i can tell you my children's father is an alcoholic, just like many of his neighbors, but those are the people that need visitors, those are the people that need outreach. walden house is out there. it's just very disgusting to me that this is the san francisco that i'm living in. sometimes there's backpacks that are left, things that are left. sometimes i have to go back and forth, and you're going to punish my children's ability to visit their dad and their ability to have a good life. i think my two minutes are up. thank you so much for hearing me today. >> chair haney: thank you for your comment. any other public comment? public comment is closed. mr. clerk, will you call the next item. >> clerk: approve the minutes of the november 19, 2019

meeting. this is an action item. >> chair haney: okay. is there any questions or comments? seeing none, can we have a motion to approve the minutes? motion by commissioner walton, seconded by commissioner mandelman. can we have a roll call vote, please. >> clerk: on the motion to approve the minutes -- [roll call] >> clerk: we have final approval. >> chair haney: thank you, mr. chair -- or sorry. clerk. also, are there any public comments -- public comment on the minutes? all right. great. seeing none, can you call the next item. >> clerk: item 5, election of chair and vice chair for 2020. this is an action item. >> chair haney: great. so the nominations are now in order for the office of the chair. are there any nominations for

chair? commissioner mandelman? >> supervisor mandelman: i nominate matt haney. >> chair haney: thank you. is there a second? all right. second from commissioner ronen. is there any -- are there any further nominations? uh-oh, somebody else want to do this? okay. thirded by commissioner yee. all right. seeing no further nominations, nominations are now closed. is there any public comment on this item? all right. can we have a vote for chair. >> clerk: we can take that -- oh, yes -- >> chair haney: same house, same call. all right. is there a nomination for vice chair? commissioner mandelman? >> supervisor mandelman: i nominate shamann walton.

>> chair haney: all right. is there a second? commissioner ronen seconds the nomination. is there any public comment on election of vice chair? seeing none, public comment is closed, and we can also take this same house, same call. congratulations, and thank you, vice chair walton. excited to serve with you for another term. and with that, mr. clerk, can you please call items 6 and 7 together. >> clerk: item 6, seek final approval on first appearance, audit report for the fiscal year ended june 30, 2019. item 7, internal accounting report for the six months ending sept 1 seember 1, 2019. >> thank you, chair haney, for allowing me to present this.

the report for 2019, it was a clean audit. they had no recommendations or adjustments. this item is up for action. i'd also like to present the quarterly financial statements for the six months ending december 31, 2018. in terms of revenues, we have collected $1.2 million of revenues for grant funded sources for timma. we have also incurred $383,000 for expenditures for the first six months. both amounts are within the timma budget, and with that, i'm happy to answer any questions. and item number 6 is an action item, item 7 is an info item. >> chair haney: great. thank you. any questions or comments from colleagues? seeing none, any members of the public that would like to speak on -- commissioner yee? >> president yee: so i looked

through the financial report, which is great. it seems all positive, but this is an audit, and it's kind of odd that it seems like more of a program audit than a fiscal audit. >> this one is the fiscal audit. the program audit normally consists of 16 different compliance areas. that is audited with the t.a.s -- the san francisco transportation authority's audit. >> president yee: so generally, when i see audit on there, when it's a fiscal audit, that they have findings, and it doesn't say anything about findings or satisfactory or whatever, which is kind of odd. >> that will be covered in the opinion, in the first couple of pages where they say there's an unknown modified audit, which

is the opinion. where you see that is the t.a. audit because they only selected t.a. programs to audit this year. >> president yee: okay. got it. thank you. >> chair haney: any public comment on this item? all right. seeing none, public comment is closed. and we can take this also same house, same call. >> clerk: house has changed. >> chair haney: oh, the house has changed. roll call. >> clerk: we need a motion and a second. >> chair haney: motion by commissioner yee, seconded by commissioner mandelman. >> clerk: on item 6 -- [roll call]

>> clerk: we have final approval. >> chair haney: thank you. mr. clerk, will you please call the next item. >> clerk: item 8, introduction of new items. this is an information item. >> chair haney: is there any new items to introduce, commissioners? seeing none, any public comment? public comment is now closed. mr. clerk, will you call the next item. >> clerk: item 9, general public comment. >> chair haney: is there any members of the public who want to comment generally? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [gavel]. >> chair haney: mr. clerk, we can call the next item. >> clerk: item 10, adjournment. >> chair haney: thank you. this meeting is now adjourned.

>> it's great to see everyone kind of get together and prove, that you know, building our culture is something that can be reckoned with. >> i am desi, chair of economic development for soma filipinos. so that -- [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and it's also our economic platform, so we can start to

build filipino businesses so we can start to build the cultural district. >> i studied the bok chase choy her achbl heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy. working at i-market is amazing. you've got all these amazing people coming out here to share one culture. >> when i heard that there was a market with, like, a lot of filipino food, it was like oh, wow, that's the closest thing i've got to home, so, like, i'm going to try everything. >> fried rice, and wings, and three different cliefz sliders.

i haven't tried the adobe yet, but just smelling it yet brings back home and a ton of memories. >> the binca is made out of different ingredients, including cheese. but here, we put a twist on it. why not have nutella, rocky road, we have blue berry. we're not just limiting it to just the classic with salted egg and cheese. >> we try to cook food that you don't normally find from filipino food vendors, like the lichon, for example.

it's something that it took years to come up with, to perfect, to get the skin just right, the flavor, and it's one of our most popular dishes, and people love it. this, it's kind of me trying to chase a dream that i had for a long time. when i got tired of the corporate world, i decided that i wanted to give it a try and see if people would actually like our food. i think it's a wonderful opportunity for the filipino culture to shine. everybody keeps saying filipino food is the next big thing. i think it's already big, and to have all of us here together, it's just -- it just blows my mind sometimes that there's so many of us bringing -- bringing filipino food to the city finally. >> i'm alex, the owner of the

lumpia company. the food that i create is basically the filipino-american experience. i wasn't a chef to start with, but i literally love lumpia, but my food is my favorite foods i like to eat, put into my favorite filipino foods, put together. it's not based off of recipes i learned from my mom. maybe i learned the rolling technique from my mom, but the different things that i put in are just the different things that i like, and i like to think that i have good taste. well, the very first lumpia that i came out with that really build the lumpia -- it wasn't the poerk and shrimp shanghai, but my favorite thing after partying is that bakon

cheese burger lumpia. there was a time in our generation where we didn't have our own place, our own feed to eat. before, i used to promote filipino gatherings to share the love. now, i'm taking the most exciting filipino appetizer and sharing it with other filipinos. >> it can happen in the san francisco mint, it can happen in a park, it can happen in a street park, it can happen in a tech campus. it's basically where we bring the hardware, the culture, the operating system. >> so right now, i'm eating

something that brings me back to every filipino party from my childhood. it's really cool to be part of the community and reconnect with the neighborhood. >> one of our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantown or little saigon, there's little communities there that act as place makers. when you enter into little philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve.

>> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000 for every event. undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san

franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. when you're positive and committed to using that energy ♪ >> about two years ago now i had

my first child. and i thought when i come back, you know, i'm going to get back in the swing of things and i'll find a spot. and it wasn't really that way when i got back to work. that's what really got me to think about the challenges that new mothers face when they come back to work. ♪ >> when it comes to innovative ideas and policies, san francisco is known to pave the way, fighting for social justice or advocating for the environment, our city serves as the example and leader many times over. and this year, it leads the nation again, but for a new reason. being the most supportive city of nursing mothers in the work place. >> i was inspired to work on legislation to help moms return to work, one of my legislative aids had a baby while working in the office and when she returned we had luckily just converted a

bathroom at city hall into a lactation room. she was pumping a couple times a day and had it not been for the room around the hallway, i don't know if she could have continued to provide breast milk for her baby. not all returning mothers have the same access, even though there's existing state laws on the issues. >> these moms usually work in low paying jobs and returning to work sooner and they don't feel well-supported at work. >> we started out by having legislation to mandate that all city offices and departments have accommodations for mothers to return to work and lactate. but this year we passed legislation for private companies to have lactation policies for all new moms returning to work. >> with the newcome --

accommodations, moms should have those to return back to work. >> what are legislation? >> we wanted to make it applicable to all, we created a set of standards that can be achievable by everyone. >> do you have a few minutes today to give us a quick tour. >> i would love to. let's go. >> this is such an inviting space. what makes this a lactation room? >> as legislation requires it has the minimum standards, a seat, a surface to place your breast on, a clean space that doesn't have toxic chemicals or storage or anything like that. and we have electricity, we have plenty of outlets for pumps, for fridge. the things that make it a little extra, the fridge is in the room. and the sink is in the room. our legislation does require a fridge and sink nearby but it's

all right in here. you can wash your pump and put your milk away and you don't have to put it in a fridge that you share with co-workers. >> the new standards will be applied to all businesses and places of employment in san francisco. but are they achievable for the smaller employers in the city? >> i think small businesses rightfully have some concerns about providing lactation accommodations for employees, however we left a lot of leeway in the legislation to account for small businesses that may have small footprints. for example, we don't mandate that you have a lactation room, but rather lactation space. in city hall we have a lactation pod here open to the public. ♪ ♪ >> so the more we can change, especially in government

offices, the more we can support women. >> i think for the work place to really offer support and encouragement for pumping and breast feeding mothers is necessary. >> what is most important about the legislation is that number one, we require that an employer have a lactation policy in place and then have a conversation with a new hire as well as an employee who requests parental leave. otherwise a lot of times moms don't feel comfortable asking their boss for lactation accommodations. really it's hard to go back to the office after you have become a mom, you're leaving your heart outside of your body. when you can provide your child food from your body and know you're connecting with them in that way, i know it means a lot to a mommy motionlely and physically to be able to do that. and businesses and employers can just provide a space. if they don't have a room, they can provide a small space that

is private and free from intrusion to help moms pump and that will attract moms to working in san francisco. >> if you want more information visit sfdph.org/breastfeedingatwork. ♪ ♪

>> i view san francisco almost as a sibling or a parent or something. i just love the city. i love everything about it. when i'm away from it, i miss it like a person. i grew up in san francisco kind of all over the city. we had pretty much the run of the city 'cause we lived pretty close to polk street, and so we would --