>> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of san francisco. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. for latinos, it brings families together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold. tonight we have russelling for e

community. >> we have a ten-person limb elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hang out at. we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are

refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful murals. >> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people. local people spend their money at our businesses and those local people will spend their money as well. i hope people shop locally. [ ♪♪♪ ] you.♪ ] >> when i first moved here people come to san francisco to be the person you want to be can

be anyone you want. >> the community is so rich and diverse that i'm learning every single day san francisco is an amazing photoy town historically been base on evolution and that applies to every single professional field including philanthropic arts today what i do is photo based art manifests traditional forest and some colonel lodge and other frames of digital forest is a meeting that has been changing like super rapid and the quality is not extended by the medium if you took forest in school or you get a job in a newspaper they'll give give you a list of how to

create a philanthropic story my goal to break down that model and from a to b that is unique and allows the ability to incorporate different types of i believey about propels someone through the rise and a fall of their own experiences one of the main things i'm trying to contribute it unconditional narrative form the narrative art of photograph the in between of photos how does a group of photos come together as how to use the space between photos to alight emotional responses from the audience and bring innovation and create bodies of work that narratively function the way that photos do san francisco as the commission came out and you visited me and one of their prerestricts was to

find an art with enough work to fill a large says that a quad down the hallway downstairs and we hung that quad to feel like a train station that constant sensation from all different directions some of the major characteristic of the landscape festivities the blur of the train their 70 miles per hour and they're not perfect as opposed to to what landscape will look like it creates a dichotomy for people insides the train not just the story of the subject it is not just the visual design the composition juxtapositioning, etc. not just all autobiography boo-hoo it

creates pictures with meaning within them and then some of the portraits feel awkward some of them feel welcoming and the person that mime making the picture is really comfortable and other ones feel awkward and weigh i didn't and tense that sensation is counter to what we feel like makes a successful portrait that sensation makes that work it is hard to be an artist in a city is 100 percent focused an business the cost of living is expensive and to value your success not scribble on financial return creates a conflict between the paramount

egos in san francisco today. >> you see a lot of artists leaving for that reason because you need space to make work my ultimate goal to make work that firms people firms this gift and just the experience of life and of their worst and of the amazement the wonderment of everything around us

so, first of all, thank you all for coming here today. we appreciate the presence of labor and the building trades. thank you, rudy gonzalez, and larry mazzola jr. for joining us. we know that army morgan has a rich and deep history with labor not just as the business representative for local three, but also serving, you know, as a liaison for the building trades, for the labor counsel. we know that having an important voice to represent labor on our commission is significant and sadly we lost one of those voices and tony rodriguez who we all knew and love, he was an incredible person and we definitely feel the loss, but we also know that he would be happy and proud that you would be serving in

the capacity to step in and serve with our good commissioners that are joining us here today. and those who serve on the commission will be the ones that provide you with guidance and help during this process as well as our good chief. the fire commission is near and dear to my heart as many of you know and thank you to supervisor safai for joining us as well. it's near and dear to my heart heart. i served for two years before i was elected to the board of supervisors. making sure that you listen on the fire commission and listening to the men and women of the department that you're working hand in hand with the chief. the department has many challenges. we've got to get this training facility open.

we have to make sure we deal with ambulance response times and continue to support the important work of serving and protecting the city and county of san francisco. it is a great honor to serve on this prestigious commission, one that is highly coveted by so many people and so of all the many people that wanted this opportunity, of course, you were chosen mostly for your work with labor, but also for your commitment to providing opportunity to people of san francisco especially your work with city build and how you've worked hand in hand to ensure that the next generation of young people growing up in this city have real access to good paying labor jobs especially in the trade. so we know it's not easy work, but we know you're committed to that work and the same i think work ethic that you brought to labor and in your role is going to be very similar to what you

bring to the fire department and our desires to try and ensure that people and young folks growing up in this city have access to these incredible opportunities. i know the chief is very much committed to this and so i know she's going to be very thrilled to have a partner who will help her in this effort. at this time, i'm going to ask you to come forward and then we're going to swear you in and then we're going to hear a few words from you as commissioner morgan. with that, come on up. where are we expected to stand? okay. let's do it. all right. you can take off your mask and keep a little distance there. all right. so please raise your right hand and repeat after me. i, state your name, do solemnly swear that i will support and

defend the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california against all enemies foreign and domestic that i bare true faith and allegiance to the same that i take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which i am about to enter and during such time as i serve as a commissioner for the fire department of the city and county of san francisco.

congratulations. [cheers and applause] >> here's your official city pin now. please wear it now along with your local three pin. you can wear them both at the same time if you want. so with that, commissioner morgan, please say a few words. >> thank you, mayor breed. i didn't expect all of this. thank you and this is a great honor to serve on this commission. it's a great honor to, you know, try to fill the shoes of tony rodriguez as a replacement, i take it as an honor. and i'd like to thank everybody for coming. the fire chief and the other commissioners and supervisor safai and this is a very big honor for me. you know, i've been serving in

labor for the last almost ten years and, you know, trying to fight the good fight to keep people working in the city and i try to tell the kids 'dirty hands, clean money' it's all good money. keep out of trouble and make a good living wage and have some integrity in your life, you know, because that's what union work has done for me. you know, i'm a union person. my family was union. my father drove for the muni for 20 years. my grandfather, his father was part of the laborers union. i won't say that too loud. i think he worked on the golden gate bridge or the bay bridge, one of them. he might of worked on both of them. so i'm kind of like third

generation. i've always considered san francisco my home even though i moved away when i was 15 even though i've come back in stints but i've always considered san francisco my home. i won't bore you. i'm not great at public speaking. i want to say thanks again and i'll turn it back over to the mayor. [ applause ] >> greetings everyone and welcome and congratulations. we are so happy to have you aboard the san francisco fire commission and thank you, mayor breed, as always for giving us another star and, yes, we all loved and miss tony rodriguez but we will all help guide you along the way and i think it will be an interesting ride for you. so we look forward to it. so, again, congratulations and

thank every one of your labor pals for being here and as well as our commissioners and command staff. so welcome aboard, commissioner morgan. [ applause ] >> and, mr. covington, since

our president is not joining us here today, as the president of the commission would you like to welcome him. oh, well, of course. >> thank you very much, madam mayor, for that occasion and this honor. i wanted to congratulate commissioner morgan. i stand here with your fellow commissioner. it's going to be a really wonderful experience that you're going to be having. the fact that you are taking the spot of tony rodriguez was very important. i was able to finish off his term as vice president. you know join us as his labor representative, but more than that, a san franciscan. and we know your contribution to our team is going to be

wonderful. commissioner covington. >> thank you, sir. it's wonderful that you're going to be joining us. we do need a full complement of commissioners. there is a lot of work to be done and i know from what i have heard that you are well-able, and up to the task. we have many things that need to be done and we are, as a commission, we are a cohesive group, we are of one mind that we are serving our city as citizen volunteers and a very sometimes challenging but always rewarding role. so welcome welcome. [ applause ]

>> as a woman of color who grew up in san francisco i understand how institutions can have an impact on communities of color. i think having my voice was important. that is where my passion lies when the opportunity to lead an office in such a new space came up. i couldn't turn it down.

i was with the district attorney's office for a little over nine years, if you include the time as an intern as well as volunteer da, all most 13 years. during the time with the da's office i had an opportunity to serve the community not only as the assistant district attorney but as director of community relations. that afforded the opportunity to have impact on the community in an immediate way. it is one thing to work to serve the rights of those without rights, victims. it is really rewarding to work to to further the goals of our office and the commitment we have as city employees and advocates for people who don't have a voice.

i don't know of anyone surprised to see me in this role. maybe people have an impression what the director of the office of cannabis should be like, what their beliefs should be. i smash all of that. you grew up in the inner city of san francisco. my career path is not traditional. i don't think a person should limit themselves to reach full potential. i say that to young women and girls. that is important. you want to see leadership that looks diverse because your path is not predetermined. i didn't wake up thinking i was going to be a prosecutor in my life. the city administrator reached out and wanted to have a conversation and gave me interest in the new role. i thought you must not know what i do for a living. it was the opposite. she had foresight in realizing it would be helpful for somebody not only a former prosecutor but interested in shaping criminal

justice reform for the city would be the right person for the space. i appreciate the foresight of the mayor to be open how we can be leaders in san francisco. i was able to transition to the policy space. here i was able to work on legislation, community relations, communication and start to shape the ways our office was going to reform the criminal justice system. it is fulfilling for me. i could create programs and see those impact people's lives. i am the change. it took truants youth to meet with civil rights movement leaders who fought to have access to education. being a young person to understand that helped the young people realize this was an important thing to give up. what we find is that young people who are truanted have a really high homicide rate in our

city, which is a sad statistic. we want to change that. >> coming from a community we are black and brown. i don't reach out to other people. i don't think they feel the same way. >> i had the great opportunity to work on prison reform issues and criminal justice reform issues. we created a program at san quentin where we brought district opportunities to lifers and talk about how we are all impacted by the criminal justice system. we brought over 40 elected das to san quentin for the situation. now we are inviting the police department. our formerly incarcerated group born out of this programming asked for the opportunity to work on a project where we could bring the men in blue on the outside to come speak to the men on blue inside to start the

healing dialogue around how the criminal justice system specifically in san francisco impacts the community. i was attracted to the role. there was a component of equity that was part of this process. the equity community here in san francisco is a community that i had already worked with. before i took steps to visit cannabis businesses i thought it was important my team have a chance to go inside and speak to men who had been impacted. that conversation needed to happen so we know how we are making an impact with the work that we are doing. the da's office as we were leading up to the legalization of marijuana in the state we started having conversations on the policy team what that could look like. the district attorney was really focused on the right side of history for this. we realized it would be quite a heavy lift for individuals who

have been negatively impacted by the war on drugs to expunge the record. it was important to figure out the framework to make it seamless and easy. they put their minds to it after some time and many conversations the data analysts and other policy walk throughs on the team came up with the idea to engage the tech community in this process. code for america helped us developed the rhythm to be used for any jurisdiction across the state that was important to create a solution to be used to assist all jurisdictions dealing with this matter. the office of cannabis is the first office to have a completely digital application process. we worked with the digital team to develop the online application. there are going to be hiccups. we are first to do it. it is one of the most rewarding

parts to offer a seamless -- to offer a seamless approach. that is how they can find solutions to solve many of the community challenges. the best way to respond to prop 64 was to retroactively expunge 9,000 cannabis related records for san francisco. it feels like justice full circle for my personal experience. in the past i was furthering the war on drugs just as my directive. really coming from a place of public safety. that was the mandate and understanding. it is nice to see that pass a society we are able to look at some of our laws and say, you know what? we got it wrong. let's get this right. i had the privilege of being in the existing framework. my predecessor nicole elliott

did an incredible job bringing together the individuals super-passionate about cannabis. >> the office was created in july of 2017. i came in early 2018. i have been able to see the office's development over time which is nice. it is exciting to be in the space, stickily in thinking about her leadership. >> looking for the office it is always we might be before my time when i was working for the forboard of supervisors. i learn new things every day it is challenging and rewarding for me. >> we get the privilege to work in an office that is innovating. we get to spearhead the robust exprogram. >> i am excited she came on board to leverage experience as a prosecutor 10 years as we

contemplate enforcements but approaching it without replicating the war on drugs. >> i was hired by cam laharris. i haven't seen a district attorney that looked kind of like me. that could be a path in my life. i might not have considered it. it is important that women and certainly women of color and spaces of leadership really do their part to bring on and mentor as many young people as they can. it is superimportant to take advantage of as many opportunities as they can when they can intern because the doors are wide open. plans change and that is okay. the way this was shaped because i took a risk to try something new and explore something and show that i was capable. you are capable, right? it was about leaning in and being at the table to say my

voice matters. you find your passion, the sky

>> candlestick park known also as the stick was an outdoor stadium for sports and entertainment. built between 1958 to 1960, it was located in the bayview hunters point where it was home to the san francisco giants and 49ers. the last event held was a concert in late 2014. it was demolished in 2015. mlb team the san francisco giants played at candlestick from 1960-1999. fans came to see players such a willie mays and barry bonds, over 38 seasons in the open ballpark. an upper deck expansion was added in the 1970s. there are two world series

played at the stick in 1962 and in 198 9. during the 1989 world series against the oakland as they were shook by an earthquake. candlestick's enclosure had minor damages from the quake but its design saved thousands of lives. nfl team the san francisco 49ers played at candlestick from feign 71-2013. it was home to five-time super bowl champion teams and hall of fame players by joe montana, jerry rice and steve jones. in 1982, the game-winning touchdown pass from joe montana to dwight clark was known as "the catch." leading the niners to their first super bowl. the 49ers hosted eight n.f.c. championship games including the 2001 season that ended with a loss to the new york giants. in 201, the last event held at

candlestick park was a concert by paul mccartney who played with the beatles in 1966, the stadium's first concert. demolition of the stick began in late 2014 and it was completed in september 2015. the giants had moved to pacific rail park in 2000 while the 49ers moved to santa clara in 2014. with structural claims and numerous name changes, many have passed through and will remember candlestick park as home to the legendary athletes and entertainment. these memorable moments will live on in a place called the stick. (♪♪♪)

>> supervisor melgar: good afternoon. this meeting will come to order. welcome to the san francisco land use and transportation committee meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. the clerk today is erica major, and i would also like to acknowledge and thank the sfgovtv for staffing this meeting and bringing it to your homes. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes, madam chair. the minutes will reflect that the committee members participated in this remote meeting through video conference to the same extent as though they