>> good evening, everyone. this is march 20th, 2020 meeting of the san francisco police commission. i apologize to everyone and we were experiencing quite a few technical difficulties to log on to the meeting so i'm sorry that we're getting started a little bit late. and i'm sorry that you guys can't see me right now but i'm placing my hand over my heart and if everyone else on the commission and the staff would place their hands over their heart so we can recite the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. so we would be remiss in having a meeting in may without acknowledging that this is law

enforcement memorial month. and so i would like to -- at the end of this meeting to adjourn in honor of the members of the san francisco police department who have paid the ultimate price in losing their lives in the line of duty. sergeant youngblood, can you please call roll. >> yes. so vice president taylor. >> vice-president taylor: present. >> taylor present. commissioner dejesus. >> commissioner dejesus: can you hear me? okay, present. >> commissioner hamasaki. >> commisioner hamasaki: i am here. >> clerk: hamasaki present. commissioner elias. here. commissioner brookter. >> commissioner brookter: present. >> clerk: you have a quorum. >> vice-president taylor: thank you, and thank you again. and it's been a long time since we met and i thank the mayor for

allowing us to resume our mightings virtually going forward. this ensures that the safety of the commission staff and the commissioners and the presenters and the members of the public is intact. and for the members of the public to make public comment the phone number to use is (888)-273-3658. and the access code is 3107452. we'd ask that you try to be in a quiet location and turn off any tv and the radios and if you're livestreaming the meeting via sfgov-tv to mute the sound so that the commissioners can hear you. so as you all have experienced firsthand, this is not a seamless process so we ask that you bear with us as we try to navigate these virtual meetings. and there may be gaps or dead airtime as the staff is transitioning the technology between speakers. just know that we're doing our best and we appreciate your

understanding as we do so. if they haven't already done so i ask all of the members of the commission and all presenters to mute themselves. we can minimize the background noise. commission members and presenters will have to unmute themselves to comment. and so if you wish to be heard, please type your name in the meeting chat so that the chair can recognize you. the staff in the background will be managing the technology during the meeting so we can switch from any slide presentations to the member speaking at the moment. and, again, we ask for your patience on that. lastly, i want to really extend a huge thank you for the people who have been working long, long, long and hard to make this possible. i don't think that the public really has an understanding of how hard the commission staff has been working on this. so i want to really thank our commission secretary and all of the commission staff, including retired sergeants and fillive

loughoud, and sergeant youngblood who has spent so much time and energy and effort to try to make this meeting happen. as well as sfgov-tv. this is a lot to put together and we really appreciate it. all right, sergeant youngblood can you hear me? >> stacy, you're muted. sorry about that. all right, i'll start again. to the members of the public this meeting is televised by sfgov-tv. if you're interested in making a public comment call in at the time that the line item is read. at the appropriate time the chair will ask for the phone lines to be opened. if you wish to comment on a particular item, press 1 and then 0. and this will add you to the qiew list. and the auto prompt will say that callers are entering

question and answer but this is public comment period. and you'll be queued up to the order in which you press 1, and 0 and there will be an automated voice to tell you when to speak. when your microphone is unmuted i will tell you that you have two minutes to begin talking. at 30 seconds i will tell you that you have 30 seconds remaining and when your time is up i will say thank you, next caller, please. at that point the moderator will put you back on mute. that number again for public comment is (888)-273-3658. and the access code is 3107452. and, again, we thank you for your patience. >> vice-president taylor: thank you. and so this is not the way that we wanted to do this and i want to extend on behalf of all of my fellow commissioners to really thank and to appreciate the outgoing commissioners thomas

masuko and mr. hirsch for their years with the city and county of san francisco. their last days as commissioners was april 30th and we were hoping to have a meeting in april and to send them off in a proper fashion and we're all really sorry that we were not able to do so. because of events beyond all of our controls. but i want to say a few words about both of them, you know. commissioner masuko served 13 years on the police commission and he was both vice president and president. and he performed his duties through a tenure of four different mayors and four different police commissioners. and commissioner hirsch was most recently commission president, he worked closely with the chief to help through a period of rapid change and reform. both terms ended at the end of april but we just really to take the time to thank them for their service and wish that we could have done so in person.

finally, this is really extraordinary and a difficult time so it's challenging to hold a meeting in this fashion so i ask my fellow commissioners and all presenters here tonight to again to b courteous. and please try to be brief because we have a full agenda. please call the first line item. >> clerk: as a matter of housekeeping to advise everybody that line item 4 has been removed from tonight's agenda. line item 1, public comment on all reports posted due to covid-19 shelter-in-place order. reports include d.p.a. monthly reports for november, december 2019, and january, february, and march 2020. first quarter 2020 disciplinary actions report. sfpd family code 6220-quartily report, january-march 2020. and first quarter 2020 electronic communication devices

for bias report. and sfpd 2019 language access annual report. and first quarter 2020 document protocol report. and first quarter 2020 safe streets report. and crisis intervention team 2019 end-of-year report. and chief's weekly reports for weeks of april 24, 2020, may 1, 20, and may 78, 2020. and d.p.a.'s weekly report for april 26, 2020, to may 2, 2020. public comment is now open, please dial and press 1, and 0. moderator, any calls on the line. >> we do have callers. should i put in the first one? >> you have five questions remaining. >> vice-president taylor: before we -- >> caller: i want to (indiscernible) and i didn't receive a response. i would like to appreciate that

you've (indiscernible) and commissioner safai (indiscernible) and the police commission meet. (indiscernible) planning has been meeting. planning and workforce and (indiscernible) at the oversight committee (indiscernible) and i never got an answer. it's so disturbing. i understand that this is supposed to be a chat that the public can see. i cannot see it, so i would like that to be -- may i suggest that this idea that this rapid change when we're only (indiscernible) by the justice department is an absurd statement. and (indiscernible) it's not equally and i can't understand why it's complicated for the board of supervisors. (indiscernible) so none of what is said in the preview

makes sense to me. (indiscernible) and i would have liked to have known because no one told me in time they were submitting tonight. so where is the chat? the public has right to see the chat. are you hearing me? can someone answer if you have heard what i said? >> clerk: we can hear you. >> (indiscernible). >> clerk: the chat is public as it is not viewable on the screen. >> thank you for clarifying. >> caller: (indiscernible) what does that mean? i'm sorry. go ahead. >> vice-president taylor: we can't have back-and-forth in public comment. so if yo we want to give you yor

two minutes but we can't have a back-and-forth. >> caller: you can respond to the public anytime that you want and you just can't have it on the agenda and making a decision on something. i have read the act and it's not true and since i was told that i could see the chat and i can't see the chat, i want to know how to do that. and so does the rest of the public. >> vice-president taylor: i think we clarified for you. anything else? >> caller: i couldn't hear him because it was cutting in and out, so what did he say? >> vice-president taylor: sergeant youngblood you want to explain how the chat works. >> clerk: the chat is within the application. in order for the commissioners to raise their hand when they wish to speak and there's no talking or chat going back and forth between the two, but it is a discoverable through the public records request. though it's not viewable on your screen. >> caller: got it. thank you.

>> you have five questions remaining. >> clerk: next caller. >> caller: this is ashley rava this ie with the league of california voters and the executive sponsor for the working group. i wanted to thank all of the commission for meeting today and for making every available option to continue the public comment, the public meetings. we do understand, and we will be flexible and patient as these situations are worked through in real-time. but i'd like to extend my gratitude for everybody within the department and the reporting, d.p.a., and the commissioners for their hard work on achieving the goal of meeting today. >> vice-president taylor: thank you very much.

>> clerk: thank you, caller. >> you have five questions remaining. >> clerk: this is for line item 1, this is not general public comment. next caller, you have two minutes. hello? >> caller, you're free to speak. it appears that the caller is either muted or has dropped the line. >> clerk: can we move to the next comment, please? >> you have four questions remaining. >> clerk: caller -- >> caller: this is angela. can you hear me? i'm trying to qualify if i'm able to speak to the bias policy now or it's going to be later on

in the agenda, if you can hear me. >> vice-president taylor: that would be later on in the agenda. >> caller: okay. >> vice-president taylor: right now it's only line item 1. >> caller: okay, thank you. >> vice-president taylor: thank you. >> you have three questions remaining. >> caller: hello, my name is john jones and i'd like to thank the commission for meeting today. to say that i'm unaware of anyplace on line that one can find the reports posted due to the covid-19 shelter-in-place order. i don't know where these reports are. thank you. >> you have two questions remaining. >> caller: hello. my name is michael petrelis and i'm a police accoun accountabily activist.

and i'm commenting on item 1. and i am not happy that there are i believe six to eight reports that were posted to the commission website in the past 48 hours and that you are asking the public to weigh in on six to eight reports that you issued during your hiatus. i believe that you owe us, the taxpayers and the public, the opportunity to weigh in with public comment on each of the reports. it is not okay that you glued them together into one item on your agenda. i must also address the comment that the secretary of the

commission made before item 1. you do not take public comment on remarks that we the public supposedly don't understand the difficulties of the commission to set up this meeting. the health commission, the port commission has been meeting for weeks -- months now. and it was not okay that the police commission has taken this long. if you have had trouble setting up these virtual meetings, call the public -- tell the public what we need to solve the problems. you never said exactly what the problems are. we're in the middle of big tech country and there are many people who could have helped solve your problems that would have allowed us to hold meetings before today. thank you.

>> you have one question remaining. >> caller: hi, i'm calling because i want to thank the rank and file -- hello? >> clerk: yes, we can hear you. >> caller: okay. i'm calling because i want to thank the rank and file officers of the san francisco police department for doing what they do every day, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. i want to reiterate that my thank you goes to the rank-and-file officers, not the commission, not the command staff. only the officers. bye. >> you have zero questions remaining. >> that was the end of the public comment queue for this item. >> clerk: thank you. commissioner taylor, commissioner hamasaki has a

question. >> vice-president taylor: yes, commissioner hamasaki. >> commisioner hamasaki: thank you. so i wanted to follow-up on the comments of miss altman and miss robeicheaux, and the accountability -- am i good, stacy? >> clerk: you are but we don't see your video. >> commisioner hamasaki: you don't see my video? not a much of a loss. if people can hear me i'm happy to continue. >> clerk: you can continue. >> commisioner hamasaki: okay. you know, this is -- this is -- i know that -- i know that a lot of people in the community were frustrated with us not meeting. and i can say that, you know, i don't want to continue some of the contentiousness that's happened around this. please accept my apology on

behalf of myself. i don't want to put anybody else into it. but, you know, we were told certain things that turned out not to be true. and that's really unfortunate. and i don't think that's how a commission and a civilian oversight body should operate. but, you know, i -- it caused a lot of pain, i know, in the community for a lot of people and it caused a lot of pain for some of us on the commission. i personally feel like i let you down by not pushing harder sooner and that's on me. you know, at a certain point we had to take action and commissioner dejesus and i did stand up and we heard all of the voices that spoke and the san francisco public defender's office wrote a letter to the league of women voters, and recognized the letter, that the

youth commission -- the transformative justice committee just did a wonderful letter as well. and we all heard you. and i know that the board of supervisors was very concerned about the lack of oversight that was taking place during this time. you know, i don't think that we need to continue to fight here about why it didn't happen. just on behalf of myself, i apologize for not pushing harder and not pushing sooner to make it happen. and we're not going to let it fall down regardless of -- we're not going to let politics -- i'm not going to let politics get in the way of this and technical difficulties and so forth. we're moving forward. we have a lot -- a lot of work to do, a lot has been backed up and regarding the comments about the number of items that have been placed on the agenda, i think -- i'm in agreement with

that. i did not have any part of putting together the agenda, but you can follow-up items and we can have presentations on these items and full discussion and full public comment in the future. and so if anybody wants to contact the commission staff, contact the commissioner about an item, i think that some of us on the commission might have items that we've seen that we might need to hear more about, so, you know, we hear you. and we appreciate all of the comments. and we are -- we are back in session and, you know, we're here to serve you. so, again, you know, my apologies for not doing more sooner. thank you. >> am i online, sergeant youngblood, can you see me? >> clerk: i can see you. >> vice-president taylor: thank you.

so i want to tell the commissioners with respect to line item one, if there's any items that the commissioner would like to see on the agenda in future weeks, just let me know or let the commission staff know and we can agendaize those items and we didn't want there to be a lack of information given to the public while we were not meeting. and so we were posting -- we posted a number of reports at a time when we were not meeting. so we can certainly do any of those reports for future commission meetings. so just let me know. okay, i think that it's time for the next line item. >> clerk: okay. line item 2. reports to the commission [discussion] 2a, chief's report. weekly crime trends, provide an overview of offenses occurring in san francisco. significant incidents, a chief's report will be limited to a

brief description to the significant incidents. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the incidents the chief describes for a future commission meeting. and major events, provide a summary of planned activities and events occurring since the previous meeting. this will include a brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in san francisco having an impact on public safety. commission discussion on unplanned events and activities the chief describes will be limited to determining whether to calendar for a future meeti meeting. okay. >> thank you, sergeant youngblood. can you guy -- can the commission hear me okay? yes, good evening, vice president taylor and commissioners. i'll start off my chief report with crime and then i'll talk about the other issues, including having an update on the department's covid response

and update on our progress on our 1421 efforts for our request for public record. so as far as crime, as of may 17th, crime overall -- crime overall is down 13%. and i'll break that down. it's been a long time since we met. i think that before the covid pandemic basically caused the shelter-in-place orders to go in effect, we were actually on an upward trend in crime, particularly in some of our violent crimes, including robbery. since the covid-19 shelter-in-place order we are now overall down 13%. what that represents is a number of about 1,700 fewer crimes. a little bit more than that, i'm sorry. about 1,800 fewer crime.

and the breakdown is we are -- property crime, we are 13% down. we have a 21% reduction in theft. and that category includes car break-ins, which we're down significantly, 25%, compared to this time last year. we are up, however, in burglaries. we're up 14% in burglaries and that number represents about 400 additional burglaries from this time last year. and up in vehicle thefts by 14%. which represents roughly about -- almost 303 vehicle thefts and we're up in arsons. in terms of violent crime we're down 10% overall. that is a difference of -- from 2,062 crime this is time last year to 1,852 crimes this year

so that's approximately 200 crimes down. we are up 13% in homicide which i am sad to report that. we had 15 this time last year and we had 17 year-to-date in homicides. we are down significantly in thefts and assaults and rapes. 150 this time last year and 75 currently. and robberies are down from 1,033 last year to 993 currently. that's a difference of about 4% reduction. and assaults were down about 11%, from 850 this time last year, to 760 currently. and with human trafficking down about 50% though the numbers are small, 14 this time last year and 17 currently. and in terms of our violent crime, our shootings are actually down from this time last year. our shooting victims, we had 24

year-to-date, as opposed to 32 this time last year so that represents a 25% reduction. however, our homicides with the use of a firearm are up to 7 last year and 11 year-to-date 2020, so that's a 38% increase. and, again, as i said year-to-date homicides are up by 13%. when you look at a five-year picture of homicides year-to-date we are compared to five years ago we are down and as that goes through 2019, we saw an overall trend line decrease through 2019. so we're up from last year and hopefully we can slow that down in the coming months. in terms of significant cases, there's only a couple. because there had been so few people out of doors with the

shelter-in-place we've actually had really good news to report as far as our crime picture. however, we have had shootings and as i said our homicides are up. last week on -- actually this week earlier -- earlier this week -- there was a shooting at laguna and eddie at approximately 2:00 p.m., the suspect vehicle double parked on laguna at 1100 blocks on laguna. two suspects exited and engaged a suspect in conversation and the one suspect pulled out a gun and shot the other in the leg. the injury was non-life-threatening, however, we've had a series of shootings up over the last month or so that have been a significant concern. there was one in the bayview area. and actually the outstrip housing development where over a hundred rounds were fired. we had one last week in the

district on -- on jewel, where 50 plus rounds were fired. so it's a significant concern. we do believe that those two are connected and part of a series of shootings and our investigators are working very hard to identify the people involved. so we will keep the commission and the public updated on those incidents as we develop more information and the investigations develop. but it's a significant concern for us to have that many rounds fired. in any location. and we also believe that there are some shootings connected to that series and other cities in the bay area, and we're working with those agencies to figure out exactly who is resp

>> clerk: you still have a quorum. item 13, vote whether to disclose items discussed in closed session. >> vice president taylor: you want to call roll? >> clerk: yes, but first, we need public comment. >> vice president taylor: okay. any public comment on item 13? >> operator: there are no members of the public in the queue for item 13. >> vice president taylor: okay. >> clerk: line item 14, adjournment. action item. >> vice president taylor: this was actually a motion to adjourn in memoriam for slain sfpd officers. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. >> vice president taylor: so we are going to adjourn in

memoriam of slain sfpd officers. >> so moved. >> second. >> clerk: the motion to adjourn in memoriam of slain sfpd officers -- [roll call] >> clerk: motion passes with five. >> vice president taylor: thank you. good night, everyone.

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what you should be thinking about in the future. >> we had own over 300 -- over 300 people who signed up for the one-on-one counseling today. >> i think in the world of leading, people sometimes discount the ability to lead quietly and effectively. the assessor's office is a big one. there are 58 counties in the state of california and every single county has one elected assessor in the county. our job is to look at property taxes and make sure that we are fairly taxing every single property in san francisco.

one of the big things that we do is as a result of our work, we bring in a lot of revenue, about 2.6 billion worth of revenue to the city. often, people will say, what do you do with that money, and i like to share what we do with property taxes. for every dollar we collect in property taxes, about 68 cents of it goes to support public sstss, our police officers, our fire departments, our streets, our cleaning that happens in the city. but i think what most people don't know is 34 cents of the dollar goes to public education. so it goes to the state of california and in turn gets allocated back to our local school districts. so this is an incredibly important part of what we do in this office. it's an interesting place to be, i have to say. my colleagues across the state have been wonderful and have been very welcoming and share their knowledge with me.

in my day-to-day life, i don't think about that role, being the only asian american assessor in the state, i just focus on being the best i can be, representing my city very well, representing the county of san francisco well. by being the only asian american assessor, i think you have a job to try to lift up and bring as many people on board, as well. i hope by doing the best that you can as an individual, people will start to see that your assessor is your elected leaders, the people that are making important decisions can look like you, can be like you, can be from your background. i grew up with a family where most of my relatives, my aunties, my uncles, my parents, were immigrants to the united states. when my parents first came here, they came without any relatives or friends in the united states. they had very little money, and

they didn't know how to speak english very well. they came to a place that was completely foreign, a place where they had absolutely nobody here to help them, and i can't imagine what that must have been like, how brave it was for them to take that step because they were doing this in order to create an opportunity for their family. so my parents had odd jobs, my dad worked in the kitchens, my mom worked as a seamstress sewing. as we grew up, we eventually had a small business. i very much grew up in a family of immigrants, where we helped to translate. we went to the restaurant every weekend helping out, rolling egg rolls, eating egg rolls, and doing whatever we need to do to help the family out. it really was an experience growing up that helped me be the person that i am and viewing public service the way that i do. one of the events that really stuck with me when i was growing up was actually the

rodney king riots. we lived in southern california at the time, and my parents had a restaurant in inglewood, california. i can remember smelling smoke, seeing ashes where we lived. it was incredibly scary because we didn't know if we were going to lose that restaurant, if it was going to be burned down, if it was going to be damaged, and it was our entire livelihood. and i remember there were a lot of conversations at that time around what it was that government to do to create more opportunities or help people be more successful, and that stuck with me. it stuck with me because i remain believe government has a role, government has a responsibility to change the outcomes for communities, to create opportunities, to help people go to school, to help people open businesses and be successful. >> make sure to be safe, and of course to have fun. >> and then, i think as you continue to serve in government, you realize that those convictions and the persons that you are really help to inform you, and so long as you go back to your core,

and you remember why you're doing what you're doing, you know, i think you can't go wrong. it's funny, because, you know, i never had thought i would do this. i became a supervisor first for the city under very unusual circumstances, and i can remember one day, i'm shopping with friends and really not having a care in the world about politics or running for office or being in a public position, and the next day, i'm sworn in and serving on the board of supervisors. for many of us who are going through our public service, it's very interesting, i think, what people view as a leader. sometimes people say, well, maybe the person who is most outspoken, the person who yells the loudest or who speaks the loudest is going to be the best leader. and i think how i was raised, i like to listen first, and i like to try to figure outweighs to work with -- out ways to

work with people to get things done. i hope that time goes on, you can see that you can have all sorts of different leaders whether at the top of city government or leading organizations or leading teams, that there are really different kinds of leadership styles that we should really foster because it makes us stronger as organizations. >> take advantage of all the wonderful information that you have here, at the vendor booth, at our seminars and also the one-on-one counseling. >> i wouldn't be where i was if i didn't have very strong people who believed in me. and even at times when i didn't believe in my own abilities or my own skills, i had a lot of people who trusted and believed i either had the passion or skills to accomplish and do what i did. if there was one thing that i can tell young women, girls, who are thinking about and dreaming about the things they want to be, whether it's being a doctor or being in politics, running an organization, being in business, whatever it is, i think it's really to just trust yourself and believe that who you are is enough, that you are

enough to make it work and to make things successful. shop and dine on the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within neighborhood. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and vibrant. where will you shop and dine in the 49? san francisco owes the charm to the unique character of the neighborhood comer hall district. each corridor has its own personality. our neighborhoods are the engine of the city. >> you are putting money and support back to the community you live in and you are helping small businesses grow. >> it is more environmentally friendly.

>> shopping local is very important. i have had relationships with my local growers for 30 years. by shopping here and supporting us locally, you are also supporting the growers of the flowers, they are fresh and they have a price point that is not imported. it is really good for everybody. >> shopping locally is crucial. without that support, small business can't survive, and if we lose small business, that diversity goes away, and, you know, it would be a shame to see that become a thing of the past. >> it is important to dine and shop locally. it allows us to maintain traditions. it makes the neighborhood.

>> i think san francisco should shop local as much as they can. the retail marketplace is changes. we are trying to have people on the floor who can talk to you and help you with products you are interested in buying, and help you with exploration to try things you have never had before. >> the fish business, you think it is a piece of fish and fisherman. there are a lot of people working in the fish business, between wholesalers and fishermen and bait and tackle. at the retail end, we about a lot of people and it is good for everybody. >> shopping and dining locally is so important to the community because it brings a tighter fabric to the community and allows the business owners to

thrive in the community. we see more small businesses going away. we need to shop locally to keep the small business alive in san francisco. >> shop and dine in the 49 is a cool initiative. you can see the banners in the streets around town. it is great. anything that can showcase and legitimize small businesses is a legitimize small businesses is a

good morning, everyone. the meeting will come to order. this is the may 20th, 2020, rescheduled budget and finance committee meeting. i'm sandra lee fewer, chair of the budget and finance committee. i'm joined by committee members shamann walton and rafael mandelman. our clerk is miss linda wong. i'd like to thank lawrence bryant from sfgov tv for broadcasting this meeting. madam clerk, do you have any announcement? >> clerk: yes, ma'am. the board of supervisors, legislative chair and committee room are closed. however, members will participate in the meeting remotely, at the same extent if they're physically present. public comment will be available both channel 26 andsfgovtv.org are dreaming the number across the screen. each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. comments or opportunities to speak during public comment

period are available via phone, by calling (888)204-5984, access 35010083501008. -- code 350-1008. and then press pound and pound again. when you're connected, dial one then zero to be added to the queue to speak. you'll be lined up in the system in the order you dial one and zero. while you're waiting, the system will be silent. the system will notify you when you're in line and waiting. all callers will remain on mute until their line is open. everyone must account for the same time delays and speaking discrepancies, coverage and streaming. best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly. and turn down your television or radio. alternatively, you may submit public comment in either of the following ways. email me at linda.wong @sfgov.org.

if you submit public comment esaw email, it will be included in the legislative file as part of the matter. written comments may be sent via u.s. postal service through 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place. items will be forwarded to the full forward for consideration on june 2nd, unless otherwise stated. >> commissioner fewer: can you please call item number 1. >> clerk: yes, madam chair. resolution authorizing the human services agency to execute a grant agreement between the city and county of through the human services agency. in the am of $144 million. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item shoulded

(888)204-5984, access code 350-1008. and press one and then zero to line up to speak. >> and today we have with us our guest. i'm sorry if i mispronounce your name. director of ihhs. and then we also have mark burns, executive director of homebridge. and we have joe nielsen, h.s.a. deputy director of programs. and david, h.s.a. contract manager. and i believe christa is up first. >> hi. good morning, chair fewer, supervisor walton and supervisor mandelman. i'm the director of in-home services, the program of disability and aging services. today i'm here to present for your consideration a request from the human service agency to enter into a contract with homebridge for the provision of contract mode ihhsbeginning julh

june 20th, 2025. ihhs is a medi-cal benefit, san francisco general fund will cover $27..5 million. please note that we originally submitted a resolution for $144,160,580. but agree with the recommendation to amend the legislation to reduce the contracts not to exceed amount to $142,000,265. >> commissioner mar: ihhs is a critically important entitle program that provides home care for low-income, older adults and individuals with disabilities. in san francisco, our ihhs program assists nearly 23,000 consumers and living safely in the community. the department of disability and

aging services operates this program on behalf of the state. and our department is responsible for carrying out standardized assessment with ihhs recipients to offer as program elgibility and allocate home care hours for household assistance such as laundry and meal preparation. to support all san francisco, ihhs is utilizing the program, we operate a robust range of supports designed to meet the tiered needs of our consumer population. this is the ihhs continuum of choice and support. contract mode is an essential part of this continuum. if the services help some of our city's most vulnerable residents to live safely in the community, specifically homebridge provides supported and supportive home care to roughly 4% of the ihss consumers, who can't direct their own home care. consumers of contract mode often

do not have any other support systems in their live. and without services from homebridge, would be a significant risk of eviction, hospitalization, and long-term institutionalization. during the covid-19 emergency, homebridge has further demonstrated their value role, through the implementation of the caregiver response team or as they call them sert.-- the rapid creation of this team required great flexibility, ininnovative thinking to ensure worker and consumer safety and effective provision of services in an ever-evolving team. the team is operating seven days a week in emergency site tallahassee are supporting homeless residents to shelter-in-place in. the duties range from supporting wellness checks, emergency on-call. i want to thank you for your time and consideration of this

resolution. in addition to contracts and budget staff from the human service agency, as you said, mark burns is the executive director of homebridge is available to answer any questions you might have. >> supervisor fewer: colleagues, any questions or comments? seeing none, we'll hear from the b.l.a., please. >> good morning, chair fewer, members of the committee. this -- the resolution would approve a new contract between homebridge and ihss for services for the five-year period from july 2020 to june 2025. homebridge was selected through a competitive process, but they were the only responder to the process, as i recall. but they also have been providing these services for a number of years now. we summarized the contract expenditures on page 4 of our report. as you'll see, this is a budget we were provided by the

department. the expenditures are about $142.2 million, which is less than the amount in the resolution, so we do recommend a reduction -- to amend the restore deuce to the amount provided in the contract budget. and we recommend approval. >> thank you very much. any comments or questions from my colleagues? seeing none, madam clerk, let's open up item number 1 for public comment, please. >> clerk: yes, madam chair, operation is checking to see if there's callers in the queue. if caller ares ready, if you have not already done so, please press one and zero to be added to the queue. for those already on hold, please continue to wait until you're prompted to begin at the beep. >> madam chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. public comment is now closed. i'd like to make a motion to move this item to the board with a positive recommendation.

madam clerk clerk, could i have roll call? >> clerk: excuse me. >> supervisor fewer: yes. and i can make a motion to approve the amendment brought forth by the b.l.a. could i have a roll call vote, please. >> clerk: on the motion to attend item number 1. supervisor walton? >> aye. >> clerk: supervisor mandelman? >> i three ayes. >> roll call vote, please. >> clerk: on that motion, supervisor walton? >> aye. >> supervisor mandelman? >> aye. >> chair fewer? >> aye. >> clerk: the ayes ayes are thri ayes. >> colleagues, we'll move to item number 3 first. >> clerk: item number, approving and updated conditional property

change agreement for property change agreement. under the jurisdiction of the fire department, in exchange for a portion of the property at 425 to 439 washington street. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call the (888)204-5984. >> also available to speak are san francisco fire department communications and outreach coordinator olivia and mark from mohcdand jonathan. so right now we're going hear from our director of real estate, mr. endrico. >> good good morning, chair few, supervisor mandelman and supervisor walton. again my name endrico and i am

the director of real estate. i'm seeking your positive recommendation on the updated conditional property exchange agreement or cpeafor the potential exchange of city-owned property located at 530 sansom street for a privately owned parcel, which is a portion of 425 to 439 washington street. this exchange is part of the new fire station 13 project. i have a presentation, if i can share the screen? hopefully you can see that? >> supervisor fewer: yes, we can. >> just a bit of legislative history. in june of 2017, the board authorized the use of the air rights at 530 sansome for the

development of affordable housing. the board authorized soliciting a proposal to develop market-rate housing and a new fire station at 530 sansome street, with the revenue dedicated to affordable housing at 72 pacific avenue. in may of 2019, the board conditionally approved the original cpea again conditional property exchange agreement, to facilitate the new high-rise development and the new fire station, both at no cost to the city. since that time, the project has been redesigned to better meet the needs of the fire department and the anticipated demands of the marketplace. these changes are substantive enough to warrant a new conditional approval, which we are before you today seeking. the changes from the original proposed cpa are as follows. the four station has been increased in size to 20,300

square feet. the original size was 19,266 square feet. this marks an increase of a little more than 1,000 square feet and a land partialel allocation increased by 26%. the developer is now swapping out 35 for-sale condos for 40,000 square feet of office. in addition, the developer is adding a voluntary fee of $1.6 million. the fire station delivery cost has increased to $31.2 million. and we also added an additional apparatus bay for the fire station. and i'll walk through the details of those changes. in the fee structure, the prior proposal included both the job housing linkage and in-lieu fees. with the removal of the condos or office, switching to j.h.

fees would result in less fee revenue. in order to offset this decrease, the developer has agreed to add an additional fee to capture those reduced revenues of $1.6 million. that's making the city whole for that change. the developer is also agreed to cover the increased cost for the delivery of the first-class, next-generation fire station. the cost increase was $5.7 million. fees allocated to 772 pacific affordable housing project will exceed $5.9 million, which is sufficient to complete the financing gap of that project. originally budgeted $4 million for this project. now we're at $5.9 million. again there are no fiscal impacts to the city, due to these changes.

the condition of project exchange agreement is also subject to the board and mayor's ratification post. that's the action that you're taking today is not the final approval of this project. with you will -- you will have another opportunity to review and approve the project, after the process. the efficient delivery of the new fire station, be it private delivery at no cost to the city, is currently estimated at $31.2 million, which as i said before is an increase from the original cost. private delivery put the risk of those cost escalations on the developer and not the city. upon completion of the project, any cost savings in the station delivery are realized by related, except that any savings below the original cost of $25.5 million will be paid to the city at the close of escrow. , in other words, this risk is

bracketed. the city in any event will certainly get the value and benefit of the original $25.5 million price. however, if there are savings between $31 million and the original $25 million, those savings go to the developer. on the other hand, if there are cost increases over the $31.2 million, that risk is born by the developer. all housing job linkage fees, which were estimated to be $5.9 million, will be dedicated to the 772 pacific avenue affordable housing project. this project will also require transferable development rights, which will be purchased by the city, which will generate an additional $5 million in general fund revenues. the project also requires prevailing wage and other city requirements, that would apply not only to the building of the new fire station, but the hotel

and office development. the developer is increasing its financial participation, while at the same time our updated appraisal shows that the city's property value has actually declined. the project would next proceed with entitlements. so if the approval is obtained, we anticipate permitting in 2021, 2022 after the final agreement is ratified and the ancillary documents. construction will begin in early 2022 and a new project should be completed by the end of 2023. just to give you a visual of what the project looks like in your orientation. what this picture is, it's not a very good one, i apologize. what it's intended to show is the pink box in the upper right -- let's go back.

how do you go back? one second, please. there we go. the pink box is the current location of the fire station and it's on the corner lot. the new fire station will be located in the block that is bordered in black-out lines. just to give you an orientation from the neighborhood. you see that the new project will be facing sansome street, it will be bordered by washington and merchant street. this is a diagram view of the stack of the project, as currently envisioned. you'll see the fire station in the lower right-hand side. the high-rise hotel office tower sits to its left. and you can see that portion of it is over the fire station. this is a rendering of the

north elevation on sansome street, facing the project. you can see the fire station in the lower left. and the high-rise tower above it. again noting the cantilever over a portion of the fire station. you'll also note that there are four bays in the fire station, when the original proposal only had three. next steps. the developer has made significant design changes. we believe that these changes favor the city and they produce a better project for the fire station. it is also in favor of the developer, because these changes deliver a better project, that is positioned to be successful in tomorrow's marketplace. and specifically switching out the office for the condos. that concludes my presentation. i'm available to answer any of your questions. i also have with me jonathan,

the senior vice president for related california. i believe mara from the mayor's office of housing and community development is also on the line. and olivia scanlon from the fire department are also available to answer your questions. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. any comments or questions from my colleagues? mr. pinnic, i have one clarification. in your presentation, you mentioned about a couple of facts. you mentioned that our city property has -- the value has decreased. and and i think you gave a -- verbally you said a some of -- i think it was before that. the page before that one. yeah. you said -- $5 million and you have $3 million plus. so is it, indeed, $5 million? >> i'm sorry. could you repeat the question?

>> supervisor fewer: on the second bullet point, when you read it out loud, we're reading, resulting in additional general fund revenues of $3 million plus. and you gave in your verbal presentation $5 million. >> chair fewer, i must have misspoken. we anticipate that the sale of t.d.r. will generate a little more than $3 million. >> supervisor fewer: okay. shucks. okay. i thought it was the $5 million. >> no. the linkage fee prime minister $5.9 million. additional $3 million in t.d.r. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much for the clarification. any comments or questions from my colleagues? seeing none, there is no report on this. so madam clerk, can we open up this item for public comment, please? >> clerk: yes, madam chair. operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. please let us know if there are

callers that are ready. if you have not already done so, please press one and zero to be added to the queue. for those on hold, please continue to wait until you're promised to begin at the beep. >> yes, madam clerk, there are no callers wishing to speak. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. and thank you, mr. pinnic, for your presentation and all of your work on this. colleagues, i'd like to make ha motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. could i have a roll call vote, please. >> clerk: on the motion, supervisor walton? >> aye. >> supervisor mandelman? >> aye. >> clerk: chair fewer? >> aye. >> clerk: three ayes. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. thank you very much. madam clerk, can you please read item number 4. >> clerk: yes. to enter an agreement between the city and the county for microsoft cloud software and

enterprise products for a 39-month term from june 1st, 2020, through august 31st, 2023, in an amount not to exceed $40 million. members of the public who want to provide public comment, should call (888)204-5984, access code 350-1008. and. >> supervisor preston: -- press one and then zero to line up to speak. >> supervisor fewer: today we have linda from the city and executive director from the department of technology. good morning, board members. i'd like to share my screen. ready? we're ready to go. thank you for your time this morning. and thank you also to the financial team, policy team and, of course, sfgov and the clerk's office for the virtual meeting. of course, this is new for all

of us. but it's working well. thank you for this opportunity. d.t. is requesting authorization and approval for a three-year, citywide enterprise agreement for microsoft products. and i'll talk to you a little bit about what that includes. this enterprise agreement is a contract with -- for the purchase of microsoft products, software licenses, maintenance and support and training. these products include our productivity tools, office 365, server and server for our databases, as your cloud storage and server processing and cybersecurity. this was a competitive solicitation. we are piggybacking on the riverside contract, which means we're leveraging that contract with microsoft. and it was negotiated on behalf of the state of california. it's negotiated at a government-level "d." importantly it also includes a

minus 2% discount. there is no other state in the u.s. that has received a discount over and above the level "d" pricing, let alone the extra 2% discount. we created a pool of 10 qualified microsoft resellers and conducted an r.f.q. for these resellers and zones was selected as the lowest responsive bidder for this procurement. a bit about enterprise agreements and why they're so important to the city. this enterprise agreement represents basically 26 contracts for 26 departments in the city. all in one contract. the departments can order licenses immediately and pay annually. d.t. maintains a pool of licenses available to the departments and even order, if handled separately, would have required a procurement process,

as opposed to this pool of licenses, that is available to our departments. this enterprise agreement really helps us with transparency and visibility on the total city spend for this contract and for this technology. so we have much more efficient procurement and vendor management. and, of course, there's savings as we negotiated better discount, because we had a volume purchase. so the savings is definitely in the work that it takes to bring through procurements much more efficient. we are able to control total spend and we definitely have savings through our volume and similar terms and conditions. the term of our contract with zone is 39 months. it's a minimum commitment of $32 million. the previous contract cass --

was $32 million. it includes $4 million projected annual products, for additional products. so based on historical usage, we know the amount will go up or down. we're projecting $4 million. and $4 million reserved for email enhancement security. about the security enhancement. that serve is -- would be dedicated to the threat protection product line from microsoft. the enterprise mobility security suite and both of these new capabilities, with the microsoft lines, would allow us to replace some current products that we have right now. of course, this procurement would be subject to future appropriation by the mayor and board of supervisors. so a bit about how this contract was negotiated and the savings

that's in this contract. first, of course, we pooled all of the microsoft licenses to obtain that volume discount. again each department used to purchase their licenses individually. so they have -- this allows us to be much more efficient in our use of licenses and minimizes that license use. we also have successfully negotiated a lower contract price. the government-level "d," minus the 2%, which resulted in the $700,000 contract savings. also this includes unified support, which is the support, training, troubleshooting from microsoft, which was a 15% of contract value and we reduced it with negotiations to 7%. that's a $1.2 million contract savings. and also most importantly, again is this management of our licenses across the city. so we monitor the usage of the

microsoft licenses, and we're proactively with our departments to deactivate licenses that are not being used. we were able to reduce over 6,000 licenses, which resulted in a $1.5 million contract savings. key benefits of the microsoft product line. of course, we're all familiar with the productivity tool, the use of power b.i. for our dashboards and visualization, teams, which has been so critical to our telecommuting for file-sharing, chat, video conferencing, share point for document management. i just looked at some new statistics. and for over the last nine weeks, as we have been in our emergency, we have saved over 1 million documents into over 200 new -- 200,000 new sharepoint sites. so we've been very busy. and, of course, accessibility. the microsoft product line provides closed captioning, speech-to-text, dictation, and

various integrations with pointing devices. i would like to point out microsoft's role, as we have partnered with them in our covid response. definitely our virtual meetings are all possible because of microsoft teams. it has been used in the department of technology for our -- the vision meetings, every meeting, keeping in touch with our clients, as well as our staff. they were very helpful when we had a security problem that needed to be resolved quickly, like in 24 hours. and they put their very best engineers on it immediately to work with sysco and oracle, which enabled our virtual private network to over 15,000 remote workers. so we appreciated that support. they have been providing free training workshops and webinars on microsoft teams, sharepoint and one drive. and that has helped all of our

workforce come up to speed quickly on these tools. and other initiatives such as security -- a security application that we built with power apps at the e.o.c. d.p.h. covid dashboard was built with power b.i. a shared application for inmate exposure tracking has 100 users and was built with power app. so all of these tools help us be very effective and efficient and serve our community during this crisis. sop i'm ready for any questions and i also have on the line mike, who is our chief information cybersecurity officer. brian roberts is our senior policy advisory analyst. our d.p. contracts manager is on the phone and our soft contract leads is on the line. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. any comments or questions from my colleagues?

seeing none, could we have the b.l.a. report, please? >> yes. good morning, members of the committee. this contract -- this resolution approves the 39-month contract between d.p. and zone l.l.c., as was said. it was selected through a process. because of timing, this would not actually go to the board until the -- after june 1st. the amount of the contract is $40 million. we summarized spending by department over the 39 months in page 9 of our report. you'll see that the amount is $32 million. and there's a 15% tool-up for changes in the number of licenses required by city departments. all of this spending is subject to board of supervisors' approval and the city budget. there's also an additional more

than $3 million set aside in the contract for enhanceed cybersecurity, that is discretionary and would be subject to board approval. we recommend approval of the resolution. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, ms. campbell. any comments or questions from my colleagues? seeing none, madam clerk, can we open this up for public comment, please? >> clerk: yes, madam chair. operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. please let us know if there are callers that are ready. if you have not already done so, please press one and zero to be added to the queue. >> madam chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, mr. cue. i wanted to say i think this is good work. it is much more efficient, it is much more effective and also saves us money. so thank you. and thank you very much to your team for this good work on

behalf of the city and county of san francisco. having said that, i'd like to make a motion to move this to the board for a positive recommendation. madam clerk, can we have a roll call vote? >> clerk: supervisor walton? >> aye. >> clerk: supervisor mandelman? >> aye. >> clerk: chair fewer? >> aye. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. colleagues, let's go back to item number 2. madam clerk, can you please call item number 2. >> clerk: resolution retroactively -- to accept and expends a grant in the amount of 190,000 from the california department of public health and participate in a program, for the period of december 1st, 2019, to june 30th, 2020. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call the (888)204-5984, access code 350-1008. and press one and then zero to

line up to speak. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, madam clerk. today we have with us katie from the department of public health. ms. berg. >> hi. thank you very much. my name is katie berg, i'm the viral hepatitis coordinator with san francisco department of public health and the population health savings. although i'm currently activated for the covid response in the community engagement and mitigation branch. we'd like to ask for the approval to accept and expend the total $190,406 budget from the california department of public health. this is to support our hepatitis c activities. we've made significant progress in hepatitis c in treatment, hepatitis c testing and treatment access efforts in san francisco. these additional funds were awarded by a noncompetitive grant from the california department of public health, based on a formula that was at several different epidemiological points.

we'd like to allocate money going to a community-based organization that will support microelimination of hepatitis c, among people living with h.i.v., by doing care and navigation and support. we'd also like to allocate $38,753 to l health for a temporary research project, that assesses perry natal hepatitis c and vulnerability in san francisco. and an additional $86,223 -- that will help support both our hepatitis c surveillance infrastructure shift to be able to collect negatives, hepatitis c r.n.a. results and supporting planning with our community-based initiative on adapting our models to the covid era. thanks very much for your consideration. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, ms. berg. colleagues, any comments or questions? seeing none, there is no b.l.a.

at the moment. madam clerk, item number 2 for public comment. >> clerk: madam chair, operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. please let us know if callers are ready. if you have not already done so, please press one and zero to be added to the queue. for those already on hold, please wait to be prompted at the beep. >> madam chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, mr. cue. and i'd like to make a motion to move to the board with a positive recommendation. madam clerk, can we please have a roll call vote. >> clerk: on the motion, supervisor walton? >> aye. >> clerk: supervisor mandelman? >> aye. >> clerk: their fewer? >> aye. >> there are three ayes. thanks very much. >> supervisor fewer: madam clerk, can you please >> caller: item number?

[reading agenda item] members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item, should call the (888)204-5984, access code 350-1008. and press one and then zero to line up to speak. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. today we are kimberly from mohcd. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm kim, a development specialist with the office of community investment and infrastructure. the resolution will authorize the issuance of up to $449,132,841. this project is located within the mission bay south redevelopment plan area, administered by oci. the project sponsors are bridge

housing and community housing partnerships, block 9 will provide 141 units, including one dedicated manager's unit of affordable rental housing for formerly homeless households and on-site supportive services. units will be studios and resident amenities will include a large central court yard, community garden, bicycle parking and a community room with kitchen. the project will receive operating support through the city's local operating subsidy program. and this bond transaction is conduit financing, which does not require the city to pledge repayment of the bond. additional financing sources include both state and federal low-income housing tax credits and award from the federal home loan bank affordable housing program and a loan from oci. the board's approval of this bond issuance will keep us on track for a close of construction financing and a construction start this july. the project would be ready for

occupancy in december of 2021. that concludes the staff presentation. and i'm happy to answer any questions that you might have. we also have sarina callaway, representative from community housing partnerships on the line and available to speak. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. any comments or questions from my colleagues? there is no b.l. report on this. madam clerk, can we open up public comment for item number 5. >> clerk: yes, madam chair. operations is checking to see if callers are in the queue. if you have not already done so, please press one and then zero to be added to the queue. for those already on hold, please continue to wait until you are prompted to begin at the beep. >> madam chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. i just want to say hurry up and build this, because we need it. [laughter] i'd like to make a motion. a positive recommendation. could i have a roll call vote, please. >> clerk: on that motion,

supervisor walton? >> aye. >> clerk: supervisor mandelman? >> aye. >> chair fewer? >> aye. >> clerk: three ayes. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. >> clerk: item number 6, resolution authorizing the execution and delivery of a multi-f.m. housing revenue note in one or more series in an aggregate principle amount not to exceed $67 million. 104-unit m housing project at 1049 golden gate avenue, known as the frederick douglas haynes. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item, should call the (888)204-5984, access 350-1008. and press one and then zero to line up to speak. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. we have christina with us today from mohcd. >> hi, good morning. i'm christina moon.

i'm with mohcd. before you is the proposed bond, to fund the rehab of frederick douglas haynes apartments. it's an existing 104-unit family affordable apartment complex, located at 1049 golden gate avenue in the fillmore. the project, since you've seen it last fall, has not fundamentally changed. we presented you the inducement in september. it's a conduit financing with no recourse to the city. 95% of the units currently serve households earning less than 80% of s.f.a.m.i. serving households less than 150% a.m.i. the substantial renovation includes replacement of roof, structural and dry rot repair, windows, a little replacing the heating and plumbing systems and provide new finishes for tenants. no residents will be displaced. however, there will be temporary relocation for up to seven

months. and considering the current conditions, the sponsors are preparing relocation plans, that incorporate safety precautions for tenants under covid-19, including protocols for the moving company, pre, and post-occupancy moving, extends the move schedules to reduce risk of exposure. relocation team is actively working with d.p.h. on best practices to ensure residents are safe. the sponsors secured the allocation from the state for $47,760,000. the project expects to close in late june, with construction starting in july and running through december of 2021. and the financing and legal team have prepared the final documents you see before you. the project will also continue to comply with all of our city requirements, including paying prevailing wages. with me i have the sponsor representative michael simmons

on the line for any questions. thank you very much. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. any comments or questions from my colleagues? therapy is no b.l.a. report on this. madam clerk, we'll open this up for public comment on item number 6, please. >> clerk: yes, madam clerk. operation is checking to see if there are callers in the queue. please let us know if callers are ready if you have not done so, please press one and zero to be added to the queue. for those on hold, please continue to wait until you're prompted to begin at the beep. >> madam chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. i'd like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. could we have a roll call vote, please. >> clerk: yes. on that motion, supervisor walton? >> aye. >> clerk: supervisor mandelman? >> aye. >> clerk: chair fewer? >> aye. >> clerk: there are three ayes. madam clerk, can you please call

items 7, 8, 9 and 10 together. >> clerk: item number 7, approving the fiscal year 2020 to 2021 housing opportunities for persons with aideses hopwa program and authorizing the mayor to apply and expand the fiscal year 2020-2021 hopwa program from the united states department of housing and urban development in the amount of $7 million and to expend program income and reprogram funds in the amount of $3.2 million for a combined total of $10.2 million. item number 8, resolution approving the fiscal year 2020 to 2021 emergency solutions grant program, and authorizing the mayor to apply for, accept and expend the city's fiscal year 2020-to 2021e.s.g. program entitlement from the united states department of housing and urban development, in the amount of $1.5348. item number 9, resolution approving the fiscal year 2020-2021 community development

block grant program. in an amount of $18.6 million and to expends program income and reprogrammed funds in the amount of $6.9 million for a combined total of approximately $25.6 million. and item number 10, resolution approving the fiscal year 2021 to 2021 home investment partnership program and the extend the city's home program from the united states department of housing and urban development in the amount of $5.4 million and to expended program income in the am of $2.4 million for a combined total of $7.8 million.

>> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. supervisor walton, would you like to make a comment after we have the presentation from mr. brian chu? >> yes, chair fewer. i just wanted to state i'll have specific questions for item number 9. >> supervisor fewer: that's great. thank you very much, supervisor. so mr. brian chu is here from the -- he's the director of mohcd. >> good morning, chair fewer and committee members. brian chu, director of community development for the mayor's office of housing and community development. so i will take you through the four accept and expand resolutions we have before us. the first is our h.u.d. resolution, accept and expend our hopwa dollars. these are dollars that come to us on a formula basis. again we are now asking for

permission to expend approximately $10 million of hopwa. the hopwa program has been a consistent program, which focuses on providing long-term rental subsidies to individuals living with h.i.v. we wish to maintain that ongoing obligation to those individuals. we have about 180 individuals that receive these permanent subsidies. we also provide ongoing support to our five residential care facilities for the chronically ill. that is peter house, leyland house, the richard cohen, marketplace. we also provide support for san mateo county. our formula allocation covers both san francisco and san mateo county. so we then give a portion of our dollars to san mateo county, based on the percentage of people living with h.i.v., both here in san francisco and in san mateo.

so that is that continuing hopwa program, that is largely maintained from what we've done last year. on the emergency solutions grant program, we have a spend of approximately $1.6 million. those emergency solution grant funds are actually administered now through the department of homelessness and supportive housing. they will be maintaining their support for emergency shelters essential services. and a small amount towards homeless prevention services. again that totals about $1.6 million. focusing again primarily on homeless shelters from domestic violence shelters, from rapid rehousing services, and then small amount of homeless prevention services. on item number 10, which is the home dollars.

home dollars are federal dollars that are allowed to be used for the construction of new housing. that's what we've asked for in total. the community development block grant funds can only be used for rehab and not for new construction. so we put all of our home dollars into a pool, that we can then use for future new construction for projects. lastly on item number 9, we have our community development block grant dollars, the combined total of about $25 million. these dollars are allocated between our department mohcd and the office of economic and workforce development. as you see on the expenditure schedule, a portion of the funds goes specifically to a variety of workforce development projects, occupational skills training, sector training that

are selected through economic workforce development. a separate portion is set aside for economic development purposes, small business assistance, and commercial corridor work. you can see that listed there under the different priorities. and then the majority of the grants, that go through the mayor's office of housing and community development, are focused in the areas of primarily the eviction prevention and housing it place-based services. so this might look a little bit different from cdbg schedules that we have presented to you in the past, where we have block grant funds spread out across a broader vate of -- variety of agencies. as we look forward to how we best wanted to manage these funds, we had realized and we're responsive to a number of organizations about the heavier

reporting requirements attached to the community development block grant program. so we chose to consolidate those grants with a smaller number of groups that had the administrative capacity to oversee these funds. and then instead allocate our general fund dollars, that have less onerous reporting requirements, to a number of those smaller community-based organizations. that's why you can see on our expenditure schedule, we have approximately $3.7 million going out specifically towards our eviction prevention work, trying to keep people from being displaced. and then we also allocated about $900,000 under our housing place-based services. those go largely to organizations that are serving people in sunnydale, alex griffith and hunter's view and some of our work in the s.r.o.

areas. we also needed to make sure that our cdbg funding qualified for services under the h.u.d. neighborhood revitalization strategy area. that's why we needed to make sure that their clientele, fit within the six priority neighborhoods, which are bay view, mid-valley, chinatown, mission, soma and tenderloin. those are the strategy areas. so that's a quick overview of our funding strategies. this would allow us to move forward and have it approved by the board and submitted with our initial action plan submission. the plan is due to h.u.d. by june 15th. it would have been initially due by april 15th and we asked for a short extension, in view of covid and some of the challenges with the budgeting process.

but the actual plan will now be due on june 15th. so those are the four resolutions we're asking for proposal and happy to answer any questions you might have. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, mr. chu. i'd like to call my on my colleague, shamann walton. >> supervisor walton: thank you so much, chair fewer. i just have a few questions. and this is in regards to item number 9. can you share with the committee the process for selecting and distributing resources under this pot of money? >> sure. so the procurement for these community development block grant dollars was part of a larger request for proposals that was put out in the fall of

2019. that included both community development block grant dollars, as well as general fund dollars and housing trust fund dollars. it's part of that comprehensive process. we put it out, you know, in august. it went through a review and evaluation process. the initial recommendations were issued -- i would want to say perhaps back in february. and while we are moving forward now with the federal portion, because those dollars were not necessarily affected by the city's own budgeting process, we have another set of recommendations that will be coming out at a later date, with the federal fund dollars. so although it was all one large procurement, we are moving this forward, based on the federal deadlines. and then the other general fund

recommendations that were part of that same procurement will be finalized later on in this year. >> supervisor walton: is it true the r.f.p. -- yet only 20% of -- 2% of the 4 -- $42 million went to organizations. there was a focus on equity and where's the equity in that? >> i think the r.f.p., as we designed, included a number of targeted communities that were in alignment with our overall consolidated plan. that did include african-american communities, as well as immigrant communities, limited english-speaking populations, the transgender communities. so, yes, african-americans were a part of that target population

we did receive, during -- we have a public hearing after we issue our preliminary recommendations. and as you're aware and your colleagues may also be aware, we did hear from a significant number of organizations, including a large number of black-led organizations, did feel as if the investment in their organizations was insufficient. separately from this request for proposals, and in discussions with the mayor's budget office and with that coalition, we agreed to identify an additional $2 million that we would have -- that would have been part of next year's investment strategy. and we realigned those $2 million in a specific

supplemental r.f.p., focused entirely on organizations that primarily serve the african-american community and/or are led by african-americans. we issued the first r.f.p. for that about a month ago. those proposals for that first $1 million were received just this past friday. and we hope to make our final decision on those proposals at the end of june. we also have an additional $1 million that is going to be focusing on capacity building within the african-american community, that will be issuing once we get through this first initial process. so the fashioning of that first 1 -- $1 million was done in close collaboration with a coalition of black-led organizations that had initially approached us and working with the director of the human rights commission and we anticipate working with those organizations

again, as we issue r.f.p. for the second $1 million. the other portion of our general fund dollars have not yet deny we've not made a final decision on that. the committee is aware that our department just received our budget instructions on tuesday. and we were asked to not finalize any decisions regarding our general fund portfolio, until we receive those budget instructions. we just received those yesterday. so we will be working with the mayor's budget office to determine how do we best implement those budget instructions, as we move forward with finalizing that other set of recommendations. >> supervisor walton: and i know you say -- you heard me say this before, i think it's an absolute disgrace the way your department works to allocate resources, specifically because you prioritize certain populations in your r.f.p. and

stated this is what you wanted to prioritize. yet very small percentages of resources went to the organizations that you stated you actually wanted to see as a priority. and now we're in the middle of a health crisis. a major pandemic, which is going to affect us economically. and even according to what you just said, organizations may be even impacted at a higher disproportionate level, because they didn't receive resources on the front enterprise agreement. now organizations of color, because we're in the middle of a crisis, they're going to be more isolated and disenfranchised. i have to say this on record again that the racism that exists from the funding allocation is something that we cannot let continue. and i am aware of the additional resources that are being allocated, that are coming from the general fund, by the way.

but i haven't heard from your department and i have talked to you about this. i have talked to gordon when he was there. i haven't heard anything about -- from your department that's going to tell us how you're going to address the systemic racism that exists. and continues to exist at o.c.d., particularly in regards to how it's in your funding allocation. we're the budget committee. we're going to approve -- we're being asked to approve resources that are not going to be distributed equitably. and we're going for know that as we approve this. so what are you doing to address the systemic racism? you don't necessarily have to answer that now. we do know that it's been a problem for a long time. yet there's been nothing that i've seen or heard that is going to address the systemic racism. all you've done is allocate more resources to populations that you disregarded on the front

end. the last thing i'll say, and thank you for the time, chair fewer, if we look at the area of community development. we know we have an obligation to support a smaller organizations, our organizations of color. and we just cannot have this department continue to ignore the equity focus of our city, the proposed priorities of its own -- of its own department and looking at crisis like this, the inequity of our priority really rises to the top. we can't perpetuate the gaps, the don't impact of our community and organizations of color. the inequitable of resources can never, ever happen again in san francisco. and they should be ashamed as a city department to allow this to continuously happen from r.f.p. to r.f.p.

thank you for the time, chair fewer. >> thank you, chair walton. supervisor mandelman. >> i would simply ask -- like i would simply like to ask to be out of the co-sponsor to item number 7. >> thank you very much. there's no b.l.a. report on this. let's, madam clerk, let's open these items up -- items 7, 8, 9 and 10 for public comment. >> clerk: yes, madam chair. operation is checking for see if any callers in the queue. please let us know if there are callers that are ready. if you have not already done so, please press one and zero to be added to the queue. for those already on hold, please continue to wait until you are prompted to begin at the beep. >> madam chair, i do have one caller in the queue. i will queue him now. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. >> operator: you have one question remaining.

>> caller: good morning, chair fewer and supervisors. dr. mow nobody, executive director. a member of the executive leadership of the s.f. black, the san francisco black-led organizations. we fully support supervisor walton's comments and join in demanding accountability. and equity for african-americans and how they get funding and how mocd and ask the question of how they're going to address systemic racism. additionally, we believe that black-organizations and the black african-american community, it's unconscionable that on an equity platform, less than 2% of the funding went to black-led organizations. we are still waiting to learn about funding for our communities and that they've continued to keep us waiting, even while promising to address the need is unconscionable. we are here, we are watching and we will not be silenced. our communities are in crisis. and we demand action and response and thank you so much,

supervisor walton. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. >> operator: you have one question remaining. >> clerk: hello, caller? hello, caller? >> operator: you have zero questions remaining. >> madam chair, that completes the queue. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. madam clerk, let's take these items separately. and so i'd like to make a motion to move item 7 to the board with a positive recommendation, could i have a roll call vote, please. >> clerk: yes. that motion, supervisor walton? >> yes. >> supervisor mandelman? >> aye. >> clerk: supervisor fewer? >> aye.

>> clerk: three ayes. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. i'd like to make a motion to move item 8 to the board with a positive recommendation, could i have a roll call vote please. >> clerk: supervisor walton? >> aye. >> clerk: supervisor mandelman? >> aye. >> clerk: chair fewer? >> supervisor fewer: >> aye. >> clerk: three ayes. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. supervisor walton, would you like to make a motion on item number 9? >> i'd like to move item number 9 without recommendation. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. a roll call vote, please. >> clerk: on the motion, supervisor walton? >> aye. >> clerk: supervisor mandelman? >> aye. >> clerk: chair fewer? >> supervisor fewer: aye. >> clerk: there are three ayes. neuroi'd like to make a motion to move item 10 forward to the board with a positive recommendation. a roll call vote, please. >> clerk: on that motion,

supervisor walton. >> aye. >> clerk: supervisor mandelman. >> aye. >> clerk: chair fewer? >> supervisor fewer: >> aye. >> clerk: there are three ayes. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. madam clerk, is there any any more business before us today? >> clerk: there is no further business. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, madam clerk, we are adjourned.

>> we have private and public gardens throughout the garden tour. all of the gardens are volunteers. the only requirement is you're willing to show your garden for a day. so we have gardens that vary from all stages of development and all gardens, family gardens, private gardens, some of them as

small as postage stamps and others pretty expansive. it's a variety -- all of the world is represented in our gardens here in the portola. >> i have been coming to the portola garden tour for the past seven or eight years ever since i learned about it because it is the most important event of the neighborhood, and the reason it is so important is because it links this neighborhood back to its history. in the early 1800s the portola was farmland. the region's flowers were grown in this neighborhood. if you wanted flowers anywhere future bay area, you would come to this area to get them. in the past decade, the area has tried to reclaim its roots as the garden district. one of the ways it has done that is through the portola garden

tour, where neighbors open their gardens open their gardens to people of san francisco so they can share that history. >> when i started meeting with the neighbors and seeing their gardens, i came up with this idea that it would be a great idea to fundraise. we started doing this as a fund-raiser. since we established it, we awarded 23 scholarships and six work projects for the students. >> the scholarship programs that we have developed in association with the portola is just a win-win-win situation all around. >> the scholarship program is important because it helps people to be able to tin in their situation and afford to take classes. >> i was not sure how i would

stay in san francisco. it is so expensive here. i prayed so i would receive enough so i could stay in san francisco and finish my school, which is fantastic, because i don't know where else i would have gone to finish. >> the scholarships make the difference between students being able to stay here in the city and take classes and having to go somewhere else. [♪] [♪] >> you come into someone's home and it's they're private and personal space. it's all about them and really their garden and in the city and urban environment, the garden is the extension of their indoor environment, their outdoor living room. >> why are you here at this garden core? it's amazing and i volunteer here every year. this is fantastic. it's a beautiful day.

you walk around and look at gardens. you meet people that love gardens. it's fantastic. >> the portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year. mark your calendars every year. you can see us on the website

>> this is one place you can always count on to give you what you had before and remind you of what your san francisco history used to be. >> we hear that all the time, people bring their kids here and their grandparents brought them here and down the line. >> even though people move away, whenever they come back to the city, they make it here. and they tell us that. >> you're going to get something made fresh, made by hand and made with quality products and something that's very, very good. ♪ >> the legacy bars and restaurants was something that was begun by san francisco simply to recognize and draw attention to the establishments. it really provides for san francisco's unique character. ♪

>> and that morphed into a request that we work with the city to develop a legacy business registration. >> i'm michael cirocco and the owner of an area bakery. ♪ the bakery started in 191. my grandfather came over from italy and opened it up then. it is a small operation. it's not big. so everything is kind of quality that way. so i see every piece and cut every piece that comes in and out of that oven. >> i'm leslie cirocco-mitchell, a fourth generation baker here with my family. ♪ so we get up pretty early in the morning. i usually start baking around 5:00.

and then you just start doing rounds of dough. loaves. >> my mom and sister basically handle the front and then i have my nephew james helps and then my two daughters and my wife come in and we actually do the baking. after that, my mom and my sister stay and sell the product, retail it. ♪ you know, i don't really think about it. but then when i -- sometimes when i go places and i look and see places put up, oh this is our 50th anniversary and everything and we've been over 100 and that is when it kind of hits me. you know, that geez, we've been here a long time. [applause] ♪ >> a lot of people might ask why our legacy business is important. we all have our own stories to tell about our ancestry.

our lineage and i'll use one example of tommy's joint. tommy's joint is a place that my husband went to as a child and he's a fourth generation san franciscan. it's a place we can still go to today with our children or grandchildren and share the stories of what was san francisco like back in the 1950s. >> i'm the general manager at tommy's joint. people mostly recognize tommy's joint for its murals on the outside of the building. very bright blue. you drive down and see what it is. they know the building. tommy's is a san francisco hoffa, which is a german-style presenting food. we have five different carved meats and we carve it by hand at the station.

you prefer it to be carved whether you like your brisket fatty or want it lean. you want your pastrami to be very lean. you can say i want that piece of corn beef and want it cut, you know, very thick and i want it with some sauerkraut. tell the guys how you want to prepare it and they will do it right in front of you. san francisco's a place that's changing restaurants, except for tommy's joint. tommy's joint has been the same since it opened and that is important. san francisco in general that we don't lose a grip of what san francisco's came from. tommy's is a place that you'll always recognize whenever you lock in the door. you'll see the same staff, the same bartender and have the same meal and that is great. that's important.

♪ >> the service that san francisco heritage offers to the legacy businesses is to help them with that application process, to make sure that they really recognize about them what it is that makes them so special here in san francisco. ♪ so we'll help them with that application process if, in fact, the board of supervisors does recognize them as a legacy business, then that does entitle them to certain financial benefits from the city of san francisco. but i say really, more importantly, it really brings them public recognition that this is a business in san francisco that has history and that is unique to san francisco.

>> it started in june of 1953. ♪ and we make everything from scratch. everything. we started a you -- we started a off with 12 flavors and mango fruits from the philippines and then started trying them one by one and the family had a whole new clientele. the business really boomed after that. >> i think that the flavors we make reflect the diversity of san francisco. we were really surprised about the legacy project but we were thrilled to be a part of it. businesses come and go in the city. pretty tough for businesss to stay here because it is so expensive and there's so much

competition. so for us who have been here all these years and still be popular and to be recognized by the city has been really a huge honor. >> we got a phone call from a woman who was 91 and she wanted to know if the mitchells still owned it and she was so happy that we were still involved, still the owners. she was our customer in 1953. and she still comes in. but she was just making sure that we were still around and it just makes us feel, you know, very proud that we're carrying on our father's legacy. and that we mean so much to so many people. ♪ >> it provides a perspective. and i think if you only looked at it in the here and now, you're missing the context.

for me, legacy businesses, legacy bars and restaurants are really about setting the context for how we come to be where we are today. >> i just think it's part of san francisco. people like to see familiar stuff. at least i know i do. >> in the 1950s, you could see a picture of tommy's joint and looks exactly the same. we haven't change add thing. >> i remember one lady saying, you know, i've been eating this ice cream since before i was born. and i thought, wow! we have, too. ♪ >> after my fire in my apartment and losing everything, the red cross gave us a list of agencies in the city to reach out to and i signed up for the below-market rate program. i got my certificate and started

applying and won the housing lottery. [♪] >> the current lottery program began in 2016. but there have been lot rows that have happened for affordable housing in the city for much longer than that. it was -- there was no standard practice. for non-profit organizations that were providing affordable housing with low in the city, they all did their lotteries on their own. private developers that include in their buildings affordable units, those are the city we've been monitoring for some time since 1992. we did it with something like this. where people were given circus tickets. we game into 291st century in

2016 and started doing electronic lotteries. at the same time, we started electronic applications systems. called dalia. the lottery is completely free. you can apply two ways. you can submit a paper application, which you can download from the listing itself. if you a plo apply online, it wl take five minutes. you can make it easier creating an account. to get to dalia, you log on to housing.sfgov.org. >> i have lived in san francisco for almost 42 years. i was born here in the hayes valley. >> i applied for the san francisco affordable housing lottery three times. >> since 2016, we've had about 265 electronic lotteries and

almost 2,000 people have got their home through the lottery system. if you go into the listing, you can actually just press lottery results and you put in your lottery number and it will tell you exactly how you ranked. >> for some people, signing up for it was going to be a challenge. there is a digital divide here and especially when you are trying to help low and very low income people. so we began providing digital assistance for folks to go in and get help. >> along with the income and the residency requirements, we also required someone who is trying to buy the home to be a first time home buyer and there's also an educational component that consists of an orientation that they need to attend, a first-time home buyer workshop and a one-on-one counseling session with the housing

councilor. >> sometimes we have to go through 10 applicants before they shouldn't be discouraged if they have a low lottery number. they still might get a value for an available, affordable housing unit. >> we have a variety of lottery programs. the four that you will most often see are what we call c.o.p., the certificate of preference program, the dthp which is the displaced penance housing preference program. the neighborhood resident housing program and the live worth preference. >> i moved in my new home february 25th and 2019. the neighborhood preference program really helped me achieve that goal and that dream was with eventually wind up staying in san francisco. >> the next steps, after finding

out how well you did in the lottery and especially if you ranked really well you will be contacted by the leasing agent. you have to submit those document and income and asset qualify and you have to pass the credit and rental screening and the background and when you qualify for the unit, you can chose the unit and hopefully sign that lease. all city sponsored affordable housing comes through the system and has an electronic lottery. every week there's a listing on dalia. something that people can apply for. >> it's a bit hard to predict how long it will take for someone to be able to move into a unit. let's say the lottery has happened. several factors go into that and mainly how many units are in the project, right. and how well you ranked and what preference bucket you were in. >> this particular building was

brand new and really this is the one that i wanted out of everything i applied for. in my mind, i was like how am i going to win this? i did and when you get that notice that you won, it's like at first, it's surreal and you don't believe it and it sinks in, yeah, it happened. >> some of our buildings are pretty spectacular. they have key less entry now. they have a court yard where they play movies during the weekends, they have another master kitchen and space where people can throw parties. >> mayor breed has a plan for over 10,000 new units between now and 2025. we will start construction on about 2,000 new units just in 2020. >> we also have a very big portfolio like over 25,000 units

across the city. and life happens to people. people move. so we have a very large number of rerentals and resales of units every year. >> best thing about working for the affordable housing program is that we know that we're making a difference and we actually see that difference on a day-to-day basis. >> being back in the neighborhood i grew up in, it's a wonderful experience. >> it's a long process to get through. well worth it when you get to the other side. i could not be happier. i could not be happier.

>> as a woman of color who grew up in san francisco i understand how institutions can have an impact on communities of color. i think having my voice was important. that is where my passion lies when the opportunity to lead an office in such a new space came up.

i couldn't turn it down. i was with the district attorney's office for a little over nine years, if you include the time as an intern as well as volunteer da, all most 13 years. during the time with the da's office i had an opportunity to serve the community not only as the assistant district attorney but as director of community relations. that afforded the opportunity to have impact on the community in an immediate way. it is one thing to work to serve the rights of those without rights, victims. it is really rewarding to work to to further the goals of our office and the commitment we have as city employees and

advocates for people who don't have a voice. i don't know of anyone surprised to see me in this role. maybe people have an impression what the director of the office of cannabis should be like, what their beliefs should be. i smash all of that. you grew up in the inner city of san francisco. my career path is not traditional. i don't think a person should limit themselves to reach full potential. i say that to young women and girls. that is important. you want to see leadership that looks diverse because your path is not predetermined. i didn't wake up thinking i was going to be a prosecutor in my life. the city administrator reached out and wanted to have a conversation and gave me interest in the new role. i thought you must not know what i do for a living. it was the opposite. she had foresight in realizing it would be helpful for somebody

not only a former prosecutor but interested in shaping criminal justice reform for the city would be the right person for the space. i appreciate the foresight of the mayor to be open how we can be leaders in san francisco. i was able to transition to the policy space. here i was able to work on legislation, community relations, communication and start to shape the ways our office was going to reform the criminal justice system. it is fulfilling for me. i could create programs and see those impact people's lives. i am the change. it took truants youth to meet with civil rights movement leaders who fought to have access to education. being a young person to understand that helped the young people realize this was an important thing to give up. what we find is that young

people who are truanted have a really high homicide rate in our city, which is a sad statistic. we want to change that. >> coming from a community we are black and brown. i don't reach out to other people. i don't think they feel the same way. >> i had the great opportunity to work on prison reform issues and criminal justice reform issues. we created a program at san quentin where we brought district opportunities t to lifs and talk about how we are all impacted by the criminal justice system. we brought over 40 elected das to san quentin for the situation. now we are inviting the police department. our formerly incarcerated group born out of this programming asked for the opportunity to work on a project where we could bring the men in blue on the outside to come speak to the men

on blue inside to start the healing dialogue around how the criminal justice system specifically in san francisco impacts the community. i was attracted to the role. there was a component of equity that was part of this process. the equity community here in san francisco is a community that i had already worked with. before i took steps to visit cannabis businesses i thought it was important my team have a chance to go inside and speak to men who ha had been impacted. that conversation needed to happen so we know how we are making an impact with the work that we are doing. the da's office as we were leading up to the legalization of marijuana in the state we started having conversations on the policy team what that could look like. the district attorney was really focused on the right side of history for this.

we realized it would be quite a heavy lift for individuals who have been negatively impacted by the war on drugs to expunge the record. it was important to figure out the framework to make it seamless and easy. they put their minds to it after some time and many conversations the data analysts and other policy walk throughs on the team came up with the idea to engage the tech community in this process. code for america helped us developed the rhythm to be used for any jurisdiction across the state that was important to create a solution to be used to assist all jurisdictions dealing with this matter. the office of cannabis is the first office to have a completely digital application process. we worked with the digital team to develop the online application. there are going to be hiccups. we are first to do it.

it is one of the most rewarding parts to offer a seamless -- to offer a seamless approach. that is how they can find solutions to solve many of the community challenges. the best way to respond to prop 64 was to retroactively expunge 9,000 cannabis related records for san francisco. it feels like justice full circle for my personal experience. in the past i was furthering the war on drugs just as my directive. really coming from a place of public safety. that was the mandate and understanding. it is nice to see that pass a society we are able to look at some of our laws and say, you know what? we got it wrong. let's get this right. i had the privilege of being in

the existing framework. my predecessor nicole elliott did an incredible job bringing together the individuals super-passionate about cannabis. >> the office was created in july of 2017. i came in early 2018. i have been able to see the office's development over time which is nice. it is exciting to be in the space, stickily in thinking about her leadership. >> looking for the office it is always we might be before my time when i was working for the board oforboard of supervisors. i learn new things every day it is challenging and rewarding for me. >> we get the privilege to work in an office tha that is innova. we get to spearhead the robust exprogram. >> i am excited she came on board to leverage experience as

a prosecutor 10 years as we contemplate enforcements but approaching it without replicating the war on drugs. >> i was hired by cam laharris. i haven't seen a district attorney that looked kind of like me. that could be a path in my life. i might not have considered it. it is important that women and certainly women of color and spaces of leadership really do their part to bring on and mentor as many young people as they can. it is superimportant to take advantage of as many opportunities a as they can when they can intern because the doors are wide open. plans change and that is okay. the way this was shaped because i took a risk to try something new and explore something and show that i was capable. you are capable, right? it was about leaning in and

being at the table to say my voice matters. you find your passion, the sky [♪] find your passion, the sky >> i am the supervisor of district one. i am sandra lee fewer. [♪] >> i moved to the richmond district in 1950 mine. i was two years old. i moved from chinatown and we were one of the first asian families to move out here.

[♪] >> when my mother decided to buy that house, nobody knew where it was. it seems so far away. for a long time, we were the only chinese family there but we started to see the areas of growth to serve a larger chinese population. the stress was storage of the birthplace of that. my father would have to go to chinatown for dim sum and i remember one day he came home and said, there is one here now. it just started to grow very organically. it is the same thing with the russian population, which is another very large ethnic group in the richmond district. as russia started to move in, we saw more russian stores. so parts of the richmond is very concentrated with the russian community and immigrant russian community, and also a chinese immigrant community. [♪] >> i think as living here in the

richmond, we really appreciate the fact that we are surrounded three natural barriers. they are beautiful barriers. the presidio which gives us so many trails to walk through, ocean beach, for families to just go to the beach and be in the pacific ocean. we also also have a national park service. we boarded the golden gate national recreation area so there is a lot of activity to do in the summer time you see people with bonfires. but really families enjoying the beach and the pacific ocean during the rest of the time of year. [♪] >> and golden gate park where we have so many of our treasures here. we have the tea garden, the museum and the academy of sciences. not to mention the wonderful playgrounds that we have here in richmond. this is why i say the richmond is a great place for families.

the theatre is a treasure in our neighborhood. it has been around for a very long time. is one of our two neighborhood theatres that we have here. i moved here when i was 1959 when i was two years old. we would always go here. i love these neighborhood theatres. it is one of the places that has not only a landmark in the richmond district, but also in san francisco. small theatres showing one or two films. a unique -- they are unique also to the neighborhood and san francisco. >> where we are today is the heart of the richmond district. with what is unique is that it is also small businesses. there is a different retail here it is mom and pop opening up businesses. and providing for the neighborhood. this is what we love about the streets. the cora door starts on clement

street and goes all the way down to the end of clement where you will see small businesses even towards 32nd. at the core of it is right here between here and 20 -- tenth avenue. when we see this variety of stores offered here, it is very unique then of the -- any other part of san francisco. there is traditional irish music which you don't get hardly anywhere in san francisco. some places have this long legacy of serving ice cream and being a hangout for families to have a sunday afternoon ice cream. and then also, we see grocery stores. and also these restaurants that are just new here, but also thriving. [♪] >> we are seeing restaurants being switched over by hand, new owners, but what we are seeing is a vibrancy of clement street still being recaptured within

new businesses that are coming in. that is a really great thing to see. i don't know when i started to shop here, but it was probably a very, very long time ago. i like to cook a lot but i like to cook chinese food. the market is the place i like to come to once a year. once i like about the market as it is very affordable. it has fresh produce and fresh meat. also, seafood. but they also offer a large selection of condiments and sauces and noodles. a variety of rice that they have is tremendous. i don't thank you can find a variety like that anywhere else. >> hi. i am kevin wong. i am the manager. in 1989 we move from chinatown to richmond district. we have opened for a bit, over 29 years. we carry products from thailand,

japan, indonesia, vietnam, singapore and india. we try to keep everything fresh daily. so a customer can get the best out a bit. >> normally during crab season in november, this is the first place i hit. because they have really just really fresh crab. this is something my family really likes for me to make. also, from my traditional chinese food, i love to make a kale soup. they cut it to the size they really want. i am probably here once a week. i'm very familiar with the aisles and they know everyone who is a cashier -- cashier here i know when people come into a market such as this, it looks like an asian supermarkets, which it is and sometimes it can be intimidating. we don't speak the language and many of the labels are in chinese, you may not know what to buy or if it is the proper ingredients for the recipe are trying to make. i do see a lot of people here

with a recipe card or sometimes with a magazine and they are looking for specific items. the staff here is very helpful. i speak very little chinese here myself. thinks that i'm not sure about, i asked the clerk his and i say is this what i need? is this what i should be making? and they actually really helped me. they will bring me to the aisle and say this is battery. they are very knowledgeable. very friendly. i think they are here to serve not only the asian community but to serve all communities in the richmond district and in san francisco. [♪] >> what is wonderful about living here is that even though our july is a very foggy and overcast, best neighborhood, the sleepy part outside on the west side is so rich with history, but also with all the amenities that are offered.

[♪] >> what we're trying to approach is bringing more diversity to our food. it's not just the old european style food. we are seeing a lot of influences, and all of this is because of our students. all we ask is make it flavorful. [♪] >> we are the first two-year culinary hospitality school in the united states. the first year was 1936, and it was started by two graduates from cornell. i'm a graduate of this program, and very proud of that.

so students can expect to learn under the three degrees. culinary arts management degree, food service management degree, and hotel management degree. we're not a cooking school. even though we're not teaching you how to cook, we're teaching you how to manage, how to supervise employees, how to manage a hotel, and plus you're getting an associate of science degree. >> my name is vince, and i'm a faculty member of the hospitality arts and culinary school here in san francisco. this is my 11th year. the policemrogram is very, ver in what this industry demands. cooking, health, safety, and sanitation issues are included in it. it's quite a complete program to prepare them for what's happening out in the real

world. >> the first time i heard about this program, i was working in a restaurant, and the sous chef had graduated from this program. he was very young to be a sous chef, and i want to be like him, basically, in the future. this program, it's awesome. >> it's another world when you're here. it's another world. you get to be who you are, a person get to be who they are. you get to explore different things, and then, you get to explore and they encourage you to bring your background to the kitchen, too. >> i've been in the program for about a year. two-year program, and i'm about halfway through. before, i was studying behavioral genetics and dance.

i had few injuries, and i couldn't pursue the things that i needed to to dance, so i pursued my other passion, cooking. when i stopped dance, i was deprived of my creative outlet, and cooking has been that for me, specifically pastry. >> the good thing is we have students everywhere from places like the ritz to -- >> we have kids from every area. >> facebook and google. >> kids from everywhere. >> they are all over the bay area, and they're thriving. >> my name is jeff, and i'm a coowner of nopa restaurant, nopalito restaurant in san francisco. i attended city college of san francisco, the culinary arts program, where it was called hotel and restaurant back then

in the early 90's. nopalito on broderick street, it's based on no specific region in mexico. all our masa is hand made. we cook our own corn in house. everything is pretty much hand made on a daily basis, so day and night, we're making hand made tortillas, carnitas, salsas. a lot of love put into this. [♪] >> used to be very easy to define casual dining, fine dining, quick service. now, it's shades of gray, and we're trying to define that experience through that spectrum of service. fine dining calls into white

table cloths. the cafeteria is large production kitchen, understanding vast production kitchens, the googles and the facebooks of the world that have those kitypes of kitchens. and the ideas that change every year, again, it's the notion and the venue. >> one of the things i love about vince is one of our outlets is a concept restaurant, and he changes the concept every year to show students how to do a startup restaurant. it's been a pizzeria, a taco bar. it's been a mediterranean bar, it's been a noodle bar. people choose ccsf over other hospitality programs because the industry recognizes that we instill the work ethic.

we, again, serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner. other culinary hospitality programs may open two days a week for breakfast service. we're open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner five days a week. >> the menu's always interesting. they change it every semester, maybe more. there's always a good variety of foods. the preparation is always beautiful. the students are really sincere, and they work so hard here, and they're so proud of their work. >> i've had people coming in to town, and i, like, bring them here for a special treat, so it's more, like, not so much every day, but as often as i can for a special treat. >> when i have my interns in their final semester of the program go out in the industry, 80 to 90% of the students get

hired in the industry, well above the industry average in the culinary program. >> we do have internals continually coming into our restaurants from city college of san francisco, and most of the time that people doing internships with us realize this is what they want to do for a living. we hired many interns into employees from our restaurants. my partner is also a graduate of city college. >> so my goal is actually to travel and try to do some pastry in maybe italy or france, along those lines. i actually have developed a few connections through this program in italy, which i am excited to support. >> i'm thinking about going to go work on a cruise ship for

about two, three year so i can save some money and then hopefully venture out on my own. >> yeah, i want to go back to china. i want to bring something that i learned here, the french cooking, the western system, back to china. >> so we want them to have a full toolkit. we're trying to make them ready for the world out there.ly app

state leaders supporting us during these unprecedented and uncertain times, and thank you to the industry for your support and your continued support and for coming out with your questions and being certainly

engaged in this process. so first i want to thank our esteemed guests today. we have treasury fiona mah. we have state senator scott weiner and senior advisor to the governor, nicole eliot, and i will briefly read their bios for you and then we are going to sort of jump into it. i know we have about an hour. i want to make sure that we use our time wisely. i'm marissa rodriguez, the director of the office of cannabis. we also have eugene hillsman, deputy director of the office of cannabis and jeremy schwartz who is a permanent analyst with the office of cannabis as well. so fiona mah was elected to serve as california's 34th state's treasurer. the state treasurer's office provides financing for schools, roads, housing and other critical infrastructure projects