governors of california. we need to have empathy, and we need to have compassion. when people come here and tell you they've been harassed, they need the support. i worked for the army, rose very high, the national park service, and the united states park police, so i understand crooks. i'm not afraid of them. i have very high clearance, i am not afraid of crooks, and believe me in this chamber, there are some crooks dealing with dark money, and i'm not afraid of them. and you talk about segments of the population suffering, we need to talk about the native americans, and we need to talk about people of color. thank you very much. >> president yee: okay. next speaker, please.

>> hi. my name is gloria berry, and i would like to thank the supervisors that supported the reform del gegate candidates lt saturday. second, i heard the words affordable housing used in this meeting. it used to be that affordable housing meant that the cab driver or regular worker could afford a house in the city. now, unless a building is 100% affordable, affordable housing is now code word for gentrification. by thinking it's acceptable to build 70% with those who earn

ov over $82,000, for those at the poverty level, their chances are reduced drastically, and people, specifically black people, are pushed out. now, the shipyard. recently, there was a study done at the shipyard with a small sample soil in the last six months that contained radio active substances at levels below the navy's cleanup targets at the naval shipyard but above the safety goals for the super fund sites set by the u.s. environmental protection agency. also, at the san francisco police department crime lab at the shipyard, their water is still being tested and is troubling levels of lead. they're still drinking bottled water, request the surrounding

areas be tested and verified if there are independent plumbing. the shipyard has existed before a lot of us were born. i demand -- [inaudible] >> president yee: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name's ellen, and i'm a long time resident of san francisco. [inaudible] >> state constitution regulations and building codes require the members of the appeal board to be knowledgeable in applicable building codes, regulations and ordinances. san francisco b.o.a. members do not possess this qualifications except frank fung, an

architect. he's been in this position since 1986. he stated in one of the hearings that building and planning are satisfied with the plans, then he would be satisfied with it. he has been holding his position for too long, and forget his position, which is to uphold safe and new constructions. [inaudible] >> other b.o.a. members have deferred the board's decision to mr. fung, and now, the project says the plans are too complicated. the lack of qualifications forced them to make wrong decisions, and unfortunately their wrong decisions are final, but have negative impact on people's projects and at the pointant safety. you appoint unqualified b.o.a. membe members. i have a request for specific

requirement to -- [inaudible] >> -- and i hope that one of you will provide us with the responsive code to our requests as tax payers and residents. we are entitled to receive a responsible answer. thank you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, supervisors. i'm peter warfield, executive director of library users association, and congratulations to those of you newly elected as well as reelected. i have two main subjects with respect to the library fines and fees.

[inaudible] >> because they are barriers to access and especially fall most heavily on the poorest people. so we're certainly glad that the library is getting rid of fines, but they're not getting rid of fees. in fact, the report that they have worked on, called long overdue, is filled with absolutely reasonable reasons why fines should be abolished, but there's no analysis whatsoever of fees. well, if a library patron loses a simple adult book, easily $35, could be 50, could be 100. how are they going to pay that, especially if that's their

budget for food for the week? how about a link-plus book, which if you take it out, says right on the cover, $115 flat fee if you use it, even if you could get a replacement for $1 on-line and $4 replacement. these fees are just as damaging and even more so because they hit suddenly. earlier today, you heard the mayor talk about equity. the library should strongly consider eliminating fees, and you should insist the library study the subject of inequities at the library. >> president yee: thank you. any other speakers? come on up. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen of the board. my name is winship hillier. i'm in a bit of an uncomfortable situation.

i am a target of federal intelligence surveillance and have been since about 2001. i've made the appropriate inquiries, and from the what i can tell, i've been designated as an international terrorist. this means that the united states attorney general or designee had to certify facts showing that i am engaged in dangerous activities -- or activities dangerous to human life for or on behalf of a foreign power -- excuse me while i remember this stuff -- in order to intimidate or coerce a civilian population. okay. this is all ridiculous, of course, but these facts were certified in what's well known as the secret court.

there was no opportunity to be heard, no notice, etc., and so i've never had a chance to -- to -- negate them. and moreover, a lot of people know about this in this town. i think probably the entire knows about it, probably knows about this status and refuses to help. negligent failure to warn. about $2.4 million minimum statutory damages are due to me because of this wrongful certification, and well gosh, no one will fess up about it. no one will share, no one will defend my constitutional rights under the fourth amendment. back to you, madam clerk. >> president yee: okay. are there any other public comments? seeing none, then, public comment is now closed.

[ gavel ]. >> president yee: so madam clerk, could we have the next item, please. 77? >> clerk: yes. item 77 was introduced for adoption without reference to committee, a unanimous vote is required for resolutions on first read today. there aren't any. it's a motion, however, it can be severed, discussed about separately. >> president yee: okay. there's only one, so any -- i don't see anybody on the roster. can we take this item, same house, same call, without -- without objection? this motion is approved unanimously. [ gavel ]. >> president yee: madam clerk, can you please call the next item. >> clerk: yes. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. on behalf of supervisor fewer, for the late miss lisa susan montevu. on behalf of supervisor peskin, for the late mr. al glassgold and mr. tom guido.

on behalf of supervisor stefani for the late mr. john james walsh, and on behalf of supervisor stefani and supervisor peskin, for the late mr. michael richard farris, sr., and the late richard newsom. >> president yee: okay. that brings us to the end of the agenda. madam clerk, are there any further business before us? but before you say anything, i want to say thank you to my colleagues for making this meeting easy to chair. i know it won't be like this every week, but thank you for today. madam chair? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> president yee: okay. meeting adjourned.

of discussion here with yourself included. >> sure. >> i do have a couple of questions. i remembered that girl last, but these are key. i think commissioner lee might be the best person to answer these, i'm very familiar with conducting sound tests where the hiring consultants. i've had to do that many times. i am less with decibel leader --

meter logs and installing limiters and what it actually entails. you might have some experience in this and how onerous is this? is it buying something on the internet and plugging it in? >> not necessarily. inspector berg maybe able to speak more to this, but our meter, for example, was upwards of $5,000, and it has the capability to produce reports that show your meter readings any time you do a reading. i don't know how common it is for your every day sound meter to be able to perform functions like that. >> shawn burke here. i believe they have a meter that is already installed that has a capability. >> know they don't. know they don't. >> okay. >> they don't. we have discussed it. there meter does very minimal stuff. it doesn't produce reports. it doesn't even connect to a computer to show that data. >> i just want to -- and we have

gone through this, we have had the remodelling, the soundproofing, and all the sound consultants coming in, and back and forth, and all this, the sound limiter, you know, it is a big deal. it seems like all these complaints, that it is supposed to be on the honour system, and it seems like the honour system, somewhere along the line, either they are letting it go, the d.j. is pumping it up and going over, a limiter going over the set level will really distort the sound, to the point where it really upsets the d.j. and everyone else pick eventually the d.j. plays and the wax in your ear starts getting worse asparagus starts muffling the sound. they tend to raise it even higher. to mitigate this, a sound

limiter doesn't work, but they have to have a sound technician there to kind of massage it or tell them to lower it back down so that what happens is the limiter pushes, when they go to a certain level, it pushes it back down, and it sounds very distorted, but when they go back down, it will come back up. the clarity gets back to just better when it gets to that set level. but the problem is is a lot of d.j.s will not go back down, and they just think that the sound system is all messed up. so to really solve this issue, to me, the sound limiter might be the only other way, and i'm only saying that because we've done this all these different levels. >> i hear that, and i appreciate hearing that. i think the question that we have before us is that what does it entail to actually install a limiter, what is the process take, because the request that she is having is to hold off until she can -- i want to

discuss this without her here. >> let me just say, to put a sound limiter, it is just like putting a unit in line with your system. it goes into the rack. i remember back in the day, the police department used to tell us we have to put it in a room where his -- that is locked. that nobody can go in there and change it. times have changed. from when i was doing it. >> they don't wanted to get manipulated. they were not limiting. that was not the spirit of the agreement. >> so it's not that big of a deal. >> we did, in my mind, and just for the sake of time, i do want to hear anybody that has thoughts, in my mind, we did put some serious conditions in place here to manage what we saw and see as a problem. i personally don't have a problem as we have these discussions because of the

serious nature of them, delaying the implementation of them by a little while longer, i think personally, it will come sooner and it will be here before we even know it, just judging by how my life is going by before my eyes. anyway, those are my thoughts, but i welcome your thoughts as well. >> i think it is fine if we give her the extension of a month with the dates that are indicated, but i do want her to submit evidence that there is dates calendared with each of these different vendors that she is citing, just based on track record with the estimates, and the scope of work, and deadlines , just based on always -- i think we have been very generous in terms of providing extensions. >> i can only speak to the sound test on that, but i will definitely remain apprised of land that is occurring, because we are required to attend as

well, so we are scheduling that with them. >> would it be okay for us to request that there is a confirmation e-mail, that there is a date calendared for her conversation, or visit with the equipment vendors? >> yeah. i believe -- i don't know if you can actually do that in regard to the partial stay. i don't know if that is possible i can definitely do that administratively. >> okay. >> it might just be an administrative thing. the stake, like i totally agree, but we want to see that there is legitimate progress being made towards finding these, sourcing them, and i don't want to get too specific on what that progress has to look like, but we will know it when we see it, and we need to see it, basically this is not just -- in my mind,

it should not be an excuse to just hold off on doing anything. >> my question is, she holding off on this day because maybe there is a big d.j. coming? i hate to be the bad guy, but limiters are terrible. >> we have other means of addressing that and that is through our inspections regime. >> except we have been less than effective. >> there are active citations, there are findings. >> but the citation cost is so minimal, it is good business to accept the citation, and we have seen it time and again where people made good business decisions, okay, i will pay a $200 fine to make ten grant tonight. it is just reality. >> she is repealing the other one too. >> again, i totally agree with you. i think this is probably going on longer than it should have given the issues. i think, in my personal feeling,

about the specific situation, is that there is a lot of questions without concrete answers on all sides that i'm having trouble making my way out through, so for me, one month is one month. if there are citations between now and a month from now, the situation will be different for me, at least then if there are no citations and everything is in compliance, i think that the permit holder knows that. that is all i can say for myself >> i would add that i am comfortable with the continuance , but just so we are speaking factually, we gave them 45 days. adjusted the meth. that is a substantial amount of time if they really wanted to do it. with that being said, i think in the interest of fairness, i am comfortable with the continuance of the three stipulations to the march date, but i would agree with commissioner camino.

i think we can stipulate, because the way i am viewing this as they have exposed everything we've done by putting us back on calendar today. that is my interpretation. so it i would actually argue -- i don't think we will do it, we could make it more restrictive because it is back on calendar today. i hope you're not heading in that direction necessarily because we all want to be productive. i do think it is reasonable we are asking for dates when these inspections and professional visits will occur, because i think it will tell us very quickly if it will actually happen. if we don't see anything moving forward, then i think we will -- march will be upon us, and we'll be right back to where we have been in the past. >> this is maybe a question for maggie, do we know why she is not here today to talk to us about this? >> she couldn't make it, and the main reason that we are having this on this calendar tonight is

because the deadline for this to begin was february 1st and waiting until the february 5th hearing would not have made sense. >> okay. >> it was a last-minute, okay, we are asking for a partial stay instead. >> i would have wanted, if not her, a representative from halcion. she has lawyers that are hired to that that could come speak on her behalf, it did not seem she was very happy with what they're saying last time around, but at least they are people who could represent her. i don't know. i'm fine with agreeing upon a stay, and i am disappointed that she is making this request, to be quite honest. i think her behaviour throughout the years has shown that we show her the line, and she pushes as far as she can beyond it, and i think this might be the last time i agree to something like this, but it would have been nice to see someone from there

back if you can pass that message along, it is difficult for us to hear things without hearing the person that is making the request. >> we are asking the questions and we are answering them. >> it is not quite the way it should work. [laughter] >> with that, i don't know if someone wants to make a motion, but i will just sit back and vote. >> i will start. i will make a motion that we stay it, but i would like to include the stipulation that was suggested that they need to provide a state his assertion of will be meeting with these individuals. >> i second. >> is there any public comment on the motion? seeing none, public comment is closed. [roll call]

>> stay is granted. our final agenda item is number 10,, which is commissioner comments and questions. happy new year, everyone. >> happy new year. [laughter] >> i noticed that you sent out a whole to the date for the summit as we are sitting here. >> i'm trying to get everything done since i'm going on vacation tomorrow. >> if the pilots are on strike. >> police. [laughter] >> i came in late, so you may have talked about this, but is there anything about mezzanine, any update about what their status is? >> nothing we can say publicly right now. the president and i have been working very closely with ben and deborah, the owner, as well as supervisor haney's office on this. we are hoping for some positive news. but we want to make sure that

they are able to give the news out to the public as opposed to us. >> yes. that is true. i did have one comments that just came to me. so just so everyone knows, i have been in this business now ten years, ten years as an owner , on the last time a positive piece of legislation came out of city hall that actually helps nightlife was, the last one i remember was when supervisor breed was a supervisor, chapter 116. the presentation that the beard showed us today is actually incredible from a nightlife standpoint. i encourage everyone to familiarize themselves with it, and know the nightlife communities very much behind it. you may want to mention the 11 districts. >> short. the only reason i didn't bring it up is because it wasn't a generalized, it was kind of -- >> it is still an idea in the

works but we should probably do it now. >> this is commissioner camino's idea, her thought child. so we are beginning to implement a new program, and we went through so many names. what is the end name? >> eleven districts of entertainment. so for each month in the calendar year in 2019, january being month one, we would work with the corresponding supervisorial district. starting with supervisor fuhr in january, and going out with the supervisor in her district to permitted venues. so we were going to tailor it to each supervisor in terms of how much time they actually have, and how many venues they are able to visit, but the whole impetus behind it is to be able to build relationships with those supervisors and to be able to trade ideas and issues around

entertainment specific to their district. so it will be staff that would be going, and then we can have up to three commissioners attend each time. we can't really have a quorum, it is not necessarily a public facing events that we would be publicizing in advance for people to come, but we would push social media about it afterward as a positive thing. do you have anything to add? >> forever this commission has been regulating nightlife, but it is also supposed to be promoting it. this is the first concrete other than the summits and the holiday party, concrete efforts that we have made. it seems like a very easy and productive endeavour. i'm excited. >> great idea. >> congratulations. >> good job. >> thank you. >> in month 12 we are hoping to do a tour with mayor breed, and have a combination at the holiday party.

>> good call. >> is there any more comments or questions? >> i think we should invite the police chief to each one of those. >> okay. i will bring it up in my meeting with him. >> s. or any public comment on the final agenda item? seeing none, public comment is closed. the meeting is now adjourned.

♪ ♪ ♪ >> the san francisco playground's hitsvery dates back to 1927 when the area where the present playground and center is today was purchased by the city for $27,000. in the 1950s, the sen consider was expanded by then mayor robinson and the old gym was built.

thanks to the passage of the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood parks bond, the sunset playground has undergone extensive renovation to its four acres of fields, courts, play grounds, community rooms, and historic gymnasium. >> here we are. 60 years and $14 million later, and we have got this beautiful, brand-new rec center completely accessible to the entire neighborhood. >> the new rec center houses multi-purpose rooms for all kinds of activities including basketball, line dancing, playing ping-pong and arts can crafts. >> you can use it for whatever you want to do, you can do it here. >> on friday, november 16, the dedication and ribbon cutting took place at the sunset playground and recreation center, celebrating its renovation. it was raining, but the rain clearly did not dampen the spirits of the dignitaries, community members and children

in attendance. [cheering and applauding] ♪ ♪ >> everything is done in-house.

i think it is done. i have always been passionate about gelato. every single slaver has its own recipe. we have our own -- we move on from there. so you have every time a unique experience because that slaver is the flavored we want to make. union street is unique because of the neighbors and the location itself. the people that live around here i love to see when the street is full of people. it is a little bit of italy that is happening around you can walk around and enjoy shopping with gelato in your hand. this is the move we are happy to provide to the people. i always love union street because it's not like another commercial street where you have big chains.

here you have the neighbors. there is a lot of stories and the neighborhoods are essential. people have -- they enjoy having their daily or weekly gelato. i love this street itself. >> we created a move of an area where we will be visiting. we want to make sure that the area has the gelato that you like. what we give back as a shop owner is creating an ambient lifestyle. if you do it in your area and if you like it, then you can do it on the streets you like.

>> my name is andrea, i work as a coordinator for the city attorney's office in san francisco. a lot of it is working with the public and trying to address their public records request and trying to get the information for their office. i double majored in political science and always tried to combine both of those majors. i ended up doing a combination of doing a lot of communication for government. i thought it would connect both of my studies and what was i was interested in and show case some of the work that government is doing. >> i work for the transportation agency known as muni and i'm a senior

work supervisor. >> i first started as a non-profit and came to san francisco and started to work and i realized i needed to work with people. this opportunity came up by way of an executive fellowship. they had a program at mta to work in workforce development type project and i definitely jumped on that. i didn't know this was something that i wanted to do. all i knew is that i wanted to help people and i wanted to empower others. >> the environment that i grew up that a lot of women were just stay-at-home moms. it wasn't that they didn't have work, but it was cheaper to stay home and watch the kids instead of paying pricey day care centers. >> my mom came from el salvador

during the civil war. she worked very hard. when she came here and limited in english, she had to do a service job. when i was born and she had other kids, it was difficult for her to work because it was more expensive for her to be able to continue to work in a job that didn't pay well instead of staying at home and being able to take care of us. >> there isn't much support or advocacy for black women to come in and help them do their jobs. there also aren't very many role models and it can be very intimidating and sometimes you feel uncomfortable and unsure of yourself and those are the reasons exactly why you need to do it. when i first had the opportunity, i thought that's not for me. my previous role was a project

manager for a biotech start up. i thought how do i go from technology to working in government. thinking i didn't know about my skills, how am i going to fit in and doing that kind of work. thinking you have to know everything is not what people expect have you, but they expect you to ask questions when you don't know and that's important. >> my mom was diagnosed with cancer. that was really difficult. she encouraged me to go to school because in case anything happened i would be able to protect myself. i wanted to be in oncology. i thought going to school it would set me for the trajectory and prepare me for my life. >> we need the hardships to some of the things that are going to ultimately be your strength in the future. there is no way to map that out

and no way to tell those things. you have to do things on your own and you have to experience and figure out life. >> you don't have to know what you are going to do for the rest of your life when you are in college or high school because there are so many things to do. i would encourage you to try to do everything that you are remotely interested. it's the best time to do it. being a young woman with so many opportunities, just go for it and try everything. >> in 201,755.7 million passengers traveled through san francisco international airport. we have on average 150,000

people traveling through the airport every day. flying can be stressful so we have introduced therapy dogs to make flying more enjoyable. the wag brigade is a partnership between the airport and the san francisco therapy animal assistant program to bring therapy animals into the airport, into the terminals to make passenger travel more enjoyable. i amgen fer casarian and i work here at san francisco international airport. the idea for therapy dogs got started the day after 9/11. an employee brought his therapy dog to work after 9/11 and he was able to see how his dog was able to relieve passenger's jitter. when we first launched the

program back in 2013, our main goal was to destress our passengers however what we quickly found is that our animals were helping us find a way to connect with our pang. passengers. we find there are a lot of people traveling through the airport who are missing their pets and who are on their road a lot and can't have pets and we have come in contact with a lot of people recently who have lost pet. >> i love the wag brigade. >> one of my favorite parts is walking into the terminals and seeing everybody look up from their device, today everybody is interacting on their cell phone or laptop and we can walk into the terminal with a dog or a pig and people start to interact with each other again and it's

on a different level. more of an emotional level. >> i just got off an 11.5 hour flight and nice to have this distraction in the middle of it. >> we look for wag brigade handlers who are comfortable in stressful situations. >> i like coming to airport it's a lot of fun and the people you talk to are generally people who are missing their dogs. >> they are required to compete a certification process. and they are also required to complete a k9 good citizen test and we look for animals who have experienced working with other orgorganizations such as hospits and pediatric units and we want to be sure that the animals we are bringing into the airport are good with children and also good with some of our senior

travelers. i think toby really likes meeting kids. that is his favorite thing. he likes to have them pet him and come up to him and he really loves the kids. >> our wag brigade animals can be spotted wearing custom vets and they have custom patches. >> there is never a day that repeats itself and there is never and encounter that repeats itself. we get to do maximum good in a small stretch of time and i have met amazing people who have been thrilled to have the interaction. >> the dogs are here seven days a week, we have 20 dogs and they each come for a two hour shift. >> there is a lot of stress when people have traveling so to from

these animals around to ease the stress and help people relax a little bit. i think it's great. >> one of our dogs has special need and that is tristine. he wears a wheel around. >> he has special shoes and a harness and we get it together in the parking lot and then we get on the air train. he loves it. little kids love him because he is a little lower to the ground so easy to reach and he has this big furry head they get to pet and he loves that. >> he doesn't seem to mind at all. probably one of the happiest dogs in the world. >> many people are nervous when they travel but seeing the dogs is just a wonderful relief. >> what i absolutely love most about it is the look on people's

faces, so whenever they are stressed and flying is stressful these days you get these wonderful smile. >> i am the mom of lilo the pig and she is san francisco's first therapy pig. >> lilo joined the wag brigade as our firs first pig. >> wag brigade invited us to join the program here and we have done it about a year-and-a-half ago. our visits last 1.5 to 2 hours and it does take a little bit longer to get out of the terminal because we still get a lot of attention and a lot of people that want to interact with lilo. >> i feel honored to be part of

the wag brigade. it's very special to meet so many people and make so many feel happy and people that work here. it's been a great experience for me and a great experience for to totoby. >> it's been an extremely successful program, so the next time you are here, stop by and say hi.today. >> (clapping.) >> i've been working in restaurants forever as a blood alcohol small business you have a lot of requests for donations if someone calls you and say we want to documents for our school or nonprofit i've been in a

position with my previous employment i had to say no all the time. >> my name is art the owner and chief at straw combinations of street food and festival food and carnival food i realize that people try to find this you don't want to wait 365 day if you make that brick-and-mortar it is really about making you feel special and feel like a kid again everything we've done to celebrate that. >> so nonprofit monday is a

program that straw runs to make sure that no matter is going on with our business giving back is treated just the is that you as paying any other bill in addition to the money we impose their cause to the greater bayview it is a great way for straw to sort of build communicated and to introduce people who might not normally get to be exposed to one nonprofit or another and i know that they do a different nonprofit every most of the year. >> people are mroent surprised the restaurant it giving back i see some people from the nonprofit why been part of nonprofit monday sort of give

back to the program as well answer. >> inform people that be regular aprons at straw they get imposed to 10 or 12 nonprofits. >> i love nonprofits great for a local restaurant to give back to community that's so wonderful i wish more restrictive places did that that is really cool. >> it is a 6 of nonprofit that is supporting adults with autism and down syndrome we i do not involved one the wonderful members reached out to straw and saw a headline about, about their nonprofit mondays and she applied for a grant back in january of 2016 and we were notified late in the spring we would be the recipient of straw if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer thems in the month of genuine we were able to organize with straw for the

monday and at the end of the month we were the recipient of 10 percent of precedes on mondays the contribution from nonprofit monday from stray went into our post group if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer theming fund with our arts coaching for chinese and classes and we have a really great vibrate arts program. >> we we say thank you to the customers like always but say 0 one more thing just so you know you've made a donation to x nonprofit which does why i think that is a very special thing. >> it is good to know the owner takes responsibility to know your money is going to good cause also. >> it is really nice to have a

restaurant that is very community focused they do it all month long for nonprofits not just one day all four mondays. >> we have a wall of thank you letters in the office it seems like you know we were able to gas up the 10 passenger minivan we were innovate expected to do. >> when those people working at the nonprofits their predictive and thank what straw is giving that in and of itself it making an impact with the nonprofit through the consumers that are coming here is just as important it is important for the grill cheese kitchen the more restrictive i learn about what is going on in the community more restrictive people are doing this stuff with 4 thousand

restaurant in san francisco we're doing an average of $6,000 a year in donations and multiply that by one thousand that's a >> for the first time in nearly two decades fishers have been granted the legal right to sell fish directly to the package right off their boat -- to the public right off their boats in san francisco. it's not only helping local fishers to stay afloat but it's evoking the spirit of the wharf by resurfacing the traditional methods of selling fish. but how is it regulated? and what does it take for a boat to be transported into a floating fish market? find out as we hop on board on this episode of "what's next sf." (♪) we're here with the owner and the captain of the vessel pioneer.

it's no coincidence that your boat is called the pioneer because it's doing just that. it's the first boat in san francisco to sell fish directly from the boat. how did you establish your boat into such a floating fish market? >> well, you know, i always thought that it would be nice to be able to provide fresh fish to the locals because most of the fish markets, you would have to do a large amount of volume in order to bring in enough fish to cover the overhead. when you start selling to the public that volume is much less so it makes it hard to make enough money. so being able to do this is really -- it's a big positive thing i think for the entire community. >> a very positive thing. as a third-generation fisherman joe as his friends call him has been trawling the california waters for sustainably caught seafood since an early age. since obtaining a permit to sell fish directly to the public he is able to serve fish at an affordable price. >> right now we're just selling what a lot of the markets like,

flat fish and rock fish and what the public likes. so we have been working for many, many years and putting cameras in them. there's the ability to short fish and we have panels that we open and close so we target the different species of fish by adjusting the net. and then not only that but then the net sort out the sizes which is really important. >> joe brings in a lot of fish, around 20,000 pounds per fishing trip to be exact. >> we had one day one time that we sold almost 18,000 pounds. >> it's incredible. >> i know, it's hard to imagine. >> but this wasn't always the case for joe. >> the markets that we have left in california, they're few and far between, and they really are restrictive. they'll let you fish for a couple months and shut you down. a lot of times it's rough weather and if you can't make your delivery you will lose your rotation. that's why there's hardly any boats left in california because of the market challenges. my boat was often sitting over here at the dock for years and i couldn't do anything with it

because we had no market. the ability to go catch fish is fine, i had the permits, but you couldn't take them off your boat. >> that was until the port commission of san francisco rallied behind them and voted unanimously to approve a pilot program to allow the fish to be sold directly to consumers right off their boats. >> the purpose of the program is to allow commercial fishers to sell their fish directly from their boats to the end consumer in a safe and orderly manner for the benefit of the overall fishing community at the port of san francisco. we have limited the program to certain types of fish such as salmon, halibut, tuna and rock fish. crab is restricted from this program because we did not want to interfere with the existing crab sales on taylor street and jefferson street. so this is not meant to favor one aspect of the fishing industry more than another. it's to basically to lift up the

whole industry together. >> and if joe the program has been doing just that. >> it was almost breathtaking whenever i woke up one morning and i got my federal receiver, my first receivers license in the mail. and that gave me permission to actually take fish off my boat. once we started to be able to sell, it opened things up a bit. because now that we have that federal permit and i was able to ppetition the city council and getting permission from san francisco to actually use the dock and to sell fish here, it was a big turning point. because we really didn't think or know that we'd get such a positive response from the public. and so we're getting thousands of people coming down here buying fish every week and so that's pretty cool. they like the fish so much that they take pictures of it when they cook it and they send us all of these pictures and then they ask us, you know, constantly for certain types of fish now. and when they come down here the one thing that they say is that they're so amazed that the fish

is so fresh they could eat a little bit during the week and it's still fresh all week in the refrigerator. so that's really cool. >> the fish is very fresh and the price is super. i don't think that you can get it anywhere in the bay area. i can see it, and i can stir fry it, wow, you can do anything you want. i just can say this is a good place to shop and you have a good experience. >> this program supports the strategic plan in terms of engagement, people being connected to the waterfront, and also economic vitality. because it's helping the fishermen to make ends meet. they have no guarantees in their businesses, not like some people, and we want to do everything that we can to help them to have a good and thriving business. >> how does it feel to be able to sell your fish locally kind of in the traditional way, like

your grandfather probably did? >> when i was a kid and i used to work in my dad's fish market, a lot of the markets that we sell to now are second and third and fourth generation markets. so i remember as a kid putting their tags on the boxes of fish that we shipped out of monterey and ship down to l.a. so it's kind of cool that we're still dealing with the same families. and this is probably about the only way that anyone can really survive in california is to sell your own fish. >> one of the advantages of this program is the department people that pull in the fish, they can find out where they caught it and find out more about the fisherman and that adds to their experience. the feedback from the fishers has been very good and the feedback from the customers have very good. and there's a lot of people coming to the wharf now that might not have done so. in fact, there's people that go through the neighboring restaurants that are going to eat fish inside but before they

go in they see the action on the dock and they want to kind of look at what's happening on the boat before they go in and they have a meal. so it's generated some conversation down at the wharf and that's a good thing. >> as you can see by the line forming behind me getting ready to buy fish, the pilot program has been a huge success. for more information visit sfsport.com. (♪) (♪)

>> president yee: okay. let's get started. good afternoon and welcome to the january 15, 2019 meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madam secretary, would you please call roll. >> clerk: thank you, mr. president. [roll