>> as many important decisions to make on november 8. tonight's forum will give you a opportunity to learnburn before you vote. the questions were submitted by district 10 residents and community organizations. now, let's begin. we will start off with 90 second opening statements in alphabetical order. welcome and thank you for participating in the forum. please introduce yourselves, tell us which neighborhood you live in and why you are running for district 10 supervisors. brian, you may go first. >> thank you so much

and good evening to everyone. my name is brian (inaudible) i live in district 10. excited to be district 10 supervisor to try to better represent the district. the district is very diverse. (inaudible) speak a language other then english at home. a voter turn-out is low and a variety of elections and i want to bring someone to the office will make best effort to try torupt the diversity of the community and also fight every day for ishis like building more housing, supporting public transit and making our streets a little bit safer. i know for myself, i have been a active volunteeren the community volunteering basically every weekday with the food bank and recently with the dog patch and northwest potrero hill green benefit district supporting their events happening in the area and trying to bring thal help all around the community to the different neighborhoods inside district 10 and trying to bring better quality of life and

easier to live experience in san francisco. with that, i'm looking forward to the conversation tonight. thank you. >> thank you. you can applause. [applause] now, shamann. >> thank you so much. good evening. i want to thank the women league of voters for having the forum this evening and thank you for everyone who attended. i'm shamann the current president of san francisco supervisor. i'm a bayview hunters point and had the privilege living in potrero hill at a young age and running for election because i know we have issues in san francisco around affordability with people experiencing homelessness and public safety and i'm someone who has worked hard to address all of those areas, including fighting hard for education of our young people. i'll talk more about things we have done over the past 4 years and things we have to

build off. fogeting for equity, making sure all our residents have a opportunity to be successful and take advantage of the great city of san francisco is something that i have been fighting for and will continue to fight for. when we talk about affordable housing, when we talk about jobs and employment, when we talk about economic recovery from the pandemic, when we talk about open space, when we talk about making sure we keep people safe, when we talk about every issue that we have concerns about, transportation, illegal dumping recollect quality of life issues i'm someone who talks about solutions about worked hard with all you as well as my colleagues and city leadership to address the needs and concerns and we will continue to stay 100 percent focused on addressing the needs of the residents of district 10 and across san francisco. >> thank you. [applause] now on to questions. question 1, how can district 10 save water and what are your

plans for water conservation? shamann. >> thank you so much for the question. one, all of us of can do a better job of water consumption so the time of day we take showers, how long we take showers. if you have agriculture or grass you can switch and do things like have certain type of safe environmentally friendly astroturf but we have to reduce the consumption of water. one thing we also can do around water conservation and change the type of water heaters we have. change the settings on the water heaters to make sure they are not set to a level where water consumption and flow is too heavy and high. that is always a issue of concern and lead to issues being in a drought we know that not only conserving water is important for making sure that we are able to continue to have

greenery, et cetera, but also it is important for our environment because at the end of the day we are in a drought and need to make sure we do everything to use the water that we have in a better fashion. how we use water in terms of water consumption, again less showers, making sure that we-if we have lawns and agriculture we do water at different times of day and not do on a consistent basis because that has been a major issue with water consumption is over-use of water and that is why we are depleting the water we have, especially in the drought. >> thank you. brian. >> thank you for the question. i would agree with board president walton. there are many opportunities for individuals to change their individual water consumption, but i think it is important to stress that inside san francisco the average person uses 45 gallons of water a day which is much lower then the rest of the bay area. inside the bay area, average people use 90 gallons

per day and the state of california a hundred gallons of water per day so san francisco is leading the pack with water conservation. i think what we can bring is we are already seeing inside the neighborhoods people are installing or planting more vegetation that can deal with the dry weather because i think the drought is kind of a part of global climate change and changing environment in california. when we look at the water reservoirs around the state and snow melt available for agriculture from hech hechy the, lawrence lab in berkeley is saying there is less water so they are looking ways to capture the snow melt. what we will start seeing is it will impact the economy and state of california and the ability and what does it mean for us here? i think we continue supporting the programs that exist like places like puc. there are lots of programs and tax write-offs to make up grades to homes. there is the water

stewardship grant. just this year the (inaudible) block garden was awarded the stewardship grant and things like that can help support water usage inside san francisco. >> thank you. question 2, do you have plans for clinics that provide mental health services similar to the bayview hunter point foundation. brian first. >> thank you for the question. i think it goes without saying we should support creation of more mental health clinics. before i came to san francisco i had the ability to intern with (inaudible) during the time i did policy reseech related to k-12 mental health education. at the time i had the opportunity to do research and discussion with a variety of schools inside the san jose sool unified school district that established new counseling-they had been awarded grants from the unified school district to-the state government to basically provide

mental health counseling and service where there were none before. when it comes to our schools and mental health services available to individuals, there is a lot to gain in providing the mental health service because the health insurance doesn't always cover it and when it comes to our schools there isn't always enough counselors to support all our people so we need to expand the funding and mental health services because mental health is part of physical health and if you are not well in the head you wont be well in the body. if elected i have plans to expand support for mental health services in district 10 and throughout san francisco. >> thank you. shamann. >> supportive of creating more opportunities to provide mental health service. one thing i have done as a member of the board of supervisors is put millions of dollars in mental health and wellness support for all communities whether through the dream keeper initiative or making sure non profits like

the bayview hunters point foundation (inaudible) west side community services, all the organizations that provide mental health support for all communities across san francisco, but not just those non profits. we also worked with communities who haven't always received your typical support like pacific islander community, making sure they have the resources to support their residents and folks in community, because at the end of the day san francisco is a very diverse community, very diverse city and so one, it is not just-it is easy to talk about supporting mental health and wellness support, but i fought to make sure millions of dollars flow into mental health for everyone in san francisco and will continue to do that. it is what we do when we respond to people experiencing homelessness and safety and violence prevention because we understand mental health is at the top of the list to make sure a person is whole

and make decisions to have the better support. yes, we support more opportunities like the bayview hunters point. we put millions of dollars to support that and also will continue to work with the clinic as well as our entire community to get more resources for more mental health. >> sorry, you time is up. question 3, what are your plans to help people in recovery and how will you help them reintegrate into society. shamann. >> i come from the school of understanding that harm reduction, one is major way to support and help people who may suffer from issues with substance abuse, because sometimes folks need a place to be where they can be safe, where they won't cause harm to anyone while you with work with them to try to get them to understand the negative effects of addiction and being a part of someone who's experiencing substance abuse. but i also do believe in

abstinence. i have family member in recovery for decades, some in the audience as we speak now and abstinence worked for them. harm reduction is a major way to support people. i do believe in safe consumption sites. have been fighting to make sure we have one in san francisco, but most certainly every approach does not work for everyone. one size fits all does not work with addiction, so there are abstinence programs we support. we put again more resources into making sure people who are suffering from addiction have places to live and receive on-site wrap around services to help them with addiction, but also help them get jobs employment and maintain healthy lifestyles and thrive in san francisco, so i will continue to support both approaches and make sure that they are heavily resourced so at the end of the day we can lead people to lead safe lives and substance abuse free. >> thank you. brian. >> in this regard, i

agree with board president walton. i think that what is important to recognize with things like harm reduction is just one tool in the tool box, and one size fits all approach will not make everything work out better. i know that when it comes to helping people dealing with substance abuse, many people bring up conservatorship and talk how this is one tool locked away too difficult to use, but i stress from the studies out there about what conservatorship can do for helping people dealing with substance abuse and mental health-we see results while in conservatorship. people are abeal to taking substance problems and stable but once they are eare eremoved, when they don't have family support and not integrated into the community and their family, that they lapse back into

substance abuse. the mental health problems flair up again, so think one big thing is we need a holistic set of supports and that comes in the form of supportive housing and like board president walton mentioned, training. we need many tools in the toolbox to provide that unique response to each individual dealing with whatever issues they happen to have and if we treat everybody the same and think everybody's problems is solved with the same tactics we will see the same thing we are seeing. and, sorry your time is up. thank you. question 4, what will you do to increase access to mental health care and decrease the stigma surrounding mental health? brian. >> thank you for the question. i think it is a great one. i think we have two strong tools available to us. one, working with department of public health and the different communication arms of san francisco city government, we can try to raise awareness about mental hlth.

there is all cinez of education programs and public education campaigns going on in the city trying to make things change. on bart we see a lot of programs trying to bring attention to violence on the train and sexual hurassment on the trains and shining a light makes people think about it them and once it comes to mental health when we take it out of private conversation and people feel afraid to bring these things up, damaged, not totally well, fearing it will harm their job prospects, when i think about the work i have done working with the city related to racial equity, part of it is bringing conversations about race and equity to the forefront so people are not afraid to discuss discrimination so they can bring the change. mental health is the same. starting the conversation to recognize people can experience issues and are that once we start

talking about it we will start doing about it. the next step is making sure we have sth funds. in the past several years there are attempts to mandate the requirement health insurance covers mental health. i think we can start right away in san francisco providing those things baseline and working with- >> i'm sorry, your time is up. shamann. >> thank you. being a member of a community that most certainly has stigma around mental health it is important to understand the root cause of why certain communities-you have to outreach, learn the issues and concerns andprint in a manner that is about helping you and not about everyone to be crazy. that is why we use terms like wellness versus mental illness because the stigma is also associated with the language around it. another reason why communities of color and people have a stigma around mental health and wellness support is because it is typically connected to the institutions that harm their

communities. the justice system. sometimes in some cases it is school districts so we have to also make sure those institutions that are responsible for making sure people are healthy and successful are also doing their job around providing the right support and most certainly we can make sure that health care systems fund mental health and fund fully just like they fund any other aspect of your health. mentsal health and wellness is big part of a human being and most certainly making sure that medical insurance provided through your employer or parents employers are also providing the mental health and wellness, but the stigma that exist is connected to a lot of institutions and the people quite frankly that harmed certain communities for a long time. >> thank you for wrour response. question 5, what are your plans to create career opportunities for our youth? shamann.

>> we made sure as district 10 supervisor s is continuing to provide the resources that go into our office of economic and work force development. that go to the non profit providers that provide workforce development service. more i just instituted the workforce alignment committee at the board which existed while i served as executive director of a workforce development organization and that committee is really focused on working with all city departments to make sure there is alignment with the definition of what workforce development is. making sure the resources are going to the right places to build pathways and skills of people who need employment. i fought hard for mandatory hire on construction projects to make sure people from san francisco and live in san francisco are also well paid on the jobs in their own community. working on legislation right now to provide local hire for tech companies and companies that have been taking advantage of and residents of

the city and members of the city and so i will continue not only to provide funding, continue to make sure pathways and pipeline programs are in place and build off the opportunities that have not existed like more local mandatory laws. also, with a resolution when i was on the board of education, that provided a pathway into education careers with the school district and those things are still in place, so workforce is always a priority and will continue to support it. >> are thank you. brian. >> for myself, i think the way i think workforce development in san francisco comes from my experience working with the city. i think it comes with hiring there is a lot of conversations and a lot of opportunities to reform the hiring process. right now there is a lot of strict guidelines how and who we hire. even though there are lot of career pathway programs and a lot of opportunities pathways to careers that exist

in different departments i think we have a chance to basically push to bring more training from the actual city departments. right now it is only a handful of city departments that have the resources and commitment to bring people on and willing to train them and make them professionals without having to take on the private cost of going to four years at a university, right away they can start learning and have a income, and right away they contribute something and expand their skillset and per sue what they like to see. what we can do to achieve that is work with city government to reform the process, make our hiring more streamlined so we are willing to take on the cost of educating and employing that live in our community right now, rather then setting up requirements and saying up to the individual-you do this and we'll see you when you are done. we are expand what we are doing in outreach,

without to san francisco unified school district and people in the community and employ them. >> thank you. question 6, this is a really long question. what are your plans to address and take action on the pollution and blight in bayview hunters point india basin, specifically (inaudible) mounds of uncovered unwatered crushed cement hills on amador, the shipyard and blight cause of businesses including the city of san francisco fire department and city college on evans? brian. >> okay. this is a great question. i know i heard a lot about illegal dumpings and concerns related to uncovered trash and dust and all the negative things with that. the city has a variety of programs

for people to kind of voluntarily say, i abandoned the building, sorry, and there is a list the city keeps of look at all the bandoned businesses and homes. i think there is a opportunity to ramp up the attention we bring to these things. there is already things on the ballot bringing attention to these things. i think what we can do is highlight where there is neglect in the city, bring more attention to it, bring consequences to the property owner neglecting their duty to people in the community in neglect of their properties and when it comes to illegal dumping there are opportunities to increase enforcement or bring in measures that will discourage people from dumping that could potentially be signs. we already have lots of illegal dumping signs throughout district 10 in every language and cameras can also help discourage people. one big concern can come from maybe people outside of the community, outside of

san francisco coming in and dumping trash in a community they dont live in, and i think there are other opportunities to expand funding for communities to take things into their homes without necessarily relying 100 percent on volunteer hours. one example is community benefit district or green benefit district. >> thank you, your time is up. shamann. >> one thing we have done upon being elected was join the bay area air quality management district to make sure i was learning about all of the tools we have to enforce quality air to make sure our communities are safe. since i have been on-we have been able to institute fines for companies like recology and make sure they are permitted to do work and actually moving companies from where they are and putting in cease and desist orders so several companies polluting areas around cement plants and candle stick areas are given cease and desist

orders to not operate in the community. we just had a hearing on a civil grand jury report about sea level rise and ground water and what that will do to pollution in the shipyard if not fixed. if the shipyard is not hundred percent clean we will not transfer the land to the city. we also upon being elected on the shipyard made sure there was a committee in place of residents working directly with the neighborhood to get information in real time. one of the most important things we have done since there is development on parcel a on the shipyard where they tried to say there is no contamination, regardless of that, we require soil testing on parcel a at any site that they were attempting to build and make that was in place before any other buildings went up. we are going to be providing a response to the civil grand jury report on the 29, so stay tuned because there is more to come. >> thank you. question 7, what is

your definition of affordable housing? shamann. >> for me, affordable housing from a formal definition standpoint is make sure families and individuals are not paying more then a third of income towards housing. we know once you start paying more then a third of income towards housing it leads to other insecurities like food insecurities, not able to pay your bills, not able to provide transportation for you and your family so no more then a third of income should go on paying rent and paying for a mortgage. at the end of the day we know in a city like san francisco where income disparities are major and people are not able to afford to pay rent here, that may not even be enough. we also need to make sure we go as low as we can on ami. some houses we pushed for in district 10 and across the city go ami as low as 30 percent, between 30 and 80 percent but the fact

of the matter is we rezoned to insure hundred percent affordable projects in district 10, so whether it be hundred percent affordable housing coming to candlestick, the ones coming to homeless prenatal program on potrero, increased level of affordability at pier 70, the power station, those are because of the battles and fights we make sure happen as your representative of district 10, because it is hard to live in san francisco and afford it so no more then a third of income should go towards rent and in most cases lower then that. >> thank you. brian. >> for me i also agree that affordable housing by dictionary it has got to be at or below 30 percent of your income. anymore then that then you are cost burdened and for many san francisco residents now, they are cost burdened for a variety of incomes. i think that what we need to see is the expansion of housing and we need to push

for measures that basically keep housing affordable. right now a lot of measures, a lot of focus is on streamlining the process on changing the rules to increase opportunities to build more in particular places. i think that is one piece of the puzzle. if that is the only tool we bring to build this, it will not work out because when we look towards the rest of the bay area, san francisco included when we look at the regional housing needs allocation, basically the association of bay area government tells all the cities build this diverse set of housing, affordable housing-when it comes to 120 percent ami and above every city in the bay area they show up. a plus, they are very good, but median to affordable they get big f. they cant deliver. they dont make any affordable housing and struggle so in san francisco in the past 5 years seen

several thousand affordable developments. that is still barely 50 percent of the goal set for us so i think we need to expand the housing and insure there are programs in place to cap the cost. >> thank you. next question. question 8, a segue. what is your plan to increase access to affordable housing in san francisco? brian. >> that is a great follow-up question. i think that expanding affordable uzhoing one tool in the box is to build more housing, but more of the housing has to be affordable by definition. if we leave it solely to the market we have been living in the market and the market is not really creating affordable housing. when we look aterant rent in san francisco it is slowly trending down in the last 5 years, especially due to the covid-19 but they are trailing back up. property values keep going up and if anyone wants to become a home owner in san francisco it means

the cost of the mortgage will go up. i ink the we need to not only build more, but expand the programs that cap cost and also continue funding the programs that help people become-change from being renters to home owners. the home owner support loan programs different programs provided by the mayor office of housing community development that help renters in the city become home owners need to expand support while building more housing and while working to bring down the cost of housing in general and what that means is that for people that own multiple properties in the city, they have to bring their properties on-to the market or sell them rather then having housing that is basically a asset. the housing should become housing for somebody else. that is what i think. >> thank you. shamann. >> one thing we have done again is pushed for maximum level of affordability on projects, not only in district 10 but across the city. when we

talk about access to affordable housing, there is one thing that if you go back to the policy position we put when we ran for office in 2018, we said we would do something to make sure the city also developed its own affordable housing and so, we put prop i on the ballot and now millions of dollars are available for the city to build affordable housing and social housing on its own so we have to one, make sure those resources go 100 percent to building and creating affordable housing, two, we also need to make sure affordable housing is built diversely across san francisco. there are certain areas in had city where we are not building affordable housing, and that has been a major problem. we develop in district 10. i can point to thousands of projects and homes we have on the way, but now we have to work together with the rest of the city to start building in other areas across san francisco and the only way to do that is bring community together and let them understand the advantage of having

affordable housing in their community. why it is so important to work together to do that, because otherwise everyone is going to continue to suffer one from disparities that exist but the city will turn into a city where nobody can afford to live accept for the people who are already house rich and that is something we have to make sure we avoid. >> thank you. question 9, what are your plans to increase access and affordability to high quality child care in your community? shamann. >> someone who is a major fighter of prop c to make sure that we have millions of dollars that go direct ly to funding quality child care i meet with providers monthly to listen to needs and concerns and make sure the early child care community has the proper training and supports they need to take care of our young people. when we talk about affordability and we talk about affordable housing, one thing we also been working on is to make sure any new community

that is built, any new affordable housing built prioritize make sure there is a child care center on site and space and place for our young people to go because that has to be a part of the community built in. we have to do more fwr in-home care providers because a lot of our smaller communities have a lot of in-home care providers not receiving the resources is and support they need to thrive and continue so bigger centers have taken away those children but the needs exist for the working moms and fathers and families that live in close proximity to the in-home centers but dont live close enough to the bigger child care center like head start program and child care centers. in-home providers are a major part of our child care network system soewe have to make sure the reason we have resources for prop c also go to support them and provide the training and assistance they need. but the big

thing is making sure more sites are available, more access is available- >> thank you. we need to move to the next person. brian. >> with regards to early child care and prenatal care and providing care for younger children in the community, i largely agree with board president walton. i think that with both people--many people in san francisco are cost burdened people have to work all the time. despite they have children to raise or are pregnant. the big thing is provide the resources we have and expand support for them so people can actually access them because of the prohibitive cost. not everybody has access to flexible spending account set aside pre-tax dollars for this stuff. i think we need to work with the board of education, work on having a holistic process for our san francisco unified school district and just work with the department of public health to have a

robust network integrated with child care providers, non profits, the services provided by the city so that no matter what background you have you have access to the suite of services so you can raise a family and still work inside the city and live the life you want to live without having to sacrifice here and there for whatever reason. >> thank you. question 9, do you have plans to create more jobs in this district and if so, what would be some of your targets? what type of jobs? what would the average salary be? brian. >> interesting question regarding salaries. i think coming to the issues i support,b i think when it comes to more housing, public safety and better public transit i think in all these fields in addition to sustainability there is opportunity to create a lot of jobs.

what i stated before working with city government to kind of make it easier to bring people that are san francisco residents to train them on the job, build those skills and start pay ing now to do good work for the city. i think that is something we can start doing. expanding public transit, more transit operators to make the system more reliable. some of the bus lines that run every week, maybe only 10 percent of the bus lines have 6 buses or 7 buses every hour, so very high frequency. the average bus in san francisco maybe shows up 3 times per hour so that seems good to you, alright. but i think there is a opportunity to expand that service. there is a opportunity to build more homes, build more homes not only sustainable but well integrate would the transit system and when it comes to public safety and think there is a opportunity for more community ambassadors and more non-police response. i think that we can see people being employed from

salaries from $60 thousand to hundred thousand a year. bringing people at 60 and 70 thousand and training them up because now minimum wage is not minimum. if your goal is not be cost burden- >> thank you for your response. shamann. >> thank you. job creation is about bringing business into a community so in order to create jobs obviously we have to have employers that x had to community and so one thing that happened to us i'm really excited about it, if you look what happened across san francisco during the pandemic, on our corridors in district 10, a lot of growth took place versus going backwards so we have a lot of new businesses on the third street corridor, a lot of new businesses in visitation valley opening up because bringing business is how you create jobs. if you look at the lucky's on the way, look at having a grocery outlet on bayshore, improvements that happened to

foodco to increase opportunities for employment. these things help us create jobs. also, something i worked on for quite amount of time and something that will be amazing benefit to all of us is when currently right now on the sewer system improvement program more jobs coming into community. if we look what is happening at evan street campus and city college and the southeast community facility switched to 1550 evans. we are working on state of the art center. when we get the center built that is a opportunity to train and create more opportunities for folks to go to work, but the big thing is continuing to bring businesses into our district both small size and as large as possible that take care of community and provide benefits. >> thank you. question 10, what policies would you propose to address chronic homelessness in san francisco?

shamann. >> addressing-people who experience homelessness particularly at the chronic level it starts with affordability. this city is the worst when it comes to affordability so folks don't have a opportunity to pay bills and rent and unfortunately sometimes end up on the street. what we have done in district 10 is made sure we have places for people to go that are not on the street while we work to provide them with permanent supportive housing. i would argue and say, no other district stepped up in a way that we have to support people experiencing homelessness. we have three navigation centers, a rv site at pier 94, a safe sleeping site, a treaugcenter because we work hard to meet people where they are and get them off the street and when you get them ouf a street provide a safe place to sleep at night you can work on barriers

that exist. when it is employment or substance abuse or mental health and wellness, those are things we have been able to do by providing resources to have places for people to go. we saw a major increase of folks experiencing homelessness in the district during the pandemic, particularly folks in vehicles and now you read several articles you have seen the data, homelessness in district 10 in some areas across the city decreased dramatically since we started to open up from the pandemic. >> thank you. brian. >> i think with any chronic homelessness, some of the policies is embracing the housing first policy or my way of thinking. when it comes to housing first there is conversation (inaudible) if people can (inaudible) don't deserve a roof above their head and i think leaving people on the streets is basically

just throwing more stumbling blocks. embracing housing first, building more affordable supportive housing clear the runway to begin supporting people and like president walton mentioned, homelessness has gone down in san francisco. the problem is there is just so much of it. inside the bay area there is 24 thousand unhoused people and 60 percent are in san francisco or san jose. even though we helped around-several hundred people in the past year get into stable housing and start attacking problems and get employed and start having more medical treatment, we basically need to see more of that to actually bring lasting change in the city and a lot of that depends on having enough homes for all the people living in san francisco. not only do we need to continue supporting the programs helping people struggling with chronic homelessness, but we need to bring more housing into san francisco that is

genuinely affordable. >> thank you. question 11, both affordability--sorry. both the affordability crisis and evictions have caused gent fiication and widespread displace: how doia plan to address (inaudible) displacement of low income communities in san francisco? brian. >> i think a huge part of this-right now we are seeing a lot of pushes to basically upzone, change rules to make it easier to build certain things, clear the red tape for developers to build more. what we have seen in the past year, supervisors like mar, ronen and mayor breed sent a letter to different bay area regional associations when they put together a transit plan saying the history of-all this affordable housing we are bringing all the new developments which is just market rate

development with affordable window dressing is hurting our communities. we are bringing in all the housing that is supposed to help people cost burdened and really pushing them out. i think we need to bring more housing, but need to continue support for making that housing affordable. maybe that is rent vouchers or capping the price on some of these units. i think part of that is making sure the units are not market rate but just affordable housing and insuring we have the protections for the community and insure when we try to cut the red tape we are not cutting for communities underserved and ignored by these private developers because when it comes to bringing the housing in different

parts of the city where it is prenomdantly single family homes or duplexes the rules are different. they are not fighting the same battle, they will get a lot more attention and a lot more leeway trying to protect their communities. >> thank you. shamann. >> we need a strong universal basic income program to provide additional resources for families. again, we know san francisco the disparities in wealth are very large and so universal basic income providing lowest income families with additional resources each month is going to help them one, be able to pay rent and not be unhoused but also be able to do more to take care of their family and that is something we worked on. we had pilot programs working with some of the mothers who are expecting and having children, providing them with those additional resources has been something that helped them be able to maintain and sustain and it is very expensive city. we need to continue to push for strong eviction protections and make sure people are not pushed out of their homes just because landlords want to do it in a whim which happens in a lot of cases so continue to make sure that happens. we need to continue to fund free legal aid support that

keep families in the house and things we have been able to do is create free family relief for undocumented families making sure they have additional income each month, particularly during the pandemic. make sure right to recovery was in place for families who were getting sick during the pandemic and they had that additional income. a universal income program that provides support on top of people barely making income meet on the salaries they get now is going to be key to keeping people in homes and keeping people from being put out on the street and not able to afford to live in san francisco. >> thank you. question 12, do you accept pac funding from outside california and if so from who and why? shamann. >> i have not accepted pac funding to my knowledge outside of california. i could say i probably would most definitely accept resources from labor unions et cetera that may not exist in the state but most certainly share the same values that i do as i work closely with labor leadership and folks who are going to make sure that our

residents have a opportunity to have quality jobs, have benefits, have sick pay and protected when they are in the workforce. to my knowledge i have not but i most certainly would sapt money from a pac connected to a labor union. >> thank you. brian. >> i have not accepted any money from out of the state of california political action committees. >> thank you. question 13, what are your top community safety concerns for your district? brian. >> i think for top community safety concern, it really varies neighborhood by neighborhood. even inside district 10. i think some naerbds may experience more gun violence in those cases we have seen positive results with the dream keeper initiative. continuing support for the programs, reaching people considered at risk and making sure they are given support and opportunities that lower the chance of potential violence happening is a

positive thing. i think what we have discussed with different wrap around programs and expansion of child care and employment opportunities, some of those things are just after school programs. insuring there are things do after school lowering the chance of youth potentially committing certain crimes. other parts of the neighborhood people are more concerned with theft or trash in the neighborhood. when it comes to those things, expanding different foot patrols so there is more people in areas discourages certain kinds of crime. when people know they are watched and know there may be consequences they are less likely to do something. and i think that there are opportunities to expand community ambassadors to bring more attention and bring more care to our commercial corridors to make people feel safe all times and discourage different kinds of crime that are effecting local businesses and to also bring people on to public transit where they may feel fear being assaulted or

whatever else they may fear seeing on public transit. >> thank you. shamann. >> most definitely the most devastating type of violence in community is gun violence and that is major to a lot of residents here in a district. one thing we have done is put together a district 10 safety plan and we did that talking with every community in the district so we have forums in potrero hills, bayview hunter opinion, visitation valley, dog patch. we talk about the major issues that exist, what they want to see corrected and addressed and put the plan together working with the district attorney office with our community, with police department and of course with it was community lead. gun violence was identified. pedestrian and traffic safety is something really big on everyone's plate. we instituted a lot of traffic calming work and continue to work with community to address those needs and concerns. speed bumps have gone up.

(inaudible) in the making and we have finished some and will continue to do that, but the thing we need to do to address violence is bring community together, look at the issues in each neighborhood and area and make sure the solutions are fitting to what people presented and we know having foot patrols and community ambassadored, m tap officers we increased funding for making sure officers speak the language of the community they serve, which we have increased funding for, those type of things are what our community has identified. >> thank you. question 14, this is a long one again. according to the city's own figures, it will cost $19 billion over the next 8 years to build the affordable housing required by the state regional housing needs allocation goals. where will that money come from and how do we balance opportunities for

market rate housing against the state requirements for affordable housing? shamann. >> first of all, the state goals are crap. at the end of the day, in san francisco we build more housing then the rest of our region and are they gave us inflated goal that probably is going to be impossible to reach even if we streamline everything in front of us. what the state needs to do is stop blocking our shovel ready projects we have in place when we need more tax increment dollars to support projects. we have affordable housing units ready to go and break ground now not able to be financed because the state won't provide the tax increment dollars needed but fund projects in other parts of the state that are still in the making that are not ready to break ground . if the state is going to have goals they need to provide the resources and can support to make a attempt to reach the goals that are not achieved and also need to hold the entire

region accountable. we are building more housing then most of the region and yet we have this inflated number that is inequitable and quite frankly, unrealistic. what i will continue to do is push-make sure fully funding prop i. put $600 million bond in place. make sure the resources to continue to build affordable projects, the projects that are able to happen most certainly it will be a struggle to reach that completely ignorant goal for san francisco. >> thank you. brian. >> well, i have to agree with board president walton in that the goals are unfair. largely the regional housing needs allocation are focused on keeping every sit in the bay area the same, so whatever small incremental growth they see they say just build that many houses i guess. they expect cities like san jose and san francisco to build 10s of thousands of new units and then marin

county can get away with maybe seeing 500 new units for 5 years. right now the association of bay area governments don't have a lot of power over the city. they make recommendations but what they can do is hold san francisco hostage. they can deny funding and threaten to say we will lay down the law inside your city and think the big thing to work on is to try to work with the other cities in the bay area and make them have more housing. now there is all kinds of conversations going on in san jose and santa clara housing where people are fighting new houses with catch phrases to make it sound right. they are fighting housing to protect the environment. fighting housing to protect narrow roadways and saying we don't have emergency plan. if you bring more people to the community what will we do so expanding the conversation outside san francisco and seeing opportunities

to increase density in other communities rather then maintaining the status quo and holding to unreasonable standard- >> thank you. question 15, do you have a comprehensive plan to address transportation needs in d10 both for those trying to get around the city and those commuting outside the city? brian. >> yes, i think i do have a comp rehensive plan. when it comes to san francisco-when we look at socal, not san francisco, public transit ridership has been going way way way down and there are so many people even though public transit ridership is going up in the bay area, overall in the state of california public transit is taking a nose dive for the past 20 years and i didn't think what that says is california-we have not built it to work on public transit and when people dont want to keep riding public transit because they don't feel dignified,

it isn't convenient and not high enough frequency and doesn't get you where you go and once you get a car you are like why do i want to downgrade to the bus or train. even though it is more sustainable and less traffic violence people don't want to ride public transit. we talk how important it is but nobody reads it and (inaudible) when it comes to san francisco we need to expand service so more of the bus lines are more frequent and when it comes to the bay area as a whole we need to work with caltrain, bart with the other transit authorities to make people that drive their car every day whether going to work or beach whatever it is to replace some of the rides rather then trying to pull people that upgraded from bus to car, pull back people that are always using the car to riding public transit to bring attention. >> thank you. shamann. >> we currently have several transportation plans in place for the

district or plans that include transportation that i definitely was a part of and played a role in. the bayview transportation plan, the eastern neighborhood plan. i assume we will have a plan set up for visitation valley. the main thing i'm trying to do is make sure that all the plans that are in place to improve transportation to connect to the commercial corridor and make sure transportation is faster, make sure folks can get to and from work and isolated communities are to make sure those are resourced, but also we have also done some things that never before happened since we have been in office. we switched back from the t line. we have families not taken home because they were switched back and go to the west side and they wouldn't make it to sunnydale. we did bring a new bus line into the district. we have the 15 express, which goes down third street through public housing and connects to downtown, so those are things we will continue to work on.

getting more improvement on transportation, there are things you will see around the t and changes on the bus lines that run through community to make sure that they are more rapid, but also making sure we have stops in areas where seniors and people need to get to school and get to work, but the plans are in place. we are also doing things that have been outside the box like stopping switch backs and creating new lines, doing things the community quite frankly asked for for a very long time. >> thank you. question 16, affordable housing residents need affordable services. what additional affordable services are needed in the community such as grocery stores, parks and schools and what are your plans to bring those to d10? shamann. >> i think your answered the question, grocery stores, parks, schools, jobs and of course we talked about child care. one thing we have done if you notice we have a brand new grocery outlet on bay shore. worked very hard to get a new

lucky store opening in the next couple months at the bayview plaza to replace the walgreens. so many types of businesses tried to be in the space and had to fight to make sure the grocery store is what was coming into community. we have done something again that has never happened before. we have four parks on the bond right now. four parks on the bond. jackson recollect pa, hurst playground, india basin and also we have parts of muclaren park when we share a boarder with. because of your advocacy and community making sure everyone understood how important the parks were, the ability to work with my colleagues other city leadership to make something like that happen. yes, we need to make sure our parks are beautified and are bring quality grocery stores and there are more grocery stores on the way because we have more space. the same people we had conversations to bring luckys are talking about other locations in the district. we improved so many parks. case y jones, mlk park, the park

north-ridge, (inaudible) we have several more parks we'll continue to work on that are outside of the bond because of our work with rpd and because the community is stepping up and saying what is needed. these things are happening on a daily right now. y >> thank you. brian. >> i think some additional things, there are opportunities i think to bring alternative businesses into the neighborhood. i think when it comes to more work around businesses like rainbow grocery, there are opportunities to support the businesses coming into the community by extending special tax benefits all around the world, especially in places like spain and germany they expend special benefits to these companies and in san francisco we can potentially introduce a similar model so we can lower the cost of business for these businesses and then have them basically employ primarily people within our communities and also share the profits and revenues of those businesses with people actually working for

those companies and bringing more worker democracy into these things and bringing more affordability into the neighborhoods. i think when it comes to green spaces, one challenge facing rec and park is the cost of maintenance. one way we can balance outside of bonds or increasing taxes is expanding green benefit district. right now in san francisco there is one green benefit district which brings slightly higher property taxes, but the community has the dollars to do whatever they want related to maintaining those parks, cleaning graffiti and streets and having community ambassadors, hosting events or providing other services. i think this stuff can pool resources into the community where otherwise one or two families- >> thank you. question 17, how are you going to meet the needs of constituents of the new d10 district after the recent redistricting

process? how are you planning to bridge the gap between different neighborhoods? brian. >> i think bridging the gap in a very diverse community in district 10 with 30 percent of families that speak a language other then english at home and the bigest district of size, i think it knhs down to showing up and having a team or being able to speak-having a team that speaks all the languages or being able to speak languages the community speaks, showing up to events, sharing your time, hearing the community, working on those problems. i think because the community is so diverse, they have diverse needs, diverse concerns. i think just having the time to show up interface with the community understand what is going on, without that there is going to be no way to meet the needs of communities of potrero

hill, dog patch, viz valley and bayview. myself i have been showing up, volunteering participating in different events and bringing what i know or just being there to support things. i think elected i would do the same thing. >> thank you. shamann. >> i think from a size standpoint we shrunk as a district and lost space we did have but still a very diverse district. we have several communities separated by freeways and land barriers. one thing we have done is wurksed to bring the merchants associations together and meet with them and talk about challenges across the district and what they need. i'm thankful brian said need office reflective of the languages people speak. we have cantonese, mandarin and spanish visible because we understand the needs of the district which have been always been the case so very important we are able to work with all our

communities. i talked about earlier providing resources to make sure we have hubs in our communities not just the black community, not just the latino community, not just the asian community but also our pacific islander community. no one ever but the hundred of thousands of dollars into the- >> please refrain from applause. >> since we have come to the district because i understand representation matters for everyone in the district so i will do everything i can to make sure not only language services are provided for all communities, but cultural services are provided for allmunities community and every possible service provided looks like the communities they are serving. that is something i hundred percent try to fight for on a daily basis and will continue to do. >> thank you. question 18, what are your priorities in tums of had ship yard shite prioritizing clean up activities. shamann. >> number one priority

i said on record all most 10 hundred times. hundred percent clean shipyard. hundred percent clean. the navy is responsible to make sure that that shipyard is 100 percent clean and that will continue to be the priority to push the navy and environmental protection agency, to push the federal government agencies that are responsible for cleanup to do just that. while we are working on that, of course we continue to require things like additional soil testing before you build on parcel a. again as i talked about before had a hearing on the civil grand jury report. we will have a response at our next gao meeting at the hearing on thursday to talk about exactly what we want to do in response of that report but you can most certainly bet we will be pushing for more increased staff that are going to do more monitoring and provide a higher level of research for some of the issues that

have been presented that we know exist on the shipyard. this is a space that my community is from. a lost both of my grandparents to cancer who lived adjacent to the shipyard so for me the most important thing is 100 percent clean ship yard. not looking a after lawsuits and not those concerned about the health of the community but 100 percent clean shipyard. >> thank you. brian. >> i think the big thing is talking about the clean shipyard report from the civil grand jury when they called out the mayor office and different city departments. the mayor office came back and said, we disagree on all most everything and basically said we are doing a very good job, you just haven't been paying close enough attention and i think what we can bring to the board of supervisors is basically continuing to try and hold the

city accountable, hold different government agencies accountable. they sent a letter saying we are talking to the community. the navy is working very hard talking to the community and are involved in the process and being a little critical of that and making sure we keep them honest and they give us lip we are still come back and do what is right for the community. i think like board president walton say, increase funding to make sure the city is monitoring and not just left to the navy or private contractor. when it comes to the flooding highlighted in the report we work with organizations like sf port that has research and reports and things investigating to the concern that might come from flooding whether from a tsunami or climate change we can pull these resources together and make sure everything is talking to one another and make sure as we clean the shipyard the community

stays safe. >> thank you. question 19, what are your plans to address air quality issues in your community, especially neighborhoods that are adjacent to industrialized areas? brian. >> that's a great question. i are think when it comes to air quality, it is very unfortunate for district 10 that we have two freeways and major expressways cutting through the neighborhood. for people that are living near 101 and 280, a lot of people myself included suck. i think when it comes to car pollutants, we might see support for public transit and making people more willing to ride a bus. we might have less car smog and expose people to less pollutants there. i think when it comes to construction and contaminants inside the environment from decades of neglect and bad practices from our forefathers making sure we stick to the rules and not streamlining or

cutting the red tape that protects our lives and health, so making sure that during the construction it is covered or water so people are not exposed working with the bay air quality management so-they notify us, but making sure the community knows when there are potential risks and expanding services so we know all we need to know and working to keep the agencies accountable to reduce exposure to contaminants whether smog from cars or other pollutant like dirt or fine particles or things coming from industrial businesses located in the bayview or along cesar chavez. >> thank you. shamann. >> what we are doing is providing air filtration devices for individual homes, particularly in the more isolated communities. public housing communities. we are in the middle of securing resources to do that. we have done this for sites that provide shelter for people experiencing

homelessness because we know how important it is to have those and one thing that is making it difficult because we want to make sure we have the best type of air filtration devices in homes, some are less expensive but most certainly not always the best so we are working to make sure we put the best products in the home that protect people. we also have provided cease and desist orders to businesses that are polluting in our communities and in our neighborhoods. that is a important tool in place working with the city attorney. we shut businesses down for that. we will continue to utilize that enforcement authority we have. of course being a part of the bay area air quality management district making sure they stay on top of permitting and making sure best practices to keep our air clean and make sure that we stop pollution going out into our environment are the things that we'll continue to do and being on-serving on the body helped me to do that. we also are continuing to work

on ways to provide quality public alternative transportation because we know the more robust public transportation is, the less cars we have on the streets and of course that is going to support improving our air quality. >> thank you. now question 20 our last question, in 2021, overdose deaths decreased slightly for the first time in 3 yire years. this period coinsided with (inaudible) do you have any plans to look into making narcan more affordable and accessible for the community? shamann. >> definitely want to make sure norcan is available to all of our service providers. quite frankly even to individuals in community. we have seen narcan work and save dozens of lives. a lot of non profit providers have narcan and they are able to be on site and help support individuals who overdose in community, and so 100

percent support one, making narcan easier to afford, providing resources for more of our organizations and members of the community to have narcan, but also we need to make sure we do get a safe consumption site and a place where people who are struggling with drug addiction, who want to change but need more support right now are in a environment where they receive help, receiving support so the chance and possibility of a overdose is very slim versus some of what we see now where people are out on the streets and in community and unfortunately because of addiction they are forced to be on the street and use in certain areas and it unsafe because they are not in a environment where people are there to support them and make sure if something happens they will be able to be safe. hundred percent around increasing resources, supply more narcan and make it less expense

ive for people to use because it does save lives. >> i agree we want to expand support for availability of narcan and want to avoid emergencies in the first place because you want the resources available so in case there is a emergency someone can respond. when we look at other helths crisis like a heart attack, most of the time if you give someone cpr without a defib rillator the chances are 20 percent best. once you defibulate them the chance to resusitate someone go up to 80 percent. in the same way, we need the narcan to save people experiencing overdose but there are other ways to protect them like having safe consumption sites, bring people out of more dangerous conditions. the drug can be tested and brought to wrap around service to deal with drug addiction, mental

health issues or problems they are facing. as long as they remain on the streets or potentially using drugs maybe in unsafe environment increases that risk. bringing into supervision and a safe environment helps to reduce that risk, reduce the number of drug overdoses happen in san francisco. >> thank you. now we come to the closing statements. we will be doing the closing statements in reverse alphabetical order and remember you have 90 seconds. shamann. >> i want to thank the league of women voters for conducting the forum tonight. all you for attending. i want to thank brian for stepping up and wanting to be civicly involved. i think it is important people do that so my hat goes off for him for putting himself out there because i know how it is to run for office. at the end of the day i'm the type of supervisors that will continue to respond time in community. listen to concerns and needs and make sure they are addressed. one thing most of you in the room know, i'm very

responsive, my office is very responsive. if you reach out, you will get a response. if you e-mail me you will get a response from me. it won't be from somebody else, especially when you initially reach out and we will have conversations how to address your concerns. sometimes we don't always agree on solutions, but most certainly i work with you to address your concerns and your needs. i will continue to do that. i will continue to be accessible, continue to be available but most importantly, will continue to get results for our district and make sure that the district improves, that we have what we need. not only in district 10 but across the city. i have been fortunate enough to be elected by my colleagues to serve as the president of the board of supervisors which i think is a testament to one, not only having the ability to get things done but also the ability to work with everyone. as you know, we face difficult decisions, everybody doesn't agree in san francisco but we are happy and proud to be in a position where we bring people together to address their issues and i love for

your support. >> thank you [applause] brian. >> i also want to thank the league of women voters and everyone in the audience. thank you president walton for the kind words. this may be the first time you hear from me but hope it isn't the last. for myself, i just want to bring someone that is-i want to be someone running that is committed to the community and committed to diversity of district 10 and i believe this has been reflected in my continued commitment to you showing of the community and constantly finding new ways to bring my set of skills or being there for people in community. i think also for myself at least bringing a lot of attention to sustainability, the climate and public transit in the city, i

think it is something we give a lot of lip service without thinking what that realty means people on the ground. whether people want to ride the bus or not or ride the train or not and trying to make it a desirable thing, trying to make it safe convenient thing to ride public transit or a bike, feeling safe to ride a bike or walk in the city. for myself, the city runs on cars, 400 thousand cars in the city and for myself i want to see the city being more sustainable, more walkable and livable place and i think with that will bring more safety, more jobs more opportunities in the city and thanks again for your time. [applause] >> on behalf oof myself and league of women voters of is san francisco, thanks to the candidates for participating and thank you for take thg time to informant yourself about your

choices on november 8. please remember to vote. if you change your name or move you need to register again at your new address and if you are voting by mail please be sure your count will count insuring your ballot is mailed or dropped at a polling place or voting center early. good evening. [applause]

>> i'm connie chan district one supervisor and welcome to the richmond. >> i'm an immigrant and came to

san francisco china town when i was 13 years old with my mom and brother. my first job is at the community organizer for public safety with san francisco state. and land in the city hall and became a legislative aid to sophie maxwell. went through city departments when kamala harris was our district attorney i'm proud to represent the richmondad district supervisor. [music] we have great neighborhood commercial corridors that need to be protected. the reason why we launched the neighborhood business for supporting the [inaudible] for 15 years special more.

we have the legacy business program the business around for 30 years or more and thought, you know, we gotta make sure the next generation contains for generations to come. am i'm ruth the owner of hamburger haven we came back on july 11. we were opened in 1968 at that time i believe one of the owners of mestart today went through a guy named andy in the early 70s and my father took it mid 70s. >> originally was just a burger joint. open late nights. then it changed over the years and became the breakfast staple. we specialize in breakfast, brunch come lunch now. i love this neighborhood. i grew up here. and it feels like home. i walk down the block and recognize people of people say hello. you say hello you talk and joke.

has that familiar environment that is enjoyable and i have not experienced anywhere else. there are many things i would like to see improve ams the things we might see are making sure that our tenants stay housed our small business in tact and those are the solutions that will contain to push to make sure that you know our communities can take root, stay and thrive. >> i'm proud of you know, welcoming folks to the richmond. everyone loch its we got farmer's market every sunday there. the you see really business at the noaa. ice cream at toy folks and going to chop for book like green apple. and that's when you like the deal is pizza place haall

families love. you will see a lot of great chinese shops that is readily available for everyone. >> and that is just thein are richmond there is more to do in the richmond. what is love is the theatre. >> i mean adam and with my wife jamie, own little company called cinema sf we operate the balboa theatre. the vocabularying theatre on sacramento and soon the 4 star on clement. >> balboa theatre opened in 1926 and servicing this outer richmond neighborhood since then. and close on the heels the 4 star opens since 1913. >> when you come in to a movie theatre, the rest of the world has to be left behind. but you get e mersed in the world that is film makers made

for you. that is a special experience to very much we can all think of the movies that we saw in the big screen of with everybody screaming or laughing or crying. it is a shared human experience that you get when you go in to places that are gatherings and artist presented to you. >> a shared experience is the most precious. and the popcorn. [laughter]. at the balboa especially, we stroif to have movies for people of every generation from the pop corn palace movies on the weekend mornings, for families and kids. this is for everybody of all ages. >> what is great about the richmond is it is a neighborhood of the immigrants. belongs to immigrants not ap i immigrants you will see that

there are also a huge population of rush wrans and ukrainian immigrants they stay united you am see that the support they lend to each other as a community. and cinderella bakery is another legacy business. if you go on the website it is known as a russian bakery. the first thing you see their pledge to support the ukrainian community. you will see the unity in the richmond i'm so proud of our immigrant community in the rich monthed. >> my dad immigrate friday iran the reason he stayed was because of the restaurant. has more centamential value it is the reasonable we are in this country. when he had an opportunity to take over the instruct he stayed that is why we are here part of our legacy and san francisco history and like to keep it

going for years to come. >> another moment i'm proud to be supporting the richmond and the only asian american woman elect in the office and as an immigrant that is not happen nothing 3 decades. you see it is my ability to represent especially the asian-american community. in my case the chinese speaking elders in our community that really can allow me to communicate with them directly. i'm program director of adult day centers. i have been here for 7 years i love to help the communities and help and the people with disability. i foal a connection with them. i am anim grant i love helping our community and new immigrants

and improvements. >> if you want nature, richmond is the neighborhood to go we are between ocean beach heights and golden gate park. >> i love the outer richmond. for me this is the single best neighborhood in san francisco. everybody knows each other. people have been living here forever. it is young and old. the ocean is really near by. and so there is that out doors ocean vibe to it. there are places to seat golden gate bridge it is amazing. businesses are all small mom and pop businesses. houses get passed down generation to generation. it has a small town feel but you know you are in a big city at the same time. it's got a unique flavor i don't

see in other neighborhoods j. it is about being inclusive we are inclusive and welcome the communities, anybody should feel welcome and belong here and shop local, eat local. we believe that with that support and that network it come in full circle. it is passing on kinds knows. that's when richmond is about that we are together at once. welcome to the richmond. [music]

>> i am iris long. we are a family business that started in san francisco chinatown by my parents who started the business in the mid 1980s. today we follow the same footsteps of my parents. we source the teas by the harvest season and style of

crafting and the specific variety. we specialize in premium tea. today i still visit many of the farms we work with multigenerational farms that produce premium teas with its own natural flavors. it is very much like grapes for wine. what we do is more specialized, but it is more natural. growing up in san francisco i used to come and help my parents after school whether in middle school or high school and throughout college. i went to san francisco state university. i did stay home and i helped my parents work throughout the summers to learn what it is that makes our community so special. after graduating i worked for an investment bank in hong kong for

a few years before returning when my dad said he was retiring. he passed away a few years ago. after taking over the business we made this a little more accessible for visitors as well as residents of san francisco to visit. many of our teas were traditionally labeled only in chinese for the older generation. today of our tea drinkkers are quite young. it is easy to look on the website to view all of our products and fun to come in and look at the different varieties. they are able to explore what we source, premium teas from the providence and the delicious flavors. san francisco is a beautiful city to me as well as many of the residents and businesses

here in chinatown. it is great for tourists to visit apsee how our community thrived through the years. this retail location is open daily. we have minimal hours because of our small team during covid. we do welcome visitors to come in and browse through our products. also, visit us online. we have minimal hours. it is nice to set up viewings of these products here.

>> >> supervisor shamann walton: good afternoon and welcome to the september 27, 2022, san francisco board of supervisors. >> please call the roll. >> [roll call] >>