information from the folks in to see what they experience. i wily it's very positive feedback fros going to the stations and gettit feedback. and some things they e know and we take care of them ae solve them quickly. academying - academies are starting. some ofu attended the graduation of the s and some of you were at the cer. the mayor was gracious enough to appear and give a speech. it way nice. we also had a fleet week.d opportunity to train some marind folks from the navy and it was enlightening to find out in the initial meeting, some of those s that back in 2011 with this tra, they were able to use it at they earthquake when they responded -

haiti earthquake when they respd there. so that was satisfying tr that from them. the recruit clas started on october 7. we compleo weeks of ems training. and membf 49 joined the class this mondaye lost the recruit on the ems poro we have 55 remaining for the cle have an attrition rate that's nl for classes. so hopefully we ket low. it's going full boar and im getting the reports from them te have several classes scheduled e fall. confined space rescue cla, tech class which is a repetitiof the one we did a few months agot now we have a new module, pge is helping us. so they have been vy good with us and helping us identifying and helping us traiy

couple years to do that. the anl drill, very helpful. this year t included a portion about publicy shutdowns. so they had a small n where they were talking about hg those folks that depend on mechl and electrical devices to survi, ventilators, they can go there d identify the devices, notify 91f there's a need for that. so it s very good and very well-receivey them. and we are going to work h dpa tomorrow on those topics tor nert volunteers, along with oura prieta anniversary, they were dg the drill and they were helpfulh that. they were practicing for w months with that. so it was gooo see them there. we mentioned cls in languages and also nert helda

cantonese class this month. we e extending that. we have the prom for the spanish person of nert.e have classes that we continue ty to expand in our languages in tt program. our planning bureau han very busy with -- remember fromt meeting we were talking about t. very few hitches with that. the vacancy for our members was pubd today. after that, management wl select the process. they've been working hard to make this a smoh process. and i think the members appreciated the transpartnerty w things are working with -- transparency with that. the chis been busy getting feedback fromm too. commissioner, pier 35 is go more delays for that. we are wog

well with that. if you drive byu won't see a pier there next to n 35. so that's good progress. 49d news, back on track as far as te goes. 50 percent complete constn right now. and we are back on to final completion date of septem0 of next year. so that's good nes far as apparatus, it was compled now they are at central shops to complete the final document beft gets submitted. so that's good progress on that. we have a bidr two jet skis that will be out s. six has been ordered and they an the construction phase in addito the trucks already in place. ass station goes, some of the updat, station 31 generator will be thy december of this year. they just poured the pad for it, and it'sg along well. some of them were ne and we had to remove some with e exception of station 15's towerh

has become a historical part ofe building and they wanted to keet there for the neighborhood. so s the only one that is staying. be others will be removed because y are not safe. a lot of work hasn done by chief parks, our health, safety and wellness chief. lastk and thanks to the foundation frm commissioner veronese we have al class peer support training. ita wait list of folks. maybe we cao more in the future. it was well attended and well received infon that was given. i'll share somee graphs as we are starting to ane the injuries that the members ae suffering and what we can do wi that. gathering data to make a e for a more robust unit. some ofe data we are gathering, primary m we have is sprains and strains.e dial down to that. and of course of the main causes of the spraid

strains are apparatus, getting e apparatus off and on so how cano that. so we are looking at implementing training programs d videos to show the members the r technique, three point techniquf getting off apparatus. so now te have started to analyze the injs we can put progress in place and training in place to hopefully e that. the top injuries, the most common injury we have is lower k injury. so we are going to implt some of the techniques for lift. that's one of the things that cs injuries. so how can we use pror technique, using the legs. so wn come up with a program for thato that's what chief parks is workn with us. we also have a health . we are working together with the doctor's office. we had the hea- the flu shots, we have nutrition information, we have enrollmentr

that. we are going to bring thak next year in addition to we areg to work with the foundation, sof the tests they are doing. we arg to bring blood pressure testing, diabetes testing, so a comprehee test we can provide our membersr that health fair. and we do sevl days of that. so that's good pr. and chief parks has done really. some of the community events the department is involved in, one e ones that has been successful ie ems program at mission school. y visited the airport, they visite tower. it's really well receives really like it. we are hoping wn continue to that and expanding o other schools as well too. we ad recently the nowhere cal fire g-

nor cal fire girls camp. it wast to see them learning how to be a firefighter. we had a lot of stf from our department and from departments all across the areao help. it was an incredible expee to see the enthusiasm. recruitig office has been busy. usf, we wo a camp in sacramento, recruiting folks. members of the department talked to folks, possible candis coming in and learning about thb and just hearing from them whatt takes to be a firefighter. so ae chief mentioned, the anniversars good to see. to finish my repori want to thank all of you who cao the police and fire mass. it wal

attended. it was great to show r appreciation for the many yearsf service to the fire department.t concludes my report. thank you.d happy to answer any questions. >> thank you very much, chief vt this point we'll ask for public comment on chief velo's present. any member of the public wisheso give public comment? seeing non, public comment is closed. commie never knees. >> thank you, vice president. cu pull up the chart that had the e chart? is that possible to get ? and while you find it, have we r done that before? have we done s analysis in the past? or is thie first time we are doing this? >> not that i know of. >> it's incredible. it's great u guys are doing this. because i e the fact that we are gathering o figure out what the problems aru probably saw this coming but onf

the injuries i don't see on thet i think is important is post-trc stress injury. and that, i'm cus as to, if it's possible in the e to see a chart like this that tt drills into the type of things t cause that or the types of incis that the fire department respono that are triggering that type of injury. and i think that will ts a lot about how we react or howe stress unit should react to cern calls. i know it's probably goio be obvious. it's going to be chn dying, it's going to be stuff le that. but i think it's worth dig into. and i'm sure that data is probably out there already but d be curious to see if the same ss happening in san francisco. >> one of the things we are dois asking the unit and now they hao a person in the unit gathering s

information. we talked about ths before. the member reporting pta injury report is rare. but how y times is the stress unit helpine folks out there. and that's thea we want to make sure we get. ano anonymous, no names, but actualw many times this or that person,h of time, types of injuries, caud effect of particular events. wen event on monday where two infans died, eight months old. so we wo see what the effects are for ths at station 19 that went to thats hard for members to report thata injury report. >> yeah. >> but we can get data from thes unit. so all of our process wit. we are asking them to provide td track that information for us se can have an idea of what we areg and who are they helping, what e issues coming up. and again, no,

just facts, like you said. >> great. that's great. thank y, chief. i appreciate that. >> sure. >> thank you very much, commissr veronese. commissioner clevelan, please. >> thank you, mr. president. i d like to echo commissioner verons comments regarding the trainingr people in terms of what are the injuries out there and how are y being injured. the more informae gather and the more data we have better prepared we are to instrt them on whatno what not to do.d to add ptsd as a type of injuryr members get. i would like to cod you for setting up with i assume lieutenant baxter's health fairi think that's incredibly importar our members. i appreciate the sn visits that you and the chief ae doing and the other brass, reacg

out to the rank-and-file on a rr basis just means a lot to them,e than you probably realize yoursi appreciate it personally as commissioner. and one question,u talked about the mission high sl ems program. what would it taked a high school, another high schn town to ems training program? >> so what's happening right noa pilot program. so we are going - we need to see sort of the succf that. and this is just one clase topic that they are working on s semester, next semester is anotr more ems-involved. so this is te pilot school. >> okay. i didn't realize it waa pilot. sorry. >> so we really need to sort ofe how that works. but there is --n there is certainly willingness m the school district and from ciy

college. so we'll just have to n the future. >> i think it's terrific. so thk you. thank you, chief, for your report. >> thank you very much, commissr cleveland. commissioner hardema. >> thank you -- thank you. hells it on? doesn't sound like it's . thank you, president nakajo. as, these are great reports. the tre is with you teaching spanish, mn was very fortunate, he was in hh school at sacred heart, just bee was entering his senior year, tn our trip to school to the univey of -- and when he came back, ani think he got a b plus, which shs me, because they were having a y good time over there. [laughter seventeen-year-olds. anyways, t.

but he says dad, i didn't learnd heart. so i guess whatever theyh different language than they lea joke, as a comment. i'm sure you came here, coming from the coun, they come here probably can't ug at that pie chart, all the years and people being injured and i d each year in the united states n diego there's like 7 or 8,000 ol

conference. so i do know a lot , shoulder, knee, exactly the samy come with an eyelash of the perw when i was a sign hanger, i wast 33 when i switched over to becoe last thing, having a lower backd a lot of heavy lifting. in thosc stuff you have now. it's all doo sometimes the back injuries arey firefighter reaching around, lil your back going. i remember juse incident. everybody in my shop,e back was out that week or that l

bad back and it never ended.

talking about your division re, there's on page 21, there's an d i see h2 firefighters by far hat because they are in more he nums there something particular relan that leads to those numbers. >> yes. those are the ones thate doing most of the trainings andd work when it comes to fighting s

and lifting heavy objects. theye the highest membe number. >> and the back injuries are beg addressed how? >> now we can address the traino chief park is working with our occupational health specialist h stefani, identifying maybe some training videos. education is we are looking for for them to be o address that and know that we he this data and showing that the a and these are things we can do p ourselves with that. >> that's very important because you have a back injury, you alws have a back injury. it's never , you know. you can accommodate id you can work with it, but it ner

actually heals to the point wher back is what it felt like previ. i'm sure those of us of a certae will remember that when you were working in tandem with someone n a physical task, people would st your back into it, put your baco it. and that is the exact wrongg to do. so maybe the campaign cae called don't put your back into. just to let everybody know to rd everybody that it can lead to a debilitating situation. all rign page 24, for 2010. i see that ts an amount of liquidated damagest goes to up to $479,000. do those

damage -- $489,000. do those coo the department? >> unfortunately it's public wor the cost. >> since it is the bond that red in the department being given tt money, again, i'm really tryingo understand why that money doesnn come to us. >> so was it two weeks ago, they explained to us they can use itr other bond work, and some of tht has to go to them for the salard costs associated with the work e station. >> i would like to dig deeper os with you because this has come s before. and i suspect that cumulatively we may be losing ms of dollars. and we need the mon.

[laughter] okay. so that's page 24. and thn pge announced that they would bw the department might be impactee question regarding the emergenco all of our stations have the emy fuller powered or are they powd, means. >> all stations have generators powered by diesel engines, and y can last up to three days in a w without refueling. and we have measures in place so we can refl them back and keep going. >> all right. so i assume then t they are exterior generators.

>> most of them are. some are on roofs. it depends on the facili. and some are exteriors. >> very good. and you say three. is that full light refrigeratio, everything? >> everything in the station wog for two days uninterrupted is te level we have. and again, many stations have fuel pumps. and we methods now because of this thre have with the power shutdowns, e have a method to refuel the gens before three days happens. so we one of the main departments thas the fuel so that we have discuss with city agencies that we neede fuel first. but we have ways tot fuel from our stations into the generators if needed. >> that makes me feel very comfortable. i'm wondering if ts a way to find out how many indil

homes have generators. because e was a huge article in the newspr just a couple days ago regarding regular citizens getting these generators for their homes. just because there needs to be some f information that goes out to the public regarding how these genes can lead to other problems. >> correct. the exhaust. >> yes. okay. thank you. and --s see. page 28. i can skip that do time, i will skip that one. so t know which page this is, but its human resource resources. the hn

position. all of these positiond then it says vice and then thera person's name after that design. what is the definition of vice s particular context? >> so if a member has either tir promote -- retired or promoted, there's a vacancy. to fill a vay that's how we relate it, so that person is coming in to fill that position. so you see chief, hisk was h30 so now we have a new can taking that spot that was authod by the city. >> that's why it was confusing . because it says rivera. and i we okay, are we missing something? >> he was actually deputy chief.

>> okay. and the first name is e person who is currently with the department who replaced him in ? >> yes. >> all right. thank you. i hadnn that before. i was wondering wht meant. i think that will do it . thank you. >> thank you very much, vice prt covington, commissioner verones. >> chief, commissioner covington reminded me of something. on the of, in the past i said the depat needs to do a better job of advg for themselves. and i think thae are leaving millions and milliof dollars on the table by not doig that. and the station 16 thing,e that ship may have sailed becaus a contract the city got into yes ago, it's a very good example of a million dollars that could goy an engine, probably even a coupe engines. >> right. >> so if we have somebody that s

new administration that is in ce of advocating for the departmenn the contracts come up, that woue amazing. and one of the things u mentioned earlier is pge. so pgs doing the rolling blackouts, ri? these rolling blackouts happen,s basically them handing off a hue expense to this department, rig? these are intentional acts whery these are intentional acts whery

>> that's another advocacy issue. we could be charging as mechanism to do if there isn't -- i'm sure if we charge a patient for ambulance ride, work charg-- we can charge a hospital while we're waiting for someone to take the handoff of the

patient. i think in 2020 these are things we need to be thinking about as a commission and super advocating for ourselves. d.p.w. managed to get half million dollars out of the fire department's hands going into their hands for a job that's a fire department job. maybe we should hire that guy at d.p.w. i'm hoping in 2020 we do a better job at this and we as a commission start to see this stuff. thanks chief. >> thank you very much. chief velo thank you for your report. i have two things. there was a drill on saturday october 19th. did you want to comment on how well this drill went?

>> that's the drill debut that coincides with the earthquakes we had in past history of san francisco. very well attended. lot of volunteers were there. it was very well attended event. we were able to get commitment to do this. they were very pleased to do that. they actually approached us to get the idea of getting that in the school. we'll meet with them in the future and have ideas. having that relationship with s.i. and having that large drills going from house to house instead of doing it live, it was a great drill. >> i was pleased to see that.

the press was impressed. pretty much a full page and the back side. i wanted to get some feedback on that and i want to thank all those volunteers and members who went out there that day. only other remark i wanted to show our appreciation. to you commissioner, veronese for this program. >> item 6, commission report. report on commission activity since last meeting october 9, 2019. >> commissioners, i'll call for public comment on this item. any member of the public wishes to give public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. any announcements that you would like to make at this time. vice president covington.

>> vice president covington: i was thanked to thank commissioner veronese for his ongoing support regarding the stress unit. i think it's very admirable. he pursued money and training for the peer support group. i thank him for that. i wanted to say that i know that the president of our commission was there but the commemoration of the 30th anniversary was outstanding. it was just absolutely wonderful. it was very uplifting. i would think it might be a somber event, actually we laughed a lot.

the st. francis fire boat was there. the mayor did a wonderful job as emcee. supervisor stephanie was there. there were people in the department who has been in the department who had time to speak as well. it was heart warming. i saw little bit of it on sfgov today. >> commissioner veronese i see your name on the roster. >> commissioner veronese: just on commission activities. we had the fire department hosted a pier support training. there were about 30 members. the training was put on by the international association of

firefighters. my foundation, the national first responders paid for it. it was a great program. i stopped in the very beginning of the program to say hello. sat through an hour of it. it's a great program being offered. i look forward to doing as many of these as we can. there were three or four different departments from all over the bay area that jumped in on it. which is great. there's more money there to keep doing these things. i hope that the department we'll do some in southern california as well. i look forward to the department and other departments contributing to it and with their people. i was really pleased to see it was a good show. we'll keep doing them as long as people show up to them. the credit goes to the thousands of contributors that contributed to the fund and everything that-

everybody that was part of that. thank you for that. >> commissioner hardeman. >> commissioner hardeman: this will be brief. had celebration fleet week the day after the last meeting downstairs. george schultz was honored. his 99th birthday, former secretary. there was charlotte, his wife, who has been so good about hosting things. she's having a hard time getting around. it was a very nice performance. i didn't see a lot of first responders. i think there was an invitation that went out like the day or two before. i think lot of people were missed is what i was told. i was representing the fire department. we were there. i enjoyed it. it was fun.

thank you. >> president nakajo: thank you very much. commissioner hardeman. >> commissioner hardeman: on monday november 18th we have our retirement scheduled at headquarters at 4:00. just as a reminder. i wanted to comment as well on the ceremony. i believe chief anita bradley, she gave remarks. i tell you, that was some really inspiring and enjoyable comments. she's got talent. it was just enjoyable how real she was and how honest she was and how she brought everything in perspective. i really enjoyed that. to cap it off with the vice president, we had an opera singer that was really fantastic to be able to add to that and the atmosphere.

she said something about us san franciscans everything and we celebrate earthquakes as well. it's the resilience of everybody within the department and city and county of san francisco. i know everyone is prepping for the next one or trying to prep for the next one. i wanted to remark on that as well. thank you for all of that. i appreciate it so much. madam second? >> item 7. agenda agenda for next and future meetings. >> president nakajo: call for public comment on this item. what do we have for the remainder of the year? >> it was confirmed today ems6 presentation with captain payne. and a closed session settlement. >> president nakajo: that is for the commission meeting november 13th?

>> yes. >> president nakajo: we have two more commission meetings left in the year. december 11th will be the last meeting of the year. commissioner hardeman -- >> commissioner cleaveland: wont writer position on. give us an update on what's happening with that position. perhaps share if it has to be in closed session to discuss the candidates for the position. i think this position is so critical to future funding for lot of things that our department needs. i like to have that on the agenda and get an update from the department on what's happening. >> president nakajo: we'll have the chief of the department comment on that. >> updated.

i gave vice president covington some of the applicants who we are going to get their red resus and who we want to interview. i'll be happy to talk to you about it. >> president nakajo: thank you very much. madam secretary. >> item 8. public comment on item 9 on all matters pertaining to item 9b below including public comment on whether the item 9b in closed session. >> president nakajo: any member of the public that wishes to give public comment on this item. seeing none, public comment is closed. >> vote on whether to conduct items 9b in closed session. the commissioner may hear item 9b in closed session to code

section 54957b and administrative code section 57.10b. >> president nakajo: , in terms of this motion to go into closed session, commissioners? >> second. >> president nakajo: we have a second from vice president >> is that a motion commissioner hardeman. there's a motion. is there a second? thank you very much. vice president covington all in

favor say aye. thank you very much. we are completed for this evening. we are adjourned. thank you very much commissioners.

shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services within our neighborhoods, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> my name is ray behr. i am the owner of chief plus. it's a destination specialty foods store, and it's also a corner grocery store, as well. we call it cheese plus because there's a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. from fresh flowers, to wine,

past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. you can have a casual meeting if you want to. it's a real community gathering place. what makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, it's a great pedestrian street. there's people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. the businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned small businesses. it harkens back to supporting local. polk street doesn't look like anywhere u.s.a. it has its own businesses and personality. we have clothing stores to gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired. there's a music studio across the street. it's raily a diverse and unique

offering on this really great street. i think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things that they may not be familiar with. again, the marketplace is changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell things, all those things, it's very important that you do so. >> good morning, everyone. what an exciting day in the city of san francisco right here on jefferson street. i want to thank you all for coming out like they say.

it takes a village to really come up with a great project and this project is a great project that involved many people from many city departments, many years ago. it started with the fisherman's worth plan and there were many agencies that were involved. i see john brown from the planning department is here. harlan kelly from p.u.c., our friends from the port are here. the san francisco transportation authority is over there, and many agencies, of course,, public works. they are part of this project. and when this project first started, it was a five block project and we could only find funding to do the first part in the first part was from hyde to jones. but we also had to do it in quick time, in under six months we were able to build the only

-- the first part of jefferson street before the america's cup and i can tell you that project has been a fantastic project. so this phase two is also going to be done in record time, under a year, starting today after this groundbreaking. with that said, i would like to introduce someone that has been a champion for pedestrian safety , implementing vision zero , and really making our safety the beautiful city that it is, i'm making sure that we'll work together. let's welcome our mayor london buried. [cheers and applause] -- london buried. >> thank you to all the community members who are here today to celebrate phase two of four phases of really changing the future and the landscape of fisherman's worth in this area, which is not only visited by people from all around the world , there's actually an incredible community of

merchants, of people who live here and who walk these streets every single day. we want to make sure that it is safe, it is walkable, it is enjoyable and people have incredible experiences when they come to visit san francisco. today we ordered the sun to shine so that people can happen even better experience. this project is an example of how when city departments come together for a common goal, with community members and the fisherman's worth, community business district in the san francisco chamber, thank you, rodney, for being here today, that we can make incredible things happen. i'm excited that public works and the port and the planning department and so many of our agencies have made this a priority. we know that money generated from tourism actually helps to support so many incredible things that we do in san francisco so we want the

experiences to be that much better. and looking at how we are taking a street that used to be a one-way, turning into a two away , widening the sidewalks, making it more clean and more green, and at the same time, thank you to harlan kelly, the director of p.u.c. for digging into the ground, and we are taking around the fiber-optic cables that all the things that we need to do to make sure that the pipes and infrastructure is working so that we don't have to go back into the ground is absolutely how we should be working on public projects like this. i'm excited. it took a lot of money, yes from a lot of different resources, and i want to say a special thank you to david chiu for his work in providing resources, working along with supervisor aaron peskin and supervising estate resources to make this project a reality. it does take a village. it does take a lot of money and here we are at the end of what

is phase two to make something incredible happening for this particular neighborhood. thank you do all the folks involved and i'm excited that mohammed has promised to do this in record time and within budget we will be watching very closely because that is what i care about the most. i know that one of the most fiscally conservative persons on the board of supervisors cares about that as well. ladies and gentlemen, your supervisor, aaron peskin. [applause] >> thank you. good things come to people who are patient. as down from the port to knows, this goes back to 2003 when the community gathered with the port and started a community plan. some years later, the planning department stepped in even before the days of john ram and

graham and that led to phase i. let's be real, there was a little concern. rodney will remember, back in the days when he had the wax museum, widening of the sidewalks was going to inhibit vehicular transportation here even though we all knew it was going to actually make fisherman 's worth -- wharf keep up. years ago they brought the f. line in here and that was a boom to fisherman's wharf and it is beloved around san francisco and around the world. after that, we expanded the sidewalks. fisherman's worth is the goose that lays the golden egg for san francisco. year in and year out. it is high time that san francisco city government reinvest so that fisherman's wharf will continue to be the envy of the world. $600 million in retail sales,

$250 million related to hotels, millions and millions, 16 million people come here every year. thirty-nine is the number one tourist attraction in the city and county of san francisco. investing $16 million of city and state funds makes perfect sense for this fiscally prudent supervisor, including, and i am wearing now my hat as chair of the san francisco county transportation authority, not only $1.2 million of your half cent sales tax, but each of the members of that body get $200,000 to invest. i put my $200,000 into this project. it is just a little bit, but it helped make it go. congratulations to all the departments and particularly the community that made this happen. thank you so much. [applause] next, from the port of san

francisco, we are on port property until you get in the middle of that street, then you're on mohammed's property, but we are on the lands of the port of san francisco. it's executive director, elaine forbes. [applause]. >> thank you so much supervisor peskin. thank you to mayor breed for prioritizing safety and economic development and helping this neighborhood thrive. you have heard from the other speakers about this area being the goose that lays the golden egg, which is completely true. 85% of visitors to san francisco come here and they come back again because it is such a wonderful experience that we have to continue to invest in, but i want to talk for a second about the community that is here we have 500 businesses. many small businesses can eat, many multigenerational businesses that make this place thrive. we have an amazing fisherman's wharf community. we have the fisherman and women who are the reason for this place you have been fishing and making their life off the bay

for generations and fisherman's wharf is about the fishing community and about the small communities -- small businesses in the community. that is why it is a special place to come and visit. i want to acknowledge all the community did to get to this place today, to have our groundbreaking. it is a real celebration to all of you. thank you for making fisherman's wharf such an amazing experience for all the people local and visiting that come and again -- that come again and again. i want to acknowledge my commissioner who is here today. now i'd like to turn it over to randall scott. he is the c.e.o. of the fisherman's wharf c.b.d. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you to all of you. i came here last december to fisherman's wharf and fell in love with it all over again. i want to encourage each and everyone of you to come down and visit and see what is going on.

the pedestrian developments of jefferson street, wider sidewalks, easier to walk through, all around the world, people have been doing this to their cities and the foot traffic and the visitation that comes down with that and the boost of businesses is absolutely fantastic. i can't wait for this to finish. thank you very much for only promising for one year. as mentioned, we are the tourist heart of the city. people come down here, they have fun, they go back to their homes , they bring back more people. i just want to say, you know, to the city, thank you for reinvesting and fisherman's wharf. we promised to take very good care of it and we look forward to those people walking down the street. to those of you in the bay area, i would highly encourage you to come down and visit. this place has something for

everyone. we have a treasure hunt do you can go from bar to bar, attraction to attraction and enjoy an entire full day down here. again, thank you to the city and county of san francisco, thank you all for coming. [applause] >> all right. in fact,, this very spot that we are standing will become a brand-new plaza. as everyone knows, it is a parking lot now but we will redo it and it will have nice paving patterns. those architects at public works , they have had fun with it everybody is okay with it. okay. let's go and break ground. we have some shovels. let's get busy here.

>> all right, come on in. ready? squeeze in. squeeze, we don't have to touch. all right. are you guys ready? five, four, three, two, one. there we go. [cheering]. >> all right. >> all right. thank you. >> what are you going to use it for? [laughter]

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

>> good morning, everyone. the meeting will come to order. this is october 30, 2019 regular meeting of the budget & finance committee. i am chair of the budget and finance committee. i am joined by supervisor stefani and.