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message on the naco list serves. >> i would like to be included as a contact. >> i will pull in contacts i met at the conference. >> wonderful. great. thank you. >> i just had one other item and this would be jur are germane to the public and need not be the very next meeting but it fairly urgent about [coughing] resignation because of conflict issues so i want to make sure we are paying attention to jail health. >> sorry, i couldn't hear what you said? >> i want to have the jail health issue on a future agenda item but not necessarily the very next item, but given the dph had-had a jail health resignation and potential conflicts with having a second job. whether we were paying close attention
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as we should to jail health. >> okay. we will need to have the issue of recruitment of the inspector general on the agenda i believe, because- >> yes. i agree with commissioner carrion. i think we should have a timeline and firm benchmarks. i think commissioner afuhaamang said that at the very first meeting that we should have-- >> (inaudible) >> wrap up the last issue, i like to call the question if there is a motion for the chief attorney position. assistant chief attorney position. >> i have no motion. >> no motions at this time. but again, mr. kind's presentation i think not concluded because we haven't had a opportunity to ask questions or public comment. >> we did have public comment. >> not on his presentation so that needs to be continued
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and public comment and if someone chooses to make a motion they can. >> i have one quick request that is germane. if we have an agenda item that is up for possible action, if it be presented more then 48 hours advance. that doesn't give the board members meaningful time for input as well as the public, the most important part of our job is to serve the public and i want the public to also have more then 48 hours to review documents. >> i think dan posted this 72 hours before the meeting as required by law. >> i understand that but i think when it is something that important that might be possible action item that has materials i think that if at all possible we have the items in advance. >> i asked dan to post all the items as i receive them and send them to the board members. >> i understand. maybe it not be on the agenda if it is that late in time because i like to do reading
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ahead of time rather then caught off guard with the agenda. >> okay. do we have a motion to adjourn? >> we need public comon future agenda item. >> okay. can we take-ask for public comment if they can still reach us since it is after 7. >> member of the public that like to make public comment, if you are present line up at the podium otherwise call 415-655-0001 and are enter access code 24974407820, press 3 to raise your hand to be added to the queue. there is no public comment. >> okay, do we have a motion to adjourn? >> so move.
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>> second. thank you mr. kind for your presentation. very comprehensive. >> we have a vote to adjourn. okay. meeting adjourned at 703 p.m. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you all. [meeting adjourned]
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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.
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>> [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.
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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.television. >> the sprinkler director for san francisco and want to welcome you all to our launch of new pilot program to help commercial property owners and neighborhood district areas and other districts address graffiti to open their property that's an exciting new program and we're delighted to launch that today and with that, introduce our mayor. >> good morning (clapping) it is great to be back in the inner sunset i miss the folks in the family market the community
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is especially now in good hands because of new supervisor who (clapping.) i want to age acknowledge as is person th
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the level to make sure we or working together to support businesses in the city and no longer continuing to be a financial grain draining on
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those businesses especially, when they didn't anticipate it in the first place so thank the public works and carla and the whole team theirs a lot of graffiti challenges and explain the department of administrative services we see public art and public art is without getting permission in order to put that artwork on someone's property and the difference is oftentimes can't do that without the permission of property owners and the department of public works ask called and they take this rocket seriously we're expanding their capability and kudos to them for being responsive and making the city more beautiful with the work they do and doing a great job oozed best they can i know a lot of work goes into what they do and take pride and this city and
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making sure the city is beautiful we predator all the folks from the department of public works and going to hear from one of the business owners in a moment but at this time, i want to i'm going to turn it over to did supervisor who represents this neighborhood and district 7 in general supervisor melgar (clapping.) thank you, london and thank you for aging and adult services this is a game changer as a shopping season that is for that our neighbors and people coming to this city are welcomed and feel like the commercial corridors are not neglected but clean and they're safe and our city and tagging specifically the it is cosmetic really colors the protection of the folks coming and feeling like there is notebook or 0 blight in the
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commercial corridors we i don't not that i'm grateful and how important but also for folks in the community to help us in writing this legislation specific folks our president of small business administration in hawaii and all the folks that helped us reedit the legislation and to get it through and colleagues saw the importance of this so thank you, so much and specifically want to say this woman carla was our interim across for the department of public works has been amazing buildings and quickly getting it up and running and make sure we develop the form and how matching the paint and hiring the folks we needed to hire
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because sometimes, you know, the city government comes up with ideas and write the legislation but without the partners in the department recognizes the need and importance it is get done thank you, carla and the carman chiu, i had conversations who also was right there to put elbow egresses into it thank you all for the wonderful partnering and the merchant and all did folks that are recognized and get it done and thank you for being here. >> (clapping). >> thank you so much supervisor i want to note thank you for the could i words the public works team is here and really are the ones that made this happen quickly (clapping) thank you to our team. and i'll say the supervisor was pushing
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us let's get it done and make that happen quickly and the mayor never has to say anything about the graffiti when will you get it down it takes a village i want to advise the chair of the small business administration to say a few words. >> (clapping). >> we love this legislation absolutely love it and very grateful to supervisor melgar for interesting that and as previously mentioned director short is incredible and corresponding and organizing the team let me briefly tell you any love though legislation at the end of 2020 our commission got an e-mail and the windows kept getting broken so often the insurance will not insure them.
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okay. board up the windows the windows get tagged and then a in relation from the city you're going to get fined if you don't clean up and e-mailed us and said where's the support i thought a very good request and i think this legislation is an excellent we are to that question it is something we do in other cities and one other thing just to be clear, technically the business owners legally liable for the graffiti under most contracts it is the small business under those that ultimate have to pay for it even though the owners responsible falls on small business owner this is something that is helpful to small business owners and the small businesses have been asking for i can't say enough for making this happen it is wonderful.
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thank you. >> (clapping.) >> thank you. >> we had our city administer carman chu a great supporter of our department of and working hard when the supervisor said can we get it done more quickly what can we do thank you for your support and pushing us to get it down quickly and say a few words to kind of the work. >> it is cool i want to thank the mayor for your leadership not a single day what we're doing better to support our city in the recovery thank you for her instant leadership and thank supervisor melgar and pushing us to move as quickly as we can and i think the expectation of the supervisor and the mayor wruns
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those ideas are funded it is our job to make them happen as soon as possible and want to thank our public works team carla for your amazing leadership and for the entire crew for recognizing how important they workday in and out and out in the cold and shout out to them for their hard work in helping our city shine with that, we're going to paint graffiti (clapping.) yes, we have fresh brushes [off mic.] >> how many people are going to [off mic.] >> yes. >> sure. >> also the lead time so [off mic.] thank you for those
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questions woe employing 6 additional general labors to work on this program and we are goal to be able to address graffiti one 72 hours having said that, this is a brand new program we don't know how many people 800 san francisco folks asking to opt in we may not be able to reach that goal but a great camera e team their experienced and do everything in 72 hours. [off mic.] >> i think that is mainly [off mic.] >> well for the necessarily (laughter.) [off mic.] >> i can't
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speak for someone as a people that worked with a number of graffiti artists to express themselves it is important we provide a platform for artists to do that and provide a system to work within but this is basically vandalism and in fact, remember the legislation we got passed to go over people civilly and charged people developed cases when we continue to do with the photos and, you know, video and other things that are used to develop a case that even though we're to the going after people criminally we are seeking financial damages for what a lot of of the vandals are doing to public and private property in the city i can't speak for why
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we do it is unfortunate but important we provide alternatives and as a city i feel with many of the great arts program we've been to do that but will not solve the problem complete but ways to abate that but ways to hold people accountability that costs people money okay. let's television
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(background noise.) >> (music). >> back in 1981 while the navy base was a homecoming and celebrate and she started free foods in san francisco and i'm originally born initially mother was in the military i have been in the navy for years a planning commission over in alabama
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recently and brought over to us and the main ships visually part of this the ships theoretically the coolest part opening- through shallow waters. and at a decent time and the main trip when i was in the military and a street name down to the 345i7b and people are very nice and ship will be named after the city they supported us. i think the main thing just for the- ships nice to have those but outside of (unintelligible) navy completely most of stuff on the inside is very, very- fast. >> the first one the blue
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angles represents our active refers or reserves to integrate with the civilian population and remind us where everyone is and the aircraft carrier around the world have no idea they were created in 1946 and actually do that outside of that we- have three 5 show sides we have performers and ironically i grew up two blocks south of here i have contact from iraq and my whole family was gathered an hour after serving the country one of the first memories i had. and a lot of opportunities as far as education and traveling
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some of the honors it is inspiring and really no difference between us and the jets the difference we were represent of the marine corp i feel great for my brooks to go around the world to fly this aircraft. >> kind of a push to revise so in 2 thousand 10 in san francisco meaning the stipulates and planes but he did leadership in the navy and marine corp, you know, what the marine corp. has a massive disastrously response and what we should do take the patrons and partner up with the governors and started a whole suppressor preamble civilians
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have response training and education and actually activated and work with the a organizations. >> the part of this for a decade we have been partnering with local governments basically as long as we've been around. how to mitigate those for earthquake and we participate in exercises throughout the training i guess our plans- one of my main functions to let the departments know we are the neighbors and we have been here to help you. and make a friend we want to make sure people know what we are and where we are and the needs what you are capable 6 and so we can help to fill that. >> (music).
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>> my hope that people stack shake hands and welcome the men and women no uniform we where their from i think how the cream of crop is involved with the u.s. carriers and how brilliant the men and women are. and how to help other people with the generosity and the unbuilding help that is important. >> (music).
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>> unitedtelevision. >> the sprinkler director for san francisco and want to welcome you all to our launch of new pilot program to help commercial property owners and neighborhood district areas and other districts address graffiti to open their property that's an exciting new program and we're delighted to launch that today
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and with that, introduce our mayor. >> good morning (clapping) it is great to be back in the inner sunset i miss the folks in the family market the community is especially now in good hands because of new supervisor who (clapping.) i want to age acknowledge as is person th
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the level to make sure we or working together to support businesses in the city and no longer continuing to be a financial grain draining on those businesses especially, when they didn't anticipate it in the first place so thank the public works and carla and the whole team theirs a lot of graffiti challenges and explain the department of administrative services we see public art and public art is without getting permission in order to put that artwork on someone's property and the difference is oftentimes can't do that without the permission of property owners and the department of public works ask called and they take this rocket seriously we're expanding their capability and
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kudos to them for being responsive and making the city more beautiful with the work they do and doing a great job oozed best they can i know a lot of work goes into what they do and take pride and this city and making sure the city is beautiful we predator all the folks from the department of public works and going to hear from one of the business owners in a moment but at this time, i want to i'm going to turn it over to did supervisor who represents this neighborhood and district 7 in general supervisor melgar (clapping.) thank you, london and thank you for aging and adult services this is a game changer as a shopping season that is for that our neighbors and people coming to this city are welcomed and feel like the commercial
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corridors are not neglected but clean and they're safe and our city and tagging specifically the it is cosmetic really colors the protection of the folks coming and feeling like there is notebook or 0 blight in the commercial corridors we i don't not that i'm grateful and how important but also for folks in the community to help us in writing this legislation specific folks our president of small business administration in hawaii and all the folks that helped us reedit the legislation and to get it through and colleagues saw the importance of this so thank you, so much and specifically want to say this
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woman carla was our interim across for the department of public works has been amazing buildings and quickly getting it up and running and make sure we develop the form and how matching the paint and hiring the folks we needed to hire because sometimes, you know, the city government comes up with ideas and write the legislation but without the partners in the department recognizes the need and importance it is get done thank you, carla and the carman chiu, i had conversations who also was right there to put elbow egresses into it thank you all for the wonderful partnering and the merchant and all did folks that are recognized and get it done and thank you for
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being here. >> (clapping). >> thank you so much supervisor i want to note thank you for the could i words the public works team is here and really are the ones that made this happen quickly (clapping) thank you to our team. and i'll say the supervisor was pushing us let's get it done and make that happen quickly and the mayor never has to say anything about the graffiti when will you get it down it takes a village i want to advise the chair of the small business administration to say a few words. >> (clapping). >> we love this legislation absolutely love it and very grateful to supervisor melgar for interesting that and as previously mentioned director short is incredible and corresponding and organizing the
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team let me briefly tell you any love though legislation at the end of 2020 our commission got an e-mail and the windows kept getting broken so often the insurance will not insure them. okay. board up the windows the windows get tagged and then a in relation from the city you're going to get fined if you don't clean up and e-mailed us and said where's the support i thought a very good request and i think this legislation is an excellent we are to that question it is something we do in other cities and one other thing just to be clear, technically the business owners legally liable for the graffiti under most contracts it is the
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small business under those that ultimate have to pay for it even though the owners responsible falls on small business owner this is something that is helpful to small business owners and the small businesses have been asking for i can't say enough for making this happen it is wonderful. thank you. >> (clapping.) >> thank you. >> we had our city administer carman chu a great supporter of our department of and working hard when the supervisor said can we get it done more quickly what can we do thank you for your support and pushing us to get it down quickly and say a few words to kind of the work. >> it is cool i want to thank the mayor for your leadership not a single day what we're doing better to support our city
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in the recovery thank you for her instant leadership and thank supervisor melgar and pushing us to move as quickly as we can and i think the expectation of the supervisor and the mayor wruns those ideas are funded it is our job to make them happen as soon as possible and want to thank our public works team carla for your amazing leadership and for the entire crew for recognizing how important they workday in and out and out in the cold and shout out to them for their hard work in helping our city shine with that, we're going to paint graffiti (clapping.) yes, we have fresh brushes
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[off mic.] >> how many people are going to [off mic.] >> yes. >> sure. >> also the lead time so [off mic.] thank you for those questions woe employing 6 additional general labors to work on this program and we are goal to be able to address graffiti one 72 hours having said that, this is a brand new program we don't know how many people 800 san francisco folks asking to opt in we may not be able to reach that goal but a great camera e team their experienced and do everything in 72 hours. [off mic.] >> i think that is mainly
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[off mic.] >> well for the necessarily (laughter.) [off mic.] >> i can't speak for someone as a people that worked with a number of graffiti artists to express themselves it is important we provide a platform for artists to do that and provide a system to work within but this is basically vandalism and in fact, remember the legislation we got passed to go over people civilly and charged people developed cases when we continue to do with the photos and, you know, video and other things that are used to develop a case that even
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though we're to the going after people criminally we are seeking financial damages for what a lot of of the vandals are doing to public and private property in the city i can't speak for why we do it is unfortunate but important we provide alternatives and as a city i feel with many of the great arts program we've been to do that but will not solve the problem complete but ways to abate that but ways to hold people accountability that costs people money okay. let's (music).
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>> i started the o was with a financing and had a business partner all ended up wanting to start the business and retire and i did was very important to me so i bought them oust and two weeks later the pandemic h-4 one of the moments i thought to myself we have to have the worse business in a lifetime or the best. >> we created the oasis out of a need basically so other people bars and turning them into a space and when the last place we
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were performing wasn't used turned those buildings into condos so we decided to have a space. >> what the pandemic did for us is made us on of that we felt we had to do this immediately and created this. >> (unintelligible). >> where we would offer food delivery services with a curbside professionalism live music to bring spectacular to lives we are going through and as well as employ on the caterers and the performers and drivers very for that i think also for everyone to do something. we had ordinary on
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the roof and life performances and with a restaurant to support the system where we are and even with that had terribly initiative and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt had to pay our rent we decided to have an old-fashioned one we created club hours where you can watch to online and or be on the phone and raised over one quarter of a million dollar that of incredible and something that northbound thought we could do. >> we got ourselves back and made me realize how for that people will show up if i was blown away but also had the
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courage but the commitment now i can't let anyone down i have to make the space serviceable so while this is a full process business it became much more about a space that was used by the community. and it became less about starting up a business and more about the heart of what we're doing. this building used to be a- and one of the first one we started working on had we came out what a mural to wrap the building and took a while but able to raise the money and pay 5 artists to make a design around many this to represent what is happening on the side and also important this is who we are this is us putting it out there because
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satisfies other people we don't realize how much we affect the community around there when he i want to put that out there and show up and show ourselves outside of those walls more fabulous. and inspires other people to be more fabulous and everyone want to be more fabulous and less hatred and hostility and that is how we change the
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when i shoot chinatown, i shoot the architecture that
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people not just events, i shoot what's going on in daily life and everything changes. murals, graffiti, store opening. store closing. the bakery. i shoot anything and everything in chinatown. i shoot daily life. i'm a crazy animal. i'm shooting for fun. that's what i love. >> i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer for the last i think about 20 years. i joined the chinese historical
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society. it was a way i could practice my society and i can give the community memories. i've been practicing and get to know everybody and everybody knew me pretty much documenting the history i don't just shoot events. i'm telling a story in whatever photos that i post on facebook, it's just like being there from front to end, i do a good job and i take hundreds and hundreds of photos. and i was specializing in chinese american history. i want to cover what's happening in chinatown. what's happening in my community. i shoot a lot of government officials. i probably have thousands of photos of mayor lee and all the dignitaries. but they treat me like one of the family members because they see me all the time.
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they appreciate me. even the local cops, the firemen, you know, i feel at home. i was born in chinese hospital 1954. we grew up dirt poor. our family was lucky to grew up. when i was in junior high, i had a degree in hotel management restaurant. i was working in the restaurant business for probably about 15 years. i started when i was 12 years old. when i got married, my wife had an import business. i figured, the restaurant business, i got tired of it. i said come work for the family business. i said, okay. it's going to be interesting and so interesting i lasted for 30 years. i'm married i have one
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daughter. she's a registered nurse. she lives in los angeles now. and two grandsons. we have fun. i got into photography when i was in junior high and high school. shooting cameras. the black and white days, i was able to process my own film. i wasn't really that good because you know color film and processing was expensive and i kind of left it alone for about 30 years. i was doing product photography for advertising. and kind of got back into it. everybody said, oh, digital photography, the year 2000. it was a ghost town in chinatown. i figured it's time to shoot
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chinatown store front nobody. everybody on grand avenue. there was not a soul out walking around chinatown. a new asia restaurant, it used to be the biggest restaurant in chinatown. it can hold about a 1,000 people and i had been shooting events there for many years. it turned into a supermarket. and i got in. i shot the supermarket. you know, and its transformation. even the owner of the restaurant the restaurant, it's 50 years old. i said, yeah. it looks awful. history. because i'm shooting history. and it's impressive because it's history because you can't repeat. it's gone it's gone.
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>> you stick with her, she'll teach you everything. >> cellphone photography, that's going to be the generation. i think cellphones in the next two, three years, the big cameras are obsolete already. mirrorless camera is going to take over market and the cellphone is going to be better. but nobody's going to archive it. nobody's going to keep good history. everybody's going to take snapshots, but nobody's going to catalog. they don't care. >> i want to see you. >> it's not a keepsake. there's no memories behind it. everybody's sticking in the cloud. they lose it, who cares. but, you know, i care.
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>> last september of 2020, i had a minor stroke, and my daughter caught it on zoom. i was having a zoom call for my grand kids. and my daughter and my these little kids said, hey, you sound strange. yeah. i said i'm not able to speak properly. they said what happened. my wife was taking a nap and my daughter, she called home and said he's having a stroke. get him to the hospital. five minutes later, you know, the ambulance came and took me away and i was at i.c.u. for four days. i have hundreds of messages wishing me get well soon.
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everybody wished that i'm okay and back to normal. you know, i was up and kicking two weeks after my hospital stay. it was a wake-up call. i needed to get my life in order and try to organize things especially organize my photos. >> probably took two million photos in the last 20 years. i want to donate to an organization that's going to use it. i'm just doing it from the heart. i enjoy doing it to give back to the community. that's the most important. give back to the community. >> it's a lot for the community. >> i was a born hustler. i'm too busy to slow down. i love what i'm doing.
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i love to be busy. i go nuts when i'm not doing anything. i'm 67 this year. i figured 70 i'm ready to retire. i'm wishing to train a couple for photographers to take over my place. the younger generation, they have a passion, to document the history because it's going to be forgotten in ten years, 20 years, maybe i will be forgotten when i'm gone in a couple years but i want to be remembered for my work and, you know, photographs will be a
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remembrance. i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer. this is my story. >> when you're not looking, frank's there. he'll snap that and then he'll send me an e-mail or two and they're always the best. >> these are all my p p p p p p
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>> good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco planning commission hearing for thursday, december first, difficult to believe i will remind everyone to silence mobile devices that may sound off. to enable public participation sfgov.org is streaming live and will receive comment for each item. comments and opportunity to speak are available by calling 415-655-0001. and entering access code: 2488 892 5464 ##. you may join us via web