joo good morning. please respond with here or present. thomas harrison. >> here. >> commissioner harrison is here. >> kim hartwig-schulman. >> here. >> kwon. >> vice chair kwon is not here. >> mogannam is running late. christopher simi. >> present. >> and with three members

present we have coreum for sanitation and streets. due to the covid-19 health emergency and upon given the public health recommendations by the san francisco department of public health and emergency orders of the upon govern and mayor concerning social distancing with lifting the restrictions on teleconference this meet suggest held teleconference and streamed by sfgov.org. be aware well is a time lag between the live meeting dp what is shown on sfgovtv. i like to say thank you to the staff at sfgovtv and building management for putting on this meeting. >> for members of the public wish to make public comment, on item from outside the hearing

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to everyone for making this very special meeting happen. so we can round out business for the end of the year to both staff and commissioners and then also we are working in a different hearing room this morning and so some of the technology you will not have the displays in front of you will not be active as they normally are. i apologize. but all presentations you can see over on the side wall and we will work to address this for future meetings. that's the end of my comments. acting chair harrison.

are there requests to amend the order of the agenda? i will take a vote on this. to adopt. >> yes. >> commissioner we will not need to since there are no changes we don't need to do a vote. so -- we can move on to the next page of the comments. >> that kong cludes my announcements i wanted to wish everyone a happy and healthy new year. >> thank you. >> mr. fuller, call the first item, please. okay. item one is general public comment and members of the public may address the commission on topics went subject matter of the commission not part of this agenda.

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members of the public wishing to speak on this item in person. sfgovtv, do we have members of the public in the queue wishing to speak? they are indicating there are no members of the public call nothing wishing to speak during general public comment we have no comments. mr. chair. >> that concludes the public comment. can we have the next item. >> item 2, is the resolution to adopt findings allowing the continued use of hybrid meetings for this commission. this is -- similar resolution you have -- adopted for the past several months to allow for hybrid meetings including public

comment and for participation, participation from home, in necessary. do i hear a motion to adopt the resolution? yes. >> do i hear a second. >> i second. >> and moved and seconded. all in favor of adopting the, mr. observe we -- we take a vote we need public comment. >> all right. hear public comment. >> okay >> members of public who wish to make comment on item 2, the adoption of the resolution of findings under the state urgency legislation. may lineup against the wall further from the door or call nothing use the phone number

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motion? debate? all in favor of adopting this consent calendar say, aye. >> aye. >> i hear the motion passes. so -- can we call the next item. >> item 3 is the giant block grant program grant modification. presenting this item is chris mc daniels superintendent of street, environmental service this is is an action item. then mr. mc daniels the floor is yours. >> thank you, bob. >> good morning, everyone. help new year to everyone. i'm chris mc daniels the superintendent for bureau of street and environmental service. happy to be here, today we will talk about chinese newcomer

grant extension. what we are asking for today is for the extension of the chinese new come everybody service grab convac it is 2, 30, 08 cure dooation is 6 months the contractor is chinese newcomer service center. they provide train pregnant maintain the cleanliness on the contract. to provide background, the yient block grant program provides job training. employment and workforce development opportunity to ensure public spaces and arrive way remain safe issue clean and inviting. more background is provides job

training, employment and workforce develop inspect china town to maintain the neighborhood. i want to emphasize that neighborhood this group is engaged in the area and they have made contacts with certain business owners and residentses and do an excellent job in communication skills and value them as a subelement to what we do as we mentioned in other presentations, public works does a lot of work as far as cleaning. we need help from the communities to keep the city clean. in is an example of the assistance that we need. they supplement our work. they are necessary to keep the city clean. the current amount is 1, 361, 386. the certainty grant term ends december 31 of this year.

modification system to extend the contract 6 months to june 30 of 23 and increase the funding by 230 thousand dollars. the recommendation from the director to increase this amount to chinese service grant and extend the term for 6 months upon the director's finding they met all policy recommendations for charities in good standing and authorize director of public works to approve the total amount 1, 591, 467.87. this slide is a collection of pictures from their work. i mentioned before they focus on the china town area. you see here they provide -- services of removing debris from the street.

they have folks run along the parking strips to client gutters. the area has restaurants. and they make sure all the cardboard is removed from the restaurants. we value their work and we need them to continue providing service to the area. this slide looks like a duplication of earlier slides. the recommendation is to extend this chinese service center grant 230, 081. again the duration is sikz months the chinese service center provide training, work force development and cleanliness of china town. that concludes my presentation i want to reiterate that we depends on them. they do a great job.

they provide training for staff. and we want to create a path for employment. and so this is one way they can get experience in doing the work that we do. i want to make that point clear. that's ends of my presentation we will be glad to answer questions. we have our director here. and have bruce here and his staff as well to answer technical contractual questions. thank you very much. >> i noticed that our chairman arrived. healthy and safe. [laughter]. shall we -- thank you.

commissioner for -- holding down the fortand the gavel. commissioners, questions. i was listening to that. am thank you, chris. mr. mc daniels. >> commissioners. questions? >> thank you very much for your presentation. i wanted more information on the grant in general because i don't -- know anything about the grant outside of that presentation. i wondered if you guys knew how many members or people -- have -- participated in the program. what is the duration like if you give a summary of you know, how long are they expected to be in

the program. what are the out come and measured. not sure if we look at that. um -- let's see. i know. >> i can provide a bit of information. the total staff is 15 and 20 employees. they have supervisors and managers that manage the grants the frontline people sign in every day. they keep track of their time that is the amount staff that is part of this grant contract. >> how long other participates expected to stay in the program? is it 3, 6 months? >> it would match the duration of the contract that we have with them. >> okay. >> people starting in 2019 are still going? >> right. >> okay. >> working for us doing work out there every day. when we are asking today is to

continue that work for 6 months. keep the folks that have been working with this for another 6 months. >> do we know if anyone, is it job training is as well as anyone moveod to find jobs elsewhere? >> i don't have that information we can inquire with chinese newcomer and get that information for you >> that would be really great. do you have data that proved that you guys are able to answer more 311 calls because of of -- them taking care of the china town neighborhood? >> so. we can do an analysis on that and get the numbers to you. this grant provides the security the areas they are assigned

taken care of, we focus on a lot of our 311 calls and this effort prevents that area to have to have those calls. we can do an analysis and get the numbers for you. >> that would be appreciated. >> if i could chime until on that. after we received your questions we looked at this. the way that our we can get the information i think the way that our data is broken up currently is not quite at the neighborhood level. we can narrow it. so we don't currently have an analysis of that but i think we can loon at if we know that neighborhood do we have few are 311 calls, talking with the supervisors they foal like it saved them from responding. i think the photos illustrated we don't have to respond to what would be the calls or calls were not there we would not respond

to address the. but we talked with our performance team and will try to drill down on that data for you. >> that would be really great. >> thank you. what are the boundaries they work in? what streets do they cover? >> it is in china town. do you have the details of that? i don't. >> on china town area we prom vied you with streets if you like we have the data part of their contract it it is in their contract we can provide that. >> great. >> thank you. and i noticed that the amount newed it. so every 6 months we and that the amount increases, is that for cost of living or -- supplies? like --

>> sure. yes. i think it dependses on the extension the duration of the extension, look at the first 2 they were half of the later. it is a bit an increase. some of that is cost of living increases. so when the they have to meet minimum compensation ordinance. some amendments include the cost increases to meet that ordinance and i wanted to note that when the mayor gave city employees a very significant pay increase, she ensured any nonprofit grantise get cost living or pay increases as limp all of our grants will get eligible for that -- will not just but required provide that cost increase to employees as well. >> all right.

>> i think that covers the big questions. i wanted more information on it. so, thank you very much. i know -- i [inaudible] the questions e mail. [inaudible] late. >> thank you. >> it is helpful to hear the questions and help us be prepared for future presentations. thank you for take the time. >> thank you, commissioner harrison? >> first, why is it a giant block grant. because it statute whole block and responds e not an individual call or location. i don't know who invented that name. >> this is different than the other grants that we will hear about in january. i assume? >> this is one of the grants that you will hear about in

january. so, all of our grants have a workforce development component that is their primary purpose is workforce development and they have different work scope trainings associated with the workforce development the goal is to provide job opportunity for those who face bear dwroers employment and work with nonprofits to address, what is a work scope we can use that you train the folks in. and ultimately the goal is that the participates could become be a pipeline for the city aprenticeship programs. we have the feedback loop we seek this is the very first, low barrier to entry, they get job training skills while they are starting this and those who have demonstrated they are red to

take on a job with the city could be aprentices to get the job training for journey level positions. >> that was my next question. >> would they go in the apprenticeship or preaprenticeship or is this the preaprenticeship. >> we believe this is a way to multiplight affects so we have more potential candidates. ensure they get the necessary job readiness skills through the grants to treat them as a preapreventship program. >> excellent. >> the state i read in this the state has a part of this in the financial low they will -- contribute to this amount of

money? >> no. this is funded through city funds. actually. >> 100%. >> i don't know why i got that in. um. okay. >> so now the group that you have is working in the china town area. and i was told about a person who works in the sunset who is like got a lot of praise. and i'm sure whon i'm talking about. anyway she has done such a great job nice to see that person get something get into this program if she is not already. the sunset not the china town area >> this grant is focused in china town. as you will hear next mont the broader presentation we have other grants that are city wide

or focused in other neighborhoods. and so there are opportunity throughout the city and many of our grants are not as focused in their location and in addition we have our own program of -- own internal preapprenticeship program our 9916 referring to their city job specifications. they work throughout the city in neighborhood/commercial district another pipeline. >> thank you. that just about covers my questions. mr. chair. >> commissioner simi. >> i think -- when the giant -- the giants block program sell this an umbrella term for a number of neighborhood specific or refer to the specific thing

in china town? this is specific to china town we have finds out who named it. [laughter]. may be don't spends staff time on that one. i guess my second question. this started in october 2019. and you said it is funded by the general fund did you have a sense of origin or, what was the back story? >> i will look to our cf oushgs i think i know the answer but. >> good morning. deputy director of finance and administration. it was part of when we go through the budget press we have a laundz real lives efforts and programs we think will help the city be cleaner or improve the can open for trees.

this was one of those initiatives during that budget cycle and a way to expand "the apprentice"ship program and workforce development during staffing challenges. putting out ideas to help dlaesz and this was one. i don't know why it is called giant block. it is a mystery. >> thank you. i guess the other question is this start in the 2019. it was awarded to the nonprofit and doing the 6 month extensions. i guess assuming the department is happy with the service and you indicated that is there a reason why we are not extending it more than 6 months at a time? >> there is. commissioners. there are 2 reasons. one, the pandemic had a reason and uncertainty around funding.

we did not want to extend typeset too long and have to terminate the contract because of funding difficulties. the second should the commissioners approve this final extension, i will emphasize, final. we plan to go to commettive bid we don't want to keep it always in the same vendor we want opportunity to bring the best on board to provide the services we need. we are happy with the current vender we want to open it up for a competitive process and that's our plan that we will do this if the commissioners approve the extension. >> to confirm there is no rfp process? >> there was a solicitation process that adhereed city rules and has been extended because of the pandemic and other uncertainties around funding and we plan after this should this be approved we will do a full rfp process.

>> thank you. thank you. and i have -- a couple questions once is this gets extended this started because there was short staffing. covid came. happens if our staffing gets up to 95 and 98, 100% the contracts are engaged how do we mitigate that and not under mining a permanent city employee jobs? commissioner, once again, this is a separate funding bucket in that case if we were 98 or 100% staffing that would enhance the city's cleanly ness and shift resources to focus on other areas. this is a different funding source from the staff salaries would be a benefit and that would be the ideal goal. >> thank you.

>> may i add to that, as he note today is a separate funding source. would be a miracle if we got to that level of staffing the challenge is these are tough jobs. so, people eventually, retire or move on. and we need to have this healthy pipeline of people that we can then train. challenges we have are the city's hiring processes are onerous. but we don't always have great qualified candidates to hire. that pipeline is critical. if we were 98% staffing i think we would want top keep the types of programs going because i can't imagine we would sustain that level of staffing. i would love to, >> though. for the university. >> thank you. >> commissioners, other questions. >> i do.

>> you mentioned about some point you will look out to put out a request for proposal from other contractors? are the ones now nonprofit sns do you just go to nonprofits or is it open. >> commissioner, it would be for nonprofits on the presentation he highlighted the controller requirements that would be a requirement. a nonprofit and file all of your proper forms with the irs and the state level so that it is a requirement. >> thank you. >> thank you. just one more comment i love all the questions. shows ash count act not the fact we are questioning what you are

doing but important for the public to know when we are doing. why are the prices cranking up? because the city employees got a raise that reflects the contracts t. is important for the public for them to understand hawhat you are doing and sometime its is lay people like us that tease the questions out and commissioner hartwig-schulman, we need to know to understand so we all speak the same language and people have arounding of the hard work you are doing. thank you. >> that being said, no further questions from the commissioners? what is next on the goodnight. mr. fuller. >> we would need a motion and take public comment before voting on this item. >> all right. and debate after the public comment. >> hearing no further motion all

in favor of adopting this on the calendar. say, i do. >> we need to get a motion and then public comment. >> i move to approve. >> i can second. >> thank you. now we go to public comment. members of the public who wish to make 3 minutes of upon comment on this item number 3 the approval of the giant block grant program modification lineup against the wall from the door with us in the chamber if you are call nothing dial 415-655-0001. access code: 2486 325 2472 ##. then star 3 to enter the speaker line. ers we don't member bunkham who approached to make comment on

this item. and sfgovtv, do we have callers in the queue wish to speak on this item. we don't have call they'res concludes public comment on this item. >> thank you. commissioners, further debate? >> no. >> all in favor, say, aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> anyone opposed say, neigh. >> motion passes. >> secretary fuller call the next item. >> the next is the continuation of general public comment we did not exceed the initial 15 minute maximum for item one we do not

need to have an additional general public comment section. >> secretary fuller. is there further business. >> no further business on this agenda. >> commissioners any final words? input? anything? thank you, everyone. >> i think we might have approved the only true action item in the department's history. >> you know this is a moment us time in the city's history. take a moment to acknowledge that. >> thank you, commissioner. >> we are a charter commission we are laying grounds work for commissioners to come. commissions to come. set a good example for everyone to follow. thank you, commissioners. >> hearing no objections i adjourn this meeting. we will meet january 23, 2023. thank you, everybody.

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a teacher. and then when i got into high school, i decided i wanted to get into advertising and do graphic art and taglines and stuff like that. by the time i was in college, i decided i wanted to be a decorator. but as i did more work, i realized working my way up meant a lot of physical labor. i only had so much energy to work with for the rest of my life and i could use that energy towards making a lot of money, helping someone else make a lot of money or doing something meaningful. i found the nonprofit working to save the rainforest was looking for volunteers. i went, volunteered and my life changed. suddenly everything i was doing had meaning. stuffing envelopes had meaning, faxing out requests had meaning. i eventually moved up to san francisco to work out of the office here, given a lot of assembly through los angeles county and then came up here and

doing assemblies to kids about rainforest. one of my jobs was to teach about recycle, teaching students to reduce, reuse, recycle and compost, i'm teaching them they have the power, and that motivates them. it was satisfying for me to work with for the department of environment to create a message that gets to the heart of the issue. the san francisco department of environment is the only agency that has a full time educational team, we go into the schools to help teach children how to protect nature and the environment. we realized we needed animal mascot to spark excitement with the students. the city during the gold rush days, the phoenix became part of the city feel and i love the symbolism of the phoenix, about

transformation and the message that the theme of the phoenix provides, we all have the power to transform our world for the better. we have to provide teachers with curriculum online, our curriculum is in two different languages and whether it's lesson plans or student fact sheets, teachers can use them and we've had great feedback. we have helped public and private schools in san francisco increase their waste use and students are working hard to sort waste at the end of the lunch and understand the power of reusing, reducing, recycling and composting. >> great job. >> i've been with the department for 15 years and an environmental educator for more than 23 years and i'm grateful

for the work that i get to do, especially on behalf of the city and county of san francisco. i try to use my voice as intentionally as possible to support, i think of my grandmother who had a positive attitude and looked at things positively. try to do that as well in my work and with my words to be an uplifting force for myself and others. think of entering the job force as a treasure hunt. you can only go to your next clue and more will be revealed. follow your instincts, listen to your gut, follow your heart, do what makes you happy and pragmatic and see where it takes you and get to the next place. trust if you want to do good in this world, that

[music] so, can you tell us what it was like for you during your first encounter with the san francisco fire department? >> yep. it was super cool! i got to learn about the dry standing pipe correction. it is actually called, dry sand piper just stand pipe. tomato. you know. yea. >> so, what is coming up next for what is that for? >> oh , firefighter backsterinvited mow to a fire station to see the cool stuff firefighters use to put out fires. you have seen the had doors open like a space ship from out of nowhere. i close my eye its is like i'm there right now!

wow! whoa. watch out, man. what is that for? >> what is this? these are fire engines they might look alike they are both red. white top and red lights on top. this is a new 2021 fire engine and this is an older 2014 fire engine. if you can't tell, this one is shorter and narrower than our older fire engines. they have cool things like recessed lights. roll up doors. 360 degree cam ares and more that is important as the city is moving toward slower and safer streets adding parklets and bulb outs and bike lanes we need to decrease our footprint to keep us and the community safer on emergency scenes. >> what's back there?

>> when is not guilty fire engine. great question. i want to see, sure. >> let's go back and look at the equipment and the fire pump on the fire engine. >> this is a fire pump. it is cool all the colors and all that. this fire pump and this engine holds 500 gallons of water that is a lot. >> a lot of water. >> it is push out 1500 gallons a minute of water. we can lose our 500 gammons quickly. why we use hoses like this to connect to a fire hydrant and that gives us unlimited amount of water to help put a fire out temperature is important we have enough fire engine in san francisco to put fires out. so we can reduce the injuries and minimize loss of life and minimize property damage. [music]

>> mr. will. mr. will. will! >> oh. daydreaming. thanks, everybody for watching! bye! [music]. >> neighborhood in san francisco are also diverse and fascist as the people that inhabitable them we're in north beach about supervisor peskin will give us a tour and introduce is to what think of i i his favorite district 5 e 3 is in the northwest surrounded by the san francisco bay the district is the boosting chinatown oar embarcadero financial district

fisherman's wharf exhibit no. north beach telegraph hill and part of union square. >> all of san francisco districts are remarkable i'm honored and delighted to represent really whereas with an the most intact district got chinatown, north beach fisherman's wharf russian hill and knob hill and the northwest waterfront some of the most wealthier and inning e impoverished people in san francisco obgyn siding it is ethically exists a bunch of tight-knit neighborhoods people know he each other by name a wonderful placed physically and socially to be all of the neighborhoods north beach and chinatown the i try to be out in

the community as much as and i think, being a the cafe eating at the neighborhood lunch place people come up and talk to you, you never have time alone but really it is fun hi, i'm one the owners and is ceo of cafe trespassing in north beach many people refer to cafe trees as a the living room of north beach most of the clients are local and living up the hill come and meet with each other just the way the united states been since 1956 opposed by the grandfather a big people person people had people coming since the day we opened. >> it is of is first place on the west that that exposito 6 years ago but anyone was doing that starbuck's exists and it

created a really welcoming pot. it is truly a legacy business but more importantly it really at the take care of their community my father from it was formally italy a fisherman and that town very rich in culture and music was a big part of it guitars and sank and combart in the evening that tradition they brought this to the cafe so many characters around here everything has incredible stories by famous folks last week the cafe that paul carr tennessee take care from the jefferson starship hung out the cafe are the famous poet lawrence william getty and jack herb man go hung out. >> they work worked at a play with the god fathers and photos

he had his typewriter i wish i were here back there it there's a lot of moving parts the meeting spot rich in culture and artists and musicians epic people would talk with you and you'd >> what we're trying to approach is bringing more diversity to our food. it's not just the old european style food. we are seeing a lot of influences, and all of this is because of our students. all we ask is make it flavorful. [♪♪♪] >> we are the first two-year culinary hospitality school in the united states.

the first year was 1936, and it was started by two graduates from cornell. i'm a graduate of this program, and very proud of that. so students can expect to learn under the three degrees. culinary arts management degree, food service management degree, and hotel management degree. we're not a cooking school. even though we're not teaching you how to cook, we're teaching you how to manage, how to supervise employees, how to manage a hotel, and plus you're getting an associate of science degree. >> my name is vince, and i'm a faculty member of the hospitality arts and culinary school here in san francisco. this is my 11th year. the program is very, very rich

in what this industry demands. cooking, health, safety, and sanitation issues are included in it. it's quite a complete program to prepare them for what's happening out in the real world. >> the first time i heard about this program, i was working in a restaurant, and the sous chef had graduated from this program. he was very young to be a sous chef, and i want to be like him, basically, in the future. this program, it's awesome. >> it's another world when you're here. it's another world. you get to be who you are, a person get to be who they are. you get to explore different things, and then, you get to explore and they encourage you to bring your background to the

kitchen, too. >> i've been in the program for about a year. two-year program, and i'm about halfway through. before, i was studying behavioral genetics and dance. i had few injuries, and i couldn't pursue the things that i needed to to dance, so i pursued my other passion, cooking. when i stopped dance, i was deprived of my creative outlet, and cooking has been that for me, specifically pastry. >> the good thing is we have students everywhere from places like the ritz to -- >> we have kids from every area. >> facebook and google. >> kids from everywhere. >> they are all over the bay area, and they're thriving. >> my name is jeff, and i'm a coowner of nopa restaurant,

nopalito restaurant in san francisco. i attended city college of san francisco, the culinary arts program, where it was called hotel and restaurant back then in the early 90's. nopalito on broderick street, it's based on no specific region in mexico. all our masa is hand made. we cook our own corn in house. everything is pretty much hand made on a daily basis, so day and night, we're making hand made tortillas, carnitas, salsas. a lot of love put into this. [♪♪♪] >> used to be very easy to

define casual dining, fine dining, quick service. now, it's shades of gray, and we're trying to define that experience through that spectrum of service. fine dining calls into white table cloths. the cafeteria is large production kitchen, understanding vast production kitchens, the googles and the facebooks of the world that have those types of kitchens. and the ideas that change every year, again, it's the notion and the venue. >> one of the things i love about vince is one of our outlets is a concept restaurant, and he changes the concept every year to show students how to do a startup restaurant. it's been a pizzeria, a taco bar. it's been a mediterranean bar,

it's been a noodle bar. people choose ccsf over other hospitality programs because the industry recognizes that we instill the work ethic. we, again, serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner. other culinary hospitality programs may open two days a week for breakfast service. we're open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner five days a week. >> the menu's always interesting. they change it every semester, maybe more. there's always a good variety of foods. the preparation is always beautiful. the students are really sincere, and they work so hard here, and they're so proud of their work. >> i've had people coming in to town, and i, like, bring them here for a special treat, so it's more, like, not so much every day, but as often as i

can for a special treat. >> when i have my interns in their final semester of the program go out in the industry, 80 to 90% of the students get hired in the industry, well above the industry average in the culinary program. >> we do have internals continually coming into our restaurants from city college of san francisco, and most of the time that people doing internships with us realize this is what they want to do for a living. we hired many interns into employees from our restaurants. my partner is also a graduate of city college. >> so my goal is actually to travel and try to do some pastry in maybe italy or france, along those lines. i actually have developed a few

connections through this program in italy, which i am excited to support. >> i'm thinking about going to go work on a cruise ship for about two, three year so i can save some money and then hopefully venture out on my own. >> yeah, i want to go back to china. i want to bring something that i learned here, the french cooking, the western system, back to china. >> so we want them to have a full toolkit. we're trying to make them ready for the world out there. >> >> (indiscernible) faces transformed san francisco street and sidewalks. local business

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>> francisco city and county board of supervisors meeting this afternoon at 2:00 pm., tuesday, december 13, 2022.) >> welcome to the san francisco city and county board of supervisors meeting this afternoon at 2:00 pm., tuesday, december 13, 2022. madam city clerk, call the roll. >> thank you, mr. president. >> supervisor chan present. >> supervisor dorsey present. >> supervisor mandelman present. >> supervisor mar present and supervisor melgar present. >> supervisor peskin present. >> supervisor preston present. >> supervisor ronen present. >> supervisor safai