mr. fuller, please, call the roll. good morning. respond with here or present. thomas harrison. >> kim hartwig-schulman. >> here. >> ibing kwon will not be available today.

mogannam. >> here. >> >> simi. >> present. >> with 4 members present we have quorum for the sanitation and streets commission. due to an on going covid-19 health emergency and given the public health recommendations by the san francisco d. public health in the emergency orders of the governor and mayor concerning social distancing and lifting restrictions on teleconference, this meeting is held via teleconference and streamed by sfgovtv. for those watching live stream. be aware there is a brief time lab with the meeting and shown on soft soft. on behalf of the commission a thanks to soft soft media services and building management for to their staff for assistance putting on this meeting given this morning's

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staff. mr. chair. >> thank you questions to amend the order of the agenda? i don't hear combchlt no further debit all in favor say, aye. >> aye. >> secretary fuller call the next item >> okay. the next item is the announcements by the chair if any. >> thank you. good morning everyone great day today i feel as if that cloud of unknown and uncertainty was lopping over us and even though my dedication and intentions and success in whatever it is we do was never uncertain. it is nice to know we have a clearer vision. the election changes nothing for what the commissionments to do and hopes to accomplish. we are on the same boat and have

the same goals and well untended and the goal of this commission and eye as chair to make sure it succeeds what the people of san francisco really deserve. also, too the last meeting i was remiss to hear that rachael and elizabeth are not working with us they are done with us. i went through separation anxiety. i'm a people horder and you know i was disappointed i did not give a special thank you if they are watching i want to give them a thank you. rachael and elizabeth. thank you for all the work you did. you made the transition not just easy but also enjoyable and may bement to stay and not run away. >> that said that concludes my announcements. mr. fuller call the next item of >> item one is general public

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and to raise your hand to be recognized dial star 3. okay. and we'll hear from commenters in the room and it looks like no one lined up to speak in the comment. we will turn to callers online. and sfgovtv is indicating we have 2 members of the public wish to speak during the general public comment. please unmute of the first caller. you will have 3 minutes and i will prosecute void you with a 30 second warning when your time is about to expire. >> hello. i'm brian johnson. i'm a father of 2 little ones and a problem solver. and i started a business in the bayview neighborhood where i live. i'm here to ask for your

support. created a small business to ensure all illegal dump cites are found and reported to the city through sf311 use know an unmanned aerial vehicle and artificial intelligence to locate and identify all illegal dump cites in the mission and bayview on a daily basis. the day of this year my business reported over 3,000 illegal dump to sf311 and they have all been cloned up by dpw and recology. i notice that many cites went unreported and our neighborhood am we have been paying ourselves for this service. in speaking with my neighbors they would loishg to seat city to pay for the service it is valuable and helping to keep the neighborhood cloner. i'm calling to ask for your support to support and work in the bayview and the mission. i like to thank you for your

attention on this matter. >> thank you, caller. and sfgovtv it locked like there was a second caller who wanted to speak. please, unmute them and caller, you will have 3 minutes to speak and i will prosecute void you with a 30 minute warning. go ahead. 30 second. >> pardonon me >> that is good for everyone. david pillpel. several items for general public comment. first it is important to start the meeting early on web ex it takes time to log in. i'm just now getting into it on web and he cans not able to call in before because it was not set up. the web page for the meeting

don't track with the agenda itself. that's a little confusing. that, too got updated. wait a minute. hold on. wrong page. one second. yea. the web page november 21-22, sanitation and streets commission. it says for example, item 5 destruction to bruro forestry and bureau of forestry performance. 7, street and environmental services work. it is just important for though the agenda item descriptions in my vow to lineup exactly to the agenda its. um -- next. i asked before for an upon presentation on dpw director orders and that process how it relates to the 2 commissions now. i ask either part of that

presentation or separate to hear about the administrative hearings process. and how that works worked until now and if there are changes to hearings under the public work's code going forward given the 2 new commissions and i made dgz suggestions regarding the dpw commission rules of order they have not yet adopted their rowels that may ko come back in terms of signatured changes to your now adopted rules of order at the sas commission. it may happen. i may have further comments later on the bowero of urban forest row and other matters thank you very much for listening. >> thank you, caller. sfgovtv do we have you are

sfgovtv is indicating we have no other callers. no further public comment on general public comment. >> that concludes general public comment. call the next item. >> item 2 is the director's report. carla short will present on this. this is an informational item. director short. thank you. thank you. secretary fuller. good morning commissioners, carla short interim director for public works. a couple of items of note as chair mogannam mentioned voters approved prop b to return operations to vision back to public works effective january 21 of 23.

approved with 74% in support of the prop e policed on the ballot and largely undoes the previous named probable b adopted 2 years ago to split the department in 2 with the creation of new sanitation and streets. that severing occurred on october one of this year. because of the ballot measure. implementation were put on hold pending the outcome of the november 8 election. we have clear direction on how to move forward with a unified public works department of the you new prospect b keeps it under oversight. 2 commissions yours and the public works commission. and the amendment spelled out that your duties will be focused on holding hearings. reviewing data and setting policies sanitation standards and maintenance. i think critical role for the

department. it is this commission will help us -- make sure we are providing the best service to san francisco. will over see public works. the charter amendment was dissent on how the 2 will interact with each other. members of both commissions have an opportunity to discuss how and if you want to formalize your inneractions. the twof chair and including our city attorneys to anything we come up with will comply with the city charter and the brown act. we reached out to the chairs to get that conversation started and we will have a meeting after the holidays. the city attorney's office is drafting an ordinance that reflects the repeal of

sanitation and streets and new prop b. we i or the public works director have to submit this legislation by june 30 of 23. commissionless will not take action this is assigned to the director. a let of work went to appropriating for the split and want to emphasize this workingly not be wasted. we analyzed every bruro and position, took stock of services and programs and gained an understanding of the many intersections of our work across the organization. gave us an tube to hear the occurrence and ideas from workers throughout the ranks. this will allow you to improve internal coordination for an effective and efficient operation. we are looking at this now to see how we can improve our

processes. and i do think it is worth acknowledging we have been through a lot the past 2 yavl and a half years the rest our former director and corruption probe followed by the pandemic which is still with us and 2 ballot measures deciding the fate of public works. we felt the impact. our incredible employees who are skilled, dedicated and resilient have not waivered. cleaning streets. designing buildings, planting and pruning trees. providing tech support. tracking data, working with volunteers. the equity initiatives. developing budget. contracts, managing construction projects. pod casts and news letters and more that gives you a sense what the breadth of what the department december the bottom line public works will move

forward with a common purpose to serve the people san francisco. a few other items i wanted to update you on. the broadway 10 the, this e merged during the split transition how many how much points with public, washings and sanitation and streets. how much over lap and the challenges we would face boy not working together as a seamless department. because the diameters remained knit in the practice i wanted share an example of the benefits. on monday last week a private company telescopic boom damaged broadway tunnel east bound bore the boom was not fully sdenldzd and ripped through the ceiling tiles causing a zip are fiszure 100 feet long and leaving debris. how they continued to drive -- without realizing they were

shredding the top of the tunnel is a mystery and literally kept going until they were prep vented from moving. no one was injured by the falling ceiling we had to shut down east bound lanes to clean and assess damage. >> the engineers from public works and infrastructure design and construction and examined the tunnel for damage that posed a hazzard. none was found. simultaneously our street cleaning team from operations cleared the rubble. the bruro of street repair crews continued the make safe work. engineers and labelerers bruin to remove the tile damage that was completed over 2 days and crews worked around the commute hours and keep a lane open at most times. our staff responded this emergency situation swiftly and

with expertise. now that the tunnel has been made safe our bureau is confirming the next steps it look whether to put in new ceiling tile or a different covering. more on that once a decision is made. i'm very happy top announce the relaunch of the environmental service worker aprenticeship program this month with local 261 we on board 13 environmental service worker aprenticeis. the next 3 years they will receive 4,000 hours on on-the-job training cleaning streets, sidewalks and mrazace. removing graffiti, digging trenches. they will learn cloning tech neeks. use of tools and how to load debris and materials. includes 672 additional hours of instruction at the northern

california labor center in the east bay. 2 apprentices asoined each 6 zones the special project's team gets one. they then rotate to newark signments every 3 months. most of them came from the ranks of 9916 public service aids our mostent row level position of block sweepers. those who successful low complete the training will qualify for a general labor position thvment is a great program put on pause as we worked out details with the union special because of the pandemic we hope to start another next year. not only it provides job opportunity for people faced barriers to employment but trains for vital jobs to keep san francisco clean, safe and beautiful. we had many aprentices in past cohorts gone on to become general labor, supervisors.

it is a great program for us to continue to on build our ranks. for the holidays we are launching a holiday cleaning blitz for neighborhood/commercial corridory wool will expand operations to provide deep cleanings of naeshth

welcoming environment for people whom shotshop and eat and enjoy the season. in addition to the strength and neighborhood focus we will give attention to mid market and civic center and draw crowds for shows and activations. i want to share exciting news about our street tree nursery. you will hear more in a future hearing. we have made good progress the development of firstistry tree jursary at fifth and bryant on cal trance right-of-way between the on and off ramps. got funding from a grant from cal trans and additional from workforce development grant. creating a nursery to grow the coast live oak and california buckeyes. to ensure they are specious ease that will thrive.

we will grow other trees and have a special location to care for tree and plants before they get installed. more to come the fence is going up. very excite to see this. that wraps up my report. questions? >> not a question it is just a -- in my experience at rec and park this was an extraordinarily successful program. we be proud to see how this moves along and going to be very successful. thank you for your work on that. >> thank you. commissioner.

>> when you said the chairs meeting after the holiday or holidays? >> holidays. i don't know we are hoping to i don't know what the definition is. we are hope to meet with you in the next couple weeks. >> perfect. >> this evening wanted see was this january or december. we get 2 days off for thanksgiving. holidays but we hope to meet before the end of the year. >> perfect. i'm excited seat internship program work. something i have done with youth and young adult this is havent rows barriers to employment. nice to see work width city and a win/win and gives young people when may not be vest instead interests of the beautiful city to become vested. when you are you are less likely to litter or or allow others to

do so. it is contagious i like temperature thank you for your hard work. you light up when you talked about trees i'm glad to see that program. as a small business merchant i thank you for the extra cleanings for the holidays the merchants and the corridors special residents and the shoppers will appreciate it and notice it. thank you. >> i wanted mention that i believe there is supposed to be a ceremony on december 6 at city hall with the mir on the apprenticeship thing. >> hoar the yes. celebrating relaunch of the program. >> noon and rotunda? >> i will get the details for you. yes. i believe in city hall down stairs may be in the light courts. >> thank you. commissioners allowed crash. >> i think they are most

welcome. >> any further questions? mr. fuller call open public comment. >> members of the public who wish it make 3 minutes of comment on item 2 the director's report. may line up against the wall. if with us in the hearing room. if you are call nothing dial 415-655-0001. access code: 2486 625 3245 ## press star 3 to raise your hand to speak. looking in the hearing recommend does not a pore we have anyone present to speak on this item. will sfgovtv do we have callers

in the queue who would like to speak on this item? if a member of the public with hand raised. sfgovtv please unmute that caller and you will have 3 minutes to speak and i will provide you with a 30 second warning when your time will expire. commissioners, i'm francisco decosta. and during this festive season, i want to bring something to your attention. so that i have some action. on san bruno. there is a person who blocks the little parking lot that we have.

right by the wall greens. and it has been going on for over 3 years. a nuisance. besides we have benches there concrete benches the cardboard on the upon benchesy depriving people from sitting down the elders who used to sit on the benches. now -- there is a crosswalk there. and i put in a work order 4 years ago. that crosswalk needs to be painted. because eye u myself, have seen 6 incidents where people have near low lost their life. had to call the ambulance and

most of the people who get hurt don't want to go in the ambulance they don't want to pay the huge amounts of money when they get the bills. could you do me a favor, please and i have been monitoring various things in san francisco the last 40 years. i'm director of environmental justice advocacy. i appreciate that we have all this commission but i also appreciate that we get the work done. and most low appreciate having standards, quality of life issues so that we can at least put our city back on track. thank you very much. thank you, caller. no more callers on this item.

thank you. further discussion from the commission? hearing no further discussion. call the next item. >> item 3 is the consent calendar of routine matters including the draft minutes from the october 17, 2022 meeting. and a resolution to adopt findings allowing for the continued use hybrid meetings. and those other items on scene. >> thank you. commissioners do i hear a motion to adopt the consent and the routine matters. >> so moved. >> do i hear a second? >> thank you. commissioner harrison makes the motion and hartwig makes the second we hear public comment. secretary fuller? >> members of the public had wish to make 3 minutes of upon comment on item 3 the adoption of consent and each of the

resolutions it condition tains line up against the wall if with us in the hearing chamber, if call nothing dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2486 625 3245 ## then press star 3 to enter the queue. and looking in the hearing room we don't have any members of public present with us. sfgovtv do we have is indicating we have one caller on this item. caller you have 3 minutes and will provide you with a 30 second notice when your time is about to expire. >> great. i assume you hear me. daved. several points here.

i will start with item 3a on the minutes page 3 item 4 on the motion after public comment on the motion made by commissioner harrison and seconded by commissioner sip tow hear, adopt the consent. i think better to delete the word, here to adopt consent calendar. 6c regarding street environmental services and on 6d criss mc daniels title is bureau superintendent not supervisor. and at the end of 6c. mr. rum banis is roum --il see if there was combelgs that i saw on the minutes, no. i will try to review substantive

and advance i was in the able to do that before. i will discuss a couple of minor typos on the advanced calendar and handle that off line on item 3 the -- the findings resolution the thing i noticed was at the top of the resolution it has an extra zero. should be 2022-whatever. that's all i have, thanks for listening. >> thank you, caller. and -- see -- sfgovtv do we have other callers. >> we have no more callers on this consent agenda. >> commissioners further debate on this motion. >> no further debate. i'm sorry. lost tax did we vote. no. >> thank you.

>> hearing no further debate all in favor adopting consent, >> aye. >> all those opposed? hearing none. any abstentions? motion passes. secretary fuller, next item >> so, chair mogannam our presenter for item 4, on the land acknowledge am will not be available until 11:15 i suggest we move to the bureau presentation by the bureau of urban forestry and they are ready. >> thank you and secretary fuller informed you earlier. i'm fine with it, proceed. >> item 5 was heard as 4 is the

bureau of urban forestry over view. it will later on in the agenda we will hear the bureau's performance measure report and acting bureau superintendent nikolas crawford will present this over view this is an informational item. >> good morning. all right. thank you, commissioners. . it is a pleasure to be with you to tell you about who we and are what we do. we are family of city workers striving to maintain and expand san francisco's urban forest and repair sidewalks. we do other things to keep the city clean and beautiful. i'm nikolas kra ford superintendent for the bureau. acting because of our interim

director would be the superintendent my regular position is assistant superintendent over trees and landscape. change is i'm also responsible for our sidewalk repair. my background i grew up working with trees and landscapes and then odd low my mom's family business was a concrete company. i feel a weird combination i'm doing these together now. il start with -- a snapshot of where we fit in the structure i'm under the operations group. and -- for based at the yard 23 caesar chavez. why in a nut shell. we -- are 24/7 operation.

we have arborists on stand biechl 7 days a week. 24 hours a day in case of emergencies. most our work happens 6 days a week a bulk of the team work. the budget to 51.2 million dollars made up of sources of revenue could be general fund and client work or grant money we received. i would say on paper we vech 205 employee in practice. and a lot of vaccanceys it is close to 150 and -- the that we have filled now. a lot of vacancies you will see how that is impacting us. to summarize the things we do none would be possible out our

group. in partnership with our grant recipients and condition tractors. our philosophy is driven by desire to maintain trees we have. protect trees by preserving them during construction and grow our canopy with our planting efforts. >> each us adheres to admission to provide top tier service to residents, visitors and employers of san francisco. >> you see the different activities specials we have within the bureau. >> so start with our arborists. they are on call to respond to tree emergencies and have regular low schedule w to prune trees with public safety and tree health in mind. we can't talk about without

mentioning the street tree sf voter approved from 2016 that gave public works the maintenance responsibility for all of the city street trees. >> so to briefly out line this. the measure ensures all new trees receive on going lifetime maintenance to establish proposition set aside 19 million a year to care for san francisco's street trees and sidewalks across the city. 19 millionanualy can fluctuate. we maintain 12,000 trees and more than 21,000 square feet of sidewalk per year. with our grant partners we plant 2,000 trees a year. considering before street tree sf management in san francisco

the responsibility of property owners. and many trees were neglected. this is for the maintenance of the does not fund our awful our upon plant activities from other sources. >>well, our landscape team is out monday-saturday watering trees, weeding, pruning. removing litter. they are a visibility part of had we do. our smith maceons dispatch to repair sidewalks damaged by rots and expanding tree baseince to strengthen our urban forest that is one of our [inaudible] we have a crew dedicated to replacing damaged water meter box in sidewalks for the puc water department. and have a small budget to repair damaged curbs with another crew. our curb ramp crew replacing

noncompliant sidewalk ramps at intersections the yellow that has visual and safer pedestrian crossings and for partner agencies we're proud to repair concreed projects of all kinds i wish mariana williams could have been here. i look forward to introducing her at a future meeting. tree inspectors evaluated weekly for maintenance and removal concerns. the guard yens of the trees issuing fines for illegal pruning and work to educate citizens about maintenance protocols. they inspect sidewalks for real root uplift and request repairs for urgent cases. >> can see sarah in action here. okay integrative approximate

pest management team is responding with solutions to pest problems. here we dealt with a rodent infestation not responding to previous solutions. we repaired the sidewalk damage and replaced bricks with an acigate that deturs burrowing without damage the trees. >> we work with our guarantee partners friends of urbanning forest plant being keeps place with tree removal. the workforce development plan we invest in teaching and train nothing green job skills like planting and pruning. and other partners like clean city and climate action now you will see throughout the neighborhoods evidence of new tree planning make the city beautiful and combating climate change by sequestering carbon and reducing fossile fuels and cooling bodiesings as

temperatures rise. we are pleaseed report exciting projects for 2023. our director update about the street 3 nurse row we are excite body that. and next year will open that aiming for john as our opening date and as carta mentioned cal fire fupdz aid workforce development program that will train residence dens from disadvantaged community to plant trees where the canopy is lack the core per is it grow the trees so we can do that work. now we are identifying 100 plus new planting cites for march the biggest volunteer event of the year. it is an important part of our greening efforts. focus in soma. we pick a site around the city

each year approximate pair that with our opportunity and funding so the reason we picked soma it silent smallest tree canomys in the city. and we want to correct. with the new h r director we are pized speedup hiring and assessment shop and landscaping and tree inspection group we have vacancies across the 3. next year we'll launch a dedicated night time maintenance crew. we asked for had i think 7 years in a row and got approved for it. we believe that will be more efficient in sprucing up when there is less traffic activity. continuing to evaluate our performance when it come to stewardship of the urban foresxeft we convene aid

multidisciplinary team to identify stretched goals to speedup pruning. look nothing a pilot to utilize contractors to inspect tree key maps and break down the city. and we hope that will accelerate our pruning cycle. if that is our -- how do we get through that. i will still be here to share our performance measures i want to conclude with our over view of the bowero and the available for questions. thank you, commissioners, any questions? commissioner hartwig. are you meeting with [inaudible] you are work width cbd's we reach out to the residents in the neighborhoods i know

tenderloin and soma have the cbd's. even more volunteers more of a suggestion and wanted to put this out there. thank you, guys for more trees i love trees i have multiple tree tattoos. i don't have tree tattoos. i feel a little behind the curb. to answer about the involvement we have been working with counter clock wise throughout city did a lot in d 11. and then the last 2 years we did a big emphasis in d 10 and move to soma and tenderloin and civic center that area. just looking at the canopy spans

different neighborhoods and supervisor districts but it still is the same. we need more tree in that part of the city. and we were mund fudded with capitol money and identifying planning sites and where we could not pleasant they have been a partner saying they will help maintain sidewalk landscaping. it is too narrow of a sidewalk or utilities under ground to have the support to have something green and reduce the amount of pavement it is worth it. >> all the things coming together was the reason behind us highlighting that for arbor day. >> commissioner harrison. eighty-one of the slides you show you had 205 full time

employees. you have that many on staff now. >> 150. actually filled positions now. >> these are just the include the vaccanceys. correct. >> if we were fully staffed. not many. for what you guys do or required to do. >> i noticed that 25% down. and look forward to you bolstering this up. thank you, commissioner, my question was, too. any internship programs like with the street and sanitation commission? >> so, as you heard earlier that the aprenticeship program for environmental service workers that program they will do a rotation through our program, too. and crate town for them to learn. we do employ a few labors and

almost all aspects of when we do. we look forward to having that support if you talk to some of our staff it is fascinating how many came through the 9916 and program. and irrelevant our best folks have that as a background. we look forward to that and also look forward to in the future soon. restarting our program for our gardeners and arborists. we don't havearc sesz now. >> thank you. >> director short? i was going on add a bit. so -- local 261 the labor union also represent gardeners labor aprentice. we are just hiring now our labor

aprentices but expecting in the next few months to year to also hoir a new cohort of gardener and ash borist aprenticeis. >> thank you. commissioner simi. >> yes. i just to go back to 25% vacancy, it is high in a historically high vacancy period of life. and so i think i had a couple questions the first is this more of a reason thing and secondly, how you are managing. one of 4 people you planned your work plan is not there. i assume you must an impact on the ability to just do things.

we are growing we add arborist positions and unable to fill them. not as if we had 60 arborists and now 30. we have 30 which is the most we ever had and look forward to having more. there have been things in the way of adding more arborists and we are also adding the night time maintenance kruchl landscape group is growing. we have vacancies throughout the bonjour over and that's been there for years. i think -- acting superintendent kra ford hit the nail on the head. we have a bunch new positions that have not been filled and so that is great news we are growing but it makes that rate look worse. i say not worse we need the new

positions fill today has not been this we had this level of vacancy rate for a long time. i will note that one of the challenges to filling the positions is we compete with rescue/park and the puc this is technical and the city has an o'farrell challenging exam press. it is a practical yam am they demonstrate their ability and we have not had huge numbers of people who apply for the position and qualify. and you got 3 departments all competing for those so we have a few arborists vacant because we picked up you know 2 people or 4 along the way and have not been able to fill the 15 or so vacancies we have well.

in terms huwe address that we have flexibility within the street tree sf program to allocate resources if wore not spending on staff we pivot that funding to contractors. over time we want to be reduce the relines on contractors and have a stronger in house staff. but in the meantime we're able to shift the resources to contractors. the impact to doing the tree prune and maintenance work is in the as great as could be if we did not have the flex automobile. i see we know it is hard it hire in the difficulties and adding of new i think everyone agrees we need more taking care of trees and more confree work.

work plans and staff up the teams seen them before we can fund and fund things the ability to hire the qualified people no moert matter how much path ways. i think it puts at risk the promising whether you are doing it or not and more than you can deliver on. i think you don't want to get ahead on that. so. >> i feel that responsibility. the money is allocated and if i pay for it and expect that. and so we want to sell the approximate suspicions. and i hope with hr positions expanding. the issue. addressed now and we will see that impact on the team and --

commissioner harrison you mentioned all also i believe higher and licensed arborist to inspect the trees and that are damaged and diseased. how often do you have to do that would it behoove us to have a licensed arborist in the department? sure. so a number of us are cert for identification arborists sore board certified master arborists and the team of tree inspectors are certified arborists have electronic qualification which teaches them about tree risk assess am. so i believe our team is well equipped but if we only have 4 people and we are supposed to have 6 or steffen is a bottle neck for us. we are able to keep up with the

high priority things. some of the urgent things but it is a delay when we are trying to do the more proactive things and inspect things in advanced. that unfortunately is getting deprioritizes in the most urgent things in the half moments. thank you on your next report, knowing what the staffing is we get the bench mark reports. also letting the people know. look, if things are not happening the way they are expecting buzz i'm a citizen i pay tax. we are short staffed and may be press release or something. we are hiring. you know get your kid off the couch. get them up.

your things not getting done. we are short staffed. commissioner simi e louded that. we want to know if you are 20% sdpoun not meeting a bench mark you can be overwhelm performing based on what you are doing. it is important to highlight ourselves and the commission and the public. >> thank you. any further questions from the commissioners? mr. fuller. public comment. members of the public who wish to make 3 minutes of comment on what is heard as item 4 the bowero of urban forestry over view may lineup if in the chamber. if call nothing dial 415-655-0001 then access code: 2486 625 3245 ## and press star 3 to enter the queue.

we don't have folks in the present and want to peek on this item. sfgovtv, do we have callers in the queue? a pierce we have 2 callers expressed interest in speaking on this. unmute the first and caller you will have 3 minutes to peek and i will provide you a 30 second warning when your time is about to expire. again, commissioners can we have -- digital platform where

we can get real good map of all the trees we are planting. in our 11 districts. and can we have the schedule when this trees are plants are watered? we can plant -- trees but if we don't water them it is of no use. also as we do in our garden we set aside sometimes the weed around the plant. it does not look nooik nice when you have trees and you have weeds and people 3 the trash in the weeds. and we had this on san bruno

avenue. there was previous administration we have access to that administration. and they responded. the present system does not work. even though we have 2 commissions. one linked with the d. public works. and one which i'm advancing now. this commissions have been created so that they can be some standards. all over our city, it is filthy. and the guests who come from all over the world. and i have many relatives and

friends. give me. and tell me your comments. and are kwornding what happened our city. 30 seconds, caller. >> i called earlytory talk on the acknowledgment which y'all postponed i want to say to you that this is recommend ram ram land you may find you know nothing about them i forwarded something it your director i think carla short. >> thank you, caller. your time is expired. sfgovtv i believe we had a second caller. unmute them and then caller have you 3 machines to peek and provide you with 30 second warning when your time is about

to expire. >> excellent. david againful thank you very much i appreciate the staff over view i'm involved in a current appeal of a fine penalty from. i did not see or hear discussion of fines violations or i think even the urban forest council in the staff present anticipation. may be i miss third degree i was distracted. on the current appeal i read it has been difficult to reach theure ban forestry inspector to discuss the matter. that's hay wrote a few minutes ago during the meeting the appeal letter was filed and there was pretty quick response. from the inspector the kwheels are in motion this is great.

i found the event row information on the dpw website incomplete and somewhat out of date. we can discuss that. another time i will follow up with appropriate dpw staff and the matters and i appreciated all the w that they do within the bureau and support staff and the 49ers as well. thanks for listening. appreciate it very much. thank you. caller. we have no further public comments on the item. thank you. mr. fuller further discussion from the commissioners? hearing no discussion, secretary fuller call the next item. >> okay. so, we will now return to the normal order of business to what was what is listed as item 4 on the agenda. but will hear as item 5.

this is the discussion of the sanitation of street and land acknowledgment presented by deputy director of policy and communications and the soeshgd of mr. jonathan cordero. mr. cordero and beth will be joining us via teleconference and this is an informational item. i believe -- beth, are you able to -- unmute yourself and speak?

can you try speak one more time? okay. unfortunately. no. mr. cordero can you try to unmute yourself and speak. >> sure, can you hear me? >> i request get the presentation up and going. i know beth wanted provide an introduction to you hopeful low we will get that addressed. but if you would like to jump in

your portion of the presentation i will get the slides up. i can and i will introduce myself as well. good morning, commissioners. i regret not being able to see you but happy to be here with you this morning. appreciate the invitation to talk with you about a land acknowledgment and the process what that looks like for us. and i'm i'm jonathan cordefer at chair of the ramaytush ohlone peoples the original peoples of san francisco peninsula. i'm executive director of our nonprofit the association of ramaytush ohlone. and i am also affiliated scholar in indigenous law center at uc hastings and usc. we have been doing land acknowledgments for 3 years and come up with guide lines we

would like to share with you this morning. if you don't mind i will walk through the guidelines. i'm assuming they can see the guidelines? >> yes, they can. >> good. so, i think there is the first few lodgist cal things to think about. first is my question to all groups with whom we work is is there a group and ad hoc committee assigned do this work? secondly, is there internal directive. that is coming from within the agency that is drive thanksgiving work? i think they are important. and thirdly, we are here to help. as i will say in a minute a land

acknowledgment statement this is for you and in the for us. obviously we know who we are and land we are on. and our primary role is to make sure the land acknowledgment statement you writes accurate and appropriate. that's our role. we're happy to after we review guide lines hand it become to you. let you draft it and you can send it you know when you are ready for the first review. sends it a draft you to. we will review and and sends back with comments and suggestions. when it gets to the point of final approval you have a process for that. and we are done. i think it is helpful it think of it as living documents not as something we get right the first time. things can change. they can be altered dem pending on the organization and subjectives. and so we don't need to think of this something that is just one and done. something that we can think of as a living document.

i will walk through the guide lines the first, thing to consider is why are you doing this? why are you writing a land acknowledgment. and i think that is important because land acknowledgments can be a trend and manage this is symboleck and performtive. we have been encouraging people to think really critically and do self examination and the question we have been asking is here what does it money to be a settler on someone's stolen land. some gallon there simultaneous not. that is the heard question this we are asking folks to consider. and that is related to the second point is they are for you not for you us. hadoes it mean for you all as individual persons or as an agency to be a settler on someone else's land. and so these are for your critical self examinations.

so, that's y. these are for you and not us. we know who's land we are on and who we are. lands acknowledgments are to read by you at the beginning of your meetings we will talk about varieties of that. there are other native groups who do this differently. i want to pin that out this is in the the only way these can be done. this is our ancestral land these are suggested guidelines. we encourage folks to be creditive or not. you know if you read the human right's commission they are formal land acknowledgment it is an incredible willingistic do you mean. and other groups like artists will do one as a performance. or a work of art or poem. the form it takes can be decided by all of you. and you can have different versions of of that form a short

version. a medium you put on line and i long are formal document internal low that is all of that is up to you. work with us. again our goals are to make sure what you do right is accurate and appropriate. we are happy to review it in a process of writing before it come finalized. and also -- we find that land acknowledgments have more coherence if your organizations values and initiatives and principals are integrated into it. e special alignment with the w we do the work is broad it is easy to finds alignment and goals as natives are to heel the earth and to serve the interests of marginalized communities. in our ancestral land.

next is inclusivity. this is important for us to say because the tendancey in our current identity politics and progressism to be inclusive. but land acknowledgments are exclusive to the group am who's lands or agency rests. the institution and some case its is land. i believe the caller mention third degree is the ramaytush ohlone know land it is not the tribe are exclusively villages are in the east bay this is not their territory it is ours. you will be working with us and you would not include anyone else. there are no other formal tribes or organizations. who in this area who claim this land as their ancestral land. encourage folks to krooit write them to ask the question how does this live in the w you do.

does not have to be the idea of indigenous but an idea of the diversity, equity and inclusion including american indzians how does this land and the work you do. is it public for your agency to move beyond doing more that making a symbolic and performtive statement because you are required to or you want to do so. and is it possible for us to partner together in ways that we can care for the earth and marginalized communities in what is a now the city of san francisco. so. that's a really brief review of the guide lines. i'm happy to answer questions you may have. >> and you chime nothing this is secretary full are acknowledge what beth was going to say which

is that, the land acknowledgment is not a requirement, but it is something that the racial equity working group did recommend as an action step that one of the many action steps the commission can take to create a more approximate inclusive environment. through its work. >> thank you. mr. fuller and -- thank you mr. cordero. questions from the commissioners? no. thank you very much for the presentation i took it to heart had i read the paperwork. based on my background i know what it is like to be displaced as they say i'm palestinian but00 eye believe we will take this request seriously and under commission of the streets and suddentation i think it is our

job as stewards to keep the streets clean and keep them green. i definitely will take it to heart and the commission will work on an appropriate statement i will have to find out from secretary fuller or somebody how we about about our process will work to do that. but thank you. >> wonderful. thank you for your time today and look forward to working with you in the fufrment hearing no further questions. i'm sorry. yea. commissioner simi. >> thank you. i appreciate the presentation separate from that i was follow up on your question, chair about what is there something expected that we connect implies there was a request this we perhaps work on an acknowledgment we need to decide if we want to do

so and how to do so. i'm i don't know if we do that through this item or a future item would appreciate clarification on that. hello. deputy city attorney taylor. the action today have the discussion. you can simple low take the information presented think about it. at a future meeting decide bring it again for future discussion. today you could perhaps discuss some possible options. you can direct secretary department to come up some ideas for you. you can direct may be developing a time acknowledgment in the future. that could then come become to the commission for approval. its up to you how you want to handle it. >> okay so -- go out.

i had the same questions where do we go from here? i'm sorry. go out on a limb here. sounds like the department is dei committee suggest third degree we have this conversation spill wondering if perhaps than i had or there may be other -- i think that secretary full are sent examples of other departments around but perhaps say next meeting we can get if may be a proposal from the staff on it but some guidance as to hamight make sense. i don't think we want to public low trying to wroit a statement here. that would get mess and he take a lot of time. >> so, there is a secretary fuller, there are 2 things to follow up on on that specific point. one, we are not able to connect

to her audio she would have provide more of the help with this. but the racial equity working group can support, support the drafting of an acknowledgmentment and i can share a few other resources available to her. my recommendation is that if there is one or 2 members of the commission who are interested in drafting this we can work together along with that working group. then also consulting with mr. cordero as well. put together coming that can be brought back later. >> i would like to work on this. >> i will be happy it join you. >> i might suggest you could make a motion suggesting that the 2 commissioners work on the

item. all right. i like to make a motion 2 will work on this item and make a land acknowledgment. i second. thank you we have a first from first from hartwig and second from commissioner harrison all in favor? >> aye. >> thank you. mr. fuller. thank you city attorney taylor. i was look for example clarity. where did we go from here. do we say yes, no! i had a feeling we would be on board but -- got awkward. thank you look forward to working on this and like to make it something definitely cohesive to had we do on streets and sanitation and w with trees. do we want to put out may be not the next meeting but 2 meetings

down to make sure it does not fall off. the agenda. i don't mean what we think an appropriate period of time would be to come back and revisit this. i being january would be a great time for the new year and i will not be here for the december meeting but i'm happy to work on it without breaking rules. trying to figure that one out. we will work on something. >> formed the committee we can have a dialogue. >> yea. >> yea. 2 of us don't make a quorum. >> deputy city attorney. yes the twof you may discuss the item. on a future meeting if you have a presentation or suggestion that you want to bring for the commission you may do so. >> can we talk in the innerim to develop something. >> yes. >> thank you. [laughter]. all right. um -- thank you, thank you mr.

cordero and mrs. rubbenstein sorry we did not hear from you. but mr. fuller. public comment? >> that's correct. >> thank you. >> member ever public who wish to make 3 minutes of comment on what is item 5. the commission land acknowledgment discussion, may line up against the wall. . if you are call nothing dial 415-655-0001 then access code: 2486 625 3245 ## and press star 3 to enter the queue. look in the chamber it does not appear anyone wishes to speak on this item. sfgovtv do we have any callers

in the queue? we have 2 members of the public interested in speaking on this item. please, unmute the first call and caller you have 3 machines to speak and i will provide you with a warning. >> great. daved again. so, actually this item number did not change on this. this is still item 4 on the agenda it was taken out of order, which is fine but confuse to suggest this item numbers changed. still 45 was taken ahead. agenda lists this size informational item and yet you just had a motion and vote on a direction and it is so prior to hearing public comment. i think all of that is a problem from a brown act and sunshine

ordinance. perspective. on more of the substance here. these land acknowledgment discussion has occurred at several commissions. and raised occurrence for me. in part about the suggestion to some that it might conifer certain rights to some and not to others. that could be a problem for the city. or -- some of us in the city. i'm not sure how that plays out and not sure that we fully understand what that might mean here. at a high level, i think we all descend from various folks perhaps you will from the same place. but all the people that associate with groups have grievances and history.

some of it is good. some of it is horrible and much is mixed. it is in the/khrer to me how this proposed land acknowledgment address this issue or the grievances and history that others have. if it is not otherwise clear, i'm a jewish person but have nothing against the commission chair or any palestinian or person of palestinian decent nor do i have anything against anyone from eastern europe that may have had involvement in the hol hall cost. >> there are many other grievance i could point to.

any number of other issues that could be addressed and i am yes or noly of the vow that beyond the per vow and scope of this dmoigz over see san station and streets in the city. it is a slippery slope into. time expired. be careful and -- >> sfgovtv if we could unmute the second call and caller you have 3 minutes to speak. >> commissioners, i have provided the city attorney the city add administrator, the mayor, several members of the. board of supervisors, carla short and i would like you to read their document.

the document has been addressed to the department of interior. this land acknowledgment muddies the waters. for example, as one of you commissioner said we have the palestinian issue. you need to know the history of this. studying the history the palestinian issue -- i'm on the side of the palestinians. somebody takes me on, i can give them the facts. i even met several leaders on both sides. what i'm saying is, if you take the san francisco public utility's commission, for

example, they have a land acknowledgment and you can see what they stay. if you want proof remains have been found, dna taken and linked to the olone this gentlemen said this is not their land who the hell is he? we need proof. i submitted you a document. stanford and the university of chicago. taken the dna linking it to the present members of the malone tribe.

i don't like anybody muddying the waters. i like empirical data. and this land acknowledgment statement is a joke. it said something and means nothing. why would you come and be allowed make a land acknowledgment statement for what? there is no clarity there , is no empirical data it mudys the water. thank you very much. >> thank you. caller. >> and we have no further public commenters on this item. upon commissioners? harrison? >> yea, how did this get to us? does anyone know? >> i can speak to that or publicly director short if you

want to. >> well this was one of the recommendations from our racial equity group. to consider. it is for consideration by commission. and you finish you look at the our little note proceeding the item, a number of commissions have chosen to credit i land acknowledgment they read at their commission meetings and so -- we wanted to make sure you knew that and aware of that and our racial equity group was recommending you consider that as well. and they are here and available to work with you and that we have you know the mr. cordefera offered to be available as a research as well. >> so we are not inventing anything. this is other commissions have already are working on that?

>> yes. i'm sure others are working on it a number of them all right created and adopted their lands acknowledgment they use at there hearings. >> okay. i would assume our working group will get that information from those various place. >> thank you. >> absolutely. >> and yes. i listen in the on several commission hearings and heard the land acknowledgment statements and i'm. >> aware of several commissions and groups that do have them and yes, question for the city attorney is this been vetted? that -- based on the caller's disputes of the plain. deputy city attorney i'm not aware of what report may have been vetted or reviewed or

commented on by the city. >> okay thank you does not want to put you in the hot seat. thank you. >> >> fiaccount i -- mr. rubenstein apologized she was not present but made points i would like to share. more than 10 commissionsy do have a land acknowledgment including the board of supervisors and that this also was part of the city wide recommendations from the office of racial equity we are following their guidance and before you >> commissioner simi. >> i could add. no longer this whatever this department is on january one is responsible for taking care of a significant chunk of the land within the city and county of san francisco. people don't realize it.

streetsure a huge percentage. i don't know off hand hathat is. it is worth noting how regardless of the city wide process it it is good it it is per nan top have that conversation within this department. >> thank you. any other commissioners? um -- hearing no further discussion. call the next item. >> so. item 6 is the return to the bureau of urban forestly. the bureau of urban forestries, item -- performance measure report. each bureau will present its performance measure report on a quarter low bases and october we heard from central operations and the street environmental

services bonjour bureau the forestry today and in february of 23. this will not be a long report. down the road we can go in greater detail and we are open to questions from you or things to follow up on. but -- for today i will share with what we got here

>> so, this first slide represents what we receive inbound requests. of broken down by our different shops. so -- at the top, it is a sliver of assessment administration so -- i think this is characteristic we don't get a ton of sidewalk of requests as a percentage. each one represents a ton of work. sometimes one request can be a week plus of w to address something. the next lay are the light blue is what we received for the landscape. a lot of reasonable. the median needs -- to be litter picked or something. a lot of weed in this area. the bottom tier for arborists

and if it is not clear but people care a lot about trees and sends in tree related requests and reflect in the what we received so. i will talk about the trend. 2018 what we were getting. so. it was the lowest 2018 and 2019, 2020, we saw this jump up. some of that came from people being at home. noticing more things and even throughout 311 app. of we like when they sends it they include a photo. and daul through the hot line. and the folks pick up the phone are well train exclude do a good

job of categorizing things to respond if it is high priority or sounds like a lower priority we will sends that to be inspectd and confirm what the issue is. and then you see in 2022 we have in the surge. i can contribute that to the pan dem and i can perhaps this is people coming out more out and about and noticing things. or options with these tools. this next slide this is showing the tree planting. our self evidence. we can see 2018, 845 trees and determine down during the pandemic this reflected really quick response pause actiftds we figured out way its work safely

and develop field social distancing. we asked our partners to dot bulk of upon planting for us. and for our tree maintenance you see -- where we were at in 2018. that was high point for us and the program. where we were -- pruning 6,000 trees. and then during the pan dem that i can dropped off. one of the issues that we are identifying is it takes awhile

it get our contracts and grants up and running. so for maintenance it is specific low through our contractors. and when we find out that we don't have as much moneys we were originally allocated we cancelled purchase and contracts for tree pruning and then to restart that requires going become out and reinspect trees. getting the -- the contractless to differents teams and get the w. the crew doing slow and steady work. in the meantime, it helped the numbers from dropping further. but we are hoping that in the in this current fiscal year you will see a big spike and so far from the reports coming insofar we think on electronic for a

strong 2023. this slide is specific to our tree inspection group. so -- these are internal requests that we receive and complete. internal something inspector saysil inspect it and do it today. and note that right away. you see this block step with received requests in the completed request happens all in the same day or somewhere like another part of our department saying can you check on this and run out and do this right away. upon often sidewalk related. rather than looking at the difference with the 2 lines i don't thank you is valuable. i think looking at the over all pro trajectory you see how we does a ton of inspection in 2018 and lost a couple of people. we got some people and lost

people reasonable you see that tracked closely with staffing. asked them to deprioritize some of their -- inspection work and focus onically map inspection, which is looking at key map for i contractor that was a bottle neck to meet our goals we need them and up running. they dropped down on the -- inspection work and focus on key maps. you see the trend lines reflecting our staffing and prioritization. all right, this sliez is specific to our cement shop. so00 eye think that this slide shows some of our problems with the tools that we have to track

our work and i will explain. this is a measurement of the square footage of sidewalk that we are replacing or repair nothing i year and these are general low huge numbers an entire 80 in 2018. of sidewalk repaired. and 2019 it dropped. why did we have 96,000 plus square feet? what were we doing. what -- in peeping for this i was talking to our team and learned that during fiscal 2020, we could not do a ton of work we fanned out and did inspection work to assign what we completed and perhaps not closed out and reported as complete. when we mark today complete it just showed done in 2020. it did not show the year that it

was done. could have been 2017 or 18 or 19. we have years worth of side wuk repair reflected in 2020 and then you see in 2021, 22, it drops back off because we have to close service orders and recording the amount repairs this real time. so the numbers are reflected. i predict in 2023, when will we catch up we will have another spike and have the same -- like trend. which would be better is to close those out in real time. some for reference have not been tracked. or not reported public low or to

a commission. it did not matter as long as you got the work done and closed it out the work was getting done. now as we report this we realize. we gotta make sure that the data reflects the activity. accurately. i think in preparing there are awkwardness like -- that does not tell the story but -- and in a way it does. i say that -- after 2020 the crew was good about recording that so we don't think we will have the spike. you see in 2021 and 22.

they were closing that out and recording how many linear feet of curb they were repairing as they within along. lessons learned for us i wanted share. brief presentation a handful of metrics i'm happy to take questions. if you ask me for a number i will not provide it here but will come become to you. report on that. thank you very much, commissioner, questions? thanks for the presentation and i always enjoy learning about fun data.

the documents before the -- power point you showed on the mail out there is00ue know a chart of the metrics and -- i think i was wondering i guess one -- larger question. the goal snot filled out i think a lot of things you don't want to have goals for like corrective service ordered you want to how quick low to resolve you don't want anymore but not a realistic goal. i mean seems like it might be universal around streets and sanitation or dpw i have one was a general perhaps it direct a short question about where we are with with the goalos themmism think that is helpful. you know, 15,000 square feet of sidewalk is a great number but

like a counting statistic does not tell me a lot. second was with respect to the trees have you them maintaind and inspected but they don't convey anything about -- percent of trees plantd that make it pedestrian a certain number of years. and that's more helpful and understanding. you know what is the health of urban forest. may be i the questions or -- perhaps don't need answers now but it is important thing to keep looking at. >> yes. thank you. commissioner simi. interrim director carla short. those are great points and actually -- goals that we are actively working on developing. so -- both our urban forest plan sort of challenges us to

establish a management plan and the audit by the controller's office said it is great that you said great you know what you have done but what are you trying to do. we are working on establishing goals that are stretch goals but not -- unrealistic goals based on the challenges we have in doing this work. i think we'll be appropriated to come become to the commission in the next few months with actual goals for those items. but i think you make a great point about does not make sense to have a goal for the number of public requests we wanted to be proactive focusing on the things like numbers of trees, maintained and respected those will relate back. we have a document that sort of provides where we want to be

heading as a city. had our street tree program. tell make it easy to see, how are we doing their relative to achieving the longer term goals for the street tree program of the city. i would add that we had arborists taking care of trees for djtd 've democracied this is program is new and we are figuring out a pace and good way to measure our progress and does involve topics. or performance team giving good feed become in terms of tracking things that are look backs but also leading indicators showing problems that are on the horizon. that a little more useful and from a dash board perspective

what can i do to correct things before it gets worse. >> thank you. the first year of the tree prunings in 2016, i believe or 18 on your -- i assumed it was a new program and they are doing trees there is neglected trees and it tapers. i locked at that and said this is corruptive data we gotta and person for united states as a commission and body and department to get the trendses. okay, give them i raise and -- no. it is important for the data to be there someone does not get that context than i will say what is wrong with this. thank you for providing the context and look forward to seeing clearer cleaner data so we can help you united states as a commission i hope we'll be the face and be out well to and want to root and support and you have to base it on facts and

activity. as a commission we are an oversight body and represent the people of san francisco may be more than the city and county of san francisco. but that is my perspective. thank you for the report and look forward to seeing more and better. thank you. why commissioners? commissioner hartwig. i have a question about the annual count of public requests by shop. those other requests that were received, correct? so -- how many were actually completed? just because you received i request does not mean it was completed. i like to know what the numbers are some time in the future. because, yea. yea. more information. >> okay. we can -- see what we have in terms of response time i heard

that, too and also quantifying the backlog. something we can share. is there a tech thing like when you do close something out you can be like this work was done and yes it is inspect in the 2023 it was done in 22. is there a button you can add. to make it easier. i'm wondering. yea. we are working on trying to improve the usability of our system and the tablets where we enter data in the field. sometime if yous don't know the dates if you know the completion date you put if in retroactive low if you don't know the date it will catalog the date you completed the inspection or closed the service order. you can over roadway at this time default is the date that you closed it. >> so -- also wanted to clarify

today was to introduce you to what we are tracking and we will give you regular updates on how we are doing, today was about this is the information we are currently electronicing and we will get in the details how we are doing against the metrics in the future. >> okay. one more question. for the number of trees planted, are those new trees or replacement trees or a combination? >> yes. so we we have not been distinguishing if it was new or replacement tree or new basin or if -- it wasave tree that died and replaced. the other thing this we don't have a number for is the number of vandalized trees we replaced. that's something that it is

board of supervisors have asciis asked us to start tracking. i know that for us it is a lot of moving pieces to track things takes awhile. but i don't -- argue at all that would be a valuable number to measure. i think that -- we are trying to balance getting the work don. reporting the work. and being able to provide it and understood kinds of way or in public comment i heard mapping all. we love that we love being able to demonstrate when we are doing but also within some like of challenges of trying to collect all of that. under pressure. >> thank you. >> yea >> for clarity dent we have a map that is robust i could look up in front of my house and check on my tree and see. i believe well is? >> i think you are right i have

seen this. to comment i believe there is one >> well is one and we worked hard to launch that. i will note that we had a bit of a gap during the pandemic where we were not able to project when trees would be pruned as well. but i will may be take ape moment to introduce our new public information officer who is here. chris. who has been helping to get us to make sure we are updating those public low facing websites and documents more quickly. we are delighted have him on board and getting through that the gap of information we are covering from that now. >> awesome. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. crawford. >> thank you. >> any further questions? >> mr. fuller public comment? >> member of the public who wish to make 3 minutes of comment on

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can you hear me now. we can hear you y. grit. david again. so -- on this item number of requests pending and the total number of questions are interesting data. but -- they -- not the dast a would find most useful. i'm interested in the percentage of the requests completed in a certain time. whatever the standards a call within 48 hours or replacing concrete within tw weeks. whatever the appropriate performance standards is looking at the time to complete or respond to report request or complaint. and kind of something about age. what is the average time to complete or what is the longest

or oldef item that has an outstanding ticket or in the queue. it is this data that -- i'm interested in terms of performance. i would be careful about what data is more appropriate for an annual report like the number of street tree and changes to the street tree inventory versus the performance types statistics that i think are more tieed resources. so if you had 5 more arborists you get more w done and showing something about how long it takes and filling the 5 more arborists would help. if we are faster at completing urban forest related requests than street environmental or dbr things then men we need to redirect resources so it is

anyway. raises a number of budget issues when you look at performance steps. and final low i add the number of tree related complaints and violations issued that is my theme for the day and public low other statistics related to this i will think about what makes sense for performance monitor and measurement i'm sure this will also have the views of controller's office in the future. >> 30 seconds >> the charter >> reporter:s >> thanks for listening. >> thank you. sfgovtv unmute the second caller you will have 3 minutes to speak and i will provide you with a warning. thank you. commissioners. i'm brian johnson i spoke earlier and want today peck on this point to the urban forest a residents of bay vow and started a business in the bay vow that

used vehicles and ai to deal with city issues like the ones we are talking about today. and i nithird degree we have a lot of disparity with public requests med through 311 and what is the situation on the ground. for many requests. and i storied my business in the bayview to deal with the issue because i was seeing the problems her in my neighborhood. and i wanted to also say that i think that the dpw does a great job of dealing with requests when they know about them and the city it is a big accomplice with a lot of square footage. a lot of streets and sidewalks and difficult to know where the problems are. that's what i would like to offer you. i already spoke with carla and others what this was in religion to illegal dumping and like to open up with nic list and chris as well as carla about how the

technology you use with imaging to monitor the health of the urban forestry and understand upon which trees need to be watered. and when. because -- i think that there is a -- relationship between all of the services within our city and if i'm gathering the image already. it would be a benefit to both departments to use the data to to know better when is happening to do a better job. i want toed thank you and ask action item a meeting with you nikolas and chris and carla to discuss. >> thank you. >> thank you. caller. and sfgovtv indicated that was our last public commenter on

this item. >> thank you. no further discussion. next item. okay. item 7 is the street environmental services report on proactive work and superintendent christopher mc daniels will present this. this is an informational item. in good afternoon. chris mc daniels with street and environmental services. i appreciate being here and happy holidays to everyone. we will talk about cleaning. we have a lot in the city. we do have conflicts with that because there is a lot of also a lot of requests that are not plans requests from a lot of

areas and like to always be ail it deliver when someone requests. we call it clean corridors sf every thursday folks go out to districts throughout the city and provide power washing. remove weed and graffiti and come and flush the street down. we do this every thursday. we finds this important farz keeping the communities and corridors clone. picture now is post street we have activityos post and the alleys there present a challenge for us. >> this is a schedule that we created early in the year. you can see that last thursday we were in d8. we wereom have 11sia and 18th. we went through that and did a great job.

you see a gap in our schedule the hell day season is here. we will not work this coming thursday but we will follow up in december and be back on the valence why and mission in d 9. the bulk of cloning takes place with sweeping. 90% is done boy the mechanical sweepers. as you see here, we have some stats as far as curb miles swept of 150,000 the tons we delivered recology. 25,000. and you see our frequency of cloning in the residential areas and in the commercial areas. note in some highly traveled areas such as the tenderloin we clean those 3 times a week. depends where is it was and how much treasure is currently

present. a lot of benefits removes the lit frer streets. prevents leaves from going in the puc system. newscasted treating that at plants we pick it up on the street and dispos of it this way. reduces pollution going in the bay. >>mented give you an idea of our mechanical sweeping map. you see the light blue on the map those are some of our routes that our drivers take. 22 routeos this mapful we do intermeadiat sweeping as well this . is showing you we are city wide and do a lot. in e the far right, route 21 to the park. the bike coalition are friends of ours as they have grown,

their bike lanes increased. our sweepers can't get in the zone some are protected by medians or type of apparatus prevent the cars from going in the lane. we came up with a custom sweeper. a let smaller fits and does a great job. we have support in the front of the sweep and behind the sweeper. sometime its pulls up and the boxes are a bicycle or harf. this broom support 56 up that peels of equip or trash and putings in the peck up or put its to the side for you to come become and get later. sometimes it goes by and does in the get everything off. there i are in the back to pick update items at the sweeper did not pick up. the cb's are have elevation when is it makes a turn the elevation changes and goes down in the cb.

a let of time there is is treasure left so that broom upon support helps by pick up. pictures are nice you see on the corners there. where the sweeper can't get that is what that broom support person does. make sure it is clean when they are done. we have another program the corridor program this is another cleaning we have up to 145 workers. working there. as you see we service 700 more commercial blocks throughout the city. they work hard every day in the yours and take care of business. this map shoes the corridor routes in red. yellow are pit stops the portable restrooms for pep in the community to use and our

staff it use as well. the purple dot is our supply box. the staff members trop a district. so they pick up tools at this box. we don't drive them they report there approximate get the tools and come become and put the tools become we have our boxes there. woo have prosecute active clean nothing different areas and call those folking ambassadors moscone we have conventions and want to make surety route with the convention center and union square where the hotels are stay clone. we have individuals that w well and make sure the areas are clone. we have special events this is season of the holiday season we have the theatres. that are preponder lay exclude we have those and ambassadors works well to make sure they are

clean as well. we have the same program in china town there are folk in china town they are assignd and dot good work every day. another location is the tenderloin if you had a chance to roadway in the tenderloin very sensitive your you in we have ambassadors cleaning there as well. hot spot crew is assigned encampments we talked about this before they provide general cleaning. we try to power wash the streets. there were folks that need help and we want to help them decide other ways of living. so -- it is in the just us we have pd and other social services to help us. on encampments we post it a

couple days before so the folks know they were coming. we give them a chance to gather their items so when we come in we are ready to rock and roll. you see the flat bed truck is there. we have the packer a lot of stuff has to go in the units to condense them down. sofas and mattresses and everything else. >> back in december, sick of left year the mayor declared an emergency in the tenderloin. we created a joint field operation. every day at 10. . 15 we meet and figure out what hot spot we focus on that day. again. there is a lot of city service this is work with us pd and public health what we are trying to do is attack those really tough yaroslavsky other thanning talk with folks. accomplice them in a holing or shelter. and after we are done come in behind them.

its an on going process. we are trying to find clarity and see if we can make a dent in the community. our night crew they come in their job is it make sure when folks get up the next morning the corridors special plazas are clean and visible work i call it. we don't see them often but in the morning when you get off the bart or walking at un plaza you see they have been there. we do graffiti abatement when we dot corridor programos thursday we remove tags. we scraped stickers off the posts. paint removal and we power wash the areas. we have a new graffiti pilot coming up. work width city teern get the wording right we will help the ordinance often through a

program we can take care of the graffiti for them. that's all i have today. any questions. >> yes, i do. >> thank you. >> commissioner hartwig. >> i noticed that on the community corridor map, this it is from february of 2019. why is it an old map? i know that -- that these are not the accurate routes anymore. community corridor map? ? silent current monopoly we use. these other routes they work in. no. this is an old map it says february of 20 then and also i work in soma west and we don't

have any corridor workers. like you have stated here. i can check into this i will double check. we don't have anyone on 7k and eighth we don't have anyone on that anymore. the neighborhoods our live in our worker has been diverted mosconi the past machining. when we have special evans at mosconi we fluctuate our staff to address the need at hand it is a temporary switch when convention is over staff goes become to regular location.

>> all right. >> right. that was the mosconi convention district when there is a convention we have staff this monitor and goes up to union square as well. i like to see an updated map. no problem. >> thank you. could we get one senior than the yacks quarter low report? >> sure. >> thank you. >> thank you. and i got a question and they do the street cleaning i remember on westportal and i was down there and excited see it and the mechanical cleaners up and down the street and cleaning the street and i wonder would it be effective to do it at night and i know you do it on the thursdays but would it be fest to have it on a street cleaning day so they wash and everything washed down and manage at cleaners take it away.

i did i will ask you this as well. why are they washing the street i wish they would flood the sidewalks can't get the feb. machinery through they are spot cleaning the sidewalks. doing great and the sweepers sweep the street and the cars are parked and then they came in and flushed everything and i thought well, i done understand the purpose of this was. my thought process did it on a street colleening day at night. no cars, wash and the sweeper come in come clones the curve invisible cleaners. grown that is something we can work out. i did not understand the street cleaning purpose. >> so we used power washers to clean the sidewalk and they push the debris in to the gutter. when the flush are come the

flusher is flushing the street the water guess to the curb hit its and take its down block to the cb. right and that's how we work down the corridor. >> cars p there is is in the doing that. that's the problem. >> that's the intent and the flow from the flushers is quite heavy. gi was watching it it was interesting. >> cars were park thered tires catch jot cars parked different for most blocks and we ghaet flushing technique and guess special catch it down there. >> just food for thought. men a street cloning day when 91 of the cars are were. it can get swept away. >> okay. thank you. great work and like today but saw that and hum. how does this work. >> and like the customer doveros thursday is an extra cloning for

the community and the corridors we do our regular cleaning our proactive clone thanksgiving is more of an enhandled extra effort for the department to make the corridors. >> i'm sure from the small business community we thank you and support you and encourage you. it is just has a chain reaction. people walk out like on the street and say it looks nice and clone. they don't it resonates and it

thank you. no. great w i was trying to help and will federal for thought. why thank you. >> thank you. further questions? mr. fullir. public comment. >> members who wish to make 3 machines of comment on item 7 the street and environmental services prosecute active work report, may line up against the wall. if you are call nothing dial 415-655-0001 then access code: 2486 625 3245 ## and press star 3 to enter the queue. looking in the chamber does not appear we have members present. sfgovtv, do we have any members of public in the queue? they are indicating we have one caller had want its poke on this item. please, unmute the caller you have 3 minutes it speak. >> hi, i'm [inaudible] and over seat committee organizing department of near tenderloin housing and work in tenderloin

in my work i work with residents, business owner and property owners and tenability right issues and street conditions. i really appreciate the city department of public works focused during emergency declaration on coordinating, cloning, power washing the sidewalks and helping our tenderloin tlcbd and to keep clone as it could get the sidewalks. after the declaration ended we saw less of service, yes, we have corridor workers near our neighborhood in tenderloin working. we do have sometimes pressure washing from dpw. what i don't understand sometime system like what i did not see in this presentation is there is a lack of coordination between the corridor workers and power washing with tlc provides basic

cleaning for our neighborhood. i did in the see in the present anticipation, part from the joint calls that happened weekly that is continuing and appreciate that i did in the see strategic way of figure out how to support each other. that is one. the other thing i found and i do spoke to the corridor workers on and off and finds out that there is power wash happening from dpw sometimes on the sidewalk of tenderloin but no cord nigz with the corridor workers the purwash happens on the sidewalk all the trash gets on the streets. and then the corridor workers have to go in on coming traffic to pick up the trash. this is one concern i have. i don't know why there is no coordination. the kingsed thing is i would request if there is a way it increase the customer dover

workers time like to work in the evening. because there is in cleaning in tenderloin after 2:30 p.m. there is none. and so it becomes evening when our businesses really require people coming through it is pretty [inaudible] on the sidewalk. if this is a possibility to increase the time for corridor workers who work in the evening that would be helpful. those are my comments and hoping in the next presentation we will see strategic conversation with tlc and dpw on mixture myself the cloning effort in listen line. thank you very much. thank you, caller. this is we have no more callers on this item. hearing commissioners any? no further discussion? next item.

>> thank you. >> thank you, mr. mc danielle. >> item 8 is the department director hiring update. and assistant direct of employment service sean will present this update and i wanted note that mr. cherburn i had schedule him for later but this commission has been rather briefed moving through items faster he was able to rearink his schedule to make it in time. thank you to him. why this is an informingal item. >> thank you. why good afternoon. sean with department of human resources. i'm definitely appreciate the commission having me today. i spoke to the public works commission last week gave them an update on their executive service. and also shared with them that the executive search for this

commission had come to close upon given the election results from early 30 earlier this among i request over you with the public works director and available to answer questions you may have. is that. >> that is our director as well? >> it will be yes. >> exactly. want to make sure. i'm in between about 4 commission meetings today. everybodimented to meet on a monday before the holidays. so i'm nimble and so i appreciate that -- you know. quick update to the public works director which is also your director. we i met with the commission yesterday. i'm sorry left week. they will move forward with beshg research a firm out of the

east became you can guess where they're located they have done outstanding work for the stele for other positions including our public health director a few years ago. we worked with them at department of human resources they are good at managing a tight time line i understand from the public work commission that while they waited, they wanted see what the results of election would be. they want to move fast and i think you have an interim director. i think they are interested is moving forward. we are beginning that conversation you in that the executive search firm has been selected. they will meet individual low with each one of the commissioners for the public works commission i think that commission as well as looking how they willment to engage this commission. and so that was what i heard at the last commission meeting i can help them with this and

relay informing to them. at this point it is unclear to me whether it will be a xhig of the whole or whether they will create a special committee for the executive search. now the good news on that front is there is an executive search firm we are entering if a contract for services as we speak. yes. >> question. sign contract tomorrow. we find a candidate tomorrow. how long will it be before this new director? takes place. i'm looking for a time line snapshot in my lifetime a year? 6 months? >> i can run through the time line a bit. could be all. hopeful low not your lifetime. what we have seen from the

executive search depends how much engagement the commission ams to have. in the process. are than imenting to engage multiple stake holders the commissioners themselves individually to identify what is an ideal candidate. build out the profile. and then they are engaging commissioners in other stake holders where should we source them from which are there individuals we should reach out to? are there professional organizations that will want to post this job and a discussion how long they keep the posting open. we recommend 2 and 4 weeks this is when you will hear from an executive search firm. can go longer depending on the need to bring more in the pool and from there, the process

moves pretty expeditiously an issue ever calendar the things and interviews. and moving the candidates through the process happen in closed session. from there, what i think with other commissions witness they reached a consensus on a -- slight slate of candidates they would like to move forward it moves to a believe the mayor's office that's how this commission is established, too, for the executive director. mayor's office will want the 3 names. and i have seen other put forward less than 3 names. and what happened with this they prowsed more names. that is how i seen this play out. you know real ~ically, 4 to sick

months. seeing the head nodding does in the surprise you. it really -- i'm in between several commission meetings today somewhere needed to move faster others want to have more stake holder out roach and meet with individual constituent groups. some want to vice president in person. in they are fine with virtual. others than i made decisions for you sake of time. that may be that engage the public in surveys. this is the discussion i foresee happening with the public works commissioners and likely with this commission as well as we engage the executive search firm. >> i guess we are in a unique situation we have to 2 new commissions i don't know how much experience the commissioners have reviewing,

hiring criteria or engaging new director. or don't know the other commission we meet. i wonder guidelines, play book, manage to say, is there a how to hire a director for a commissioner become for dumys. >> luckily we -- the search firms that are in the cities approved vendors the 1 this is we have the one selected beshg low search have experience work nothing this realm. they will engage in most cases and i believe this individual low with each commissioner they will answer those question and walk through what is your ideal director. what is your to build out a candidate prosecute file and then they will w with me, my team to identify the stepss we move forward. they will really be able to help

navigate had. will help coordinate public meeting that need to happen. many closed sessions where a candidate profile be reviews or move forward and interviews that happen. those are things they'll be enengaged with a number of people to makure we are expeditious and meet the requirements you all have and the public work commission has both in terms ofment to honor the process and make sure we finds the best candidates for this position. but also honoring the obligations we have for agendaizing and having the discussion where they are present in the public meetings. your hands will be held and have

that opportunity again i said i'm having discussions with public works decision. they highlight third degree a good form. my read is is this they'll want to engage you all. that will be i discussion this commission will have with this commission. i'm certain how the 2 commissions connect with one another the board period. that is realistic i have done one of the executive services for planning. 2-3 years ago they created a joint selection committee. these are ideas that i think will befullied up and discussed

about how the 2 bodies come together and help not just build out the process but identify the ultimate candidate assuming the role of director. >> beshg low search started or are they going to be starting? >> so. best answer i have. the discussions with manager is this they were securing the engage index codes. and the signatures are if they have not been placed are policed now. ir needed to u. public works left week they shared an interest in my updating this commission as well. these are moving forward quick low i thank you was the interest of the commission and the other. and, stake holders around the

city want to see this press move forward. >> >> thank you. further questions? mr. fuller. public comment. why thank you very much. >> members of the public when wish it make 3 machines of comment on item 8 the department director hiring update may lineup. if you are calling in dial 415-655-0001 then access code: 2486 625 3245 ## and press star 3 to enter the queue. looking in the chamber does in the apeer we have members wish to smoke speak. sfgovtv do we have callers in

the queue for this item? quo have no public commenters on this item. >> hearing no further questions from the commissioners? no. >> all right. thank you very much. hearing no further questions fuller. where are we that was too fast for me. next item which is new business initiated by commissioners. >> commissioners. anything for updates or informational or -- the good of the cause. commissioner harrison. we heard a bit last month on the on the -- grants. and i think it embarrass more informing for us.

at least for me. and so i'm going to make a motion we hear a full report on the grants from where the money come from to the final review of the people who are going to do the work. from the beginning to the end. i'm curious and think it bears looking into. so that's my motion. >> oh. deputy city attorney taylor. i believe you can talk and "department top -- bring you presentation or more data. but now making a motion and having an action is in the appropriate. >> you can request absolutely the department to come become to you at a future meeting date with information you are requesting. joy would like that report. and say january meeting? >> i like to support his

request. as chair is january a good time. yes. i think from the department's perspective we provide a detailed and thorough report to guarantees if the schedule accommodates. i think we can commit to that. >> very nice. thank you. >> thank you very much. pending no further discussion i like to say happy holidays and hope you all have a thankful and a highly gratitude -- after our presentation i'm remiss to say -- you know have a wornful holiday and i share gratitude with all of you being here and

thankful for all present and we are thankful for when we have and when we are passing forward and dog for the city of san francisco. i will miss you all at the next meeting i want to wish you a further happy holidays and see you next year. hit the ground running i believe vice chair kwon will host chairing in december and i expect to hear great things i might be watch nothing and be careful fidon't call in. [laughter]. thank you, everyone. any further discussion. >> commissioner. >> tell us about the i pads. >> these ours to take? >> i goat keep the charger with it? >> we can discuss their availability outside of the meeting but the i padsure meant to allow commissioners and the director and attorneys to have all of the documents available

from the for the commission at if anything are tips. and be able to zoom in on them up can't do that on the monitors. and also effort torous the amount paper w that has to be printed out for each meeting which even with a great attempt to do so there is still a lot of printing involved. these should help us avoid additional use of paper. but yes. >> i really like them. why thank you. >> mr. fuller public comment. >> member of the public had wish to make 3 machines of comment on item 9 new business may line up for this with us here. if you are call nothing dial 415-655-0001 then access code: 2486 625 3245 ## and press star 3 to enter the queue.

it does not appear we have member of public in the chamber wishing to speak. sfgovtv, do we have caller in the queue? they are indicating -- we have one caller. please unmute that call and caller you have 3 millions to speak. agreement david pill bell last time today. in this case i want to concur with the deputy city attorney that -- the -- item is just an information item a motion is not required and not in order. and general low when commissioner has an item or topic that is request for future is handled as a request from a

commissioner and absent objection from other commissioners. it is in a list special on the advanced calendar at future meetings and will be schedule in the grand scheme of things. i think -- approximate t is find request and great for those of you on the commission to initiate items but staff will then follow up and we will hear a full presentation in the future. looking forward it all of that. upon happy holidays as appropriate and until next time of thanks for listening. take care y. thank you, caller. >> and that is our only caller who is -- in that concludes public comment. >> thank you. this concludes public upon comment. please call the next item. general public comment. do we. >> we did this

>> that was -- follow up. >> this is since we did not exceed the 15 minutes of general comment at the and item number one item steffen in the necessary >> excellent. mr. secretary are their further business -- there is no further business on this goodnight. why i adjourn this meeting thank you, everyone this commission will nooet meet on december 19, 2022. adjourning at 12:49. thank you, everyone. clear clear .

>> my name is kathy mccall. i'm director of san francisco national cemetery here on the presidio of san francisco. this was designated as the first national cemetery on the west coast in 1884.however its history dates back to the 1850s along with the us army presence on the presidio itself.

we have 26,300 gravesites that we maintain and thereare 32,000 individuals buried in this cemetery . the veterans who are buried here span all the war period going back to what we call the indian war, spanish-american war, world war i to korea, vietnam and then as recent as operation iraqifreedom . we have 39 medal of honor recipients. more than 400 buffalo soldiers buried here who are the african-americansoldiers who served with the ninth and 10th calvary . there's so many veterans buried here, each withtheir own unique history and contribution . one of those individuals is all equipment prior. that's not her real name, that's her stage name and she was an actor during the civil war and while she was working she was approached by sympathizers who offered her a

sum of money to cost jefferson davis on stage she did this but she recorded it to a union marshall . she was fired for doing this which made her a sweetheart to the local confederates and made her a good spy for the union. she gave information to the union until late 1863 when she was found out in order to be hung by confederate general braxton bragg of the union troops the town . no longer any good she even wrote a book. she was given the honorary rank of major president lincoln and her inscription reads union spy. >> memorial day is a day of respect and morning for our veterans who have given their

all five presidential proclamation it became a national holiday to beobserved on the last monday of the month of may . originally memorial day was called decoration day during the civil war to recognize the veterans whogave their lives . memorial day and veterans day getconfused because it involves veterans .veterans day is on november 11 is a day to honor our veterans who are still alive while at the same time we pay respect to those who have passed but memorial day is a day to show our respect to what was said and honor ourveterans who have passed on . >> lieutenant john david miley was a graduate of the united states military academy atwest point in 1887 . he was commissioned as a second lieutenant with the fifth artillery regiment with the outbreak of the spanish-american war in 1898 he was assigned an aide-de-camp to major general william shatner, khmer and commander of the

expedition to cuba.he was highly trusted and when the general staff fell lieutenant miley was designed to coordinate the attack on san juan hill in his place and would ultimately be the one to give the order that led to the charge of lieutenant colonel theodore roosevelt and the roughriders . a few days later he served as one of the commissioners who negotiated the spanish surrender of santiago july 17. in 1904 miley in san francisco wasnamed in his honor.we know that today as san francisco va medical center . >> as a young man i grew up in south san francisco right next door to the national cemetery so when i became a cub scout we used to go over there in the 50s and decorate the gravesthat were there. when i got out of the service i

stepped right back into it . went out with the boy scouts and put up the flags every year and eventually ended up being a scout at golden gate cemetery for many years. one day a gentleman walked upto me with a uniform of colonel retired . he grabbed me, i wasin uniform and says i need your help . from that day on i worked with cardinal sullivan doing military funerals and formed a group called the volunteers of america who brought in other veterans to perform military service and the closing of all the bases we got military personnel to do all the funerals. to this day i've done over 7000 funeral services and with my group we supplement the military, all branches. i'm honoring a fellow comrade was given his or her life in service to this country. and the way ilook at it , the last thing the family and friends will remember about

that individual is the final service we give to them. so we have to do a perfect job. so that they go home with good memories. >> our nation flies the united states flag at half staff by presidentialproclamation as a symbol of mourning . also in va national cemetery flags are flown at half staff on the days we haveburials . is lowered to half staff before the first burial takes place and ray is back to full staff after the last arial has been completed . on memorial day weekend we have hundreds of scouts veterans and volunteers who come out and placed individual gravesite flags on every grave throughout the cemetery transformation

from when they begin to when they conclude and to have that coupled with our memorial day ceremony is very moving and suchappointment reminder of the cost of our freedom . it's a reminderto us not to take that for granted , to be truly grateful for the price is paid not only by those who given their lives but those will have served our country and still pay the price today in one way or another and it's so meaningful to be to work in the national cemetery and see the history around us and to know this is such an integral part of our nation's past and present. >>

♪♪ >> san francisco! ♪♪ >> this is an exhibition across departments highlighting different artworks from our collection. gender is an important part of the dialogue. in many ways, this exhibition is contemporary. all of this artwork is from the 9th century and spans all the way to the 21st century.

the exhibition is organized into seven different groupings or themes such as activities, symbolism, transformation and others. it's not by culture or time period, but different affinities between the artwork. activities, for example, looks at the role of gender and how certain activities are placed as feminine or masculine. we have a print by uharo that looks at different activities that derisionly performed by men. it's looking at the theme of music. we have three women playing traditional japanese instruments that would otherwise be played by men at that time. we have pairings so that is looking within the context of gender in relationships. also with how people are

questioning the whole idea of pairing in the first place. we have three from three different cultures, tibet, china and japan. this is sell vanity stot relevar has been fluid in different time periods in cultures. sometimes being female in china but often male and evoking features associated with gender binaries and sometimes in between. it's a lovely way of tying all the themes together in this collection. gender and sexuality, speaking from my culture specifically, is something at that hasn't been recently widely discussed. this exhibition shows that it's gender and sexuality are

actually have been considered and complicated by dialogue through the work of artists and thinking specifically, a sculpture we have of the hindu deities because it's half pee male and half male. it turns into a different theme in a way and is a beautiful representation of how gender hasn't been seen as one thing or a binary. we see that it isn't a modest concept. in a way, i feel we have a lot of historical references and touch points throughout all the ages and in asian cultures. i believe san francisco has close to 40% asian. it's a huge representation here in the bay area. it's important that we awk abouk about this and open up the discussion around gender.

what we've learned from organizing this exhibition at the museum is that gender has been something that has come up in all of these cultures through all the time periods as something that is important and relevant. especially here in the san francisco bay area we feel that it's relevant to the conversations that people are having today. we hope that people can carry that outside of the museum into their daily lives.

. ir daily lives. >> my name is ana renzi. i'm a fire investigator for the city and county of san francisco. the job of a fire investigator is to go after the fire has been put out and to determine the origin and the cause of the fire. so we are the people who after the firefighters have come in and done their magnificent work to extinguish the fire, we go through the fire scene and we are able to find how the fire started. just showing up, being who you are can mean a world of difference to someone. when someone sees you as an identifiably queer person, an identifiable female presenting person or a person of color walk into their home, they can feel more comfortable and more trusting just knowing that you are around and that you may

have some insight into their situation and to their community needs that others may not have. the san francisco fire department i'm proud to say goes out of its way to recruit women, minorities, and to the lgbtq+ community, we are awaiting you and wanting you to come join us as a san francisco fire department. no one is going to represent us like you are going to represent us. no one is going to care for our communities and for our departments like you are going to come and represent our communities and our departments. i am a proud black queer member of the san francisco fire department and i'm especially proud to be part of an organization that respects and values our diverse communities in san francisco. [♪♪]

please stand by. >> when london breed came to out to the park and you know the mayor always has these events where she meets some of the people. but she started skated and she skated for like three hours. she has always been into skating. she came up with the idea and this is what people think is missing from the city, the

energy that the city has. you cannot have this much fun for $15 as an adult. >> this will was awesome, really good deal, 5 bucks to skate, so it was a lot of fun for cheap. >> it cost more to go out, it cost more to go to the restaurant. it cost more to go to the nightclub. it cost less to go roller skating and have a funky time. >> are you coming back? >> yeah! >> okay.

the tenderloin is home to families, immigrants, seniors, merchants, workers and the

housed and unhoused who all deserve a thriving neighborhood to call home. the tenderloin initiative was launched to improve safety, reduce crime, connect people to services and increase investments in the neighborhood. as city and community-based partners, we work daily to make these changes a reality. we invite you to the tenderloin history, inclusivity make this neighborhood special. >> we're all citizens of san francisco and we deserve food, water, shelter, all of those things that any system would. >> what i find the most fulfilling about being in the tenderloin is that it's really basically a big family here and i love working and living here. >> [speaking foreign language]

>> my hopes and dreams for the tenderloin are what any other community organizer would want for their community, safe, clean streets for everyone and good operating conditions for small businesses. >> everything in the tenderloin is very good. the food is very good. if you go to any restaurant in san francisco, you will feel like oh, wow, the food is great. the people are nice. >> it is a place where it embraces all walks of life and different cultures. so this is the soul of the tenderloin. it's really welcoming. the. >> the tenderloin is so full of color and so full of people. so with all of us being together and making it feel very safe is challenging, but we are working on it and we are getting there.

>> welcome everyone to union square my name is marissa rodriguez and i'm executive director of union square alliance. what a beautiful, sunny welcoming day here in union square. [applause] we are in the heart of san francisco, the crown rule, union square where the holidays are synonymous with union square. i just want to take a moment to acknowledge all the folks behind me today. it takes a village to ensure that our community is safe vibrant and beautiful as it is today. this time last year, was very difficult for all of us, we were still in the throws of