commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 7-0, and now you're all free to drink margaritas for the rest of your afternoon. >> hey, jonas, do you know what time the a.r.c. is going to be on the 19th? >> clerk: it will likely be at 11:30 because there are two items that are asking to be considered. >> okay. thanks, jonas. >> clerk: take care, everyone.

man, this is a dream come true. housing for homeless veterans and very low income families of san francisco. this is beautiful. ed lee's birthday's tomorrow and he's smiling from heaven. am i right? anita, am i right? okay. this is too much joy. i promise not to preach too long because we've got the madam speaker here and the mayor and you want to hear them more than me. was i always like to start with some blessing. those of you who know me, i try to do the peoples' blessings. so you have to say the four words. matt, real loud.

you're in the front row. we wish the spirit of these four words to bless this bruteful mayor edwin m. lee apartments. so we're going to do together. repeat after me. peace. joy. hope. and love. may those four super ingredients of the spirit bless everyone who comes in and out of this place. in chinese, we call it [ speaking foreign language ]. whoever comes in and leaves out with peace. i'm surprising myself. here we go. we have one of the best mayors of this country and -- okay. she can brag for herself. let's welcome the mayor. come on. mayor london breed.

>> reverend fong, we thought you were retired. let me tell you, revrend fong and ccv, madam pelosi who's fighting the good fight every day. we are so very fortunate to have so many amazing champions and i want to thank you all for being here today. this place has manifest itself as a vision. a vision that our former mayor ed lee had to answer the call, the call that was put out to end veteran homelessness in san francisco and in our country. and he stepped up to that call. i remember when i first became mayor going to the auburn hotel and how it really did bring tears to my eyes because of the stories that i heard from so

many of the formerly homeless veterans who now had a safe, affordable place to call home. tomorrow is ed lee's birthday and today we honor him and this place is a testament to his legacy and we want to thank his wife, anita lee for being here today to celebrate. anita's sacrificed so much because her husband was mayor taking care of so many of us. i miss those days of us working together and now it's so important that we continue to move forward with goals that he set to make sure that we build affordable housing in this city, that we build housing and we don't let bureaucracy get in the way. the people that moved here in

january 2020, they are counting on us to make good decisions and to move forward and not let it get in the way of something so spectacular. this place is magical. this courtyard. the formerly homeless veterans who are moving in here, the low income families who now have a place to raise their children, the teen rooms and the centers and the places that they will have to gather and be a community right in the heart of mission bay, this is absolutely extraordinary and there were so many people that made it possible. it basically took a village. it took a village of a lot of money, not just the mayor's office of housing and workforce development. it also took state and federal resources and i want to really first of all thank the state of california veteran affairs. i want to thank the office of community investment here in san francisco. i want to thank the mayor's office of housing and community

investment for the plow share ccdc. and i want to especially thank our speaker nancy pelosi. her advocacy, her work, her tireless effort to support and uplift veterans through the resources for the federal government, it would not have been possible had it not been for her involvement in this project. it would not have gotten done. and then we had just a bit of a shortfall and then the private sector stepped in. juan conway, alex turk, sf cities. they helped to raise $4.5 million to make sure we got this project over the threshold. so many people. it really did take a village. this village has been incredible in pursuing

opportunities to build more housing and so we are truly grateful that we have over 100 families and veterans who were already living here will continue to thrive right here and hopefully who knows maybe attend a warrior game or two. and, with that, i want to thank everyone for joining us here today, have a wonderful day. >> so, mayor and madam speaker, i know you gave me a video message last year when i retired, but i'm back here because i just can't stay away from all that's going on. i'm so honored that you are here and weren't you here when we did the first project with

the crowd share. you're always here. she's always making time for us. so everyone put your hands together and shout out loud! yay, madam speaker! >> peace, joy, hope, love, norman. he's still here, but we're also joined by malcolm as well. malcolm young. thank you to chinatown community development center. the mayor talked about this taking a village and i want to follow up on her very apt theme. and this village is led by mayor london breed. she has been on this housing subject for her whole official life and probably before that on a volunteer basis so many of

the things that came to fruition here had their roots in her work as supervisor and, of course, now as mayor. let's talk about that village, that village that is san francisco. it's a place that has beautiful diversity and that's why this collaboration between our veterans and ccdc is so appropriate. the diversity of san francisco, our strength. i always say our diversity is our strength, our unity is our power. the unity between ccdc and veterans is what has made this a magical, wonderful occasion. in addition to that, the collaboration as the mayor discussed, federal, state, local, private sector, ron conway, john kegger, i see others who have played a role. and, for years, many of us have been involved in low income

housing tax credit which has been a root to so much. but it has to be combined with other things to make this all happen. i also want to just talk for a moment about our veterans. not a moment, but a moment in connection to what's happening in d.c. right now. right now, the secretary of veterans affairs, dennis mcdonald. dennis used to be the president of obama's chief of staff. and as chief of staff, one of his priorities was about homeless veterans. he came out here to make sure that project homeless connect was working for our veterans. he came out here personally only for that purpose and he has been following this issue. so the fact that he is now the secretary of veterans affairs in the biden administration,

resurrecting what happened between h.u.d. and veterans affairs administration then under obama and now resurrected in the biden administration under dennis mcdonald's leadership and marsha the secretary of h.u.d. who has just recently worked with our mayor. so this, again, is all coming together in deep seeded values in our city, our patriotism, our diversity, our respect for other opinions and collaboration, our respect for the public private, nonprofit sectors coming together and recognizing that it doesn't work without all of that. our v.i.p. today will be margie televera and we'll be anxious to hear from her. but i just want to acknowledge all who are finding housing

here the mayor said to raise their families, to reach their own fulfillment, to have their own comfort, that's what this is really about. it's about the public policy to meet the needs of the people and to do so in a way that is, again, collaborative. i know that supervisor matt haney. the masks are throwing me off a little bit. thank you, matt. for your involvement. jason elliott, former chief of staff. so beautiful. again, when we talk about all the things in san francisco, it's about family and here we are to pay tribute to mayor lee. anita is here. anita, thank you for sharing ed lee with us so completely and thank you for honoring us with your presence today. anita and, again, when mayor

lee came into office. he was ready. the jobs he had in the city equipped him to do the job. when mayor london breed came from the board. she came from the board of supervisors, she was ready. she was ready to bring all our communities together. and when we take some pride, it is only possible because we have initiatives of national significance that spring from our community. so, again, an occasion like this, someone will say it's my pleasure to be here today, to pay tribute to every aspect of our great city as we meet the needs of the people. and some other good news is that in our rescue package,

there's $17 billion more for veterans. it wasn't there before. the homeless aspects have not been i talked about collaboration, i talked about community. san francisco which is a great community has the word community in it. i have this pin. it's a flag that has on it one country, one vision. that's what we can say about our city of san francisco. we have a vision of meeting the needs of the people in a way that's respectful of their aspirations as well as our capabilities and we want them to have the biggest aspirations and the best capabilities to meet their needs. so congratulations to anyone

who had anything to do with veterans. i can't wait to hear from our special guest, representative margie of the people who live here. they are truly our v.i.p.s, our very important people. so, yes, it is my pleasure to be here to congratulate everyone but especially to pay respects to anita and our dearly beloved mayor lee. did you say that, norman? did you say something like that. i'm also imitating norman, what can you do. he has so much to say. anyway. thank you for the opportunity to share some thoughts with you congratulations on everything that's happening here and thank you mayor breed for making this possible. san francisco strong.

thank you. >> i don't think i will say i love you, speaker pelosi. all right. next, we have malcolm young, the current director of chinatown d.c., but before he comes up, let me tell you these are tough times and a lot of young folks are saying it's terrible. and even worse, there's a lot more hate going around. so what's the cure? i'm using their language a little bit. the cure is herd immunity and whenever city collaborators come together, we become the neutralizing agents of love to counter that hate. one of the best things on earth was getting to know michael

fletcher. everyone pays but to actually do something, look, 62 years for formerly homeless vets. and, housing for very low income families. let me tell you, herd immunity in action. but a long timer is malcolm young who is now my boss. i was his boss for how many years? okay. but now you're the boss. make us proud. come on up. >> so mayor breed in the back there asked me on the side, are you sure you're the director of this organization. my response to her was not on most days.

you know, it's really an honor and distinct pleasure to be here opening the ed lee apartments in addition to tomorrow being mayor ed lee's birthday. may also marks the month of api heritage month and it also marks affordable housing month. i want to call out the affordable housing month in particular. right here we have a through line of champions from the local to the state to the federal and they've been champions for the entirety of their career. that starts with mayor lee. many people look at mayor lee, but to me one of his most important legacies was how he brought affordable housing into the main stream of san francisco and made it critical for the city to do and he

reintroduced that concept to us and this mayor mayor breed has passed it and now she's incorporating affordable housing into the capital plan make interesting part of the infrastructure which brings us to our next and most amazing champion speaker nancy pelosi also shepherding the infrastructure act in congress that will also incorporate affordable housing into the infrastructure of the nation. i wanted to say it started here in san francisco, mayor breed, your work is resinating throughout the country and speaker pelosi is going to bring us home along with president biden. so thank you for that. all right. now my written remarks. this is where it gets boring. so, first of all, i just want to say thank you to anita for coming up here and being with us. it means more than we can

express to you. you know, i just want to say this building is a testament to mayor lee's legacy. i've always thought as i mentioned before, one of the most critical things mayor lee did was champion affordable housing and i hope you're proud of us and i hope he's proud of us and i want to just thank everybody for that. i want to call out why this building is a particularly good example of that aspect. like ed, this building aspires to bring together diverse populations to bring together a single community. keyly watt told me last night and i want to quote her, veterans and families guarded alongside one another in our community garden. they water plants, they share vegetables. one family has twice donated greens to veterans.

the residents have come to look out for each other and sometimes they do it in ways you wouldn't expect. veteran recently spoke on behalf of an asian family here worrying that the family's garden may have been a target of hate crime and we know that's been an issue this past year. it turned out it was a hate crime. the asian family said it if felt good to have that sense of community where neighbors watch out for each other and that's what we're trying to build here and that's what the residents are moving towards. so thank you keely. she's in the back somewhere because bringing together veterans and families is not the first thing you'd think of whenever you create a community, but san francisco has a track record of bringing together unconventional

communities and families pairs with an organization of chinatown to an organization that serves veterans. who would of ever thought that. but in all seriousness, i want to thank sorts of cloud share. this is the second building that we're working on with them. we're working on the third building on treasure island, but really the thing that i want to say is thank you to the residents here for showing us that this door of these unconventional pairing is worth keeping open for the community that they build. thank you so everyone who supported this project and effort and thank you so much to our leaders for making sure the dream of affordable housing and affordability is going to continue well into the future of this community. thank you. >> earlier michael bleker from source house said "it's like

we're married." i just wanted to say that. but madam speaker wants to introduce you. it's better than me. i always tell tomb jokes. this is unplanned. >> thank you, norman. this is very unplanned and unprecedented that norman would give up the microphone ahead of time. right. here we go. but i really want to say to you what i say to my colleagues in washington, d.c.. this is a model for our nation. i've had to meet the needs of our wets in a way that is personal as well as pragmatic to get the job done. i've appointed michael to the department of veterans affairs commission on care where he brought his deep knowledge of what was needed to take care of our veterans.

his courageous disagreement when necessary to that he was enormous value added. i wanted to see him in action. i started with sorts of cloud share. so i've seen him work with at least four mayors and of course, now with mayor breed. he understands that it all starts with meeting the personal needs of our vets. to recognize the challenges that they have and that when we talk about homeless vets, it's a challenge to our conscience in a very particular way and so when we want to meet their housing needs, we want to deal with it with a particularum of care. and nobody does it better in the country and i meet regularly with the veteran

service organization. michael from time to time has been able to join us and every time he does, it gives me the opportunity to take pride in what he does, take pride in how our city has recognized the value in what he is doing so i appreciate norman giving me the opportunity to say a few words and welcome to the podium, a real american hero source to crowd shares. >> thank you so much. i just want to say this is sort of like a miracle to create this housing and former mayor ed lee said i want to have

this. it's just like an asphalt parking lot and now it's beautiful. the courtyard and everything. this is going to be home for this r them and should they pass away or leave. so the housing stays for veterans and that's part of the magic of this collaboration, the fact that you bring federal subsidies into the city. you bring all these incredible sources, but for investors it's backed up by the public sector so it's a tremendous. but, of course, all the work that goes in and we look forward to future projects all

the community networks. it's all part of the deal. we're all working together on this to make it work. we're kind of that little engine that could. i think we fought the good fight. and part of that's been a big partner with the veteran's administration making sure we protect the veteran's administration as a solid top notch health system that needs to be protected and, if it doesn't, it will be skirted away to private health insurance and we have to stop that and the va's playing a major role. but it all comes down to how do

you care for them. we know the veterans from my generation are sicker and pourer and in worst shape and they need that kind of care. whether it's dropping care. where their needs are. housing. residential treatment beds. we do that. it's crucial outreach that we do. it's ensuring that the emergency hotels that we're active with that and making sure the people that leave the hotels have a place to stay. we like everyone here, we roll our sleeves up and we do the work because that's what we have to do. that's why we have the honor. i appreciate everyone being here and you're all part of this big support. so thanks again. thank you. >> okay.

change of schedule. since we've got the big shot secretary of california department of veteran affairs here, we would like to have vito embossini. you're coming on board right now. hang in there, margie. >> thank you. >> good morning. thank you reverend fong for the introduction. madam speaker, madam mayor and all the guests and community leaders responsible for this project. i'm the secretary of the california department of veterans affairs and i'm here today, may the 4th, there are too many startrek fans. the force is with us. the forces of partnership.

the forces of civic governmental leadership. the forces of community, charity, the forces of philanthropy all here today in this very spot on may the 4th. this is always going to be a great day when we can dedicate new housing for veterans and their families. as we look at this beautiful new facility, the edwin m. lee apartments, i'm looking at much more than a successful completion of a routine construction project. this property is so much more than just architectural drawings and building materials. the windows of these buildings are windows of opportunity for veterans looking to make their path forward more secure. in these ed lee apartments, the walls to them are like burls that will provide sanctuary for veterans who gave so much in their service to the nation.

i see roof tops and all of this is based on firm foundations upon which veterans will not build their future, but flourish in it. these buildings are in essence reflective of the love and respect we share for those who defended our constitution and our freedoms. securing housing for veterans is one of cal vet's core missions which is why i'm so very honored to be here today in addition to advocating for california's 1.6 million veterans, our agency helped to fund this project through our veterans housing and homeless prevention program known as vhhp, a program that we administer in close collaboration with the california department of housing and community development. vhhp helps to fund the development or rehabilitation of affordable multiple family housing for veterans and their

families. and whether it is permanent, supportive, or transitional housing, it comes, all of it, with an emphasis on veterans who are experiencing homelessness or who have extremely low incomes. at a rate of about once a year for five years now, vhhp has awarded more than $357 million to 72 projects all over the state of which this is one contributing to the production of more than 4,700 housing units throughout california, over 2,500 of which are specifically reserved for veterans but still, our work is by no means done. and we still have a long way to go. over 1,000 veterans experience homelessness on any given day. even though our veterans here only account for 4% of our

state population. and what's more distressing, california alone has a quarter of the nation's homeless veterans and over one half of the nation's total unsheltered veterans. so clearly providing a roof and four walls is a great start, but it doesn't completely resolve the issue of homelessness in the long term. we now know what's required to give veterans housing stability, a sense of community, a sense of compassion and the necessary services delivered in a culturally competent matter to support veterans as they address the issues that contributed to their homelessness and that's why we're so proud and delighted to support crowd shares. their work in providing services and housing to veterans over the last 40 years is a testament and commitment to the dedication to their

entire staff. furthermore, the support of their development partners in this project, chinatown community development center and the city of san francisco and several other cities over the years have benefited countless lives and i believe mayor lee would be very proud on how this undertaking turned out. so i leave you with this. this dedication ceremony could only happen because so many of you dedicated your time, your efforts, and your hearts to make these walls of sanctuary, these windows of opportunity, these roof tops of protection, the foundation of so many solid and promising futures. thank you.

>> okay. wow. get ready for the video. we are honored to have margie televera to come up and share her story living here. she's a vet and she lives here. she's going to share her story, but there's going to be a video first. i always wanted to say this. one, two, three, hit it. >> when i was able to move here, i thought i won the lotto. it's brand new. i was like i'm the first person in that. that's a big deal for me. once i was living in my car and often living on couches. that is difficult when you're independent female. you're saying thank you because you're not in the street, but it breaks your heart.

>> i spent eight years homeless, i guess. in and out of homeless. my mother says i wasn't homeless, i just wouldn't be still, but i was homeless because i was in shelters. i was tired. physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually tired. and this place is beautiful. i couldn't believe it for awhile. >> you can't underestimate the value of safe housing for people. i think you've seen that on both sides of the chinatown community. what we've given people here and what they've given us is a sense of belonging. we're starting to see friendships, people starting to get to know each other. >> when the children come in the courtyard when they're laughing, it just makes you feel good. so i always work out and i see them playing. >> we were tasked with building

community when we first opened here. one day a week. one of the veterans volunteered. so if you cook a meal, you're starting to take a leadership role however small in the community. the chinatown community development center offered grants for artists. so the very first person whose piece isn't finished is randal larson. he did a piece that involved the community. one that started is a leather worker. all of these things have a huge impact. the environment being a catalyst for them to start thinking about change that they perhaps didn't think was possible for them. >> when i lived in the shelters, i didn't feel safe, you know, sleeping. but then to come back home, that's beautiful and it's peaceful. i have a peaceful mind. >> i just look around and say "i'm okay." that's a great

feeling. i wake up, i'm okay because i know when i go to bed i'm okay and when i wake up it's like i told you. it's this great feeling. everyone should have that. >> to find that you can be stable and actually mattering to the world, it's happening because you're living in this place. we're starting to see how communities built. veterans are reaching out to each other and when ed m. lee apartments is a place of hope and peace and you can't underestimate any one of those factors in the success of this place in just one year. [applause] >> okay. margie. give it up for margie. i forgot your dog's name? is it bear? >> "little bear."

>> hi everybody. little bear. yes. i heard 17 billion and i went, "oh, wow." yes. let me say first, this is beauty. this is what i see every day from that window and it makes me feel good. i live in an apartment that's brand new. i'm safe and i'm happy. i represent the veterans here and i live with families as well. this is our hamlet and management here looks out for us and encourages us to communicate with each other and become part of society again. coming from the streets into a new apartment can take awhile

to get used to. but to know that now i can make my own breakfast. i can get up when i want. i can sleep when i want. and i feel safe. that's huge. do you know what it's like when someone rings your doorbell now? i'm sure you all know and you go, "hey, come on in." a lot of people take that for granted. now, for us, man, my sister, "come on in." i couldn't do that before. so san francisco, edwin lee, just the name of this place should indicate to you how great this is. i remember him. he would smile all the time and if you saw him on the street, he would go like this all the

time. and i remember he used to always talk about building the city up and he would tell us that and he was always smiling. well, look, look at this. if you want to know who san francisco is, what san francisco is, this is san francisco. diversity, family, looking out for each other. it is about working together. it is a struggle, but this is a picture of beauty. this is peace. this is ours and this is yours. welcome to our home. don't be a stranger. >> you almost made me cry. bye, little bear. all right. wow. i love it. passion. hope. joy when we need it most.

we have anita, mrs. lee, ed's partner in life, and just to let you know, she's going to just say a few words, more if you want. but she drove all the way up -- okay. andrew drove six hours, you went fast, to be here with us. let's welcome her with a big hand. mrs. anita lee. this is for you. i just got it. >> okay. thank you all for being here today. i have to look. okay. we are all honored that this project has beared some memory of ed. affordable housing was his

passion and i know this would have meant so much to him. thank you so much. >> now you got the flowers. we're supposed to sing happy birthday. we need all your help. camera people too. we'll sing happy birthday to mayor lee, okay ed lee. ♪ happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear ed lee happy birthday to you ♪♪ >> thank you. i think this is a time for question and answers. i'm not going to answer them. who's coming up to answer them?

change of schedule. i'm flexible. >> madam speaker wants to cut the ribbon. >> okay. all right. >> are we ready? margie, you ready? let's do this. five, four, three, two, one! yes!

>> you're watching "coping with covid-19" with chris manners. today's special guest is katie birdbaum. >> hi, i'm chris manners and you're watching "coping with covid-19." my guest is katie birdbalm. she's here today to talk about san francisco city programs which transforms city streets into car-free spaces. the program's beginning to start up again. ms. birdbalm, welcome to the show. >> thank you, chris, i'm excited to be here. >> before we get into the details, can you give us a brief overview of how it works. >> yeah. it's san francisco's open streets program and it was founded in 2008 as a mayoral initiative under mayor gavin newsome the now governor.

the climate change equity program. to be able to transform our streets. the community spaces allow communities historically underserved and suffer from higher rates of preventable diseases can be connected to healthy eating, active living activities and really connect to the rest of the city as well and so that's how we got started in 2008. >> i know that some small scale events started up again in april. could you police man where they were. how they managed safety and what they managed to do? >> yeah. absolutely. we still are in the waning days of the pandemic. we're there, so we do have some safety protocols in place. but we really were able to bring back sunday streets this april. we celebrated the opening of a biking and walking path in the

bayview indian basin shoreline. we were able to offer fitness classes and things like that as well as covid-19 testing. along the water front and a way for people to basically celebrate our new walking and biking path and be able to get outside and exercise while still being totally safe in terms of covid compliance and plenty of social distancing and ability to control who and where you're around. >> that's great. what can we look forward to in may? i've heard there's going to be new ways to celebrate carnival and cinco de mayo. >> yeah. so one thing we've been partnering with san francisco and carnival. there are a lot of large festivals. they've had to change some of

their programming to compliance needs and the health and safety needs of our community, but that does not stop the fabulous spirit of carnival coming to san francisco. but we're going to continue our partnership this year and they're going to continue a health and wellness fair. so they're able to access the critical covid-19 resources and also be able to experience some beautiful cultural performances in a safe, compliant format. we're able to do that with them again this year, so we're really excited to bring that program back out and we're helping offer some fitness classes around their health and safety fairs. that's going to be a beautiful way to celebrate spring and celebrate the culture that san francisco is known for around the world and then also with that, we're going to be doing a bike ride with them on cinco de mayo, so helping support the

latino taskforce food hub and they're organizing a bike ride and active living. we're going to be supporting that and riding out with carnival on cinco de mayo. >> that's cool. we haven't talked about walkway weekends yet. is that an ongoing event? >> yeah, so walkway weekend is one of the anchor sites for this year. so, you know, as part of covid compliance, we're not able to do big events, but we're doing a lot of smaller activation city rides and walkway weekends in chinatown is one of our anchor sites throughout the year. so we were able to access grant avenue car-free, that's from california to washington car-free every saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and it's full with kind of the beautiful culture and art that is chinatown all the time. kind of a fun way to experience

that with plenty of extra room in the street. also, as little extra room for us to have things like a lion dance. there's an exhibition that's there every saturday. we're also going to be offering some fitness classes as well as other cultural programming as we're allowed to do it as things open up. >> these events take a lot of planning. i require a variety of resources to get off the ground. i know you work closely with the sfmta and the department of public health to organize them, but could you talk a little bit about the partnerships that make the sunday streets program possible and explain why they're so important? >> yeah. absolutely. sunday streets really at its core, you know, i work for a nonprofit called "livable city" and we hold the city streets program and at the center of it, it's been a partnership program. so they're transforming miles anywhere from 1 to 4 miles of city streets into car-free

community spaces filling those with community groups, nonprofits, business activities and just kind of unique san francisco treasures wanting to bring their specialness to the streets. it really has always been a partnership program. it's quite literally magic when all of these streets can transform within just a couple of, you know, we end up doing it in about 30 to 45 minutes where we transform 1 to 4 miles of streets into car-free community spaces. every city agency supports it as well as hundreds of community partners. it's a whole family of partners that are stepping forward to make sure that that space and that opportunity is being offered to the community in san francisco. >> could you talk about the four concepts of sunday streets. i understand you have something in the planning stages for october and, do you think our residents will be ready for large events by then? >> well, we do have something

brewing for october and very much, you know, to answer your question, are people going to be ready to be together and in crowds again? that is part of our strategy for the rides together season as we are starting now with small, like i said, very small comfortable, safe format with not that many people at it, so people can start getting used to being out and about again, right and that it is an activity that can be safe and enjoyable and really just start getting their feet wet in that type of community activity. so the hope is that, you know, we are able to throughout the spring and summer and into the early parts of the fall really get people used to being again in community again for ability for us to be able to come back in full force, sometime in the late fall. so we're looking at october is what we're looking at and the hopes is that we can actually

create miles of streets for us to come out and celebrate in. you know, we're obviously going to be watching the public health directives and as they unfold and follow them and make sure we're keeping all the community members safe and we'll make adjustments as needed. but the way things are trending right now, we should be able to be out together by the fall in a way that looks and feels a lot more like it used to for sunday streets. >> i'm really excited to see the city open up again and what you're doing with the sunday streets program is promising. and i want to thank you for coming on the show today. this has been really encouraging. >> thank you, chris. we're excited to see everybody out in the streets sometime when it's safe. >> thanks again. that's it for this episode. we'll be back with more updates shortly. you've been watching "coping with covid-19." for sfgov tv, i'm chris manners.

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best the most unique neighborhood shopping areas of san francisco. >> chinatown is one of the oldest chinatown in the state we need to be able allergies the people and that's the reason chinatown is showing more of the people will the traditional thepg. >> north beach is i know one of the last little italian community. >> one of the last neighborhood that hadn't changed a whole lot and san francisco community so strong and the sense of partnership with businesses as well and i just love north beach

community old school italian comfort and love that is what italians are all about we need people to come here and shop here so we can keep this going not only us but, of course, everything else in the community i think local businesses the small ones and coffee shops are unique in their own way that is the characteristic of the neighborhood i peace officer prefer it is local character you have to support them. >> really notice the port this community we really need to kind of really shop locally and support the communityly live in it is more economic for people to survive here. >> i came down to treasure

island to look for a we've got a long ways to go. ring i just got married and didn't want something on line i've met artists and local business owners they need money to go out and shop this is important to short them i think you get better things. >> definitely supporting the local community always good is it interesting to find things i never knew existed or see that that way. >> i think that is really great that san francisco seize the vails of small business and creates the shop & dine in the 49 to support businesses make people all the residents and visitors realize had cool things are made and produced in san

good morning. the meeting will come to order. welcome to the thursday, may 13th meeting of the public safety and neighborhood services committee. i am supervisor mar i am joined by comm