stomers. >> i think that everybody was on edge. nobody was untouched. it was very silent. >> as a business owner, you know things don't just stop, right? you've still got your rent, and all of the overhead, it's still there. >> there's this underlying constant sense of dread and anxiety. it doesn't prevent you from going to work and doing your job, it doesn't stop you from doing your normal routine. what it does is just make you feel extra exhausted. >> so we began to reopen one year later and we will emerge stronger we will emerge better as a city because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another.

>> this place has definitely been an anchor for us it's home for us, and again we are part of this community and the community is part of us. >> one of the things that we strived for is making everyone in the community feel welcome and we have a sign that says "you're welcome." no matter who you are no matter what your political views are, you're welcome here. and it's sort of the classic san francisco thing is that you work with folks. >> the your dutyit is your duty to help everybody in san francisco. >> okay. we are all waiting for you, mayor. >> it is a real press conference >> you called it.

>> you called it. we make it happen. >> okay thank you all for joining today's prefestival briefing for outside landses with mayor bride i'm allen scott. i'm the cofound and coproducer of the outside lands. we are excited to return to our 14th edition of outside lands back to our normal dates after doing a special halloween edition last year we have a festival planned and can't wait to let all of our guests experience t. no 2 festivals are arc like. and i will share more later on what makes this year's festival unique and exciting. first i want to acknowledge part of what made has made outside lands success over the years.

so and that begins with the mayor's office. the rec and park department. police and fire department. mta, public health and other city service. we could trurl not do it without the city's cooperation. >> events like outside lands bring people together in the community. and would noted be possible without the city team. i want to thank your neighbors in the sunset and the richmond districts. we know that we are in your neighborhood. and we enjoy a good and close relationship with you all and many of the things that we have done to mitigate the impact of outside lands has been done with those neighborhoods and supervisors. >> in a mobile home you will hear from our mayor after she speaks, i will cover what is you in for the festival. after a number of our team

members and partners will be available for individual interviews and we will wrap with a site tour you feel free to take footage of the groundses and get a sense for the space. we have golf carts next door that we can take you after this now my honor to welcome mayor london breed. [applause] thank you allen and thank you everyone for being here today. i don't know about you this looks amazing. this will be exciting for san francisco and i then and there in a major city like san francisco we have our challenges. it does in the mean we should not take an opportunity to have a good time. and that's what this event does. outside lands is about having a good time. over 100 restaurants. don't come unless you are

hungry. you can enjoy the food. there will be drinks and food and other things to enjoy in addition to the music and the experience. i'm looking forward to hearing all the noise, all overnight city. i know the neighbors may not want to but what i appreciate most about outside land system their work with the community. with the neighborhood. to recognize the need to support and make sure the community is not inconvenienced. we are asking people to take public transportation. and to make sure they look on the outside land's website to know the options available. we have a great system to get you in to golden gate park to outside landses, we have a pretty fortunate system it get you out. people who have come to outside land in the past know that this works like clockwork at this point. and in terms whf we are able to do. the ultimate goal is to keep

people safe and everyone is having a good time. we truly appreciate the partnership between san francisco rec and park and our park rangers and the san francisco police department. and the work that they will do not only with outside lands but outside in the neighboring community to keep you safe. i want to warn everyone who is think burglar driving and trying to find a park. don't block anyone's driveway. there will be toe trucks every where and we will responded accordingly. we want to make sure that the surrounding community is not inconvenienced because we want outside lands to continue. let's be good neighbors. be good pavement and make sure this experience is a good one. what we know about outside lands that i am most appreciate of is what it does for the economy we anticipate 71 million dollars in our local economy in san francisco. that benefits artists, benefits

public safety it benefits our small businesses especially here directly with some of our local restaurants. it does so much and over the existence 15 year existence of outside lands, rec and park department are beautiful park system has been fortunate enough to generate 31 million dollars. that is extraordinary. but it does not stop there. outside lands understands the personals of also giving back to the community. and so over a million dollars begin to organizations and the sunset and richmond. to our transgender district and other thing this is we hold dear in our city. so they put on a great show. they have great performers yes. it is a good time and keeps the smile on your face and this year you don't have to mask up or have to provide proof of vaccine or do the things you did in the past. but be clear.

covid is out there. a declaration of emergency that is out there. we want people safe in this environment. be mindsful and if you don't feel good don't come. because we want people to have a great experience here at outside lands. so much activity going on in san francisco. when i think about just over the past couple of months as we come together especially after dealing with 2 years. of a global pandemic where we could not enjoy live music in this way. i'm more appreciative now than ever before. we had the pride parade that was a huge success. national champions and golden state warriors had the biggest parade in san francisco i have seen in my life in the city. we had festivals and events and concerts and so many wonderful things. and it seems like outside

landses is just the chero top to bring it all together. so for all of you coming out this weekend, please keep a smile on your face and enjoy please use public transportation. and ultimately i want you all to have the best time. thank you all so much. [applause]. thank you mayor breed you are integral and could not do it without you and thank you for letting us take over the city for a weekend. >> um00 eye want to give a few upon things on the festival. that is important to know. one is that we are expecting over 220000 people to come to the park this weekend. and it is looking to be a very

big weekend for outside lands. we sold out of 3 day tickets. we have single day tickets available. they are going quickly. this year's lineup is probably the most diverse and dynamic we had in the history of the festival. a lot of the artists most on the bill never played before beginning with green day cho are home town heros. we have been trying to get them for many years and finally the stars arc lined and have them this year and they are very excited for their set. >> we have post malone the biggest artists in the world and he never played here before and the third, citizena, last played in 2015 and on that stage she was the first act of that day. >> and now she is closing the first night of the festival. we are excited for them and the rest of the artists and i have a birdef who told me the mayor

excited for jack harm over. that is the truth. >> the mayor mentioned that we have over 100 local know restaurants here. the number of menu items later is -- extraordinary. hundreds of different menu items and diversity amongst the food here is second to none. >> and -- also -- should note our sustain ability here is we have an 86% diversion rate that means that all of the refuse from the festival 86% is diverted and recycled or compost. now we will open up for questions. just as a reminder following you will have an opportunity to combru myself and our team and partners individually. we may refer the questions to them and i will take a quick moment to introduce them.

first we have greg ceo of another planet and lands producer. copruzer of outside landses. sarah director of policy at sf rec and park. tonya kohler, the genius food callerator of a taste of the bay in outside landses and brian du cat with another planet can discuss the vipiral initiatives and coproducer as well. >> let's get to your questions. >> okay.

[inaudible]iel. ychls we have a bag policy tell be on the website. we ask to you bring a clear bag to bring essentials to the festival there are mall clutch bags that are allowed in the festival don't need to be clear if you are coming bring a back pack bring clear bags whey this policy for years and that is important you your bag will be turned away if you don't bring a clear bag. >> yes. we can have -- -- yep. thank you for the question. i'm the deputy chief assigned field of operations. district stations in san francisco. as mentioned this morning this is a partnership and the

planning process public safety planning process started months ago with captain the commanding officer of richmond station. we will have police officers all 3 days for in events on the interior and exterior of the events. we are working with private partners can our state other local officials the rec and park and federal officials. >> [inaudible] [cannot hear question]. >> the best advice is not to come with anything valuable outside behalf is necessary and the mayor said i would strongly encourage everyone to take public transportation or a lyft service and bring the valuables with you if you must bring a vehicle don't leave anything valuable. it is our addage of park smart

if you mean leave something in your car remember not to once you parked take the valuables from your car and put them in the trunk. you want to do that ahead of time. okay. >> thank you. >> thank you. and reminder that we encourage torn take alternateively transportation. we have private shuttles from the bill graham civic to and from the festival those on the website it is a successful program. we have 10 upon thousand people a day that take that service. muni is operating. tnc's to and from the festival and have a good number who walk and ride bikes and skate boarding. every means necessary. we encourage alternative means of transportation. we have lookers on site if you come in that lookers are able to

be rentsd and put valuable in there safely. [inaudible] i think this you know what we know in san francisco is that -- we have a tremendous team of public health professional this is provide advice advice. we consulted with them on eventses and parades and other activities. advice is that look, it is out there. we are living with it. but it does in the money we can't come together. and when we are seeing even though we are seeing cases of covid we are not seeing as many people hospitalized or losing

their lives like we did in the beginning of the pandemic they believe it is appropriate to have the events. as far as monkeypox you know left week we district attorney claired a state of emergency. we have requested from the federal government numerous times resources including vaccines. we anticipate that we will get hopefully, soon, 10,000 more vaccines. the governor declared a state of emergency after we did in san francisco and appear that today the federal government is going to be declaring a state of emergency. my hope is that will open the door to address the issue. but again we want people to understand that covid and monkeypox are still issues that are out there. and the d. public health at this time does not believe this events like this should not continue as a result. thank you. >> thank you.

thank you for your questions that's all the time we have. we want to be respectful of the mir a time. madam mayor thank you, again for joining us. you will have the chance to introduce our team down on the polo field for the next 20 minutes. immediately following the individual interviews youer wang to tour the site. now our team will take to you the main stage. we got different stations sets up with our team and we have greg ceo of another planet. we have rick with super notice. sarah with sf rec and park. tonya our food curateo. brian with another plan and he myself with another planet. thanks, again. [applause].

when i shoot chinatown, i shoot the architecture that people not just events, i shoot what's going on in daily life and everything changes. murals graffiti store opening. store closing. the bakery. i shoot anything and everything in chinatown. i shoot daily life. i'm a crazy animal. i'm shooting for fun. that's what i love.

>> i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer for the last i think about 20 years. i joined the chinese historical society. it was a way i could practice my society and i can give the community memories. i've been practicing and get to know everybody and everybody knew me pretty much documenting the history i don't just shoot events. i'm telling a story in whatever photos that i post on facebook it's just like being there from front to end, i do a good job and i take hundreds and hundreds of photos. and i was specializing in chinese american history. i want to cover what's happening in chinatown. what's happening in my community. i shoot a lot of government officials. i probably have thousands of

photos of mayor lee and all the dignitaries. but they treat me like one of the family members because they see me all the time. they appreciate me. even the local cops the firemen, you know i feel at home. i was born in chinese hospital 1954. we grew up dirt poor. our family was lucky to grew up. when i was in junior high, i had a degree in hotel management restaurant. i was working in the restaurant business for probably about 15 years. i started when i was 12 years old. when i got married, my wife had an import business. i figured, the restaurant business i got tired of it. i said come work for the family business. i said okay. it's going to be interesting

and so interesting i lasted for 30 years. i'm married i have one daughter. she's a registered nurse. she lives in los angeles now. and two grandsons. we have fun. i got into photography when i was in junior high and high school. shooting cameras. the black and white days i was able to process my own film. i wasn't really that good because you know color film and processing was expensive and i kind of left it alone for about 30 years. i was doing product photography for advertising. and kind of got back into it. everybody said oh, digital photography, the year 2000.

it was a ghost town in chinatown. i figured it's time to shoot chinatown store front nobody. everybody on grand avenue. there was not a soul out walking around chinatown. a new asia restaurant it used to be the biggest restaurant in chinatown. it can hold about a 1,000 people and i had been shooting events there for many years. it turned into a supermarket. and i got in. i shot the supermarket. you know and its transformation. even the owner of the restaurant the restaurant it's 50 years old. i said yeah. it looks awful. history.

because i'm shooting history. and it's impressive because it's history because you can't repeat. it's gone it's gone. >> you stick with her, she'll teach you everything. >> cellphone photography that's going to be the generation. i think cellphones in the next two, three years, the big cameras are obsolete already. mirrorless camera is going to take over market and the cellphone is going to be better. but nobody's going to archive it. nobody's going to keep good history. everybody's going to take snapshots, but nobody's going to catalog. they don't care. >> i want to see you. >> it's not a keepsake. there's no memories behind it.

everybody's sticking in the cloud. they lose it who cares. but, you know i care. >> last september of 2020 i had a minor stroke and my daughter caught it on zoom. i was having a zoom call for my grand kids. and my daughter and my these little kids said hey you sound strange. yeah. i said i'm not able to speak properly. they said what happened. my wife was taking a nap and my daughter, she called home and said he's having a stroke. get him to the hospital. five minutes later, you know, the ambulance came and took me away and i was at i.c.u. for

four days. i have hundreds of messages wishing me get well soon. everybody wished that i'm okay and back to normal. you know i was up and kicking two weeks after my hospital stay. it was a wake-up call. i needed to get my life in order and try to organize things especially organize my photos. >> probably took two million photos in the last 20 years. i want to donate to an organization that's going to use it. i'm just doing it from the heart. i enjoy doing it to give back to the community. that's the most important. give back to the community.

>> it's a lot for the community. >> i was a born hustler. i'm too busy to slow down. i love what i'm doing. i love to be busy. i go nuts when i'm not doing anything. i'm 67 this year. i figured 70 i'm ready to retire. i'm wishing to train a couple for photographers to take over my place. the younger generation they have a passion, to document the history because it's going to be forgotten in ten years, 20 years, maybe i will be forgotten when i'm gone in a couple years but i want to be remembered for my work and, you know photographs will be a

remembrance. i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer. this is my story. >> when you're not looking, frank's there. he'll snap that and then he'll send me an e-mail or two and they're always the best. >> these are all my p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p

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bleiman the commission president. >> this meeting is in hybrid format in city hall room 416 broadcasts on sfgov.org and can call in 669-900-6833 id: 812 2315 5123. before we begin we would like to reminds all present in attending the meeting in person today that all health and safety protocols adhered to at all time it is we appreciate your cooperation with the rules and requirements in the interest