ethic's commission. we need to note things like that. and i also -- as we consider continue to involve ourselves in negotiations with mea and others overnight behested payment requirements, i would like to suggest this we add a new issue. to those discussions. and that is a requirement that [inaudible] officers must confirm that check and verified the accuracy of what is filed. as it is now, filing officers receive a form 700 for their filers in their department but no requirement that the filing officers review and when not the

disclosures are accurate. in kidnap way, shape or form. take no responsibility for doing anything other than in [inaudible]. when i talked to dhr, for example, they point out there is no requirement. this filing officers review that anything filed with them is truthful and accurate. and appropriate for public which strikes me as obtuse. and so, i think that the fact is -- we know that there are examples of form 700 filers who never disclose some of things that were going o. which is why we have criminal trials with the federal government. so, i suggest that in our next

discussions with the [inaudible] behest payments what we tell them we like to have and want to insist that filing officers must review and certify that they have reviewed for accuracy the form 700 filed. thank you. >> 2 items i like on the agenda. i don't want to over fill ourselves. i leave it to staff as to the best way to sfred out. 2 items one like to agenda strategy presentation from staff on regulation process and what areas of law would require regulations and how to approach that not specifics on proposed legislation but how to go about seeing where we need to put in legislation and get that rolling. and number 2, so separately, is

an update on where things stand on the ballot measure and potential next steps, if any. >> my colleagues, now that we made it -- well. now that the ballot measure is sort of -- in -- the slow [inaudible] and earlier this year and since we have a majority of of the commissioners who joined just this year, usually will if agencies would have orientations orb to bring

everybody on board with what is happening and some of the other -- issues facing the commission. so -- much of what is proposed today could be grandd and say orientation -- kind of a discussion from the staff. from the from the director and her staff. may be for september. that's carve out a sizeable time to address not just the 700. 700 is part of the reporting process and regular process. if we have an agenda item as an orien tailgate of sorts just to bring all of us up to ped what

this commission is empowered to do. and what -- administrative power the staff currently has. so we can look at what areas we can consider >> [inaudible] the -- workings of this commission and the staff. so for september, let's have don't call it orientation, do like a -- update. of some sort. of all the programs that we do. the enforcement and policy the 3 major department that the staff is doing that has a presentation and a discussion upon among the

[inaudible]. members for september that would be great. that should be a very lengthy discussion. and then the regular ballot measure, process, should be on the september agenda item also. tell be a long meeting for september. on the, thank you. orientation it is good i suggest that staff reach out to commissioners ahead to discuss specific issue this is folks might be interested in so it is not incorporating things that are on commissioner's mindses to learn more about so it is a collaborative agenda setting. that's my suggestion. >> we can have a presentation it is a public meeting. so that the public will know what our areas of concerns are.

and we can follow up individual low with the staff. i think that transparency is key. >> i agree i did not mean the substance talk ahead to discuss when we want to cover at that meeting so it is driven by commissioner's interests opposed to top down that does not consider when we want to look into. suggesting that to steer the topics. >> we should have the ethic's at work update now that we are in full operations. anything else before we go to public comment. >> public comment, please. >> members of public on line and wish to provide comment on item 7. should dial star 3 >> okay. >> moderator it will take a couple of seconds to get people in queue we have member of the

public who wish to make a comment. >> it is is charlie. i have been dealing with bob stern in at the formerly president of the center for governmental studies in los angeles for many years. probably he and i did business in 95. i have been attending your middle eastings since pretty much the d. want to say bob is really one of the best experts in the state on our laws. he wrote the political reform act for jerry brown in 1974. and it almost predates me. but i was going to say, if you need an expert to consult with, he is now retired i'm sure

willing to travel and meet with you on certain important matters if you need his assistance. >> thank you for the recommendation. >> moderator? do we have anyone else in queue? >> stand by. each member has 3 machines to provide comment. we have one caller in the queue. >> welcome, you have 3 minutes begins now. hello, caller? this is a caller that may provide comment on the last agenda item and left their hand up. i think may be they left their hand up.

>> thank you. >> there are no other callers in the queue >> public comment on item 7 is closed. agenda item 8 is additional opportunity for public comment on matters not on the agenda. moderator do we have any caller. why stand by to see if we have callers in the queue. we have no caller in the queue >> public comment is closed. agenda item 9 is adjournment. thank you very much, everybody for a wonderful meeting very productive. see you september ninth

[crowd noise] [music] as a city we do a lot of parades and celebrations. public work system in the middle of things, doing inspections and cleanings and organizing our crews so we are used to creating something it is something we know how to do. >> this is managed by city workers. they are out here doing the jobs to make sure our city looks good

in our city time. >> we are also routing for the warriors whether we work. it was thrilling when they won and we had to get to work to plan for the parade and to make sure that everybody in the city everybody that come to the city is safe and taken care of. >> a lot went everwent in 100 hours of planning with the warrior and mayors office and city partners it took a team to make today possible. >> important this the department has the presence, seeing the priority and vehicles makes everyone feel safe we value our commute and serve it, it is important. >> the giant crowds we are to bring out our specialized equipment. we have small response united staffed by a paramedic and mt

the small golf cart devices have a gender and he get in and out of crowds. >> i'm here to help people get to where they need to go and figure out the bus routes and navigate things temperature is important we take care of safety and make sure everyone gets to where they need to so everyone can celebrate the warrior and be out on parade day. >> how is or ems book >> when we have been able to do is set up mobile command posts. and we partnered with the private sector with verizon to provide priority communication so we can run our entire emergency response on that network for our first responders. we know they will work even though we are getting thousands of people all competing for the same network to send photos and e maild and texts and video our first responders are able to do the same amongst the large

crowd. >> get out here at 5:30 a.m. and saw employees cleaning the street its takes a team to build a champion. >> i love it and bum when he left i'm glad he is back no matter how much he plays or does not play that man's heart and spirit he carries everyone along and really mentor people and mentoring is so important whether in basketball or the fire service or ems. mentoring is huge and having a presence like that around is huge. >> my favorite player is jordan i like he is a role player and come out as a starter i feel similar to the city i like a structure and plan when there is an opportunity to lead i like that, also. >> the player i like lisa. he is similar to me all there

and game is in the pretty but gets the job done. every time he scores all right. my man is back. >> happy with seth curry's wife strong. she is a leader and she just really puts on a great face for females and being strong and in the face of challenge and negativity. [music] [crowd noise] >> they were tons and tons and tons of blue and yellow confetti. every wrchl the end we picked up 38 tons of trash. mostly confetti. >> in terms of for our crews we were ready. after we had been data break and done carnival in may. our team was prepped to do the work and they felt tremendous

pride in part of the huge celebration and tremendous pride in the coordination we did with the mayor's office, the police department issue public health and the city agencies that got together and put on a party for the bay area. put on the party for the nation. [crowd noise] [music]

>> there is a lot of unique characteristics about visitation valley. it is a unique part of the city. >> we are off in a corner of the city against the san francisco county line 101 on one side. vis station valley is still one of the last blue color neighborhoods in san francisco. a lot of working class families out here. it is unusual. not a lot of apartment buildings. a lot of single family homes. >> great business corridor. so much traffic coming through here and stopping off to grab coffee or sandwich or pick up food before going home. >> a lot of customers are from the neighborhood. they are painters or mechanics. they are like blue color workers, a lot of them. >> the community is lovely. multi-racial and hopefully we can look out for each other.

>> there is a variety of businesses on the block. you think of buffalo kitchen, chinese food, pork buns, sandwich. library, bank of america with a parking lot. the market where you can grab anything. amazing food choices, nail salons. basically everything you need is here. >> a lot of these businesses up and down leland are family owned. people running them are family. when you come here and you have an uncle and nephew and go across the street and have the guy and his dad. lisa and her daughter in the dog parlor and pam. it is very cool. >> is small businesses make the neighborhood unique. >> new businesses coming. in mission blue, gourmet

chocolate manufacturing. the corridor has changed and is continuing to change. we hope to see more businesses coming in the near future. >> this is what is needed. first, stay home. unless it is absoluteliness scary. social distancing is the most important step right now to limit spread of virus. cancel all nonessential gather everythings. >> when the pandemic litly land avenue suffered like other corridors. a few nail salons couldn't operate. they shut down. restaurants that had to adapt to more of a take out model. they haven't totally brought back indoor seating. >> it is heartbreaking to see the businesses that have closed

down and shut because of the pandemic. >> when the pandemic first hit it got really slow. we had to change our hours. we never had to close, which is a blessing. thank god. we stayed open the whole time. >> we were kind of nervous and anxious to see what was going to come next hoping we will not have to close down. >> during covid we would go outside and look on both sides of the street. it looked like old western town. nobody on the street. no cars. >> it was a hard eight or nine months. when they opened up half the people couldn't afford a haircut. >> during that time we kept saying the coffee shop was the living room of the valley. people would come to make sure they were okay. >> we checked on each other and patronized each other. i would get a cup of coffee,

shirt, they would get a haircut. >> this is a generous and kind community. people would be like i am getting the toffee for the guy behind me and some days it went on and on. it was amazing to watch. we saw a perfect picture of community. we are all in this together. >> since we began to reopen one year later, we will emerge stronger. we will emerge better as a city because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. >> when we opened up august 1st. i will not say it was all good. we are still struggling due to covid. it affected a lot of people. >> we are still in the pandemic right now. things are opening up a little bit. it is great to have space to come together.

i did a three painting series of visitation valley and the businesses on leland. it felt good to drop off the paintings and hung them. >> my business is picking up. the city is opening up. we have mask requirements. i check temperatures. i ask for vaccination card and/or recent test. the older folks they want to feel safe here. >> i feel like there is a sense of unity happening. >> what got us through the pandemic was our customers. their dogs needed groomed, we have to cut their nails so they don't over grow. >> this is only going to push us forward. i sense a spirit of community and just belief in one another. >> we are trying to see if we can help all small businesses around here. there is a cannabis club lounge

next to the dog parlor to bring foot traffic. my business is not going to work if the business across the street is not getting help. >> in hit us hard. i see a bright future to get the storefronts full. >> once people come here i think they really like it. >> if you are from san francisco visit visitation valley to see how this side of the city is the same but different. >> when i first started painting it was difficult to get my foot in the door and contractors and mostly men would have a bad attitude towards me or not want to answer my questions or not include me and after you prove yourself, which i have done, i don't face that obstacle as much anymore. ♪♪♪

my name is nita riccardi, i'm a painter for the city of san francisco and i have my own business as a painting contractor since 1994 called winning colors. my mother was kind of resistant. none of my brothers were painter. i went to college to be a chiropractor and i couldn't imagine being in an office all day. i dropped out of college to become a painter. >> we have been friends for about 15-20 years. we both decided that maybe i could work for her and so she hired me as a painter. she was always very kind. i wasn't actually a painter when she hired me and that was pretty cool but gave me an opportunity to learn the trade with her company. i went on to different job opportunities but we stayed

friends. the division that i work for with san francisco was looking for a painter and so i suggested to my supervisor maybe we can give nita a shot. >> the painting i do for the city is primarily maintenance painting and i take care of anything from pipes on the roof to maintaining the walls and beautifying the bathrooms and graffiti removal. the work i do for myself is different because i'm not actually a painter. i'm a painting contractor which is a little different. during the construction boom in the late 80s i started doing new construction and then when i moved to san francisco, i went to san francisco state and became fascinated with the architecture and got my contractor's licence and started painting victorians and kind of gravitated towards them. my first project that i did was

a 92 room here in the mission. it was the first sro. i'm proud of that and it was challenging because it was occupied and i got interior and exterior and i thought it would take about six weeks to do it and it took me a whole year. >> nita makes the city more beautiful and one of the things that makes her such a great contractor, she has a magical touch around looking at a project and bringing it to its fullest fruition. sometimes her ideas to me might seem a little whacky. i might be like that is a little crazy. but if you just let her do her thing, she is going to do something incredible, something amazing and that will have a lot of pop in it. and she's really talented at that. >> ultimately it depends on what the customer wants. sometimes they just want to be

understated or blend in and other times they let me decide and then all the doors are open and they want me to create. they hire me to do something beautiful and i do. and that's when work is really fun. i get to be creative and express what i want. paint a really happy house or something elegant or dignified. >> it's really cool to watch what she does. not only that, coming up as a woman, you know what i mean, and we're going back to the 80s with it. where the world wasn't so liberal. it was tough, especially being lgbtq, right, she had a lot of friction amongst trades and a lot of people weren't nice to her, a lot of people didn't give her her due respect. and one of the things amazing about nita, she would never quit.

>> after you prove yourself, which i have done, i don't face that obstacle as much anymore. i'd like to be a mentor to other women also. i have always wanted to do that. they may not want to go to school but there's other options. there's trades. i encourage women to apply for my company, i'd be willing to train and happy to do that. there's a shortage of other women painters. for any women who want to get into a trade or painting career, just start with an apprenticeship or if you want to do your own business, you have to get involved and find a mentor and surround yourself with other people that are going to encourage you to move forward and inspire you and support you and you can't give up. >> we've had a lot of history, nita and i. we've been friends and we have been enemies and we've had

conflicts and we always gravitate towards each other with a sense of loyalty that maybe family would have. we just care about each other. >> many of the street corners in all the districts in san francisco, there will be a painting job i have completed and it will be a beautiful paint job. it will be smooth and gold leaf and just wow. and you can't put it down. when i first started, it was hard to get employees to listen to me and go along -- but now, i have a lot of respect. sdwroog and welcome to the victoria's house or beautiful community in san francisco. we will like to welcome our am mayor london bride. supervisors and department of public health. thank you for joining us all. y victoria's house an arc dull

residential community is supportive environment for clients that need assistance dealing with mental health and coping scythes. offer a process that delivers services, life skills and social programming supporting daily living, medication management, moles and housing. >> our all inclusive on site services provide a step down solution from arc cute setting for clients to be self sufficient in this beautiful city of san francisco. when they reenter the outer community or community can be a solution or client's forever home. i'm asked why we name today victoria's house. i met a client victoria transitioning at that time. she identified as a woman most of her life and was unfortunately mistreated by the system. her decision maker did not understand and did not approve of her transsxigz not allow her

care to continue. out dated community care licensing regulations housed her with a male roommate. when i lynched her story i learned how the system failed her, i said there will never be again a tragic situation and we will provide a community where everybody will be welcome and treated with dignity and respect. [applause] >> our team is proud to be providing residential care and supportive services in san francisco residents. we would like to thank mayor london breed for her leadership, thank you. [applause] as well as all the support she provide not only to our project but all of the new mental health services provided for resident in san francisco. also big thank you to governor newsome for recognizing they need to help with mental illness and funding needed now jc my

partner in this project. >> i'm sorry i would like it introduce john. then jc. good morning, thank you for being here. i like to i had a chance to reflect on our journey from the day we saw this property and tour to today with the beautiful facility. we would not be here today if the board did not pass the controls and legislation which protected board and care facilities. the protections made it difficult or impossible for developer to purchase board and care and change the use to something else. this legislation was introduced by supervisor mandelman who is here today and supervisor ronnin. mental health and homeless issues the top of their priorities. without the protections, we would be standing next to 2 single family homes or market rate condos instead of 46 rehab

beds for the vulnerable. we would not be here without mayor breed willing to tackle the big issues. the city's funding of mental health and homeless issues. you got a tough job. and the mir's office was helpful in getting this over the finish line. i spoke to the governor about 10 days ago talked about the 225 bed facility in san pablo in 2021 the 46 facility here and 150 bed facility in southern california. i thanked him for the care courts and the state pundz funding directored to the issues. however, for most of the efforts to be successful, we need more rehab beds like the ones we are opening today in the continuum of care. these beds familiar general beds likely allow sf general and other acute settings to open

beds to get more people off the streets and into care. and the [inaudible] we strife to provide would be an excellent stop for a person headed to but not yet ready for permanent spicht housing. this is where private/public partner ships with make a change we look forward to the continued work with the mayor's office and the state of california to make lives better. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you, john and beny. thank you mayor and supervisor mandelman. a bit of background we are excited provide the frisk beds. the 46 bed facility with service john and betty referred to. we acquire third degree property over 2 years ago in january of 2020 before the pandemic. it was a neglected former boarding care vacant before we bought it. the likely aisle was condos or

high end housing. we saw the potential to rehab in a high quality facility for san francisco's most vulnerable. the challenge was preserved the buildings historical vicktoryian quality and delivering a new facility inside. i want to thank our inhouse team and open scope and mark, danny who are here. our construction partners it u. and [inaudible] financial support as our lendser. they stepped up to support construction loan in the earth months in the pandemic when many banks had with drawn from the market. we have a license in hand and yesterday our final other certificate of occupancy. thank you, everybody. [applause]. thank you we would like to welcome mayor london breed.

[applause] >> there are a lot of folk who is know that i was born and raise in the san francisco and my grand mother raised me. i grew up in the house with my grand mother's daughter who are had a disability and constantly struggle when my grand mother developed dement why and someone needed to care for my aunt it was challenging dealing with the system. fortunately, for my aunt she had family. people this supported her because, trust me, had she not had us looking out for her she would be on the streets. not able to take care of herself. and in fact, what i appreciate most about the w this we are doing now is that provides an opportunity for to yous support a community that may not have relatives or support to help a system with

being able to live a productive life. i appreciate so many of the great organizations in san francisco i worked with over the years. but also we know it takes a village. when i became a member of the board of supervisors, we had a number of the individuals in our community. there was a gentlemen who i was very familiar with his family and than i watched their father decline significant low to the point where they struggled. and i tried assist them in getting a bit of conservership for their family member, it was a long process. a struggle. sadly t did in the help and unfortunately, their father passed away and died on the streets alone. them should in the happen in a place like san francisco. i other than that there are a lot of people who believe in you know just people having the rights to decide what they want

to do with their lives but this is complicated. there are people who can't necessarily, i will tell you from experience about my aunt, can't even decide how to pay her rent. and to figure out the basic things when she needs to buy. i would sends her to the store to pick up things, yes, then she would spends the money on things she was not supposed to. it was a constant struggle trying to take care of her. it is so much more complicated. when i became mayor, it was important to me that we look at mental health and start to talk about it like we do any other challenge. and we look at our portfolio and behavioral health beds. what will happen is someone in the past before the street crisis response team someone get a 911 call. there was someone going in and out of traffic.

taking the general and released walking around weapon no help or support and people wonder. what are we doing wrong. why are we not transitioning them to a place so they can live a product of lifelike everyone else. we added more besd. we reached 2, 200 beds in 2019 and made a commitment to add 400 more in our portfolio a 20% increase we identified the challenges and needs are and how we can provide these opportunity for people who are struggling. we appreciate so much partners like a & arc health service because we can't do this work alone. we need partner and need people who will make this place a home. so that when someone who is may be provide service through our

street crisis sponse team they ends up at general, they may end up at hummingbird but what is next. this is next. this gives stability. gives support to people who need support. and it helps to map out hat next stage s. is it programs like golden gate regional. like the art. is it programs that help them to sustain their lives with dignity sne i appreciate being here and in fact, this is one of the most beautiful behavioral health homes i have seen in san francisco. so, i know that the people here are going to appreciate that. and they will appreciate also not only where they live and how beautiful it is but that they are treated with respectful you know this they are able to maintain their dignity so we can help get them to the next level this long with the other great things we are trying to do in

san francisco, are going to be a game changer. again, we thank you for being here and thank a & a health services and the department of public health and behavioral health team for all the w they have done and will continue to do to make sure that we are not leaving people out on the street in crisis and giving them the care and support they need. thank you so much. [applause]. next we would like to welcome doctor colfax from department of public health, please. >> good morning and thank you, everybody i say when i was driving here and parkoth street i thought, well, not sure where the bodiesing is it looks like the realtors have an open house. this is just a beautiful spot in an incredible environment. we know from the science that

the requirement the physical environment in which people live during their journey of heeling really makes a difference. realliment to thank our partner who is helped spearhead this project. mayor breed thank you for your leadership and supervisor mandelman thank you for being here with us today. i wanted to thank a & arc health services. this was something differents for the health department to do this partnership really is promising for more working together with you and others on a private partnerships in the future. i thank the dth behavioral health team in the back. lewis, thank you for your leadership and work in this and our behavioral healing director comings is here today. these new beds will increase our capacity to provide on going medical treatment for people

throughout the city. and as the mayor mentioned, we are making progress in the commitment to adding 400 new beds. and with this newarkdition, we are 2 thirds of the way there. and in fact, we obviously, got delayed a bit bite pandemic but in 2021, we added 89 new beds alone. and we anticipate adding additionaling 90 new bedos line soon with 70 new bed this is month alone in august of 2022. great progress there this issan a model of care not only a way of figuring out how to get this done on the ground but [inaudible] and it it is this type of state of the art facility allows us to meet people where they are and new way and addressing the challenges that so many people have on their journey to

recovery. this is a part of the system that we are building the system of behavioral health care. from the acute needs of people to stabilizing them to the journey of independent living and having the resources available for people thshg is a chronic relapsing cannot resources available to meet people where they are treatment on demand and ensuring people get when they need when they need it and the appropriate level but it is also the appropriate environment. and this environment here today is so exciting for us to see 46 more beds. i'm thrilled. thank you again for having us here today. thank you for the partnership and with that i will turn it over to supervisor mandelman. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, doctor colfax. and to all the folkos your team the department of public healing thank you for your work every

day. thank you mir for your commitment getting folks indoors with behavioral health needs and addictions. she struggled with mental illness and electric therapy and every treatment known and never really stabilized she needed to be in place like this for this time. i fear that if she had been in san francisco in 2022, she might not have been in a place and have been out on the sidewalk. it is person for a lot of us. i know like once you have the conversations with people this is in the an unusual experience. and i then and there some folks involved with a & a have personal experience this drives them. and you know i think that it is a critical need in san francisco's critical need today. you know the backgrounds we lost 500 board and care beds the last

dvenlgdz 50 facilities the market has not been helping us. and the same time, we have tremendous human needs and really fundsamentally we need better responses on the street and appropriate for accomplices for people to land you know when we engage with them on the street. we want more of those to lead to coming off of the sidewalk and insdpoors can't do that without facilities like this. i'm optimist thick is a great morning i'm optimistic about san francisco and want to thank jc and john and betty for having the vision and for you know i love our nonprofit partners they are critical to us. we need all hand's on deck. having a player that is interested and figuring out whether they can move from the elevator care space to this space and take care of the nonelderly adult who is need help is exciting and it was a

joy to which tour the facility and a joy to help in the little legislative ways we can. i hope this works limp i hope you are down for doing more. thanks, everybody. [applause] sdwroo okay. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! okay. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!

>> when i look at an old neon sign that's working or not working, i feel the family business that was in there. >> since 2009, citywide, sf shines, has supported businesses and sites like the ones that receive new neon signs. >> you know, sf shines is doing an amazing job to bring back the lighting and the neon glow of san francisco. >> sf shines is such an amazing program, and i can't think of

another program in another city that gives matching gunned funds to store owners, mom and pop owners, and if they've got a neon sign, they've really got a great way to advertise their business. >> this is a continuation of the sf shines program. >> focusing other neon signs is relatively new to us. of the seven neon signs, we've invested about $145,000. >> a good quality sign costs more, but it lasts infinitily longer. as opposed to lasting five years, a good neon sign will last 15 to 20 years. >> in san francisco, the majority of neon signs are for mom-and-pop businesses. in order to be able to restore these signs, i think it gives

back to your community. >> part of the project has to do with prioritizing certain signs in the neighborhood based on their aesthetics, based on their current signs, and base on the history. in the time that we've been here, we've seen a number of signs restored just on eddy street. >> there are a number of signs in the tenderloin and many more that are waiting or wanting to be restored. i have worked with randall and al, and we've mapped out every single one of them and rated them as to how much work they would need to get restored. that information is passed onto sf shines, and they are going to rank it. so if they have x budget for a year, they can say all right, we're going to pick these five, and they're putting together clusters, so they build on top of what's already there. >> a cluster of neon signs is

sort of, i guess, like a cluster of grapes. when you see them on a corner or on a block, it lights up the neighborhood and creates an ambient glow. if you havy got two of three of them, you've created an atmosphere that's almost like a movie set. >> some of the hotel, we've already invested in to get those neon signs for people to enjoy at night include the elk hotel, jefferson hotel, the verona, not to mention some we've done in chinatown, as well as the city's portal neighborhood. >> we got the fund to restore it. it took five months, and the biggest challenge was it was completely infested with pigeons. once we got it clean, it came out beautiful. >> neon signs are often equated with film noir, and the noir

genre as seen through the hollywood lens basically depicted despair and concentration. >> you would go downtown and see the most recent humphrey bogart film filled with neon in the background. and you'd see that on market street, and as market street got seedier and seedier and fewer people continued to go down, that was what happened to all the neon strips of light. >> the film nori might start with the light filled with neon signs, and end with a scene with a single neon sign blinking and missing a few

letters. >> one of my favorite scenes, orson welles is chasing rita hayworth with neon signs in the background. >> i think what the office of economic and workforce development is very excited with is that we'll be able to see more neon signs in a concentrated way lit up at night for visitors and most especially residents. the first coin laundry, the elm hotel, the western hotel are ones that we want to focus on in the year ahead. >> neon signs are so iconic to certain neighborhoods like the hara, like the nightcap. we want to save as many historic and legacy neon signs

in san francisco, and so do they. we bring the expertise, and they bring the means to actually get the job done. >> people in tenderloin get really excited as they see the signs relit. as you're driving through the tenderloin or the city, it pretty much tells you something exciting is happening here. >> knee an was created to make the night more friendly and advertise businesses. it's a great way of supporting and helping local businesses. >> there's so many ways to improve public safety. the standard way is having more eyes on the street, but there's other culturally significant ways to do that, and one those ways is lighting up the streets. but what better way and special way to do that is by having old, historic neon signs lighting up our streets at night and casting away our shadows. >> when i see things coming back to life, it's like remembering how things were.

it's remembering the hotel or the market that went to work seven days a week to raise their money or to provide a service, and it just -- it just -- it just >> for us, we wish we had our queue

and we created spaces that are active. >> food and drinks. there is a lot for a lot of folks and community. for us, it started back in 1966 and it was a diner and where our ancestors gathered to connect. i think coffee and food is the very fabric of our community as well as we take care of each other. to have a pop-up in the tenderloin gives it so much meaning. >> we are always creating impactful meaning of the lives of the people, and once we create a space and focus on the most marginalized, you really

include a space for everyone. coffee is so cultural for many communities and we have coffee of maria inspired by my grandmother from mexico. i have many many memories of sharing coffee with her late at night. so we carry that into everything we do. currently we are on a journey that is going to open up the first brick and mortar in san francisco specifically in the tenderloin. we want to stay true to our ancestors in the tenderloin. so we are getting ready for that and getting ready for celebrating our anniversary. >> it has been well supported and well talked about in our

community. that's why we are pushing it so much because that's how we started. very active community members. they give back to the community. support trends and give back and give a safe space for all. >> we also want to let folks know that if they want to be in a safe space, we have a pay it forward program that allows 20% to get some funds for someone in need can come and get a cup of coffee, pastry and feel welcomed in our community. to be among our community, you are always welcome here. you don't have to buy anything or get anything, just be here and express yourself and be your authentic self and we will always take care of you.

good morning and welcome to the august 8ed, 22 meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. i want to thank everyone for being in attendance. this morning. we have supervisors here in the chamber and remote and again, this is a very important meeting i want to thank you for coming together during recess. mr. clerk, will you call roll >> yes. supervisor chan. >> present.