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>> speaker: hello i'm meghan and i'm calling representing 5 schools and programs. survey their current guest to make space for social distancing and to follow covid rules to protect the most vulnerable. all of the sick, and elderly were moved to site ten. i've had an incredible opportunity to serve these people. they've gotten their own room and bathroom. while we knew this site was never going to be permanent, we had the incredible opportunity to partner with other organization to see help stabilize our guest and access medical care that they have been resistant to for many years. we support this budget request so we can finish what we started. we want to make sure that our guests are moved into current housing.
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and that is done in a safe and dig any tied manner, thank you for your time. >> thank you for your comments, meghan. next speaker please. do we still have that caller on the line? madam chair that line seems to be unattended and we have no other speakers. >> public comment is now closed. i would like to send items 5 and 6 to the full board with positive recommendations can we get a full vote. >> positive recommendation vice chair safai. >> aye. >> chair ronen?
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families, immigrants, seniors, merchants, workers, and the housed and unhoused who all deserve a thriving neighborhood to call home. the tenderloin emergency initiative was launched to improve safety, reduce crime, connect people to services, and increase investments in the neighborhood. >> the department of homelessness and supportive housing is responsible for providing resources to people living on the streets. we can do assessments on the streets to see what people are eligible for as far as permanent housing. we also link people with shelter that's available. it could be congregate shelter, the navigation center, the homeless outreach team links those people with those resources and the tenderloin needs that more than anywhere else in the city. >> they're staffing a variety of our street teams, our street crisis response team, our street overdose response team, and our newly launched wellness response team. we have received feedback from community members, from
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residents, community organizations that we need an extra level and an extra level of impact and more impactful care to serve this community's needs and that's what the fire department and the community's paramedics are bringing today to this issue. >> the staff at san francisco community health center has really taken up the initiative of providing a community-based outreach for the neighborhood. so we're out there at this point monday through saturday letting residents know this is a service they can access really just describing the service, you know, the shower, the laundry, the food, all the different resources and referrals that can be made and really just providing the neighborhood with a face, this is something that we've seen work and something you can trust. >> together, city and community-based teams work daily to connect people to services,
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>> my name is holly doudiet. h2 firefighter with the san franciscowired. what inspired me to be a firefighter was in 2008 i graduated college . the recession had happened so there weren't any jobs. i was having troublefinding a job. and i was kind of looking around . my dad was a firefighter and i thought what a great career he had. so i asked my dad, never thinking about it at first before. i said dad, what you think about me being afirefighter and he goes yeah, thatwould be a good idea . i took some classes, i ended up loving it . i grew up and actually and i think it was a good fit for me because it's a physical job and it's enjoyable. you never know whatyou're going to get and it's a team effort . i first realized i was part of the lgbt+ community in sixth
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grade. i looked on the other side of the classroom and i sawthis girl i thought was really attractive and i thought i want to be her boyfriend . though my experiences in the city growing up in the city and countyof san francisco were always verypositive . i came out in high school . i actually ended up being prom king my senior year in high school and a lot of peoplewere very supportive . myparents were very supportive . they just let me do my thing and my dad knew of a lot of lesbian women in the fire departmentthe time because he was a san francisco firefighter . for me it's very important to be part of a community and organization and an agency that supports my lgbtq status because if you're not yourself, how can you perform to the best of your abilities? you're always holding back in
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some way whether it's your personality or your abilities or your overall skills and with agency that supports me being a lesbian i can truly be myself. i can be happy. i can be social with other people. it makes me want to work as a team and we all work better together when we are happier and we can be ourselves. >>. [music] >>
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>> good morning or good afternoon nothing like a little rain today. a mission in the rain. >> this is a san francisco moment and i'm honored be here and do this and -- it is just -- it is a dream come true. i'm tom murphy an organizer for jerry day. we started around this area that event 20 years ago and here it is going strong and thanks for everybody for your support. [applause] >> i'm excited that we are celebrating and bring it back to the jerry garcia theatre and celebrate the heingacy of jerry garcia who grew up up the street 121 amazon and 87 herrington down the street here t. is amaze
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to me not surprising but we have jerry days all over and there was a jerry day in australia. somebody correct me i don't think they ever went to australia. you know it shows that this scene is growing and take off tremendously. take kickoff the days between we are staying a week of celebrations through the 14th. we had a lot of upon community collaborations on jerry 80th birthday. i'm excited for the community organizations and partnerships that came about this during this time. red light management mark allen, thank you. jerry garcia family, thank you very much. [applause] the office of workforce development chris corey and mayoran thompson, thank you very much. sf rec and park the sf library, the district office supervisor's
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ej, thank you. >> sf travel, grants for the arts. the sf giants. stern grove festival. haight street merchants thank you for coming out today and thank you valley brown for coming out and grants for the arts and all the community organizations accellsior action group outer mission merchant. manny's cafe. hart monick brewing and key supporters of jerry day jump as the jerry garcia family. sound support. san francisco rec and park. sf beautiful and all of our staff, vol disappears all of our don'tors such as tommy wearing the nice shoes today. [applause]. when i if you ever learned about this i mention joe coffee she advocateed have the jerry garcia theatre renamed back in 1995.
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that was the first time i found out and realized that jerry grew up in the neighborhood and sparked a plug in me. and here i am -- 25-30 years later doing this it is amazing. >> and right here is the plaque this was installed in 2017. as the quote there, what we are trying to do is expand rather than narrow. i feel hacommunity was able to accomplish that this year while we are work to recover from the pandemic we went through the last 2-3 years. >> once again i want to say, thank you and have a huge happy birthday to jerry garcia, his 80th birthday now the mayor of san francisco a fan of live music, big fan of live music the 45th mayor of san francisco, london breed. >> thank you, tom. i almost wore my tyedye dress
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from love on hate i have to run to a flat raising right after this i had to dress up. back in 1965 when the grateful dead came in existence, they really not only put san francisco on the map they put the haight ashbury tyedye on the map and created music for everyone. mixing reggae, gospel and seoul, country everything they did represented a way to bring people together. and i think that is why so many people identify with their work. identify with their music. and feel so connected to this group. because there was always something for everyone. and some of you may have been arc live at the time. i was not arc live i like to drag brag about that. i saw so many of the photographs of them performing on haight ashbury primary nothing golden
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gate park. when you look at the crowds and the access of people, it was absolutely extraordinary. and what they were able to do, along with so many other iconic group in this community and this city, was to make magic happen and make us feel good about the time despite the challenges that existed. we remember the vietnam war and other things going of and in fact, jerry garcia privileged he was born and raised in this neighborhood. lived the first 5 years of his life a block and a half away from here. supportd and loved his home town like i know some of the natives here today. and so -- we want to honor, recognize his legacy becauseen though he was a star and performed all over the world, he always represented san francisco in such an extraordinary way. and when i think about you know the over time, so many things that have been done.
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tom and his work around jerry garcia day. jerry garcia theater there will be a great performance you can watch for free tomorrow. wear all the tyedye you want as we beat l.a. we will be playing the dodgerers! there will be activities and events. what is so great about this year more so, i love the fact that we are home. we are to where it started where jerry was born and raised and spent his time as a child. we will have a number. events throughout the community and that's what it is all about. the activityings, the things that bring people together and nothing brings people together more than live music. we will be at a number of upon venn use. at a lot of places and on august 14th, phil will be with his friends and others the other founders of grateful dead will be with a group of folks at the
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big picnic at stern grove here in san francisco, which is open and free and available to everyonech i am really excited be here today. and grateful for all, grateful for all of you. [laughter]. and your love and your support of this extraordinary iconic person. we know that he was a large are than life figure. and today would have been his 80th birthday. as we celebrate and honest or and remember his legacy condition to remember what he stood for. music, entertainment, keep smiles on people's face and to just really bring joy to our hearts and seouls with the everything that he and the grateful dead agreed. today on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, i want to present his daughter, tricksy who is here today, with a proclamation recognizing your father and his numerous talents
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and your family and the community. and today, we will officially proclaim it jerry garcia day in san francisco! [applause] wonderful. what an honor. >> thank you. >> thank you. you want to say a few words. >> i have words to say. >> thank you. >> thank you, mayor breed you are an inspiration and people like that you hopefully inspiring young people to get involved and remember they can change the world. my father was raised here he learned about fair labor laws from his grand mother was a union organizer. it was here he learned be a musician from his father who played saks in his jazz band. it was here he learned see the
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beaut in people's story growing up with the family bar. [inaudible] here he learned live like an artist in san francisco art institute they all contributed to the legacy of jerry garcia. not just the world class musician but someone who's lasting influence makes the wormed a better place and as his daughter, it it is an honor to be here and represent the family. be in san francisco and proud californian this is the best place on the planet. thank you san francisco for valuing the i deals always assistanting for someone and a safe space for open minded people. we honor our father jerry garcia who played thousands of shoes in the city on his 80th birthday. [applause] >> thank you. >> thank you.
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>> thank you, mayor london breed. now i will say a few words joy from art span are doing an art mission here in the district working with many organizations grants for the arts here is >> ann >> thank you, topp the unfish mayor of -- i run arts span and this is the testament to why art and matter. we are all here because an artist jerry garcia touched so many people and still december what are we doing? bringing art out to everyone. we have 4 years we have paid artists 29 artists we give them a total of 50 thousand dollars because we are putting monnet hands of artists to put art in the store fronts on mission street. and on the closing kinds of, roughly the closing of jerry garcia day in the park zeal a
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pub crawl through the park oust park and on mission and ending at the dog course inn. >> [laughter] we got this! and along the way, there upon be bands 5 bands in bars and they will be 11 cites with art. so it is a music and art crawl from mc claire and i know seat excelsior temperature means so much to know that art does matter and what brings us together the first art work we are like we will walk and take the artists. may be 30 people will come tell be amazing. 100 came and walked the entire path with us. i was like, we are touching people. sends postcards in cantonese and spanish and english everything we do and -- we do pretty things like here is the map of the day. we will put them all over if you
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are a business owner put it in your win o the partnerships with action groups with city departments, mayor's office of economic workforce development, it matters. city funds are coming to us to give it to artists and you all benefit. so, thank you all for being here, art matters. tell help us come become from this crazy time of the covid. follow the art. we will be here. thank you, guys. [applause]. >> thank you. i want to list the events today today we had the special proclamation. tomorrow night jerry garcia night at the giants. also today starting is a library art exhibit it will go on the month of august. check it out. and the haight street from august 7 to august 14th. thank you sunny for doing that. and art span starting -- august 11th.
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and an event at manny's cafe on august 11 and ocean beach clean up with the jerry garcia family on august 13 and jerry day august 13th at the jerry garcia theater. >> and then after the show, will be jerry night with the art installations and art pan and all along mission and geneva. and then the day after stern grove festival closing out 2 weeks of jerry garcia celebration. thank you for coming out. thank you mayor breed and tricks and he jerry garcia family. happy birthday to jerry! [applause] [singing happy
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♪♪ >> san francisco! ♪♪ >> this is an exhibition across departments highlighting different artworks from our collection. gender is an important part of the dialogue. in many ways, this exhibition is contemporary. all of this artwork is from the 9th century and spans all the way to the 21st century. the exhibition is organized into seven different groupings or themes such as activities,
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symbolism, transformation and others. it's not by culture or time period, but different affinities between the artwork. activities, for example, looks at the role of gender and how certain activities are placed as feminine or masculine. we have a print by uharo that looks at different activities that derisionly performed by men. it's looking at the theme of music. we have three women playing traditional japanese instruments that would otherwise be played by men at that time. we have pairings so that is looking within the context of gender in relationships. also with how people are questioning the whole idea of pairing in the first place.
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we have three from three different cultures, tibet, china and japan. this is sell vanity stot relevar has been fluid in different time periods in cultures. sometimes being female in china but often male and evoking features associated with gender binaries and sometimes in between. it's a lovely way of tying all the themes together in this collection. gender and sexuality, speaking from my culture specifically, is something at that hasn't been recently widely discussed. this exhibition shows that it's gender and sexuality are actually have been considered and complicated by dialogue through the work of artists and
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thinking specifically, a sculpture we have of the hindu deities because it's half pee male and half male. it turns into a different theme in a way and is a beautiful representation of how gender hasn't been seen as one thing or a binary. we see that it isn't a modest concept. in a way, i feel we have a lot of historical references and touch points throughout all the ages and in asian cultures. i believe san francisco has close to 40% asian. it's a huge representation here in the bay area. it's important that we awk abouk about this and open up the discussion around gender. what we've learned from organizing this exhibition at the museum is that gender has been something that has come up in all of these cultures through
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>> good afternoon. we are here today for virtual town hall regarding a officer involved shooting that occurred saturday august 6, 2022 at 18 and shotwell street. before proceeding, i like to announce to our viewing and listening audience that this town hall is being translated into spanish, and american sign language. today's presentation include details from officer involved shooting that occurred between uniformed san francisco police officers and 51 year old jose cavera. the san francisco police department we recognize that our sworn duty as law enforcement officers imposes no more solemn obligation on us then to
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