>> good morning and welcome to rules committee of san francisco board of surprisers for today, monday november 7, 2022. the day before election day. don't forget to vote if you have not already done so, you've got about 30 hours left. i'm the chair of the committee aaron peskin joined by vice chair supervisor mandelman and supervisor connie chan. our clerk is mr. victor young, mr. young, do you have any announcements this morning? >> yes. the board of

supervisors and its committees will convene hybrid meetings that will allow in-person attendance, remote access, and public comment via teleconference. visit the sfgovtv website at (www.sfgovtv.org) to stream the live meetings and watch meetings on demand or watch live meetings on san francisco cable channels 26, 28, 78 or 99 (depending on your provider). members of the public may provide public comment in-person at the above noticed location or remotely via teleconference (detailed instructions available at: https://sfbos.org/remot e-meeting -call) allowed to first and those on the telephone line-the the number is 415-655-0001. and then enter the meeting id of 2 (488) 987-7754 then press pound and pound again. when connected you'll hear the meeting discussion and muted and in listening mode only. when your item interest comes up and public comment is called those in person

should line up to speak and those on the telephone should dial star 3. if on the telephone remember to turn down the television and listening devices. we'll take public comment those in person first and then go to the public comment telephone line. you may submit in writing e-mail them to myself, the rules committee clerk victor.young@sfgov.org. or city hall-that completes my initial comments. >> thank you mr. clerk. could you please read the first item? >> yes, first on the agenda is item 1.

motion approve, the mayor appointment of alex ludlum to successor agency term ending november 3, 2026. >> thank you mr. young. colleagues you recall that we confirmed the mayor's nomination of mr. ludlum to a balance of a term that expired last thursday and he has gotten his feet under him on the successor agency commission. i concur with the mayor as to his reappointment. is mr. ludlum present? >> come on up, alex. >> tell us how the initial term on the redevelopment successor commission has been. what have you learned? >> well, i learned

very much supervisor. i have been parsing budgets and i feel been able to make valuable contributions pointing out where items are of unusual cost. i also i think been a valuable year to the district 6 which i occupy helping with some of the parks in transbay working with the east cut cdb director andrew robinson to advocate for shifting ocii staff attention so that they can meet critical dates which have to do with fundraising and joint ventures with the transbay authority. i feel confident in my contributions to the commission and would

be very pleased to serve another term. >> thank you mr. ludlum. any updates on block 4? >> block 4, none that i believe are official, but you know, we can tell which way the wind is blowing, and i expect ongoing discussions to continue to advance that project. >> and then while i got you here with regard to 706 mission street, which is in said district, i'm pleased to report that i'm not going to have to hold a hearing on their request to extened out their last 3 and $3 and a half million payment because they have agreed to make it by the 31 day of march of 2023, which is acceptable to this supervisor so we will have that affordable housing payment in hand through your

agency in about 5 months. >> yes. if i may, i'll say director was most appreciative of your call to him on the matter. >> excellent. any questions or comments from committee members? seeing none, is there any public comment on item number 1? >> yes. members of the public who wish to speak on the item and joining in person should line up to speak at this time. those remotely please call 415-655-0001 and enter meeting id 2488987754. pound and pound again. press star 3 to enter the speaker line. those in the queue wait until the system indicates you are unmuted. there is nobody in the room for public comment at this time and there is

nobody in line on the telephone for public comment. >> public comment is closed. mr. ludlum, thank you for your service and willingness to continue to serve. i will make a motion to amend the subject. motion by removing the word rejecting in line 3 and word rejects in line 12 and recommend that we snd the item as amended to the full board with a positive recommendation. on that multi-faceted motion, a roll call, please. >> yes, on that motion- [roll call] >> motion passes without objection. >> next item, please. >> next is item number 2. motion approving directing-excuse me, motion approving rejecting the mayor nomination for appointment of mikem

lambert term ending october 8, 2026 to children and family first commission. i was able to verify a rejancy waver is not required for mr. lambert. >> thank you for that and thank you mr. lambert for your willingness to continue service our children and families and for the mayor's putting your name forward. come on up. if there is anything you would like to say, i do have some questions not for you, but really for this panel relative to the motion that is before us that makes representations on the mayor's behalf i'm not willing to make but we can figure that out. that is just a technical issue. >> good morning chair peskin, vice chair mandelman, supervisor chan. thank you so much for your consideration of my appointment to the children and family first commission. as background, tomorrow marks my 30 year working in public

libraries, and i had a charm ed career, in particular since about 1998 i have been working with youth and families to prepare young people 0-5 to enter kindergarten ready to read and learn and succeed in life through my prior experience in san mateo county library i have lots of experience working with first 5. since i have been with city and county of san francisco i served on the our children our families council so i have a lot of experience working in this area, and i would be proud to serve and contribute as best i can in this capacity. i do appreciate the mayor's nomination and i appreciate the board of supervisors consideration of my candidacy. >> seems like a good fit for seat number 5, which requires you to

be a department representative, and thank you again for your service not only to this body but to our libraries. are there any questions or comments from committee members? alright; seeing none, any public comment on this item? >> members who wish to speak on the item and joining in person should line up to speak at this time. for those listening remotely call 415-655-0001, enter meeting id 2 (488) 987-7754 then press pound and pound again. once connected you will need to press star 3 to enter the speaker line. for those already in the queue please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that is your queue to begin comments. f i do not see anybody in the room for public comment and there is one person on the line for public comment. >> first speaker, please. >> can you hear me now? >> please proceed.

>> excellent. david pillpel, good morning. happy to speak in support of michael lambert to the children families first commission. director lambert is a excellent city librarian professional and caring and think he will serve well in this capacity. one of my not sure how to say this-one of my favorite department heads. there are many, but he is one of my favorites. i'm sure you will have to tweak page 1 line 17 to page 2 line 6 to remove the reference to the residency waver, but i would urge you to support and approve the mayor's nomination of michael lambert to the children and families first commission. thanks for listening.

>> are there any additional speakers on item number 2 mr. young? >> there are no additional public commenters for this matter. >> alright. public comment is closed. mr. young-this might take care of my technical problem indicated at the beginning of this item that a residency waver was not required, is that correct? >> yes, can amend it to remove any-remove reference to residency waver. i thought mr. lambert lived in the city but i verified he does live thin city. >> there we go. a department head who lives in the city. alright. in that case, because i was not going to be willing to do the representation on page

2, line 3, subsection 4, because i was not going to say that this board of surprisers exercised due diligence and concluded there was no other possible representative that would be on the mayor, not on this board of supervisors, so i was not go toog do that but it sounds like that matter is mute and i would therefore suggest at line 3 we remove residency requirement waived in the long title. at line 12 and 13 remove the same language, and then eliminate line 17 through-on page 1, through line 6 on page 2 and at line 7 on page 2-actually, we

can remove that entire-we can remove everything on page 2. do you agree madam deputy city attorney? that further moved is only relevant to the residency waver. >> i can verify that myself. the second page regarding the further moved is only language regarding the residency waver. >> yep. i think we can just make those two changes and remove the rest of the motion starting on page 1 at line 17. i mean, you could keep the first 2 representations. i don't know we have to do that. we do not center have to do that so i make a motion to amend the motion by removing everything from line 17 on in the motion

and taking out the residency waived in the long title and remove word rejecting in the long title and remove the word reject at line 12, and send the item as amended to the full board with a positive recommendation on that motion a roll call, please. >> yes, on the motion- [roll call] >> motion passes without objection. >> thank you mr. lambert. do right by our children and our families. next item, please. >> yes, item 3 is hearing consider aopponenting one member term ending october 8, 2026 to children and families first commission. one seat, two applicants. >> thank you mr. clerk. we will hear

from these individuals both of whom are for seat number 7, both of whom would require a residency waver. we'll hear from them in the order they appear on our agenda starting remotely i believe with cesnae crawford and going on to lilli milton. >> good morning everyone. appreciate first of all the flexibility as i deal with covid and recovery from that. thank frz the flexibility and thanks for allowing me to attend remotely. i appreciate it. it is a honor and privilege to be considered for this important role. over the last 25 years i dedicated myself to education and professional experience and supporting diverse communities represented in san francisco. i'm currently the senior

executive directive of urban service ymca committed to children family and communities. in my work i oversee the reflection of the organization which includes our 3 family resource centers within the city county of san francisco. our truancy program, youth development program, wellness and many many more. i had the good fortune to serve community in many ways and come to the recognition without the establishment of relationships and goals of inspiring the voices of community is embedded in everything we do. we will be doing nothing more then making symbolic gestures and not informed action. much of my experience is k-12 non profit justice involved experience. have a proven track record (inaudible) sound evaluation process and

implementation of goals and ideas to completion. given the wide range of services and city wide lens of my work across all populations we serve in san francisco i do believe my experiences would be a great asset to the work ahead. if given the opportunity to serve as a board member i look forward continuing the mission of putting our children and families first in all decision making moving forward. once again, i like to thank the respective board for their time and appreciate the consideration. thank you. >> thank you mr. crawford. now we'll go on to lilli milton. >> good morning. thank you so much supervisor chan, vice chair mandelman and chair peskin. happy to be here. my name is lilli milton and i

along with cesnae am honored to put my application forward for children and families first commission. i sit on the (inaudible) been there over 14 years and hpp is a paramount resource center in the city serving the most vulnerable families focus on pregnant and families 0-5. homeless suvs housing wellness, everything to break the psychof of poverty and further the mission of family resource center. also the core part of fabric in san francisco and implementing integrative family centered services is the parts this is aiming to do so exciting to put forth my application because i feel the opportunity to bring the voices of the providers and families to the board in a dynamic and innovative way is a great opportunity for me and wonderful opportunity for

homeless prenatal. i feel that i bring to the commission an ability to articulate how working together to further the mission of children and families first commission. i feel we have a long way to go in terms of improving our systems and making them more family centered. right now our systems continue to be siloed and while we are a community of great weth we find some of the most core services are underresourced, under staffed and there are a lot of things our community can be doing and commission can be doing and alliance can be doing to further that mission. so, i am thrilled. i think cevnae is a wonderful college and (inaudible) out to the community and make sure the city is putting families first. there are so many systems serving families but not all working together and feel my role on the commission would really create a opportunity for more voice and more integration. thank you for your consideration. >> thank you. are

there any members of the public who would like to comment on this appointment by the board of supervisors to the children and families first commission for seat number 7? >> yes, members of the public who wish to speak on this item and joining in person should line up to speak at this time. for those remotely call 415-655-0001, enter meeting id 24889877754 then press pound and pound again. once connected you need to press star 3 to enter the speaker line. for those already in the queue please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that is your queue to begin comment. there is nobody in the room for public comment at this time and we have one caller on the line for public comment. >> first speaker, please.

>> hello, my name is [difficulty hearing speaker ] i can attest to the fact that he is a fair person and sometimes it takes making hard decisions even though it will anger some people and disappoint, he is able to dothat in a safe and compassionate way. (inaudible) 6 o'clock in the morning he is out there helping set up for community events. (inaudible) saying no we cannot do that, because it isn't for the greater community. i think he would be really good at being fair and compassionate and he brings a lens of being very open-minded and not having tunnel vision. think outside the box to be able to elevate families and

to help them achieve what they are trying to achieve in a way that is very compassionate (inaudible) i live in potrero hill public housing (inaudible) very dear to what he does and is true to his word and very compassionate as well as stand his ground when there is a lot of push-back when people dont want to do something but it is for the greater community (inaudible) i thank you very much for letting me speak and you could not get a better person then cesnae. >> thank you. can we have our next caller, please? >> good morning. thank you so much for the opportunity to speak. i am-my name is (inaudible) and i am calling in support of my colleague ms.

milton. we both work together at (inaudible) i have known her the past all most 7 years and just like to say that i have never worked with a more innovative inspiring and compassionate colleague in my life. i wholeheartedly would support and consideration of ms. milton. thank you so much. >> thank you. that completes our list of public commenters for this matter. >> public comment is closed. i want to thank both of the applicants who are both committed and qualified and want to hear from my colleagues. i would just offer this, which is just looking at the 9 seats, all of which now with mr. lambert

would be occupied, that it is as we seek to balance by gender and ethnicity and other criteria heavily weighted to women and for that reason i would lean towards mr. crawford but would love to hear from my colleagues. supervisor chan. >> thank you chair peskin. >> preston, peskin, it is all good. >> i'm sorry (inaudible) >> i have much more followers on twitter. >> i concur with your sentiment chair peskin and about just overwhelming right now the appointees on this body is women. i also see that there is a vacant seat that is a

mayoral appointment but love to encourage the mayor's office to consider ms.- >> the vacant seat is the seat we just filled with mr. lambert. >> that was number 5? >> which i think would make him the only other male out of 9. >> in deed. okay. >> vice chair mandelman. >> one of the items where i don't love being on the rules committee. both of these candidates are excellent. my staff had the opportunity to talk to mr. crawford. very impressed. we haven't had the opportunity to talk directly to ms. milton but heard very good things about her so i could support either of these applicants.

>> alright. of course there will be future opportunities on this body and other bodies that work for our children and families, so i will make the difficult choice and make a motion to send mr. crawford with a residency waver to the full board with a positive recommendation. on that motion, mr. young a roll call, please. >> yes, on that motion- [roll call] >> motion passes without objection. >> next item, please. >> next on the agenda is item 4, hearing to consider aopponenting one member term ending october 8, 2024 and one member term ending october 8, 2025 to early childhood community oversight advisory committee two seats, four applicants.

>> alright. here is one of those potential opportunities. why don't we hear from the applicants. there are four of them. however, one of them is the only applicant for seat number 9, that is monique guidry not able to attend today but there is only one applicant for that position for which she is qualified and has a specific requirement that it is representative of the child care planning advisory council and so i let her know that we could hear the item today with her absent, which gives us the three remaining applicants for seat number 8, and we'll hear from them in the order they appear. cindy lopez-chastain,

isabela hill, savitha moorthy that requires a residency waver for seat number 8. is cindy lopez here? >> thank you, good morning everyone. thank you so much for permitting me to be online. i'm currently a speech therapist and working in practice today so i'm jumping on this call in between appointments. board of supervisors thank you for your consideration. i am wanting to state very briefly that my passion for early childhood education stems from my professional work of 20 years as a speech therapist in san francisco, but the deeper commitment is born and raised san franciscans myself, first generation immigrant family from

el salvador-as a professional i have been deeply committed and in the groundwork of early childhood supporting not only the children in their speech therapy work with me, but their families, colleagues and develop my own program in the connection in 2008. as response to working in the school systems and seeing a huge need for our spanish speaking families, our families of color and families of low income to receive and access services in the community in a timely manner and a way that worked for them. since 2008, i have done not only that work as a practice, but created teams, worked in countless child care programs, preschool centers, collaborated with non profit agencies, the school districts, the golden gate regional

center to name a few and in that time i not only provided the direct service to children and families and professional, but also developed different programs and different models to provide screenings for children, early intervention approaches and favorite part of the work is working inside the community to like the other colleagues said, to integrate our systems and stop working in silos, which has been something to the detriment of our community in early childhood. i come to you today just to share my passion and to want to bring my expertise, my commitment, my stories every day lessens i have from families and colleagues to bring to the table to work together with the city, with the board of supervisor, with committees to come up with solutions because i have been working

pre-pandemic, during pandemic and now at this recovery stage of the pandemic with the families that need it the most and i want to be able to come up with solutions that all integrate together. >> thank you. next we'll go to isabela hill. good morning. >> hello, supervisors. my name is isabela hill also a born and raised san franciscans and so exciting to be in the room and participating in the process. a early childhood educator 10 years and working in the classroom at c5 children school next door in the state buildsing. the call to action came during the pandemic when i was on unemployment and making more money then i had been as a

full time teacher in the classroom. if up to me i would be a pree school teacher for the rest of my lif, but that seems unrealistic in the current economic environment of our city. my career depends on creating a more sustainable future for educators in the city. this is such an inspiring and hopeful time to be involved in early (inaudible) move to universal preschool and i'm so in ah of the advocacy the city members of this committee have done to get us to this point. however, i believe i would be-if on the committee i would be the only one currently working in the classroom. as someone working in the classroom i can speak to lived experience how policies and funding impact educators and families. experience first hand the economic social cultural realties working and the first point of contact for children and caregivers in the

community. in order to provide recommendations and expanding early childhood programs in a way equitable high quality and sustainable i believe it is essential to have teachers in the field represented. my goal is advocate for policies that (inaudible) diverse qualified early childhood edge s who empower the communities they serve. thank you for your time. >> thank you ms. hill and thank you for your work and sorry that it is not compensated as it should be in this society, but we have tried i go back 20years and it was-we did child care plus and all sorts of things and yet it has fallen behind again. >> we very much appreciate the cares program that has been a tremendous boom to us and so excited to see what changes continue to be implemented. >> thank you. next we'll go to savitha

moorthy. good morning. >> good morning. good morning, rules committee. i'm so so honored to be here so thank you so much for having me here and giving me the opportunity to talk to you about my application and interest in serving on the early childhood citizen advisory oversight advisory committee. over the last 2 decades, my work has been in early childhood education. i have been a etch toer, researcher and non profit leader. my story and my history with early childhood education is personal. i wasn't able to attend college directly after high school so i took a vocational course. i worked entry level jobs thin service industry for 3 years and then facing burn-out in early 20's and took up a job as paraprofessional in a early childhood classroom and it

changed my life. it lead me to complete my college degree, get teaching credential. teached in the clasroom a decade and go on to grad school and work as a researcher and end up where i am today. because of my diverse experiences as a parent, as a educator, as researcher, non profit leader i'm familiar with the field of early childhood education, variety of learning context. the preschool classroom, head start agencies, family child care homes, family resource centers and parent of young child and because of this history this work is personal to me. the child is the center of my work and i'm passionate promoting high quality urldy childhood experiences and the urgency to do that for marginalized communities so all children arrive in kindergarten ready to learn. i'm the executive director of

(inaudible) early learning. we are small but think mighty non profit working at the intersection of social justice and early childhood education. we serve about 7,000 children and families in the city and county of san francisco so our programming is present in every preschool and transitional class room in san francisco unified. we serve all the major head start agencies, we partner with 101 family child care homes and several family resource centers. i bring this up because i don't live in san francisco and i need a residency waver but i assure through my work i'm closely connected to this community and care so deeply about it. i made it is a point and priority to be present and to build deep relationships with partners and families. i attend community meetings, community events, support programming and really hands on way. i'm seated on the child care planning advisory council through supervisor chan office and serve on the board

of directors for the third street youth center and clinic lead by my wonderful colleague joy jackson morgan and offer this as additional evidence of my commitment and connectiveness to the city of san francisco. thank you so--you're in a tough position because you have three amazing chan candidates to choose from so don't envy the decision you have to make but honored and humbled i got to be here today and tell about myself and work we do. thank you for your time. >> thank you for your presentation and thank you for your work and for your applying this morn ing. why don't we go to public comment mr. young? >> yes are. members of the public who wish to speak on this item and joining in person should line up to speak at this time. for those listening remotely call 415-655-0001 enter id

24889 aket 77754 and 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 indicated you are unmuted and that is your queue to begin comment. there is nobody in the room for public comment at this time. just checking, and there is nobody on the telephone line for public comment at this time. >> okay. public comment is closed. this is a tough decision. i will note that there are no men on this body. there does not appear to be any-but could be wrong asian nor latinx representation on this body, which is 9 seats. nor does there appear to be any representation from somebody with current lived experience, so there you have it. comments from committee members? i'm at a loss with

three perfectly qualified candidates. supervisor chan. >> um-yeah, i think that it is a very challenging decision. i'm looking at purely-i always really just want to thank of course our d1 appointee, savitha moorthy for her service across. i think it is a great opportunity for someone like a educator like isabela hill and bringing the perspective educator to the body. it is a tough decision, but it is definitely great to have someone who is bilingual and understanding having cultural and language competency to one of

the largest community in need of early childhood services in the city and typically just from my experience with children council, that is a great need in a city like ours when child care cost is extremely high for immigrant and community that are mono lingual. we have some decision before us. i am probably in a space where leaning toward an educator like isabela hill for this reason because the lack of educators perspective while seeing that ms. moorthy has been involved in many other bodies related to child care already. that is probably where i'm leaning towards. >> i should note that

ms. lopez chastain chimed in online, that she too is a practicing educator in classrooms and home based work for the committee edification. vice chair mandelman. >> thank you chair peskin. i also have a very hard time with this decision. i will say i heard positive things about supervisor chan's appointee, mrs. moorthy. and beyond that i'm not sure i have a ton to contribute. >> alright. sure is great being chair, isn't it? colleagues, for a number of reasons i am going to suggest

that we make a tough decision and i will suggest cindy lopez chastain for seat 8 and monique guidry for seat 9. supervisor chan. >> i do want to actually speak on monique guidry for seat 9. i want to say i know her for a very long time, two decades now, and she has been dedicated in this work and she has alongside-her service does reside in district 7 alongside with former board president norman yee have done a lot of work around child care so i know her work speaks for itself and it is the reason why i did not question the fact that while she is not physically present and make a presentation i know her work a long time so more than happy to

appoint her for seat 9. because again all three legally qualified in outstanding candidates i think i respect chair peskin's decision for seat 8 with cindy lopez-chastain. thank you. >> again, as i said in the last item, there will be other and are more opportunities for your expertise and involvement. mr. clerk, please call the roll on that motion for item number 4. >> yes are. on the motion to appoint cindy lopez-chastain to seat 8 and monique guidry to seat 9- [roll call] >> motion passes without objection. >> next item for i don't know, 4, 5 time.

>> item time ordinance amending the administrative code to require the board supervisors approval of policy governing the funding acquisition and use of certain law enforcement equipment consistent with the criteria set forth in state law and approving the police department use of equipment policy. >> i want to thank you and public and police department for your patience as we heard this repeatedly. the good news is the department has evolved their ab481 military equipment policies largely in line with the comments that i made a couple weeks ago . i don't know if i'm the only one, but i generally delve into these things on sunday evening and by the time i delve through

the entire grid that the police department provided us late last week, maybe friday or so, it was like 10 o'clock and i thought too late to call the pd and start negotiating. so, i want to make some comments based on the responses and i think we are all in receipt of this fine good work the department for laying it all out and you can see who made the suggestion, which is largely me. some from the pd, and you can see that some of them were accepted in whole and some accepted in part and some declined in whole. but a lot of progress, and this is a first time that any of us are doing this.

i actually noted that this is a law that was sponsored by our now city attorney and former state assembly member david chu so if we want legislative intent we can walk down the hall and find out first person. with that, what i like to do is just go through some thoughts that i jotted down last night too late to call and then i have arranged for a meeting between myself and the department on wednesday morning to discuss these at length and then hopefully we can finally, we are past the 180 day deadline but we are not the only in the state of california to be wrestling with this.

so, in order that they appear on this-i note that as it relates to robots, the-i asked a question at a previous meeting whether or not robots could be used for deadly force. the department has responded that yes, they can under prescribed limited circumstances, so i think that is a question for us relative to ab481 whether or not we agree with that, so we can-that's something-this would be a good opportunity because we cannot talk about this off-line, if you have any sentiments as to that you might want to express them during the course of this meeting. there was relative-this is r3 page number 5.

whether or not it should be command staff which is what i recommended the department suggested commissioned officers which are lieutenant or above. i note that oakland i believe in their policy they are a little ahead of us, landed i think on command staff could only authorize deployment in these instances. something to think about and discuss. as to the bear cat, i guess the question that i was left with is, really defining what is a high risk tactical situation. i think we all have a sense of it, but it is not for the sake of the policy defined. obviously i

think we all want de-escalation when ever and where ever policy. i think the policy speaks to the fact that de-escalation is deemed to be futile, but anyway that's some food for thought. jumping all the way to my favorite device, the l rad. it's actually you included language which i appreciate that said it would not be used for crowd control, and so i think that in authorized use we should say that isn't a authorized use because this-i just restating what you guys were saying, but we can figure that out

wednesday. and by the way, there also is and not yet looked into this another new california law, i think ab48 we need to look at in light of l-rad. we can talk about that further on wednesday. jumping to specialized fire arms. i think the city attorney said that can be deleted in entirety or not. that is a policy call for us. any thoughts that colleagues have as to whether or not we want to delete that, speak now. that does not mean you need to forever hold your piece. but it is a place where we have a opportunity again to emphasize and speak to de-escalation if it is in the policy whereas, if we make the line call say and it is not in the policy those words don't is a

place. i lean towards keeping it in the policy, which is our call. jumping to r24, i are think we have ab48 questions, which we need to get our arms around and figure out. r26, i just have some questions about destruction of property as it relates to the definition of exigent circumstances. i am reluctant to -unless it is better defined say that destruction of property could trigger

. i mean, if a person is smashing a window which is not good, i don't know that it's okay to shoot them, but i'm not saying you would do that, i'm saying the way destruction of property is listed in here gives me pause. >> we (inaudible) rise to hostile crowds where barricades are being broken, vehicles broken and buses taken over, things lit on fire. talking large destruction of property. >> i think if we say that mass scale-we saw what happened in the nation capital with barricades and destruction of property so i get it so maybe this requires language tweaking. then, the-i think this gets me pretty much

maybe through it. the restocking at $10 million which happens to be the section 9.118 threshold where you have to come anyway, we need to discuss that. and then i think ab481 specifically does require and i put the language in and you guys took it out, that it has to identify an independent oversight body. i identify the board of supervisors which seemed to be for ab481 was pointing. i think it has to identify, i think that is clear in the law so don't think-we can have a different oversight agency, but i think you can't strike that language is the way i read the law. not an attorney. >> we are talking restocking section? >> no, this is r28.

>> i can- >> complaints and sanction. police commission is fold under to that in terms of compliance of member compliance. police commission is already folded into any discipline action along with the chief, so if we are talking about compliance with the government codes, 771d i believe, i think we already acknowledge the board of supervisors would be that governing body. >> okay, if you can show me where, maybe we are good. >> we added a section at the last page, page 20. >> page 20. >> essentially folded it into the annual report. not the compliance section, which just says it is the board of supervisors within their purview to oversee compliance of that government code section.

>> we can quival about this. i see section 6, i still don't think it has the magic words of who is is the ultimate oversight authority, but-we can also talk to council about whether i'm right or not in the reading of ab481. or i can just go ask david chu. amazing that david chu was able to get this passed in assembly but automated speed enforcement still can't be passed. this isn't a comment on the pd, this is amount comment on the state legislator. i can't figure out the state legislature but what do i know i'm been a city council member for the last 20

years. that is--i reserve my right to bring up anything else wednesday but that is it at a high level and colleagues if you want to add, subtract, go for it. if not why don't we open this item number 5 up to public comment? and to members of the public, i will include in the file as we did previously the most recent grid that the pd supplied to members of this committee on friday so peepical look a-people can look at it in the intervening week. >> i did post that earlier this morning into legistar. >> excellent. one last thing for me to give you. >> memberoffs the public who would like to speak and joining in person should line up to speak now a-for

those listening remotely call 415-655-o001 enter id 248889877754 and pound and pound again. press star 3 to enter the speaker line. those in the queue continue to wait until the system indicates you are unmuted and that is your queue to begin comment. we have person-in the room for public comment. you have two minutes for public comment. >> hi. my name is author cocha member of the san francisco friends meeting serving on the peace and social concern committee. we have a quaker meeting house on south 9th street, 65 south 9th street. so, i'm here to represent the meeting. asking the board to call for further amendment of the proposed military equipment policy. to fully define authorized use for all weapons, especially assault weapons. i

object to assault weapons considered standard issue as well as machine guns. i think they should be in the inventory and think they should be accounted for. we need to align receipt of annual reports and budgets. require transparency and restocking. note blank checks up to $10 million. that is a lot of money not to keep track of. as quaker pacifist i don't think the sfpd should have so many weapons of war. we are a city of peace, not military. i think the proposed policy is morally and ethically wrong. this policy does want safeguard the public welfare safety civil rights or civil liberties and ab481 requires governing bodies to only approve the use of the policy if it safeguard the public welfare safety civil rights and civil

liberties. i visit a friend in visitation valley a couple yires ago, one of the poorest neighborhoods in san francisco and witness willinary star armored vehicle making a (inaudible) shocking and out of proportion like it was different realty then other neighborhoods in san francisco. i was more afraid of the police then the poverty and crime that surrounding me. briefing devices should not be deployed against a person and only used- >> your speaker time elapsed. >> can i make one last statement? >> please wrap up. >> military equipment is more frequently deployed in low income black and brown communities meaning the risks impacts of police militarization are experienced most acutely in marginalized community. thank you for the opportunity. >> thank you fl for your comments. any additional members of the public for comment

on item 5? >> no additional parties thin room we can move to call in phone number where we have 6 members in line. >> first speaker, please. >> can you hear me now? >> please proceed. >> great. david pillpel again. on this item, in yes victor did upload the department's submission this morning. that is great, but also in attachment 21 the committee packet should have today date and has last week. it is better for the police to have some of this equipment and not use it then to not have it and need it in the event of some event that requires it. that's where i fall on the acquisition or holding the equipment. my understanding is that

this doesn't change what the police has, it just makes the list of that equipment publicly transparent and extent govern its use in a way that did not exist before, so it is really more about transparency then additional pension militarization of the police. i hope the sheriff department policy pending before this committee and any other ab481 policy gets similar scrutiny to the police department's. thanks for listening. >> thank you. can we have our next caller? >> hi. this is jennifer (inaudible) work for the american friend service committee. calling to urge this committee to include assault rifles in this policy. the public deserves to know the fiscal impact of sfpd15 machine

guns, 64 submachine guns, 608 assault rifles (inaudible) use of assault rifles lead to deaths thin city including this year automatic fire weapons are indiscriminate. the public deserves to give input how such deadly weapons would be used and that is provided by ab481. i also urge this committee to consider setting the annual report receipts occur in the spring. the new law ab481 requires reporting on the total annual cost for each type of military equipment and that includes not just the acquisition cost but also personnel training maintenance and more. these are outlined. that means that sfpd needs to be able to answer questions that account for personnel cost especially around training and maintenance. these questions include things like how many personnel devoted on training for each weapon? what was the

cost of the personnel time? how many hours devoted towards cleaning rifles and guns? towards cleaning maintenance on every weapon that is described? were any of these questions done at overtime rate? by setting a due date for the annual report in the spring this will not only better align with the annual budget process for the city,b it will help sfpd to identify the changes it needs to take in the record keeping practices and work with a (inaudible) more able to fully deliver on the requirements. thank you. >> thank you. can we have our next caller, please? >> hello? >> hi, please proceed. >> hi. my name is john lensy pollen with the american friends service and my comment

is very brief. the proposal from sfpd to make a fully automatic machine gun and submachine guns a standard issue and therefore exempt from ab481 requirement for use policy and reporting on those weapons is totally unique in the state. there are many other departments and i should say american friends service committee has reviewed more then a hundred police department and sheriff policies for ab481 including their use of fire arms and whether they classify as assault weapons as fire arms. the vast majority more then 90 percent of police department and sheriff offices include assault weapons semi-automatic rifles in the use policy for ab481. some even say

we consider this standard issue, but we in interest of transparency will include this. there is one department where the legislative body governing body said you didn't include assault rifles, we want you to include it which is under ab481 part of the authority of the governing body to say okay, this does not include in ab481 by law but we want you to include it and san francisco has the ability to do that. on the issue of machine gun and submachine gun there are many departments that have such fire arms such weapons. none of them have classified as standard issue. every single department i'm aware of that has those type of fire arms included them in the ab481 policy. it is atrocious that this department would attempt to classify these weapons as standard issue and exclude them- >> thank you your time

elapsed. thank you very much. can we have our next caller, please? >> speaking for progressive labor party. hello everyone. let's cut to the chase. part -what are the police for? it isn't stop crime or protect us. (inaudible) the police kill us with impunity, bust down our doors, stop and search us, they break up our demonstrations, they spy on us, they are basically a hired killers to keep a tiny ruling class in power. now they want military weapons. why? well, millions are becoming homeless. our kids don't have enough food, schools are chaos or prisons, can't get health care, cant afford food or gas and now preparing for a war with russia and china that will

get our social services. the police want military weapons because the bosses are afraid of massive rebellion and they are right, we will rebel but we need it go beyond rebellion. we need a (inaudible) not have to fight the same battles over and over and over again. elections will not do it. we can do it. all of these fights today against militarizing the police against school closings, against evictions they can bring us together and teach us how to fight. let's keep our eye on the prize driving out the bosses with working class revolution. thank you. >> thank you. can we have our next caller, please? >> good morning, this is regina (inaudible) women international league for peace and

freedom. (inaudible) have already talked about issues i was going to raise, so i'm going to focus on a couple other things. one is i want to thank chair peskin for continuing this item. continuing to dialogue with the police department to get more specific information into this policy and the board is going to make policy decisions that are important to this ordinance. we need more definitions of the [audio cut out] >> (inaudible) >> available to us early enough so we actually could review that and i fallowed very easily the comments made by chair peskin, because of

that document. i will look forward to seeing the responses after wednesday's meeting with the police department. i would like you to ask the police department about two other items. one, is there $10 million figure. as you mentioned that is kind of standard so it really needs to be a smaller amount. i still think it is a great idea to have a earlier report along the budget cycle starting in beginning of the year up to march, so that we have early indication how this policy is playing out in terms of a annual report. so, those are basically the things-you have my written comments for more detail. appreciate that you are taking the time to make sure that we get a policy that is the one that the city deserves as a city of peace and that i know

we are past the deadline, but it is more important to get it right. thank you. >> thank you. >> can we have our next caller, please? >> hello, my name is paul riley, and i live in san francisco in district 10. i represent all of us (inaudible) i ask the board of supervisors to call for further amendment of the proposed military equipment use policy (inaudible) authorized use for all weapons especially assault weapons. these weapons have historically been misused. i ask the board to examine the continuous sequence of policies which lead to the assault upon unknowing african

american community. restrictive covenants make a heavy presence of police in the neighborhood to make sure people stayed within these boundaries and this goes all the way back to the killing of matthew johnson, a 15 year old unarmed boy in hunters point. i heard the supervisor mention destruction of property, (inaudible) was murdered. the mayor at the time john selly authorized state (inaudible) violence against the entire community using military equipment. i was not alive at the time but grew up in the neighborhood with tanks driving around, being used against the community. i grew up in a neighborhood where ar15 were pointed at me telling me to go inside the house. i please ask the board to look at this matter because it will impact the entire community which i live

in. thank you. >> thank you. can we have our next caller? >> yes. good morning. tracey (inaudible) from open privacy from the media alliance. good morning again and thanks for the work that has been done so so far. i wanted to express three quick concerns. number one, the restocking fee at $10 million, that is a large amount of money, and potentially could represent a significant increase in volume, so we would ask you to look at lowering that number. secondly, assembly 48 which passed in the same year as assembly bill 481, restricts the use of chemical weapons, flash bags, bean bags and those kind of things in

crowd control. it significantly restricts it and we ask you to integrate these policies with ab48. lastly, i believe that currently we have robots authorized for deadly force which could be used to remote control kill someone. this is what oakland considered and sort of stepped back from, because it is really scary, and i would ask that san francisco also consider stepping back from having that kind of equipment authorized for basically remote control killing. so, thank you and have a good day. >> thank you. can we have our next caller, please? >> hello. my name is (inaudible) buller. i'm a community

activist of many years. i pointed out and read the law if enforcement equipment use of policy and recommended edits of ab481 and interested to heard the comments made before me and i want to say i appreciate greatly the hard work that supervisor peskin has done in dealing with what is put before him. i want to say that i find this a bazaar way to deal with our fear of the other. we at present in our community and our nation are faced with a lot of unrest and to over-react to that by way of allowing expenditures to the police department that can result in serious harm to members of our

public is really unthinkable. so, i (inaudible) i support the use of the funds used to supply and to -use of any military weapons for-instead use for social services and unmet community needs. furthermore, i would like the proud city of san francisco to send a message to the federal government legislators, the weapons manufacturers, u.s. military, the police force itself and general public that we do not want or need military weapons to handle our civic affairs and prefer to use the funds for police training in

community relations, non violent interventions and management of law enforcement and in addition meeting community needs. thank you for your attention and i wish you all great luck. >> thank you. can we have our next caller, please? >> (inaudible) my god. so, first off, we always have a bunch of people that don't live in san francisco that want to come on and advocate for what is going on in san francisco. you need to stop that. number 2, the police-there are lot of good police officers. i had seen them last night (inaudible) deal compassionately and not with assault rifles. (inaudible) when you are saying that the criminals are taking over the streets, you need to

look at why are we not holding other agencies account able for the work they are supposed to be doing? i think there should be a medium in there for assault rifles and at the same time held accountable. the (inaudible) it ends up here in our community. i mean, they have all these stuff up there and on january 6 when they had the insurrection (inaudible) because they were a lot of white people. one person got shot. (inaudible) black lives matter and they were doing peaceful protest so therefore we can't take away everything from the police to do their job. at the same time you can't give them everything- [difficulty hearing speaker due to audio quality]

for the work they are supposed to be doing (inaudible) their job for mental health to call the police and then do it in a compassionate way. we need to find a medium and stop allowing people that do not live in san francisco, white people that dont live in san francisco to speak up for san francisco when it is not for us in the first place. it will cause more harm to our communities (inaudible) that's my two cents of the whole thing- >> your time elapsed. thank you. that was our last caller for public comment. >> okay. public comment for today at least is closed, and colleagues as previously discussed i make a motion to continue this to our meeting of november 14. on that motion, a roll call, please. >> yes, on the motion to continue the matter to november 14-

[roll call] motion passes without objection. >> alright. next and last item please. see you wednesday. >> next on the agenda is item 6. ordinance amending the campaign governmental conduct code to update the conflict of interest code form 700 filing requirements by adding deleting and changing titles of certain designated officials and employees to reflect organizational and staffing changes and by refining disclosure requirements for certain designated officials and employees. >> alright. we have been asked by the department of human resources that is still meeting and conferring to continue this item to the 12 day of december, but meanwhile, we have a few amendments to discuss that i will pull up here in a

minute. i got from president walton's office that seem to be relatively de minimis in nature but require continuance anyway. added 1 position to city attorney office restoring the two disclosures from fine art museum and city administrator. adding the refuse rate board to (inaudible) and a new section 3.1-397 as the-i have a couple questions we can figure out between now and december 12 as it relates to the refuse rate administrator on page 17, which sets the rate administrator-this was at the suggestion of the controller as a disclosure category 2,

and i think we should think about whether that should be a disclosure category 1. the way it is currently written, the refuse rate administrator when that individual is retained by the city pursuant to proposition f of last june, would only have to disclose their investments and positions in a business entity which is engaged in the refuse business in san francisco. i found that maybe to be too narrow. to the extent that there is every competition in this arena as it relates to refuse other then by recumbent recology provider it seems to me this individual

should have to disclose any relations with any refuse business regardless whether they have business in san francisco or not. so, madam deputy city attorney, i assume we can take this up with the controller and deal with it in the interim. >> deputy city attorney ann pearson. yes the controller office has recommended the designation and they can explain why they went with the 2 instead of 1. as to the issue about disclosures related to interest outside the jurisdiction, this is drafted to conform or operationalize the political format and that state law requires disclosures of financial interest within a jurisdiction. so, all of disclosures respect within the jurisdiction. that is why this is drafted the way it is. the board could certainly decide this is a position that should

make additional disclosures above and beyond those required by state law, but that would probably need to be codified elsewhere. >> alright. thank you for that. the only other thing which is super nit-picky that i'll add is just i never heard-this is page 18 of a director of public space regeneration. what is that? this is not exactly rhetorical question, but i wouldn't mind hearing from the economic workforce development office what that is. there is some other goofy new titles. deputy director of community economic development invest in neighborhoods. i guess maybe we knew that, but public space regeneration, what is that? are there any members of the public who like to testify on

this item? >> yes, members of the public who wish to speak on this item and joining in person can line up to speak at this time. for those listening remotely call 415-655-0001 and enter id24889 aket 77754 and pound and pound again. once connected you need to press 3 to enter the speaker line. for those already in the queue please continue to wait until the system indicates you run muted and that is your queue to begin comments. there are no members in the room. we have one caller on the line for public comment at this time. can we have our first caller? >> great. david pillpel, one of my favorite tasks to go through. throughout i think generic titles like manager 1, manager 3 can be more specific. some departments have that, others don't. i don't understand why a

number of policy and communication positions are category 1 and not category 2 where that exists. it seems they would have limited ability to make decisions that implicate coi issues. very specific airport, page 4-11 i would use divisions because the airport is large and it is difficult to figure which positions if they are not set up by division. the controller, page 18, i don't understand the reference to these prop q whatever it is instigator positions. i think that could be better explained or more specific. dem page 19, i would use divisions. there are too many abbreviations with respect to dem about (inaudible) some of us know what that means but it is not particularly clear. page 22, 918 may not deed division since it

is so small and there is reference to new positions on one line i think could be struck. dhr, page 34, lines 10 and 11, again, prop q positions. puc, page 39 to 50. again, i would use divisions. this is proposing to collapse all that. saf, page 56-58. i don'ts think the lower level positions need to be category 1. that seems inconsistent with other departments and perhaps inconsistent with their responsibilitiess and finally, ocii page 59, line 2, i believe the sub-a in parenthesis at the beginning can be deleted. if you want to advise if there is someone i should follow up with on these specifics i'm happy to communicate that and look forward to the further hearing on this in december. thanks. >> thank you. any other members for this item? >> no additional callers for this matter. >> alright. to the speaker, if you want

to put that in an e-mail and send it to the clerk of this committee, he will dissiminate it to the appropriate parties. public comment is closed. i will make a motion to adopt the amendments circulated by nattily gee on behalf of president walton and make one other additional amendment at page 17 at section 3.1-195 to change the refuse rate administrator from disclosure category 2 to disclosure category 1. and on that double amendment or two amendments in one, a roll call please. >> on the motion to

amend-- [roll call] >> motion passes without objection. >> alright. and then depending on what the voters decide tomorrow, we may or may not on december 12 take out the reference to the department of streets and sanitation, but we'll figure that out tomorrow night or december 12, which ever comes first. i make a motion to continue the item as amended to december 12. >> motion to continue to december 12- [roll call] >> the motion passes without objection. >> we are adjourned. [meeting adjourned]

>> everything is done in-house. i think it is done. i have always been passionate about gelato. every single slaver has its own recipe. we have our own -- we move on from there. so you have every time a unique experience because that slaver is the flavored we want to make. union street is unique because of the neighbors and the location itself. the people that live around here i love to see when the street is full of people. it is a little bit of italy that is happening around you can walk around and enjoy shopping with gelato in your hand. this is the move we are happy to provide to the people. i always love union street

because it's not like another commercial street where you have big chains. here you have the neighbors. there is a lot of stories and the neighborhoods are essential. people have -- they enjoy having their daily or weekly gelato. i love this street itself. >> we created a move of an area where we will be visiting. we want to make sure that the area has the gelato that you like. what we give back as a shop owner is creating an ambient lifestyle. if you do it in your area and if you like it, then you can do it on the streets you like.

>> there is a lot of unique

characteristics about visitation valley. it is a unique part of the city. >> we are off in a corner of the city against the san francisco county line 101 on one side. vis station valley is still one of the last blue color neighborhoods in san francisco. a lot of working class families out here. it is unusual. not a lot of apartment buildings. a lot of single family homes. >> great business corridor. so much traffic coming through here and stopping off to grab coffee or sandwich or pick up food before going home. >> a lot of customers are from the neighborhood. they are painters or mechanics. they are like blue color workers, a lot of them. >> the community is lovely. multi-racial and hopefully we can look out for each other. >> there is a variety of businesses on the block.

you think of buffalo kitchen, chinese food, pork buns, sandwich. library, bank of america with a parking lot. the market where you can grab anything. amazing food choices, nail salons. basically everything you need is here. >> a lot of these businesses up and down leland are family owned. people running them are family. when you come here and you have an uncle and nephew and go across the street and have the guy and his dad. lisa and her daughter in the dog parlor and pam. it is very cool. >> is small businesses make the neighborhood unique. >> new businesses coming. in mission blue, gourmet chocolate manufacturing. the corridor has changed and is continuing to change. we hope to see more businesses

coming in the near future. >> this is what is needed. first, stay home. unless it is absoluteliness scary. social distancing is the most important step right now to limit spread of virus. cancel all nonessential gather everythings. >> when the pandemic litly land avenue suffered like other corridors. a few nail salons couldn't operate. they shut down. restaurants that had to adapt to more of a take out model. they haven't totally brought back indoor seating. >> it is heartbreaking to see the businesses that have closed down and shut because of the pandemic. >> when the pandemic first hit

it got really slow. we had to change our hours. we never had to close, which is a blessing. thank god. we stayed open the whole time. >> we were kind of nervous and anxious to see what was going to come next hoping we will not have to close down. >> during covid we would go outside and look on both sides of the street. it looked like old western town. nobody on the street. no cars. >> it was a hard eight or nine months. when they opened up half the people couldn't afford a haircut. >> during that time we kept saying the coffee shop was the living room of the valley. people would come to make sure they were okay. >> we checked on each other and patronized each other. i would get a cup of coffee, shirt, they would get a haircut. >> this is a generous and kind

community. people would be like i am getting the toffee for the guy behind me and some days it went on and on. it was amazing to watch. we saw a perfect picture of community. we are all in this together. >> since we began to reopen one year later, we will emerge stronger. we will emerge better as a city because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. >> when we opened up august 1st. i will not say it was all good. we are still struggling due to covid. it affected a lot of people. >> we are still in the pandemic right now. things are opening up a little bit. it is great to have space to come together. i did a three painting series of visitation valley and the

businesses on leland. it felt good to drop off the paintings and hung them. >> my business is picking up. the city is opening up. we have mask requirements. i check temperatures. i ask for vaccination card and/or recent test. the older folks they want to feel safe here. >> i feel like there is a sense of unity happening. >> what got us through the pandemic was our customers. their dogs needed groomed, we have to cut their nails so they don't over grow. >> this is only going to push us forward. i sense a spirit of community and just belief in one another. >> we are trying to see if we can help all small businesses around here. there is a cannabis club lounge next to the dog parlor to bring foot traffic. my business is not going to work

if the business across the street is not getting help. >> in hit us hard. i see a bright future to get the storefronts full. >> once people come here i think they really like it. >> if you are from san francisco visit visitation valley to see how this side of the city is the same but different.

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>> president yee: of the 26 neighborhoods we have in west portal, it's probably the most unique in terms of a small little town. you can walk around here, and it feels different from the rest of san francisco. people know each other. they shop here, they drink wine here. what makes it different is not only the people that live here, but the businesses, and without all these establishments, you wouldn't know one neighborhood from the other. el toreador is a unique restaurant. it's my favorite restaurant in san francisco, but when you look around, there's nowhere else that you'll see decorations like this, and it makes you feel like you're in a different world, which is very symbolic of west portal itself. >> well, the restaurant has been here since 1957, so we're

going on 63 years in the neighborhood. my family came into it in 1987, with me coming in in 1988. >> my husband was a designer, and he knew a lot about art, and he loved color, so that's what inspired him to do the decorations. the few times we went to mexico, we tried to get as many things as we can, and we'd bring it in. even though we don't have no space, we try to make more space for everything else. >> president yee: juan of the reasons we came up with the legacy business concept, man eel businesses were closing down for a variety of reasons. it was a reaction to trying to keep our older businesses continuing in the city, and i

think we've had some success, and i think this restaurant itself is probably proof that it works. >> having the legacy business experience has helped us a lot, too because it makes it good for us because we have been in business so long and stayed here so long. >> we get to know people by name, and they bring their children, so we get to know them, also. it's a great experience to get to know them. supervisor yee comes to eat at the restaurant, so he's a wonderful customer, and he's very loyal to us. >> president yee: my favorite dish is the chile rellenos. i almost never from the same things. my owner's son comes out, you

want the same thing again? >> well, we are known for our mole, and we do three different types of mole. in the beginning, i wasn't too familiar with the whole legacy program, but san francisco, being committed to preserve a lot of the old-time businesses, it's important to preserve a lot of the old time flavor of these neighborhoods, and in that capacity, it was great to be recognized by the city and county of san francisco. >> i've been here 40 years, and i hope it will be another 40

>> this is a huge catalyst for change. >> it will be over 530,000 gross square feet plus two levels of basement. >> now the departments are across so many locations it is hard for them to work together and collaborate and hard for the customers to figure out the different locations and hours of operation. >> one of the main drivers is a one stopper mitt center for -- permit center. >> special events. we are a one stop shop for those three things. >> this has many different uses throughout if years. >> in 1940s it was coca-cola

and the flagship as part of the construction project we are retaining the clock tower. the permit center is little working closely with the digital services team on how can we modernize and move away from the paper we use right now to move to a more digital world. >> the digital services team was created in 2017. it is 2.5 years. our job is to make it possible to get things done with the city online. >> one of the reasons permitting is so difficult in this city and county is really about the scale. we have 58 different department in the city and 18 of them involve permitting. >> we are expecting the residents to understand how the departments are structured to navigate through the permitting processes. it is difficult and we have heard that from many people we interviewed.

our goal is you don't have to know the department. you are dealing with the city. >> now if you are trying to get construction or special events permit you might go to 13 locations to get the permit. here we are taking 13 locations into one floor of one location which is a huge improvement for the customer and staff trying to work together to make it easy to comply with the rules. >> there are more than 300 permitting processes in the city. there is a huge to do list that we are possessing digital. the first project is allowing people to apply online for the a.d.u. it is an accessory dwelling unit, away for people to add extra living space to their home, to convert a garage or add something to the back of the house. it is a very complicated permit. you have to speak to different departments to get it approved.

we are trying to consolidate to one easy to due process. some of the next ones are windows and roofing. those are high volume permits. they are simple to issue. another one is restaurant permitting. while the overall volume is lower it is long and complicated business process. people struggle to open restaurants because the permitting process is hard to navigate. >> the city is going to roll out a digital curing system one that is being tested. >> when people arrive they canshay what they are here to. it helps them workout which cue they neat to be in. if they rant to run anker rapid she can do that. we say you are next in line make sure you are back ready for your appointment. >> we want it all-in-one location across the many

departments involved. it is clear where customers go to play. >> on june 5, 2019 the ceremony was held to celebrate the placement of the last beam on top of the structures. six months later construction is complete. >> we will be moving next summer. >> the flu building -- the new building will be building. it was designed with light in mind. employees will appreciate these amenities. >> solar panels on the roof, electric vehicle chargers in the basement levels, benefiting from gray watery use and secured bicycle parking for 300 bicycles. when you are on the higher floors of the building you might catch the tip of the golden gate bridge on a clear day and good view of soma. >> it is so exciting for the team. it is a fiscal manifestation

what we are trying to do. it is allowing the different departments to come together to issue permits to the residents. we hope people can digitally come to one website for permits. we are trying to make it digital so when they come into the center they have a high-quality interaction with experts to guide then rather than filling in forms. they will have good conversations with our staff.

>> hello everyone. welcome to the bayview bistro. >> it is just time to bring the community together by deliciousness. i am excited to be here today because nothing brings the community together like food. having amazing food options for

and by the people of this community is critical to the success, the long-term success and stability of the bayview-hunters point community. >> i am nima romney. this is a mobile cafe. we do soul food with a latin twist. i wanted to open a truck to son nor the soul food, my african heritage as well as mylas as my latindescent. >> i have been at this for 15 years. i have been cooking all my life

pretty much, you know. i like cooking ribs, chicken, links. my favorite is oysters on the grill. >> i am the owner. it all started with banana pudding, the mother of them all. now what i do is take on traditional desserts and pair them with pudding so that is my ultimate goal of the business. >> our goal with the bayview bristow is to bring in businesses so they can really use this as a launching off point to grow as a single business. we want to use this as the opportunity to support business owners of color and those who have contributed a lot to the community and are looking for opportunities to grow their business.

>> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities commission is doing. they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a

public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunities on the way to this community. >> bayview has changed. it is growing. a lot of things is different from when i was a kid. you have the t train. you have a lot of new business. i am looking forward to being a business owner in my neighborhood. >> i love my city. you know, i went to city college and fourth and mission in san francisco under the chefs ria, marlene and betsy.

they are proud of me. i don't want to leave them out of the journey. everyone works hard. they are very supportive and passionate about what they do, and they all have one goal in mind for the bayview to survive. >> all right. it is time to eat, people. >> good morning, everyone. >> good morning, mayor. >> good morning. my name is dr. gina frommeer and i'm the president of the southeast community facility commission.

welcome today. look at this building! the southeast community facility commission provides a forum for discussion on broader issues facing our community. our job is to continue the legacy and work of our founders known as the big six. harold, ethyl, eloise, shirley and the famous dr. jackson. my girl whose unyielding advocacy in leadership led to the mitt geation agreement. i am going to ask the families to stand. we want to acknowledge we're on then ceded an ves tral homeland of ramaytush ohlone.

as the indigenous stewards of this land, the ramaytush ohlone have never kredded or lost their responsibility as caretakers of this place as well as other who reside in their traditional territories. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living, working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our rear expects by acknowledging the ancestors of them.

>> he greetings to you my relatives. thank you for having mere here today. i'm greg castro, a ramaytush ohlone. i'm here to represent our community and chair jonathan cordero who is with us today and wish to give good thoughts and prayers to this place that is opening here, that is reflection of not only this community values and hopes and he dreams dreamsbut our own val excuse dr. we might have been under water but near water and our ancestors took care of these waters and the earth surrounding it and the delta that came from it that

sustained and that nurtured the community for thousands of years. and we were here from this place that made us who we are can. for the last 200 years it's been challenging to say the least for our community, but we're still here. now we welcome this opportunity to join with the community in a new village place. that incorporates the same values that our community has carried forward from ancient times of compassion, care, love, integrity and respect for all people. for all members of the family and whoever comes to this place is a member of the family. in ancient california tradition,

all appraisers and rituals and ceremonies and songs are foms of prayer. i would like to offer you a song here as a prayer for opening this place. it is a good luck dance song from the ohlone community borrowed from our rel tifers inn monterey county. i offer this as a good way to open this place and bring people together in a good way. [indigenous singing and chanting]

thank you. [applause] >> all right. thank you, welcome again.

i want to acknowledge the southeast community facility commissioners here today. our former commissioner, other dignitaries and the families of our founders. calvin chan is here as well. i would like to introduce dennis herrera. [applause] >> thank you dr. frommeer. from. i don't know if this is a good omen, how many people noticed that the lucky bayview sign just came up on the building recently because they knew we would have a great turnout today. thank you, everybody for being here today. we're here to deliver on a promise, a promise that really was decades in the making. you heard dr. frommer mention it a little bit. it was about the strength,

foresight and determination of a community that embody itself in six people, the big six as they came known. but they were representatives of a community. and their call was a call to action. a call for inclusion, a call for accountability. ever you see here today is drr everything you see here today is their legacy and the legacy of the community that fought for today's day. thank you so much for being here. at the san francisco public utilities commission, we heard and answered the community's call to reinvest in the people of bayview hunter's point. this new center is a direct result of extensive outreach and engagement with the community

and years of planning and pushing forward. this center truly belongs to the community and would i like to thank the community for continued partnership and i look forward to our joint stewardship and management of this facility together. we hope that the more than 100 million-dollar investment in building this new center demonstrates the puc's commitment to doing the right thing. we hope it shows our intention to be a good neighbor, to do good and be accountable to our community partners. it's my privilege and honor to see this project across the finish line. let's be real. i'm new at this job. not evenly a year yet and i had very little to do with putting this across the finish line. it was the function of hard work of countless others. too many here to name. but they all need to be recognized.

there we go! we wouldn't be here right now without the unflagging support of our southeast community facilities team. i'm talking about victoria bryan, carla von, jason barcelona, nicholas cresta, larry ferry and the executive director of this amazing facility. all for everything you've done to allow us to be stand hearing today. i would -- standing here today. i also want to thank the alan group, our trade part eroners and our team for designing and constructing a stunning building and campus. and i want to thank the arts commission for the great job they did in commissioning local artists to inspire us all. we know this pandemic has created uncertainty everywhere.

but we knew it was critical to maintain our momentum to get this project done. while keeping our trades workers safe and employed and working with the trade partners, we were able to develop policies to achieve that goal ultimately delivering this beautiful project filled with 100 percent union labor. [applause] we're proud of our local hire and local contracting efforts that exceeded the city's goals. on this project, we had a contract commitment of 30%. we exceeded that. nearly 40% of the hundreds of hours it took to build this fantastic center were worked by san francisco residents. even more importantly, almost 100 of the individuals who built this landmark destination are from right here in this community. [applause]

there you have it. in some ways, this is a project built by community and for the community. but this is only the start. the puc is committed to providing robust programming at this foilt expand access to resores and opportunities which will lead to better outcomes for youth and families throughout the bayview hunter's point community and beyond. in keeping with our commitment to be a good neighbor, there are more investments including at the southeast treatment plant down the road. we're investing over $3 billion in critical upgrades to not only make the it better prepared for earthquakes and sea level rise but transform an aging sewage plant into a modern resource recovery sent that are smells better, is an attractive workplace, and most importantly is a neighborhood asset.

these are the right kinds of investments to make. they're good for our communities, they're good for our city, and they are smart investment of the funds that all of our customers entrust to us. you have my commitment that our investments we make it this community will going to make life better for all of us. i can tell you no one is going to be more important in keeping me up to my promise. she tells me what to do and i can assure you that she's going to make sure that we are living up to the commitment that i am making to you today to be the best possible neighbor that we can and that is our mayor, mayor london breed. [applause] >> thank you dennis. and i think that you were selling yourself short in saying that you didn't have anything to

do with this when in fact, you served as our city attorney and did all the legal documents to get this process done. but more importantly, the bayview hunters point has a challenging history we know in the city. a lot of the reason why we celebrate the big six has everything to do with the fact that they sood up imns a lot of -- stood up against the environmental injustices until the day jackson passed away, she was an advocate around environmental just physicaller it the community. this is advocacy started in the 1970s because of all the different levels of the power plant, the treatment plant, all the different things that had happened here at the bayview hunters point and seeing high rates of asthma and cancer and other issues around health that

impacted this community for so many years. many of those advocates at that came before us started a movement, a movement where i must say continues on and it continued when supervisor sophie maxwell became supervisor for the district and her along with dennis herrera worked hard to shut the power plant done, it was one of the first major things that happened that set off a number of advocacy and things to come. i see oscar james in the audience and incredible consistent advocates. people who show up and linda richard and people who stay actively engaged in the community to make sure the city meets its promises that we deliver on our promises. the old southeast community center was a promise that was delivered on, with you not

necessarily sufficient. when toya moses ran the facility, he made sure every person in the community had access to the nilt. it's not just about a program and child care center and playground and all the great activities that are going to be here, people from the community would go to toya and say we need to use ifer this event or something. and i want to make sure that you all know this is your facility. this facility should be prioritized for the residents of the bayview hunters point community. because of the blood, sweat and tears over the years, this community deserves this and so much more so i'm happy to be here today, but more importantly, i'm excited to see the use of this space which members of this community. i don't care if you just want to play dominoes. whatever it is, this is your

facility. hopefully this is money involved. i like to win. nevertheless, i'm excited about what this new facility means. it's a new day and along with what is happening with the investments made to make this waterfront better than any other waterfront in the city, to bring the attention and resources and the support of all of these things are going to be truly transformative. so i'm so excited about the future. and i am grateful to so many of the leaders who are here today and so many of the family members of the leaders for the work you continue to do. i know it took a long time, but here we are. god's -- your prayers have been answered and just because there was a delay does not mean there is a denial. here we are -- here we are

celebrating something absolutely extraordinary. and i'm grateful for your work, advocacy. mildred hour las sculptures and so many other incredible people played a role in this. i want to say thank you to emily and the members of the board. we finally got it done. thank you for all who played an important role in making this a beautiful facility for the community. i want to introduce your supervisor. >> thank you madam mayor. something special is happening in bayview. something special is happening in bayview. i want you to look across the street as general manager hararea said earlier, we have a

new lucky store coming next we go. i want you to look around you and look at this amazing space built for the benefit of this community. and i can't talk about being dpl this amaze -- in this amazing space without saying people didn't want us to have this space particularly right here. there were people who fought us every step of the way when we were fighting to make sure this would be a state-of-the-art community center and have a state-of-the-art education zone. i want those people to know that people power, resiliency of the community will always win. if we go back to '79 with the conversations with the mitigation, if we go back to the

work of the big six and we can stand here today and say that we have actually realized a big chunk of the promises made because there is still one more step. there is still a state-of-the-art community fiment that has -- facility an education nailt has to go here as promised. we needed to have the bond money available and now we have to make sure the building gets built. working with our partners from city college and the puc. as your supervisor, as the person that you put fla place to represent you, i said -- in place to represent you, i told you i would fight for things on our agenda. we'll see all of this. we're going to continue to fight until everything that was promised happens. if i'm fortunate enough to be reelected in november, we only

have four short years. the same resiliency we brought toalgt together we'll need moving forward because time constraints are always against us. i want to thank everyone who showed up-to-date, if you think several mayors ago, several commissioners ago, several directors ago, several community leaders ago, promises were made to this community. because everyone came together and said, we're going to make sure that we're not denied what is owed to us, we were able to get to this point. i am proud to stand here with all of you and the supervisor who is able to be here when this vision was realized. but i definitely want to thank supervisor maxwell for all of her work. i want to thank supervisor corn

for all of her work. because we don't do any of this alone. i want to make sure that everybody who played a role in making theur this facility was here gets their proper due. if you screwed in a bowl, if you nailed in a nail, if you stood up at a community meeting, if you came down to city thool say this this has to happen, if you were on oakdale making sure that everyone understood that we needed a better, new improved community center, any role that you played, i want to thank you for that and thrchg this community for their resiliency and i am proud to be your representative of this new facility. now i have the opportunity to bring up someone who has always stood with us in this community. when i go to him even though we

don't always agree on everything, when i go to him and say we need support in our community, we need resources in our community, he's still with us, he's with you and i am thankful for that. i want to bring up our state senator, scott wiener. >> thank you supervisor. thank you madam hair. -- madam mayor. this is -- first of all, this is like breathtakingly beautiful. this is one of the most beautiful buildings in the entire city of san francisco. i don't say at that lightly because we always talk about the new design. this is one of those examples of what it means when we really put our heart and soul into what something looks like and what we deliver to the community. this so beautiful and i want to congratulate the community and puc and everyone who is involved

in this amazing project. i'm a big fan of the san francisco puc. this is an organization committed to sustainability whether it's around clean water or clean energy. this is a clean environmental agency. it's awesome. this building, of course, is so incredibly sustainable. it's a model for what we need. we also know that environment sustainability, yes, it's about energy and water and all that. but it's also about the sustainability of the community. and this is a community -- the bayview hunters point is a community that's been under intense prescriber for so many years. it's not always been prioritized by our city government. at a time it was cut off and felt neglected. it's important that we be

intentional about investing in this community, about supporting

he made sure this building happened. he had a vision. and along with the community, you all helped him make it happen. he made sure the community was involved every step of the way. when i look back at this building, i see this is what a utility of the future is posed to be. our policies -- supposed to be. our policies go beyond do no harm. our policies are do good and build. that's why licky store is here.

this is what a utility of the future has to be. this was harlan's vision but is also my vision and should be everyone's vision. a utility of the future goes beyond. in this neighborhood we've fought for environmental justice and fought to breathe. we have the highest rate of asthma and cancer. you mention it, we had it. this building helps to with the three goals. intentionally, we have water conservation. intentionally, we have good quality air inside. intentionally, we are environmentally sound. everything that was not outside is now inside this building. that's what a utility of the future does and we need all of you to hold us to that. not about money, it's about what

you need. and then in a family, you say what do we need? then you find the money for the need. you don't say what money do we have first? no. that's not what you do. you prioritize. and that's what we have do. i want to make sure that all of, young people, old people are environmentally conscious in this neighborhood. and that's what this facility can do and that's why it's important to have the educational facility. and we also know that opening the doors is the easy part. holding us accountable to making sure up keep and maintenance is done way into the future. holding us accountable as mairt said, to making sure that -- as the mayor said, making sure we have good programs that are exciting and relevant and take us into the future. i'm excited about this building and i was going to say i know it's going to be shaking off this foundation, but i'm not

going to say that. we also have had taken advantage of a $250 million asset and that's the third streetlight rail. that's the buses. when you come in, this is the first thing you see. had you leave, this is the last thing you see. and children are playing and it's green and beautiful. thank you, community. thank you harlan kelly and thank you all of you who had something do with this. [cheers and applause] this man needs to introduction. >> thank you so much. my name is ralph remington director of cultural affairs. it's my pleasure to be here with you today on behalf of the san 8ñ [cheers and applause] i've only been at my role for two years now, but i have to say this this building -- say that

this budding is incredible. a lot of it is due to community activism and political pressure and a lot of it is due to conscientious politicians and a lot is do due to our artists in the community. i want to give a thank you to the san francisco public utilities commission and bayview hunters point community. we're here to celebrate the opening of the beautiful new southeast community center and robust public art collection featuring new collections by local artists,. everyone stawnd, please. descrsh everyone stand up please. canada, mildred, there they are. thank so much. and we have 37 two-dimension the

artwork purchased from 27 ar cysts. each were selected from the bayview registry and each has a meaningful connection to the bayview hunters point community. the art was made possible through the enrichment ordinance which allocates 2% of construction costs from capital improvement projects for the production of art. in collaboration with southeast community facility commission and staff, project stakeholders and community members, they developed the bayview arts master play which established the registry and guided the use of the art enrichment fund improvements in bayview including this new artwork and collection. joan me in acknowledging the artists here today.

as i mention your names again, if you could stand up, i would greatly appreciate it. you deserve to hear the appreciation of this community. mildred howard! mildred howard and her bronze sculpture takes its inspiration from west african currency that was traditionally for the success that embodied their power. philip boi. this honors the six founders of the southeast community center. and canada hinkle. thank you, thank you. whose vibrant mural a reflects the milestones and relationships that connect community members

across time and generation. i would also like to thank the 27 artist whose contribute their artwork which can be found on the center's second and third floors on the wails. i would thank to thank -- as you tour the center, please be sure to stop and take in the magnificent work created to reflect and honor the bayview hunters community. and i would like to thank mayor london breed for guiding us. thank you mayor london breed. and i would also like to thank the art's commission staff who worked on this project including mary chu. mary chu. jackie von tresko who worked

tirelessly with project stakeholders and artists to see themselves if this project through this work. thank you so much. enjoy the work. enjoy your community center. have a ball! thank you everybody! >> before we go back to dr. frommer, i want to acknowledge we have three of our puc commissioners here. two are new. we have tim paulson. kate stacy and tony revera who are our new commissioners and we're happy to have you here. thanks very much. >> all right. you guys be quie oat. this building is a a piece of art. let's give the building a hand! you know, i had my wedding reception at 1800 oakdale. my memories go deep.

i think about the new memories that you're going to make. we feed a place for events. right? and i'm always going to remember that memory from there. now we have a new facility to create new memories. we're honored and want to thank. i want to acknowledge the southeast community center team lead by emily farr rogers. larry barrie concepty director. jason barca clt lon. carla von along with victoria bryant. and nicholas cresta, let's give them all a hand. i don't think i said enough about my commissioner, southeast community facility commissioner. we spent hours looking at artwork and touring this

building. we spent hours crossing stuff out that we didn't want. what they have in presidio, we need betterçc9■ here. i want what they got! we fought for that. i'm honored to be the president of this commission and we have so much more work do. on behalf of the commission, i want to extend recognition to the white water enterprise and the san francisco puc for the commitment to this community. thanks to our tenant partners and the non-public hud, there will be a pavilion to share the information over there about the programs and services and i want to close out and invite the commissioner to gather around this wonderful mayor to take a picture. and thank you for coming out today. i was born and raised right on this hill. i'm a six generation san

franciscan. i got gentrified out but my intlood in this community and i'm not going anywhere. thank you and enjoy your day. we have great food and music and family. congratulations, everybody. ♪♪kz

>> wonderful, i'm david perry, welcome to the 75th anniversary of the saving of cable cars. women save the cable cars. let's have a round ever applause. [applause] , i want to introduce melissa rodriguez. >> thank you for joining us today. i'm excited to be here. it's a warm day. it's beautiful. we're all back together here at the cable car turn arounds. i'm marisaa rodriguez, we're an organization whoa whose mission is to create a beautiful environment for all of our members and our community.

all of you here warms our heart especially as we celebrate this important day. we're here today to honor our cable cars. and most specifically, we're here to honor a champion. a woman in 1947, at a time when women weren't standing up to bee establishment. this woman fraught to save our beloved cable car. today we're celebrating the 75th anniversary of that event. and so behind me, i have some wonderful women leaders and of course, male allies as well who continue do the hard work to save our community, to bring us back after a difficult time and of course, to further support this very important asset to our community, our beloved cable cars.

freedo had a vision and understood the important role of the cable cars to our community. not far long ago, the business improvement district set out to do a survey to find ut when visitors come to san francisco, what do they want to see? those bells behind us tell you they want to see the cable car more than visit the golden gate bridge. she understood the importance of that. they wanted to take away the cable car in 1947 in the name of progress. of course good intentions. if you look behind you, you can see an historic monument as a super bus has it was called in those days. this bus was supposed to replace or cable cars but she said no way. i want to thank the market street railway association for bringing us this landmark, but also for bringing us this day.

i want to thank rick lohseer who i know is here. rick, wave your hand. it's his leadership and his organization and team that brought us here today. can i i want to stharchg the union square alliance and my team as well. i think i see folks from our team. i saw ben horn. thank you, and our other team members as well. it takes a village to do so much for our community. i also want to acknowledge the strong women leaders behind us. you're going to hear from some of them today. before i go through the list, i want to acknowledge individuals here starting with julie birch kirchbalm. shawna, thank you so much.

ashley goshmire of the hotel across from the ferry building. lori lincoln, the v.p. for san francisco travel. and executive director of the mid market. i don't know if she's here. carmen clark board chair of the market street railway. [applause] darcy brown executive director of san francisco beautiful. president fisherman's wharf. melissa marketing in james town. did i mention lily representing the chinatown merchants association. i see mandy hall as well. karen sly, thank you for being here as well.

and no pivot to our male allies. i see rodney baum here from the chamber waving. we have jeff tomlin director of transportation. i often see alex bastion hiding there. thank you for being here. roger maranka, where are you? hi, roger. local 258. randall spot. the executive director 069 fisherman's wharf. david louis, i saw him here earlier. the general manager offer the hyatt hotel. without further ado, i want to

welcome a very special guest, someone who really needs no introduction, but what is important is is this san francisco native understands and loves or cable cars. she is someone who is fight the fight every day for our city as we come out of a very difficult time. we're super fortunate to have here today to acknowledge this day. i want to welcome our mayor, london breed company. >> hello. which one is the microphoner in? okay. i know they're all mine row phones -- microphones but only one where you can hear the sound. i'm grateful to be here today to celebrate this historic occasion. and when we talk about san francisco as a whole, we always

talk about how resilient san francisco is because of our ability to not only survive through earthquakes and pandemics, but our ability to thrive. during the late 1800s, the inventer of the cable car, you know, it was said that they invented the cable car as a result of seeing the horse and carriage struggle up san francisco hills. what a challenge it was. and so this cable car came to be and as a result, san francisco, i think, because of this and so many other incredible events and milestones has been known as an innovative city, a place where things created, a place where people look to for ideas and i want to thank market street railway for protecting and supporting and engaging and making sure that history is not

forgotten. today we celebrate 75 years of saving the cable cars in our city. [indiscernible] who would he know in 1947 when the mayor roger lampman said we're going to change -- we're going to get rid of cable cars and bring in other transportation options. she stood up during a time when oftentimes women were ignored and neglected. and she said, no, i'm going to pull together all my girlfriends and we're going to stop the cable car from being really vanished in our city. as a result, she fought and she won and the cable cars remain. and then in 1979, our first woman mayor, dianne feinstein, she not only raised private money because of how much it

cost to create this system and to enhance it, she raised private dollars matched with federal dollars matched with city dollars and she -- it should be attributed to her as well the fact that the cable cars are still here today. why is that history important? as you heard from marisaa rodriguez, one of the things that people talk about most when they visit san francisco is where are the cable cars? this line on this street is always packed for people waiting hours in some cases to ride the cable cars to see our beautiful hills and beautiful views and what makes san francisco one of the most iconic cities anywhere if the world. i remember during the pandemic and how we had to make some changes in our city. and changes included closing town temporarily the cable car.

jeff tomlin, the director of the mta, he knows we had this conversations on a regular base. when are the cable cars coming back to ?rks we're inviting visitors back to san francisco. one of the biggest disappointments wa was when they showed up and where are the cable dismars. the cable krars open. what that dmon descraits to so many of us is how important they are. how our transit on exprairts thank you, roger for being here from labor, how our transit operators show up every single day to give people, not just visitors, but san franciscans a wonderful iconic experience rain sore shine. and so today, we celebrate this milestone. we celebrate women, not, it's not women history month, but we are celebrating women nevertheless and the advocacy of

women and what women represent and what we bring to the table in terms of our leadership and our involvement in our transportation network. even though there might be a man who runs mta, there are a lot of women that work behind the scenes to get this work done. we honor their work, but we also honor the legacy of those who came before us to make sure that this iconic cable car remains an important part embedded in the quality of life that exists in san francisco. thank you all so much for joining us here today and with that, i would like to introduce gwyneth gornd who works hard to help create transportation opportunities that work for all san franciscans. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome gwyneth imorden.

>> thank you so much. i can't tell you what a wonderful and amazing day this is. it always seems advocating for their families and community. women have always stood up in injustice and. we often think progress means leaving things behind thattero that are old fashioned. the commissioner understood the role of cable cars and part of our future. it took another woman, dianne feinstein to make sure that the cable cars continue to thrive. i feel so fortunate to chair an agency that has such an iconic identity. we were doing work on the lines and got letters from people all

over the world saying i'm coming to san francisco for the first time from australia, my lifelong dream is to ride a cable car. that's how iconic it is. when i was in my 20s, i took the cable cars every day. i would see all the locals and you have people running down to catch it. it was such a community. people think the cable cars are only for visitors, but it's a local line. they know the regulars and try to like wait a few minutes to let them get on. i also love sometimes working here and taking the cable car home. whenever i get off add hyde and jackson, i feel look i live here.

cable cars are special and iegennic. the great maya anglou worked the cable a cars. they were crucial for the cities and world. i want to thank everyone for being here today. we have to keep the cable cars thriving for now and the future. thank you for organizing this. come on forward. [applause] these ladies -- this is what it's about. continue to empower women. >> she is a strong woman here.

she's been working the cable cars for 12 years straight. [applause] thank you for that. i've been here 13? >> i've been here 20. i praise god and we love our job. thank you. >> we thank you for your work. >> thank you so much gwyneth and i also want to let everyone know hashtag sf cable cars. take notes and hashtag. round of plaza. we also have from the chinatown community development center jane cheng as well as [indiscernible] who is

commissioner of belle view. i'm happy to welcome a partner in preserving and enhancing our public transit, shirley chang. >> thank you so much. good morning, everyone. good morning, everyone. thank you so much for having me. mayor breed, chair rodriguez, gordon and clark and honored guests. thank you for ine including me, iement executive director of the san francisco county transportation authority. thank you for including me and the agency in this wonderful event as well as pioneering women. she took on a male-dominated government and business community to save the cable car one of our most precious gems recognized around the world. no wonder "national geographic"

named san francisco one of the tomorrow sedations for 2023. another list san francisco son. she mobilized other women who joined her campaign. thanks to her efforts in 1947 ballot initiative to save the cable cars won in a landslide, i think 3-1 based on what i read. i'm powd to be part of this all-women line-up of speakers that led this activism 75 years ago. the transportation authority has been around half that long. one of our former executive directors appeared today, carmen clark. i'm honored to be one of her successors and working with my colleagues. a round of applause for our director of transportation. julie.

>> as rick noted, our cable car system was highlighted as high tech back then. it replaced the horse-drawn carriage ask they're still a marvel today. they're iconic and functional. we couldn't get through our daily lives and tourism without it. weld the pleasure of the transportation authority to sport cable cars over the years providing over $35 million to pull down the big federal dollars. the infrastructure bill passed last year, the leadership of president biden and vice president harris. we have lezzie waters here. helping us to security big dollars and we have to appreciate our speaker nancy pelosi for helping us win the state and federal grant. as a reminder, more funds are includessed in the measure l on

the ballot and we must keep this going. it's before the voters in a couple of weeks. it's a pleasure and honor to help preserve our cable cars for future generations. our pride ask joy and a distinct product of women's leadership. here is to 75 more years of cable cars in san francisco. >> and let's keep the spirit alive. let's hop on a cable car to the other end to keep the party going where my counterpart, randall scott and team. they have something for us there. thank you so much for joining us. another round of applause for our mayor. all our esteemed imes and the cable car.

thank you. >> any excuse to ride a cable car, right?

[cable car rings] ♪♪ [cheers and applause] >> five, four, three, two, one -- [applause] [cheers and applause] ♪♪

>> good afternoon, everyone. this meeting will come to order. welcome to the november 7, 2022 regular meeting of the land use and transportation committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. i'm supervisors, chair of committee joined by vice chair preston and supervisor aaron peskin and we also have walton with us. the clerk is erika major and i would like to acknowledge calid mendoza and mi