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tv   Mayors Press Availability  SFGTV  October 21, 2022 7:00pm-7:31pm PDT

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things, he has done to and nothing to really say, but also a deacon in his church. and as a deacon in his church, he leads the recovery part of that. and what he has created is a friends and family day which reunites people coming from incarceration and drug use with families to be able to bond and come together and bring themselves back into the community. the other thing that he does that he does not, every saturday we go out and pass out boxes to the people that in the community that are hungry. and make sure that they're fed. i strongly member jabari jackson to continue his work that he's doing in the community. >> thank you, said drik. next speaker please, come on up, ma'am. >> speaker: good afternoon, liz
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jackson simpson, ceo of success, and i'm here to advocate for mr. andre. andre has been part of the success in the family for nearly a decade now. and he has helped us to launch so many new initiatives for our reentry population. and largely, they have been in our training programs and our transitional programs that have lead to permanent employment. to afford folks that are making a living wage. that is a true festment him as he said been a credible messenger, and that's one of the new initiative in his launching with the district attorney attorney and with the juvenile department, if it was not noert expertise that there is no way that we would be able to get that program launched and off the ground. and this is part of a national movement that hails from the folks on the east coast in bringing these initiative to san francisco to see some
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systemic change going on. andre is the first one here every day and the last to leave and has helped to shepherd hundreds of people through training through, transitional employment and into lucrative jobs in the city. he's proved positive that what he does, what we're endeavouring to do is remrikable and sustainable and can help continue the fabric of the city of san francisco. we encourage him. he's qualified for three of the positions and qualified for all 3 and we continue to support him through this process. thank you very much. >> thank you for your testimony. next speaker, please. >> speaker: morning supervisor my name is andrew, culture district in san francisco and i'm here to talk about my colleague jusef and my boy.
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one word comes to mind, dedication. we have worked together through the thick of the pandemic, through communities, offering aid to those who have been disproportionate lea februarieding by the pandemic. he tirely learned and thought all of us when things were difficult. he has a supernatural ability to stay calm under pressure and he is always able to be optimistic even when things are hopeless. jusef has provided that support for me. he wants to provide all the opportunities he had even when all the odds were stacked against him. supervisors, i don't doubt that he will dedicate that to make that a possibility for everyone who has to reenter and provide
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hope for those who are hopeless. thank you. >> good morning, i'm sochi, i'm in support of ju se f nathan for your consideration. i have worked with jusef supporting latin xx communities and support through the covid-19 pandemic. i've gotten to admire his dedication, jusef is reliable and deeply concerned about the ability of others. because of his life experience as a formerly incarcerated individual, and skill to the service through the community.
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he's the idea candidate. thank you. >> thank you. are there any members of the public who would like to testimony remotely mr. young. >> clerk: yes, we have two callers for remote public comment. can we have our first caller. >> caller: [indiscernible] >> sorry, we're getting, wait wait wait wait. >> is it me or the next person? >> why don't we start over. if you can hold on one moment. the first speaker is very muffled and hard to hear, mr. young, can you try to fix that. >> clerk: we will do what we can. can we have one caller speak at
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this time. is anybody still on the line with us? >> yes, my name is craig johnson. >> clerk: okay, go ahead and please proceed. >> caller: i'm craig johnson i'm director of the tip academy with base. [indiscernible] i want to recommend that jabari jackson be restated in the position with the reentry council. along with supervisors we could not this would not have been made possible. we currently have 60 people in our program and they're all doing well. and i just want to thank you for that and i want to make sure that we endorse jabai and
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let him know that we have his back and support him 100%. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> speaker: supervisors, we need to look at the reentry council from the point of wrap around services. candidates like mitch mccoy, highlights what a good candidate can bring to the reentry council. reentry candidates should get career jobs and we have to look at the services mostly issues.
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we used to have one, the mayor office of criminal justice which was deactivated. reentry council has to be upgraded who can be deliver restoretive that have been used and shown to provide results. so the same always of mickey mousing should stop. we need standards, really high standards, especially in san francisco. >> are there any additional
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speakers mr. clerk. >> clerk: i believe we have at least one more caller. can we have that caller, please. >> speaker: good morning, speakers, i'm ricardo costa, i'm the former director of initiative in san francisco. serve as a community united for justice. i would like to first acknowledge all the phenomenal candidate as it takes incredible courage to put yourself in the community. but i would like to highlight a few candidates today. first jusef nathan, i've known him for many many years, the work with calle24. jusef is solid individual. he has firsthand experience and all the while he's committed to helping others and ability to provide a voice to those who get left out.
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willingness to serve the city of san francisco. second issac gray, really excited to see his name on this list. he's dedicate today working with young people. and lastly, joanna hernandez, i've known for 20 years and had the honor of calling her my colleague and comes with a wealth of experience with five keys, latino task force and as a formerly incarcerated latino and loved one, he knows firsthand the direct impact the impact has on families. so i'm encouraged to nominate her. she is a tireless candidate and will work to make changes in the justice system to support our community as they reenter our city of san francisco. thank you for your time. i'm really excited to see the
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number of candidates in the position. >> clerk: thank you for your testimony. next speaker please. >> speaker: good morning i'm katia, i'm the member of latino task force. and i want to nominate or hope that you vote for joanna hernandez. joanna is the reentry committee chair and has had 25 plus years experience for justice involved. joanna knows those involved. she is a great person and also just a great motivater, a person who knows what she's doing. i'm a young latino i look up to her and follow her foot steps to do what she does in the community. please consider her as a person who should be sitting in the
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council to represent the latin community. thank you. >> thank you. i believe that was our last caller. >> okay, public comment on this item is closed for today. thank you all for your applications, your personal stories, your commitment and we will see you next monday. and meanwhile, figure out if we can expand this body to accommodate all of you. thank you, again. mr. clerk, next item please. >> clerk: on the motion continue this matter. >> motion to continue this item one week. >> clerk: yes on that motion, supervisor chan. >> aye. >> mandelman. >> aye. >> chair peskin. >> aye. >> peskin aye, the motion passes without objection. >> next please. >> clerk: next ordinance approving technology governoring the use of body worn cameras by the recreation
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parks department. give me a moment something is beeping. i will take care of that in a moment. body worn cameras, third third party commuter cameras by the airport and location management systems by the recreation park development and said approval. if anyone can give me a hand, my computer is beeping. >> should we wait? >> pull the plug, victor, pull the plug. while our clerk's computer is making that super annoying sound, a couple of weeks ago,
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we heard a number of policies and had some comments on a handful of others that are before us today. i want to thank those departments ranging from the airport to the department of elections to the recreation
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[dropped connection] and those are amendments that i have handed to you that i would like to vote on today's subject to public comment. there is one other policy which i had some serious concerns with. having to do with the spotery application used for tennis court reservations which i would like to suggest where a third party app gets financial profit. that has not been prepared by the city attorney but i would
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like that amendment to be prepared. and with that, i say we have, not a representative, we have the head of department of elections mr. john arts. the red line that you sent looks great, we got an ordinance here that incorporates those changes. you're welcome to say anything, you want. unless you take your changes back. >> no, we'll keep them. just emphasize, we're now regarding any content streaming and we'll make the notice on the department and on our website so people know this. >> sometimes we want surveillance, sometimes we don't want surveillance, this was an interesting one. >> thank you. ms. hayward, anything you want to add or subtract? no? ms.ing on behalf of rec and
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park, we're good with the body worn camera on what you sent and incorporated in these ordinance, and i cannot speak for my colleagues but i'm not comfortable with the spotery tennis reservation, but i encourage you to go or make or find an application that does not get people's information for nonprofit or not for profit. >> thank you, i heard little bitsz and pieces of it. i did ask coy if they had apps, but we're happy to see what we can figure out can koit to see what is possible. >> deputy city attorney, it seems that you were itching. >> yes, deputy city attorney,
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still in draft and have not been as performed. >> i just figured that they were ready to go but we learn something then. we will not take a motion and we'll continue to the item to next item the 24th of october. are there any members of the public who would like to speak to this item? all right. >> clerk: members of the public who would like to speak on this item can line up to speak at this time. for those joining us remotely, please call. and enter the meeting id of 24947994152 and pound and pound. for those already in the queue, please continue to wait until the system indicates that you've been unmuted. there is nobody in the room in line for public comment and there is nobody on the phone
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for public comment on this matter. >> all right, public comment is closed. and i will make a motion to continue this item to next week. supervisor chan. >> thank you, the fact that we're continuing. does that mean we'll also have discussion about specifically on the amendments? next week? >> yes, we can talk about the draft amendment, we can talk about the draft amendment right now or next week. >> and if we talk about it now, and actually move them next week, are they substancetive. >> good question. >> i have not even seen all the amendment so i'm not prepared to weigh? >> okay, i thought we would save time. >> either we'll be able to vote
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or have the hearing next week, so either way, we have to hear it next week. on the motion to continue this item not amended to the 24th of october, a roll call please. >> clerk: on the motion to continue the matter to october 24, supervisor chan. >> aye. >> vice hair mandelman. >> aye. >> chair peskin. >> peskin aye, the motion passes without objection. >> and can you call our final item please. >> clerk: yes, item number 8, administrative code of funding a kissing and use of certain policy department equipment approval and approving the department police department use of department policy. >> thank you, mr. clerk. colleagues the police department has asked us to continue this item for a week, it is actually pretty fascinating.
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i've been reading over the weekend some other municipalities adoption of military equipment policy and encourage you all to do so as well. and maybe i'll even add those mr. young to the file so everybody can see them and look at what other municipalities are doing. and i will be meeting with the police department again later this week and did so last weekend, suggested a number of changes particularly around authorized uses and purpose. and the city attorney just realized that there is already a 96g in the code and therefore today i would like to offer an amendment to change all references of 96g to 96h and
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change all references to of 96j.1 to 96h.1 so i like to make a motion to have that all encompassing that they will have ready for us next week, but i think we can do that right now. it is not, not that it matters because we're hearing it again but it's not sub stan tiff. are there any members of the public that would like to comment on this item? >> clerk: yes, members of the public wish to go speak on this item, can stand up and line up at this time. for those listening online, you can call 415-655-0001, and meeting id is 24947994152 and then pound and pound again when
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it's connected you need to press star-3 to enter the speaker line. for those already in the queue, please wait until you've been unmuted. there is nobody in the line for public comment and no callers on the line for public comment. >> all right, public comment is closed. and on the motion to make the a for mention amendments, a roll call please. >> clerk: on the motion to amend. >> supervisor, supervisor chan, my bad. >> no worry, thank you, chair peskin. i just want to, since that, this is in the committee, i just wanted to say publicly i have some concerns about the policies and actually got some clarification for what i understand is that we're actually approving the existing inventory of what we already have? we're not saying, which is there are actually 14 categories what we're approving
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is 9 out of that 14 which is what we currently already seeing in customer or we already have them in our inventory and our police department. so we're just approving the existing ones and moving forward. and with that, said that my then, sort of shifting my concern and i thank you for the continuance that allowed me a little bit more time, is i would like to moving forward one understand a bit more about the annual report that the police department will be committing to the board. supervisor the information that will include i'm interested to seeing the frequency of use and the actual employment and the purpose of those deployments and the results of those deployments of the equipment. so those are my concerns that i have yet to actually articulate to the police department so i appreciate a little bit more time to allow me to communicate those to me and to see whether or not we can have amendments
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or that we already will be included in the an actual report, thank you. >> thank you, supervisor chan. and and what motion to amendment. >> on the motion to meaned. supervisor chan. >> aye. >> manned delman. >> aye. >> mandelman, aye. chair peskin. >> aye. >> motion passes. and the to continue the matter. supervisor chan. >> aye. >> vice chairman delman. >> aye. >> chair peskin. >> aye. >> motion passes without objection. >> and we are adjourned.
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>> 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,
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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
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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
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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. >> hi. i'm alita fisher running for san francisco board of education buzz i'm a former foster paraphernalia now adoptive parent and in the past 17 years 4 children attended 8 sudden fran schools. i have been an active partner at each one. mom and grand mother were teachers i loved school. i was that kid who came home and played school with my toys it was nile journey identifying my children's disabilities that tr