from the program launch for this. so we're ramping up so from 60 to 120 meals were day. the 120 meals being by march 29th. this new service complements existed d.o.s.-funded grant for community services programs at i.t. bookman. to your point, supervisor, we know i.t. bookman is a local organization that really serves the black african american community in o.m.i. we're really looking for ways to work with the director to ensure that we're providing expanded support to that site. so we know that the site also coordinators a lunch service prepared by project open hand. and it's linkedin with the

d.o.s. s.t. connected digit tal literacy providers. we're looking for ways to expand support to i.t. bookman. we're providing both i.t. bookman and vernal heights center in their mission sites with culturally relevant grocery, working with community partners to quantify the needs. both 11 providers had a credit in place with the produce market for purchase of fresh produce. which has been used to supplement the grocery bag programs. that credit is about to run out. so we're working with both organizations to sustain this effort and avoid disruptions. >> so thank you for the additional follow-up. and thank you for working with us on the add-back that we did for i.t. bookman.

which question is: what other -- can you -- is catholic charities part of the work that you've been doing? working with catholic charities over there? >> we are working with catholic charities also, yes. >> are you doing some of the same things that you've identified here? >> we are doing some different things with catholic charities. one of our main focus areas has been to support i.t. bookman. >> great. >> and really think about -- but i mean, i.t. bookman is an organization that has not had as much city support. we're absolutely working with catholic charities. we're trying to support them. and they're providing other services for us that i'll be getting into. >> i'm happy, 100% on board in support of this as i just stated about i.t. book man.

we want to continue to engage there. it's when you brought up the vernal heights neighborhood center and excelsior, we're happy about that as well but trying to refine the conversation about o.m.i. that's why i brought up catholic charities. >> okay. great. and then, we're identifying funds to allocate through participatory process through the community. we have identified some funds. and this did come directly out of your meeting, supervisor, back in july. this really -- i was thinking about how do we -- one of the things that we do focus on a lot is engaging with community. we have, thanks to the dignity fund and the legislation attached to it, we have a responsibility to engage with communities to understand the needs, to understand the gaps. to make sure that our services are really truly accessible. but we had a chance to identify

some funds that in dignity fund that we can use for kind of what we're calling a participatory process. we have $75,000 this year. and $150,000 for each of the next three years. we want to work with your office to coordinate so that we can get some community feedback, input and feedback how to use that $150,000. i know that we're going to work -- we're hoping to work with the office of benefits and family support. and hope that d.o.s. and b.f.s. can come together and engage with the community and understand how we might use that $150,000. and that would also be part of our discussion about having a community site rather than h.s.a. community site. >> great. what we can do just to add onto the previous conversation is

when we do our c.b.o. round table, we can invite folks specifically around the subject for o.m.i. lakeview. and we can do benefits and family support, satellite, adult and aging services conversations as a follow-up. >> great. and then, we'll be working with you on that. and then, the other thing that we did after that meeting is we committed to really thinking about recruitment of workers from black african american community in the o.m.i. since then, we've bet with d-11 c.b.o.s to discuss the strategy. and the community recommended the d.o.s. send a mailer to home delivered clients and especially courage older adults and people with disabilities to motivate families and friends to apply. flyers will be placed in 1,600

home delivered grocery bags in d-11 in the next week or so. in addition, the i.s.s. public authority is partnering with family connections and other c.b.o.s to conduct virtual outreach and recruitment. so we will also work with the san francisco food bank and community living campaign for coordinating bags for delivery. like i said, the flyers should be going out in the next week or so. so that's -- i might have -- i'm sorry. i might be just not synced with the slides now. that's essentially what d.o.s. is doing now. i'm happy to answer questions. but i have to say i'm now nine minutes late for a presentation i'm suppose to copresent with someone. as soon as i can jump off, i would appreciate that,

supervisor safai. >> member safai: yes, that's fine. thank you for staying on. when we do the community follow-up, we'll work and reach out to you and your organization. >> thank you. i want to say i'm personally very, very committed and compassionate about serving black african americans in san francisco. i've lived here for over 40 years of -- close to 50 years of my life. so i've really seen the change and the drop in population. and i want to work with you very closely in and the city to make sure we're supporting population the best way that we can. thanks for having us here. >> member safai: thank you. okay. so we will go next to office of child care.

>> the office of early care and education. it's one of the three independent depends within the human services agency. as we're part of the city sort of funded programs that receive vapiding directly from the general fund set asides, like the public education enrichment fund, now maybe prop-c. what we do as office of early care and education is that we're exclusively a ground making department. so unlike the benefits and family support and d.o.s. we actually do not provide any services in the community -- any direct services. we exclusively fund programs in the community. what i want to provide you is an

overview who we fund both in the o.m.i. but specifically in the lakeview district. and which is -- i don't think i have to tell you this supervisor safai, but over all in the 94112 -- i know it's difficult to be aggregating the data right now into sort of census tracks. but overall, 94112 and 94132 has over 20% of children under 5 living in san francisco. so it's a very highly populated area with lots of little kids. and that makes us super excited about making the investments that we do in that neighborhood. so in the past year, overall, we've invested over $17 million. typically in family child care center-based programs in the neighborhood which represent the

132 and 112. and note aggregating the data for another preparation and giving you more of a heat map or geomap what that looks like and what areas 132 and 112, because there's lines that are sometimes difficult to separate. one of the challenges we have in the neighborhood is that it is very residential. there is limitations around commercial space and for center based programs to operate. you need that commercial side. so that's why you see such a much larger investment in family child care homes. but nonetheless, we have a really good network that we're working with in that neighborhood. and one of the things that we

have as a priority specifically for 94112 and 94132 is how to build capacity. because we have a lot of young children living in that neighborhood. whose families have to go outside of that neighborhood to receive care. and that's why we see sort of like the outgrowth in the areas of the excelsior and in vernal heights and in the inner mission. it's because of the limited capacity. for the next five iraqis we're consistently looking at opportunities to be able to build out capacity in specifically in the lakeview or o.m.i. neighborhood. >> can i interrupt? thank you, director. looking at this slide, it says $17 million was invested in 100 family child care providers

along with 18 child care centers in 94112, 94132. 78% went to family child care. so out of that $17 million, was it $13.2 million that went to family child care providers? >> correct. yes. yes. and that's [simultaneous speaking.] >> that's last year? >> yes. and how did that -- what did that vapiding look like? if there's $13 million coming in to family child care centers, what did that look like? >> that represents approximately 2,000 children ranging in in ages from babies to preschool age. >> well, the 2,000 would be the $17 million. >> yeah. >> and that funds their -- what i mean specifically, what does the funding go to? is that funding that is

subsidizing the cost of the child care? >> correct. in most instances it funds 100% of the cost of care if family child care. there's very little family fees that get assessed, sort of like a copayment that families pay. because most of the families that we actually enroll in that specific neighborhood are very low-income. >> got it. >> and i'll give you sort of if we go to the next slide, you can see how that funding translates. >> okay. so we did divide up -- because at this point, this is the information that we have. again, sort of the majority one of the challenges like i said earlier is the capacity issue both for center based and family

child care in 132 and 112. so we're looking for opportunities to build out. the ways that we have the centers and family child care. it almost looks equally when you look at neighbors together. we have less capacity in that neighborhood compared to 132. >> especially when you look at family child care providers. again, just for clarity, the o.m.i. is divided in 112 and 132. it's almost half. >> right. >> but you can almost say with certainty, 132 is in the o.m.i. lakeview. i know because i've visited a number of the family child care

providers in 112 in o.m.i. lakeview. i think a heat map would be helpful. i think it's pretty clear that 112 outside of o.m.i. lakeview has more. that would be something to look at as we continue to talk about that. will >> yes. and i think one of the biggest challenges, especially with family child care, is you know, in order for family child care providers to operate, the more successful programs are the ones that own their homes. you know, i think if there's opportunities in that arena, we're going to figure out a way of being able to build some asset building, especially for family child care providers to be able to do both. have sort of this really anchored space and also

something that is generational. >> is this the send of your slide? >> i believe so, yes. >> let me jump into questions. it would be good to know the number of family care providers so when we look at the heat map, it would be good. i know the questions are coming from the providers themselves as they sent it to your office. i think there's a perception there's an inequity between center based and child care providers. i think in our district the numbers show that we have a significant investment in family child care providers. when you look at o.m.i. lake

view, the numbers switch, right? >> right. >> if you could keep the screen up. how can we be more transparent in terms of the feedback from child care providers in looking at inequity and investment and increasing investment for child care providers? >> that's part of our equity analysis that we're doing looking at the number of children enrolled in family child care and center-based programs. the difference is in terms of the child enrollment costs. and also, looking at differentials, especially for neighborhoods that we know are there's much more difficulty because they're underserved.

under capacity. and we also want children, especially our black and brown children to have the best and highest high quality experience they can have in the first five years of life. and that is part of our work in over the next couple of years, especially as we have additional funding made available through this process. >> can you -- of all your equity plans, are you working with the human rights commission putting together an equity plan? that might help to address some of the questions that i've gotten in terms of dealing with some of the inequities in o.m.i. lakeview versus center based versus f.c.c. based. and historic inequity and inequality. are you open to including some of the groups like the aaece,

african american early child care providers and others? >> absolutely. >> in the process of putting together your equity plan and plan to increase investments. >> yes, currently i am working with the human rights commission, with director davis. and we're doing three things specifically to address the african american sort of opportunity gap. one, is to fund a director of black e.c.e. [simultaneous speaking.] >> say that again. you're looking for... >> we're looking at funding a position specifically to look at our investments in african american children which includes o.m.i., bay view and areas we know there are higher numbers of children who are african american/black. we're looking at addressing the educational sort of reparations, if you will. because no matter what studies we know, we always look at this

huge opportunity gap that happens if you're black. so it doesn't even matter what income you are, if you're black, you have -- you show up sadly in these areas that need specific attention. and so we're looking at having a position specifically to address those issues and work with the african american community on strategies that actually help close that gap. we're looking at and funding as a black early education council that includes their stake holders that you work with. and again, sort of having sort of quality feedback making sure that things are being done with transparency. they're also relevant to the african american community. and lastly, we're looking at both strategies and research around adverse childhood sort of

experiences that affect this community gap that seems to always come up for african american children. if we're going to be transparent about this, what it comes down to is that the root of all of these discrepancies is sort of these institutional and instructional racism for which african american children have to bear the brunt. and so a lot of our work is about antiracism. >> so i guess i know you have cpac. and we have the african american early child care provider group that you know that i do a lot of work with. and you are familiar with. i think it would be important, and it sounds like you're open to it. but i want to repeat it. that you're open to having these groups be part of and working with you on putting together the

advisory plan. it is -- your equity plan. is cpac involved in those conversations? and how do they fit into that conversation? i want to make sure that again the voice of these homegrown african american early child care providers along with the individuals that are in o.m.i. lakeview are involved in this process. >> yes. in fact, a subcommittee was formed a little over a year ago to begin doing some of this early sort of research around what it looks like for african american children. we're working directly with that group, which includes some of the same stakeholders you're engaged with. with cpac we're going to do a series working around antiracism. how does that look like? how do we show up?

and how do we start interrupting some of these patterns in early childhood education? it's going to be the focus and centerpiece of our joint strategic plan that includes cpac. but also it's being co-led between the offices of early care and education and first five san francisco. >> perfect. that's great. thank you. i think that our office will follow up with each of the branchs of h.s.a. yours is a particular focus. a lot of the different groups we're working with, we will make sure our office is engaging. and that we have follow-up conversations. i'm encouraged to hear there will be a position for educational reparations. and that would you would be looking at that early child care education and work that is being done to help close some of the

disparities and investments as well as educational opportunities. . that's encouraging. we'll follow up. >> all right. thank you. >> thank you so much. okay. next up, we will have the office of work force and economic development. >> good afternoon, supervisor safai, chair haney, members of the committee, the office of work force development. i'm the director here. and in a moment, once i get the ability to share slides, i'm going to share some slides here if i can get that authorization. i'm going to present on half of our department and my colleague who will present for the work of the invest in neighborhoods program.

i'm going to go ahead and share my screen here. is that screen sharing for you? >> yes. >> thank you for calling this hearing to talk about the investments our department is making with with respect to the o.m.i. lakeview community, one of the city's most diverse neighborhoods with 27,500 residents. a little bit of information that we wanted to share that we have access to through the unemployment data. and other research that our strategic initiatives team does with respect to information we can get from the u.s. census bureau, these american community surveys help us find information around unemployment and important statistics. we've talked about the diversity of the o.m.i. 1 in 2 o.m.i. residents of immigrants. and city-wide, that number is 1 in 3.

we see about 16,000 o.m.i. residents at working age. we know community members faced multiple intertwined systemic multigenerational barriers to employment. there's been over the years, the importance of making interventions in in violence prevention, creating opportunity, really making up for decades a lack of access to programming, wrap-around services and the fact from a workforce development perspective, a typically thing we can see a lot of the most underserved and underrepresented candidates are last to get hired and first to get fired when stuff gets bad. so this is a cycle that obviously needs to be broken. there's been a lot of progress and a lot of work to be done. thanks for bringing us together. i'm going to do highlights and leave this with statistics. i'm going to call out a couple. that's with with respect to the precovid unemployment rate was generally in line with the

city's overall unemployment rate. this is brand-new data available in december 2020. we get this annually from the census bureau. that's what we get to look at unemployment by race, gender, ethnicity, zip code. generally speaking, o.m.i.'s unemployment rate was estimated to be bottom line on with the city overall. it's a different story when you look at the black o.m.i. residents, 7.2%, almost double of the average. and factor of several times more for nonblack residents within o.m.i. asian o.m.i. residents have unemployment rate 30% higher than the city rate. and then, white o.m.i. residents is 50% lower than the city's unemployment rate. we know and we expect and when we get the data from last year's impacts of covid-19, the pandemic, we're going to see that this amplifycation has

grown. and we look at these factors and programs and then to programs such as our upcoming work force development r.m.p. and the work force is the same to invest in the neighborhood. the median household income and other factors. what we saw during covid, thankfully, just in time in september 2019, you supervisor, in partnership with mayor breed, our department and dynamic, amazing, hard-working organizations, inner city youth sponsored by developers, opened the seventh of our job development job centers, the hub. that was a critical resource to have up and running in addition to other investments. we'll talk about you are began

services, ymca to meet the individuals during the moment of crisis and challenge. you see a lot of the unemployment data here. again, we saw city-wide we lost five years of job gains since february 2020. without the return of the opportunities that we seek to reopen and come prepare for economic recover so we can come roaring back as the city. and particularly with respect to our community, create equitable opportunities. we are preparing to reopen tourism and convention work and all the things that create so much activity in our communities. those are what drive so many of the jobs here that have been lost. so we know that national data -- again, we won't see the impacts until the end of the year with respect to the numbers we've presented that are fresh from the past few weeks. national data tells us the economic recovery to date has been eluding our most vulnerable

populations. that's why the conversation is important when we talk about employment. having the resources makes sure we're connected to the individuals who filed new unemployment insurance claims. and as you see here, some of the red flags for us that we see asian san fransiscans saw 41% new claims from february. which is a higher share of the asian community as a proportion of the general population. and just over 8% have been filed by black san fransiscans. we know our work is in front of us as we prepare to rebuild. and this is again some other information. i'm going to go into our program data. it gives you a sense who is filing claims based on educational credentials. and what is the likelihood to bounce back to the type of work that's going to become available lost opportunities in construction, where the city built relationships with contractors building.

where there's 2/3 of residents don't have a bachelor's degree, that's where the training and job centers are an important piece of the puzzle. the last side, we're going to highlight the two major investments with respect to our work force development. this is a long time coming. we're appreciative of the voice and leadership of you, supervisor safai, and really calling attention to the lack of investment. the appropriate levels certainly our fellow departments have a long history of partnership and have stepped up in recent years. we're someone who i would admittedly say we are coming to the table to make these focused investments in the years you see, 2017, '19, 20-21. the we appreciate and have learned from the ability. you see these investments have

grown in investment and funding levels. but with respect to certainly the outcomes. we talked about the neighborhood access point. those are going to be called job centers, neighborhood job centers in our upcoming r.f.p. going forward. the investment initially, $100,000 to serve 75 individuals a year. and really in the wake of that success and meeting the need of o.m.i. residents has allowed us to increase that investment to serve for individuals. 75 a year for the couple of years going up until most recent which we're in the current fiscal year. that's going to help us to reach 115 individuals this year. that's with comprehensive, wrap-around services, support that not just get a foot in the door, get your resume, interview skills up. they just recruited several hundred individuals to apply for

the new market positions available. so we see that success. there's a terrific program that we're supporting at urban services ymca. really great organization who's working with local young adults to provide subsidized employment opportunities. these are investments where it's a higher investment per individual. because we're helping to support that subsidized training. and that employment to lead to unsubsidized career. and once again, every year, the urban services y is meeting and typically exceeding the number of enrollments what we contract for, 20 individuals every year to go through the training. they're typically higher than that in terms of the number of young adults they enroll. these are critical investments. we look upon opportunities to build. we just wanted to share the covid response programs like right to recover, which was founded by supervisor hillary

ronen, to provide relief to workers who get covid and don't have access to unemployment and paid sick leave. we see a lot of those residents in 132, lakeview, o.m.i. and 112, as you mentioned several times. some lakeview and excelsior. and we know -- [simultaneous speaking.] >> we're seeing a lot of connectivity. even though that's a hub there with excelsior strong coalition. there's a great partnership with the organizations here. urban services y and inner city is to refer lakeview residents to resources. and investments is coming shortly to i.t. bookman here in the next couple of weeks. i know you have questions. i don't know if you would like me to pause. i can turn it over to my colleague. >> no. i think it's straightforward. we have worked in partnership with you to make a significant

investment in employment training and employment readiness and job opportunity work for o.m.i. lakeview. these programs are funded are based in in the o.m.i. and we have uplifted both the inner city youth and urban services ymca. we want to focus more a little bit on economic investment. so i'm going to ask jorge to go ahead and present. and then, we can ask our questions to him. i don't have any follow-up questions. we'll continue to work with you on the things that we've been doing and the good work we've been doing in o.m.i. lakeview. >> thank you, supervisor. i'll turn it over to my colleague with the invest neighborhoods team. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, director. good day, supervisors and

mr. chair. i work in the invest in neighborhoods division. invest in neighborhoods division, we have a strong framework. in particular, focusing on neighborhoods serving commercial districts. we structure our approach around four pillars. supporting our small businesses, commercial store fronts and buildings, supporting public space improvements and collaborating with communities and implementing programs with the objective to sustain and create healthy and vibrant neighborhoods. within the o.m.i., we've focused our energy along the broad and randolph streets, the primary districts serving the broader neighborhood. there are about 50 commercial store fronts occupied by a mix of businesses, faith-based organizations and c.b.o.s. since 2013, in particular -- worked with communities to prioritize what investments we

should bring. access to healthy food, beautity indication, pedestrian and public safety and small business rose to the top of the key priorities. as funding was made available, we deployed and implemented them. can i get the next slide. i'm going to highlight some of the efforts we've implemented in the past few years. to increase access to healthy food, healthy retail works with corner stores to shift their business models to bring healthy foods to the neighborhood and other healthy products. this program has deployed in moderation with the department of health and community organizations. [indiscernible] when would that risk of closure. investment of over $27,000 has made over the years, has secured a strong lease and increased our sales by 28%.

to support beautification, public realm and safety improvements to prioritize the types of projects the neighborhood wanted to see. part of the process, mural, planters, cross-walks as priority. these priorities were implemented between 2014 and 2015 with investment close to $180,000. another project important to the community would be randolph alignment project. this is the public works-led project. we worked closely with them to raise the community voice and ensure the project was friendly to the small businesses in the neighborhood. since 2015, our partners la cocina small development center -- excuse me, in 2017, there was an uptick of crime in the neighborhood. so we worked closer with the state and small businesses to perform safety audits and

[indiscernible] in 2015, our community partners, supported approximately 162 businesses around marketing, credit counseling and debt management. we need children services helped operators launch their business. and they are in the process of launching assistance. another example of a couple of businesses, secured resources was -- is everywhere, a business that we see microloans and credit account information [indiscernible] the mission helps them secure traditional lending by helping increase and improve the credit score.

we have direct loans and grants to o.m.i. businesses in response to covid-19 relief efforts. 16 grants for $58,000 have been provided. the $58,000 has been provided. that's $33,000 through our small business fund. $18,000 through our neighborhood mini grant. and $11,000 through the women's entrepreneurship fund. this year, small businesses that we see equated to $132,000. the loans have been provided through the san francisco hardship program. and the african american loan fund. two new programs that are flexible with low interest and no personal guarantee or class rale requirement from the small businesses. in addition to that, there are four loans under review for a value of 140,000. this will bring the total up to

$270,000 to businesses in the next couple of weeks. i'm summarizing some of the main projects that will be funded in the next few years. the last slide. >> thank you, director. based on others areas of the city and a lot of work that's been done, this is a smaller level of investment to invest in neighborhood. we've had this conversation before. we funded the excelsior funding process. it would be good everything we've been talking about specifically -- you've increased the african american loan fund and additional strategies. i think there needs to be more thought put into from the office of economic had and work force development, similar to what

we've done with the work force development work. and we have an employment center that we've worked with the homegrown organizations. i think your office has kind of isolated areas, great work. we just got the barber shop, one of the grants. that's a significant investment in the long-term organization. but we have to have a larger strategy. it's similar to the 3rd street -- the invest in 3rd street strategy that you have. the economic development of 3rd street. i think there should be a similar economic development of the broad randolph. and it doesn't necessarily need to go into zoning changes and some of the arguments that have been in the past. it can be using the model. but there needs to be coordinated strategy and effort from your department to invest

in the o.m.i. lakeview. i think that's been missing for some time. i understand there's a kind of a sparsing of resources. but we need to come up with a strategy collectively to have an economic development plan for some of these empty store fronts and some of these opportunities and some of these loans that we can tap into some of the economic recovery funds or economic revitalization. and it could be part and parcel with some of the work we're trying to create business and ownership opportunities with the family child care providers and kind of overlap with that. listening to what was being done with the african american early child care providers to get us specific investment strategy. does your office have an equity plan or a plan that is being done with h.r.c. that could be

feed into this economic development strategy for broad-randolph? >> thank you for that question. i think you, like myself, are -- i appreciate the effort around strategizing and coordinating different departments and resources so we're focused on reaching larger goal. i think we agree with you, a strategy for the neighborhood to bring different departments and resources together is needed. i know we talked about in the past create something similar like the excelsior-mission strategy. i think with the right resources, the department can step up and work closely with her agencies that need it to develop something similar. you know, i think as we move forward and think about recovery, i think that may be a good opportunity to do some of

that. and around the equity work, our unit has tried to ensure that we're prioritizing corridors that are having historic disinvestment from city agencies or the city to make sure that we keep the resources and bring in resources. as you know, there's what we call the opportunity neighborhoods. and excelsior is one of those. if we want to expand on our work to something similar, we have to work closely with you on that. when it comes to this upcoming year, there are resources that we're creating closely with h.r.c., rfpl to provide additional services to the o.m.i. i think this is part of the reallocation dollars we're working to procure for the dollars and get the services out to the community.

>> member safai: i think even the beginnings of the plan and working with the community of coming together with the economic development plan would be helpful. i'm going to end here. i've got to move on. director, do you have something? >> just real quick. we're grateful that in the early years of the investment at the hub, the o.m.i. job center was a work order from dcys that they continue to provide to our office so we can acceptment with oawd funds. i want to make sure dcys gets recognition for the investment. when we looked around with the state of black unemployment and o.m.i. and city-wide, that investment, we're able to look at the outcomes and see that i.c.y. is serving 2/3 of all of the clients coming through our black residents there in the

community that enables us to invest additional resources to solve for us what is a north star of our unemployment system. when we look at the workforce system rather, the disparity stands out when we look at racial equity as a primary and focused goal we need to target. we're grateful for that and work closely together in the department and continue that across the portfolio. thank you. >> member safai: thank you both. next is the mayor housing and community development. >> good afternoon, supervisor safai. i know you're familiar with our department. i'll give a brief overview what we're doing. let me share my screen here.

as you know, your department focuses primarily in five areas related to our current consolidated plan, housing stabilization, economic self-sufficiency, ensuring communities have healthy physical and social distancing infrastructures. focusing on anti-displacement work and looking at issues of racial equity. i'll try to go through our presentation fairly quickly. i know that we're short on time. so our office similar to some of the other departments does not offer direct services. instead we work through community partners. i can talk you briefly through what these are. we've been very, very consistent with our partnership. you can see in year one we were looking at in 2013 -- >> i'm sorry. we can't see anything you have

on. >> can you not see? hold on here. >> member safai: if you could give a brief summary, that would be great. >> apologies on that. i have been focusing on the

services side. our focus has been the o.m.i. resource center, which we've been funding since 2013 and leveraging that with the family connection model. connecting that with the family resource connection work that has been previously mentioned by my colleagues. this year, we added an investment in the o.m.i. job center. so again, continuing to support what, oewd has been focusing on. we helped create the initial o.m.i. community collaborative with the action grants. and we continue to support that. and our last community partner has been the sisterhood farms garden project, which we've been supporting since 2013. we also -- although not directly, have been supporting the capacity work of the i.t. bookman center through our neighborhood together centers work which provides overall capacity to all of the neighborhood centers. we've been continuing to work

with them. and we look forward -- we used to have a direct grant with i.t. bookman. we're looking forward to perhaps some additional opportunities with that organization. we're also happy to sort of let you know in anticipation of one of your questions that we have been working closely with director davis around some of her racial equity work, specifically focusing on opportunities to increase african american uptake in our homeownership programs. we have been currently working with some of our interns and consultants looking at african american current homeowners in the o.m.i. and how we can better connect them with a program that we hope to launch the next month or so that will be focusing on our ability to offer rehab to

the physical infrastructure of particularly seniors, african american seniors, to allow them to stay in their homes. and to encourage them to pass on that asset to their families. in addition -- i hope i'm not getting too far ahead of the logic of the program. talking with director davis about our opportunities to be much more intentional about identifying those african american renters that can move into the ownership arena as i think you are well aware, our numbers in that area are not what any of us would like to be, the number of individuals that could participate in the below market rate program for ownership opportunities have been very low. there's no way to get around that. and so we hope to be able to provide much more focused relationships with organizations in your neighborhood to really

allow them to have a greater access to the dhalia program as you mentioned before to better prepare them for those ownership opportunities. and to really provide i think some of our current providers have been traditionally focused more on the southeast sector of the neighborhood. and not really been able to have that connection to the o.m.i. lakeview community. so i think we've mentioned before at some of our community meetings, we've really hoped we'd be able to provide a much more intentional focus when we more officially launched this. the i wanted to preview that since we're in this hearing. >> member safai: did you send your presentation to the clerk, mr. chair? >> yes. >> they're not able to help you put it up on the screen? >> i don't know, miss wong, if

you can. the i've been trying to figure out how i can. >> clerk: yes. i gave that this morning to our colleagues. >> member safai: there it is. can you see now? >> yeah. >> okay. great. >> that's a little too small. >> all right. so let me -- there's a little bit of a -- there appears to be a little bit of a lag here. it appears to be staying on that main screen here even though i'm advancing it on my side. apologies for the technical issues here. i'm moving it forward here. >> member safai: that's okay. that's okay. >> the part i just discussed

with you, supervisor safai, though, is not on this slide. this slide presentation on what i had given you was focused on our services investments. if you want to have a discussion... >> member safai: if would be good if you can just send that to us. what i'm going to ask you quickly -- and we'll follow up with director shaw. we need to have a more targeted conversation. the goal of the hearing was to have the conversation out in the open with my committee members. i know our board president is also following this with interest. and we will follow up as we move forward. but what kind of work has oacd done to work with community partners to engage individuals that could be prepared for and understand the dhalia system? as well as being prepared for neighborhood preference? had we have almost 600 units in the pipeline, all of them will

be made available. neighborhood preference will be made available to all of them as they come online. and the big one that we push for when we amended the reservoir plan was so ensure the radius included lakeview and parts of the excelsior. that's something that your department, we need to invest in now and early in ensuring that some of the homegrown organizations, o.m.i. lakeview are part of the conversation. >> yes, i agree, supervisor. i think that our primary organizations on the homeownership side have been groups like san francisco housing development corp, balance, meta, lgbtq center, asian inc. none of which are necessarily rooted, as you know, in the o.m.i. and other primary organizations

that has been focusing on for example, the african american community needs senior services which has more preference on the sought east sector and western addition. so i point that out to be transparent with you that mile we have engaged organizations that have some education to the african american community i wouldn't say they have as strong as a connection with the o.m.i. [please stand by]

>> next department that we have is dtyf. >> good afternoon supervisors. thank you vice chair safai for calling this very important hearing and discussion. which i hope will -- which i assume will lead to more collaboration and coordination. i want to reiterate all the major points that my colleagues shared. we as a city needs to continue to prioritize all of our efforts to ensure our children, in particular african-american children and families are successful and havest to all the wealth of the city. i'm going to take over and share my screen. i have a quick slide deck.

i wanted to dive into some numbers and data that was requested of us by supervisor safai. the clerk has control. next slide please. we want to show a comparison of

our -- first of all, dcyf fund in five-year cycles. we want to show comparisons of what we funded in our last funding cycle compared what we're funding in this current funding cycle. our last funding cycle which i apologize that's misstated there, fiscal year is 2013-2018. specifically for the 94112 area, we funded a total of through agencies. then in this most recent funding cycle we increased that now to 47 agencies. you can go down the slide hering see that in the last funding cycle we had 70 programs that were operating in 94112. , 22 were community-based

programs. these are programs that are operate in their own space in the district or in sites that they partner with other agencies. 48 of them operate in schools to run after school programs and other types of programs. for a total of last funding cycle of $5.9 million. in this current funding cycle, we were able to increase the funding for agencies more significantly we're able to increase programs in the community. we now have 111 programs that are operating throughout 94112. 36 of those are actually in the community. 75 of those are located in schools. that means that say for example in one school, you can have a couple of different types of

programs that's offered to those students there. we were able to increase our funding to 94112 to $8.7 million. going for 94132 we were not able to increase as much as 94112. we funded agencies that provided programs throughout the area. 11 in the community-based site and totally $1.1 million. in this current funding cycle we were able to fund 12 agencies. they are operating 16 different programs throughout that area, six in the community and ten in schools. for a total of $1.2 million.

here's the list of agencies that we funded in the last funding cycle for 94112 and 94132. i do apologize, this is a very small print. here's a look what we are funding now in this current funding cycle. >> supervisor safai: just so we have a follow-up conversation that we're in a more refined way, this is a very broad base of organizations. i'm just curious like some of the maybe have one person from 94112 and their program. it's an afternoon school program because they go to school on the other side of the city. this conversation today is more

intended -- director sue, we've done that more to really narrow down on what direct investments are being made into the lakeview, these are all great organizations but majority of their work is all over the city. it's not necessarily investment into -- >> the direct investment is here. you will see that these are -- >> supervisor safai: that will be good to know what organizations those are. >> actually, i understand -- this is the nuance of agencies that have multiple programs that is scattered all over the city. some of them have summer

programs for middle school students that happens to be located in the lakeview area. we can have a deeper conversation. >> supervisor safai: we should have a ofollow-up conversation. i'm not aware some of the groups doing work. they might have participants that maybe someone that goes to school on the other side of town, that is getting services at that site and then maybe your team put that together on a list. this is a very extensive list that i'm not exactly sure is 100% what we're looking for. we'll follow-up with you on that. that's fine. >> okay. moving along, i also listed all the schools that are in the

area. we provide nonprofit agencies in. this is the list of young people who our c.b.o.s are serving that live in 94112 and 94132 broken out by the service area. in total we are serving more children in 94112. than in 94132. we're serving 5340 children in 94112 and little over a 1000 in 94132 in a variety of different programs. i will call your attention to the highest area of children that we are serving, which is in our teen programs. enrichment leadership and skill

building area. here's a comparison of the children that identify that they live in 94112 and 94132. compared to the total population that's in your district. broken out by age just to help gauge where our programs are clustering, where we need to actually do a better job at reaching these young people. i can see, there's definitely room to grow and room to have deeper coordinated collaborative conversations with other city departments and then also with your office. >> supervisor safai: particularl y on that slide. when you look at 18 to 24 and

94132 you got 40 being served out of 7500. then 250 out of almost 6000. that seems to be the one of the biggest gaps in your service area for department. >> yes, the numbers here have senior difficult to tease out. in 94132 you have state and in 941112 you have city college. it's hard to tease out what is our traditionally defined as young people and younger people between ages 18 and 24. our edefinition of kay are people disconnected from systems and services that will help them

thrive. it's nuance. i want to again, look forward to having a deeper conversation with you about this. we suggest that in general, of the total 18 to 24 populations in the city, approximately 10% are do meet the definition of kay. which are young people connected into the justice system or at the health system, foster care system and other systems like that. i want to share that the latest initiative at dcyf, we're very proud of, which is our community health initiative. these are the programs that we have been standing up throughout the city to support young people

who are engaging distance learning curriculum and distance learning programs right now. we are serving almost 150 young people in your district. we're so grateful for your leadership and your partnership with us to identify sites and support the c.o.b.s to operate these sites. it's not an easy task.

we are working with our school district partners to ensure there are more opportunities in your district. >> supervisor safai: what i have heard from the school district, some of these schools are not going to open back up. they are prepared to make some of their space available. we have a number of those locations in my district. we have the either the highest -- actually i believe we have the highest, 0 to 18 unified school district in the city. can you update us on that? >> yes, i will definitely update after i have my conversation with dr. matthew.

>> supervisor safai: we know what the status of that? last time we spoke about a month ago. can you give us a little update on that? >> well, i believe that there's some positive movement happening and i would love to share with you soon about what that means. >> supervisor safai: okay, great. >> there are a lot of schools in your district. there's a number of them that we would love to be able to go into to provide the support. >> supervisor safai: exactly. that's what i'm thinking. i would think for us to be comparable to other parts of the city in terms of the kids, we should be right there with district 10 based on the need, based on the number of children, based on number of schools that are easily accessible.

the quicker and sooner that we can make that happen, i think the better it will be for the children. >> absolutely, agree. i do want to mention that the district runs a food pantry. they do food delivery out of the site. there are actual logistical issues that would prevent certain sites from being a hub. i commit to you and to all district 11 that we're going to work really closely with our school district partners to make sure that we do what we can. >> supervisor safai: all i would say in response to that is, just based on what i've seen in many of the private and parochial schools, they have ways to staggered the times versus the food pantry starts at one time t

learning hub starts another time. i'm not telling you anything you don't know. there are different entrances and exits that the children will be inside the classrooms with windows open and ventilated and the people from the food pantry are outside, waiting to have food distributed either in the parking lot or at the entrance to the school. they're not coming in the school. we have enough of those locations where not every single one of them in our district is a food distribution site. we definitely can find some school space if that's the hurdle. i would estimate probably another 150 kids serving. we would love to have another hundred based on our numbers and the demand and where we are right now with school reopening. >> that concludes my presentation. i will point out that all the pictures in my presentation are

of children in district 11. as you can see, they are beautiful and we want to make sure that we continue to support them and their families as we as a city go through this pandemic and make it out on the other side. >> supervisor safai: thank you and i know lot of them were from the grand opening and the work at the merced heights playground. one of those children was on the front page of the chronicle today, part of the big announcement that something else is going on. anyway, we appreciate the support you're providing. we will follow-up because we absolutely have a lot of english learners, disabled children and others and many of the other families that were looking to expand our community hubs for make a -- more inclusive.

i would talk to you more. we will follow-up on some of the more granular getting down into the information on what actual neighborhood-based organizations are being funded versus children that are receiving services around the city that are from the neighborhood. >> thank you so much. >> supervisor safai: great. final speaker from department o public health. >> hello, good afternoon. this is tracy packer i'm from department of public health. the director of the community health equity promotion branch, which is part of the population health division of the health department. i'll be joined by marla simmons who's the acting director for behavioral health service from the department of public health.

thank you so much, good afternoon supervisors. we're grateful for this opportunity to share with you for work that d.p.h. to meet the health needs of the community. we'll be talking about what the department provides. the program in the community and other community programs that serve the residents at lakeview, merced and ingleside. we'll talk about the population division program that works on population level to reach -- to work with community to identify needs and plan a response. in all cases, the priority area has been the focus of many of our programs. i'm going to turn it over to mar marla.

she'll begin conversation about the programs funding in d11 specifically lakeview, merced and ingleside. >> hello supervisors. good afternoon. tracy, if you can go to the next slide please. while you're moving the slides, just to provide context how the department of public health is structured. tracy is going to talk more detail after i'm done about the population health side of the

health department. i'm covering the san francisco health network, which is the portion of the health department that is really focused on the direct services that we provide and direct healthcare delivery. san francisco health network includes laguna hospital and ambulatory care and integrated care. we're going to hopefully tell the full story by talking about the two different divisions. >> i think if you can give more truncated version. we're going to run short on time. i want to focus specifically on the work that you guys are doing in all lakeview.

>> we have sites that we operate, civil service staff operates. this shows what ivy street just -- iwas talking about and the different data that we have which comes from the electronic health records. it doesn't include all of our early intervention school-based. the site that d.p.h. staff operates including family center, which are two behavioral health programs.

we fund a number of behavioral health programs that serve community as well and we looked at the 94112 and 94132. i heard the opening of the hearing to focus on the one neighborhood. we'll need to circle back to that. these agencies provide a range of outpatient behavioral health services. these numbers are numbers that are available through avatar or electronic health record. it don't capture the full breadth of the populations we serve. next act of contracts are those

services provided by maternal child and adolescent health division. a wide range of services that include home nursing, nursing in the field, integrated into the human service agency cal works program. full range of programs that support children, families with children that have special health needs including the child health and disability prevention program. this is proportional amount of clients served from the zip codes. i can go into more detail what you're interested in. that's very quick given the time. >> just quickly, these programs are focused on a population as a

whole. i won't go into great detail. these are focused on healthy eating and active living. these programs are primarily funded through the sugary drinks distribution tax and allows for addressing food security which has been the critical issue. it's a crises now. but it was a critical issue prior to covid-19. luckily we were able to leverage the funds that we had to pivot them towards supporting populations during covid. this includes emergency grocery vouchers and providing food boxes, 3000 latino and african-american households with children were reached and with partnerships with the family resource center, we were able to reach 250 households 94112 and

94132. and other physical activity and healthy eating in the neighborhood. >> supervisor safai: we will follow-up again with your team. it would be good to whittle down the number of people, for this conversation, i care about my entire district, district 11, but this was specifically for the o.m.i. lakeview. it doesn't seem like anything o.m.i. the citywide esf voucher for veggies, that sometime like a citywide program. if we can follow-up with you and your team and really narrow this

down. there are some existing organizations like catholic charities, that are doing work specifically in the o.m.i. that are working with the population similar to you're talking about here. it will be good to know. we have originally used to have public health style clinic inside the i.t. bookman site that used to be funded for wellness and nursing checks. is there opportunities to continue to partner with some of those groups that are doing -- that have the space and maybe partner with your organization at your department to see if we can increase services direct in that area? >> thank you for those questions. yes, we will work on getting breakdowns specific to the zip code. i would highlight that through funds that we recently allocated

to address covid, we funded southwest community corporation, i.t. bookman. we've been talking about partnership and how we can build that. it's a really strong partnership and we're very excited to be working with them and we've gotten started on providing really excellent testing site and all it support they are providing. >> supervisor safai: yes. absolutely. we work really strong with both on the excelsior side for testing. now we're trying to get that expanded to vaccination. >> thank you so much for the time. if you have any specific questions we're happy to answer them. i think we would just reinforce the importance of the work in d11 and the important population and the strong partnerships that we have and we continue to -- thank you for your time today. >> supervisor safai: great, my office will follow-up. i did ask one of the questions i

wanted to ask specifically, some of the space within i.t. bookman that used to have some health clinic space for those 15 and older. it will be good to follow-up if there's additional work that catholic charities is doing that we can do with our seniors through our office that will be great. those are the two things and my office will follow-up. >> thank you so much. >> supervisor safai: thank you both. thank you to all the presenters that have come today. i appreciate that. i know mr. chair, we can open up to public comment so we can get some of the direct input from the community. maybe the questions asked were directly from our community partners and community leaders with omicc and others. if we can just open it up to public comment and i want to thank all the presenters for coming today. my office will follow-up with

you directly. >> thank you, madam clerk is there any public comment? >> operations, please let us know if there are callers that are ready. please press star 3 to be added in the queue. those on hold please continue to wait. >> yes, we currently have five callers in the queue. >> hi, thank you supervisor supervisor safai. i'm calling to respond oecc.

i'm with the african-american early childhood educators. i like to emphasize the importance of community collaboration with funding and programming. making sure that african-american and early childhood educators have a seat at the black education council to address and resolve inequities in the e.c.e. workforce committee. thank you. >> next speaker please. >> someone is talking and we can't hear them. >> please have your camera off.

operations, please queue in the next caller. >> hello i'm calling in to support the recovery fund. i think that seeing how much important that event is and how they've been affected by this pandemic, just showing me how much more important these events are. having been part of that culture, having worked in that environment for so long, it's just that the support is not quite there in terms of

financial assistance for local -- [indiscernible] >> we're not yet on that item. that's our next item. the venue fund. sorry. appreciate you calling. >> my name is mary thomas. thank you so much supervisor safai. i'm calling on behalf of the african-american early childhood educators. i appreciate o.e.c. answer some questions. i'm not sure how it will be

equitable to family childhood providers. we like answers to those questions that we asked. thank you all for listening and supporting us. thank you. >> could we please have you turn off your camera? next caller please. >> good evening. i'm the executive director of inner city youth. i'm calling just wanted to pose a couple of questions to the various departments. during the pandemic, one of the

things we learned that d11 is made up of large number of folks accessing services. [indiscernible] i'm also part of san francisco black wall street. during that work, i gained greater understanding of culture district and in particular african-american culture district. i'm wondering how oewd can invest in the economic development of lakeview and extend to upper mission.

my final question is, supervisor safai, under his leadership, we've seen all these new housing development projects. one of them is under way already. what is missing is the investment in programs that help folks to get into those housing development that allow them to [indiscernible]. when is that investment coming to the o.m.i.? is that something that will be housed in the o.m.i.? we have a lot of bigger organizations and entities that are coming to the community. it will be great to have one housed in the community. thank you very much. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> hello.

my name is alita fisher. i'm a resident of the lommi. i like to thank chair haney and supervisor safai for putting this item on the agenda and highlighting our issues and needs in the community. i really appreciated member of the lomi with the opportunity to raise questions and to have needs be addressed. one in particular, also is the share of the -- i do a lot of work within sfusd as well. one of the things we're seeing for our students in particular is just the inequity right now. my question really is, what are the goals to prioritize the investments made in our community whether it's community

hubs, specifically community hub as well as other resources for families. particularly for families of student who are english learners, families of students who have i.e.p.s, families who are experiencing homelessness, students living in public housing, student qualify free and reduced lunch, students in foster care. these are our hardest hit and most marginalized students now. how are we prioritizing them in everything we're doing right now? thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker please.

[indiscernible] please proceed. >> this is renard monroe. i'm just calling in just to get a renewed sense of the investment into our community and just reviewing all the

inequities in every section of our community. just trying to see when we can stop with making things so difficult for our residents and for our c.b.o.s and businesses to keep services that desperately needed. lot of light has been put on inequities that has served us for years. i would like to see things change like quickly. i think our supervisor ahsha safai has done a tremendous job of fighting for our community. we don't want to fight anymore for our community. we want services to be allocated, funds to be allocated so we can service our community properly, education for our children can be prioritized, food security can be prioritized, our workforce development can be prioritized.

those are things we're looking for, thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> that completes the queue. >> supervisor safai: public comment is now closed. any final comments. >> supervisor safai: thank you, it's clear from the information today we need to do something follow-up with the department. there was definitely a concerted effort on their part to identify the organizations and investments that's happening directly into lomi lakeview. my office will have follow-up conversations. i want to thank the community members that helped prepare this

process, omicc we will continue this work. we'll work in collaboration and we will look to expand and advance investment directly into the black community and into these black-led organizations as well as o.m.i. lakeview. yes, george floyd died in a horrible death. created a movement himself but this has spurn many other

things. we need to incorporate and lift up the black community that's had years of disinvestment. i want to recommitment myself and my office and the work we will do to continue to look at this part of my district and that does not mean we will neglecting other parts of my district, but this conversation was specific to o.m.i. lakeview. >> supervisor haney: thank you for all your leadership and the departments who joined us and certainly learned a lot. i think that the gaps in services and support that you

identified are really important. whatever we can do here during the budget process, with you and your leadership and partnership to address some of those gaps and some of those needs, you have my full commitment and support. yes, it is a commitment. with that, madam clerk, can we -- one quick thing i want to do before i move to item 9. i want to return to item 3 -- >> excuse me mr. chair, before that, could we please take action on this item, item number

8? would you like to file the hearing or to the call of the chair? >> supervisor safai: if we can continue it to the call of the chair, that will be great. >> is this a motion? >> yes, >> supervisor haney: roll call vote please. [roll call vote]. that will be continued to the call of the chair. can we return to item 3? >> clerk: would you like me to read the item again? >> supervisor haney: yes. >> clerk: it's a resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public to enter

performance contract incorporating the mental health services, lanterman. --- public comment has been taken on this matter. >> supervisor haney: thank you. ms. simmons, is there -- i believe that also deputy city attorney pearson is on. the decision here is to continue for a week. can you give us an update? >> we've submitted revised language to amend the resolution so that it reads in a clearer matter. i'm not sure if it was decided to continue or not. we're eager to get it done as soon as possible. the state is waiting on us.

>> i understand that some amendments have been prepared but have not been reviewed in full by the city attorneys who advised d.p.h. they appreciate to have extra week to review the amendment so you could continue this for one week, that will give them the time to do that. >> supervisor haney: all right. i want to move to continue this item for one week. roll call vote on that please. [roll call vote] >> supervisor haney: thank you. can you please call item 9? >> clerk: ordinance administrative code san francisco music and entertainment venue recovery

fund, members of the public who wish to provide public comment should call 415-655-0001 meeting i.d. 146 845 7129 please dial star 3 to speak. please wait until the system indicate you have been unmuted. >> supervisor haney: thank you. this is my item. i'm going to provide some brief opening comments and then we have couple of presenters that i'm going to call up as well. music and entertainment venueshave been among the harde. these establishments were the first to close and their door have remained firmly shut since shelter-in-place orders were issued back in march. unlike other businesses, venues

have not had the option it safely reopen and operated any point during this pandemic. they are stuck with extremely high overhead costs that they continue to incur. san francisco venues have been ringing alarm bells over the last few months and many are worried they won't survive along enough to reopen in a post-pandemic world. according to an industry survey performed by the entertainment commission in may 2020, more than half of these establishments were rotted having lost between 75% to 100% of their income and 75% to 100% of expected business income in 2020. it has been half year since the survey was completed. in the past year, san francisco has lost venues like slims, the stud, the oldest lgbt inventory

eye -- venues in the city. congress has included the save our stages act dedicating $15 billion to direct aid to theaters and venues. applications won't become available until april at the earls. previous aid page is any indicator how things will play out, these funds are likely to be insufficient to prevent the permanent closure and may come too little too late. that is why we worked with local venues to introduce legislation to create the san francisco music and entertainment venue recovery fund. which was originally introduced at the tuesday december 22nd, special meeting of the board of supervisors. the fund will be under the jurisdiction office of the small

business in consultation of the mayor's budget office and office of economic and workforce development and entertainment commission. the mayor introduced $62.5 million in small business relief package to provide aid to many of our struggling small businesses in the city as they await more help from the federal government. i know that for many of these small businesses they are grateful for the support and will urgently require to be able to survive in the coming months. the grant program that was announced based on the number of employees a business had, which may not always be appropriate when it comes to venues. the primary cost of venues including rent, utility, insurance and tax. you can have rent that average $20,000, the new grant program awarding $5000 to $25,000 grant that may barely cover a month of rent. our office is continuing office

with the mayor's office. the mayor recently announced she is willing to allocate a part of the $62.5 million specifically for these venues. the san francisco music entertainment venue recovery fund was created to provide the guidelines and assistance that will best support these businesses that are cornerstone of our city's cultural economy. another point i want to make, the issue of venues being forced to close is not a new one. venues were struggling before covid. many of our cities, covid has highlighted and made them worse. my hope is that we can have this fund available over the long-term and provide a safety net for venues struggling to help protect and that we can work to ensure that their future in san francisco is possess and

bright and they can continue to provide critical places for our residents and visitors to build community, be creative and contribute tremendously to our economy. with that, i'm going to call up couple of speakers that we have here for this item. the first is going to be sharky laguana who is the president of the small business commission and very involved helping us draft this fund and bring it forward. >> are you guys able to hear me all right? >> supervisor haney: yes. >> perfect, apologies to the clerk for having my video on earlier. chair haney, supervisor mar and

supervisor safai, thank you for considering this very important legislation. first i like to note, chair haney, your poster is in the back and prints are arapahoe to this legislation. from a cultural standpoint, i played music professionally for many years. i performed at many of these venues. the community that these venues have built all of my friends that i had more than a quarter century, met in these venues, my wife i met in one of these venues. i propose to her from the stage

bottom of the hill. this is very near and dear to my heart. it's something that i care a lot about. i know the community does as well. should this legislation pass, the always of small business has contemplated how that rule making process will move forward. we identified committee members, we would form a subcommittee to come up with a proper rule making process. we would include members from outside the commission. we would have members at independent venue community join the subcommittee for the purpose of drafting rules that would specifically target our smallest and most vulnerable venues who are otherwise left out, were unable to take advantage of existing aid programs.

for this program, would struggle to survive. mr. haney mentioned, many of these venues collapsed and we're losing them. their contributions to san francisco's culture and history are critical. chair haney, i will say that, i believe one of your speakers was going to be entertainment commission chair ben bleiman. he texted me. he is unfortunately, having some connection issues. he's on the road. i'm also prepared to present on his behalf. he's submitted his notes. if you like me to do so, i can. >> supervisor haney: please, continue. >> okay. this would be the presentation that president bleiman from the entertainment commission, wanted to present.

our permitted venues many who are vulnerable prior to covid were among the first businesses require to close this year. and remain at the end of reopening frameworks announced today. along with restaurants and hotels the entertainment sectors is experiencing one of the highest job lost jobs. the entertainment nightlife service generated $7 billion in economic impact annually. this industry will be critical part of our economic recovery but only -- i'll add a side here, for every dollar that is spent in a venue, $12 is spent in the surrounding community. it is a remarkable ratio there. in may of 2020, the entertainment commission conducted an entertainment nightlife industry to better understand the financial and social impacts of the virus and

help guide recovery strategies. among the findings, half respondents were concerned that their business will need to close permanently including many bars, live music venues and night clubs. about half of the respondents reported losing 75% to 100% of income in 2020. 4306 total events have been canceled in 2020 due to covid-19 with a total expected attendance of 3.4 million people. in addition, according to the california employment development department report from december 2020, employment in san francisco's arts entertainment recreation business has to declined 30.4% since february 2020. the entertainment sector experiencing one of the highest job loss rates in the city. the entertainment commission recommended among other things, allocating funding to provide grants or loans to venues that

recover rent and mortgage, employee payroll, utilities and insurance to help venues maintain their space and operation. this all represents added expenses to already beleaguered industry. finally, i will make one note returning to me from my personal comments, my company that i run, my small business is called bandigo. we rent bands to the music industry. we help bands go on tour. it was my second act after my music career collapsed. our revenue for the year has been about 20% to 30% what it was prior years. only reason we're standing

because lenders have allowed us to defer but not waive debt payments. this most recent round of p.p.e. we were days away from shutting everything down. this legislation is sorely needed for a cohort that has probably been more adversely impacted or adversely impacted as any other cohort of business in san francisco. thank you for your time. >> supervisor haney: thank you. i'm sure commissioner bleiman will be happy with your performance on his behalf.

i got to meet prince few weeks before he passed away. he has for a long time been a music in our town. with this fund i think we will continue to be a music and art town. i don't believe that we have other presenters on this item. colleague, do you have any questions or comments that you want to share before i open it up to public comment? either for me or for president laguana about this fund?

>> supervisor safai: i want to thank you and president laguana and all the other leaders from the entertainment commission, small business commission for working on this incredibly important fund. to support our live music and venue operator here in the city. you both stated, this is an incredibly important part of the culture in identity of our city. even for me as a young person growing up in sacramento, it's part of the san francisco and when i was in college here in the bay area, coming to the city for live performances. it's what drew me to the city. we know that live entertainment and music is a huge economic driver in our city generating billions of dollars in business

in our city. >> we'll make sure that you are -- there's couple of things i did want to emphasis. i did mention that this will be administered by the office of small business. as i said, we hope to have an initial investment of $1.5 million that we'll be put in coordination with the mayor. we hope to be able to add more than that. we have in particular, a goal of grants and awards of up to $100,000 with a focus on businesses that are imminent danger of closure that have been in operation for at least 15 years and those will legacy business status.

wouldn't be limited to those but those are some of the ways in which we would prioritize who would get these funds. we also want to make sure that we have ways for people to donate to this fund. we're working on the exact way to do that. we're hoping that people can really get behind this and they can contribute directly and we can match some of the funds that the city is putting into it with funds from other donors. with that, i do want to thank the independent venues and president laguana and commissioner bleiman and commissioner manny for helping with this. i hope we can not only get behind it now and support it in the coming months and years and make sure these venues can

survive and thrive. is there any public comment? >> operation is checking to see if there's any callers in the queue. if you have not already done so, please press star 3 to be added to the queue. >> we have 21 callers in the queue. >> hello everyone, thank you for your time and consideration. i'm here to support supervisor haney recovery fund. as a venue live events, they are the lifeblood of this city. nobody coming to san francisco

for applebee's. they're an anchor tenant in their community. to date, many cities across the country are taking action to support their live venues, often $20 million, charlotte $15 million, sacramento $8 million. san francisco yet to make any contribution to the sector. direct grants due to mountain of debt has taken on since march. if we can't meet those obligations we'll be forced into personal bankruptcy. this fund is important, the mayor program for small businesses will not work for venues. venues spending $18,000 to $35,000 each month on rent, utilities and insurance and what little payroll we maintain. that's why we requested

$48 million in direct relief funding. the small business commission and entertainment commission all support this fund. we expect leaders to listen to their constituents and take action to save local live events. >> next speaker please. >> hello. [indiscernible]

>> this year -- [indiscernible]. it's going to be another really tough year. super appreciate you working on this and doing what you can for us. i yield my time.

>> next speaker please. >> good afternoon. i want to thank you guys for your time. i'm reaching out in support of the proposed legislation to create this vital venue recovery fund. i'm calling in today both as general manager for the lost church as well as a lifetime bay area resident and almost three decades i lived here in san francisco. with the venue, the pandemic has crushed us. we've been shuttered for almost a year now. obviously, not sure when we're going to be able to reopen. $1.5 million in assistance is a good start. we really need that extra money and the funds to put it in. we are just getting crushed and losing so much and stand to lose

so much more what we love about this city. just on the resident side, i came here almost 30 years ago from mountain view, coming up up for shows and music culture being such an important part of what drew me here and what draws so many people here. it seems unthinkable to me that given how much we as venues and operators of these venues contribute to the city and invest city that the city would not reciprocate and invest back in us. ty hear lot of talk. now is the time to make it happen. i trust you guys will do what you need to do to go ahead and get this fund approved and hopefully start to see some money coming in. thank you for your time. >> thank you for your comment. next speaker please.

>> hello. i'm the operation director. we've been operating out of the tenderloin for five years. it's my entire life. growing up here in the bay area and it's something i was legally allowed to. i met my wife going out -- this is so vital for me. we don't know how we're going to make it. we're waiting to figure out what's happening with our stages and p.p.e. all this stuff. please do pass supervisor

haney's bill. we really need it. thank you. >> next speaker please. >> hello. my name is jason burton, i'm a bartender. i want to stress the importance of just having a place to work. if these venues don't get the funds necessary to stay open, then i'm not going to have a place to work and they're going to be lot of people who will be out of work. working at one bar is not even an option in the bay area and san francisco, we need all of these venues to be open. everybody that works in this industry have multiple jobs.

all within the field of live entertainment. i know that $1.5 million is what's out on there on the table. but $48 million is what is going to be necessary to keep these venues alive. that's pretty much all i have to say. i yield the rest of my time. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> hi. i'm joshua love, i live in the tenderloin. i want to thank the supervisors for this proposed funding for the entertainment venues. small venues have been taken a beating. covid has accelerated that process. we lost a lot of venues already. i performed and i watch entertainment at both several of the venues in town.

i do like four or five nights a did. at least i did before covid came along. it is without hyperbole, a key things that keeps me in the city. i like you to please support the funding, please expand it beyond $1.5 million. i like to see performance arts still be here once we're all able to go outside. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> hi. i'm calling for you to support the venue recovery fund. the situation is dire. [indiscernible] please help us

get to the other side of this pandemic. >> thank you. there are 30 callers in the ewe and 19 listening. next caller please. >> my name is maria davis. i'm speaking in support of supervisor haney's venue recovery fund. i lived in san francisco for 13 wonderful years. while struggling to keep the doors open here at my business, i'm one of the owner of the stud. in may, we sadly saw beloved club close its doors. we've been mourning and

grieving. they're not just places to see music. they are community centers. when this is all over, san francisco will still be here in some way. i fear the community and the culture will not. it is a community and the culture that makes people from all over the world come here to spend money, to live and work and many like myself, want to own a small business and raise a child. as i've done on the frontlines trying to keep other venues from closing, we cannot count on federal money. we cannot count on state money. venue recovery fund is the most direct with acute tool that will be a lifeline for venues to stay open. we are desperate. this is urgent. please support the creation of the fund. please help us save the community and culture and financial future of san francisco. thank you for listening to me. i really appreciate all of your

hard work. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> hi. my name is brooke heineken. i produced independent shows that many of the venues called about already. i'm calling in support of the recovery fund. i hope that you consider adding more money to it. i don't know if you had -- it's not the same. i'm hopeful there's going to be places for people to safely produce after this is all over. we tried to produce some shows outdoors safely when permitted. i know venues are investing lot of money creating outdoor spaces where they can safely allow

people to gather and the demand is there. people are really starving for entertainment. >> next speaker please. >> hello. i've been to all different kinds of venues that have been mentioned here. this is a very important thing. we always need to have a space that's free to express themselves.

we need that kind of entertainment. even know we're so locked up in our houses. we don't have that chance to interact with one another. i do believe investing in our venues will create a boom of enthusiasm to go out these venues. it's such a wonderful community where people can come together. san francisco is such a great space to have people come together. these places need to be around. we don't have them.

there's so many different people who rely on these venues and places to live. i support raising the fund to $48 million as well. would like to really get a banger for our -- bang for our buck. >> thank you for your comment. next speaker please. o >> hello. i've been a community member of the performing arts community in sf for over 10 years. we really need to preserve this. the performing arts in san francisco is what has made san

francisco what it is. people are going to need to have these places that they can feel that sense of community and feel that sense of safety. i believe it's going to take more than $1.5 million. even though that's a great start. i support increasing that funding up to $48 million to

ensure that we can continue and maintain the legacy that san francisco has. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> hi, i'm michelle catel, i'm with the lost church in san francisco. i'm calling in support of the venue recovery fund and also long-term future by increasing that $48 million. venues are part of the culture. san francisco has a story and reputation. i think it's time to make a bold

move by at least $48 million so we can regrow that area of culture in san francisco. the tech industry thinks we're moving away. i encourage $48 million to save our local venues. i yield my time. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> hi, i lived in the bay area 12 years ago. the reason was because i wanted to go to grad school. i could have gone to other places but i chose san francisco because of the live venues, cultural scenes.

i love live venues wind advisory they bring together art and entertainment together. all in one place. all mutually reinforcing in a way that nothing else really does. lot of venues are one of the greatest strengths -- i believe that supporting this funding is part of keeping san francisco a world-class city. my last thought is, i know that have a lot of votes ahead of you. i think there's one that you

really be able to feel proud of supporting. thanks. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> hi everybody. i lived in san francisco for 12 years. i work in the performing arts. i'm calling to stress the importance of saving our venues. they're not just a vital part of fostering community and providing the lifeblood for our society in many ways. they are irreplaceable communities. people need a place to go to meet where their fellow man.

it's the only way to foster community to be in place with people and meet them and see them. beyond important that we save these places. support this bill. anything you can do. i yield my time. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> hi my name is dan williams. i'm one of the owner at piano site in the tenderloin. special thanks to supervisor haney for bringing this issue to the forefront. approving the san francisco venue recovery fund is vitally important.

unfortunately by taking on debt and more debt and appreciating the grants but there's a lot of debt there. really can't take anymore. the federal fund that have -- they are not guaranteed from venue to venue. it will take a long time reach some of us. venues not making it and it cost jobs and economic growth and the further fraying of san francisco's culture fabric. we're not just part of the fabric, we're part of the neighborhoods and communities that the brick and mortar exist in that many different communities touch. lot of these public commenters are really talking about community and using that word. not just entertainment and

nightlife. approving this recovery fund will provide the vital reinforcements to preserve this cultural fabric of san francisco. it's not enough time to go into all the benefits brought you by these entertainment nightlife art venues. every dollar spent on live events in san francisco, brings an additional $12 of economic benefit to the city. that's an astounding return on investment for any funds put towards helping venues survive. >> next speaker please. >> hello chair haney and supervisors. i'm not a venue owner but i moved here to go to venues and enjoy live entertainment.

this legislation is awesome. the fund does need to be bigger. there's one other change that i think would help. there's a clause in the prioritization for clubs and established culture district. i live on the west side. we don't have any culture district at all. not in district 4, not in district 1. i don't think there's one in district 2. for some inequity standpoint, i suggest that the clause be amended to open up opportunity for all entertainment venues in san francisco. great work. keep it up. let's save all these venues. thanks. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> i'm am 17-year resident of district 3. while i do not work in the --venue i have family member who

do. lot to personal connection there. district 3, we've seen the loss of red devil lounge and tragic loss of the hamlock. small venues matter.

>> if you have not done so please press star 3 to be added to the queue. next caller please. >> hello. happy mid-week supervisors. thank you for your incredible leadership in these times of venue recovery fund. i lived in san francisco for almost 20 years. all of the years has been filled with going to hear live music in the city. i miss it.

i worked in venues. most recently -- i do understand that the small businesses have. just like many people before me, i want to emphasize that attending live events is a lifestyle. that's why people live here and near san francisco. they influence social life as a economic driver. san francisco is a major player for tourists and live events. it's not like movies where you can watch it on netflix later. people actually leave their couch. i leave my couch. i worked in the same industry. it's the good old days. i know that -- i heard that $1.5 million is allocated.

we do need more. thank you, great for the $1.5 million but, as we know, $8 million dried up 16 venues across the city. san francisco has so much more. we also know we're going to need more long-term options too. who knows how long this pandemic will last. we need a national independent venue alliance. it could be as long as 2024 before the whole music industry will have 100% recovery. just from the effects of being closed this one year. >> thank you for your comment. next speaker please. >> hello. my name is sean.

1015 folsom. we're first closed, we'll be last to open. last show march 7th of last year. we've had zero revenue since, debt is climbing. some venues had federal aid and some have not. i grew up thinking of san francisco as like the music place. coming from that. it was part of the reason i came

here because it is the mecca before tech, before sourdough before the bridge, before the basketball team. this place is music. the history is incomparable globally. people come here from all over the world. they have come here from all over the world for that. we can't count on federal and state money. we're in deal times. we supposed to get forgivable loan and how to navigate -- just a ridiculous amount of debt through this. $1.5 million allocated is amazing. we're grateful for it. the larger sum of the $48 million to salvage this community, small businesses, possibly most importantly, your community and culture that's so predicated and based on this foundation of music.

>> you know, we need so much more, $1.5 million is just the tip of the iceberg. from my own personal experience, it cost me $25,000 a month that i lose. my p.p.p. did not get refinded. i'm $128,000 in debt. i'm selling beers out of cooler everyday. i living on chips. no income. i daughters can't go to school. the challenge for everybody is difficult. i know this is the city that know you guys will do the right thing. thank you. i have faith in you. i yield my time. >> next speaker please.

>> hi, i'm homeowner and business owner. my venue, bottom of the hill, hopes to make it to 30 years this fall and pursue legacy status. we're all music venue. we're open every night. we're proven ground for local musicians. we host showcases for local music schools. we're often the first place in san francisco for national or international bands that are about to make it big. apparently -- please help the live music industry by creating this fund for venues. i do believe that everyone here understands why music is important to the city and its reputation. as a travel destination, i want to remind you of the possibility without significant financial help. the only ones left standing once live music can begin again will be the corporation that control so much of the live music

business. please preserve unique culture of san francisco. we need your help. thank you so much for this legislation. >> thank you for your comment. next speaker please. >> i'm the owner of the oasis on the corner of 11th and folsom. thank you supervisor haney for hearing this proposal. we've been open for about six years now. we've been a venue for local touring artist. our goal was to be a clubhouse for a cross section of the community, safe space for the lgbt community. we employed bartenders, security, technicians, cleaning group and performers. these people are our extended family. we had lay them off and cancel

all their bookings. we worked so hard to pivot during this time to make a tiny bit of money. it's still not enough. we're still drawing constant debt. i drained my personal savings. it's really a crucial time. i beg you right now, we really do need your help and we can't do it without you. thank you. >> next speaker please. >> thank you. i'm one of the owner of august hall. this initiative is very viable to our city. i would argue that the fabric of our city in san francisco is at risk. it is ever changing in the face

of this pandemic. these venues are pleading for your support. they are not going to be open for a long time. just because vaccines are starting to roll out, doesn't mean we'll be able to do shows until hopefully end of this year, maybe not even a year after. anything you guys can do is instrumental. it's an investment in san francisco as a whole. it len able our city to gain in money back with money spent in the surrounding business, sales tax, employment tax. i think this is an opportunity that san francisco make a statement. it's far beyond you can imagine contribute to venues.

>> next speaker please. >> i'm born and raised in the bay area. been doing events here for over 20 years now. thank you to the supervisors and that's it. thank you. >> next speaker please.

>> hello, i'm owner of san francisco eagle bar. i want to say that besides historic nightlife, we have our comedy day, days for karaoke and entertainment and performances and different types of shows. we have suffered tremendously like every other venue. i cannot stress enough the importance of allowing this payment for the health of

everybody. i thank you for the consideration. >> thank you for your comment. next speaker please.

>> good afternoon supervisors. i'm david quinby. thank you so much for proposing this legislation. saving music industry is crucial to saving the soul of san francisco. it's never been easy. i don't think we got into the business for the money. after the overhead is paid, there usually isn't. now with the impact of the pandemic and the constant changes and moves and regulations, we've all been pushed to the brink of extinction. without economic relief, many of us will be wiped off the map. can you imagine san francisco with no local club, no live music, no comedy, no theater. i did my first gig at 12 years

old in 1982. i never thought this great city would ever become so devoid of culture. tourism will operate without culture. that is the life, blood of san francisco. i had to lay off dozens of people. not to mention musicians, d.j.s and other performers i'm quarter million dollars in debt. these people and these clubs are what makes san francisco so vibrant, interesting and unique. this legislation will provide the safety net and boost needed to get us back on our feet and bring life back city. implore to you authorize the $48 million. $1.5 million is really a drop in the bucket and will not do much considering how many clubs there are here to save. that we bring in billions and

billions of revenues to the city. thank you so much. >> thank you for your comment. next speaker please. >> hello, this is stefan. i've been in san francisco for 16 years. i returned after being gone for 16 years. all i'm asking is that you consider spending millions more to make billions. that's all. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker please.

>> during the time -- i discussed this issue. i have heard my friends and coworkers, beg, plead and cried to make their case to stave their careers and livelihood that have been in limbo for almost a year and counting. i thank you for all the attention. i urge you for the sake all of these people that you do everything within your power to expedite these funds. thank you. i yield my time. >> thank you for your comments. there are 18 callers listening and one in the queue. if you have not already done so, please press star 3 to be added to the queue.

>> hello board of supervisors. thanks for speaking on san francisco venue fund championed by supervisor haney and walton and safai. thank you for sharky and office of small business for the support. independent venues are staring down the barrel of 18 plus months of zero capacity with zero reverend. venues employ caters, truck drivers, ticket takers, security, lighting, video, audio businesses. we'll be sitting on the sideline watching every other business in san francisco open before we. while we're closed, the businesses, contractors, workers will be out of business. this is a crises. we need extraordinary measure to

san francisco problems. i urge your support for the venue recovery fund. this will be a critical lifeline for venues to survive. the -- it's worth repeating every dollar spent on a concert ticket, there's $12 generated into the community. hotels, rideshares, restaurants, bars, retail, public transit, parking meters. etcetera. venues are the center of a large ecosystem of local businesses and workers. it will be very short sighted for the city not to invest in this future. venue fund is a vehicle to get us back on track. we look to be here to bring concerts and festivals back to the city of san francisco that we need your help.

i yield my time. >> thank you for your comment. there are additional callers in the queue. >> hi. thank you for hearing me out. my name is richard wilson by worked in this industry for a long time. i heard lot of it familiar voices on this call and from previous calls that i've been on. we really need your help and appreciate you looking at this issue. i don't know what life is going to be like if these venues close. like many have said on this call, all of the talking points that have come up, i was prepared to talk about -- it sound like, there's an outpouring of support from the

community that is begging for your help and we ask you to take this matter seriously. please don't delay. it's our livelihood that's on the line. we're your neighbors. we're the people that help prop up the society. we need your help at this time. please. i yield my time. >> thank you for your comment. next speaker please. >> thousands and thousands of workers businesses rely on concerts to keep the economy running strong. we strongly urge the committee

to vote yes to move this forward. thank you, i yield my time. >> next speaker please. this is the final caller. >> that completes the queue. >> supervisor haney: thank you. public comment is now closed. colleagues do you have any comments before i make my final comments or questions? i want to thank everybody who called in and all of the folks who own the venues, work at the venues. i could not agree more with everything that was said. this really is an investment in the heart and soul of our city. it's going to come back many fold in dollars that are spent here. even more than that, you really can't put a dollar amount on our culture and if we lose it, if we

lose these venues, it would have long-term consequences that will be devastated for our city. i hope that we not only create this fund, we make a commitment to invest in it. we're working with the mayor and should be able to make an initial investment. we know this is just the beginning. we have to do so much more for these venues, for our musicians, for our artists, for our entertainment venues who as so many folks said, have dug into their own pockets and have taken on tremendous amount of debt over the last year in particular. we've created a relief fund for people who have taken on rent debt for who are tenants. we're going to have to over the long-term, -- put themselves in

some cases, they put it on their credit card, personal debt to stay alive and keep their venues open during this time. this is an initial investment that we can make. this fund also will be able to be a vehicle private investment for fundraising. it will support lot of people. i'm really thankful for all the venues for the folks who helped us draft it. and for more colleague who co-sponsored it including both members of this committee. thank you. i appreciate it and we're going to have to do more to make sure we support this industry. vice chair safai? >> supervisor safai: thank you for taking the lead on this. somebody that grew up in a venue that would fall under this category with my family, my

uncle had a wonderful place similar to this, understanding how much people personal investment and time and effort and so much goes into making these successful. they are such an important part of fabric what makes san francisco unique and special or any city special for that matter. we need to prioritize. i'm very hopeful when this conversation started, it was prior to the election, right after the election, very hopeful that in this recovery packet there will be some funds that we can direct to those industries it identified today, music and entertainment venues that play such an important role in our city history and fabric. i'm proud to be a co-sponsor of this. we'll work with you in the mayor's office collaboratively

to see how we can advance this as we move forward. thanks again for taking the lead. thank you for all the callers that called in and shared their personal stories and commitment to seeing these important venues survive. thank you. >> supervisor haney: i appreciate that. i did not he grew up in one of these venues. one of the things i heard from the folks who called in was how these venues are all our city. all our districts are represented. i want to give special shot out to some of the venues in my district who did call in. i heard couple of folks from 1015 folsom and oasis and others. for district 6, this is a huge part of our economy. we need the support. thank you for partnering with us on this. there's a lot more to do.

>> supervisor mar: since you were giving shot out to your district and venues. i want to acknowledge the riptide. one of the few live music venues in my district. i just remember, there was a question about the legislation and cultural districts. the legislation that gets prioritize venues in cultural district. it's true on the website, we don't have existing cultural districts. i wanted to ask the question about that. that was one of a number of different criterias that would

help in prioritization of the fund. >> supervisor haney: exactly. you don't need to be in a cultural district to be able to apply or to qualify. it's one of the number of different factors that can be considered in the prioritization including being in danger of closing and certain size, various factors, not having received other moneys. it's one of the factors that will be considered. >> supervisor mar: thanks again for all your work on this. >> supervisor haney: we have all the venues that called in. i know we appreciate and have memories in and we all benefit from having these venues in our city. we need to make sure that we support you. with that, i want to move to

forward to the board with a positive recommendation. can we have a roll call vote please. [roll call vote] is there any other business in front of us today? >> clerk: there's no other business. >> supervisor haney: this meeting is adjourned. thank you all. all right. on 5

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>> the san francisco playground's hitsvery dates back to 1927 when the area where the present playground and center is today was purchased by the city for $27,000. in the 1950s, the sen consider was expanded by then mayor robinson and the old gym was built. thanks to the passage of the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood parks bond, the sunset playground has undergone extensive renovation to its four acres of fields, courts, play grounds, community rooms, and historic gymnasium. >> here we are. 60 years and $14 million later, and we have got this beautiful, brand-new rec center completely accessible to the entire neighborhood. >> the new rec center houses multi-purpose rooms for all kinds of activities including basketball, line dancing, playing ping-pong and arts can crafts.

>> you can use it for whatever you want to do, you can do it here. >> on friday, november 16, the dedication and ribbon cutting took place at the sunset playground and recreation center, celebrating its renovation. it was raining, but the rain clearly did not dampen the spirits of the dignitaries, community members and children in attendance. [cheering and applauding] ♪♪ ♪♪ . >> you're watching coping with covid-19 with chris manners. >> hi. i'm chris manners, and you're watching coping with covid-19.

today, my guest is phil ginsburg. he's the director of the san francisco rec and parks, and he's a national rec and park ranger. thank you for being here. >> hi, chris. thank you for having me. >> i've heard you have an exciting new exhibit that features social distancing and is outside, so it's safer. can you tell us a little bit about it? >> the golden gate 50 anniversary wasn't the celebration that we hoped for, but when life deals you lemons, you hope to make lemonade, and we tried to engage people in the park in different ways. behind me is what we did. it's a public exhibit which has

transformed peacock meadows into an enchanted forest of other worldly shapes and lights. it's to close out golden gate park's 150 years and to allow people to have outdoors socially distant fun. >> great. and what are the hours, and when can people go see it, and are there access for wheelchairs and strollers? >> well, it will run until february 27, and the ways are wheelchair accessible. it will close in time to make

the city's curfew. we're not supposed to be gathering. we're not supposed to be celebrating out there, unfortunately. it is a beautiful exhibit and is one that can be seen from the sidewalk or you can wander into the meadow, but we ask that people be really mindful of the circumstances in which we find ourselves. the most important thing for us is to be safe and healthy. do not show up with other households. come and see it, get a little taste of the holidays and leave so other people can enjoy it. if it's too crowded, comeback because it's going to be around for a while. >> how long does it take to walk around the exhibit? >> well, you could be there for five minutes or 15 minutes or longer if it's not crowded. it's about in an acre of

meadow, but it's very visible even from a fully accessible sidewalk. you'll get a sense of it. basically, there are sculpted trees, and it's gorgeous. i got an opportunity to visit it over the weekend. the conservatory of flowers is there, and then, we have our amazing spreckels temple of music which was recently renovated and lit up in lights. >> i have information that it

was created by a local artist. what can you tell us about it? >> well, it's a new concept, but the lights were previously installed in a park in toronto and also in las vegas. the installation has been paid for through private donations to the golden gate park's san francisco 150 campaign. it reflects a culture steeped in science and history and culture. >> i can't wait to visit it. safely, of course. >> wear masks, distance,

sanitize, and don't gather. >> well, thank you for coming on the show today, mr. ginsburg. i appreciate the time you've given us today. >> thank you, and thank you for giving so much attention to golden gate park which has been so wonderful for us during covid and deserves a lot of extra love and attention on its 150 anniversary. >> and that's it for this episode. we'll be back with more information shortly. thank you for watching coping with [♪♪♪] >> you are watching coping with

covid-19. today's special guest is -- >> you are watching coping with covid-19. my guest today is the acting director of san francisco public works. he is here with us today to talk about how his department has pivoted to help the city during the pandemic and talking about some of the ongoing projects. welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> i know there are some unique challenges for our unhoused population during this crisis. namely handwashing -- handwashing and social distancing. how has public works been addressing these problems? >> you know, ever since public works got involved with the response to covid, it really began from day one. we have been working with the unhoused community and the city more broadly doing things like something to identify and design and construct a safe sleeping

sights. we have been helping other areas like helping to do some of the prep for the testing centres that are all over the city now. we have also been helping to retrofit and design some of the medical facilities. we are prepared to address the surge if and when that does happen. we have also been working on the aberration side where we have been able to double the program. [indiscernible] it's just some of the things that we are regarding specifically to covid, but then on top of that, we have been doing our day-to-day work that we always do in helping to resolve some of the -- and the

encampments across the city, working with the city to make sure we are doing extra cleaning at the food stations in areas where they are trying to distribute food. and it's something that we have been doing more recently which is imparting with our colleagues at the m.t.a., planning, and other departments to set up the shared spaces program. so you can bring that to san francisco. [indiscernible] you are seeing businesses being able to operate in the white -- right of way. there are some areas in the city where they are occupying the entire street. we are hoping that all of these efforts are going a long way to make the city bounce back. >> absolutely. it's great to see the city is

coming up with ideas that will keep people safe and let some of our businesses partially reopen. >> absolutely. >> i understand that most workers are also categorized as essential workers, but at the moment, a lot of our buildings are still closed. how has your staff been redeployed to help out during the pandemic? >> there are 100 people assigned as emergency operations centres. they have worked on everything ranging from finance and logistics to accounting, to a communications. we have also had some of our staff been reassigned where we had people who were working within the bureau and we had them redeployed within the street cleaning groups. we are trying to solve problems as best we can. >> some city interior painters would normally be working inside city buildings and have been repurposed to work outside and

remove graffiti. >> yeah, and that really -- and that is also a good example of trying to find ways that we can use those same individuals, those same skill sets but use them in a way that is safe. the one thing we have learned throughout this process with covid and shelter in place is that, you know, if you are inside, it is more at risk. so you could be an individual resident, or you as an employee or worker for the city and county of san francisco, getting you outside is important and for everyone, if you are at home, you may have to go on a walk around your neighbourhood, you know, you don't want to see graffiti and things like that. we are trying to make a conscious effort to clean those things up. >> that is great. i'm glad to hear that the pandemic hasn't halted ongoing construction. can you tell me how the new

animal care and control centre is progressing and how about the ambulance deployment facility? >> they are moving along very, very well. and the care and control facility, it addresses a lot of the facilities that they have. and being able to separate the animals in a safe way and that project, along with the ambulance and deployment facility, those are all on track to be wrapping up towards the end of this year and at the latest of the beginning of next year. we had -- we just want to understand what the rules are in operating and construction. we worked closely with a health officer and other departments across the city along with the contractors to come up with rules and the way it would work

and the way we have had to implement things. we are trying to limit the number of people that are going up in lifts and things like that one of the things i am proud to say is procedures are not just used here locally or regionally. they were adopted across the state. it is one thing i'm very proud of. the speed at which the city and county of san francisco are working with our partners to keep our projects going. these are a handful of examples that are now on schedule to be built on time. >> people are pretty fascinated by the floating fire workstation 35 project. how is that going? >> is that. 22.5. it is a two story building. it will be 15,000 square feet. this is a floating station. it was built in shanghai and it

is currently over at pier one in treasure island. it will be there for the rest of this year. the plan is to flow it over across the bay and it will find a permanent home at the embarcadero at the beginning of next year. >> finally, i understand we are doing street improvements. how has the jefferson street scapegoat in. can you tell us about the upper transit and pedestrian improvements? >> those projects are going well it is one more example of the thought and the collaboration of the project team at public works along with the merchants that will be impacted by those projects. once we go to a soldier -- shelter in place, we could pivot and realize realize, okay. it could be time for us to speed up the schedule. because as the number of the storefronts were open.

what we are able to do is speed up the schedules on the upper haight street and we were able to be able to speed up the schedule and finish early on that project and likewise for the project on the jefferson street project where we were able to make up some ground that we had lost, allowing us to do things some sidewalks and school streets. that is something we would not have been able to do without the partnership and the collaboration between the contractor, public public works, and emergency. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate you coming on the show. thank you for the time you have given us today b thank you. >> that is it for our episode. we will be back with more information shortly. you have been watching coping with covid-19. thanks for watching. [♪♪♪]

. >> president yee: of the 26 neighborhoods we have in west portal, it's probably the most unique in terms of a small

little town. you can walk around here, and it feels different from the rest of san francisco. people know each other. they shop here, they drink wine here. what makes it different is not only the people that live here, but the businesses, and without all these establishments, you wouldn't know one neighborhood from the other. el toreador is a unique restaurant. it's my favorite restaurant in san francisco, but when you look around, there's nowhere else that you'll see decorations like this, and it makes you feel like you're in a different world, which is very symbolic of west portal itself. >> well, the restaurant has been here since 1957, so we're going on 63 years in the

neighborhood. my family came into it in 1987, with me coming in in 1988. >> my husband was a designer, and he knew a lot about art, and he loved color, so that's what inspired him to do the decorations. the few times we went to mexico, we tried to get as many things as we can, and we'd bring it in. even though we don't have no space, we try to make more space for everything else. >> president yee: juan of the reasons we came up with the legacy business concept, man eel businesses were closing down for a variety of reasons. it was a reaction to trying to keep our older businesses continuing in the city, and i think we've had some success, and i think this restaurant

itself is probably proof that it works. >> having the legacy business experience has helped us a lot, too because it makes it good for us because we have been in business so long and stayed here so long. >> we get to know people by name, and they bring their children, so we get to know them, also. it's a great experience to get to know them. supervisor yee comes to eat at the restaurant, so he's a wonderful customer, and he's very loyal to us. >> president yee: my favorite dish is the chile rellenos. i almost never from the same things. my owner's son comes out, you want the same thing again?

>> well, we are known for our mole, and we do three different types of mole. in the beginning, i wasn't too familiar with the whole legacy program, but san francisco, being committed to preserve a lot of the old-time businesses, it's important to preserve a lot of the old time flavor of these neighborhoods, and in that capacity, it was great to be recognized by the city and county of san francisco. >> i've been here 40 years, and i hope it will be another 40 yeararararararararararararararr

>> ♪♪ ♪♪ we are definitely pioneers in airport concession world a world of nationally if not entirely or internationally >> everybody is cop us right now. >> the people that were in charge of the retail this is where that began. >> i didn't think we would have a location at the airport. >> we've set the bar higher with the customer commerce. >> telling me about the operator and how you go about

finding them and they get from being in the city to being in the airport. >> so first, we actually find a table and once we know what we want a sit-down we go to the neighborhoods in san francisco and other people seminary of the retail let us know about the rain water and are excited to have the local operators in the airport. >> we have to go going through the conceive selective process and they award a lease to the restaurant. >> they are planning on extending. >> we that you could out the china and the length evens and the travel serve and fourth your

minds and it's all good. >> how long for a vendor to move through the process. >> i would say it could take 80 up to a year from the time we go out to bid until they actually open a restaurant. >> i don't know what we signed up for but the airport is happy to have us here. and, you know, even taking out the track simple things there's a learning curve >> with once we're here they are helpful. >> it's an award-winning program. >> we're prude of your awards we have won 11 awards the latest for the best overall food address beverage program and . >> like the oscars (laughter). >> the professional world. >> tell me about the future

food. >> all the sb national leases are xooirz and we're hoping to bring newer concepts out in san francisco and what your passengers want. >> well, i look forward to the future (laughter) air are we loo

>> the hon. london breed: here to swear in our next city administrator, assessor carmen chu. you know, i've known her many years. i remember before i was on the board of supervisors, and i watched how she managed the budget process. she ran a tight ship. she kept things in working order. she maintained her integrity throughout the entire process when she served on the board of supervisors, and then, when she was appointed assessor for san francisco, i was heartbroken because i was looking forward to serving with her on the

board, but i was thrilled with her in her new capacity. because of her work over the last few years, the only person who brought that office up to speed and has generated significant revenue for the city and county of san francisco, revenue that we should be putting away in the bank, but we're spending at a rapid pace because of the challenges that our city now faces, but carmen brought home the bacon. she worked hard to make this department work hard for the residents and people of san francisco. she was one of the -- she is one of the hardest working people i know, and she will be an amazing city administrator. people sometimes ask, well, what does the city administrator do? the city administrator basically runs the city. runs the city, runs over 25

city departments. animal care and control, department of public works, the medical examiner's office. so many departments, so many responsibilities. a lot of the technical work that goes into this, who understands the city through and through. it's a very dedicated administrative role, somebody who works hard for the people of san francisco. she's a great person, she's a great manager, and she's the perfect person to begin the process of moving this department forward and helping to maintain support and public trust of the people of san francisco. so with that, i am ready to answer in the next city administrator of the city of san francisco, carmen chu. so will you please join me --

[applause] >> the hon. london breed: please raise your right hand and repeat after me: i carmen chu do solemnly swear that i will defend the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california against all enemies foreign and domestic; that i bear true faith and allegiance to the same. that i take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which i am about to enter, and during such time as

i serve as city administrator for the city and county of san francisco. congratulations. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: we're going to sign the paperwork right before you begin your

remarks. ladies and gentlemen, the new city administrator for the city and county of san francisco, carmen chu. [applause] >> city administrator chu: thank you very much, mayor breed, to my family, who is here with me today. with oversight of over 20 core functions and citywide policies touching all governmental operations, i am honored by the mayor and the board of supervisors for their trust and for their confidence as i assume the position of san francisco city administrator. public service is a privilege, and with the public health and economic challenges we now face, there is no more important work. more than 13 years ago, i

started down the path of elected office. looking back, it was a big and sometimes challenging role of public servant. but whether it was my first interview, my first election, my first debate, i drew on what was inside. i am a daughter of chinese immigrants who didn't have much when they first came here. they went to adult school every night to learn english so they could become citizens. they saved every penny they had to start a small family restaurant, and they almost never took a day off work. i am that kid who helped out that family restaurant on every weekend, who did homework in between waiting onible at thats, who didn't have any glue for -- waiting on tables, who didn't have any glue for school projects and used mashed rice

instead. i'm the wife of a san francisco firefighter, a first responder, who would give the shirt off his back of someone in need, and i am the mother of a 20 month old. she's very feisty, and she's very cranky sometimes, but even on the hardest days, i want the world for her, and i want the same for every kid to grow up safe, loved, and to be able to dream. i'm also a public servant, one who just wants to make things work better, who believes that when we do that, we have the opportunity to save lives, to create opportunities, and help strengthen our neighborhoods. i'm so excited to join the office of the city administrator central services agency. you've played a role, and i say

thank you. i especially want to thank ken and jennifer for their steady leadership. finally, i want to thank the community, the voters of san francisco, for your support through five elections, and to the team at the assessor's office. i'm so proud of what we've been able to accomplish together, and i'm excited to see what we can do. now, mayor, i'm excited to roll up my sleeves and get to work in this new capacity. thank you for your trust. [applause]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

what makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, it's a great pedestrian street. there's people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. the businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned small businesses. it harkens back to supporting local. polk street doesn't look like anywhere u.s.a. it has its own businesses and personality. we have clothing stores to gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired. there's a music studio across the street. it's raily a diverse and unique offering on this really great street. i think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things that they may not be familiar with. again, the marketplace is changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click

a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell things, all those things, it's very important that you do so. >> we are approving as many parks as we can, you have a value garden and not too many

can claim that and you have an historic building that has been redone in a beautiful fashion and you have that beautiful outdoor ping-pong table and you have got the art commission involved and if you look at them, and we can particularly the gate as you came in, and that is extraordinary. and so these tiles, i am going to recommend that every park come and look at this park, because i think that the way that you have acknowledged donor iss really first class. >> it is nice to come and play and we have been driving by for literally a year. >> it is kind of nice. >> all of the people that are here. ♪♪

as latinos we are unified in some ways and incredibly diverse in others and this exhibit really is an exploration of nuance in how we present those ideas.

♪♪ our debts are not for sale. >> a piece about sanctuary and how his whole family served in the army and it's a long family tradition and these people that look at us as foreigners, we have been here and we are part of america, you know, and we had to reinforce that. i have been cure rating here for about 18 year. we started with a table top, candle, flowers, and a picture and people reacted to that like it was the monna lisa.

>> the most important tradition as it relates to the show is idea of making offering. in traditional mexican alters, you see food, candy, drinks, cigarettes, the things that the person that the offerings where being made to can take with them into the next word, the next life. >> keeps us connects to the people who have passed and because family is so important to us, that community dynamic makes it stick and makes it visible and it humanizes it and makes it present again. ♪♪ >> when i first started doing it back in '71, i wanted to do something with ritual, ceremony and history and you know i talked to my partner ross about the research and we opened and

it hit a cord and people loved it. >> i think the line between engaging everyone with our culture and appropriating it. i think it goes back to asking people to bring their visions of what it means to honor the dead, and so for us it's not asking us to make mexican altars if they are not mexican, it's really to share and expand our vision of what it means to honor the dead. >> people are very respectful. i can show you this year alone of people who call tol ask is it okay if we come, we are hawaii or asian or we are this. what should we wear? what do you recommend that we do? >> they say oh, you know, we want a four day of the dead and

it's all hybrid in this country. what has happened are paper cuts, it's so hybrid. it has spread to mexico from the bay area. we have influence on a lot of people, and i'm proud of it. >> a lot of times they don't represent we represent a lot of cultures with a lot of different perspectives and beliefs. >> i can see the city changes and it's scary. >> when we first started a lot of people freaked out thinking we were a cult and things like that, but we went out of our way to also make it educational through outreach and that is why we started doing the prosession in 1979. >> as someone who grew up

attending the yearly processions and who has seen them change incrementally every year into kind of what they are now, i feel in many ways that the cat is out of the bag and there is no putting the genie back into the bottle in how the wider public accesses the day of the dead. >> i have been through three different generations of children who were brought to the procession when they were very young that are now bringing their children or grandchildren. >> in the '80s, the processions were just kind of electric. families with their homemade visuals walking down the street in san francisco. service so much more intimate and personal and so much more rooted in kind of a family practice of a very strong cultural practice.

it kind of is what it is now and it has gone off in many different directions but i will always love the early days in the '80s where it was so intimate and sofa millial. >> our goal is to rescue a part of the culture that was a part that we could invite others to join in there there by where we invite the person to come help us rescue it also. that's what makes it unique. >> you have to know how to approach this changing situation, it's exhausting and i have seen how it has affected everybody. >> what's happening in mission and the relationship with the police, well it's relevant and

it's relevant that people think about it that day of the dead is not just sugar skulls and paper flowers and candles, but it's become a nondenominational tradition that people celebrate. >> our culture is about color and family and if that is not present in your life, there is just no meaning to it you know? >> we have artists as black and brown people that are in direct danger of the direct policies of the trump administration and i think how each of the artists has responded so that call is interesting. the common

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