stand by for the city of san francisco rules committee meeting of october 24, 2022. >> good morning and welcome to the rules committee of san francisco board of supervisors for today monday october 24, 2022. i am chair of this committee aaron peskin joined by supervisor mandelman and left, by committee

member connie chan. the clerk is mr. young. any unnouncements? >> yes, the board of supervisors are convening high bred meetings to allow inperson attendance and public comment still providing remost access via telephone. the board recognizes equitable public access is essential and will take public comment as follows, first, public comment is taken on each item on the agenda. those in person will speak first and take those on the telephone. those watch the public call in number is streaming across the screen. 415-655-0001, enter the meeting id, 2 (495) 877-5111 then press pound and pound again. you will hear meeting discussion and be muted and listening mode only. when your item of interest comes

up, and public comment is called, those joining in person should line up to speak and those on the telephone line dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. if you are on the telephone please remember it turn down the television and listening devices. as indicated we will take public comment from those in person first and are then go to our public comment telephone line. you may submit public comment in writing in either the following ways, e-mail to myself, the rules committee clerk at victor.young@sfgov.org. you may also send written public comment u.s. mail to our office in city hall, 1 dr. carlton b goodlett place, room 244 san francisco south 94102. that completes my comments.

>> thank you mr. young. could you please call the first item? >> yes. first on the agenda is item 1. hearing to consider aponting four member term ending june 1, 2024 to reentry council. >> thank you mr. young. colleagues, members of the public you recall we heard this item last week and the file had incorrect information so i asked my colleagues to continue it to today's hearing. we i are think all agreed that we have as supervisor chan said a embarrassment of riches and i commented that i was desire expand ing reentry council to accommodate everyone but said it facetiously so we have the tough job picking 4 individuals out of 15. michael brown has withdrawn in the intervening week, so we heard from many of

the applicants. you are welcome to testify again if we heard from you you don't have to testify, but you are welcome to and with that, we will open it up to applicants who may want to add or if they have not been here before, may want to address the committee. any comments from committee members? seeing none, i will call folks and you don't need to come up if you already spoke, but i will call them in the order that they appear on the agenda starting with chan lam for seats 1 and 2. going on to jusef nathan. andra lamar gadson. >> i'm on line. >> okay, go right

ahead. >> good morning. my name is andra gadson. i spoke last week about wanting to be appointed to reentry council. i think this will be a great opportunity for me to get a chance to not only share the things i experienced in my life , but to continue to be a part of something that will show those reentering back into the population how to make a smooth transition in their life. my myself, i served 32 years in prison. i have been working in san francisco since my release from prison. as a part of (inaudible) i'm a program manager with our new messenger program where i work with juveniles reentering back into society. i work at home in the community or long-term offenders. this is something that i hold to my heart. always something i want to be a part of. also for the last year

supervisor (inaudible) where i hired a lot of people from the reentry population. given the opportunity to sit down with those who have been doing this longer then me to come up with ideas and solutions to help those in need. i like to thank you for your time and i also would like to send my support out to those who also are apply ing for the positions. i'm applying for seats, 1, 2 and 4. thank you and have a a good day. >> thank you mr. gadson. with that wile polk go to (inaudible) isaac gray. jabari jackson who we heard from last week and a incumbent seeking reappointment. mr. jackson. >> good morning supervisors. fellow people in attendance. i'm jabari jackson and

running once again for a seat on the reentry council. i gave my spiel and talked to you guys last week with the importance it is to keep this council up and running. but also want to reinsinuate and talk what we need to do to bridge the powers that be to the people on the street. just this past friday we had the first ever bayview reentry family friends event at the ymca in the bayview district where we had up to 15 community based organizations. we had the police department, we had the sheriff department, we have the very own da all come out to the community and talk to the people in the community. you know, it is very big and i stand very strongly on bridging the gap because i represent the struggle. i am the struggle. it makes it easier for people to understand the city the reentry council and powers that be are not against the people of san francisco. that is one of the very big

stigmatisms i know i was taught growing up running the streets and living that lifestyle, so when the people of the struggle can identify with me and others that is all the reentry council it provides hope. it lets them know they too like i like to say can have a second chance at first class life. when they see it in me it shows i'm them. they can also do it. we have a great city. we have great resources and this sitee city is for the people. all the people need is see people they identify and understand we are them, they are us and we are one. once again my name is jabari jackson. thank you for allowing me to serve on the reentry council. >> thank you. after plajackson we'll go to

sharome moody. tatiana lewis. jesse foshay. come on up. >> hello supervisors. thauj for the opportunity. my name is jesse foshay. the reason i apply frd the seat is i feel i would be a asis asset to the council with lived experiences. (inaudible) knroe what it is like (inaudible) know what was helpful to me and the services lacking and needed. i have been out of incarceration 5 years. i dedicated to higher education, finishs bachelors degree, liberal arts and (inaudible) i worked as a peer mentor recollect housing specialist (inaudible) coach manager for local non profit work force development program specifically for those justice

involved. i feel i could give sound unbiased advise from a personal perspective and organizational standpoint. given the opportunity to sit on the council is find proactive solutions to those needing resources. i try to effect change on countywide scale and collaborate and share experiences and perspective to change common misconceptions society has about justice involved people. thank you. >> thank you and congratulations. next is >> jermila mccoy. >> gooding board of supervisors. i too spoke last week. when i did speak last week i spoke about being a survivor and a victim, so i'm not going to take too much of your time today. i'm

looking to join this council to basically i want to help change the face of reentry. as a program manager, now at san francisco bay good will, program manager over reentry, i'm looking to join this council (inaudible) 43 thousand barriers that formally incarcivated individuals nase returning home. some of the same barriers i faced. i'm looking to join this council to help. help formally incarcerated individuals with mental health barriers gain access to employment, gain access to housing inequities, gain access to just removing job readiness training, vocational

training, just change a lot of these social inequities these individuals face when returning home. so, if my message is heard today one thing that i want to that i want other victims to be able to stand up and be survivors. thank you. >> thank you mrs. mccoy and thank you for sharing that with us. next we'll go to linda murshman hurshman and if you are here and were not able to speak earlier we'll go back at the end. ms. hurshman. >> thank you council members. so, you also heard me last week, and i just wanted to reiterate you know, the impact that i feel

i bring to this council and as a native san franciscans as a employer of (inaudible) and good will of san francisco bay where i assist people coming inout of similar circumstances such as mine coming out of incarceration and many instances coming out of addiction. in most instances coming out of addiction. especially the way the city is impacted by wide spread drugs. there isn't many people in jail around here that aren't addicted. walking the path through adult probation and in and out of incarceration for 25 years, i feel so much from the city. it is hard to walk two blocks from here and not feel the impact drugs thrusted upon our community and i feel like the path

that adult probation set out for me and i really just followed the steps and i really just got into my recovery. i'm not going to say it was easy because it wasn't, but i did learn this is a life time of commitment, and i learned about the hills and valleys, each and every one impacted by incarceration and addiction go through. it is not a straight away. it is a squiggley line for all of it. there is hope and support with the therapy, the mental health that is addressed when you come out of probation. the resources that i was once a client of good will and are now was invited to work and promoted to make an impact not jush just in san francisco but the bay area for job fairs and getting people back to work.

source to plow share it is a special relationship and i'm lucky because i don't feel at my jobs i'm working. they are paying me to be me and be myself and share what i do. i'm lucky because i don't feel as tired as the normal person that works 60 hours a week usually feels because they give me so much in energy back. and i can give that as a part of the reentry council i can give the empathy and drive and can give that fortitude and support. my (inaudible) transition house i work at, they know once they transition the housing it not over. it really is like once a marine always a marine. once they transition they have my phone numbers and know they can call me as a friend, call me for support. if they are having a weak moment and i'll come

to them. i'm a part of pure 1 reentry service providing service to people who need direction coming out of incarcerate. i joined the excel network working with individuals going back to school and proud to say november 2 i'll be reattending university of san francisco and sport management and i'm also part of the latino task force where we work together to remove barriers for people throughout the bay area in housing, in work, in school and anything they want to go to. i feel like a seat at the council if you put me in it you will see a lot done because i'm capable of a lot and have a lot to give and every time i give my energy gets stronger. thank you. my name is linda hurshman. thank you

ms. hurshman. next we'll go to ricci wynne. >> good morning ricci wynne here the second time to plead my case why i should be on the reentry council. i have given plethora reasons why i should be considered for the council. mainly being formally incarcerated coming from a household of formally incarcerated and drug addicts. i also have a lot of deep roots in the community with (inaudible) 360 with success that would help me get through to the place i'm at now. i also am just a

waiter. i wait tables at a restaurant right there in the soma on 6 and mission called the pawnshop and i plug in or speak with people in this community that are not from that dem o graphic as well, so i like to think that i have the support of not only the people that are formally incarcerated but those on the other end of the spectrum that have never broken the law before in their life. bridging that gap and able to reach the people through social media and being able to do other things of that nature. i feel i would be a big asset to bring what we are trying to do to the voters of san francisco to the people that actually want better for the city, so yeah, that's definitely something that i feel like is another strength of mine. i'm going to keep continue doing what i'm doing

regardless. a lost a cousin on my shirt, his name is robert davalos to fentanyl poisening. my family and i are struggling with this and it galvanized my stance to clean up the streets of san francisco is and help any way i can. i will continue to do that. thank you for your time. >> thank you. after mr. wynne, john michael medina, jr. >> good morning city council. my name is john medina and i'm applying for seat number 2 within the reentry council. previously incarcerated person as my application stated. i spnt approximately 4 years providing direct services to ab109 probationers and state paroleees. i

will talk about a few things that are not on the application that paint a picture why i feel i'm qualified for this specific role. in the past i participated in band the box discussions while working with local non profit in san joaquin valley. that initiative passed and creates job opportunities for previously incarcerated people like myself. participated in operation cease fire call ins which is about reducing violence. i got to find the most individuals prone to commit and or be victims of violence so i participated providing direct services to those individuals and helping them make some transition and changes in their life. i also continue to pursuit of higher education. i'm 12 units away completing by msw at cal state east bay. i'm also interested

and think a big reason why this is important to me is i want to learn how innercity government works. i'm aware boards such as this are vital to improving community quality of life issues. i kind of have a mindset what hurts you hurts me and what hurts them hurts us so a big part is helping bridge communication gaps. bringing people together. improve the delivery of direct services which i think is a constant ongoing challenge right? there st. no-i don't think we have there answers per se but things are improving but i think that for myself it is how can i do something better and i believe if you do little things great the big things take care of themselves. obviously a big part of working with previously incarcerated folks is reducing recidivism. i believe in a system

theory approach as far as the systems we operate in as individuals, as groups of people impact how we move and interact with the world and are so a big part of it is how do we improve those systems that ultimately produce positive outcomes. that is what it is about. in 2022 i come with a lot of scares in my life and mistakes i made but this state of the game it is about living a rigess life and lead ing by example and being the change i seek so thanks for your time and look forward hearing back from everybody here. >> thank you mr. medina. with that we'll go to joanna hernandez. >> good morning everyone. my name is joanna hernandez applying for seat 2 on reentry council. as a latino and san francisco mission native, i know first hand what it is to be a product of community program and being a

(inaudible) i also feel my 25 years of experience bridging the gap between system partners and community programs is something i can bring to the table. for 8 years i ran in custody programs for 5 key (inaudible) creating reentry programs for people that are in custody and reentering back into the community. i supported running the (inaudible) under google industry and office of kamala harris. (inaudible) san francisco pretrial my responsibility is bridging the gap from the community in our organization for our pre-trial clients. i also have a support group i run on my own for families that have a loved one currently incarcerated or experienced incarceration. i am a parent of a mother who's son is in custody right now and fighting a case so i know first hand what it is to be on the family side as well and supporting other

families who are dealing with that pain. one of my major goals in working in my community now is also to bring awareness around generational incarceration so i feel i can bring the preventative side to the reentry council and how to prevent more children entering the system and having them be alive and free as well. with that, i submit and i wish everyone on this call the best of luck and i'm not chosen i will continue to do the work. as someone who also chairs the reentry committee for the latino task force and also part of the executive leadership team for the latino task force, those are also things i can bring to the table. thank you. >> thank you. with that we'll go to

tiffany holmes. >> we do have ms. holmes logged in with us today. ms. holmes? we can see you. you can proceed. you are muted. >> can you hear me? >> yes. >> good morning everybody. thank you for letting me join the meeting again. i'm coming to you from cj2. i just left out of the pods and working with the women that is my current job with pretrial program. i run the sisters program here. what i bring is honesty and integrity what a paroleee looks like i

just patrolled 8 months ago and served a life sentence for a crime committed because i decided not to deal with my own life story, which is a survivor of domestic violence. i are survived by the bottle and unfortunate thing is that lead to drinking and driving which (inaudible) my victims. what i bring is the compassion and the real honesty and also what the women here and the men need here at cj2 in order to come back into society. what do they need? resources to be provided to them so that the recidivism stops. we know this is generational, but are we helping them with their trauma? are we helping with recovery is what they need and getting down to brass taxes. bringing in realty for boots on the ground and willing and able to work with them and bring to you what is well needed. i have created a program in cdcr called the fad program, a dui program

not only in (inaudible) with the women facility but also expanded to san quintan. it is going there and felons looking at reason why they decided to drink and not deal with realty. what i'm asking is for a chance to be a part of a team of people who want to bring resources not only within san francisco, but within the community and the community abroad within the bay area and i thank you for your time. >> thank you for your testimony. why don't we see if there are any other applicants who have not previously spoken mr. nathan. >> if there is anybody in the room or online who have not yet spoken you can identify. we have one person in the room. go ahead and proceed, please. >> hello. my name is jusef nathan applies for seats 1 and 4. i

was released august 2020 and since my release i dedicated my time to support my community. as i work on setting a strong foundation for my life, i have been working at 5 (inaudible) for the past 2 years where i have been able to support people struggling with homelessness and other issues. i use my time to provide a frndly ear and give advice and guidance when appropriate. i have been working responding to covid insuring those most effected by the pandemic have the resources needed in order to receive to recover with dignity. i also volunteer to help support young people walking down a path that may lead them to systematic involvement. i'm also in the process of setting up my own consultant agency to support community agencies to create an environment that not only fosters a supportive environment

for people in the reentry journey, but that it also creates a meaningful opportunity to grow and prosper. with the years i experienced going in and out of the system, i had experience to see what works and doesn't work. for those of us on the reentry journey, i stand here before you applying for the reentry council. because i learned what works and doesn't work. i have a support network that allowed me to expand my wings and try new things. knowing i'm not alone and together we will succeed, reentry is a team effort. it takes the probation system opportunities resources and support system to find the pathways that lead to building a strong foundation that will prevent recidivism. i hope to have the opportunity to be part of the reentry council so i can share my experience to help

improve the service for those of us who are on the reentry journeyism thank you for your time. >> thank you mr. nathan. are there any other applicants who would like to testify on this item? seeing none, are there any members of the public who would like to testify on item number 1? >> yes, members of the public who wish to speak and joining in person should line up to speak at this time. for those listening remotely call 415-655-0001 and meeting id24958775111 then press pound and pound again. press star 3 to enter the speaker line. those in the queue please continue to wait until the system indicates you are unmuted and that is you queue to begin comments. can we have our first inperson speaker please? >> good morning supervisors. my name is (inaudible) the executive director of

calle venti quatro. here to support two candidates jusef nathan. (inaudible) works and doesn't work in order to suck ceed. i believe his experience and his knowing how you can get lost even though there are so many resources out there. not everybody gets connected to them right away and not getting connected to them roget away is what contribute to the resolving door. him having the experience of not having been connected to services and learning and knowing how to search for the service on his own is a great opportunity for him to share that and bridge that gap for those who find themselves lots in reentry. i'm also here to support joanna hur ernandez. her capacity and compassion for those in the reentry system

and process was unmatched. electing these two individuals will provide the council with a powerhouse team that will not only advocate fiercely but create ways to better use their resources available. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning. my name is ivan the manager of the latino task force to endorse joe anna hur ernandez for her seat. we love to see her leadership on that body. i think in light of recent conversations that have been happening about the latino community i think that type of representation is overdue. joanna is diligently been working to making sure

reentry communities across all dem ographics have access to support, resources from now from the point of arrest through the whole justice system as her position at san francisco pre-trial diversion. previous to that he is diligently and intensely working to make sure people have what they need and are connected not only to resources and agencies, but people who care and i think that's something that really stands out. and then just on a personal note, just my place as a provider and as a community member jusef nathan. i have known jusef since he was a young man and seen his journey. i have been part of his development and seeing him transform and now he is very much in a place validating what he said that he's looking to guide people in a different

direction much in the way he guided himself because he didn't have access to service so he understands that part of the work making sure people dont get left behind or left of services. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning. my name is juilo excuvar and manage the resterative justice (inaudible) archdiocese of san francisco. my work started 25 years ago and i also form my own non profit for which-in which we provide scholarships for young people coming out of juvenile hall as well as people on probation and parole. for the past 10 years, we have been doing a reentry conference. even

during the pandemic we did it virtual conference with 300 people for a week. on september 9 we celebrated our 10 year of inperson reentry conference which brought 750 people together to the cathedral. 750 people, there were 100 non profit organizations to serve people that were looking for different opportunities. of those 100 non profits, there were 35 employers that lindy hurshman helped put together along with (inaudible) she participated to support the working reentry. so, i'm here to recommend her because she is doing

the work in the community and she is a leader but a servant, and working along with the (inaudible) department in san francisco centers and other organizations which already form a committee to support people every day that are looking for a change. thank you very much. >> thank you for your testimony. next speaker please. >> hello council members. my name is michael davis, and i'm here to support linda hurshman andra mccoy. seeking on reentry council. i met linda at the (inaudible) house where she was a monitor for (inaudible) i was a homeless vet and this place helped me get my

own place. i have a job now working for (inaudible). money in the bank. linda would sit with us and talk if we had problems with wanting to use drugs again and she was there to help us through that hard point in life. thankfully i have not used them ever again. she just is a exceptional human beingism as she works for good will, she introduced me too jermila mccoy who set me up to buy target cards for my job (inaudible) and clipper card so i can get to and from work until i got my first pay check and could afford it on my own,

but more importantly then what they did there, if you believe in restorative justice i cant think of two individuals better suited for those positions then someone who was an offender and someone who was a victim because as a exoffender when i took restorative justice programs in prison, once i got to know the victims as human beings and could see those people as my mother or brother or niece or aunt, it would become impossible to commit a crime and take another victim. >> thank you. >> thank you for your testimony. are there any other individuals in these chambers who would like to testify on item number 1? if not, mr. clerk, are there any remote public commenter ? >> yes, we have 7 commenters on the telephone line. >> please proceed.

>> can we have our first caller, please? >> good morning chair and supervisors. (inaudible) policy associate (inaudible) i'm calling in opposition to (inaudible) reentry council. (inaudible) problematic and significant concerns about implications for our clients (inaudible) [difficulty hearing speaker] conducting city contracted outreach work he has taken upon himself to interfere with community based organizations who are providing data informed intervention during public health crisis. his repeated harassment fostering unsafe work conditions for our staff. (inaudible) shown of lack of compassion and ethics violating the (inaudible) experiencing homelessness (inaudible) humiliated and degrating videos of them online and making (inaudible) this is hateful and disqualifying

behavioral for any city official. further more, (inaudible) intervention and the question if he is capable of evaluating proposals (inaudible) for these reezantss we believe wynne is not well suited to the process of reentry council and should not represent the city. however (inaudible) does endorse tatiana lewis (inaudible) bringing expertise to the coalition (inaudible) participated in djo (inaudible) coalition work we have seen tatiana skillfully liaiz with stakeholders developing best practice and innovative solutions to public safety and (inaudible) also supports (inaudible) great candidates for reentry council. thank you. >> thank you. next

speaker. >> good afternoon. thank you for having me here this morning. i'm not appearing in person to protect my safety. i'm a director of the san francisco aids foundation and (inaudible) ricci wynne (inaudible) city funded harm reduction work. as a mobile site he drove up to our site in his car, ran out up on to our site behind the tables pinned me a program director against the table while screaming in my face that i spread disease. we are there providing city funded services to people who use drugs distributing naloxone and fentanyl test strips. he repeatedly did this at different sites filming us, screaming at us. quoting scripture telling us we are wovls in sheep

clothing. the team had to hire private security to protect us from ricci wynne harassing us and threatening us on site while we do life saving work in the neighborhoods. i just needed to be here today and feeling really impacted and emotional and i'm hoping that you will not appoint him to the council. i'm also here to support joanna hernandez and tiffomy holems. he is someone not appropriate for the council. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. i'm a staff member at a local community based organization and i'm calling today to oppose the appointment of ricci wynne due to harassment of harm

reduction advot cans in incommunity. i support joanna hernandez and holmes for the council. i hope you hear these impactful words we are sharing today and understand that harm reduction is absolutely necessary and comes with people that really care about that kind of work, so thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi. i'm a staff member at a local community based organization and i am here to oppose the appointment of ricci wynne who has been harassing my team (inaudible) as we all know, the first few days out of jail people are most sus ceptable to overdose and (inaudible)

without doing anything to help these people. for the sake of the community please do not appoint ricci wynne please support joanna hernandez and tiffany holmes. >> hi, this is sara short with the treatment on demand coalition. >> one moment. i'm going to pause your timer. you can turn off your background computer or other television devices. >> okay. got it. >> please proceed. >> okay. good morning supervisor. sara short with the treatment on demand coalition. i am calling both to agree with many other callers about the dangers of appointing

ricci wynne to council. many know him from his social media posts and also from fox news that picked those up where he's going around filming people in their most vulnerable state using drugs, being houseless and seeking fame from exploiting the most vulnerable essentially saying nasty comments about them without filming without consent and broadcasting them. he shares no compassion understanding or good judgment or ethics as he does all of that, which makes him a really bad candidate for this council. he is divisive and controversial. i don't think that is the person we want on a body such asthis trying to unify people into have some type of a common position on these issues. he is also very very

blatantly anti-harm reduction which is the city policy and has said he has an agenda to join this council in order to take down the harm reduction policy. he also as you heard earlier is harassing people on the streets who are city funded to save lives. those folks are out there passing out clean needles, making sure people dont die of hiv and hepc and he is financially blocking that. generally i just don't trust his motives. he seems to be fame seeking. he is pretty cozy with fox news and when he is going out doing this videoing- >> thank you. thank you. >> can we have our next caller, please? >> hi. thank you

supervisors. my name is lidia branstan and calling on behalf of the (inaudible) you have so many great candidates for these appointments, please do not have ricci wynne be one of them. he is a controversy profiteer. someone creating business for himself on the misery of other people's circumstances. his actions towards people who are working in the community to help save lives and to create a safe environment make him unqualified. joanna hernandez and tiffany holmes are two good people on your list and many more, so thank you. please do not consider him. thank you. >> next speaker. >> can we have our next speaker, please?

>> hello. thank you for your time today. my name is david moore the san francisco pre-trial diverse project and thoroughly i'm slightly biased given i work with joe anna and tiffany both for a few reasons. one is the great to have voices for the all most 7,000 people we serve every year on the reentry counsal. you heard the qualifyications but i have known joanna about 25 years. i dont think i have seen such a tireless and dedicated public servant. her background coupled with what she is dealing with her son make her such a ideal candidate and you have someone that will continue to pour everything she can into this issue and ert supporting everyone in san francisco. tiffany, i have only known her a few months and been nothing short in awe of her work and having

come from prison to parole back to the jail again to serve women is remarkable. her courage, her conviction, her dedication and she is just an amazing worker since day 1, and we are excited she will continue and advance up and work in the housing program and for both of them you have incredible candidates that will do justice for the people that need or support in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. can we have our next caller, please? >> good morning and thank you for the opportunity to participate in today's proceedings. i'm choosing to remain anonymous for my safety and like to make a statement regarding ricci wynne. this is concerning regularly displayed behavior of someoneert inested in internet fame and followingers then helping people. he spreads

disinformation online about proven life saving programs which he clearly has no understanding of. he makes no attempts to acknowledge any perspective outside his own and harasses and video types our city vulnerable population getting in faces and posting on social media platforms. he is a bully and his way or no way attitude lack of empathy and compassion and disregard for feelings and wellbeing of others does not serve the community or council well. i like to offer support for joanna hernandez and tiffany holmes from pre-trial diversion project as they are great candidates for the council. thank you. >> thank you. can we have our next caller? >> hi. this is laura thomas with san francisco aids foundation. i think you already heard from a number of colleagues

concerned about mr. wynne and like to add support for joanna hernandez. (inaudible) engaged thoughtful compassionate individual and i thinks she would be very well suited to reentry council and would go a long way to helping build bridges across different communities and different perspectives and i encourage you to support her. thank you. >> thank you. that was our last caller. we do not have anybody else on the line for public comment. >> public comment on item 1 is closed. i want to start by thanking all of the applicants and thank them for sharing their stories and thank them for their commitment to reentry. as i

said, this is-i wish there were more seats and this is a tough decision as the board appoints 4 members to the reentry council. the 5 seat by the way is held by a member of the board of supervisors and recently our colleague supervisor stephanie agreed to fill that seat, so the council will be fully populated. i where want to hear from my colleagues but i do want to say that while all of the applicants were compelling, if for no other reason then continuity on the council i think having one member who previously sat is very important and that would lend to mr. jackson's reappointment. he serves in seat number 4. jermila mccoy.

(inaudible) joanna hernandez and tiffany holmes but we got to widdle it down. with those initial thoughts and just relative to gender balance, i just want to point out that the previous incarnation of the council was heavily male dominated and i could certainly see a scenario the opposite happens this time around. with that, i'll turn it over to supervisor chan. >> thank you chair peskin. i think again just wanted to thank all the applicants for submitted their applications and interest and willingness to serve. just giving my experience working at the da office previously and have-as well as city college. let me just say i really appreciate all those who for the last

few decades laid the pathway and the foundation for the reentry council and i want to-it is also the reason why it leads to my decision of supporting a selected few among this large group here. i think first foremost sheriff hennessey was the first sheriff in the nation to establish a woman center in our countsy jail system understanding the unique needs for women incarcerated women and the reason why i will be supporting ms. tefany holmes. having someone understanding the unique needs of women incarceration. i think it is critical for the reentry council. also my brief experience on just looking at and evaluating back on track as a program which is first launched by former da

kamala harris our vice president it is starting point evaluating young adults anywhere between 18 to 24 and recognizing the needs for young adults and what it means for them to really be able to start off reentry our community. having workforsh development or education for them to be able to reestablish themselves and i think that is critical and the reason why i will be supporting ms. her nan dez. i agree with chair peskin, we should and ought to have institutional knowledge and experience to continue on the work at reentry council and the reason why i am in agreement for reappointment of mr. jackson. it is difficult and not easy to decide with that said like who else could be and agree

there are a few candidates qualified, but just having my experience working in city college and understand the partnership between city college of san francisco and just the local workforce development and what the critical role that 5 keys as a program actually plays in our county jail helping those incarcerated to really find resources, life skill training and job skills training in order for them upon release actually have a place to go and can continue to reestablish themselves when they actually are released and so i think that is actually the role of reentry council and the reason why it is very difficult to decide, but i think in this case i will probably will be recommending that we support mr. nathan for his role understanding of the challenges. someone just immediately released from county jail would face and through 5 keys i believe that

mr. nathan actually have a clear understanding and doing the work now both in live experience and work experience. thank you chair peskin. >> thank you. supervisor mandelman. >> thank you chair peskin. i have been so impressed by all the a applicants on horoic journeys and hearing your stories are very meaningful to me. i think it is difficult to pick among folks, but i also think it makes sense to send >> jabari jackson back and think mr. nathan makes sense and good addition. i think

jermila mccoy and (inaudible) maybe honorable mention to (inaudible) >> supervisor chan you said tiffany holmes, anna hernandez jabari jackson and jusef nathan. we have complete consensus on mr. jackson who sits in seat 4 and relative to the other parts of the puzzle i think should stay in seat number 4 and that leaves us with jusef nathan who two of my colleagues have spoken for, which is majority

of this body, so i can do the math, and that would leave mr. nathan with seat 1 and now we got some tough rowing on mccoy, hurshman, her nan dez and are holmes. i'm just looking here, mccoy and hushman can go into 2 and 3, hur man dez is 2, holmes is 3. i would like to expand the body but that would take a long time. who ever we choose i hope all you will stay very involved in what you are doing and reentry council as i feel i'm the tie breaker here.

solomon will choose one of each. everybody is absolutely qualified and with that, i relative to balancing this body out, will if colleagues you allow me, say ms. hurshman for 3 and mrs. hernandez for 2. alright. that is a motion. nathan for 1, jackson for 4, hurshman for 3, and hernandez with residency waver, she is a product of the mission for 2 on that motion mr. clerk, roll call please and everybody please stay involved. >> yes. would you like to send out as committee report? >> as a committee report for hearing by

the full board tomorrow as all these seats have expired. >> yes, on that motion- [roll call] >> the motion passes without objection. >> thank you mr. clerk. please read items, 2-4 together? >> yes, i'm 2 is hearing consider appointing two members term ending september 2, 2024 and two ending september 1, 2025 to assessment appeal board 1. item 3, hearing consider appointing 1 member and 3 members terms ending september 1, 2025 to assessment appeal board 2. item 4 is a hearing to consider appointing 2 members terms ending september 2, 2024 and 3 members term ending september 1, 2025 to assessment appeals board number 3. >> thank you mr.

clerk. colleagues unlike the last item where we had 15 people for 4 seats, in this instance we have less applicants then we have seats. many of them are returning members. i have done my due diligence for these 3 very important assessment appeals boards that in this economy will have a lot of work to do on assessment appeals. i want to note that just due to the timing of the hearing many of the individuals are not available to testify, but some of them are and somewhere i have a cheat sheet from our clerk, but not in front of me. why don't we start with jeffrey morris, the incumbent for seat 1, who is qualified and respected. that's what my sources tell me, mr. morris. the floor is yours sir and thank you for your service.

>> your sources are correct. [laughter] i had 35 year career in the real estate investment advisory business and i retired from a large financial service firm by name of blackrock in 2007 and met with my friend and assessor at the time and want to get more involved in civic affairs and he said based on your career should be on assessment appeal board so i applied and at that time supervisor peskin you were on the rules committee and i met with you briefly. i joined in the financial crisis of 2008-10 with a tsunami of appeals at the time the assessor office under fill tang and property owners had to deal with a number of years to adjudicate their (inaudible) we had the dramatic improvement in the economy real estate

markets, development, dramatic increase in investment sales, property values and resulting transfer taxes and property taxes. the question is, have we met inflection point now with the over 25 percent vacancy of downtown office space. (inaudible) occupied for office use, possibly other uses. i know the city economist ted egan has been analyzing that and trying to get his arms around of impact on assessed value and property taxes so i think my-i could hardly believe my 4 terms of experience on the board would be very helpful in trying to figure out how we deal with this going forward, and i also want to commend the head of the board alistair gibson who

worked diligently most remote trying to hold all this together and hold appeal hearings mostly remote, some back in person. in any case, i very much would request your recommendation for reappointment. thank you. >> thank you mr. morris and thank you formany years of service and welcome back to 2007, 8. kristine nelson is not available. adena gilbert qualified by virtue of being a attorney at law is available remotely. ms. gilbert. >> good morning supervisors. i sent each of you through your aids a introductory e-mail last week. i also want to say what a privilege it has been to hear from candidates this morning for reentry council and also for the appeals board.

others who have also been called to serve us. yes, i'm retired administrative law judge having served 24 years at the rent board and i do feel well qualified to hear cases on the assessment appeals board. i'm wondering if you have any questions for me? >> so, ms. gilbert i looked at your background and resume and think that you would indeed be qualified. my only question and i meant to ask the city attorney this and maybe you can clear it up quickly is are you a san francisco resident and to the city attorney, does a individual in the aab need to be a san francisco resident? >> i am not a san francisco resident, so that is a great question. it hasn't come up whether that-to my knowledge for me whether that is a requirement or not.

if it is, i would not be qualified to serve. >> deputy city attorney ann pierson, i don't know the answer but will look it up and let you know. >> that was my only question. other then that, i think we would be delighted to have you. i actually asked that of a former staffer last night and that individual also didn't know and i should have shot an e-mail to mrs. pierson at 8 o'clock last night but insteadate dinner. let's go to 2, john lee who has written us and incumbent on the board is absent and in receipt of his letter and believe him to be qualified. mervin conlen for seat number 3 on assessment appeals board 2. >> i just unmuted myself. >> good morning.

>> good morning to you and the board and all. that was-i wish the entire city could have heard that reentry council business. i sat through much of that and thought it was going to be a boring session that was all most exciting. in any case, my qualifications for the seat on board 2 include having an appraisal company for over 30 years myself and half dozen appraisers handled real estate appraisal from commercial, residential and land. my own personal desire is to serve the community in some way, which the rest of the real estate industry tends to emphasize. i want to join in that.

i also gain much knowledge from this sessions the assessment appeal board, because they cover a wide variety of property, which serves my interest well. and as far as improving the board, i only wish the public itself was a little more familiar with the appraisal procedures, i may have suggestions for the board for that. i believe that is the sum of my statement and thank you for the time. >> income approach, cost approaches, direct sales approach,

we can start that session here at the board of supervisors. thank you for your testimony and for your application. now we'll go to yosef tahbazof for seat number 4. is mr. tahbazof available? >> we are checking. i believe-we do have yosef logged into our system. >> hello. >> hello, good morning. >> good morning. sorry about that. >> no worries. >> applying again for my position on board 2 with the assessment appeals board 9 years

now, going on 10. feel pretty experienced. fine-tuned gin sync with process and reapplying to continue my work there. >> happily put. any questions or comments for any of the applicants from members of this committee? if not, the applicants for assessment appeals board 3, mr. ridgell and reynolds are not available so let's open 2-4 up to public comment. >> yes, members of the public who wish to speak should line up to speak at this time. for those listening remotely call 415-655-0001. 24958775111. press pound and pound again.

once connected you need to press star 3 to enter the speaker line. those in the queue please continue to wait until the system indicatess you are unmuted and that is the queue to become comment. >> i do not see anybody in the room for public comment at this time, and we do not have anybody on the phone line for public comment. >> okay. public comments for 2-4 is closed. colleagues, i will-wait-deputy city attorney ann pierson. >> supervisor i looked through the state and local laws and constitution and i see no requirement that the members be residents of the county. >> excellent. when i retire i'll apply for one at alameda county. mrs. gilbert, looks good for you. i'll make a motion to reappoint jeffrey morris to seat 1, kristine nelson to seat 4, adeana gilbert to seat 2 for item number 2 assessment

appeal board 1. on assessment appeal board number 2, item 3 on today's calendar i make a motion to reappoint john lee andio sef tahbazof to seats 2 and 4 respectively and appoint mervin conlen to seat 3. for item 4 assessment appeals board 3, i will make a motion to reappoint mr. ridgell and reynold to 1 and 4 respectively on that motion a roll call, please. >> yes , on that motion- [roll call] i assume that is residency-it isn't required but should we still note it in the motion? >> why don't you note it in the motion. so moved. amend my

original motion to note mrs. gilbert requires a residency waver that may not be required. >> yes, that motion passes without objection. >> alright. would you please read item number 5? >> yes, item 5 ordinance approving surveillance technology policies governing the use of body worn cameras by the rec and park department security cameras by the department of elections third party security cameras by the airport and location management system by the rec and park department and making required findings in support of said approvals. >> colleagues, we amended this item last week and those were deemed to be substantive so we continued it to today. the city attorney who worked on this noticed there was changes that did not quite get in right but they have

now been added to the file. mrs. pierson, anything you would like to say on that technical matter? >> what was noticed earlier this morning is that the amendments you circulated to your colleagues were based off a outdated draft of the policy, so dca has sent to you in the past 20 minutes a newversion version of the amendments you can circulate. >> okay. i will pass those on-to my colleagues, but they are the same in substance and i will do that right now. one moment please. if i can get all this stuff off my desk. alright. and madam deputy city attorney, are we in a position

today to adopt those amendments and forward them to full board or will they require a one week continuance for their substantive qualities kblrks they require a continuance. >> alright. so, with that colleagues, you are in receipt of the revised version, which if you are willing we can adopt and continue subject to public comment, but substantively the same. any member s of the public who would like to comment ? >> members of the public can line up to speak at this time. for those listening remotely call 415-655-0001. 24958775111. press pound and pound again. once connected press star 3 to enter the

speaker line. continue to wait until the system indicates you run mute jd that is your queue to make your comments. i do not see anybody in the room for public comment at this time and there is nobody in line to speak on the telephone line. >> public comment is closed. colleagues, i think we are all in receipt and don't think this changes any of my original policy direction, but we are all in receipt of an e-mail from a member of the public with regard to recreation and parks deployment of the spotry system for tennis court reservations, which i think was proof positive that this technology has got to go, but i'll direct you to that and we have a week for everybody to consume that if you have not read it. supervisor

chan. >> thank you. i think what you said confirm my-answer my question. i was wanting to make sure the language itself is-we are accepting the remaining of the city department's policy but rejecting specifically the location management from rec and park which is known as the tennis reservation app. thank you. >> alright. so, with that, on the adoption of the amendments and a motion to continue the item one week as amended. roll call. >> on the motion to amend the matter and continue the matter to october 31, 2022-- [roll call] motion passes without objection. >> next item please. >> next on the agenda

is item 6. ordinance amending the administrative code to require board of supervisors approval of governing funding acziz and use of certain law enforcement equipment consistent with the criteria set forth in sate law and approving the police department use of equipment policy. >> thank you. we heard this a couple few times since july. i spent some time over the weekday reviewing other similar policies and draft policies, and took it upon myself to propose a set of changes to the policy on top of the changes that the police department forwarded to us on october 19, which i circulated to you colleagues and circulated to the pd.

the pd requests that they have time to look at these and discuss them with me or for that matter, you two colleagues, so subject to public hearing and this will all be in the file and i have given it to the clerk so everybody with see red lines strike out and additions i have proposed in the intervening week, we have ahsha steves from the police department and captain marina. let me just say this about what i proposed. in so far as assemby 481 that is the law of the state of california requires that this policy come back on a annual basis. one of the things that occurred to me and i notice in other jurisdictions is that we have some baseline amount of information on a annual basis to see whether these policies

are working what ab481 mandates so primarily i added a series of reporting requirements. now, i'm not a law enforcement professional, so i readily admit maybe i did not structure those in the most efficient way, which was pointed out to me this morning, but i think the concept is the right concept, and we can figure out as seems to be happening every week between me and the police department how to get it right in the intervening week, but with that, there was also a number of things relative to things that were lifted as purposes i thought fell under authorized uses, so there was some cutting and re-pasting from things that were not a purpose but a use and things that were a use that were a purpose so

i gave it my best bachelor of science degree hand at that. anyhow, with that mrs. steves or captain, the floor is yours. >> thank you so much. you want to correct for the record we actually only presented this once to this body so presented july 11. since then there has been a few discussion but only one presentation of this document. >> i think it landed here twice, but i don't know. i can look. it doesn't matter, but it is good to see you in any event. >> good to see you. >> with 19b (inaudible) i have seen a lot of you in 19b, so here we are. >> here we are. just wanted to give you a brief overview. we do not have a powerpoint presentation. want to get everybody on the same page. our first presentation of the daft document was july 11. since then we took your comments

from the july 11 hearing. created edit said. supervisor chan also provided edits to the annual reporting we are agreeable to and added to the document. supervisor peskin, you noted the documentation portion we like to put in the annual report section of the document so it it is clear that there is a requirement to log and then go up to the chain of command for review of the ac (inaudible) but also for the purpose of annual reporting. since then, july 11 we also added a section that actually we are still waiting for conformation from the city attorney's office. ab481 has a requirement for each department to include their assault weapons essentially,er but excludes the standard issued weapons so we are in a gray area because these are standard issue for our

department but we were looking at other approved policies throughout california where they were included, so we mimicked san diego approved ab481 policy and abendance of cautions add (inaudible) end of september. you may not have anything updated in front of you as part of the (inaudible) that includes the red lines you just discussed supervisor peskin. >> i got your october 19 e-mail you sent me. >> okay, perfect. >> that is what i worked off. that had supervisor chan's language. >> includes that as well. yes. we up agreeable to that. we did see a few revisions you have submitted that we would like to provide the chief time to review because it does impact patrol and their use of a few of these weapons. but just reminder ab481 requires specific

thingz. this is compliance measure of assembly bill state law which codified government code 770-775. ab41 does define categories of law enforcement equipment, requires public posting of current inventory which we have on our website and also requires the governing body, the board of supervisors to review and approve current inventory. it is current inventory does not include proposal frz new equipment and everything you see in the policy includes equipment purchased really between 1991 and 2021. we have old equipment that we were not able to find maybe the brand name or the exact cost, so we were able to add fiscal information-all the fiscal information we were able to find we included in the latest draft. also the years

obtained (inaudible) in the initial draft offered in july so you can see how hold some of the pieces of equipment are. we had a few updates. we also updated the for matted as suggested so we made several changes but we are here to answer any questions you have. it looks there are substantive changes so dont think it will be voted today and have more things to discuss internally so here to answer any questions you have about the latest draft. >> thank you mrs. steve. not to quival but it did appear 7 day of july and last monday-anyway, (inaudible) i will quickly go through what-a lot of what was listed were just questions and in many cases i didn't say what the questions were, i just

highlighted them in yellow for future discussion and you can see those throughout and they will be made a part of the file in case the public want s to follow a along. you list under the mobile command units a ford e-350 van from 1992, is that still in use? >> i can't speak to whether it is in use but it is in the current inventory and since ab41 requires listed inventory that is what we posted. >> got it. i last night as i was going through chemical agents they refer to under legal and procedural rules they refer to different tactical unit orders so i are want to see what the tactical unit orders said so did google thing and cant fund them on the internet so we need to make those publicly

available if they-so everybody can understand. >> the legal unit reviewed written directives which includes (inaudible) unit orders (inaudible) might include tactical information that isn't public information, because then the public would know what our tactics are and could get ahead of them. there are some that have gone through the legal unit whether or not publicly available for a specific reason so i can go back to our legal to determine if these fit that criteria to see if we can make publicly available. >> in so far as in a earlier conversation we had-there was a conversation where i think it was represented to me that if a authorized use wasn't listed then it was prohibited is what i think diana said at some point because it said authorize use is x, y and z and the assumption but think it needs to be stated if it isn't listed it

isn't authorized. which is fine, but i noticed under the l-rad, the long range acoustic device, it very specifically said where that it is no other uses are authorized and so if we say it there, then i think we have to say it in other places but we need to get clearer on that so it tracks all the way through. and, i give you background. we cut and paste from the presidential executive order that went in out in may that spoke to the lrad and probation so we can make that language more specific to sfpd and not cut and paste but understand what you are saying. >> i'm happy to continue to talk to you folks. captain, anything you want to add, subtract? >> no thank you. >> alright. colleagues, any comments? if not, are there any members of

the public who would like to comment on item 6 this morning? >> yes are, members who wish to speak on this item and joining in person can line up to speak. those remotely call 415-655-0001 enter id 24958775111 and press pound and pound again. once connected you need to press star 3 to enter the speaker line. for those already in the queue continue to wait until the system indicates you are unmuted and that will be your queue to begin comment. i do not see anybody in the room at this time and have 3 callers on the line for public comment. >> first speaker, please. >> hello, can you hear me? >> yes, we can. >> good afternoon-good morning. john lindsey poll end and work for american (inaudible) i want to-(inaudible)

chair peskin amendments. i do believe that the clarification on authorized use should by a part of all types of equipment not just make it specific to sfpd. i believe it was the chair's intention that should be the case for all type of equipment. my concerns about the policy are not just about reporting which i think is a good addition, but about the lack of definition for authorize uses. for example, assault rifleatize is to effectively control a (inaudible) or critical incident not very well defined situations. similarly for the less lethal (inaudible) it appears under the authorized uses could be shot at a person point blank or someone in mental health crisis or children. armoreds vehicles are used by tactical teams but

doesn't say they could be used for crowd control. it appears they could be used for crowd control or promotional activities which we believe is highly inappropriate in any community specific ally san francisco so we strongly urge you since this is going to come back to amend these in order to make the authorized uses more specific and more appropriate for when this type of militarized equipment may be used by the department. thanks so much. we are very happy to meet with you and discuss this further in the intervening week with the department and or with any members of the committee. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning chair and supervisors. (inaudible) on behalf of glide. ab481 grants you other local governments greater oversight over the

militarization of law enforcement and we ask you incorporate the community proposed amendments that are shared with you today. police departments acquire military grade equipment are more likely to use violence. military equipment is deployed in low income black and brown communities mean ing the risks and impact of sfpd militarization will be experienced most acutely in marginalized communities. there are disparities and policing in san francisco and recent report found san francisco ranks the wirs in the state with police cause hospitalization rates for black residents. military equipment is a force multiplier and your decision today will have far reaching consequence for futher exacerbated san francisco disgraceful disparities. (inaudible) by community members and clients impacted by the generational harm caused by sfpd we should be aggressive in approach to

oversight. the policy does not safe 37 guard the public welfare, safety, civil rights or civil liberties. a requirement of ab481. ordinance must berevised to specify the usage authorize for each weapon and arsenal military gear reduced. proposed policy is missing requirements of state law and vital to the board get it right. please take the time to consider the proposed policy and incorporate these and other community concerns. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is paul briley and i live in san francisco in district 10. i'm also a proud member of all of us or none. i ask the board of supervisors to call for further amendment of the proposed military equipment use policy. i grew up in

hunters point when it was once a naval shipyard and i had to witness armored vehicles and military equipment from that shipyard be used against the community. i'm frightened if this was to go forward the military equipment will be used against the community. this policy does not safeguard the public welfare, safety, civil rights or civil liberties. ab41 requires government bodies to only approve the use policy if it was safeguard the public welfare, safety, civilrectomies rights and civil liberties. that is all i have. thank you. >> thank you . >> i believe we have one more caller. >> yes. hello. my name is tatiana lewis with legal services

for prisoners with children and proud member of all of us or none. i reside in hunters point, bayview district 10 and i ask the board of supervisors to call for further amendment of the proposed military equipment use policy to reduce the arsenal of military gear. we are a city and not a military. sfpd should not have so many weapons of war. it is important to me and the community to reduce sfpd military equipment because it is traumatizing to kids and adults to see this going on in their communities. we have winced a lot of violence from the police that resulted in police killing individuals in the community. this policy does not grant the safety of san francisco and i feel this equipment will be used against the community. that is all i have and thank you for listening to my public comment.

>> thank you ms. lewis. >> that was our last caller. >> public comment on item 6 is closed. i will make a motion to continue this item one week to our meeting of october 31, halloween. on that motion, roll call, please. [on the motion to continue- [roll call] >> motion passes without objection. >> mrs. steves, we will be talking. next item please. >> item 7. ordinance amending the administrative code to revise the definitions of gender identity, sex, and sexual orientation, and add the definition of gender expression, in chapters 12b and 12c (ordinances prohibiting discrimination in contracting including property contracts); revise the definition of age in chapters 12a (the human rights commission ordinance) and 12b; and revise the definition of disability in chapters 12a, 12b, and 12c.

>> thank you mr. young. colleagues we have been asked by the mayor's office, chief sponsor of this item to continue it as it is subject to meet and confer, so i intend to honor that and make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair, hopefully will be heard on november 14 or there abouts. any members of the public who would like to speak to this item number 7? >> yes, members who are in the room and like to provide public comment can line up to speak at this time. listening remotely call 415-655-0001 and enter meeting id 24958778411 and pound and pound again. press star 3 to enter the speaker line. those in the queue please continue to wait until the system indicates you are unmuted and that is the queue to begin comment. nobody in the room for public comment at this time. and there is nobody on the phone line for public comment at this time. >> okay, public comment for item 7 is

closed. colleagues i will make a motion to continue this item to call of the chair. on that motion a roll call, please. >> yes, on that motion- [roll call] the motion passes without objection. >> and we are adjourned. [meeting adjourned] all

everyone in the community for participating in the great shakeout. i don't have everyone's attention, i would love to have it here. thank you so much. so our great shakeout instructs our students and staff on what

to do in a real earthquake. it is key to practice and prepare for an actual earthquake. we are honored to have our special guest here today participating in our great shakeout as well. i would like to introduce our san francisco mayor london breed to talk more about the great shakeout. [ applause ] mayor london breed: first i would like to thank you for letting us join you all. thank you for welcoming me to the classroom. it's great to be back at everett. in fact i was here a couple years ago and it's great to be here with you at the great shakeout. i have a question, how many were alive during the 1989

earthquake? you guys were really alive? in fact i was alive and i was in high school at the time. so i'm not completely sure that you were alive, but the fact is during that earthquake, it was a very challenging time for our city, but the good news is that we were prepared because the entire time that i grew up in san francisco and went to school like everett. i went to benjamin franklin listen and my brother went to everett and galileo high school and every year we did drills like this. as soon as it happened, we were prepared and we knew what to do. i remember learning about being prepared and going home and telling my grandmother all the things that we needed to do to keep in place so that we can take care of one another just in case an earthquake hit. i want you all to take the information that we had in class and to make sure that you go

home and work with your parents to ensure that when an earthquake hits because it's not about if but when. san francisco is earthquake territory. it's inevitable. i want to be sure that every student at every middle school is prepared for that. can we agree with that? [ cheers and applause ] all right. i'm really excited to be here to really pay attention to preparedness and earthquakes and really bring a number of disaster preparedness people in san francisco. if a disaster hits, the people behind me, most of them, including myself, we are going to be responsible for keeping you all safe. so, thank you so much for allowing us here to talk to you about what we need to do to make sure that everyone is prepared when the big one comes to san francisco. and with that, i would like to introduce the president of the san francisco school board jenny

lam. all right. [ cheers and applause ] >> good morning, hello everett community. it's so wonderful to be here with you all this morning. i'm excited to be here to participate in the shakeout. i want to thank the principal and all the educators and staff at everett for hosting us this morning and all the work you do everyday for our students. every year on the initiatives of the big one in 1989, i also was in high school, mayor breed. i still remember that day, that afternoon. i left tennis practice early, and i was in the hallway and the lockers started shaking so loud that i just thought it was a bunch of students running around making a lot of noise. then i quickly knew what had happened and i was alone in that hallway. i was very fortunate to have a school counselor that came out of his office and

immediately offered me a ride home because i knew i had someone waiting for me at home and that was my eight year old little sister. just now i was thinking about the moment i opened the front door and saw her underneath our dining room table and the look on her face. i know many of you are also taking care of your younger siblings. i want to share that story and to know that everyone was safe with my family. what happened this morning? this morning at 10:20, students and staff participated in the drop cover and hold drill. every was in position for 30 seconds. i know it seemed longer when we were squeezed under our desk.

after our drill we evacuated into the evacuation area. it's really a reality as mayor breed said. it's not just how but really when the big next earthquake will hit our city. all of our schools have detailed evacuation plans in case of an emergency, and we encourage all of our students and our families to develop your plans. today you received this postcard to making sure you have a plan. it's so critical to know what to do not only during an earthquake but very much important what we are going to do after an earthquake in terms of keeping safe and taking care of one another. i'm very privileged to having these special people here this morning as they work everyday to keep us safe. i'm going to introduce the emergency manager

mary ellen. [ cheers and applause ] >> good morning, i'm mary ellen, this fancy title but i am the master of disaster in san francisco. when something goes wrong, we try to fix things and make them better. you did an incredible job. i would like to say thanks to robert and javier. in this case of earthquakes, you probably know more than most adults. so you all are experts. just like the mayor said, when you go home, we want you to talk to your families and share what you learned so your family and friends are also safe. the other part of my job is i run the 911 center. so you all know the number to call, right? i wanted to say it if something happens, what is the three

numbers that you call? >> 911. >> it's 911. good job. anyway, we practice this every year because we haven't had earthquakes in a really long time, but it could happen at any moment. i want to thank you for doing what you are doing to help our city which is to make sure that you are safe if an earthquake happens. so good job. it was great to meet all of you and remember what you learned today. thanks. [ applause ]

>> >> 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. >> i don't think you need to be an expert to look around and see the increasing frequency of

fires throughout california. they are continuing at an ever-increasing rate every summer, and as we all know, the drought continues and huge shortages of water right now. i don't think you have to be an expert to see the impact. when people create greenhouse gases, we are doing so by different activities like burning fossil fuels and letting off carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and we also do this with food waste. when we waste solid food and leave it in the landfill, it puts methane gas into the atmosphere and that accelerates the rate at which we are warming our planet and makes all the effects of climate change worse. the good news is there are a lot of things that you can be doing, particularly composting and the added benefit is when the compost is actually applied to the soil, it has the ability to reverse climate change by pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil and

the t radios. and there is huge amount of science that is breaking right now around that. >> in the early 90s, san francisco hired some engineers to analyze the material san francisco was sending to landfill. they did a waste characterization study, and that showed that most of the material san francisco was sending to landfill could be composted. it was things like food scraps, coffee grounds and egg shells and sticks and leaves from gardening. together re-ecology in san francisco started this curbside composting program and we were the first city in the country to collect food scraps separately from other trash and turn them into compost. it turns out it was one of the best things we ever did. it kept 2.5 million tons of material out of the landfill, produced a beautiful nutrient rich compost that has gone on to

hundreds of farms, orchards and vineyards. so in that way you can manage your food scraps and produce far less methane. that is part of the solution. that gives people hope that we're doing something to slow down climate change. >> i have been into organic farming my whole life. when we started planting trees, it was natural to have compost from re-ecology. compost is how i work and the soil biology or the microbes feed the plant and our job as regenerative farmers is to feed the microbes with compost and they will feed the plant. it is very much like in business where you say take care of your employees and your employees will take carolinas of your customers. the same thing. take care of the soil microbes and soil life and that will feed and take care of the plants.

>> they love compost because it is a nutrient rich soil amendment. it is food for the soil. that is photosynthesis. pulling carbon from the atmosphere. pushing it back into the soil where it belongs. and the roots exude carbon into the soil. you are helping turn a farm into a carbon sink. it is an international model. delegations from 135 countries have come to study this program. and it actually helped inspire a new law in california, senate bill 1383. which requires cities in california to reduce the amount of compostable materials they send to landfills by 75% by 2025. and san francisco helped inspire this and this is a nation-leading policy. >> because we have such an immature relationship with nature and the natural cycles and the carbon cycles, government does have to step in and protect the commons, which is soil, ocean, foryes, sir, and so forth.

-- forest, and so fors. we know that our largest corporations are a significant percentage of carbon emission, and that the corporate community has significant role to play in reducing carbon emissions. unfortunately, we have no idea and no requirement that they disclose anything about the carbon footprint, the core operation and sp360 stands for the basic notion that large corporations should be transparent about the carbon footprint. it makes all the sense in the world and very common sense but is controversial. any time you are proposing a policy that is going to make real change and that will change behavior because we know that when corporations have to disclose and be transparent and have that kind of accountability, there is going to be opposition. >> we have to provide technical assistance to comply with the

state legislation sb1383 which requires them to have a food donation program. we keep the edible food local. and we are not composting it because we don't want to compost edible food. we want that food to get eaten within san francisco and feed folks in need. it is very unique in san francisco we have such a broad and expansive education program for the city. but also that we have partners in government and nonprofit that are dedicated to this work. at san francisco unified school district, we have a sustainability office and educators throughout the science department that are building it into the curriculum. making it easy for teachers to teach about this. we work together to build a pipeline for students so that when they are really young in pre-k, they are just learning about the awe and wonder and beauty of nature and they are connecting to animals and things they would naturally find love

and affinity towards. as they get older, concepts that keep them engaged like society and people and economics. >> california is experiencing many years of drought. dry periods. that is really hard on farms and is really challenging. compost helps farms get through these difficult times. how is that? compost is a natural sponge that attracts and retains water. and so when we put compost around the roots of plants, it holds any moisture there from rainfall or irrigation. it helps farms make that corner and that helps them grow for food. you can grow 30% more food in times of drought in you farm naturally with compost. farms and cities in california are very hip now to this fact that creating compost, providing compost to farms helps communities survive and get through those dry periods. >> here is the thing.

soil health, climate health, human health, one conversation. if we grow our food differently, we can capture all that excess carbon in the atmosphere and store it in unlimited quantities in the soil, that will create nutrient dense foods that will take care of most of our civilized diseases. so it's one conversation. people have to understand that they are nature. they can't separate. we started prowling the high plains in the 1870s and by the 1930s, 60 year, we turned it into a dust bowl. that is what ignorance looks like when you don't pay attention to nature. nature bats last. so people have to wake up. wake up. compost. >> it is really easy to get frustrated because we have this belief that you have to be completely sustainable 24/7 in all aspects of your life. it is not about being perfect.

it is about making a change here, a change there in your life. maybe saying, you know what? i don't have to drive to that particular place today. today i am going to take the bus or i'm going to walk. it is about having us is stainable in mind. that is -- it is about having sustainability in mind. that is how we move the dial. you don't have to be perfect all the time. >> san francisco has been and will continue to be one of the greener cities because there are communities who care about protecting a special ecosystem and habitat. thinking about the history of the ohlone and the native and indigenous people who are stewards of this land from that history to now with the ambitious climate action plan we just passed and the goals we have, i think we have a dedicated group of people who see the importance of this place. and who put effort into building an infrastructure that actually makes it possible. >> we have a long history starting with the gold rush and

the anti-war activism and that is also part of the environmental movement in the 60s and 70s. and of course, earth day in 1970 which is huge. and i feel very privileged to work for the city because we are on such a forefront of environmental issues, and we get calls from all over the world really to get information. how do cities create waste programs like they do in san francisco. we are looking into the few which you are and we want innovation. we want solutions.

>> my name is holly i'm been in enterprise software training for 10 years that expired film and art and voice-over week work and all kinds of work. >> i'm jane a program director for the state of california i have the privilege of working on special technology projects for the depth of the technology a passion for helping people and a passion for doing work that makes a difference and makes me feel good at night and i think

about what i did today and helping every single person in the city as. >> a technology professional a need for more women and more women in leadership roles the diversity and the leadership pipeline is an area that needs a little bit of love. >> a lot of love. >> a whole lost love. >> i'll contribute for the change for women's equality by showing up and demonstrating that the face of success schizophrenia came come in a variety of corresponds. >> they're a lot of roadblocks for san francisco when it comes to our proposition and finding a play for information that has how to start and grow management

so we started to build the san francisco business portal not just consults or the taxpayers and voters they're actually customers we are the government serving the consumers in our neighborhood i point to at least one best that i personally touched with one way or another and makes me feel good about the projects like the business portal and in embarking on this new exciting journey of finding better and efficient ways to deliver services to san franciscans i sit through a lot of senior management meetings i'm the only woman in the room i know that our c i o is tried to recruit for women and a male dominated environment. >> i've felt unbounded and

inspired to pursue a lot of things over time i recognize to be cricked in ways i didn't anticipate you know i've followed the calling but now put me in a position to spend most of my time doing things i love this is the whole point; right? you ought to feel inspired in our work and found opportunities to have you're work put you in service for others and happy doing what you're spending so much time. >> my father was a journalist lift and my mom a teacher when we finally decided to give up their lives because of me and now i actually get to serve the city and county of san francisco it makes me feel really, really

good not this didn't happen overnight i've worked my entire life to get to this point and much more to learn and i have a lot of changes ahead. >> really think about what moves you what you're pat's about and trust that you are sufficient and enough where you are to begin and then is her that you are being tenacious about getting to the next place in the evolution but by all means start with you are and know that's enough

>> i view san francisco almost as a sibling or a parent or something. i just love the city. i love everything about it. when i'm away from it, i miss it like a person. i grew up in san francisco kind of all over the city. we had pretty much the run of the city 'cause we lived pretty close to polk street, and so we would -- in the summer, we'd all all the way down to aquatic park, and we'd walk down to the library, to the kids' center. in those days, the city was safe and nobody worried about us running around. i went to high school in spring valley. it was over the hill from chinatown. it was kind of fun to

experience being in a minority, which most white people don't get to experience that often. everything was just really within walking distance, so it make it really fun. when i was a teenager, we didn't have a lot of money. we could go to sam wong's and get super -- soup for $1. my parents came here and were drawn to the beatnik culture. they wanted to meet all of the writers who were so famous at the time, but my mother had some serious mental illness issues, and i don't think my father were really aware of that, and those didn't really become evident until i was about five, i guess, and my marriage blew up, and my mother took me all over the world. most of those ad ventures ended up bad because they would end

up hospitalized. when i was about six i guess, my mother took me to japan, and that was a very interesting trip where we went over with a boyfriend of hers, and he was working there. i remember the open sewers and gigantic frogs that lived in the sewers and things like that. mostly i remember the smells very intensely, but i loved japan. it was wonderful. toward the end. my mother had a breakdown, and that was the cycle. we would go somewhere, stay for a certain amount of months, a year, period of time, and she would inevitably have a breakdown. we always came back to san francisco which i guess came me some sense of continuity and that was what kept me sort of stable. my mother hated to fly, so she would always make us take ships places, so on this particular occasion when i was, i think, 12, we were on this ship getting ready to go through the panama canal, and she had a

breakdown on the ship. so she was put in the brig, and i was left to wander the ship until we got to fluorfluora few days later, where we had a distant -- florida a few days later, where we had a distant cousin who came and got us. i think i always knew i was a writer on some level, but i kind of stopped when i became a cop. i used to write short stories, and i thought someday i'm going to write a book about all these ad ventures that my mother took me on. when i became a cop, i found i turned off parts of my brain. i found i had to learn to conform, which was not anything i'd really been taught but felt very safe to me. i think i was drawn to police work because after coming from such chaos, it seemed like a

very organized, but stable environment. and even though things happening, it felt like putting order on chaos and that felt very safe to me. my girlfriend and i were sitting in ve 150d uvio's bar, and i looked out the window and i saw a police car, and there was a woman who looked like me driving the car. for a moment, i thought i was me. and i turned to my friend and i said, i think i'm supposed to do this. i saw myself driving in this car. as a child, we never thought of police work as a possibility for women because there weren't any until the mid70's, so i had only even begun to notice there were women doing this job. when i saw here, it seemed like this is what i was meant to do. one of my bosses as ben johnson's had been a cop, and he -- i said, i have this weird

idea that i should do this. he said, i think you'd be good. the department was forced to hire us, and because of all of the posters, and the big recruitment drive, we were under the impression that they were glad to have us, but in reality, most of the men did not want the women there. so the big challenge was constantly feeling like you had to prove yourself and feeling like if you did not do a good job, you were letting down your entire gender. finally took an inspector's test and passed that and then went down to the hall of justice and worked different investigations for the rest of my career, which was fun. i just felt sort of buried alive in all of these cases, these unsolved mysteries that there were just so many of them, and some of them, i didn't know if we'd ever be able to solve, so my boss was able to get me out of the unit. he transferred me out, and a

couple of weeks later, i found out i had breast cancer. my intuition that the job was killing me. i ended up leaving, and by then, i had 28 years or the years in, i think. the writing thing really became intense when i was going through treatment for cancer because i felt like there were so many parts that my kids didn't know. they didn't know my story, they didn't know why i had a relationship with my mother, why we had no family to speak of. it just poured out of me. i gave it to a friend who is an editor, and she said i think this would be publishable and i think people would be interested in this. i am so lucky to live here. i am so grateful to my parents who decided to move to the city. i am so grateful they did. that it never ♪♪ >> san francisco!

♪♪ >> this is an exhibition across departments highlighting different artworks from our collection. gender is an important part of the dialogue. in many ways, this exhibition is contemporary. all of this artwork is from the 9th century and spans all the way to the 21st century. the exhibition is organized into seven different groupings or themes such as activities, symbolism, transformation and others. it's not by culture or time period, but different affinities

between the artwork. activities, for example, looks at the role of gender and how certain activities are placed as feminine or masculine. we have a print by uharo that looks at different activities that derisionly performed by men. it's looking at the theme of music. we have three women playing traditional japanese instruments that would otherwise be played by men at that time. we have pairings so that is looking within the context of gender in relationships. also with how people are questioning the whole idea of pairing in the first place. we have three from three different cultures, tibet, china and japan. this is sell vanity stot relevar

has been fluid in different time periods in cultures. sometimes being female in china but often male and evoking features associated with gender binaries and sometimes in between. it's a lovely way of tying all the themes together in this collection. gender and sexuality, speaking from my culture specifically, is something at that hasn't been recently widely discussed. this exhibition shows that it's gender and sexuality are actually have been considered and complicated by dialogue through the work of artists and thinking specifically, a sculpture we have of the hindu

deities because it's half pee male and half male. it turns into a different theme in a way and is a beautiful representation of how gender hasn't been seen as one thing or a binary. we see that it isn't a modest concept. in a way, i feel we have a lot of historical references and touch points throughout all the ages and in asian cultures. i believe san francisco has close to 40% asian. it's a huge representation here in the bay area. it's important that we awk abouk about this and open up the discussion around gender. what we've learned from organizing this exhibition at the museum is that gender has been something that has come up in all of these cultures through all the time periods as something that is important and relevant. especially here in the san francisco bay area we feel that it's relevant to the

conversations that people are having today. we hope that people can carry that outside of the museum into their daily lives. when i shoot chinatown, i shoot the architecture that people not just events, i shoot what's going on in daily life and everything changes. murals, graffiti, store

opening. store closing. the bakery. i shoot anything and everything in chinatown. i shoot daily life. i'm a crazy animal. i'm shooting for fun. that's what i love. >> i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer for the last i think about 20 years. i joined the chinese historical society. it was a way i could practice my society and i can give the community memories. i've been practicing and get to

know everybody and everybody knew me pretty much documenting the history i don't just shoot events. i'm telling a story in whatever photos that i post on facebook, it's just like being there from front to end, i do a good job and i take hundreds and hundreds of photos. and i was specializing in chinese american history. i want to cover what's happening in chinatown. what's happening in my community. i shoot a lot of government officials. i probably have thousands of photos of mayor lee and all the dignitaries. but they treat me like one of the family members because they see me all the time. they appreciate me. even the local cops, the firemen, you know, i feel at

home. i was born in chinese hospital 1954. we grew up dirt poor. our family was lucky to grew up. when i was in junior high, i had a degree in hotel management restaurant. i was working in the restaurant business for probably about 15 years. i started when i was 12 years old. when i got married, my wife had an import business. i figured, the restaurant business, i got tired of it. i said come work for the family business. i said, okay. it's going to be interesting and so interesting i lasted for 30 years. i'm married i have one daughter. she's a registered nurse. she lives in los angeles now. and two grandsons.

we have fun. i got into photography when i was in junior high and high school. shooting cameras. the black and white days, i was able to process my own film. i wasn't really that good because you know color film and processing was expensive and i kind of left it alone for about 30 years. i was doing product photography for advertising. and kind of got back into it. everybody said, oh, digital photography, the year 2000. it was a ghost town in chinatown. i figured it's time to shoot chinatown store front nobody. everybody on grand avenue. there was not a soul out walking around chinatown.

a new asia restaurant, it used to be the biggest restaurant in chinatown. it can hold about a 1,000 people and i had been shooting events there for many years. it turned into a supermarket. and i got in. i shot the supermarket. you know, and its transformation. even the owner of the restaurant the restaurant, it's 50 years old. i said, yeah. it looks awful. history. because i'm shooting history. and it's impressive because it's history because you can't repeat. it's gone it's gone. >> you stick with her, she'll teach you everything. >> cellphone photography, that's going to be the

generation. i think cellphones in the next two, three years, the big cameras are obsolete already. mirrorless camera is going to take over market and the cellphone is going to be better. but nobody's going to archive it. nobody's going to keep good history. everybody's going to take snapshots, but nobody's going to catalog. they don't care. >> i want to see you. >> it's not a keepsake. there's no memories behind it. everybody's sticking in the cloud. they lose it, who cares. but, you know, i care. >> last september of 2020, i had a minor stroke, and my

daughter caught it on zoom. i was having a zoom call for my grand kids. and my daughter and my these little kids said, hey, you sound strange. yeah. i said i'm not able to speak properly. they said what happened. my wife was taking a nap and my daughter, she called home and said he's having a stroke. get him to the hospital. five minutes later, you know, the ambulance came and took me away and i was at i.c.u. for four days. i have hundreds of messages wishing me get well soon. everybody wished that i'm okay and back to normal.

you know, i was up and kicking two weeks after my hospital stay. it was a wake-up call. i needed to get my life in order and try to organize things especially organize my photos. >> probably took two million photos in the last 20 years. i want to donate to an organization that's going to use it. i'm just doing it from the heart. i enjoy doing it to give back to the community. that's the most important. give back to the community. >> it's a lot for the community. >> i was a born hustler. i'm too busy to slow down. i love what i'm doing. i love to be busy. i go nuts when i'm not doing anything. i'm 67 this year.

i figured 70 i'm ready to retire. i'm wishing to train a couple for photographers to take over my place. the younger generation, they have a passion, to document the history because it's going to be forgotten in ten years, 20 years, maybe i will be forgotten when i'm gone in a couple years but i want to be remembered for my work and, you know, photographs will be a remembrance. i'm frank jane.

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

♪♪ >> we're here at one of the many food centric districts of san francisco, the 18th street corridor which locals have affectionately dubbed the castro. a cross between castro and gastronomic. the bakery, pizza, and dolores park cafe, there is no end in sight for the mouth watering food options here. adding to the culinary delights is the family of business he which includes skylight creamery, skylight and the 18 raisin. >> skylight market has been here since 1940. it's been in the family since 1964. his father and uncle bought the market and ran it through sam taking it over in 1998. at that point sam revamped the market. he installed a kitchen in the center of the market and really

made it a place where chefs look forward to come. he created community through food. so, we designed our community as having three parts we like to draw as a triangle where it's comprised of our producers that make the food, our staff, those who sell it, and our guests who come and buy and eat the food. and we really feel that we wouldn't exist if it weren't for all three of those components who really support each other. and that's kind of what we work towards every day. >> valley creamery was opened in 2006. the two pastry chefs who started it, chris hoover and walker who is sam's wife, supplied all the pastries and bakeries for the market. they found a space on the block to do that and the ice cream kind of came as an afterthought.

they realized the desire for ice cream and we now have lines around the corner. so, that's been a huge success. in 2008, sam started 18 reasons, which is our community and event space where we do five events a week all around the idea of bringling people closer to where the food comes from and closer to each other in that process. >> 18 reasons was started almost four years ago as an educational arm of their work. and we would have dinners and a few classes and we understood there what momentum that people wanted this type of engagement and education in a way that allowed for a more in-depth conversation. we grew and now we offer -- i think we had nine, we have a series where adults learned home cooking and we did a teacher training workshop where san francisco unified public school teachers came and learned to use cooking for the

core standards. we range all over the place. we really want everyone to feel like they can be included in the conversation. a lot of organizations i think which say we're going to teach cooking or we're going to teach gardening, or we're going to get in the policy side of the food from conversation. we say all of that is connected and we want to provide a place that feels really community oriented where you can be interested in multiple of those things or one of those things and have an entree point to meet people. we want to build community and we're using food as a means to that end. >> we have a wonderful organization to be involved with obviously coming from buy right where really everyone is treated very much like family. coming into 18 reasons which even more community focused is such a treat. we have these events in the evening and we really try and bring people together. people come in in groups, meet friends that they didn't even know they had before. our whole set up is focused on communal table.

you can sit across from someone and start a conversation. we're excited about that. >> i never worked in catering or food service before. it's been really fun learning about where things are coming from, where things are served from. >> it is getting really popular. she's a wonderful teacher and i think it is a perfect match for us. it is not about home cooking. it's really about how to facilitate your ease in the kitchen so you can just cook. >> i have always loved eating food. for me, i love that it brings me into contact with so many wonderful people. ultimately all of my work that i do intersects at the place where food and community is. classes or cooking dinner for someone or writing about food. it always come down to empowering people and giving them a wonderful experience. empower their want to be around people and all the values and reasons the commitment,

community and places, we're offering a whole spectrum of offerings and other really wide range of places to show that good food is not only for wealthy people and they are super committed to accessibility and to giving people a glimpse of the beauty that really is available to all of us that sometimes we forget in our day to day running around. >> we have such a philosophical mission around bringing people together around food. it's so natural for me to come here. >> we want them to walk away feeling like they have the tools to make change in their lives. whether that change is voting on an issue in a way that they will really confident about, or that change is how to understand why it is important to support our small farmers. each class has a different purpose, but what we hope is that when people leave here

they understand how to achieve that goal and feel that they have the resources necessary to do that. >> are you inspired? maybe you want to learn how to have a patch in your backyard or cook better with fresh ingredients . or grab a quick bite with organic goodies. find out more about 18 reasons by going to 18 reasons.org and learn about buy right market and creamery by going to buy right market.com. and don't forget to check out our blog for more info on many of our episodes at sf quick bites.com. until next time, may the fork be with you. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> so chocolaty. mm. ♪♪ >> oh, this is awesome.

oh, sorry. i thought we were done rolling. ♪♪ dev mission's goal is aiming to train young adults, youth so we can be a wealth and disparity in underserved communities like where we are today. my name is leo sosa. i'm the founder and executive director for devmission. we're sitting inside a computer lab where residents come and get support when they give help about how to set up an e-mail account.

how to order prescriptions online. create a résumé. we are also now paying attention to provide tech support. we have collaborated with the san francisco mayor's office and the department of technology to implement a broad band network for the residents here so they can have free internet access. we have partnered with community technology networks to provide computer classes to the seniors and the residents. so this computer lab becomes a hub for the community to learn how to use technology, but that's the parents and the adults. we have been able to identify what we call a stem date. the acronym is science technology engineering and math. kids should be exposed no matter what type of background or ethnicity or income status. that's where we actually create magic. >> something that the kids are really excited about is science and so the way that we execute

that is through making slime. and as fun as it is, it's still a chemical reaction and you start to understand that with the materials that you need to make the slime. >> they love adding their little twists to everything. it's just a place for them to experiment and that's really what we want. >> i see. >> really what the excitement behind that is that you're making something. >> logs, legos, sumo box, art, drawing, computers, mine craft, and really it's just awaking opportunity. >> keeping their attention is like one of the biggest challenges that we do have because, you know, they're kids. they always want to be doing something, be helping with something. so we just let them be themselves. we have our set of rules in place that we have that we want them to follow and live up to. and we also have our set of expectations that we want them to achieve.

this is like my first year officially working with kids. and definitely i've had moments where they're not getting something. they don't really understand it and you're trying to just talk to them in a way that they can make it work teaching them in different ways how they can get the light bulb to go off and i've seen it first-hand and it makes me so happy when it does go off because it's like, wow, i helped them understand this concept. >> i love playing games and i love having fun with my friends playing dodge ball and a lot of things that i like. it's really cool. >> they don't give you a lot of cheese to put on there, do they? you've got like a little bit left. >> we learn programming to make them work. we do computers and

programming. at the bottom here, we talk to them and we press these buttons to make it go. and this is to turn it off. and this is to make it control on its own. if you press this twice, it can do any type of tricks. like you can move it like this and it moves. it actually can go like this. >> like, wow, they're just absorbing everything. so it definitely is a wholehearted moment that i love experiencing. >> the realities right now, 5.3 latinos working in tech and about 6.7 african americans

working in tech. and, of course, those tech companies are funders. so i continue to work really hard with them to close that gap and work with the san francisco unified school district so juniors and seniors come to our program, so kids come to our stem hub and be exposed to all those things. it's a big challenge. >> we have a couple of other providers here on site, but we've all just been trying to work together and let the kids move around from each department. some kids are comfortable with their admission, but if they want to jump in with city of dreams or hunter's point, we just try to collaborate to provide the best opportunity in the community. >> devmission has provided services on westbrook. they teach you how to code. how to build their own mini robot to providing access for

the youth to partnerships with adobe and sony and google and twitter. and so devmission has definitely brought access for our families to resources that our residents may or may not have been able to access in the past. >> the san francisco house and development corporation gave us the grant to implement this program. it hasn't been easy, but we have been able to see now some of the success stories of some of those kids that have been able to take the opportunity and continue to grow within their education and eventually become a very successful citizen. >> so the computer lab, they're doing the backpacks. i don't know if you're going to be able to do the class. you still want to try? . yeah. go for it. >> we have a young man by the name of ivan mello.

he came here two and a half years ago to be part of our digital arts music lab. graduating with natural, fruity loops, rhymes. all of our music lyrics are clean. he came as an intern, and now he's running the program. that just tells you, we are only creating opportunities and there's a young man by the name of eduardo ramirez. he tells the barber, what's that flyer? and he says it's a program that teaches you computers and art. and i still remember the day he walked in there with a baseball cap, full of tattoos. nice clean hair cut. i want to learn how to use computers. graduated from the program and he wanted to work in i.t.. well, eduardo is a dreamer. right. so trying to find him a job in

the tech industry was very challenging, but that didn't stop him. through the effort of the office of economic work force and the grant i reached out to a few folks i know. post mates decided to bring him on board regardless of his legal status. he ended his internship at post mates and now is at hudacity. that is the power of what technology does for young people that want to become part of the tech industry. what we've been doing, it's very innovative. helping kids k-12, transitional age youth, families, parents, communities, understand and to be exposed to stem subjects. imagine if that mission one day can be in every affordable housing community. the opportunities that we would create and that's what i'm trying to do with this

>> 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. >> 7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe neighbor's park fund

which was on the ballot four years ago and look at how that public investment has transformed our neighborhood. >> the playground is unique in that it serves a number of age groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the children's play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were a lot of people that came to the table that had their wish list and we did our best to make sure that we kind of divided up spaces and made sure that we kept the old features of the playground but we were able to enhance all of those features.

>> the playground and the soccer field and the tennis fields and it is such a key part of this neighborhood. >> we want kids to be here. we want families to be here and we want people to have athletic opportunities. >> we are given a real responsibility to insure that the public's money is used appropriately and that something really special comes of these projects. we generally have about an opportunity every 50 years to redo these spaces. and it is really, really rewarding to see children and families benefit, you know, from the change of culture, at each one of these properties >> and as a result of, what you see behind us, more kids are playing on our soccer fields than ever before. we have more girls playing sports than we have ever had before. [ applause ] fp >> and we are sending a strong message that san francisco families are welcome and we

want you to stay. >> this park is open. ♪♪