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>> chair fewer: thank you very much. thank you for being the heartbeat of the community. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. i'd like to make an amendment to include the sing tao daily and world journal publication of san francisco. i'd like to make a positive recommendation to 4 and 5 as amended. we can take that without objection. thank you very much. i forgot to make a motion to excuse supervisor stefani. if i can take that -- >> clerk: your intention is to excuse her from all the previous votes up to this point? >> chair fewer: yes. thank you very much. >> clerk: would we have to rescind the votes for each of those? previously she's listed in each of the previous votes as absent. >> chair fewer: so do i need to

make a motion to excuse her? >> clerk: if you want to list her as excused if absent? >> chair fewer: no, absent is fine. i think she'll be joining us shortly. i think we're on item number 7. >> clerk: that's correct. >> chair fewer: thank you please call item 7. [agenda item read]. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. so we have mr. dan wade, director of water capital projects for sfpuc. >> good morning, supervisors. >> chair fewer: good morning. >> thank you for the opportunity to be here to

present the mountain tunnel improvement management services. it's contract number pro-0096 with aecom technical services. may i have the slides, please. so the mountain tunnel is a 19-mile long tunnel that transmits water from hetch hetchy reservoir within yosemite national park, part of the system that transmits the water 167 miles across the state to 2.7 million users in san francisco and the bay area. this map shows the location of the tunnel circled in yellow, and again, it's a 19-mile long tunnel that takes water from early intake after the canyon power tunnel to priest

reservoir prior to down through the valley. mountain tunnel was constructed in 1917 to -25, and it's been in service since that time. it transports water from early use to priest reservoir. there's about 12.5 miles that was lined with concrete lining that was installed when the original tunnel was constructed. over time, deterioration in the lining has been noted. there was an inspection in 2012 that caused significant concern, and so since that time, we have been planning additional inspections, which we've done in 2017. we did two contracts at that time. one was to do urgent repairs on

the tunnel in preparation of -- we did a full inspection of the tunnel, and we also did some urgent repairs on the most significant deterioration in the tunnel. we did another phase two of those urgent repairs in 2018 and 2019. so as part of that inspection, we were able to approve the mountain tunnel improvements project, which is a project to improve the tunnel and ensure operation for the next 100 years to provide reliable performance standards and provide water to the san francisco bay area. the base bid is estimated at about $140 million. that's not including construction contingency. the reason the construction term is so long is it has to be

done during outage periods so we can continue to supply water to the customers. this is a picture of the tunnel during the 2017 inspection when the tunnel was drained, and you can see repairs being made to the lining. the scope of this particular agreement is to provide construction management services for the seven-year construction contract, and the services are listed here. i won't read three all of these, but if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. our request is to authorize the sfpuc to execute contract 96 with aecom construction with a not to exceed contract value of $24.5 million and a not to exceed period of eight year. i'd be happy to answer any questions. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. so i think there is a b.l.a. report on this. >> yes. the board of supervisors is being asked to approve a seven year contract -- actually an

eight-year contract between p.u.c. and aecom for $24.5 million. this is for project services for the mountain tunnel project which was been well described. aecom was selected through an r.f.p. process. we summarized it in our report. the total amount is for $24.5 contract. $23.5 million is for actual labor charges, which we show in our report, and we are recommending approval. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. and i just have a question. the total project amount is 231,918,000, so you're asking us today for an allocation of that money to be put towards the first phase -- is this the first request that we've had out of this project budget? >> no. so as part of the capital improvement program that this

project is a part of, the sfpucs capital plan for the water enterprise and the power enterprise, this project has been approved as part of that plan in terms of the allocation of funding. this contract is a portion of that funding to -- to authorize the instruction management services. now the construction contract itself would not be authorized or approved by the sfpuc until the ceqa process is complete, so there'll be another opportunity for discretionary action at that time. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. are there any members of the public that would like to comment on item number 7? seeing none, public comment is now closed. i'd like to make a recommendation to move this forward with a positive recommendation to the board. take that without objection. thank you very much. please note that supervisor stefani has joined us. >> clerk: that's right. >> chair fewer: and mr. clerk, can you please call item number

8. [agenda item read]. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. i believe we have carolyn mccormick from the mayor's office of housing and community development. >> hi. i put folders in the inbox right there. >> chair fewer: thank you very

much. >> all right. good morning, supervisors. my name is carolyn mccormick with the mayor's office of housing and community development, and i work on our small sites program. and today, i am requesting your approval of a not to exceed loan amount for six small sites projects for a loan amount not to exceed $48,656,000. your approval is necessary on these projects because the loan term on the loans is 40 years. as background on our small sites program, we -- since we launched our program in 2014, our portfolio has grown to 29 buildings, 211 residential units, and 13 commercial spaces, and we currently have 18 buildings, 164 units, and 20

commercial spaces in our pipeline. the core of our program continues to focus on acquisition and rehabilitation of five to 25-unit buildings and s.r.o.s, and we facilitation this by acquiring loans to rehabilitate the building. so a little bit about who we serve with our program. the target a.m.i. for small sites is 80% building wide average while also allowing an individual household to go to 120%, so that's sort of the max program cap, but we require the building to maintain an 80% average? you'll note from this graph that 75% of the households in small sites buildings are below

80% a.m.i. average. our average is 50% a.m.i. we ensure these community assets remain affordable by recording a deed restriction with a term of no less than 75 years. they retain ownership by the sponsor, but we record that deed restriction on it. all six of these will be leveraging the seismic loan program as senior financing. the past program will enhance mohcd's ongoing preservation work under the small sites program. this resolution is also approving use of past funds. by replacing the more expensive conventional debt with low cost long-term senior path financing, the city will significantly reduce borrowing costs and the need for other public resources such as f.f.p.

i'll provide a little bit of background on the six projects that this resolution addresses? between june and august of this year, mohcd expects to close on transactions with c.c.cdc and a for a total of 69 units and 12 commercial spaces. you can see the locations of those buildings as well as the number of units in this map. the buildings have already been acquired by meta and ccdc using bridge financing so that they could move quickly on the

transactions in a competitive market like s.f.? and now mohcg is coming in to provide the permanent financing on these projects and also the deed restriction. the population serves in these buildings include seniors, low to moderate income households, monolingual households, and school aged children. the b.m.i. is between 40% and 45% a.m.i. so we have a lot of projects, and i'm not going to run through a deep dive of every single one, but just a few examples, this is 421 green. it's currently occupied by long-standing monolingual multigenerational households, and mohcd has addressed tenant

safety as well as quality of life improvements. you can see the before and after. in addition, they are constructing an accessory dwelling unit on the ground floor of the building, so there are increasing the supply of affordable housing. we'll have one extra unit here. and then, a second example -- i'll do a little bit more of a deep dive on. got 4830 mission street. meta is the sponsor. district 11, it's 21 units and six commercial spaces, and this building was built in 1990, so it wasn't subject to rent control, so we're really proud that we were able to put a permanent deed restriction on this one and preserve it for low to moderate income households in the future. and then i'll just run through quickly. you've got 1201 paul, 17 units, one commercial.

3280 17th street. 1411 florida street, six units plus one a.d.u. being added, as well. and then, 65 woodward, six residential units in d-9, also meta. so with that, i recommend your approval of the resolution so that we can -- so mohcd can provide the permanent financing necessary to preserve these buildings as affordable housing, and i'm happy to answer your questions, as are my colleagues. thank you. >> the board of supervisors is being asked to approve loans up to 40 years and up to $48.6 million for the six

properties that were described by the representatives from the mayor's office. we show on page 28, table 2 of our report, we show the six properties in the loan amounts. so the loan is for about $48.4 million. our understanding is this includes a 10% contingency in case there are unforeseen site conditions that would require a greater loan amount. the other -- on page -- table 3, page 30 of our report, we do show the per unit cost of each of these projects that would be funded, and because some of these projects -- actually, the funding amount is over what was advertised in the notice of funding availability and over sort of the terms of -- for each type of loan, we are considering this to be a possible matter for the board of supervisors. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. let's open this up for public comment. any members of the public like to comment on this item?

hello, mr. wright. >> you know, this is another example of how jacked -- two of you coming up here and talking about affordable housing. affordable for who? people in the same bracket as you? s.f. viewer, please. i'm real tired of this. you claim affordable housing, and you set the lowest requirement at the housing scale. that's $68,500 a year in order to be able to move into that apartment complex. so everybody's income that's below that's below $68,950 a year is not included in the opportunity coming out of the

mayor's office of housing. you're so deeply involved in your god damn discrimination, you discriminate against people with your own skin color because they're not the in the same income. i can't get you under skin color, but i can get you on discrimination for income. every housing that comes out of the mayor's office by making it too hard for most people to get it. $103,450 in order to be a tenant in the building. you've got information from h.u.d., cite that says that

every apartment is -- 15% of every complex is supposed to be for low-income or very low-income people, and you don't include that -- >> chair fewer: thank you, mr. wright. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. this is a policy matter, and i checked, and i see no representation here from those supervisors where they're in their district, i move to continue this item -- oh, that's not how it works, i think. >> supervisor mandelman: coming in hot. >> chair fewer: the comp exceeds the original amount by $4.2 million, but not the original cost. so can there be a motion, please? >> supervisor mandelman: i move that we forward this to the full board with a positive recommendation with the unanimous sense of all three of

us that we would love to see some of these projects in our districts. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. we can take that without objection. thank you very much, mr. clerk. mr. clerk, can you read agenda item number 9, please. [agenda item read]. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. i think we have colleen del rosario with the mayor's office of housing and community development. >> i am here today to request the authorization of expenditures of the soma community stablization fund dollars in the amount of

$919,954 for services that address the destablization of residents for fiscal year 2019 through 2020. the c.a.c. unanimously approved the list of funding recommendations that you see before you in may. if approved, there would be a remaining balance of about $729,000. on behalf of mohcd, i respectfully request you approve the resolution before you, authorizing $919,954 in soma community stablization funds, and if you have any questions about our projects or about our history, i'm happy to answer those, as well. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. could we have a b.l.a. report. >> the board of supervisors is

being asked to approve the funding allocation for one year, $900,000 for the soma community stablization fund. the r.f.p. process and who bid and what their scores were are shown on page 34 and 35 of our report. the actual selected funding allocation for fiscal year 19-20 is shown on page 35 and 36 of our report. we recommend approval. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. let's open this up for public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item number 9? >> this, too, is a further demonstration, and how come there is no type of stablization to provide housing for the 8,011 people that are homeless out on the street with a combination of both mental and physical disabilities?

you can't pain and claim the first thing that you're going to help the homeless when you're running for office? to answer supervisor stefani's question, what are we going to do? i showed you a project that houses 22,871 people. building trades will be working on this. when the census bureau goes out and does their count for homeless, there won't be any homeless in san francisco. but you keep doing the same thing. every stablization bond, every housing bond is only for homeless. it took me years to stop you from giving hundreds of millions of dollars to twitter.

they don't need no god damn break. the homeless people out on the street that i'm speaking out for all the time and you claim that you want to help, that's who i'm speaking out for. when are you going to stop this? you've got instructions at that mission rock that say 15% of that 1,500 apartment units is supposed to be for very low and low-income bracket people. 15% of 1,500 is 225, but yet, when it comes time to put in application, you make the lowest income about 45,000 $45 $55,000, and you make it a hispanic female, and you know she can't pay it. >> chair fewer: thank you, mr. wright. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. i make a motion to move this to the full board with a positive

recommendation. mr. clerk, is there any further business before us today? >> clerk: there is no further business. >> chair fewer: yea. meeting adjourned. women's net sustainable future . >> san francisco streets and puffs make up 25 percent of

cities e city's land area more than all the parks combined they're far two wide and have large flight area the pavement to parks is to test the variants by ininexpensive changing did new open spaces the city made up of streets in you think about the potential of having this space for a purpose it is demands for the best for bikes and families to gather. >> through a collaborative effort with the department we the public works and the municipal transportation agency pavement to parks is bringing initiative ideas to our streets. >> so the face of the street is the core of our program we have in the public right-of-way meaning streets that can have

areas perpetrated for something else. >> i'm here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to parks program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. >> parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a community driven program. >> the program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted we're here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play

so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. >> yeah. >> we partnered with the pavement to parks program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot community garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point we're planting trees and flowers we have basketball courts there is so much to do here. >> there's a very full program that they simply joy that and

meet the community and friends and about be about the lighter side of city people are more engaged not just the customers. >> with the help of community pavement to parks is reimagining the potential of our student streets if you want more information visit them as the pavement to parks or contact >> all right. hello, sunny day. [cheers.] so, so excited to be here with each and every one of you. i am sorry for those we don't have chairs for. we didn't expect a big crowd, but when you talk about the city budget, i guess everyone shows up. i am so glad to see the residents here. thank you to everyone who joined

us on the tours earlier of the unit. today we, of course, through the tours saw the challenging conditions that people are living right in this neighborhood, just a few miles from our thriving downtown, and yet a world apart. as someone who grew up in public housing, i have lived these conditions. i know these conditions. i don't expect everyone to understand the challenges of public housing the way that i do or the way the residents of sunny dale do, but i do expect everyone to put in the time to understand. i wanted department heading and elected officials to come see for yourselves the hard work that we have to do. thank you to everyone who joined me today, especially the members of the board of supervisors and we have the president with us, norman yee, thank you so much.

[applause.] thank you for being with us. supervissupervisor per visor gor and earlier we had supervisor safai, and he had to take off. why aren't you in your seat? you know, today is not just about the investments we are making in our up coming budget, it is about the commitment behind those investments. commitments to communities like s un nydale for those who have been left behind. san francisco is a city with a heart but we also have to be a city with a memory. a memory not only for the commitments we have kept but also the ones we have failed to keep. for too long our public housing communities were one of those

failed commitments. we are changing that with our programs where we have rehabilitated over 2500 public housing units. [applause.] and through hope sf, which is revitalizing and france forming communities in hunters view and right here in sunny dale and with the reconstruction of the long overdue transformation of the san francisco housing authority. we are building and rehabbing housing, creating stronger and healthier communities and investing in the people who live there. we owe it to them to keep our commitment and make a difference for this community and those across the city. with every decision we make, i want to make sure that equity and accountability are at the

forefront of our minds. we have to be focused on people in all neighborhoods, like the people who live here, who for too long have been living with broken pipes, mold, infestations, dilapidated conditions. people like breanna, a third generation resident. she and her three sisters have lived through the conditions you saw today. despite these challenges, breanna is a leader in her community, and she is fighting for the next generation. she has not given up on this community and we will not give up on you. we have to be accountable to the thousands of residents across the city living in public housing and our low income communities. our budget would be accountable

to them both by continuing our work to improve the conditions here and our continued commitment to provide funding to keep thousands of housing authority residents secure in their homes. yes, joyce armstrong and happy birthday. also by recognizing that we need to do more to keep people in these neighborhoods safe and supported. for too long this was not a safe community. families were torn apart by violence, gunfire, crime, tragedy, frustration. this community has lived with that. that is why i wanted to come here to acknowledge the past, yes, but also to make a commitment to a better and brighter future. to make communities like this safer. it is not just about enforcing the laws to make sure we have more officers on the streets.

it is about giving people opportunities and investing in changing peoples' lives. [applause.] it is about interrupting the cycle of violence and despair. that starts with doing more for our young people and so that the next generation can transform their futures. offering stipends to teachers who commit to teach in public schools facing those challenges. and fully funding free city college so that everyone has a path to higher education. [applause.] we are expanding public health recreation and nutrition

programs for kids, including mental health services to provide support for kids experiencing trauma so that he can build up their lives and thrive. all of our young people, no matter where they live should have access to the amazing opportunities that this city has to offer. (applause). and as we work to support the next generation, we also must do more to help those who sadly are living on our streets. in this budget, we are following through on our commitment to add 1,000 new shelter beds by 2020. we are also using our funding to create 820 new units of permanently supported housing over the next two years. however, reducing homelessness

means more than just creating places for people to go. we need to do more to prevent homelessness and keep people housed. that is why we are adding $5 million to increase homelessness prevention and diversion efforts. we are fully funding our tenants' right to counsel so they have a right to legal defense when they are threatened with eviction. we are providing housing for transgender who are 18 times more likely to experience homelessness than the general population. we are creating a new five year pilot program to provide rental subsidies -- subsidies for seniors to keep them secure in

housing so that rising rents don't force them out of their home in the first place. with these commitments, we can keep people stable, keep them housed and prevent homeless necessary for ever becoming a part of their live. we are helping those with mental illness and substance use disorder by adding 10 new behavioral -- 100 new behavioral health beds including 50 at san francisco general for homeless residents with mental health challenges and 50 beds for those suffering both mental health and substance use disorder. [applause.] combined with the 100 beds we announced earlier this year, that means we are committing to 200 new beds for our most vulnerable residents.

there is the most significant expansion of behavioral health beds in a generation. and, chief nicholson, we are expanding the emx emergency response crew helping those on the streets suffering mental health and substance disorder issues. this will provide coverage 24/7 so the city can help people every day of every minute. these are some of the investments we are making to help our residents today. we have to be accountable to the next generation. we have to have vision and not lose sight of what is going to happen to san francisco 10 and 20 years down the line.

we know the crisis on the street is not just about a place for indoors or mental healthcare. it is about housing. the costs of housing are too high. we know these challenges did not develop overnight. it won't be fixed overnight. it is going to take fundamental change. let's start increasing funding for affordable housing. i am proud to be working with so many members of the board of supervisors to place a $6 million affordable housing bond on this year's -- $600 million affordable housing. thank you, president yee, for working with me on this.

it will be on this year's ballot. this is the largest affordable housing bond in the city's history without raising property taxes. [applause.] we are providing support not just for low income households and seniors but also for middle income residents. we are increasing investments in the budget to add over $140 million for the production and preservation of affordable housing so we can buy moreland, fully fund more projects and preserve our much greater rent control housing stock. [applause.] all land through this bond our current budget, our previous spending and other efforts over the first year since i have been in office, we have identified $1 billion in new funding to

build, preserve and support affordable housing. [applause.] thank you for your help in building housing. this builds on top of the over $900 million that we already have committed to build and support affordable housing throughout our city. however, our support for housing can't just be about funding. if we are ever going to make a difference on housing, we have to make changes to how we build housing. we can't fear solutions that make it easier and faster to build housing. if we say we support affordable housing, our actions have to follow our values. we have to cut the red tape to barriers not just for some

affordable housing and not just for some homeless shelters but for all housing for everyone. [applause.] and was we build we must expandr transportation and infrastructure to support outer neighborhood goes like here in the southwest. every neighborhood in our city needs better and more reliable access to public transit, and they need better and safer streets. this budget adds $30 million to fund transit operations, including speeding up the purchase of new light rail trains and modernizing the train control system so we see fewer delays in the subways and so that we know that we can get to where we need to more faster and

more reliable. (applause). we have also added $2.5 million for vision zero improvement projects to make our streets safer. we have seen too many traffic related deaths on the streets. this funding will help double the pace of the protected bike lane and make the streets safe are for pedestrians on the most dangerous corridors through the capital plan we will spend $130 million over the next two years to improve our roads. this will get you excited. that means fewer potholes. [applause.] and smoother rides for buses and bicycles and drivers. you are the one who have given

us the potholes. we will invest in strengthening the support for cultural centers, libraries, health centers, public safety facilities and improving parks and open space. we will also continue to support improvements to making neighborhoods cleaner, safer and more vibrant. we are adding $12 million to our existing cleaning budget to expand our street cleaning in the tenderloin and soma and chinatown. we are fund being 80 more big belly trash cans and adding new pit stops including expanding the hours so people can use the bathroom with dignity. this is on top of $74 million that we spend every year to keep our streets clean and not only are we going to invest money in

keeping san francisco clean, we are all going to make sure people know we won't tolerate dirtying up our streets. we are supporting our plan to hire more police officers to get more officers out walking the beats in the neighborhoods and we are going to continue the work to reduce violent crime, property crime and auto break-ins in the city. we are committed to $9 million to support small businesses and commercial corridors which builds on the work to streamline the bureaucracy that gets in the way of growing businesses. our small business owners should focus on serving customers not navigating the bureaucracy of city hall. these are just some of the priorities we are funding in this budget. i am proud of the investments we

are making and proud of the city we are working to build. i really want to thank everyone who put time into helping with this budget including the budget team and budget option director kelly. thank you for your hard work and thank you to ben from the controller's office and your work. thank you to harvey rose and the budget afternoon r analyst -- analyst team who is not going to touch the money i am proposing in the budget. you know, so many people have been working tirelessly day in and day out to get the budget done, and i am so excited about this. i want to end by talking about a young man named wallace pullet.

we are so proud of wallace. you know, life hasn't been easy for him. he grew up with the violence i talked about earlier. he faced challenging times, including his own challenges with the law. unlike so many others, we lost to violence or the criminal justice system, wallace worked through all of those challenges. he is now focusing on doing what is right including raising his daughter right here in sunnyda sunnydale. now, just down the hill from here is a construction site. it is the first new building being constructed here at sunnydale as part of hope sf. it is a bright sign for the future of this incredible community. wallace is a member of this construction team.

he is building up this beautiful new community with his hands and with his heart. he is being accountable to himself, his daughter and his community. he is being accountability to the next generation so they have a sunnydale to grow, live and thrive and building a better san francisco. i am committed to this community. i am committed to this community because people likua like wallae committed. let us remember our job is to be accountable to everyone in the city, not just those who have time to show up and advocate at city hall. we have to be there for those who have hope, those who need hope, this budget is part of the commitment and represents is very best of our values in this

city. by keeping those commitments, we can and we will build a stronger, more resilient san francisco, a city not just for some, but for all of those in san francisco. thank you all so much for being here today.

>> 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,