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>> and finished his ding tin distinguishedded career as its distinguishedded career as its finance administration. phil served on the san francisco parks alliance board of directors and is a commissioner for the san francisco housing authority. he was a member of the richville couple board of directors for almost 15 years and was the chair for two of those years. during that time, he led efforts to complete the rich trail in
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san francisco and reroute it to green spaces, work that continues today thanks to the momentum he built and i actually served on that same board of directors when it was first formed in the 1980s. by every account, including my own, he was a mentor and a friend to countless colleagues in the financial social justice and environmental fields. earlier this year, his life's work was honored with a dedication of the phil arnold trail in golden gate park in february named in his honor. the trail maya goes through livk trees in the northeast corner of the park providing the type of respite from urban life that phil was so intent on preserving for fellow san franciscans. he married his wife of 33 years who i used to fondly and sometimes not so fondly refer to as the 12th member of the san francisco board of supervisors
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many of the former deputy city controller monique in 1986 in addition to monique, and our hearts go out to her, he is survived by his sons, brother steve, nieces, christina and malia and grandson sage. our condolences to them all and particularly monique. >> supervisor peskin, can i just have us all be on the memorial. >> i would be delighted. >> supervisor yee: thank you. ok. i think that's it for roll call. madam clerk, let's go to public comments. >> clerk: it's time for the public to comment. you will have two minutes to share your thoughts on topics that fall under the jurisdiction of the board of supervisors to includes items 38-32 which did
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not go to committee. your comments should be addressed to the board as a whole. i will redistrict you if you address a single member or audience. public comment is not allowed on items that have been heard on public comment or during a board committee. speakers using interpretation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify and if you'd like to display a document on the overhead project projector, place jury document under the projector and ask for sfgov to show the document and row move it when you would like the screen to return to live coverage of the meeting. >> supervisor yee: go ahead. >> to all the anarchists here i would like to say that trump is the only president that is attending the pro life rally and i thank god everyday for president trump. and you know, i remember when paul hill protected his children there and took him nine months
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to execute him for that. the lady was interviewing him, he is a press pa terry minister and he said would you do it again. he said it wasn't easy to protect the children but i would protect them. ralph, you know ralph northham, the governor there in virginia. he is on info wars. he said the baby can be born 40 weeks from conception, that's where are created by the almighty. it can be placed on the table and then you can shoot it, you can stab it, ralph likes to hang it up and throw darts at it. he likes that. i think about how god says the powers that be are ordained of god to punish evil doers. my bible says before jesus comes back, you know, that the sun will be dark and the moon will be turned to blood red. wondering what that means.
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but you know, jesus said, it's written in your law, he is referring to deuteronomy, the fifth book of moses, it's written in your law the testimony of two men i am one ta bear witness of myself and my father, he bears witness of me. when we read in god's law, by the way the kings were commanded everyday to read the bible. we find it's god says god shall not kill and the punishment for killing someone -- i see my time is up. >> next speaker.
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>> good afternoon. we are back again. the taxi medallion owners to talk about our issue and looks like we are keeping coming back and back but we feel that there is no action taken. we just feel like no one cares about us. basically what we want is sf to give the money we put to this ma dill yans back and they can rent those medallions and make the default to the taxi companies and we put a lot of down payments and some of us we need that because there's no business in the city. i say that if it wasn't for the airport, we wouldn't make my any money. because, a couple days ago, i had a doctor apartment and i api worked from 2:00 to 4:00 in the city.
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believe it or not i had two fares and i made $25 an hour. so, that comes to like 12 and a half dollars an hour which is the minimum wage, right. so what we want is you guys have to, i mean, take actions and push sfmta to do something about our issue. in the contract, they agreed that if the medallion sales program fails they're going to have to repurchase the medallions and even issue us free medallion. that's in the contract. they should expect everything. they have to give up to their signature and do something about our issue. thank you.
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i've been in school all my life. i have three dock rat, two bachelors, two masters. i set out to say it's very practical. i have a plan where i could solve this homeless problem across the country and i'm seeing it's in germany and also in england so perhaps we need the federal government involved and the u.n. i did send an e-mail to mr. trump's office and he sent out people to l.a. and san francisco to talk about housing the homeless and so fourth. he says that he started before so that probably the way for me to say that ok he has a plan and it's my plan but i'm not going to talk about my plan. i need a contract first and i'm going to mention my plan because the government won't have to spend in any money in my plan. i'm guaranteed this housing thing could end in 90 days to
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one year. money comes no the government. he wants to use the federal buildings but as i said, i asked the chairman carson to let us have a conference and so that i could mention it once and i could be guaranteed that i'm going to be paid. by the way, if everybody was president obama no one knows but me. i'm the man given this ideas and if i hadn't held him, he had nothing to do and he had no ideas and everybody would have been over and no one knows about me. so i'm not doing anything free again. nor aim doing anything which i'm not going to be benefiting from. for my intellectual properties, and when i spend all the same and i can't live on my education, that's bad. in this housing move, i think that i need a contract and i need to have everybody involved so that i just mentioned once and we can move on. also i have interested in global warming and i have a green plan. i notice that folks are talking about electric housing and electricity users so there we go
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again. thank you, very much. >> supervisor yee: thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon. i am speaking on behalf of (inaudible). i say the same thing again and again. taxi ma cal ya medallion shoulde sold. it's racial discrimination with us. that caused destruction in taxi business. uber has lift. no one that's consent. it's trust and no one why did
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they put us to death for payments. no one bans nor no one is willing for. keep your ride share. leave the ma cal yan to cab companies. they never allowed us medallions independently. we are not leaving medallions from companies, we are dealing with the catastrophic situation, we are limping on and it deprives us of sleep. we cannot sustain in the taxi business. sfmta are calling to their argument with the union now it's responsibilities. we cannot trust them anymore. all supervisors should write a notice for sftam for money fund. we waited two years.
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how issues has not been reinvolved yet. it's very painful. we have to strike. we want justice. thank you. >> good afternoon. here again with the same issue as every week we have. so, i don't know how to make that you guys approximate belieu take the action of it because i feel like we're just like tissue paper and just use it and throw it out because no one listens to our voice and believe me, we're in a crisis. we have so many ma da medallion holders that killed themselves because of the stress. how much improvement do you need for that to believe that we are not lying here. even the kids know. every single individual knows about the medallion and uber
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things. what we needed, we are not aliens. we're part of the public and the city. when we serve the city for many years, we have a appreciation and we have all these good things but when the other interest that comes in like ride share, no one will know what we are. like i see like we're trapped and thrown in the darkroom and no one listening to us, no one looks at us. we have live in the darkroom so when we come see that light to get a our justice. please, help us out. i appreciate it. thank you so much. >> hi, my name is hajeet and i'm
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making a request to the supervisors of san francisco. if they're going to help us, i don't know how long it will take us to solve this problem and it's really big trouble for the cab driver, not only for me. and we don't know how we can stay on the city now getting solve this problem and we need our money back and we cannot support anymore color scheme if some -- we need help for the color scheme too you know and we don't make money. i don't know how we're going to pay this color scheme, you know. and i'm making a request to the
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smfta and i don't know how long i can survive. maybe i'm getting heart attack soon. i need some information from city hall. my family can sue after some things happen to me. i don't want to die myself, you know, with the trouble. and i have so much stress. i'm not able to drive anymore. i don't want to -- thank you very much. >> supervisor yee: next speaker. >> good afternoon. i am again in here just i want to remind you. behind my heart start crying, you know. and i feel right now my voice start to change. i don't know how you guys just
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reaction, you know. how many times we come in here every week and every time we did different scenario and you guys go home, you see your family, i come home and i don't see anybody. i am pissed off. i am feeling like i am hostage to the situation. swear to god. i take any social security paying to the stupid medallion. my social se security. i not worth that for this situation. i was not having social security maybe i would be homeless. every each one of these guys they have a problem financially. most worse things is mentally. we cannot carry that one. we cannot be able to hold it to the situation. as myself i cannot take it.
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we language, which kind of scream do we have to show to your guys. please, we cannot take it. he don't care. last week i try to send an e-mail. they block the e-mail. because i ask them some questions before they have a connection with us with the e-mails. we would be able to have say something. completely we are out. you talking about democracy. write a check to the average person or buyer of medallion to take off. it's a democracy. >> supervisor yee: next speaker. come on up. >> hi, i'm purchase medallion but i tell you before the story.
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i'm married and i have two child. the oldest one 27. she is doing great. she's a physician assistant. and second one san francisco university. and they're doing great. we are not bums. ok. i'm a father. i'm an uncle. i'm family member. personally, i'm sick of all of you. you know. because you guys you don't give a shit about the chapter. very simple. you guys open your mouth very big. san francisco is a liberal city. everybody has its right except cab drivers. you guys put $215,000 for homeless. take a pee on sixth and market. that is my right.
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i drive in a cab for 30 or 40 years. i want to be retired. i get sick about this job. i look at your face, i hate this job. very simple. i hate this job. but i don't have a choice because it's the only source of income for my family. if i don't do that, i'll be homeless. i'll have to sit by the market begging for penny and nickel. you guys, everything important in city. but if it comes to the cab driver, everyone has a right but not the cab driver. please, it's enough. i was sitting here by the -- she announced for the supervisor. according to her, if i want to sell my medallion, they -- thank
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you. >> good afternoon board of supervisors, my name is matthew sutter. i'm six generation related to john general sutter. we do not want anything more than what we were told we were going to be given. in the envelope is 91 signatures of owners that want us to represent them. we are not part of anything other than the buyers association. there's no union for us, we're not part of any coalition and anything like that. the sfmpa now is allowing all the handicap vans to go unlimited time at the airport which takes them out of san francisco to tend to our handicapped people here in the city. i do grow in avoiding them something but unlimited use at the airport of they're waking home at 5:00 in the morning and
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going at home in midnight. unlimited pick ups at the airport without waiting. is that fair? sfmta, look what they've done to taylor and sixth street. you can't get up the street mr. haney. do you see what is happening? you made it more dangerous for pedestrians. we are going to want to sit down and talk with you guys. we will write out a plan to figure out what we need to do to satisfy the situation. you need to take the bank out of the equation. you need to start with the bank. you need to take those medallions away. we are suffering you guys. we are in pain. all my life i was a proud san francisco an and now i'm stuck for the first time in my life. i feel stuck. i don't want to be here anymore.
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that's a shame. i thought you guys are the ones that will make san francisco great. it's passed mayors and now it's current mayors. >> supervisor yee: next speaker. >> good afternoon, my name is jones and i am also a cab driver. let me ask you one very simple question, what is the fate of my $250,000 that i have paid to the sfmt for the taxi medallion. if i day today or tomorrow what is the fate? someone has the answer for that one? that $250,000 should be defended to my family or not? if it is being defended to my family, i would like to have it in writing. and the second thing is, do you guys have a family? it's a question for all board of
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supervisors and even the mayor. do you have a family? i am a father of four. one of my daughters is coming everyday from hercules to sf state. you can figure out the bart and bus fare. my second daughter is uc davis. i have two children in hercules in high school. i am taking home everyday. like $50, $60 sometimes $100. do you guys think that i can live with that continuously? no. i have anxiety. i have a depression. i and i want you to help us. we are paying these cab companies so much money because i am driving for almost 30 years
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and we are paying them by the name of color scheme and today those who have color scheme it does not do anything for me. why am i am paying $600 a month. i have raised this issue a couple of times before and i am raising this one again too. please help us out and lower our expenses. if you are really a friend of the people of san francisco and you want -- >> speakers time is concluded, sir. >> supervisor yee: next speaker, please. >> my name is helena and i'm supervisor ronen's constituent and a volunteer with the sunrise movement bay area. i came here to talk about the climate emergency. i am humbled at all that i've heard today. from the car drivers about the
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people dying of fentanyl overdoses. i came here to say we need to connect the dots in terms of climate and work together and make things work. and i want to say that climate is an umbrella that everything else can fit under. we can look for what is th the h to a good future and look for a just transition for everybody. for the cab drivers medallion and for people who take drugs because they're desperate or they're addicted, right. sometimes it starts with desperation. i've been there. you are not going to solve the problem siloing things one or the other. we're not going to solve the problems unless we are brave. unless we mandate that even for buildings that can't yet be
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designed perfectly with only electric heating, that they are electric ready for when that technology comes to pass, which will be soon. we've heard it from architects. we've heard it from engineers and we've heard it from the legal community. we need to join together, have different agencies work together, and make a truly better future for san francisco and hopefully a better future for the world. thank you. >> supervisor yee: next speaker. >> my name is sarah greenwald and i'm a constituent of supervisor stefani. also a member of 350 san francisco. about the taxi drivers, i would note they're driving better cars
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whereas the ride hails are ice cars, internal combustion engine gas burners. i want to thank you, supervisor brown and supervisor mandelman. you reminded us the climate situation is terrible but the good news is we do have clean power available in this city partly because of what board of supervisors has done. we have clean power sf. we do not need to keep constructing new buildings that use methane, which is a vicious greenhouse gas as you've all been aware of. and incentivization and banning methane and new municipal buildings is a start. i urge you to go further. we must be mindful that 75% of our new construction will be in the southeast corridor which currently suffers from some of
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the worst environmental injustice and pollution as you know. so it's an environmental justice issue. and the new construction should all be methane free but let's at least make it electric ready and make clean power s f-1 hundred% renewablf 100%renewable. >> supervisor yee: next speaker. >> my name is john anderson and i'm a constituent of supervisor stefani and a member of 350sf although today i'm speaking for myself. i too would like to comment on supervisor mandelman and brown's proposals. proposed ban on methane and new city construction and incentivizing electric ready
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construction is a start. it shouldn't be confused with anymore than a first step. the recent special report from the international panel on climate change emphasizes the importance of methane reductions only reducing methane will actually cool the climate in the short term. carbon dioxide is going to be with us for a long time. only decreasing methane in the next 10 years will get us a reasonable chance, not security foray voiding irreversible warming globally. we've been asked by you to act like our house is on fire. when you sit in your apartment and people have been yelling fire for a while, and you are
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smelling smoke, it doesn't make sense to say oh, we've wet down 25% of our wall space and we're in better shape than our neighbor who is asleep. it won't do. you need to grab a bucket. we need ordinances for prohibition on all new construction. we badly need requirements that new construction at least be electric ready. >> supervisor yee: thank you. next speaker. >> hello, my name is connie cox and i'm here from my company youth. i was here a couple months ago. i am an inventor and i couldn't bring my board in because it was bigger than the display board than what you allow in here so
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i'm going to see if i could get it up stairs. my whole premise of my business was to help raise funds kind of like our state lottery does. i can't do this without permission. i can't do this without a team. my games on bags really are a tremendous amount of games that you can use sensors, loyalty clubs and you could have competition between a high school team or a football team. it could be incorporated into the online games that people play with football. the one thing i really like about it is it lends itself to raising money for our problems. case in point, some of our most needed services just are not affordable by our taxes. but maybe they would be affordable by our fund. i don't think this is disrupting our state lottery but it would enhance it just as i think the
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other things that go on like that might seem disruptive from it it would actually add another marketplace and the other side of the bag game could be actually played by a corporate sponsor or hershey or a big name like that. i hope i'm not in trouble for saying that. i really need to get up stairs to the environmental meeting and i heard my bell ring. i did leave information last time. i've been trying to get a municipalities on board with this for a decade and a half. and i hope and pray we can get going. i can get a team going and you would be on it. thank you so much and have a great rest of your meeting. thank you. i also signed up to talk at the next issue. but i really want to get up to environmental. >> supervisor yee: thank you, next speaker.
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>> thank you. good evening, supervisors. actually, we came here all the time and we are explaining our problems. so, i just want to talk today. city of the government and san francisco they would like to help us and we're not able to help you guys, we're not coming anymore. you have to decide today what the city government wants to do. because we want the money back. there's nothing to say. the cab business is so backed up. so we are not making money. we are in trouble. please help us and give us money back. this is very openly, everybody knows we are here.
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we are speaking in a different language and different actions. i think it was a long time supervisor and everybody knows why we are here. just give us a couple minutes, supervisor or board of members and tell us what they can do something for us. thank you. >> supervisor yee: next speaker. >> tom gilberty. many joan of arcs we experience some of them today with the young woman. also this morning, great greate
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witnessing another joan of arc. not a hurricane but a global climate change is going to be a catastrophe for everybody. not just the south but it will hit us too. i was here and i had my '65 chevy van and we need parking spaces. supervised parking spaces. i agree, i hope we can get some of them. i chatted about little tommy and me going out and getting our a.k.-47s with 100 round clips and getting u us canadian geese. how about san francisco, 11 supervisors, the mayor, our legislatures, sign a we ban assault rifles and semi
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automatic city. i we know hope other cities join in that the task force on street drugs. let's provide a safe injection site with a doctor who can prescribe and supply safe drugs to the people on the streets. i hope that's part of the task force. vapors, fracking, fracking where they stuff poisons on to the ground to get out the last of the gas is equal to vaping. what people are putting in their lungs. it's poison now. right now we need an internal peace corp. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> >> mr. president, dually elected
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members dem, neighbor activist. i have praise for the work you've done but there's one little thing after the global climate change i have to add on my comments to. looking on the darker side of it. if in deed we are facing what seems like a biblical plague of toxins, calamities overdoses, violence, suicides, taxicab woes, military oblivion, all of these things i am rof whe improe focus on global climate change. it's really our only way out. i don't think the city is there yet. i do think that we have yet to really get to a mind set change where wore really going to focus on it. you know, all the times that i've been up to the planning commission we always argue, we always complain we're not allowed to bring up cumulative impact. it's the way it is with climate change. we're not allowed to talk about the cities' total cumulative
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impact of carbon emissions. the emissions of the residentses and workers. the shipping on bunker oil from asia. the impact of our consumption. where those emissions occurs industrial sites all over the world from our consumption many of the destruction of our biosphere right here in the bay and the sea. those are all things that are creating emissions that narrow focus on just san francisco missions leave out the bigger picture and our approach so far and we're really just a basket case and it may be difficult with you we should engage it. the things that have come out about climate change is that we're facing, for every tenth of an increase in global warming is accelerates the future warming and that's resinnance and constructive interference and think of the tacoma narrows
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bridge. >> supervisor yee: thank you. next speaker. >> i was going to say the medallion issue obviously weighs disproportionately on the middle eastern and african american communities. in all of our major cities and out of the suspiciously high incidents there were 560' fix this is 2017 which speaks volumes at this point furthering local rent control has proven a political dead end. i would like to see or hope to see if at all possible two or three dumpsters obtained at a reasonable sound and standard rate to see them placed in the tenderloin by the local rev use collection company one weekend
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each month over several successes and local residents who may lack vehicles can safely unload their aging unsafe appliances, old mattresses, broken furniture, paint solvents and other items in mass. ideally the fire department and local police cadets would oversee rev use disposal at the dumpster sites. to interact with them to get to the public in the process. and then if possible, i'd like to see the fire department carry out voluntary unit inspections for carbon monoxide detectors, smoke alarms and for the possibility of a discovering and tagging poorly functioning or faulty gas furnaces. this would familiarize the fire department with a general building interior layouts and if it was popular with the public, you might consider doing the same in china town and the bay
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view and the mission districts. >> supervisor yee: thank you. any other public comments? seeing none. public comment is now closed. madam clerk, please call the for adoption committee agenda items 28-32. >> clerk: items 28-32 were introduce a unanimous vote is required for resolutions on first reading today otherwise a member may require a resolution to go to committee. >> supervisor yee: would any of my colleagues like to severe any items? i want to severe 28. ok. madam clerk, on the remaining balance of items, can we take these same house same call. >> clerk: that would be 29-32. >> supervisor yee: yes. without objection the resolution is adopted and the motion is
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approved unanimously. madam clerk, i just -- can you call 28. >> clerk: resolution to urge the governor to sign 857 the public banks act for municipal and regional public banks. >> supervisor yee: i severed it because i wanted to add my name to the sponsor. is that ok? supervisor fewer. all right. then, anything else, can we take this item same house same call without objection. this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please read the inmemorials. >> today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals on behalf of the supervisor ronen
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for the late louise alberto quinones and supervisor mandelman, for the late ms. tanis ryan heart and behalf of a motion made by supervisor peskin and president yee on the board of supervisors for the late mr. phil arnold, our former colleagues, our hearts are broken for you monique. >> supervisor yee: that brings us to the end of our agenda. madam clerk is there any further business before us today? >> that concludes our business for today. >> supervisor yee: thank you. we are adjourned.
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>> for the first time in nearly two decades fishers have been granted the legal right to sell fish directly to the package right off their boat -- to the public right off their boats in san francisco. it's not only helping local fishers to stay afloat but it's evoking the spirit of the wharf by resurfacing the traditional methods of selling fish. but how is it regulated? and what does it take for a boat to be transported into a floating fish market? find out as we hop on board on this episode of "what's next sf." (♪) we're here with the owner and the captain of the vessel pioneer. it's no coincidence that your boat is called the pioneer because it's doing just that.
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it's the first boat in san francisco to sell fish directly from the boat. how did you establish your boat into such a floating fish market? >> well, you know, i always thought that it would be nice to be able to provide fresh fish to the locals because most of the fish markets, you would have to do a large amount of volume in order to bring in enough fish to cover the overhead. when you start selling to the public that volume is much less so it makes it hard to make enough money. so being able to do this is really -- it's a big positive thing i think for the entire community. >> a very positive thing. as a third-generation fisherman joe as his friends call him has been trawling the california waters for sustainably caught seafood since an early age. since obtaining a permit to sell fish directly to the public he is able to serve fish at an affordable price. >> right now we're just selling what a lot of the markets like, flat fish and rock fish and what the public likes. so we have been working for
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many, many years and putting cameras in them. there's the ability to short fish and we have panels that we open and close so we target the different species of fish by adjusting the net. and then not only that but then the net sort out the sizes which is really important. >> joe brings in a lot of fish, around 20,000 pounds per fishing trip to be exact. >> we had one day one time that we sold almost 18,000 pounds. >> it's incredible. >> i know, it's hard to imagine. >> but this wasn't always the case for joe. >> the markets that we have left in california, they're few and far between, and they really are restrictive. they'll let you fish for a couple months and shut you down. a lot of times it's rough weather and if you can't make your delivery you will lose your rotation. that's why there's hardly any boats left in california because of the market challenges. my boat was often sitting over here at the dock for years and i couldn't do anything with it because we had no market. the ability to go catch fish is
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fine, i had the permits, but you couldn't take them off your boat. >> that was until the port commission of san francisco rallied behind them and voted unanimously to approve a pilot program to allow the fish to be sold directly to consumers right off their boats. >> the purpose of the program is to allow commercial fishers to sell their fish directly from their boats to the end consumer in a safe and orderly manner for the benefit of the overall fishing community at the port of san francisco. we have limited the program to certain types of fish such as salmon, halibut, tuna and rock fish. crab is restricted from this program because we did not want to interfere with the existing crab sales on taylor street and jefferson street. so this is not meant to favor one aspect of the fishing industry more than another. it's to basically to lift up the whole industry together. >> and if joe the program has been doing just that.
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>> it was almost breathtaking whenever i woke up one morning and i got my federal receiver, my first receivers license in the mail. and that gave me permission to actually take fish off my boat. once we started to be able to sell, it opened things up a bit. because now that we have that federal permit and i was able to ppetition the city council and getting permission from san francisco to actually use the dock and to sell fish here, it was a big turning point. because we really didn't think or know that we'd get such a positive response from the public. and so we're getting thousands of people coming down here buying fish every week and so that's pretty cool. they like the fish so much that they take pictures of it when they cook it and they send us all of these pictures and then they ask us, you know, constantly for certain types of fish now. and when they come down here the one thing that they say is that they're so amazed that the fish is so fresh they could eat a little bit during the week and it's still fresh all week in the
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refrigerator. so that's really cool. >> the fish is very fresh and the price is super. i don't think that you can get it anywhere in the bay area. i can see it, and i can stir fry it, wow, you can do anything you want. i just can say this is a good place to shop and you have a good experience. >> this program supports the strategic plan in terms of engagement, people being connected to the waterfront, and also economic vitality. because it's helping the fishermen to make ends meet. they have no guarantees in their businesses, not like some people, and we want to do everything that we can to help them to have a good and thriving business. >> how does it feel to be able to sell your fish locally kind of in the traditional way, like your grandfather probably did? >> when i was a kid and i used to work in my dad's fish market,
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a lot of the markets that we sell to now are second and third and fourth generation markets. so i remember as a kid putting their tags on the boxes of fish that we shipped out of monterey and ship down to l.a. so it's kind of cool that we're still dealing with the same families. and this is probably about the only way that anyone can really survive in california is to sell your own fish. >> one of the advantages of this program is the department people that pull in the fish, they can find out where they caught it and find out more about the fisherman and that adds to their experience. the feedback from the fishers has been very good and the feedback from the customers have very good. and there's a lot of people coming to the wharf now that might not have done so. in fact, there's people that go through the neighboring restaurants that are going to eat fish inside but before they go in they see the action on the dock and they want to kind of look at what's happening on the
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boat before they go in and they have a meal. so it's generated some conversation down at the wharf and that's a good thing. >> as you can see by the line forming behind me getting ready to buy fish, the pilot program has been a huge success. for more information visit sfsport.com. (♪) (it. >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their shop & dine in the 49 within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services in the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so we're will you shop & dine in
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the 49 chinatown has to be one the best unique shopping areas in san francisco that is color fulfill and safe each vegetation and seafood and find everything in chinatown the walk shop in chinatown welcome to jason dessert i'm the fifth generation of candy in san francisco still that serves 2000 district in the chinatown in the past it was the tradition and my family was the royal chef in the pot pals that's why we learned this stuff and moved from here to have dragon candy i want people to know that is art we will explain a walk and they
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can't walk in and out it is different techniques from stir frying to smoking to steaming and they do show of. >> beer a royalty for the age berry up to now not people know that especially the toughest they think this is - i really appreciate they love this art. >> from the cantonese to the hypomania and we have hot pots we have all of the cuisines of china in our chinatown you don't have to go far. >> small business is important to our neighborhood because if we really make a lot of people lives better more people get a job here not just a big firm. >> you don't have to go anywhere else we have pocketed of great neighborhoods haul have
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>> i had a break when i was on a major label for my musical career. i took a seven year break. and then i came back. i worked in the library for a long time. when i started working the san francisco history centre, i noticed they had the hippie collection. i thought, if they have a hippie collection, they really need to have a punk collection as well. so i talked to the city archivist who is my boss. she was very interested. one of the things that i wanted to get to the library was the avengers collection. this is definitely a valuable poster. because it is petty bone. it has that weird look because it was framed. it had something acid on it and something not acid framing it. we had to bring all of this stuff that had been piling up in my life here and make sure that
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the important parts of it got archived. it wasn't a big stretch for them to start collecting in the area of punk. we have a lot of great photos and flyers from that area and that. that i could donate myself. from they're, i decided, you know, why not pursue other people and other bands and get them to donate as well? the historic moments in san francisco, punk history, is the sex pistols concert which was at winterland. [♪] it brought all of the punks on the web -- west coast to san francisco to see this show. the sex pistols played the east coast and then they play texas and a few places in the south and then they came directly to san francisco. they skipped l.a. and they skipped most of the media centres. san francisco was really the biggest show for them pick it was their biggest show ever. their tour manager was interested in managing the adventures, my band. we were asked to open to support the pistols way to that show.
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and the nuns were also asked to open the show. it was certainly the biggest crowd that we had ever played to. it was kind of terrifying but it did bring people all the way from vancouver, tee seattle, portland, san diego, all up and down the coast, and l.a., obviously. to san francisco to see this show. there are a lot of people who say that after they saw this show they thought they would start their own band. it was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. it was also, the pistols' last show. in a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. the city of san francisco didn't necessarily support punk rock. [♪] >> last, but certainly not least is a jell-o be opera. they are the punk rock candidate of the lead singer called the dead kennedys.
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>> if we are blaming anybody in san francisco, we will just blame the dead kennedys. >> there you go. >> we had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the city was thought -- that he thought was obscene that had been put up. the city of san francisco has come around to embrace it's musicians. when they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in all kinds of local musicians and i got to perform at that. that was, at -- in a way, and appreciation from the city of san francisco for the musical legends. i feel like a lot of people in san francisco don't realize what resources there are at the library. we had a film series, the s.f. punk film series that i put together. it was nearly sold out every single night. people were so appreciative that someone was bringing this for them. it is free. everything in the library is free. >> it it is also a film producer
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who has a film coming out. maybe in 2018 about crime. what is the title of it? >> it is called san francisco first and only rock 'n' roll movie. crime, 1978. [laughter] >> when i first went to the art institute before the adventures were formed in 77, i was going to be a painter. i did not know i would turn into a punk singer. i got back into painting and i mostly do portraiture and figurative painting. one of the things about this job here is i discovered some great resources for images for my painting. i was looking through these mug shot books that we have here that are from the 1920s. i did a whole series of a mug shot paintings from those books. they are in the san francisco history centre's s.f. police department records.
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there are so many different things that the library provides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot of people are like, oh, i don't have a library card. i've never been there. they need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. the people who are hiding stuff in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuffestuff from their grandpar, if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the public in the future.
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