>> we are live. >> chairman: good morning and welcome to the rules committee of the san francisco board of supervisors for today, monday, march 14th, 2022. i am the chair of the committee aaron peskin joined by president shaman walton sitting in for supervisor connie chan

hopefully soon to be joined by rafael mandelman. >> clerk: while still providing remote access and public comment via telephone. the board recognizes that equitable public access is essential and will be taking public comment as follows. first public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda. those attending in person will be allowed to speak first and then we will take those who are waiting on the telephone line. for those watching either channel 26, 78, or 99 and sfgovtv.org. the public comment call-in number is streaming across the screen. the number is (415) 655-0001. then enter the meeting id of

24996627464. then press pound and pound again. when connected, you will hear the meeting discussion but muted and in listening mode only. when your item of interest comes up and public comment is closed those on the telephone should dial star three to be added to the queue to speak. if you are on the telephone, please remember to turn down your tv and all listening devices you may be using. as indicated, we will take public comment from those attending in-person first, then we can go to the public comment call-in line. you can also submit public comment to myself at victor.young@sfgov.org. if you submit by e-mail, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the file. you may also send written comment to our office at city hall 1 d. carlton b. goodlet

place room 244 san francisco california 94102. finally, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors' agenda on march 22nd unless otherwise stated. >> chairman: thank you, mr. young. could you please read items one and two together. >> clerk: yes item number one is the motion approving/rejecting the mayor's nomination for the reappointment of stephanie cajina to the municipal transportation agency board of the directors. item two is the approving/rejecting the mayor's nomination reappointment of gwyneth borden. >> chairman: that was for a balance of a seat that's just

now ending for commissioner or board member cajina. and the other for a long standing member gwyneth borden who is with us this morning in the chamber. the only other body that has legislative powers and is the oversight body for our municipal transportation agency. with that, i see ms. borden is in the chambers. we want you to start by coming up and thanking you for your years of service. where the last two years and all of us at m.t.a. had to pivot during covid for that -- he'll make it live, don't worry. he's trying to figure out which button to press, but i just want to thank you as well as your fellow board members and, of course, the m.t.a. leadership and rank and file

staff for everything that you have done during covid as you pivoted as well as during the recovery so thank you for all of that. and with that, board member borden. >> thank you and thank you for your previous support and i hope to count on your support this time around. it's been a privilege to serve on the m.t.a. board of directors especially as the chair. as you know, it's been a challenging couple of years and we're still not out of the woods yet. we have a lot of issues we're facing internally and as an agency as well as externally with the public and restoring trust for the public and our projects as well as to bring back service. internally, we have a huge cultural dynamic. our agency really suffers from morale issues and challenges that are at the forefronts for

us as board of directors. we have a racial equity plan that's a top priority. covid has really laid bear kind of the socio economic differences not only within our society, but within our agency which has contributed to the issues we've had internally. i hope in my continued time on the board if you choose to reappointment me that we can get the agency to new heights. i look forward to be able to cut the ribbon in a few weeks on the new venice v.r.t. lines and opening up the central subway this summer and i look forward to many celebratory moments ahead as we as an agency claw our way back from the depths of where we are during covid to be a better stronger resilient agency by investing on our state of repair and things we're making pedestrian improvements, working on our vision 0 goals and making sure we have a fiscally sound house. with that, i welcome any questions. >> chairman: any questions from members? seeing none. why don't we go to ms. cajina

who is joining us remotely. and, ms. cajina, welcome. on your first few months on the board, how have they been? >> well, good morning everyone. and thank you for having me today. they have been quite adventurous and quite eventful. thank you so much for approving my nomination originally and with the support of, you know, our chair, chair borden i have hit the ground running learning from different staff and leadership on all the different projects we have that are currently coming down the pike and really advocating for equity measures in those projects and so there's a lot for us still to do and i look forward to continuing my service to the city of san

francisco in this position and working alongside the board of supervisors as well to ensure that we're meeting the needs of all san franciscans with our transit network. >> chairman: any questions for board member cajin. why don't we open up items number one and two for public comment. >> clerk: yes. members of the public who wish to speak on this item should line up to speak now along the windows. remotely, call (415) 655-0001. meeting i.d. 24996627464 then pound and pound again. you will need to press star three to enter the speaker line. please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and then you'll be able to begin your comment. we. no one is currently lining up in the room and we have one

person in the queue to speak on the telephone. >> chairman: first speaker, please. >> caller: good morning. david pillpell. so i'm not speaking to specific issues at the m.t.a. board, but that board really does set the tone for all of the agency and unless the m.t.a. works on building and rebuilding community trust, i think that any future revenue measure would likely fail which would be bad for all. i've suggested that reorganizing the m.t.a. with fewer director reports to director tumlin. overall, i think that m.t.a. should do fewer things and try to do them well, that agoes back to building and rebuilding community trust. that's a big and controversial agency. as we know trying to do many

things all at the same time. it would be nice personally to feel more respected for my advocacy there over many years but results may vary and it's not just me. but i believe the public is listened to, but isn't necessarily heard and i know that not all public comment has the same value etc., but those people that do contribute in a move way should be recognized for that. things don't always have to go the way of public comment, understood, but it's important for the public to be not just listening to, but also heard. thanks for listening this morning. >> chairman: thank you, mr. pillpell. are there any other speakers

online? >> clerk: we're doing a double check. and there are no other speakers on the telephone line. >> chairman: okay. we do have a speaker in person. go ahead. this is really hybrid public comment. one of each. >> hi everybody. my name is jaime valoria. i do just want to speak to support both stephanie cajina and director borden. i'm nervous right now. it's been awhile. i've been involved in transactism for over a year and a half now and i think it's good to see people of color and people we ask relate to out in the tenderloin on that board. and i've been through many meetings and i know those meetings are pretty ran well

with the ones i've been to as well. so i do really support them being part of the m.t.a. and that's it. thank you for your time. >> chairman: thank you. are there any members of the public for items one or two? >> clerk: there are no further speakers on the matter. >> chairman: okay. public comment is closed. and i would like to make a motion, colleagues, to amend both items to remove the word 'rejecting' in the long title and move the word 'rejects' in the move close at line 20. on that motion, a role call please. >> clerk: yes, on that motion, [roll call] >> chairman: and then i would

like a motion to send both of those items as amended to the full board with positive recommendation. on that motion, a roll call please. >> clerk: yes. on that motion, [roll call] the motion passes without objection. >> chairman: all right. next item, please. >> clerk: chair peskin, i was wondering do we need a motion to excuse supervisor chan at all? >> chairman: well, we have a replacement, but i'm happy to make that motion and pass it out objection. next item, please. >> clerk: yes. next on the agenda is item number three, motion approving and rejecting the president the board of supervisor's shaman walton to the planning commission of the unexpired term ending july 1st, 2022, and

additionally, the next term beginning july 2nd, 2022, and ending july 1st, 2026. >> chairman: thank you, mr. young. we have here an individual nominated by president walton to fill the unexpired term of former commissioner deland chan and to serve all the way through the end of june of 2026. ms. gabriellea luise. and are there any comments from president walton? >> president walton: thank you, supervisor peskin. briefly, i am excited to make this nomination for gabriella louise. hearing from so many members of the i believe she will be a

great asset to the planning commission. >> chairman: ms. ruiz, come on up. and thank you for taking time out to meet with me. >> yeah. thank you so much, good morning. i'm just so humbled and honored to be here today and thank you to my nomination to the planning commission. i am a proud san francisco native and really have grown up all over the city. most of my time was spent in the bayview district. i come from low income family. my father was a taxi driver and my mom was a stay-at-home mom with careers that weren't feasible. and so my family found it very hard to obtain secure permanent and affordable housing in the private market and so we navigate it through our city's

homeless service response system and that's how we maintaining permanent affordable housing in the bayview. and because of that affordable housing opportunity that allowed me the ability to focus on what i wanted to do with my life. and so when i was 14 years old, i started doing community organizing at a nonprofit organization in the mission district called jamestown community center and i was one of many youth leaders who were involved in civic engagement and that was really what opened my eyes to want to participate in a lot of the issues that impact low income communities in san francisco and it was through the support of jamestown community center where i was able to believe that i was capable of obtaining higher education and so from there, i went to san francisco state university, i studied public health education and that really gave me a full

understanding, a wholistic understanding of a lot of the challenges that we see here in this city. following my time at san francisco state, i went on to do social work and i supported and worked with low income families. many of whom grew up in communities that i grew up in and were experiencing homelessness themselves. so that helped me understand the experiences that i faced many years ago continued to happen today and i really wanted to do more systems level change, policy change and work with affordable housing in the city and so i then went on to graduate school. i went to the university of san francisco and studied public affairs and that helped me to understand policy processes in san francisco and then i had

the wonderful opportunity of being employed by tenderloin neighborhood development corporation where i worked with the community organizing team located on golden gate and that was very much a full circle moment for me because i remember being a young person and walking up and down that block because that's where my family received services in order to get our affordable housing space in the city. and so through my time at tndc, i was able to engage in the planning work and that's when i truly understood the importance of community planning and engaging residents and the changes that happen in their neighborhood. and so some of the projects that i worked on which i'm sure you are all familiar with, 450 o'farrell which was a large proposed group home project

where many felt like that was not the community need, the need was family housing and more affordable housing and it was a very beautiful and hard process trying to understand planning and so that grew my love for the planning work where i currently do the policy and the planning work. i focus a lot on our coalition building. i had taken on a lot of the work that i had started in the tenderloin advocating for density equity in neighborhoods like chinatown and tenderloin that really need a diverse type of housing that addresses the current conditions that many low income folks are struggling

with today. and so i have the great opportunity to still do that work and i'm so very happy and humbled that i can advocate for a city that i love and call home and work with communities that, you know, i relate to and if i have the opportunity to be appointed to the planning commission, i feel like that will just be a continuation of the work that i've been doing for the past few years. and i would hope to prioritize our lower income folks. our by pock communities that have been neglected from planning processes in the past and pushing for anti-displacement, race and equity within our planning process and ensuring that community is at the center of the work that we do. so i'll leave it to that and open up to any questions. >> chairman: thank you, any questions or comments from committee members?

seeing none why don't we open this item up to public comment. >> clerk: yes, members of the public who wish to speak on this item and joining us in person should line up along the window. remotely, call (415) 655-0001. then enter the meeting id of 24996627464 then pound and pound again. star three to enter the speaker line. for those in the queue please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that will begin your queue to start your comment. i believe we have in-person speakers at this time. >> chairman: we do. i think the longest line we've had since we've re-opened the chambers to public comment.

>> hello again. i'm jaime vigoria. i'm here in support of the appointment of gabriella ruiz. it's almost two years to this day when we started to shutdown and that was the first time i worked with gabriella. so most of our interactions were done via zoom. in working with her, she pretty much showed how much knowledge she has about the work and working in the tenderloin, you know, i always recognize that the problems in the tenderloin are san francisco problems that are magnified in the neighborhood like that and she has a good understanding of the needs of the people in that neighborhood. her being an sf native, she has a good -- her experiences informs a lot of her knowledge and a lot of the people that

are historically neglected, historically have been ignored, she would be somebody that would speak up for them as she's mentioned today. i do urge you to reappointment her in her position on the planning commission. >> chairman: thank you. next please. >> good morning supervisors. it's nice. some of you i haven't seen in person in two years. so it's great to see you guys. my name is curtis bradford. i'm co-chair of the tenderloin people's congress. and i'm here to speak on behalf of gabby. i want to say that first of all i definitely think you should appoint her to the position of planning commissioner. i've had the opportunity to work with gabby for quite awhile now in the tenderloin neighborhood and city wide issues. first let's acknowledge how

beautiful it is to see a young woman from one of our most marginalized communities to beat the system, struggle through all of those challenges and still turn into the amazing person that she is today and i just want to acknowledge that first and foremost. she has demonstrate today me and the work that we've done that she takes the time to listen deeply to people. she takes the time to do the necessary research to understand an issue. she's not quick to judgment. she's fair and discerning before she makes a statement and when she does, she's very clear about where she stands and i think she really does do the work to make informed choices and i think that's one of her greatest strengths and i really encourage you to put her through as a planning commissioner and i thank you for your time. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning supervisors. my name is john mckormick.

i'm thrilled to be here today to support gariella ruiz in her appointment to the planning commission and i have a bunch of reasons for that, but first i'd like to point out what gabby talked about at 450 o'farrell, she was a true champion making sure this affordable housing got pushed through. not only did we get the housing from that, but we dot a community benefits agreement that gabriella championed and it was incredible to see her work and work it all out and fight to make it happen. she really was a real tough battle and she made it happen. most of all, i want to talk about how gabriella is a true champion where she lives and works. she's a person that fights for the people she works with and is not someone that's going to

take the work lightly. she is going to do, she's going to grind it out and get the positions right and make sure she's understanding the work in the right way. thank you very much. it's nice to be back in here. >> i'm really excited. you know, i've thought about what to say this morning on their side and in their deliberation, a person with such an emotional and that's going to hear and listen as

well as go into the and her readiness to say i don't know and a lot of us, you know, in our work are quick to say but gabby has that and bring her experience and her background at the forefront and i'm you what i hope is a great and ongoing conversation with gabby and projects in our district and your city. so thank you very much.

>> chairman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning supervisors. i want to first start off by saying president walton thank you for appointing gabby to the commission. hopefully appointing gabby to the commission. i work for the tenderloin housing clinic as a supervisor of the organizing committee. i've had the pleasure and honor to work closely with gabriella. i along with s.r.o. resident leaders from s.r.o. have done various land use projects. i have had the opportunity to witness firsthand how well gabby has worked with the resident leaders and that her work's centered on creating an environment to elevate their voices in the community. she was always looking to go the extra mile to ensure the voices of our residents heard by the city commissioners, city

partners and private developers. she had demonstrated a good understanding of planning department and codes. she would provide a balance to a community voice and would be a great advocate in a community. i strongly urge the supervisor to urge her reappointment in the planning commission. >> chairman: thank you. are there any individuals who want to testify online? >> clerk: yes. seeing the end of the in-person speakers, mr. atkins is checking to see if we have any remote attendees who would like to speak. if you are on the phone please dial star three if you have not already done so. we currently have five speakers on the line waiting to speak. >> chairman: first speaker, please. >> caller: yes. good morning supervisors. my name is david elliott louis and i too have gotten to know

and work with gabby over the last few years, especially with her work on land use issues. and i intersected with her in two different ways as both in my work with the city a collaborative land use committee and also with market street for the masses language committee. both groups actually worked on similar projects. we dealt with new developments coming up in the tenderloin area and some group housing projects and others. and in these interactions, i really got to get a good sense of knowledge skills, and sort of social skills about planning and public policy issues and i was impressed back then as i am now. she's shown a great. gabby shows a great insight into how a building works, how a design impacts the neighbors and residents and how to bring in separate inclusive communities including by pock

and others into the projects. groups that are often excluded from planning and decision making. it's very inclusive in her thinking and i think very wholistic and thinking as well. i'm really impressed. i even thought back then, wouldn't it be great if gabby could get into the planning commission. it was more like a dream. it didn't seem, who knows how one gets on. opportunities are rare and now that today he is sitting before you, consideration, i strongly encourage to accept her into the planning commission. and really help the process of community planning. thank you very much.

>> caller: good morning. my name is eric i'm on the board of the latino district. i'm calling in support she's very familiar with the issues that face a lot of us and very detailed. so we're happy to do our support. also please support. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker. >> caller: good morning supervisors. district 10, i'm calling in to strongly support gabriella ruiz's nomination.

her knowledge of our diversity and thoughtfulness on how to lift and empower voices have made her an invaluable resources. she would need a fresh equity lens for the commission. and very lucky to have her. i strongly urge you to support the nomination. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker. >> caller: we're in strong support of gabriella ruiz and we ask for your support of her today. based on our experience, her own personal experiences, her recent history working at coupled with her educational

background. we feel confident she understands economic development and the housing needs of our city's residents. starting with middle income families and it's homeowners. we think that she will serve the city very well and please approve her nomination today. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> caller: hello. my name's kevin staal. i'm with the central city collaborative. i'm speak engine support of gabriella ruiz. in the past two to three years through the collaborative and through other projects that we've worked with like the 450 o'farrell project. she's a very passionate and compassionate woman who cares about low income and vulnerable residents of the tenderloin

districts and throughout the city and she is a brilliant woman and a strong latina leader and i believe she will be an excellent contributor to the planning commission. so i strongly urge you guys to approve her nomination and i thank you very much for your all your guys support. thank you so much. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> clerk: mr. chair, i believe that was our last public commenter online. >> chairman: okay. are there any other speakers in the chambers who would like to testify and add their support to president walton's nominee, ms. ruiz? seeing none. public comment is closed. and, indeed, that was quite impressive public support. president walton. >> president walton: thank you so much, supervisor peskin. i'd like to make a motion to

remove 'rejecting' and approve the nomination of gabriella ruiz. >> chairman: on that motion, a roll call please, 'rejecting' in the role title and 'rejects' online 16. >> clerk: yes. on that motion, removing 'rejecting' and recommend, [roll call] the motion passes without objection. >> chairman: congratulations. next item please. >> clerk: next on the agenda is item number four, hearing to consider appointing two members alternativelies ending february 23, 2023, to the citizen's committee on community development. two applicants. >> chairman: thank you. i just want to be clear that these are in both cases terms that would end on february 23rd, of 2023 is that

correct? >> clerk: yes. >> chairman: okay. with that, we have azalia renfield for seat one and clinton loftman for seat two. both are members of the citizen's committee on community development and applications are set forth and i want to thank them for their service and note that brian chiu from the mayor's office of community development supports these nominees continuing in their roles. why don't we hear from ms. renfield and mr. loftman is if they are available. >> good morning everyone. can you hear me? >> chairman: yes, we can. >> okay. what about see me? >> chairman: we can see you and hear you. >> perfect. yes. i want to say good morning

everybody, president walton, supervisor peskin, and supervisor mandelman. i'm so honored to be here. it's been such an honor to serve on this committee since 2018. time has flown so quickly. we have so much work to still do that's still ahead of us. we're working on funding recommendations tomorrow shall i be appointed and there's just so much great work going on. some of these journeys happen so quickly, we don't get a chance to do as much as we'd like to do. help our city operate with maximum sufficient. so i'm happy to answer any questions and it's an honor to serve. >> chairman: thank you, ms. renfield, and thank you for your service. and we will go to the next applicant. >> good morning. this is clint loftman. i want to reiterate that azalea

said in terms of what we've been doing on this committee for the last several years. it has been an honor for me as well. there's a lot that still needs to be done and a lot more that needs to be done in terms of the community development in our city particularly given the challenges of covid and issues we convictions and things of that nature. so i too would be very honored to serving our community. >> chairman: anything you would like to add, mr. brian chiu? >> i just would like to say that we strongly support their reappointment. they've both been very committed members focusing on the urgent needs of our community both on the community development and the affordable housing side and particularly during this latest two years of covid, they've gone above and beyond the call of duty in our

decision making. so our department strongly supports their reappointments. >> chairman: thank you. are there any members of the public who would like to testify on this item number four. >> clerk: yes. may i ask mr. loftman, can you mute your microphone. some noise is coming from you. >> sorry about that. >> clerk: thank you. yes, members of the public who wish to speak on this item, there are no persons in the room at this point in time. for those listening remotely, please call (415) 655-0001. enter the meeting id of 24996627464 then press pound and pound again. once connected, you will need to press star three to enter the speaker line. for those in the queue, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and then you'll be able to -- that will be your cue to speak. we currently have four callers on the line, but nobody is in

line to speak. >> chairman: okay. public comment is closed. and i will make a motion to send these two individuals to the full board with positive recommendation. on that motion, a roll call, please. >> clerk: yes. can i state that it would be azalea to seat one and mr. loftman to seat two. >> chairman: correct. >> clerk: yes. on that motion, [roll call] the motion passes without objection. >> chairman: and we are adjourned. >> thank you. >> thank you.

>> 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.

>> i am so happy. african-americans in the military from the revolutionary war to the present, even though they have not had the basic civil rights in america. they don't know their history. in the military the most sacrifice as anyone in this country to be willing to lay down your blood and fight. i believe that all african-americans have served because they love this country and the hope that the citizens.

>> usf donates 100-120 pounds of food a night. for the four semesters we have been running here, usf has donated about 18,000 pounds of food to the food recovery network. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ >> i'm maggie. >> i'm nick. >> we're coe-chairs of the national led organization. what food recovery does is recover and redistribute food that would go wasted and

redistributing to people in the community. >> the moment that i became really engaged in the cause of fighting food waste was when i had just taken the food from the usf cafeteria and i saw four pans full size full of food perfectly fine to be eaten and made the day before and that would have gone into the trash that night if we didn't recover it the next day. i want to fight food waste because it hurts the economy, it's one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. if it was a nation, it would be the third largest nation behind china and the united states. america wastes about 40% of the food we create every year, $160 billion worth and that's

made up in the higher cost of food for consumers. no matter where you view the line, you should be engaged with the issue of food waste. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ >> access edible food that we have throughout our lunch program in our center, i go ahead and collect it and i'll cool it down and every night i prep it up and the next day i'll heat it and ready for delivery. it's really natural for me, i love it, i'm passionate about it and it's just been great. i believe it's such a blessing to have the opportunity to actually feed people every day. no food should go wasted.

there's someone who wants to eat, we have food, it's definitely hand in hand and it shouldn't be looked at as work or a task, we're feeding people and it really means so much to me. i come to work and they're like nora do you want this, do you want that? and it's so great and everyone is truly involved. every day, every night after every period of food, breakfast, lunch, dinner, i mean, people just throw it away. they don't even think twice about it and i think as a whole, as a community, as any community, if people just put a little effort, we could really help each other out. that's how it should be. that's what food is about basically. >> an organization that meets is the san francisco knight ministry we work with tuesday

and thursday's. ♪♪♪ ♪ by the power ♪ ♪ of your name ♪ >> i have faith to move mountains because i believe in jesus. >> i believe it's helpful to offer food to people because as you know, there's so much homelessness in san francisco and california and the united states. i really believe that food is important as well as our faith. >> the san francisco knight

ministry has been around for 54 years. the core of the ministry, a group of ordain ministers, we go out in the middle of the night every single night of the year, so for 54 years we have never missed a night. i know it's difficult to believe maybe in the united states but a lot of our people will say this is the first meal they've had in two days. i really believe it is a time between life or death because i mean, we could be here and have church, but, you know, i don't know how much we could feed or how many we could feed and this way over 100 people get fed every single thursday out here. it's not solely the food, i tell you, believe me. they're extremely grateful. >> it's super awesome how

welcoming they are. after one or two times they're like i recognize you. how are you doing, how is school? i have never been in the city, it's overwhelming. you get to know people and through the music and the food, you get to know people. >> we never know what impact we're going to have on folks. if you just practice love and kindness, it's a labor of love and that's what the food recovery network is and this is a huge -- i believe they salvage our mission. >> to me the most important part is it's about food waste and feeding people. the food recovery network national slogan is finding ways to feed people.

it's property to bring the scientific and human element >> this is a huge catalyst for change. >> it will be over 530,000 gross square feet plus two levels of basement. >> now the departments are across so many locations it is hard for them to work together and collaborate and hard for the customers to figure out the different locations and hours of operation. >> one of the main drivers is a

one stopper mitt center for -- permit center. >> special events. we are a one stop shop for those three things. >> this has many different uses throughout if years. >> in 1940s it was coca-cola and the flagship as part of the construction project we are retaining the clock tower. the permit center is little working closely with the digital services team on how can we modernize and move away from the paper we use right now to move to a more digital world. >> the digital services team was created in 2017. it is 2.5 years. our job is to make it possible to get things done with the city online. >> one of the reasons permitting is so difficult in this city and county is really about the scale. we have 58 different department in the city and 18 of them

involve permitting. >> we are expecting the residents to understand how the departments are structured to navigate through the permitting processes. it is difficult and we have heard that from many people we interviewed. our goal is you don't have to know the department. you are dealing with the city. >> now if you are trying to get construction or special events permit you might go to 13 locations to get the permit. here we are taking 13 locations into one floor of one location which is a huge improvement for the customer and staff trying to work together to make it easy to comply with the rules. >> there are more than 300 permitting processes in the city. there is a huge to do list that we are possessing digital. the first project is allowing people to apply online for the

a.d.u. it is an accessory dwelling unit, away for people to add extra living space to their home, to convert a garage or add something to the back of the house. it is a very complicated permit. you have to speak to different departments to get it approved. we are trying to consolidate to one easy to due process. some of the next ones are windows and roofing. those are high volume permits. they are simple to issue. another one is restaurant permitting. while the overall volume is lower it is long and complicated business process. people struggle to open restaurants because the permitting process is hard to navigate. >> the city is going to roll out a digital curing system one that is being tested. >> when people arrive they canshay what they are here to. it helps them workout which cue

they neat to be in. if they rant to run anker rapid she can do that. we say you are next in line make sure you are back ready for your appointment. >> we want it all-in-one location across the many departments involved. it is clear where customers go to play. >> on june 5, 2019 the ceremony was held to celebrate the placement of the last beam on top of the structures. six months later construction is complete. >> we will be moving next summer. >> the flu building -- the new building will be building. it was designed with light in mind. employees will appreciate these amenities. >> solar panels on the roof, electric vehicle chargers in the basement levels, benefiting from gray watery use and secured bicycle parking for 300

bicycles. when you are on the higher floors of the building you might catch the tip of the golden gate bridge on a clear day and good view of soma. >> it is so exciting for the team. it is a fiscal manifestation what we are trying to do. it is allowing the different departments to come together to issue permits to the residents. we hope people can digitally come to one website for permits. we are trying to make it digital so when they come into the center they have a high-quality interaction with experts to guide then rather than filling in forms.

they will have good conversations with our staff.

>> by the time the last show came, i was like whoa, whoa, whoa. i came in kicking and screaming and left out dancing. [♪♪♪]

>> hello, friends. i'm the deputy superintendent of instruction at san francisco unified school district, but you can call me miss vickie. what you see over the next hour has been created and planned by our san francisco teachers for our students. >> our premise came about for san francisco families that didn't have access to technology, and that's primarily children preschool to second grade. >> when we started doing this distance learning, everything was geared for third grade and up, and we work with the little once, and it's like how were they still processing the information? how were they supposed to keep learning? >> i thought about reaching the

student who didn't have internet, who didn't have computers, and i wanted them to be able to see me on the t.v. and at least get some connection with my kids that way. >> thank you, friends. see you next time. >> hi, friend. >> today's tuesday, april 28, 2020. it's me, teacher sharon, and i'm back again. >> i got an e-mail saying that i had an opportunity to be on a show. i'm, like, what? >> i actually got an e-mail from the early education department, saying they were saying of doing a t.v. show, and i was selected to be one of the people on it, if i was interested. i was scared, nervous. i don't like public speaking and all the above. but it worked out.

>> talk into a camera, waiting for a response, pretending that oh, yeah, i hear you, it's so very weird. i'm used to having a classroom with 17 students sitting in front of me, where they're all moving around and having to have them, like, oh, sit down, oh, can you hear them? let's listen. >> hi guys. >> i kind of have stage flight when i'm on t.v. because i'm normally quiet? >> she's never quiet. >> no, i'm not quiet. >> my sister was, like, i saw you on t.v. my teacher was, i saw you on youtube. it was exciting, how the community started watching. >> it was a lot of fun.

it also pushed me outside of my comfort zone, having to make my own visuals and lesson plans so quickly that ended up being a lot of fun. >> i want to end today with a thank you. thank you for spending time with us. it was a great pleasure, and see you all in the fall. >> i'm so happy to see you today. today is the last day of the school year, yea! >> it really helped me in my teaching. i'm excited to go back teaching my kids, yeah. >> we received a lot of amazing feedback from kiddos, who have seen their own personal teacher on television. >> when we would watch as a family, my younger son, kai, especially during the filipino

episodes, like, wow, like, i'm proud to be a filipino. >> being able to connect with someone they know on television has been really, really powerful for them. and as a mom, i can tell you that's so important. the social confidence development of our early learners. [♪♪♪] >> everything we do in the tenderloin, we urban outfit. here, this gives us an opportunity to collaborate with other agencies and we become familiar with how other agencies operate and allow us to be more flexible and get better at what we depo in the

line of work in this task. >> sometimes you go down and it's hard to get up. so we see ourselves as providing an opportunity for the unhoused to get up. and so i really believe that when they come here and they've said it, this right here is absolutely needed. you can't ask for nothing better. >> the tenderloin is the stuff that ain't on the list of remedies, liked the spiritual connection to recovery and why would i? why would i recover? what have i got to live for? things like that. and sharing the stories. like i was homeless and just the team. and some people need that extra connection on why they can change their life or how they could. >> we have a lot of guests that will come in and say i would like -- you know, i need help with shelter, food, and primary care doctor. and so here, that's three rooms down the hall. so if you book them, they get

all of their needs taken care of in one go. this is an opportunity for us here in the tenderloin to come together, try out these ideas to see if we can put -- get -- connect people to services in a when i shoot chinatown, i shoot the architecture that people not just events, i shoot what's going on in daily life and everything changes. murals, graffiti, store opening. store closing. the bakery. i shoot anything and everything in chinatown. i shoot daily life. i'm a crazy animal.

i'm shooting for fun. that's what i love. >> i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer for the last i think about 20 years. i joined the chinese historical society. it was a way i could practice my society and i can give the community memories. i've been practicing and get to know everybody and everybody knew me pretty much documenting the history i don't just shoot events. i'm telling a story in whatever photos that i post on facebook,

it's just like being there from front to end, i do a good job and i take hundreds and hundreds of photos. and i was specializing in chinese american history. i want to cover what's happening in chinatown. what's happening in my community. i shoot a lot of government officials. i probably have thousands of photos of mayor lee and all the dignitaries. but they treat me like one of the family members because they see me all the time. they appreciate me. even the local cops, the firemen, you know, i feel at home. i was born in chinese hospital 1954. we grew up dirt poor. our family was lucky to grew up. when i was in junior high, i had a degree in hotel

management restaurant. i was working in the restaurant business for probably about 15 years. i started when i was 12 years old. when i got married, my wife had an import business. i figured, the restaurant business, i got tired of it. i said come work for the family business. i said, okay. it's going to be interesting and so interesting i lasted for 30 years. i'm married i have one daughter. she's a registered nurse. she lives in los angeles now. and two grandsons. we have fun. i got into photography when i was in junior high and high school. shooting cameras. the black and white days, i was able to process my own film. i wasn't really that good because you know color film and

processing was expensive and i kind of left it alone for about 30 years. i was doing product photography for advertising. and kind of got back into it. everybody said, oh, digital photography, the year 2000. it was a ghost town in chinatown. i figured it's time to shoot chinatown store front nobody. everybody on grand avenue. there was not a soul out walking around chinatown. a new asia restaurant, it used to be the biggest restaurant in chinatown. it can hold about a 1,000

people and i had been shooting events there for many years. it turned into a supermarket. and i got in. i shot the supermarket. you know, and its transformation. even the owner of the restaurant the restaurant, it's 50 years old. i said, yeah. it looks awful. history. because i'm shooting history. and it's impressive because it's history because you can't repeat. it's gone it's gone. >> you stick with her, she'll teach you everything. >> cellphone photography, that's going to be the generation. i think cellphones in the next two, three years, the big cameras are obsolete already. mirrorless camera is going to take over market and the

cellphone is going to be better. but nobody's going to archive it. nobody's going to keep good history. everybody's going to take snapshots, but nobody's going to catalog. they don't care. >> i want to see you. >> it's not a keepsake. there's no memories behind it. everybody's sticking in the cloud. they lose it, who cares. but, you know, i care. >> last september of 2020, i had a minor stroke, and my daughter caught it on zoom. i was having a zoom call for my grand kids. and my daughter and my these little kids said, hey, you

sound strange. yeah. i said i'm not able to speak properly. they said what happened. my wife was taking a nap and my daughter, she called home and said he's having a stroke. get him to the hospital. five minutes later, you know, the ambulance came and took me away and i was at i.c.u. for four days. i have hundreds of messages wishing me get well soon. everybody wished that i'm okay and back to normal. you know, i was up and kicking two weeks after my hospital stay. it was a wake-up call. i needed to get my life in order and try to organize things especially organize my

photos. >> probably took two million photos in the last 20 years. i want to donate to an organization that's going to use it. i'm just doing it from the heart. i enjoy doing it to give back to the community. that's the most important. give back to the community. >> it's a lot for the community. >> i was a born hustler. i'm too busy to slow down. i love what i'm doing. i love to be busy. i go nuts when i'm not doing anything. i'm 67 this year. i figured 70 i'm ready to retire. i'm wishing to train a couple for photographers to take over my place. the younger generation, they have a passion, to document the

history because it's going to be forgotten in ten years, 20 years, maybe i will be forgotten when i'm gone in a couple years but i want to be remembered for my work and, you know, photographs will be a remembrance. i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer. this is my story. >> when you're not looking, frank's there. he'll snap that and then he'll send me an e-mail or two and they're always the best. >> these are all my p women's

sustainable future . >> san francisco streets and puffs make up 25 percent of cities e city's land area more than all the parks combined they're far two wide and have large flight area the pavement to parks is to test the variants by ininexpensive changing did new open spaces the city made up of streets in

you think about the potential of having this space for a purpose it is demands for the best for bikes and families to gather. >> through a collaborative effort with the department we the public works and the municipal transportation agency pavement to parks is bringing initiative ideas to our streets. >> so the face of the street is the core of our program we have in the public right-of-way meaning streets that can have areas perpetrated for something else. >> i'm here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to parks program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable

space for people to use. >> parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a community driven program. >> the program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted we're here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be

a space for everyone. >> yeah. >> we partnered with the pavement to parks program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot community garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point we're planting trees and flowers we have basketball courts there is so much to do here. >> there's a very full program that they simply joy that and meet the community and friends and about be about the lighter side of city people are more engaged not just the customers. >> with the help of community pavement to parks is reimagining the potential of our student streets if you want more information visit them as the

pavement to parks or contact pavement to parks at sfgovtv.org

>> we also have supervisor gordon moore here with us today. the committee clerk is erica major. i would like to acknowledge the good folks at san francisco government t.v. for staffing this meeting. >> the board of supervisors and its committees are allowing in person attendance and public comment while still providing remote access in public comment via telephone. it is essential and will be taken as follows. first, public comment will be taken on each item in this agenda. those attending in person will be allowed to speak first and then we will take those who are waiting on the telne