organize a union. especially within the cannabis industry. it is such a young industry. these workers need representation. thank you in advance and for considering this. thank you to supervisor chan's office for bringing this forward. >> clerk: any members of the public who have calls in, please press star 3 now to line up to speak. we have two callers left in the queue. next caller >> caller: my name is john gomez. i too want to echo what my colleagues are speaking in support of today.

item 21. i want to celebrate jo's their willingness to stand up for what's right. this resolution is a step in the right direction for cannabis in san francisco. workers have a right to organize and it's important that we hold businesses accountable. and their anti-union efforts are not welcome in san francisco. i want to thank supervisor chan and her office for their support and thank you for the opportunity to speak today. >> clerk: thank you for joining us today. next caller please.

>> caller: hi, this is jessica. i'm a representative and organizer with the cannabis workers. i'm also a district 6 resident. i have come from the cannabis industry over years. i'm been calling in support of item 21, celebrating jo billups and their dedication and work along with their colleagues to stand up and organize their workplace. it's disappointing to see urbana reacting to jo. this is not requested of the cannabis community, that's the number one priority of us being a community. it's important for us to celebrate workers that decided to follow their right to organize their workplace and go about it in a way that we can

work together and watch the industry grow and the workers grow with. disappointing how things varied off. i think it's a great opportunity to celebrate the determination workers had to make sure they have a voice in their workplace and they have a say in how they move forward. i will ask you for item 21 and i want to thank supervisor chan's office for their leadership when it comes to our labor rights. hoping to hear for more support. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. we have 9 individuals listening and one last caller in the queue. >> caller: general comment and i hope that's appropriate at this time.

>> clerk: it is general public comment. >> caller: thank you. i wanted to encourage you and may be i missed something, to open the meetings back up to in-person meetings as soon as possible. my name is joe kelly. in-person meetings are really part of our democracy and our the way our government should be operating. the second item is, i called -- there was a deranged person down the street from my house. no shoes, rolled up in a blanket, called the 911 see if they can assist. this person obviously, if anyone met the criteria, someone needing public assistance. waited around and the ambulance

came and the person was able to stand up and walk away. i was like, what are you doing? are you going to help this person. he obviously needs to be put somewhere for his own good and the community's good. they say this is san francisco. don't you know what's going on? i was stunned we spent half billion dollars on homelessness and helping the people with issues. this was a prime candidate. you have not set up a structure for the ambulance people to put someone like this in a place. it's so aggravating. please, i encourage you, bicycles are getting a lot of run these days. they are very vocal advocates for everyone being on a bicycle. about two years ago, we completely tore up masonic street to add two bicycle lanes. i'm on that street regularly. there's never a bicycle on it. i asked you to go there on a

saturday and see. >> clerk: thank you for calling in today. operations, do we have another caller? >> caller: good afternoon, i'm executive director of library users association. i like to chime in with the previous speaker. i think in-person meetings will be great. every place else seem to be opening up. the question is, when does the city government going to open up with respect to meetings? i like to say that what are we

going to do about open government regulations which have been lifted and extended until september by the governor. i think we need to have the same open government rules that we have had in the past open government is extremely important. the library's budget is coming up again and i said it before to you and to the budget and appropriations committee, the library's practices are excluding a huge number of people who do not have the wherewithal to take part in meetings and on a fair basis which others who have a computer and they can access. the library, for example, all of its virtual programs are available to people with computer and internet access but not to people with phone access. library can do a very simple thing by advertising, by making

it clear that there is phone access, for example to zoom meetings and people with an ordinary phone can participate. i ask you not to give the library budget without insisting there will be a portion for the equalization of access to all of its programs and information services. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. do we have any more callers? do we have a caller on the line? >> that completes the queue. >> clerk: thank you. mr. president? >> president walton: thank you.

thank you to the public for calling in. public comment is now closed. let's go to for adoption without committee reference agenda. >> clerk: item 21-26, were introduced for adoption without reference to committee. a unanimous vote is required for resolution today. alternatively any supervisor may require a resolution to go to committee. >> president walton: thank you so much. we have anyone who wants to sever any of these? supervisor chan? i like to sever item 21 and 22 and please do call them together as well. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor mar? >> supervisor mar: thank you. i wanted to be added to co-sponsor to 21 and 22. thanks. >> president walton: thank you. i don't see anyone else on the

roster. madam clerk please call the roll for items 23, 24, 25, 26. >> clerk: on items 23-26. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes.

>> president walton: thank you. these motions are approved unanimously. please call items number 21 and 22 together. >> clerk: a resolution to recognize and command jordan jo billups for organizing and leading cannabis workers to unionize at the urbana dispensary to unfair labor practices and retaliation. item 22 is a resolution to acknowledge the ninth anniversary of the deferred action for childhood arrival program, recognizing tremendous contribution from our non-citizen residents including recipients of the daca program and their families and urging congressional approval legislative bills that provide relief and pathways to citizenship for the immigrant community. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: thank you. colleagues, these two resolutions were introduced with the values that we support

working people in san francisco. we support those who often times do not have a seat at the table and having their voices silence bid those who are in the positions of power. the resolution to commend jordan jo bill -- billups is a privilege of mine. jordan is a constituent in district 1. i want to thank jordan for organizing and leading the cannabis worker to unionize and urbana dispensary, in the favor of unfair labor practices and in retaliation. workers at the dispensary began to organize a union with local 5 to improve working conditions.

despite management attacks and fear and intimidation, jo stood strong for the workers. stood up to management. they continue to push back against management lies and take tactics. because of this jo was fired in january of this year for no other reason other than because they were effectively leaders of organizing efforts urbana. jo stood strong by gathering sufficient evidence recruiting other workers to testify on their behalf and worked with their union in regards of retaliation by management. because of these efforts, the national labor relations board issued an order of wednesday june 9, 2021 compelling urbana to le instate jo billups to work. pay in back pay in lost wages can workers can see that the company was at fault. that workers have federally

protected rights to organize a union. it's amazing. jo is a shining example what it means to be a leader amongst their peers and such a brave leader and really she showed us what it takes to win when you have bad management. item number 22 is the resolution that for supporting our non-citizen immigrants and full pathway to citizenship. nine years ago on june 15th after a campaign, president obama started deferred action for childhood arrivals, known as daca program. after attacks on our immigrants and undocumented community, it feels like our immigration fight has made little progress. we want to take the opportunity

to recognize the tremendous contribution of our undocumented. we want to recognize the work has county has still to do to ensure a pathway to citizenship for all residents who want it and full recognition of the role that immigrants have played in the formation of our country. this resolution also urges our congressional delegation to move forward, build on the federal docket that provides protection and pathway citizenship. i thank supervisors melgar and walton for sponsoring this resolution. thank you. >> clerk: i believe supervisor melgar is next on the roster.

>> supervisor melgar: thank you very much mr. president. like to be added as a noncompliants to item 21 please. my comments are to item 22, i want to thank supervisor chan for introducing this resolution. celebrate the history of the immigrants movement through programs like daca. we must acknowledge that daca is not enough. our immigrant communities are continuously under attack. young people risk their lives as they fought for the right to stay in this country. they are only provided temporary protection so that their love ones and family members are at risk of deportation and detention. children are still in cages today. families are still being torn apart. our system is broken and this community has been decimated. often, using daca as a bargaining chip against measures

that can provide protections for all immigrants. this pandemic has highlighted how essential contributions of immigrants and undocumented communities are to this country, economic, health and social well-being. at the same time, we witnessed the disproportionate economic and health impacts experienced by these communities. so say that the system is injustice, is an under statement. we must prove that we value the work in contributions that the immigrant is a documented community. to ensure they are not just exploited and appropriated. we have to reform this broken system and extend deportation protections to all immigrants. those under temporary protective status and those still undocumented. they are our future. many of you know that i am an immigrant too as is supervisor

chan. i was once undocumented immigrant as well. we have millions of people in this country who face an uncertain future. young people who will contribute to our tomorrow. most of all, i hope we continue to work to provide real pathways to citizenship and to leadership. especially with this new administration that promises to deliver not only to the young people we call dreamers but all 11 million immigrants who are saying for the -- vying the opportunity to live in this country. thank you, colleagues. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: thank you

mr. president. i like to be added as a noncompliants for items 21 and 22. thank you supervisor chan. >> president walton: thank you. thank you supervisor chan. please call the roll for items 21 and 22. >> clerk: yes, items 21 and 22. [roll call vote]

there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: thank you. this resolutions are adopted unanimously. do we have any imperative agenda items? >> clerk: we do not have any imperative agenda items. >> president walton: please read in the memoriam? >> clerk: today's meeting will be adjourned on behalf of the following individuals. on behalf of supervisor mandelman late fred townsend and late christopher g. yauk and behalf of the entire board of -- board ofsupervisors, tony ro. >> president walton: do we have any more business before us today? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today.

>> president walton: as we end today's meeting, let us continue to celebrate inclusion and diversity and i close out the meeting with the following quote. diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society. also, the key conditions for a lively and dynamic world as we see today. this meeting is adjourned.

because we have a great waste water system here in san francisco, we do about 80 million gallons of waste water here in san francisco, which means we basically fill up 120 olympic sized swimming pools each and every day here in the city. we protect public health and safety and environment because we are discharging into the bay and into the ocean. this is essentially the first treatment here at our waste water treatment facility. what we do is slow down the water so that things either settle to the bottom or float to the top. you see we have a nice selection of things floating around there, things from bubble gum wrappers, toilet paper, whatever you dump down the toilet, whatever gets into our storm drains, that's what gets into our waste water treatment and we have to clean. >> see these chains here, this keeps scum from building up.

>> on this end in the liquid end basically we're just trying to produce a good water product that doesn't negatively impact the receiving water so that we have recreation and no bad impact on fish and aquatic life. solids is what's happening. . >> by sludge, what exactly do you mean? is that the actual technical term? . >> it's a technical term and it's used in a lot of different ways, but this is organic sewage sludge. basically what it is is, oh, maybe things that come out of your garbage disposal, things that are fecal in nature. it's sludge left in the water after the primary treatment, then we blend those two over

and send them over to digestion. this building is built to replace tanks here that were so odoriferous they would curl your hair. we built this as an interim process. >> is there a coagulant introduced somewhere in the middle of this? . >> this coagulant brings solids together and lets the water run through. that gives us more time in the digestion process, more time to reduce the amount of solids. these are the biggest ones in the world, like we always like to do in san francisco. they are 4 meter, there's none like it in the world. >> really? wow. >> three meters, usually. we got the biggest, if not the best. so here we are. look at that baby hum. river of sludge. >> one of the things is we use

bacteria that's common in our own guts to create this reduction. it's like an extra digestion. one of the things we have to do to facilitate that is heat that sludge up and keep it at the temperature our body likes, 98.6 degrees. >> so what we have here is the heat exchanger for digester no. 6. these clog up with debris and we're coming in to —— next wet weather season so we always come through here, clean them out, make sure that we get maximum heat exchange during the colder wet weather. sludge season. >> rubber glove. >> right here. >> rubber glove, excellent. all right, guys. >> thank you. >> good luck. >> this is the full on hazmat.

. >> residual liquid. we're taking it time to let it drain. we don't want to get sludge on it necessarily. take your time. stand on the side of it. . >> should we let it release for a while? . >> let it release. >> is that the technical term? . >> this is the most important bolt on the whole thing. this is the locking bolt. it locks this thing right in place. so now. >> take your hammer and what we want to do, we get rag build up right in here. the hot water recirculates right in here, the sludge recirculates in here. the sludge sometimes has rags in it. all we want to do is go around the clean the rags.

let me show you how. take the slide hammer, go all the way through the back, go around. >> got you. >> during the real rainy season, how does that change the way dealing with this job? is it a lot more stuff in there? . >> what we do, charles, we do this quarterly. every four months we go around and clean all the heat exchangers so we don't have a large build up. . >> go around? . >> yeah. (sound of hammering). >> what i'm trying to do, charles, is always pull it out on the low stroke.

>> right. so you are not, like, flying out. now talk about clean up. . >> then where does this stuff get deposited? . >> we're going to dump it in a debris box and it will go back to the plant. >> if you think back, the romans came up with a system of plumbing that allowed us it use water to transport waste away from the hub of civilization, which enabled cities to grow. . >> you have a large bowl, a drive motor and another motor with a planetary gearbox with differential pressure inside there. the large mass up there spinning separating the solids from the liquid.

we have to prevent about once a month, we go in there grease those, change the oil, check the vibration levels. the operators can tell just by the hum of that machine that it's a harmonic noise emitted that it's out of balance and the machine needs to be cleaned. it will start vibrating and we have vibration analysis machines that will come over here and check the levels. so it's kind of an on—going thing that you have to stay on top of on a daily basis. >> handled properly, you take organic residuals, as we call them, that are leftovers of our society and turn them back into some energy. and we have another ability to take that sludge and get a

nutrient value for crops there. we actually are running a kind of composting energy recovery system. >> well, this is a dirty job. we try to do it safely and we try to do it without imposing too much on the public. people want to flush their toilets and have things go away and not be bothersome again. we do a lot to try to accomplish that. i'd like to invite you to come back any time you want. once you got this in your blood, you are not going to be able to stay away. the raging waters are fun and when we do digester cleaning i really hope you can come back. that's quite a sight. >> yeah, that sounds interesting. >> i really appreciate you coming by and it was a