can take that without objection. thank you very much. [please stand by]

>> to perform all the duties which they are charged, particularly they're charged with administering a host of taxes, some of which are new. given the sugary drinks tax. early childhood commercial rents tax. the unanticipated continuation of the payroll tax. it's important that the office be funded in a fashion such that they can fulfill all these duties. i have a narrative i would love to have included in the body of the minutes, if i can hand it to

whoever i should do that. >> thank you, very much. >> next speaker, please. as you can see, we have a shortage of beds for people that's got mental disabilities here in san francisco. there's study after study to provide permanent housing for people with mental disabilities. objection the selection of redevelopment rules and regulations pertaining to the people in high income brackets but redevelopment rules and regulations with low income bracket people is not being applied, particularly this one where 15% of all apartment building complexes is supposed for for very low and low income bracket people. i gave you examples about twitter. the money that most of these

departments are asking for the amount of tax-free money you give on twitter would pay for all the budget questions that took place before you and here the same response, the shelter system, you do hav don't have eh room. you talk about you have a shelter when you don't. this is a person right here that doesn't have one. you have about 8,000 and 11 homeless people because of the poor management. we got a problem here about san francisco police and other police. they're having a high amount of suicide with themselves. i demonstrated this over and over again. you can build 144 apartment building complex for a mere million dollars.

each building is three-storeys, you can build 27-storey building and build them in each and every one of your districts that are total of 11,770 units and you can house all the people in behavior health service and who you want to help instead of running around in the streets trying to find the people who you claim you want to help. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. members of the committee my name is hung and i represent chinese for action. i want to thank you for your wonderful work. this budget season to make sure we're expanding access and ensuring transparency in this year's budget process. you and your offices have heard from the immigrant voting collaborative.

we're excited and look forward to the proposed spending plan coming out today. we look forward that this spending plan would direct some of these cost savings that have been identified earlier to go towards community initiatives that would benefit marginalized communities in san francisco says it pertains to budget request. we are very -- we're very a tune to the need that exist in san francisco through strategic partnerships with the san francisco unified school direct, the department of elections and our community-based organizations in the collaborative. we've been able to serve 60,000 san franciscos in the five-month ramp up towards the last election. we are very excited to be able to continue to do that work because we have a two-year existing contract with the office of civic engagement. i'm disappointed this was not included in the mayor's proposed

budget but this work is necessary and crucial given the upcoming special elections with the unified school district. trump has continued to stoke terror and fear in the immigrant community and some of these resources would be very important to ensure the safety nets in san francisco remain intact. and our immigrant community feels safe and are able to engage with trusted community-based organizations especially in civic activities like the upcoming census that is happening next year so we look forward to your support for this budget as a whole. thank you. >> thank you, very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is alma and i'm coming as a representative for mission graduates. we are also part of the immigrant participate parent co. i second a lot of what my colleague talked about. what i want to talk a little bit about is also just talking a little bit about commitment.

and the commitment that our office has made to fund this particular program. on top of that, we really, really want to stress that the work being done has been done on the ground is essential to who we are as a city and the values that we hold as a city. we all know that our city houses many, many immigrants and to be very specific, we were able to reach over 60,000 potential eligible voters who worked with key stakeholders and we worked with key stakeholders to really move this project forward. with the school district, you all and the department of elections why is n is really urgent and currently we know

there are upcoming i top of that we all to wrap it up i want to just say that we know that as a city, civic engagement is something that we strive for. >> good afternoon, members of the community. i'm ex executive director and in san francisco. and also members of the collaborative. i'm not going to repeat our two colleagues just shared so i

wanted to bring home a couple things. we've all heard what happened on sunday. we have no reason to believe that number 45 will not, you know, try to advance his promises. whether he can or can't and there's a lot of organizations including the aclu stopping a lot of the xenophobic racist towards this nation as a whole. this is no time for our city to not continue to affirm our values. more than that, to affirm we're leaders. as this country is being put to the test in terms of this nation's values around children and around families, and around people's right to mobility. so, i think the test for san francisco is not our values but about our leading. it's about leading nationally and also internationally. the message of not advancing

these resources, which is not that much. we heard 25% for certain department and their spending and a million dollars niagara falls moving costs for an important institution or a city and what we're talking about is $250,000 for seven community-based organizations who the community trusts, who are ensuring that every person in our city can actively participate in the civic life of our community. most importantly the schools where we're raising our children and educating and we are affirming everyday the values of the city so we anticipate that you will continue to support this collaborative and the funding will be included in the budget and it will send a message that they matter. >> thank you, very much.

>> san francisco is a major metropolitan center, is it impossible for you to reach out and engage in negotiating arranging and facilitating greater cultural and arcti arti. i was surprised at the extent of cultural change and performance artists and groups received in keto and while the exhibits were considered at cost they under ride the mission in full. these were typically one evening events. the embassy of january an provide for a significant sizable and it's an exhibit from southern california depicting a larger than life homeless encampment was in demand across scandinavia. i translated a book a number of

decades ago deand the manual script was well received by collection and you see the center for life american studies and cultural understanding and exchange and. i promote it in my experience. i am in conflict with ledge lay ledge tive and i believe they're in presentation and just as i would oppose any similar legislative action seeking to regulate the content of a free press. it is an anti waited approach relegated to political anthropology. >> thank you, very much. public comment is now closed. i'd like to make a motion to move items 1 and 2 to continue to tomorrow's budget and finance committee. could i have a second, please.

mandelman, thank you, very much. madam clerk, do we have any other items before us today. >> there are no items. >> this meeting is adjourned.

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shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services within our neighborhoods, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> my name is ray behr. i am the owner of chief plus. it's a destination specialty foods store, and it's also a corner grocery store, as well. we call it cheese plus because there's a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. from fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. you can have a casual meeting if you want to. it's a real community gathering

place. what makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, it's a great pedestrian street. there's people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. the businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned small businesses. it harkens back to supporting local. polk street doesn't look like anywhere u.s.a. it has its own businesses and personality. we have clothing stores to gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired. there's a music studio across the street. it's raily a diverse and unique offering on this really great street. i think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things that they may not be familiar with. again, the marketplace is

changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell things, all those things, it's very important that you do so.

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ready to eat. these vendors offer a variety of the streets near you. these mobile restaurants are serving up original, creative and unusual combinations. you can grab something simple like a grilled cheese sandwich or something unique like curry. we areher here in the average eight -- upper haight. you will be competing in the quick buy food challenge. an appetizer and if you are the winner you will get the title of

the quitck bite "chompion." i am here with matt cohen, from off the grid. >> we assembled trucks and put them into a really unique heurban settings. >> what inspired you to start off the grid? >> i was helping people lodge mobile food trucks. the work asking for what can we get -- part together? we started our first location and then from there we expanded locations. >> why do think food trucks have grown? >> i have gotten popular because the high cost of starting a brick and mortar or strong, the rise of social media, trucks can be easily located, and food trucks to

offer a unique outdoor experience that is not easily replaced by any of their setting any worlwhere else in san franc. san francisco eaters are interested in cuisine. there adventuress. the fact theyuse grea use great ingredients and make gourmet food makes unpopular. >> i have been dying to have these. >> i have had that roach coach experience. it is great they're making food they can trust. >> have you decided?

>> we are in the thick of the competition? >> my game was thrown off because they pulled out of my first appetizer choice. >> how we going to crush clear? >> it will be easy. probably everyone has tried, something bacon tell us delicious. >> -- people tell us is delicious. >> hopefully you think the same thing. >> hopefully i am going to win. we're in the financial district. there is a food truck right there. every day changes. it is easy and fun to go down. these are going to be really good. >> how are you going to dominate? >> i think he does not know what

he is doing. >> i was thinking of doing [unintelligible] we are underrepresented. >> i was singing of starting an irish pub. that was my idea. >> one our biggest is the corned beef and cabbage. we are asking people what they're thinking in getting some feedback. >> for a lot of people i am sure this combination looks very wrong. it might not sound right on paper but when you taste it to or have it in your mouth, it is a variety. this is one of the best ways in creating community. people gather around and talk about it and get to know different cultures. that brings people together and i hope more off the grid style and people can mingle and interact and remove all our

differences and work on our similarities. this creates opportunity. >> the time has come and i am very hungry. what have you got? >> i got this from on the go, a sandwich, and a caramel cupcake. i went with home cooking. what de think? >> i will have another bite. >> sounds good. >> that was fantastic. let's start with you. >> i had the fried mac and cheese, and twinkies.

i wanted to get something kind of classic with a twist on it. >> it was crispy. >> i will admit. >> want to try fieried mac and cheese? >> was that the best twinkie? >> would you say you had the winning male? >> definitely. >> no. >> you are the "chompion." clair has won. you are the first "chompion." >> they know it iwas me

because i got a free meal. and check a map on -- check them out on facebook. take a peek at the stuff we have cut. to get our -- check out our blog. >> here we are responsible to oversee the drinking water distribution system. in san francisco changes in the fire code required anyone doing representtro fit to the home to get a new fire service this caused the need for new water services to spike. we used to do 200 a year. now we are up to 600. >> if you are building a new house you need fire protection. you have to make application to the water department for that. if you go through the process we

come out and install the new line and the new fire line. >> the project got kicked off by two of our a gms, steve and eric. they recognized the need for improving this process. they pulled together the project and selected the team members and asked me to lead the effort. >> on c cd there is permit and no parking signs and installing the service, having water caught at the check off and pave. >> it is a lengthy application process with manual tracking. for construction because we communicate with ccd we have to stay in touch with ccd to inform the customer for updates. >> at one time there was three separate visits to activate the fire service.

water quality and gate manment and then gate man would go back. now the gate man goes one-time, one visit and it is done. >> we dissected the process and looked for ways to streamline the process and use technology to make the experience smoother and what we are building is an online portal for customers to apply without coming downtown and they can get updates. >> with the online application everything is there. it is built in condition logic with tracking to communicate with the customer without having to take notes. >> we want to tell you these are 10 steps and you are on step three or four. >> we streamlined the process. we knocked it down to 65 days. the goal is half of that. from the time you make application to put the check on the table to the time we pave

the street, we want it down to 30-days. >> i am proud of the team for the work to get together to understand each other's work and come up with solutions. i really wanted the rest of the team to understand the time and deliberation and thought so they could get the recognition that they deserve.

ey deserve. >> third thursdays at the commons is a monthly event series to really activate krisk centkrisk -- civic center, fulton mall, and other locations through social operation. >> in 2016, an initiative called the civic center progress initiative was launched, it was launched by a

bunch of city agencies and community partners, so they really had to figure out how to program these places on a more frequent basis. i'm with the civic center community benefit district, and i'm program manager for the civic center commons. also, third thursdays will have music. that was really important in the planning of these events. >> we wanted to have an artist that appeals to a wide range of tastes. >> i'm the venue manager. good music, good music systems, and real bands with guitar players and drummers. >> we turned uc center and fulton street into a place where people want to be to

meet, to laugh, and it's just an amazing place to be. there's a number of different exhibits. there's food, wine, cocktails, and the idea, again, is to give people an opportunity to enjoy what really is, you know, one of the great civic faces in america. when you look from the polk street steps, and you look all the way down the plaza, down market street, daniel burns' design, this was meant to be this way. it's really special. >> the city approached us off the grid to provide food and beverages at the event as kind of the core anchor to encourage people who leave a reason to stay. >> it's really vibrant. it's really great, just people walking around having a good time. >> this formula is great food, interesting music, and then, we

wanted to have something a little more, so we partnered with noise pop, and they brought in some really fun games. we have skeeball, we also have roller skating lessons, and we've got a roller skating rink. >> if you're a passion jail skeeball player like me, and you're deciding whether you're just going to roll the ball up the middle or take a bank shot. >> our goal is to come out and have fun with their neighbors, but our goal is to really see in the comments that it's a place where people want to hold their own public event. >> i think this is a perfect example of all these people working together. everybody's kind of come together to provide this

support and services that they can to activate this area. >> there's no one agency or organization that really can make this space come alive on its own, and it's really through the collective will, not just of the public sector, but both the public and our business partnerships, our nonprofits partnerships, you know, neighborhood activists. >> i really like it. it's, like, a great way to get people to find out about local things, cuisine, like, it's really great. >> it's a really good environment, really welcoming. like, we're having a great time. >> we want to inspire other people to do this, just using a part of the plaza, and it's also a good way to introduce people if they're having a large scale event or small

scale event, we'll direct you to the right people at the commons so you can get your event planned. >> being a san francisco based company, it was really important to connect and engage with san franciscans. >> how great is it to come out from city hall and enjoy great music, and be able to enjoy a comtail, maybe throw a bocci ball or skee ball. i find third thursdays to be really reinrig rat reinriggating for me. >> whether you're in the city hall or financial district or anywhere, just come on down on

third thursdays and enjoy the music, enjoy an adult beverage, enjoy the skee ball; enjoy an >> i went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. i am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. ♪ ♪ i am a community ambassador.

we work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. >> what i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. they ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. checking in, you guys. >> wellness check. we walk by to see any

individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. you never know. somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. you never know if they are alive. we let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they don't want to call the police on, they don't have to call the police. they can call us. we can direct them to the services they might need. >> we do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. there are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. it is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. when we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311. they give us a tracking number

and they come later on to pick it up. we take pride. when we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. >> it makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. the stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. >> you can see the community ambassadors. i used to be on the streets. i didn't think i could become a community ambassador. it was too far out there for me to grab, you know. doing this job makes me feel good. because i came from where a lot of them are, homeless and on the

street, i feel like i can give them hope because i was once there. i am not afraid to tell them i used to be here. i used to be like this, you know. i have compassion for people that are on the streets like the homeless and people that are caught up with their addiction because now, i feel like i can give them hope. it reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i am at now.

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