>> good afternoon. i was about to say good morning but we changed the meetings to the ju budget and finance committee meeting, i'm hillary ronen, and joined by safai and supervisor mar. our clerk is felipe and thank jason for broadcasting this meeting. mr. clerk, to you have announcements? >> thank you, madam chair. with our return to the chamber, a friendly reminder for those in attendance, please make sure the silence all cell phones and electronic devices and the supervisor are in hybrid meetings that allow in person attendance and providing public comment and providing it via telephone. public access is essential and taking public comment as follows, first public comment will be taken on each

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writing in the following ways, e-mail to myself, the budget and finance committee clerk at brent dot jalipa at sffgov dot org. if you submit public comment via e-mail it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as a part of the file and may sign your written comment via us postal service to our office in city hall, 1 dr. carlton b goodlook place, room 244, san francisco, california, 94102 and madam chair with our pending summer recess items, acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisor of september 6th unless otherwise stated. >> thank you so much. can you please read item no. one. >> yes, item no. one s resolution designating world journal to be the outreach community periodical of the city and county of san francisco for the chinese community.

-- miss bay, eastern south of market commission and bay view neighborhoods and provide outreach advertising for fiscal year 2022, the 2023, members of the public joining remotely and wish to comment, call 415-655-0001 and enter the meeting id of 24927999124. then press pound twice. once connected to the meeting, yes, once connected to the meeting, you'll need to press star three to enter the speaker line. the system will prompt you have raised your hand and when the system indicates you have been unmuted, you can begin your comments, madam chair. >> thank you. we have ms. carla here from the office of contractor, did you or from the city administrator's office and contract administration, do you have any remarks? >> no, i'm here to answer any questions, i wasn't planning to give a presentation >> fantastic. thanks for being

here. supervisor mar? >> thank you, chair ronen and, colleagues, we made some amendments at the last budget and finance committee meeting to this item which was really severed from another item that the board has already adopted and i'm going to be making one or proposing one further amendment but i did want to just start by saying that our chinese language newspapers have built up their readership and audience in distinct ways to serve different parts of the community and there is a large community of chinese-americans in san francisco as we all know with approximately 150,000 residents who speak mandarin and cant niece or another chinese dialect and the office of administration identified the periodical serving the chinese -- while this process could have gone smoothly, they are able to

designate one periodical for this category allowed by 1994 prop j ordinance passed by the voters. last week, oca spoke to the additional items in the severed resolution, clarifying their designation of when for outreach to the chinese community and also adding potrero that should have been in the eastern neighborhoods. in the resolution brought back to budget and finance today, i propose one additional amendment and that would be including world journal as a neighborhood newspaper allowed by the ordinance to ensure neighborhoods are more thoroughly covered, specifically the port la district and the sunset district. and these contracts awarded to periodicals for certain communities are clusters of neighborhoods are similar in monetary value. so colleagues, i have, i think you received a copy of the additional amendment that

introducing today that again, would add world journal to be the neighborhood outreach periodical for the portico neighborhood and sunset neighborhood and yeah. so, i urge your support on this. i'm happy to answer questions. >> okay. sorry, so we're going to have a different periodical to be the main advertising vehicle for different neighborhoods? >> yeah. so, again, this proposition j has three categories of designated periodicals for our city, official city outreach notice and one is citywide outreach and that's the examiner for what we adopted and another category is community outreach, specific

communities and the nguyen newspaper has scored the highest so or they're proposed in this resolution to be the designated chinese community outreach and then there's different periodicals of designated for specific neighborhoods that have neighborhood reach, so the port la was not included in the original legislation, so i'm proposing we add world journal as a neighborhood outreach newspaper for the portilo and it has been designated as the neighborhood outreach, i'm proposing we add additionally add world journal as a neighborhood outreach neighborhood for the sunset because we to have a large mandarin speaking population in my district. >> thank you for doing that. the port la is the neighborhood

with, i believe, the third largest chinese population and it's one that's in my district so i really appreciate you doing that and i support it, so thank you so much. if there's no further comment, we can open up this item for public comment. >> yes, madam chair. the members of the speak who wish to speak and joining in person should line up to speak and those joining remotely, call 415-655-0001 with the meeting id of 24927999124 and press pound twice and you'll be entered into the speaker line. and for those in the queue, wait until your an unmuted and that's your queue to begin your comments. yes. welcome. i'll start your time. >> honorable supervisor safai, supervisor mar and my name is

brenda. today, i'm here to speak on behalf of the world journal. a prominent chinese newspaper that service the chinese community in the bay area for over four decades. first, please accept our sincere apologies. we deeply regret it for our unintent errors when we file our application of san francisco community and neighborhood outreach advertising through the office of contract administration. the errors on our application have a result that we are not selected for the chinese community outreach newspaper. i believe that you all have -- will receive a letter from our president tina lee who have

clarified world journal is indeed a minority owned and woman owned business which is not reflected on our application. so, i'm here today asking for your consideration to add the world journal to be the chinese community outreach newspaper. thank you very much. [timer] >> thank you, brenda for your comments. seeing no additional speakers in the chamber, madam chair, we have no callers in the queue. >> public comment is now closed. >> yeah. thank you. i just wanted to also thank ms. carela from the office of contract administration and ms. po from the city administrator's office for your work on implementing prop j and ensuring that all of our diverse communities and

residents receive the public notices and we're utilizing all of our wonderful ethnic newspapers and neighborhood newspapers and community communication, thank you. colleagues, i would move we adopt the amendments as i have described and that we send this item to the full board as amended with a positive recommendation. >> can we have a roll call on those motions? >> on that motion, member mar, i'm sorry, to accept the amendments as read into the record and forward this to the full board as recommended. vice-chair safai? >> aye. >> safai aye. member mar? >> aye. >> mar aye. >> chair ronen? >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> that decision is passed unanimously. thank you. can you please read item for two. >> item no. two is a hearing to

e release of reserved funds to the san francisco public utilities commission, placed on budget and finance reserve by ordinance no. 4-13 (file no. 121007), in the amount of $12,000,000 to fund sfpuc transmission lines 7/8 upgrades project. members of the public joining remotely and wish to comment hearing, please call 415-655-0001 and meeting id24927999124 and press pound twice and enter star three to enter the system line and the system will prompt you have been entered the system and when you hear the line beep twice, you have been unmuted. madam chair? >> thank you so much. we have margaret from the puc who is going to present on this item.

>> good afternoon, can i proceed? >> yes, please do. >> thank you. good afternoon, chair ronen, supervisor safai and supervisor mar are. again, i'm margaret, division manager of hech hetchy water and power. thank you chair ronen for scheduling this hearing of the release of $12 million on budget and finance reserve for the transmission line 7/8 up grade project. as background in january 2013, the board of supervisors approved ordinance 4-13 that authorize spuc to enter into mitigation agreements for projects that impact as spuc power assets and require that any future funds in excess of $100,000 for a given mitigation agreement be placed on budget and finance committee reserve.

just to be clear, these are not city general funds or rate payer funds. they are mitigation payments that we are receiving from developers for impacts on our system. the spuc has identified three project clusters, totaling 21 active generation projects that would affect the spuc's transmission line 7 and 8. these transmission lines extend approximately 12.6 miles from the city's wonderful substation near oakdale to the stanford substation in modesto. the spuc is using the mitt fwags funds for the transmission lines 7 and 8 up grade project which will mitigate the risk imposed by the interconnection of these electric generating projects to the grid by modifying existing towers and reconducting transmission lines. the total estimated cost of the project is

$37.97 million. the spuc anticipates receiving a total of approximately $33.3 million in mitigation payments for the project including about 20.86 -- $20.86 million in payments already received and the balance in future payments. the remainder of the project budget, approximately $4.66 million would be funded through hech hetchy water and power capital property using bond fund and the project began january 1, 2020, and expected to be completed by january 31, 2025. the planning design and environmental review phases have been completed. funding for this portion of the project was covered by hetch hetchy water program. $5.2 million has been appropriated to date. as

mitigate funding becomes available, it's used to reimburse the capital improvement funds and june 28, 2022, the spuc commission approved the award of contract number hh-10007 to wilson utility construction company for a total of $23,980,141. in august 2020, the budget and finance committee approved the release of $9.47 million in mitigation payments held on reserve. of the $9.47 million previously released, $876 was spent for fees related to contract advertisement and $935,170 has been incumbent for construction management support. the remaining $8.53 million and

this requested release of $12 million will be used to fund construction. hetch hetchy will fund the balance cost. as mitt fwags funding becomes -- mitigation funds will be available, it will reimburse the capital improve the funds. hetch hetchy water and power request $12 million in reserves for our transmission line 7/8 upgrade project. thank you and i'm happy to answer any questions you might have. >> thank you so much. before questions, we have a report from the budget and legislative analyst. >> thank you, chair ronen. nick from the budget legislative analyst office. the department is requesting $12 million be released from committee reserve. the source of funds are mitigation payments from new electricity project owners that

connect to the grid and impact puc energy assets. the funds will be used to upgrade transmission lines that are impacted but the new connections and we show the budget of the project on page four of our report which is about $38 million and we recommend approval. >> thank you. any questions, colleagues? seeing none, we can open this item up for public comment. >> thank you madam chair. members of the public who wish to speak on this item and joining in person should line up to speak now. those listening remotely, call 415-655-0001 and enter the meeting id24927999124 and press pound twice and press three to enter into the speaker line. wait for the system to queue you have been unmuted ask that's your signal to begin comments. no speakers in the chambers, mr. atkins please unmute our caller. >> so, supervisors, once before

when this agenda item came before another committee i asked sfpuc in light of the rate and file taking place in the vicinity of the yosemite national park and the fire and so on and so forth, he wanted to know if this transmission lines will be put on the ground? and i wonder if the budget legislative analyst has taken this into account. you can spend millions of dollars now upgrading the high powered

transmission lines but it would be commonsense given the money and the opportunity to put the lines on the ground. and secondly, and i guess kim from the ethics commission, the virtual meeting -- san franciscans cannot trust the sfpuc public utilities transportation commission. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. madam chair, we have no more speakers in the queue. >> public comment is closed. i like to make a motion to send this to the full board with positive recommendation. >> i'll actually, madam chair, the proper motion for a release for reserve hearing is to -- is for you to declare the release of the reserve funds and that the hearing be heard and filed.

>> okay. i was looking at that hearing. i have never done one of these, thank you. >> certainly. >> then, i would like to make a motion to release the funds and to file the hearing. >> on that motion? to release the reserve funds of $12 million to the spuc and the motion heard. -- supervisor safai? >> aye. >> supervisor ronen? >> aye. >> supervisor mar? >> aye. >> motion carries. >> mr. clerk, can you read item no. three. >> yes, chair. >> item no. three is resolution approving amendment no. 1 to the agreement between crestwood behavioral health and the department of public health (dph), to provide long-term mental health services in a 24-hour locked facility, to increase the agreement by $146,936,994 for an amount not to exceed $224,216,994; to

extend the term by five years, from june 30, 2023, for a total agreement term of july 1, 2018, through june 30, 2028; and to authorize dph to enter into amendments or modifications to the contract prior to its final execution by all parties that do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities to the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the contract or this resolution. for those joining remotely and wish to comment on this resolution, please call 415-655-0001 and enter the meeting id of 24927999124. press pound twice. once connected to the meeting, you need to press star three to enter the speaker line and a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand and when the system indicates you have been unmuted, you can begin your comments, madam chair. >> thank you so much. we have kelly from tph, good morning, good afternoon. >> good afternoon madam chair

and supervisors mar and supervisor ronen. this is a contract for continuing the crest wood contract, crest wood is our largest community partners that supports (indiscernible) treatment for treatment and care for mental health. these are the beds determined for folks who are on lpc conservative ships and needing further stabilization as a step down they're able to return to the community and open setting, so the cost of the beds as you'll see are increasing over time. and i'm happy to answer any questions about the program for the facilities. >> thank you and we'll hear from bla. >> thank you, chair ronen. item three is a resolution to approve the first amendment to dph's contract with crestwood and the amendment would extend the

existing agreement from june 2022 through june 2028 and not to exceed 77.3 to $22 million which we detail on page 11 of our report. the agreement is 200 beds, mostly out of county for long-term mental health residential treatment and we detail the facilities on page nine of our report. and the increasing not to exceed amount is primarily to accommodate rate increases as the department noted which has averaged 53% over the past three years. and to extend the term of the contract. through june 2028, we recommend approval. >> thank you so much. supervisor mar? >> thank you, chair ronen and thank you ms. ermoto for your work on this important program

that creates much-needed care for folks in our city that really need it. i guess i had a few questions about this and particularly as it relates to other sort of similar issues that we're grappling with. there's the lack of sub acute beds in our city and then also we're dealing with the lagoon that honda crisis and the lack of skilled nursing in the beds in our city. so, my first question is why are, do we have to contract for the two hundred beds, you know, out of the county and in some cases, so far away like in stockton and yeah. lompack and how many comfortable beds do we have for this type of

care in san francisco? >> thank you for the question. we have a finite number of beds in san francisco so the san francisco behavioral center has a mental health rehab center within it and i'm blanking out on the number of beds and i'm going to ask jane who is calling in, if she can refresh my memory. crestwood, we worked this a partnership with ucf and opened up the healing center in st. mary's campus and that added 54 beds to our portfolio in the city. what has made challenging for keeping beds in san francisco is just finding buildings that are appropriate in terms of their construction and in their layout that would support keeping mental health rehab lock secured beds in the city and st. mary's was a good example to make that happen. because we aren't able to add

portfolio here in the city, we've partnered with crestwood as one of our primary partners and their newer facilities are coming in further out areas from the bay area simply because the bay area is expensive to do new construction and it is more affordable and because other parts of the state are starting to realize the need for this level care so they're starting to partner with crest wood to open new facilities and that happened in santa barbara and we were lucky to partner with them to access some of their beds and in the same in fallbrook but our goal yes, is to keep people closer to home when we can. >> and so, this contract is for two hundred, roughly two hundred beds. pretty much all outside of san francisco, right? and do you have a rough estimate of how many comfortable beds we have in san francisco? you've mentioned -- >> i want to say it's under one

hundred beds in the city. >> okay. and then how long have we been doing the out -- out of -- out of the county. >> for decades. i started and we had a contract with them at that time. >> have a number of beds that we're contracting for increased over years for this care? >> we have seen the number of flow for this level of care particularly because some is availability as we're able to get access to additional beds. some of it is philosophical. your goal is you want to strengthen your lower level care system to prevent having to rely on this level of care. and so i think as attitudes shift on how to take care of folks in the mental health spectrum and it move into new programs and ideas get tried, it allows us to move

away from using locks -- but there are times when circumstances, sar today where we're seeing increased legislation and increased ability to bring people into care to try to get them on their wellness recovery journey ask that will start with lots of acutes while getting better. that's why right now we've been static in our census sitting along the five hundred mark. and we anticipate they'll be an uptick in the next coming years but as we become robust and thanks to mental health sfs, we can hopefully bring it down, so.... >> great, thank you. thanks chair ronen. >> thank you. i know that there were -- crestwood provides three beds, locked and and acute beds

and nursing facility beds and then a lower level of car, is that correct? >> they do mental health, rehabilitation programs, they do cooccurring skilled numbering level of care, so mental health, behavior health and skilled nursing needs and then they have a step down enhanced residential care programs. >> so they don't do locked beds then? >> i'm sorry. >> they don't do locked beds? >> they're locked except for the lower level of care. the skilled nursing facility beds are locked and the mental health rehabilitation beds are locked. >> in this extension of the contract, there's -- you moved around the types of beds, correct? who made that choice? is that pph or crestwood? >> i think it's a combination of availability of beds we have access to because as supervisor mar mentioned, most beds are out of county so we share them with home counties so we can access

depending on what other counties have pitched for, so we don't do a dedicated beds system because generally speaking that's not a cost effective way to manage taking care of folks. and so we buy beds when we need beds so that's why you see the fluctuation in the beds we get access to and how we flow people through care. >> okay, thank you so much. >> i'll say really quickly, this is an area of extreme concern for me. i've said on the record multiple times for a city of our size to have a couple of hundred beds at all different levels that deal with the ability to have locked facility is somewhat dis-- disoccur arranging and i understand there's scarcity of these beds and we're trying to increase our contract base, but i hope we have long-term

solution to expand the beds as they become available and have long-term vision in terms of working with the providers to expand the capacity of these beds and in ensuring and working with the state to expand the beds and i see on the bla report and the report from dph these are spread all over the bay area but just the magnificent demand there is shocking to me that there's not more availability that we can then get under contract, so something we need to continue to work harder on but thank you for all your support on this and i'm happy to support this today. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> can we open this item up for public comment? >> members of the public who wish to speak on this item and joining in person should line up now to speak. for those listening remotely, call 415-655-0001, meeting id is 24927999124 and press pound twice. once connected press star three to enter the speaker line.

please continue to wapt until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that's your queue to begin your comments and seeing no in person speaker, mr. atkins, can you unmute our caller. >> this is (indiscernible) acosta. what i want to say is that what happened at laguna honda for the longest time when we mixed the citizens suffering from dementia with drug addicts was totally wrong. and the notice of violations were not taken seriously. and we did this because the federal government was paying the rent and paying

for the stations. one of the most important things in this, when we transfer our seniors outside, the very fact that we transfer them, we have traumatized them. and we know that four have died. so, we just can't say oh that's because crestwood had some -- some beds and they do have some beds and serve a purpose but you think we can transfer our patients and traumatize them and they die? we have to be responsible for the residents and this is happens with the board of supervisors, they can't do a needs a -- needs assessment and always talking after the fact. we have some beds closer by,

(indiscernible) hospital. we could have done something even now with california pacific medical center. >> your time has expired in and the hospital that requires -- >> thank you francisco for your comments. again, i do apologize for cutting anybody off but we do have a two-minute timer per speaker. and madam chair, that completes our queue. >> thank you, public comment is closed. i do just want to also mention that you know, the fight to save laguna hospital is tied with our ability to keep needing this care in san francisco and looking at this contract, we see the ramifications of what happens when the federal

government, i believe, completely irresponsibly is forcing us to move people to other places. it's not as if we have tons of available alternatives here in san francisco. most of them are out of town and already in transferring people, we have lost four lives and so, this is something the board of supervisors is devastated by and it's very angry at this point that -- and it's time for health and human services director bacera to use his power to stop this forced relocation of incredibly fragile people because as you can see from this contract, they won't be able to remain in san francisco and that's causing people that are in very fragile state to be traumatized and to lose their lives, so i just couldn't waste

the opportunity to say that again and again and again every time we have any issue related to what's happening at laguna honda hospital right now and the travesty being forced upon us by the federal government but with that, i would like to make a motion to send this item to the full board with positive recommendation. thank you. >> that motion to forward this resolution to the full board with the positive recommendation, vice-chair safai? >> aye. >> member mar? >> aye. >> chair ronen? >> aye >> we have three ayes >> thank you. that motion passes unanimously. thank you. mr. clerk, can you read item no. four. >> item no. four is resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expend a grant increase in the amount of $95,863 from the california department of public health for a total amount of $978,948 for participation in

a program, entitled “sexually transmitted disease program management and collaboration,” for the period of july 1, 2019, through june 30, 2024. members the public joining remotely and wish to comment, please call 415-655-0001 and enter the meeting id of 24927999124. then press pound twice. once connected, press star three to enter the speaker line. a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand and when the system indicates you have been unmuted, that's your queue to begin your comments. madam chair. >> we have suzanne from dhp to present on this item. >> good afternoon, chair ronen, vice-chair safai, supervisor mar, very glad to be here with you this afternoon. speaking about this request for supplemental funding to a grant from the california department of public health to dph to

implement core sexually transmitted prevention funding and it was a focus on prevention of congenital syphilis which is a rare but severe and sometimes fatal infection and illness and this funding, core funding is meant to support congenital syphilis prevention in partnership with other part ships with the san francisco of public health and maternal health and primary care facility and team lilly which has expertise in providing innovative and nonbrick and mortar based care for those experiencing pregnancy. and we have core coordination for those pregnancy people experiencing homelessness and -- at the department of public health to improve syphilis screening because screening and treatment is effective in preventing cases

of congenital syphilis. the reason that the request for this a and e for funding is retroactive is on march 25th, we were notified by the state california department of public health that we were receiving a supplement of $95,863 to our core std grant with cdph and this was a total of $978,948 for july 1, 2019, to june 30, 2024, and this additional funding was for the period of july 1, 2021, to june 30th of 2022 and the initial request was submitted in april and we anticipated completion in early june but there were some unanticipated delays with hearing this item. so, i wanted to see if there were any additional questions about this? again, we are really focusing this

supplemental funding on modification of our electronic health record system in supporting our cbo partners, ucsf and the department of public health to best serve people who are pregnant and highest risk for syphilis during pregnancy and for congenital syphilis. thank you. >> thank you so much. it doesn't look like questions or comments from colleagues. can we open up for public comment. >> i apologize. i wanted to introduce greg wong who is going to speak to a slight amendment, thank you. >> great, thank you. >> so sorry. good afternoon, supervisors. we would like to introduce an amendment for your consideration, on page two, line 1 of the resolution, we would like to correct the amount of $885,083 to the correct amount of $883,085 to this amendment

and we apologize for the inconvenience. >> okay. thank you. can we please open this item up for public comment? >> yes, madam chair. members of the public who wish to speak on this item or joining in person should line up now. for those listening remotely, call 415-655-0001 and enter the meeting id of 24927999124. then press pound twice. press star three to enter the speaker line. and for those in the queue, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. and that will be your signal to begin your comments. seeing no in person speakers in the chamber, madam chair, there are no speaker in the queue. >> thank you. public comment is closed. i would like to make a motion to amend item 4 as stated by mr. wong and then to send the amended item to the full board with positive recommendations.

>> on that motion to accept the clerk amendment by dph and forward to the board as recommended, vice-chair safai? >> aye. >> member mar? >> aye. >> chair ronen? >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> that motion passes unanimously. thank you, can you please read item no. five. >> yes, item no. five is a resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $791,433 from the united states department of education through the california department of rehabilitation for participation in a program, entitled “state vocational rehabilitation services program,” for the period of july 1, 2022, through june 30, 2025. members of the public joining remotely and wish to comment on this resolution, call the public comment number at 415-655-0001. enter the meeting id of

24927999124 and then press pound then pound again. once connected to the meeting, press star three to enter the speaker line. the system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand and the system queues you have been unmuted and you can begin your comments. madam chair. >> thank you. we have one from dph to present on this item. >> good afternoon, chair ronen, supervisor safai and supervisor mar. my name is juan and i'm the vocational programs manager for behavior health services within dph. there are two actions included in this proposed legislation with the state department of rehabilitation, also known as dor. the first action is to accept and expand dor grant funds in the amount of $791,433 over the term of three

year agreement to support two civil service positions. the program manager position partially supported by dor will assist in planning, organizing and coordinating and evaluating the work of the agreement. the second position will be fully supported health worker three will provide dor clients with intermediary support services, the second action is to provide dor with the board of supervisors approval to enter into an agreement with dor whereby the county provides the dor with 21.3% matching funds for the total program cost. dph had the same relationship with dor for the past 23 years. actually it's not -- it differed this current renewal period and since that, we have had to include two contracts instead of one. the new one is for us to

provide direct dor services. and this relationship, dph entered into an agreement with dor to provide matching funds to support vocational services funded through this grant. dor contracts directly with community based organizations for the delivery of vocational services, the total cost of the vocational rehabilitation services program is paid by two sources. the first is federal funds that the dor draws from which is 78.7% of the total program cost. the second is a 21.3% cash match from dph. the state needs a county match in order to draw down a match from the federal government. dph supports this agreement because it allows vocational services in san francisco with only a 21.3% county investment, dph

supports dor's infrastructure as it supports san francisco residents and behavior service clients and providing services that dph wouldn't be able to avoid and the state contracts directly with five vendors who provide specialized vocational and employment support services to dph clients, all who experience severe mental illness and i would like to point out an approval recommendation is given by the dla and overall, the programs have proven to be very successful, the success has resulted in behavior health clients secure and retaining employment within the competitive workforce. our vhs clients express that these are transformative and important to their lives and? clients who suffer from severe mental illness are interested in vocational services after not

working for many years. they need all the support they can get in order to build their confidence, skills and job readiness. these vocational services are essential to our clients overall wellness and recovery. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you so much. >> i can answer any questions. >> thank you. we have a bla report on this item? >> thank you. item five is a resolution approving and accepting expend of approximately $800,000 from the department of rehabilitation, as well as related agreements we show on page 17 of our report that this funding will cover 1.5 dph over the next three years related to the vocational of rehabilitation services program for behavior health clients and we recommend approval. >> thank you so much and no questions or comments, can we open this item for public comment. >> members of the public who wish to speak and joining in person should line up now.

listening remotely, call 415-655-0001 and enter the meeting id of 24927999124 and press pound twice. once connected press star three to enter the speaker line. please continue to wait until the says -- system indicated you have been unmuted and you can begin. no chambers and no speaker in the queue. >> public comment is closed. i would like to make a motion to send this item to the full board with positive recommendation. roll call. >> the motion to the full board to the positive recommendation, vice-chair safai? >> aye. >> member mar? >> aye. >> chair ronen? >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> motion passes unanimously. mr. clerk, can you please read item 6 and 7 together? >> yes, items 6 and 7 are resolution reauthorizing the

human services agency to apply for and accept a county child welfare agency allocation for an amount up to $183,775 from the california department of housing and community development under the housing navigators program to help young adults secure and maintain housing. and item 7 is up to an amount of $573,000 to help adult maintain house and members of the public -- >> through the chair, we have lot of the bridge just now. >> okay. yes. we will need to recess the reestablish the bridge, madam chair. >> if we can recess for five minutes. >> that works. thank you. [recess]

>> welcome back to the july 27th, budget and finance committee. can you please reread item 6 and 7 together. >> thank you, madam chair. items 6 and 7 are --

[reading items 6 and -- 6 and 7] >> members joining remotely and wish to comment on these resolutions, please call 415-655-0001 and enter the meeting id of 24927999124. press pound twice. once connected to the meeting, you need to press star three to enter the system line and a system prompt has indicated you have entered the line and that's your queue to begin speaking. >> we have rod to present on this item. >> yes, thank you, good afternoon chairwoman ronen and supervisor safai and mar. my name is rod with the san francisco human services agency and presenting on item 6 and 7 and as stated because they're related, i'll present them together. item no. 6 is a

resolution apply and accept funds from the calico department of housing and community development for the housing navigator program. and item no. 7 is to apply for and accept funds from the same department for the transitional housing program. the state of california of housing and community development issued two funding opportunities to help young adults in the child welfare system secure and maintain housing. one grant opportunity, the second agenda item here is for $8 million in statewide funding to support the -- transitional housing funding for current or foster youth 18 to 25 and the other is a $5 million statewide allocation to fund housing navigators to help child welfare involved youth. age 18 to 21 to find suitable housing. in or for san francisco to access these two related state housing funds, the board of

supervisors must approve resolutions which gives the san francisco housing or sorry, human service agency authority to apply for and accept the funding. and then upon receipt of our application, hcd will determine how much money san francisco will be awarded based on the number of young adults in our child welfare system and a number of other counties who apply for same funds. the maximum we could be awarded for the housing navigator program is 183,175 and maximum awarded for the transitional house is 573,950. you may note the items are reauthorizations, the board of supervisors previously approved acceptance of both allocations by passing resolution 527-21. the california department of housing and community development requires the new resolution which connects inaccuracies in that resolution regarding the

date of allocation acceptance and the eligibility age range for the services so the funds, a little context are really critical. they allow young adults who are currently or formally in child welfare. i'm sorry, backing up. so children young adults currently or formally in child welfare facing acute challenges of homelessness and housing instability in san francisco, especially given our high cost market. the goal of this programming is to reduce homelessness for foster youth working in collaboration with the department of supportive housing and homelessness and the san francisco housing authority. and the services that will be provided include the following, support finding and applying for housing, lease up and prehousing direct services, move-in deposits, housing subsidies, housing support and navigation, housing stabilization and

retention services, and linkage to youth homeless response system services such as access points and navigation centers. and lastly, these resources will support housing for up to 70 foster care youth. thank you and i will address any questions you may have. >> thank you so much. i don't see any questions from my colleagues, so we can open this item up for public comment. >> yes, members of the public who wish to speak on this item and joining in person should line up to speak. for those listening remotely, call 415-655-0001 and enter the meeting id24927999124 and press pound twice and press three to especially the speaker line and wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that's your queue to begin your comments. seeing no speakers in person and in the chamber, madam chair, we have no caller in the queue. >> okay. public comment is closed. i'd like to make a

motion to send item 6 and 7 to the full board with positive recommendation. >> on that motion to forward items 6 and 7 to the full board with positive recommendation, vice-chair safai? >> aye. >> member mar? >> aye. >> chair ronen? >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> the motion passes unanimously. mr. clerk, any other items on the agenda? >> madam chair, we have no further business. >> meeting is adjourned. [gavel]

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. >> candlestick park known also as the stick was an outdoor stadium for sports and entertainment. built between 1958 to 1960, it was located in the bayview hunters point where it was home to the san francisco giants and 49ers. the last event held was a concert in late 2014. it was demolished in 2015.

mlb team the san francisco giants played at candlestick from 1960-1999. fans came to see players such a willie mays and barry bonds, over 38 seasons in the open ballpark. an upper deck expansion was added in the 1970s. there are two world series played at the stick in 1962 and in 198 9. during the 1989 world series against the oakland as they were shook by an earthquake. candlestick's enclosure had minor damages from the quake but its design saved thousands of lives. nfl team the san francisco 49ers played at candlestick from feign 71-2013. it was home to five-time super bowl champion teams and hall of fame players by joe montana, jerry rice and steve jones. in 1982, the game-winning

touchdown pass from joe montana to dwight clark was known as "the catch." leading the niners to their first super bowl. the 49ers hosted eight n.f.c. championship games including the 2001 season that ended with a loss to the new york giants. in 201, the last event held at candlestick park was a concert by paul mccartney who played with the beatles in 1966, the stadium's first concert. demolition of the stick began in late 2014 and it was completed in september 2015. the giants had moved to pacific rail park in 2000 while the 49ers moved to santa clara in 2014. with structural claims and numerous name changes, many have passed through and will remember candlestick park as home to the legendary athletes and entertainment. these memorable moments will live on in a place called the

stick. (♪♪♪) 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. is r. my name is debra alvarez rodriguez. i'm the deputy director in san francisco. my background is one in which i have spent the entirety of my life committed to finding solution to poverty and addressing the issues of inequity so people and communities can have accesses

to resources and financial freedom. one thing true anode dear to my heart was the power of business ownership in creating pathways to financial freedom. we have still in infancy. we had over 100 entrepreneurs come and start their businesses. some are food trucks. some are restaurants. some are in farmer's markets and so farther. that's an incredible legacy and record to build upon. this was the perfect opportunity for me to come back home, you know, come back to the neighborhood and take my skills and networks and resources and put it backseat in service of the community. given everything with racial reckoning and pandemic it was time for me and everyone else that had the opportunity to leave and get educated to come back home. we have a opportunity to grow

our impact in terms of the number of people we serve and how we serve them. we grow our impact in taking the money we make with our entrepreneurs and circulate those resources back interview the community for community development. the third thing is we have a opportunity to have an impact on public policy in terms of the policies and practices the district has been notorious about interms of inequities. all of those are just the beginning of what is possible in terms of growth and impact. ♪ [ music ] ♪♪ . >> 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 >> 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 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. >> 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] >> manufacturing in cities creates this perfect platform for people to earn livelihoods

and for people to create more economic prosperity. i'm kate sosa. i'm cofounder and ceo of sf made. sf made is a public private partnership in the city of san francisco to help manufacturers start, grow, and stay right here in san francisco. sf made really provides wraparound resources for manufacturers that sets us apart from other small business support organizations who provide more generalized support. everything we do has really been developed over time by listening and thinking about what manufacturer needs grow. for example, it would be

traditional things like helping them find capital, provide assistance loans, help to 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 continue to grow and continue to stay here in san francisco. i'm amy kascel, and i'm the owner of amy kaschel san francisco. we started our line with wedding gowns, and about a year ago, we launched a ready to wear collection. san francisco's a great place to do business in terms of clientele. we have wonderful brides from all walks of life and doing really interesting things: architects, doctors, lawyers, teachers, artists, other like minded entrepreneurs, so really fantastic women to work with. i think it's important for them to know where their clothes are made and how they're made. >> my name is jefferson mccarly, and i'm the general manager of the mission bicycle company.

we sell bikes made here for people that ride here. essentially, we sell city bikes made for riding in urban environments. our core business really is to build bikes specifically for each individual. we care a lot about craftsmanship, we care a lot about quality, we care about good design, and people like that. when people come in, we spend a lot of time going to the design wall, and we can talk about handle bars, we can see the riding position, and we take notes all over the wall. it's a pretty fun shopping experience. paragraph. >> for me as a designer, i love the control. i can see what's going on, talk to my cutter, my pattern maker, looking at the

designs. going through the suing room, i'm looking at it, everyone on the team is kind of getting involved, is this what that drape look? is this what she's expecting, maybe if we've made a customization to a dress, which we can do because we're making everything here locally. over the last few years, we've been more technical. it's a great place to be, but you know, you have to concentrate and focus on where things are going and what the right decisions are as a small business owner. >> sometimes it's appropriate to bring in an expert to offer suggestions and guidance in coaching and counseling, and other times, we just need to talk to each other. we need to talk to other manufacturers that are facing similar problems, other people that are in the trenches, just like us,

so that i can share with them a solution that we came up with to manage our inventory, and they can share with me an idea that they had about how to overcome another problem. >> moving forward, where we see ourselves down the road, maybe five and ten years, is really looking at a business from a little bit more of a ready to wear perspective and making things that are really thoughtful and mindful, mindful of the end user, how they're going to use it, whether it's the end piece or a wedding gown, are they going to use it again, and incorporating that into the end collection, and so that's the direction i hear at this point. >> the reason we are so enamored with the work we do is we really do see it as a platform for changing and making the city something that it has always been and making

sure that we're sharing the opportunities that we've been blessed with economically and socially as possible, broadening that

>> you're watching san francisco rising with chris manors. today's special guest is mary chu. >> hi. i'm chris manors, and you're rising on san francisco rising. the show that's focused on rebuilding, reimagining, and restarting our city. our guest today is mary chu, and she's here to talk with us about art and the san francisco art commission. well come, miss chu. >> thanks for having me. >> it's great to have you. let's talk about art in