yesterdayir had the great pleasure of doing the training for 50 high school youth working in our programs. we had them go through training and lesson planning. we had them vision what it would be like to be a little kid going to pacific heights in the skin we are in and that is a teaching moment. we want them to own this city. this is their city. we are included socially and economically. it seems the elder peers are now going through a path to an educational career. we have a partnership with the san francisco unified school district to train or staff to become teachers while mentoring the opportunity for all kids. there is a path for them. they see themselves in the older

kids who are becoming teachers of color, bilingual teachers in the school district. that wouldn't have happened if it weren't for opportunities for all. thank you, mayor breed, for the opportunities and great difference that this project is making on the lives of our community. thank you so much. [applause.] >> thank you for sharing your story and god bless you in jamestown. we have a lot of young people excited to start internships and some have begun, is that right? or maybe not. you are excited, yes, that is the point i am trying to make. one of these young people is nicholas lay from california

state sacramento who worked every summer with our very only san francisco public works. come up to say a few words, young man. [applause.] >> thank you. i am nicholas lay. born and raised in san francisco. currently a senior at sacramento state university. i am part of sfu my whole life. i worked with the department of public works from 2010 to 2013, but this summer i age excited to be -- i am excited to take on a new role as lead for opportunities for all. it is important to me. i believe all youth deserve to be connected with employment and training for post secondary opportunities. with that said i would like to thank mayor breed and director

davis and the staff and partners that mailed possible this great opportunity. thank you. >> thank you and congratulations to you. are you fired up for another performance? get this party started. she is an actress, artist, athlete and activist who dedicated her time to inspiring others through music, spoken word and engaging in her community. please join me in welcoming miss ryan nicole. [applause.] >> thank you for being here. before my song i want to say a couple words. shout out to mayor london breed. you are doing a great job. i am from oakland.

i hope it affects our leadership as well. i will say this. opportunities for all is a beautiful program with, i think, wonderful language. we see know and london breed understands if you solve for equity, then you solve for everybody. if you solve for women and people of color, then everybody wins, everybody comes up. i want to acknowledge the women of leadership mu have taken the stage this morning and afternoon. i am going to do this song right now. this song i wrote initially for women of color but today it is for all of us. the song is for everybody who needs to be seen, everybody who feels like they may be invisible. today is the start of a new program, a new era of justice.

i want them to feel it in the chest but not blowout the ears. i am going to move. this is for your colored folks. ♪ never thought your rainbow was enough ♪ trying to make it through the life it is tough ♪ ♪ you will make it. you are the paint that makes this life all it is ♪ i have a yellow brick road, move see shoes, i see you on the news it is giving me the blues ♪ it is what you do, where we go and how we get there and who will foot the bill and if anyone would make it you surely will havhave the will ♪

we see you shine ♪ it is only so you are a superstar. you wanted to put your slippers on make your way back home ♪ ♪ nerve thought your rainbow was enough. you will make it. you are what makes this life all it was. never thought your rainbow was enough ♪ ♪ it is tough. you are going to make it just because ♪ you are what makes this what it is ♪ ♪ the woman on the screen the beauty reach out 360 degrees of lovely ♪ ♪ the girls shoes inside she is all clean ♪ ♪ just the wrong shape or wrong

shade. never think about the wrong place ♪ ♪ the perfect chemistry ♪ never thought your rainbow was enough ♪ it is tough ♪ ♪ you have make it just because. never thought your rainbow was enough, going to make it through this life, you are going to make it just because ♪ ♪ if you were color folk, shine your light ♪ ♪ black, blue or grey, brown, white ♪ ♪ you are color folk, shine your light ♪ ♪ black, blue, grey, yellow or white ♪

♪ you are life ♪ this is why if you have an opportunity to world wins ♪ if we win we are doing good for everything ♪ ♪ make sure you go out and seize this opportunity because it is the beginning of your new thing ♪ >> i want you to say that i am what i am. descendent of man, the head not the tail, i am that i am. heaven sent you, man. in head not the tail. descendent of man. you guys your opportunity begins with you believing you can do it and believing you are deserving of these opportunities. congratulations to you all. [applause.]

>> that was fantastic. thank you for sharing your artistry with us. thank you, ryan nicole. our next performer grew up in new orleans. it was moving to break the cycle of violence after his best friend was murdered. he was a middle schoolteacher before he traded the classroom for a microphone and stage. we are happy to have him with us today. please welcome our next performer, this is d-1. [applause.] >> thank you all very much. let me tell you all something. i am so excited i can't wipe this smile off my face. everybody looks so young. where are the students? can you make some noise. i can't tell the students from

adults. they all look late teens, early 20s. listen, life is not something that comes with a script. when i was in third grade, i wanted to be the president of the united states. by the time i was in seventh grade, i wanted to be a lawyer. in high school i wanted to play in the nba. in college i started out as engineering major because my mamma said they make a lot of money. when i graduated college i realized i wanted to be a business major. when i first graduated i game a middle schoolteacher. now, i am a rapper and public speaker. life has no script. it is not always what you do in life. it is about why you do what you are doing. as long as you chase passion and do stuff because you truly care and love it, you will be all

right. i can't teleses you how to become a millionaire. my best friend got murdered. that is real life. it is not about what you do. it is about why you are doing it. do you love it? how are you doing it. if you are committing to be excellent in whatever you do in life, you will be okay. i want you all to know that. for the first song it is three is up. this is my month to in the rap game. i am not like everybody else or fit in. i don't care about fitting in. look what i have got on right now. i am here to stand out. everybody say be real, be righteous, be relevant. when you see three is up you know what they represent.

real, righteous and relevant. all true stories in my songs. ♪ san francisco, let's go. so your three is up ♪ ♪ so your three is up, in the middle, your three is up ♪ ♪ everybody come on, when you see is three is up, you know what they represent, real, righteous, relevant ♪ >> what did you say? >> real, righteous and relevant >> i can't hear you. let's go. ♪ real, righteous and relevant. >> i made myself a target, from those who flip burgers, i have a

purpose ♪ ♪ god gave me this. it is mustard i flourish ♪ ♪ it tastes so good, i want some greatness ♪ ♪ i could have been rich ♪ i am trying to bring my mother glory ♪ ♪ i can't co-sign that ♪ every time i come around everybody has mean mugs ♪ >> smile. you know how long it has been since i seen love? they are trying to make the best what they have got ♪ ♪ everybody let's go, when you see that three is up you know what they represent. what is that ♪

♪ be real, righteous, relevant >> when you see three is up you know what they represent. everybody. ♪ be real, righteous and relevant ♪ >> see what i was taught in sixth grade. so far more year offtrack. i was going through things my own. we lost touch ♪ ♪ four years later i ran into my guy ♪ >> teardrops under his eyes ♪ ♪ i took my hands to wipe them away. he said no, big brother, they are here to stay ♪ note we got what the youngsters now have ♪ ♪ when you see that three is

up, you know what they represent. let's go. be real, righteous, relevant ♪ >> you see three is up, you know what they represent ♪ >> snocut that off. >> when you see three is up you know what they represent. what? >> real, righteous, relevant. >> if what you say? >> real, righteous, relevant. >> amen. you all like that? (applause). >> it is a true story. all i can tell you is what i have gone so. i am excited. i remember being a high school student. when you think about the key to happiness in live, you see this

right here? that is not it. that is not it. now the high school looks at me like i am crazy. if you are an adult you know that is not the only key to happiness in life. raise your hand and make some noise. don't be a sleeve to a piece of paper per. everyone has a paper and mission. make sure you do something you love. when you love to do it, it is not going to feel like work. if it doesn't feel like work you will be great at it. they will say they got it paid up nice. next thing you know money takes care of itself. i am a rapper. i am not supposed to be in san francisco speaking to the youth and adults how to connect with the purpose in life. the key is i am walking in my

purpose, and other people doing their jobs we have a way to come together. that is going to happen with you. this summer when you do the internships. connect and build relationships and change your life. my name is d1. the reason i go so hard we don't want to let you down. students, we don't want to let you down. for the adults i am speaking on baffs of the students. a lot of people talk about our generation is bad. we are here to make you all proud and we don't want to let you down. everybody say i don't want to let you down. say it. on beat. 5, 6, 7, eight. >> i see don't want to let you down. i don't want to let you down.

say it. let's go. turn it up if you could. three, two, one. ♪ i don't want to let you down ♪ i was given time, silenced with the rhymes ♪ ♪ if you know me, you know i have been trying. i promise i am worth it ♪ it ain't easy working on my sh shoes. ♪ i don't want to let you down ♪ you fo forgive me. i want to make you proud to call me your child. i want you to purify my heart.

let's go. i used to hang my head low. remember nights in the cold? i had to get it on my own. this is nothing that my heart can't take. ♪ i don't want to let you down i have been sleeping less, marathons. i need the rest. we will not deal with stress. it is my best struggling. this type of pain most people can't relate to it. going off the deep end. i won't complain as long as i am breathing. ♪ try to set an example, we need more heroes ♪ ♪ people are famous all around

me. ♪ ♪ i pray you hear me when i say i don't want to let you down ♪ ♪ i used to hang my head low ♪ remember nights in the cold? i had to go get it on my own ♪ ♪ it is nothing that my heart can't take ♪ ♪ if i told everybody if you have a dream put your hands up. all my students, if you have got a dream keep your hands up. ♪ i don't want to let you down ♪ i used to hang my head low

♪ i don't want to let you down ♪ remember nights with the coal ♪ i had to get it on my own ♪ my heart is going to break ♪ everybody say it loud in the crowd from the left to the right every day and every night from beginning to the end. keep it real don't pretend. ♪ god always got your back >> thank you heir much. this passion is real. i might not have known you before today. i love you. thank you for the companies youtalizing your time --

utilizing your time for the next generation. i am d-1. (applause). >> thank you for your energy and passion and words of inspiration. he needs to come out of his shell. he is so very shy. you are superintelligent. thank you for sharings your gifts today. thanthank you for sharing your dreams as a child. i wish you were president right now. that is d-1, you all. as we close i would like to introduce the woman putting this together behind the scenes from engaging with youth and employers to creating programming and organizing these events. please give a warm welcome to the san francisco human rights

commission executive director cheryl davis. [applause.] >> i see not everybody has sunglasses and baseball caps. i am not going to talk a long time. there is something i feel compelled to say. i will ask tj to come back up here. if i am going to be honest when we talk about this and think about young people with opportunities and platforms and spaces and places and how we allow folks to have voicings and have access. what i said to t y before she got up to speak. i was like we going to keep it positive and upbeat, right? maybe that was positive and upbeat to tj, i don't know. ultimately, tj had the platform and space and place. it was within her rights to say what it is she felt compelled to

say. as we develop this work, if we are going to be true about giving youth a place to speak up and to speak out it means sometimes they may say things we don't think is the right time and moment. for me the struggle is we come in as adults to create priorities and prioritize youth voice and give them a platform and space and place to do things, learn things, grow and be themselves. sometimes when we do it we go wait, wait, wait. what happened here? you did what maybe you wanted to but maybe made me see uncomfortable. that is not what this is meant to be. the mayor created opportunities for everybody regardless where they live or go to school or what they look like or what their thoughts are. we are asking you all here today to celebrate the fact that we actually are giving place and

space for people to be themselves. we are not asking them to change who they are. we are giving them a platform and place to grow in a positive setting. i gave her a hard time when she got off the stage. this is what this is all about. i want us to all remind ourselves. when young people come to your place of employment they may not show up the way you think they should. opportunities for all is about we are giving people the space and the place to grow and to learn and to become successful, however they do fine success, not how we define it. we want to be able to have young people benefit from the booming economy, to make money to live in the city. it is not just about the money lost. it is about the social

networking and experience lost. we thank you for making the commitment to be here financially or with space and time and resources. i want to challenge you all to put yourselves on the spot and to challenge your way of thinking to actually embrace our young people for who they are and celebrate them and be the best they can be. thank you all. [applause.] >> i want to thank you for joining us today. shout out to employers and partners. thank you for your support. we see hope you young people are fired up and ready for orientation. i want to wish you all the best. you are off to a great start. let me hear you say opportunities for all. >> after every giants game here, travel home safely and good afternoon from oracle park.

♪ ♪ you need to exit to my right, your left. there is food and beverage. thank you all so much once again. ♪ ♪

>> good morning, everyone. apologies. [laughter] the meeting will come to order. welcome to the may 23rd, 2019 regular meeting of the public safety and neighborhood services committee. i am the chair of the committee. to my right as vice chair stefani, to my left a supervisor walton. our clerk is john carroll. i want to think matthew and corwin at san francisco government t.v. for staffing the meeting. do you have any announcements? >> thank you, mr. chair. insert you silence your cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of any document should be cemented to the clerk.

items acted upon will appear in the june 4th, 2019 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated by motion. >> please call our first item. >> agenda item number 1 is the hearing to consider the promised apprentice -- premise -- beer and wine and liquor license, during businesses a market located at 168 to 186 eddie. >> great. colleagues, we continue this item from the main ninth meeting to allow for the applicant to work out some conditions and get a signed document to the alu. i think we will hear from the alu first. so where are we on this? >> good morning, supervisors. i am with the alcohol liaison unit at sfpd. we have come to the agreement the conditions for this type 21.

the sale service and consumption of alcoholic beverages shall be permitted only between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 12:00 a.m. each day of the week. petitioners should actively monitor the area under our control in an effort to prevent the loitering of persons on any property adjacent to the licensed properties. these conditions were signed as of may 16th. >> can you explain the issue to me between a 7:00 a.m. opening and 8:00 a.m. opening? >> that was our recommendation is to have them start. >> it is hard understand why you need to be selling alcohol in the tenderloin at 7:00 a.m. >> it is difficult for us to agree on this as well, but working with a.b.c., ultimately they hold license, it is a state license. we just provide our recommendations and after looking at, you know, the letters of support that came in

the fact they are in the community and they do operate at a good level what we expect them to operate under, we were able to agree on the 7:00 a.m. start time to help them out being that they are part of the community and they do well for everybody there. >> thank you. >> supervisors, this was pretty much heard the other day, i want to say if we could have the overhead, what we have here is one of the good players in the tenderloin who has been part of the community, part of the bid. the tenderloin neighborhood developments corporation, you have a letter in the file from dawn fault who is the c.e.o. they have a building where my client is now at 200 ellis

street -- eddy street, they are moving across taylor street into a larger space in the hope is that we can create a community grocery store in the tenderloin with fresh produce. they have fresh produce now, but larger produce section and healthier foods for the community. >> can you maybe explain, i mean it was enough of an issue that you wanted to negotiate whether the start time should be, the start time for the alcohol sale, but whether the alcohol sales should start at 8:00 a.m. or 7:00 a.m., and i'm curious why it is so important to start selling alcohol at 7:00 a.m. >> thank you for the opportunity to explain. we have been in the business for many years and we have tried to manage the way it should be in the neighborhood and provide

everything to the customers. this is not everything we did not want to have any confusion or any kind of conflict for the employees fresh food tends to be open at 6:00, but they can sell alcohol until seven. even if we open at seven, two hours is a little bit of a gap in between for the local community. for some people, they do buy alcohol in the morning. some stores, most of the stores open at 6:00, but we don't. we open at seven and that is a reason why there would be no problems with this or confusions >> great. all right. i don't see any comments or questions from my colleagues.

thank you. it appears that we have some public comment. i am seeing john mccormick and shelley dyer and anyone else who would like to speak can line up over here on the right side. i am going to say a few things about public comment before he let you start. speakers have two minutes. we as he state your first and last name and speak directly into the microphone. if you have prepared a written statement, you encourage -- you are encouraged to leave it with the committee clerk. no applause or booing is permitted. in the interest of time, we encourage speakers to avoid repetition of previous statements. >> my name is john mccormick thank you for having us here today. i just wanted to say that it is a corner store that is a staple in the community and it is a neighborhood that does not have

access to healthy foods and vegetables. unfortunately, it is a reality that the viability of the business depends on selling liquor, and we wish that was in the case and we wish we didn't have to ask for this license, but we want to increase the amount of fruits and vegetables that can be sold in the neighborhood, and i just had a resident in the other day tell me that if he could buy more produce, he would, but the case that they have right now is small, it is not a very large unit, and if he was able to buy more produce, he would. this is amanda and s.r.o. who does not have access to healthy vegetables or access to healthy food in the neighborhood. this would give us more access to the healthy fruits and vegetables that create healthy lives, that create healthy

brains, that create educated citizens. this is an investment, not only in the tenderloin, but in san francisco. when we have healthy people, we have healthy, educated citizens i can help us create a sustainable future. please, please, please help us translate this liquor license in order to get more healthy produce into the neighborhood. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. i am a program supervisor for the healthy corner store coalition with the tenderloin develop and corporation. i work very closely with him to support him and in increasing the accessibility to produce within the tenderloin community. we are in support of them transferring this liquor license one of the positives of this is it is not a request for a new license, even moving from his current location just across the street to the new family housing building. this means that residents that

are living above the building will have access just below the residential units to have affordable and fresh produce. within this plan, he is planning to expand the amount of produce that he is selling and just over the past year, or small business consultant round numbers were he selling four times more produce in the quarter one of 2019. being willing to participate in any community engagement effort around nutrition and availability of fresh food that he has been able to increase himself and we are confident we will have even more fresh produce when he moves to the new location. he has assessed the financials and we do agree that he does need this liquor relations to survive. he is also providing more fresh

produce. thank you for the opportunity. >> fifty% of me agrees with what you're talking about. the other 50% of me is furious. >> i was just fine when i walked in here and you said his name and you assign the contract to him, and before i get started, i agree with everything that was said before hand and as far as liquor is being sold, you have to keep in mind that you have wiener wanting alcohol to be sold all the way to 4:00 in the morning. is that clear? don god damn fault, you've got threats of violence and verbal abuse against staff and tenants. we are going on six years of living in a hostile environment. [ bleep ] i'll kill you, [ bleep ].

that is how i am being treated. i had to represent myself as my own attorney and restrain the courts against tenants and even actual one staff that work for him. he didn't do a god damn thing about it. [indiscernible] all of them like, the compliance monitor refused to give me equal opportunity in housing. you breached that contract. if you've got zero tolerance for threats of violence and verbal abuse, you are being arrested in there and [ bleep ] on the god damn premises where we live. then we are not demonstrating and complaining about it. understand me, they don't do a god damn thing about it. if you start whipping on them, then you'll be charging me. i go through all the legal procedures get restraining

orders and put them in jail, when they get out, they come back to the building. -- [indiscernible] >> thank you. >> mr. chair, the speaker's time has concluded. [indiscernible]. >> thank you, michael. [indiscernible] >> we can't let you talk more than public comment, but we can talk with you off-line. okay. are there any other members of the public would like to speak

before i close public comment? seeing none -- maybe there was someone. nope, you will be back. okay. public comment on item one is now closed. colleagues, first i want to thank the a.l.u. and the applicant for working together to get the concerns that we had last time resolved. they have clearly brought community support for this. we have documents in order. unless anyone has had concerns or objections, i think we can direct the clerk to prepare resolution and file public convenience and necessity for this application. i will make a motion to send this resolution to the full board with a positive recommendation and we can take that without objection.

mr. clerk, please call the next item. >> number 2 is a hearing to consider the issuance of tape 64 special on sale general theatre liquor license to the centre for new music incorporated doing business at the centre for new music. >> hello again. >> before you, we have a report for the centre for new music. they have applied for tape 64 license, and if approved, this would allow them to sell special on sale general here and wine and distilled spirits for the theatre. there are zero levels of progestin one levels of support. they are located in plot 180 which is considered a high crime area. they are in census tract 125.01 which is considered a high saturation area, and the police station has no opposition. the alcohol liaison unit approves the following recommended commissions. conditions. they should actively monitor the area under their control in an

effort to vent the loitering of purses under any under any property as depicted on the most recently certified a.b.c. 253. no noise should be audible at any nearby residents and lastly, the petitioner shall be responsible for maintaining free of litter the area adjacent to the premises over which they have control. it should be noted that the conditions have been signed as of may 16th by the applicant. >> great. thank you. >> i think we have the applicant here. >> no public comment yet. but it is coming. >> hello. >> hey. i am brent miller, the executive director of the centre for new music. >> and i am wryly, the project manager. anything you want to say? >> we are a nonprofit organization who has been in existence for about six and a

half years now and we have about 150 concerts a year in our space we have a lot of people who come to our events and who would like to have a drink with their concert, and so that is why we are applying for this license. >> thank you for the work that you do. >> thank you. >> i don't see any comments or questions from my colleagues see you guys can sit down. >> all right. >> now if there are members of the public would like to speak on this item, we will open up public comment. >> fifty-five taylor street. the concentration of a lot of economically disadvantaged people. combination of mental and physical disabilities. people that are amputees. people that are in wheelchairs, homeless people, they are in that area. that is an example of the

shortage of housing and an example of each and every apartment application an opportunity that comes out of that damn near's office on housing that is hired in the income that they they're making. then we are out there on the street and if you go out there and wonder why. you start discharging your bowels on the street, you sit up there and you are the belly of the joke of every educational channel standard t.v., and the ministration is part of it. you've got 8,011 homeless people in san francisco. and you want to talk about no laundry, where is it going to go when you open up this place, people are already down there." you want to tell them to move? where are you going to move to? that is why i say make those demonstrations about building an apartment building complex instead of a god damn navigation

center. navigation center and the embarcadero is nothing but 170. you call it a shelter bed, that is not a bed, that is a mat on the floor. it is not even a bed, it is a mat lying on the god damn concrete that is 10 inches away with another mat of another homeless person. he only get 60 days to stay there in the near put on the street again. those are the kind of conditions that you have of the county jail that is not supportive housing. this is a derivative of why you have that problem on the street. so you are going to be blaming people for loitering when they don't have anywhere to go. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public who wish to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. there we go, now we are really closed. all right, so supervisor haney is also in support of this item.

we have all the documents that i think we need, so i think if you are both all right with this, will direct the clerk to create a resolution, and i move that we forward that to the full board with positive recommendation and we'll take that without objection. and mr. clerk, please call our next item. >> number 3 is a hearing on safety improvement plans for public works streets cleaning truck operations. >> this is president president he's hearing. welcome, if you like to start by saying a few words? >> sure. thank you. good morning, colleagues. i call this hearing on a safety protocol of the street cleaning provision of the public works. i want to thank my cosponsor for this -- for his support on this hearing, supervisor walton. as our concern arose from several incidents involving the

operations of the street cleaning division followed by a citation given by the state agency responsible for worker safety. violations that were reviewed by an investigative report by in b.c. bay area. these violations included unsecured loads, overloaded trucks and other unsafe and unhealthy conditions that employees were being forced to work under while our public works department is one of our workforce departments that we rely on daily to keep our city clean and orderly, it is serious concern that the department was recently investigated by cal osha for practices that were putting both employees and our public at risk. i watched the in b.c. bay area

reports on this issue and it was disturbing to know that microwaves, wooden pallets, televisions, were all left and secure on truck beds as they were being transported to the dump and even more concerning, that the top management seem to be unaware that this was in violation of state law. san francisco spends $72 million a year on street cleaning, which is more than what larger cities like los angeles and chicago spend by millions. we have to make sure that our operations justify the expense and that we are operating with the public safety in mind at all times. the kind of debris that can fall off the moving vehicles accounts for about 50,658 crashes. 9,800 injuries and 125 deaths

each year according to the 2016 study by aaa. these numbers are not san francisco numbers, obviously, but just to get the scope of the dangers when we don't actually comply to the safety regulations so therefore, i called the hearing to basically determine a few things. first i want to walk through the investigation. after the citation, my understanding was that public works was found to fail to have corrected and implemented changes in according to -- according to a follow-up report. the question here is, what is the status of the citation, and the follow-through to correct by

public works? are there other -- any other investigations that are in progress by the company regarding any of the department divisions department divisions, not just street cleaning? number 2, what changes have been made by the department of public works since that investigation to come to full compliance? number 3, and finally, how has the department been able to keep up with their ever-changing landscape of state regulations and laws that impact their operations? how do front-line staff get wind of these changes? how do you ensure that all employees are aware of the code of safe practices and are practising those safety rules? how are they enforced? do you have spot checks or internal audits? or is this compliance -- complaint driven? this is probably a question, not

to your department directly, but since we have the benefit of the deputy city attorney here at this hearing, i would also like the city attorney to address the last question. what is the city attorney's office's policy and for how each department, citywide is informed of the most recent developments so that they can be sure that they are in compliance or can come into compliance as soon as possible with laws and regulations? that govern their operations, whether it is public works or any other department? so i will turn it over to larry, the director of operations and the department of public works and jeremy spitz, the department of public works, director of government and legislative affairs. >> good morning, supervisors. i want to start by saying i am also the deputy director of operations, but also responsible for the fleet of the entire department.

public works is strongly committed to safety. it is our top priority, and we work every day to build a safety culture. within the department, we have a departmental safety committee that meets quarterly. we have an operations committee that we -- meets quarterly, made up of employees from the file, all the way up to the managers, to do safety evaluations, recognize problems, but also we have campaigns that we do for safety both through operating the vehicles, as well as their own employee vehicle safety, as well as the safety of the public we do employee accident reviews where the -- for employees. we have a committee that reviews each vehicle accident, and then it is reviewed a second time by the managers and cause is determined for whether it was preventable or nonpreventable.

we also have monthly bureau wide safety meetings. there are four bureaus that do work in the field in san francisco every day. all of the members of those bureaus meet once a month and have a safety discussion. they also have tailgates every two weeks, and during that tailgate process, the cover safe practices for both operation of vehicles, but as well as other operations that we do on the field. those are all documented, they are also required by the company i think related to that is -- we do have a strong commitment to when we find something wrong, making changes to make it better , whether it is with equipment, whether it is types of operations that we do, and we do evaluate root cause for accidents and injuries, and in particular, injuries, is reached care strongly about our workforce.

i do want to thank environment of services. they pick up about 1 million pounds a week of debris. we will -- last year we picked up 26,000 i believe it is, tons. we also have gone up to 145,000 surface requests. that is all in a day. it is a 24/7 365 operation, meaning they don't have a day off. we do not take a day off in the city. this includes a band in waste of illegal dumping, and mechanical sweeping services. the accident that -- the actions we took since we received the

citation, we updated the code of safe practices related to overweight vehicles, we found when we did the reviewed that that was -- there was not in there about overweight vehicles. that is not included in the code of safe practices for all the vehicle types that we have. there were also tailgates done and reviewed with all staff. we placed wait descriptions for all vehicles and all trucks, so they understand the right size truck for what they will be hauling. we held training on proper loading of vehicles with offstreet cleaning staff, and i issued a memo related to proper loading of vehicles, we also automated with recology and we now have an automated report for tonnage of all the vehicles that go to the dump, and that is reviewed weekly. we have it set up so we automatically identify if there is a vehicle that is overloaded.

just a little bit about the whole in b.c. news and everything, we provided them with a spreadsheet of all dumping that was done for an entire, i believe it was close to a year. there were 29,000 dump entries during that time, of which we determined that 103 of those vehicles were overweight. forty-seven of those entries were sweepers, and we determined the root cause of that. at one time, we do sweeping on the great highway, almost seven days a week, and the vehicles that were overweight were the ones that were sweeping sand off the great highway. we had a change in procedure. we lost the area where we could dump, and so we used to dump there at the beach, we had an area, and the front end loader

would pick that up. we lost that, so they have been going to the dump, and that is where the majority of those entries were. the front end loaders was the front end loaders actually -- we keep the sweepers from going everywhere so the front end loaders have designated areas where the sweepers dump, and the front end loader loads it up and they take it to the dump. they are responsible for least two or three routes that they will pick up, and that is for efficiency's sake because we cannot have a sweeper going all the way to the dump and coming back. the 42 tracks, that was the total number of tracks that we found overweight out of the 29,053. nothing to be said about that. they were overloaded. some by a couple hundred, and some by as much as eight or 900 pounds. there