>> good morning everybody. first, thing is first. we want to say a prayer. please. god, we thank you lord for everything and we love you so much. please protect our family and loved ones and our kids. even our enomies my god and let us be safe always and may we all just never forget god and always say a prayer. we love you and we thank you lord. may we all have a nice safe day today. amen. >> everybody who

wants to be a part and know they are part, come stand with me. we didn't do this alone. come on partners. so, peace and blessings everybody. happy everything. welcome everybody here. i want to say that this is our actual 10 year gun buyback where we got thousands and thousands of guns off the street. approximately 5,000. probably a thousand are assault rifles and all these guns that we have, a lot of questions. what do you do with there guns that we have? well, i'm going to show what we do with the guns we have. we destroy them. with the help of our community partners, sfpd, sdip,

city officials, the mayor, the senator, we have mothers against moms demand action. we have the brady campaign. we have us for us. we have west bay. united player. the private sector. we have the community. this makes a gun buyback so successful is we do it in collaboration with everybody. we do with with the reentry population. the outreach done for the gun buyback is mothers who lost kids against gun violence and we have 20 guys reentry. restorative justice who did life sentences in prison for the same act we are stopping and now they come back and they help us destroy these guns these guns right here will never ever hurt or harm or kill everybody again because with the guns we destroy,

we actually make (inaudible) if you look at our gun buyback fliers, that right there is made hundred percent guns. the warrior just purchased that. it will be at the chase center. we are actually doing this in real life. [applause] takes all of us or none of us. what i like to do is bring on some of our partners that will speak and share with you about the gun buyback. i like to bring up our senator who is very instrumental being very vigilant in helping out so many different issues, but one at the top is gun violence. i want to welcome senator scott wiener. [applause] >> thank you rudey. first of all, i just want to from the bottom of my heart thank united

playas for everything this amazing organization does. p getting gun off the street and helping people reintegrate after spending time in prisons and making sure our young people have a path to a great life and taking those young people under this organization wings early to help them stay safe and healthy. this is a life saving organization so i really really want to thank for everything it does. my heart is so broken for all the people who are dead because of gun violence and their families and their communities that are impacted and changed and harmed forever. we saw just recently, which is so personal for me,

what happened in colorado springs and club q. someone came in with an assault weapon and massacreed 5 people and injured another two dozen and thankfully a very brave veteran and very brave transgender woman took him down and ended that and saved a lot of lives. but they shouldn't have had to do that and why on earth did he have access to a weapon of war? we see that happening all the time. we see it with the mass shootings most of which don't even make headlines. we see it in our community all too often. not mass shootings but people shooting other people because they have access to guns, and anything that we can do to get these guns off our streets, because we know despite what the nra and all the

gun lobby people say, the number of guns does matter. it is not just about mental health, it is about easy access to guns and the more guns that we have in our country, the easier access we have to guns, the more people are going to die. we know that gun violence in california is higher at our boarder with nevada then it is further away from the boarder. why? because it is easy to get dones in nevada. so, gun buyback and this gun buyback, every gun off the street, each of these guns that disappears gets taken apart, that means fewer people get shot because that gun can't shoot anyone anymore. so, this is life saving work and so important to get the word out-there are people who have guns and want to get rid of it.

they can show up, no questions asked where they got it, if it is legal, they can show up and drop off it gun and get cash and drive off and that is the end of it and that is one less gun that will be here to shoot and kill someone and change their community lives forever. thank you up and let's get some guns off the streets. [applause] >> good morning everybody. thanks for being here. i want to just reiterate some things senator wiener said about gun violence in the city. the facts are this, year in and year out between 60 and 70 sometimes higher percent of deaths are homicides, are fire arm related and when you think

about that, it is staggering. year in and year out, we have 10s of thousands of people in the country who injured or killed at the hands of guns and our city is no different from any other place in this country. it has gotten out of control. i get questions all the time about gun buyback and whether they make a difference and whether it is worth the effort and i will say what i always said, yes, it does make a difference and yes, it is worth the effort. these guns end up in the wrong hands and people get hurt and people die. we are not talking about the other side of the issue, people who take their own lives with guns, which is a staggering number in and of itself. i want to thank united playas rudey corpus rbs his

team, senator wiener, i believe the mayor is on the way, everybody that supports the gun buyback because we have to do better in terms of reducing the amount of carjen carnage on the streets as the hand of guns. it is holiday season and usually that is a joyous time of year for many but for a lot of peeptle is a painful time of year because their loved ones have been taken by guns. my ask for anybody who is listening to this message is lets not lose another life, have mother father aunt uncle brother cousin friend have to go through next holiday without the people that are here this holiday because they lost their lives to gun violence. we have to work together on the issue, we have to do better and we have to support initiatives

like this so for those that want to turn in your guns no questions asked, you get some cash and you do? good for the society and city so please support the effort and thank everybody who helped put this together and united playas is always on the streets trying to help us reduce gun violence. thank you for being here. [applause] >> thank you everybody. my name is matt dorsey the supervisors for thisdistricate. welcome to district 6. it is honor to go here with united playas. when i was appointed to it board of supervisors about 7 months ago the headlines tended to focus on the fact i spent 2 years in the police department working for my former boss and friend bill scott. there were 14 years i spent thin san francisco city attorney office that taught me a lot about city government and lot about the law and

during that time there were a couple cases that went up to the u.s. supreme court. one called heller, one called mcdonald that made any meaningful gun control very difficult in the united states of america. what bhakes it more difficult is the political dinomic in washington that makes gun control virtually impossible and we will change that in years to come but until then, community based organizations are the best hope we got and there isn't a finer organization doing the work of anti-violence then united playas. honor to be here. it is important to do this and was pleased to hear from the chief that these kinds of programs work. i'm a believer in them as well, but it is also important to point

out the work united playas isn't just getting guns off the street but that is incredibly important. it is providing programming for youth and providing program for the reentry community and somebody from the recovery community getting to work with the folks from united playas we are united in so many ways as a faith community all most because we believe in the possibility of redemption. that is fundamentally what united playas and what gun buyback is about no questions ask. what is important is get the guns off the street. thank you. with that i like to bring up mayor london breed. [applause] >> thank you supervisor dorsey and thank you rudey and united playas for always being at the forefront of trying to

address many of the challenges around violence that exist in our city. i really appreciate rudey and his consistency, because often times there are sometimes many people or many organizations they step up, they may do something but then they go away. united playas doesn't go away. it steps up and does what is necessary to address the challenge of violence in the city, is pursues justice and support to insure we have people growing up in safe communities from our children to our adults to our seniors, to those who struggleed with the criminal justice system, they provide the second chance, the opportunity what supervisor dorsey spoke of, redemption. what is most challenging when you grow up in a environment where gun violence is normal and in fact growing up in the fillmore i thought that this is just how everyone lived. you

think that it is the norm and eventually sometimes you can get sucked in it yourselves and think this is how you are able to live and survive in your neighborhood and in this city. what united playas tries to do is say there is another way. there is another option. there is a chance to turn things around and i where see maty scott coming up and one thing i appreciate most about her is just her consistency and the work she tries to do to help end violence and get guns off the streets because that is what this is about. most of the people and most of the neighborhoods impacted by gun violence, one thing we share in common is the heartbreak from the loved ones we lost because of guns. the heartbreak and hopelessness and frustration and dispair, we share that hole in our hearts, because

i'll tell you, all most everyone probably has a loved one and somebody they care about that they miss to this very day because they sadly lost them tragically to gun violence. why are we here today? we are here because we want to provide an opportunity for people to turn in their guns. for people to turn their lives around by turning in their guns, by getting these guns off the street. united playas since they started the gun buy-back has gone 2500 guns and semiautomatic weapons and things that should ntd be in the hands of people off the streets. that is lives saved. every done we get off the street is a life saved. [applause] the impact that it has can't hardly be measured and so what i appreciate is that we are doing this time and time again. we are consistent in

providing this opportunity no questions asked. this saturday right in this location between 8 and 12 noon, no questions asked. this is a incredible community and police department partnership to address safety in our city. i want to thank you all for being here and thank you for getting the word out. thank you to the united playas community and thank you so much for everything you continue to do. we have so much work to do and just recently i heard about even a recent tragedy of someone i grew up with who was just killed and the sad realty about this and why this is so hurtful is because it happens too often. it has become too common. that's somebody's father somebody buther uncle cousin, somebody loved one, somebody's son lost all these

people hurt because a gun took his life. this is why we are here. we are here because it is so important to us, so i want to send a message out and plea to people who are out there with those guns, turn them in. no questions asked. saturday is a opportunity to save a life, let's do it. thank you. [applause] >> thank you mayor breed. before i bring up our last speaker and always say somebody from the restorative justice community, my brother who did a life sentence in prison who sat on a shelf (inaudible) but is back instead of taking lives is giving life. and so, you're right, i just want to be clear real before i bring

the brother up. we are not against a second amendment. you got the right to defend and protect your family your loved one by all means. our whole think is based on senseless gun violence. when a bullet leaves a gun it doesn't matter if you are black, white, young, old, rich or poor. it is going to destroy everything in its path. you could be gay or you could be straight, it doesn't matter. all what we are doing with all our community partners here and what i didn't share is, us for-youth came out and are did some gun buy-back out reach. the youth came out. i want to acknowledge that. don't forget about these youngsters stepping forward to the plate that want to end senseless gun violence. our dispensary community quhoo was the first ones who donated to our gun buybacks.

[applause] we have the private sector, we have our restorative justice, the cbo, the city officials, a mayor, senator, we got willy the wino who help out because when you think about it, everybody, you can even behind the camera and get it. this is what we are doing. you heard me chris? thank you for helping buy that building right there. [applause] got a new building. signed yesterday, escrow. one more flag for the people. i want to bring up my brother like no other, evan butler. [applause] >> blessed morning to you! how we doing? i want to let each and over one of you know i want to thank you for showing up. you see this in my hand? this was once a weapon that

probably took a life but guess what it won't do it no more? you know why? because our boots is the ground to get it out of the hands of one that would. i stand before you to let you know i once did it. i promoted taking life at one time, but today as i stand on the path i don't do that no more. you will see me in the parking lot putting up a sign talking about let me get that out your hand. let me get out your hand so we can do what? create goals instead of taking a life i'm here to promote life. i'm here to help promote life. it ain't easy. i still own those negative thoughts but i got something to do now. i can talk to somebody about it. i can put up a flier like this here. hey, let me get this out your hand, man. it ain't worth. it behind the wall 26 years and not promise to make out of here but god plan is better then mine. his

plan was better then mine and i'm out here. i salute each and every one of you. i salute those out in the back field. i see out there. i take the time to salute the youth. thank you for coming out. truly. thank you. [applause] mothers against gun violence. i will share something with you. annually we are in front of city hall for the day of remembrance. i tell you what touched my heart. they got a picture, jace lost his life 4th of july. you know what they was doing? shooting. he was out there to see the fireworks. you know what the picture read? stop! don't shoot. i want to grow up. if that ain't enough to wake you up, i don't know what will. it got my eyes open and i got 4 today. guess what? we out here to do the work and i need you to continue to show up stow the rest can grow up. continue to show up so you can grow up.

one (inaudible) we all we got. i she you out there in the back field. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. i want to thank my brother cesar for the prayer, mayor breed, or mayor, senator wiener, chief scott, our district supervisor matt dorsey. brother everett butler, restorative justice all the cbo, sfpd. this is our new captain of our district here. [applause] my brother. we holding him accountable y'all. everybody who came out, thank you for coming out and sharing and last but not least thank maty scott. where you mama at? hundred years old y'all. [applause] like my brother boogie said, one ban-boots to the ground. 10 toes to the floor. see you saturday. 8 a.m.

thank you. [applause] you're watching san francisco rising with chris manors. today's special guest is jeff tumlin. >> hi, i'm chris manors and you're watching san francisco rising. the show on starting, rebuilding, and reimagining our

city. our guest is jeff tumlin and he's with us to talk about our transportation recovery plan and some exciting projects across the city. mr. tumlin welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> i know the pandemic was particularly challenging for the m.t.a. having to balance between keeping central transportation routes open, but things have improved. how are we doing with our transportation recovery plan? >> so we just got good news this week. we're getting an extra $115 million from the american rescue plan and this is basically the exact amount of money we finally needed in order to close the gap between now and november of 2024 when we'll have to find some additional revenue sources in order to sustain the agency. in the meantime, i finally have the confidence to be able to rapidly hire, to restore

services and to make sure muni is there for san francisco's larger economic recovery because downtown san francisco doesn't work without muni. >> quite right. i guess the other impact of the pandemic was that some projects like the valencia bike improvements had to be put on hold. are we starting to gear up on those again? >> yes, so it's an interesting case study. of right before covid hit, we were about ready to invest in quick build bike lanes. arguably the most important bike order in san francisco. that got stopped with lockdown and then as you'll recall, during covid, we invented all kinds of other new programs like shared spaces in order to support our small businesses as well as sunday street light events for neighborhood commercial streets where streets were closed off to cars and turned over to commercial

activity. those successes now that they've been made permanent actually interrupt the draft design we had put together. so we've gone back to the drawing board and we are looking forward to having some additional community conversations about other design ideas for valencia. we're committed to completing a quick build project on this calendar year. >> that's such good news. valencia is a really great street for biking. so there are two huge and exciting projects that are about to be or have just been completed. let's talk about the bus rapid transit project on van ness avenue. how extensive have the improvements been? >> what's called the van ness transit rapid project is in fact more about complete reconstruction of the street and most importantly, the 100-year-old utilities underneath the street. so all of the water, sewer, telecommunications, gas lines under the street were basically rebuilt from market street all

the way to lumbard. the part on the surface which provides dedicated bus lanes for golden gate transit and muni, that was relatively straight forward and we're so excited we're going to start revenue service for muni on april 1st. >> that's fantastic. i understand there were some sidewalk improvements too. >> there were sidewalk improvements. we planted 374 trees. there is new storm water treatment including infiltration in the sidewalk, there's a bunch of art. there's all kinds of things. we put in new street lights for the entire corridor. >> finally, the other big news is about the central subway. can you briefly describe the project and give us an update. >> yes, so the central t-line

project, another stop at union square that connects directly into powell station and a final stop in the heart of chinatown at stockton and washington. that project has also run into challenges. it's 120' under muni, under bart, 120' down and out under chinatown in some unexpectedly challenging soils. but that project is nearly complete. it's at about 98% completion right now which means we're testing trains, we're testing the elevators and escalators and the final electronics and we're still on track to open that in october presuming all of the testing continues to go well. so fingers crossed on in a one. we're really looking forward to allowing people to have a subway ride from the heart of

chinatown all the way to the convention center to the caltrans station and all the way down to bayview and visitation valley. >> it's great to see all these projects coming to completion. we're all grateful for your team's hard work and i really appreciate you coming on the show, mr. tumlin. thank you for the time you've given us today. >> my pleasure. thanks for having me. >> and that's it for this episode. for sfgov tv i'm chris manors. thanks for watching.