it is a great honor to stand before this board in hopes representing all veterans of the san francisco communities. i come from a long family line of military combat veterans. my name is christopher mcdonald. i'mal 20-year retired disabled military veteran. you'll know that my dd214, i was equal opportunity representative trained settlemen six years in y and affirmative action. my background goes into

logistics. due to disabilities and layoffs, i got caught up in layoff with about 600 other people. i became homeless and wound up in san francisco where my family was living. this is a story i wish to share with all of you. i wish to share with you that i met the commissioner two years ago. he was instrumental helping me get out of a bad housing situation as well as helping multitude other veterans during this housing crisis. it was like 14 families that was getting displaced. with his guidance, we were able to join with other veterans to represent the veterans who also having to relocate due to landlord building code violations. i was afforded the opportunity to meet with the city district attorney, the landlord and their

attorneys in hopes resolving this issue by getting the soon to be displaced veterans and nonveterans to help to find new housing. that was successful because they did, unfortunately, have to go up to the landlord for the building code violations. i believe she did try deep down but there was some issues going on that needed to be brought to the table as well. i was able to bring those to the table. the veterans, as we come together, were able to find new housing. veterans that could stay, did stay. i wolld love for him to mentor me and for me to be an asset and helping other veterans. >> supervisor ronen: i'm just curious, having gone through that experience of being

homeless and finding housing, what could you offer to other veterans that are currently facing that situation that you think your work on veteran commission would be helpful? >> it would be hope. as i went through s.r.o.s by california state law, that says you're in homeless state also. my goal would be to bring to the legislatures some of the problems like bedbugs infestation. i went through that. we final got the right stuff to get rid that. that's still happening in the city. the other issue the city and

legislatures have been through so much to help them get on top and get out of the hole but one thing we're kind of missing, i don't know how to tackle it yet, is the drugs that are getting back into veterans that, mental health disabilityings they trying to get to a better life. i senile veterans go from the top to the bottom because of that. it was because he had mental health issues. they also -- they were trying but there was still problems, there was disconnect somewhere. that scares me and it's a bit concern for us as a community to come together and try to solve that issue. i think i can do it working with commissioner barnacle.

i seen lot of families broken up because of this transition and there's lot of good people that's trying to make it smooth. thank you. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. victor olivieri. good morning. >> good morning supervisors. thank you for having us today. i wanted to remind you that we had severe attendance issues in the commission last month. we're incredibly grateful for bumping us forward to make sure we can fill the commission as soon as possible. i myself and along with the president has been on the commission fulfilling a two-year term that was left empty. this is a commission that's been in transition for years. we're transitioning from a

vietnam war veteran to a post-9/11 veterans. some of our applicants are on the younger side. the commission is transitioningg from a counsel to a commission. we don't have a budget, a staff or a secretary. the things that we are trying to do as veteran affairs commissioners are advising the board, advising the mayor and making sure that we have appropriate policy prescriptions. lot of the thingsly talk about and lot of things we've been working on have been bottom-up. it's time to start working at a more top-down from here out. i've been one of the active commissioners by being able it bring in lot of people from the community. by bringing in city groups, nonprofits, different city departments whether it's department of supportive housing all the way to v.a. we ended up recruiting a v.a. member. i've gone to become the vice

president because we needed good people that will do the work. i have been spearheading the 9/11 v.a. service. organized the veterans mayoral forum. beyond that, i have helped diversify the commission by recruiting members of the lgbt community to make sure voices of the communities were heard. i work in veteran affairs retreat. the big thing i have coming up next is on june 12th. we have veteran affairs summits which is an opportunity to bring in city t department, nonprofits to make sure we hear all the things we need to be hearing. i think that will give us the leverage we need to draft

together policy recommendations. other things that i have again it's the 9/11 data service and that's coming up. i see the work that i've been doing really two fold. one side it's really structural. i want to make the commission stronger. two main things i want to do, is really create a liaison, sort of system between the board of supervisors and the commission. once we get the commission full up, first thing i will assign a commissioner to every single board of supervisors member to make sure they have their own commissioner. this will be a person that lives in your district or work in that district. primarily because as you might know, every single issue that

affects local citizen in san francisco, affects the veteran community disproportionately. every single piece of legislation you're getting out and everything your working to help the community it will be wonderful to have a set of eyes to understand how that might affect or not affect veterans. my hope is that this assignment will lead to a monthly meeting with you or staff members in we say these are the things worry working on inhearses policy recommendations and here's this month official letter and go from there. other big thing is really working with the mayor's office to make sure that we have veteran affairs senior advisor. we're only major city in the united states that does not have one at the executive level. veterans do have resources at the the state and federal level. at the local level there's a huge gap and huge disconnect in terms of coverage and

communication. we need somebody executive level make sure those two fields are connected. those are my two biggest recommendations and work i have in of cooing year. beyond that, i want to work with the -- point four, there's a veteran hiring initiative in the city. i want to make sure that's robustly brought up. i want to make sure that we work with employee resource groups to make sure veterans can find those paths to employment. the next thing will be working on an aging veterans home. san francisco one of those major cities that does not have one. we have couple of models and we have one possibility that we can leverage to expand their current facility. i would love to bring that up to make sure that we do that. mostly veterans of the v.a., mostly veterans we have in san francisco that we know of are now becoming geriatric and they

need end of life care. last thing is really working with the board to create two different sorts of legislation. one that highlights the need for veterans to find homes in san francisco, making sure veteran who are willing and able to get a v.a. loan can actually get that in san francisco. it is such an expensive city to live in. v.a. system does not original for them and the amounts don't work up. other thing to make sure this november, 2019, becomes legislative piece that calls november veteran's month. you want to highlight veterans mental health, i want to bring up the amazing research that was done by the university of southern california to highlight the state of veterans in san francisco particularly when it comes to ptsd, substance abuse

and other mental health issues. if we create a veterans month, we can work with the members in the community and highlight the issue and needs that veterans has in san francisco. any questions? >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. very impressive. >> supervisor walton: you talked about trying to recruit members of the lgbt community to serve on the commission, do you know the percentage of the commission that is made up of member of the lgbt community? >> i don't know the percentage. i can tell you the number of memberships. we currently have two members of the lgbt community and we're currently recruiting another one which is a woman of color. >> supervisor ronen: i'm wondering as you explained that transitioning from vietnam vets

to post-9/11 vets, what has -- what are the major parts that change? are there different issues facing the community? >> absolutely. vietnam veterans came back to san francisco to a unfriendly city. the anti-war movement, they were called all sorts of things. when they were finally embraced in the community, it was years and years later. we're talking decades of neglect and decades of mental health issues and substance abuse. we cannot afford to do that again with the next generation of veterans. that's the reason why i want to work on the veteran affairs commission. on one hand, i hate seeing the veterans that we have in the streets. we need to continue to work with them. that's why our commission still

has veterans serving from the vietnam war. these are veterans we'll continue to work with. we will continue to work with them. at the same time, i feel like we need to get ahead of the curve and don't repeat the mistakes of the past and focus on the issues that are ailing these veterans but also affecting veterans that we don't often see. the veteran you see behind me, statistically, have 83% chance of having ptsd. you can magic that will snowball to other issues that we don't see now but we will see in 20 or 30 years. that's i think that as public servants we have a mandate that we learn from our mistakes from the past and leverage strengths that we have. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. second question is, we spent lot of time trying to understand

study local mental health system what i've come to the conclusion, or i believe that the biggest reason it's so hard to understand, we don't really have a coherent system. we have separate services that don't really functions a system. i'm wondering given that there are mental health services that are provided through the v.a., what are the level of those services and does that mean that veterans don't access or city-run mental health system. this is a longer conversation that i love to have offline with you. i love to get sort of thoughts on the top of your head on this issue? >> that's one of the major issues why we don't have is somebody in the executive that's supporting that mission as a senior advisor to the mayor

working with the board of supervisors. there's a major disconnect between services. there's a major issue of communication. there's an issue of stigma. if we had somebody that was leaning forward and taking this as a project of their own, i think we could take that up. that's why i would advocate for a senior advisor to the mayor to work on that specific problem. this is a problem that the v.a. can't get a hold of at the local level and san francisco is such a difficult bureaucratic. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. next is michael scanlon here.

good morning. >> good morning. i'm mike scanlon. i'm here to request consideration for seat on the veteran affairs commission. i served eight years before being medically retired in 2016. finding adequate employment and navigating the red tape, i believe my experience will be beneficial and helping the v.a. commission draft meaningful recommendations to the mayor and board of supervisors. if elected, my priority will be to work with local leaders in hiring veterans as well as using the transferable skills. i believe promoting this, especially in regards to journalist of veterans, would be proactive approach to preventing other issues such as veteran homelessness. it took me over a year to find employment after leaving the military.

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>> i'm excited to take this to my new veterans community here. with my current professional experience in academic experience in public policy. in my professional life right now, i am a policy get budget and performance analyst with the county of san mateo, in addition to be a guardsman in fresno -- in fresno. working in local government every day, i get to see awesome, outstanding civil servants serving their community from the ground up on a daily basis, and between that and my background in program evaluation, having spent the last two years working

a defence acquisition performance evaluation, and doing my capstone building a performance evaluation plan for the city of aust -- austin, i can tie that along with my daily interaction as a performance lead with the budget policy of san mateo to help identify the public-policy pollution -- solutions to help you, the board , and the mayor advocate for veterans. first and foremost, there is a charter of opportunity. san francisco is a leader in his transparent and informative open data portal. unfortunately, there's not one item on that portal that is relevant to veterans or directly relevant to veterans. and i think that as a commission , using the expertise of the folks in the room, but also engaging the folks who are the ground level, engaging the folks who are working on the

ground, making this a bottom-up idea, the folks who see and interact with veterans every day , using their knowledge with our expertise and our perspective, and as well as the perspectives of veterans succumbing testify to help develop accurate performance measures that we as a community know can accurately measure how well we are serving as a city our veterans, and passing those along for inclusion in the annual report to the board and to the mayor to include those in the open data portal so you are equipped with the information that you need to advocate for veterans both at the city, state , and federal level. i want to touch on one of the questions you asked, supervisor ronen, in ways that the board of supervisors and american better advocate. it is that, the first thing is primarily using a platform. i think david did mention the federal va budget is just so massive, and there's not really a huge way to compare that at the local level level, nevermind

the nonprofit level, and it is using your seat as a progressive , as a forward thinking have here in san francisco to use that platform to advocate at the state and federal level to make sure they're upholding their promise to veterans so at the end of the day, the va has made a promise, and the federal government has not always been the best at upholding that promise and using your platform, and hopefully will use the commission to help inform you and arm you with the right data to help go and advocates. i think on that second point, it is in -- if in the meantime, we can use that a test to help fill those gaps. there are huge gaps in san francisco. we need local solutions to some of the more local problems, and using data we can help inform you with. i think that will really make a huge difference. and tying onto your second question, what is urgent? what is urgent, and i this came up today, his intergenerational gaps between the needs of not only our vietnam veterans, but

our older veterans when it comes to the housing crisis in the city. they maybe locked into tough housing situation where if they moved to a smaller place, the property tax may jump on them, it is a huge issue, and i know working in san mateo, we see that a lot with folks being locked in, i know that problem exists here. is letting that disparity between those challenges and also other challenges, folks who want to use the va home loans to buy, but it is too slow a process, or the challenges facing the post- 911 generation creates generational gaps, and i think that is a huge area of urgency that the board can work together to help address. i don't want to take up to too much time, i know it beeps twice at me, i'm happy to take any questions. thank you for the time to speak today. >> thank you for answering all the questions. any other questions? no. thank you so much. >> thank you for your time today >> is robert mining here?

good morning. >> hello, good morning. thank you for allowing me to speak and address make application. i made navy veteran from youngstown, -- ohio. i have been here for a year and three months. it is a very interesting city. it is almost the tale of two cities. at night it is very different. the homeless camps come up, there is messes in the street, one of the biggest things that i think needs to be -- that we should be concerned with is how we transition our veterans out of active duty. 80% of our veterans are military members come out of the military without a job, so no direction, they just jumped -- dumped out into the streets. and sebastian younger, i don't know if you have heard of him, he is a war reporter who has written a book called "tribes. he says one of the biggest problems that we face is not ptsd. when you have this group of people that you are in the

military with, that you can rely on, life or death, and then you leave that community and it leaves you with a sense of loss, and one of the best ways i think we can help veterans is career counciling. when you joined the military, you step into a situation where a recruiter is directing you through the entire process, tell me what the military will be like, what jobs you can do, what you can do with that job once you get out. when you get out of the military we get either -- i got nothing, i did not get a tap class, i was given my records and sent him down the way. sometimes you get a three-day top class or even up to two weeks. we are indoctrinating these military members for up to two months to become a soldier a -- or a sailor, ehrman, or marine, and then all of a sudden you are a civilian. it doesn't work like that. for one, when you transitional services. two, for the veterans who are already on the streets here we have failed to reach, we need homes. we don't need navigation centres , we don't need beds, they're not the chronically bet

less, they're not struggling with the navigation, they don't need compasses, they need homes, so we should start with transitional services, two we actually need to give them homes , and some people that are doing this is a veterans community project in missouri. they have ended homelessness in their cities. we can copy and paste some of these programs. some of them have been effective and we can take them and implement them in san francisco. so that is some of the policy, i guess, tips i would give if i were selected. >> professor wilson? >> quick question, what is a top class? >> it is a transition or class when you get out of the military when i got out, did not get the top class, but it was a free date -- three-day court -- course. it tells you what resources are available to you as a veteran, but there are some things like a myers-briggs test that you might take to discover who you are now

when you are exiting the military. however, you're doing this on active duty. you're not transitioned in taking these tests, it is a transition every course. >> did you have any other questions? >> i just thank you made such a great point of how much recruiting and training the government does to get individuals into the military and then on the backend, they're just not engaged. >> there is a reboot program down in san diego, it has replaced the top classes. the military base in the commanders down there are not his our note sending them to a third party, bso, because the classes that the government provides are insufficient. >> thank you, thank you so much

for your application. thank you. last, but certainly not least, kyle,. is kyle here? no. there are few people who enter the room after we called. i want to make sure anyone who has applied for a seat on the commission that didn't get a chance to speak. is anyone here? nope. wonderful, then i wanted to open up this item for public comments if there's any member of the public who would like to comment on the applicant his for this commission, now is your time. hello, good morning. >> good morning. it is get to know that you will have two minutes. >> no problem. that's enough. >> supervisor ronen, good morning to you, supervisor walton, good morning to you, supervisor martin, good morning to you. i would like to talk with you about some of the issues that are happening in the east slope where i live.

and you are my supervisor. please keep up the good work you are doing, certainly i admired the things you were doing, keep it up. your brother is a friend of mine i'm glad to see all appear doing your job. i'm here to support mr. chan who has been a long time friend of mine. i have watched him do extensive work with, pauls around veteran issues, raising funds, and reaching up across multicultural lines to support individuals that are veterans that are in need of help. i'm a proponent of not what people say, but with what they do, and i have watched him do extensive work around veteran issues, and that is why i want to support him. i hope you taken into consideration. >> thank you so much. please reach out any time, by the way, to my office, i would love to meet with you. okay, good. thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is george, i'm the

current secretary of the veterans affairs commission, and although i am here obviously supporting the president and vice president, mostly because i don't want to get stuck with any of the work they do, i also wanted to speak out and support today of mr. douglas buller to could not be here because of a family emergency. i have had the honour of knowing doug for about 20 years. he is an exceptional person and one of his strengths, i think as though he is an engineer by trade and has technical and detailed ability, he is really a people person. he engages with people tremendously across all sectors and across all walks, and he has been, up till now, a staunch advocate for lgbt groups as well as for newly commissioned and listening personnel that occur in the military, and as a vietnam era veteran, that can be a strength for the commission in that he can serve as a bridge between those folks that have come in -- or have needs from the vietnam era, to our post-

911 folks. i say i would like to make fun of him all the time and tell them he is old, with the fact is he brings wisdom and skills that i think could be beneficial for the commission, and could help generally for everyone, and i think most of you, there are a few of you on the rules committee here who are aware of his work and the fact he has been very active in policy here in san francisco. he's been a long time residents, 27 years in the city. i met him when he was at the university of san francisco, and i just wanted to make sure you knew that he does have very strong support here to receive a position on the commission. >> may i ask you a quick question, how many vietnam that's our own the commission currently? >> actually, i think we only have to watch what right now, three? >> three, great, thank you so much. >> thank you. good morning, as our next speaker comes up, if anyone else would like to speak, please

stand in line over here. thank you so much. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is al, i'm a friend of hanley chan. i'm a retired police officer of 34 years for san francisco, and i know of handley and his work as a private investigator. also, as a law enforcement officer, i have been very compassionate towards the veterans. one of the things -- one other thing is i have to say i applaud the service of all these veterans behind me. i've been very enlightened today just hearing all of these different issues concerning the veterans, and i applaud their work also in what they're doing. everyone has a little niche -- in each -- has a little niche in this field. i'm also a charter president of the san francisco unified lions club. i have been a member of the lions club for 20 years. the lions club is the world

largest service organization. we are vested in doing a lot of things for veterans, homelessness, meetings, different projects that are lions club does. also in this district, there are two lions club his that are mainly for veterans. i want to say that lien hanley chan has been a line for three different lions club his and he has followed me along three couple of clubs and done a lot of work with the lions. also, i am a friend of a chinese-american veterans organization. handley is with them also and hasn't a lot of work with them also. he is a parent, he is involved in a lot of community organizations. i'm also a business owner, a restaurant that i have run for 18 years. he is all around a community advocate for a lot of things. thank you for your time. >> thank you so much hi, good

morning. >> good morning, commissioners. my name is linda and i am no stranger to this community. i am a foster parent of 30 years that deals with children with autism and disability, mental disability, i am here because not only because of my background, 42 years in the community activism, but i have a daughter and her husband to served in the navy for 17 great years that my daughter has been separated from our family and her children. i basically raised the grandchild because of the mental torture that a child goes through. i am coming here as a parent, and as an advocate for hanley chan. i know him personally, i know what he is capable of. my family has a strong history

in law enforcement, in military background. my relatives served our community and our nation as well on all levels. i know what mr. chan's background is all about. i know his capabilities, and i know what he can do all around in community services, activism, and his leadership, and i didn't hear it being mentioned today about how the children of military parents are effected, and i am on the level of all veterans, but overall, on a lower spectrum, i know mr. handley would be the person that could cover all the bases for the needs of all of our veterans, all of our families and their needs, and i want to thank you today for hearing me out. i had to come as a mother of a daughter of 17 years, she and her husband in the navy, the

difficulties that they are going through with their family, mental disability, placement of schools, relocating from place to place. please give him that opportunity to be that advocate. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. next speaker. >> hello, my name is raymond, i am here to say that i wholeheartedly support hanley chan for the veterans affair commission. that is it. >> thank you. [laughter] is there any other member of the public who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. okay, you have given us an impossible task this morning. first of all, i just wanted to thank you all so much first for your service to the country, it

is complicated because i am a person who does not like to cs go to war ever, and i am a peace activist, and it pains me to see sometimes the reasons that our federal government sends us to war, and then i am deeply, deeply concerned with how this country often treats veterans when they come back from war. i don't think we do nearly enough at any level of government for our veterans after being recruited heavily into the armed services, and then putting your lives at risk and separating yourselves from your families and your communities and your children to then come back and not be welcomed and given any and all support that you so much deserve

, is something that pains me, and to hear you all speak, and your brilliant ideas and your willingness to serve yet again your local government and community by applying to be on this position, and use your knowledge and your passion for the veteran community to make sure that everyone is okay, and that nobody is left behind is really absolutely inspiring. i just want to thank you all so very much for everything that you have done, for your country, and now for san francisco by willing to serve on this commission. i would appoint every single one of you who spoke today. i wish we had enough seats because, the talent in this group is extraordinary, and it is not something that we always see when we have applicants for

commissions, that we have a list of people that literally i could appoint at every single one of you, but -- i want to turn it over to my colleagues, but i would just say that i would personally love to see the reappointment of our two incumbent commissioners, "i think who have been doing an excellent job and having that continuity on the commission i think is really important, so that is the one thing i will put out there before i turned it over to my colleagues as we are faced with this incredibly difficult decision before us. supervisor walton? >> thank you. i just wants to, of course, accident -- extent may thank you to all the veterans here today, and also say it is good to see so many people interested in serving and supporting and helping our veterans, if this is

not an easy decision to make, but i did want to thank everyone for coming out today. >> supervisor mark? >> thank you. i just wanted to echo my colleagues' sentiments in sincere thank you to all the applicants and the veterans here today in all of your service to our country and your willingness to serve our city and the va commission. as somebody who is family a lot of veterans, and many of my close friends are veterans, the issues that you all spoke spoke to today very close to me personally, and they're also so important to the city, like supervisor walton, i'm about three months into this new role on the board of supervisors, and we have been dealing with a lot of big issues here in the city, from the housing affordability crisis, homelessness, public

safety, and our justice system, and i think the issues, and especially the veterans community, your issues aren't -- haven't really been identified and prioritized at the level that they really should be in our city, and all of your issues are very connected to the other big issues that we are dealing with, as you spoke to so eloquently today, so again, thank you so much, and this is very much a learning opportunity for me, just to starts getting more of a deeper understanding of the issues for the veterans community, and i look forward to following up with all of you on working on these important issues. thank you. >> thank you. can i suggest we do the easy part and if i can make a motion

to reappoint victor to seat one and david chastain to seat four, if we can take that without objection, without objection, that passes, and then it looks like supervisor walton might have a suggestion. >> i do want to make a motion and i want everyone to understand that a big part of this motion also is a relationship to diversity and making sure that we do have a diverse commission as we move forward. with that said, i would like to recommend positively george for seat eight, agreement for seat 11, and please forgive me if i'm mispronouncing your name, stephen pinto for seat seven,

and hanley chan for seat nine. >> i am looking at supervisor mar, do you have any thoughts? >> i think those are very good recommendations, supervisor walton just put forward. i guess, again, reflecting the difficulty with having so many great and really qualified applicants, i had a little bit of different notes. i felt like christopher mcdonald's really would bring important life experience around housing that i think are very

important, and then even though he wasn't here to speak for himself, doug bullard, the applicant. i think he also brings a tremendous amount of experience here in san francisco, and also his leadership with the jrotc program within our schools, being such a leader on that important program. >> okay. [laughter] >> i was also blown away by mr. tucker. this is an impossible situation. so i'm trying to figure out how to move forward. it sounds like we have at least two commissioners who are supportive of sorry, so in

addition to christopher mcdonald's and doug bullard, who are the other two commissioners? >> i had stephen martin pinto and hanley chan bring a wealth of experience. >> got it. so let's do this. it sounds like we have agreement to move forward with positive recommendation stephen martin pinto to seat seven and hanley chan to seat 11. am i getting this right? >> nine. nine is what i recommended. >> okay. >> but if it is 11 -- >> let's do that, seat nine. there is a motion to move forward with positive recommendation stephen martin pinto to seat seven and hanley chan to seat nine, and we will take that without objection.

that motion passes, so now we have two more seats to a point, and that is seat 11 and to seat eight, is that correct? sorry, if -- let me walk through that, supervisor mar is supporting mr. mcdonald and bullard, mr. mcdonald for seat 11, mr. bullard for seat eight, and supervisor walton is super -- is reporting -- supporting, can you remind me? >> i had mr. aubert. >> and for seat eight? >> okay. what i would like to do then is

make a motion to move forward christopher mcdonald to seat 11 and george chan -- george chung to seat eight. >> i'm okay with that. >> are you okay with that? okay. then that motion passes without objection. again, this was one of the harder ones that we have faced up here, so i know that there is going to be many more opportunities for you all to serve on this commission. i would really encourage -- the mayor has more appointments, and if you reach out to me, that i can put you in contact with the mayor's appointment advisor who i know is wonderful, and i know who would love to meet you

because this was impossible. as i today, so i would ask you not -- to keep engaging, because we need your brilliance in this county, and then i also want to end by saying that i really look forward to working with you all much more closely. please feel free, any time to reach out to my office. i want to be supportive of your work and really help move forward your agenda. so thank you so much for everything. >> i would just like to repeat to make sure i have them all. >> sure. >> i have mr. hanley chan to seat nine, david chastain to seat four, george chung to seat eight, stephen martin pinto to seat seven, christopher mcdonald

to seat 11 and victor olivier to seat one. >> yes, that is correct. thank you so much. thank you, everyone for your time and your service. mr. clark, can you please read item number 3? >> item number 3 is a motion appointing a member of the board of supervisors for an indefinite term to the association of bay area governments metropolitan transportation commission legislation of -- legislative task force. >> thank you. because i have applied for this position, i'm wondering if someone can make a motion to excuse me. >> so moved. >> second. >> i believe that motion to excuse supervisor roundness pass without objection. >> without objection. mr. clark, thank you. supervisor mar, do you have any comments on this item? >> no. >> no.

no comments from my colleagues. any members of the public would like to comment on this item? public comment is closed. no public speakers. with that said, supervisor mar,. >> would you like to make a motion to amend the motion to insert supervisor ronen's name as the appointee? >> yeah, i move that we amend the motion and insert supervisor ronen's name as the appointee. >> agree and move forward. >> i also would make a motion that we move supervisor ronen's appointment to the association of bay area government and metropolitan transportation commission, legislative task force with positive recommendation from the full board. >> that motion passes without objection.

>> thank you, with that said, anymore business before us? >> would you like to bring the chair back in? [laughter] >> that completes the agenda for today. >> meeting is adjourned. >> perfect. better.

san francisco department of environment is a place where climate hits the street. we know that we don't have all the answers. we need to support our local champions, our local community to find creative solutions and innovations that help us get to zero waste. >> zero waste is sending nothing to landfill or incineration, using reuse and recovery and prevention as ways to achieve zero waste. the grant program is a grant program specifically for nonprofits in san francisco to divert material from landfill. it's important to find the san francisco produce market because

there's a lot of edible food that can be diverted and they need positions to capture that food and focus on food recovery. >> san francisco produce market is a resource that connects farmers and their produce with businesses in the bay area. i think it's a basic human right to have access to healthy foods, and all of this food here is available. it's a matter of creating the infrastructure, creating jobs, and the system whereby none of this goes to waste. since the beginning of our program in july 2016 to date, we've donated over 1 million pounds of produce to our community partners, and that's resulted in over 900,000 meals to people in our community, which we're very proud of.

>> carolyn at the san francisco produce market texts with old produce that's available. the produce is always excellent. we get things like broccoli, brussels sprouts, bell peppers. everything that we use is nice and fresh, so when our clients get it, they really enjoy it, and it's important to me to feel good about what i do, and working in programs such as this really provides that for me. it's helping people. that's what it's really about, and i really enjoy that. >> the work at the produce market for me representing the intersection between environment and community, and when we are working at that intersection, when we are using our resources and our passion and our energy to heal the planet and feed the

san francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and preparedness, not only for san francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] >> fire station 35 was built in 1915. so it is over 100 years old. and helped it, we're going to build fire boat station 35. >> so the finished capital planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on sea level rise. >> the station 35,

construction cost is approximately $30 million. and the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. it is being fabricated in china, and will be brought to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. >> we're looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. the historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. >> this totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of sea level rise over the next 100 years. that's what the city's

guidance is requiring. it is built on the float, that can move up and down as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed guide piles. so if the seas go up, it can move up and down with that. >> it does have a full range of travel, from low tide to high tide of about 16 feet. so that allows for current tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming decades. >> the fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. >> the access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a pivot or hinge connection, and then it is sliding over the top of the float. in that way the ramp can flex up and down like a hinge, and also allow for a slight few inches of

lateral motion of the float. both the access ramps, which there is two, and the utility's only flexible connection connecting from the float to the back of the building. so electrical power, water, sewage, it all has flexible connection to the boat. >> high boat station number 35 will provide mooring for three fire boats and one rescue boat. >> currently we're staffed with seven members per day, but the fire department would like to establish a new dedicated marine unit that would be able to respond to multiple incidences. looking into the future, we have not only at&t park, where we have a lot of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along these new developments.

>> there are very few designs for people sleeping on the water. we're looking at cruiseships, which are larger structures, several times the size of harbor station 35, but they're the only good reference point. we look to the cruiseship industry who has kind of an index for how much acceleration they were accommodate. >> it is very unique. i don't know that any other fire station built on the water is in the united states. >> the fire boat is a regionalesset tharegional assete used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup. we have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. this is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. we're proud to serve our community. and we're willing to help

people in any way we can. >> we will call this meeting to order. hello, and welcome to the tuesday, april 2nd, 2019 commission meeting at the san francisco entertainment commission. i am the commission president. if you are a member of the public and you would like to speak, there is speaker forms you can fill out that are located at the front table and you can hand them to staff or come to the microphone when it is time to speak during public comment. we ask everyone turns off their cell phones or put some on silent, including commissioners and staff. we want to thank san francisco government t.v. and media services for sharing this meeting with the public and we will start with a roll call.

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