japanese american historical society for 40 years of contributions. this year, because we always talk about we are the san francisco bay region. we are also -- we give special recognition to two special organizations that have brought bay area compact. the national japanese chamber of commerce of northern california for being around for seventy years and, of course, world journal, one of the premier newspapers in the country and of course in san francisco bay area providing news and information to our chinese american community congratulating them on their 45th anniversary. so, hopefully all of you will be there when we celebrate all these milestones and, now, i would like to invite our celebration partners to tell you the highlight maybe just one or two of what your organization is offering in the month of may, maybe starting

with the largest asian american film festival in the country. and the director of the festival. >> thank you, claudine. hello everyone. i am the festival and exhibitions director at the center for asian american media. i want to thank claudine so much for letting cam participate in this wonderful month of celebrations and i'm surrounded by so many amazing people, it's quite it's the nation's largest film festival that celebrates asian american stories. we will be presenting over 100 diverse films, over 50 unique events. mostly virtual, but also at fort mason center, we will have

three wonderful evenings of screenings of films. half of those films are local films about our asian american communities. as everyone mentioned, there's a lot of anxiety in the world, there's a lot happening. and we wanted a festival that represents that moment. as we all know in this last year, media's so important. being able to connect. being able to have some levity to be inspired by films and stories is so important. so we do hope we can do a lot for our communities, not only let you all know about some talented creative folk, but hopefully to inspire people to heal communities. camfest.com is where a lot of our screenings and programs will happen. one of the great things is we have film makers from all around the world who will be participating being able to connect with you all. so once again, claudine, thank you so much. i do hope this year, i know

it's going to be fabulous, but in my brain, i'm thinking about next year. i'm thinking about my 40th anniversary festival and i dream of being back at the asian art museum opening night. i hope to see you all there this may, but then also next year as well. thank you. >> and, so we have our city librarian michael lambert. michael. >> thank you, claudine. and thank you, madam mayor, for your leadership in guiding us through this past year. i'm really excited that this is the 60th anniversary of the soul sister city committee. i was born in sol and i want to thank mayor breed for appointing me to be the first asian american city librarian in san francisco and the first asian american to lead any major urban library in the country. it's truly wonderful to be here at the asian art museum to celebrate the kickoff of asian pacific american heritage

month. this year's theme celebrates resilience and uplift voice social security really the perfect inspiration as we're on our way to recovery and healing. i want to thank the apa celebration partners and particularly claudine for your passion and ongoing commitment to celebrating our culture and heritage in san francisco. apa heritage month is all about celebrating community. honored to be one of the cultural institutions that helps to highlight the important contributions of our aapi community to the richness and vitality of san francisco. we have an incredible lineup of programming this year and i encourage everyone to visit the website. apaheritage.org and take advantage of some of these programs. we've got incredible authors. i saw chef martin yan is in the lineup. i'm excited to welcome our community back inside the main

library on monday and to our chinatown branch and a couple weeks after that. the books are back and we are well on our way to re-opening our library system and i so look forward to seeing everyone back in the stacks soon. thank you. >> jay, do we have anything to add for the museum? >> thank you, claudine. i would be delighted. claudine, with our mayor, commission administrator, and program sponsors and of course our media friends. thank you for spending this beautiful nevertheless windy museum. asian art celebrates asian american art in the heritage center and we're also playing a leading role in raising our collective voices in fighting against anti-asian racism and violence. so after this press conference,

i'll encourage you to all go to the other side of our museum to see the murals outside the museum. we really have turned the museum inside out. we express ourselves from our internal values to our external audience's engagement and these are the works by asian american women artists. very powerful in raising their voices through the voice of art and for this particular month, apa heritage month, we also celebrate connections amongst this very diverse community and their cross cultural impacts and those connections are beyond not only within the asian american api communities but also beyond with all diverse communities. so let me just highlight three programs. our content involves visual arts, of course, but also food, but also music. one program is called artist panel, environmental resilience and asian pacific american

leadership. the topic that transcends all boundaries. in the program, food at the table, afro asian art. asian art museum has been exploring very active partnerships and other museums of other communities all along. one of our strongest community partners. and we continue to explore the cross pollination and collaboration. the third program i'll just highlight is called "celebrating asian futures" in music conversation with venn and voo and friends with a wonderful american vietnamese asian artist. and asian american heritage every day. so come to enjoy the museum and also advise us to tell us how we can do better.

thank you very much. >> thank you, jay. so, apa heritage month is really a big community celebration. it's coming back together of our apa family. so i want to really thank many of the volunteers that have been able, that are coming together to make this happen that are not here today because everyone is working, but i just want to take this opportunity to acknowledge all the volunteers who serve on our committee and our board. we could have not brought this together without our sponsors. this is a big collaboration between our city, our government, and business communities. we have many sponsors with us this year and including but not limited to anthem blue cross, ramo and for many years the golden state warriors and, this year, we have three amazing presenting sponsors.

kaiser, amazon, and u.s. bank. two of the representatives are here today and i really want to thank them and maybe they have greetings to share with us and jane pang from u.s. bank is here. jane. >> good afternoon. on behalf of u.s. bank, i am so proud to be part of today's official kickoff. i'm jane pang, vice president and business making leader with u.s. bank. this past year has been an especially difficult one for our community. at u.s. bank, we have pledged to do our part to combat racism and anti-asian hate in the community. diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of everything we do and we are

committed to stand with you during apa month and beyond. just last month, u.s. bank helped deliver 3,000 personal safety kits to our customers and community groups. in chinatown and other asian american neighborhoods across the bay area. and, last week, our employees volunteered to help distribute meal vouchers to vulnerable seniors in chinatown. u.s. bank has also announced additional financial support to aapi organizations including our incredible partner here today, asian pacific american heritage foundation. our work and support of aapi communities is critically important and will continue. thank you. >> thank you, jane, and last but not least, i think apa heritage month, from amazon, sally kay. >> thank you, claudine.

and, thank you, mayor breed. and all the members of the apa heritage committee. i want to applaud you for many years of devotion to ensure the api community has been celebrated in san francisco. amazon is here today to celebrate asian pacific american heritage month along with our employees, our customers and our neighbors and friends throughout the city. it's wonderful to be here today with the optimism of spring and to gather together with a new hope. this last year, the tragic events that have happened have made this celebration even more important. and, with that in mind, amazon music which has a large number of employees here in san francisco has highlighted play lists, new music, short films and more to highlight visibility for api artists. at amazon, we stand in celebration and in solidarity with the api community and we are committed to help building

a country and a world where everyone is free from fear and can live with dignity. and amazon is committed to advancing social equity and justice throughout san francisco. thank you so much for having us. >> thank you, sally. and, thank you, mayor breed for your time and thank you all for coming and hope to see you all on saturday, may 1st in japantown. >> i try to start every day not looking at my phone by doing something that is grounding. that is usually meditation. i have a gym set up in my garage, and that is usually breathing and movement and

putting my mind towards something else. surfing is my absolute favorite thing to do. it is the most cleansing thing that i'm able to do. i live near the beach, so whenever i can get out, i do. unfortunately, surfing isn't a daily practice for me, but i've been able to get out weekly, and it's something that i've been incredibly grateful for. [♪♪♪] >> i started working for the city in 2005. at the time, my kids were pretty young but i think had started school. i was offered a temporarily position as an analyst to work on some of the programs that were funded through homeland

security. i ultimately spent almost five years at the health department coordinating emergency programs. it was something that i really enjoyed and turned out i was pretty good at. thinking about glass ceiling, some of that is really related to being a mother and self-supposed in some ways that i did not feel that i could allow myself to pursue responsibility; that i accepted treading water in my career when my kids were young. and as they got older, i felt more comfortable, i suppose, moving forward. in my career, i have been asked to step forward. i wish that i had earlier stepped forward myself, and i feel really strongly, like i am 100% the right person for this job. i cannot imagine a harder time to be in this role.

i'm humbled and privileged but also very confident. so here at moscone center, this is the covid command center, or the c.c.c. here is what we calledun -- call unified command. this is where we have physically been since march, and then, in july, we developed this unified structure. so it's the department of emergency management, the department of public health, and our human services hughesing partners, so primarily the department of homelessness and supportive housing and human services agency. so it's sort of a three-headed command in which we are coordinating and operating everything related to covid response. and now, of course, in this final phase, it's mass vaccination. the first year was before the pandemic was extremely busy.

the fires, obviously, that both we were able to provide mutual support but also the impact of air quality. we had, in 2018, the worst air quality ten or 11 days here in the city. i'm sure you all remember it, and then, finally, the day the sun didn't come out in san francisco, which was in october. the orange skies, it felt apocalyptic, super scary for people. you know, all of those things, people depend on government to say what's happening. are we safe? what do i do? and that's a lot of what department of emergency management's role is. public service is truly that. it is such an incredible and effective way that we can make change for the most vulnerable. i spend a lot of my day in problem solving mode, so there's a lot of conversations

with people making connections, identifying gaps in resources or whatever it might be, and trying to adjust that. the pace of the pandemic has been nonstop for 11 months. it is unrelenting, long days, more than what we're used to, most of us. honestly, i'm not sure how we're getting through it. this is beyond what any of us ever expected to experience in our lifetime. what we discover is how strong we are, and really, the depth of our resilience, and i say that for every single city employee that has been working around the clock for the last 11 months, and i also speak about myself. every day, i have to sort of have that moment of, like, okay, i'm really tired, i'm weary, but we've got to keep

going. it is, i would say, the biggest challenge that i have had personally and professionally to be the best mom that i can be but also the best public certify chant in whatever role i'm in. i just wish that i, as my younger self, could have had someone tell me you can give it and to give a little more nudge. so indirectly, people have helped me because they have seen something in me that i did not see in myself. there's clear data that women have lost their jobs and their income because they had to take care of their safety nets. all of those things that we depend on, schools and daycare and sharing, you know, being together with other kids isn't available.

i've often thought oh, if my kids were younger, i couldn't do this job, but that's unacceptable. a person that's younger than me that has three children, we want them in leadership positions, so it shouldn't be limiting. women need to assume that they're more capable than they think they are. men will go for a job whether they're qualified or not. we tend to want to be 110% qualified before we tend to step forward. i think we need to be a little more brave, a little more exploratory in stepping up for positions. the other thing is, when given an opportunity, really think twice before you put in front of you the reasons why you should not take that leadership position. we all need to step up so that we can show the person behind us that it's doable and so that we have the power to make the

changes for other women that is going to make the possibility for their paths easier than ours. other women see me in it, and i hope that they see me, and they understand, like, if i can do it, they can do it because the higher you get, the more leadership you have, and power. the more power and leadership we have that we can put out

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 committee members. i would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. >> thank you. to protect the public during the covid-19 health emergency the board of supervisors committee room is closed. this is taken