provided from san francisco public press, which was about allies of the mayor who were called in by the mayor and his top aides, as well as some officials from the board of supervisors and told that their applications for development hinged on whether or not they gave contributions. it was very explicit, and there was a billionaire who was present who said if you don't want to give directly, i will give money in your name to someone so that it will still be covered and the money will still be raised. it was then raised by commissioner kopp for investigation by the ethics commission, and while there was some interviews that took place from the city attorney's office, the city attorney's office decided not to seek subpoenas and put anybody under oath about what had happened, so this is something that's

very real and very much influences how decisions are made in san francisco. thank you. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. is there any other member of the public who wishes to speak on this item? good morning, jordan. >> thank you. you know, i was not here for is this item. i was here -- i was not here for this item. i was here for another item, but i wanted to speak on this item. i am a district 6 resident. i did a lot of volunteering on supervisor haney's campaign, and he won, which i'm really glad he did, but a lot of dark money came in to his opponents. funny story. you know in district 6, there's a lot of concern about the fate of the streets. well, our streets were littered with all these glossy mailers funded by god knows who. i'm, like, what's going on

here, and i would often take pictures of it and post-it on facebook, saying, you know, if you're going to litter our streets, you're automatically not fit to be supervisor. and of course, like, there was the other things, like, you know being like, influenced by diagnosed -- like, who knows, ron conway or whatever? but you know, i kind of, like, took the opportunity to troll some people. i said send some pictures of glossy fliers with bad color schemes. and said pick up your trash. and i want to know where that fucking trash is coming from. this proposition is so fucking necessary. we need to get it on the ballot and get rid of this shit, and

if we can't get rid of this shit, we need to know what's littering our streets with it. >> chair ronen: good morning. >> my name is vivian torelli. i have been a campaign worker since 1985, for art agnos. i carefully choose my candidates in terms of what they can bring to my city in terms of values, organization, and insight, and then, their chances of getting elected are threatened when their opponents have huge war chests to slam us. these are not only designed to affect the outcome of the election but are designed to exert undue influences on the policies of our opponents. a striking example was mayor breed, who in obvious deference to her donors who would be taxed under prop c did not support this strong source of

revenue that was the antithesis of what her donors wanted. yet, then she turned around and said her priority was homeless services and lamented that we need money for that. donations have a loud voice and can shout down candidates who have the moral integrity who refuse to do the same in return. we need your support for the package of public financing campaign reform to give admirab admirable candidates a fighting chance against elections seeking control and elected officials. >> chair ronen: thank you. next speaker, please. >> eileen boken. coalition for san francisco.

and san francisco education and action committee. here on my behalf here in support of the sun light on dark money initiative. this initiative would take steps to level the playing field by increased disclosure, limiting contributions, and enforcement to ensure compliance. it would take steps to control some of the excesses created by citizens united. it would repeal the board of supervisors' ordinance from 2015 eliminating certain disclosure requirements for independent expenditure committees. it would implement safeguards against pay-to-play for that appearance on development decisions. i would like to acknowledge each of the supervisors who have sponsored this initiative. it would move the election process in a better and more equitiable direction. it would make elections more

competitive even for those candidates without deep pocket donor base. it would encourage more candidates to run who might not otherwise because of the daunting task of competing with candidates connected to super p.a.c.s, and hopefully this will reign in the endless reporting in the media about which candidate has raised the most money. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is holda garofalo, and i have served on two grand jurys. the ethics commission was one of our topics, but that led us to looking into how nonprofits and super p.a.c.s really prevent -- present a huge problem in our city. we always here about the swamp -- hear about the swamp in washington, d.c. san francisco has a pretty

murky swamp of their own, and it's time we tie up all those loopholes, have a city for the people, not for the lobbyists, the politicians who benefit because they're totally self-interested. it's time to start serving san francisco. oftentimes, our public servants forget "public servant" means serving the people. you work for us. it's time to start doing that without the slime and murk attach tod attached to it. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm charles marstellar, formerly with common cause and certainly now with friends of ethics. i do want to say that at one time, we had a very robust investigative press, and like the rest of the country, we've

seen a terrible decline in the ability of the press to fund that type of investigative reporting. we're working our way through that, but right now, there's a deficit that we really need to makeup for, and i think it goes to the law. we need to adjust our law accordingly and now to take action to make sure on this side of the law, we rewrite our laws to deal with some of these loopholes that we hear about and no longer expect the press to address those through robust reporting. they do what they can, but it's not enough. and i think the supervisors here saw that in the last election process season that brought them to this body. and i do want to thank them for

their efforts and interest because they saw what that means, and the corruption in this town that the press could not pick up the story on. so now's the time to address the law, and i think you've done an excellent job with this bill, and i want to thank the sponsors, mr. keen and john gollinger and mr. ammiano on this, and i'm glad that eight members of the board are supporting this, a broad spectrum of the board, as we are on this issue, a broad spectrum of america. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. next speaker. >> hello. my name is agatha vassilar, and i'm speaking to you as a regular constituent whose family has been here 30 years. before the 2018 election, i travelled around the country

doing a project called inside out book project, and you know the san francisco mural that's on display in the sf moma, it's the same project that's on the voter registration. i talked to hundreds, if not thousands of people, and the major reason i heard that people don't vote is in a system where a corporate machine drowns out our vote, it's very easy to believe that our conversations with elected officials don't matter. this is it. big money out of politics is that root cause issue, and it's my greatest wish to revitalize the culture of democracy in san francisco and the country, and i think this is such a great step towards enacting that movement, so thank you so much. >> chair ronen: is there any other member of the public who

wishes to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: i just want to say that it's rare to see such a piece of common sense legislation. it's pretty straightforward. if corporations can't donate to candidates, then limited liability corporations shouldn't be able to donate to candidates. if people with contracts before the board -- or before a decision maker who is running for a particular office should not be allowed to donate, then developers with housing projects before that same body shouldn't be allowed to donate. and if a law exists to ensure that we know who pays for campaign propaganda, then we shouldn't allow those donors to hide behind fake names. i mean, that's the essence behind this really common sense

lemgs latio legislation. i have shared your frustration, commissioners keen and kopp for the failure of the ethics commission to pass something so common sense. i want to thank all of the advocates, thank you so much for your relentless work in this matter for not getting so disenchanted that you stopped pushing and stopped trying and stopped using other methods to go directly before the voters who i agree with you, peter, are going to overwhelmingly pass this measure. and i really want to thank my colleague, gordon mar, for putting this -- being the

leader behind this effort. supervisor walton? >> supervisor walton: thank you, chair ronen. i just want to echo the terms of my fellow committee members in terms of the importance of knowing who is giving to whom. the citizens united decision set us back in a lot of decisions in the supreme court. as you know, we're going back in a time warp, so any time we have a chance to make a decision in good policy that is really going to disclose some of dark money and some of the things that are happening in our political system, we ought to be able to do that. and i want to thank supervisor mar for stepping up and all the colleagues that supported this initiative or ordinance because it is important for us to know who is giving money toward races, so we can shine a light on what's happening in our

campaign. so thank you so much, and again, i appreciate all the public comment and everyone for coming out this morning. >> chair ronen: supervisor mar? >> supervisor mar: thank you, chair ronen. and i just wanted to thank everyone for being here today and actually for many years, as judge kopp mentioned, this work goes back to the 1970's, and really for standing up against dark money, standing up for transparency and democracy. this is all about us knowing about who's trying to buy our elected officials and votes. we need to ensure our leaders are accountable to the public, not to dark money donors, corporations, or big developers. and with this initiative, we will end corporate contributions. we will end pay-to-play policy

particulars. and our work doesn't end there, and the board of supervisors will have another public finances ordinance to vote on this coming fall, but this initiative is crucial and a ground breaking step forward, so thank you so much for everyone here for all of your work on it. >> chair ronen: thank you. and with that, i will make a motion to file this hearing. if i can take this without objection? without objection, that motion passes. thank you so much. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: mr. clerk, can you please read item number 2. [agenda item read]. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. and we've been joined by supervisor haney. hello, supervisor haney. you want to start us off?

>> supervisor haney: well, thank you, chair ronen and our rules committee members for having me again. and this will be, as required by the -- when we amend a charter amendment, we have to come back a second time. i just want to reiterate what some of those amendments are which reflect feedback from the department, from the mayor's office and from stakeholders to ensure better coordination moon the existing advisory bodies. we are also in the process of drafting trailing legislation that will enact legislation among the current advisory bodies. these amendments also ensure that the commission acts in partnership with the committees to comply with mandates from state and federal funding, and they reflect the need to exempt contracts procured under the shelter ordinance from commission approval. that was one of the concerns that the department put forward

that we addressed in these amendments. it also changes one of the appointment seats from the board of education to the controller, and it gives us more time to see and start the commission in may instead of march. i'm confident that these amendments make this an even better proposal and improvement and will help the city better serve people experiencing homelessness and living in supportive housing. i appreciate the support of this committee and look forward to the commission being on the ballot. i won't go into a lot of details about the commission itself because i think we heard that fully last time around, but i'm happy to address any questions that you all have about it and hopefully will have your support -- continued support. thank you. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. if there's no comments from my colleagues, i want to open this item up for public comment. any member of the public, if you wish to lineup to my right,

your left, you'll have two minutes each, and feel free to come on forward. >> sean davis. and i'm speaking on my behalf, but for identification purposes, i'm in the tenancy, and i'm kind of a bull dog, and let's face it. i'm some support of this. the s.r.o. task force has had to get involved in a lot of things around the s.h. portion of the h.s.h. i would say it took 14 days into my hunger strike for them to actually admit that the rent issue was a problem. i also had to bring h.s.h. before the task force when this controversial wellness check approximately happened in november, and it's just really -- we really, really,

really need this oversight. and i've also just found out that that protocols around adult protective services and the h.s.h. buildings are kind of a very mixed, kind of very -- depends on from agency to agency, so there's just a lot of issues that need to be addressed here, and i'm glad the commission will do this. i'm okay with the amendments but i did bring this before the democratic socialists of america homelessness working group, and i will say they are kind of concerned that seven seats are going to be flipped from the board of education to the controller because the controller is also appointed by the mayor, and it's just -- while i'm still going to, like, support this, i'm still going to vote yes, i'm still going to do a lot of volunteering for this. but i'm worried if this was

compromised too much, there may not be as many boots on the ground for it. i think we really need sun light on h.s.h. >> hi. my name's mallory lynn hill. i'm speaking today on behalf of san francisco housing action coalition. we appreciate the amendments and the community input that came with them, and we're -- we want to create as much housing as possible and get as many folks into it as we can, and we're concerned that this is going to be a wasteful measure. thank you. >> hello, supervisors. paul monkay from san francisco

housing services. last year, mayor breed said in response to proposition c, the city needs to you haudit the $ million that we're spending on homeless services and that san franciscan deserve accountability for the money that we've already paid. mayor breed recognized that the existing oversight structures are not sufficient, that there still needs work to be done on that end. this statement by the mayor is a call to action, and this proposal is a direct response to that call for action. we've heard concerns that having a commission in place could slow down services, and believe me, we are the last people that want to see delays in contracting because it affects our ability to keep lights on and provide services, but in our community, there is

a strong support for the commission because we believe there will identify delays in contracting and help us campaign for the most critical issues facing our city now. >> good morning, supervisors, but thank you so much for the opportunity. my name is malia chavez, and i'm speaking in behalf of my role as director of hespa, the emergency providers association. i wanted to point out that this was an opportunity for us to really figure out what the budgetary process it for -- is for the department? there are a number of budgets that contribute to the overall budget of the department and it's unclear what that separate

set of budgets look like. and without going through a sunshine request or without asking for more details, the response from the department was that it's a separate budget that doesn't actually appear through the board of supervisors process or the mayor's budget? and so just again, one more better opportunity to under where all these resources are going? and so i know one of the requests here was around process and transparency and costs that might be able to go to service providers. it would be really great just to better understand what we currently have and be able to have oversight as well as an opportunity to provide feedback around prioritization or requests from a community standpoint, so thank you. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. any other members of the public who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. i am happy, if my colleagues have no other comments, to make a motion to forward this to the

full board as a committee report. can i take that without objection? without objection, that motion passes. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: thank you, supervisor haney. mr. clerk, can you please read item 3? >> clerk: item 3 is a hearing appointing one member, term ending november 20, 2019 to the entertainment advisory committee. >> okay. first, we'll hear from mr. wells. good morning. hello. >> good morning, chairwoman ronen, supervisor walton, supervisor mar. very pleased to be here today to be reappointed by my supervisor to be the d-10 rep for the bicycle advisory committee. i've served for a couple of years. i'm serving as the vice chair now, and in terms of what we're working on, i'm very proud to say that the sfbac has become

more of an active committee for the board. we're working more on being a watchdog on various issues for the city. each of us are appointed by our supervisors for our districts to combine the needs in every district in terms of not just bicycle transportation but safety in regards to vision 2020 and how these pieces all work together. bayview is underserved in a lot of ways and we're looking for ways to take bicycle lanes that are suddenly disappeared, going nowhere and make a network of them so that it's an easier trail. plus the growth of tech companies down in silicon valley and down the peninsula has meant that there's now a shift of caltrain passengers, and a lot of them come from the

potrero hill and mission bay area that get on the caltrain and head to their jobs, so there's a much bigger need for better bike lanes. one of the things that we have done is we're fully staffed for representatives for each districts. we come up with resolutions, we recently came up with a resolution that i'm quite happy with, autonomous vehicle and bike population. there was a push by a republican law maker from a state that doesn't have a high population, a push for auto

nomous vehicles, so we made a push to have our own safety regulations. we are coming into a phase now where there are motorized vehicles and scooters, and we need to control that. and then, in the safety issues, in terms of what we have as a mission, the four parts of vision zero, education, engineering, enforcement, and evaluation. and evaluation is how are the things we're doing working? how are they not working is just as important to know. are we falling down or a plan that maybe engineering has to take another look and know that this right turn here or this left turn here is creating a dangerous situation. i'm glad that we're moving forward with protects bike lanes at a higher clip, and then also education needs to be stepped up for bicyclists as

well as motorists as well as uber-lyft drivers who need to feel the enforcement of the bike lanes so that they don't look at it as a passenger drop off and pickup lane, which often does. i was very happy to participate in bike to workday. i came off my bicycle at brannan and 9th and tore my rotator cuff, so i know how hard our streets can be. i've been a resident of potrero hill since the 80's. i've been a director of the san francisco beautiful board of directors. i'm on the vintage street cars, and i'm also on our events and outreach committee, so i'm very tied in with transportation in san francisco with the health and future of the city, and in mobility permit harmonization, and i'm looking for ways we can

continue to serve the city and bridge the gaps between different agencies and different committees, so thank you very much. >> chair ronen: supervisor walton, do you have any comments? okay. now for public comment. thank you very much. thank you very much for your willingness to serve and your knowledge on the issue. we're going to open this up for public comment now. >> okay. >> chair ronen: if any member of the public would like to speak on this item, please come forward now. seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: supervisor walton? >> supervisor walton: thank you so much, chair ronen, and thank you for coming in, mr. wells. i know it took a moment to make the nomination. i want my colleagues to know your excitement about the issues. you have a passion for safe

biking across the city and you have a plethora of ideas making sure that bicyclists are safe while we have to deal with all forms of transportation here in san francisco. and the last thing i'll say is definitely appreciate your excitement for serving on the b.a.c., and someone who is persistent in your vision and your goals for what we can do to envision a safer -- safer opportunity for people who want to cycle through our city. and so thank you so much for your dedication and commitment, and i was excited to make this nomination. yes. and i would like to move item 3 for seat 10 for the bicycle advisory committee, i move the nomination of mr. paul wells forward with a positive recommendation. >> chair ronen: without objection, that motion passes unanimously. thank you, mr. wells. >> thank you. >> chair ronen: mr. clerk, can

you please read item 4. >> clerk: item 4 is a motion approving or rejecting the mayor's nomination of the reappointment of ben bleiman to the entertainment commission for a term ending november 21, 2023. >> chair ronen: thank you. mr. bleiman, welcome. >> president bleiman: thank you very much for having me. i'll try to make my comments brief here. my name is ben bleiman. i've lived in san francisco for almost 16 years now, and i've been a bar owner, a father to a toddler now in the outer richmond, and a passionate organizer around nightlife for at least the last ten years, if not more. i am currently the chairman of the california music and culture association, which is the trade association that represents night clubs and bars and music festivals and music

concerts. and as i said, i've spent years advocating for night life. but before joining the entertainment commission, but joining the entertainment commission has truly been one of the most rewarding experiences i've had. i'm now the president of the commission, which allows me kind of some extra input into the direction that the office goes and what we do. and i can't say how pleasurable it is and how rewarding it is to work with the commission staff. they're extraordinary competent and care deeply about san francisco night life as i do. i think my root of love for night life is night life is for everyone and shouldn't just be for the wealthy. in some cases, it seems that's the case, and i don't think that should be the case here.

my philosophy around the entertainment commission is we want to push inclusive options for night live so that everyone in san francisco can feel represented in our night time world, our nighttime economy, etc. i did show you some of my accomplishments during my tenure there, and i wanted to highlight some of the things i'm specifically excited for going forward. these may be a little geeky, but i'm truly excited about them. the first is we're digitizing all of our permitting processes, but putting it on-line and allowing access to it, not only improves our office's ability to enforce it, but it also ensures access for people especially who don't have incredible amounts of wealth to handle the

bureaucracy that we have. and then, we're about to move the office of 49 south vanness and be a part of the first permitting center maybe on the west coast? it's exciting and increases access of the ability of the little business owner, the person doing a smaller cultural event to very easily get their permit rather than have to run around at great cost, relative cost to themselves. there is a special event steering committee that's just been announced by the mayor. this is another thing that i'm very passionate about. this kind of goes into the permitting side, but if we can make special events easier to permit and less hassle, we're going to have more cultural events, which i'm very excited about. and last, i'm always thinking of ways to promote, promote, promote, promote night life in

san francisco. last thing, we need to find ways to pay gigs for musicians and performers in san francisco. they're leaving the city in mass numbers, and it's really terrifying and sad, and we need to find ways as a government to get them paying gigs. and this is associated with that, strengthening small and large venues in town who actually pay the performers. and it may seem robust right now, but venues are an endangered species right now. i keep sounding the alarm, but it's a very scary time, and we need to figure out how we can best support venues to promote night life in san francisco. with that, i'm happy to answer any questions that you have, and happy to be up here and very honored and respectful. thank you. >> chair ronen: any questions? no questions. okay. we'll now open this up for public comment. any member of the public who would like to speak, please feel free to come forward.

>> good morning. my name is dracori donaldson. i've been a resident of san francisco for over 12 years now. i met ben at big brothers big sisters. through each role, ben has led me by example, and if there's one characteristic that i have always admired, it was his passion. everything ben has done has been with a passion to succeed, inspire or get a net quality change. this makes ben a fit for a position such as the president of the entertainment

commission. thanks. >> good morning, good morning. how you all doing? damian posey. might be all familiar with me. ben has been like a big brother to me, as well, even though i think i'm older than him. but all the night life stuff is cool and everything, but at the end of the day, man, ben is a great person. you know, i was blessed to be the lead case manager for united players for five years, and i'm blessed to be over at y.c.d., but when i came home from prison and was getting my life together, man, he was one of the individuals who seen that i had made a change and took a chance to me and gave me opportunity for some employment so that i could help take care of my daughter. he took a risk on me, and i'm grateful to that, and i hope that, you know, i've proved his

guessing right, 'cause i've been out of trouble, staying focused, and he's been there every step of the way. not only just with that, but helping me create a good relationship with my father and my community. and as i did more things in the community, he was always there, always volunteering. i have a workshop called uncommon youth that volunteers with the city. i bring it in so kids in the community can see that all things are possible from all standpoints. each and every time i've asked him to contribute his time, money, resources to help the community, he's done it effortlessly, no charge, no -- i just did an application party at y.c.d. to get the kids ready for summer.

you know, 'cause sometimes they be slacking. he donated 300 chicken wings. i know it's chicken wings, but he was like no problem, come get it. when do you want to pick it up? everything he's trying to do, i support. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. thank you. hi, manny. >> hi. i just wanted to voice my support for reappointing ben to the entertainment commission. ben is on my advisory board for manny's, and he's been a friend and mentor throughout the process. i knew him before he had ever gotten to know what i was doing. he immediately wanted to get involved in the project because he liked the idea of combining food and a bar with social justice. i helped me through every stage of the process, from where i should put the gas lines to who

my contractor should be. he spent his own time to make sure that a new small business owner had a setup that would be beneficial to what he was trying to do, so it really just shows what kind of person he is. he also walks the walk. he doesn't just talk the talk, and it is amazing to me that he can do so much, and he does it with grace and authenticity, and a real love of san francisco. i had never really bar tended before, and so he put me in a catering event in fort mason and put me in his team so i can learn the ropes. i'm proud to be a member of his team and to know him, and i join damian and dracori in

supporting him. >> chair ronen: thank you. is there any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: supervisor walton? >> supervisor walton: i just want to say i support this nomination of ben bleiman. i've known ben for years, and his focus on hiring locally, his focus on really supporting other businesses and making sure they have night liech success outside of his own, and you can see his -- night life success outside of his own. it's always good to see people excited about the roll that they have an opportunity to serve in. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. i couldn't agree more. this is one of those appointments where the mayor knocked it out of the park. ben, i just want to thank you for everything you do for the community. i mean, the -- you know, the

people who spoke during public comment said it best, so i don't think i'm going to be able to express myself more beautifully than you all did. but my experience with you has been exactly the same as everyone else. you make yourself available, you're so generous with your time and your vast knowledge about the entertainment world, about scity laws related to entertainment. i remember when i was a legislative aide, and i worked with you on a law, it was experience that i never had, where someone from the community came, asking for at the time supervisor campos to sponsor a law and was so prepared and just came with a

broad knowledge. i think one of the hardest parts of the entertainment commission is simultaneously walking the line of being very supportive of small businesses and night life, and taking the concerns of the community seriously, and i think you do that with so much grace and thoughtfulness. it's hard, and it's not easy, and i just want to express my own gratitude for that and say that i am so excited to be supporting you again today. so with that, no more comments. do you want to do the pleasure? >> supervisor walton: yes. i make a motion that we amend item number 4, and eliminate rejecting, and we want to approve the nomination of ben bleiman for entertainment commission. >> chair ronen: thank you very

much for that nomination. that motion passes unanimously. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: mr. clerk, do we have any other items? >> clerk: i just want to confirm that item number 4 has been amended to approve the reappointment of ben bleiman and is recommended as amended, and that completes the agenda for today. >> chair ronen: fantastic. the meeting is adjourned.

>> my name is alan schumer. i am a fourth generation san franciscan. in december, this building will be 103 years of age. it is an incredibly rich, rich

history. [♪] >> my core responsibility as city hall historian is to keep the history of this building alive. i am also the tour program manager, and i chair the city advisory commission. i have two ways of looking at my life. i want it to be -- i wanted to be a fashion designer for the movies, and the other one, a political figure because i had some force from family members, so it was a constant battle

between both. i ended up, for many years, doing the fashion, not for the movies, but for for san franciscan his and then in turn, big changes, and now i am here. the work that i do at city hall makes my life a broader, a richer, more fulfilling than if i was doing something in the garment industry. i had the opportunity to develop relationships with my docents. it is almost like an extended family. i have formed incredible relationships with them, and also some of the people that come to take a tour. she was a dressmaker of the

first order. i would go visit her, and it was a special treat. i was a tiny little girl. i would go with my wool coat on and my special little dress because at that period in time, girls did not wear pants. the garment industry had the -- at the time that i was in it and i was a retailer, as well as the designer, was not particularly favourable to women. you will see the predominant designers, owners of huge complexes are huge stores were all male. women were sort of relegated to a lesser position, so that, you reached a point where it was a difficult to survive and survive financially. there was a woman by the name of diana. she was editor of the bazaar,

and evoke, and went on and she was a miraculous individual, but she had something that was a very unique. she classified it as a third i. will lewis brown junior, who was mayor of san francisco, and was the champion of reopening this building on january 5th of 1999. i believe he has not a third eye , but some kind of antenna attached to his head because he had the ability to go through this building almost on a daily basis during the restoration and corrects everything so that it would appear as it was when it opened in december of 1915. >> the board of supervisors approved that, i signed it into

law. jeffrey heller, the city and county of san francisco oh, and and your band of architects a great thing, just a great thing. >> to impart to the history of this building is remarkable. to see a person who comes in with a gloomy look on their face , and all of a sudden you start talking about this building, the gloomy look disappears and a smile registers across their face. with children, and i do mainly all of the children's tours, that is a totally different feeling because you are imparting knowledge that they have no idea where it came from, how it was developed, and you can start talking about how things were before we had computer screens, cell phones,

lake in 1915, the mayor of san francisco used to answer the telephone and he would say, good morning, this is the mayor. >> at times, my clothes make me feel powerful. powerful in a different sense. i am not the biggest person in the world, so therefore, i have to have something that would draw your eye to me. usually i do that through color, or just the simplicity of the look, or sometimes the complication of the look. i have had people say, do those shoes really match that outfit? retirement to me is a very strange words. i don't really ever want to retire because i would like to

be able to impart the knowledge that i have, the knowledge that i have learned and the ongoing honor of working in the people's palace. you want a long-term career, and you truly want to give something to do whatever you do, so long as you know that you are giving to someone or something you're then yourself. follow your passion and learn how to enrich the feelings along the way. >> manufacturing in cities

creates this perfect platform for people to earn livelihoods and for people to create more economic prosperity. i'm kate sosa. i'm cofounder and ceo of sf made. sf made is a public private partnership in the city of san francisco to help manufacturers start, grow, and stay right here in san francisco. sf made really provides wraparound resources for manufacturers that sets us apart from other small business support organizations who provide more generalized support. everything we do has really been developed over time by listening and thinking about what manufacturer needs grow.

for example, it would be traditional things like helping them find capital, provide assistance loans, help to provide small business owners with education. we have had some great experience doing what you might call pop ups or temporary selling events, and maybe the most recent example was one that we did as part of sf made week in partnership with the city seas partnership with small business, creating a 100 company selling day right here at city hall, in partnership with mayor lee and the board of supervisors, and it was just a wonderful opportunity for many of our smaller manufacturers who may be one or two-person shop, and who don't have the wherewithal to have their own dedicated retail store to show their products and it comes back to how do we help

companies set more money into arthur businesses and develop more customers and their relationships, so that they can continue to grow and continue to stay here in san francisco. i'm amy kascel, and i'm the owner of amy kaschel san francisco. we started our line with wedding gowns, and about a year ago, we launched a ready to wear collection. san francisco's a great place to do business in terms of clientele. we have wonderful brides from all walks of life and doing really interesting things: architects, doctors, lawyers, teachers, artists, other like minded entrepreneurs, so really fantastic women to work with. i think it's important for them to know where their clothes are made and how they're made. >> my name is jefferson mccarly, and i'm the general

manager of the mission bicycle company. we sell bikes made here for people that ride here. essentially, we sell city bikes made for riding in urban environments. our core business really is to build bikes specifically for each individual. we care a lot about craftsmanship, we care a lot about quality, we care about good design, and people like that. when people come in, we spend a lot of time going to the design wall, and we can talk about handle bars, we can see the riding position, and we take notes all over the wall. it's a pretty fun shopping experience. paragraph. >> for me as a designer, i love the control. i can see what's

going on, talk to my cutter, my pattern maker, looking at the designs. going through the suing room, i'm looking at it, everyone on the team is kind of getting involved, is this what that drape look? is this what she's expecting, maybe if we've made a customization to a dress, which we can do because we're making everything here locally. over the last few years, we've been more technical. it's a great place to be, but you know, you have to concentrate and focus on where things are going and what the right decisions are as a small business owner. >> sometimes it's appropriate to bring in an expert to offer suggestions and guidance in coaching and counseling, and other times, we just need to talk to each other. we need to talk to other manufacturers that are facing similar problems, other people that are

in the trenches, just like us, so that i can share with them a solution that we came up with to manage our inventory, and they can share with me an idea that they had about how to overcome another problem. >> moving forward, where we see ourselves down the road, maybe five and ten years, is really looking at a business from a little bit more of a ready to wear perspective and making things that are really thoughtful and mindful, mindful of the end user, how they're going to use it, whether it's the end piece or a he hwedding gown, are they going to use it again, and incorporating that into the end collection, and so that's the direction i hear at this point. >> the reason we are so enamored with the work we do is we really do see it as a platform for changing and

making the city something that it has always been and making sure that we're sharing the opportunities that we've been blessed with economically and socially as possible, broadening that

>> good evening, and welcome to the july 17th, 2019 meeting at the san francisco board of appeals. to my left is as the deputy city attorney who will provide the board and then he needed legal advice this evening. at the controls is the board's legal assistant and i am julie rosenberg, the board's executive director. we will also be joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before the board this evening. in the front we have scott sanchez, the acting deputy building minister. we expect joseph duffy, senior building inspector representing the department of building inspection. we also have jacob,