>> thank you. good morning and welcome to the rules of committee of the san francisco board of supervisors for today, monday, november 28th. i'm the chair of the committee, aaron peskin joined by vice-chair mandelman and committee member supervisor connie chan. our clerk is mr. victor young, mr. young, do you have any announcements >> yes, the board of supervisors and its committees are having hybrid meetings for public comment and providing remote comment. the board recognizes the equitable public access is

essential and taking public comment as follows. first public comment is taken on each item on the agenda. those attending in person will be allowed to speak first and we'll take those who are waiting on the telephone line. for those watching channel 26, 28, 78 or 99 and sfgovtv dot org, the public comment call in line number is streaming across the stream. the number is 415-655-0001. the meeting id of 24885274429 and then press pound and pound again. when connected, you'll hear the meeting discussion but you'll be muted and listening mode only. when an item of interest come up, those joining in person should line up to speak and those on the telephone line should press star three to be added to the speaker line. if you're on the telephone, remember to turn down your television and other listening devices you may be using. we'll be taking public comment from those attending in

person first and then we'll go to public comment telephone line. alternatively, you may submit public comment in writing, e-mail them to the committee clerk at victor dot yong at sf gov dot org. it will be included in the file. send city hall one dr. carlton room 244 san francisco, california, 94102. that completes my comments. >> thank you, mr. young. could you please read the first of two items. >> yes, item no. one is a resolution updating the proposed designation of agencies qualified to participate in the 2022 annual joint fundraising drive for officers and employees of the city and county of san francisco. and i believe there's a request this matter is sent out as a committee report. >> that's correct. we will go to

supervisor mandelman who is the sponsor of this item. supervisor? >> thank you, chair peskin. the city's heart of san francisco charity drive is an annual drive that provides a way for city employees to contribute to the charities traffic choice by weekly payroll. it is outreach to city employees. it's a long city program to support philanthropic employees and we the board of supervisors approved a resolution for those charities as a part of the san francisco campaign. however, less than two weeks after this year's campaign was lunched on october 1st, we learned that among the many charities represented by the federation that partner with city, there are several that are appear to be anti-lgbtq groups. this was

brought to my attention by city staff who expressed profound concern that city resources are spent amplifying those groups and although i understand this campaign includes a range of charities and provides city employees to donate to any 501c3 of their choice, i and others have been troubled to have the city seemingly to be promoting lgbtq groups when using city resources. and we paused the campaign to consider next steps. the resolution before you today proposes a temporary solution that allows us to relaunch the campaign for this year with a much shorter and targeted list of participating chairs with a clear focus on supporting bay area, bay service provides and city employees will have the opportunity to write in the name of any charity or non-profit they would like to support but the list published by the city in support of the campaign will be shorter and focused on bay area based organizations. this

is a temporary and imperfect solution that allows us to relaunch the campaign for this year in according to the admin code. we need to come up with a more permanent solution and we need to consider a more comprehensive update to the language of the administrative code. i hope we do that early in the new year so we can make changes to lay the groundwork for future efforts. i want to thank our city administrator carmen chiu and sophie, the legislative and policy and public affairs director with the city administrator's office who have spent a lot of time and done a lot of brain damage trying to figure out what -- how this program should be structured going forward and what we should do about the current years program or and so i would like to, after my colleagues have a chance to speak, invite ms. heyward to

come up and provide additional details on the proposal. >> thanks. ms. heyward, i appreciate your work although it has implicated a larger conversation and maybe today is not the day but i thought we use this as an opportunity to discuss the combined charity programs and its utility, its history and its future in an age where donations facilitated by the internet have become a lot easier so i wanted to have broader -- i'm prepared to vote for this and appreciate supervisor mandelman and your office's work on this but also am questioning whether we want to devote what i understand to

be more than a full-time equivalent staff, more like to an ongoing program in an environment where charitable giving by people in general and city employees in particular is, has -- many less barriers these days. and so, i lean towards maybe starting a conversation to exercise this function from our government in total. maybe you want to comment on that as well as the specifics of the resolution before us. supervisor chan, sorry. i'm not looking at the screen. my apologies. >> no problem, thank you chair peskin. i concur with your sentiment about while this has been a long time tradition of san francisco, it is time to revent this program. i think that there are good example like, what sfpuc have been

really working on like the social program they have established a data base for us to give and in partnership and then also i think that existing, actually, another program we have like give to sf also need a revamp. perhaps it's time to start that conversation and what does that look like for the entire city, both as a government but also for our workers to give and i just want to thank supervisor mandelman for taking this on and would like to be added as a cosponsor. thank you. >> thank you, chair peskin. thank you, supervisor chan and of course, thank you supervisor mandelman. i do have a presentation today and with your comments in mind, i want to note the presentation gives an overview of the program and some of the history, so that mayday the groundwork for the broader conversation. i'm joined today virtually by deputy city administrator johnson and

colleague, angela. angela has the presentation to share. i don't know how to make that happen but i'm hoping it will. >> good morning ms. yip and ms. johnson. >> hi. my name is sophie. i'm the director of legislation and public affairs for city administrator carmen chiu. for the opportunity to present this morning. i'm be brief but give an overview. what i want to do is sort of set the perimeters of what exist in the administrative code. give you an idea of the process and how it works and the data to date. and then i do want to propose what we consider a temporary solution to allow us to relaunch the program for this year in accordance with the requirements of the admin code but plant the seed of ideas that we could act on potentially with your partnership early in the new year. going to slide one, please, administrative code section 16.93 defines the structure of the program. first

and foremost, it requires that we have an annual campaign. that's why we're working quickly to come up with a way to relaunch it in an acceptable way for this year. the specific language says each year the city and county of san francisco shall hold an annual joint fundraising drive. there's no may in there. it also defines which federations and federations are groups that represent a large group of charities. which federations can participate and here the language is clear. any federation that meets the criteria defined in the admin code may participate. those were created in 988 and updated -- 988 and updated in 19 -- 1988 and updated 1977. it defines the timeline. the mayor designate a champagne chair and the controller has backup for payroll deduction and processing any individual checks that employees gives and the city

administrator reviews applications and make recommendations to the board of supervisors for approval which federation meet criteria. in addition to those named roles in the admin code the work of the campaign chairs is significant. right now, it's the sheriff's department and the airport and they work together to administer the program and then sprinkled throughout the city in every city department there's a campaign campaign who motivate staff and encourages them to participate. on the next slide, we have the specific criteria included in the admin code. it's the rule of our office, the city administrator's office to review applications from federation that apply to make sure they meet the criteria. but as you can see there's not an opportunity to screen for what types offer advices any -- any services that the participates charity support. are they a 501c

and submitted audits statements and been in existence for a year and our little opening for changes this year, at least half of them have to be located in the bay area. in addition, i want to stress and i will stress it several times today that in addition to the federations included in the campaign, city employees can always write in the name of any 501c3 nonprofit they wish to directly support through the donor's trust office. you're not limited to just the charities included through the federation. the next slide, i'm going to guess i can skip this. this is just the process by which the recommendations make their way here to the board of supervisors. federations do have to apply every year. city administrator's offices review those applications and we forward a recommendation to you.

i want to give you a snapshot of the campaign and the city resources involved in administering it. 10% of city employees participate each year. they raised just over a million dollars last year. i think it was $1.2 million. and city staff partner with the lead federations to administer the program much on the city side on the front end, the board of supervisors and the city administrator's office are involved in designating the participating federations and office of the controller establishes and implements payroll deductions and processes individual checks and then the sheriff's department, airport and then captains throughout departments citywide work on the ground game of motivating employees to join and participate. on the next slide, let's see here. yes. as you know, as supervisor mandelman noted, thank you, we had launched this year's campaign on october 1st as planned and then we paused the campaign on october 12th after receiving

complaints from city employees but this prompted an evaluation of the whole program and bring us to where we are today. so, on the next slide, here we go. we clearly have no mechanism by which to screen individual charities that can participate and i'm not sure that they would be possible or appropriate. in most circumstances, it's hard to make a clear distinction as to what charity city employee should or shouldn't support. so the resolution before you today proposes to strengthen the existing geographic requirement that is in the admin code by, instead of focusing on the fact that at least half of any med races charities be located -- federation charities be located in the bay area, we're expanding that or narrowing it, i guess, to say all participating charities should be based or located in the bay area and that any funds raised through the

campaign be spent on services in the bay area. and then lastly, although it's not in the resolution, i also want to note that the federations themselves have opted to further require that any participating charity sign onto a nondiscrimination pledge to be included in this campaign. and again, i will say that city employees would retain the ability to write in the name of any of their own preferred 501c3 to donate through the donor's choice option. next slide, the results. let's see. the number of participating federations is reduced from 4 to 3. so creating healthy communities, america's best local charities and earth share is the three federations we would partner with and i provided to you and the clerk, the updated charities a part of those federations and it's a

shorter list than before. what this also means though is that the federation global impact, we lose because this is a federation that, as the name suggest, represented charities that's focused on international activities and that's a loss. another item we distributed to you and i have given to the clerk is a separate appear from global impact to consider and if there's a way to loop them back in. and then, depending on how the resolution goes today, we can relaunch the campaign for the coming year much we will likely have to start payroll deductions slightly later because we need to give enough time for the controllers office to setup deductions but we can get it done by the end of this year. and then next slide, again, this is the temporary solution that i've just outlined. i wanted to plant the seed of what you can consider for amending the language of the

admin code which would take an ordinance not a resolution so a little bit more time. so three options to consider, one, i think that you could certainly amend the criteria defined in the admin code in any way you feel appropriate so that organizations could be screened a little bit more tightly. i would note that it's probably not the preferable solution from our end because i'm not exactly sure how or who screen all of the various charities and what kind of perimeters we would set up there. the next is you could consider an ordinance that limits participation and this touches on what supervisor chan was suggesting, to named funds that are already associated with the city. for example, give to sf and give employees, would have the ability to name any 501c3 they want to directly support. that would narrow the group that we, as a city amplify

and if that's a concern, it could get to that. lastly to the point that perhaps chair peskin was making, you certainly have the opportunity to consider an ordinance that would eliminate the program entirely and that could perhaps acknowledge that the universe of giving has certainly changed since 1988/1997. it's probably easier to setup reoccurring donations now than it was then. i will say another benefit of the program that i don't want to ignore is that some of these smaller charities do not have to spend dollars on direct outreach to reach the pool of 30,000 city employees. that concludes my overview presentation. i'm available for questions. you can see deputy city administrator johnson is available for questions. thank you! >> thank you, ms. heyward and that last slide display the universe. i have not come to any

hard fast conclusions. i wanted to have that conversation. i mean, option number two also, i think, has merit as option number three. i guess my question would be, how -- what are the next steps beyond what we're doing today and the board will presumably vote on tomorrow and i think time is our friend here because this -- any code changes that we make presumably would not be applicable until the next cycle, right? >> that's correct. time is kind of our friend but i went over the slide very quickly that had our campaign timeline and by march 1st of every year, the admin code requires that applications from federations is submitted and i believe it's a date in april whereby, may it is may 1st, the board is supposed to approve the participating federation. thinking through the

legislation timeline, we can fix this for next year but we should hit the ground running in january. >> something would have to be introduced by the end of this year or early in january to be lawed by the march deadline. >> we're happy to partner with you to make sure it happens. >> it's a conversation i'm happy to have -- i haven't have it with supervisor mandelman as long as both of us on the committee. i'm happy to follow someone's lead and options two or three are the right ones to explore. i would throw out there a couple of next steps suggestions. one is, how much does this cost us? and do we, i mean, don't get me wrong. sometimes i'm happy to spend money to make money, so i mean, that's -- it's a data point we should be interested in and two, and i don't want to create work

for anybody but what does the universe of an approximately 3,000 people that take these think? i don't know if we have a simple relative way of serving them but it might be of some utility. those are my two thoughts for the ongoing conversation. i'm happy to participate in whatever way is most expedient without stepping on anybody's toes? that's it for me. supervisor mandelman? >> >> thank you, chair peskin. can we look at the slide with the three options? >> sure. i don't know how to get it for you. >> ms. yep. >> in you could go to the option -- if you could go to the option slide, that would be great. >> well done. based on the comments of colleagues, it seems

like, well, i haven't said anything but i agree that trying to keep the -- trying to sort of tinker with the current program and put guardrails on it going forward, that seems like a ton of brain damage and not worth trying to do, so i'll be the third person on this body to say that option, that the first bullet on there seems like a non-starter and we shouldn't do that. in trying to understand and it seems like and i would share the sense that the third bullet may be the, certainly the simplest, concern i think for me about going with the third bullet rather than trying to at least explore the second bullet is there are these 3,000 people who use -- and wleefb -- -- and liking some aspect of the current program. so i'm wondering how much of that

demand could be met for a second bullet. the other thing that's a peaking about the second bullet, i think it's good to encourage city employees to make charitable contributions and in particularly to thing that's are priorities that the city is trying to advance and maybe some funds like give to sf if there's a relatively simple and cost effective and efficient way of making it easier for city employees to do that and if some number of those 3,000 folks would appreciate that option, i would be interested in trying to give it to them but not if it's going to mean a ton of work for a city administrator's office that we have a lot of other priorities for, so, i don't know. do you have any preliminary sense of that and just respond to chair peskin's question? do you have thoughts on how we would get feedback from city employees on this? >> i have two thoughts. to address the city employees who

participate enthusiastically in the program, we did receive complaints this year but we received a lot of e-mails in support of the program so i do want to acknowledge that as well. and to your second point about cost and how to make this efficient, the administrative code prescribed, i believe, a percentage of each donation that the city holds onto. we could look, i would say more comprehensively at the entire section of the admin code that deals with this section to build in ways to make it more efficient. perhaps, it is not efficient to accept individual checks rather just focus on the payroll deduction for example. i think that's probably the benefit to any charity anyway. that employees feel like they can give nor if you spread it over 26 pay periods and i would just have to guess that processing individual checks is more labor intensive for example. but that actually makes

me think that there are probably other aspects of the admin code i didn't focus on today related to this program that could be overhaul through cost effectiveness and a lens. >> well, you got three supervisors up here who are interested in this conversation. none of us probably feel particular ownership over this. it sounds like you all can do some work to come up with something, somewhere between bullet two and bullet three and any of us are happy to probably lead sponsor and the others would probably cosponsor. >> thank you for your patience and support through this. >> thank you for all your work on this. >> supervisor chan? >> ms. johnson, anything you want to add or subtract? >> no, thank you. >> is there any public comment on this item? members of the public who wish to speak on this

item and joining in person should line up to speak at this time, and those listening remotely, please call 415-655-0001 and enter the meeting id of 24885274429. press pound and press pound again and press three to enter the speaker line. those in the queue, continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that's your queue to begin your public comment. no one in the room for public comment. and just checking online. there's nobody online for public comment on this matter. >> public comment is closed -- supervisor mandelman, would you like to make a motion. >> i recommend we move. >> to recommend the matter as a committee report, chan? >> aye. >> mandelman? >> aye.

>> peskin? >> aye. >> the motion passes without objection. >> next item, please. >> -- next on the agenda is item no. two, ordinance amending the administrative code to permit members of the san francisco employees' retirement system (sfers) to designate special needs trusts as retirement beneficiaries in certain circumstances, and to specify requirements for those trusts. >> supervisor safai is the lead sponsor of this measure and a member of the retirement board. supervisor safai, welcome, good morning. >> thank you, chair. thank you, colleagues. colleagues, today i'm presenting legislation to change the administrative code to allow for special needs trust as retirement beneficiaries. i will give a brief overview of the legislation and turn it over to staff, the retirement system to elaborate further. as the president of the retirement system, we have a responsibility to our members to update the rules and regulations when it's

necessary. last year, a member who was planning their estate pointed out they would not lead their survivor immunity to the surviving member unless it was deposited in a special needs trust. this is because survivor immunity recovered by adults with disabilities can cause disastrous unintended consequences to their benefits that they are currently receiving. for individuals due to their disables of relying on public needs based benefits such as ssi, supplemental security, income, medi-cal and section 8, this could result in a loss of these benefits. this could mean a loss or barrier to affordable housing, healthcare, personal care, community supportive services for persons with develop mental disabilities and many more items and things.

allowing for survivor a immunity to be placed in a trust or supplemental trust would often solve this problem. it is a form of trust that's recognized by both of social security administration and the department, california department of healthcare services. as a vehicle for holding and managing funds for benefit of a person with disabilities where they are not, they would not interfere with their eligibility for other benefits. this has been done in the california state teacher retirement system and the u.s. department of defense and many other places around the country. in addition, and this is an important update as well, the code has not been changed since 1983. and does not reflect a general neutral terms that we used to. so, we would be making a much-needed change to the code to reflect the diverse city employees that we have in our

workforce today. we have cecelia, karen, and our new ceo, cio, allyson to elaborate further on the legislation. before i hand it over to them, i want to thank richard and annette, annette is a current beneficiary who have advocated on behalf of her family member, so that their son would be able to benefit from this in the future and so, thank you to them for bringing this to our attention. i'll hand it over, through the chair, i'll hand it over to the spurs representation here today. i think that's karen bortnick. >> good morning, supervisors. thank you for inviting us here. i'm not sure i can add much more than what supervisor safai has already told you. but i can tell you how this proposed ordinance would work. when a member comes to retire, they do have an option to name an individual who

can receive a monthly immunity after their -- anuity after their death. as supervisor safai told you, if they name a dependent adult child to receive that monthly annuity, that may impact their ability to receive public benefits. this special needs trust will allow them to receive the benefits without losing their ability to get these benefits, these public benefits from the federal government and state government. so, the way it would work, someone would come into retirement, they would tell us that they wanted to select an option, that's what we call them. you have one of three options and they would want to name the trust rather than the dependent child. as it stands now, you cannot name a trust to receive a monthly benefit because there is a very

fundamental retirement rule that a benefit must be definitely determinable. you have to know when it starts. you have to know when it ends. if you have a trust, it could in theory last forever and that would violate the rule. in this particular case, as drafted as we understand it, it would put the burden of ensuring that the benefit will stop at the death of the recipient on the member and the trustee which simplifies things for spers because the other plans have a very difficult burden of tracking and making sure that -- that they learned about it, so they can cut off the benefit. as i said as drafted, it would impose all of those obligations on the member one to ensure the trust they are designating notes all of the legal requirements. we don't have to do any analysis. we don't have to ensure that

it's a proper special needs trust and then again, at the time of the members death, the trustee steps in and again affirms that this is a proper trust at the death of recipient, beneficiary, the trustee steps in again and has the obligation to inform us and the trust would have to reimburse us for overpayment. we can implement that. i can't tell you how, what the cost would be because it's really hard for us to estimate how many people would be qualified for this but i have to say i would think as drafted, it would be very small number of people and again because the principle burden is placed on the member and the trustee, there would -- there should not be anything but a minimal expense for spers and i'm happy to answer questions >> thank you for that presentation and thank you supervisor safai. this seems

like a straightforward tweak and sensible. are there any members of the public who would like to testify on this item no. two >> yes, members of the public who wish to speak on this item and joining us in person should line up to speak it a time. for those listening remotely, call 415-655-0001. enter the meeting id of 24885274429. then press pound and pound again. once connected, you need to press star three to enter the speaker line. for those in the queue, please continue to wait until the says -- the system indicates you have been unmuted. there's no one in the room for public comment at this time. double checking. there's nobody in line for public comment at this time. >> two for two. public comment is closed. supervisor mandelman? >> thank you, chair peskin. i want to thank supervisor --

supervisor safai on this. i set one up for my mother after my grandmother's death. and it's helpful when someone with significant disabilities has asked, has access to other assets. and i think that this just does make sense. i would like to be added as cosponsor and happy to support it today. >> all right. with that -- supervisor safai? >> i want to thank nami, the national alliance of mental illness for writing their letter of support and pointing out the importance of this, so i want to thank ann fisher, the executive director for working with us. it has taken time. it has been a year since this has been setting so i want to thank the family and again, annette and her family and for their patience and i want to thank the staff at spurs, karen, allyson and team

and our city attorney for working on this to get this right, so thank you very much. thank you, colleagues. >> thank you, supervisor. thank you to the retirement system and with that, i will make a motion to send this item to the full board with a positive recommendation on that motion, mr. young, a roll call, please. >> yes. on the motion to recommend the matter, supervisor chan? >> aye. >> vice-chair mandelman? >> aye. >> chair peskin? >> aye. >> the motion passes without objection. and we are adjourned. [gavel]

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. >> i don't want to be involved in the process after it happens. i want to be there at the front end to help people with something in my mind from a very early age. our community is the important way to look at things, even now.

george floyd was huge. it opened up wounds and a discussion on something festering for a long time. before rodney king. you can look at all the instances where there are calls for change. i think we are involved in change right now in this moment that is going to be long lasting. it is very challenging. i was the victim of a crime when i was in middle school. some kids at recess came around at pe class and came to the locker room and tried to steal my watch and physically assaulted me. the officer that helped afterwards went out of his way to check the time to see how i was. that is the kind of work, the kind of perspective i like to have in our sheriff's office regardless of circumstance. that influenced me a lot. some of the storefronts have

changed. what is mys is that i still see some things that trigger memories. the barbershop and the shoe store is another one that i remember buying shoestrings and getting my dad's old army boots fixed. we would see movies after the first run. my brother and i would go there. it is nice. if you keep walking down sacramento. the nice think about the city it takes you to japan town. that is where my grandparents were brought up. that is the traditional foods or movies. they were able to celebrate the culture in that community. my family also had a dry-cleaning business. very hard work. the family grew up with apartments above the business. we have a built-in work force.

19 had 1 as -- 1941 as soon as that happened the entire community was fixed. >> determined to do the job as democracy should with real consideration for the people involved. >> the decision to take every one of japan niece american o japanese from their homes. my family went to the mountains and experienced winter and summer and springs. they tried to make their home a home. the community came together to share. they tried to infuse each home are little things. they created things. i remember my grand mother saying they were very scared. they were worried. they also felt the great sense

of pride. >> japanese americans. >> my granduncle joined the 442nd. when the opportunity came when the time that was not right. they were in the campaign in italy. they were there every step of the way. >> president truman pays tribute. >> that was the most decorated unit in the history of the united states army. commitment and loyal to to the country despite that their families were in the camp at that time. they chose to come back to san francisco even after all of that. my father was a civil servant as well and served the state of

california workers' compensation attorney and judge and appellate board. my parents influenced me to look at civil service s.i applied to police, and sheriff's department at the same time. the sheriff's department grabbed me first. it was unique. it was not just me in that moment it was everyone. it wasn't me looking at the crowd. it was all of us being together. i was standing there alone. i felt everyone standing next to me. the only way to describe it. it is not about me. it is from my father. my father couldn't be there. he was sick. the first person i saw was him. i still sometimes am surprised

by the fact i see my name as the sheriff. i am happy to be in the position i am in to honor their memory doing what i am doing now to help the larger comment. when i say that we want to be especially focused on marginalized communities that have been wronged. coming from my background and my family experienced what they did. that didn't happen in a vacuum. it was a decision made by the government. nobody raised their voice. now, i think we are in a better place as country and community. when we see something wrong we have change agents step up to help the community affected. that is a important thing to continue to do. you talk about change and being a leader in change and not knowing whether you have successes or results. the fact of the matter is by

choosing to push for change you have already changed things. through inspiration for others, take up the matter or whether it is through actual functional change as a result of your voice being heard. i think you have already started on a path to change by choosing that path. in doing that in april of itself creates change. i continue in that type of service for my family. something i hope to see in my children. i have a pretty good chance with five children one will go into some sort of civil service. i hope that happens to continue that legacy. >> i am paul, sheriff of san francisco.

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>> 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. >> learned and expand

it across the city. [♪♪] 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 emergency initiative was launched to improve safety, reduce crime, connect people to services, and increase investments in the neighborhood. >> the department of homelessness and supportive housing is responsible for providing resources to people living on the streets. we can do assessments on the streets to see what people are eligible for as far as permanent housing. we also link people with shelter that's available. it could be congregate shelter,

the navigation center, the homeless outreach team links those people with those resources and the tenderloin needs that more than anywhere else in the city. >> they're staffing a variety of our street teams, our street crisis response team, our street overdose response team, and our newly launched wellness response team. we have received feedback from community members, from residents, community organizations that we need an extra level and an extra level of impact and more impactful care to serve this community's needs and that's what the fire department and the community's paramedics are bringing today to this issue. >> the staff at san francisco community health center has really taken up the initiative of providing a community-based outreach for the neighborhood. so we're out there at this point monday through saturday letting residents know this is a service they can access really just describing the service, you know, the shower, the laundry, the food, all the different resources and

referrals that can be made and really just providing the neighborhood with a face, this is something that we've seen work and something you can trust. >> together, city and community-based teams work daily to connect people to services, >> everything we do in the tenderloin, we urban outfit. here, this gives us an opportunity to collaborate with other agencies and we become familiar with how other agencies operate and allow us to be more flexible and get better at what we depo in the line of work in this task. >> sometimes you go down and it's hard to get up. so we see ourselves as providing an opportunity for the unhoused to get up. and so i really believe that when they come here and they've said it, this right here is absolutely needed. you can't ask for nothing better. >> the tenderloin is the stuff that ain't on the list of

remedies, liked the spiritual connection to recovery and why would i? why would i recover? what have i got to live for? things like that. and sharing the stories. like i was homeless and just the team. and some people need that extra connection on why they can change their life or how they could. >> we have a lot of guests that will come in and say i would like -- you know, i need help with shelter, food, and primary care doctor. and so here, that's three rooms down the hall. so if you book them, they get all of their needs taken care of in one go. this is an opportunity for us here in the tenderloin to come together, try out these ideas to see if we can put -- get -- connect people to services in a

jury room good morning. welcome to the awning meeting. the november meeting -- of the lafco commission. i'm connie chan chair. i'm joined by fielder. mar and sairng. clerk is, lisa sa mara and like to thank the staff from sfgovtv. >> members will participate as if they were