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and 38. a -- 19, 29, and 38. pier 29, i projected out it would be used for event space. for piers 23 and 19, the assumption in the base case was that both of those would be used for interim rents just for storage, so one of our lower parameter rates at 80% leasing. and by the fifth year, one of those sites, and i happen to just plug in pier 19, we assumed, would actually be vacated from that storage leasing and be prepared for a development site. and pier 38, throughout, we actually assumed light storage, which just generates about
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$50,000 a year. so it's really piers 19 and 23 where we generate good money in that interim period. and the irony is we actually make more off of those sites in the base case than in the high case, because in the high case we assume we would be able to vacate pier 19 by the fourth year, and we would vacate pier 23 by the fifth year. so all-in-all, we probably lose up wards of $5 million from those two sites in the window, but the tradeoff is we would be developing a long-term solution for those facilities. >> i understand. i was just wondering how we could hit that target for 2020. it' it's aggressive, but i like being impressed. >> noted. >> under item number 11, you
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have a large jump in revenue from 2021 to 2022, and then, it jumps up the next year, you know, relatively large. walk me through why you think the rent is going to go up 60 or 70% in that business operation between those two years. >> so the first two years really reflects leasing during the time of construction whereas the following three years represent completion of the project, and then, establishment of a solid revenue stream. as far as the jump between the third and fourth years, i think that really is -- since i don't have it broken-down quite as much detail for myself, i would assume it's a partial year in that third year, something to that effect. >> great. thank you. that concludes my questions. >> thank you. commissioner adams? >> megan, you're lucky. i wish you were up first.
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do the fireworks last, and everybody would still be here. president brandon doesn't like us. >> we're all relaxed now, right? >> couple questions. i want to go back to what doreen and victor were saying. [inaudible] >> yeah. >> okay. [inaudible] >> yeah. >> couple other things. with the tariffs that the president has, i know it's probably not -- i don't know if it'll affect the port of san francisco, but in the larger ports, we're being affected by soybeans and other things. china has stopped buying soybeans from us, and are going to other countries. are these tariffs, at some point, could they hurt or bottom line? i mean, say the economy goes -- >> possibly. >> maybe it's too early to tell. >> yeah. i think it's a very good question, and auto imports and exports in particular could be affected by tariffs, and we have a lot of auto customers at
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pier 80, and it is possible it could be affected. >> it's still growth, it just might be modified growth. >> okay. second, you said shoreside power, and that's going to allow us to have 30 more carnival cruise ships come in, something like that? >> let me explain that a little bit. we're expecting the card would take effect in fiscal year 20-21, it's midyear. we're expecting to have an increase of 30 cruise calls from carnival. once card takes effect, we're actually forecasting a dip, a reduction of 20 cruise calls, so assuming we're still
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maintaining that carnival business, but for those nonshoreside power clipped ships, we would have to reject 20 calls. this forecast -- so we would have -- the forecast has a nice climb right up front, and then, it drops down as c.a.r.b. takes effect, but thankfully, it appears as though our customers are going to have shoreside power. >> thank you. >> megan, thank you so much for a detailed report in the lightness of the hour, and the fact that i'm losing commissioners. >> i have just one because i won't be at the february
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meeting. on the event, the cruise ship events, are we happy with the amount of special events in the cruise ship terminal? do we think metro is on track or are they behind what we think they might be? >> i think they are very happy with it. i actually dropped in a special section in the report just on special events because i knew that this was an important topic, and i think that basically he feels like we're meeting our, you know, basically capacity at special events, given that we're having to alter events from cruise ships being in. we're very happy. thank you. >> okay. >> great. >> clerk: items 13-b, informational presentation on the port's ten-year capital plan for fiscal year
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2019-2020-2028 to 2028 to 2029. [please stand by]
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. >> we're targeting our available funds to strategic projects to generate revenue and securing external sources of revenue to keep growing the pie. and we see those successes in many instances here for example with the orton project that's reduced our capital need by $78 million in this project. similarly, the alcatraz project is bringing in additional money, $34 million of enhancements to that site, so improve its capital value. not going through all of these, but to touch on a few others, through the waterfront land use plan update, we've really gained clarity and flexibility on our management districts.
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>> we are we also see again some strategic --
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[inaudible] >> we also update cost estimates, so as we get better estimates in developing our capital improvement program, those numbers are reflected here. and most significantly, really, at this time, with the passage of time, like the rest of the city, we escalate costs to reflect the increasing costs of doing work in san francisco. the city's capital planning committee sets a rate after doing an analysis, and we follow their same rates. so for the past two years, this show reflects escalates of 5.75 and 6%, respectively. on the other side of the equation, we have enhancements, and this category isn't always completely intuitive. the city capital planning committee makes sure that a facility is left in better than its original state. we're making it better than it originally was, it shows up
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under enhancements. the others here are development projects as well as the conditional seismic which is really a category of potential costs that could occur if change of use or major expansion of a structure on a pier occurred. and similarly here, we've seen a number go from 1.8 billion to 1.9 billion, from work completed, the orton reduced our seismic need. updated cost estimates, as well as the passage of time. so you see the seawall cost go down because seawall work will have been completed from the prior two plans to the time we reach this plan, so that leaves us with a $3.5 billion total need. now we turn to looking at the funding sources that we have projected in the continue-year period. we're -- ten-year period.
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we're forecasting $4.7 billion funding needed. if you look at the blue, you'll see port sources, which go primarily to state of good repair, and in green, we see the external sources, which while significant push goes to enhancement, they also play a significant role in our ability to perform state of good repair. breaking thousands down further, we see they're made up of port capital as well as the tenant improvements. on the external sources, ten t tenant -- public improvements, and mixed in with grants. putting all of those together, how close do we come to being able to fund that? we anticipate funding 48% of that total need in a ten-year period, and then a portion of
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that funding, which is really only a potential need, which leaves us with a $1.2 billion need unfunded in this plan, which is primarily a state of good repair needs, and that mostly inspires us to keep striving and keep working those strategies to narrow the gap. so i just want to circle back to those three strategies briefly. as we look at the chart below, this really reflects this port's commitment at the commission's guidance to keep dedicating funding to capital, and so we see in the gray bars the annual capital budget. generally increasing over time and having bumps as we get one-time sources, so it goes up, not smoothly, but up consistently, and we see the designation to capital, as well, going up, and as we just heard from megan, really thinking about the years past this plan. right now, it looks good, that we will be able to continue this trend in dedicating more to capital and narrowing our gap. we also continue to target
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available funds to strategic projects. as we move into preparing our next capital budget and capital improvement program, director forbes is pushing us to evaluate our criteria and making sure we're being strategic about our investment decisions, and we're trying to secure external sources of funding for capital needs. megan already touched on the special use districts and our increased ability to use those to help really expand the pie of sources available for projects, so we've seen new subareas of infrastructure financing districts setup for pier 70, quarter front and mission rock this year. another piece that will hopefully help shape the capital plan has been the
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embarcadero. as we are able to advance those, we hope to see development projects in some instances that cannee address that need and address state of good repair and bring in new enhancements and new use and life to the waterfront, and that would be reflected in future plans. time for questions. >> thank you very much. commissioner woo ho. i'm just going to ask, so on the seawall, we've identified what we have from the bond, but we have not identified what the long-term capital need is in total yet on this plan. >> that is true. we talk about the long-term potential up to $5 billion need in the narrative section but have not set that number.
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>> i think that timing and thinking of that will -- >> we will, it will be good for us to know in the next ten years, because we do need to get a better fix on what that number is.
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[please stand by]. >> -- but i can't say how long that $5 billion is going to take, how long, so if we knew the number for the next five years, and the number for the next ten years, it would help to explain because i do think we get asked that question in terms of being able to answer the question. and what most of the questions are, what sources are you looking at, and obviously we say state and federal, but -- but i think that we know that the port's not going to generate $5 billion. we raise so much visibility about the issue, so now, we get asked about it all the time. so now, we are a victim of our own success. >> we will get more answers for you. in planning out for the space, we will get many more answers for you. we're still in an exploratory phase with the multihazard risk
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assessment, when we have those results, we'll have much more definition on where we're headed. >> i just want to say on that, we're making progress in terms of trying to show the change from year to year, and that we are making progress and we're hopefully getting more operating surplus, but it's still slow going, but at least the number is -- at least it's not -- except for the seawall side, it's not getting far worse. >> that's right. >> the seawall is the big kahuna there. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner adams? >> no. >> you're good? >> yeah. >> thank you so much for this presentation. you did a wonderful job. i look forward to the item next month. >> clerk: item 14-a, request adoption of protest and appeal process for personal wireless service facilities, site permits, resolution number 1903. >> good evening, commissioners.
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chief harbor engineer. i can be very brief. i have a really great slide deck, but the commission reports in front of you, what i'm asking here today is for the commission to adopt a protest and appeal process for personal wireless service facility site permits. the port uses the substantive provisions of the city's public works code in issuing certain types of encroachment permits, including permits for personal wireless service facility sites, and rights of way under port jurisdiction. article 25 of the city's public works code establishes permit procedures for personal wireless sites including a protest and appeal procedure. the port would like to develop a clear and equivalent process to that use by public works.
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>> if you could flip forward, rod, to the proposed port procedure just so the commission can look at the chart to aid in questions, thank you. >> yeah. so this is the port process that we have developed -- or it follows the port -- the procedure that is -- has been developed and used by public works. the only differences are in the red dashed box and the red process boxes where we are going to -- we'd like to substitute the chief harbor engineer for the director of public works as the decision maker on the initial protest, and if the protest is then appealed -- or the decision is appealed, we would like to use the port building code review board instead of the city board of appeals to decide the
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action. >> okay. could i ask a question? >> we need a motion -- are you done with your presentation in. >> -- your presentation? >> yes. >> okay. can i get a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> is there any public comment on this item? no? okay. >> okay. so you have to take me back to help me understand exactly what personal wireless service facilities means. does this mean, you know, a company wants to put something in separate. we're not talking about the at&ts or verizons or whatever. >> this is actually the verizons or the at&ts. >> oh, it is. >> yeah. so in the 4-g cellular network that we have, it's typically
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pretty good size installations. the reason why we're in front of you now is there are a couple of permits that we're dealing with that closed some holes in the carrier's network. you can see in the boxes -- in the photos on the right show the difference between what the antenna looks like and the pole without the antenna. >> okay. >> and i have a -- let's see -- >> all right. and then, my only other question, looking at future technology, when 5-g comes, is it going to be hardware wise similar or is it going to be something different? >> this is going to be -- my understanding is that 5-g will utilize many devices like this. it's going to be a lot of
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smaller devices and not big antennas, so it's good for the port to own a process so we can hear process and appeals kind of contained within the port jurisdiction. >> okay. no more questions. >> commissioner adams? >> i'm fine. >> thank you for the presentation, the very brief presentation. so why would there be an appeal? >> well, the -- say you're in an apartment or you're living in your house, and this is a -- an antenna that's stuck, and it actually blocks your view. you should be able to protest that installation. the federal communications act or there's a communications act limits what you can appeal or what you can protest. they don't allow local
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jurisdictions to hear protests on radio frequency health effects. they've already set those guidelines, but if it's blocking your view or -- basically, it's blocking your view, i believe. >> have we had any? >> no, we have not. >> okay. >> but with the advent of 5-g, i feel like this can come up. >> okay. all in favor? [voting] >> resolution 1908 have been approved. >> item 14-b, new business. [please stand by]
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. >> clerk: and item 16 is adjournment. >> i make a motion that we adjourn in the memory of mike denman and florestine johnson. >> so moved. >> that was the motion? >> second. >> oh, second, sorry. all in favor [voting] >> we are adjourned.
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>> >> my name is sofy constantineo and a documentary film maker and cinema togfer, producer and director. it is inevable you want your movie to get out and realize yoi need to be a commune tee organizer to get people together to see the story you
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will tell [inaudible] pretty rich and interesting. in what we do as film makers is try to tell the best story possible so i think that is where i [inaudible] learn everything. lighting and cinematography. i got jobs of stage manger at some place and projectionist. i kind of mixed and matched as i went and kept refining i feel like it isn't just about making things that are beautiful and appealing and rich and [inaudible] the way that the films [inaudible] it has to tell a story. >> my name is sumell [inaudible] free lance multimedia produce. my project is [inaudible] mostly oof street photographry with a few portraits. i'm going arounds san francisco and capturing the [inaudible] as we started to do this project i was
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reading about the decline of african american population in san francisco and i wondered where the remaining population was and what they were doing and how life was for them. >> i wasn't very inspired by school, i wasn't very inspired by continuing to read and write and go to class. i watched a lot of movies and saw a lot of [inaudible] i said that is what i want to do. i had this very feminist [inaudible] and i felt like there was not enough of a womans vision on the stuff that we see, the movies that we make and the beginning of the [inaudible] the way we look at women and the roles women take in the stories being tolds. they felt [inaudible]
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they did want feel complex. i was like, i have a different frame i like to see the world shaped by. >> my grandsmother was a teacher and taught special education for 40 years in los angeles and when i was growing up she inspired me to record everything. we recorded our conversations, we recorded the [inaudible] we recorded everything to cassette players. learning multimedia skills, from the other crossover employment opportunities for young people. someone who grew up in la rks san francisco feels like a small town. i lived in western addition and i was looking for someone to cut my hair, i found [inaudible] he seemed like a very interesting guy and grew up in the neighborhood and had a lot to say about
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something that was foreign to me. that local perspective and so important to me because i think as someone who isn't from here, knowing that history allows me to be more engaging in the community i live in and want the same for others. i want people to move into a new neighborhood to know who was there before and businesses and what cultural and [inaudible] shape what we see today. >> my guiding principles have been, if you stick to something long enough and know what it is and go for it you will get there. [inaudible] where i want to go, what i want to do and it is totally possible so, the impossible is you know, is not something to listen to.
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>> we will begin a musical performance. we will let you start us off. [♪] [singing]
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[applause] >> i want to welcome everyone to the swearing in ceremony for jeff adachi to a fifth term here congratulations. it is quite a accomplishment. [applause] >> we are honored to have maryland and breed in attendance pack and she will be making some remarks and swearing jeff in shortly.
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i also want to recognize in attendance, the former elected public defender who is here. [applause] jeff served in that capacity for 22 years, and also the longest serving chief attorney in office 's history. [applause] >> perhaps our most important, i guess we could say criminal justice partner is in attendance district attorney george gus kony is here. [applause] >> thank you for always taking our phone calls. [laughter] >> let's see, we have our judicial officer, judge roger chan here. [applause] , and i know shamann walton is
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here who will be sworn in for district ten supervisor. it is an honor to have you here. [♪] >> i'm looking around to see if i'm missing any of the government officials. if i have missed anyone, i'm sure mayor breed, or jeff will introduce them. let me just say, for those who don't know, the public defender was founded in 1921. it is unique in california and that it is an elected position. the public defender is. most counties elected district attorney but the public defender his district osha's attempt is appointed. we have found in san francisco that this independence is critical to allowing us to vigourously represent our clients without any kind of interference. each year, our office represents 20,000 next-door individuals who cannot otherwise hire their own attorneys.
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we do this work now with just over 100 attorneys, and over 80 support staff. mayor breed is a longtime ally of our office. she is a native of san francisco , and grew up in plaza east in the western edition. she understands the important role that the public defender plays, and offering a much-needed balance to our criminal justice system. as mayor, she has embarked upon, i think it could be called a very ambitious program to try and get city services and departments to address some of the most intractable problems in some of our more neglected communities. and the public defender is in attendance. they know these issues pick these issues like homelessness, mental health, substance abuse. and of course, we wish her
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success in addressing these issues with compassion. mayor breed and jeff have known one another for a long time. for those of you who were at the swearing in four years ago, you know that the then supervisor came to swear jeff and, or to speak at that swearing in. she was in a contest at the time , angling to be the board president, and she was able to do that successfully later that day. shamann walton -- [laughter] we have a good track record now if you can come through. we are very grateful for the support that she has given your office, and please welcome her as well. [applause] >> thank you. i'm really excited to be here today because i have known jeff
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for a really long time. i was just a kid and he was already an adult. [laughter] >> but as matt said, i used to live in plaza east public housing, also known as a projects, out -- also known as out-of-control projects. some of you remember peter and jeff and they remember back in the day some of the clients that you all represented which included many of my friends and family numbers. plaza east was out of place you would not walk through, especially someone who is not african-american. the thing is, he spent a lot of time there, because many of his clients were there. he was always allowed and he was always allowed -- some of you remember the tunnel. they say oh, yeah, who are you looking for quiet do you remember those conversations, and he wasn't afraid to come into the community, work with the community, and figure out
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ways not only to represent his clients, but come up with creative solutions to prevent them from even interacting with the criminal justice system in the first place. when i was serving as executive director of the african-american art and culture complex, jeff, along with a few others came up with this amazing idea of magic. the magic program. and mobilizing adolescents, youth and our community. we created more magic in the fillmore and the be magic for bayview magic. a program that helps to work with young people at an early age, to open the doors to opportunity and make sure that they never, never engage with the criminal justice system in the first place. it has changed so many lives. the program that he has helped to implement, the program that we help to fight for when there were threats to cut funding, and didn't understand why the public
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defender's office was hosting a social service program. and they had a vision. they had a vision to change lives. he had a vision to really push forward and reform our criminal justice system. it was definitely an honor. when i became a member of the board of supervisors, to work with him on so many reforms, but especially our most recent -- recent initiative between the legislation that he helped us spearhead, and we got it through the board of supervisors, and now it is a national model that people are looking at all over the country, and the way that we address what we know is a clear inequity in our criminal justice system, which crippled so many people who have served their debt to society, and deserve a second chance, and then they get out only to find out out that all of a sudden, they have to pay these ridiculous fees and fines that they had no idea existed. this is an injustice that jeff has worked his entire life to try and protect.
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he has done so many incredible things. including hiring some of the best attorneys anywhere. sorry, george, with his attorneys are kicking but in the courts, and i am just really so excited. i am really so excited that this city embraces him and continues to support him because he is an incredible leader. he is a great inspiration. he is a great partier and dancer as she would attest to, he is just wonderful, and we really appreciate his leadership, has guidance, and i am looking forward to working with him on some additional reforms that i know are going to hopefully put all public defenders out of business. that is my goal. [applause] don't worry, i can hire some of
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you at the mayor's office. and with that, i want to ask our public defender, jeff adachi to come forward so i can administer the oath of office. do you want to do it up here? [laughter] >> okay. i will try to be allowed. okay. please raise your right hand, and repeat after me with your name. i do solemnly swear, that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states,. >> with my staff. >> on the constitution of the state of california, against all enemies, foreign and domestic that i bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution of the united states, on the
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constitution of the state of california, that i take this obligation freely, without any mental reservations,. >> or purpose of evasion. and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which i'm about to enter, and during such time as i hold the office of, public defender of the city and county of san francisco. [laughter] >> congratulations. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] >> thank you very much.
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i'm speechless, which i never am i want to thank mayor breed for being here. i can't express how much it means, not only to me, and my wife and my family, but to everyone here to have a mayor of san francisco in the house. [applause] >> and to have a mayor who deeply understands the struggle of our clients and their family, because she herself has experienced it, particularly at this time in history, with black lives matter, and criminal justice reform that is on the forefront, it is so critical. thank you. it is hard to believe that i was just reflecting this morning that it was 33 years ago this
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month i got a call from peter kane. he called at seven in the morning. he was out partying the night before or something. so are you ready to come work for us? and the amazing thing is i had just gotten out of law school and just past the bar and i sat there with a couple of interviews, but they didn't know me from anyone. i had never worked in a public defender's office. i could not afford to because back then, i couldn't -- i had to work for free. i was working for private attorneys, and rating motions, but they took a chance on me, and gave me a chance to work here in the office, and you might not even have realized how much of an impact that decision had on my life.
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who knows where i would be right now had you not given me that chance. i want to thank you both, and it was a different office then. i always struggled for resources , and the thing that jeff and peter taught us, it was taught while things. how to fight to, how to be trial lawyers, and that as public defenders, we have an obligation to constantly fight for justice at whatever cost for our clients and our families, and the second thing they did is they got us this building, and it took a lot of political running. i won't go into how it happened, but we were moved out. we were moved out of the hall of justice to have our own space here. it was so important to the dignity of our clients and their families that we were right down away from the police department.
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and we had our own private space here. again, that is why we have names this room after you. i'm so proud of what the office has achieved over the past 16 years since i've been fortunate enough to hold this position. i think, with a strong foundation that jeff and peter gave us, our challenge is to really provide the supports, not only in the courtroom, providing representation every day for people who rely upon it, and it is a very simple philosophy that we would treat our clients and their families just like we would want to be treated, are just like our brother or sister or cousin would want to be treated if they were accused of a crime, and to advocate for more resources, and it has taken
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a while to get here, and we still need more resources, but we can truly say that we provide the top representation, and it is because of each one of you, so i want to thank all the staff here, the attorneys, the investigators, social workers, paralegals, the support staff, clerical staff, who work every day to make a difference, and i'm so proud of the representation that we have provided. it is not perfect, issues come up, we get complaints sometimes, but we deal with it, and we make sure that people know that they have a lawyer and support staff in their corner that will fight for them, and that is really what it's all about. i'm very excited that in two years we are going to be celebrating our 100th anniversary. 1921 was the year that our
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office was formed. we were in the second public defender's office in the state. as you may know, the first female attorney in california spent 22 years trying to pass a bill to support public defenders , and it finally passed in 1921 at her office was formed in the next year. will have a big celebration in a couple of years and we are looking forward to that. but looking towards the future, really there is two things that i want to emphasize. one is that we will continue to provide the highest level of representation, but not only that, we are going to ensure that the problems -- the problems that we are facing, that we have created, even years ago, will continue to serve the communities that need the supports. i think what is important is when we stick to it, when we
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started with the clean slate program back in 1998, we said that we were going to provide services so people can clear their records and lead productive lives. sixteen years later, 20 years later, we are still clearing over 2,000 records a year. as was being sung earlier, a child is born with a heart of gold, the way of the world makes this heart so cold and we need to change that and a big part of that is ensuring that our kids have the opportunities. my friend is here from juvenile probation. he has worked for many years. i want to acknowledge the great work of the juvenile division under patty lee,. [applause] and providing that full level of representation to young people,
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whether it is educational, advocacy, whether it is ensuring people get good outcomes in cases that they don't wind up with a conviction on the record, is absolutely key, but as mayor breed said, we have to go beyond that. that is a reason why we started the magic program. we wanted to be able to provide support for young people. this is something that mayor breed understands. one of the most important initiatives that she announced in addition to addressing homelessness and mental health treatment, and housing, is to find jobs for youth. she is really pushing ahead to ensure that every young person in this city has an opportunity for a job. they say nothing stops a bullet more than a job, and it is
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providing a young person with an opportunity. i know for me when i was growing up, i grew up on the other side of the tracks, but having a job, i worked at a chinese restaurant and i got a dollar ten in our, but to me, that was honest money that i was making for a change, and it really turned my life around to be able to do that. so we have to work with the mayor and her administration to reach out to the private sector, to the nonprofit sector, to government agencies, to ensure that we are able to provide those opportunities for young people. i'm so proud of the work that we have done in our immigration unit. they have been doing tremendous work in providing representation to detain immigrants. thank you to the board of supervisors and mayor breed. and i can't say enough about
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looking forward and working with shamann walton, our new supervisor who will be sworn in today. and the residence of district ten. many our clients and families who come from the district. will be working very closely with you, also with vallie brown in district five, and matt haney who was recently elected, and all the supervisors. looking forward, also, i want to say that we will continue to be one of the most diverse offices in the country. every year we put out an annual report, and this year we celebrate women defenders. our office has over half of our leadership and half of our staff are women. forty% are people of color. about 20% are lgbtq. i am so proud of the diversity.
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y.? because we also represent the population that we serve and that is absolutely critical going forward and it makes me very proud that we are one of the most diverse offices in the country. before i sit down, i do want to thank three people who happened to be women, and presents them with some flowers. first i would like to thank my wife, who has been great support [applause] >> when i was running for office , she used to get in fights with people on the street about who to vote for. [laughter] >> that's why i got elected. next i would like to thank mayor
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breed. [applause] >> she has a lot on her plate, and we will be there to support her all the way. finally, i would like to thank angela, my assistant. [cheers and applause] when i was a line attorney, we became friends, and when i became public defender, we had lunch, and i said, hey, i need you to be my confidential assistant, and she agreed, i couldn't imagine being on this journey without her. thank you, angela. it is so good to see all of you.
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thank you so much for being here and being part of this celebration. i am going to ask you to come up again and rock out one more song here to put some justice in our souls as we go to court this morning. [applause] >> you have to get up now. come on. [♪]
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>> the municipal charter for the city and county of san francisco , this january 8th, 2019 inaugural meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors will come to order. we will begin with the roll call for attendance, pursuant