i have accepted a position in the private sector to help provide leadership for growing water resources practice here in the west and throughout the united states. the opportunity to work is the sfpucand working with the commission. ever since i came here from the private sector in may of 2007. in my new role, i'll continue to work on dams and levies and other water resources infrastructure. but i will always remember this as being the highlight of my career to date. it was a once in a lifetime opportunity to be involved in an

amazing program, led by amazing people. and overseen by an amazing commission. it's truly been an honor to work side-by-side with such dedicated officials. and to serve the public in that capacity. i'll miss being here. it's been hard to let go. but this is my last commission meeting. and i appreciate the opportunity to let you know and to thank you for your support over 30s last 12 1/2 years. >> oh, such big news. well, congratulations, first of all. and thank you on behalf of the commission for all of your work

these past 12 1/2 years. it's really been remarkable to see you lead the program and how successful it's been and just want to express our deep, deep appreciation to you and our well wishes in your next venture. so thank you. and commissioners, would you like to say anything? >> yeah. you're the second head of this program that's gone to private sector. julie being the first. you follow in julie's footsteps was a real challenge. the support you have is not given, it's earned. and part of earning that is basically earning our trust. and you have done that time and time again. you've been straight with us. you've told us when things have gone bad. you have always tried to tell us what to do about it.

you've been very forthright and in addition to being an excellent engineer and manager. so that is well earned. your advancement is well earned. we do wish you the best. we hate to see you go, but it's a good thing, that our project creates an environment where you can succeed and do better. we can take some pride in your advancement as well. >> thank you. thank you. and i hope that you'll express to commissioner kim for me my appreciation as well. i wish i could have told ler directly told. if you could pass that along. >> she would be sorry not to wish you well on her own. >> by the way, i don't see the opportunity is going to is better, just different. so i appreciate your kind words. and so with that, i'd like to request approval the plans and specifications and ten-year

capital improvement program contract for the long-term improvements, alameda watershed center in the amount of $27,577,000 with the duration of 690 consecutive calendar days, to s.j. amarosa. i'd be happy to answer any questions about the item. >> i think we're too shocked to say anything. [laughter] but, anyway, thank you. i haven't known you that long. i could say the same thing that the other commissioners have said, because in that short potrero, you've certainly given, that's what you give off. and that's how you approach your work. so again thank you. >> thank you. >> and move to approve. >> i think we already -- had a motion. >> a second? >> any public comment on this item? hearing none, all in favor. >> aye. >> opposed? motion carries. thank you. and congratulations again. >> thank you.

next item, please. >> clerk: item 14, authorize the release of 391,392 construction funding for the green infrastructure grant awarded to the san francisco unified school district, to construct features at lafayette elementary. >> commissioners, is there a motion on this item? moved. >> second. >> second. any public comment on this item? all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? motion carries. next item, please. >> item 15, adopt a resolution approving the 2020 update to the san francisco p.u.c.'s wildfire mitigation plan. >> commissioners, is there a motion? would you like to hear an update from -- >> i move. unless you'd like to hear. >> we heard her presentation. so unless you have an update

from that. >> so there's a motion on the table. is there a second? >> second. >> any public comment? all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed the motion carries. next item, please. >> clerk: item 16, approve the resolution modifying the on-site water reuse water rules. >> is there a motion? >> move to approve. >> there's a motion. is there a second. >> second. >> any public comment on this item? all in favor? >> aye. >> motion carries. and passes. next item, please. >> item 17. approve a resolution -- >> there's a motion from commissioner maxwell. is there a second? >> sure. >> second. commissioner moran. the public comment? all in favor? >> aye.

>> opposed? the motion carries. next item, please. >> item 18, adopt a policy on tis continuation of of water service for nonpayment. >> there's a motion. is there a second? second on this item? >> second. >> second. all -- public comment? would you like to speak? it looks like you're making your way. i'm pleased to see this on the agenda. we've talked about this before. maybe you could just come up for a moment. it's an important issue. i know, sorry. you thought you could get out. >> good afternoon. i'm the customer service operations manager. slide, please.

just one second. >> take your time. >> continuation of the national water service water paint. the policy is to comply with senate bill 998, the water protection act passed on september 2018. the act requires adoption of the policy, which is the purpose of this bill, of this recommended action.

this slide highlights some of the requirements, that are already in compliance with. the bill requires a minimum of 60 days delinquency before shut-off. we did not discontinue water service before 60 days. actually per our process, it's around 70 days. it's also to set the maximum dollars reconnection fees for low-income customers. the commission approved elimination of the shut-off and turn-on fees for all customers on alemany 2018. -- may 2018. also requires payment plans to customers and -- and in compliance with both requirements. the requirements are adopt a policy, which is in front of you. we need to publish it on our

website. it should be available in english, spanish, chinese, vietnamese and other languages. the change to the process will be in how we notify our customers, that they are at the risk of being shut off with water service. currently we post our customers by posting a door hanger at the property, the new change we'll be mailing a notice to customers. the notice will also be provided in the languages listed above. the other change is that we are required to report on the number of water service connections to the state board and to publish them on the website. thank you. >> thank you very much. so we have a motion. we have a second. any further public comment on this item? all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? motion carries. thank you for your presentation. our next item, please. >> clerk: item 19.

improving and authorize the general manager to execute an agreement between the bay area water supply and conservation agency. and the san francisco p.u.c. regarding operation and allocation costs for the violet water transfer. >> good afternoon, steve ritchie again. this is to approve and authorize and execution of the agreement between the bay area water supply and conservation agency and the san francisco p.u.c. and the agreement with the city of hayward, east bay municipal district, regarding a one-time use of the hayward for the pilot water transfer. this has been something that nicole i'm sure will make some comments on, because this has been in the works for six years to try to figure out what it would take to actually get a water transfer, it happens in this case to be through the hayward inner tide. taking water from east bay mud system and then passing it through the inner tide into our system, which really goes to the city of hayward. so they have been looking for a long time at, you know, what

does it take to do it. and this has been long effort trying to actually put in line all of the institutional rates. that's the big issue of water transfers, more than plumbing and more than availability of waters. really can you get governmental agencies to work together in some of these difficult challenging situations. and so bawsca to be commended for sticking with it, to actually do it and learn some lessons from it, on what it takes to accomplish a water transfer. >> great. thank you. so what is this going to accomplish? what's the overall goal? >> the overall goal here is to actually test out the system of executing a water transfer. the actual amount of water being moved in this transfer is actually quite small, it's water that's being purchased from the amador water agency in the watershed. their goal was to actually, you know, see if they could -- what it takes to actually make a transfer, so hopefully in the

future when we get into dry years, when you really want to get a transfer of some kind, that you know the hurdles you have to get over and have learned lessons about how best to get over those hurdles. >> gotcha. thank you. so how about we put a motion on the table, if there's anyone interested. a second and then we'll get public comment. >> second. >> so i have one public comment from nicole. and then we'll open it up. >> good afternoon, commissioner. nicole, bawsca c.e.o. i'll keep my remarks brief. but i do appreciate steve with this pilot. it is a significant effort that the agency and my agency has taken on the past six years to really prove, in fact, the ability to move water through the system. and understand what that takes. and our expectation is that when this is done, we will prepare a report and present the findings

in that report to you. until that time, we're just kind of playing it low key, because you never know. it's still not done. it won't be done until that water move. it's a fairly significant effort. it's taking five public agencies to get the water from its source to the customers. that's not insignificant. but i also wanted to take my time most importantly today to thank general manager kelly, a.g.m. steve ritchie, city attorney's office, the staff at the p.u.c., the list to get this agreement and the multiple agreements with hayward done is not -- has been significant. and i appreciate their efforts to make that happen. so i'd be pleased to answer any questions, certainly i'll come and give you a report when this is completed. >> well, i for one would be very interested in the findings. i think there's a lot of opportunity and potential with water transfers. when do you think -- >> it's going to occur in january. so when i can do is plan to give you a brief report in february, about how it went. and then the report will take several months to get out.

>> that would be great. we would love to hear about it. >> yes. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> any other public comment on this item? hearing none, all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? motion carries. thank you. next item, please. >> clerk: would you like for me to read the closed session items? >> yes, if you would. >> item 22, -- 23. exiting litigation. and item 25, city and county of san francisco versus pacific gas and electric federal energy regulatory commission complaint. >> thank you very much. any public comment on matters to

be discussed? hearing none, i'll entertain a motion to assert -- >> a privilege? >> is there a second? >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? we will now move into closed session.

>> i want to welcome everybody. this is the ninth year of the gun buybacks. this year the gun buy back the nation wide. we are going to have it not here in san francisco, it is going to be in vale vallejo, baltimore, boston, so the momentum of the gun buyback is picking up.

our whole mission is to end senseless gun violence. i am not against the second amendment but i am a survival of gun violence, and i am highly against gun violence. that is why we are here standing in solidarity today. there are so many partners today that made this happen. this is just not one person or one organization. i want to thank our mayor of san francisco, our leader for being a leader in the issue of gun violence. give her a hand and welcome. mattie scott, the mothers, brady campaign, all of the mothers who are part of this endeavor to end gun violence. give it up for the mothers. [applause] >> i would be wrong if i didn't acknowledge jason and all of the

gentlemen who came home after doing a life sentence in prison behind violence who are here to end senseless violence. give them brothers a hand. [applause] i definitely have got to give a shout out to the sfpd who are partners of ours to end this gun violence. it is controversy with the community and cops. we are standing here in solidarity. thank you guys for showing up, sfpd. [applause] >> all our community partners based in this together and/or sponsors. dispensary stores, barberry coast, green door, elevated, the shrine who helps us out. there are so many dispensary

that help make this happen. my man, adam. he is a business onener, thank you, adam for providing the resource and support to the community and developers. we are all in this together. i want to say thank you. i want to bring up our amazing mayor who is a great leader, not just in our city but in the region. give i you will for mayor -- give it up for mayor london breed. >> mayor breed: it is always good to come to united players and see so many amazing people. a lot of my friends and folks i have known for so many years. it is great to see everyone here. i wish we didn't have to be here for this reason. so many of us impacted by gun violence for so many years.

the reason why i got involved in public service had everything to do with the people that i lost over the years to gun violence. you know, i lie look around ande posters, there are a lot more than what you see here, they are of people that i know. young men who were gone way before their time. i think about over 1,000 guns united players collected and got off the streets and how in my mind that is thousands of people that are still alive because those guns aren't on the streets. i think about the mothers that are here today and knowing your

son was shot and the amazing work he did, and george, who i grew up with, a little older than me but a good dude who looked out for people in the community. i think about so many people, mostly a lot of african-american men who had lives taken away much too soon. i know that we are better than this. i know that when we come together we can help create change. i know that steam it seems hard. it seems hard because two days ago we had a shooting in the bayview-hunters point community. it seems hard because, you know, really sometimes it feels like the only time we in our communities get together is for the funerals of some of our

young people who get taken because of gun violence. i want us to be reminded of this because it is so important to understand why we are here. we are here because we have lost so much over the years, and we don't want to lose anyone any more. that is why we are here. we are here to make a plea to people all over the bay area who have guns in their possession. here is an opportunity on saturday, december 14th, no questions asked, to turn-in your guns, to get those guns out of your possession, to make sure that a child doesn't get ahold of that gun and accidentally shoot themselves or another child, to make sure that those

guns aren't used to harm anyone else. you know, when i come to this press conference every single year, and i have been coming for years. when i participate in these activities, you know, for some reason my heart always feels heavy. it always feels heavy because, you know, i keep thinking about the people that aren't here because of gun violence, senseless gun violence, that have taken the lives of so many people. here is an opportunity for us working together to make sure that it is not one more, to make sure that we change the future of our city so that kids who grew up in th the middle of the violence and they don't know

why. we want to make sure that is not normal. we create a new normal of people that are coming together to work together to create safe communities. we deserve safe communities. these mothers don't deserve to have lost their children before their time. the folks here are united players and rudy working every day to change the conditions of our communities, they do this because they understand the hurt and the devastating impacts of what violence does to communities. i want to thank our elected officials who are here today that i have worked with over the years in city government. i truly appreciate assembly member david chew and senator scott weiner for being here and

supporting the effort we continue to push for to address gun violence, not only in our city but in our state. i appreciate supervisor haney who this district encompasses, someone who will carry on the legacy what we need to do to support not only this district but city-wide to end gun violence. that shooting may have happened in bayview-hunters point community, but it still has a significant impact o on everyone in the city. every time someone is struck down because of a gun it has an impact on everyone in this city. i want to thank deputy chief greg who i worked hand in hand within the western addition community for years when he was our captain. we were at the height of some of the violence occurring in the western addition.

the way we dealt with that, partnership with the police department, working together to provide opportunities and programming and to deal with the need to make sure that we are addressing this issue head on. we got a lot of work to do, folks. with all of these incredible people today and our sponsors. i see jessie in the back hiding with bar bury coast, someone who grew up in the community and has given back and invested in the community. with all of us supporting one another, prayer together and really doing what is necessary, i know that we will get to a better place where no other mother or father or brother or sister has to stand here and be concerned about the impacts of gun violence on their family members and communities. we have an incredible opportunity to change san francisco.

we have an incredible opportunity because we have an incredible leader in rudy committed to the work and consistent in his advocacy to make sure we confront this issue head on. not one more today or ever. come out and bring your guns. know questions asked. no questions asked. we are going to be here from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon what is the address? >> 1038 howard street. i want the media, the tweeters and the people who do social media, get the word out because this is a real opportunity. whoever has a gun in your possession, this is your opportunity to get rid of it and to do something to help make sure that the gun you possess

doesn't create a devastating situation in anybody's life. that is why we are all here. come out on saturday. thank you all so much for your work and advocacy and all that you do to help support our communities and families. we ain't going nowhere. every single time we need to be there, we are going to be there. we are going to focus on making sure we are supporting and addressing the disparities that exist so our kids never get to a point where this is their reality in the first place. that is why we are all here together. that is why we are standing in solidarity to address an issue that is so impactful to so many people and we can help turn this thing around. let's get out there. i hope to see you all on saturday. rudy, thank you so much, and all of the work you continue to do

means a lot. that is why everyone here is not just here to support you. we will continue to support you and do what is necessary to change the tide on gun violence in our country. thank you. (applause) >> those guns will never hurt, harm or kill anybody again. we have 244 guns in the last gun buyback. 25 were assault rifles. you see what we are doing with the guns. the sfpd is our partner. we are making artout of the guns. the flyers with the big

butterfly that is made out of guns. we are the not just holding them, we are destroying them. i want to go ahead and bring up our next speaker. our senator, please give it up. senator scott weiner. [applause] >> thank you. it is really easy to get down with all of the gun violence we see every single day in the news. there is more and more gun violence. it is easy to curl up in a ball and say there is nothing to do to solve this. we know that is not true. this organization gives me hope that working at a neighborhood level, at a local level we can move the conversation up and, finally, do something real about gun violence in this country. you know, some of the people who make excuses for guns, nra, they like to talk it is not about the

guns, it is mental health or criminality or video games. we have heard all of the excuses. of course, we know that people around the world have mental health issues and mental health issues from the beginning of time. people commit crimes around the world and they have since the beginning of time. people play video games. what is different about this country is not more mental health issues or video games or crimes. it is because we have more guns. this country is drowning in a tidal wave of guns. until we reduce the number of guns in this society we will continue to have these problems. young people whose lives are lost and the fact our children in elementary schools have to learn what to do if someone starts shooting people up in the school. can you imagine having to be a

child growing up in this kind of atmosphere? of course, we want congress to act. congress must act. we will make that happen. until then we have to act locally. we know in california we have some of the strongest gun laws in country and we have a lower rate of gun violence in the state. it is not low enough. it needs to be zero. in the bay area we just put an end to the gun shows after decades we finally saw an end to it. [applause] and here in san francisco what united plays is doing with the gun buyback is so important. it is step by step, gun by gun reducing the number of guns in the community in people's hands. every gun out of circulation is a gun not used to hurt someone. thank you foreverring you do --

forever thing you do. you are the best. get the guns off the street. >> to brother richards who led the read for shutting down at the cal palace. thank you. december 14th before the next speaker. behind full it is the sandy hook anniversary. that is why we are getting this nationwide gun buyback jumping off not in just the bay area but all over. our next speaker assembly member david chew. [applause] >> good morning. any united players in the house today? thank you so much to rudy and your colleagues for knowing that it takes the hood to save the hood. i want to thank all of you who represent this village of san francisco. thank you to the mayor and the

san francisco police department and the faith leaders who provide comfort, the brady campaign and those sponsoring the event. we want toal absolut to salute r mothers demanding action. i stand as a father also demanding action. my son goes to nursery school four blocks from here. every day i am worried when i drop him off about his safety. my wife and i don't use the word shooting in our house, but somehow my 3-year-old knows that word. he has not gone through his first active shooter training, but it is going to happen. this should not be the kind of country that we live in. i also stand as a frustrated policymaker. years ago i helped to draft new york city's first strict liability law to hold manufacturers libel for their violence. the nra went to washington, d.c.

and passed the federal law to preempt that local law. i went to washington, d.c. and drafted? of the country's gun safety laws. they never got through because of nra. we came to california because we believe differently. we believe that while folks may have a right to a gun, they don't have a right to kill people with that gun. today 100 americans are going to die because of guns. this hour four people are going to die because of guns. mothers, fathers are going to grieve. we are all saying there is a different way in san francisco, in california. i am honored to be part of the community that says, hey, we can do it differently. no questions asked, give us something you don't need to be

using. we are living for a day, a world without gun violence, and i think if we pray and come together. prayers are not gun with prayers and hard work we will do it. someday we will not have to continue to grieve for what is happening. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. i want to also acknowledge a couple other parties. alexander from kilroy. thank you. these brothers and sisters will be on the streets of san francisco, svip, make it safer for us. give it up for them guys. project cannabis, my man johnny. uncle dam damian.

i want to bring up our leader in this community, district 6, my brother, matt mains. >> thank you, thank you. we will give it up for rudy and united players one more time. he had a day named after him this year. for all of the people that you have helped, for all of the lives you have saved, thank you. i know we are talking about the gun buyback, but you all save lives by working with our kids. the work you do to make this place such a safe home for our young people i think does more than anything else could to save lives. we see positive signs in terms every deduction of violence in the community. it is because of what you are doing and what united players are doing and our mothers are

doing to make the difference. i want to be very clear that gun buy backs save lives. they save lives, no doubt about it. over 1,000 guns that were taken off the gun by united players and this coalition here save lives. we know it. if there is a gun in a home it is so much more likely that there is an accident where somebody gets shot or killed. that it is used in a crime or violence or that somebody uses it to take their own life. many of us have also lost people to suicide. i lost my best friend growing up to suicide, and it was because there was a gun that was available that made it possible for him to take his own life. every gun you can bring here on saturday. you think it is old, doesn't have a reason to be in your home any more. it doesn't. bring it here.

get rid of it. no questions asked, and get some money. this is a gun buyback. don't forget the part where people -- it is christmas. holidays are coming up. i want to recognize the extraordinary coalition of folks in this room. the mothers, mattie scott, who brought me to support the gun buybacks when i was a school board member seven years ago. we became the first school district in the country to send home information to every student and family about the gun buy back. that was a policy of the school district to do that. i want to thank all of the folks in the room, especially the men who came home, who may have themselves been involved or exposed to victims of violence and have come here and have been leaders in our community to keep everyone safe. the power of that statement is

extraordinary. the sfpd. you are making this possible and safe every time it is done, to the funders. this example of a gun buyback has inspired the country. the entire country is joining on the same die to follow the lead of our mothers of our community members and rudy an and the younated players. thank you so much everyone for your leadership. >> thank you so much for your leadership. two more speakers. one of our partners on the sfpd. mccrack ken. >> good afternoon. it is mc crekren. i want to thank everybody here today for the invitation for the

san francisco police department to participate in this gun buy back program. we have participated in this for the tenth year. this is a collaborative effort between law enforcement and the community, united players who handles this. we are so thrilled to be part of it like we have been every year. what we realize is that we become part of the trust and the process that the community wants to see between law enforcement and those that we are sworn to protect. rudy earlier today brought out those guns that are on the floor that many of you have taken a picture of. i am extremely confident had one of those guns on the floor not been taken in a gun buyback it might very well be an instrument that might have taken someone's life this year. i am confident we are a participant in saving lives.

this opportunity that we have here in san francisco to reduce the gun violence, especially at the holiday season may save a child's life, the life of a loved one that you have because there will be one less gun on the street or in a home that may do harm. when we at lawence foment work with the community in the manner like this, it shows the cooperation between the community and law enforcement. often times we can get viewed as the other side of the equation and that becomes difficult in law enforcement. we realize we all have the same goal to save lives. we are down 18% in homicides this year. we are proud of that and we have continued to trend downwards over a number of years. just one homicide in this city is one too many. our goal so to reach it to be

down 100%, 200%, 0. we want to get there. when i was at captain at northern station, like mayor breed said, i worked with rudy. he came out to the western addition and i was out there and maddi was there and we took 220 guns off the street to reduce the violence in the western addition at that time. i am confident the one this saturday will do the same thing. thank you, rudy for leading this. what you do for this program cannot be said enough. it is amazing what you do in a partnership for the community and with law enforcement. the things that you do with the teenagers and kids in this city is nothing short of miraculous, and i don't think you always get

enough credit. i want to thank you for your friendship. the cooperation with the community and law enforcement brings us today. maddi, you are a champion for this every year, whether it is gun buy back or the death of someone that is close to you or someone that you heard about. that means a lot to me and to this department for you to be here as well. this saturday you have an opportunity to turn-in firearms, no questions asked. we will be from and our only goal is to take these firearms with no questions asked to render them safe and to destroy them and to take them off the street or out of the home and save some lives. let's do that together. thank you. [applause]

>> i saved the best for last. i want to give a shout out to many different organizations that are in the community. from the leadership west bay right there, it is always humble to hide in the back. you need to be here with us. you did more outreach than all of us put together. charlie right here. this guy right here. i don't see him. he worked with the kids. my brother paul who is always showing love to the community. the next person i am going to bring up is from reentry. this is my brother, this gentleman right here. he walked barefooted. he is on this side saving lives instead of taking lives. i save the best for last.

get a dose of this, mr. cameraman, give it up for my brother everett, aka bogie, you all. >> good afternoon. i want to thank each and every one of you for coming here today. let's have a moment of silence for the lost souls. i stand before you a return efrom incarceration. where i came from made me who i am today. that is what i am proud to be. i was once a gang member from los angeles. i did 26 years of incarceration for murder. in the midst of my incarceration i rebooted my train of thought and receive things differently. i stand before you a united player. my boots are on the ground for the lost souls on the walls, mothers fighting for sons, my

prayers go out to them. i ask you to stand firm like you are doing today in union fiction of doing the right thing, giving back and fighting back for the right to have a life, not take alive. i apologize to you for the life that i took, which is why i am doing what i am doing. i wear boots because i know the job is real in the field. i came from la. i am present here in the bay and i do the job. it is real. it is really real, and we must continue to do the right thing, and that is get out in the streets and show what is done. my prayer for mr. dadda. he was a devoted united players and he lost his life at a young age and it helped me step back

and say, man, was it worth it? i could do better. so i get out in the streets and i do better. i pass these out. i work on stephen son with the addicts. because i deal with the addicts, i understand the people. i am dealing with the person's addiction mentality, physically or the addiction of heroin or the drug they use. i deal with them respectful oppose to aggressively. that is the right way to do it. one bad, one found. our boots got to stay on the ground. thank you. [applause] >> thank you for coming out today. thank you to the media, mothers.

this saturday. 1399 mcallister street. i want to thank community partners, developers, alexander. sometimes they don't say developers believe in the community. you are here. feel me, girl, you are there in living color. the dispensary stores, my brother jesrewho just did a bowling tournament and donated proceeds to united players. all proceeds to a worthy cause, to the people. thank you for coming out and showing love and support. we got your back like a backpack, baby and your chest like a bulletproof vest, teflon, baby. thank you.

that is trump, he gets no love. how about that? all partners here i want to finish by saying this. the art piece that you see that is the monarch. it was made out of all guns. it was made by that sister behind be you, jason. the spirit and her husband. i don't know how they made it. you have got to ask them. it is made out of guns. thank you for everybody who is helping end senseless gun violence. one gun that kills one person could destroy a whole planet, you all. one gun that saves and is destroyed off the street can save that one life. but the other side is maddi. one gun not off the streets will kill somebody and can destroy everybody. let's save as many lives as we can.

one bad, one sound. thank you, brother. [applause] is -- >> our united states constitution requires every ten

years that america counts every human being in the united states, which is incredibly important for many reasons. it's important for preliminary representation because if -- political representation because if we under count california, we get less representatives in congress. it's important for san francisco because if we don't have all of the people in our city, if we don't have all of the folks in california, california and san francisco stand to lose billions of dollars in funding. >> it's really important to the city of san francisco that the federal government gets the count right, so we've created count sf to motivate all -- sf count to motivate all citizens to participate in the census.

>> for the immigrant community, a lot of people aren't sure whether they should take part, whether this is something for u.s. citizens or whether it's something for anybody who's in the yunited states, and it is something for everybody. census counts the entire population. >> we've given out $2 million to over 30 community-based organizations to help people do the census in the communities where they live and work. we've also partnered with the public libraries here in the city and also the public schools to make sure there are informational materials to make sure the folks do the census at those sites, as well, and we've

initiated a campaign to motivate the citizens and make sure they participate in census 2020. because of the language issues that many chinese community and families experience, there is a lot of mistrust in the federal government and whether their private information will be kept private and confidential. >> so it's really important that communities like bayview-hunters point participate because in the past, they've been under counted, so what that means is that funding that should have gone to these communities, it wasn't enough. >> we're going to help educate people in the tenderloin, the multicultural residents of the

tenderloin. you know, any one of our given blocks, there's 35 different languages spoken, so we are the original u.n. of san francisco. so it's -- our job is to educate people and be able to familiarize themselves on doing this census. >> you go on-line and do the census. it's available in 13 languages, and you don't need anything. it's based on household. you put in your address and answer nine simple questions. how many people are in your household, do you rent, and your information. your name, your age, your race, your gender. >> everybody is $2,000 in funding for our child care, housing, food stamps, and medical care. >> all of the residents in the city and county of san francisco need to be counted in census 2020. if you're not counted, then your community is underrepresented and will be

underserved. >> >> my name is sofy constantineo and a documentary film maker and cinema togfer, producer and director. it is inevable you want your movie

to get out and realize yoi need to be a commune tee organizer to get people together to see the story you will tell [inaudible] pretty rich and interesting. in what we do as film makers is try to tell the best story possible so i think that is where i [inaudible] learn everything. lighting and cinematography. i got jobs of stage manger at some place and projectionist. i kind of mixed and matched as i went and kept refining i feel like it isn't just about making things that are beautiful and appealing and rich and [inaudible] the way that the films [inaudible] it has to tell a story. >> my name is sumell [inaudible] free lance multimedia produce. my project is [inaudible] mostly oof street photographry with a few

portraits. i'm going arounds san francisco and capturing the [inaudible] as we started to do this project i was reading about the decline of african american population in san francisco and i wondered where the remaining population was and what they were doing and how life was for them. >> i wasn't very inspired by school, i wasn't very inspired by continuing to read and write and go to class. i watched a lot of movies and saw a lot of [inaudible] i said that is what i want to do. i had this very feminist [inaudible] and i felt like there was not enough of a womans vision on the stuff that we see, the movies that we make and the beginning of the [inaudible] the way