is how we run everything, run our business. so having the lights come on with clean energy is important to us as well. we heard about cleanpowersf and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. it was super easy to sign up. our bookkeeper signed up online, it was like 15 minutes. nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. it's an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around climate change and it's so easy that it's hard to not want to do it, and it doesn't really add anything to the bill. brown. bren >> chair ronen: good morning,

everyone. i hope you all do your best to stay inside today and keep your loved ones safe inside, and our thoughts and solidarity and love are going out to the people of northern california and sonoma county who are suffering tremendously, and we will continue to fight to keep each other safe and very grateful to the mayor who's setting up a shelter as we speak to do our part in keeping our neighbors to the north safe. so our thoughts are with the people of our region. and the meeting will come tord on. welcome to the october 28, 2019 meeting of the rules committee. i'm chair hillary ronen. seated to my right is rules committee supervisor shamann walton, and to my left is

gordon mar. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. items acted upon today will appear on the november 5 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> chair ronen: thank you. can you please read item number one. >> clerk: item number one is an ordinance dissolving the workforce advisory committee and a statement on the workforce alignment. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm angela calvillo. i'm simply before you because of the housekeeping language in the ordinance which actually sunsets these two bodies and sunsets these in july.

i understand that there is a desire for the bodies to be reauthorized, and if that is the case, we are happy to work with the committee and the supervisors to reach that organization. this is just a housekeeping step to remove them from the administrative code. if there is to be reauthorizing legislation, it would just be put back into the code. i'm available for any questions. >> chair ronen: okay. no questions? okay. i also see joshua arce and lisa pagan from oewd, if you wanted to make any comments. >> thank you, supervisors. joshua arce, director of office of economic and workforce

development. as clerk calvillo mentioned, the committee has sunseted, but we just wanted to answer any questions that you might have. we're here joined by -- if not now, then in moments, the cochair of the committee, the esteem esteemed chair, sheryl davis. we're also here joined by one of the members of the workforce committee advisory committee and that's annie chung, the executive director of self-help for the elderly, as well. just to give you some high-level components -- it's just this one, lisa? thank you. thank you, lisa. we've also got members of our workforce team to make sure we can answer any questions that you have. the committees we're going to

talk about today were established in 2014 under an ordinance 84-2014 establishes what we called the workforce lines committee, and workforce c.a.c., and those committees were scheduled to run through july 2017. in 2019, there was a second ordinance there which extended the sunset dates of those committees to june 30, 2019. there's -- we've referred to this period as kind of the first period of extension. throughout this entire time, we've continued to meet and continued to work to perform the duties of these bodies as we've discussed because the work is just too important not to continue as we seek direction here from the board. and in the current year, the plan is to convene, and we've convened these committees twice. we'll convene them again in the next several weeks pending the direction of the board because

our opinion, the work is too important not to. we report back to the mayor, the workforce, and city departments and as of last week, you should have the latest report out from the body. through the ordinance, it is made up of agencies listed on the slide. director davis and i chair these committees. director joaquin torres joins us at the meetings, as well. human services agency, department of public works, department of children, youth, and families, san francisco public utilities commission, and the department of human resources participate in these committees. and in the next slide is the question that i think is appropriate. what do the committees do? we're charged under chapter 30,

the admin code, to increase access to job seekers, to stable sufficient employment with sufficient wages and benefits to support families and advance the needs of vulnerable populations, improve business engagement strategies to engage those workers and also to have a better system across the different agencies about how we track and report out comes across the city and city. we talked about the members. there's two additional agencies that have joined as of 2017. that's when we sought director of human resources and workforce advisory committee. i think in conversation, had a

question from supervisor walton, had vacancies in the committees. we would wait for the direction from the board, and in the case of the c.a.c. are board appointees or the mayor appointees on the community advisory committee. and if we can hold on just for one second, i want to make sure we identify our community developers. self-help for the elderly, bayview-hunters point center for arts and technology, and episcopal community services, among others. lastly is just a quick rundown of the policy recommendations that have been developed and reported out by the committee over the past several years. we've talked about the need for the work to continue both at the alignment committee and the workforce c.a.c. because it's

just now in the report that we've finalized to the board a set of recommendations and in some ways now is when the real work begins. and so the five areas that have been identified as we've seen here, breaking the cycle of poverty for san francisco through better workforce delivery, support and services. a what is called in the report, a workforce map, how they engage different agencies, how they end up being served and coordinate through the different departments. a data-sharing infrastructure so that we're all looking and getting apples to apple comparisons about the number of clients served, placements, long-term retention, objectives. and then fourth is what the workforce policy called demand side, which is looking at the industries where there's growth and opportunity for good-paying jobs and to help guide the programming. so these industries that can

help the problems that we seek to breakdown. and streamlining the contacting process, which is making it easier for service providers and contractors, whatever we can do to make things easier and better is the goal in that regard. as i mentioned, we've med informally. we'll continue to do again. at oewd, everyone seeks to contribute something individual that's maybe core to our agencies as we coordinate across the different departments. at oewd, one of the things that we always talk about especially when we look at these industries, that we partner with organized labor because i think for a lot of us that come into this work from a community labor perspective, community

labor is one of the most effective means of advancing workforce objectives. i'm happy to answer any questions and happy to explain any recommendations. we respectfully would love your support to continue this important work. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. any questions or comments? no. thank you so much for all your work. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> chair ronen: thank you. if there's no more speakers, then we'll open this up for public comment. is there any member of the public who would like to speak on this item? please come forward. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm an executive committee member of the san francisco labor council. first, i want to start by thanking you, supervisor ronen, for all your work. also, i did not have an opportunity to speak you with about this particular item, but i did speak with supervisor

walton. supervisor mar, thank you, also for all of your work to help us find a little bit more information about transparency and accountability mechanisms in this space which we highly value. i think director arce did mention that one of the most critical components of success in this space is that labor piece. we're all friends with labor, but it does jump out with me that labor is not a part of this committee and has not been. we are enthusiastic about the continuation of these efforts, but primarily for the following reasons. we believe that there's a lack of transparency in this space. while we want people to get paid and we want to expedite those processes, on the back end, we do believe there should be an enforcement mechanism in connection with transparency and accountability measures. we've seen too much fragmented approaches to workforce

development especially with the lowest paid workers. what happens as a result of lack of coordination is we undermine the minimum labor standards for people that have already been provided a real career opportunity, instead, cannibalizing these strong wage positions, we need to be thoughtful how we expand that through preapprenticeship and apprenticeship and a real pathway together. thank you so much. >> chair ronen: thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: supervisor walton? >> supervisor walton: thank you, chair ronen. thank you to everyone for bringing this farther and making sure we do our due diligence and act in accordance with our duty with the city.

i just want to start off -- and i'm not going to go deep into history, but these committees were started to make sure that opportuniti opportunities were provided for folks in community to be able to work here in san francisco and also to make sure that our c.b.o. community that was providing workforce services could work together with the cities to figure outweighs to stream line resources because we have so many different pots of workforce money from several different departments and we wanted to put together something that was going to provide a space, an opportunity, for all of our city departments that provide workforce services to figure outweighs to stream line services so that it makes it easier for the workforce community to provide services to our most vulnerable populations. i do want to say that even though unemployment is down here in san francisco, we have

a very low unemployment rate, certain subsections of folks here in the city are still unemployed at disproportionate rates. lgbtq, folks of color, people that are living in low-income housing, so we need to continue to work to stream line resources is very important. i want to definitely work very closely with the city attorney and the clerk's office to bring this body back as soon as possible, and we will make sure we look at the recommendations, what has been presented, and that these bodies are very active, and that they will continue to actually do the work that is necessary for us to keep folks employed here in san francisco and address the wealth gap and disparities that are here in the city.

so i will be working closely to make sure that does happen. i know we have to deal with the formalities with the city here today, but rest assured that we're going to move forward. thank you all for being here this earning month. i ju -- this morning. i just wanted to make sure i put that on record. >> chair ronen: any other comments? >> supervisor mar: yes. i have some questions, but i'm glad to hear that supervisor walton is intending to -- to -- to introduce legislation to continue these -- these important bodies, that both the alignment committee and community advisory committee, but i think we're taking action today just to dissolve them. i do have some questions about the work of the committees and the outcomes, so mr. arce, i'm

wondering -- well, i was just curious -- i guess for the alignment committee and the community advisory committee, how functional have they been since they've been created, how many meetings have been held, and what are the significant outcomes of the two bodies? >> absolutely. there's been 14 meetings of the workforce alignment committee, meaning there'll be 15 here on november 13. there'll be our -- our sixth meeting of the workforce c.a.c. will be on the 19, shortly thereafter. i have to apologize, one of the hardest working members, we

lost because he was elected to district ten, but he was responsible for driving a lot of the work that came out of the workforce c.a.c. i think one of the big picture achievements of the work together was that there was a time i think when the city was prepared to otherwise look at a record low unemployment rate and take a step back and say the notion of full employment has been achieved. and i think the workforce c.a.c. really weighed in to push our agencies and the city departments to really go deeper in some ways at 1.8% unemployment which is what we saw as of september. the work really begins because black and brown communities, two to three times higher. the public housing community, those with housing challenges, it's really to take the jobs that are on the table to address the racial, genders,

socioeconomic and all the problems that we see. so in some way, having opportunities for all, which has been a topic of all the last couple of meetings -- ensuring that all 22,000 high school students should have access to a paid internship last summer, it speaks to how all the departments work together to partner this that. a partnership between our offices and the office agency -- but civil service required that they have a college degree to go make the next step up in city

employment. so our office put resources in in collaboration with human services agency for those men and women to do their college education in the evenings on-line when they're not doing their work at the -- at their host agency. another example is the city drive program, which is when city -- the chariot company went out of business and our office offered those men and women who are losing their jobs to come and drive for muni as muni drivers. so i think the alignment committee, which especially you have this report, kind of recommendations what we're able to achieve, especially now that you're looking at the ordinance provides stability to look at some of these outcomes and i'm happy to go deeper on some of the examples that you might have, supervisor, but to take on certain initiatives and projects. the last meeting we had, we

said we all want to express to the idea to continue the work, and one of the ideas was to look at public sector workers, particularly where they need to do better and have a strategy with our office to engage private sector and have a coordinated strategy to do that. but i want to introduce the cochair of our strategic alignment committee, sheryl davis. >> number one, with the workforce alignment, we got to a place where we -- to be honest, not a lot of alignment. i think building trust was the most important piece, and i think we got to a place with the departments around the table to say we know we can do a better job specifically with the groups that have already been mentioned, people living in public housing, understanding the reality of

racism and the way that it impacts your ability to move through society. i so i think being able to have those honest conversations and getting to a place where we're saying, not to talk in the he greggahe -- in the agreggate and that's where we are, and to be real and to start measuring impact. >> supervisor mar: thank you so much director davis, carr ardi arce, sharing some of the results of this amazing work. i had another question. could you point to the points of organized labors not being represented in this committee -- actually, i guess there are some seats on the

workforce investment board. >> yes. and supervisor, your question, i don't see anything in the ordinance that would preclude participation and partnership with organized labor in those conversations, the meetings, and maybe in a certain sense. so i think we're open to that -- that kind of conversation because whether it's a part of this committee or whether it's part of the workforce c.a.c. or otherwise, from our perspective, you heard from building trades that apprenticeship and preapprenticeship is something in the industry. you all unanimously approved for the cannabis industry. we're all in conversation, city

drive utilizing a apprenticeship. we're in discussion with other labor unions, other industries, because the idea pay training and the ability to partner with our office, city college, educational partners and the service providers to be able to earn while you learn is critical to the men or women not included in the 1.8%. there are tens of thousands who have been shut out, who might have a barrier, past justice involvement, might have other reasons that they're not looking for work. so the idea of labor, apprenticeship work, is a real key to the puzzle. not just with respect to those men and women who are at risk of being left behind, but certainly, the economy is not always going to be like this.

but to be able to address the inequities that we see, are key. but to the composition, i know that we're open to whatever structure we have going forward, i think from our perspective is we want to make sure the work continues. >> supervisor mar: thank you so much. and i just want to thank everybody here today that's been a part of all this work. yeah, it is so critically important to ensure that we maximize job opportunities for san francisco residents, particularly disadvantaged residents as our economy continues to grow. so look forward to supporting the -- the -- the -- the continued work of these bodies, and thank you so much. >> chair ronen: is there a motion to move this item

forward with positive recommendation? and without objection, that motion passes. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: thank you, everyone for coming. >> clerk: would you like me to read two and three together? >> chair ronen: please. [agenda item read] [agenda item read]. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. is aimee brown here? hello. good morning. >> good morning. i'm aimee brown, and i'm pleased to have already served one term on the treasurer's oversight committee, so i'm here today as a candidate for reappointment. in reviewing the ordinance when i was reapplying, it set forth a number of the duties or skills that you need to have in order to be on this committee

and to review it for you, it's expertise in public finance, experiences with audits, investments, and regulatory oversight and understanding the duties of boards and oversight committees. and in fact my background matches all three of these areas. first, my career was in financing state and local governments for almost 30 years, and i'm proud to say i served as financial advisor on many san francisco projects and with some of your departments. i worked for a major investment banking firm for 15 years, but i'm most proud of the time that i was owner of a nationally recognized s.f. owned and women employees. my firm caused me to have experience in the second area because my firm was subject to

regular and quarterly audit from oversight bodies, and i served on a number of their boards for a couple of years. and also as part of my career, i also helped many of my clients invest their bond proceeds, which is one of the roles that the treasurer's office takes on in this committee or oversees. i've also had experience in my retirement serving on and advising some small corporations and nonprofit boards, and, you know, in this role, i can effectively communicate and collaborate with other board members. so as i said, i've served on these boards actually throughout my career, not only on some of those regulatory boards but sort of wide ranging

public finance-type nonprofits and securities city related boards. in san francisco, before my term on the treasury oversight committee, i was a member of the revenue bond oversight committee, and i was chair for five years of my term. currently, i'm chair of core of northern california, and i've served on the bay ecotarium, and the angel island conservancy, and been involved with them in a lot of financial oversight and governance issues. i'm interested in continuing my membership on the oversight committee because i can use my skills to contribute to my committee and i'm happy to answer any questions you might

have. >> chair ronen: thank you so much for your willingness to serve. >> okay. thank you. >> chair ronen: and next, we have brenda kwee mcnulty. good morning. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is brenda kwee mcnulty and thank you for considering my application to sit on the treasury oversight committee. first, let me share with you my professional experience. i've been retired for a while, but i have over 40 years experience in the financial services industry. i have experience in the fixed interest instruments, which is basically what the treasury oversight committee invests in. i have past experience in product development and fixed interest instruments, in sales of fixed interest instruments and in the actual portfolio

management of fixed interest instruments. so i feel very qualified and attracted to be part of this oversight committee. in addition, i want to share with you that i have some experience in serving as a commissioner. i served in the cgoboc, the citizens general obligation bonds oversight committee for four years, and in the last two years, as co -- in the last two years, as cochair and chair. and in that opportunity, it gave me the opportunity to learn to work with staff, with committee members, and also with running committee meeting with the public. so i feel very public that i can take up this next commission with that service

behind my belt. in this particular committee, a lot of discussion is over interest rates. because i'm a former banker, i also serve as the director of the association of asian american bankers, so that's one of the various areas that i keep myself updated to market trends and -- and continually supplement what i'm reading following the markets with a -- with an association. as i have pledged when i served on goboc, is i am selected to serve on this committee, i pledge to you and the taxpayers of the city and county of san francisco that i will do my utmost ability to live up to all my obligations, and without further adieu, i'm happy to answer any questions.

>> chair ronen: thank you so much for your willingness to serve. any questions from my colleagues? thank you so much. >> thank you so much, supervisors. >> chair ronen: now open this item up for any comment. if any member of the public wishes to speak, please come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> supervisor walton: we're taking two and three together, right? i move that we amend items two and three to say the treasurer's nomination of aimee brown, and number three, the treasurer's nomination of brenda kwee mcnulty. >> chair ronen: and which will take those nominations without objection. thank you. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: mr. clerk, can you please read item number four. >> clerk: item number four is a charter amendment to amend the charter of the city and county of san francisco to provide retiree health care

benefits to the employees of the housing authority of the city and county of san francisco who started working for the city and county of attorney on march 7, 2019 and before march 1, 2021 without a break in service with the housing authority of the city and county of san francisco. >> chair ronen: thank you. and andrea bruce is here. >> hello, supervisors. andrea bruce with the mayor's office. this would allow the city to recognize the years of service worked by certain housing authority employees for purposes of determining their eligibility for city retiree medical benefits. so i know as you are aware, the city is currently working with the housing authority on an overall restructuring in order to come into compliance with various requests from the federal department of housing

and urban development? as part of this restructuring, we do anticipate there will be housing authority who transition to city employment? and actually as of october this year, we've had 25 housing authority employees that have transitioned to city employment. and this charter amendment we expect will be a direct impact on them. unlike the city's retirement system which has reciprocity with calpers, without a change to the city charter, the city has no ability to provide that sort of comparable reciprocity for determining medical benefits. as part of this reenvisioning of the housing authority the mayor has made it a priority to the extent we can the personal impacts on housing authority employees, so by allowing their years at the housing authority to count towards what they would be eligible for city

retiree medical benefits, this charter is an important component of that benefit. this was developed in consultation with the employees of the housing authority and the respective unions that represent them. we have had the required meet and confer sessions with them. we have carol eisen, myself, and eric rappaport from the city attorney's office here. thank you, supervisors, for your support, and we respectfully ask to move this forward to the full board with a positive recommendation.

>> chair ronen: thank you. supervisor walton? >> supervisor walton: thank you. this is one of the things that we have to do to ensure that employees receive the benefits they are entitled to through your previous service. it's important that we make sure that they have the appropriate health care and benefits as they move forward. so i'm 100% in support of this, and just wanted to make sure that that was noted and thank the mayor and all of my colleagues for bringing this forward. >> chair ronen: thank you supervisor mar? >> supervisor mar: yeah. i just wanted to thank the mayor's office and d.h.r. for all your work on this ordinance, and the overall work in supporting the housing authority employees to -- to be able to transition and hopefully to -- to -- mostly to city jobs. so -- and i would like to be added as a cosponsor on this. thank you. >> chair ronen: and miss bruce, i just had one question.

you said 25 of how many employees are currently city employees? >> sure. so we anticipate the restructuring to take place over multiple phases, so the first phase that were impacted, there were 90 employees that were impacted in the first round of restructuring, those primarily working in the hud house program. and the housing authority provided a pretty -- throughout a number of months, skills assessments, job fairs, job matches. we made over 60 city positions available to those 90 impacted housing authority employees, as well as the housing authority completed their negotiations with their labor entities which also provided a pretty robust severance package. so what we saw in that first group of 90 employees, we had a

number of retirees, we had a number of employees that chose to take severance, and we had 25 employees that opted to take city positions. every housing employee who expressed interest in receiving one of those designated positions had the opportunity to get them. so we saw as of october 1, 25 people who are now working in various city departments and city agencies. so one of the reasons why the outside date of this charter amendment is several years from now is we expect there will be another phased restructuring when we get to the public housing piece. so we don't know the number of employees that will opt to transition to the city, which is why we kept it broad in that respect. >> chair ronen: the number of transition employees is so low. i don't know why that is?

>> you know, i don't know why they made that decision. we made every option available to them, and it was a very personal decision for each and every one of them, but we remain committed to helping the next round of employees to transition. and we will continue to make city employment and benefits available to them. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. we'll now open this up for public comment. good morning. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is kristina fong, and i'm the deputy director of the municipal executives association. today, we're here -- i just wanted to say and express our appreciation of your support for the amendment of the charter as well as to thank the mayor for all the work that they've done to move this forward so all those employees who transition into city

employment to not -- to be able to continue to have retiree health benefits. we have had many long-term employees at the housing authority and they're there for 20 to 30 years. unfortunately, many of them may not have the -- at their -- they don't have the age to retire, so they would not be able to take advantage of the calpers retiree health that would be coming to them if they were able to continue employment. so we do want to express our appreciation and thank you so much for everything people have done to help support the housing authority people and the employees that transitioned to the city and county of san francisco. thank you. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. any other member of the public wish to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: anyone like to make a motion? >> supervisor mar: sure. yeah, i would move we move this forward to the full board with a positive recommendation.

>> chair ronen: great. without objection, that motion passes. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. mr. clerk, can you please read item number five. >> clerk: my apologies. just the motion was to recommend? >> chair ronen: yes. >> clerk: thank you. item number five is an ordinance amending the administrative code to extend the sunset date for the pedestrian safety advisory committee and requiring the committee to recommend changes to its structure and duties. >> chair ronen: hi. we have a representative from president yee's office here to speak on this item. >> good morning. good morning, chair ronen, and supervisors mar and walton. the legislation before you today would extend the pedestrian safety advisory committee for a year, and by may of 2020, the committee

would have the opportunity to make recommendations for any changes they'd like to see in terms of structure, duty, members, etc. i'm happy to give more background or answer any questions you may have. representatives from sfmta janet martinson and michael jacobs are here to answer any questions. >> chair ronen: thank you. any questions? seeing none, thank you for being here and thank you for this work. any member of the public wish to speak ? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: anyone make a motion? [inaudible] >> chair rone >> chair ronen: and that motion passes. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: mr. clerk, is there any other items on the agenda today? >> clerk: that completes the

agenda. >> chair ronen: thank you very much. the meeting is adjourned. . >> 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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