist, once we have that confirmed, we will have the type of steel dimensions and they can procure that. once the peer review does all this information is being presented and they give us the green light, similar to the preliminary findings. it allows us to move forward with the repair elements. the other part that is going to be started once the preliminary findings is also the effort towards the rest of the facility once a polemic findings are founded, they can be presented

to the peer review -- to wet the steps for the remaining what needs to be looked at throughout the rest of the meeting. that is a second parallel path that will be developed here shortly in various phases. because you have to develop the scope and see what needs to be done at those locations, and if anything needs to be done, implements that repair. that is still forthcoming. that is why we can't put a timeline to it at this point. >> any questions or comments from members? any public comment on this? this depressing item, welcome commissioner cohen. we said nice things about you. [laughter] >> i will continue. let's discuss the caltrain downtown extension. >> r.h. just to recap the history, october 23rd, the board voted

to suspend funding for the tjpa 30% design part one effort until two things occurred. they conducted an evaluation of the tjpa management and delivery of the t.t.c. itself, as well as us, the transportation authority staff for the management and delivery of the caltrain extension into the train box. we are in the process of assembling a team of experts right now. we are reaching out to the consultant community and anticipate making decisions in terms of forming an expert team by the end of the year. we will evaluate the best practices, and in particular, focusing on not only alternative oversights that taking a look at funding strategy is to move the project forward to. we will open the book in terms of looking at international megaprojects. there is a lot to learn from that and their experience here.

it will be through established interviews and workshops, including the key stakeholders. over the past months, we've had conversations with all the key stakeholders and are assembling the key stakeholder team. we will start the effort in january, 2019, and it is our intent to complete it by the spring of 2019. we are targeting may of 19. i am open to any questions. >> thank you for that. that was helpful. are there any questions from members of the authority? seeing then, is there any public comment on this item? no public comment period public comment is closed. thank you for that update. we will live for thursday and the tjpa presentation. next item, please. >> item 14, item on final

approval, approved the revised job classification salary structure and updated organization chart. this is an action item. >> mrs. fong? >> chair peskin the, would you like me to go through a full presentation for the sake of time? >> colleagues, just so you know, the personnel committee of the transportation authority match last week, consisting of myself, vice chair tang, and member kim, we are just where in we reviewed and recommend to all of you the revised job classification salary structure and updated organization chart. if any of you have -- we had an extensive conversation about it in committee. it is the last vestige of our committee structure. the committee recommends approval. do any of you have questions for

staff, or would you like a full presentation of what the personnel committee received last week? >> i will take silence as you are okay with moving the revised job classifications to six categories. the new salary structure that will ensure that we retain our excellent staff, and our updated organization chart. is there any public comment on item number 14? seeing none, public comment is closed. is there a motion to approve said item made by commissioner tang, seconded by commissioner ronen, and on that item -- >> can i just -- >> commissioner kim, i'm sorry. >> i just want to thank our executive director for your leadership all of these years. i really feel that you have communicated very closely with all the board members, to -- different departments and outside agencies and the very things that we asked you to do when we came on executive

director and i want to thank you for your incredibly hard work and all that you do for our city >> we will incorporate that comment into item 16, which is the next item. i do want to thank mrs. fong for a very clear presentation, and very good staff work. with that, a roll call, please. [roll call] >> we have final approval. >> that item is approved. colleagues, i do not think we need a close session unless and unless anybody wants a close session with regard to the

evaluation of the executive director's of port -- performance objectives, which was also heard in the personnel committee, if that is the case, mr taylor, would we table item 15? is there a motion to table item 15? made by commissioner tang and seconded by commissioner ronen. we will do that. is there any public comment law public comment is closed. we will take that same house same call. could you please read item 16? >> item 16 on final approval, set annual compensation for the executive director for 2019. this is an action item. >> colleagues, the personnel committee met, and as per the previous item discussed, the public employee performance and approval -- and approval -- approval of the objectives of 2019, after looking at a salary survey of other executive directors in similar positions,

the personnel committee recommends a four-point 5% increase to our executive director's at salary, which was in accord with the other executive directors of similar agencies in the bay area region, and in other t.a. his. would you like any more information on that because she would be happy to present it. if not, is there any public comment on item 16? the floor is yours. >> i'm with united public workers for action. there's a lot of negotiations coming up with city workers this year, and i would hope that if you will give four and a half% to the managers of these agencies, you would have it as a minimum for the workers of the city and county of san francisco so when they come into negotiation, you should remember what you are doing here and awarding these increases to managers in the city and county of san francisco. >> thank you for that comments. is there any additional public

comment? seeing none, comments are closed with regards to the last speaker , this is not a city agency. this is a subdivision of the state of california, and number 2, in the previous item, our salary structure has been revised such that actually the executive director his' pay raise is less than the pay raise for the rank and file for the six member or f.t.e. authorized member agency that is the transportation authority. thank you for that comments. is there a motion to move item 16, made by commissioner cohen, seconded by commissioner brown. we have the same house, same call. thank you for your excellent work, mrs. chang. the item is approved. his or any introduction of new items? seeing none, is there any general public comment? seeing none, the transportation authority -- >> no. >> commissioner cohen.

[laughter] >> i have to keep everyone on their toes. he thought i was going to be here, but it wasn't. keeping you on your toes. i want to say thank you to the t.a. staff for doing a fantastic job. i want to let you know that i am leaving and leaving encouraged, because i feel that no longer will district ten be considered the forgotten district. i believe that the t.a. in particular has done a tremendous job on studying and coming up with plans. i want to think about the dollars and the resources that are pouring into the southeast. i really feel good we are moving in the right direction, and i'm very grateful for your hard work i had an opportunity to work with most everyone in the staff box. i had an opportunity to be on the committee. i feel very close to the executive staff on the t.a. and i just wanted us to take a brief moment to express my gratefulness and thank you.

i have learned and have grown as a professional, and in large part, due to the fact that we worked on so many really important projects that have an opportunity to change people's lives. i would like to think we are changing them for the better and i'm grateful we are partners in doing so. thank you. >> thank you for those comments. >> thank you. i guess this is my last formal t.a. meeting. not excluding timma. i wanted to echo my thanks to all of the staff, our executive director, but everyone who has always briefed us, whether it was maria or anna or cynthia. you have all been amazing and so for -- so far there is too many to name. i have always found every single staff member to be incredibly well-prepared and thorough. you always follow up pick any time we have issues with other agencies, i often turn to you for assistance and i really

appreciate that. [please stand by] -- working with this body over the last eight years. this board of supervisors, as you know, is very ambitious, so we don't often have a "department" that we have somewhat direct authority over, but it really has been such a

pleasure to work with this team. i know i said it at the last timma meeting. it must be so much fun to work for the transportation authority because you get to be the imagination, the creativity, the body that dreams up these fantasy policies that hopefully we get to implement here in san francisco. and i think a lot of the incredible transportation work that's done is due to the forward-thinking initiative of the staff of sfcta pushing san francisco forward. i want to thank you for your imagination, for your passion, for being so nerdy and wonky about transportation and policy. over text messaging and emailing us about every small item and making sure we're briefed and never surprised about anything, although that one day on 2nd street will go down in my history books of my surprise moment on sfcta, but sfcta

worked really quickly to reroute money to 2nd street. i want to thank you for your diligence. working and caring so much about how people are able to move around our great city. and i look forward to your continued work as a citizen. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, commissioner kim. ms. chang. turn your mike on. >> thank you so much for each of you for your kind words, your gracious appreciation of our staff. it's your leadership that's allowing us to do this work, to deliver for the city, for the region and our state and our planet. thank you so much. it's been a privilege. >> supervisor peskin: with that, colleagues, last meeting of the t.a. for 2018 is adjourned. we will reconvene as the treasure island mobility

management agency after commissioner yee's press conference is concluded. >> the meeting for wednesday, december 18th. call the roll, please. >> the vice chair is absent. director tang is on route. [roll call]

>> we will go ahead and call your next item. it is public comment. i don't think there's anyone here who wants to comment under that item. we will go ahead and move into your close session. we have not received any indication that members of the public would like to add dress under the items listed in close session so we can go ahead and put the meeting into closed session. the tjpa board of directors meeting of december 19th is back in open session and in regards to item nine, the announcement of close session, there's nothing to report. that does include -- conclude your agenda for today. >> thank you. our meeting is adjourned. >> thank you. >> everybody have a great holiday.

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the san francisco public utilities commission and the san francisco public works welcome all to enjoy the magic of the >> hello, everyone. i'm supervisor katy tang. welcome to 12 days of kittens. my staff came up with an idea of hosting animals in our office so people can come and not only find animals that they might want to adopt, but we found it's a great stress reliever for people that work in city hall. they come around all day, whether it's the shift department or upstairs or the mta, just want to pet the animals and it helps people feel better. a lot of people proactively ask

us, are you bringing back the kittens? we've been doing this for five years. it usually culminates in a party in december. we'll see animals adopted throughout the year. if people are thinking about animals to adopt, they may go to a pet store, buy from a breeder, go to spca, but we want people to know that the acc has animals that need homes. >> every year, her office does the 12 days of kittens. and she picks up every morning cute, adoptable kittens. she has different groups of kittens every day and brings them to her city hall office and they're there all day for everybody that goes through to see and enjoy. we adopt out 900 kittens every year, cats and kittens. we're working all year long promoting adoption, getting people in to see the cats.

so it's a pleasure it have the opportunity to showcase some of them in supervisor tang's office. kittens love to play and they're frolicking and all that and it's super fun. >> sometimes they will roam around people's desks. if someone wants to adopt a cat, they can identify any of them that might be hanging around our office, but we have to go through animal care and control, make sure they pay a fee. it's very affordable, as well as they receive the proper vaccination. >> come on down, adopt a cat. there's a lot of kitties waiting for a beautiful home. >> how can you resist this face? >> i think everyone needs a pet in their life. it makes your day so much better. i hope you will support us in >> all right. good afternoon, everyone.

i am paul yepp. i am the kmonding officer of the central police station. and i want to thank you for being here today. irts to thank o . i want to thank our supervisors for being here today, first of all, mayor london breed, supervisor aaron peskin, and on cue, the chief of police, bill scott. executive director of sf safe, kyra worthy. park and rec commissioner allen low. park and rec area manager zach taylor. chief of the park rangers, mike celeste. president of self-help for the elderly, annie chung. from the chinese benevolent

association, charles chow. and from the san francisco police department command staff, deputy chief ann mannix, commander dan perea, commander david lozar. oh, and -- i'm sorry -- oh, and i'm sorry. reverend malcolm fong -- the latest commander for the san francisco police department, darryl fong. congratulations, darryl. this is about you. [applause] >> and of course the executive director for the ccdc, malcom yo. i am proud to share with you

the grand opening of the san francisco police department public information drop-in center, and it was quite a collaboration between city partners and our community leaders. and i can't be more proud to have got this done with everyone in this room, so thank you for that. and let me go ahead and introduce our first speaker, the honorable mayor london breed. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you, captain. i'm really excited to be here because this is a really incredible opportunity for the chinatown community. what we ultimately want to do is make sure that people are safe, and part of making sure that people are safe is not only a police presence but it's also people feeling comfortable with reporting crimes. when i first became mayor, one of the first thing that i did was to add additional beat officers here in chinatown, and we're continuing to add more beat officers in civic center

and other parts of the city as those new academy classes continue to graduate. thank you supervisor peskin and members of the board of supervisors for supporting the additional academy classes which will ensure that we are able to get more officers on the streets. but we know that police presence alone can't address some of the challenges that exist, and in particular, in communities where people speak different languages, there are often times, you know, just really a disconnect between the crime that happens and their ability to report those crimes. and so this drop-in center will be used as an opportunity for people who are a part of this community to basically come in to develop relationships with the officers here and to report crimes if they occur. and so i'm excited about that because i know that captain yepp has done an outstanding job in this community with building good relationships with the people in this

community and also commander lozar who was the former captain of this station has also been instrumental in continuing to bridge that gap. this is just the next step in ensuring that people feel safe, that people feel secure in their community. that they have a comfortable place to come and to meet with police officers. and i want to thank annie chung and the work of the self-help for the elderly and all that you do to also work with so many of our seniors in this particular community. we definitely have a lot of work to do, and this is just one of the first steps in trying to meet people where they are and come out into the community so that people are comfortable with having conversations and building relationships with our police department. it's something that is really important to me as someone bho grew up in the western addition

and worked really hard to bridge the gap between law enforcement and one another. it's a way to stop crime from occurring, but once they occur, we have an obligation to work hard to address those particular issues, and this is just one step closer in getting us to a place where people can feel that their voices matter, that they will be supported and protected in their community, so i am grateful to the san francisco police department for providing the bilingual officers who will work with this community. i want to thank chief scott for his leadership. will i i also, i know that supervisor peskin will be hosting office hours in this location. who knows, maybe one day, i'll join you. it's just another way to bring law enforcement, to bring all of these things directly into the community, to make the

community not only a better community but a safer community who every who lives and works and spends time in this neighborhood. so thank you all so much for being here today, and i'm excite thad this space is opening to provide this opportunity for the folks in this neighborhood. >> thank you, mayor, for your leadership and your support. the next speaker is my favorite district three supervisor, supervisor aaron peskin. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, captain nepp. to our mayor, london breed, chief scott, to all of the dignitiaries gathered herein, it takes a village, and what you see in this place are many different agencies and nonprofit partners coming together. so we are here at portsmouth square which is the living room for this very, very dense community. everything that happens in this community happens in this treasured park, and we are on

rec and parkland, which is leased to an organization that has been taking care of this community, particularly the seniors, since 1966, self-help for the elderly. and we have company a. why is it called company a? it is the first police station in san francisco. i like to say all of our districts are created equal, but district three has central station, and we are more equal. why do i say that? because i know the working men and women of central station company a, and they're not just police officers. they do wellness checks, they know the people in the community. a long time ago at the board of supervisors, some 15 years ago, there was a big conversation about community policing. and when it was explained to me, i realized that i had community policing. all of my beat cops, they know the folks, whether they're in the pings or in north beach,

and it really is the essence of what makes a safe community. and they're culturally competent. as a matter of fact, there are 460 officers in the sfpd who speak a multitude of languages, some 30 languages. the beat officers in chinatown speak fluent cantonese. they engage with the seniors, they engage with the children, and this is an unparalleled opportunity for the people to have direct access twice a week in this treasured spot. as you all know, we come here for press conferences, for celebrations. this is a community that has under reported crime. i get to read about it in the journal and sing tao.

this is an opportunity for people to come in and speak in cantonnese to report what's happening on the street. i'm incredibly grateful to the police department. chief scott, you have a great worker in paul yepp. captain yepp, thank you for making it happen, and -- [speaking cantonnese language] >> thank you. and our next speaker is chief of police bill scott. >> thank you, everyone. and i won't go over the points that supervisor peskin and mayor breed said, but i want to reiterate a couple of things. first of all, thank you mayor breed for her outstanding leadership. you know, part of what makes this work for us is the

executive leadership of the city. the budget that we received this year was very supportive, and it will enable us to continue the path of increasing our foot beat officers and that really speaks to our goal to engage better with the city of san francisco, the residents of the city of san francisco. the other part of that is, you know, this community center will allow us to get to the root of policing, and that's getting people comfortable to report crimes when they occur, because that impacts how we deploy, that impacts how our resources are distributed throughout the city. so this is a great step in that direction. before i go any further, though, all this doesn't work without the people standing in the back of the room, and those are the officers that are assigned to this district, the central foot beat officers and supervision, captain yepp and

his team. they make it work in conjunction with the community. i know they're behind the cameras, but i just want to thank the officers for what they do in this community, because we do have great relationships in this community. we do have some really good things happening in this community. we are a police department that wants to be responsive to the community that we serve, and that all starts with the officers. the command staff, we do what we do. we lead the department, we set the course and the chart and all that, but the work gets done at the field level, and i can't say i'm so proud to have the officers in this room as the team that's doing this work. so thank you for what you do. as supervisor peskin said, we have over 460 -- i think the number is up to 490 officers that speak 30 different languages. we want to engage with our city. we want to get better at that. we want to be better at policing. we want to be the best police department in this nation, and i think with the leadership of

this city, we're well on our way to do that. this is just another step, so thank you for kwbticontributin our city, what we know is a great thank you. thank you so much. >> thank you, chief. as i said earlier, this project doesn't happen without our community partners, and one of our great community partners is the president of the self-help for the elderly, miss annie chung. >> thank you very much, captain yepp, and thank you mayor breed, thank you, supervisor peskin, who knows our place very well because you hold a lot of office appointments here. welcome, everybody to our portsmouth square clubhouse. as mayor breed and supervisor peskin and chief scott said, we know that partnership with the sfpd is very important to our community. we are the second most dense part to san francisco, probably

second only to manhattan, new york, because as you see, a lot of our residents lived in very crowded housing in s.r.o.s. you see a lot of seniors walking on the street, talking on their phone, not a very safe thing to do. because we heard that crimes usually get underreported in this community. no matter how hard, commander lozar, when you was our captain, and captain yepp come around to our senior centers and keep reporting the crimes, no matter how big or small the crimes are. when paul came to me and said, annie, you think you could rearrange a little bit of your schedule to accommodate our drop-in center, i said yes without the blinking of an eye. i know it will be a welcome sight. our merchants, our residents,

our seniors who live around here, our children, you are welcome to see our police officers, especially those who speak the language. they feel comfortable of coming in to ask questions, and i think that through our work, we could also arrange for small groups of residents to come in to get some public safety education with our officers. so thank you, mayor. community policing is all about the community. and if we build our rapport with our police officers, i know that i am krcrimes reportl increase, and i thank you very much for all of your leadership. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, annie. and then, our final speaker from the community is executive director of the chinatown community development center, malcolm yao. >> well, paul, thank you for the promotion. i'm not the executive director, i'm the deputy director of

chinatown community center, but i'll ask for a raise. thank you very much. you know, this drop-in center is really all about community policing. i think we've thrown that term around quite a bit, but captain yepp personified that. community policing is taking leadership and pulling the threads together necessary to make this happen. it wasn't easy, it wasn't from command on high. it came out of paul's head. he knew that reporting needed to go up, he knew that it needed to come back to the community, and this was captain yepp's brain child, and he took the lead in pulling all the threats for doing this. so i really want to thank you for this, captain yepp, for your leadership in the community. i don't say this lightly, when i say that auntie rose would be proud of you. she absolutely hated the koban,

but she's going to love this. thank you. >> okay. that concludes the speaking portion of this press conference, but i did want to take the opportunity to introduce our officers new to the station but well known in the police department is lieutenant doug farmer, sergeant paul rogers, sergeant klobuchu, officer bob duffield, officer pauli tang, officer jennie mau, officer reggie pena, officer matt fambrini, and officer alex anton. [applause] >> thank you very much. [applause]

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along third street, and illuminated snowflakes on market street. the san francisco public utilities commission and the san francisco public works welcome all to enjoy the magic of the >> growing up in san francisco has been way safer than growing up other places we we have that bubble, and it's still that bubble that it's okay to be whatever you want to. you can let your free flag fry he -- fly here. as an adult with autism, i'm here to challenge people's idea of what autism is. my journey is not everyone's journey because every autistic child is different, but there's

hope. my background has heavy roots in the bay area. i was born in san diego and adopted out to san francisco when i was about 17 years old. i bounced around a little bit here in high school, but i've always been here in the bay. we are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to emp. we don't turn anyone away. we take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. the most common thing i hear in my adult life is oh, you don't seem like you have autism. you seem so normal. yeah. that's 26 years of really, really, really hard work and i think thises that i still do. i was one of the first open adoptions for an lgbt couple. they split up when i was about four. one of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my

biological mother, who is also a lesbian. very queer family. growing up in the 90's with a queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here, i felt safe. i was bullied relatively infrequently. but i never really felt isolated or alone. i have known for virtually my entire life i was not suspended, but kindly asked to not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change. the school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. one of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so they know what it's about, but my parents wanted my life to be safe. when i have all the neurological issues to manage,

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that's as supportive, but there's also a community that's incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. it was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what? i'm just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male. i have a two-year-old. the person who i'm now married to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasn't sure, so i we went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth control, so there's no way you can be pregnant. i found out i was pregnant at 6.5 months. my whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. i think i've finally found my

calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. i think the access to irrelevant care for parents is intentionally confusing. when i did the procespective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. we have a place where children can be children, but it's very confusing. i always out myself as an adult with autism. i think it's helpful when you know where can your child go. how i'm choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy. how do -- speech therapy. how do you explain that to the

rest of their class? i want that to be a normal experience. i was working on a certificate and kind of getting think early childhood credits brefore i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in san francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i don't really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight person's perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and i'm like absolutely. so i'm now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. i love growing up here. i love what san francisco represents. the idea of leaving has never occurred to me. but it's a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. what i've done with my life is

work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that we're still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a resource center, and this resource center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. i would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. so many things that i would love to do that are all about changing people's minds about certain chunts, like the transgender community or the autistic community. i would like my daughter to know there's no wrong way to go through life. everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all of those things are temporary.

>> for tuesday, december 18. miss dowd, would you please read the roll. >> clerk: yes. [roll call] >> clerk: you do have a quorum. >> just a note for the audience, we don't have ms. boomer today. >> clerk: item three, announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. please be aware that use of cell phones, pagers, or other sound producing electronic