>> 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] ♪ ♪ >> my name is amanda

[inaudible] over see the girls sports program. when i came to san francisco and studied recreation and parks and towerism and after i graduated i moved to candlestick park and grain r gain adlot of experience work with the san francisco 49 and [inaudible] be agfemale in a vore sports dynamic facility. i coached volo ball on the side and as candle stick closed down the city had me move in92 too [inaudible] >> immediate interaction and response when you work with kids. i think that is what drives other people to do this. what drew me to come to [inaudible] to begin with for me to stay. i use today work

in advertising as a media buyer and it wasn't fulfilling enough and i found a opportunity to be a writing coach. the moment [inaudible] you to take advantage of how you change and inspire a child by the words you say and actions you do. >> you have a 30 different programs for girls through rec and park and fast ball, soft ball and volley ball. i started the first volley ball league and very proud what i have done with that. being a leader for girls is passion and showing to be confident and being ambiggish and strong person. [inaudible] for about 5 years. programs offered thraw thirty-three rec and park and oversee thg prms about a year. other than the programs we offer we offer summer camp

squz do [inaudible] during the summer and that is something i wherei have been able to shine in my role. >> couple years we started the civic center socking league and what an amazing opportunity it was and is it for kid in the neighborhood who come together every friday in the civic center plaza on green grass to run and play. you otonly see soccer and poetry but also see books t. is a really promoting literacy to our kid and giving them to tools to make it work at home. real fortunate to see the [inaudible] grow. >> girls get pressureed with society and i know that is obvious, but we see it every day, magazines, commercials the idea what a woman should look like but i like to be a strong female role for it goals that play sports because a lot of

times they don't see someone strong in a female role with something connected with sports and athleticism and i love i can bring that to the table. >> soccer, poetry, community service. we now have field of dreams. we are [inaudible] all over the bay area and excited to be share our mission with other schools across the bay to really build the confidence and character of kids when they go out to play and close their eyes and think, why was [inaudible] we want to make sure-i want to make sure they remember me and remember the other folks who [inaudible] >> get out there and do it. who cares about what anybody else says. there will be poopal people that come up and want to wreck your ideas. that happen today eme when i went to candle stick part and wanted to [inaudible] people told me no

left and right. whether you go out for something you are passionate about our something you want to grow in and feel people will say no. go out and get it done. i can be the strong leader female and i love that. [♪]

>> i am the supervisor of district one. i am sandra lee fewer. [♪] >> i moved to the richmond district in 1950 mine. i was two years old. i moved from chinatown and we were one of the first asian families to move out here. [♪] >> when my mother decided to buy that house, nobody knew where it was. it seems so far away. for a long time, we were the only chinese family there but we started to see the areas of growth to serve a larger chinese population. the stress was storage of the birthplace of that. my father would have to go to chinatown for dim sum and i remember one day he came home and said, there is one here now. it just started to grow very

organically. it is the same thing with the russian population, which is another very large ethnic group in the richmond district. as russia started to move in, we saw more russian stores. so parts of the richmond is very concentrated with the russian community and immigrant russian community, and also a chinese immigrant community. [♪] >> i think as living here in the richmond, we really appreciate the fact that we are surrounded three natural barriers. they are beautiful barriers. the presidio which gives us so many trails to walk through, ocean beach, for families to just go to the beach and be in the pacific ocean. we also also have a national park service. we boarded the golden gate national recreation area so there is a lot of activity to do

in the summer time you see people with bonfires. but really families enjoying the beach and the pacific ocean during the rest of the time of year. [♪] >> and golden gate park where we have so many of our treasures here. we have the tea garden, the museum and the academy of sciences. not to mention the wonderful playgrounds that we have here in richmond. this is why i say the richmond is a great place for families. the theatre is a treasure in our neighborhood. it has been around for a very long time. is one of our two neighborhood theatres that we have here. i moved here when i was 1959 when i was two years old. we would always go here. i love these neighborhood theatres. it is one of the places that has not only a landmark in the richmond district, but also in san francisco. small theatres showing one or

two films. a unique -- they are unique also to the neighborhood and san francisco. >> where we are today is the heart of the richmond district. with what is unique is that it is also small businesses. there is a different retail here it is mom and pop opening up businesses. and providing for the neighborhood. this is what we love about the streets. the cora door starts on clement street and goes all the way down to the end of clement where you will see small businesses even towards 32nd. at the core of it is right here between here and 20 -- tenth avenue. when we see this variety of stores offered here, it is very unique then of the -- any other part of san francisco. there is traditional irish music which you don't get hardly

anywhere in san francisco. some places have this long legacy of serving ice cream and being a hangout for families to have a sunday afternoon ice cream. and then also, we see grocery stores. and also these restaurants that are just new here, but also thriving. [♪] >> we are seeing restaurants being switched over by hand, new owners, but what we are seeing is a vibrancy of clement street still being recaptured within new businesses that are coming in. that is a really great thing to see. i don't know when i started to shop here, but it was probably a very, very long time ago. i like to cook a lot but i like to cook chinese food. the market is the place i like to come to once a year. once i like about the market as it is very affordable. it has fresh produce and fresh meat. also, seafood. but they also offer a large

selection of condiments and sauces and noodles. a variety of rice that they have is tremendous. i don't thank you can find a variety like that anywhere else. >> hi. i am kevin wong. i am the manager. in 1989 we move from chinatown to richmond district. we have opened for a bit, over 29 years. we carry products from thailand, japan, indonesia, vietnam, singapore and india. we try to keep everything fresh daily. so a customer can get the best out a bit. >> normally during crab season in november, this is the first place i hit. because they have really just really fresh crab. this is something my family really likes for me to make. also, from my traditional chinese food, i love to make a kale soup.

they cut it to the size they really want. i am probably here once a week. i'm very familiar with the aisles and they know everyone who is a cashier -- cashier here i know when people come into a market such as this, it looks like an asian supermarkets, which it is and sometimes it can be intimidating. we don't speak the language and many of the labels are in chinese, you may not know what to buy or if it is the proper ingredients for the recipe are trying to make. i do see a lot of people here with a recipe card or sometimes with a magazine and they are looking for specific items. the staff here is very helpful. i speak very little chinese here myself. thinks that i'm not sure about, i asked the clerk his and i say is this what i need? is this what i should be making? and they actually really helped me. they will bring me to the aisle and say this is battery. they are very knowledgeable. very friendly. i think they are here to serve not only the asian community but

to serve all communities in the richmond district and in san francisco. [♪] >> what is wonderful about living here is that even though our july is a very foggy and overcast, best neighborhood, the sleepy part outside on the west side is so rich with history, but also with all the amenities that are offered. [♪]

. >> the san francisco carbon fund was started in 2009. it's basically legislation that was passed by the board of supervisors and the mayor's

office for the city of san francisco. they passed legislation that said okay, 13% of the cost of the city air travel is going to go into a fund and we're going to use the money in that fund to do local projects that are going to mitigate and sequester greenhouse gas emission. the grants that we're giving, they're anywhere from 15,000 to, say, $80,000 for a two year grant. i'm shawn rosenmoss. i'm the development of community partnerships and carbon fund for the san francisco department of environment. we have an advisory committee that meets once or twice a year to talk about, okay, what are we going to fund? because we want to look at things like equity and

innovative projects. >> i heard about the carbon fund because i used to work for the department of environment. i'm a school education team. my name is marcus major. i'm a founding member of climate action now. we started in 2011. our main goal it to remove carbon in the public right-of-way on sidewalks to build educational gardens that teach people with climate change. >> if it's a greening grant, 75% of the grant has to go for greening. it has to go for planting trees, it has to go for greening up the pavement, because again, this is about permanent carbon savings. >> the dinosaur vegetable gardens was chosen because the garden was covered in is afault since 1932.

it was the seed funding for this whole project. the whole garden,ible was about 84,000 square feet, and our project, we removed 3,126 square feet of cement. >> we usually issue a greening rft every other year, and that's for projects that are going to dig up pavement, plant trees, community garden, school garden. >> we were awarded $43,000 for this project. the produce that's grown here is consumed all right at large by the school community. in this garden we're growing all kinds of organic vegetables from lettuce, and artichokes. we'll be planting apples and loquats, all kinds of great fruit and veggies. >> the first project was the dipatch biodiesel producing facility. the reason for that is a lot of

people in san francisco have diesel cars that they were operating on biodiesel, and they were having to go over to berkeley. we kind of the dog batch preferentials in the difference between diesel and biodiesel. one of the gardens i love is the pomeroy rec center. >> pomeroy has its roots back to 1952. my name is david, and i'm the chamber and ceo of the pomeroy rehabilitation and recreation center. we were a center for people with intellectual and development cal disabilities in san francisco san francisco. we also have a program for individuals that have acquired brain injury or traumatic brain injury, and we also have one of the larger after school programs for children with

special needs that serves the public school system. the sf carbon fund for us has been the launching pad for an entire program here at the pomeroy center. we received about $15,000. the money was really designed to help us improve our garden by buying plants and material and also some infrastructure like a drip system for plants. we have wine barrels that we repurposed to collect rain water. we actually had removed over 1,000 square feet of concrete so that we could expand the garden. this is where our participants, they come to learn about gardening. they learn about our work in the greenhouse. we have plants that we actually harvest, and eggs from our chickens that we take up and

use in cooking classes so that our participants learn as much as anybody else where food comes from. we have two kitchens here at the pomeroy center. one is more of a commercial kitchen and one is more setup like a home kitchen would be, and in the home kitchen, we do a lot of cooking classes, how to make lasagna, how to comsome eggs, so this grant that we received has tremendous value, not only for our center, for our participants, but the entire community. >> the thing about climate, climate overlaps with everything, and so when we start looking at how we're going to solve climate programs, we solve a lot of other problems, too. this is a radical project, and to be a part of it has been a real honor and a privilege to work with those administrators with the sf carbon fund at the department of environment. >> san francisco carbon grant

to -- for us, opened the door to a new -- a new world that we didn't really have before; that the result is this beautiful garden. >> when you look at the community gardens we planted in schools and in neighborhoods, how many thousands of people now have a fabulous place to walk around and feel safe going outside and are growing their own food. that's a huge impact, and we're just going to keep rolling that out and keep rolling that

sustainability mission, even though the bikes are very minimal energy use. it still matters where the energy comes from and also part of the mission in sustainability is how we run everything, run our business. so having the lights come on with clean energy is important to us as well. we heard about cleanpowersf and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. it was super easy to sign up. our bookkeeper signed up online, it was like 15 minutes. nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. it's an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around climate change and it's so easy that it's hard to not want to do it, and it doesn't really add anything to the bill.

. . . [gavel] >> the meeting will come to order. this is a special meeting of the budget and finance committee. i am supervisor sandra lee fewer joined by vice chair kathrin stefani and rafael mandelman. our clerk is ms. wong. i would like to thank michael ballotazar and maya hernandez from sfgov tv for broadcasting this meeting. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> yes. please silence all cell phones and electronic thank you. >> thank you, madam clerk, please call item one. >> ordinance appropriating approximately (22) 000-0000 of educational taxes and rainy one-time fund for the small housing site and single occupancy and behavior health acquisition and behavior health and educator funding fo thank yu very much. >> good morning. >> please call item number two. >> ordinance appropriating $381.1 million in access revenue augmentation funds to the sfmta and the $19 million for the

light rail vehicles and $13.8 million for energy efficient audit and improvements and $5 million to the mitigation fund and the mandatory city services auditor baseline of $38.1 million on comptroller's reserve with the confirmation cash flow timing from the state of california. >> thank you very much. leah levenson is here if there are questions about this legislation. supervisor mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, chair fewer. i am going to vote to forward this to the full board, but i want to talk about this item. and i want to talk about prefacing the questions and comments by saying that by, again, thanking you and the colleagues and the mayor for the tremendous flexibility and i think good intentions that were shown throughout this process to get us to a very good result. and this is part of this item is

part of that result. but there are elements of it that have been troubling to some of the constituents and to me a little bit honestly, and this is probably the least favorite part of the set of comprises that were made to get us where we are. i would like to talk about the three elements of what are in the proposal and hear what the money for the l.r.v. visa is supposed to do and what it will get us and contextualize us in what we need to do and replacing the fleet. hear more about what the specific energy efficiency improvements will be are and hear a little bit more about what will be doing the small businesses that are will being impacted by the major projects around the city. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor mandelman, chair, and i am the

c.f.o. and i will do my best to answer your questions. the light rail vehicle project is a major effort totalling over $1 billion actually to replace our entire light rail vehicle fleet and to expand it to provide more service to the growing population of san francisco. the original schedule prior to the receipt of these funds, we have already received a number of the expansion vehicles, but to replace the remaining 161 vehicles had had been planned with limitations at the speed that the manufacturer could manufacture the vehicles, which made the schedule run out until sometime in 2027. and we have been in talks for some time with the manufacturer about whether this was any way to speed up that schedule because we know this is a major issue of both maintenance and that the older vehicles break down more often and comfort and just the overall operational

success of the entire rail system to have the new vehicles in place sooner. the manufacturer had said if they opened another manufacturing facility to speed up as much as 18 months and additional costs with the additional facility and there will be a few savings with the escalator on the cost of each vehicle, and we would be buying them sooner and the cost wouldn't rise # a%, but the cost of -- wouldn't rise at # a%, but the cost of opening that facility would more than offset that 5%. the total costs are being appreciated exactly how much extra it will cost and we have been working with the funding sources to where to find the money to bridge that gap. as we were planning this, we didn't yet have all of the funding to bridge that gap to open that facility. and so this $38 million was a xr siting source to be a -- a very

exciting source to be a part of that. and we are hoping actually to conclude those negotiations and get a final dollar value by as soon as within the next month, we don't really know. sometimes there are hiccups in how long these negotiations take. as there's been the conversation about the different uses of the $38 million, and there are other priorities that were established, there was a proposal to reduce the number devoted to that gap to $19 million. what director riskin has said is we are committed to this acceleration in hoping to speed it up by the 12 to 15 months, and we will apply the $19 million from legislation towards that gap. if at the end of the negotiations there is an additional gap, we will be reviewing our entire capital program to sew what other programs may be already delayed and where there may be some surplus funding and we have a capital program in the neighborhood of hundreds of millions of dollars per year. and so usually there is the opportunity to adjust priorities and adjust the actual spending plan. and we are absolutely committed

to moving forward on the acceleration to the maximum degree that we can with a variety of funding sources that we have. >> and exact dollar amount still depends on the outcome of the negotiatio negotiatio negotiations underway and i was not just the opening of that facility. >> and quit working and why the additional gap and talked about. and the >> in the my sense that although people feel that there have been

significant improvement and feeling of the service and and actually and people trying get into overcrowded streets and tunnels and proposing to be adding thousands and thousands more units along the lines because they will be allegedly able to carry thousands and thousands of more people. what i have heard and is pretty critical to being able to move people around. and to improve the people's experience riding trains. and glad to see the 18, 19

million dollars that managed to stay here. it is my strong hope that this board and the mayor will look to close any remaining gap through any future eraf windfall we receive. i said that the last time we talked about that and reiterating it now because i think people's frustration with our train system right now is so high. or great. but i would like to hear about the other things that we are to get. and i would like to get more input on the reduction in the l.r.v.s. >> the next largest priority is the $13.8 million for energy efficiency and audit and improvements for m.t.a. facilities. we're undergoing on overview of the facilities and tremendously exciting and over $1 billion. we deal with big numbers because they are over 100 years old and they have to be renovated in

order to accommodate the new buses and the new trains and the likely electrical power needs, in fact, of the new fleet. and we'll also be working on the existing facilities are not entirely rebuilt and we have been in discussions about the sfpuc about the best use of the funds and solar panel projects we hope to be able to move forward as quickly as possible, one being looked at is our mme, our metro east facility and we have several others and with the solar panel use. and in the design phase and rebuilding other features and energy efficiency as well as

solar energy production is definitely part of the thinking and this could help -- >> which saves the system theoretically over time. >> a yes. >> supervisor mandelman: as well as reducing our reliance. >> it is probably likely to be reducing the increase in our costs rather than an actual net reduction because we do have this goal of increasing the battery powered bus system within san francisco potentially, and we're going to have pilot studies of fleet battery powered buses which is exciting and the expansion of the fleet and the expansion 'ute of the l.r.v. fleet and we may not achieve a reduction, but deafly a reduction in the increase associated with that. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. and maybe that you can about what we can do for the long suffering businesses that have been dealing with many years long projects. >> yes, and this is something we work closely with the mayor's office of workforce and economic development on this. and i believe that right now

there is even a study being undergone by the -- i think by the board legislative analyst on these programs, which may help us in the future, but looking at where we do the best good for each of the projects. and this is evaluated on a case by case basis to what is of most benefit to the merchants and the public for that particular capital project. and we would be doing this with very extensive outreach and planning and stakeholder input and with the help of the mayor's office and economic workforce development. i have not actually seen a precise programming for this $5 million. it would really be available with a number of major projects with major impacts and we would be glad to use this in a way that does the most good. >> all right. of course, the best thing to do from the businesses probably would be to figure out a way to get the projects done more speedily and efficiently and not speak for chair fewer, but as she looks at additional projects

being proposed to her district, we will have to figure that out before we undertake anything else, i am imagining. >> well, thank you for spending a little time explaining some of this stuff to us. as i said, i am going to be voting to forward this, but i really do want people to keep in mind the necessity of moving forward with these l.r.v. acquisitions as speedily as we can. thank you. >> thank you. >> superviser fewer: thank you. i have one public comment speaker card. christopher peterson. i'm sorry. before public comment, supervisor stefani has a comment. >> supervisor stefani: yes. just a question on the eraf fund and why weren't any of the funds allocated to the understood lying infrastructure and improving that of the light rail system and the subway. basically i read the transit riders letter and had a concern

on that. >> we also have a major project underway to modernize the train control system for the light rail system. that is a critical need and something we were intent on the g forward with. >> supervisor stefani: will that deliver service better around faster? >> i believe we are working as quickly as we can to make that a reality. there is not a funding restraint, but a lot of complex planning going into it. >> supervisor stefani: thank you very much. >> superviser fewer: thank you very much for being patient for public comment. christopher peterson, you have two minutes. >> thank you very much. i would like to thank supervisor mandelman for his comments. unimetro right now is facing a crisis in reliability. and i really do think that these extra funds should be used to do -- to address the crisis that muni is currently facing.

if muni doesn't address this crisis and that the major transit systems are experiencing currently. and this is a huge problem in terms of the state's climate change goals and the california air resources board and stating they will not reach the greenhouse emission targets unless it starts significantly reducing vehicle miles traveled. i am very concerned about the two elements of the proposal that seem to be diverting money away from work to address those problems. and the energy efficiency component and the benign project and from the unbaked, not ready for implementation, and the small business impact fund, i totally support the city providing that, but the van ness

project is not simply an muni project. it is also a major utility infrastructure replacement project. the replacement of those underground utilities is what's causing all of the delays and the interest expenses and so with the other interested and other pucs should be contributed to that as well. >> i want to stick to the speeches i wrote when i was delayed this morning 20 minutes on muni metro. now by now each of you should have received the letter on behalf of the organization and on behalf of the board of directors and the 500 member. thank you, supervisor stefani, for bringing that up. this letter expressed concerns with the funding priority that happened today. i felt compelled to be here today.

i don't know how much of an influence i will have on where the money is spent at this point, but i am a daily rider and i feel it is important to speak up on behalf of the 170,000 and growing people who rely on muni every single day who are literally left stranded, late to appointments, late to work because our understood lying infrastructure is not working. so i am here to tell you that the eraf funds should be directed towards improving service today, not some of the priorities that are being discussed. and just to reiterate and i know this goes without saying, hopefully each of you are riders of muni. your intimately familiar with this really sad reality that you can't count on muni which means people are looking for other ways to get around and more car ride and getting on uber and lyft and clogging the streets which leads to more dangerous streets. what we're also seeing is the daily occurrences of broken

switches. issues with the atct system, automatic train control system. and i recognize there's been a 10-year effort to improve that and 10 years is a long time. and including broken vehicles is a daily occurrence. so i said i wrote this this morning when i was delayed to consider spending money on anything that does not improve service today is quite frankly a smack in the face to 170,000 people who rely on uni metro every single day. is that my time? you guys got it. thank you. >> since you are discussing revenue, i do have a pet peeve. i was wondering why with these tickets you guys don't have -- you don't partner with local

businesses to provide coupons, advertisements, for cultural events, museums, automobiles, airlines, whatever to eek out some kind of revenue from the tickets and you don't always have to go up on the fares. if there is 170,000 people riding transit every day, then five cents in revenue would amount to $8500 per day and may not sound like a lot, but it all adds up and besides, if you can get people out to the museums, then they are spending money and discount some cultural events and advertise them on these in order to provide a coupon to get people out spending money. >> seeing no other public speaker, public comment is now closed. i believe supervisor mandelman, were you going to make a motion? >> supervisor mandelman: i will reluctantly move to forward this

to the full board with positive recommendation as a committee report. >> superviser fewer: thank you very much. we will take that without objection. thank you very much, madam clerk. madam clerk, are there any other items before us today? fur >> no. >> superviser fewer: the meeting is now now adjourned. thank you very much. it. >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their shop & dine in the 49 within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services in the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant

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>> san francisco health services board will now come to order. please stand for the pledge of the flag. i pledge of allegiance, to the t ed states of america and to the republic for which stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.