tv Government Access Programming SFGTV June 16, 2019 5:00pm-6:01pm PDT
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>> i will let the actual budget person answer that. >> thank you, supervisor. i am a budget director or h.s.a. what you are seeing here is the fiscal year 18-19 budget reflected about $8 million of childcare capital developer money that we were recognizing for the first time, as well as about 5 billion of unbudgeted funds that we were recognizing for the first time. those funds came out in 19 and 20, and then number of additional adds were made, enhancements to the budget, so those include the $7 million in eraf funding that the mayor's office allocated for child care facilities, as well as growth of around $6 million, so that was at a high level.
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you are sort of taking out some one time dollars and putting in new dollars. >> tell me again the 18-19, the larger amounts that was taken out, the short-term, whatever it was. >> it is about 8 million of one time childcare capital development fee revenue, so one of the developer fees, the impact fees that they have to pay is for child care facilities , and those come in depending on the development price of the city. that was a significant chunk. the other 5 million was balancing pieces that had previously not been appropriated >> is there a similar unknown for 2021 in terms of that you are deducting from the amount? again, i see only a reduction of
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about $9 million, so what is happening with that? >> $7 million of what is in 1920 is one time money for child care facilities that the mayor's office has allocated from the fiscal year funds. in addition, it does not -- it actually shrinks a little bit in 2021 relative to 19-20 because of eraf, so it is a baseline fund that is a share of eraf, and in 1920, we are including the allocated. >> can you explain what happened to the 20 million for the teacher salary? what is that.
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>> i will speak about what they are doing programmatic -- programmatically. they will continue to roll forward. >> i understand the schedule the president is looking at here. it shows the original budget for 18-19 which is the board adopted the budget for the coming fiscal year, and the proposed budget for next year. why don't i see the $20 million here? because that occurs as a supplemental appropriation, it is in what we call the revised budget -- budget, what is not a column displayed on this chart. we can certainly show you a schedule that will at that column where you see the board appropriated and additional $20 million in 18-19 for that purpose. the board appropriated that is a continuing appropriation. does not need to be appropriated in the subsequent year budgets. it will just continue forward and you will not see it in
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future years. >> so it is there, but it is not reflected in these numbers? >> there is a column that we can display here that would show you the board adopted budget as amended, including midyear supplemental appropriations that is not displayed on this chart. >> okay. >> we can certainly prepare it for you. >> that helps my anxiety. >> i promise it is there. >> that is good. president he, would you like the controller to show that on a spreadsheet as he offered? >> i think that would be helpful there were a lot of numbers moving around and i know that for least this department, our office will probably continue to move around for the next few years. >> thank you. we want to make sure we take care of that department.
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supervisor mandelman? >> not to be totally dense, i know it is late, but i am a little lost on that. so the reason it is not here is it is part of eraf. >> the reason you don't see it here is it is by virtue of what information is reflected on this one page. this page simply reflects the original budget reported last summer for 18-19. that column does not reflect adjustments that the board of supervisors might adopt subsequent to that. >> but the proposed 19-20, there is money for early childhood education in 19-20, but it is not in this column either, right >> it would be. the 19-20 allocation which a portion of this by formula is in
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that $107.2 million in the proposed budget. so for the coming fiscal year, you see a portion of that reflected in the 19-20 proposed budget. >> what page am i looking at? >> 246 of the budget book is a schedule. >> so we think -- and the number is, we are saying it is 107 -- $107 million? >> we see there is $107 million appropriated for early care and education at the bottom of the page, and the use is by division that number includes a lot of things, but among that is their share of 19-20 eraf.
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>> it is weird, maybe, is the decline. i think i would expect the 106 million and another 20 million and went up to 126 million, but we don't see that, but then this proposal for next year is 107 million, so it feels like it is going down. >> it is going down in terms of what the board has adopted because in the current fiscal year, you adopted a very significant one time allocation intended to be spent over the next several years, so there is a very large allocation. it was above and beyond their share of it, what a discretionary choice of the board adopted as part of the formula. i can prepare a simple summary of this that will show the president and any other members of the committee where i think it will bring clarity.
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>> i think it would be super helpful to have a simple fired forum that actually explains it in a very lucid and concise manner. >> we can absolutely do that. >> okay. , that would be super helpful for me. i am kind of lost now. this is a huge budget. i think it is over a billion dollars. >> it is. >> does anyone have any questions or comments for this department at all? seeing none, thank you so much for being here and being next to last. it has been a long day, i know. thank you for your service. thank you very much. we have another item which is the board of supervisors budget, and we have angela here. madame clerk, i have an item
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here that is item number 7 that should be called as part of this budget. would you mind -- you know what, i am so sorry. should i take -- this item number 7 needs to be heard as part of the board of supervisors budget. shall i take public comment first for items three and four, or should, because we are now going onto item number 7? >> angela has not presented the board of supervisors budget yet. we suggest we do public comment after. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. i'm here today with the department's administrative deputy.
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it is our honour to present to you the board of supervisors proposed budget for the budget year, a big thank you to the budget's office and jennifer from the board's budget and legislative analyst office. we appreciate your guidance. in february, the committee all prize -- authorize the proposed budget will for you. as a result, i will only provide a high-level summary and focus on ranges and one extra item. since before supplement number 1 of the consolidation that was approved in 1857, it has the doorway to local government. this exercises the board's power of audit and funding programs, the work in the clerk's office is also tied to the mid-1800 where the residents are entitled to the date, time and place to be part of the creative
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legislative process. we keep the history for san francisco, and between the clerk 's office and all of your offices. we ask bands to the needs of the residents and information legislation and your creation of policy. but unlike a mosquito in a nudist colony, our 32 professional clerk staff know what to do and know what to start. they can prioritize issues. our stuff take pride to fulfil the mission and we are grateful for their attentiveness to the public inquiry. one out create -- outreach statute -- strategy that i like to highlight is the management system which has had the deployment phase. we have had positive feedback. we're going to circle back to all of your offices to obtain your ideas to grow this robust system. your office or better -- are --
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there is a long-term vision, a comprehensive integrated system. that is what i would like to see come out of this customer management system. it would incorporate the entire legislative process from the drafting of legislation, the maintaining of all of your constituents comments on what they feel you should be voting on matters, and we will come to you at a later date to talk about building something out. before the budget overview, the clerk, i think the clerk has read item seven. okay. >> can we integrate it right now >> okay. let's do it. >> item number 7 is a resolution authorizing the clerk of the board to amend the budget to enact a three-point 2%
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cost-of-living adjustment and to exercise the final option to extend the term for two years, increasing the total contract amount by 5 million including the estimated furniture -- future for a total amount not to exceed 17.9 million for a period of january first 2014, through december 31st, 2021. >> thank you. this resolution does three things as you heard. it essentially, there is a request for he went to% cost-of-living adjustment. the item exercises the final two year option on the contract, so we will be competitively bidding with the budget and legislative analyst services over the next year or two years. it also increases the total not to exceed an amount to approximately $17.9 million for the period through december 31 st 2021. on slide four, we have two quick updates for you. the first is a one-time request of 90,000 and funding before the
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committee in february, for digitization of specific dvds and vhs tapes. we collaborated with emeriti budget office. they identified files available in our budget in the current year, and we were able to remove 90,000 from our budget request before you. the second item, is the last code placeholder, that is 297 dollars. the last code did approve their budget. we are just confirming that is what they're amount request is, and it is included in the department's proposed budget. slide five is the department's proposed budget. the committee saw this slide in february. it depicts our revenue and expenditure by category for the current year, the budget year, and the changes from prior years we receive our revenue from the assessment appeals board, which is expected to remain at a low level for both the budget and the out here, on the expenditure
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side, the department budget will increase by $126 million, or seven-point 9% in fiscal year 2019 through 20, and a lower amount by $285,000 or 1.6% in fiscal year 2321. these increases are mostly from the salary and benefit we negotiated in the m.o.u. and now to the one item that is not included in our budget, a member of the board requested that we look into the cost of adding a fourth position in each board member's office, and present that information today. we identified and an appropriate class four and administrative position, at a 1364 special assistant number 5, in fact, 23 years ago, after volunteering for that, we offered up that this was the class that i was hired into before he hired me
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into the 1835 legislative aide position. this slide shows the salary and benefits of step one, and as a top step. each position requires some incidentals that will be associated with costs to bring them into the offices. with these expenses, the total cost would be 120,558 per office at the top step, and $1.3 million approximately for all 11 offices. when the committee believes it is appropriate, the last slide depicts our request to approve the budget as presented, and approve item seven, and we are very happy to answer any questions that you might have during the discussion of the administrative assistant position. thank you. >> thank you very much. supervisor ronen? >> thank you. i know you are all on the edges
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of your seats. i was the supervisor that asked angela to prepare this accounting of what it would cost or take in order to put an administrative assistant position in all 11 supervisor offices. i wanted to just talk a little bit about why i made that request. first of all, i wanted to say that if angela was hired into this position, and that was how she was recruited to begin her career in city hall in the board of supervisors, i think i have already made my case. i don't know that i need to say anything more, but i will elaborate. i know that is amazing history. i thank you said it best when you talked about the fact that the board of supervisors is the doorway to the public, to local government. i think that we do a great job. the reason that i know that is because the number of constituents that my office
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talks to, helps resolve problems , interacts with on a weekly basis, is extraordinary, and if -- it is what you want to local government to be. that you have this elected representative who you know, who lives amongst you, who is close to you, who is accessible to you , you know where to go, you know how to find them, you know how to reach them, then you get excellent service and response, and that is what our district offices are. i think that is something that my colleagues and i take great pride in. we have a staff of three. we serve over 88,000 residents, each of us, and we all know what is happening in the city in terms of the crises that the people deal with on a daily basis, and we feel that very strongly in our offices because we really are amongst the front line who attend to those crises.
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i want to talk about, you know, i really put a lot of thought into this. in different ways, district nine , is one of the busiest districts in the city. we have the most 311 calls, we have, you know, along with district six and seven, the most homeless people living there. we have the most low performing schools, we have the most shootings, we have the most police shootings, we have the most development, i mean, six, nine, and ten have a lot going on. for a staff or four, what we accomplished on a daily basis, i think is extraordinary, and we worked pretty much around the around-the-clock to make things happen. but it is not just those three districts. i have tried, in many ways to say, we are not serving our constituents well enough. this is our job and we need to be there for them, and four
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people serving 88,000 people is just not enough. i want to go through the different reasoning on why i made this request to angela, and why i am hoping that all of us will be united and realize this request. as you all know, i am speaking to people who live this every day, but we are running our front office, most of us, with interns, with unpaid college graduate students, with volunteers, we have volunteers who are front line in our office engaging with constituents on every single day, and this work can be incredibly challenging. as i was saying, every single day in district nine, and i don't know if this is true in every office, we get calls of life and death situations, domestic abuse, sexual assault, facing eviction, concerns about
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police treatments, people who are homeless who are seeking shelter and don't know what to do, people who are housed with don't know how to deal with people who are homeless or mentally ill who are in crisis for arranging around them, these are not simple issues that we deal with on a daily basis. while i am lucky to have an incredible team of student interns and volunteers, there are unpaid positions and students are moving along in their educational careers. so we are not always equipped to handle with volunteers, these very complex issues, and since none of our volunteers are full time, we have a consistency problem. it is not paid staff that are there every day to follow up with people in these crazy situations. so that is number 1. number 2, i used to be an
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employment lawyer, i used to represent people who weren't getting paid for their labour, so i am particularly sensitive to using this free staffing model that i don't think is very fair to deal with our constituents. we owe it to anyone who is expected to be responsible for handling these urgent and sensitive issues, who are fielding hundreds of car -- calls, where working with constituents to navigate diver, and expedite city services to be paid for their work, and in traditionally underfunded fields like the public sector, nonprofits and n.g.o.s, employers have historically used unpaid internships, but this practice is being challenged more and more. we have articles exposing labor law loopholes that allow companies to hire interns without pay, and show how unpaid internships exploit labor, they contribute to issues at the
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expense of others who can't make that financial sacrifice, and as an employee, someone who was hired to fulfil a specific role with a job description that requires us to define those skills and experience, it is important that we offer a paid salary and access to benefits. and in turn should never complement nor displace the work of paid employees. i will be honest, that is happening at city hall every single day on this floor of those of us who work at the board of supervisors. as a result of the fact that we are understaffed, severely understaffed, our legislative aides are working extremely long hours which is leading to burnout and make a difficult for parents and others with caregiving responsibilities. i know my colleague does not only have two young children, but is taking care of her father right now. how did you take care of an adult and two children, i don't know.
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i don't know how she is doing it i will ask the clerk to look into that. how long our legislative aides working collectively? the clerk informed me, on average, our office legislative aides work 55 hours a week. i would bet to you that they work longer than that, but they don't even record their hours because they are already capped out. supervisor stefani and i know this because we did the same thing when we were legislative aides. we were always capped out. the only time i wasn't was when i went out on maternity leave. that was the only time. it is because you cannot do this job without working insane hours your heart calls you to do nonstop work because the issues are so intense, but that is not fair. it is not fair, and i think it is wrong, and we have to do
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something about it. it also means we have high turn around in our office where, you know, it is not sustainable for people to be working these hours , it impacts our institutional knowledge and our small community -- strong community ties in our district. then finally, we are out of line with other cities and counties. i have done the research. if you look at other government staffing structures, if you look at los angeles, san jose, fresno , berkeley, sacramento, we found that cisco is the only safety that dictates the number of districts with these positions. all the other cities determine staffing levels based on the district budget, and at the discretion of the councilmembers based on available data, we found most of the councilmembers and in other cities have more staff then the three legislative aides that we have in san francisco, for example, hla
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councilmember has between seven and 11 district staff, that is additional field staff, each oakland council member has three and five staff, in each and ego member has eight and 13 staff. the constituents to councilmember staff ratio is larger in san francisco than it is in both los angeles and san diego. san francisco is the only californian city that is also a county, so we do the job of two people and in other areas of our state, and with that comes additional responsibility. we are not only the equivalent of a supervisor and a local councilmember, we also sit on the transportation authority. we sit on outside bodies like the m.p.c., and the mental health board, and the quality management district, in the bay area bridge authority. we could go on and on. the outside boards we sit on our
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insane. again, we have the same three staff. if you look at -- san francisco is different. it is the financial hub for the entire bay area. it is also a major silicon valley technological hub, which is, unfortunately, has led san francisco to have one of the largest income wealth gap than any metropolitan area in the country, rent, food, and other cost-of-living have skyrocketed, and i'm starting to repeat myself. i think it is unbelievably reasonable to be asking for one additional administrative assistant position for our offices. i think it is high time. i have been asking it is for the past two years since i have been on the board. i think this is the right way to do it.
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currently the board has 33 staff totally where the mayor's office , as we just discussed, they have 78. we each have three stuff, the mayor has 78. i think it is fair to give us four, and with this being the largest budget in the city's history, it is high time. if we have an administrative assistant who is allowed to help us oversee our calendar, be the lead on constituent issues, help us with certificates of honour and working at neighborhood events, then our legislative aides can focus on the high level needs of our constituents, on writing legislation, on staffing these committees, et cetera, and it would relieve a great burden. there is my case.
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i wanted to thank angela for listening to my request, and for showing us the numbers for finding the admin position and the codes. the position would also be a local 21 member, so they belong to the same union as our legislative aide, in the last thing i say, and i know you say shut up, let's get out of here, i also think it is -- a legislative aide is a hard job, and it requires so many different skills. if we had a training ground with entry entry-level position where we could train the person up, we get to recruit younger folks, get them excited and involved in politics, and then move them up to legislative assistance. i think that is also a really exciting opportunity. >> thank you. supervisor stefani? >> think he.
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i just wanted to thank supervisor running for being brave enough. i think we are asking for too much. i want to validate your comments , having been a legislative aide for nine years, and i am a workaholic, so for me it is working until midnight, working on the weekend, working every night during the week even with children, is something that i love doing, but not everybody does. that also, being said, i was a policy analyst. we had way more staff than we have here, and we did have an administrative assistant that helped with the calendar, and now helped with the schedule, helped with the certificates of honor, things like that that people with law degrees, and in people with public policy degrees could be more focused on
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what they are dealing with in san francisco, which are a lot of issues that are creating havoc for our constituents. i thank you make a great case, and i think it is not because we want to really lighten the load of what we do, because i think we do this work because we love the work, but we want to do it better. we want to deliver better for our constituents, for the city and county of san francisco, everyone talks about how many issues we are facing, and we want to do the work better. we know with proper staffing, we can get there, i really think that it is necessary for us to have that administrative position so that we can deliver on what we all really want to do , which is public-service in answering the calls of our constituents and creating policy that is going to push san francisco forward. thank you supervisor rosen. >> -- thank you, supervisor ronen.
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>> president yi? >> one of the things -- i realize until you are the president president, you don't understand how much impact it has on your staff members. it is increasing a lot of activity that i would like to focus on, and, you know, i was going to bring it up at some point, but i couldn't figure out a way to bring it up, mainly because i would be asking for myself, and i would be happy to ask. if i were here afterwards, i would ask the next person. >> any other comments?
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i think it is a good idea. i think it is the job of the legislative aide. it wreaks havoc on people's lives on personal lives and health. i think, our constituents are demanding more of us. they are demanding responses immediately, they are in crises, and i think that, actually, when this was first approached, i thought it was going to be a bigger ticket item, and so i actually think, also, it is hard to get a new legislative aide in your office one leaves because there is no -- it is impossible to prepare someone for this position. so i thank you for being on this board, and i think the entire board will take this other consideration.
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it has already been added onto our ad backlist. having said that, let's open this up for public comment. sorry, mr. wright. it is item number 3, item numbe. is that correct? okay. all those who waited so patiently for public comment, come on up. everyone has two minutes. i am so sorry that it has taken so long, especially for you, mr. >> i object to the part of the demonstration and the budget from the bay area, talking about those 800 permanent housing for
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homeless people on the grounds that you have approximately 8,011 homeless people, that is counterproductive and it is disingenuous, and it is a slap in the face to the population that is homeless and disadvantaged. i also object to this city college. when he was here making the presentation for about two hours , he lied. he said he was $11.5 million in debt, but it shows that he is $32 million in debt. he will get this approved for ten years, ten years times $32 million is $320 million wasted. he already has a shortfall that was projected if you keep taking care of business the way you are doing. you will have a 643 million dollars deficit. moreover, supervisor stefani
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asked all the detail about this. what is the best way to stop people from being homeless on the street? study after study has been shown the best way to provide permanent housing and mental services for people with disabilities is to give them permanent housing. medi-cal, medicare, i have better care than all of these things put together. the best way to take care of this problem is to get permanent housing and the two towers. it is a total of 2,070 units. [indiscernible]
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>> madame chair, the speaker's time has concluded. >> thank you for waiting so long next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. [indiscernible] we do have the dignity fund, but it is not enough, and so we would like to see more subsidies for seniors and people with disabilities. we know that there is a 10 million-dollar funds that will be allocated through five years, but that is not enough. that is for seniors and families , and we are talking
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about not only the senior operating subsidies, but also older subsidies that are necessary for seniors and people with disabilities that we know the department of aging and adult services is still not having enough focus on people with disabilities. please, if there is a possibility to increase that -- another thing is the group bands in our budget ask, we have 600,000, which, out of that, only 25 -- only 25,000 have been funded. that is not enough. if we wanted to maintain that
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this is a city that is friendly for aging populations and people with disabilities, we need to do more to help them to be integrated in society. police, more funding for that. >> thank you. thank you. >> good afternoon, members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to address you today. i represent the nonprofit supply bank.org, which is running a k. to college program in san francisco for the last nine years. i'm here to request your support to restore funding for the program. this program was funded by the city for more than eight years and served more than 13,000 low income students at 30 schools, public housing, and other community sights with hygiene and school supplies every year. the program has also supported several community events to the mayor's office of neighborhood services and other community
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nonprofits. with the ever-increasing cost of living in san francisco, juggling the high cost of rent, food, and transportation, the sally struggled to supply basic school supplies like backpacks, paper, art materials and basic hygiene essentials. without supplies and basic comfort, students lack necessary school materials, making teachers pay out-of-pocket. as noted in the materials shared with each of your offices, an investment of $300,000 per year from the city would provide school and hygiene supplies valued more than $800,000 every year because of supply bank.org 's food bank model and established supply chain. we need your support to continue the progress we have made, in the thousands of families and children that have depended on it throughout the years. thank you for your time and consideration. >> thank you very much. i think we have one more public speaker.
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>> i have a few words about experiences i have had with city housing. a long time ago, i applied for a position with the housing authority. i was told i was the fastest typist with no errors, but then i was informed that the job was intended for, and going to an employee's nephew. it was a small office. they promoted absolute latitude to hire the very practice. i understand the favouritism and nepotism may be popular practices in the city. i viewed the project as grossly overstaffed. i accommodated -- the third of the workers were immediately released. the buildings were to be torn down not long after the apartments were painted. as a leasing agent, i turned away -- i was turned away, then
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i applied at the housing authority. i jumped the line, then administrative -- and then triggered an administrative strength scandal. there was an offer to pay 200 monthly rent above the asking rate. she explained it would be her entire portion of the government program and they would pay for the rest. she claimed each of her toddlers were entitled to their own bedrooms. she was looking at a four bedroom single family house. i didn't find that incredible. when i later approached the housing authority as a contractor, i was -- it was apparent that wording and declarations on the wall of the office were intended to mock the tenants. the office worker noticed my observation, and even though i was indifferent, she would not let me into the building to pick up a bid schedule package. another employee let me into the
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building while apologizing profusely. i spoke with -- [indiscernible] >> thank you very much. public comment is now closed. madame clerk, i make a motion to continue items three and four. could i have a second on that, please? i will take that without objection. >> madame chair, would you like to clarify that it be continue to tomorrow's meeting? >> yes. thank you very much. he take that without objection. thank you very much. i would like to make a motion on item number 7 to move it to the board with a positive recommendation with -- for the meeting of july 16th. yes. that is seconded. i take that without objection. thank you very much. are there any other items before us today? >> no. >> we are done. meeting is adjourned. thank you.
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hospitality industry have helped organize. so today we have over 700 people here in also waiting out in the neighborhood. [applause] i'm joined by our chair of our board, mr. james lamb who is here with us today. [applause] and this event is hosted by the hotel council of sf travel but it really came together because of a lot of different people working on the event and i want to thank mayor breed and the city of san francisco and her team for partnering with us on this love our city event. so please give a big hand to them! [applause] we also couldn't have done it without our partnership with the public works department and larry stringer and darlene prom, fromand i want to thank all of m fork working with us. raichal gordan as well. their team has been incredible to work with. we also have, you can see the signs out here today, i'm going
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to call off and make sure we recognize the groups as well. each of our groups cbd. [applause] our tenderloin cbd. our fisherman warf cbe and our embarcadero and financial district group. and last but not least our soma groups. [applause] we know that you all clean up all you're long and daily around your hotels and businesses. and it really is a 24/7 job. we want to thank you for everything that you are doing. we also want to thank wreckology. they sponsored our t-shirts so thank you for working with us. [applause] >> a special thank you as we look out on the hyatt region see for sponsoring us with breakfast
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as well. thank you very much. if that was designed to bring us to work together and partner with the city and our mayor has announced in the last, since she took office, an incredible amount of programs, new funding and new resources all to help clean this city and help make this city safer. so i want to thank the mayor from our hospitality and tourism industries for making sure she's doing everything that she is doing. let's give her a big round of applause. [applause] and last but not least our partners at sf travel who have come together to work with us on this event as well. it's my pleasure to introduce our mayor, london breed. >> thank you! good morning, everybody! now, i will troy to be short because i would love for you all to get out there and do what you came here to do and clean up san francisco! let me just start by saying thank you. we know that we have a lot of
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challenges in san francisco. we have far too many people living on our streets. we have far too many challenges with housing and housing affordability. i know our small businesses are struggling. the city is finally making the kinds of investments that i hope will make a difference in your everyday lives as you work in this great city. i was born and raised here and i grew up in public housing. you know, my grandmother, when we were kids, she would make us go out and clean up. she would always say clean it up. ike like mama, why, would want to clean up. you know how kids are. we would should i look, it's our responsibility to keep our community clean. now here, take this bucket and put water and soap and clean up. you know, at the time as a kid you are like i don't want to do this but then, as you get older, it's just a part of who you are. i find myself doing it in my community, doing it where i used to work at the african american
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culture complex and really feeling good about the investment that i've made and also the example that i've set for other young people to be better stewards of san francisco. so what you all are out there are doing is not just picking up trash and erasing graffiti and painting, you all are stewards for san francisco. you are taking care of the city. you all are showing how much you love san francisco and other people when they see you doing what you are doing, they're less likely to drop that trash on the ground and actually take it to the trash can. it does make a difference. so i want to thank all of you and all the community business districts and the people who are out there every single day. i especially want to thank the department of public works and the many thousands of employees because they are out on the streets everyday. downtown street teams and so many other folks trying to keep
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san francisco clean, green and beautiful. i love our city. i know you all love this city. thank you for showing your love by taking care of san francisco today for this amazing event. have a wonderful time out there! >> thank you so much, mayor. i'd like to introduce from district 6 our supervisor matt haney who will be working with the groups as well. please help me welcome supervisor matt haney. >> thank you, thank you. how is everybody doing this morning! make some noise if you love our city! [applause] >> make noise if you are ready to pick up a broom and do some cleaning today! who would have thought we could call this a cold day in san francisco. we're glad the temperature came down a little bit but it's still a beautiful day to demonstrate to everyone in our city we care and we're going to do some cleaning up. i'm the supervisor of district 6
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and i want to give a special shout out to the different communities and cbds of district 6. the tenderloin where i live, soma, union square, everyone who is here, we really appreciate how much you do everyday. i see folks here from the hotel. make some noise if you are representing the hotels in our city. this is a city that is still a world-class destination. people come here from all over the world. we want to make sure that when they come here, they understand that they're going to have an incredible experience and they're going to see clean and safe streets and they're going to see the people of san francisco care about our community. that's what you are demonstrating today. i want to thank mayor breed for the investments shows made in making our streets cleaner. if you look out there, there's things we can do. we need more trash cans on our streets, we need more bathrooms that are open for longer hours, and we need more street cleaning and deep cleaning and so what you are doing today is not just
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demonstrating to your residents that you care, you are demonstrating to us, the city, that you care and we need to do more as well. let's get out there today. i'm going to be in the tenderloin and pick up a broom and i just want to say thank you all so much. have fun. let's love our city. [applause] >> thank you supervisor haney. next i'd like to introduce our partner from sf travel. we have the share and the board of sf travel with us, mr. peter gamez. [applause] >> wow! good morning, everyone. this is a great day for us. as many of you know i'm the board chair and this is one of the issues we've all rallied for all year. this is a special day for all of us. thank you everyone for coming out and joining the hospitality and tourism industry to love our city. together, here today, we are showing the strength of our
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industry and the collective passion and commitment we share for san francisco. i want to thank firstly our awesome mayor breed, i'm also a native san francisco an and i completely relate to you how we took pride in all of our neighborhoods and the importance of cleaning our streets. your leadership and commitment for cleaning our streets and keeping us safe and we're very thankful. we're proud to partner with the department of public works. the total council of san francisco and many of our community partners to do tour part to keep san francisco clean, safe, and welcoming to all. together, we are a gene that gives back to the city we love and we can not be more excited to work side by side to make san francisco the most wonderful destination in the world. thank you.
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>> last i'd like to introduce the director of public works and his team is a group we've been partnering with on this. [applause] all right! are we ready to go to work! all right! let me begin by joining all the speakers here to thank all of you for coming out to help keep our city clean. love our city everyday, right! everyday! the public works department and many city agencies do this everyday but i can tell you, your coming out means a lot to us. you are giving us the extra hands and the extra help that it needs to continue to make our city be the destination where people come and enjoy and people clean up and make our city the most beautiful city in the world, right. san francisco! i'll be really short. today we have over 45 different sites. some people are going to be painting poles, weeding, cleaning, some are going to be sweeping. all that is going to make a
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difference. the number one thing that when you leave here is, when you are out there, please, be safe. safety is a high priority. we've been having these events for over 20 years and we have not had a single incident. how do you be safe? all of you in different work teams and every work team has got someone who will be wearing a vest like me who will be showing you what to do. if you see something that you are in doubt of whether it's glass or needle or something in your mind is doubtful, just ask that person and they will deal with it appropriately and they will work with you. other than that, enjoy yourselves. it's a nice day. again, i'm very appreciative for everyone coming up. let's have fun! love our city everyday! [applause] >> thank you. thank you, very much. before we close out, we're going to do a group picture. stay where you are. no one move.
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just stay still for a minute and we'll take a group photo. >> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of san francisco. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and
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quesadillas and fries. for latinos, it brings families together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold. tonight we have russelling for e community. >> we have a ten-person limb elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a
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variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hanhang out at. we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful muellermixer ura alsomurals. >> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people. local people spend their money at our businesses and those local mean that wor people willr money as well. i hope people shop locally.
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