spaces and also planning design for adaptation to climate change and sea level rise. i think that this is an area that has been a focus for our program from the beginning, but hudson river park had some real hard lessons that they learned in the super storm sandy about the impacts that that had on their facilities. and then always planning and design for flexibility and being able to respond to the use that comes to the park even when it may not be being used exactly the way that you originally envisioned that it would be used. some highly successful places, for instance, in brooklyn bridge park are being used as wedding photo backdrops and other things that the designers didn't necessarily think of when they were designing these spaces but that's how people have responded

to them. and also experimenting in programming and in events to see what resonates with the community and what draws interest. and where groups of advocates for programs or flexibility come forward and make them invested in the -- in the ongoing operation and programming of the space, give them a management function. so i had an analogy for this but it's escaped me. but then also the role -- even if these parks don't fall under the san francisco park system, to -- to have discussion about what is the role of the city either in programming, how does, for instance, our sports fields interact with the programming of rec and park sports fields and also indemnity and security for operations of the parks.

so some plan next steps for us is to look more locally here for engagement with the city or trust or others on lessons that we can learn and models that we can seek to replicate, to explore conservancy and stewardship structures and planning for the contracting of park maintenance services, and ensuring that we have adequate maintenance and support spaces in our design. and any rules that we need to adopt and then moving on from there. >> president tsen: great, thank you. if you don't mind, miss richardson has asked to ask a question. >> thank you very much, bob beck, for that detailed presentation. what i wanted to have an

extension and to give my editorial comment because i was one of the two commissioners that had this rare and golden opportunity. and i want to start by -- every now and then people ask me, what is the composition of the treasure island board of directors. and i get asked that question often. and i have to pause. every now and then i am letting the public know that on this commission that we have people with extensive -- study from development experience, real estate, facility policy, land-use planning, that's why we're here. for me there is also someone on this commission that epitomizes all the aforementioned and that is commissioner tsen, our

president, harvard education and very extensive. for me the takeaway from this rare and wonderful tour -- and we need to really underscore that -- individually it would never have happened. we were never, never have been able to put together the calibre of the people that we saw in new york. it was mind blowing, i need to really state that. why is that? because a lot of things that we saw -- san francisco even a world-class city, we do not have that. there are certain things, many things going on in new york and new york is a bigger place and it's a place that fully developed and we're talking about high density and everything and san francisco for decades is having our own unique set of development.

we have obligations on this commission as we are developing a world-class treasure island and yerba buena island, a place that would have other people coming from all over the world to see what we have here. so we cannot sit here and do just the mediocre. we have to really look at this, and we have to assemble world class. that's what the commissioner tsen did, spent months, months in putting this together. we have world-class architects and landscape architects and we also have our team here and is to go there and see what the models and the best practices in design. in san francisco we do not have open space like in new york. here we have everything is done within a city agency, but that is fine and what we're hearing all over the world is that, no,

to sustain the maintenance of those, you're going have to to explore some other areas there because the city model and all of the -- for the longevity and you'll spend hundreds of millions to design landscape and open space, it will not work. if you have a plan to have the financial implications and how they'll be and the materials and everything and it's not going to get there. so you'll end up in creating all of this -- san francisco is actually grappling with that statement now. when the redevelopment agency was abruptly disbanded we had all open space now that we do not know what it will look like in 10 years' time. so going to new york and looking at all of this is that basically we have professors from cornell university and they were gracious and they gave out a red

carpet of a lifetime. i think that we also learned that for us reciprocity, we all in san francisco, all of us, better be able to match what kind of treatment that we have in the kind of professionalism and everything that we learned there. it was more than educational. even there i was thinking about my fellow commissioners because of the quorum, and if there's any other way, i don't know that you can duplicate this tour that everybody really needs to see what we need to see. i think that the commissioners and the mayors have said before that, yes, you're experts in real estate and in structural and anything you don't have the expertise, okay? so even though we have expertise in certain areas here but there's collectively certain areas that you cannot make that decision here unless you see what the other people are doing. that's what this trip -- now in terms of art -- we invited jill

mantle from the arts commission and i had the privilege of going with us here. when built it will be opened in 2019, there is no other place in the world that would be like the shed. and we need to put that on the record here. the architecture of the place, the opportunity for art, for visual, all forms of art, are gug to be there. so san francisco needs to really think and, again, art is part of our development here and it's part of the financial implications. and people are going to go to the shed before they come to san francisco when it fully opens. again, when you look at the design and the structure, and some of the things that we could do on treasure island and the landscape architects and they're the finest in the world. they are already involved with the broo brook brooklyn bridge e

companies will build in san francisco and new york and san diego and in all of over the world. so the takeaway for me is that you had outlined some of the things that we really need to look at. and i think that there are serious, serious issues that we need to really look at. how will we be financially, again, manage all of these parks and open space. treasure island will have more open space than the golden gate park. and so the discussion must begin right here for all of you commissioners now. and it's not that we want to kick the can down the road. so we know the expectations and i would think that going to new york now is important to have this parallel discussion that we'll put in place when we are going to be approving all of these plans. that obligation rests on this commission to really look at putting something in place that

we can begin to engage all of the stakeholders as to how we're going to get on treasure island and that's part of the things that we looked at. so commissioner, you are more modest and gratitude for you for these efforts and we owe you a great deal. and it shows your influence and your class because your harvard education and your colleagues and we are very grateful. where do we go from here? i think that there are other places that we need to look at as commissioner samaha. most of us here, even all, would travel all over the world extensively. there is no place that i go to that i do not go to the parks and look at the sculptures and the museums. when i'm in europe i do that and in africa we had national parks and tropical plants and whatever. we really, really need to look at that. and the takeaway for me,

mr. beck, is that we need also -- and i mentioned it earlier -- we need to have a dialogue as to how we'll treat the work of other parks. they warned us that we must be extremely mindful of what we put -- when you are expecting millions of people to come to the parks, they accentuated your waterway will make-or-break you in what you do in that. that will eat up most of the cost of maintenance is the financial implications. so we're going to all have takeaways there and we'll be doing that and i am pleased, even on my own money, i want to go back to new york and to the shed when it's open. so thank you for that editorial statement and it's to convey to the city of san francisco that it was well spent and that this commission, all of you, should be thinking about us getting out of here and to really look at

the best practices in design. and that's what you can take away from this tour. >> president tsen: thank you. i'm leave my comments to later. but miss lai, yes. >> thank you, linda, for sharing your perspective on that. and, yeah, i would agree that it would be fun to go see it firsthand, but i also feel that we have a lot of experts who have been consulting and helping us. and they have seen a lot of this. so we're certainly relying on you. just a couple of questions. i have never been to governors island before but i think that i only saw the piers and there's no, like bridge or any kind of vehicular means to get on and off the island, right? >> ferry access only. >> okay. so how did the students get on and off the island? because there's no housing there, right? >> there's no housing on the island. they commute via the ferry every day.

>> how much is the ferry? >> i'm not certain. the operation -- the operating budget for governors island comes through the governor -- or the mayor's budget of the city of new york and i believe that about 50% of their annual operating budget goes to subsidize the ferry service to the island. >> oh, 50%. okay. >> of the governor's island operating budget is -- goes into the operation of the ferries or subsidizing the operation of the ferries. >> okay, and the other 50% is just -- >> well, the other is the rest of their operations. so 50% of the budget for governors island is going into subsidizing the operation for to and from the island. >> that's a lot. so the ferry is not free?

>> it's $3 round trip. $3 round trip and $1 for seniors and $1 for children 13 or younger. >> that's very affordable. how long is that ride? >> seven minutes. >> seven minutes? okay. so actually approximately the same as from -- >> (indiscernible). >> yeah, i'm just very curious about their model and, you know, their cost recovery or percentage, all of that. maybe if you have some additional information that we can roll into a ticd meeting. i'm just very curious how other people operate their ferries. >> we did ask a lot of questions about the ferry and i think that it's good to compare. but the fare will never pay for the services itself. >> not in america, but, yeah. that was not supposed to be --

(indiscernible) just a fact in. other parts of the world it can happen. and then questions about the conservancy and i'm not familiar with how that works. are conservancies typically just essentially like a quasi government agency or is it really a non-profit? >> yeah, it varies in the model. some are kind of purely non-profit if you think of like the friends and rec park here in san francisco. and to full -- more like a business improvement district and i think that for brian park, you know, that -- brian park is managed by the bid for the neighborhood around brian park. but, yeah, for central park, you know, it started as a means of

trying to put additional money into the main park because in the 1980s, you know, the city of new york will declare bankruptcy and so forth and central park had become not a very hospitable place. so there was really a philanthropic effort to to raise the level. so it started this way and then moved to operations. and now for central park, two-thirds of the park operations are by the conservancy. and the city parks system still has some operations, but two-thirds ever the operation of central park are under the conservancy. so in that case it's a quasi governmental function. >> president tsen: let me just add to that. i mean, one of the reasons that

we had this tour was to look at different models tha models tha. and new york being a city that is in some ways older in their management of various parks, they've had different models. and i think that what we will do, bob, with your help and with your staff's help, is to next year one of the things that we should look at very carefully is what some of those models are because we have to manage in the end 290-acres of open space, hw we are going to do that. we haven't had a plan brought to us at the board to look carefully and very detailed budget of what it's going to take to operate and manage these various neighborhood parks and those city side parks and the various open spaces that we have. capital improvements and building the parks is one thing, but we've got to ensure that it's going to be maintained and

it's going to be open and it's going to be able to be -- again, you know, to operate and maintained in a clean safe way for all of the people involved. so looking at the various models was one of the things that we were hoping to do. and let me just say that because of core missions, we couldn't bring the whole commission on this trip but it is certainly my intention that all of you will have a chance at some point in time to participate and we'll bring the people over to participate with us and there will be other trips in the future. >> so a question about our existing park systems in san francisco. and we have one of the largest parks here too. golden gate park. is there a conservancy that

already works with that park. >> i think it's a 51-c but not a conservancy. >> okay. >> president tsen: mr. samaha. >> a few comments and a couple questions. one, i have been on this commission long enough, i think 12 years now, to remember that we did have a discussion about conservancy for our parks. i don't know how many years ago this was that we had this discussion, but so much comes before us and we had so many reiterations of a lot of our plans. but did we not have a position on establishing a conservancy for the management of the parks? for treasure island? >> i haven't gone back to some of the board conversations and actions. the open space plan and they

left it as an open question but that doesn't necessarily, you know, kind of catch the nuances of conversation that was happening at the board when the open phase plan was discussed here. >> it's just one of the options discussed but i remember having a very thorough discussion, it was before your time i believe, bob. and we have flushed that out and we thought that it was a great idea not to have rec and park manage the park and to have our own sort of way to manage and fund and all of that. so this is just one thing that i wanted to mention. and the other thing is that i was sorry that i could not go to new york city and i know that because of the brown act and other limitations for the way that we hold public meetings and

we could not all be there but i'm happy that a member of our board and staff were there to bring back the knowledge. and when i look at the number of locations where you guys went, i'm awed by new york and it really makes us feel so small. and it reminds me of a trip that i took years ago which is before and we went to the champagne region in france. i'm from the bay area and feeling all big that we have a big wine region and we said we have the mumm winery here in napa and we went to mumm and they had 25-kilometers of tunnel under the city just for them.

and it reminded me of how much bigger other areas are and how huge new york is and how much we can learn and i'd like to suggest bringing people here as well and not having to go there. and also i like this enough -- and thank you for doing that, bob -- and the synopsis and the next steps and we should look at the next steps here and develop, you know, to have more hearings and to have more study on many of these. because these need to be flushed out. one of the things that, you know, the fact of open space and the design is a really big one and i think that sometimes we get so caught up in the moment where we think that it's going to be the need that we have and it reminds me of clients of mine buying a house and you go in there and they say we want to

remodel everything and do all of this. and i say, wait, live in it for two or three years and see what you really need from the space. i think that we should carry that model here somewhat in terms of moving forward with our spaces on the island and how do we, you know, build in flexibility, among all of the next steps that you have mentioned here. so i look forward to us going through this as a way for us to move forward, to grow and learn, and, yeah, we also have a lot of other regional areas here, models, al ameadea, and there's a lot in the bay area that we can learn from that we don't have to go all the way to new york. but thank for doing that, commissioner tsen, for setting that up and let's use it to grow and move forward here. >> president tsen: mr. dunlop. >> thank you very much, and thank you for your work on this,

and the two of you just must have -- boy, that's a lot of work in a very short amount of time -- two days or something? amazing. and i, yeah, so i'm very grateful for your work. and it's going to take a lot of conversation to get it all -- pull it all out of you. but i think that it seems to me that the most important thing is the funding question. and the funding question to permanently fund it and that means that 50 years from now that it's not going to be falling apart because there's no money. we really have to look at that and make sure that what we put up is also what we can actually afford. and we're not leaving some huge debt for future generations,

that we're leaving an ed fis that we can all be proud of that will always be there. and i know that will be a major part of our conversation. and it probably should be a part that just goes parallel as we talk about what we're doing, like, you know, again, beautiful dog park. i love it. but is that going to be affordable in 20 years? and is there some way that we -- like, say the city as it occasionally does, goes into the red, will we be able to keep our part up? and to be able to maintain it to the standards that we have and which are very high standards. so just my two cents. thank you, again, for your efforts. >> president tsen: thank you, mr. dunlop. and let we just say that the

trip to new york was meant to inspire us with some ideas that they have instituted and also to look at carbon problems and issues that come up with the management of large open spaces. that is something that we'll have to dedicate ourselves to. but it was not meant to say that we have to copy what new york does. in fact, it's really interesting to note that when they were asked, the new york designers were asked what inspired them, they would say san francisco and they are inspirations to us. so we know that we have our own set of -- how should i -- design aesthetic and the fact that we really have an incredible, spectacular setting which is quite unrivaled in the world. we have world-class architects

and landscape architects here who are designing for us. so it was not meant to say that we had to copy them, but just to say that there are issues and ideas that we can share. and what came out of this is that we really have to focus in on what it's going to take to manage and maintain these open spaces in these parks and we have to have as they have done with many of their parks, even before they were finished, very detailed budgets on, you know, so that we know what is the funding that is required to make sure that we incorporate that in all of our planning and financing. and i am sure that there will be other types of trips to bring

and one is about affordable housing. so we will do that in the future. but i wanted to thank -- i wanted to thank linda for coming and i thank the landscape architects and tida staff and all of our partners at treasure island development. i think that it was a great group to go and to look and listen and then to bring back to san francisco the best ideas. so thank you all. >> thank you. >> president tsen: okay, let's see, any comments from the public? if not -- yes, yes. >> i'll comment quickly. first of all, i'm so sorry that i didn't get to go on that, i was nursing a knee injury and i'm sure they would have slowed you guys down too much. but i'm really glad that you all went. >> president tsen: and your partner too. >> and my partner got to go and so that was great. it was a short 20 years ago that

i was touring the contingency around chrissy field when they were looking to start working on broobrooklyn bridge park, so ita small world. i wanted to remind you that commissioner samaha you were right that we had an all-day workshop on conservancies and the benefits of those, maybe more than 10 years ago in one of the great ybi, and we had them from the california state park foundation. i think that isabelle wade was there from the neighborhood parks council and we had spoken to isbilisabelle krouse and alle people on how it might work. they are takeaways that i would be happy to dig up with you and share with you as we start this conversation. and the big one is that it was too soon then. so i think that now it's not too soon. it's just the right time. and the other was that the

success to many of these parks has to do with very active programming to keep things going on and to attract more people out there that also help to attract different types of funding and that also increases the cost for maibs because you -- maintenance because you have more people out there running around. so programming and maintenance are really a key thing for us to all work on soon. and i'd be happy to help in any way that i can. >> president tsen: thank you. all right, next item please. >> clerk: item 10, the year ahead. >> president tsen: that's a good segue, bob. >> yeah, so i just wanted to, you know, it's kind of a traditional january meeting to take a look at some of what is coming up in the next year. and, you know, starting with the navy transfer map, again, everything in rows and purple and in peach have now transferred to tida. this next year we expect to get

site 24 which is shown in green and then towards the end of 2020 or more likely in 2021, so we may take 2020 off, but more likely in 2021, some of the northeastern corner of the island will come -- come and then the last part. so the end of 2021, early 2022, which is site 12. it's really the only site where there's active work going on at this time. and in terms of infrastructure planning design, we have touched on it many times. a bulk of our focus in this next year is going to be shepherding the subphase three mapping activities through the various city agencies and through the board of supervisors and the department of public works. and that will be -- it's a very important -- in terms of maintaining progress and

financing on behalf of the developer and just keeping a flow to the construction work on the island.

on the podium building and left-hand corner there in february for their site work engraving. that will also be including inclusionary units for y.b.i. the other sites are in the planning approval. the townhomes that will be adjacent to the podium building. the affordable sites on t.i. are engage with the planning

department and in 2019 the planning review sites should begin as well. just to move through the design, substantially through the design and permitting process this year and target in june of 2020. seeking a funding so we can fully fund the mercy catholic charities site and continue to refine our financing projections for the third and subsequent projects. that includes pursuing legislative changes at the state level for the rid legislation to law the pledging of as well as

extending it to 45 years. also discuss monitoring the discussed around redevelopment that are going on at the state level now. that governor has been sworn in and it's a real focus for the legislature. and then also, begin the process with arwsf of shepherding our income households through the income certification process including households that would qualify for the for sale inclusionary units. partnership with sftva and tma, again, as the mobility

management agency they're working on the towing policies for the island and so, continuing that process this year. again with the objective in 2021, or late 2021, both the tolling and ferry service and the ac transit service being in place. on the legislative front, i mentioned earlier the marina and sailing center leases are with the budget annalist office right now and we expect they'll be heard in february or march. after conducting additional resident outreach and some studies as directed by the commission, we'll be bringing the towing policies back for approval to the timma commission. i mentioned the subdivision mapping processes that will be going through the board of

supervisors around the end of the year as well as the state legislative efforts. november, next november of 2019, capital planning committee is planning to have earthquake safety and emergency response bond on the ballot, which doesn't necessarily sound like it's treasure-island related but one of the elements of that bond measure will be a financing of a new fire-training academy to be built elsewhere which is one of the things that we need to relocate off of the island as we continue to move forward. this is the city's effort to fund that replacement facility. concluding with our standing items, this is officially the first meeting of 2018. our new board officers are taking their seats now. in march, i'll have informational item on our

2019-2020 budget. april and november we have our on-island meetings and then the budget adoption in may and we'll go true the court office and selection process again. with that, that concludes my presentation. >> over the holidays and as recent as two days ago, a lot of people were asking me about the toll for treasure island. i took the time and educated them, letting them know that last year we were trying to be in compliance that the state legislature, after the little berating, made the suggestion

that we should provide water transportation and the toll actually is paying for the ferries and also as a transitment a lot of people in the audience, when i was speaking, said no, they did not even know that. i think we need to, when we talk about the toll, to the legislature to the board of supervisors, to the constituents, that we need to have this pre am bell to know because people do not comprehend that san francisco, treasure island, is unlike any other city neighborhood. it's the only one that is in the world so to speak. and is the only one that is heavily impact approximated by the meltdown of traffic on the bay bridge. earlier on, the powers that be, more powerful people than us, in approving the development for the island, made a suggestion that we have to have various

modes of transportation. it is going to be the only neighborhood that is even well served, more in transportation of all kinds than anywhere in san francisco. and in mainland. that this very purchase and the transit is na addition to muni doing its part but that's not enough and that the ferry will be there. when we go back to the board of supervisors and announce that we have a new district supervisor, who is going to be dealing with that, before i spoke to, were at his event, his constituents. and everybody is listening about the toll. treasure island and but i every one of us wants to go out there and we just speak here many of we have to include that pre am

bell so people understand the toll is to provide for the ferry service because the city of san francisco but truth be told, they will be pay for that. the property developers is committing a lot of money for the four or five years. so where do we go for after five years? that discussion is to be at the mayor's level and the supervisors where when they have bond money for muni or anything they need to include treasure island. they need to do like amtrak and how they are subsidized. we are also looking for additional money from the cap-and-trade and from the proposition 3. i think we're able to package, that we do not have any obligation and we do not go there, we're going to be arrow compliant and i think that we

need to be with dialogue now and let people know in 2021 that all these decisions need to be made now. to purchase the ferry, there are things you have to go through and that for the operations, in here we're going to have the first residents in 2021 and i don't care if they are 30 people, 300, we still have to be compliant and hear lies the urge urgency. let's begin that and welcome the supervisor to treasure island. he can talk to the legislature and his fellow exercise supervis the only way we can get to this matter. >> thank you. the toll policy will be coming to us in 2019. >> we'll be back in february.

anyone from the public, please come up. >> my name is natalie and as bob said before, i have the pleasure of standing in sherry williams' schools for two months while she's on sabbatical. i wanted t. i would put this under future addenda items. but it's really in the next few weeks and that is about matt haney's town hall. the project for source of plow chairs and china town cdc does have a gap and hopefully after this meeting we'll do some looking. because of the town hall suggestion, myself and cdc will be at the town hall tomorrow. i wanted to implore, as you go through your opportunities and speaking with the powers that be, the gap, the gap it has is

it's based on funding scenarios and frankly with the funds to fill in the gap which is $10 million, still, it would go a long way. it's a modular project that would replace the housing for all currents of shares residents and some of you may have seen this and i just wanted to put in a plug that we are trying to do an active ask and see campaign to the construction could begin sooner. i wanted to thank you for that opportunity and thank you for telling me about the town hall. >> thank you, natalie. thank you. >> any other comments? hearing none.

>> discussion of future agenda items by directors. >> directors. are there any items? >> i'm sorry. this is very brief and might have been something more appropriate at the beginning. i wasn't here. so, i have heard from a lot of the residents about the grace concert the other day. i guess everybody was pretty thrilled about it except those that didn't know and weren't so happy about the noise. imagine dragons is a big group and very popular. that was great. but, then people have been asking me, i seem to be the dog park guy. will the dog park be rebuilt? i guess they took a bunch of the fences down and so people have asked me about that. i didn't have time today so

maybe it's already rebuilt. if it could be rebuilt and then there's a lot of gaps, not a lot but a few gaps where a small dog can zip through. so maybe while you are -- while whoever is replacing the fencing, they could take attention to that too. >> the outline of the staging should be going back up. i'll make a note and pass it along with the comment you made about the bottom of the fence. >> ok. >> maybe magic dragons can donate something for our dogs. >> they'll pay for the restoration. >> thank you. >> thank you. any other comments or questions? >> could we put the conservancy discussion on sooner than later. an agenda of the various funding

options for the open space on treasure island? >> yes. we definitely will -- all of the discussions of the park is going to be, as with housing and other topics it will be a regular a again agenda item moving forwar. >> maybe a future agenda item, it might be interesting how special events find out about treasure island and how they can book treasure island. if we do any outreach to try ane do things like that? >> we can work with jack and prepare a report. it's not generally a large source of revenue but it is, you know, both for people on the island and people who vis the the island, it's a community exercise in many cases. >> great. >> excellent. >> hearing no other questions, we can now adjourn.

>> yes. >> wonderful. >> thank you. >> thank you all for coming. >> good meeting, thank you. happy new year.

>> when i look at an old neon sign that's working or not working, i feel the family business that was in there. >> since 2009, citywide, sf shines, has supported businesses and sites like the ones that receive new neon signs. >> you know, sf shines is doing

an amazing job to bring back the lighting and the neon glow of san francisco. >> sf shines is such an amazing program, and i can't think of another program in another city that gives matching gunned funds to store owners, mom and pop owners, and if they've got a neon sign, they've really got a great way to advertise their business. >> this is a continuation of the sf shines program. >> focusing other neon signs is relatively new to us. of the seven neon signs, we've invested about $145,000. >> a good quality sign costs more, but it lasts infinitily longer. as opposed to lasting five

years, a good neon sign will last 15 to 20 years. >> in san francisco, the majority of neon signs are for mom-and-pop businesses. in order to be able to restore these signs, i think it gives back to your community. >> part of the project has to do with prioritizing certain signs in the neighborhood based on their aesthetics, based on their current signs, and base on the history. in the time that we've been here, we've seen a number of signs restored just on eddy street. >> there are a number of signs in the tenderloin and many more that are waiting or wanting to be restored. i have worked with randall and al, and we've mapped out every single one of them and rated them as to how much work they would need to get restored. that information is passed onto sf shines, and they are going

to rank it. so if they have x budget for a year, they can say all right, we're going to pick these five, and they're putting together clusters, so they build on top of what's already there. >> a cluster of neon signs is sort of, i guess, like a cluster of grapes. when you see them on a corner or on a block, it lights up the neighborhood and creates an ambient glow. if you havy got two of three of them, you've created an atmosphere that's almost like a movie set. >> some of the hotel, we've already invested in to get those neon signs for people to enjoy at night include the elk hotel, jefferson hotel, the verona, not to mention some we've done in chinatown, as well as the city's portal neighborhood. >> we got the fund to restore

it. it took five months, and the biggest challenge was it was completely infested with pigeons. once we got it clean, it came out beautiful. >> neon signs are often equated with film noir, and the noir genre as seen through the hollywood lens basically depicted despair and concentration. >> you would go downtown and see the most recent humphrey bogart film filled with neon in the background. and you'd see that on market street, and as market street got seedier and seedier and fewer people continued to go down, that was what happened to all the neon strips of light. >> the film nori might start

with the light filled with neon signs, and end with a scene with a single neon sign blinking and missing a few letters. >> one of my favorite scenes, orson welles is chasing ririt rita hayworth with neon signs in the background. >> i think what the office of economic and workforce development is very excited with is that we'll be able to see more neon signs in a concentrated way lit up at night for visitors and most especially residents. the first coin laundry, the elm hotel, the western hotel are ones that we want to focus on

in the year ahead. >> neon signs are so iconic to certain neighborhoods like the hara, like the nightcap. we want to save as many historic and legacy neon signs in san francisco, and so do they. we bring the expertise, and they bring the means to actually get the job done. >> people in tenderloin get really excited as they see the signs relit. as you're driving through the tenderloin or the city, it pretty much tells you something exciting is happening here. >> knee an was created to make the night more friendly and advertise businesses. it's a great way of supporting and helping local businesses. >> there's so many ways to improve public safety. the standard way is having more eyes on the street, but there's other culturally significant ways to do that, and one those ways is lighting up the streets. but what better way and special

way to do that is by having old, historic neon signs lighting up our streets at night and casting away our shadows. >> when i see things coming back to life, it's like remembering how things were. it's remembering the hotel or the market that went to work seven days a week to raise their money or to provide a service, and it just -- it just -- it just

>> my s.f. dove -- government t.v. moment was when i received a commendation award from supervisor chris daly. then we sang a duet in the board chamber. [singing] >> happy anniversary san francisco government t.v. happy anniversary to you. happy anniversary san francisco government t.v. anniversary, anniversary, happy 25th anniversary to you. [♪]

[pledge of allegiance] >> this is a reminder to silence all electronic devices. fire commission regular meeting wednesday, january 9, 2019, and the time is 9:01. item one, roll call. ro