to happen and give other opportunities and people that can have these schools to have more successful kids and it's doable and i just because i seen it in the non-profit and inside the hall with few eye hides kids but we've been working on that with them and we've worked with anger and we tack eld that and they need to be ok. >> thank you. >> >> seats 10 and 11. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is debra bill. hi. as you know, i worked, i still work for jewel knife hall where we're considered the bad people now. even though we're not.

the system is bad. we got some really good folks there. i had to interject that. me included. i've been there the last 35 years. i believe due to all the positions i've held during that time, i would be a asset to this community because i can speak not many topics regarding the upcoming changes and i've been able to work with three generations of families, good and bad. that's a good thing and a bad thing. we know the cycle is generational. i do have a wide perspective and understanding the community as a whole. i've worked with my all my life. from the time i was 12 years o i have a12-years-old. i've worked with thre pre-k to . i just think i have a good

understanding of behavioral science of kids through 18. my passion and love is for the youth in our community and i would love a seat on this board to provide my unique perspective and experience on the best methods moving forward with your program. i do believe in the closure? yes, i do. i believe tha that and i believe locking kids is not the way to reform. i mean, i raised three kids on my own and i never spanked them or locked them up and they're great people. i believe there is alternative ways of dealing with youth. we have to start in the family. that's the main thing. i'm going to help present a way to find out how we help the families involved in our communities. and one last thing, i wanted to

hetch to create a more safe and less punitive program for our kids and i'll be here to help if i'm chosen in your efforts to cree tivcreate that system and e our kids get what they need and ultimately the city of san francisco should be save and thriving for a better tomorrow. thank you. samuel carr, seats 10 and 11. >> i'm not samuel carr. he had some things he needed to address with his son at school. which personally, i admire that priority. sam's experience in jewe juve nl call started. he took a ged, went t junior

college and san francisco state and got a masters and two bachelors. he has been at juvenile hall for 15 years trying to wake youth up. i'm going to talk about sam if that's ok. i currently, today, have youth on my caseload from sunny dale and the towers. and from the point and from oak dale and double rock and eddy rock, mack block, the chop, and all who hate each other. neighborhoods who may hate each other but from my personal experience with these, every last one of them knows and respects and trusts sam. and from my conversations with sam, he knows and loves everyone of them. imagine when a guy like this could do without being confined

through the chains of our archaic system so that's all i'm going to say. thank you. >> constance walker, seat 11. >> good afternoon, my name is constructor stance walker i'm a special education teacher. i'm honored to be here today because i think it's so important. i worked with the students at wood side for 22 years and it's been a privilege to work with the amaze students and i'm a teacher for exceptional needs, co director of the juvenile justice restorative garden program and a teacher, trainer for culturally responsive teacher and the lgbtq coordinator. i acknowledge as a white teacher, the need to check my own bias and privileged and i continue to work on that. i learned from my students about their struggle with poverty,

neglected communities, racism, and disconnect with schools. but what the kids say over and over again is that being separated from their family is the worse pain. and one student told me that we shouldn't make our school program pleasant in anyway because it makes kids comfortable and institutionalized. and that really had a big impact on me. so the paradox is that no matter how much effort we take to create relevant curriculum and a warm school environment, it's still a jail cell that they go back to. so, we know we're failing because we see so many of the same kids over and over again and what we're doing is not working. so maybe we can stop looking at them and what they're doing wrong and start looking at ourselves and what we're doing wrong. my students tell he me what support and resources they needed that would have prevented them from entering the system in

the first place. if we all listen to them, i believe we have a chance to create a new future that's why i'm hopeful for this opportunity. i would offer my experience as an educator to work with students of different ages and skill levels and inclusive classrooms using trauma informed and culturally responsive practices. it would be an honor to help with this process. thank you. >> thank you. kevin lewis, seat 11. >> good afternoon, kevin lewis. i want to apply for seats 10 and 11. on the agenda it said 11. my name is kevin lewis i'm a native of san francisco and work at jewel knif juvenile hall. i've been working there for a decade and working with youth of

san francisco for 20 years. prior to working at juvenile hall, i was a san francisco school bis driver and i worked at the mission. i drove the school bus i was working on my degree in social work and i wanted to dedicate my professional life to helping marginalized and at risk youths in the city. in 2007, i fulfilled my goal and gained employment with the san francisco jewel knife probation department as a councilor. while growing up, i was in trouble with the police. i turned my life around in my 20s and discovered that i had a gift that i wanted to use to help young people. and that give was my experience as a juvenile. today i have another gift that i can use to help youth of san francisco. that's my experience working at juvenile hall. i work on the line one-on-one daily. i sit with youth and listen to them tell me about their family and personal struggles. quite often i establish relationships with youth that are based on trust and respect and sometimes never been established with any other adult in their life.

i tend to sort the yearly outdoor adventure and camping trip where probation youth are given an opportunity to gain employment with the park and rec. it's a really good opportunity. and i support that. i've seen a lot during my career. the most prevalent and disturbing thing is how the system quite often sets up youth for failure. i'll be bring that to the table. i would like to come to the table with my experience to juvenile hall. i will bring my co-workers opinions and concerns to the table. i'm knowledgeable about title 15 as well as the department policy and procedures and i'm committed to working on this group to develop a realistic plan that keeps the best interest of the youth and in mind and keeping san francisco residents safe. i ask that i be considered for either one of those chairs.

>> thank you. >> and is there anybody who applied that was not here when i may have called their name? come on up. thank you. >> i'm danielle and i am working as a case manager at sunset youth services. a little bit about my personal and professional. i was able to attend old jewel juvenile so i got the experience to full both in. i can say that being jewel knife made me relapse and go back many of the best thing that happened to me was a rehabilitation program which i'm a proud alumni. it helped me and i group with gh that. i'll have my hands in non-profit group being i'm from the bay view hunters point, i'm a single

mom. i feel that they don't rehabilitate us, we don't give us the resources that we need to not go back in. they just lock us away and be like you are going to do your time and figure it out. i don't believe that's what should be happening. i believe that we need more programs that. that helped me to help these young people p that's it. >> thank you. is there anyone else that didn't get a chance to speak? with that said, we will now up for public comment. if you have public comment, please, lineup over here to my left, your right. you have two minutes. >> good afternoon, supervisors. kim san francisco labor council. i just want to say thank you so much for passing this legislation. one of my earliest experiences when i first came out to san

francisco was visiting my brother in stockton. and so i know how traumatizing it can be. with that said, on behalf of the san francisco labor council, i want to speak in support of three candidates for seats 9, 10 and 11. they would be constant walker, samuel carr and debra bill. that's who the labor council has put forward fort labor seats and we strongly encourage to you appoint those folks. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. political organizer for seiu local 1001. i'm excited we're at this juncture in this movement to close jewe juvenile hall. we know it was a challengely start and it required a lot of meetings. i think many of you got to meet samuel carr to speak with him to learn about his experiences and what he brings to the table.

we are very excited he applied and we're very excited that other members of sieu local 10/1 applied and. >> aarti: less of who you chose we will ensure that the voices of all of our members are part of the process. for me personally, because this is an exciting opportunity, i think an opportunity to create a bigger table that brings together the public sector workers but also the non-profit workers' community and people who have been directly impacted by juvenile hall in a positive and negative way to ensure we create a better system going forward. we're definitely committed at local 10/1 and ensuring the purchases ex the goals of the legislation are accomplished and that is for us that the main priority and again working with our members and empowering them and thank you for moving this forward. >> thank you. next speaker. >> sabrina hall. thank you for letting everyone

have an opportunity to speak. i just want to say to whatever gets appointed, please keep in mind of what i said about district 10's plight. the juvenile system will never be restored. people are suffering. our children are being stolen from us, blamed by cps and blamed on behavioral problems or something in the home. we go to these sigh psychologists and they dying noisdiagnoseour children that gm addicted to drugs or wind up in jewel knife or jail. not only that, our and my 13-year-old asked what language we speak. she said no what language we speak. we have no sense of belonging and we need, in order for juvenile, even if it's closed or not for our children, to be sent on the right path.

we need community involvement. we need a whole village to raise the children. we need our african american children to feel like they belong here. we have no classes for language up in there in schools. we have nothing for our simone a community that teaches them how to speak. we have no sense of belonging so it will be a whirlwind effect even if juvenile gets closed the plight of district 10 and being that the construction took the dirt somewhere else, no telling where else the dirt went around, we are still suffering. we should not be blamed for be breeders to have our children are stolen from us or our men stolen from us in jail because of something we did not even asked to be in. thank you. >> next speaker. >> thank you for having me here. so i wanted to just give you a little bit more information about me and what i'm doing. -- >> that time has already passed. >> community comment. >> if you want to speak on other

applicants that's ok. >> i want to say that i will recommend that we do the best to pick the best people but i wanted to say that we don't want y'all to forget about us that did apply because we all can be a working group at any other entity is what i'm trying to express because i am founding an organization because i am the voice of the aftermath on drugs for bay view so i have started an organization called born and raised community developers whereas one of my roles would like to be supervisor shaman is because we're going to close juvenile we need to do some real good education around if it's closed that we don't want our children in urban communities to just think because it's closed that they can be doing things other than what we need them to be doing so i will likely

consider grass root organizations to help y'all move this mission. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. annabell political director of united e educators of san francisco. i stand here in solidarity with the san francisco labor council in the appointments of constructor stance walker for seat nine and member of united educators of san francisco and debra bill, member of teamsters local 856 for seat 6, samuel carr and for seat number 11. i want to state that there is evidence and research that has concluded that involvement in the juvenile system reduces negative outcomes for young people simply stated incarceration increases a young person's likelihood of committing future offenses and we heard that today from many of the applicants. i also want to state that we had three amazing members who

applied and that is constant walker, david padilla and laura papplin and we support the appointment of constant walker who say teacher at juvenile detention center and she learns how time prove outcome for students by implementing corporately responsive teachers and studying experts in the fields like increase and in classroom. we surger urge to appoint her ft number nine 678. they have been working with the student population for over 30 years and understanding the needs of this youth and has worked in various programs which service youth needs so he understands how this program should come together in a designed to serve our youth. we support him foray pointment

number 6. seat number 6. i also want to state our support for lauren. and a member of uesf and she bring a vast of experience. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> hello, again. i just wanted to comment, public comment on supportive the parent and youth seats. i really want to echo to you all that it is priority to support youth seats in advocate for the seat for the youth on this working group and for the parent seat because right now, those are who is on the ground in the point and in the mission right now working with young folks. i also have those who are -- there are two cultures. so someone who is an ally to black folks, it's my duty to fulfill that what does it mean to center a black leadership

from the youth that the he willers to bheeldersand i've beg around what solutions are, how do we do -- how do we have extended working groups for the support of the working group and thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> hello. after sitting through the whole process, i would like to -- i think we're in good hands with the applicants that are -- i'd like to withdraw my seat and endorse a few people that i feel like i've had experience and seen their work. the person that i would like to -- i'm withdrawing from seat one and two and i would like to endorse is vallentina. a native, i've seen her passion. i've seen her work.

and denise coleman for seat one. denise coleman embodies san francisco and she's been through the fight and struggle. candy, who is for seat 4. jane and i want to commend my poll -- joanna hernandez. also for seat five. if we can open another seat, to add these two in here it's very important. lanni holmes. i've seen him work at juvenile hall for seats 6, 8 and 9. meghan macurio. daniel macular. i don't think he knows he is my mentor but he still is. this guy, when there were, they promise when they built juvenile hall and they promised us not to fill it up, daniel was the only guy that showed up. he said, meet me up at juvenile

hall. we went and spoke to the chief at that time. and you promised this, you said this, what can we do? and that same week released 20 kids that should not have been in there so i truly endorse him and last without least, lauren papilla for seat nine. >> thank you for making a teeny bit's year by withdrawing. >> the list that i gave you, that's it. [laughter] >> hello supervisors. i guess i'm the last one to speak, right. serve a little extra time. >> [laughter] >> i know you guys have been here a long time. let me give you a quick history. i'm the first african american youngest commissioner up at juvenile hall that was appointed. i'm the first and youngest fastest commissioner that was appointed to president at juvenile hall. i wish we had all 36 heats

because you got wonderful candidates. and i wish you could appointment and i wish i could over rule you guys and appoint them. i can't. let me tell you about those i have worked with. and since kimo withdrew, he made my life easy. so i'm going to start with nate ford. i've known nate ford for almost 40 years. born and raised in the western edition and grew up at the boy's club when it was called the boy's club. this young man grew up to be something spectacular. i watched him and i've seen him and i know him personally. ron, always been my white partner who always had my back on all the occasions. he is right there. always. we don't see color. we see human.

at the end of the day when we bleed, we bleed red. denise. i worked with denise tremendously. these are the folks i'm telling you about. fierce fighter and has some of my staff working down there and we always make sure that my staff and her staff always do the right thing by these kids. vallentina, what can i say about her? she's dedicated. you already know. sabrina, just met her. hard. fierce. speaks her mind and the truth and says what is on her heart. joanna. advocate. hard-worker. always has my back. always supported me. been dedicated from day one. >> the microphones have been

turned off. [ off mic ] >> my more speakers for public comment? seeing none. we will close the time allotted for public comment. i want to say a few things and my colleagues have some things that they want to say. but, you know, as we discuss at beginning, this is very hard. to take, of course, the nine

people who are going to be selected today, is not an easy task for us. everybody in this room has worked in juvenile justice in some way or is effected by the justice system. most of the folks in this room worked very hard for us to get to the point where we are today where we can talk about the type of reform that says we're going to close down a place that needs to change and provide a real opportunity for our young people. we have to make decisions looking at the great folks in here and what communities are over represented and what communities are not represented and which professionals have opportunities to sit at table and we have to make our decision this is accordance with that so i want to say that i'm excited about every applicant here and i am. this is one of those times where i just get to be proud of folks

in san francisco and what they want to do. as we fight for our young people and a lot of us have been fighting for our young people for decades to have this quality of folks that step forward is important. also, i want to say you know, as having a mother who was effected by me being in the juvenile justice system and having to deal with me from their ages of 15 to 18 in and out of juvenile hall, all the parents i see here today that want to serve thank you for coming in and thank you for sharing your stories and your passion and like ms. banks said, because we can't pick everybody, we definitely will work to make sure that there are opportunitieopportunities for oo play a pivotal role as we move forward and work to our decembei just want everyone to know that

if you are not selected, this is a big conversation, a big-tent process that we have to have with all of our communities. we didn't get here. with a small group of folks and we're not going to be able to really realize our vision without working together and so, i just want to say that because this is, by no means going to be a reflection of how qualified someone is or how dedicated and committed someone is, it's just a matter of scheer numbers and having to make choices and as we move forward with the selection process. so with that said, colleagues, do you have anything you want to say? >> >> sure, i just wanted to also thank all of the applicants. just hearing nur stories and about all the work you do so support young people to achieve their full potential is not just impressive but truly inspiring.

for me, as a member of this board, as a long time social justice organizer, and as a parent of a teenager i just really appreciate all that you do and your different ways and yes, we have some hard or difficult decision to make around the appointments and -- i want to say i'm going to sort of fall the lead of my colleagues because you have been leading on these important issues but i want to press one sort of personal preference and in support for ron and just because of his 28 years of tremendous experience, number one, just in his direct work supporting young people impacted by the justice system with deep compassion and love and number two the advocacy and leadership that he has demonstrated over the decades

towards reforming our juvenile justice system and serving on working groups and including as a co-founder of jjpa and just for his personal qualities, in really treating others with the utmost dignity and respect and whether it's the young people and their families or his fellow colleagues or comrades in this movement or even us as elected officials or city officials and i think his personal qualities are reflected in his successful history of coalition building and advocacy and in collaboration so i think even his presentation today reflect that and how he expressed his deep respect for all the other applicants and so i'll leave it at that. thank you. >> yeah, thank you. i just want to say being involved in this process both in

working with all of you and supervisor walton and haney to write the legislation and it's to mounting the political fight that got it passed relatively quickly and enormous support from the board of supervisors. until now, convening or appointing this working group that is going to really do the hard work of coming up with the visionary alternatives and to really give give every youth in san francisco a real chance of getting the support that they need to be incredible members of this sis society that rerefuse

to lock-up youth and forget about them. we know we are do better. being part of this effort has been the honor of my lifetime and it's probably one of the most significant things that i've been involved in in these halls. it's the type of transformative vision and work that is going to transform our society and make it look like the one we dream about all the time and so i just wanted to, from the bottom of my heart, thank every single one of you who has been willing to stand up and in this really profound way and it's exciting and i keep saying to people that ask us about this work that we sort of led on the hard political work to get this passed and now, we're handing over the baby to you all to do the hard, real work to get it done and so i just can't

appreciate you all enough and let you know that we're going to be watching you closely and rooting you on every step of the way. thank you. >> thank you, so what that said, and again a disclaimer, because there are some folks in this room that i have worked with for years and several capacity to really improve the lives of young people. i have the utmost respect for you but as i make a motion foray pointments for seats, understand that i cannot make a motion to appoint all of you. with that said, our work together is going to definitely continue because again, these 15 people as a whole on the task force are going to dive in with the nitty gritty but the vision, the passion, the dedication, the

commitment, the actual brain power comes from the masses on this work and so i just want to reiterate as i make my motion. with that said, i would like to move forward with the recommended appointments of christina gomes for seat one. for young women's development from the beginning of this process, she's been engage and helping to bring the voice and to the process. the center has been working on justice reform for decades and pushed policy reform for many years. and as a member of the jjpa, she comes highly recommended and i'm happy to move forward with her name for seat 1. for seat 2, this will require a residency waiver, vallentina

sedeno. i'm moving her forward because she's engage in justice reform herren tirher entire career. she has the home detention program, the evening reporting center, and has supervisorred staff who work in the home. she has a personal interest in having her own brother being a part of the juvenile justice advertise tom ansystem. she has a deep understanding of how it works and what we can do to truly reform. as we said before, seat 3 and 4, we will continue to a later date and so for seat 5, i am recommending joanna hernandez, who also requires a residency waiver. she is a parent whose son was failed by our system and who is still -- she still supports in the adult system. i believe that our work of bringing family and rights and father's rights will be great

editions to this advisory group and her work and experience has also demonstrated that her professional career has been working with youth in custody. as the home detention director, and the founder of young queen's on the rise program, for young girls, she is familiar with the programming that keeps youth out of custody and supported by communities. for seat 6, lonnie holmes. lonnie understands firsthand all the various services that are provided to the youth at ygc. he is familiar with budgets and licensing of facilities and has over seen group homes provided to youth on probation. we need someone with his deep knowledge of what a facility can look like and how we can make it happen. seat 7, i move we appoint den ice coleman. she brings a unique perspective to this workgroup. her experience in a us being abg

drugs gives her a personal lens that is needed in this workgroup. and her work with programs in particular shows that herren tire professional career makes her the best equipped to fill this seat. i would also say for seat number 8, and a residency waiver will be required, mr. dan macallair. for my entire career in san francisco, i have received dan's reports and data from cjcj and in addition to dan being our local data person, he has published reports dating back to as far as 1994. he has been in this work for three decades and he is supported by a broad spectrum of communities. and for seat 9, ms. constructor stance walker.

uasf has gone through an extensive process to select a representative they would like to move forward. also supported by the labor council. for seat 10, ms. debra bill. who also requires a residency waiver and teamsters 856 has undergone through an extensive process to select a representative as well as being supported by the labor council. and for seat 11, mr. samuel carr who is already requires a residency waiver. and sciu has gone through an extensive process to select a representative as well as being supported by the labor council. and so, those are the nine people that i wish to move forward. and again, if this was not an easy choice. i work with every single person in here to get us to this point and i hope you do not feel snubs. we're all working together and

there are people in this room that i know are excited about the work and i look forward to continuing to work everybody. that's my motion. >> and can i take that motion without objection, without an objection that motion passes. thank you so much. >> thank you, everybody. >> thank you. >> i would just like to repeat the seats just to be sure the motion is correct. christina gomez, seat 1. vannentina seat 2. i have joanna hernandez seat 5, lonnie homes seat 6. denise coleman seat 7. daniel macallair seat 8. con distance walker seat 9 and samuel carr. yes. >> thank you for confirming. >> is there any other items?

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join us >> this is one place you can always count on to give you what you had before and remind you of what your san francisco history used to be. >> we hear that all the time, people bring their kids here and their grandparents brought them here and down the line. >> even though people move away, whenever they come back to the city, they make it here. and they tell us that. >> you're going to get something made fresh, made by hand and made with quality products and something that's very, very good.

♪ >> the legacy bars and restaurants was something that was begun by san francisco simply to recognize and draw attention to the establishments. it really provides for san francisco's unique character. ♪ >> and that morphed into a request that we work with the city to develop a legacy business registration. >> i'm michael cirocco and the owner of an area bakery. ♪ the bakery started in 191. my grandfather came over from italy and opened it up then. it is a small operation. it's not big. so everything is kind of quality that way.

so i see every piece and cut every piece that comes in and out of that oven. >> i'm leslie cirocco-mitchell, a fourth generation baker here with my family. ♪ so we get up pretty early in the morning. i usually start baking around 5:00. and then you just start doing rounds of dough. loaves. >> my mom and sister basically handle the front and then i have my nephew james helps and then my two daughters and my wife come in and we actually do the baking. after that, my mom and my sister stay and sell the product, retail it. ♪ you know, i don't really think about it. but then when i -- sometimes when i go places and i look and see places put up, oh this is our 50th anniversary and everything and we've been over 100 and that is when it kind of

hits me. you know, that geez, we've been here a long time. [applause] ♪ >> a lot of people might ask why our legacy business is important. we all have our own stories to tell about our ancestry. our lineage and i'll use one example of tommy's joint. tommy's joint is a place that my husband went to as a child and he's a fourth generation san franciscan. it's a place we can still go to today with our children or grandchildren and share the stories of what was san francisco like back in the 1950s. >> i'm the general manager at tommy's joint. people mostly recognize tommy's joint for its murals on the outside of the building.

very bright blue. you drive down and see what it is. they know the building. tommy's is a san francisco hoffa, which is a german-style presenting food. we have five different carved meats and we carve it by hand at the station. you prefer it to be carved whether you like your brisket fatty or want it lean. you want your pastrami to be very lean. you can say i want that piece of corn beef and want it cut, you know, very thick and i want it with some sauerkraut. tell the guys how you want to prepare it and they will do it right in front of you. san francisco's a place that's changing restaurants, except for tommy's joint. tommy's joint has been the same since it opened and that is important. san francisco in general that

we don't lose a grip of what san francisco's came from. tommy's is a place that you'll always recognize whenever you lock in the door. you'll see the same staff, the same bartender and have the same meal and that is great. that's important. ♪ >> the service that san francisco heritage offers to the legacy businesses is to help them with that application process, to make sure that they really recognize about them what it is that makes them so special here in san francisco. ♪ so we'll help them with that application process if, in fact, the board of supervisors does recognize them as a legacy

business, then that does entitle them to certain financial benefits from the city of san francisco. but i say really, more importantly, it really brings them public recognition that this is a business in san francisco that has history and that is unique to san francisco. >> it started in june of 1953. ♪ and we make everything from scratch. everything. we started a you -- we started a off with 12 flavors and mango fruits from the philippines and then started trying them one by one and the family had a whole new clientele. the business really boomed after that. >> i think that the flavors we

make reflect the diversity of san francisco. we were really surprised about the legacy project but we were thrilled to be a part of it. businesses come and go in the city. pretty tough for businesss to stay here because it is so expensive and there's so much competition. so for us who have been here all these years and still be popular and to be recognized by the city has been really a huge honor. >> we got a phone call from a woman who was 91 and she wanted to know if the mitchells still owned it and she was so happy that we were still involved, still the owners. she was our customer in 1953. and she still comes in. but she was just making sure that we were still around and

it just makes us feel, you know, very proud that we're carrying on our father's legacy. and that we mean so much to so many people. ♪ >> it provides a perspective. and i think if you only looked at it in the here and now, you're missing the context. for me, legacy businesses, legacy bars and restaurants are really about setting the context for how we come to be where we are today. >> i just think it's part of san francisco. people like to see familiar stuff. at least i know i do. >> in the 1950s, you could see a picture of tommy's joint and looks exactly the same. we haven't change add thing. >> i remember one lady saying, you know, i've been eating this ice cream since before i was born. and i thought, wow! we have, too. ♪

we are celebrating the glorious grand opening of the chinese rec center. ♪ 1951, 60 years ago, our first kids began to play in the chinese wrecks center -- rec center. >> i was 10 years old at the time. i spent just about my whole life here. >> i came here to learn dancing. by we came -- >> we had a good time. made a lot of friends here. crisises part of the 2008 clean

neighborhood park fund, and this is so important to our families. for many people who live in chinatown, this is their backyard. this is where many people come to congregate, and we are so happy to be able to deliver this project on time and under budget. >> a reason we all agreed to name this memorex center is because it is part of the history of i hear -- to name this rec center, is because it is part of the history of san francisco. >> they took off from logan airport, and the call of duty was to alert american airlines that her plane was hijacked, and she stayed on the phone prior to the crash into the no. 9 world trade center. >> i would like to claim today

the center and the naming of it. [applause] >> kmer i actually challenged me to a little bit of a ping pong -- the mayor actually challenge me to a little bit of a ping- pong, so i accept your challenge. ♪ >> it is an amazing spot. it is a state of the art center. >> is beautiful. quarkrights i would like to come here and join them women's netw sustainable future .

>> san francisco streets and puffs make up 25 percent of cities e city's land area more than all the parks combined they're far two wide and have large flight area the pavement to parks is to test the variants by ininexpensive changing did new open spaces the city made up of streets in you think about the potential of having this space for a purpose it is demands for the best for bikes and families to gather. >> through a collaborative effort with the department we the public works and the municipal transportation agency pavement to parks is bringing initiative ideas to our streets. >> so the face of the street is the core of our program we have

in the public right-of-way meaning streets that can have areas perpetrated for something else. >> i'm here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to parks program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. >> parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a community driven program. >> the program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted we're here at playland on 43 this is place

is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. >> yeah. >> we partnered with the pavement to parks program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot community garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point we're planting trees and flowers we have basketball courts there is so much to do here. >> there's a very full program

that they simply joy that and meet the community and friends and about be about the lighter side of city people are more engaged not just the customers. >> with the help of community pavement to parks is reimagining the potential of our student streets if you want more information visit them as the pavement to parks or contact >> good afternoon, everybody. if i can call this meeting of the sfmta would you please call the roll. [roll call]