>> motion offered that the ordinance be amended as presented in text by the office of president walton. vis chair chan. >> aye. >> mandelman. >> aye. >> chair preston. >> aye. >> three ayes for the amendment. >> thank you, mr. clerk. can we have a motion to refer the emergency ordinance as amended to the board of supervisors for a committee as the whole on march 9th, 2021 pending approval to it is as committee as hole in 210231 on the same agenda. let's call the very long and

wore demotion. >> you want me to repeat? >> on the motion offered by member mandelman the ordinance be referred as amended to committee as the whole hearing date marthe, 2021 board of supervisors spending approval to it is as committee as whole which will appear without agenda on that same meeting. vice chair chan. >> nicely done. aye. >> member mandelman. >> aye. >> chair preston. >> aye. >> mr. chair three ayes. >> thank you, mr. clerk for that challenging motion. i think we got it procedurally

right. thank you, ms. gee and to president walton for this ordinance. mr. clerk, any further business? >> there is no further business. >> thank you. then we are adjourned. >> chairman: good morning and welcome to the rules committee of the sanfrancisco board of

supervisors. i'm aaron peskin, joined by raphael mandelman and connie chan. our clerk is mr. victor young. mr. young, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. due to the covid-19 health emergency, and to protect board members and the city, the committee room is closed. our members will be participating in this meeting remotely. the committee members will participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. we are streaming the number across the stream, comments during public comment are available by calling 415-655-0001, and the meeting i.d. 1871554385, and then press

##. when connected, you will hearing the discussions, but you will be muted and in listening mode only. when you're item of interest comes up, dial *3. the best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly, and turn down your television or radio. you may submit public comment via e-mail at victor.young.org. that completes my announcement. >> chairman: thank you. could you please call the first item. >> clerk: first on the item 1 one (indiscernable) for the appointment of mary yee for the police commission for a period ending

april 20th, 2022. >> chairman: thank you, mr. clerk. i believe we have now clarified the seat issue, and that was addressed by the clerk. clerk and our council. and the offered motion is before us. i want to thank mr. yee for his willingness to serve, and he is available if we have any additional questions. if not, after public comment, i would like to make a motion to amendment the subject motion by removing the word "rejecting" in the title and in the move provision at line 13 and then send the matter forward. so with that, are there any comments from committee members? seeing none, anything, nominee yee, that you would like to add since last week? >> no.

just it is great to see everybody here again. thank you very much, and i'm looking forward to serving on the board. >> chairman: thank you. with that, why don't we open item number one up to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call 415-655-0001. the meeting i.d. 1871554385. then press ##. if you haven't already done so, please dial *3. the system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comment. mr. barretto, do we have any callers for public comment. >> mr. clerk, we have three callers and one in the cue. >> supervisors, the last

time this item came before you,there was some amendments to be done and some confusion. and so i called in today to see, like, what really happened. and i'm happy that whatever needed to be done was done. so, mr. yee, you have a big responsibility with the side of the population that hasn't been represented. we did have a chinese woman before, and she did a very, very good job, but they removed her. so i do, from time to time, call in for the regular meetings of the

police commission. and what i see there is not good. and i know, mr. yee, you will do all in your power to ratify that. we need good representation, more so now, when there is a lot of discrimination. and the paradox is that we are a force to be reckoned with. so i will support you, as i said before, one million percent. thank you very much. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker. >> mr. clerk, there are no more callers in the cue. >> chairman: comment is closed, and relative to the last speaker, not to engage in a dialogue, but there are floating seats on the police commission, but there was information in the committee packet that seemed to indicate,

pursuant, that mr. yee was being appointed to a seat formerly held by thomas mazuca, which required that the individual be a retired judge or a lawyer with trial experience. while mr. yee is certainly qualified to serve on the police commission, he did not have those qualifications. but that has since been clarified by the clerk and the attorney general and city as been dealt with in the subject motion. with that, i would like to make the aforementioned motion to remove the words "rejecting" at line 13, and in the title, and on that motion, mr. clerk, a roll call, please. >> clerk: on the motion to amendment, supervisor mandelman? >> aye. >> clerk: supervisor

chan? >> aye. >> clerk: chair peskin? >> chairman: aye. >> clerk: the motion to amendment is adopted without objection. >> chairman: before we send this to the full board with recommendation, i want to note for the record that as with the next three items, this could have been sent to the full board as a committee report for tomorrow's board meeting, but that request was not forthcoming in time from the mayor's office, so this will go to the full board of supervisors not tomorrow, but a week from tomorrow. with that, i would like to make a motion to move the motion as amended to the full board with recommendation. >> clerk: yes, on that motion, supervisor mandelman? aye. >> clerk: supervisor chan? >> aye. >> clerk: chair peskin? >> chairman: aye.

>> clerk: the motion is recommended as amended without objection. >> chairman: thank you. can you please read items two through four together. >> clerk: yes. item number two is a motion approving or rejecting the mayor's nomination for reappointment of chris foley to the committee for a four-year term ending december 31st, 2024. [inaudible] >> for a four-year term ending december 31st, 2024. item four is a motion approving the mayor's nomination for appointment of lutia lackawarner for a four-year term ending december 31st, 2024. >> chairman: thank you, mr. clerk. colleagues, first, these are all appointments, as the clerk said, to the historic preservation pursuant to a charter

amendment, proposition "j," from 2008, that i authored. i want to thank mayor breed and her staff for renominating two individuals who currently serve on the commission, as well as a new member for -- which is item number four, lutia, to the h.p.c. i want to thank chris foley and diane matsuta for their willingness to serve another term. with that, why don't we go to the nominees in the order that they appear on the agenda. mr. foley? >> thank you, supervisor peskin and thank you, rules committee. i just had a short kind of thing i wanted to mention. that is, i really enjoyed being on this preservation commission for basically three reasons: one, is what the commission is

for, and that is not only the buildings, but actually the people. and i learned that from vice president lakuta. thank you very much. i really enjoyed that, being around the buildings and the people of culture. and the ones i deputy know didn't knowabout way the racial equity commission. we actually work with them on issues. and i find those to be actually super interesting and things we need to work on. and lastly, legacy business. i think we need to work more on legacy business. we shouldn't just have legacy business legislation, but we should actually promote that from the standpoint of how do we build community and help these local businesses grow and thrive through covid and amazon and everything else. and i want to give my last pitch out to (indiscernable) because we have all of these great places in san francisco and people.

the perfect amount is the bar house. we should have a bar code so people can click it and see what these fabulous women did. so thank you very much, rules committee, for allowing me to speak today. >> chairman: thank you, mr. foley. i want to note for the record that mr. foley fills the seat that historic preservation professional, or a professional in a field of law use, community planning, or urban design. indeed, mr. foley does have very direct experience refurbishing a church that was vacant for 31 years, if my recollection is correct, and that was my first or second term in office, at

least a decade and a half ago, so thank you for your work on that. and i also want to comment that, mr. foley, your form 700s are even longer than my own. with that, why don't we go on to ms. matsuda. >> thank you very much. good morning, supervisors. thank you for providing me with the opportunity to share information about why i would like to be considered for reappointment for the historic preservation commission. simply put: there is still a lot of things i would like to do over the next four years. my background and work experience are that of working with community, particularly communities where stories and life experiences are often not documented in mainstream documents, with documentaries and news articles. i had no ideas what words and concepts like historic preservation or landmark preservation are. but i knew that those

aspects of history needed a place equal to that of the built-in environment, and to brought to life and to be equal valued. that is what i've tried to do at the h.p.c., and would like to continue to emphasize. we have recently passed the racial and social equity initiative, which has allowed us do to, making key decisions a priority, and that is a priority. what it means in specific terms is that we can make it priority when we see there are certain areas of the city that have never been considered for landmark designation status. it means that we can make it a priority to pay more close attention to commercial corridors, where there have only been a few legacy businesses nominated. most importantly, it means we can expand our view of what historic preservation is to those who may not own a nice building, or who haven't had a famous

architect design it. history and culture are not just for the few. it is something all of us should value and embrace. i hope to create a more inclusive community, and feel we can do this with these tools in place. thank you for considering my reappointment. i'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. >> chairman: thank you, ms. matsuda, and i want to thank you and acknowledge your work with the planning department on the racial and social equity plan that i think will have, as you said, a meaningful impact. and you didn't toot your own horn, but i think the fact that you're the staff attorney for the asian legal outreach and have long roots in jay town and continue to be the director of special projects through the japanese and cultural community center of northern california are added benefits. i again want to thank you

for your previous service, and we'll be delighted to support your next four-year term. are there any questions for either of these two renominations, colleagues? seeing none, why don't we move on to ruchira nagaswan. >> good morning, supervisors. thank you so much for considering me as a nominee to the historic preservation commission. i'm a licensed architect with almost 25years of experience, and 20 of those have been in historic preservation, living in and working in san francisco. i am qualified under the secretary of the interior professional qualifications for historic architecture. i studied architecture at the university of notre dame and came to san francisco in 1996.

i worked in preservation for eight years here, and then i worked in santa barbara, building new traditional buildings, and then i returned to san francisco 13 years ago and continued in preservation. my breadth of experience included small buildings,residential and commercial and institutional campuses districts and landscape. i worked on iconic buildings, including the fairmount hotel, the asian art museum, and around the san francisco city hall when it was under seismic retrofit. i worked on kelly community in the tenderloin, the ruth williams bay view oprah house, and the lgbtq center on market street, which includes the oldest building on market street. i immigrated to the united states as a 5-year-old and

lived in colorado. at the time when i immigrated, there were only 100 indian families in the whole state. so i'm well aware of how it is to be a super diverse minority and also just the experience of being an immigrant. and from being an immigrant, i also traveled the world, thanks to my parents. and i saw a myriad of cultures and urban environments and rural environments, and it has really been part of who i am. and i want to bring that to the forefront and, like, work on the commission, and i want to bring the broader perspectives of that, as well as all of my breadth of experience. i feel like i can speak to a lot of different types of projects and be able to understand the challenges that those projects have

within the city and for the sponsors. my goal is to actually learn a lot from my honorable commissioners that have done so much in the community and look at what the needs are of the community and provide more of that encouragement. one of the things i'm intrigued with, as the commissioners are, is the racial and social equity resolution. i am inspired specifically by mural art and monuments in public spaces, and the ways in which oral histories can be brought into the context. and i really appreciate what commissioner foley said about q.r. codes. i think one of the most respective ways to bring history to people is having them speak. and it would be amazing to have these places that we could go and just do the

q.r. code on your phone and hear the histories of what these people and how they influenced this community. and san francisco is such a unique place, both for the social aspects, the diversity aspects, and our sense of responsibility to the community. and i really appreciate that planning commission, and the atc, who have brought that to the forefront in the past few years. with that, i thank you for listening. >> chairman: thank you. and the one thing you neglected to say is that, weirdly enough, probably a year after you got here, you and i met each other late at night at a kinko's downtown, which you reminded me of when i interviewed you last week. and as i said to you privately, when i authored

proposition j-13 years ago, and set forth a seat requirement for an architect meeting the standards for historic act architecture, i was thinking of somebody just like you. i'm delighted that you applied and that the mayor nominated you. and with that, colleagues, if there are no questions, why don't we open up items two through four to public comment. >> clerk: yes. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on these items should call 415-655-0001, i.d. 1871554385. then press ##. if you haven't already done so, please dial *3 to line up to speak. a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. please wait until the

system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your public comments. mr. barretto, do you have any members of the public for public comment at this time? >> mr. clerk, we have three listeners and no people in the cue. >> chairman: public comment is closed. commissioner chan? >> well, thank you chair peskin. i had the chance, you know, to talk to all three commission candidates, and i really was impressed with their expertise, but really, most importantly, it is about their perspective and their care for our community. it is -- i have a chance to observe historic commission meetings from time to time. it is always sometimes very challenging to watch, you know, that.

how do you decide to preserve people's place and their marks in what is considered as history that we want to recognize and highlight, but in the 21st century environment. i think that it is challenging and it takes people that actually have the perspective about our community, our history. and i think all three of them, mr. foley, ms. matsuda, and ms. nageswan, really have those expertise -- i said that last name wrong. my apology. i just want to express my support for them, and most importantly thank you. thank you for willing to commit yourself and recommitment yourself to this time in serving our

city. thank you. >> chairman: vice chair mandelman? >> thank you, chair peskin. these are great candidates, and i also want to thank the mayor for reappointing commissioner matsuda and commissioner foley. i think ms. nageswan is going to be a fantastic commissioner. i would be remiss if i did not note that the mayor chose not to reappoint, here in hyland, and the person in hyland was doing important work related to the lgbtq on the historic preservation commission. there are now two seats that were formerly held by lgbtq folks, where that representation will not be continuing. the mayor does have an opportunity with one remaining seat to don't the work that commissioner hyland in particular was doing, and i do think it

is important that that aspect of representation be present on the historic preservation commission. mr. foley referenced the racial and equity work being done, and mentioned lion martin house. i think that is important work. and i think it is important that it is someone who will play a leadership role that ensuring that the queer history of san francisco gets its due. >> chairman: thank you for those comments. supervisor mandelman, i know that you and i are both helping the mayor's office find that person with the required qualifications as set forth by the charter. and so i will is just publicly say that anybody who is interested and is

qualified for that remaining seat should let that be known to supervisor mandelman or the mayor's office. or the mayor's appointment staff. so thank you for reiterating something that this committee, if i may, is committed to as well. with that, i would like to make a motion to amendment all three motions in the same way as we did in item number one, to remove the word "rejecting" in the titles, at line three, and remove the word "rejects" at line 15, so that all of these are changed to approved. on those motions for all three files, mr. clerk, a roll call, please. >> clerk: yes. on that motion to

amendment, supervisor mandelman? >> aye. >> clerk: supervisor chan? >> aye. >> clerk: chair peskin? >> chairman: aye. >> clerk: the motion passes without objection. >> chairman: and then i would like to make a motion to send all three files, as amended, with recommendation as committee reports for hearing tomorrow at the full board of supervisors. on that motion, a roll call, please. >> clerk: on the motion to recommend as amended as committee reports, supervisor mandelman? >> aye. >> clerk: supervisor chan? >> aye. >> clerk: chair peskin? >> chairman: aye. >> clerk: the motion passes without objection. >> chairman: congratulations, and we will see all three of you tomorrow afternoon. >> thank you. >> chairman: next item, please, mr. clerk. >> clerk: next item is item five, hearing considering appointing two

members' terms ending june 6, 2e immigrant rights commission. >> chairman: thank you, mr. clerk. colleagues, as i did at the last meeting, given that one of my staff is an applicant for this non-paying position, out of an abundance of transparency, i think it is best that i, again, recuse myself from this matter. and with that, mr. clerk, does there need to be a motion to recuse me? >> clerk: yes, please. >> moved. >> mandelman. >> clerk: on the motion to excuse supervisor peskin from voting, on that motion, supervisor mandelman? >> aye. >> clerk: supervisor

chan? >> aye. >> clerk: chair peskin is excused. >> thanks, everyone. good-bye, chair peskin. all right. so we heard from applicants last week. at that point, i think supervisor chan and i felt that we would benefit from having an additional week to hear from community and from applicants. during that time, i believe that commissioner rodwan decided that he would pull his application back. and so we have, again, applicants before us. i think before we -- unless supervisor chan has any comments, i think we'll open this item up again to public comment on the commissioner appointments.

>> supervisor chan does have something to say, so go ahead. >> i want to say it is very similar to what i said last time around. we're so fortunate to have so many applicants that are, you know, interested in this, and willing to serve. we're very fortunate to have that, especially for a critical issue around immigrant rights, given what we have been through in the last four years with the trump administration, and some of the conversation around sanctuary cities. i want to express my gratitude to everyone that has expressed their interest, including commissioner ameral logan for his interest. and i think last, but not least, to also kind of just talk a little bit

about our residency and waiver that is needed for some of the applicants for their seats. what i really find that in the recent years, especially, many immigrants and working families really facing displacement in san francisco because of the high cost of living, i see they have worked here and lived here for a long, long time, that have to make the financial choice to leave the city, but are still committed to serve us as a city. so i just want to, again, thank them, even with the need of residency waiver, they are still expressing their commitment serving san francisco. i am always inclined to support those who have been living and working in san francisco for a long time but now require a residency waiver in order for them to continue to

serve. so i just want to make sure that that is reflected publicly, and that that is my intent, to support the candidates that may require residency waiver today. >> great. thank you, supervisor chan. let's open his item up to public comment. >> clerk: yes. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call 415-655-0001, i.d. 1871554385. then press ##. if you haven't already done so, please dial *3. a system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand. please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comment. mr. barretto, do we have any members of the public to speak on this item? >> mr. clerk, we have two callers listening with one in the cue.

>> chairman: great. i will add our speakers will have two minutes. state your first and last name clearly and speak directly into the phone. if you have prepared a written statement, you're encouraged to send a copy to our clerk for inclusion in the file. mr. clerk, let's have our first caller. >> hello, everybody. this is john davidson. i want to speak in favor of three of the applicants. [inaudible] transgender immigrants have to deal with a lot more. and, of course, ryan, because he has been to restorative justice and is someone i have known for a while. also, i think, i wanted to

devote most of my time to (indiscernable). yes, she has a democratic party inside her, but she is not involved in the city hall machinations. she is somebody who stands up for community, whether it is helping farm workers, whether helping getting the census, whether it is helping small businesses -- she has done it all. and she is also an lgbtq person, and she is a female, and we need more women on commission. and she is also a san francisco resident and a immigrant herself. let's just say that we're going to really lose out if we don't appoint her and yet appoint someone based on their political connections. i really think you need to appoint her because her voice is necessary. thank you. i yield my time. >> chairman: thank you.

mr. barretto, are there any additional callers? >> mr. clerk, that completes the cue. >> chairman: great. public comment is now closed. as you have observed a couple of times, supervisor chan, we have too many good applicants for the seats that we have. i want to thank everyone. i want to thank the current commissioners for their service and applicants for their interests. it's a tough decision, but i do have some suggestions, which i will run through, and supervisor chan, we can talk about how this bounces to you. i will propose that for seat one we go with jesse ruiz navarro with a residency waiver. for seat two, jorego gime,

for seat three, ryan gussavea, and seat five, with a residency waiver. for seat nine, alanhe fani, and for seat ten, suza, and for seat 11, lucia masters. that is my thought of a way to move forward. supervisor chan, i can turn that into a motion if you would like, or you may have different or alternative thoughts? >> i wholeheartedly support that decision. thank you so much, vice chair mandelman, for walking us through that motion. i'm ready to vote for that. thank you.

>> chairman: i will move that we forward those ap applicants for those seats with the residency waivers required and please call the roll. >> with recommendation. >> chairman: we recommendation. >> clerk: yes. on the motion to recommend those following appointments -- excuse me -- supervisor mandelman? >> aye. >> clerk: supervisor chan? >> aye. >> clerk: chair peskin is excused. the motion passes with chair peskin being excused. >> all right. thank you very much, mr. clerk. do we have anymore items before us today? >> clerk: that completes the agenda for today. >> well, then, we are adjourned. >> thank you.

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>> the hon. london breed: hi, everybody. i'm san francisco mayor london breed, and i want to thank everybody for joining us in the bayview-hunters point community. thank you for joining us here in partnership with sutter health. we are so excited to be here. what's been really amazing about this process since covid hit our city is what we noticed in terms of who was being infected the most based on the data from our testing. it was mostly people in neighborhoods like the bayview-hunters point, in the o.m.i., in visitacion valley, in the mission, and what we learned from testing is that as we start to implement the process for the vaccine, we couldn't just open megasites at moscone and city college and places that were probably easier for people to drive to.

people in the bayview-hunters point community needed us to be here where they are. this is not the first site in the bayview-hunters point. the southeast health facility has been open to people in the 94124 zip code, and they have taken people as they come because we know that it has been so hard for so many of our seniors in particular to make appointments either on the phone or on-line. we've had a site open in the western addition, maxine hall. we opened up a pop-up site in the mission specifically, and we have a site in chinatown, as well. we know that there's been difficulties all over the state with seniors accessing on-line services and phone services to make an appointment. you've seen all the stories. so that's why, in the

neighborhoods hardest hit, we opened facilities immediately, and because we embedded from day one an equity team in our covid response, we have been in these communities with a number of people getting folks to these locations to be vaccinated, and i really, really want to thank mary ellen carroll who has led this effort from the very beginning at covid command, making sure that we're setting up testing sites from scratch, setting up vaccination sites from scratch. and the way we're able to do this is with the president of the board of supervisors, shamann walton. this has really been a team effort to get this done, and we are also able to get it done because we have health care providers like sutter who are

not only going to be serving patrons at this site, they're going to be serving the san francisco fire department, and i want to thank chief nicholson for being here today. i know we're tired of wearing masks. i don't know what most of the people here today look like. i know we are tired of social distancing and doing all the things that we've had to do since this pandemic began, and nothing is more important to me than to get the people in this city vaccinated as quickly as possible so that we can reopen our city, so that we can hug our family and friends again, so that we can open our economy and get san franciscans back to work, so that we can open our businesses and see a downtown thriving once again. it's going to take us making sure that we are reaching out to this community and getting them on board with vaccinations. i know that a lot of people are

skeptical about vaccines, but you know what? this is how we're going to get back to where we need to be. we have to step out on faith, we have to do what we need to do to get vaccinated and get back to our lives. we want to open the city more than anything else, and i'm looking forward to making sure that we have the resources and the support that we need, and i want to thank all of you for being with us today, and at the time, i'm going to introduce president of the board of supervisors shamann walton. [applause] >> president walton: thank you so much, mayor breed. first of all, i just want to start off by saying happy black history month, and happy lune -- lunar new year. this is about making communities and equity.

as mayor breed stated, it is important that we get as many people here in san francisco vaccinated as soon as possible so that we can stop the spread of this dangerous virus. we know that in the southeast sector of san francisco, we have been disproportionately affected by the virus, and this is a step to let everyone know that we are concerned about all of our communities here in san francisco. the mayor also stated that we have other sites here in the district, the southeast health clinic, the southeast facilities commission at 1800 oakdale. we also have the bayview child center conducting vaccination sites. we're making sure that everybody has the opportunity to be vaccinated, and that's going to continue. i do want to say thank you to

michael janice with the s.f. market for opening this space up to the community. it's very important from the time that we heard we were going to have vaccines that we made sure we had sites in district ten, but also that we had a high volume site in the district. so i want to thank the mayor, i want to thank the department of public health, i want to thank the department of emergency management, i want to thank sutter, i want to thank everybody for coming together, prioritizing our communities, and making sure that we get everybody vaccinated and get back to a sense of normalcy. thank you for being here today, and thank you so much for the partnership and for everyone coming together to make this happen so quickly in our community. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you, president walton. and as many of you hear time and time again, san francisco has been a leader in addressing this pandemic, and we've been a

leader because of the department of public health acting swiftly, using data and science to make the really hard decisions that has put san francisco in a position where even though we are the second densest city in the country, we have one of the lowest death rates in the country. we have saved thousands of lives because we have a department of public health that every other city in this city envies, and now, the leader of the department of public health, dr. grant colfax. [applause] >> well, good morning, everybody, and thank you, mayor breed, and president walton. i'm so excited to join you and our partners from sutter health, the department of emergency management, and the fire department for this preview of our latest high

volume vaccination site here at the san francisco market now one of three sites ready to give vaccines and ready to exceed our goals of 10,000 vaccines in arms a day in san francisco. i especially want to thank sutter health without whom this high volume vaccination site would not be possible. as the mayor noted, with our high vaccination sites at moscone and city college, we made tremendous strides in vaccinating our most vulnerable population: our elders. nearly 65% of older people in san francisco have received the vaccine, and just last week, one-third of that population had received vaccine. we are making great progress, and our progress is contingent on supply. we are looking ahead to february 24 and the state of

1-b, tier two, when this site and others will help us bring the vaccination to health care workers and others, child care workers, emergency services, food and agriculture fields. this supports our dual goals of providing the vaccines quickly and at scale while also focusing particular efforts at bringing the vaccine to those communities suffering most from covid-19 in san francisco and communities historically underserved by the health care system. the department of public health and our community partners will also continue to vaccinate people through community clinics in the western addition, china down, pay view -- bayview, outer sunset, and potrero, and we are working to expand sites to the excelsior, visitacion valley, and other neighborhoods with high infection rates of

covid-19 and limited access to health care services. as of last week at the southeast health center, we have sack seenated nearly 3,000 people from the bayview and visitacion valley neighborhoods, including those 65 and older, and i love this quote from a recent story in the chronicle, which stated ricky sarley, a 67-year-old security guard who lives in the bayview-hunters point area. he says "i feel a lot better. i'm still getting to wear my mask, but now, i feel a little more comfortable." this is music to my ears, our ears, and we are working to bring more of this peace of mind and protection to our elders in the bayview and the rest of the city. i have to say that despite he's got his first dose of vaccine, he also emphasized he's going to continue to wear the mask, the mask that we know prevents so many covid-19 infections.

with our community and health care providers, this has been an integral part of our covid-19 response, and with our pharmacy providers, our reach will be even more widespread in other parts of the city where their limited resources. we are doing everything in our power to distribute the vaccine quickly to those who need it most, and we're ready to do so now at scale of 10,000 vaccines a day. i want to encourage everyone who is eligible, especially those 65 and older, to get your vaccine. every door in san francisco is the right door. the vaccine is our best weapon against this along, of course with the vaccine, social distancing, and avoiding people

gathering outside of your household. now with that, i will turn it over to sutter health. thank you very much. [applause] >> good morning. mayor breed, thank you. thank you, president walton, and dr. colfax. as the mayor mentioned earlier, san francisco has really been a beacon of best practices when it comes to the pandemic over the past year, and we are so proud at sutter health to be partnering with the city and county of san francisco to standup this mass vaccination clinic. i want to take a moment to thank some key members of our team who helped out with this effort. kate bass, director of operations. jonathan lee, c.e.o., jennifer

turnbull and staff. so many people have been working to get this site open, and it is open now. it has also been a joy and pleasure to work with the city staff and the staff here at the s.f. market, and we look forward to that partnership continuing. as others have mentioned, the vaccine is the pathway out of this epidemic. in sutter health, we have stood up now several mass vaccination clinics in our footprint, and we are ready to do that here today, and we will scale up as vaccine supply allows. here at the s.f. market site, we anticipate being able to vaccinate as many as 10,000 people a day, and we look forward to opening more. already, we are seeing the anticipation and the joy of

the -- in the eyes of the patients who have come through this site already. the vaccine will liberate our communities and put us on the pathway out of this pandemic. we know that this community has been hard hit by the virus. sutter health is committed to health equity and ensuring that access to the vaccine is not determined by income, race, ethnicity, or where you live, and that's in we're here at this site. we're ready to do our part in this partnership to end this pandemic, and we're humbled to serve the bayview-hunters point community. we hope we're welcomed with open arms and bare arms in the community. thank you so much, and it is great to be here today. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you so much. and so i just want to reiterate

an important message, that even though this site is one of the larger sites that we've opened, several smaller sites are available, as well. the southeast clinic is a site that's available to you. you have to live in the 94124 zip code. it's important to make sure that people get vaccinated, so if there's anything you can do for your neighborhoods, your parents, pick them up and bring them to this site. we want to make sure that this is available not just with this site, but other sites that we have available. those sites have been

operational even before we opened one of these major sites. with that, let's get vaccinated. we have a limited supply, but we're going to get them out the door as soon as they come in. that's the goal, and for those of you who are wondering, what is it my turn? when is it my turn? just hold on. we've got the staff, we've got the partnerships with the various hospitals. san francisco is ready, so as soon as we get the vaccines and it's your turn, we'll get you in and we'll get you out. so thank you so much for being here today, and i'm going to open it up for questions.

>> my name is alan schumer. i am a fourth generation san franciscan. in december, this building will be 103 years of age. it is an incredibly rich, rich history. [♪♪♪] >> my core responsibility as city hall historian is to keep the history of this building alive. i am also the tour program manager, and i chair the city advisory commission.

i have two ways of looking at my life. i want it to be -- i wanted to be a fashion designer for the movies, and the other one, a political figure because i had some force from family members, so it was a constant battle between both. i ended up, for many years, doing the fashion, not for the movies, but for for san franciscan his and then in turn, big changes, and now i am here. the work that i do at city hall makes my life a broader, a richer, more fulfilling than if i was doing something in the garment industry. i had the opportunity to develop relationships with my docents.

it is almost like an extended family. i have formed incredible relationships with them, and also some of the people that come to take a tour. she was a dressmaker of the first order. i would go visit her, and it was a special treat. i was a tiny little girl. i would go with my wool coat on and my special little dress because at that period in time, girls did not wear pants. the garment industry had the -- at the time that i was in it and i was a retailer, as well as the designer, was not particularly favourable to women. you will see the predominant designers, owners of huge complexes are huge stores were all male. women were sort of relegated to

a lesser position, so that, you reached a point where it was a difficult to survive and survive financially. there was a woman by the name of diana. she was editor of the bazaar, and evoke, and went on and she was a miraculous individual, but she had something that was a very unique. she classified it as a third i. will lewis brown junior, who was mayor of san francisco, and was the champion of reopening this building on january 5th of 1999. i believe he has not a third eye , but some kind of antenna attached to his head because he had the ability to go through

this building almost on a daily basis during the restoration and corrects everything so that it would appear as it was when it opened in december of 1915. >> the board of supervisors approved that, i signed it into law. jeffrey heller, the city and county of san francisco oh, and and your band of architects a great thing, just a great thing. >> to impart to the history of this building is remarkable. to see a person who comes in with a gloomy look on their face , and all of a sudden you start talking about this building, the gloomy look disappears and a smile registers across their face. with children, and i do mainly all of the children's tours, that is a totally different

feeling because you are imparting knowledge that they have no idea where it came from, how it was developed, and you can start talking about how things were before we had computer screens, cell phones, lake in 1915, the mayor of san francisco used to answer the telephone and he would say, good morning, this is the mayor. >> at times, my clothes make me feel powerful. powerful in a different sense. i am not the biggest person in the world, so therefore, i have to have something that would draw your eye to me. usually i do that through color, or just the simplicity of the

look, or sometimes the complication of the look. i have had people say, do those shoes really match that outfit? retirement to me is a very strange words. i don't really ever want to retire because i would like to be able to impart the knowledge that i have, the knowledge that i have learned and the ongoing honor of working in the people's palace. you want a long-term career, and you truly want to give something to do whatever you do, so long as you know that you are giving to someone or something you're then yourself.

follow your passion and learn how to enrich the feelings along the way.

>> when i look at an old neon sign that's working or not working, i feel the family business that was in there. >> since 2009, citywide, sf shines, has supported businesses and sites like the ones that receive new neon signs. >> you know, sf shines is doing an amazing job to bring back the lighting and the neon glow of san francisco. >> sf shines is such an amazing program, and i can't think of another program in another city that gives matching gunned funds to store owners, mom and pop owners, and if they've got

a neon sign, they've really got a great way to advertise their business. >> this is a continuation of the sf shines program. >> focusing other neon signs is relatively new to us. of the seven neon signs, we've invested about $145,000. >> a good quality sign costs more, but it lasts infinitily longer. as opposed to lasting five years, a good neon sign will last 15 to 20 years. >> in san francisco, the majority of neon signs are for mom-and-pop businesses. in order to be able to restore these signs, i think it gives back to your community. >> part of the project has to do with prioritizing certain

signs in the neighborhood based on their aesthetics, based on their current signs, and base on the history. in the time that we've been here, we've seen a number of signs restored just on eddy street. >> there are a number of signs in the tenderloin and many more that are waiting or wanting to be restored. i have worked with randall and al, and we've mapped out every single one of them and rated them as to how much work they would need to get restored. that information is passed onto sf shines, and they are going to rank it. so if they have x budget for a year, they can say all right, we're going to pick these five, and they're putting together clusters, so they build on top of what's already there. >> a cluster of neon signs is sort of, i guess, like a cluster of grapes. when you see them on a corner or on a block, it lights up the

neighborhood and creates an ambient glow. if you havy got two of three of them, you've created an atmosphere that's almost like a movie set. >> some of the hotel, we've already invested in to get those neon signs for people to enjoy at night include the elk hotel, jefferson hotel, the verona, not to mention some we've done in chinatown, as well as the city's portal neighborhood. >> we got the fund to restore it. it took five months, and the biggest challenge was it was completely infested with pigeons. once we got it clean, it came out beautiful. >> neon signs are often equated with film noir, and the noir genre as seen through the hollywood lens basically depicted despair and

concentration. >> you would go downtown and see the most recent humphrey bogart film filled with neon in the background. and you'd see that on market street, and as market street got seedier and seedier and fewer people continued to go down, that was what happened to all the neon strips of light. >> the film nori might start with the light filled with neon signs, and end with a scene with a single neon sign blinking and missing a few letters. >> one of my favorite scenes,

orson welles is chasing rita hayworth with neon signs in the background. >> i think what the office of economic and workforce development is very excited with is that we'll be able to see more neon signs in a concentrated way lit up at night for visitors and most especially residents. the first coin laundry, the elm hotel, the western hotel are ones that we want to focus on in the year ahead. >> neon signs are so iconic to certain neighborhoods like the hara, like the nightcap. we want to save as many historic and legacy neon signs in san francisco, and so do they. we bring the expertise, and they bring the means to actually get the job done.

>> people in tenderloin get really excited as they see the signs relit. as you're driving through the tenderloin or the city, it pretty much tells you something exciting is happening here. >> knee an was created to make the night more friendly and advertise businesses. it's a great way of supporting and helping local businesses. >> there's so many ways to improve public safety. the standard way is having more eyes on the street, but there's other culturally significant ways to do that, and one those ways is lighting up the streets. but what better way and special way to do that is by having old, historic neon signs lighting up our streets at night and casting away our shadows. >> when i see things coming back to life, it's like remembering how things were. it's remembering the hotel or the market that went to work seven days a week to raise their money or to provide a service, and it just -- it just -- it just

>> everything is done in-house. i think it is done. i have always been passionate about gelato. every single slaver has its own recipe. we have our own -- we move on from there. so you have every time a unique experience because that slaver is the flavored we want to make. union street is unique because of the neighbors and the location itself. the people that live around here i love to see when the street is full of people. it is a little bit of italy that is happening around you can walk around and enjoy shopping with gelato in your hand. this is the move we are happy to provide to the people.

i always love union street because it's not like another commercial street where you have big chains. here you have the neighbors. there is a lot of stories and the neighborhoods are essential. people have -- they enjoy having their daily or weekly gelato. i love this street itself. >> we created a move of an area where we will be visiting. we want to make sure that the area has the gelato that you like. what we give back as a shop owner is creating an ambient lifestyle. if you do it in your area and if you like it, then you can do it on the streets you like. platfot

calling by phone call star 9 to be added to the speaker line. please call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. we recommend that you use zoom or telephone for public comment. thank you to sfgov tv for sharing this meeting with the public. we can start with the roll call. [roll call] >> president bleiman: first or