please stand by for the city and county of san francisco budget and finance committee meeting of july 20, 2022.

>> the meeting will come to order. this is july 20, 2022 budget finance committee meeting. i'll chair ronen. joined by committee member gordon mar. shortly joined by vise chair supervisor ahsha safai. i like to thank james for broadcasting the meeting. mr. clerk, do you have any anounments >> just friendly reminder to make sure the silence cell phones and electronic devices. the board is convening hybrid meetings. also provide remote accessvilley telephone. the board recognize equitable public access is essential and will be taking public comment. first, public comment will be taken on each item.

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clerk brent (inaudible) it will be forwarded to the supervisors and also included as part of the official file. may send written comments by u.s. postal service to office city hall, 1 dr. carlten b goodlet place. items acted upon today are expected to appear on board of supervisors agenda of july 26, unless otherwise stated. >> thaupg thank you, please call item 1. >> resolution designated world journal to be the outreach community periodical of the city county for chinese community. those joining and wish to comment call 415-655-o001 and enter

id >> thank you. i believe we have mrs. curela here to present. >> thank you chair ronen and supervisor mar. i'm drckter of office of contract administration and i'm here today to introduce a amendment to the resolution for designation of the periodical for the chinese community outreach advertising contract. last week if you recall the full board voted to sever this particular recommendation from the broader resolution for designation of multiple neighborhood and community outreach periodicals. our office received an inquiry of the award of chinese community contract subsequent to the introduction of the resolution for award of all the advertising contracts. as a

result of the inquiry from (inaudible) our office further reviewed the submitted bid from the newspaper and we recognize we overlooked material provided, specific to the newspaper circulation numbers, which was a component of the evaluation. as such, we have reevaluateed our scoring and have revised the scores for this particular outreach periodical designation. more specifically in the circulation component the newspaper receives 3.18 points for circulation which results in the newspaper becoming the highest scoring bidder for the chinese community outreach periodical by.25 points. so, recommending the newspaper be designated as the chinese community advertising periodical which replace the recommendation for wind journal. additionally, i do want to note oca found

we mistakenly forward to include the (inaudible) though in fact our evaluation our initial evaluation in fact should have been recommended. so, we have amended the resolution to reflect these two changes. if i'm not mistaken i believe these are substantive changes that may require the item to be continued. >> question to the city attorney. are these substantive changes? >> deputy city attorney ann pearson. the addition of the neighborhood periodical but removing wind journal and replacing would be. >> supervisor mar.

>> thank you chair ronen and director for the explanation and the update on this somewhat complicated matter, and i just wanted to make sure i'm understanding, because i have some conflicting information. so, the amendment would add the wind newspaper-would retain world journal as the community outreach periodical for the chinese community, but also add the wind as a second one, is that correct? >> no, actually, oca can only recommend the highest scoring proposer, and so that is why we are retracting our recommendation for wind journal, which is now a lower scoring then wind newspaper and again as i mentioned wind newspaper with the revised scoring is the winner essentially the

highest scoring by .25 points. >> okay. so, the amendment would replace world journal with the wind because the outreach periodical for the chinese community city wide? >> that is correct. >> my staff made a amendment that includes both world journal and wind as both of them, but-i guess i don't-- >> maybe i can explain. so, what we submitted as the revised amendment or the amended resolution yesterday to the clerk does replace world journal with wind, because wind is the highest scoring. that said, it has been i think practice or guidance from the city attorney office that the

supervisors can in fact add periodicals or change that recommendation. >> uh-huh. >> differ to the city attorney on this. thank you. >> great. this also the amendment-there is a additional amendment that adds the potrero view serving on 1, 2, 3-maybe 6 neighborhoods. >> correct. >> why do we need to add this or make the amendment? can you explain that again? >> yes. as i mentioned before, in our initial scoring potrero view actually was noted as the highest scoring in fact i think they were the only proposer that submitted for this particular category. the documents we submitted initially when we introduced this does indicate they should have been awarded, we just mistakenly forgot to include

potrero view so like to add it now. >> so it was a oversight? >> yes. >> okay. i'm supportive of the amendments that you presented and i just maybe have a more general question. why-particularly the chinese community outreach designation or periodical designation, why wasn't this caught sooner, because it has been very awkward in the process and-yeah. >> yes. thank you for that question supervisor mar. so, i would note, we do as a office do take protests and inquiries very seriously and when they come in we do review them and see if there is anything that our office should have done differently. normally when we are recommending--before we come to the board we

do issue generally a notice of intent to award. there is a protest period where any bidder can object to the scoring. that did not happen in this case. it is now something that we are looking at in terms of the process for these particular advertising contracts and it will be our process be revised next year so it highlighted a oversight on our part for our recommendation coming forward. >> got it. we did have a hearing in the budget committee on the original item probably a couple months ago, so in this case the complaint or the appeal happened late in the process and got- >> that is correct. it happened after we introduced the resolution, but again we have to take it under consideration and make corrections as needed. >> thank you. thanks. >> thank you. can we

open the item up for public comment? >> yes madam chair. members who wish to speak on the resolution and joining in person line up to speak now. call 415-655-0001 with meeting id and press pond twice. for those in the queue continue to wait until the system indicates you are unmuted and that is your queue to begin comments. madam chair, no speakers in the queue. >> thank you public comment is now closed. would you like- >> i like to move that we adopt the amendments as described and presented by director corrala. >> roll call vote. >> yes, on the motion to accept the amendments offered by (inaudible) [roll call]

we have 3 ayes. >> thank you. i now like to make a motion to continue this item to july 27 budget and finance meeting as amended. >> on the motion to continue this item to the july 27 meeting. [roll call] we have 3 ayes. >> motion passes unanimously. item 2. >> item 2 is resolution approving authorizing the sale to santa clara water district for $33 thousand of approximately 11 thousand square feet of real property located near man someplace zano way in sunnyvale california. surplus land and exempt surplus land. adopting

fiendings under the administrative code. offering the sale for property through competitive bidding is impractical and not public interest affirming the planning department determination under ceqa, adopting findings the sale of the property is consistent with the general plan and planning code. and authorizing the puc general manager and or city director of property to execute documents make certain modifications and take certain actions in furtherance of the resolution and authorize puc general manager or director of property to enter into any additions amendments or other modifications to the sale agreement that do not materially decrease the benefit of the city with respect to the property nor increase the obligations or liability of either puc or the city and necessary or adviseable to complete the transaction contemplated in the sale agreement to effect wait the purpose and intent of the resolution. members joining

remotely and wish to comment please call 415-655-0001. press star 3 to enter the speaker line. the system will indicate you raised your hand and when the system indicates you have been unmute td is queue to begin comments. madam chair. >> thank you, and i believe maybe online we have mr. bargo from puc here to present. no? is there anyone from the puc that is here to present on this item? >> yes, i do see- >> i'm here. >> okay, great. >> good morning madam chair, supervisors. tony barto, puc real estate. may i have the slides please?

>> give me one moment and i will find the right one. >> okay. >> hi, tony this is jeremy, i can present the slides if needed. >> okay, please. please do. thank you. so, the item before you is the proposed sale of 11 thousand square foot city owned parcel to santa clara water district or valley water. next slide, please. this is a depiction of the real property owned by the city through its public utility commission located in the city of sunnyvale nearby munzano way.

the property is improved with the service road, which provides access to santa clara valley water district facility with a concrete ramp structure that is a segment of a bicycle pedestrian trail currently under license to the city of sunnyvale. next slide, please. the puc has no utility use for the property deemed underutilized dated december 2015 and signed by the assistant general managers of the puc. the water enterprise, ag, wastewater enterprise and power enterprise ag. the puc proposes to sell the property to raise needed funds at the market price of $33

thousand. the city of sunnyvale will continue to maintain the concrete ramp structure under a new agreement with valley water. next slide, please. valley water wishes to purchase the property and has the authority to exercise the power of imminent domain to compel the city to sell the property for valley water use for district purposes including access to the facility. a competitive bidding process is impractical or not in the public interest because the sale of the property to valley water will avoid the expense time, effort and risk involve in imminent domain litigation. next slide, please. the property is surplus land as

defined in california government code section 54221b, because it is owned in fee by the city i not necessary for this city's use. the property is exempt surplus land defined in california government code because it is surplus land the city will transfer to another agency for the agency use. next slide, please. the city retained a mei appraiser who determined a fair market value to be $33 thousand as of february 2021. the city director real property approved that appraisal may of 2021. the appraisal was updated in december of 2021 and the appraiser concluding the same value conclusion of $33 thousand. the city director of property approved the updated appraisal january of this year. next slide, please. in the

meeting on april 12, 2022, the san francisco public utility commission approved this sale by the resolution number 22-00070 and the sfpuc kindly request the budget and finance committee recommend this resolution to the full board. with that, happy to take any questions. >> any questions colleagues? nope. seeing none, can we open the item up for public comment? >> yes, members of the public who wish to speak and joining in person line up now to speak. for those remotely call 415-655 -0001. and meeting id. press star 3 twice. wait until the system waits you have been unmuted and that is the queue to begin comments. we have no in person

speakers and no speakers on the telephone. >> pub lic comment is closed. the price of the land is the lowest price of the land i have ever seen and assume that's because of the imminent domain possibility of the land, is that correct? >> well, it is also because of the small area. it is only-just under 11 thousand square feet. >> got it. got it. okay. i would like to make a motion to send the item to full board with positive recommendation. can we get a roll call vote? >> on the motion to forward the resolution to full board with positive recommendation. [roll call] >> we have 3 ayes. >> motion passes unanimously. thank you so much. mr. clerk, can you please read item number 3. >> item 3 is resolution adopting the recommendations of the guaranteed income advisory group from pilot to

policy change and establishing a city policy in support of guaranteed income. members of the public who are joining remotely and wish to comment please call 415-655-0001 meeting id24998489506 and pound twice. press star. when the system indicates you have been unmuted that is the queue to begin comments. >> thank you, supervisor safai. >> thank you. thank you madam chair. thank you everyone. wanted to really spend a few minutes and some time talking about adopting the recommendations of the guaranteed income advisory group, and then working to establish the city policy in support of guaranteed income. this resolution today is based on the work from former colleague supervisor matt haney who authorized legislation to establish the income

advisory group to advise on guaranteed income and universal basic income. one issue we should consider is whether the various pilot programs we established are working, and how we can move from pilot program to policy change as the title of the report states. let me just say as we begin very clearly i'm a strong supporter of universal basic income and guaranteed income. the covid-19 pandemic has exposed what is a ongoing and often theme in the city and that is one we truly are a tale of two cities and something that has gone on for quite some time in san francisco, and i think it is shown in how inequitable the recovery has been for different communities. in my district working families and middle class families are being squeezed with the cost of every day living on the rise.

whether it is rent, transportation, child care, access to good and healthy food, families need support, and they need cash relief to help them get through the challenges that we face on a daily basis. the advisory group was comprised of community representatives and department leadership. i want to thank treasurer sis narrow office for providing the initial infrastructure. i also want to thank jim pew from universal income project for meeting with me earlier as we were preparing for the hearing today. i agree with him, people closest to the problem should be the ones most involved designing the program and overall program design. so, in that i like to invite departmental representatives for comments. i believe we will begin with deputy

director (inaudible) which lead the projeth. cheryl davis, from human rights commission and deputy director suzy smith from human services agency. let's start with (inaudible) >> goodern moing. thank you so much for allowing us to come and speak. again, my name is (inaudible) i serve as chief assistant treasurer for city and county. we provided presentations and i'll walk through them and give a high level. we were honored to staff the guaranteed income advisory group. it was well suited given expertise in banking and social justice work. san francisco guaranteed income group was created to advise the board mayor and appropriate city departments. i want to thank the second slide shows the diverse and deep knowledge that the members had on the committee and then the advisory group.

jim is here and dr. davis and (inaudible) will speak after i speak about it. the recommendations in the report examine how to move from pilot to policy. while maintaining the strength of the city support for pilot development implementation and ultimately achieving scale. the process that the group went through was significant and if you go to the next slide you'll see they established shared principal including defining what guaranteed income went and cash assistance a diverse definition across the scope and grounding san francisco in what they thought was the most meaningful way to address systemic economic disparities. >> are we viewing slides for the presentation? >> i think they were handed out, were they not? >> hard copy. >> sorry, we are on the slide that says shared principal. sorry about that.

thank you. thank you supervisor. define what guaranteed income and cash assistance was since there are many definitions out there. the process also involved deep learning from experts. you will see the subsequent pages the background research that went through. we had staff that did sigcon research analysis as well as hud leadership come and speak to the advisory group itself and spoke to community activists around their experiences and needs and a lot of the community activist that help design and shape some of the programs that we (inaudible) also included inventory of the pilot and programs that exist in san francisco. the recommendation you move forward after you see the slide with process and we have this here for you on the website so you can see any details if

you like but i won't go through in detail. moving forward with the recommendations-noted on the slide states coordinate and align through centralized guaranteed income unit. these recommendations reflect a belief correct and unconditional cash transfers are effective anti-poverty tool. it is really clear and important to us the notion of unconditional is strategically intentionally part of the definition. that the investment to craelt create and run them pras is needed to bring thecurrent field of san francisco to scale and addressing the systemic needs we have within san francisco. in addition the recommendations and the first core recommendation is to coordinate and align pilots and policies through a centralized guaranteed income unit that staff to support the city wide work. that includes looking at research as well

asfunding. the second recommendation is center community voices and the planning. the implementation and evaluation of the work itself. this includes focus on racial equity and changing the narrative from scarcity to deservedness abendance and dignity. critical hone in on the opponent this is not about need, but really about changing the definitions of deservedness to elevate the conversation and recognize the shift these funds were striving to achieve. and lastly, the group recommends the city think big and pursue structural sustainable and scalable reform and strategy. this includes strategies to expand cash support through the tax system itself similar what we saw in covid. deeper investment for families and children focus on youth.

expanding access to public benefits. in addition one of the outcomes of the advisory group was online resource that provides insights to policy and program staff to begin the journey for developing guaranteed income efforts. happy to take questions along with my colleague. i call up suzy smith from human service agency as well as dr. davis who also lead and spearheaded robust powerful discussion this morning about the guaranteed income. >> good morn chair ronen, supervisor safai and supervisor mar. thank you again for calling this hearing today. suzy smith deputy director at san francisco human service agency and honored to represent hsa on the guaranteed income advisory group which includes stakeholders with lived

experience, foundations, practitioners and advocates. i want to speak briefly about hsa role in this work and on a couple recommendation that touch on implementation. one of our goals in the gi space is help protect guaranteed income payments from negatively impacting people public benefits. proud we partnered with the california department of social services early on to identify legal pathways to exempt gi income from certain public benefits. since we work to help establish the legal authority and regulatory pathways and process actually exempt income san francisco we applied for through the exemption authority and process to submit two guarantee income waver applications so people do not center to choose between receiving guaranteed income and benefits like cal fresh and cal works and we will play

that role in applying for the states for the wavers as more programs are implemented in san francisco. i are want to lift up two recommendations from the report we will be acting on specifically. one of the recommendations is thinking about which population to focus gi pilots on. the report recommends considering racial equity and targeting periods of critical transition in one's life. recommends specifically using a life course approach to target guaranteed income intervention, storing sensitive life stages that can really shift the trajectories and reduce disparities and increase wellbeing so things like first time pregnant moms, or foster youth transitioning out of care. towards that end, hsa will be applying forfunding from the state guaranteed income pilot initiative to

provide guaranteed income for all youth exiting child welfare and juvenile probation. this is a first in its kind state of california is investing $35 million in guaranteed income and to prioritize populations are foster youth and pregnant mothers. we haven't gotten the funds but i think will be competitive in our application. in the an ticipation of the funding engage youth and cbo designing the process. to the point about evaluation, the state has already secured an evalwaiter to understand how these different models are implemented across the state. what are the most effective components. research has proven gi is effective but there are nuances when it is layered with what else and which populations these efforts can be most effective.

excited the state will have a evalwaiter and we will seek a local evaluator assuming we get the funds. second under the think big recommendation the group recommends pursuing reforms that both expand and increase access to public benefits. our department has and will continue to do this through the leadership roles in state-wide association. these advocacy efforts with allied organizations locally and across the state resulted in significant policy changes like expanding medi-cal to all undocumented residents and assets limit frz thing like medi-cal and expanding the funding that cal works families get every month so these are significant advocacy pushes my department and allied departments locally and across the state have been pushing for years and continue to push.

with our touch points with nearly every (inaudible) we look forward to continuing to partner in the collective and important work to institutionalize guaranteed income practices and change the narrative. thanks again for drawing attention to the important issue and happy to answer any questions the committee may have. >> good morning. i will try to be quick here. i just are wanted to first formost thank you for for hold ing the hearing and advancing this work. i also want to point out and thank you for mentioning as well, britany (inaudible) who is online was working with supervisor at that time haney's office because the hrc had been working with abundant birth

projict and other initiatives and want to icmasure the coordinated approach is something we have been working on quite a while to get them listed to understand where resources were happening and also understand the impact and the evaluation so the coordinated efforts have been and continue to be very important to us. it is work we will continue to support. last year or i think last year we hosted a session a forum arond that and working with michael tubs and folks to talk specifically about that. also worked with derrick hamilton who was a part of the conversation this morning leading the work nationally on baby bonds and having conversations around guaranteed income. the other piece that is really important to me and the office the human rights commission is around community sentards. the work we have been doing is informed by community and it is going to continue to be and we want to center that as we

build out-we are redesigning the human rights commission, the department to have a division that focuses on economic rights to support this. britany (inaudible) will be leading that and then arond the deeper investments, the cash supports the baby bond, the work already done for k to college but also thinking about it in terms of how we support entrepreneurs, how we support the care in industry and able to sure up that and making sure whether it is seniors or young children that there is a support system and understanding there are gaps in that regard, and also thinking about it in the connection to jobs guarantees and understanding that when we plan sometimes for our workforce development training programs, that there is still a gap fill and that people are being penalized to going back to learn and become more self-sufficient so thank the treasurerophilus for

the leadership in the work but want to make sure as we continue this work that we are intentional, that we are thinking about how to collaborate and that we are not duplicateing the wheel but actually supporting and leveraging the work already been done. thank you. >> thank you mrs. suzy smith and director davis and najel for your presentation today. i think one thing and dont know who would like to comment on this, but it sounds like we have a number of different pilot programs going already in san francisco. maybe najel or director davis you can talk about it, but it would be nice to hear-you mentioned abundant birth project but sounds like there's a few that are already happening. maybe you can spend a couple minutes

talking about those that are already in motion and then the coordination effort you are talking about. >> i will let tagel-there are over a dozen city wide right now and so there is the arts yurba buena has been leading. several smaller ones embedded within department so there is one through the dream keeper initiative one specifically for entrepreneurs. there is also one that we have within our department where we have been working on it. several around violence prevention and safety one with the police department that is paying and you all may have seen the presentation before focused on high risk or people involved in violent crimes and being able to keep them from returning into that so we have been using that as a incentive to have people do that. we also have

one mislabeled cash for criminals that got lots of negative attention so there are quite a few that run the gamut that are for the abundant birth project mentioned for pregnant and parenting black and sonoma or pacific islander women so quite a few. what we are working on now that we have been intentional about at the hrc is first documenting that to share the list we have with you, but also trying to understand how we measure success and then the other piece is that we heard from folks $500 a month in san francisco is not a lot, and so that deeper investment can look like more then expanding the number of people we serve, maybe going deeper with the amount of money we give to understand the real impact so we want to play arond with some of that but t tagel may have more information. >> thank you so much. i believe dr. davis covered the gamut of it. we have

many embedded in oewd as dr. davis stated. many are focus said on entrepreneur so thinking about working with individuals and moving them into jobs as one of the key pieces as well as birth project as we heard about in addition we have other departments that are starting. we have one with (inaudible) that is about to start in october. there are discussions with the women (inaudible) and the one that suzy smith spoke about of hsa and the large program funded in partnership with the state so there are quite a gamut. i think they would all be fair to say the way they address the definition is all a little varied so it is one reason why the coordinated effort spoken about is something critical to look at as well as research connected to that. >> great. so, yes, i just know that was in the report

there were over a dozen pilots happening right now. it is one reason why i think we need to further the conversation about a main coordinator and insuring that efforts are not duplicated but also coordinated. i think that is a really important thing so i wanted to get that on the record today. wanted to give anyone in the audience and any member of the audience from the advisory group in the room to speak before we go to public comment but i know supervisor mar has a comment that he wanted to make. >> go ahead supervisor mar. >> thank you supervisor safai and chair ronen. first of all i wanted to thank everyone that is a part of this very thoughtful and important process and guaranteed income advisory group and i really appreciate how we as a city have

approached this really innovative and important new economic security justice strategy in a comprehensive way across city departments and key stakeholders getting input through a great process to come up with this set of recommendations and appreciate the-how the think big framing on this and how we need to think beyond just important pilots and that are starting up and scaling up, but also expanding and strengthening cash supports in different ways, particularly through advocacy on the state level. appreciate all of this. i had just a question. i wanted to understand, it is great we already started up a number of pilots here in the city and

these are exciting and important, but based on the recommendations and on all the work of the advisory group over looks like about a year long process or more, are there-what are the priority pilots that we are looking at coming up and i think suzy did you touch on that in the presentation? >> i touched on one which is the largest. in the budget last year the state of california allocated $35 million to gi pilots across the state so it it the first of the kind in the nation in terms of this large public investment and so we are-as mentioned one of the prioritized population is foster youth exiting the system so we have been doing a lot of planning and working with foster youth and experts arond what that design would look like and we are going to

in our application going to put forth for a thousand or $1200 a month for 18 months to have two different cycles and we dedicated-there a local match requirement so we dedicated $2 million from hsa budget for next fiscal year to meet that match requirement to be able to be part of the state wide network that is building the narrative change and momentum to have many of these and have more data to be able to advocate for large scale adoption. that's-and we are supporting others that come to us worried about the benefit piece and implications and don't want to tell families they need to decide between cal works and guaranteed income payment so playing the supportive role (inaudible) so, we developed a template and helping organizations interested in that support as well. >> thank you. that sounds really great to hear

about the foster youth focus and it is part of a state wide initiative too, so thank you. >> if i could just add i would say the one reason why we need coordinated is because at this point there is no centralized. it is every department will come to you and say, you should fund my thing or my thing is right and so i think that's the most important critical piece for this is that the challenge for some of this is around as we make these pilots and are think about it, what is the actual-what is the data tell in terms how many people will be served or how much money we have or what does the equity look like because we make focus doing something with artists but if we have millions of dollars to spend on artist and

only have 10 artists doest that make sense? how dewe make sure it isn't just about what we have access to but what the needs are and where the needs are and i think without a centralized way to do that that it will just be us listening to really great ideas and going with that because they are great ideas but when we line them all up, we may need to pivot. >> thank you. just couple other questions. >> sure, go ahead. >> i was just trying to understand the current thinking around the difference between guaranteed income programs and compared to other types of direct cash assistance. there is direct cash assistance to very low income individuals. we also have wage

subsidy programs for-to raise wages for low paid workers, particularly now with child care workers in our city, and then there is also stipends i know sometimes included in workerse foprograms to allow the participants to be able to focus on the program. i'm trying to understand maybe the difference between those types of direct cash assistance to folks with a very specific objective and guaranteed income programs. >> thank you supervisor for the question. i think there is a couple pieces. one is you saw from the third recommendation reinforcing other kinds of policy initiative that help so that is included in cash programs, tax exemption, assistant programs that are alsofunded by the government and so guaranteed income or

cash assistance isn't a substitution to those but augmentation and the definition gronded on instead of model of no string attached. predictable, ist canant, on going and no strings attach so that is the piece that improved their economical being and provides them the agency to move forward as they choose, because it is not connect ed to strings and predictable known and sustained duration. >> thank you. what is the amount of monthly direct cash assistance or the range i guess for the guaranteed income programs. >> the range i have been familiar at the lowest end is $500 a month but as dr. davis pointed out no one can be supported by that. the application we are going to submit with $1200 a

month highest i heard of. hsh they are also piloting a direct cash transfer program for people who dont qualify for public-subsidized housing, but are in the problem solving stage so to help with housing stability but also no strings attached so that is also around $1200 a month. >> just quick clr fayication, the abundant birth project ranged from a thousand to $1500 a month. >> thank you. very important work that you are doing so thank you all for your work and for all the recommendations. i would love to be added as a cosponsor to the item as well. thank you. >> i just wanted to say that the fact it is the three of you leading and this project gives me much excitement and calm, because you all three of you

are just such incredible leaders in your respective fields and this is such an important program and getting this right and getting this coordinated throughout the city could make a difference on whether or not we can keep any diversity of income in this city, and many people so i want to appreciate you all, tell how excited i am that the three of you at the helm and just tell you i'm incredibly excited and supportive of this work. thank you. and i too would lairk like to be added as cosponsor. >> great. thank you. one thing i think is the most important-not the most important but a important point to highlight and think i heard all you reference that today is the narrative change and the change in the language

around guaranteed income. it has gone through a arduous conversation and discussion about poverty, how we approach it, how we talk about it, and how we reframe it. wanted to give a opportunity from any members of the public involved in the advisory group and i think jim is here, so give him a opportunity to speak before we go to public comment. >> thank you. jim hue codirector universal income project and member of guaranteed income advisory group. i just want to start by saying it was a great experience to participate in the group. i felt we really were able to delve into what this would mean for san franciscans, what does it require to get this right and have the most (inaudible) again, to explore how transformative the potential is when you do give money with no strings attached ongoing away to allow people to plan for the future to be able in

the driver seat of their lives so to be able to chart the path to challenges they are facing. i would echo all the recommendations we heard so far. what is discussed here has great potential to lead to incredible policy changes in san francisco and particularly stress the point come up around bringing people closest to the problem into the planning phaseism we want to make sure the people who really understand what is going on are there at the table at every step of the process and actually thinking through what is the design, how teat good it right. far too often public policy is designed room of people who didn't have a good understanding what was happening on the streets and i think that we have a opportunity here to really get this right and we are lucky to have great examples. the abundant berth project went through extensive community design process and lots to learn what they have

done but those in the ongoing administration around the program and pilots and policies able to take advantage of that lived expertise there is huge potential there and eager to see that move forward. thank you. >> thank you jim. can we open up public comment? >> yes, please. >> yes, members who wish to speak line up now to speak. for those listening remotely call 415-655-0001. once connected press star 3 to enter the speaker line. for those in the queue wait until the system endicates you have been unmuted. there is a queue to begin comments. as we have no further speakers here in the chamber, mr. atkins please unmute the first caller.

>> supervisors have been paying attention to this guaranteed income advisory group and establishing a city policy in support of guaranteed income, but i want you supervisors to tell me what the hell are you doing with affordable housing? people cant live under a roof. so, if you dont have a roof how can you apply for guaranteed income? it is a shame that middle class people are living in tents all overour city and then we have the director of the human rights commission with these two women

and one woman says $500 and the other woman comes to the mic and says no it is $1500. who is (inaudible) in broad daylight? we once had the bayview coordinating council. we have the black leadership council of san francisco. we have the environmental justice advocacy. we have southeast sector community development corporation. we serve the people. city and county of san francisco to put (inaudible) in our way. take money and give to innercircle rather then the community and you bring these women here and you bring the director of the human rights commission who is now involved in gimmicks at the chase center and trying to hoodwink us in

broad daylight. shame on you. stop bringing the gimmicks to our attention and wasting our time. >> thank you for your comments. and madam chair that completes the queue. >> public comment is closed. supervisor safai. >> i thought maybe one day we could have mr. decosta come in and talk about something positive on the record and it would be something positive arond guaranteed income but he can take anything positive and turn it into a negative. normally i don't comment on public comment but couldn't help myself this time because this is such a important topic. but anyway, i'm sure i'll get a ear full from him. i think we might have britany (inaudible) on the line. i just want to double check mr. clerk. is she online? >> i do not see her log on. >> okay, wanted to

double check to make sure. so, thank you madam chair for letting us have this hearing. i know we have a lot we are catching up on. i ink this is is a important topic. i want to thank director davis, joe, suzy for the amazing work that you all have done. this is such a important topic and if anything i think covid really highlight ed a lot of disparity already there, underscored it and motivated to do better and underscored the need what is out there and how we mobilize during covid how we have impact. whether right to recover or cash assistance for food or intervention for child care. all the things and wonderful projects that have begin so sometimes out of crisis we can have something really positive as a result. want to thank jim, all the advisory group members

that contributesed to this and everyone that has come out today to support the progress. we made significant strides. really encouraged suzy to hear about the foster youth pilot project. that is going to be amazing and as you know, there the correlation between and they have the highest risk becoming homeless and unhoused in the transition so sure that is a lot of what the research and focus is about so i really appreciate hsa focusing on that community. to mr. decasta points we are doing transitional youth age housing throughout the city. we have a number of beds being created for transitional age youth. that is a priority for the body in supportive housing so we will see that happen and are expand and it will fit nicely

with this pilot project because the project begins in my district and other parts of the city. over the summer recess we will work on the goal bringing back legislation in the fall and focus on centralization and coordination, so want to thank everyone today. with that, madam chair i like to move forward that we snd this resolution to the full board with positive recommendation. >> can we have a roll call vote? >> on that motion by vice chair safai resolution forward to the full board with positive recommendation. [roll call] >> 3 ayes. >> the motion passes unanimously. thank you so much everyone. can you please read item number 4? >> yes. resolution declaring intent of the city county to

reimburse proceeds principal amount not to exceed $51.2 million. authorize the director of the mayor office and housing community development to submit application and related documents to the california debt limit allocation committee to permit the issuance of residential mortgage revenue bonds in aggregate principal amount not to exceed 51.1 million dollar 11 innes court hunters point shipyard block 56. direct the controller office to hold in amount not to exceed $100 thousand authorize the director to certify to said like the city has on deposit the required amount. authorize the director to pay amount equal to deposit to the state of california if the city fails to issue the residential mortgage revenue bonds. authorizing and directing execution of any documents

necessary to implement this resolution as defined and ratifying and approving any action in connection with the project and application. members of the public joining remotely and wish to comment, please call 415-655-0001. id24998489506 press pound twice. once connected press star 3 to enter the speaker line. when the system endicates you are unmuted that is the queue to begin comments. madam chair. >> thank you, we have william willcox with us to present on the item. >> good morning chair ronen and members. william willcox the bond program manager with mayor office of housing and community development. i am here to present on items 4 and 5. these items relate to resolution for proposed bond issuance for two projects. >> mr. willcox, before you go

on can i have the clerk read item 5 and we can hear them together and then you can speak to both of them? >> that would be great. thank you. >> can you please read item 5. >> item 5, also resolution declaring intent of city and county to reemburse expenditures from proceeds principal amount not to exceed 32.5 $32.5 million authorize the office of housing is squl uncommunity development to submit related documents to permit issuance of residential bonds in principal amount not to exceed $32.5 million for 98 franklin street and authorize the director to direct the controller office to hold in trust not to exceed hundred thousand in like procedures and authorize the same as item 4. madam chair. >> thank you so much.

please continue mr. willcox. >> thank you chair ronen. so, (inaudible) 11 innes court hunters point ship yard block 56 and 98 franklin street. the purpose of the resolutions is ratify and approve several actions necessary to make the bond issuance possible including submittal of applications to secure allocation of bonds. the proposed bond ixuance are conduit financing. this is just to allow to apply to the state forfunding and does not commit anything more. 11 innes court is 73 unit hundred percent affordable multifamily projeth. the project is part of the hunter point shipyard phase 1 and all units will be available to houses earning 50 percent or less of the ami.

projects also include 7550 square foot landscape court yard with play area and picnic area. 98 franklin street is mixed income development that include 72 affordable units and (inaudible) the bond financing onlyby used for the 72 affordable housing units. it is separately (inaudible) so the public funds only go to affordable, which all the affordable housing will be available earning 50 percent or less of ami. the units are portion of the inclusionary requirement for the project. section 4156i of the planning code allows for the use of tax exempt bond to finance inclusionary units. the building is going it include a number of amenities including the roof deck, bbq and with bike parking. (inaudible) return to the board of supervisors for bond issuance for each project at different

times likely early next year after we get the allocations hopefully. in closing, also here for 11 innes court is (inaudible) with mercy housing the sponsor of the project and joe walsh (inaudible) as my colleague elizabeth (inaudible) from ocii who is the housing manager for innes court. on behalf of (inaudible) project sponsors we like to thank you for your consideration here today and look forward to your support for these projects. >> thank you so much colleagues, any questions? seeing none, can we please open the item up for public comment? for these items for public comment. >> yes, members who wish to speak on both items 4 and 5 and joining in person line up now to speak. for those listening remotely call

415-655-0001 you need to press star 3. sorry, enter id24998489506 press pound twice. once connected press star 3 to enter the speaker line for those already in the queue continue to wait until the system inedicates you have been unmuted and will be your queue to begin comments. no in-person speakersism mr. atkins with you please unmute the caller? >> this is francisco decosta once again. no supervisor under the brown act is allowed (inaudible) i know supervisor was trying to steal some land from the city, and i can speak to it, but i stop at that. let's go to the agenda item. we do not any housing on land that is prone to

liquefaction and flooding but more that is contaminated. the record of decision was not approved by the citizens of san francisco those representing the bayview hunter point. i have been the director of (inaudible) don't need a buffoon to tell me what i speak is wrong or i'm negative. i have to speak truth of power. i'm not a thief. i never stolen anything. nor have i taken anything from the city and county of san francisco. so, please don't through the arrow in the air. the shipyard is contaminated. we know this. there was a grand jury report on it. why dozent the

gentleman read the grand jury report? (inaudible) the board of supervisors dont know about the (inaudible) nothinged sh bebuilt on the shipyard. the grand jury said so. but the board of supervisors (inaudible) revenue board measures. we don't have a board of supervisors who represent the people. they represent the crooks. >> your time expired. >> again and again and again. >> apologies for cutting you off mr. decosta, we are timing each speaker 2 minutes today. just checking the queue. madam chair, we have no more speakers. >> thank you public comment is now closed. like to make a motion to send items 4 and 5 to the full board with positive recommendation. can we have a

roll call vote? >> on that motion to forward the resolutions 4 and 5 to the full board with positive recommendation. [roll call] >> we have 3 ayes. >> thank you. the motion pass unanimously. mr. clerk, can you please read item 6 and 7 together? >> yes, madam chair. item 6 resolution approving in accordance with section 147f of internal revenue code issuance of tax exempt obligations by the california state wide committees development authority in principal amount not to exceed $40 million to finance or refinance capital facilities owned by california college of arts and item 7 is resolution approving for the purpose of internal revenue code of 1986 as

amended the issuance and sale revenue obligations by the california enterprise development authority in aggregate principal amount not to exceed $7.5 million to refinance the acquisition construction instillation rehabilitation, equipping and furnishing of capital facilities owned and operated by progress foundation. members of the public joining remotely and wish to comment on items 6 and 7 please call 415-655-0001 meeting id is 24998489506 and press pond twice. once connected press star 3 to enter the speaker line. when system indicates you have been unmuted that is it queue to begin comments. >> thank you, we have michele (inaudible) to speak on both items. >> good morning members of

committee. michelle (inaudible) from the controller office public finance. thank you for considering these resolutions today and also we have available representatives from california college of the arts and issuer california state wide community development authority and also for the second item we have representatives from progress foundation so they can speak more in detail about it organization or project if there needs more specific questions about those. i'll start with the first item 6, remeender for the committee and mublic the tax (inaudible) allows debt issues on a tex exempt basis by non profit organizations through joint power authority. in this case the proposed finance is issued on behalf of california college of the art a non profit public benefit corporation. thadebt will be issued through a joint power authority the city and county is a m participating

member. issue bonds (inaudible) the resolution is before you because tax law requires the governing body of the jurisdiction in which the project is located approve the financing and the projethafter providing the opportunity for public hearing so the bonds can be issued oen tax exempt basis. the jurisdiction is not obligated for payment on the pond so for the federal regulations publicished a erhaing notice may 31. public hearing held by the office of public finance on june 9 and no comments from any members of public received through the public hearing process. the project i'll give you quick summary. the proceeds will be used in amount to exceed $40 million. (inaudible) at the

(inaudible) [difficulty understanding speaker] founding in 1907 to provide education for artists and designers. continues to the present day. cca educate student to shape culture and (inaudible) benefiting location in san francisco bay area the (inaudible) life long creative work cultivating invasion community (inaudible) social environmental responsibility. the non profit coeducational institutions (inaudible) 1239 under graduate and 380 graduate students (inaudible) approval of the legislation will have no fiscal impact to san francisco,

located in district 6 and legislation is sponsored by supervisor dorsey. item 7 i won't go into what a tefra is. same explanation and process pertains to item 7 however that resolution is for progress foundation a california non profit benefit organization. the resolution approves revenue obligations through california enterprise development authority. again, joint power authority to which the sit a belongs. authorize issue bonds and other forms of dent. we published the hearing notice on the website may 11. held a public hearing by teleconfrn may 18 and no public comments were received through the process. the proceeds of the obligations in this resolution (inaudible) not to exceed $7.5 million (inaudible) proceeds

used to finance the cost of acquisition construction instillation rehabilitation and (inaudible) 3400 montgomery drive in santa rosa, (inaudible) pay transaction cost and related cost. more progress foundation, a private non profit mental health agency operating in san francisco, napa and sonoma county. the primary treatment is described by the social rehabilitation a home like treatment environment. the importance of building therapeutic relationship and encourage active participation of it client in the treatment planning. founded in 1969 and the organization provides those experiencing symptoms of serious mental illness and

cooccurring disord ers with alternative to institutional placement andens traition the individuals back to the community. over the last several decades developed community based programs to support the clients and keep from returning to institutions or correctional facilities. according to the website the progress foundation operate 19 programs service more then 3 thousand individuals and are not turn away the client and work with the challenges in multiple areas including alcohol and substance abuse, major (inaudible) in addition part of the progress foundation is offer training that hope to provide more effective treatment opportunity for their clients. as mentioned there are multiple project locations throughout san francisco. the legislation is sponsored by chair ronen at our meeting and again approval

of this legislation will have no fiscal impact to the city as obligation is paid entirely from payments by the bar and no pledge made by the city. we have any question, happy to address them. thank you. >> thank you so much. any questions colleagues? no. seeing none, if we can please open these items for public comment. >> yes, madam chair. members of the public who wish to speak on the item and in joing in person line up now to speak. for those listening remotely call 415-655-0001 and meeting id24998489506 press pound twice. once connected press star 3 to enter the speaker line. continue to wait until the system waits you are unmuted. that is your queue to begin comments. we have no in-person speakers in the chamber. madam chair we have no one on queue. >> public comment is closed. i just wanted to appreciate the work on item number 7

on the issuance and sale of bonds for the progress foundation, progress foundation is a essential essential part of our mental health treatment system in san francisco and the organization does extraordinary work that is progressive over time and understanding substance abuse and mental illness doesn't always follow a linear track, but people go up and down in terms of wellness and illness and that the system accommodates for that. but not only that, progress foundation truly believes that every individual can get well and can lead productive lives, so i want to say it is a honor to be sponsoring item number

7 and i want to thank everyone for their hard work on these items. with that, i like to make a motion to send items 6 and 7 to the full board with positive recommendation. >> on that motion to send the resolution in items number 6 and 7 to the full board with positive recommendation. [roll call] >> we have 3 ayes. >> the motions pass unanimously. thank you so much. please read itedm 8. >> item number 8. resolution retroactb authorize the department of public works to accept and expend $2.4 million from the california department of transportation clean california local enhancement program to up grade facilities on the state highway system in support of south of market street tree nursery project for

a term of march 1, 2022 through june 30, 2023. approving authorizing public works to enter into a cooperative agreement with caltrans regarding project construction and implementation and affirming the california department of transportation determination under ceqa. members of the public who joining remotely and wish to comment please call 415-655-0001, enter id24998489506. press pound twice. once connected press star 3 enter the speaker line. the system prompt will indicate you raised your hand and when you are unmuted that is your queue to begin comments. madam chair. >> thank you, we have john suede from dpw to present on this item. >> good morning, john sway there contract and grant manager for san francisco public works. here

today to request the committee approval of the next step resolution to allow public works to accept and expend $2.4 million in funded to the state department of transportation clean california local enhancement program. thefunding will be used to construct a new street tree nursery environmental education center and work force training silet on a vacant caltrans free way parcel between 5 street on and off ramp at harrison and brian street and south of market neighborhood. you can see the site and proposed improvements behind me here. funded improvements include security fencing and gates, modular office building, landscaping, public art, vehicle access and electrical and water service. the space will be utilized for growing storing container trees planted on streets throughout the city, educational and volunteer programming is also envisioned at the site. the resolution is considered retroactive because the funding agreement includes a march 2022

start date however public works has not accepted the money nor signed agreement yet. thank you for considering recommendation of this resolution to full board. >> thank you so much. call olleagues any questions? supervisor mar. >> i just wanted to thank dpw for your work on this. this is really exciting new development in our street tree program so thank you and i just had a question. just to understand how this fits into the department overall or ongoing street tree plan and strategy. is this replacing--where is the work currently happening right now? how would this new facility increase our-the

department or city capacity to nurture and plant more trees in the city? >> thank you supervisor mar. this is part of the effort to expand street tree planting city wide in san francisco and by creating a street tree nursery-a main region is the public works maintenance yard on cesar chavez we have very little area to store trees for planting and no space to grow trees so this will allow to store and manage and stage trees for planting activities we are intending to increase over the coming years and in addition many trees we wish to plant in san francisco are not common in the commercial nursery trade, so this includes native trees we would like to plant more of in san francisco and also trees we are more well acclimated to the local climate to allow us to avoid

some of the sourcing problems we had with trees. that will contribute and also just the goals in terms of educating the public, this is a high visibility location and will allow to celebrate urban forestry in san francisco and crebt to the greening of south of market neighborhood and environmental justice impact of the free way. this is a early part of the plan to increase street tree planting over the years as we grow trees and cycle through more trees for planting as we hope to generate more funding for tree planting with the help of the board over the coming years. >> absolutely. i'm really committed to supporting that expansion of the street tree planting and to meet our urban forestry plan goals. is this-is this the first-department first dedicated street tree nursery? i want to understand the

significance of this and up to now the department just use spaces at existing facilities for other purposes for storage and nurturing of trees? >> yes, this is a first for us. we have not been growing trees ourselves. other departments have done that, i believe rec park and many native plant nurseries but public works has not operated a nursery for street trees so this is a new venture. >> very exciting. i also love the environmental education and the connection to the south of market neighborhood. thank you so much. i like to be added as a cosponsor to this. >> can you please open the item up for public comment. >> yes, members who wish to speak on the item and joining in person line up now to speak. listening remotely call 415-655-0001. the id

is 24998489506. pres pound twice. uns with connected press star 3 to enter the speaker line, wait until the system indicates the system is unmuted and begin your comments. no in person speakers in the chamber. madam chair, there are no speakers in the queue. >> public comment is now closed. like to do the honor supervisor mar. sorry. >> no big deal. i want to say ip want to thank public works for this. we invest significant time in my district over the last few years, planted over 2,000 trees and very concerned about expanding the tree canopy, so really excited bet the opportunity to have a nursery, so want to thank public works for their hard work on this and thinking about the future of trees in the city as we confront the climate change challenges. please add me as a

cosponsor. >> i like to move we send the item to full board with positive recommendation. >> on that motion by member mar that this resolution forward to full board with positive recommendation. [roll call] we have 3 ayes. >> motion passes unanimously. mr. clerk can you read item 9? >> item 9 ordinance amending the administrative code to authorize the tax collector to establish procedures for the consideration of delinquent property tax penalty cancellation when the dedelinquency is due to the city failure to send a notice to the tax to the owner of the prairpt acquired after the lien date on the secured roll, and

to delegate the authority to the grant such penalty cancellations to the tax collector. [providing public comment instructions] madam chair. >> thank you. supervisor safai. >> thank you. colleagues i introduced this item at the request of the treasurer tax collector office. we confronted a situation like this where the lien was assessed property changed hands and new owner not made aware. usually happenwise family trust so we want to delegate the authority to treasurer tax collector to resolve the situations. we are joined by eric mankey from the trexier tax collector office. >> thank you supervisors. good afternoon now i think. chair ronen. as supervisor

safai mentioned and we appreciate your sponsorship, this ordinance allows the tax collector to wave delinquent property tax penalties if the delinquency is due to the city failure to send tax bill to new home owner. there is a narrow timeframe where new property owners may not receive a property tax bill because their purchase occurs after the secure role is finalized and after the property tax bill has been print ed. this ordinance which is simply authorize the tax collector to wave any delinquent properties associated with this specific circumstance. provided the taxes are paid by june 30 of that fiscal year as the supervisor mention california law does allow this and we ask for your support so we can (inaudible) unique situation for new home owners. thank you and happy to answer any questions. >> great. any questions? thank you for being

here. mr. clerk, can we please open the item up for public comment? >> yes, members of the public who wish to speak on the ordinance and joining in person line up now to speak. those listening remotely call 415-699-0001. enter the meeting id and press pound twice. press star 3 to enter the speaker line. please wait until the system indicates you are unmuted and that is the queue to begin your comments. seeing no in-person speakers in the chamber--madam chair, there are no speakers in the queue. >> thank you. public comment is now closed. supervisor safai would you like to do the honors? >> yes, like to send the item to full board with positive recommendation. >> roll call vote. >> on the motion by vice chair safai the ordinance forward to full board with positive recommendation. [roll call]

we have 3 ayes. >> that motion passes unanimously. mr. clerk, do we have any other items on the agenda today? >> madam chair, that completes our business. >> meeting is adjourned. [meeting adjourned]

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provide small business owners with education. we have had some great experience doing what you might call pop ups or temporary selling events, and maybe the most recent example was one that we did as part of sf made week in partnership with the city seas partnership with small business, creating a 100 company selling day right here at city hall, in partnership with mayor lee and the board of supervisors, and it was just a wonderful opportunity for many of our smaller manufacturers who may be one or two-person shop, and who don't have the wherewithal to have their own dedicated retail store to show their products and it comes back to how do we help companies set more money into arthur businesses and develop more customers and their relationships, so that they can

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>> we are providing breakfast, lunch, and supper for the kids. >> say hi. hi. what's your favorite? the carrots. >> the pizza? >> i'm not going to eat the pizza. >> you like the pizza? >> they will eat anything. >> yeah, well, okay. >> sfusd's meal program right now is passing out five days worth of meals for monday through friday. the program came about when the shelter in place order came about for san francisco. we have a lot of students that depend on school lunches to meet their daily nutritional

requirement. we have families that can't take a hit like that because they have to make three meals instead of one meal. >> for the lunch, we have turkey sandwiches. right now, we have spaghetti and meat balls, we have chicken enchiladas, and then, we have cereals and fruits and crackers, and then we have the milk. >> we heard about the school districts, that they didn't know if they were going to be

able to provide it, so we've been successful in going to the stores and providing some things. they've been helpful, pointing out making sure everybody is wearing masks, making sure they're staying distant, and everybody is doing their jobs, so that's a great thing when you're working with many kid does. >> the feedback has been really good. everybody seems really appreciative. they do request a little bit more variety, which has been hard, trying to find different types of food, but for the most part, everyone seems appreciative. growing up, i depended on them, as well, so it reminds me of myself growing up.

>> i have kids at home. i have six kids. i'm a mother first, so i'm just so glad to be here. it's so great to be able to help them in such a way because some families have lost their job, some families don't have access to this food, and we're just really glad to be the tenderloin is home to families, immigrants, seniors, merchants, workers and the housed and unhoused who all deserve a thriving neighborhood to call home. the tenderloin initiative was launched to improve safety,

reduce crime, connect people to services and increase investments in the neighborhood. as city and community-based partners, we work daily to make these changes a reality. we invite you to the tenderloin history, inclusivity make this neighborhood special. >> we're all citizens of san francisco and we deserve food, water, shelter, all of those things that any system would. >> what i find the most fulfilling about being in the tenderloin is that it's really basically a big family here and i love working and living here. >> [speaking foreign language] >> my hopes and dreams for the

tenderloin are what any other community organizer would want for their community, safe, clean streets for everyone and good operating conditions for small businesses. >> everything in the tenderloin is very good. the food is very good. if you go to any restaurant in san francisco, you will feel like oh, wow, the food is great. the people are nice. >> it is a place where it embraces all walks of life and different cultures. so this is the soul of the tenderloin. it's really welcoming. the. >> the tenderloin is so full of color and so full of people. so with all of us being together and making it feel very safe is challenging, but we are working on it and we are getting there. there's so much involved with becoming a firefighter.

and as a component of being a woman in the field, it takes a lot of perception. it takes belief in yourself. it takes asking the right questions of people who already have the job so that you have the confidence to build it and it takes someone telling you that this job is a possibility for you. my job has given me 25 years of satisfaction. the primary thing is that i grew up here in san francisco and i'm serving in the city where i grew up. i transitioned to community training and i was able to build disaster resilient padre of volunteers and bringing us all the latest information so that we can be ready for a disaster. pride and loyalty are the heart of a firefighter. it's in the way we do our job from the very smallest thing from our everyday checks we do of our equipment. from the way that we treat each other and the community we come in contact with every day. and loyalty is to our own families is to the pride we have in this department. it's to the other members when

we're out in a dangerous situation keeping each other safe. it goes throughout every aspect of being a firefighter. i'm really proud of the way our department approaches diversity, equity, and inclusion. i was hired in a class that had 45 people and 17 women. it was an accomplishment at the time, but there were many women that came before me that laid the ground work and i had to see it to be it. someone had to recruit me into this job. i didn't know it was a possibility for myself. and so the importance of young women seeing what it takes to be a firefighter, seeing themselves when they look at me. it really brings myself a lot of pride and joy in this work.. >> neighborhood in san francisco are also diverse and fascist as the people that inhabitable them we're in north beach about

supervisor peskin will give us a tour and introduce is to what think of i i his favorite district 5 e 3 is in the northwest surrounded by the san francisco bay the district is the boosting chinatown oar embarcadero financial district fisherman's wharf exhibit no. north beach telegraph hill and part of union square. >> all of san francisco districts are remarkable i'm honored and delighted to represent really whereas with an the most intact district got chinatown, north beach fisherman's wharf russian hill and knob hill and the northwest waterfront some of the most wealthier and inning e

impoverished people in san francisco obgyn siding it is ethically exists a bunch of tight-knit neighborhoods people know he each other by name a wonderful placed physically and socially to be all of the neighborhoods north beach and chinatown the i try to be out in the community as much as and i think, being a the cafe eating at the neighborhood lunch place people come up and talk to you, you never have time alone but really it is fun hi, i'm one the owners and is ceo of cafe trespassing in north beach many people refer to cafe trees as a the living room of north beach most of the clients are local and living up the hill come and meet with each other just the way the united states

been since 1956 opposed by the grandfather a big people person people had people coming since the day we opened. >> it is of is first place on the west that that exposito 6 years ago but anyone was doing that starbuck's exists and it created a really welcoming pot. it is truly a legacy business but more importantly it really at the take care of their community my father from it was formally italy a fisherman and that town very rich in culture and music was a big part of it guitars and sank and combart in the evening that tradition they brought this to the cafe so many characters around here everything has incredible stories by famous folks last week the cafe that

paul carr tennessee take care from the jefferson starship hung out the cafe are the famous poet lawrence william getty and jack herb man go hung out. >> they work worked at a play with the god fathers and photos he had his typewriter i wish i were here back there it there's a lot of moving parts the meeting spot rich in culture and artists and musicians epic people would talk with you and you'd get hi, sandy, how are you? >> hi, fine, thank you. how are you? >> good. i want to ask you what inspired you to be a paramedic? >> that's a good question. you know, i wanted to go into med school and after i found

out how much time it took and all of that, i decided that that was going to be a little too much schooling, but i still wanted to figure out a way that i could provide medical care and doing that as an emt as well as a paramedic was a way to do that. >> can you give me a break down of a typical day for you? >> i come to work and sit at my desk and then i respond to e-mails and try to figure out what are some of the issues we need to address. can we hire more people. what kinds of policies we want to try to create that will help us do our job as ems. >> what does it take to be a female paramedic? >> you know, it takes quite a bit of schooling, but also required somebody who's empathetic. it can be a very stressful job and so we want people to be able to hand that on a day-to-day basis. >> so what's your greatest satisfaction in your job? >> trying to make sure that the work that we provide and the

services that we provide to the community is the best that we can in ems so that when we go out to see you if you call us for an emergency, that we'll be able to treat you in the best way possible and that you get the care as quickly and as effectively as possible. >> why is it important for young girls, women of color to see women in these roles? >> i think it really is important for us to be able to get into these roles because we are effective, we are able to reach out to the community. we are able to do the job in a very effective manner and to be able to relate to the community and be able to do that is one of the best things that we can do. and people of color and as women of color, you know, we are in a great position to be able to do that.

>> really want to thank folks for joining us this morning for a host of reasons. i'm also very privileged this morning to actually serve as the mc. we will take you on a story today. one that we are not just so proud of, but everyone that is going it to have this experience today will leave i think excited, proud, but most importantly i hope energized for the work we are going to continue. today is marking an important moment. a important moment not just for home rise, not just for the city of san francisco, but really as we want to tackle homelessness. we for 30 years have known permanent supportive housing is the solutionmentf we also spnt 30 years building staff, building systems, building and supplying resources so people with secure housing but besome self-sufficient so we so sforchinate this is another shining example and also you will learn by jazzy

collins who jazzy collins is. i'm excited to introduce rick aubrey for brief introduction and framing of who we are and where we are go. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you gerald and as you can hear there is a bart training going underneath us as we speak. one of the many many obstacles that these amazing teams over-came over the last several years to get this building built. so, as joe mentioned i am the ceo of home rise rick aubrey. if i haven't had a chance to meet you. this project took as all projectss do in san francisco a lot of people working very hard for a very long time to get this done, so many folks here that i'm going to make a point of recognizing. some i

want to mention, michael cohen who is great partner since day 1. this was a public private partnership people said couldn't be done. it doesn't work, this is not how things happening in san francisco but thanks to strada and michael's effort, here it is. this is part of a much larger project that is going on, but they were very committed to the irk work we do at home rise, permanent supportive housing has to be a part of new construction that occurs in the city and they championed the work with the board of supervisors with two different mayors to make sure that this would happen. some of those early conversations which predated me were with my predecessor gale gilman who is here today. [applause] and as a institution home rise is more then any one of us but

it took the generation before me to be able to imagine this, to work with michael to work with the city to work with all of our partners. we are very grateful for the work gale made that happen. housing development at this project required many people to get this done. great team. gerald. serenea cal way here now and also helped carried forward. i remember the first day i got here when this wasn't a hole in the ground and snashing teeth is this going to happen and how to make it happen and had to deal with the fact there was a pandemic that hit us a few months after we started and are nobody wanted to lend to projects like this and provide fifanc. serenea lead the efforts to make it happen and here we are importantly and a little plug for home rise, not only are we here but here ahead of schedule. this is unprecedented in san

francisco. ahead of budget. a tribute to all of the generations of people who worked on this project to make it move forward. takes a lot of money to make a projbect like this work. if i leave anybody else my apologies but huge thanks to housing development to be a ernest and steadfast partner. we hit the pandemic thing. we all recall that was and all a sudden everything look like it would shut down have had a dilemma. do we sit and wait a year and mayor's office said, no we got to move forward with this. we are you partners and figure what it will take to finance this, if it takes unusual things and stretch what we normally do we will keep moving forward and we did. here we are, done ahead of schedules thank you to

the mayor's office of housing and community development. [applause] lots of other folks arefunding this as well. one of the great things about being on this site is this is a great union town and this is a union site and one of our essential partners in this has been the aflcio and their investment team and they are a core part of this so so proud to be union (inaudible) even more proud to be partnering with the aflcio to build housing for folks who are being pushed out of the e city and making this a possibility. we have funding from merchant capital a bank essential to make this work. in order it do this kind of work you need tax credit intervesting and enterprise community partners stood up and stood with us even during all the times during the

pandemic. we also have of course a great partnership with the state and california department of housing and community development is also core to making this work. unusually for a project like this, we also have a significant private foundation that when things were looking somewhat dire could we gelt across the finish line and make it work the harry fineburg foundation said the work you do is essential, permanent spoteive is the solution. unusual for a private foundation to provide funding but they did it. thank you to the wineburg foundation. also, earlyfunding came in from the federal home loan bank of san francisco, so we are grateful for that. let me also talk about the people who actually did the work. first and foremost the workers on this

project. [applause] some of us show up at the ground breaking and the ribbon cutting but every day all the works from suffolk construction were here rain and shine. whatever it took to get this done, they were here, they built it. amazing building we are so grateful to the union workers of suffolk who made the project so and it is beautiful building and you will get a chance to see it, but again, early. when do you get to say that in california? when do you get to say that in san francisco? this project came in earlier then promised so that is great thing and ua local 38 of course was a great partner in this. larry muzola is here. their site they could have done many different things with this project. they were really complited committed to what we are doing here

and so grateful larry to all your brothers and ist sisters you represent. i would be remiss if i didn't mention we were privileged and fortunate jazzy collins and friends and family of jazzy collins is on the door. most know jazzy collins was a fierce advocate for the work we do throughout the city. a first in so many ways in the city in terms of advocating for people not getting the respect they needed and we were so happy that we were able to include jazzy in this permanent testimony to her long work that she did in defense of and in support of and in fierce advocacy for the people in the city that we will now be able to serve in this building. so, [applause]

you know, she devoited a lifetime it to it, she did the work and so grateful for that. let me turn the platform if i might back to you gerald. many more folks you will hear from. let me just briefly mentiont that we have 3 board members from home rise. board members--sor ry-we have 4 board members from home rise. thank you very much for that. board members are a essential fabric of all non profits in the city. they work tirelessly. they make sure that the work gets done, here for the right reason for the core mission of the organization. they make sure we stay true to what we are trying to achieve so shealy, david and deborah, so grateful you were able to be here today. so grateful every keeping us true to what we signed up for

and give us the guidance to make sure we do it work we need to do. if i might, back to you gerald. [clapping] >> thank you so much. you ready for the first part of the story about jazzy? many of you know and think many are familiar with jazzy's place. but many may not be familiar with the intricacy, the importance of her story. jazzy wasn't someone at 13 years old knew she would be this amazing advocate. in fact, she in late 30 into 40 she realized and had the life experience that told here she needed to move. she needed to move effectively, she needed to move expeditiously and glad to bring up a partner that embodied the same sentiment and that is strada. so much what you see around you, you delivered on time, delivered on budget.

those are things jazzy believed in. she believed you had to step up, be there and make a way out of no way. i will not say we made a way out of no way because strada team does it all over it bay area but did it with us knowing the impact that this is the type of development that permanent supportive housing can live within, both the fiscal impact, the jobs created and most importantly not forget the convenience. bart is right here. think about the access that affords anyone in the community so grateful they partnered with us. michael will join us quickly but thank you william. sydney is out here somewhere. the entire team over at strada, thank you so much for keeping us humble. keeping focused and making sure we delivered on time. michael, please. [applause] >> thank you gerald. it is

nice every once in a while to be overcome with feeling proud about something, and i think gerald said at the beginning, this is a day for a lot of us to be really proud and there's two things that i'm most proud of about this project. the first is we have been checking, but i think this is the only supportive housing project for formally homeless individuals that is built on private property as part of a market rate development not just in san francisco history, but we haven't been able to foond a example of this anywhere in the state of california, and it is really quite awesome and as you heard from gerald and i'm sure you will hear more of, it takes a incredibly collaborative effort to make something like this work, and you heard all

the financial people who were integral related to the support of this effort. i do want to shout out and there is a bunch of them here, building a project like this on time and on budget in a pandemic is really hard, and i want to thank -we had great partnership from the city. i think i saw rich (inaudible) in the planning department and topea, judson true and his entire team. i was talking to robin a bit earlier, and it is not one thing, but it is over and over again, there is problem that if it is not going to be solved it will cause delay and cause budgets to sprirel out of control and having the city as a partner was incredibly partner. people have

been asking like how did you guys do isthe at this price. we started november 2020. we had an aggressive budget, an aggressive schedule, and if nothing else it is testament when you have really smart people, you put them in a position to succeed and they work their butts off and i want to shout out to will, to nick, to sydney, to steve to lee, to clark, to everybody on the strada team. there is a huge amount of resources. i think we had more people working on this building then we dild on the 3 other buildings and it is wort it because this project is good for the city, it is great for this neighborhoods and hundreds and hundreds of peoples lives will be better because of this project. the second thing i'm

immensely proud of is the fact that on time on budget during a pandemic, supply chain collapse and we did this project and think you heard gerald allude to it earlier, with 100 percent union labor. [clapping] and i hear it a lot, people say to you, you cant do it that way, you can't make this budget, you cant make this schedule with a 100 percent union job. you can tell them they are wrong, because we are living proof of it, so thank you. [applause] >> such a great segue into another really important speaker. impact on us and looking over at (inaudible) who is my colleague in housing who is negotiating our union labor agreement right now. we are so proud of the union

staff members who make up home rise. they are our front line. they are the reason not only does the brick and mortar impact live but the service and impact and being there consistently is one of the hall marks of not just supportive housing but 30 years making sure families are housed and stay housed and get better, they achieve self-sufficiency. but all part of that and our own union labor was very much complemented by what you see around here. excited to have larry come up and talk about the impact on not just union labor on this project but the long-standing commitment. larry. thank you. [applause] >> thank you larry muzol isa plumbers union local 38 and president of san francisco building trade council. thank you all for being here today. this is exciting day, proud day

for us. you guys takes a lot of smart people to build a building like this. i figured you would have done a eir for this event and had sunlight here but you screwed that up. anyway, i just want to say how proud i am in local 38 is of this development and it is long time coming when this property was bought in 1947, my grandfather joe muzolea had a vision of this but think he would be surprised of this part of it. 53 colten. we have done a lot. we helped the community out. we have gulf tournaments we like to give money to when we raise money for charities and we like to keep it local and do things for the citizens of san francisco. we have given to a lot of places in san

francisco that helps our kids thrive but i think this is probably the most important and exciting and most proud one we have done in partnership with strada to build supportive housing for homeless people and low income people that are going to have a permanent home and couldn't be more proud to be partners with strada and suffolk. cant say enough about suffolk and strada. they are a great team with us, and we got to this point and like michael said, and everybody said, to have a job like this come in under budget, under the timeframe, ahead of schedule that was built 100 percent union and we didn't do it with modural housing and someone came to me early on and said you need to build this modural it isn't going to work and said 100 percent no. it can happen on site and be built better and look at it. beautiful

building and done 100 percent union labor so any developer out there saying it cant be done, bull shit. i want to thank all the workers. they are already thanked but enough credit cant go to them because this doesn't happen with them and this is it proof that skilled labor what they can do and i'm proud of each and every one of the members that worked for all the different crafts and i want to thank them for the stand up working through the pandemic and this job actually kept a lot of members working like michael said during the pandemic. there was no other job that started when the pandemic hit. this job started and it is finished and it is a beautiful building and we appreciate the partnership we had. all the people involved in this so i want to say from our union as a partner with strada, thank you and we look forward to and we are

proud of this commitment and we cant wait to see it come to fruition when everybody is moved in, so thank you. [applause] >> in the fall we were at the richardson apartments and the (inaudible) was with us. the bart is going by as you can hear. and secretary fudge was with us and we were on the roof and i pointed over and said ipa few mujts we will be opening a new building and who i dident know was standing behind me was the mayor and in that time and space i realized something that is important and i really hope everyone understands why jazzy collins and this legacy. today we have a vice president who is a black woman from the bay area, secretary fudge who is a black women, a mayor who is a

black woman, a black women at hsh. that is progress and that is what jazzy was talking about, the advocacy and glass ceiling and path she created for us but so grateful are we we have a mayor who is blazing that trail keeping it moving, delivering over 1500 units of permanent supportive housing and the economic impact each of these jobs creates support and retain. grateful today not only do we get to acknowledge the legacy and progression with jazzy collins we have a mayor that will keep pushing us forward. please welcome the honorable mayor breed. [applause] >> thank you jerome and thank you to home rise and thank you to strada and local 38. it is good to be here with each and every one of you to celebrate jazzy collins

apartment complex that truly does represent jazzy collins and her legacy and what she fought for here in san francisco for so long. let me just take us back just a tad bit because when muzola and i were kids growing up in san francisco even though i know he looks a lot older then i am, we are basically the same age, we grew up in a city where it had its challenges but we saw a lot of possibilities. we saw the possibility for a better life, a better opportunity and we in fact you know, i'll be honest, homelessness even existed back then, but it want as problematic and it seems to be because as someone who grew up in public housing, as someone who grew up around a lot of affordable development, one thing that even through our challenges of poverty and sometimes substance

use disorder there was still a opportunity to access housing in some capacity. the people who built this city lived in the city, the people who worked in the city for the city and county of san francisco lived in the city. the people who started businesses in the city lived in the city and over the years something has changed. we can point to a number of challenges that existed that made things difficult for us to continue to move forward as aggressively as we should to build housing and who access the housing. we can talk about the challenges of those things, but today we have a real solution. we have a real tonight. we know what happens when we come together and we put aside our differences and we focus on what needs to be done. and specifically in my homeless recover y plan, we already as we committed built a thousand units of permanently supportive housing

with 1500-we built and got about a thousand more in the pipeline and these 96 units that are for people who struggle with homelessness. this is a game-changer. when we provide a opportunity without the layers of bure ocacy that make it difficult for people to access housing we make a dif rnsh ference in san francisco and when we have partners who believe in this because this land, all of this is a legacy of the plumbers union with muzola, jr. grandfather who we know a park will be named for him people in the city can enjoy. the fact that he was willing to work with this city and partner to do something to give back to the city that he loved is significant. this place is born out of working together out of relationship, out of really trying to combat some of the real challenges

that exist in san francisco. this is what happens when we put aside our differences and we make something happen for the people here in san francisco. so, yes i know we have our problems and i see former supervisor jane kim here. thank you so much for your work helping to get this project done in our city because it did take a village to get us here. but it is also going to take that village to continue to stay together to get us even further until not one person is sleeping on the streets of san francisco. until not one family is sleeping out on the streets of san francisco. untul we do a better job to address the challenges and disparities and access to this housing for the people that we knew know need it the most. that really represents san francisco values at its best and today as we

celebrate i truly want to thank our partners who make it possible. who make it possible to do extraordinary work like this. my favorite favorite favorite thing of any project and believe this is probably the first project that i even saw in the notes and had to read it again because i couldn't believe it muzola, on time and under budget. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] >> thank you your honor. as always privileged to be a part of the solution and moving things forward. i have one more guest. as rick pointed out not only does it take money but it takes money to not do it once but again and again and we have a unique partner in merchant capital who not only stood and supported this projpect but we will put another 58 units in

rehab and keep this going. we are serious about the solution and serious about the partners who make it happen every day. lee. [applause] >> good afternoon. lee auler the executive vizdant of merchant capital out of caramel indiana and i run the chicago office. this was such a collaboration working on this project together. it started in the middle of a pandemic. you had forest fires, people were exiting the city. we never met a single person until this grand opening. i'm meeting everybody for the first time because i met you all over zoom. we spent months together, collaborating so i have to take a couple minutes here to thank a couple people and merchant capital is in partner with the

housing investment trust. i worked with the housing investment trust all most 30 years and any time that my bank and the housing investment trust can partner together to create housing, affordable housing with hundred percent union labor i'm on board. it takes a lot of extra effort, but it is well worth it and as you can see the 96 units is beautiful. at merchant capital affordable housing is not a secondary line of business. it is not a after-thought. we are the third largest affordable housinglener in the country and we are so excited to be a part of jazzy collins. again, i want to give a special thanks to my partners in the afl housing investment trust, but also to the skilled union labor workers. without the general contractor of suffolk construction, we still be looking at blue prints today. to wrap it up. i to

say how proud i am to be a part of this from merchant capital and celebrate the successful completion of jazzy collins apartment. the life changing benefits that will house people and that is what is important to the city of san francisco. thank you so much. [applause] >> alright. we all learned a little about how and why we are here. now let's go see this building. we are going to-thank you. we are going to do this in hopefully a way in which everyone really does get to see what does it really mean to be a part of a 500 unit mixed use multistage development. i want you to feel our building. i want you to know what we are proud of and really what we are now setting as a standard. i would love for folks to please join the mayor downstairs. we are going to unveil the heart of

this building. we--yeah. i'm going to talk about jazzy downstairs. i'm going to have-(inaudible) dolores street to talk about jazzy's place and have hsh join us and also seen ocd join up so grateful for everyone to be here. please join us downstairs as we do a quick cutting of it ribbon then we will get into property tours and lunch. thanks everybody. one more part of the program downstairs. [applause] >> [difficulty hearing speaker] both organizations recognize and honored jazzy

collins her advocacy, impact on the community and support of lgbtq seniors and other san francisco. it is exciting to be able to honor this space and recognize the services both (inaudible) to the san francisco community. at home rise we work with our residents to increase self-sufficiency once in housing. to heal from the trauma of homelessness experience and rebuild community and connection with each other within the building and within the broader neighborhood. i believe that this really speaks to the heart of jazzy collins hopes and passions and efforts and we as (inaudible) continue working in that (inaudible) at this point i think we are ready to officially do the unveiling.

>> you want to take it this way. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! [cheers and applause] how pretty. >> happy pride. everyone. [applause] [crowd noise].

[music] >> amazing. incredible for the city. for the citizens. for our visitors and the fire department and our public safety partners to come together today and to celebrate pride weekend. >> i came because this is my first, year of pride and i wanted to experience with my mom. i'm most excited for everything i will see. celebrities just surrounded by so many fun people. my besties. we'll have a great time. >> >> i'm most excited about the expression of freedom and things

which have to be this way well is no other way to do it. everybody is wrong and we should all be like the pride people and proud to be who we are >> we are here to celebrate pride >> san francisco pride. it is my first one experiencing the new atmosphere and learning. >> my first one, too. >> so close we could not pass it up. it is san francisco it is the biggest ones can you pass it up. [crowd noise] [music] [crowd noise] >> it means everything that we have a common goal a common operating picture and a common mission. it is great to be together and walk together and show that. [crowd noise] [sirens].

the message is the lbgtq community is reflect in the our police department in san francisco. it sends a message that there are members of the department the police department, sheriff's department, fire department that are just like the people that we encounter in san francisco. and i think it sends a message of hope the more we honor the lbgtq community now, the stronger we can be in standing up against those that don't want our representation. [crowd noise] [music] >> [speaking spanish] [speaking

spanish]. [crowd noise] [music] [music] [drums] [crowd noise] this is my first

time at the san francisco pride even though i have been here a couple years, i felt like now was the time to go. um -- really just coming to show my support and love for the whole community out here. um, i'm really excited to be here today. >> i think i am most excited be such an arc mazing community come together. just the love and support i think that especially in san francisco, um, people bring together it is this such a deep feeling. and i'm excited feel that today. [crowd noise] [music] [music]

[sirens] [music] [crowd noise] whoa! [music] [cars honking] [sirens]

[music] [horns] we never been to a parade or something like that. >> i'm excited for the parade never been to an actual pride parade. pretty pumped. [crowd noise] [music] i'm

excited celebrate with all of my queer people and to stand together in a hard time like we affirm each other and support each other. >> same, ditto. >> [laughter]. [music] [crowd noise]. you love who you want to love >> happy pride. >> happy pride! >> go san francisco! happy pride! happy pride. >> happy frigin pride,

everybody. [music] [music] happy pride! of [laughter] [music]

>> growing up in san francisco has been way safer than growing up other places we we have that bubble, and it's still that bubble that it's okay to be whatever you want to. you can let your free flag fry -- fly here. as an adult with autism, i'm here to challenge people's idea of what autism is. my journey is not everyone's

journey because every autistic child is different, but there's hope. my background has heavy roots in the bay area. i was born in san diego and adopted out to san francisco when i was about 17 years old. i bounced around a little bit here in high school, but i've always been here in the bay. we are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to emp. we don't turn anyone away. we take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. the most common thing i hear in my adult life is oh, you don't seem like you have autism. you seem so normal. yeah. that's 26 years of really,

really, really hard work and i think thises that i still do. i was one of the first open adoptions for an lgbt couple. they split up when i was about four. one of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my biological mother, who is also a lesbian. very queer family. growing up in the 90's with a queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here, i felt safe. i was bullied relatively infrequently. but i never really felt isolated or alone. i have known for virtually my entire life i was not suspended, but kindly asked to not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change. the school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. one of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so

they know what it's about, but my parents wanted my life to be safe. when i have all the neurological issues to manage, that was just one more to add to it. i was a weird kid. i had my core group of, like, very tight, like, three friends. when we look at autism, we characterize it by, like, lack of eye contact, what i do now is when i'm looking away from the camera, it's for my own comfort. faces are confusing. it's a lack of mirror neurons in your brain working properly to allow you to experience empathy, to realize where somebody is coming from, or to realize that body language means that. at its core, autism is a social disorder, it's a neurological disorder that people are born with, and it's a big, big spectrum. it wasn't until i was a teenager that i heard autism in

relation to myself, and i rejected it. i was very loud, i took up a lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space let everybody else know where i existed in the world. i didn't like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared. i was very difficult to be around. but the friends that i have are very close. i click with our atypical kiddos than other people do. in experience, i remember when i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me because it hurt. i remember throwing chairs because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it meant that i couldn't cope. i grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i

got development cal -- developmental psychology from all sides. i recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of that, and not everybody's in a position to have a family that's as supportive, but there's also a community that's incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. it was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what? i'm just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male. i have a two-year-old. the person who i'm now married to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasn't sure, so i went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth

control, so there's no way you can be pregnant. i found out i was pregnant at 6.5 months. my whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. i think i've finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. i think the access to care for parents is intentionally confusing. when i did the prospective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. we have a place where children can be children, but it's very confusing. i always out myself as an adult with autism. i think it's helpful when you know where can your child go. how i'm choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as

much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy. how do -- speech therapy. how do you explain that to the rest of their class? i want that to be a normal experience. i was working on a certificate and kind of getting think early childhood credits before i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in san francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i don't really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight person's perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and i'm like absolutely. so i'm now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. i love growing up here. i love what san francisco represents. the idea of leaving has never

occurred to me. but it's a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. what i've done with my life is work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that we're still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a resource center, and this resource center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. i would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. so many things that i would love to do that are all about changing people's minds about certain chunts, like the transgender community or the autistic community. i would like my daughter to know there's no wrong way to go through life.

everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all of those things are temporary. >> good morning everyone. thank you all so much for being here today to mark the completion of the all new southeast family health center. [applause] >> yeah. my name is carla short the entroom director for san francisco public works and i have the honor kicking off the festivities. i'll turn it over to mayor breed in a moment but ypt to tell you one thing that stuck out for me for this project and that is teamwork. this is a collaborative effort from start to finish. public works lead design project management and construction management and worked very closely with the department of public health, which will operate this amazing

facility, a clinic that plays a critical control in the bayview and san francisco neighborhood health center network. the arts community helped enrich interior can art work and local agencies and initiative helped pitch in with funding. we had more then 40 contractors collaborate on this project and much of the labor came from local residents. it is always great to see when a project can help support jobs in our community. the driving force of course have been the community members who made sure the city delivered. the community partnership has been the foundation of this project success. and i reallypt to note the beautiful glass wall that is designed to welcome the community to this building. this is meant to be a building for the community. -thank you. yes. [applause] i doopt to take a moment to thank some of our great public works teams who helped shepherd the project along.

some of the key players include our city architect ron alameda who is here. the bureau of architectural manager julia loe also here. the project architect charles king and richard gee. i know i saw charles earlier. the lead design architect, greta jones. project manager, (inaudible) and construction manager (inaudible) ed ryan. from the drawing work to work on side the project managem construction helped make the important project come to life creating spaces that bring people together and express community vision for itself. thank you also to the fantastic artists and i hope everyone will get a chance to see the beautiful art inside. (inaudible) yes.

[applause] ron sanders and william rodes who contributions have infused beauty culture and love into this project. and finally, i want to thank san francisco voters who support of the health band was crucial. so, that thank you everyone who played such an important part in the amazing project and i like to invite mayor breed who has shown incredible leadership during the pandemic and throughout her tenure and amplified the importance of our public health system. madam mayor. [applause] >> thank you carla and you had me at on time and under budget. really excited about the new southeast family health center that is finally i believe a dream realized. in fact, a lot of the work that former supervisor sophie

maxwell did while on the board of supervisors and i want a member of the redevelopment agency commission with all the stuff going on here and oscar james would come to the meetings and fight for this community and the fact that we are starting to finally realize a lot of the promises made to the bayview, a lot of the decisions that we are making have everything to do with input of the people of this community and it has taken a long time, but here we are. we know how important having a community health center is. in fact during the global pandemic with a lot of uncertainty and fear, part of the work we did into the emergency response had everything to do with the southeast health center that is located there and they were able to work with us to set up a place to do testing and when the time came for the

vaccine they were the place that first got the vaccine in order to serve this community. but more importantly, to make sure that we work with the community. that we provide the resources and part of that is making sure that we are coming together not that we are dictating what should happen in the community but how we work together in order to make these things possible. and i want to take us back a little bit, yes, these bonds that the voters passed on a regular basis help us to build projects like this and this bond passed in 2016, which not only made it possible for the southeast health family health center here we built from scratch, which is a beautiful building, but it also made it possible for us to remodel max ine hall in the fillmore making sure people in the community get services. half the people served in the facility next door are african american. over 40

percent are people from the bayview hunter point community so we know when we build it they will come because we know the need is so critical in this community to make sure there is a place within close proximity of where you live, a place you can come and a place that is culturally sensitive about the needs of our community. i'm glad and excited about this and looking forward to seeing this place, become not just a place you come when things when you are having problems but a place you come for preventative care. a place you come to canggregate and hang out like the george davis senior home and i see cathy davis here. we know community is so important and this new health facility is about community, and i love the fact that 3 african american men artist who are part of the amazing community in san francisco had a opportunity to

showcase not object their art but their art as reflection of the community so this truly is your southeast health center here in the bayview hunters point. [applause] i know everybody is anxious to get in here and get a back seat or-vaccine or booster or get things checked out. it is okay, doctor, privilege. none of your business will be in the street so dont worry about that. before we get started and cut the ribbon and get this place open to the public, i want to introduce the supervisor for your district, the president of the board of supervisors, walton. [applause] >> thank you so much madam mayor. good morning everybody! this truly is an exciting day for us in bayview

hunters point. before i say a few words i want to pay homage to the folks who made sure we had a health center. some may recall we were getting sent to silver. some may recall the health system saying we can go over places to receive services but we had giant fight to make sure this health center existed in our community. i want to say a few names and know i'll miss names and some will curse me after i get off the podium. a lot of people fought to make sure we had this new health center. they served orn advisory committee, put in hours and time to make sure this happen. (inaudible) carpenter. thank you for your work. he looks younger then i am even though he has been doing this decades. commissioner

richardson. dr. jackson. my aunt, williams and so many community giants oscar james and a lot of folks are depicted on the quilt you will see inside so when you get a chance to look at the amazing art the mayor talked about, make sure you look at the art, try to understand the history behind it because so many fought for this to happen. if i didn't mention your name understand i love you and charge to my head not my heart. i want to give a big shout to supervisor maxwell and supervisor cohen for there process of making this happen. as i had a chansh to take a tour earlier and look at the services that are going to be offered to our patients here ing the district and the growth having our own x-ray machines and x-ray techs on

site. private exam rooms and brand new facilities and making sure people understand you are cared about in the community and do everything we can to make sure you have the amenities and things you deserve and we know health care is a basic right so i thank dpw for the work on the building, department of public health for their work with community to make this happen because this work only happens when folks come together and realize that when you make noise, things can happen and most certainly that is what the community did. that is why we ended up here today and i appreciate that. as i see james richards who -mayor breed honored him with a day a few years ago and put up a billboard because of all the work he did putting people to work on facilities and buildings like this. it is important we remember and recognize how we all got here and the work that took place to get here. thank all you for showing up and community. thank you for

supporting the work and vision of making sure that we have the proper health care in the communities because we have the biggest disparities in health care as a black population so we have to make sure we have facilities, the care and programs ing place to address those health disparities. we love you, appreciate you and look at this new full facility. come in and take a tour after this press conference. thank you so much. [applause] my apologies--as the mayor talked about when this pandemic started, we were one of the first communities to step up and say we need testing right in our very own community. one of the first communities to step up and say we need vaccinations in our community and work closely with department of public health who did respond and heed the call and thank the leadership of dr.

colfax and seeing the project through fruition so have the honor and privileged introduced the department head lead for department of public health, dr. colfax. >> thank you and good morning everybody. it is great to be here and thank you mayor breed and thank you president walton. thank you dpw. acting director short for your work and it is amazing what is accomplished when community government came together and i just got a tour of the building and it is so incredibly inspiring. the physical spaces where we deliver care really matter. the quality of the building, the artwork on the wall and design and layout contribute to long-term health. there are few american cities that provide this level of direct care to the residents and deeply proud of the network 13 clinics including this new

state of the art building. in particularly the southeast family health center is a special place with service few neighborhood clinics have and already mentioned we now have-will be having x-ray on site, so you can get care when you need it, not have to go to another place to go to another place to get something. we have a new facility where we will be doing on-site optomry for eye exams. we call this low barrier access but is saying we are doing everything we can together to make it easy and convenient for people to get the medical serveess where they need it, where they need it all in one location and our first patients will be receiving care in this facility later this month. and already mentioned, this center is here today because

generations of wisdom and community activism. the bayview community came together and fought hard for federalfunding, which allows the initial building to be established back in 1979. i know a lot of people have been doing the work and also want to specifically thank mrs. olly burgess for her leadership and advocacy for the health scepter and shaped the new facility behind us today is a legacy of her incredible leadership. and this is a busy clinic. we serve over 4,000 patients a year and this new health center renews and expands the commit to help equity brings services for where they are needed most. i want to thank you who are part of the legacy including and especially our patient advocacy groups. because of the success of the clinic and the new building is because of the care you provide and relationships you

built. the future is bright and i do want to personally thank the dph team for their work including cathy jones. cathy i dont know if you are here but thank you for your work on that. to lisa (inaudible) and kate kim and long-term medical director keith seidel who mentioned 4 medical directors were involved created the building and entire ambulatory team. now it is my great pleasure to introduce a key leader and member of our southeast health center advisory board member oscar james. mr. james we met pre-pandemic in the old building where the board was meeting and i have to say it is astoubding this project came on time on budget because of you and others during a pandemic. that is just incredible, so it is a honor to work

with you and thank you for your support and leadership, because of you the gap in health care services you were so key in organizing to build the original southeast health clinic and because of your vision and leadership we are here today to inaugerate the new building so mr. james, my pleasure. please. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much. they already said my name so everyone know that already. but i want to say a couple things about my board members who are present right now. i like everyone to stand so everyone can see them. those who stand and raise your hand. these are the people who really made this possible. karen pierce, i wish you would stand

up. we have been dealing with this every since the 70 when we first got this property along with the model cities who bought the property when they were trying to take this health center to silver avenue and san bruno and we bought this property cht this property is deer to us in the community. a lot who do not know about this community. this particular property here is the old south basin, channel street project. one of the first projects built in bayview hunter point before they started building the houses on top of the hill. these houses were on stilts and when it would rain it would flood and people had to use (inaudible) we have done a lot of work in the community to make things possible for us to have the type of facilities we have now. dr. davis vision on senior housing. the

swimming pool. the redoing of the bayview park so we have a community now that is really has been thought of by people in the community, especially like a person like james richard. (inaudible) who played a very important part in this community. we have a plaque with numerous people in the community. a lot of people are missing but one thing i want you to focus on is the young men for action was the group in this community. when we started in 1966 during the riots, we made sure people in the community got jobs first and we only have 2 or 3 members left, which is james richards and dr. mayberry on the quilt. what i say to you young brothers and sisters in the community, if you say this is your community, fight and do something for your community. we started at the age

of 18 years old. 18 years old and we started with clubs. people talking about club, people are bad and all this and that. we only are this because of the vanguards. the south boys. the sheiks. they were the ones who made all this possible. you say this is your community, then act like it is your community, stop killing each other and come together and build the community for your kids. we are old g's now. we are old g's. i'm 76 year olds. i started at 18. it is you guys turn to do this now. it is your turn. if you dont step up to the plate all this is in vain. stop the killing. we dont need that. we need to know our history in the community, how the chinese, how the blacks, how the mexican americans made this community what it is today. with that, i didn't write no agenda, i talk from the shoulder. i

want each and every person to learn your history in the community and come together. if we say we are a community we the community of one. god bless to each and every one of you. [applause] >> thank you mr. james. thank you to all of our speakers and thank you all for being here today to celebrate this momentous occasion. with that, i would like to invite the speakers and other ribbon cutters to join us and cut this ribbon! >> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! [applause]

>> you're watching quick bites, the show that is san francisco. and today you're in for a real treat. oh, my! food inspired by the mediterranean and middle east with a twist so unique you can only find it in one place in san francisco. we're at the 55th annual armenian festival and bizarre. this is extra special not only because i happen to be armenian, but there is so much delicious food here. and i can't wait to share it with all of you. let's go.

armenia, culture and cusine has had much cultural exchanges with its neighbors. today armenian food infuses he flavor from the mediterranean, middle east, and eastern europe. >> this is our 55th year and in san francisco we're the largest armenian food festival and widely recognized as one of the best food festivals in the area. we have vendors that come up from fresno, from los angeles showing off their craft. we really feel like we have something for everyone in the neighborhood and that's really what it is, is drawing people to see a little bit of our culture and experience what we experience weekend in and weekend out. >> we are behind the scenes now watching the chef at work preparing some delicious armenian kabob. this is a staple in armenian cooking, is that right? >> absolutely, since the beginning of time. our soldiers used to skewer it on the swords. we have a combination of beef

and lam and parsley. and every september over 2000 pounds of meat being cooked in three days. >> after all that savory protein, i was ready to check out the fresh veggie options. >> this is armenian cheat sheet. it's tomatos and mint and olive oil. that makes summer food. and what i'm doing is i'm putting some nutmeg. it is kind of like cream cheese. in armenia when they offer you food, you have to eat it. they would welcome you and food is very important for them. >> in every armenian community we feel like we're a "smallville"age and they come together to put on something like this. what i find really interesting about san francisco is the blends of armenia that come together. once they are here, the way people work together at any age, including our grandmothers, our grandfathers, skewering the meat, it's fun to see.

fun to see everybody get together. >> we call it subarek. it's a cheese turn over if you want. we make the dough from scratch. we boil it like you do for la san i can't. >> the amount of love and karin fused in these foods is tremendous. they come in every day to prepare, cook and bake bread, all in preparation for this big festival. >> nobody says no. when you come them, they have to come tomorrow for the feast. >> what a treat it is to taste a delicious recipe, all made from scratch and passed down through generations. it really makes you appreciate the little things. >> it's one of the best festivals. it's outstanding, a marvelous occasion. >> we're outside checking some of the food to go options. i grabbed myself a ka bob sandwich, all kinds of herbs and spices. i'm going to taste this. looking fantastic. one of the best i've had in a long time.

you know it's delicious b i have just enough room for dessert, my favorite part. we're behind the scenes right now watching how all the pastries get made. and we've got a whole array of pastries here. honey and nuts and cinnamon, all kinds of great ingredients. this is amazing. here's another yummy pastry made with filo dough. oh, my god. really sweet and similar, it's lighter. this is what i like. we have a lovely row here. looks like a very delicious and exciting surprise. i'm going to bite into it. here we go. um. this is great with armenian coffee. now we're making some

incredible armenian coffee. >> we buy our coffee, they have the best coffee. they come from armenia, specially made. and would you like to try it? >> i would like to try. >> would you like sugar or no sugar? >> no sugar today. i'm so excited. really earthy. you can really taste the grain. i think that's what makes it so special. really comes out. i hope you try it. we're having a great time at the armenian festival. we ate, we saw, and we definitely conquered. i don't know about you, but i have to go down to the food. check out our blog for so much more at sf bites at tums abler.com. until next time, may the force be with you.

♪♪ ♪♪ >> first of all, everybody is welcome and we ask two things when they get here. one, that they try something they've never tried before. be it food or be it dancing or doing something. and if they feel like it was worth their while to tell one person and bring that person, that family member, that friend down the street to come with them. >> we're going to have to do a lot of eating so get ready. >> get ready. and you diet tomorrow. >> in 201,755.7 million passengers traveled through san francisco international airport. we have on average 150,000 people traveling through the airport every day. flying can be stressful so we have introduced therapy dogs to make flying more enjoyable.

the wag brigade is a partnership between the airport and the san francisco therapy animal assistant program to bring therapy animals into the airport, into the terminals to make passenger travel more enjoyable. i amgen fer casarian and i work here at san francisco international airport. the idea for therapy dogs got started the day after 9/11. an employee brought his therapy dog to work after 9/11 and he was able to see how his dog was able to relieve passenger's jitter. when we first launched the program back in 2013, our main goal was to destress our passengers however what we quickly found is that our animals were helping us find a way to connect with our pang.

passengers. we find there are a lot of people traveling through the airport who are missing their pets and who are on their road a lot and can't have pets and we have come in contact with a lot of people recently who have lost pet. >> i love the wag brigade. >> one of my favorite parts is walking into the terminals and seeing everybody look up from their device, today everybody is interacting on their cell phone or laptop and we can walk into the terminal with a dog or a pig and people start to interact with each other again and it's on a different level. more of an emotional level. >> i just got off an 11.5 hour flight and nice to have this distraction in the middle of it.

>> we look for wag brigade handlers who are comfortable in stressful situations. >> i like coming to airport it's a lot of fun and the people you talk to are generally people who are missing their dogs. >> they are required to compete a certification process. and they are also required to complete a k9 good citizen test and we look for animals who have experienced working with other organizations such as hospitals and pediatric units and we want to be sure that the animals we are bringing into the airport are good with children and also good with some of our senior travelers. i think toby really likes meeting kids. that is his favorite thing. he likes to have them pet him and come up to him and he really

loves the kids. >> our wag brigade animals can be spotted wearing custom vets and they have custom patches. >> there is never a day that repeats itself and there is never and encounter that repeats itself. we get to do maximum good in a small stretch of time and i have met amazing people who have been thrilled to have the interaction. >> the dogs are here seven days a week, we have 20 dogs and they each come for a two hour shift. >> there is a lot of stress when people have traveling so to from these animals around to ease the stress and help people relax a little bit. i think it's great. >> one of our dogs has special need and that is tristine.

he wears a wheel around. >> he has special shoes and a harness and we get it together in the parking lot and then we get on the air train. he loves it. little kids love him because he is a little lower to the ground so easy to reach and he has this big furry head they get to pet and he loves that. >> he doesn't seem to mind at all. probably one of the happiest dogs in the world. >> many people are nervous when they travel but seeing the dogs is just a wonderful relief. >> what i absolutely love most about it is the look on people's faces, so whenever they are stressed and flying is stressful these days you get these wonderful smile. >> i am the mom of lilo the pig

and she is san francisco's first therapy pig. >> lilo joined the wag brigade as our first pig. >> wag brigade invited us to join the program here and we have done it about a year-and-a-half ago. our visits last 1.5 to 2 hours and it does take a little bit longer to get out of the terminal because we still get a lot of attention and a lot of people that want to interact with lilo. >> i feel honored to be part of the wag brigade. it's very special to meet so many people and make so many feel happy and people that work here. it's been a great experience for me and a great experience for to

toby. >> it's been an extremely successful program, so the next time you are here, stop by and say hi. francisco. >> my name is fwlend hope i would say on at large-scale what all passionate about is peace in the world. >> it never outdoor 0 me that note everyone will think that is

a good i know to be a paefrt. >> one man said i'll upsetting the order of universe i want to do since a good idea not the order of universe but his offered of the universe but the ministry sgan in the room chairing sha harry and grew to be 5 we wanted to preach and teach and act god's love 40 years later i retired having been in the tenderloin most of that 7, 8, 9 some have god drew us into the someplace we became the network ministries for homeless women escaping prostitution if the months

period before i performed memorial services store produced women that were murdered on the streets of san francisco so i went back to the board and said we say to do something the number one be a safe place for them to live while he worked on changing 4 months later we were given the building in january of 1998 we opened it as a safe house for women escaping prostitution i've seen those counselors women find their strength and their beauty and their wisdom and come to be able to affirmative as the daughters of god and they accepted me and made me, be a part of the their lives. >> special things to the women that offered me a chance safe house will forever be a part of

the who i've become and you made that possible life didn't get any better than that. >> who've would know this look of this girl grown up in atlanta will be working with produced women in san francisco part of the system that has abused and expedited and obtain identified and degraded women for century around the world and still do at the embody the spirits of women that just know they deserve respect and intend to get it. >> i don't want to just so women younger women become a part of the the current system we need to change the system we don't need to go up the ladder we need to change the corporations we need more women like that and they're out there.

>> we get have to get to help them. >> >> good afternoon everyone and thank you so much for the warm welcome for the next district attorney for san francisco brooke jenkins. [applause] you know, going through this process really reminded me of just how resilient we are as a city. when i think about what we've