so i'm very excite ied to be here today. >> your volunteerism is appreciated most definitely. >> last year we were able to do 6,000 hours volunteering. without that we can't survive. volunteering is really important because we can't do this. it's important to understand and a concept of learning how to take care of this park. we have almost a 160

acres in the district 10 area. >> it's fun to come out here. >> we have a park. it's better to take some of the stuff off the fences so people can look at the park. >> the street, every time, our friends. >> i think everybody should give back. we are very fortunate. we are successful with the company and it's time to give back. it's a great place for us. the weather is nice. no rain. beautiful san francisco. >> it's a great way to be able to have fun and give back and

walk away with a great feeling. for more opportunities we have volunteering every single day of the week. get in touch with the parks and recreation center so come

[♪♪♪] ♪ homelessness in san francisco is considered the number 1 issue by most people who live here, and it doesn't just affect neighbors without a home, it affects all of us. is real way to combat that is to work together. it will take city departments and nonprofit providers and volunteers and companies and community members all coming together. [♪♪♪] >> the product homeless connect community day of service began about 15 years ago, and we have had 73 of them. what we do is we host and expo-style event, and we were

the very force organization to do this but it worked so well that 250 other cities across the globe host their own. there's over 120 service providers at the event today, and they range anywhere from hygiene kits provided by the basics, 5% -- to prescription glasses and reading glasses, hearing tests, pet sitting, showers, medical services, flu shots, dental care, groceries, so many phenomenal service providers, and what makes it so unique is we ask that they provide that service today here it is an actual, tangible service people can leave with it. >> i am with the hearing and speech center of northern california, and we provide a variety of services including audiology, counselling, outreach, education, today we actually just do screening to see if someone has hearing loss. to follow updates when they come into the speech center and we do a full diagnostic hearing test, and we start the process of taking an impression of their

year, deciding on which hearing aid will work best for them. if they have a smart phone, we make sure we get a smart phone that can connect to it, so they can stream phone calls, or use it for any other services that they need. >> san francisco has phenomenal social services to support people at risk of becoming homeless, are already experience and homelessness, but it is confusing, and there is a lot of waste. bringing everyone into the same space not only saves an average of 20 hours a week in navigating the system and waiting in line for different areas, it helps them talk, so if you need to sign up for medi-cal, what you need identification, you don't have to go to sacramento or wait in line at a d.m.v., you go across the hall to the d.m.v. to get your i.d. ♪ today we will probably see around 30 people, and averaging about 20 of this people coming to cs for follow-up service. >> for a participant to qualify for services, all they need to do is come to the event. we have a lot of people who are

at risk of homelessness but not yet experiencing it, that today's event can ensure they stay house. many people coming to the event are here to receive one specific need such as signing up for medi-cal or learning about d.m.v. services, and then of course, most of the people who are tender people experiencing homelessness today. >> i am the representative for the volunteer central. we are the group that checks and all the volunteers that comment participate each day. on a typical day of service, we have anywhere between 40500 volunteers that we, back in, they get t-shirts, nametags, maps, and all the information they need to have a successful event. our participant escorts are a core part of our group, and they are the ones who help participants flow from the different service areas and help them find the different services that they needs. >> one of the ways we work closely with the department of homelessness and supportive housing is by working with homeless outreach teams. they come here, and these are the people that help you get into navigation centers, help

you get into short-term shelter, and talk about housing-1st policies. we also work very closely with the department of public health to provide a lot of our services. >> we have all types of things that volunteers deal do on a day of service. we have folks that help give out lunches in the café, we have folks who help with the check in, getting people when they arrive, making sure that they find the services that they need to, we have folks who help in the check out process, to make sure they get their food bag, bag of groceries, together hygiene kit, and whatever they need to. volunteers, i think of them as the secret sauce that just makes the whole process works smoothly. >> participants are encouraged and welcomed to come with their pets. we do have a pet daycare, so if they want to have their pets stay in the daycare area while they navigate the event, they are welcome to do that, will we also understand some people are more comfortable having their

pets with them. they can bring them into the event as well. we also typically offer veterinary services, and it can be a real detriment to coming into an event like this. we also have a bag check. you don't have to worry about your belongings getting lost, especially when that is all that you have with you. >> we get connected with people who knew they had hearing loss, but they didn't know they could get services to help them with their hearing loss picks and we are getting connected with each other to make sure they are getting supported. >> our next event will be in march, we don't yet have a date set. we typically sap set it six weeks out. the way to volunteer is to follow our newsletter, follow us on social media, or just visit our website. we always announce it right away, and you can register very easily online. >> a lot of people see folks experience a homelessness in the city, and they don't know how they can help, and defence like this gives a whole bunch of people a lot of good opportunities to give back and be supported. [♪♪♪]

>> this is the regular meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madam clerk, call the roll. >> clerk: thank you, mr. president. [ roll call ]

>> clerk: all members are present [reading the land acknowledgement]. >> chair: the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place

as well as all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homelands. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and elders of the ramaytush ohlone community and by acknowledging their rights as first peoples. please stand, colleagues, and recite the pledge allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god with liberty and justice for all. >> chair: and on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgortv. we have matthew ignaw with us.

are there any communications? >> clerk: in the interest in public health and safety, this meeting is accessible remotely to the public to access the proceedings remotely or on the sfgovtv to participate, the most efficient method is to listen from your touch phone where you will be in live sync to provide comment. the number is on your screen. once you're ready provide public

comment, press star 3 and begin speaking your comment. with respect to general public comment, you may speak to the items on this agenda. and on item 24 whether the board should convene in closed session containing to the wong parties and there are other items without reference. all other agenda content has had its public comment requirement fulfilled. the board of supervisors will accept your written correspondence by u.s. mail. use the address on the screen.

interpretation will be provided for the public comment item to assist speakers with their language needs. we have chinese and spanish and filipino. >> chair: just a friendly reminder for all supervisors to please mute your microphones when you are not speaking. i do have a quick announcement regarding special commendations. we want want to thank everyone for your patience on this and we

will resume our special commendations on tuesday, october 5, 2021, at 2:30 p.m. and we will do it virtually. we are excited to bring this portion of our board meetings back after a 19th month hiatus due to the pandemic. members of the board who wish to honor a community member, business, or organization, we will submit the names of your honorees to my office and the clerk of the board by the thursday before each board meeting. my team will follow up with each office and we will work with the office of the clerk of course to bring the honorees on for the special portion of the meeting. today's meeting, we do not have any minutes for approval. madam clerk, let's go to the

consent agenda. >> clerk: these items are routine. >> chair: thank you. colleagues, does anyone wish to severe any colleagues from the consent agenda? seeing no one, please call the roll. [ roll call ]. >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> chair: these ordinances are passed unanimously. madam clerk, please call item 5. >> clerk: this is a resolution

to retroactively authorize the police department to spend an approximate $1.16 million grant from the department of homeland security federal management agency for the fiscal year 2020 for august 2020 to august 2021 and to waive and direct costs. >> thank you, president, and the colleagues for the one-week continuance during which time i've been in continuation with port staff and sfpd staff as well as my own staff. the recipient of this grant is the police department and not the port, but i understand the police department is not availing themselves of the federally regulated port authority. in my conversations with the police department, they recognized that the technology

in question is substantially similar to technology that is already owned by the police and which is currently moving its way through the approval process of the city's recently formed privacy and surveillance advisory board at the committee on information technology and where we have an opportunity to ensure its safe use and guidance against misuse. i will be supporting this item today. >> chair: thank you, supervisor. seeing no objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. >> clerk: item 6 is an ordinance to require the department of elections to expand the use of vote by mail ballots at

exclusively municipal elections and to encourage the use of these ballots this all elections. >> chair: thank you, madam clerk. i don't see anyone on the roster. can we take this item same way? without objection, this ordinance is passed unanimously. madam clerk, please call new business, item 7 and 8 together. >> clerk: called together, these are two retroactive expanded ordinances for the office of the district attorney. item 7 authorizes a $2 million grant from the john d. and catherine t. mcarthur foundation to implement a site in the safety and justice challenge and to enhance the salary challenges to provide for one grant funded principal analyst position

through december 31, 2022. and also funding the justice reinvestment initiative to fund the salary ordinance for fiscal years 2021-2022 to allow for two class victim investigator positions through the office of the district attorney through september 30, 2023. >> chair: thank you, madam clerk. i see no one on the roster. we can take these items same time same call. without objection, these items are passed on first reading unanimously. madam clerk, please call item 9. >> clerk: this is an ordinance to revise the business and tax code to implement proposition f which amends the growth received tax and proposition l imposing the overpaid executive growth

tax approved at the last election and to make clarifying and other substantive changes. >> chair: thank you. and i do not see anyone on the roster. we can take this item same house, same call. without objection west coast this ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. please call items 10 through 14 together. >> clerk: these are five resolutions that pertain to a lease or a contract agreement between the san francisco airport and various entities. for the first four items, these items approve the harvey milk terminal 1 lease agreements. for item 10 with sgsfo retailers, a joint venture as green apples book. and a m.a.g. for $450,000. and for item 11 with jenesco

partners. and with a scoreless little l.l.c. at $365 annual m.a.g. for the first year of belief. for item 12, this approves leases through phases three and four. there is one two-year option to [indiscernible] and for item 14, this is a resolution to approve modification number 3 with a

vanderland to include approximately $3.38 million not to exceed $13.6 million to repair the airport bridges, baggage and handling systems in the domestic terminal and not to extend the contract through september 2022. >> chair: thank you, madam clerk. i do not see anyone on the roster, so we can take these items same house, same call. without objection, these ordinances are adopted unanimously. please call item 15. >> clerk: this is a resolution to authorize the director of property for the property at 160 cap street for a drop-in referral service for a five-year

term for a total annual base rent of approximately $270,000. >> chair: thank you, madam clerk. i don't see anyone on the roster. can we take these items same house, same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call item 16. >> clerk: this is a resolution to authorize a new release between the port of san francisco and the pilara family foundation for the annex at pier 24 on the embarcadero at a monthly rent of approximately $92.8 million with a monthly rent credit of approximately $# 87.1 million with previous capital improvements to the property. >> chair: thank you. i don't see anyone on the roster. can we take these items same house, same call?

without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. >> clerk: [indiscernible] -- under the i.i.g. program and to adopt the appropriate findings. >> chair: seeing no one on the roster, can we take these same house, same call. this is adopted unanimously.

>> clerk: item 18 is a resolution to approve the 10th modification to the municipal transportation contract to procure new light rail vehicles with siemens inc. in the amount of $130.4 million, plus costs of cancellation provisions through june of 2025 in the term of contract. >> chair: supervisor preston. >> thank you, president. i want to just start by thanking the budget committee for -- i had a chance to watch that hearing last night and i just wanted to thank chair haney and

the committee for asking things that were on my mind on this item. i do have concerns that i wanted to address those on the record. and fundamentally, i'm just struggling not with the investments in the vehicle in the long term, but the potential for investments in these vehicles and funding of operation and service. i in particular want to recognize and thank our colleague for raising this. they are asking for hundreds of thousands of dollars in new rail vehicles, while also on the operational side we're in a zero

sum game. i think this requires scrutiny. perhaps my temperature on this is a little higher than normal, given that the lines on the chopping block, all five of them, serve the western district and japan town. my district was a national model as a transit-rich district in which now we're being hollowed out after being assured that the lines were temporary and they would be coming back, assurances that we can no longer get on the record.

i know your districts are suffering from lack of service and we've talked about this in chambers. i think as the budget committee explored, there is no dedicated course of funds for this $130 million request plus $190 million in escalation costs. what i'm struck by, is the basis of this request if you read the report is taking pre-pandemic ridership projections, projecting those out and assuming we have the demand that warrants this investment. while at the same time whenever i engage m.t.a., the reason i'm given for not returning lines is we can't use pre-pandemic ridership lines because everything has changed. i'm struggling to reconcile those two things and i also note

that the lack of a dedicated funding source here is concerning not because we won't be able to come up with the funds, but because we don't know if the source will be capital funds restricted to these capital investments or are funds that could be used for operations and instead are being moved over to obtain vehicles. [indiscernible] -- i have some significant concerns and particularly about the interaction to the funding of

these vehicles years out and delivering service to riders right now and over the coming years. i want to know that the mr. chair of these vehicles won't interfere with the lines cut. i want to make sure in the physical infrastructure and the vehicles, but i want to make sure we're not doing this at the expense of vehicles. final l, mr. president, i want to note that tomorrow in budget will involve parking meters and it raises a lot of the same questions. i don't want to suggest that we don't move forward, but i think we should move forward with these two items with capital improvements and how those interact. my discussion and i would like to make a motion to this effect,

in anticipation of the parking meter item that we will hear tomorrow will likely be before us next week, that we put this current item over for a week when we can have a more holistic consideration of the trade-off or lack thereof of service and operations on the one hand and capital improvements. i would like to move to continue this item for a week. >> chair: do we have a second? seconded by supervisor chan. >> thank you, supervisor. i understand that this purchase doesn't really commit us in our

role. i do agree that in every chance that we can get to have a conversation with sfmta not just about their budget but really how they manage their budget in relation to operation, restoring services not just in our own district, but really city-wide. we should continue to have these conversations. i do believe in continuing for weeks along with -- you've given the opportunity to just allow us also to have that conversation and allow the city-wide contract. so i am in agreement with supervisor preston's motion. >> chair: supervisor safaee.

>> we actually did and i introduced an amendment to specifically state that no enterprise funding for services and operations for transit, fare revenue, parking fines and other resources would be included in the five-year capital plan would be used in these l.r.v.s. we made it explicit that they couldn't use those funds. these l.r.v.s would not be purchased until 2024-2025 and at any time the agency can cancel the order, no obligation to the taxpayer. so when we made this change, we also added in that the sfmta would provide a detailed report for funding option two before it

initiates the production of these l.r.v.s and they would have to come back to the budget committee before that's initiated. so we felt like that was a necessary protection in this instance and it gave us the assurance that we would be protecting the operating budget for the m.t.a. secondarily, we will have those questions tomorrow about the parking meters we will make and i drafted a similar amendment that talks about that the operator would have to come back and show us the revenue that's obtained and show us how it takes about three years plus to replace all the meters and there was a detailed analysis that shows the difference between leaving the meters as in and the

difference in revenue for replacing. again, that is why we sent this back to committee and we'll have that conversation tomorrow at the budget committee. i feel confident to move forward. i understand what supervisor preston is trying to do, to link those two together. i feel good about moving those two forward today. >> thank you, president. i am one of the co-sponsors of this resolution and i do not support the motion. i just want to point out that this approach is the opposite of posterity policy. we are investing in something that will support full ridership in the future and that we even need today. my district is served by many

lines and i get a lot of complaints about the n., as i'm sure you do. they use the older vehicles which make a lot of noise. they are less friendly to the neighbors and they need to be replaced. i wish we were buying the 45 that were originally slated rather than the 30. we need an expansion and i want to ensure that this doesn't take away from operations. i am ready to vote on this item. >> i would be inclined to support a one-week continuance, but i want to be sure that this

is not going to interfere with the september 29 deadline for this. i do support this resolution. i support being able to buy these additional cars. i think the worst-performing parts of our system have been the trains for some time. there has been significant improvement for the siemens trains. after a rocky first start, they are performing better than the previous trains ever bid. i want to be in a position to continue to improve our rail performance, but i want to give supervisor preston one week to have conversations with the m.t.a. if that doesn't screw up our ability to have conversations. i would appreciate it if we

could have a comment on that. >> chair: we do have director kirchbalm. >> thank you for that question. through the chair. we do need signatures on this from the board of supervisors clerk and from the mayor's office, provided that those could be done on a quicker timeline than what we were told to plan for, which is a week for each, we can get this done. we have until september 28. the operation evaporates after that. if we have to buy these trains in the future as a stand-alone item they're likely to cost double what this option affords

us. with some health and urgency, we could compress this into a week, we would encourage that. >> i guess the other question is if the city attorney sees any reason why there would be a problem with that from our ability to compress? >> [indiscernible]. >> i am less familiar with the timing of this yootioned r cationed approximately there's contract -- if there is time for a one-week continuance, i would defer to them. >> just for the record, it is my

belief that after every board meeting, the clerk of the board delivers to the mayor all of the teats on all the legislation approved. so that would be wednesday, following the tuesday meeting next. and the mayor signs those forthwith. i am inclined to join the supervisors in asking for an additional week. it was my understanding that if we did not exercise the option, it would be an $11 million hit. through the president to the supervisor, i think there is an $11 million risk out there. it is not a huge risk. while it is well and good for

the budget committee to say future plans will not include operating money, given for all intents and purposes this board of supervisors has limit any authority over the m.t.a.'s budget, that is completely unenforceable. >> chair: thank you, supervisor. >> thank you, president. first, through the president, madam clerk, was there something you were trying to add? >> thank you, supervisor, through the president. pursuant to the charter, the clerk has 24 hours only to submit the legislation to the desk of the mayor and we work with the mayor's office to retrieve it when she has signed it. >> chair: thank you for that. >> thank you both. i was going to make a very similar point and question. i am prepared to vote on this

and am supportive of it. i'm thankful for the explanation of the amendments in committee and the questions asked and for the co-sponsor for her work and leadership on this. with that said, i think there is an item coming forward that raises some similar questions and if it allows our director to address these questions holistically in that context. i think the greater amount of clarity we can have on these questions and having that conversation together, i think i would be fine with also one week. as i said, i support of this today, but i think we have some opportunities to have some more clarity.

>> i wanted to add that i strongly support this item and this is incredibly important to my constituents who rely on the l. and the n. cars, but it's also important for our overall transit system in the city to ensure that our light rail system is fully state-of-the-art as we recover from the challenges of the pandemic. i also appreciate the strong advocacy and leadership on

service. >> thank you, colleagues, for the comments and i want to thank the co-sponsors of the item as well as the budget committee members for their attention to this. and just very committed to getting to the either/or which as a body should be our collective goal and for the m.t.a. as well. as has been stated and i don't think that the week interferes with reaching that deadline. i did want to emphasize as was pointed out that should the item go forward, there is a cost for that as was noted.

while the m.t.a. will need to report to the committee for insisting on that amendment, it is not subject to our approval at that time. this is the one point in time where we have the power to approve or to authorize or not on this, we have possibilities. so long as the prop b. baseline funds are the backstop funding, that includes funding that can be used for operations. i wanted to drill down on that issue to make sure that the spirit of your amendments is the reality if that ends up being

the funding source. thank you. >> i just want to understand [indiscernible] this went through the budget committee and there are opportunities to go through the budget and raise this there. we can also speak with the board because i am supportive of this item. >> i cannot guarantee that if you are not going to run the risk. this needs not only legislative

approval, but a wet signature on the contract. we need everything we can to work with the time frame if that is the time frame that is left. we are bringing it to you today because we think two weeks is time needed more than one week. if we miss september 28, the option goes away. we estimate if we were to go back and rebid this from scratch, it would cost an additional upwards of $100 million to purchase these vehicles. >> i understand what the

supervisor is trying to do with some of the questions. i also heard supervisor preston say that this is their decision to come to us. we put in the assurance that it has to come back to the budget committee. we do approve those final contracts. and no disrespect, i have not heard a well-articulated reason why we are articulating this. we need these vehicles and i'm not going to risk the chance of not being able to buy these light-rail vehicles and having a $100 million hit and rebidding the process. it doesn't make sense to me. i understand what you're trying to do.

i think this has been velveted. we had a lot of debate on this at committee. we dug in deeply and made the strongest amendments we could. normally i would defer to a colleague and come back on that. >> relative to creating the necessary time and getting a wet ink signature, i think the barrier simply insofar as a matter of charter law has to deliver our approval if given on wednesday next would be that the mayor has to be to sign the resolution on thursday and

return it. i guess it's a question to the clerk as to whether the mayor is here to sign it next thursday. >> chair: thank you so much. ms. kitler. >> we will do everything in our power to sign this as soon as we receive it. >> chair: thank you. i don't see anyone else on the roster. i will say that i'm definitely in line to approve this particular item, but i also have enough faith and confidence in m.t.a. and our clerk and the mayor's office to make sure we have the time to get the signatures needed if we continue this one week. i will be supportive of the motion as well. madam clerk, would you please

call the motion to continue the roll. [ roll call ]. >> clerk: for eight ayes and three nos. >> chair: the motion carries.

>> clerk: for item 19, this executes the standard agreement with the california department of housing and community development under the local housing allocation program for an award of $52 million through 2030 and item 20 is for a total award of $6.8 million starting on june 30, 2024.

>> chair: please call the roll on items 19 and 20. [ roll call ] >> clerk: for 11 ayes. >> chair: without objection, these items are adopted unanimously. >> clerk: item 21 was considered by the land use and transportation committee at a regular meeting on monday, september 13. this was recommended as a committee report. item 21 is an ordinance to amend

the planning code to eliminate the requirement of conditional use authorization for residential care facilities for seven or more people in residential, house, or age districts to require conditional use authorization of a residential care facility and consideration of certain factors in determining whether to grant this authorization to a firm, the ceqa determination and to make the appropriate findings. >> chair: please call the roll on item 21. [ roll call ]

>> clerk: for 11 ayes. >> chair: thank you. and i believe this item passes unanimously on first reading. madam clerk, we are now at roll call for introductions. >> clerk: yes, first member to introduce new business is supervisor peskin. >> thank you, madam clerk. as i mentioned yesterday, colleagues, at our land use hearing that supervisor ronin called, today i'm introducing a hearing that follows a number of complaints and concerns that i have received regarding the recent reorganization of the planning department, including what some believe might undermine the charter authorized

zoning administrator who for decades has reported directly to the planning director that was true through all of bob hasner's tenure and until recently cory teagues tenure and that covers almost half a century. previous iterations of the department have prided themselves on internal architectural expertise and interpreting the code that we create and modify in a fair, consistent, transparent, and unbiased manner. the way that the department is being structured i think gives me a modicum of concern that the zoning administrator in particular may be compromised, and i want to hear from staff on that as well as what i'm hearing

with regard to lower level design staff being constrained in their recommendations from doing the jobs that they were trained for and providing analysis at the level that this institution warrants and, frankly, that the public deserves. so i want this board and the public to understand the nature of these implications and for us to be ready to impose solutions if the board thinks we need to put the independence of the zoning administrator and the staff first. with that, i have sadly a number of in memoria. we would like to adjourn today's meeting in the memory of jordine

mendini who joined her spouse. together on the planet earth, they brought laughter and joy for almost 60 years. they had four sons in five years. they got many grandchildren who they tended to in their characteristic and firm manner and modeled in an optimistic outlook for life. she was a proud sister, a graduate of gallileo high. she was a trusted employee at bank of america and later where she became personal bookkeeper to francis copella. she was literally the maternal presence on the board where her

son randall elvis d. martini continues to serve with distinction as the club's executive director. she lived a life of exuberance and was a die-hard 49ers fan. her up-beat positivity, tewiningle in her eye will be dearly missed by all that loved her. north beach is mourning and it is expressed at the local bar that says our i.d., martini, a true legend. my condolences go out to her surviving sons and their wives.

i would also like to adjourn today's board meeting in the memory of edward dayward. on behalf of his daughter, our transportation clerk. he was drafted into the army at the ripe age of 18 just in time for the vietnam war and served for 20 years. he mastered martial arts. as he grew older, he developed a fondness for gardening and loved maintaining fruit trees. he told his kids to stick together no matter what comes your way. he leaves behind 15 grandchildren and seven children including our own erica major.

we thank you for your service. may you rest in peace and may your family follow your words of wisdom and stick together as one family. sorry, ms. major. i know that other supervisors will speak to the passing of our friend gail seagraves. she passed at a hospice in district 3 on saturday and had a steady crew of friends who was at her bedside wrapping her in love in her final days. i first met her where she volunteered for my re-election campaign. she was one of my favorite volunteers. if you could pull her away from her buddy brenda, she was

lovely. she never complained about canvassing on the steep hills in san francisco and loved sending photographs to the campaign of her exploits. she also loved all of the bakeries in north beach. she loved singing queen ballads, volunteering at community streets and volunteering at city hall during the holidays. i've on working on the board of supervisors for two decades and gail was one of the greatest tenants, not just in the tenderloin, but all across the city. when we launched the ballot for all measure, gail was at the forefront to increase

affordability options for san franciscans. and every other measure we put to the voters, gail was there. she was also at the head of reform to provide input on every piece of affordable housing and tenant legislation that i've had the pleasure of working on. she testified at hearings, developed strategies and co-led housing 101 trainings with my staff at the central city s.r.o. collaborative. even after being diagnosed with cancer, she was active in advocating for this. she was fighting the influx of market-rate s.r.o.s in the greater tenderloin area. she was not only knowledgeable about policies that impacted her community, but passionate about bringing more people into the fold of social justice work. she loved arts and culture and

was a tour guide at the museum. and when those at the wildflower institute received funding to map stories in the tenderloin, gail took a couple to meet many artists. during the worst throes of the pandemic, we were focused on s.r.o.s and outreach clinics. and gail was very involved in this. she made connections across every community. it was one for all and all for one. there was a lovely tribute to her which you can read online. on behalf of district 36 or 63, whatever we call it now, i want

to extend my profound condolences to her sister and her former beloved partner and send love to the community at the s.r.o. collaborative who are hurting and missing gail today. i know you'll hear more shortly. that includes my roll call. >> thank you, supervisor peskin. i would be like to be added to the in memorium for gail. thank you for the kind words you spoke about her. colleagues, today i'm introducing a legislative package to extend our local

moratorium on no-fault eviction s and this includes them from expiring and to carry them through the end of the year. as i said from the start of the pandemic, i will do everything i can to prevent people from losing their homes in this public health crisis. while we hoped to be in a better place, some 18 months later, we're not there yet. this is for no-fault evictions that are set to expire at the end of the month. state law makers have as we discussed extensively in the context of other legislation before us, the state laymakers have effectively taken away our

ability [indiscernible] -- one that we will not accept without a fight. the changes in state law have not taken away our ability to regulate other types of evictions. that includes owner evictions, substantial rehabilitation evictions, and a whole range of other evictions allowed under local law. as we continue to deal with the delta variant and an uncertain future with this pandemic, there is no reason to allow people to be thrown out on the streets through no fault of their own. we have passed multiple pieces of legislation. i believe we passed each one of them unanimously and i want to thank you for your consistent support of these pieces of

legislation. thanks to our collective work, these plummeted. i would like to thank my early co-sponsors, president walton and others. i ask that the full board join me in extending these common-sense conditions without delay. the rest i submit. >> thank you, colleagues. first i want to add my condolences to gail and her family and to supervisor haney's office who i know were very, very close to gail.

i know supervisor haney will do the bulk of describing this amazing, incredible person. whenever she was in the room or whenever i saw her, i felt better. i felt like there is goodness in the world. even if there are people who confront challenges with so much grace and dignity and beauty and see the beauty in people and she made me and the world and the community so much better. rest in peace and you'll always be remembered. second, i just wanted to follow up from a very long and a very hearing that we had yesterday at the land use committee. i want to let our colleagues know that supervisors did a huge

favor of allowing me to hear a very frustrating case in my district of a developer who very flagrantly and corruptly worked with, it appears, bernard kern in d.b.i. to build 30 instead of 10 units in my district. it's been a mess. we've been working on it for years and getting information out of d.b.i. has been difficult. i [indiscernible] -- but to irregular migrant out how we can learn from it and make sure it never happens again and you're going to see a lot from us in terms of follow up and systems change, et cetera.

we did learn that the city attorney's office settled a case with the developers. i believe it's a completely insufficient settlement on the part of the city. we also learned that it did not come before the board for approval because apparently the city attorney said they don't send cases that are brought under the public attorney general act for approval to the board of supervisors. they also couldn't answer our questions. and it is person from the city attorney's office suggested we hold a committee of the whole discussion.

it turns out we can't do that. so we will be meeting privately with the city's attorney's office to address our concerns. we want everyone to know that you can do the same and ask for it. it's frustrating. please ask for your private hearings. we are committed to ensuring that there is our impact into settlement agreements. this is involved issues in the department of buildings, inspection, and corruption in our city. and deeply make a difference for our constituents on the street. i just want to mention i'm not

introducing a committee of the whole for that reason, but i'm not dropping the issue, not for a second. and i encourage you all to learn about it because it was news to the chair of our government on an oversight committee that the dean doesn't seek approval for these cases and it doesn't make any sense to me. and finally i'm introducing a resolution for the green new deal offered by [indiscernible] finally we're talking about real numbers that we actually need to see an impact in our schools to fund green retrofits and infrastructure, and add resources for special education. three issues that many of us are

working on. i find more and more that parents are e-mailing me to solve problems in our schools and districts because they don't feel like they're getting responses from the districts or the school board. we have, in essence, become their last resort. getting back to the green deal in the public school. this would provide $445 million to give high-needs schools green retrofits and funding that schools needed yesterday.

and then finally $100 million for educational equity planning grants planning program to address educational disparities tied to income and race and $695 million for title one. gosh, i hope we are successful at the federal level passing this. this is the type of investment that would make the difference that we need. i hope you will all support us when we need a vote. the rest i submit. >> i have a few things asking a

draft of legislation regarding subacute beds in san francisco. we would like to have the city attorney mandate with the number of subacute transfers that happen out of county. this is absolutely uncontionable that there are -- uncontionable -- [indiscernible] the number has dwindled down from a height of over 60 to only # 8 people today. all they're doing is waiting for those individuals to pass away and those subacute beds are being eliminated. so i want to thank supervisor mar and his team for really

advocating on behalf of ken tow and his family to keep his family in county and not send their sun two hours away. all those that need this access, they don't have access to really private transportation. so i just want to say to all of you, imagine if any of your loved ones in the place of mr. zow and their family and you had to travel two or three hours a day just to see your family member recover, this is something that has been sidelined and sidetracked since the beginning of covid and we understand that 100%. 70 beds in hospital was a reasonable number to target. we want to still shoot for that.

chinese hospital has now stepped up. they're waiting to be supported. i think we're going to get 20-plus beds there, but we still fall grossly short of the number of in-hospital beds that we need. we're going to work with government to draft that legislation and fast track that. having this relationship will help us as it relates to subacute care. secondly, i'm calling for a hearing on the number of cannabis licenses in the city of san francisco that have been granted, the number of equity applicants waiting for approval. i'm also interested in knowing the number of equity applicants that currently own and operate their dispensary and how those

numbers compare to, as we wrote in the legislation, the non-equity applicants. in addition, we're interested in having a real conversation and we need to have this on a moratorium. more and more cannabis operators feel like the market is flooded. we're not allowing the industry to flourish. two operators i spoke to say they struggle to hang on. most of them are required by law to be equity applicants and they're not given the right footing to survive under it. we had these conversations privately and let's have them publicly. let's have a conversation about where we are today, how far this industry has grown. are we taxing it appropriately

or not. and where we are. we put that conversation on hold for a few years, but the conversation is right to have a real conversation about where we are in industry today and how the market stands to either support or allow for some of the applicants that we've all lifted up or tried to ift up and how they're doing in thislift up an they're doing in this environment. i have an in memorium for jean, the taxi queen. she was a resident who passed away june 12 at the young age of 68. she was born and raised in the outer district. she attended st. james grammar school and san francisco state. she spent her entire working life in the tourism and travel industry, fiercely promoting san

francisco in the world. she was an accomplished writer, speaker, and photographer who shared her love of travel with whoever would listen. she was a founding member of wow, women on wheels. one of the founders of the national federation of the tourist guidance association. as a san francisco residence small business owner, she fiercely promoted this by being an active promoter of the district merchants. for years to come the funds generated by the investments will come about by the funds.

her father unexpectedly passed away when he was 9 years old. what a wonderful legacy she will leave for those young girls who need that support. today we honor jean and may she rest in peace. >> colleagues, today i'm presenting a resolution residing [indiscernible] hosted by the korean center. this is one of the most important and widely supported holidays in korean center and honoring it today is an honor to our korean community in terms of -- this day embodies the values all of us in san

francisco hold dear. no organization has done more to keep this thriving than the korean center in district two, but also provides resources to the korean community. while they have been an invaluable support to everyone in the city, i wanted to call out their work with underserved communities, the korean center's commitment helping the korean community in the pandemic. [indiscernible] the korean center is just one example of the many ways these communities have contributed to san francisco and the united states. thanks to the community and the center for the decades of support and best wishes to you

all. i also have an in memorium. i would like to close today's meeting in memory of john ignatius inoto after passing away after a battle of cancer. he was brother to former supervisor angela alioto. a life-long san franciscan, john was extremely proud of his si sillian roots. he studied stories to create a genealogy. john and his love of his life brought their daughter to visit the places they were from. despite having six outstanding children, one of his greatest accomplishments was the completion of his book "before the gold."

this book provides a fascinating deep dive into the pre-gold rush history of our city and state. he had a successful law career. with his wife linda, they ran their own law firm. throughout his life, john was especially passionate about politics, civil life, history, and football. he could be found writing football and plays. he had five patents to his credit. he left a lasting impact on the city he loved and all who loved him. he is survived by his wife, linda, and his children and grandchildren and many friends

and extended family who will miss him deeply. he will be remembered for his spirit and his relationships he built with family and friends. the rest i submit. >> chair: [indiscernible]. >> clerk: thank you, mr. president. >> chair: [indiscernible] --

state recreation area as a vehicle triage center with the enactment of resolution number 3118 in october 2018, the board of supervisor and the mayor declared a shelter crisis and affirmed san francisco's commitment to combatting homelessness and creating a continuum of shelter and service options for those experiencing homelessness. in may of 2019, the mayor approved an ordinance approving the safe overnight parking program to provide eligible people experiencing homelessness residing in their vehicles a place to park and sleep in their vehicles overnight as well as receive case management and other services. the city opened its first vehicle triage program in november 2019, which provided up to 29th parking spaces for people residing in their

vehicles. two-thirds of the increase in the number of unsheltered individuals from 2017 to 2019 was due to people sleeping in vehicles. according to the homeless count conducted by the city in august of 2021, there were 1,088 inhabited vehicles in san francisco, with 677 of them located in district 10. the state park staff and multiple city departments have collaborated to people living in vehicles and encampments. yet, there is still an immense need that cannot be addressed until there is an alternative location for unhoused people to go. we have worked with the office of homelessness and others to discuss a proposed vehicle

triage site to remove barriers and to provide options to connect people to long-term care and housing. there is still a lot of work to do and conversations to be had with neighbors, but we know this is the best option to address concerns. a 312,000 square foot parking lot has been identified own as the boat launch parking lot as an optimal site as a new vehicle triage center. it was recommended by community stakeholders because it is private and remote, has been closed for many years, and will not impact operations parking or recreation use of the area. the property also has existing infrastructure, including water, sewer, pavement, and electrical

poles for lights that will allow the city to quickly convert the site into a vehicle triage center. this resolution for vehicles will allow the city to move forward. the department of homelessness and supportive housing will install a fence with screening. site lighting, guard shed, picnic area, pet area, portable water containers, trash containers, and approximately 150 stalls for r.v.s and vehicles and 50 parking stalls for staff, toilets, and trailers. this is part of several strategies and programs that we have been using to address the

housing need. these solutions have not been realized overnight and will not happen overnight. we are working on compassionate and successful ways to provide housing and support our unhoused population. this will take the collective. we won't stop working until we make the change together. the rest i submit. >> today i am introducing several items. the first is due to my work on the health services board. i would to thank the work of the san francisco health services system which is well led by the executive director and the board

chair. as a member of the health service commission, i know we do good job trying to get the best plan we can in a fairly broken system. i hope to bring fresh eyes on this. i am interested in focusing on the availability and quality of behavior healthcare available to our workers. as we have seen during the pandemic, we have significantly increased the need for mental health services, but have also changed the way that these mental health services are delivered. we have heard from therapists,

patients, increasing telehealth services. we also know that in reality, for many this only worsened access. provider networks that were already insufficient became further strained and follow-up appointment ws r often not available for weeks or months following initial intakes. we know that even a day matters. in order to understand whether our city, workers, and their families are getting the treatment they need in a timely manner including wait time for appointments, length of time for visits and follow-up care, we are asking for some information and statistics about the quality of care provided by healthcare

providers provided to city of san francisco workers. in addition to city workers, i want to know how san francisco as a pool is being served by our [indiscernible] -- the city of san francisco is one of the largest customers in the city. there are 9 million enrollees across california and hundreds of thousands across the bay area. we need to know if we are getting what we paid for. this has only worsened the health crisis. depression and suicidal incidents are on the rise. this has led to millions of broken families.

no one should suffer from back of care, especially after they paid for that care with the promise of access. the 9 million enrollees deserve better. in 2020 we know there was a $6.4 billion profit and is estimate to have $39 billion in reserve. as reported by patients and clinicians, members of the national union, this is plagued by long waits and staffing shortages. we know we all can do better, kaiser can do better in san francisco and in california. the city and county of san francisco need to ensure our buying power to ensure that kaiser lives up to their slogan

and make sure we all thrive under their care and not just those watching the bottom line. therefore, as the supervisor member of the health services commission and member of the government audit oversights committee, i'm requesting a [indiscernible] -- san francisco is the first major purchaser exploring these issues. i hope that our asking these questions can serve as a model for other counties to start thinking, to follow and lead to acadia developing the workforce to provide access to behavior healthcare to truly help africa and californians thrive. [ please stand by ]

shanz they volunteer, they serve in committees, they advocate for improved policies and services so it is high time we make this program available. that's led by our chinese affirmative action and comprise the advocacy network, resource and organizing center, central american research center. as you know, this has really been a long time coming and more work needs to be done because once we authorize this,

we still need to make sure that the education is out there. remove the fear for voting. remove the fear to be out here and speak their minds as for non-citizen residents. thank you, colleagues, the rest i will submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor chan. supervisor haney. >> supervisor haney: thank you, madam clerk. i have one item to add to the beautiful tributes that have already been given in the memory of gale who passed away this september 11th from cancer. gale was a dear friend, a volunteer in the district six office, a fierce tenant advocate and a beloved champion of the tenderloin and she was active as a central city s.r.o. collaborative member and i want to share my condolences in

particular to the members of the collaborative including her close friend who you would see her on with more times than with anyone else felicia and all of the members of the tenderloin community who are grieving. she was a member of her women's group. she participated in transit equity advocacy. fought to get new businesses like the la cocina incubator established and showed up in solidarity every time there was a fight to make the tenderloin better for its residents. i can't think of a single thing that happened in the tenderloin where there was an issue of fairness, where there was an issue of quality of life, of justice where gale wasn't at the forefront. this was her home and she loved the neighborhood and the people in it.

if you knew gayle's story and you knew her life, it would make more sense she grew to appreciate the tenderloin the way she did. she was born in the town of turlock. she herself experienced abuse. she was a victim of violence and, because of that experience, she ended up unhoused in our city and it was the tenderloin that lifted her up. it was the tenderloin where she found a home, where she found a community, where she found a group of people who cared for her and she found love and a warmth and joy that many of us have come to know of her. she was somebody who as

supervisors peskin and supervisor ronen said had a warmth of spirit and a smile that could bring ease and warmth to anyone she was around, but for her, she loved the tenderloin because the tenderloin loves her. and the tenderloin is a special place where there are people like gayle who have been down and out, who have in some cases experienced violence or homelessness and because they've been able to be lifted up, they've spent their lives lifting up others. she fought for the residents across their diversity. she was not ever anyone who, you know, was concerned are rabout who you were. if she needed someone to hug,

she was there. she embodied the spirit of this neighborhood and we will miss her. there are many people in the community who are grieving and we will continue her work. she was a tenderloin legend in her impact and her legacy will be never ending. rest in peace, gayle packwood seagraves. we were so lucky to have you and be loved by you. and your memory will be a forever blessing. i know we're doing this on behalf of the whole board and i also want to note that gayle was a very close friend of supervisor jane kim and in many ways supervisor peskin and supervisor kim brought her into the community activist and politics and also i'm sure if supervisor kim was here, i'd

add her name of support to this even if we're not able to do it formally, i just want to note super kim's love and friendship with gayle as well. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor haney. supervisor mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor. supervisor mar. >> supervisor mar: thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i just have one item today. i'm introducing a letter of inquiry to the sf police department requesting data to be certified by the number of bilingual officers in our work on a.p.i. community crime and violence prevention with community groups, mayor breed, the human rights commission and others, it's become even more clear that despite the existing language access ordinance, the city is still not providing full language access to its services including public

safety. in lack of reliable language access has been consistently raised by community ordinance and residents to receiving support during and after a crime incident and especially a hate motivated crime. in recent years, sf p.d. like many government agencies has adopted telephone interpretation due to its convenience. however, insensitive situations involving public safety, violence, or trauma, studies have found that telephone interpretation is often inadequate compared to in-person interpretation, especially for specific populations such as seniors and people with medical needs and i've heard about and even personally observed very concerning language barriers between sfpd and chinese speaking crime victims on a number of occasions so it's over 43% of san francisco residents speaking our language

at home. we need to continue speaking our language and i thank the office of civic engagement and affairs for their work. president walton who has been a strong advocate for ensuring language access across our city. this letter of inquiry is focused on sfpd and looking at -- i really want to look at their officers and staff with our police department. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor mar, supervisor melgar. >> supervisor melgar: thank you very muches, madam clerk. i want to thank supervisor chan for the introduction of the parent voting legislation. i want to just echo her remarks and thank her staff and her.

as well as my staff in the immigrant voting collaborative for their hard work over many years to. and having parents who could not easily navigate and being the constant translator and, you know, intermediary. we know very well how critical the voices of immigrant families are in developing policies that impacts their own childrens' lives. how often these voices are systematically left out and how sometimes, you know, well meaning people want to speak on their behalf not really understanding the realities that of being an immigrant and not speaking the language. so this is a long and hard fight and today is election

day. tonight forget to vote. it is the great reminder that our strength of democracy is being increased and the growing of our voter base. as we see the voter suppression across our state, i'm proud of supervisor chan and our constituents who voted for the rights to parents. i am also introducing a resolution to in collaboration with supervisor hillary ronen, the international day of the victims enforced disappearances as of october 30th condemning the forced disappearances of people in el salvador which is where i was born and raised during the civil war. i am introducing this resolution collaborating with central american community here

in the bay area. you may know that the civil war in el salvador displaced, you know, approximately a million and a half people. there are that many of us outside of el salvador spread all over the world killed 75,000 and caused the forcible disappearance of at least 10,000 folks. these disappearances deprived families and the community of the right to know what happened to their loved ones and denied them justice and reparations. as imputin compounds the anguish and trauma that families live through. you may remember that my mother was a combatant during the civil war. she did disappear for about a year. we did not know what happened to her and she finally re-appeared and we were grateful and for many families who don't have that closure, the trauma is ongoing. tomorrow, we salvadorians

celebrate our country's independent day and i'm bringing this resolution also forward to remember the ongoing suffering caused by the government in el salvador paid for by u.s. taxpayers and honor the thousands of lives lost and the millions of lives impacted by enforced disappearances and calling on the salvadorian national assembly to honor that day, august 30th and help families gain closure. and, finally, i am introducing a declaration to kick off latinx heritage month. tomorrow starts latinx heritage month in the city and county of san francisco and i'm excited to be introducing this resolution as i'm the only latinx member of this body and

i believe 2003 was the last time that the board of supervisors formally passed a resolution recognizing this month. latinos comprise 15% of the san francisco population and we see our influence and contributions in everything that makes our city great and work. our community continues to suffer the devastating consequences of inequities and injustice exacerbated during this pandemic because we have been the most impacted. yet, our folks are resilient and we continue to work hard towards the success of our families and everyone else. so the contributions of the latino community throughout this country is undeniable. we have been essential to the recovery of our city and we continue to do the work day in and day out that makes this city run. so it is my honor to uplift my

community, sit here in a presentation of one of the many stories of resilience and strength and recognize that this resolution, the beautiful diversity and rich culture that the latinx community brings to our city. and the rest i submit. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor melgar. mr. president, seeing no other names on the roster, that concludes the introduction of new business. >> president walton: thank you so much, madam clerk. let's please go to public comment. >> clerk: at this time, the board of supervisors welcomes your general public comment. the best way to provide public comment and avoid the signal delay is to listen from your touch phone. you will be in live sync to listen to the proceeding and provide your comment. the 10 number is streaming on the screen. it's (415) 655-0001. when you hear the prompt, enter the meeting i.d. 24840495457. press pound twice. you'll have joined the meeting and you'll hear the discussion

you'll be muted and in the listening queue. to be added to the speakers' queue to provide comment, press star three and when it is your turn, the system will send you a prompt. listen carefully for "you have been unmuted" and just begin speaking your comments. you'll have two minutes. here, you may speak to the items within the subject matter jurisdiction not appearing -- appearing on this agenda item 24. all other agenda content has had its public comment requirement filled. as we said earlier, we do have interpreters standing by to assist with interpretation. we have today speaking chinese for agnes lye and for filipino special guest lucy ganaden.

i'd like for all three interpreters indicate you are here and you're prepared to provide your services. >> [speaking foreign language]. thank you. >> [speaking spanish] . thank you. >> clerk: ms. ganadan? all right. okay. so perhaps that interpreter needs some assistance if operations could reach out to her that way we can make sure she is available.

>> i am here. i'm sorry. >> clerk: great. thank you. >> okay. thank you. >> clerk: can you please just is a nouns to the community you're here to support them with their community public comment. >> translator: [speaking foreign language]. >> clerk: thank you. we do appreciate the interpreters and your service that you provide to the board and to the community. and so thank you, mr. president. yes. my apologies. >> president walton: no worries. >> clerk: operations, do we have the first caller, please? we are setting the timer for two minutes.

welcome, caller. all right. that might be an unattended line. let's go to the next caller, please. >> hello. hi, yes. my name is robert meyers and my friend actually had to put back into star three to get on to the meeting because something happened with his phone. i have been a homeless person all throughout the city and one of these guys is actually the, you know, witness to all of this and i've been going to city hall, sending e-mails, everything way before the pandemic including during the pandemic have gone nowhere. been assaulted by city employees. been disregarded by members of the board. coming to their office having lies thrown at me.

telling me that i was saying despairaging comments. i'm very upset and i was shoved down a flight of stairs in one of the hotels. i've dropped dead on 24th and mission. i've e-mailed hillary ronen. to mr. walton, i called his office yesterday. talked with a guy who said he's going to reach out. what i'm asking for is not outrageous and i should be entitled to that and when i called back today because he saw no contact by president walton's office. he was not even there, the guy that took the call yesterday. he left no note and i have requested a personal e-mail to the president's office, to hillary ronen's office and stefani's office and you guys come to your offices and you

guys disregard me and call the sheriff on me thinking they're going to do the job and you guys call me, we need to look into it. four months later, rinse and repeat. you're twittering away saying you're outraged about how people like me are being treated. but when i come to the office by e-mail, it's a stand offish we don't care. >> clerk: thank you. >> staff has tried to send me. >> clerk: thank you to the caller. thank you for your comments. operations, do we have another caller on the line? i understand we have twelve listeners and four who are in the queue to speak. if you're one of the twelve, now would be a good opportunity for you to press star three that way you can get in line to speak. sometimes these callers go quickly and you may miss your opportunity if you don't press star three. okay. welcome, caller. >> thank you.

is it okay for me to comment on the great highway closure topic? >> clerk: yes. i believe so. yeah. you have two minutes. please begin. >> thank you very much. i appreciate that. before i start, i would like to express my sympathies to the gentleman who just called. i think there is a real frustration on the part of unhoused individuals and the city between when they see what is, you know, what is expressed publicly from supervisors and what actually happens on the ground. that's a whole other bag of whatever, but i definitely heard the pain in his voice and his frustration and i hope he knows there are lots of people who know what he's going through and we support you. i do want to comment on the great highway cur flufl.

i am a 53-year-old woman who has never driven a car. i still use my bike entirely for all my commuting, all my shopping. i cover hundreds of miles a week. it's an old steel bike and it's the last one i have. but i was really puzzled by how much attention issued of the great highway closure received from the bicycle commission and from supposed bike accidents. it really is not an essential route for commuting. it's not used that much for commuting. it shows a small population for commuting, for recreation, it's another story. but i was concerned because it seems to be part of a pattern where the -- in the contingent and their cohort coming to a neighborhood and demand that change happen with little regard for the people who live

there, in this case, this is a group of white people, people in the sunset what they can and can't have. so i hope we can look a little more closely at who funds these efforts and also focus more on actual essential roots. so coke street to downtown all the way up to down the philmore would be a much more essential route to work on. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. we apologize if we have to interrupt anyone this afternoon. we hate to do so, but we are setting the timer for two minutes. operations, let's hear from the next caller, please. >> hello, supervisors. my name is josh batch. i live here in san francisco. i'm calling encouraging folks to support the prop 12

resolution today. as you all remember in 2018, that passed overwhelmingly, the ban for inhumane confinement of farm animals in tiny cages where they can barely move an inch. of course, there are serious animal cruelty. proposition 12 supports better conditions for farmers and that's why the national black farmer's association, american indian farmer's association all campaigned for proposition 12. shop workers can't pay for proposition because industrial animal operations exploit workers predominantly people of color. food safety campaigned for proposition 12 because when you get farm animals leads to better food safety and food safety should be just a privilege, it should be for

everyone. these industrial operations also are major contributors to greenhouse gas emission and major climate crisis. natural resource defense council all campaigned for proposition 12. the call, that actually reduces cost to get animals out of cages because healthier animals leads to greater productivity. whether we care about animal cruelty, food worker rights, family farms declining crisis, we all come together to support prop 12. thank you so much for your time today, everybody. >> clerk: thank you for your comments, sir. operations, let's hear from the next caller, please. >> hello, i'm the policy manager of the chinese for affirmative action. i would like to thank supervisor chan and supervisor melgar for their leadership today on behalf of immigrant

families in san francisco. we appreciate you introducing the ordinance the right of noncitizen parents and guardians. to vote for the san francisco board of execution. all parent guardians in the school district we were overjoyed when sf voters passed this measure in 2016. entire board of supervisors upholding the role of the voters and continuing their commitment to immigrant families. at a time when there are voter expression efforts across the country. san francisco can continue to be a beacon of hope. like so many actions to democracy and immigrant voter parents rights permanent. thank you again. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. all right. operations, let's hear from our next caller, please. welcome, caller. >> good afternoon, supervisors.

>> clerk: welcome. >> good afternoon. my name is -- hi. my name's jay donia. i'm a member of the san francisco republican party and i'm here to request you remove mr. john hamasaki from the police commission. at a time when trust in law enforcement is at an all-time low, mr. hamasaki has done everything in his power by undermining efforts to rebuild that trust. antagonizing police officers. he advocating for teams to carry legal firearms and insulted san franciscans with racist and ma soj nisic tweets. thank you for your time. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. all right.

operations, let's hear from our next caller, please. >> hi, my name is david. i'm a san francisco native. i think it's not right that robert has been homeless for more than 15 years. he has been treated very badly by the city they've just not been helping him at all and just ignoring him like he's nothing. and the tweets that all the board of supervisors have made are all false because they have done nothing and -- what? yeah. and it's not right. it's not right. what? oh, in the name of robert, the city needs to reach out to him. it's not fair that we can leave

our people behind. and he's gone to them several times. this is a real serious issue and he has cancer and is dying on the streets and nobody is doing anything. the caller that called previously. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, sir, for your comments. operations, do we have another caller in the queue, please? >> hello. this is danny johnson, the homeless bureau from 2006 also a famous icon. i'm the only one who's ever gotten the homeless people, business people, and communities to all peacefully live together. i did that for about 15 years here in the castro until my son was stolen by hate and i'm the only one who's successfully

done it. anyway, the point is, my friend, he's homeless here and he's all messed up. he's your perfect kind of person you want to get rid of off the street. he uses drugs. he's incoherent. he walks around but here's the thing. i don't know about ten years ago, he was a beautiful, young, very smart, very healthy mid western boy. he came out here and he was turned into a prostitute. this was 30 years ago, if you don't know, the whole city was nothing but gay sex. in every alleyway in every parking lot. you come here from the midwest and you were well wanted. you were well wanted to be a sex servant and they want to make you high. and everybody was getting high. you guys made these. it's your guys' dirty laundry. i'm just wearing it.

how many people are you going to make life from the midwest after you're done having sex with him for 15 years and here's another thing. this person that has cancer and homeless, you guys have this whole problem and you always see the broad. between somebody's house burnt down, somebody's got cancer. somebody who's a famous hero, community members and all these haters are fuelled by you. you need to stop this crap. you really need to do it. bye. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. all right. operations, do we have another caller in the queue, please? >> good afternoon. this is a comment about the legislations. [inaudible] from sfpd.

25 years in sfpd. [inaudible] you just like a doctor who cures patients by treating the patient's neighbor. [inaudible] a testimony to the success of the federally mandated background checks. the criminals who've been gone seven months can't process [inaudible] . they have prohibit them from firearm ammunition and san francisco have the most common firearms crime -- >> clerk: sir. i'm going to pause your time, sir. i'm pausing your time, you have about a minute left. it sounds as though you're speaking about the ghost guns.

yes. that item is on our agenda this afternoon. that is not an item that we can take public comment on as it has had its public comment satisfied in committee. >> all right. >> clerk: okay. so thank you for your comment, sir. >> okay. >> clerk: okay. thank you, sir. all right. operations, do we have another caller in the queue, please? >> good afternoon board of supervisors. my name is steven martin pinto. i'm an sf native and here in the bayview district and i want to talk about the police commissioner john hamasaki and why i think he should be

removed. in short, his behavior as a public official has been quite frankly astonishing and embarrassing. if you look at one of the sfpd general orders which pertains to him while on off duty member shall not use harsh language. he has made unfounded baseless accusations against petition gathering who is collecting signatures for the recall school board. he has repeatedly mocked victims of crime, even victims of crime who have suffered the harm or injury. he publicly celebrated the injury of a police officer. he's made racist statements and he's even come after some of the members of the board of supervisors by criticizing their families simply because they criticized him when he

tweeted about gun safety with relation to kids. so, in short, i would ask you if you think that if you go through the social media accounts, if you think that this is an official who represents the government well, i'd ask you to really think about that and think about the harm he's doing to the city government and that's all i have, thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. operations, do we have another caller in the queue? i think we have four in the queue and twelve who are lined up. if you're one of the twelve, and you'd like to give comment today now's your time to enter the queue otherwise we're going to take the last four to the very end. all right. operations. >> good afternoon. this is barry trumonto. i hope board members have a healthy and safe day.

i was a little surprised that you all attended the meeting last week considering that last tuesday was like the second holiest day in the jewish calendar. i wanted to bring up a couple of topics briefly. first, what happened on this memo about the bathrooms that we could use late at night. because a lot of places are not open, they're not available, especially for taxi drivers and other drivers even the homeless. based off staffing, the bathrooms in the tenderloin and the one over at market and 17th at the chevron station. what happened? we deserve an explanation we deserve to have some alternate facilities late in the morning hours. i don't know why you stopped funding for that. and the second issues regarding the wild wild west. as a taxi driver, i have seen maneuvers on the streets particularly at night that i

would never even try myself. we need to at least try to have a little more traffic enforcement by the police. i know it sounds weird for me to say, but it's very dangerous out there in terms of the drivers and i think that is important that you take this as a high priority to deal with the safety of pedestrians, bicyclists, and other drivers and last but not least, the scooters are really making it a wild wild west, ignoring traffic lights and stop signs. thank you for your time. >> clerk: thank you mr. toronto. operations, next caller, please. >> hello. my name is crystal vera and i grew up in san francisco. i would like to thank supervisor chan and supervisor melgar today for their leadership. we appreciate you introducing the ordinance that will make permanent for rights of noncitizen parents and guardians to vote for the san

francisco board of education. an estimate of one in three children in san francisco public schools come from immigrant families including myself. non-citizen voting gives immigrant families a voice in san francisco. san francisco should continue to support our immigrant families by leading and having a say on numbers who make important decisions that will impact our children. all parents and guardians of kids in which school district decisions that impact the childrens' education. the court making the san francisco board of education elections. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. operations, let's hear from our next caller, please. >> my name is [inaudible] >> clerk: thank you caller for

your comments. operations, do we have another caller in the queue. >> yes. is that me? hello, is that me? the next caller. >> clerk: yes, sir. we can hear you. >> can you give me a thirty-second warning, please. can you give me a 30-second warning, please. >> clerk: yes. we will give you a 30-second warning. please proceed. >> thank you. this is executive director of library user's association library users 2004. san francisco california

94117-0544. last week's library commission meeting which was held [inaudible] thursday, had a progress report about the installation of radio frequency identification tags into library books. and, all we heard in presentation was how wonderful this all was, without a single word about the privacy threats that those tags prevent to the public. more than california and electronic frontier foundation already from 15 years ago warned that these were serious threats to the privacy of the public and left them open to access to the technology so you can see that the unique members and figure out what it was.

also, as usf electronics pointed out that the tracking threat, knowing that a person in the way of the item left them open to be trapped as to where they go and when. none of this was mentioned at the library. >> clerk: 30 seconds. >> okay. a library which claims to protect patron privacy. obviously, the library doesn't care to do that sort of reading. [inaudible] unconscionable, the library has also refused despite our frequent requests to have an auditor review of privacy and data security for patrons as recommended in the last data privacy audit more than ten years ago. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. thank you. all right. operations, is there another caller in the queue, please?

>> madam clerk, that completes the queue. >> clerk: okay. thank you. mr. president. >> president walton: thank you so much, madam clerk. seeing no more public comment. public comment is now closed. madam clerk, we will come back to items number 24 and 25, the closed session. for now, let's go to our adoption for committee and please call items 26 through 31. >> clerk: items 26 through 31 were introduced for adoption without committee reference. a unanimous vote is required for adoption of these resolutions today on first appearance. alternatively, a member may require a resolution to go to committee or have an item severed to be considered separately. >> president walton: thank you, colleagues, would you like to sever any items. i do see supervisor melgar. >> supervisor melgar: 30, please. >> president walton: 30.

thank you, supervisor melgar. i don't see any other colleagues on the roster. madam clerk, would you please call the roll for items 26, 27, 28, 29, and 31. >> clerk: on items 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 -- 31, excuse me. [roll call] there are eleven ayes. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk.

and without objection, the resolutions are adopted and the motion is approved unanimously. madam clerk, please call item number 30. >> clerk: item 30 is a resolution to recognize abortion as health care. objecting to texas senate bill 8 and urging approaches that uplift autonomy. urge the biden administration and congress to pass legislation protecting reproductive rights and to declare the city and county of san francisco a champion of services and reproductive services. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor melgar. >> supervisor melgar: thank you so much, president walton, and madam clerk. it's been several weeks since senate bill 8 has passed. i want to thank all of the co-sponsors particularly my female colleagues who sponsored this right away. i wanted to report a couple things as we introduce this. i posted it on social media and

got deluged with comments from folks probably not from san francisco who were outraged that we were doing this and especially, there was a lot of folks making the comparison to the vaccine mandates how inappropriate it is for government to, you know, mess with peoples' liberties in that way as if. so i am thoroughly convinced with this issue affecting male bodies instead of womens bodies so folks would be singing a different tune. but i am encouraged by the partnerships with san francisco women's political committee, pro-choice, san francisco women's march, the san francisco department of the status of women and the human rights commission who have all been very supportive of women's

right to choose what happens to their own bodies and how to plan for their own families. and i look forward to working with you to explore how san francisco can strengthen our commitment to reproductive freedom and to women's health care. thank you, colleagues. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor melgar. supervisor mar. >> supervisor mar: please add me as a co-sponsor. >> president walton: thank you so much, supervisor mar. and thank you, supervisor melgar. madam clerk, please call the roll on item 30. >> clerk: on item 30, [roll call]

there are eleven ayes. >> president walton: thank you. without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call the closed session items, number 24 and 25. >> clerk: item 24 was scheduled pursuant to a board motion made and approved on july 27th, 2021, for the board to convene a closed session today september 24th, 2021, for the purpose of conferring with or receiving advice from the city attorney regarding a settle lment which is the subject matter of item 25. a settlement of unlitigated claims against wing lock walter wong, wong construction, ultimate choice, jaden l.l.c. and jaden international ventures l.l.c. for payments and credits totalling

$1.8 million. the claims involve allegations that the wong parties provided gifts with city officials of the city and county of san francisco in exchange for city contracts to the wong parties. failure to report contracts with city officials and other material terms of the settlement are that the wong parties will not do business with the city including as permit expediters for five years. >> president walton: thank you so much, madam clerk. and, for members of the public that are still here with us, the board will be leaving this regular meeting and convening in closed session and we will return after our deliberations. >> clerk: all right. mr. president, we're going to prepare the room and lock the doors. >> president walto

. >> president walton: we are now back in open session for our september 14th, 2021, meeting. i want to thank the public for their patience and i would entertain a motion if the board finds that it is in the best interest of the public that the board elect not to disclose its closed session deliberations. >> supervisor peskin: so moved. >> president walton: moved by supervisor peskin, seconded by supervisor mandelman. madam clerk, on the motion. >> clerk: on the motion not to disclose, [roll call]

there are eleven ayes. >> president walton: thank you and without objection, the motion carries to not disclose our closed session deliberations. madam clerk, would you please call item number 25. >> clerk: and, just for the record, mr. president, on item 24, no action was taken during the closed session. we'd like to make a note of that in our minutes. on item 25, [roll call] there are eleven ayes. >> president walton: thank you and without objection, this

resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, do we have any imperative agenda items? >> clerk: yes, mr. president, today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following and beloved individuals. on a motion made by supervisor peskin and on behalf of the entire board of supervisors for the late edgar gardea. on behalf of supervisor safai for the late john ignacious elliotto. and supervisor peskin, ronen

and preston on behalf of the entire board for the late gayle seabrave. >> president walton: i do want to state we do not have any imperative agenda items. colleagues, that brings us to the end of our agenda. madam clerk, does that conclude our business? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >> president walton: and as we continue to celebrate our children and youth return to school and in-person learning, it's fitting to hear a quote about learning from a young person. "let us remember one book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world." malala esofsie. this meeting is adjourned.

>> 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.

>> when i open up the paper every day, i'm just amazed at how many different environmental issues keep popping up. when i think about what planet i want to leave for my children and other generations, i think about what kind of contribution i can make on a personal level to the environment. >> it was really easy to sign up for the program. i just went online to cleanpowersf.org, i signed up and then started getting pieces in the mail letting me know i was going switch over and poof it happened. now when i want to pay my bill, i go to pg&e and i don't see any difference in paying now. if you're a family on the budget, if you sign up for the regular green program, it's not going to change your bill at all.

you can sign up online or call. you'll have the peace of mind knowing you're doing your part in your household to help the environment.

good morning everyone. who loves transit in san francisco? oh, my gosh, everybody loves transit. who had a great ride? who had a problematic ride? that's actually a pretty good. that's okay. that's good. hi, ktvu. so i am rafael mandalmen. i got to take the j church in with a group of activists who are very committed to getting

the j back in the tunnel. my experience on the j was a mix of the good and the bad. so i will say that two years ago, the last time that we did this, i was not actually able to participate on that day but i think my staff waited 45 minutes. there was like a three to five minute wait but that was fantastic. i was riding with a woman who recently had hip surgery and now there was a transfer at church and market that there was not pre-pandemic and we had to, you know, i think the experience that a lot of folks with accessibility challenges had where we got off and we have to get across this street that is a very hard street to traverse and then it turns out that the elevator that's supposed to make it possible to get down and make the transfers broken. so then we waited for the s-line which is not as frequent and actually involves a fairly

rikdy contraption crossing to get into it if you are having accessibility challenges in getting in. so anyway, it was interesting to see the extra burdens that our system poses for people who may be in a wheelchair or using a walker or a cane and i think that needs to be foremost in our minds as we think about how to make our system work for everybody. thank you to the transit rider's union for getting us here after two years. thank you. it's been a rough couple of years, but i do want to just express my heart felt gratitude to the staff of m.t.a., the staff of the transportation authority, the operators, all the workers who have gone so far above and beyond over this last year and a half for operators getting on those buses and those trains at a time when it was not entirely clear what kinds of risks that

might pose to your health when people were dying and like chicago dying in and getting sick in terrible numbers. it was a very scary time and yet people showed up to work, kept our transportation system moving and we were able to radically in a matter of days transform a system that we had, you know, come to rely on into an emergency system that got our essential workers back and forth to prioritize equity and i'm proud of that. i think our m.t.a. has been recognized nationally for the changes it made in those early days and putting equity first and i think that's something that they can be proud of. as we approach what we hope will be the end of the pandemic, it is clear that we are not out of the woods. many of us, all of us i think are very concerned about the notion that we might be aiming

at 85% of the service that we had prior to the pandemic. i think all of us agree that the service we had prior to the pandemic was actually not adequate to the needs of san franciscans, much less the needs of the additional san franciscans that will be coming to address our affordability crisis. so 85% is not enough and, for me, and i think for all of my colleagues, a very high priority for the next year is going to be figuring out how to get the revenue that the m.t.a. needs to make sure that we are not aiming at worse service than we had before, but are aiming at better service than we had before. and that has been imperative for all the reasons we all know. it is the right thing to do for equity. everyone should be able to get around this city without a car, but it is also an environmental

imperative as smoke is filling our airs -- is filling our air and as we face a global climate crisis, we have to get people out of their cars. so, this is a -- an exciting thing to be back. i love this. i love this event. i love that we're doing a month this year rather than just a week, and, with that, i want to introduce someone as a friend who i worked with and thank you so much, cat carter. >> thank you, supervisor and chair mandelman. what a beautiful day for a muni ride. we keep having these beautiful days for our ride arounds in transit month. thank you all so much for being here. thank you all who did the ride along and leaving a good example. i want to quickly introduce our

colleague, who worked tirelessly to pull this all together and coordinate everything. he's been doing amazing work and he'll be up here a little later. we talk a lot ant our transit first policy and i think we all continue to fall short of that ideal. it's really past time to take our transit first policy seriously. we need to make transit the first choice for people to get around meaning more and better service that's fast, reliable, clean, easy to use and safe. we need to put riders first. we have no more time to waste as supervisor mandelman was just saying, the climate emergency is here. mount shasta has no snow for the first time. fires are causing massive damage across our country. before the pandemic, muni served over 700,000 daily trips while contributing less than 1% of the city's green house gases. back in the '80s, muni served

over 900,000 daily trips. we need to figure out how to get that many people back on muni and more. we know some people face dyer services in the coming days and months, but we need to start building the future. we need -- we know street priority is necessary to do that and we know sfmta has done a pretty good job of that. we've seen them move very quickly to bring faster, more reliable service by putting transit 1 on the streets. but too many riders are still left behind. we have too much service that hasn't come back yet and we need sfmta to work quickly to improve its network. but to really put riders first, we need to grow sfts. we need to invest in it. this is going to take all of us working together. we need to build a vision of a network of fast, frequent, reliable service that connects

every neighborhood that provides real accessibility. we need service that's easy and safe for all. this is the idea behind our 30 by 30 vision to have those fast, frequent routes that travel end to end and that connect all neighborhoods. we need all our city leaders to champion the major funding muni will need. we invite you to keep setting an example. keep logging your rides at ridecontest.org all month long and tweeting your experience. and, our city leaders need all of us as riders and as voters to keep speaking up and showing up to build the future of muni that we need. thank you again for showing up and speaking up today and every day for the future of transit in san francisco. and now, zack will introduce our next speaker. >> thank you so much, cat. we're going to hear from some

of our courageous supervisors who road transit today starting with supervisor mar. >> supervisor mar: good morning, transit riders. it's so great to be here with all of and my colleagues. i'm showing our collective love for transit this morning and happy transit month. i rode in this morning on the n-juda and the ride seemed a little bit smoother with fewer delays and quicker than before. so that was great to see and i believe director tumlin and m.t.a. actually have some data to back that up. so, that's been really great. as you all know, we're in a critical moment for public transit in san francisco. we can't afford to debate measures. we can't afford to be divided and we can't afford to drop the ball on delivering the service

or go back and forth on the world class transit system that's needed and deserved. we need to put our money where our mouth is. that means we need new revenue. we need to make sure every san francisco voter knows what's at stake. we can't go backwards for our climate, for vision 0, for a more livable city and planet and we have to go forward. we need more service not less. more revenue not less. more lines not less. and let's give three car trains on the njuda. let's bring bar to the west side. and, sure, let's tax the rich to fund the bus. and, we need to have the vision to ultimately create fair, free public transit in san francisco because we know every dollar invested and spent on transit pays dividends for our economic

recovery, for economic mobility, for our public health and the quality of air we breathe and for combatting climate change and cutting our city's single largest source of green house gas. mobility is a human right and public good in reliable, fast, fully funded and ultimately free transit is a north star we all should be working for. let's get the basics right, let's dream big and let's deliver. thank you again, transit riders. thanks to m.t.a. and t.t.a. and just all of the passionate transit advocates in our city and my colleagues and i were with you and we're going to keep pushing forward to create the transit system san franciscans need and deserve. >> thank you, supervisor mar. now i'm thrilled to introduce san francisco's very own mayor. mayor london breed. >> thank you. well, good morning everybody. i am so excited to be here with

all of you to really kick off transit month in san francisco and, first, i want to take this opportunity to thank all of the transit drivers, all of our operators, the sfmta staff and many of the folks who during this pandemic were essential workers because we knew that during the pandemic, so many people would rely on public transportation and there was a lot of concern about whether or not it would be safe and i've really got to send a shout out to jeff tumlin and the work he did to make sure we were cleaning the buses on a more regular basis and, yes, they have been cleaned on a more regular basis that we were supporting our drivers and the transit riders union, i want to thank you for raising money for masks and ppe for many of our drivers especially because we saw really high rates of covid with a number of our drivers

and you stepped in, you supported them and that's what this city is all about. we know how important public transportation is. we don't want to go back to the days when i used to catch the bus in high school and junior high. we would always just look this way, look that way, is it coming? we've got to start walking? are we going to be late to school? well, we are new and improved. we have a lot of work to do and part of what the sfmta is trying to do as we speak is to make the system more reliable. make it more efficient. we know what we need, we know it's been very challenging to deliver to san franciscans the service that this city deserves because we're saying take public transit, but we also have to make sure that it's reliable, that it's safe, that it's clean and it's exactly what it needs to be in order to serve what is a world class

city especially as we recover. i want to thank each and every one of you today and i'll see some of you on muni. i've been on muni in this pandemic in disguise because i didn't want folks to bother me when i'm trying to get from point a to point b. every time. i end up missing my stop. so hopefully i'll see you out there on muni this month. thank you all so much for being here. >> hello, good morning everyone. i'll just be the bearer of all good news. like every year, i rode the 49 to city hall. it was fantastic the ride. it was quick and efficient. we got here within 15 minutes or so. it was incredible.

and, that's how lucky we are to have a world class transit system. we're just simply not going to be able to maintain and make it better. that is definitely a priority for me and for all of my colleagues on the board of supervisors and i am sorry that i have to leave early, but i have a very good reason that fits into transit month. i am a representative on m.t.c., the metropolitan commission. so congratulations. please get back on muni. it is safe. it is reliable. it is clean. can't wait to see you on the bus. take care. >> thank you, supervisor ronen. so, we have a couple more supervisors coming up. i'm thrilled to introduce

supervisor chan from district 1. >> supervisor chan: good morning, transit riders. it's good to be here today. i came to san francisco's chinatown when i was 13 years old. i went to galleio high school and the 30 stop was my jam. that was great. i went to u.c. davis, but still used public transit. greyhound and m-track and then when i came back to work to the city, it was getting a little harder. but my first gig in city hall as an aide, i was still living in chinatown and i had the best ride to work. it was on cable car and it was awesome. i love public transit, but at the same time, you know, as my work got more demanding, life was a little bit more demanding, you know, riding

around, bus hopping was not easy and for any of you who've done bus hopping in san francisco, you know it takes some time. if you miss that transfer, you know what, you can just get a lot of anxiety going on in you waiting for that next bus. so i know that means we need to do better with our public transit. you know, today as a supervisor representing district 1, prepandemic in the richmond, we have one of the highest ridership with 38. 60,000 riders, one direction every day. let's bring back to that level and that's what we need to do and because we know that public transit is public good and we ought to fund it like it is. you know what, i want to also give a shout out to carina chan here from china town trip. she reminded me if any of you have known that her interview with ktvu recently, she

reminded me that transit equity is social, economic, and racial equity. let's remember that. happy transit month. >> supervisor stefani: good morning everybody. i am catherine stefani supervisor for district 2. i want to thank everyone for all their work on transportation and to the transit riders. thank you for continuing to call attention to this extremely important issue. i see my neighbor steven chun who now works for the sfmta and it's so great. i have a family of four. i have two kids. we took it right to the giants game. it was safe. it was reliable. it was frequent. we want it to be reliable. we want it to be frequent and

we are very lucky we had that experience the other day. this morning, i rode the 49 in. and, again, it was an easy thing to do. but, i do want to mention something about families and transit because you cannot ignore the fact that it is very difficult for families who have kids to get around the city especially when you have two different school, two different droppoff times, sports, there's so much that families face when it comes to making sure transit can work into their lives. so let's not forget the families in san francisco. i know my former boss used to say transit first does not mean transit last. i want to thank everybody for your continued focus on transit. we are a first class city. we need a first class transit. so thank you for continuing to be here and thank you for your focus on that.

happy transit month. >> hello transit riders. i am dean preston, district five supervisor. i want to thank transit riders for putting this event on. thank everyone else for m.t.a. and all of the workers making our transit system roll even during a pandemic. this month marks my 28th anniversary as an everyday muni rider and i've just got to say, i just love public transportation, love riding the bus, and, like they say in the movie, you've got to love it to hate it. here we are. but, you know, i took my daughter today to school on muni as i always do, and i thought about the fact that it takes me an hour round trip door to door to do that.

and, it would take me 20 minutes if i were to drive. and, in too many ways, we are a car first city masquerading as a transit first city. we have to do everything possible with urgency to flip that script. and, so when i think about transit month and thank you for extending transit week to transit month so we have a whole month to celebrate transit, but, you know, i think about all the neighborhoods that i represent that continue to not have their muni lines a year and a half later. i think about district 5 families. i think about neighbors who live up on a hill who are seniors. i think of folks who have seen their muni lines suspended indefinitely with promises for the first year that their line would definitely come back and now a process in place through

which their line may be permanently and forever gone. i think about how advocates and community leaders in the tenderloin and in the filmore had to fight so hard with everything else going on in the pandemic, had to fight so hard to get the 31 balboa back and thank you for fighting that fight on behalf of everyone in san francisco. when i think about transit month, i think about the operators that continue to drive throughout the pandemic as essential workers themselves and transporting essential workers. i think of the transit operators not just here, but in new york city who continue to operate buses and subways in the middle of catastrophic flooding. i think about all the operators from muni, sam trans, and other agencies that went to help in san jose after the tragic p.t.a. shooting. when i think about transit month, i think about the

riders, all of you who choose to or who must use muni and how we as a city have not done enough for you all during this pandemic or ever in san francisco. a transit system should be based on the principles that more service leads to more rides and more riders and less service leads to fewer riders and fewer rides. that is why cutting service and cutting lines for financial savings is a death spiral for transit. we must win back transit ridership as we recover from this pandemic. and unfortunately and it saddens me to say it, right now, riders are being given nothing to fight for. and, are instead too often being asked to just accept

osterity. we must have a more robust vision that inspires people to ride muni and to support the bold funding measures that we need to take to the ballot. we need a vision that includes fair relief on a path to free muni. investment in our workers and more reliable service and not strategies that pit riders from one part of town against riders from another part of town. we need a vision of a world class public transit system for our city for generations to come. and, as supervisor mar put it so well, let's tax the wealthy to make this happen. thank you so much. next up is supervisor haney. >> supervisor haney: all right. thank you, dean. i'm going to ask the easiest question that i know the answer to. who rode transit here this morning? all right. how many of you ride transit

most days? all right. well, apparently, they're going to be tracking. i already looked. there's somebody who already in september has ridden transit over 60 times, so whoever that person is, if they're here, i think their name is anthony, very impressive. you probably know this person. we are going to commit not only this month to ride transit, but to support transit and i want to thank the transit riders union. i want to thank all of my colleagues. jeff tumlin, the mayor, the m.t.a. staff. we always rode over here this morning with a guy named jason from the m.t.a. who works so hard every day 90 this system, to improve it and it has been especially challenging over the lars year and a half and i want to recognize all of them. many of the folks here are involved in supporting this system and improving it and i want to thank all of you, the m.t.a. board as well. one of the things that has been

so important this past year as there have been advocates and i see a lot of the folks standing up here who have fought for our public transportation system every single day over the last year and a half and it was under tremendous strain. other folks have said this, you know, people were scared to go on because they were worried that they might be sick, that it wasn't clean, that it was too crowded. as people stopped riding the bus and the train, lines were cut. all of that was a huge attack on what we know as one of the most essential parts of our city and people stood up and fought is to make sure it was maintained. and i especially want to recognize the folks who fought for the 31. this was a line and give it up for the return of the 31.

people in the tenderloin. people who live in s.r.o.s. families, seniors. we rode the 31 today from district 5. i went over to district 5 with dean preston and a number of folks and we rode it in and it is such a critical east west connecter for the district that i represent and i want to thank you all for fighting so hard for it. the last thing i want to say is i'm the budget chair and my colleagues told me i've been authorized to put this up and to say we are committed to funding muni, funding sfmta. happy transit month. >> supervisor melgar: thank you for being here. i'm the supervisor for district 7. we actually share a longer

border with district 5 in san mateo county than with district 5 in san mateo county. i will talk about the great things we're doing. we're doing really well in terms of transit. i love muni. muni is now free for all youth thank you to my colleagues and to mayor breed for making that happen and, you know, we're committed to training and supporting a new generation of transit riders so that we can have the highest possible ridership and get people out of their cars and into public transit. that's how we solve the climate crisis is to make sure we reduce those carbon offsets and take the bus. that's what we need to do. i am an immigrant to san francisco. i came when its 12 years it cost a nickel back then and muni gave me freedom. it was a freedom that as a kid from el salvador like very few

in my generation had in my country, but here, muni alloweded us to just have the entire the world class city that is san francisco at our feet. if you haven't seen the newest marvel movie, go see it because muni is a prominent character. it's so much part of our identity. i want to thank all of you for your advocacy. t.w.u. and local transit workers who have put their lives and their families and health on the line for the rest of us. we need to keep supporting them and advancing this wonderful public good that is transit. in my district, we have city college, san francisco state, and u.c.s.f. as part of the zoo all of the organizations that rely on public transit to be healthy and expand. we want to make sure that san francisco comes back from this pandemic and public transit is the way. let's fund it. let's fund it adequately. let's pave the way for our

future and our childrens' future by having a muni system that's fair, that's affordable and that is open to all. thank you so much. sorry. i was supposed to introduce my great friend supervisor ahsha safai. >> supervisor safai: good morning everyone. supervisor safai here. in the past, i have to say and truthfully, i've been a big critic of the sfmta and a lot of that has been justified, but today i want to focus on the positive. i think within the last year, even in the midst of this pandemic, there's been a lot of improvement. there's still a lot of room to grow. there's still a lot of improvements to be made. despite all of the challenges and a virus that's spreading

rapidly via air internally, our operators showed up to work. many of those operators live in my district in the excelsior, omy and outer mission and they don't complain. i mean, they do complain, julie, i know you know that, but justifiably, they show up. and, if they have complaints, they make it known, but they still show up and do their job every single day. so i had an awesome driver today on the 14r. her name was "dee." we got from geneva and mission all the way to the inner mission and 14th. my daughter rode with me, got her to school in less than 20 minutes. it was a wonderful ride. the red lanes worked. no one was blocking us. the driver drove professionally and, you know, what, the bus was packed, but it felt safe. every single person was wearing a mask. i forgot my wallet at home.

she still waited for me. i had to come back but we made it on time and i think there has been a lot of good work done and a lot of that improvement has been the result of the advocacy of the transit riders and those that know the system intimately ride it day in and day out. so i'm very happy to say that the part of town that i represent, the essential workers have been getting up every single day to get to work, they're riding those buses. every single one of the buses was packed today. the 14r, the 14, 43, every single one of them. and thanks so supervisor melgar and her advocacy, we have the m-line coming back. that's also serving our district now. that's a really big deal. you know, the 52 excelsior's back. we are making improvements and, yes, my daughter rode for free. thank you, supervisor melgar for your advocacy and mayor breed and the rest of the board

and supervisor preston for really making access for those children and youth a high priority. so we're going to continue to celebrate it this month. we're going to continue to promote muni in any way and ridership as we can and we will invest in the right way. it also means pedestrian safety and traffic calming. so, anyway, proud to be part of this day today, proud to support this effort and i'll stand with all of you in continuing to make muni a priority. thank you. >> good morning. my name is jeffery tumlin and i'm here to say that public transit is fundamental. 47% of san francisco's green house gas emissions comes from the transport sector and public transit is the primary way we're going to make a difference with climate change.

public transit is opportunity and our way to correct for past inequity. public transit is essential for efforts to improve health and safety of our population and public transit is essential for san francisco's economic recovery after this brutal 18 months. i'm particularly grateful to all of our front line and operations crews particularly our operators who showed up to work every single day through a pandemic to make sure that essential workers could continue to get to work. i'm grateful for the incredible creativity and risk taking that all of our transit planning staff did in reinventing the muni system practically every month for nearly 18 months and i'm really proud of the achievements that they've been able to do with all of that work that they did. we're getting phenomenal speed and reliability improments on all of our core systems.

yesterday, we released preliminary data that was showing 20% in speed on the freeway. benefits that i did not think were possible and involved a tremendous amount of risk taking and creativity among our crews. i'm grateful to our traffic engineering team who has invested in designing 20 miles the in order to hold on to all the speed and reliability improvements we've gotten during covid. and i'm grateful to the operatoring crews who on our frequent lines shifted to headway management which has meant that our buses are more reliable than they've been in all of the decades than we have data to support that. i'm so grateful to our riders union who've put up with all of the changes that we've made. the stumbles that we've made, the corrections that we've made in order to try to deliver the best possible transit system despite the challenges we are

facing. i'm also here to ask for your help. i think has been made clear to all of you, muni is facing the worst financial crisis in history. we're so thankful to the government for getting us through last year and this year. what's clear from all of the data from the counselor and the controller's office is we're expecting at least another four years of huge covid related financial losses. particularly to two of our three biggest sources of revenue, parking fees and transit fares. we're going to need a lot of help to find ways to fill those gaps. we, all of us on muni staff believe that we were delivering far inadequate service back before covid. we need dramatic expansion and improment in the frequency, the number of lines, the speed, the reliability. we need a world class transit system for san francisco and we're going to need help from

all of you. i'm also so grateful to all the board of supervisors and have offered their help to find ways to fill this gap to fund mu nshgd eeushgd and to finally deliver the transit system that san francisco deserve its and need. and, with that, i'd like to introduce our sfmt academic board chair. >> thank you so much for that, jeff. i'm so grateful for our staff, the leadership of jeff tumlin in helping to reconfigure transit. our operators were essential workers and it was a really tough time for many of them as they struggled with things in their family. they showed up;, they persevered and they served this city. what was also so illuminating at that time was our riders were essential workers. in those areas where we had a

lot of essential workers. i really want to thank the transit riders, you guys have made such a large difrnts. because so many of our riders are essential workers and can't come up and show up at a hearing and testify and support the need for transit, the voice that you provide is super powerful and i'm so grateful bringing this up, celebrating for a month. we need to tell all san franciscans, public transportation is essential ask we need them to support our ultimate ballot measure which will come in the future for our funding needs. i want to thank the leadership of our board of supervisor, also our transportation authority for all committing here to support our funding in the future. it is really critical. the biggest challenge public transit has is it's not as sexy as so many other areas and it's very costly. especially to maintain the reliability and the service. we want to bring back as much

service and all the lines that we can but it's crucial because covid really battered our revenue sources and we really increasingly depend on the general funds. we don't have the advantage of generating most of our revenue but that means it's more critical that we need your support. we need all of our elected leadership, everyone in the public. the transit riders and everyone to champion us for a future that we can provide the visionary network that everyone wants and deserves and, without it, our city will struggle. i invite all of these people who've been off of transit to come back. we need you to come back to survive and thrive. i need you all to evangelize it taking muni is safe. tell them about our faster service. i live on the 14r, 49 line. i take those buses almost every

single day and i have to say i've been so impressed whether it's 1:00 in the morning or 5:00 in the morning. thank you for your advocacy and let's fight together for public transit. >> thank you, director boarden. director tumlin, director chang. all the supervisors and mayor who made it out here today to celebrate transit month. and all of you who are standing in the sun for the past hour showing your commitment to a better transit future. thank you, everyone. public transit is at the core of san francisco's economic recovery. muni kept us going during the pandemic thanks to the work of the transit operators, our safety ambassadors and all our front line workers who risked their health to keep our city going. roger moranko is unable to be

here today. thank you muni operators and members who kept us going during this pandemic and keep us going today. now, more than ever, we know that muni is more than just a line on the map and more than just a yellow sign post at an intersection. it's a sense of belonging and freedom of movement it's access to education, to jobs, to all the opportunities san francisco has to offer. from the bay view to the richmond. just because i owned a fast pass. but supervisor melgar, it was $0.35 when i was a kid. it's a little bit more today we're gathered here today to celebrate transit but we also

know how much further we need to go. many lines remain suspended with their futures uncertain and sfmta doesn't have the funds it needs to invest in 21st century transit needs. i have hope to reinvest and fund a world class transit system here in san francisco. hope that when we raise our collective voices together, anything is possible. we're the people who make this city hum. the people who never stop riding during the pandemic. who know what's at stake should we fail to invest. but we're also the ones to make this change happen. in fact, we're the only ones who can. so, thank you all for gathering here today. thank you for your energy, for your spirit and for celebrating transit not this month, but every month to come for a world

class transit system here in san francisco. thank you. so that is the end of our rally and press conference. if you have not yet go to ride contest.org to sign up and track your rides this month. we're giving out prizes for winners. we have a ton of events coming up at transitmonth.org and we hope you'll join us throughout the month and going forward in the future. so if everybody can come up here for one last picture, that'd be great. thank you.

>> you're watching quick bite, the show that has san francisco. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >> we're here at one of the many food centric districts of san francisco, the 18th street corridor which locals have affectionately dubbed the castro. a cross between castro and gastronomic. the bakery, pizza, and dolores park cafe, there is no end in sight for the mouth watering food options here. adding to the culinary delights is the family of business he which includes skylight

creamery, skylight and the 18 raisin. >> skylight market has been here since 1940. it's been in the family since 1964. his father and uncle bought the market and ran it through sam taking it over in 1998. at that point sam revamped the market. he installed a kitchen in the center of the market and really made it a place where chefs look forward to come. he created community through food. so, we designed our community as having three parts we like to draw as a triangle where it's comprised of our producers that make the food, our staff, those who sell it, and our guests who come and buy and eat the food. and we really feel that we wouldn't exist if it weren't for all three of those components who really support each other.

and that's kind of what we work towards every day. >> valley creamery was opened in 2006. the two pastry chefs who started it, chris hoover and walker who is sam's wife, supplied all the pastries and bakeries for the market. they found a space on the block to do that and the ice cream kind of came as an afterthought. they realized the desire for ice cream and we now have lines around the corner. so, that's been a huge success. in 2008, sam started 18 reasons, which is our community and event space where we do five events a week all around the idea of bringling people closer to where the food comes from and closer to each other in that process. >> 18 reasons was started almost four years ago as an educational arm of their work. and we would have dinners and a few classes and we understood there what momentum that people wanted this type of engagement

and education in a way that allowed for a more in-depth conversation. we grew and now we offer -- i think we had nine, we have a series where adults learned home cooking and we did a teacher training workshop where san francisco unified public school teachers came and learned to use cooking for the core standards. we range all over the place. we really want everyone to feel like they can be included in the conversation. a lot of organizations i think which say we're going to teach cooking or we're going to teach gardening, or we're going to get in the policy side of the food from conversation. we say all of that is connected and we want to provide a place that feels really community oriented where you can be interested in multiple of those things or one of those things and have an entree point to meet people. we want to build community and we're using food as a means to that end. >> we have a wonderful organization to be involved

with obviously coming from buy right where really everyone is treated very much like family. coming into 18 reasons which even more community focused is such a treat. we have these events in the evening and we really try and bring people together. people come in in groups, meet friends that they didn't even know they had before. our whole set up is focused on communal table. you can sit across from someone and start a conversation. we're excited about that. >> i never worked in catering or food service before. it's been really fun learning about where things are coming from, where things are served from. >> it is getting really popular. she's a wonderful teacher and i think it is a perfect match for us. it is not about home cooking. it's really about how to facilitate your ease in the kitchen so you can just cook. >> i have always loved eating food. for me, i love that it brings me into contact with so many wonderful people. ultimately all of my work that i do intersects at the place where food and community is.

classes or cooking dinner for someone or writing about food. it always come down to empowering people and giving them a wonderful experience. empower their want to be around people and all the values and reasons the commitment, community and places, we're offering a whole spectrum of offerings and other really wide range of places to show that good food is not only for wealthy people and they are super committed to accessibility and to giving people a glimpse of the beauty that really is available to all of us that sometimes we forget in our day to day running around. >> we have such a philosophical mission around bringing people together around food. it's so natural for me to come here. >> we want them to walk away

feeling like they have the tools to make change in their lives. whether that change is voting on an issue in a way that they will really confident about, or that change is how to understand why it is important to support our small farmers. each class has a different purpose, but what we hope is that when people leave here they understand how to achieve that goal and feel that they have the resources necessary to do that. >> are you inspired? maybe you want to learn how to have a patch in your backyard or cook better with fresh ingredients . or grab a quick bite with organic goodies. find out more about 18 reasons by going to 18 reasons.org and learn about buy right market and creamery by going to buy right market.com. and don't forget to check out our blog for more info on many of our episodes at sf quick bites.com. until next time, may the fork

be with you. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> so chocolaty. mm. ♪♪ >> oh, this is awesome. oh, sorry. i thought we were done rolling. ♪♪ >> we have private and public

gardens throughout the garden tour. all of the gardens are volunteers. the only requirement is you're willing to show your garden for a day. so we have gardens that vary from all stages of development and all gardens, family gardens, private gardens, some of them as small as postage stamps and others pretty expansive. it's a variety -- all of the world is represented in our gardens here in the portola. >> i have been coming to the portola garden tour for the past seven or eight years ever since i learned about it because it is the most important event of the neighborhood, and the reason it is so important is because it links this neighborhood back to its history. in the early 1800s the portola

was farmland. the region's flowers were grown in this neighborhood. if you wanted flowers anywhere future bay area, you would come to this area to get them. in the past decade, the area has tried to reclaim its roots as the garden district. one of the ways it has done that is through the portola garden tour, where neighbors open their gardens open their gardens to people of san francisco so they can share that history. >> when i started meeting with the neighbors and seeing their gardens, i came up with this idea that it would be a great idea to fundraise. we started doing this as a fund-raiser. since we established it, we awarded 23 scholarships and six

work projects for the students. >> the scholarship programs that we have developed in association with the portola is just a win-win-win situation all around. >> the scholarship program is important because it helps people to be able to tin in their situation and afford to take classes. >> i was not sure how i would stay in san francisco. it is so expensive here. i prayed so i would receive enough so i could stay in san francisco and finish my school, which is fantastic, because i don't know where else i would have gone to finish. >> the scholarships make the difference between students being able to stay here in the city and take classes and having to go somewhere else. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> you come into someone's home and it's they're private and

personal space. it's all about them and really their garden and in the city and urban environment, the garden is the extension of their indoor environment, their outdoor living room. >> why are you here at this garden core? it's amazing and i volunteer here every year. this is fantastic. it's a beautiful day. you walk around and look at gardens. you meet people that love gardens. it's fantastic. >> the portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year. mark your calendars every year. you can see us on the website

>> i strive not to be a success but more of being a valued person to the community. the day and day operations here at treasure island truth in family is pretty hectic. the island is comprised of approximately 500 acres, approximately 40 miles of sanitary sewer, not including the collection system. also monitor the sanitary sewer and collection system for maintenance purposes, and also respond to a sanitary sewer overflows, as well as blockages, odor complaints. we work in an industry that the public looks at us, and they look at us hard in time. so we try to do our best, we try to cut down on incidents, the loss of power, cut down on the complaints, provide a vital service to the community, and we try to uphold that at all times. >> going above and beyond is

default mode. he knows his duties, and he doesn't need to be prompts. he fulfills them. he looks for what needs to be done and just does it. he wants this place to be a nice place to live and work. he's not just thinking customer service, this is from a place of empathy. he genuinely wants things to work for everyone and that kind of caring, i admire that. i want to emulate that myself. that, to me is a leader. >> i strive not to be a success but more of being a valued person to the community. the key is no man is an island. when anything actually happens, they don't look at one individual, they look at p.u.c. stepping in and getting the job done, and that's what we do. my name is dalton johnson, i'm

the acting supervisor here at treasure island treatment plant. >> one more statement. we are the one. that is our first single that we made. that is our opinion. >> i can't argue with you. >> you are responsible please do not know his exact. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> i had a break when i was on a major label for my musical

career. i took a seven year break. and then i came back. i worked in the library for a long time. when i started working the san francisco history centre, i noticed they had the hippie collection. i thought, if they have a hippie collection, they really need to have a punk collection as well. so i talked to the city archivist who is my boss. she was very interested. one of the things that i wanted to get to the library was the avengers collection. this is definitely a valuable poster. because it is petty bone. it has that weird look because it was framed. it had something acid on it and something not acid framing it. we had to bring all of this stuff that had been piling up in my life here and make sure that the important parts of it got archived. it wasn't a big stretch for them to start collecting in the area

of punk. we have a lot of great photos and flyers from that area and that. that i could donate myself. from they're, i decided, you know, why not pursue other people and other bands and get them to donate as well? the historic moments in san francisco, punk history, is the sex pistols concert which was at winterland. [♪♪♪] it brought all of the punks on the web -- west coast to san francisco to see this show. the sex pistols played the east coast and then they play texas and a few places in the south and then they came directly to san francisco. they skipped l.a. and they skipped most of the media centres. san francisco was really the biggest show for them pick it was their biggest show ever. their tour manager was interested in managing the adventures, my band. we were asked to open to support the pistols way to that show. and the nuns were also asked to open the show. it was certainly the biggest crowd that we had ever played

to. it was kind of terrifying but it did bring people all the way from vancouver, tee seattle, portland, san diego, all up and down the coast, and l.a., obviously. to san francisco to see this show. there are a lot of people who say that after they saw this show they thought they would start their own band. it was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. it was also, the pistols' last show. in a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. the city of san francisco didn't necessarily support punk rock. [♪♪♪] >> last, but certainly not least is a jell-o be opera. they are the punk rock candidate of the lead singer called the dead kennedys. >> if we are blaming anybody in san francisco, we will just

blame the dead kennedys. >> there you go. >> we had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the city was thought -- that he thought was obscene that had been put up. the city of san francisco has come around to embrace it's musicians. when they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in all kinds of local musicians and i got to perform at that. that was, at -- in a way, and appreciation from the city of san francisco for the musical legends. i feel like a lot of people in san francisco don't realize what resources there are at the library. we had a film series, the s.f. punk film series that i put together. it was nearly sold out every single night. people were so appreciative that someone was bringing this for them. it is free. everything in the library is free. >> it it is also a film producer who has a film coming out. maybe in 2018 about crime.

what is the title of it? >> it is called san francisco first and only rock 'n' roll movie. crime, 1978. [laughter] >> when i first went to the art institute before the adventures were formed in 77, i was going to be a painter. i did not know i would turn into a punk singer. i got back into painting and i mostly do portraiture and figurative painting. one of the things about this job here is i discovered some great resources for images for my painting. i was looking through these mug shot books that we have here that are from the 1920s. i did a whole series of a mug shot paintings from those books. they are in the san francisco history centre's s.f. police department records. there are so many different things that the library provides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot of people are like,

oh, i don't have a library card. i've never been there. they need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. the people who are hiding stuff in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuff from their grandparents, if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the public in the future. >> 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

>> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that

dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth.

>> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground swallowing people into the ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the tv shows. >> the earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up

into haddes. >> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't tough. >> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in

small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future? >> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this

thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, it's not a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. >> you want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances.

>> where can i buy a richter scale? >> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the richter scale was early technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ? >> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and

their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross that line. it's much more damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for .

welcome to the september 14th meeting of the transportation authority board. i chair this board. our vice chair is aaron peskin. our clerk is brittany milton. madam clerk, will you please call the roll. >> clerk: of course. [roll call taken]