that race with 18% if it was not for schwarzenegger. and the other thing, and this is a dicey one. would i come up with a list of things as reasons for the recall. i know, i'm stepping on toes here, that's okay. you know breaking the law, obviously would be first and for most. now after that, it gets dicey. what kind of ethical lapse? john but i would want to have, just because i don't like the person, to me is not good enough reason. it just isn't. you live with that until the next election. but i believe to josh's point in the trustee model, not what we call the delicate model. that's the other one. i want to have a set of reasons so that in my mind back to

yolanda's question about the abuse, those would be the abuses, breaking the law and something of that. >> and larry, the elections and constitution limits and we had a series of meetings to talk about these things. and as we worked through that item, it was going to be impossible to articulate that was agreed upon. so even though, we can all agree on that, it's a very hard thing to legislate. >> can i go? >> yup. >> recapping what i mentioned before, i would look it at it from a perspective it would be difficult to get the voters to agree on the constitutional. justifiably skeptical at self dealing. i would assume that no constitution amendment is possible. particularly things like

contribution limits, reporting and my number one thing that i first thing that i would do is clarify the procedure to be a replacement candidate. it's been a problem twice for two separate secretary of state and the newsom recall. the fact that they had dis gression is a problem, it's a gap in the law that is easy to fix in that it only takes a statutory change that would be a low hanging fruit. >> so let me clarify, one route is to get the constitution change and that requires a vote. and josh newman referred to this earlier, why is that so difficult? is there no appetite in sacramento to make she's changes that people have suggested in sacramento? >> i guess, i'll answer. i think if you're an elected

member, whether you realize or not, part of your consideration like could that happen to me? and if you're gut is no, it's not the highest and priority. and all legislation takes a lot of work. so to clarify, what it takes to get a, unlimited ballot. it first requires two-thirds vote on both sides of the legislature, not an easy thing. it's really kind the work factor, the amount of political will. and to david's point, one of the reasons that we don't make that change, it's about the bottom half of the recall. that everybody to la re's point is messed up. so you're making a messed up thing a little bit better. so for rest of us, polling shows that there is support,

certainly there was suppose coming out of the newsom election of the elimination of the second question. the question is it worth our while to move it through legislature to the ballot. this is not the kind of thing worth and the money in the yes dot. so that's important to consider also. when it's part of a larger cycle. >> i get that. i would get if there is a stand out feature it was the clown car of the replacement candidates that you saw in gray davis and gavin newsom. and eliminating that is something that the laej slate you're can do with a simple majority. making a comparative point here, it's easier to do that it's a lower majority and something that the legislature can do on its own without going to the voters.

>> i'll carry that legislation. i think i might, and it will be interesting to see how it goes. but let's connect afterwards. >> i would love to. and i would be in the position of supporting something. one is eliminate the second question and that moots the issue that i'm raising but that requires the two votes, i see that the lower percentage phone call that they can do with a simple majority. and you can spin it as we're fixing the recall you will never see a clown car in california again. >> go ahead. >> so limb tating the second question, may not solve the problem that you want to solve. so, what i would suggest is instead a snap election. that is what happens in other places. when you have that first question, you're still requiring that elect official get 50%.

which now you're not requiring them run off you sort of. but generally not required to get 50%. you're first that's who wins. a snap and that's what feels very odd about the recalls, that you have that and then you have the second question when the candidate does not need the second election. so snap election is much more like what we have in our regular election. is it a second type of perform that idaho has which i call queen of the hill; that you not only need to knock out the person. have the yes but vote has to top the vote that that person won when they won office for the first time. so it does not look like a small amount of voters voting. it has to beat that vote.

so that's a way to deal with them. the other thing, is just the signatures, you switch the signature requirement for what we currently have which is voter turn out. so you need 12% of voter turn out for the governor and this is not for everyone. in l.a. this does not count because they already have. you turn it to voters which would increase the signature requirement and make it much harder and at the same time, not make it based on the last election. so it's more of a straight line. >> so again, that is something that josh that we considered in committee and it was again, the consensus was that received by voters is kind of a big switch. sounds like you're up to something. so not a bad idea. i will say of the snap election, i think most of your idea, i think that's a terrible idea.

and what na is likely to do is fewer unnecessary recall elections. you can likely see that is a vote of no confidence and you can see that happening all the time. >> why wouldn't it, it's easier to do it this way instead of a snap election. in the snap election, you have it and the candidate does not have to have 50%. so if it's running against somebody else. that new candidate, the person who wants to taikds the oftens leads to that race that the regular candidate get under 50%. to larry's point earlier, why have them all the time? just because somebody can get the signatures does not mean you should.

>> but it's, basically the same match is happening. the question is what is the requirement of that elected official to stay in office? they need 50% or could they get less? and that's what would happen in the election. plus the official will have on what a real election is. we saw this with gavin newsom when gavin was running, it was a tough place. there was gavin newsom, and he has somebody who will be the replacement. removed but i'm going to be defaced by larry elder. >> why did he have to do that in the first place. larry made that point very well, which is get elected in the year 2018, you have not done anything wrong. why should you have to run a special election against larry elder if you have not done anything wrong.

why would that not increase the incentive to continual be look to snap election. >> why would it be than the recall recall. i'm not sure how it's different than the recall as it currently exist or recall with just. >> i think it's about the incentive structure around the recall and what makes it more or less likely that it it's going to happen. and again, the original intent was there was some sort of threshold standard for suitability, fitness for office. if it's simply about politics, that runs counter to our expectation from election to election. but that's how it runs now. does that elect official have a right. >> it should not be the same we should revert to somebody that

is more sensible to instigate. >> so i'm going to go to jamarah now if you can fix this at the snap of a finger you can give $500 to a candidate and say here, i'm all and--everybody else play the rules. >> and josh can you get your point a moment ago? >> i hope so. >> different answer for what you would do to fix this? >> just snap elections, treat it for what it is, it is a political event. that's what we see here. or at the very least, do something to make it that queen of the hill process, that they don't have to get 50%, has a higher standard threshold to survive than they do in a regular election. >> okay.

?fm there is another question from audience in san francisco how have contribution limits changed? does that also require an amendment to the charter? does anybody know? >> i think it does. >> i think it does, but you can do that, local vote. >> local initiative, yeah. there was another question about changing recall procedures in san francisco and the answer is the same. san francisco is a charter city and they can go from 0 recalls to wide amendment of town in the rail and anybody in between. >> and i think it's a simple majority. that's something that we have discussed but simple majority. >> and another question, does the current election recall have any affects on candidate

considering running for political office. does it keep good people from running because of this notion that you may be facing a recall shortly after you get elected >> i'm sure we'll be speculating. >> i'm going to say yeah, absolutely, i think you get people who are maybe more hesitant to say, i don't want to get in the dogfight that is politics all the time. if i may make that person angry or if i have to make a really tough call like during covid. so and it a tracks people that by nature love a fight. i don't know that that's the group that we want in politics because it's a lot what we have. >> there is a lot of reasons not to run for office. a lot. that's why i was i admire those that do. does this really change the paradine?

i don't think so. and what the othersed are, not only to win and putting the coalition that puts together. i don't know if this changes, but it's a reason that you may add to all the others. >> also in the context of where we are anytime somebody says, if i give you 10 million dollars can you overturn that outcome? and the answer for recalls is more likely than not, i can make a good shot it. so that's a troubling question, more for other actors in the civic space. >> i suspect not? i suspect as larry said, there is a lot of reasons not to run. much with anything else, there is a lot going on in our process

that will make you not want to be in office so recalls is a low on the list compared to whatever things there is. >> i can say josh as a member of elected community, you're right. it is low in the list but larnler environment and it makes it less likely that more people will stand. >> if you think about, my sense is, when a person runs for office, that person has a healthy ego. i think i can do some good. i think i can make things better. and if you have that kind of mentality, i don't think really into your head it's going to head, that they may recall me. >> i can vouch for that as a guy that was recalled, me of all people? my goodness, that could never happen to me. definitely right.

>> okay, so our final question, given the current parent of how recall elections are being used and at what rate, do you think that we're on a trend to see more or fewer elections in california in why. >> david made a point early on and i want ed to jump on it because it was so intriguing. you talked about a large number of them in the last few years, correct. >> yeah, i'm going to share my screen and i can show you what i mean. so josh and i reviewed all california recalls from inception and we put it based on qualified success at the ballot and the graph i'm showing you right now, shows it parsed by office. and it does not matter how you look at it when it's parsed by office or qualifying versus successful or you look at the

overall. the overall it's hard to get away from the take away that recalls are periodic. they're more popular in some time period than in others. and right now is the most popular time for recalls all the time. >> but it's, it's one of those, right? >> yeah. >> the data does not show that there is a lean or progressive, there is spikes and peeks and values. >> it depends on the time. >> yes, and they cannot forget. >> my point is, this is we're in a era where people distrust government more than other eras. and this is one of those moments in history, the last 10-12 years where skepticism

and conspiracy theories and all of these things are abundant. that's when you're going to see these numbers go up. people are already angry or to use the words, pissed off about so many things. and hopefully there will be another period where things calm down and when they calm down, they will not be so mad. >> i hope you're right about that. >> and the davie show was unqualified recall. >> it was unfiled versus qualified, so we, we both and obviously filed there is going to be a lot more. >> as i mentioned before, you know, to the extent that the impulse is there, the mood is there. to the professor's point. it's the ones that don't qualify that have the most negative impact.

and large, you're some, elected to a school board and you find it after waiting period, say the 0 days, you make a vote and there is an issue and now you're the rubt of recall. that's a nightmare for anybody who thought i would be a productive participant. and i think that's a problem. >> and to be fair the recall is used more in the local level. the more successful to local level. >> it's been on local level in american history. they're a local level, they're not partisan. they're, almost always about issues like the school board should recombine cools. you fire the superintendent, taxes, road repair. right now solar reforms are

popular in michigan and midwest. so people who are opposed to those are facing recalls. so they're very policy base. now one area that we saw a lot of recall attempts last year and the year before, did not succeed at all was covid restrictions, covid policies. and you can say in many ways, that's bad but in other fashion, it was the biggest change in a policy in our lifetime, and possibly in american history for most voters. so that a lot of people were opposed and okay, they got a chance to say their say and they found out they were wrong. and maybe gave those elected officials, some benefit that hey, okay, i survived this and they tried it and failed and look what happened. >> there is also a proxy for the kind of politics as well. just about the policy.

>> but it was, it was not, it was, in idaho that's where most a lot of them were at. they were in places where it was not a democrat versus a republican. >> i appreciate it. in california it was largely driven where the politics correlate to the policy position. >> in california, they did not make arguably and newsom, but yeah. but nationwide, this was an issue. one thing that you should consider is just the recall blows up in your face. these elected officials, senator newman is unusual as the only state legislature who is recalled and reran and won that position. but it happens all the time in the local level and it happens where he lekted official does better, the first governor lin fraser 19 21, gets elected

senator a year later. diane feinstein faces a recall and on the list for a vice president. one of the reasons we've seen a lot of recalls in california from 94 to now the state has had a huge shift. the state is not a republican state as it was once was. now it's blue and getting much much bluer. so this is a push back, we saw in:in 2019, the republicans decide today make their focus the recall. they said we're going to teach democrats, and the democrats had a--rollout and joe biden was the first to win colorado by double digits. so it does not work in your voters a lot of time. they generally have idea and

they will punish you if you use them. >> i think the business of politics just to live in the real world right now. consultants are like life insurance, you should do this new thing, it's going to get you what you want and recall in the current context, they're also the fund new toy. that political consultant and campaign managers have. that's where the industry is shifted. and you can see there is a industry, that's where they have it in california. and sometimes they storm the capitol but there is a lot of new money to be made so it's a very much a market. so taking a free market so to speak, so right now now, it's a cash grab and somebody is going for it. >> i never have seen consultant

have so much fun with the ex tense. >> again, yes or no question from you. you may have different reasons but do you think this trend is going to continue? are we going to have a low. >> no i think the consultants will get bored and they will look newsom where he crushed it, it's just going to benefit my enemy. >> no matter what they still get paid and they don't get bored of money, so yeah. >> i'll answer, i think if we can make some sensible reform you decrease a reform. and if we don't do that, the

collective mind as a memory of sorts. and swaoel see if we see in 12 to 13 years. and somebody will say we should have solved this problem last time. >> given the skepticism about public official, government, political process that exist at such a high level right now, the willingness to break any rule, any law to be satisfied, i think this will continue. i think it will because it is a way of venting and i don't think, a lot of logic goes into that. it's building a need to make things right that is so wrong. so sing as long as we're in this period, it will continue. any kind of changes and i think changes are hard to make in this period too.

>> jamarah. >> i already said yes. >> you already said yes. >> no for one, it start today slip from 2012, to 2011, now it seems less recalls nationwide. 2018, there were none in california that was first time. so i don't know that it's really on that rise except for what happened through covid a lot of anger. but on the other hand, i think it will go up, not so much because it's canteen manager, just the ease of it, that's been a major role in the recall, easier to get things on the ballot and organize people. and easier to get people upset, just social media, all of that has made it simpler process that not going to be affected by small or even large changes

to the law except malfeasence stand art. they're here to stay because people have that option. >> okay, we have three minutes my final thoughts, i don't have anymore questions, anything you want to share before we end. >> i'll volunteer the constitution center resource to help senator newman draft what we discussed. i also agree with point strike while the iron is hot. and i'm concerned that there is a paralysis of choice. there is a number of recall measures that have been floating from last year or so. and because there is one or two none of them are going to gather consensus for a majority. so the if the senator is able to build his flag on one thing, i would be happy to be part of that. >> i'll take you up on that offer. what is the worse that can

happen, i will get recalled. >> i will defend you in public. >> thank you. >> any final thoughts, thank you all very much on behalf of the bar association of san francisco. you've been amazing so many different perspective and very deep back grounds and various for different reasons and it did make for a very rich qualificationer. i think we've educated a lot of people on how this, how this works a lot of us don't understand it, we just see it pop up on a ballot. and we truly appreciate you all and thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you to all of our guests who listened to this conversation this evening. have a good evening. >> bye.

>> good afternoon, everyone. happy monday! that was funny. i'm san francisco mayor london breed. it's great to be here with each and every one of you to talk about exciting programs that we plan to launch today. i know there are a lot of people here. people from our ambassador community, folks from various companies and entities and i had a lot of meetings over the last couple of months. after coming out of this global pandemic and what i've been hearing especially from many employers and employees who make san francisco so vibrant and great is that they want us to do more to improve safety. they want to make sure that when people are catching bart or

munithat when they move around e city, they feel safe. another thing i hear from folks in the community and people who visit san francisco is how great at the feel when they're down downtown when they run into a nem an orange jacket and when they're in the tenderloin and help someone find the right path of travel. this is a challenging city. we know it's a major city and a city that so many people want to be in. when people catch bart from the airport, they get off here and go up the escalators with their suitcases to go to check into their hotels. people who visit and come visit san francisco for conventions, that's a big part of our economic engine. that's a big part of how we're able to afford to pay for the city services in the first place. today when we talked about

safety, we talked about a desire to have people return to work in the downtown area can. we talked about how people who work in the downtown area in general want to feel safe and secure. so today, wa we want to announce is a significant investment in our ambassador program that will change not just what happens downtown, but will change and support communities all over san francisco that we know are in desperate need of it. [applause] you know, i'm proud of this city because safety we know is not just about our police force even though we have a need for police officers. we are looking at ways in which we can have alternatives for what exactly we're talking about specifically downtown, having eyes and ears on the streets and

those who welcome visitors and even folks who live and work here with a smile on their face. we're going from an ambassador program that includes attendance at the bart station -- love you too. and our downtown ambassadors, union scare ambassadors, we're going from 200 ambassadors and adding on top of that a whole additional 150 ambassadors that will not only support this downtown area, but will support important communities like thelma, like the mission and other places where we know they are so desperately needed. this is just one step forward in hoping to address our public safety challenges in san francisco. we know it's complicated and we know we have a lot of work do, but what i appreciate about

today -- today is about community, today is about people who work here. today is about business, today is about our city workforce. today is about bart. it's about our partnership and working together to make san francisco a safer place for awful us. safer place for all of us. so many things happy as a result of the pandemic. now the pandemic is almost preempty much behind us. how do we roll up our sleeves in order though move the city forward? how do we roll up our sleeves to make san francisco the place we know and love? i hear people talk about san francisco and how it's such a beautiful city. we know it's a beautiful city but how do we keep it that way? we fight for it. we keep it that way by making the appropriate investments. keep it that way by working together. today is a testament to that. i mentioned the need for

additional officers. and i want to thank members of the board of supervisors including the budget chair, hillary ronan and mike dorsey and supervisor mandelman because we wouldn't be able to just get our additional resource toses backfill positions in our police department, but the work we feed to do for ambassadors and our crisis response team and wellness team and all of those things go hand in hand in making our city a safer more vibrant place and i wouldn't have been able to do that without their help and support throughout account budget process and the work we do here today. i want to thank fem for joining us heerd today as well as staff members and people are various communities, it takes a village, but we won't give up on the city because it's too magical. the city is a place of opportunity. people come to san francisco for

opportunity. let's make sure as people come here for opportunity or to work or visit, that they have a great experience that they walk away and tell their friends and family how amazing san francisco is. we're going it fight for this city every day and i hope you'll join news that fight to make san francisco a safer city for every person who is a part of it. with that, i want to introduce our chief of police, bill scott. >> thank you mayor breed and good morning, everybody. i'm going to start off with just a little quick history of it program. and when mayor breed sat with me in her office and this vision was being inspired, i saw the gloom in the mayor's eye that it's something not only that

they wanted do but wanted it right now. this was over two years ago. and about a week or two after that meeting with the mayor, we were at a luncheon being hosted by the union square bid and the mayor announced that the the amr program. and i knew she wanted to get it done. it was just a vision at that time. we took that back with our team and made it happen. and here is the result of that vision by our mayor. the program started as a pilot about two years ago. this was during the global pandemic when we were constructing the program and doing everything we had to do. we had to get the support of all

these wonderful elected officials behind me to get it funded. but within pretty quick amount of time, we started with 10 ambassadors assigned to union square right where the mayor made that announcement. so she delivered and we driferred on that -- delivered on that promise. the goal was to hire a retired police officers not to replace but support our 50 officers in the union street area. we were intentional with piloting this program in union square. i'm happy to say that we met those expectations of the mayor and i firmly believe we metropolitan the expectation of everybody in that room when the mayor made that announcement. today we have 50 ambassadors. and we have a list of retirees who want to be an ambassador. in addition to union square, we have ambassadors in chinatown,

fisherman's wharf and haight. mainly what they do is help us reduce harm to our community. the harms we see day in and day out. the harms that we get complaints about,mthe harms we get demanded to do something about. the harms that we as a city can make boater. better. they increase visibility and presence. they are an arm of the san francisco police department and free up personnel so they can focus on policing. ambassadors have police radios. they know how to communicate

cuss. wust. they are a force multiplier in a time when our staffing has been reduced to critical lows. i'm going to read to you an example of this ambassador's program. this was an e-mail sent to me by a man who doesn't live in san francisco. my wife and i along with close friends tasselled to your city this past weekend for a vacation. we spent the first day traveling through the city in a cable car. we got off in china down towrn and metropolitan by two ambassadors. after retirement they were hired by ambassadors. they explained their job to us. this is an outstanding program and i hope it helps. they were professional and courteous. they made our time in chinatown

more pleasant. i spent 48 years as a first responder in the fir service and a part time police officer. i retired from both but i miss the job. i would definitely work as an ambassador in our city if i had the opportunity to do so. this is an outstanding program and you have two outstanding officers working this assignment. i'm sure this program helps keep things a little safer. thank you. this story can be repeated over and over again. this is not the only message of thanks that we get from our ambassador program. with you that typifies what this is about. people visiting our city having a better experience and feeling safer. that is what they do. and that is why the mayor's vision was so important. in closing, i want to say a few more things connecting people and need to services.

our ambassadors do that very well. again, i can tell story after story where that has been done. they're trained in first aid and deescalation and they have a direct line to our on-duty officers which means faster response times which equates to better service. in addition to the ambassadors, pair breed is asking for additional police service aid with the same kept to free up the very, very critical under-staffed police department so officers can do more critical work. and i support at that whole heartedly. i know that her vision to do that will work like her vision to implement this ambassador program. there is more work do. we can't make up 500 officers that we're short, but we are era darned sure to be innovative and

creative to make things better and that's what this ambassador program has done. again, i want to tharchght mayor for leadership and guidance and thank supervisor dorsey and roan and mandelman and the entire board. i want to thank kate and her team. i can go on and on. fire chief, this is a all a partnership. if you don't hear anything else, i want you to hear this. this city is a family. just like any family, when we face hard times, we kol together and make it happen. with the leadership of the mayor, that's what we'll do. this is a bigger issue than the latest new thing. what we're building here is capacity to reenvision and change policing in our city. by being creative. thank you, mayor and board and thank you. [applause]

>> good afternoon. i'm bob powers and i'm the general manager at bart. nice to be here. first, let me turn to my left and thank the mayor for her leadership on this prioritizing this initiative with including public transit. there is nothing more powerful in the bart system if you're taking bart to work or taking your family into the city or out, to see two ambassadors in the train walking through the train or on the platform to see two ambassadors walking by, it means a lot. when i'm in the system, that's what i hear first and foremost. madam mayor, thank you for your leadership. we know at bart, nothing goes further than having ambassadors in folks like crisis intervention specialists in the system. i'm joined here as the bart

general manager by two bart directors. billion a year ago bart -- maybe longer -- bart embarked on a placing bureau. really it is so complementary to the vision that the mayor has right now. it has ambassadors in attendance and crisis intervention specialists partnered with sworn officers. i can attest about the concept of a force multiplier. that is what is happening in the bart system right now. and expanding this madam mayor, is going to be transformative. not only to the city and county of san francisco, but all of the bay area. so i compliment your leadership on this and i have numbers here. we just started our elevator --

restroom attendance. since march when we started adding restroom attendance right here, there is an attendant right here. we had over a hundred thousand forecloses using the restrooms and not one call for a sworn officer at those restrooms. talk about a force multiplier, it's very, very powerful. [applause] and our elevator attendance. you want to take the elevator from the street to the bart platform, there is an attendant if there. families coming and folks with mobility challenges. there is somebody in that he elevator, it's safe and clean and convenient. again, i look forward to the partnership, madam mayor, and i think we're on to something here. thank you for your leadership. with that, i'm going to introduce district 6 supervisor matt dorsey.

>> thank you so much. i want to thank you. mayor breed, thank you for your leadership. chief scott, my former boss and i remember being part of the announcement of the program. i was moved when the chief talked about the e-mail he got from a retiree. it reminded me, 20 years ago i went to work for the city attorney's office in san francisco. there is a program where retirees come back. as i get closer to retirement eaj myself, just because premier done with their public service careers doesn't mean they're done giving back. that's one of the things i love about this community program. that is why people respond to positively to it. this is something that's going to add 150 new ambassadors ask attendants all around town town, tenderloin and tourist areas and

high twrask areas. it's going to combine a combination of safety ambassadors, welcome ambassadors and the psas or public service aids that free up staff. i want to give a special shout out. i live in mid market maibd e neighborhood and i think the most popular public servants in the neighborhood is urban alchemy. i say it like -- it's good to have you here. it's not just eyes on the street, it's the welcoming smile and a feeling of safety. only complaint i hear about urban alchemy is we want more of you and 24 hours a day. we are requesting to do everything to empower you and get more of you for longer hours. thank you to everybody for program we are announcing as the

force multiplier of giving back to our city. with that, i'll hand is it off to supervisor mandelman. >> i want to thank the mayor and the chief and each of their teams and all the other folks who w[ñ$/q to make this happen. we foe we have a significant challenge in san francisco in terms of the chief staffing. we're short more than 500 officers. that number is not static. it's growing as officers retire. i think that's one of the biggest challenges that the mayor and board of supervisors have to address in the coming years. the mayor has begun to in the last year's budget. in the meantime, we have public safety challenges now. what i appreciate about the announcement today is that we are not waiting years to recruit new officers, we're figuring out how to use the offices that are we have now most effectively and how to find other people who maying able to do those jobs and get them out.

if your home is broken into, bet getting someone who is not a sworn officer to take the report more quickly so the officer can be on the street in the castro or mission or soma and addressing the needs ever constituents and making residents and tourists feel safer is all for the good. this is smart. glad to be here and express my support and thanks. i'm going to introduce a colleague who i know works every day with her office on some of the challenges that have emerged in the last few years around illegal vending, drug dealing, drug use on the street. awful the challenges that we hope this announcement and drug use -- that we hope this announcement is going to try to kreas. to address. i want to call up supervisor ronan from district 9. [applause] >> thank you so much.

i want to say right now as we speak conditions on the street in the mission district are unacceptable. i want to shout out and thank a couple of people, ryan is here from mission merchant soargs. the small business commission they have been working with us and we have been working with the mayor's office to change that fact. i want to thank urban alchemy -- give them another hand. providing a model along with the mayor that we want to replicate in the mission. we want to return the vibrancy, the beauty, the healthy feeling of the streets of the mission. but we want to do that without criminalizing poverty. without making it more difficult for people that are poor to

survive in the most expensive city in the world. we believe the community ambassador program is the way to do that. bringing people from the community to walk the streets and make sure that the communities are safe, clean, healthy and vibrant is exactly the right strategy. thank you, madam mayor for creating the strategy and investing in more and adding the mission to this important effort. ask thank you urban alchemy and all the incredible workers doing that work successfully every single day. thank you. [applause] now it's my pleasure to introduce orlando white from lincoln. >> good afternoon, everyone. i'm orlando white and i head up community development. at linked in our vision is trade economic opportunity. for us to reach this ambitious

vision we work alongside the community organizations to demonstrate that we're living this vision locally in our own neighborhoods. we've been proud to work alongside mayor breed to support programs for the opportunities that connects young people for employment and job opportunities to learn. we're proud to be a part of this community. the feedback that we have received from our employees is that they love the energy, the vibrancy and atmosphere of this city. they want to have a safe and efficient commute into san francisco. we appreciate mayor breed's commitment today to expand the city ambassador programs. these are a key presence in the city and are an invaluable asset for our employees who live and work here. they're city-owned that this city cares and wants to ensure safe commutes for all of us.

i know that we ats at linked-in are are not o lone in our commitment to the city. we hear from other businesses that they're excited. we're proud to be a part of this great city's future. thank you so much. >> as i said, this is definitely a collaborative effort. it's us coming together to try to address some of the most challenging issues facing our city. but i also want to say what i especially appreciate most with urban alchemy and the downtown ambassadors and union square ambassadors and attendance in bart and retired police officers, from my own personal observation, seeing how they engage with the public and try to be so helpful whether it's

giving someone's direction ors restaurant recommendations or helping someone foo treatment and sadly in some cases helping to reverse their overdose using narcan. these ambassadors are the eyes and ears of the streets, the guardians of the city, they're here to support and protect the public, whatever that means and it it involves a variety of things whatever necessary to keep people safe in san francisco. i'm excited about the opportunity not only to expand it in the downtown and tenderloin but neighborhoods like the mission and west porten and other communities that need it. we ever a great city and a lot of people that want to be a part of it. nothing makes me feel better than when i see one of our ambassadors with love for san francisco talking to someone else and that smile on their

face about telling them about their favorite restaurants or favorite places to go in san francisco. that's the kind of city we're trying to create after coming out of a challenging time of a global pandemic. i want us by wrapping it up, to remember who we are as san franciscans. we've been through challenging times. we are a resilient city. we're at a point where we're getting to zero new h.i.v. infections in san francisco. we've seen freeways collapse and turned them into neighborhoods on the waterfront and community. this is o no different after coming out of a global pandemic. we have an opportunity here to transform our city to make sure that it is clean, that it is safe and that it is vibrant and thriving for everyone who wants to be a part of it. safety has to be at the

forefront of the work we do to get there and i'm so excited and proud to be working with all of the people here joining us today to make that commitment, to make san francisco what we know it can be. thank you all so much for being here today. applause plaza. [applause] ♪♪

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