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? >> that completes the agenda for today. >> the meeting is adjourned,

thank you.

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on the streets you like.. >> good afternoon, everyone, and thank you so much for joining for the grand opening of our public lobby. it has been a long process. we're so honored to have you all here today. first, before we get into our short speaking program, i first want to acknowledge a few parties that have worked really hard to make this all possible. i'd first like to thank our budget analyst and project management team that have worked really hard to make this run smoothly. thank you very much for that.

[ applause ]. >> they've also worked very closely hand in hand with the mayor's budget office. i'd like to thank kelly kirkpatrick for coming here today. thank you. [ applause ]. >> next i would like to thank our public facing team who provides excellent public service. our public service team and our recorder division. thank you very much. [ applause ]. >> they provided excellent customer service even throughout a lot of -- yay. they provided a lot of excellent service even throughout a lot of construction. thank you for keeping the office running. we also are joined by some neighborhood friends. so thank you to them for coming. we have some people from the women's building here. yay, thank you. [ applause ]. >> and we also have people from the dog patch northwestern

petril hill green benefits district. it's a little bit of a mouthful. thank you for coming. of course thank you to our neighborhood historians who have joined and helped us go through a lot of historic photos that we have and we have been able to create a little wall. thank you for that. we have the western neighborhoods project, s.f. heritage, glen park history project and sunny side history project. thank you. [ applause ]. >> so now i would like to introduce our beloved assessor carmen chu who is newly back from maternity leave and later we will be hearing from our director of public works and also our city librarian. thank you. [ applause ]. >> i have to say that it's rare that i ever hear the word

"beloved" and "assessor" in the same sentence, but here we are. i want to thank isabella from my team. they've done quite a lot of work to help and partner with our public-facing folks in order to make sure that our lobby is well thought out and we have a great plan to help improve service. thank you to isabella and vivian. [ applause ]. >> so when i first started as assessor years ago, i think when i first came in, i think i walked into this office and probably like a lot of taxpayers i came in through different doors at different points in time and at the time it was confusing. how do you get into the office and where do you go for service. and if i couldn't speak the language, which luckily i could, where do you go for help and who could assist? it was with that eye that we started to take a look at our

front lobby area to see how is it that we are able to improve customer service and access and be cognizant of the different people coming to our city every single day, whether you are an immigrant who can't speak the language well like my own parents or someone with a disability who needs assistance or people who don't know how to find documents in our system. how is it that we as a public service and government serve our public in the best way possible. we started on this process to say, well, the first thing they do is come into our office and try to figure out way-finding signs and the way forward. we need to make sure that when people come into our office they feel welcomed and they feel that we have an abundant amount of services available here. with that, we really started to say let's do a few things. i think today when we're doing our big unveiling along with the blue angels out there cheering

us on that we're showing our good faith. a few things that we want to point out to you here, and this is something we couldn't have done without the partnership of our dpw is that we've done a few things to reconfigure our lobby area to improve public access. we've transformed the physical space. we have a wonderful and lovely seating area for people to come here and wait comfortably, to be able to get their documentation and information. we actually have implemented a kiosk system so when people first come into our office they can directly find and get tickets, that they're served in an expeditious way. we have implemented a lobby navigator, someone who is greeting people when they come in to make sure they're in the right place to make sure they're not wasting valuable times waiting in the wrong lines. that does happen at city hall. we want to make sure we're preventing that. if you look around our office, you will see many of our kiosks and information are in multiple

languages. we're cognizant of the fact that san francisco is a universal city with universal languages that we want to access and share with people. this is also something that is part of our lobby system. of course we're doing a lot more to make sure that it's a welcoming environment here. so we hope that some of these improvements are really going to show that government is open to everyone, it's accessible, transparent, and we welcome you here. we're here to serve you. with that, i want to say thank you. we hope you're going to take a look at around. we have more spaces for people to be served. we know this is going to be a public improvement for the public as a whole. we couldn't do this without the partnership of wonderful people. i know some of our folks behind the scenes that were helping. i want to thank the mayor's office for helping us fund this, but of course i want to say if we bring in the money, help us serve the public better. thank you for all of your

assistance and your partnership. no further ado to bring someone forward who i've known for quite a long time, who most of the time is doing work outside on the streets, picking up litter or cleaning up graffiti, but one of the lesser known things he does is help our buildings function better and stay in a state of good repair. with that i want to introduce mohamed nuru and thank him and his team for the fantastic work helping us make these improvements in a historic building. thank you, mohamed. >> thank you, carmen. yes, kelly and carmen bring in the money. i get to spend the money. [ laughter ]. >> i think a few years ago when carmen brought up the idea of doing the project, we were very excited. it had a lot of different work that needed to be done. it is a historic building.

so trying to match things and to really make a place that really works with all the things we heard from carmen was something that we were excited about. what's great about this project is it involved many parts of our building of bureau repair, carpenters, glazers, locksmith, laborers were all involved -- well in fact, every shop in public works was involved in one way or another in making this happen. it's a very unique project because we have a lot of staff that actually custom-built many of the shelves over here, matching the doors, all the things that we had to work with. all of those were built at public works at our shop. it was really an exciting project for the team. i think we delivered. i think you're very happy about that. just so you know, we do a lot of these type of services for all over the city departments.

city hall was very special, trying to match the wood, the different glass and just making the rails, building all the cabinets, painting and sprucing it up. you know, the paint was actually peeling in some cases. so doing all the scraping and going through all the processes making the space happen. i'm excited and our teams are excited. we'll continue to serve you or any of the city departments that want us to do work for them. we actually do many of the jobs in many of the city offices. thank you very much. we'll enjoy it. thank you. [ applause ]. >> mohamed's nickname is mr. clean. now that extends to cleaning up our city buildings as well. thank you, mohamed. when we talked about the services here, again, city hall

is very special and unique to all of us because of its historic nature, but also because it is an essential place people go when they want to access government and the people who represent them. it's important to make sure that these doors are open and accessible to everyone who comes in. i think there's no other patron group that feels that same way than our public libraries. we know that no matter which branch library it is that we go to across the city, we have an open door where people can find a safe space and learn and get educated and borrow materials and really explore. we have worked in great partnership with our city librarian michael lambert who is also working with us. you might seen behind me is a wall of 15 different curated historic photos. one of the things you may not know is in order for this to be accomplished, we had to clear out many of our old property

files. we went through this intensive process to digitize over a million files. when we went through that process, we found many, many historic photos we thought was not only worth preserving but sharing and putting out to the public space. something that is important to our history, buildings that used to look a different way but are important of our fabric, it is important to share that with san franciscans to come, not to put the away in a box never to be seen. we worked with the library to make sure we cataloged and got those photos to them to be accessible. we're proud to announce we have over 92,000 photo images that are available at our san francisco public library in order for people to see our history and our shared buildings and resources. these photos here are just a

small set of the photos that are now available in our public library. we couldn't have done that without our city librarian's staff and time. i want to invite michael up to say a few words. >> thank you. it is so wonderful to be here with my esteemed city colleagues and so many members of the public. this lobby is magnificent and sparkling. i want to congratulate assessor chu and all of her staff. what a remarkable job you've done with public works to transform this space. i admire the commitment to service excellence with all the tenant improvements and significance enhancements. what a warm, friendly atmosphere you've created here. i appreciated the office of the assessor-recorder, not only for providing the library the biggest book budget in the country, but also for the partnership we enjoy.

earlier this year, assessor chu and her team transferred over 92,000 photographs to the public library. you see a sampling here on this wall. it really makes history come alive for all the visitors to this space. these photographs are priceless. they are an invaluable snapshot in time of san francisco and some places that don't exist anymore. these photographs are now accessible to any member of the public that wants to view them. they can come into the library to the san francisco history center and they can take a walk down memory lane and reminisce and relive some treasured memories of their past. it's so wonderful to have this partnership. i want to congratulate assessor chu and her team again. thank you so much for the partnership. [ applause ]. >> all right. so now i'd like to ask evelyn

and amy from glen park and sunny side to come up and woody and nicole and david from western history project to come up as well. thank you.

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