>> welcome to the committee meeting of the treasure island mobility management agency. mr. clerk, please call the roll. [roll call] >> we have a quorum. >> please read the consent agenda. >> item two and three compromise the consent calendar. they're considered routine, staff is not planning to present on these items but are prepared to present. if a member of objects, any items maybe removed and considered separately. >> are there any questions or collins his comments from colleagues on the consent items agenda?

seeing then, any public comment? colleagues, can we have a motion and a second on the consent agenda? roll call, please. >> on the consent agenda,. [roll call] >> we have approval. >> thank you. please call the next item. >> recommend approval of the proposed fiscal year 20 -- 2018- 2019 action item. >> great, good morning, chair haney, committee members. i'm the deputy director of capital projects. i am happy to propose our amendment to the 2018-2019 amendment to the budget. as you know, we are preparing for the redevelopment of the island. more than 20,000 people are planned for on the island ultimately in terms of build out

the island mobility goals are to incentivize transit, discourage the use of private autos through tolling, paid parking, and more importantly, performance targets of 5050 mode chair, transit walking, biking, and vehicles. the bay bridge is quite congested, and particularly the commute times. the key outcomes are to limit outcomes. to pay for transit service, and most importantly, that make sure that we have an affordability program for the low-income residents on the island. i want to talk about an overview of the schedule here as it relates to the entire program. some of the physical infrastructure is taking longer for us to go ahead and start construction on and actually complete construction on. as you know right now, one of the roads on the island is under construction. it is the developer's

responsibility will to widen that road. the rain has delayed that a bit. we are also trying to get this project out for construction, and we're hoping to do that in the fall. finally, what is called the westside bridges contract for the western side of the island, which will follow those contracts that we have talked about there. it is anticipated to be completed, not originally planned by the late 21 time frame, but we're looking more towards the late 22, early 23 timeframe. knowing that, we are adjusting our schedules accordingly in terms of the work ahead of us. we also know how important it is to continue our outreach efforts with the community in terms of the affordability program, and also with the business interest on the island, and working in close cooperation and partnership with the treasure island develop and authority. i want to take a look at the line item detail here. we are asking for just under a 1.3 million dollars decrease in

the budget. primarily due to holding back on the implementation of some of the civil design efforts, as well as what's called the toll system integration contract, which is an important contract in terms of implementing the tolls, and given the fact that we had originally anticipated a december of 2018 approval, and it looks like now we're targeting about december 2019, or spring of 2020 approval for the toll policies. we are hoping on that effort to make sure that we utilize the funding that we have as appropriately as possible. this graphic indicates the toll revenues that were anticipated in our proposed amendment about a $1.3 million decrease. the expenditures in that same realm, about a $1.3 million decrease. most of it is working with our technical professional services,

consultants, our own personnel, in terms of moving all the planning efforts forward, and in particular, rachel hyatt and others on the staff. that concludes my presentation if you have any questions. i am available here right now. colleagues, any questions? all right. any public comment on this item? all right. seeing none, we will take this -- can we have a motion to move item four forward without objection? all right. so moved. same house, same call. mr. clerk, please call the next item. >> item one is a public hearing, recommend adoption of the proposal -- of the proposed fiscal year 2019, 2020 annual budget and work program. this is an action item. >> thank you, once again. i'm the deputy director of

capital projects. happy to present the fiscal year 2019, 2020 budget. i will now introduce the director of the developed authority because i want to make sure he provides you the information that has been asked from the public on the island, and the congestion pricing. and in essence, the legality of that in some of the prior history. i will let bob start with that presentation in that regard, then i will go ahead and start talking about the workplan of the budget. thank you. so as eric mentioned, we have given an update at the board board meeting earlier this month and erica sherrick asked me to repeat some of this just on the history of the congestion pricing program. congestion pricing was anticipated at that -- in the

beginning of the 1996 base reuse plan for the island and has been run throughout the planning work that has stemmed from that initial work. in the 1996 plan, for residential development, the plan to limit all to use most of it be developed prior to the develop and his of these things. they should include limits on parking, including pricing of parking, transit amendment management measures such as road pricing tolls, better access to the island, and community design that integrate support services. schools, parks, retail, into the development. that is the land use plan, and the plan that has been carried forward from that time, and congestion pricing has been an integral element of both the subsequent analysis and plans

that have been endorsed by the board of supervisors. and the e.i.r., in the environmental evaluation, congestion pricing is part of the project in the final environmental impact report, to be clear, that means all of the analysis that was done as part of the e.i.r. tolling congestion pricing was part of the base case. it is not a mitigation measure that was implemented after analysis in order to mitigate impacts, but it is part of the underlying assumptions when evaluating impacts. and so under ceqa, we need to move forward with congestion pricing as part of the project. we would no longer be implementing the approved project and it is worth noting that the design of the roadway network from the island also anticipates the impacts and tolling in tolling with

automobile demand and ramp cueing as an example, the ramps onto the bridge will be metered during peak commute hours and any excess automobiles trying to access the bridge will queue back onto those street networks on the island, and without the pricing component of congestion pricing, that queue will be longer, and the impacts on the roadway more severe. congestion pricing is also a critical source of funding for the transportation services, developed as part of the project , ferry service, a.c. transit, on island shuttle, and other transportation programs, but it is also more then a source of funding. it discourages automobile use, increases the relative attractiveness of transit, and mitigates the impact of automobile trips on the bay

bridge and the island roadway network. under the transportation implementation plan, the demand management programs, and to monitor and make changes as required to meet the program objectives as eric highlighted in his prior presentation. also per the transportation implementation plan, it did call up the expectations to implement congestion pricing with the first base of development. in conclusion, i will hand it over to eric, the development plan for treasure island has been the results of more than two decades of public planning, and attempts to balance land use , transportation, and sustainability in a comprehensive and forward thinking manner.

this approach, and the island's unique location have require the adoption of some measures like congestion pricing that will not -- that are not unprecedented nationally, or are not new to the bay area. the challenge for tim a and tee ida is to determine how to implement this pricing in a manner that achieves the goals and objectives of the long-term development of the island while recognizing the challenges that the program presents two current residents and businesses. with that, i will hand it back to eric. >> great, thank you, bob. i will focus the remainder of my presentation on the work ahead of us. i will start and continue to repeat outreach and how important that is for us to work with this committee and this board, and in particular, with the residents on the island today, as well as the business community. we are also going to focus efforts on developing a funding

strategy for the overall implementation of the program. we have already started that work and have different funding that we have been successful in obtaining and looking forward to developing a strategy that we bring to this committee here. we have already started transit design work and are moving forward, in particular with the policy and affordability program as well as civil engineering designs, just on a preliminary basis, and also to the documentation. let's get a little bit more specific on the outreach. our intent is to collaborate with the businesses. we have already had some discussions with key businesses and anticipate working sessions in the summer of 2019. what we are calling creation of an affordability benefits program that we can go ahead and present to the committee and to the board for approval later this year or early in 2020. so we understand the importance of that, and that will be the main focus of our efforts moving forward this year.

we have already had numerous outreach events of the last year in particular, and we will continue to have them with the residents on the island. stay tuned for more information as we move forward here with the program. i mentioned the funding strategy this gives you an update on some of the key approvals that we have received today, in particular, the federal money for the transportation and congestion management technologies deployment. approximately $5.3 million which is for the tolling system, design and installation, but also for the autonomous shuttle pilot project that i will give you more detail on later in the presentation. we are pursuing other grant opportunities, in particular, discussions with the regional measure three and the bay area toll authority. as indicated before, the transit path design work is underway. mobility as a service, we anticipate giving major updates here over the next quarter in that regard. we have had discussions with the

water emergency transportation authority as it relates to potentially starting ferry service through them and with them, and i have had discussions with the service operators themselves in that regard. so we will continue this efforts as we move forward. and exciting project is also the autonomous vehicle shuttle pilot that we discussed. we're moving forward with goals and objectives right now. we anticipate having at the concept of operations done this fiscal year, and some major stakeholder engagement later in the year. the toll policy analysis back to probably the biggest challenge ahead of us is making sure we come up with an affordability program that works, that is financially feasible, and it works for the island residents and the businesses that are there. we will continue that effort in terms of our transportation demand model work as well as our financial model efforts. we do have, as i mentioned, different construction contracts on the island that we control,

as well as the westside bridges. we are incorporating the civil divine -- design that is required for the tolling systems for that work. basically what we're doing is implementing the conduit work as part of the construction packages and some of the other civil infrastructure. we will have to perform some additional environmental analysis, just specific to the locations of where we will have entries, basically the infrastructure, it is minimal in that regard, but it is an important step for us to be able to utilize the federal funds. the budget in front of you shows a proposed budget of approximately $2.7 million, as you see there, the revenue and expenditures, it has a different way of looking at it from a pie chart perspective on how we utilize these funds. this is the budget itself. total revenues is to $.745 million. finally, the expenditures and how we intend to use the funds

that we have in front of us. primarily, the environment of documentation, the outreach, our outreach being the prime work ahead of us, as well as the civil design and making sure we incorporate those into the construction packages that we are finalizing, and have finalized for southgate and for westside bridges. our recommendation is adoption of the proposed fiscal year 19- 20, my apologies, that reads wrong. the annual budget and work program. that concludes my presentation. >> thank you. deputy director cordova, any public comment on this item? all right. commissioner walton? >> thank you, chair haney. just a quick question in regards to the conversation around congestion pricing, where is the plan for total exemption for

current residents and for -- future low income residents? >> we had developed prior in the latter part of 2018. we had come forth with a stipend recommendation of a proximal he three per household. at that time, the board board and the previous chair of the committee, as well as the authority board asked us to go ahead and look at, in essence, a more long-term solution, and a different solution in that regard. we are going ahead and working on the travel demand modelling associated with that, as well as the financial model in that regard, in terms of the cost. you will hear a lot more of that here in this fiscal year. >> as of now, we don't have a plan that focuses on total exemption for current residence, and future low income residents? >> what we are doing is running

the model information to understand the impacts to the program in that regard and how that might impact the rate itself. we're developing that right now, commissioner. we will definitely come back to you with more information here. we understand how critical it is >> along those lines -- my understanding is, nothing in this workplan is making any sort of final decisions about anything related to the toll or the congestion pricing, it is just they are approving the ongoing outreach, and then there will be a timeline where you will bring forward to us some different recommendations, that then we will provide input for and make a final decision. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> any further questions or comments. can we have -- can we move this forward without objection? all right.

so moved. same house, same call. could you please call the next item? >> item six, introduction of new items. this is an information item. >> are there any new items? no? any public comment on this? seeing none, mr. clark, please call the next item. >> item seven is public comment. >> is there any general public comment? seeing none, all right, this meeting is adjourned. hi, i'm l

doing a special series about staying safe. let's look at issues of water and sewer. we are here at the san francisco

urban center on mission street in san francisco and i'm joined today by marrielen from puc and talk about water and sewer issues. what are things we should be concerned about water. >> you want to be prepared for that scenario and the recommendation is to have stored 1 gallon per person per day that you are out of water. we recommend that you have at least 3-5 days for each person and also keep in consideration storage needs for your pets and think about the size of your pets and how much water they consume. >> the storage which is using tap water which you are going to encourage. >> right. of course at the puc we recommend that you store our wonderful delicious tap water. it's free. it comes out of the tap and you can store it in any plastic container, a clean

plastic container for up to 6 months. so find a container, fill it with water and label it and rotate it out. i use it to water my garden. >> of course everyone has plastic bottles which we are not really promoting but it is a common way to store it. >> yes. it's an easy way to pick up bottles to store it. just make sure you check the label. this one says june 2013. so convenient you have an end date on it. >> and there are other places where people have water stored in their houses. >> sure. if you have a water heater or access to the water heater to your house, you can drink that water and you can also drink the water that the in the tank of your toilet. ; not the bowl but in your tank. in any case if you are not totally sure about the age of

your water or if you are not sure about it being totally clean, you can treat your water at home. there is two ways that you can treat your water at home and one is to use basic household bleach. the recommendation is 8 drops of bleach for ever gallon of water. you add 8 drops of bleach into the water and it needs to sit for 30 minutes. the other option is to boil water. you need to boil water for 5-10 minutes. after an earthquake that may not be an option as gas maybe turned off and we may not have power. the other thing is that puc will provide information as quickly as possible about recommendations about whether the water is okay to drink or need to treat it. we have a number of twice get information

from the puc through twitter and facebook and our website sf water.org. >> people should not drink water from pools or spas. but they could use it to flush their toilets if their source are not broken. let's look at those issues. >> sanitation is another issue and something people don't usually or like to think about it but it's the reality. very likely that without water you can't flush and the sewer system can be impeded or affected during an earthquake. you need to think about sanitation. the options are simple. we recommend a set up if you are able to stay in your building or house to make sure that you have heavy duty trash bags available. you can set this up within your existing toilet bowl and once it's used.

you take a little bit of our bleach. we talked about it earlier from the water. you seal the bag completely. you make sure you mark the bag as human waste and set it aside and wait for instruction about how to dispose of it. be very aware of cleanliness and make sure you have wipes so folks are able to wash up when dealing with the sanitation issue. >> thank you so much, [♪] >> coming to san francisco on june 11th, the earthquake safety his fair from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. as the auditorium at 99 grove street. meet with contractors, design professionals professionals,

engineers and architects, along with city agencies and hundreds of booths on the main floor. attend one of the workshops at 11:00 a.m. the seismic safety strategies study. what you need to know is the city strengthens buildings 240 feet high and higher, and to get ready to the next -- for the next big one. 12:00 p.m., changes in the updated citywide vacant commercial storefront ordinance. 1:00 p.m., comply with the accessible business entrance program to enable everyone to enter your business. 2:00 p.m., home modelling process made stress-free, meet the experts and understand the permit review issuance and inspections process. 3:00 p.m., making the best use of the accessory dwelling unit and legalization program to at affordable housing. learn from these three workshops at the june 11th d.b.i. earthquake safety fair, and begin to get ready for the big one by taking immediate steps to protect both family and property we hope to see you there, so

register now. [♪] >> my name tom hewitt. first of all, i would like to welcome everyone to come to this fair. this safety fair, we trying to educate the public regarding how to prepare themselves during and after the earthquake and then to protect themselves for next 72 hours. >> hi. my name's ed sweeney. i'm the director of services at department of building inspection, and we put together a great fair for the city of san francisco to come down and meet all the experts. we've got engineers, architects.

we have builders, we have government agencies. >> well, we have four specific workshops. we have the accessible business entrance. >> my name is leah, and i am the assistant manager with the department of small business. i am leading the new accessibility ordinance that helps existing owners better comply with existing access laws. so all buildings that have places of public accommodation in san francisco, they must comply with this ordinance. >> the a.d.e. was setup by the board of supervisors, and the ordinance was passed about a year ago. >> one of the biggest updates that we have is that the deadlines were extended, so all of the deadlines were extended by six months.

>> and it's really to help the public, the business community to be specific, to cut down on the amount of drive by lawsuits. >> so on this workshop, we're going to be covering what the compliance looks like, what business examiand property owne need to know how to comply with the ordinance. we'll also talk about the departments that are involved, including the office of small business, department of building inspection, planning department, as well as the mayor's office on disability. >> hi. i'm marselle, and i manage a team at the building department. today, we'll cover the meaning of a.d.u.s, more commonly known as accessory dwelling units. we'll talk about the code and permitting processes, and we'll

also talk about legalizing existing dwelling units that are currently unwarranted. >> this is the department of building inspection's residential remodelling workshop. my name is senior electrical inspector cheryl rose, and at this workshop, we're going to be answering questions such as do i need an electrical permit when i'm upgrading my dwelling, when do i need to have planning involved in a residential remodel, and what's involved with the coerce process? we're going to also be reviewing inspection process, and the permitting process for residential remodel in san francisco. there's always questions that need answers. it's a mystery to the general public what goes on in construction, and the more we can clarify the process, the more involved the consumer can be and feel comfortable with the contractors they're working with and the product they're getting in the results.

if you have questions that aren't addressed in this workshop, you're always welcome to come up to the third floor of 1660 mission street, and we're happy to discuss it with you and find out what you need to do. >> the program is very successful. the last piece is already 60% in compliance. >> well, we have a very important day coming up. it's sept 15. last four has to be compliance, which means that the level four people that have to register with us and give us a basic indication of how they're going to deal with their seismic issues on their building. >> i'm francis zamora, and i'm with the san francisco department of emergency management, and today we talked about how to prepare for emergencies in san francisco. and so that's really

importantiimportant. in san francisco, it's no secret. we live in earthquake country. there's a big chance we will be involved in a major earthquake in the next 30 years, but we don't have to be afraid. these are going to be your first responders outside of the police officers, paramedics, first responders, these are going to be the people that come to your aid first. by getting to know your neighbors, you're going to know who needs help and who can help in case of an emergency. one of the great ways to do that is for signing7for nert, san francisco neighborhood emergency response team. it teaches you how to take care of yourself, your loved ones, and your neighborhood in the case of an emergency. information is just as important as water and food in an emergency. san francisco has an emergency text message alert system, called text sf.

if there's some kind of an emergency happening in san francisco or your neighborhood, it could be a police action, a big fire, a tsunami or an earthquake. all you have to do is text your citizenship code to 888777, and your mobile phone is automatically registered for alert sf. >> my name is fernando juarez, and i'm a fire captain with the san francisco fire department. we have a hire extinguisher training system. you want to pull the pin, stand at least 8 feet away, aim it at the base. if you're too close, the conical laser that comes out, it's too small, and the fire won't go out

on the screen. if you step back, the conical shape on the screen is bigger, and it will take the fire go out faster. so it can tell when you're too close. >> my name is alicia wu, and i'm the director of a san francisco based nonprofit. since 2015, we go out to the public, to the community and provide training in different topics. today we're doing c.p.r., controlling external feeding and how to do perfect communications in each topic, and also, i hope that they can bring it home and start gathering all the supplies for themselves to. >> on any given day in san francisco, we're very well resourced in terms of public safety professionals, but we all know in the event of a large

scale disaster, it will be hours and days before the public safety professionals can get to you, so we encourage people to have that plan in place, be proactive. there's websites. we have a wonderful website called 72hours.org. it tells you how to prepare yourself, your family, your pets, your home, your workplace. we can't emphasize enough how important it is to be >> it's great to see everyone kind of get together and prove, that you know, building our culture is something that can be reckoned with.

>> i am desi, chair of economic development for soma filipinos. so that -- [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and it's also our economic platform, so we can start to build filipino businesses so we can start to build the cultural district. >> i studied the bok chase choy her achbl heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy. working at i-market is amazing. you've got all these amazing

people coming out here to share one culture. >> when i heard that there was a market with, like, a lot of filipino food, it was like oh, wow, that's the closest thing i've got to home, so, like, i'm going to try everything. >> fried rice, and wings, and three different cliefz sliders. i haven't tried the adobe yet, but just smelling it yet brings back home and a ton of memories. >> the binca is made out of different ingredients, including cheese. but here, we put a twist on it. why not have nutella, rocky road, we have blue berry. we're not just limiting it to

just the classic with salted egg and cheese. >> we try to cook food that you don't normally find from filipino food vendors, like the lichon, for example. it's something that it took years to come up with, to perfect, to get the skin just right, the flavor, and it's one of our most popular dishes, and people love it. this, it's kind of me trying to chase a dream that i had for a long time. when i got tired of the corporate world, i decided that i wanted to give it a try and see if people would actually like our food. i think it's a wonderful opportunity for the filipino culture to shine. everybody keeps saying filipino food is the next big thing.

i think it's already big, and to have all of us here together, it's just -- it just blows my mind sometimes that there's so many of us bringing -- bringing filipino food to the city finally. >> i'm alex, the owner of the lumpia company. the food that i create is basically the filipino-american experience. i wasn't a chef to start with, but i literally love lumpia, but my food is my favorite foods i like to eat, put into my favorite filipino foods, put together. it's not based off of recipes i learned from my mom. maybe i learned the rolling technique from my mom, but the different things that i put in are just the different things that i like, and i like to think that i have good taste. well, the very first lumpia

that i came out with that really build the lumpia -- it wasn't the poerk and shrimp shanghai, but my favorite thing after partying is that bakon cheese burger lumpia. there was a time in our generation where we didn't have our own place, our own feed to eat. before, i used to promote filipino gatherings to share the love. now, i'm taking the most exciting filipino appetizer and sharing it with other

filipinos. >> it can happen in the san francisco mint, it can happen in a park, it can happen in a street park, it can happen in a tech campus. it's basically where we bring the hardware, the culture, the operating system. >> so right now, i'm eating something that brings me back to every filipino party from my childhood. it's really cool to be part of the community and reconnect with the neighborhood. >> one of our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantown or little saigon, there's little communities there that act as place makers. when you enter into little

philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve. >> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000 for every event.

undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city

and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. when you're positive and committed to using that energy, >> growing up in san francisco has been way safer than growing up other places we we have that bubble, and it's still that bubble that it's okay to be whatever you want to. you can let your free flag fry he -- fly here. as an adult with autism, i'm here to challenge people's idea of what autism is. my journey is not everyone's journey because every autistic

child is different, but there's hope. my background has heavy roots in the bay area. i was born in san diego and adopted out to san francisco when i was about 17 years old. i bounced around a little bit here in high school, but i've always been here in the bay. we are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to emp. we don't turn anyone away. we take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. the most common thing i hear in my adult life is oh, you don't seem like you have autism. you seem so normal. yeah. that's 26 years of really, really, really hard work and i think thises that i still do. i was one of the first open adoptions for an lgbt couple. they split up when i was about

four. one of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my biological mother, who is also a lesbian. very queer family. growing up in the 90's with a queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here, i felt safe. i was bullied relatively infrequently. but i never really felt isolated or alone. i have known for virtually my entire life i was not suspended, but kindly asked to not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change. the school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. one of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so they know what it's about, but my parents wanted my life to be

safe. when i have all the neurological issues to manage, that was just one more to add to it. i was a weird kid. i had my core group of, like, very tight, like, three friends. when we look at autism, we characterize it by, like, lack of eye contact, what i do now is when i'm looking away from the camera, it's for my own comfort. faces are confusing. it's a lack of mirror neurons in your brain working properly to allow you to experience empathy, to realize where somebody is coming from, or to realize that body language means that. at its core, autism is a social disorder, it's a neurological disorder that people are born with, and it's a big, big spectrum. it wasn't until i was a teenager that i heard autism in relation to myself, and i rejected it. i was very loud, i took up a

lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space let everybody else know where i existed in the world. i didn't like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared. i was very difficult to be around. but the friends that i have are very close. i click with our atypical kiddos than other people do. in experience, i remember when i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me because it hurt. i remember throwing chairs because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it meant that i couldn't cope. i grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i got development cal -- developmental psychology from all sides. i recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of

that, and not everybody's in a position to have a family that's as supportive, but there's also a community that's incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. it was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what? i'm just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male. i have a two-year-old. the person who i'm now married to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasn't sure, so i we went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth control, so there's no way you can be pregnant. i found out i was pregnant at 6.5 months. my whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me.

i think i've finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. i think the access to irrelevant care for parents is intentionally confusing. when i did the procespective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. we have a place where children can be children, but it's very confusing. i always out myself as an adult with autism. i think it's helpful when you know where can your child go. how i'm choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy.

how do -- speech therapy. how do you explain that to the rest of their class? i want that to be a normal experience. i was working on a certificate and kind of getting think early childhood credits brefore i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in san francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i don't really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight person's perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and i'm like absolutely. so i'm now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. i love growing up here. i love what san francisco represents. the idea of leaving has never occurred to me. but it's a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that

come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. what i've done with my life is work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that we're still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a resource center, and this resource center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. i would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. so many things that i would love to do that are all about changing people's minds about certain chunts, like the transgender community or the autistic community. i would like my daughter to know there's no wrong way to go through life. everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all of those things are temporary.

>> providing excellent customer service to each other so that we can succeed together. because we're a small division out here, and we're separated from the rest of the p.u.c., a lot of people wear a lot of different hats. everyone is really adept not just at their own job assigned to them, but really understanding how their job relates to the other functions, and then, how they can work together with other functions in the organization to solve those problems and meet our core mission. >> we procure, track, and store materials and supplies for the project here. our real goal is to provide the best materials, services and supplies to the 250 people that work here at hetch hetchy, and

turn, that supports everyone here in the city. i have a very small, but very efficient and effective team. we really focus hard on doing things right, and then focus on doing the right thing, that benefits everyone. >> the accounting team has several different functions. what happens is because we're so remote out here, we have small groups of people that have to do what the equivalent are of many people in the city. out here, our accounting team handles everything. they love it, they know it inside out, they cherish it, they do their best to make the system work at its most efficient. they work for ways to improve it all the time, and that's really an amazing thing. this is really unique because it's everybody across the board. they're invested it, and they do their best for it. >> they're a pretty dynamic team, actually. the warehouse team guys, and the gals over in accounting

work very well together. i'm typically in engineering, so i don't work with them all day on an every day basis. so when i do, they've included me in their team and treated me as part of the family. it's pretty amazing. >> this team really understanding the mission of the organization and our responsibilities to deliver water and power, and the team also understands that in order to do that, we have a commitment to each other, so we're all committed to the success of the organization, and that means providing excellent customer service to each other so that we can succeed

as many of you know, supervisor ronen has stood side by side, shoulder to shoulder -- [speaking spanish] -- all the way through many -- many times. and so at the many meetings, at the many hearings, it has just been such a breath of fresh air to have such a fighter in the public arena, as a public elected official be there with us. so it's my pleasure to introduce amy, senior legislative aide to supervisor ronen to offer remarks. >> i'll stay away from the jokes. [laughter] hi, my name is amy, i'm a legislative aide to