>> good morning and welcome to the rules committee meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. i am the chair of committee aaron peskin joined by member mandelman and chan.

before i start, i would like to wish supervisor chan a very happy birthday. with that, mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> yes, the board of supervisors the board of supervisors and its committees will convene hybrid meetings that will allow in-person attendance, remote access, and public comment via teleconference. visit the sfgovtv website at (www.sfgovtv.org) to stream the live meetings and watch meetings on demand or watch live meetings on san francisco cable channels 26, 28, 78 or 99 (depending on your provider). members of the public may provide public comment in-person at the above noticed location or remotely via teleconference (detailed instructions available at: https://sfbos.org/remote-meeting -call). individuals who wish to share documents during a hearing must provide them to the clerk 48 hours in advance (victor.young@sfgov.org); equipment is not available to share hard copy documents received in-person. members of the public attending in-person may be required to wear masks or adhere to current orders, please visit https://sfbos.org/in_person_ meeting_guidelines for the current guidelines. members of the public may also submit their comments by email to: victor.young@sfgov.org; all comments received will be made a part of the official record. regularly scheduled rules committee meetings begin at

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that completes my initial comment. thank you, mr. young. please read the first item. >> >>clerk: 1. 220938 [mayoral appointment, public utilities commission - kate stacy] motion approving/rejecting the mayor's nomination for the appointment of kate stacy to the public utilities commission, for a term ending august 1, 2026. (clerk of the board) >>supervisor aaron peskin: thank you. colleagues, there is someone known to the panel deputy who served with the attorneys office for quite some time and we know from our work with land use team over many years in my case since the year 2001, i had the opportunity to meet with ms. stacy and perhaps you did as well colleagues. before we hear from her, i will tell you my bias which i think

this is a nomination by the mayor for the public utilities commission seat no. 4, formally held by the general manager of puc hanson, who has to be someone with experience with puc and power utilities and i believe ms. stacy experience with ceqa and from water quality is part of that regard. with that, if there are no other additional comments or questions, i would like to invite ms. stacy up to make a statement. good morning, ms. stacy.

>> good morning chair peskin and supervisors. thank you for the nomination and for the rules committee considering it. i have worked with the city over 30 years and just retired this month. and my past experience makes this position very compelling to me. i have a particular concern about climate change. climate change is changing our world so quickly and so potentially disastrously and it affects all the programs that the puc manages, water, wastewater and energy. this city both has to react to the effects of climate change and also work to anticipate and mitigate the effects of climate change. it's our critical obligation to each other and future generations. first in respect to the water program, our supply is changing

for a variety of reasons and we need to respond to these changes and to care for our watershed areas and we need to conserve and reuse our water carefully and wisely and work to protect the rapidly changing environments in which we find ourselves and the water system. i have seen such creative work on our water system while working on the water improvement program. i saw the activist and planners and engineers study from hetch hetchy on behalf of the fish, frogs, and the kayaking on the tuolumne river and was a collaborative effort and i know we are going to need those creative and collaborative efforts in the future and i need to be part of that and we know the bay is constantly evolving.

the temperature and water conditions are changing and we need to continuously evaluate how we can improve our wastewater system to respond to this and improve the environment of the bay, the city and our neighborhoods. there is plenty of work ahead. finally with respect to energy, what a difference we know clean energy can make. we must be persistent and unyielding in our efforts to provide cleaner, cheaper energy for all users. watching the operators at mock son manage the flow and provides for many bay area and san francisco users. we will use more and be persistent in making that happen. the city has never shyed away on taking a leadership position and

saw that through my work in this city. the city has been and will continue to be a part of it and i will be honored to contribute to that effort. thank you very much for honoring my nomination. >> thank you, ms. stacy. we share your sentiments. are there any other comments? >> supervisor connie chan: thank you. i would like to thank you for this commitment to this city, not only for your work but now will continue to work. i asked that in our previous rules committee that i will be in support of your appointment and glad you are here today. >>supervisor aaron peskin: it should be fun being your former bosses boss. with that -- is there any public

comment? >> >>clerk: public comment call in 1 (415) 655-0001 / meeting id: 2490 941 5949 # # (press *3 to enter the speaker line) for those already in the queue, please wait until you are unmuted. we have no persons present here. we have one online person. can you hear me? public speaker: david. as indicated seat 4, to be a member with public utilities commission

management and is a deputy attorney with land use and ceqa expertise, but not public utility management expertise in my opinion. this seat has been held by a retired puc employee and there are many of those to choose from like cheryl davis, larry klein, marlow, and karen, among many others. i would hope reappointing andy moran, and both puc had andy moran and with a non-manager who lacks expertise. this rules committee could reject this nominee and seek to have the mayor appoint a qualified person to this seat. ms. stacy is certainly qualified

for other appointments but not this one in my opinion. thank you for hearing my comments. >> are there any additional speakers on this item no. 1? >> >>clerk: that was our only caller on this matter. >> public comment is closed. when mr. -- becomes mayor, he can nominate whoever he chooses. but i find the qualifications that were created by this supervisor in proposition e whatever year it was 2007 or 8, i think i wrote the qualifications for the members of the puc commission and subject to all of them to ratification by the board of supervisors and the voters voted for that. i find that ms. stacy does indeed have experience in water systems. to that end, i will make the

motion to amend the subject motion by removing in the title the word "rejecting" at line 3 and removing the word "rejects". on the motion, >> roll call, please. >>clerk: [roll call] the motion passes without objection. >> i will make a motion to send the recommendation to the board of supervisors october 15th. >> a motion to recommended the amended motion. >> [roll call] the motion passes without objection. >>supervisor aaron peskin: ms. stacy, are # -- it would appear

if the board votes you in, you may serve october 15, 2022. next item. >> >>clerk: 2. 220996 [presidential appointment, child care planning and advisory council - jessica campos] motion approving/rejecting the president of the board of supervisors shamann walton's nomination of jessica campos (residency requirement waived) for appointment to the child care planning and advisory council, term ending march 19, 2024. (clerk of the board) >> >>supervisor aaron peskin: thank you. is jessica campos available? good morning. >> good morning, supervisor peskin and supervisors. my name is is jessica campos currently working as the community engagement lead and prior to this was the manager for the early start program in the bayview area which is one of

the primary headstart providers in san francisco. i am here to talk a little bit about the role of cpac. not only in my role of office of racial equity. do we push for equity in all areas, but with my previous experience with early headstart and headstart and importance of providing a holistic approach for our families, providing support for our parents, our children, but also ensuring the equitable support for our teachers in our field and i'm honored to accept the nomination if you will have me. thank you. >> thank you, ms. campos. you are clearly qualified. i don't see any questions or comments from committee members. are there any members of the public who would like to testify on this presidential appointment? >>clerk: members of the public who would like to comment on

this item and joining us in person, please lineup. for those callers public comment call in 1 (415) 655-0001 / meeting id: 2490 941 5949 # # (press *3 to enter the speaker line) i do not see anybody in line to speak and we have no callers on the line for public comment on this matter. >>supervisor aaron peskin: all right. public comment is closed. and i will make a motion noting that a residency waiver is required to remove the word "rejecting" for line 3. and send this item to amend it to the full board for a positive recommendation hearing

october 15th. >> roll call, please. >>clerk: [roll call] the motion passes without objection. >>supervisor aaron peskin: thank you. next item, please. >>clerk: 3. 220843 [administrative code - approval of surveillance technology policies for multiple city departments] ordinance approving surveillance technology policies governing the use of 1) automatic license plate readers by the municipal transportation agency, 2) biometric processing software or system by the juvenile probation department, 3) body-worn cameras by the fire department and recreation and park department, 4) people-counting camera by the library, 5) security cameras by the department of elections, 6) third-party security cameras by the airport, municipal transportation agency, police department, and war memorial, 7) location management >>supervisor aaron peskin: there

was the enactment of the civil code for the policy. this is the next wave of those, we have about 50 or such policies and would like to thank the departments on this committee for the information technology and putting them together. i actually enjoyed reading them because it reminded me what the fundamental purpose of 19b was for transparency to the public and most importantly to remind what they are doing with them and remind them that they need to have retention and access policies. so the exercise is if not more than half of the battle

and i still have a number of questions. with that, let me thank and welcome ms. johnson from the office of the city administrator and the director of the committee on information technology. good morning. >> good morning. thank you very much for your time. and the introduction. my name is ms. johnson. here to give you an overview and the role in developing information technology as described in the admin code. just as an overview, coit is the city and government and it --

information technology and to collaborate regularly with coit and able to share with residents this technology in this city. this is a quick overview of our main responsibilities. we developed a five year technology plan, develop annual budget recommendations for the mayor and the board and portfolio management of i.t. products and we are here to develop these technology policies. with regard to item b, our coit duties are to maintain surveillance inventory which is at the link provided. it's a listing of all the tech in the city and continues to be in use

as well as any new surveillance technology that they have developed a policy for. we work with departments to develop impact reports and surveillance technology policies as defined by 19b. conduct public hearings on those documents and recommend actions to the board of supervisors on those policies as well as collect annual surveys reports and check for any potential changes that that are additional changes and how they use their surveillance technology and policies and how it's achieved their intended goals. one of the things we use to help develop these policies and the first step for the department is the surveillance tool kit which is the image on the right to start the process by developing the policies and reports by enhancing the tool kit which

involves a robust assessment and streamline our requirements and helps inform the impact reports and helps inform the board of supervisors so they can assess whether or not the benefit of the technology outweigh the costs. speaking of benefits and costs, this tool kit also helps departments to consider the potential privacy impacts of their technologies as ways of mitigating those impacts. you can see there is an nist privacy framework that helps the various departments on the various technology and as far as dignity loss, loss of harmony and helps to mitigate that impact and maybe mitigated.

coit also created a policy board to work on policies and impact reports and advisory board that holds two meetings a month. to help departments strengthen their policies and impact reports and that has included in the past folks from the city, currently the chair of the body and from the controller's office and members from coit. a quick overview of the review process. surveillance technology policies start-up from being developed with a tool kit with their review and policy and they are heard from 1-3 meetings before they go to coit for their

review and approval. following coit's approval, city attorney reviews this and sent to the board of supervisors and then it's sent to the mayor's office. after this is approved, there is an annual report. here is a snapshot of the inventory today. 171 identified surveillance technologies across this city. we have currently 36 of those technologies that have received board and mayoral approval before today. today you will have reviewed 13 recommended policies and the next slide represents the 13. across the airport, juvenile, a

list of the technologies policies that you have available for you and we have representatives from each of these departments here and virtually to answer questions you might have about those documents. thank you. >> >>supervisor aaron peskin: thank you, ms. johnson. i very much again appreciate your work and that high level presentation. can you explain the classification levels to this committee? >> sorry, what is the classification level? >> throughout various policies there are references to different classification levels, 2, 3, can you explain that schema to us? >> i'm not sure that i can. i will refer to my privacy analyst. >> hello, my name is julia, the

analyst of the committee on information technology. the classification levels are related to the level of basically privacy related to that material. one is public information, and five is the most sensitive data. so perhaps like health information or something like that. everything in between is like a different step of the sensitivity of the data that is being kept. >> the definitions are ours, where did we get those classification levels from? >> i believe the classification level is from mist. i believe it is the data that helps inform those classifications as well. >> at your leisure, if there is some set of definition that you

can provide to the rules committee for inclusion in the feel, i didn't see that. that would be helpful. >> yes, it is posted on the website. we'll forward that to you. >> thank you so much. >> with that, colleagues, it would be my proposal to go through these in the order that my staff gave those to me starting with the airport and security cameras. i don't know if there are any opening comments from members of the rules committee. if not, shall i address these to you and if there is somebody from the department will you cover it? >> yes. >> so as to the airport security camera technology, the question, i had a couple of questions because these all seem to be

based on rules 7.0. and i'm sure this is going to be -- is there someone here from the airport? >> there are a few from the airport. >> come on up. i will say we just spent a number of meeting dealing with 19b policy as it relates to the police which has now been approved by the full board of supervisors that was controversial to say the least particularly as it relates to, there was a third party surveillance camera policy and it was the live monitoring that was the controversial part. so my questions are really about

that. and in rule 7.0, which is airport security, i assume all of your tenants in their leases have to adhere by reference to the lease in the report rules, is that the connection? >> that's correct. yes. my name is -- from the airport security services. yes, it releases those and every one of those has a stipulation that requires them to comply with all rules and city ordinances as part of that. >> got it. the policy seems to deal with the ordinance and is fine. but the rule 7.0 has a provisions in subsection b that speaks to all access to footage

is available to the aviation security unit at all times. which to me sounds like the airport can live monitor? >> that is reflected also in the policies in the actual response to incidents should there be an incident and there is benefit to reviewing real time, then we should be able to do that. it mostly relies to the components of it. as regulated by the tsa, where it covers for that where if something should affect airport security, we should be able to go in with respect to tenants be able to review that to see if that will help the investigation. >> i don't see where in the

policy, don't get me wrong. live monitoring has always been in 19b, can you direct me to where in the policy it deals with live monitoring outside of circumstances? >> it has been shown to do that and will be used to respond to incidents where we have an opportunity to review past camera footage. >> so, i'm not seeing that in the policy itself. i see it in the rule, but it's not addressed in the policy. let's just deal with the policy. the policy is very clear. authorized uses and says prohibited use cases in cases not stated. reviewing camera

footage in the event of an incident and approve tenants of disclosure of reporting camera system which i read which may be you read it differently as distorted footage. >> this covers us for those instances where we actually have the need to review that. that instrument is appropriate for that. however for everyday use, that is stored in the case of a situation that may arise. >> ms. johnson, far be it from me, i think what i just put my finger on isn't really dealt

with in the policy. if it said live monitoring is for ex-gint -- circumstances only but i don't see the provision. >> i would assume the admin code section on exigency. >>supervisor aaron peskin: i will work with council and

continue this and find the language that makes it clear that your 7.0 sub b rule is only in exigency circumstances. >> i completely agree with you. rule 7 precedes the document that we may have missed. we would be happy to take the recommendation. >> okay. the next thing i was going to bring up that as to the data sharing which is an interesting one for you because our airport is in a different county, so what you have here is internal data sharing which means among city agencies, you list the district attorney. but

anything that happens at san francisco international airport actually involves district attorney of san mateo county. so somebody does something that requires prosecution, i believe that is prosecuted not by our district attorney, but by their district attorney. >> that would be accurate. >> so, i don't think that, but there may be reasons that you want to do internal data sharing with our district attorney, but i don't know what those would about because they don't have jurisdiction with san mateo county. >> i believe they cover our city attorney's who support us. >> the city attorney's are separately listed and i have a question whether you want to list our city attorney's.

certainly you want to list our police, and sheriff. are they on the code? >> certainly they can be internal and we have those at the airport to support us policing wise. >> okay, we can discuss this in the intervening week as well. as to external data sharing and the airport is a unique creature as it relates to tsa and the federal government, but there is this very broad other law enforcement agencies and i think it's worth an off line discussion in the intervening week as to what that means to federal agencies. >> i would be happy to take that

off. >> and to other policies, the public defender of san mateo county, not ours, is listed but not listed in this one. i think that's the totality of the questions that i have for the airport surveillance technology policy. it otherwise looks really good. we'll continue that one if it's okay with you colleagues. i have no questions about the impact report associated with that one. that would move us on to the fire department's body worn camera policy. it sounds like it's the body worn cameras used for institutional purposes as that great video that i showed of your rescue and that's

all it is limited to. >> good morning, supervisors. yes, currently that is held by our pio officer. we have other body cams for other purposes. >> it says under authorized use. used by public information officer as in one person. but elsewhere it refers to two people. it's a minor detail, but should it say public information officers, plural? >> correct. we were referring to the position rather than the individual, but yes. and there is another individualisted -- listed in that i.t. position where it is cited.

>> there is a 1070 project. >> that is somebody who has access, that was an access issue. >> correct. >> somewhere in here. >> page 3, if you are looking for it. >> page 3 of the policy or report? >> of the policy. it says department employees and project manager. >> the only person that collects it is the pio. >> correct. >> any questions or comments? >> thank you very much. >> that takes us to juvenile probation department scram technologies plural, which was fascinating. i have no questions unless my

colleagues do. if you want to tell us something? it was really interesting. i think it's really interesting that, i'm glad to know this technology exists and that you are using it responsibly and i like the policy. >> thank you. >> >> supervisor connie chan: i think for the general public because we talk about biometrics, can you for the record talk about what they are and because we have this cam. >> yes, i'm very happy to do so. we also have the probation officer on teams in case we get too technical. both of these devices are certified devices and only gets applied with a court order.

the more frequently device is an electronic monitor that at least once per minute tracks the location of the wearer through a central locater and the officer can monitor that location. and we have the alcohol monitor. that takes little samples of the user's perspiration every 30 minutes and send the information to the monitor that tracks it. those are used very rarely only with court order. on average we have roughly ten people placed on gps monitoring by the court at any given time. >>

>>supervisor aaron peskin: thank you for that question, supervisor chan. why don't we move onto the public library that has a couple of policies, computer management and the patron counter system which i note does not report or store any video images, but merely does counts of where people are at for statistical purposes and that information is retained indefinitely and interesting read but i have no questions on that, unless my colleagues do. and this media software which also has no questions. that is true. any questions or comments from my colleagues? all right.

supervisor chan, my apologies. >> supervisor connie chan: i just want to actually appreciate the system. i do think that giving just the wide range of populations in public libraries from kids to grown ups and especially sharing computers, and i actually just want to express my appreciation for setting the rules and policies for our public libraries, and just for public record. i also while i do have some questions about patron counters, but i do appreciate the social media monitoring computer management system for those, and just a quick question and i may not have this. i just wanted to quickly understand for all of those three, how does the public

have access to the data? if they do? or the records of it. >> good morning, my name is randy mcclure at the library. the question, i want to be sure it is clear to answer. how does the public have access to the data? >> yes. >> are we talking about the patron counter data? >> yes. >> those are aggregated. we count our visitors at all 28 locations throughout the city and publish them internally to the library so see if the percentages are up or down. the public can request that data. it's level one data. it's simply numbers. the other thing the city requires us to publish performance measures and we do

that on a city scorecard in addition to an annual report, then we also publish this information and again aggregated data to the state, california state library as well as various national organizations such as the american library association and the public library association. so it ends up out there in a lot of ways but no sensitive data is involved. >> thank you. >> all right. that takes us on to the department of election of security cameras which was interesting. good morning. >> good morning. >> i had a couple of questions. i absolutely appreciate the fact that members of the public can actually watch the various aspects of the election live. i

think it instills trust in the process. but i was a little confused about the retention policies where it looks like on page 4, the things are automatically deleted ten days after recording is made, and then under the data retention policy it says that it will be stored for a minimum of one year. can you help me reconcile that. what am i missing? >> i don't have the answer for that. >> and then the other thing i was going to mention is in so far as i think during the elections you are using these things 24/7, but outside of the

election, you are not. so i think where it says under data quality on page 2, that the cameras run 24/7, 365, i don't think that is accurate. so why don't we clean up those two things in the intervening weeks. ms. johnson, i think the way this works is either you change the policy or the board can by ordinance change the policy, either way is fine. that substance of the policy is great, once we figure out the ten year one year discrepancy sea, but either you can fix it or we can fix it. >> it sounds like a plan. >> excellent. >> one comment. we canceled the subscriptions to retain any recordings. so probably around half the

cameras right now, the connection with google, there is no recording and by the end of this year, all recording will expire and will not be retaining in the action from the streaming. everything we have is just strictly streaming. >> okay, maybe we want to address that in the policy. keep doing what you are doing in the election. >> thank you, sir. . >> that takes us to rec's and parks and body cam report.

i had a few questions here. i guess it's in the order that i scribbled my notes. under data security, there was something that i was a little concerned about which is, it says access is limited only to the chief park ranger, but then adds the words "or designee". it's a big loophole that you can drive a truck through. if the chief park ranger designates anybody, i mean that designee status has to be prescribed. it has to be another sworn officer or something, but it can't be open-ended or designee, because then i'm going like how did the other party who

has no access have access to -- this policy. so we have to fix that. the next under "data sharing". under "external data sharing", the internal stuff all looked fine. please share city attorney, public defender, great. the stern, did not incorporate prohibitions on potentially sharing camera footage with ice or similar organizations. i think that needs some work. under data retention period, it

says body worn camera to be restored for a minimum of one year. that i'm not comfortable with. i would be comfortable if it was a maximum of one year. the noted is limitation and this is not limiting concepts. i think that needs some work. then on page 4, the data retention policy. actually going back to access. it says after department

employees, it says chief park rangers and lieutenant park ranger. i think there is only one chief a ranger and multiple lieutenant park rangers. is that true? >> good morning. yes, that is a typo. there is only one chief park ranger, that is david murphy and the lieutenant park ranger. we can change that. >> perfect. that would work. if it says chief park ranger or lieutenant park ranger. is there only one lieutenant park ranger? >> yes. we have two people. >> on top of page 4, chief park ranger singular. under data retention, we talked about the minimum.

then there seems to be some inconsistency under data disposal. it says that you delete, this is in the middle of the page. practices, evidence.com to delete after one year but then page six, it says minimum of one year. you need to reconcile those. if the data on the policy is to be stored and deleted in one year, they are consistent. >> to clarify, the evidence.com stored for one year, but for our standard purposes is retained for one year, but if there is an investigation, we keep it until closure. there is a reference to that. >> i gotcha. it makes perfect sense. we have agreed in all circumstances that for an active investigation, you can continue to store, i think you could be a

little clearer here. those are my comments for that and maybe we can hold that into the the one week later pile. and that takes us to and this, i didn't see this in the policy but this impact may jump out. page two of the impact report, acts onto the product description of body worn camera, and not to sound snotty, but it sounds like you did this from an advertisement for axon. because it says it isn't for cameras but for data and for low reduction and includes real features.

so regardless of where that came from, that tells me that these things are capable of live monitoring, livestreaming. this sounds like an advertisement that can be put to what does it really do in english, raises the issue of live monitoring which is their needs -- there needs to be something that you don't do but now that technology is capable of doing it, the policy has to say that you are not doing it and if you are, the policy has to address it. >> we are not livestreaming. >> you might want to include that in the there that we do not use livestreaming.

>> >> supervisor connie chan: no problem. thank you chair peskin. i just wanted to drive down to law enforcement and where are we landing on that. you are coming back next week, but how are we cleaning that up. it's fine with the police and sheriff's and district attorney identifying to be the san francisco agencies, but when you say outside law enforcement, i'm not too sure exactly who that would be. is it u.s. park police, which they are actually within our function and roaming in our jurisdiction, or are we just going to say no outside law enforcement? >> that's a great question. i'm going to pass that to chief murphy. >> which by the way, is another suggestion for the policy which

is as to sharing with outside law enforcement. other policies say only with a warrant. >> yes. >> chief david murphy. good morning chair peskin, supervisor chan, supervisor mandelman. we work with the park inside the presidio and the college of fine arts that borders with presidio and we do work with those. we can put in if it's your best practice to put in a warrant with the body worn camera footage, we can do that going forward. >> i'm not telling you what to do but a way to address it one

or the other. that is an option for you but it needs to be addressed in someway. >> i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> all right. thank you for that, supervisor chan. as we go on to the next policy, maybe you are the person as the former rec's and parks to ask you this one. which is the tenants reservation application. this is much more pedestrian than law enforcement stuff. raise a series of concerns with me for a number of reasons. one is that it sounded to me like in order to get a tenant's reservation, i had to go get a third party app. are there ways if i'm not an app person, i can get a reservation? this is kind of a different, i'm not getting to the surveillance part yet. that's next.

>> to clarify, we have 150 tennis courts throughout the city and only eight of them can be use online. we have a call in option for reservations as well. >> that exists? >> we will be rolling that out in the future. >> so if i don't do apps or i don't have that technology or access there to, i can get half the city's courts but not the other ones? but i can call in to use the other ones. >> correct. >> we don't have our own software so we don't have to use others software. here is why i ask because when i

attached this and what others have to use, their pricing policy sucks. basically what this says is if i want to reserve a tennis court, and i'm not even dealing with the fact that at some point somebody gets to see where i'm standing which is part of this and that raises some concerns, but i understand that that is important because you need to know the person is actually at the tennis courts. but what is really not okay is that their terms say that they can mind your friend's list, profile information, buy it, sell it, they can share it with other governmental authorities. they can market it to offer you products or services that may be

of interest to you. the list goes on, and to at insult to injury, they can add to this policy as much as they want. so that is funky. >> i haven't looked into the policies and the areas, just management. we really only focus on the location policy of this policy. >> i'm sure that you are focused on that, but what they are focused on the fact that, i want to rent a tennis court. in order to do that, some third party is getting on my friend's list from the app which is nuts.

now i know she knows and attaching the service. if we created our own app, you would still need the gps data to make sure that person showed up for their reservation. if they don't, you try to get them to use the court. i understand that. but what is really unacceptable for me as a consumer trying to use the public as a tennis court, and i'm sure this information that can be sold by google. that's not cool. >> good morning, supervisor peskin, supervisor chan, happy birthday. these are great recommendations and i'm happy to work with them to fix some of the privacy issue if there are concerns. but the public can go to the computer and use it and don't

have to sign in to that app and we have options to walken and play tennis because it has become such a wide sport and why we provided this format. we'll continue the work and we'll be happy to take that information into consideration. >> thank you. we'll discuss this a little bit more. but i'm notten client to approve this one. why don't we move on to mta. >> taxi dashboard camera.

at risk of sounding nerdier than i already sound, i want to say that this was a really cool impact report. just i mean for anybody who is listening, check this thing out. the discussion of dignity loss, economic loss, loss of autonomy, loss of liberty, really good work totally justifies the use of it which is actually really done by the taxi companies, but you have access to, i have no questions but i just wanted to give you a compliment. on the automated license plate readers. was that yours too?

mr. mccormick. >> it depends on which section you are in. >>supervisor aaron peskin: also good report. external data sharing page 6. the department may share alpr data with the following recipients, parking garage, under contract, vendors under contract. i just want to be clear that that was only, that's it. >> that's our plan, absolutely. >> and current practice. all right. that answers that question. then under authorized uses. i think what i learned from this policy is that, and i kind of new this, but i didn't really,

it never formed as a full thought in my mind. you stopped talking tires say in residential park, areas, and now it's all license plate readers. is that true? >> we are moving in that direction. it's not completely there yet, but we are prepared in case there should be a court ruling that would prohibit us from being able to use chalk because of the circumstancesth -- sixth circuit division. there is pressure applied in the ninth circuit as well. >> that is more than i want to know. if you are using these in residential parking areas to figure out whether people passed their time limit, two hours,

whatever it is. in so far as people park parallel, how do you see the license plates? >> we are able to see the license plates at an angle as well. when people are backed in, we can read the plates. in places where california requires two license plates is that we have a plate in the front and rear of the vehicle and we are able to read the plate. >> the reader is affixed to one of the carts >> yes. we have them right now. we are continuing to put those on the vehicles. >> any questions for the mta. thank you for that. >> supervisor connie chan: thank you, my apologies. what is the retention rates for the

license plates? >> so for the data that doesn't result in a volition, the retention rate is 14 days, partially for the reason if we are not talking vehicles for the 72 hour regulation, now as a policy we are allowing 5 days. with the long weekends, we set it for 14 days. and then if there is a violation that is issued or citation that is issued then the retention will be one year of the life of the citation. a parking citation has a maximum life of five years. >> if it results in a violation is one year. >> it's one year even though the life of the citation is five years. people would not be contesting it. somebody may want to come back to contest a citation eight months later and for some reason they waited that

long and we'll review that location. >> i don't understand the technology. so help educate me. does that mean you scan the license plates or is it just a photo that also records the model and maker of the car and allowing the license plates with it? how does that work? >> it's a little bit of a combination. the camera is looking for the square. when it locates the square it's taking that picture and part of that picture can also include the logo such as saying it's a mercedes-benz or bmw. and this can take a picture of the vehicle. if your car is painted the same color all the way around it picks up enough of that so you can figure it out

and it's in files to manage for future references if we come back for a second time. >> will the person be also notified and recognized that this is based on a license plate reader, therefore we identify you in violation? >> yes, there is a note to go on a parking citation. the citation is not issued from the cpi system but camera and we let people know that it's lpr based. there is only so many characters. it gives us the license plate recognition. if they go to a hearing, the hearing officer can request to be able to make those available and look for whether or not there is consistency or an issue. thank you. >> you're welcome. >>

>>supervisor aaron peskin: thank you, mr. mccormick. sf mta. that takes us to the war memorial which i don't have any questions on unless colleagues, you do. all right. thank you all for spending your morning with us. why don't we take this item no. 3 open for public comment. we had no members for the last one. let's see if we have any for this one. >> >>clerk: for those members that are present, please lineup to speak.

public comment call in 1 (415) 655-0001 / meeting id: 2490 941 5949 # # (press *3 to enter the speaker line) >> i do not see any members of the public in the room and we have two callers ready to speak. >> public speaker: once again, david, i support this ordinance. i understand this will likely be continued with changes. i appreciate the diligence of the chair in reviewing the detailed fir's and ftp's and appreciate the various department heads and staff throughout this complicated stuff and people spending a lot of time trying to get it right. i would invite the members of the public to visit the website

and attend coit website meetings to review these policies. thank you very much. also a reminder to boards and commissions to forward approved rules to the board of supervisors under charter section 4.104a 1 which provides a relevant part to adopt rules consistent with the charter and all such regulations shall be filed with the board of supervisors and rules at the airport that govern their tenants and responsibilities. and some new record types that are created by these policies and practices, i would encourage departments to review and update their record retention policies and schedules because there may be things that now have new record types and retention

periods whether it's one year or two years or different amounts that are not reflected in their current details record retention policies and schedules. thank you again for listening. >> thank you. >> there are no additional callers on the phone. >> >>supervisor aaron peskin: all right. public comment is closed. you would think we would have heard from the american civil liberties union and the electric foundation as we are dealing with law enforcement but i guess they only care about police and not other law enforcement. okay. that is what it is. there are a couple of different ways -- sorry for that gratuitous. don't worry counselor. we are way ahead of you. there are a couple ways to do

this. we can duplicate the file and keep the main portion here and will remain for the board of supervisors on the 15th. is that good, colleagues? okay. first i will amend the original file by removing the policy that we actually dealt with that i just referred to and that is the police department's third party security camera policy that we disposed of. to that end and in the long title and not referenced in the body ordinance at line 9, on page 1, we should remove the words "police department". and on that amendment a roll

call, please. >>clerk: on that motion, [roll call] >> that motion passes. >> >>supervisor aaron peskin: now, what i would like to do is duplicate the file, and in the original file we'll just go through this. keep automatic license plate readers at line 2, biometric juvenile probation at line 4, whatever, line 4 and 5. remove at line 6 for body worn cameras and rec's and parks

department, because we are going to keep that one here. keep people counting by the library, remove security cameras by departments of elections at line 7. at line 8, thirty party security cameras by the remove airport. keep mta, we already removed police department. keep war memorial. location management systems bike the juvenile probation department, yes, but strike and the rec's and parks department. keep computer management system by the library and social media monitoring by the library. did that make sense to you, mr. young? >> let's do it together. we've already struck --

>> before we go to that file, we are duplicating the file. >> we are duplicating the file before i changed anything. we are amending the original. in the original we have removed at line no. 6. page one, rec's and parks department. at line 7, we are removing all of clause no. 5. "security cameras by department of elections is removed. >> no. 6, reads 5, third party

security cameras by remove, airport." where it reads by municipal transportation agency and war memorial. no. 7, as 6. location management systems by the juvenile probation department, and remove the words and the recreation and park department. no. 8, to 7. computer management system by the library. no. 9, to 8 on 11, and have it read as it is social media monitoring, software by the library and making acquired findings and set approvals. on those amendments, which counselor, i don't believe are

reflected in the body, maybe they are. let's go to the body of the item and see -- well, i guess technically in so far as we have removed all of item 5. security cameras by the department of elections, we could remove line 24 on page 2. that reference to 5, security cameras or we can keep it. your call, counselor. in which case if we did remove it, we would have to renumber 6 to 5, 7

to 6 and 8 to 7. i guess that would be the right thing to do. any advice on that? >> deputy city attorney. i would suggest we just work this out separately. i think i understand how you went through it, the changes you want to make. >> basically what i want to do is forward all the policies with the recommendation minus the tenants reservation spotary policy. the airport's tenant security policy, the department of elections security camera policy, and the rec's and parks

body worn camera policy. i want those to appear here monday the 10th in the complicated file. what i was going to do is make the corresponding changes to the duplicating file by removing everything that we are moving forward. the duplicating files have the policies that i spoke to. >> i want to be sure we did it accurately. >> my colleagues understand the amendments, and we will adopt those amendments which i would like to say without objection, am i allowed to say that anymore, or did the pandemic ruin my ability to say that. >> we prefer that you actually take a -- >> i thought so.

>> roll call, please. on the original file, the amendment to take out the five policies that we are going to hear next week. >> >>clerk: [roll call] >> the motion passes without objection. >> thank you. then i will make a motion to send that file to the full board with a positive recommendation. on the motion to send that amended file to the board with recommendations, >>clerk: [roll call] >> that motion passes without objection. then i will make the mirror corresponding amendments to the complicated file which is to remove item no. 1, automatic license plate readers, item no. 2, biometric software for jpd,

to include as item no. 1, the body worn cameras by the rec's and parks department. item no. 2, the security cameras by the department of elections. item no. 3 the location management system by the rec's and parks and remove everything else. on that amendment, i'm sorry? excuse me, you are absolutely right. the cameras by the airport will remain in the complicated file. thank you, supervisor chan. good catch.

on that amendment, >> roll call, please. to be massaged by the deputy city attorney. >>clerk: [roll call] >> motion passes without objection. >> then i will make a motion to continue the rules file to the meeting of the october 10th. and i will be working with the various departments on this. >> one moment while i check that date. i believe october 10th might be a holiday. >> by gosh it is. october 17th, it will be. you are right, indigenous people's day. >> yes, on the motion to continue the matter as amended to october 17th. [roll call] the

motion passes without objection. >> thank you, ms. johnson for your staff's work and we are adjourned. >>

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>> good morning i'm matt franklin a proud approximate honored president and ceo of mid pen is my great, great pleasure to welcome you to shirley chizism village. >> the ground breaking for the future home of 135 san francisco educators and employees of the district. how about it. [applause] we are done it. we marshalled the will and resources to be at this day. it is irrelevant rable. we look forward it celebrating with all of you. everyone here has been part of the journey and worked with us

to get to this very proud moment. . together, we created a plan. a resource the will and the plan and now the execution turning of the dirt to credit what i am confident will be model educator in district employee housing. the best in the country. it is buzz of the work we have all done together. today we look forward it honoring you and celebrating together your contributions to this effort. i want to begin my remarks talking about the residence denials of this district in this community. so we were selected work on this development 4 and a half years ago. and -- in putting together our proposal we drove around the district and of course the first thing we noticed was play landful a rable effort from the

communities. and the first meeting we held on a beautiful weekend day in the center. play landful i brought my boys with me. a gorgeous day. and i will tell you i have been dog this w for 30 years. works in 11 counties in san francisco and monterey bay area. and the beginning of the first conversation i of was i'm for affordable housing. if you have done this work you worry about the but. now i live in southern marin and involved in my community and can't tell you how much i here i'm for affordable housing, but.

i heard i'm for affordable housing and for it here. and we want to be involved, but we have thoughts and input we want and it was amazing. and the energy in the what it say busy this community you created play land and engage am that the neighbors had and have. and the way this supervisor tang and the city worked to do it. we knew it said a lot and counter to when narrative people want to have about the sunset or san francisco it was not our experience at all. i want to honor the neighbors of the district. will who have been involve anded have input. features we point to and will. that are products of this engagement you lived up to your

initial commitment we are for it here and we want to be involved and have a voice it has been fantastic the work made this a richer community. and i also. to highlight that the 3 organizations that came together to help govern and guidous this journey. and that is the superintendent's office from the school district. the union of the employees and teachers and the city and mir's office of housing. if you work in this field you know how river and heard that is. right? seriously. i work in the districts up and down the state it is heard to get districts and cities every day will we came in literal

intimidated and it was amazing. everyone around the table was rollingum sleeves. we get the work and how we will get focus groups going to work to understand. and it has been an amazing journal etch we learned so much and you see it in this community we are creating together. the district knows their teachers they know employees. they had all sorts of great data the union had feenemial data worked with us from the beginning to create focus groups of employees and educators so we could listen and learn when their needs were and express in the ways that get policy but there are features of the

development that are tailored to this workforce and community. we have been able in the great partnership with the district and the city with their investment and expert ease to create a range of incomes we serve. we are going deep on the income spectrum 35,000 for a husband hold and all the way up to 150,000. we learned teachers live in households. educators live in how did holds there may be other earners, there is a spectrum of need. in the moderate range have a difficult time living with their families in the city. and so we have a wide are range of income in order to based on everything we learned together, and planned together this we know about the needs of the

educators in the city. they gave us all sorts of input in the design. a lot behalf they want we hear from other residents they were eager to have common area space and we will have a generous out door courtyard and indoor spaces for exercise rooms and gyms. and they were eager for kids to benefit from school based after school program. you teach all day in the class does in the money you would not like an after school program for your kid. in the afternoon. working with the neighbors we got generous community serving space on the ground floor youth programming and services that was a need identified. and i'm prud we preserved a corner of the soit that will be accessible to the public. and will be in the spirit of play land.

and of course, we endeavoured with city and per ins and architects to envision a beautiful, high quality physical environment. which we know is a necessary condition to creating a great communities. it just a platform the fun part will be in 18 months when is we get back together and see this communities forming with residence denialses moving in. but we than quality of the built environment matters and creates this precedent for the community getting off to a great start there is a lot to celebrate and eager to invite our partners to share their thoughts and reflections and i'm going to start with supervisor mar. [applause]

>> good morning and i am so excited be here with you for ground break being of the village in front of this dramatic back drop here. and really today represents a huge step forward for our public school educators and new strategy its husband our essential w force and the sunset. i could not be prouder that sunset is home to this project. >> the village is the fordable housing that our workers need and deserve and thrilled support t. i did want to story by saying today is historic for the sunset. one of my top priorities expanding housing to meet our community needs. and the village not only addresses the housing needs of educators but it is the very first 100% affordable housing ever in the sunset district. and amazing project will lead to

are house nothing our neighborhood that meets our needs including our sunset district's fared automobile family housing breaking grounds onnishing and 26th avenue. >> and at a time when san francisco residents frustrated with the extreme cost of hozing and state of schools this project provides hope. not just to the educators and families who will be able to have a new home here but provides new home for our neighborhood and our city that we can build real solutions to our biggest problems and do it effectively and clantive and creatively. this as matt mention third degree project brought our neighborhood together in the face of contention around housing and the village

embrailled by community. and it benefited from the input and collaboration from the neighborhood. and again it is brought us together here over the last 5 years on our interim base. the site was reimagined and repurposed by the community play land on 43rd avenue. youth this is u noticed artists and gardeners and yoga teachers and skate irs and using public land for public good. and bring the sunset together. ir want to thank katie tang and her staff for w on creating play land at 43rd avenue. and thank the community it was a community envision and create ed space. i some of the stewards here today. thank you very much. play land is gone the needs it serves are not going.

and in addition to the delivery needed mixed income housing, the village will continue to tradition of public serving space on this site with a community room and public art by local artists. it has taken collaboration to get here. to be in the school district it came together in the service of a vision. that teachers and educators should be able to live in the communities they serve. we am deliver on that vision. we will deliver a housing solution for under serve the community and social and racial equity and he doing it together. let's also and yes, we need to build more and build faster and do more to address the housing crisis impacting everyone in our city but we should take this moment to celebrate this missage today. if you are teaching our kids in san francisco you should raise your kids in san francisco.

surely the village you can. again i want to thank united educators of san francisco. the mayor and her mayor lee before her and the mayor's office of housing. the school district leadership. for all of their work on -- initiating this project. and thank you to mid pen for your work and bringing it to life and the sunset xunt for embracing this and this will be a wonderful new project i'm proud and excite today is moving forward. thank you. [applause]. >> all right. thank you. now invite jenny lamb the pedestrian board of education. good morning, telephone is wonderful to be here this morning. we are so fortunate to realize the vision which has been in the

works for a decade and demonstrated the true commitment of collaboration with the city, county of san francisco and sf unifies district and the community. it is the first educator housing communities for san francisco and sfusd and only one of a handful of housing developments in the state of california. the development is built on sfusd owned land this would not have been possible without legislation and prop e in 2019. it was just down the street in 2019 where i spoke directly with educators, it was a couple who also have an feint. edkirts in the district. and they shared their store we kneel me how it was difficult

and is difficult to find affordable housing. they are so committed to our students, their profession and the public sector they were sharing how important it is that san francisco offers housing for educators and staff and they want to raise their children here. that discussion, this morning has continue today stay with mow throughout the work of the board working in community with our labor partners of recognizing right now we absolutely need to support our educators and staff that have been doing the work on the front lines every day and service to our students. >> we believe it this hozing solution will create opportunity for educators and staff. in the district and allow the sfusd to retain a strategy w force dedicated to students they

deserve this. and this is an example of how our city issue community and school districts can work toward machine goal when is we come together well is nothing going to stop us in doing what is necessary and needed for the betterment of our students and our city. i want to thank the san francisco community. our city partners and the voter who is made the project possible through their contribution. i want to extend my appreciation to the many sfusd staff who contributed it make thanksgiving a reality through steadfast dedication. there have been counselless hours, days and nights of meet beings on the weekends. want to acknowledge and thank don, karissa fin low and karen sulveteran who are joining us today. long with viva mologyy.

young lee who is here. and so many more of our staff. thank you to our city partners i know the staph is here you will hear from them examine this w is not possible without everyone here this morning and more that were acknowledging and thanking. i look forward to welcoming the first residence devenlts the village in fall of 2024 and want it acknowledge we are just getting started. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, president lm i appreciate the detail on the staff engagement. there are many issues you deal with in the realm of education and say that one of the thing this is toed out how hands on and engaged the districted has been and it is the right thing. how you will get comfortable with the just being the

beginning and trying to seize more opportunity as we go. so00 autonewest addition to the real estate community and real estate development community in san francisco. superintendent wang. >> thank you, good morning, everybody. i have some my third month on the job and look how much i accomplished! in this time! no. it is really i know the effort of the district, city and union leadership this has med this help. this is while i'm new to san francisco this is in the an issue with which i don't have familiarity. 25 years ago i started as a teacher in new york. another city that housing can be difficult. and at that time, it wasave challenge. i taught in the lower east side where i could find a place to live was washington heights the

tip of machine hattan and i would take the 2 train down and take 50 minutes to get down to the school. which i guess was helpful as a new teacher it was when i did lesson planning for the day and a challenge on the way home i would full aslope on the train after a full day about students. and that's why we there are reasons we want fordable housing we want our teachers in the community they serve and our educators to be in the communities they serve. where focus can be on their school and their class recommend and not worrying about half-hour, hour and a half commute or the other challenges this educators face in finding housing. i'm glad to be joining the team this project is starting. and again know it has been a lot of hard work and it alines with when we are trying to do to recrew and retain educatorings. we increased salaries and from

2016 it 19. an 18% increase. but still did not match what the increase in costs in the city. we recently negotiated another 6% increase for the school year. it is in the enough to help our educators with the financial challenges than i face in finding affordable housing we are pleased this project is moving forward and again alines with our vision of recrewing educators and will appreciate the other work happened in the city to support educators finding housing. we have part inned with the city on programs such as teach are next door. down payment assistance loan. month low housing clinics and legal advice. these are ways which we support our educator in finding affordable house nothing san francisco. i'm looking forward to seeing the building develop when i'm

out and coming to the ribbon cutting and -- know matt introducing the next speakers i want to appreciate the president of uasf and past if the president it is. they are wonderful and than i represent the people dook the work with studentses and glad we work together to support them. thank you very much. >> thank you. iel. i have to say, as i introduce cassandra and ask her to come up we were so happy to see the union at the table from day one and i think that, too, i will put out there part of the model for how to do this right. played a role in everything. a strong and helpful voice and i think first and foremost for us. helped the future residents of the community live at the center of the discussionless we had.

as we go through this. that can get lost and the pro formas and the plans and it is so valuable and it is a far, far better community than it would have been without that. so, cassandra? [applause]. >> hi, thank you. good morning. the president of uesf and i'm here attended with for you of my predecessors or 3. dennis, suzanne and lita. as well as other leadership and folks who represent the 6, 500 members. who have been struggling with affordable living in san francisco for decades. folk who is are dedicated to this work. right. as the challenges of education have been apparent to everyone,

which is one of the things made clear during shelter in mrachls everyone got an inside seat. to had it is like if you had not before. some of what is left in the conversation i appreciate previously folks said; educators are not single entities. we are members of families. sometimes single parent households. sometimes no children households. sometimes we care for our elder family members or in some case i then and there is something we worked on was we take in our students as faster youths. we are commune members and sometimes presidents of nonprofits, creators of other business opportunity. my point is this we are integral, critical and engrained members of the community. commune which we work whether at

the school house. or where we live. if it is traveling in my case 3 hours round trip cross to oakland. we fuse to give up teaching there. or if a wuk down the street. can you imagine? being able to live amongst and with educator who is see, care for and educate our youth the foeks that are the most important in our opinionful in the city. the individuals who are very much our 40. those other folk when is we hope to teach to care for as well as we get older as well. it is important to understand this is their working living condition. when an educator has the presence of mind and time to not just of stay after school and grade papers but to be involved

in all of the community efforts, student's outcome and connection to their teacher to their educator and the school secretary, to the janitor who is my favorite person when i was at school. then there are even deeper and measure connected to their education. to the trust of not just this school but any school that followed. it is an investment. this project. in the future. and also hopeful low one of many steps this san front the district and of course, we -- have in the housing taking care of -- planning for an fire community to work for the entire community. we are just one, one -- aspect if you think about education as

one entity. but we are a microcosim. we report an entire healthy community. even in one building but also spanning from early ed to elementary, middle and high school. and then of course, college or city college or perhaps the workers that live around us. that are doing this w. it all speaks to a healthy community. we were happy to be involved. we know this work very well. we know our members and our students well. and we hope to be involved in more to solve a krois like that called the staffing crisis and sometimes many other crises. there is in the a one single solution to this issue. because we are not one single

issue. we are the entire community. of it will tick all of us coming together and we are happy to be involves and take leadership in the spaces and happy to work with folks making sure that the solutions are creative. innovative and intense. this. we are proud of this. we are looking forward to the first day of move in. some of us. and -- [laughter] i don't know but moving is horrible. but tell be great. i'm sure. so that someone does not have to move againful thank you very much. [applause]. >> we will invite you cassandra toor favorite day when is we come and help the new residents move in. everybody needs help when they move.

seat mask. birch introduce our next speaker i want to take a minute to tie together the last 2 speakers superintendent tucking about is experiencing in new york. and then such a passionate description of our incredible educators in san front. i want to re >> et cetera on the work we did together to name this community. shirley chizism village. got a lot of enput and so i hope if you get a mobile home you will take a moment to seat board we put up by the entrance. our staff had fun. we have enthusiasm around upon this name. it was an amaze pregnant leader. the first african-american women elected to college in 1968 from new york. can american woman to be a

series contendser for the democratic nomination for president in 1972. and importantly started in early childhood education before she was i don't know the nick name i think in congress than i called her fighting shirley. honed her skills in the community and the class room and an incredible champion for those under served in her time. we are proud of that name and appreciate the collective work to come up with that it lives. now it is my pleasure to introduce our critical part ins a fundser to the development. investor in affordable housing throughout the bay.

fiona chiou from silicon county bank. >> good morning, everyone on this beautiful, classic san francisco morning. on behalf of sill condition valley bank it it is an honor to be here on this long awaited ground breaking. silicon valley bank is prud to be a project funder. we are providing 98 million in construction and permanent loans and a tax credit investment. this americas our largest single project investment to date. and we went all in because you did and dedicated to solidifying this model for other community to follow suit. our purpose is to fuel innovation for a better world and better world is one where our educators are feel well supportd and valued for tremendous role in developing

our children. so, a small thing, i happen to be at one of the children who was educated here at francis scott key junior elementary school. i confirmed with my mother i attended here from k-second grade. and i was driving entering the grounds i had a moment, i don't have the clearest memories of my class or teachers but i remember walking out and feeling brave because i was a city latch key kid and took the network judah home while my parentings were working at city gentleman jobs trying to build their american dream. i did not know then as i do now the greatest lesson gained was how to be brave and resourceful. that sweet memory of my small connection to the site has lifted mow up the past few weeks during the challenging times.

it is -- no audio. um really to rise boost abstract terms we use in policy and financing units ami, and huannize the critical issues we are all facing. and -- these are truly challenging times need for affordable housing is continuing to grow and as those the need gross so does the complexity and challenges to get it built. we have incredible per sdmers incredible sponsor mid pen housing a dedicated team who are using their resourcefulness and resilience tow get the housing built and help the residents succeed in it. so thank you so much mt and the entire team for selecting us for your trusted per in we are committed to being your strongest advocate on this

journal tow build this project to fruition this say public/private partnership made possible by the san franciscouneified school district. san francisco mayor's office of how doing and community development, supervisor mar and mayor breed. thank you so much for this bold vision you had and we are committed to staying alined with you to bring the project to meet that vision. i'm in awe of seeing all of you here and think burglar the hundredless of community stake hold and neighborhood advocate who is fought for this project will not let you down. here is to a smooth construction. and thank you, again and congratulations! [applause] >> all right i like to offer a quick reflection on the role of the city.

the mayor's office of housing and commune development at the table from the beginning. that it is an office i had the privilege to lead for first 5 years of the administration before i came to mid pen we were dedicated to housing and got a lot done around supportive housing. i can tell thank you in my spare time i was over at the district offices with the then head of real estate. about once a week offering my services. we got 40 people they understand real estate. i studied. we can help. was my pitch. and -- you know despite the incredible work of mendoza the mayor's education advisor. the bottom line is -- 2 organizationless as a city in a district we did not have the relationship, we did not have the trust or spirit of collaboration necessary for this

to be fluid and to work. the rolls royce expertise will work for you. what is you and your vision where do you want to go. with that and when i walked with the very beginning it was mayor ed lee. the bulk of the development and the decisions the financial decisions and commitment under mayor breed i saw all 3 at the table and how they were working together it was striking. it has continued. mohcd dog ed in helping get this done. dog ed in honoring had than i hear from the district. it speaks to the different tone that is set today and in no mall part because of mayor breed's leadership. like to offer the mayor to share thoughts. [applause].

>> finally here! let me tell you. i really was worried about how long if took to get this project done. fiona can appreciate this as someone when went to the school it must feel great being here and making in this place for educators to live and work and thrive and we have been hearing the conversations over the decades about the need for educator housing and often times when we put things on it is ballot. there is a lot of conversation about housing for teachers housing for firefighters, housing for all the people but we know that the laws that exist really make it so complicated. so difficult to get a project like this done. just even the 18 among delay to

rezone this property to make it appropriated for housing in the first place. i appreciate supervisor mar because part of what he and i have constants low discussed is the need to get more housing built in this part of town. we are talking about the lost 10 years only 37 new affordable units introduce in the this community. the need to build is so important. the need to build means there needs torn collaboration we know there is a community here. we therein is nittive people who grew up here. and it is important we work together and try to be aggressive about getting housing diagonal yes, but it irrelevant is a partnership and does take a village. hai love about this property is everything this it represented. it represented school. you know it was a school and then sad low a storage.

i don't know if i'm happy about this i was happy the community came together in this space and turned it in the new and improved play land. i was not born when the original play land was opened. about it was a great space for people to come. a great space for people to really enjoy themming. so many kids and families. that's what shirley village is going to represent. it will be that great place for community to come together and communities space. not just the housing with a safe, fordable mriz to call home but a real village and community. that's when we need to create in san francisco now more than ever. cassandra i'm proud of your leadership and finding solutions to provide housing for educator in san francisco. today i was thinking about my

former english teacher mr. mckenzie. i did not appreciate him this much. il be honest. because you know mr. mckenzie's class was heard and heard low ever smiled. and when i found out this he lived in [inaudible] i did in the know what that was at the time. when we were learning about maps and locations and how long it to being to get to work. i started to tree him different because i felt like he guess out of his way to come this far to be there for us. so the least we can do is behavior better in his class room. that should not be the case is my points. that is why this housing is so important. it is important to what we need to do to develop a better future in san francisco. yes, we need more aggressive with housing policies. we need to be open minded about the possibility of using under

utilized spaces like that accomplice to create house being opportunity and we need to make sure there is a real connection between the people this we want to have access to the housing and their ability to get in the housing. this is another ball game we are discovering and fact this is the first educator housing we have been able to build in san francisco. i am so happy about it and pleased and what this sayings is this we can do it. we can do it when we have collaboration. we can do it bh we stop waisting time with petty to the tick and can do it when we listen to each other even photocopy it is in the when we agree with. this it is proof positive this we can do it. [applause]. i want to thank uesf and the folks who were a part of this

and everyone when came together the now superintendent takingal credit long with our -- board members and others and -- our supervisor mar and just to say i want to really give credit where it is do you i was a member of the board of supervisor when is ed lee made the commitment and wanted to get this project done. and so i want to appreciate him and his work this is a testament to the important work he cared about but the person w that we all need to care borrow and folk us on here in san francisco. i'm happy to be here. this is realist a significant accomplishment. i almost paused several times to reread what i was going to today. to make sure that it was actually this grounds breaking that we were finally breaking groundom this project. and i had to call and ask are you sure are we doing this.

we are doing it. we are doing it and we have to make sure that we work with our educators the 1 who is work in schools within the area to ensure that there irrelevant is a direct connection with educator who is work hard and work close to this area and access to the affordable housing so we can truly create the village we know that shirley would be proud of. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause]. thank you. mayor. going like this i was thinking about the classroom had we wrote the answers on the hand. all right. it bring us home this so much more goes into this then and there we had a chance to call out here. aly is the direct of mid pen's san francisco and north bay office and involved in this

develop the from day one. aly will bring us home the final speaker. [applause]. >> thanks. get red for the long list of thank yous. thank you everyone for joining us here today. what an honor it is to stand at this grounds breaking the representatives so much work and dedication from the speakers you heard from today and represent hope for the future of educator housing. everyone has an interaction with educators and everyone has a story about a favorite teacher. classroom aid or councillor that helped you through a tough time. everyone knows educator in the communities. we know educatorings struggle with housing insecurity. educators have an impact on lives and communities and prud to give back and recognize their hard work through this housing. i want it say from the bottom of my heart and i peek for everyone

when i say thank you to the many, many folks who have helped this educator housing become real every the membership years of planning including identifies this piece of land, engagement with niches and future residence denials and the commitment to house educators. they will benefit through stability of housing knows than i will not guilty worry about rent increases, long commutes or other stressors. this allows folks to spends time on self care. personal had beenys less in planning, working with students rather the long commutes. thank you to the vision and financial support from the city including the mayor breed and mayor lee and technical support if community development. machiney project managers that worked with us including fitzpatrick in the crowd here and director shaw, judi hall. and others when worked tireless low on this development.

thank you to circumstance fu sd use thanksgiving sited the first example of educator housing. thifrpg its lee and steven, don, and karen sullivan and uesf for involvement during the design process we sat around the table optimizing the building designful bedroom mix and amenity tologist best serve the future residence denials. thank you to supervisor mar and staph for staying connected and involved with the community during this process. and your involvement as we work to build on your relationships "art community as we bring our public art work to life here and thank you to the fremdzs of play lands for thoughtful input during the design of the out door space stilling known as play land and serve as a gathering space for the neighborhood and thanks it sunset youth services. not only for the important work

you do but for being part of this process and bringing your synergies to the space with the community. thanks to development consultants and the team including grown from california housing per inship corporation and our architect and condition transactor team for working with us. to uphold mid pen value condition transact practices so we are living them not writing them in our strategic plan we dedicated a fifth of construction contract of this development over 14 million dollars to small local accidents. we are achieving community center said practices that address the legacies of disinvestment and inequality by pursuing the condition transacting to grow the next generation of accidents and great opportunities. thank you to patricia and david

casey and casey and kim and matt irwin and seek out the small local businesses with us. and thank you toal the work and support from the mid pen team including on property management, compliance, legal, accounting, construction management, residence den services and communications and business development departments. thank you to the folks on the day it day real estate development from mid pen w to figure out all of the nuances of the deal including andrew, lisa, matt and jay. and finally i want to thank and recognize the project management team that got this across the finish line and closeod construction finance nothing referred time. we were awarded federal tax credit in john you have until december it start construction. but the leds got busy and were able to start construction by august. so, i mean it feels like

december. great work by senior project manager michelle quill. lauren fer and he associate project manager jazmin lee. thank you everyone else this had an irrelevant in this project and fiwas not able to rescue noise you by anymore we see and you appreciate all your work on this development thank you. >> all right. this concludes our program. stick around for refreshments we doll a turning of the dirt here. thank you. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!

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

>> ♪♪ ♪♪ we are definitely pioneers in airport concession world a world of nationally if not entirely or internationally >> everybody is cop us right now. >> the people that were in charge of the retail this is where that began. >> i didn't think we would have a location at the airport. >> we've set the bar higher with the customer commerce. >> telling me about the operator and how you go about finding them and they get from being in the city to being in

the airport. >> so first, we actually find a table and once we know what we want a sit-down we go to the neighborhoods in san francisco and other people seminary of the retail let us know about the rain water and are excited to have the local operators in the airport. >> we have to go going through the conceive selective process and they award a lease to the restaurant. >> they are planning on extending. >> we that you could out the china and the length evens and the travel serve and fourth your minds and it's all good. >> how long for a vendor to move through the process.

>> i would say it could take 80 up to a year from the time we go out to bid until they actually open a restaurant. >> i don't know what we signed up for but the airport is happy to have us here. and, you know, even taking out the track simple things there's a learning curve >> with once we're here they are helpful. >> it's an award-winning program. >> we're prude of your awards we have won 11 awards the latest for the best overall food address beverage program and . >> like the oscars (laughter). >> the professional world. >> tell me about the future food. >> all the sb national leases are xooirz and we're hoping to

bring newer concepts out in san francisco and what your passengers want. >> well, i look forward to the future (laughter) air are we look fo >> 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.

>> i don't think you need to be an expert to look around and see the increasing frequency of fires throughout california. they are continuing at an ever-increasing rate every summer, and as we all know, the drought continues and huge shortages of water right now. i don't think you have to be an expert to see the impact. when people create greenhouse gases, we are doing so by different activities like burning fossil fuels and letting off carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and we also do this with food waste. when we waste solid food and leave it in the landfill, it puts methane gas into the atmosphere and that accelerates the rate at which we are warming our planet and makes all the effects of climate change worse.

the good news is there are a lot of things that you can be doing, particularly composting and the added benefit is when the compost is actually applied to the soil, it has the ability to reverse climate change by pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil and the t radios. and there is huge amount of science that is breaking right now around that. >> in the early 90s, san francisco hired some engineers to analyze the material san francisco was sending to landfill. they did a waste characterization study, and that showed that most of the material san francisco was sending to landfill could be composted. it was things like food scraps, coffee grounds and egg shells and sticks and leaves from gardening. together re-ecology in san francisco started this curbside

composting program and we were the first city in the country to collect food scraps separately from other trash and turn them into compost. it turns out it was one of the best things we ever did. it kept 2.5 million tons of material out of the landfill, produced a beautiful nutrient rich compost that has gone on to hundreds of farms, orchards and vineyards. so in that way you can manage your food scraps and produce far less methane. that is part of the solution. that gives people hope that we're doing something to slow down climate change. >> i have been into organic farming my whole life. when we started planting trees, it was natural to have compost from re-ecology. compost is how i work and the soil biology or the microbes feed the plant and our job as regenerative farmers is to feed

the microbes with compost and they will feed the plant. it is very much like in business where you say take care of your employees and your employees will take carolinas of your customers. the same thing. take care of the soil microbes and soil life and that will feed and take care of the plants. >> they love compost because it is a nutrient rich soil amendment. it is food for the soil. that is photosynthesis. pulling carbon from the atmosphere. pushing it back into the soil where it belongs. and the roots exude carbon into the soil. you are helping turn a farm into a carbon sink. it is an international model. delegations from 135 countries have come to study this program. and it actually helped inspire a new law in california, senate bill 1383. which requires cities in california to reduce the amount of compostable materials they send to landfills by 75% by 2025.

and san francisco helped inspire this and this is a nation-leading policy. >> because we have such an immature relationship with nature and the natural cycles and the carbon cycles, government does have to step in and protect the commons, which is soil, ocean, foryes, sir, and so forth. -- forest, and so fors. we know that our largest corporations are a significant percentage of carbon emission, and that the corporate community has significant role to play in reducing carbon emissions. unfortunately, we have no idea and no requirement that they disclose anything about the carbon footprint, the core operation and sp360 stands for the basic notion that large corporations should be transparent about the carbon footprint. it makes all the sense in the world and very common sense but is controversial. any time you are proposing a policy that is going to make real change and that will change

behavior because we know that when corporations have to disclose and be transparent and have that kind of accountability, there is going to be opposition. >> we have to provide technical assistance to comply with the state legislation sb1383 which requires them to have a food donation program. we keep the edible food local. and we are not composting it because we don't want to compost edible food. we want that food to get eaten within san francisco and feed folks in need. it is very unique in san francisco we have such a broad and expansive education program for the city. but also that we have partners in government and nonprofit that are dedicated to this work. at san francisco unified school district, we have a sustainability office and educators throughout the science department that are building it

into the curriculum. making it easy for teachers to teach about this. we work together to build a pipeline for students so that when they are really young in pre-k, they are just learning about the awe and wonder and beauty of nature and they are connecting to animals and things they would naturally find love and affinity towards. as they get older, concepts that keep them engaged like society and people and economics. >> california is experiencing many years of drought. dry periods. that is really hard on farms and is really challenging. compost helps farms get through these difficult times. how is that? compost is a natural sponge that attracts and retains water. and so when we put compost around the roots of plants, it holds any moisture there from rainfall or irrigation. it helps farms make that corner and that helps them grow for food. you can grow 30% more food in

times of drought in you farm naturally with compost. farms and cities in california are very hip now to this fact that creating compost, providing compost to farms helps communities survive and get through those dry periods. >> here is the thing. soil health, climate health, human health, one conversation. if we grow our food differently, we can capture all that excess carbon in the atmosphere and store it in unlimited quantities in the soil, that will create nutrient dense foods that will take care of most of our civilized diseases. so it's one conversation. people have to understand that they are nature. they can't separate. we started prowling the high plains in the 1870s and by the 1930s, 60 year, we turned it into a dust bowl. that is what ignorance looks like when you don't pay attention to nature. nature bats last. so people have to wake up.

wake up. compost. >> it is really easy to get frustrated because we have this belief that you have to be completely sustainable 24/7 in all aspects of your life. it is not about being perfect. it is about making a change here, a change there in your life. maybe saying, you know what? i don't have to drive to that particular place today. today i am going to take the bus or i'm going to walk. it is about having us is stainable in mind. that is -- it is about having sustainability in mind. that is how we move the dial. you don't have to be perfect all the time. >> san francisco has been and will continue to be one of the greener cities because there are communities who care about protecting a special ecosystem and habitat. thinking about the history of the ohlone and the native and indigenous people who are stewards of this land from that history to now with the ambitious climate action plan we

just passed and the goals we have, i think we have a dedicated group of people who see the importance of this place. and who put effort into building an infrastructure that actually makes it possible. >> we have a long history starting with the gold rush and the anti-war activism and that is also part of the environmental movement in the 60s and 70s. and of course, earth day in 1970 which is huge. and i feel very privileged to work for the city because we are on such a forefront of environmental issues, and we get calls from all over the world really to get information. how do cities create waste programs like they do in san francisco. we are looking into the few which you are and we want innovation. we want solutions.

>> he is a real leader that listens and knows how to bring people together. brought this department together like never before. i am so excited to be swearing in the next chief of the san francisco fire department, ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome, jeanine nicholson. (applause).

>> i grew up total tomboy, athlete. i loved a good crisis, a good challenge. i grew up across the street from the fire station. my dad used to take me there to vote. i never saw any female firefighters because there weren't any in the 1970s. i didn't know i could be a fire fighter. when i moved to san francisco in 1990, some things opened up. i saw women doing things they hadn't been doing when i was growing up. one thing was firefighting. a woman recruited me at the gay-pride parade in 1991. it was a perfect fit. i liked using my brain, body, working as a team, figuring things out, troubleshooting and coming up with different ways to solve a problem. in terms of coming in after another female chief, i don't think anybody says that about

men. you are coming in after another man, chief, what is that like. i understand why it is asked. it is unusual to have a woman in this position. i think san francisco is a trailblazer in that way in terms of showing the world what can happen and what other people who may not look like what you think the fire chief should look like how they can be successful. be asked me about being the first lbgq i have an understands because there are little queer kids that see me. i worked my way up. i came in january of 1994. i built relationships over the years, and i spent 24 years in the field, as we call it. working out of firehouses. the fire department is a family. we live together, eat together,

sleep in the same dorm together, go to crazy calls together, dangerous calls and we have to look out for one another. when i was burned in a fire years ago and i felt responsible, i felt awful. i didn't want to talk to any of my civilian friends. they couldn't understand what i was going through. the firefighters knew, they understood. they had been there. it is a different relationship. we have to rely on one another. in terms of me being the chief of the department, i am really trying to maintain an open relationship with all of our members in the field so myself and my deputy chiefs, one of the priorities i had was for each of us to go around to different fire stations to make sure we hit all within the first three or four months to start a conversation. that hasn't been there for a

while. part of the reason that i am getting along well with the field now is because i was there. i worked there. people know me and because i know what we need. i know what they need to be successful. >> i have known jeanine nicholson since we worked together at station 15. i have always held her in the highest regard. since she is the chief she has infused the department with optimism. she is easy to approach and is concerned with the firefighters and paramedics. i appreciate that she is concerned with the issues relevant to the fire department today. >> there is a retired captain who started the cancer prevention foundation 10 years ago because he had cancer and he noticed fellow firefighters were

getting cancer. he started looking into it. in 2012 i was diagnosed with breast canner, and some of my fellow firefighters noticed there are a lot of women in the san francisco fire department, premenopausal in their 40s getting breast cancer. it was a higher rate than the general population. we were working with workers comp to make it flow more easily for our members so they didn't have to worry about the paper work when they go through chemo. the turnout gear was covered with suit. it was a badge to have that all over your coat and face and helmet. the dirtier you were the harder you worked. that is a cancer causeser.

it -- casser. it is not -- cancer causer. there islassic everywhere. we had to reduce our exposure. we washed our gear more often, we didn't take gear where we were eating or sleeping. we started decontaminating ourselves at the fire scene after the fire was out. going back to the fire station and then taking a shower. i have taught, worked on the decontamination policy to be sure that gets through. it is not if or when. it is who is the next person. it is like a cancer sniper out there. who is going to get it next. one of the things i love about the fire department. it is always a team effort. you are my family. i love the city and department and i love being of service.

i vow to work hard -- to work hard to carry out the vision of the san francisco fire department and to move us forward in a positive way. if i were to give a little advice to women and queer kids, find people to support you. keep putting one foot in front of the other and keep trying. you never know what door is going to open next. you really don't. [cheers and