commissions can best work together. we can figure it out. she would have a lot to bring to the conversation i asked her to give us pointers. when she gives us those. they will impact our search director's search because tell impact what somewhat the directors job description i think. but will impact what our new commissioner that will not have a required job description we will get. but tell impact a lot of what we do. so -- will wee have any are we going to vote on accepting her recommendations or is she making them and that's it? i think my intention i will turn on city attorney stop that the law is what it is. the streshths are what they are. we would be nice to have guidance in this new world of

what our roles and responsibilities are versus their's and how to work together more. what i'm more interested in. it is not as formal as i made it sound is my intent. nothing formal. prop b is done. the train left the station it is all upon hands on deck how can we best work together i thought rachael would be key to do that that is more what i was thinking. >> are members of the board of supervisors given us prop b in 2020 and in 2022 are they having input on this? yes, i know the prom 2022 supervisor peskin i spoke with him about this. i think i think i don't know how much input we need. what done is done.

i will turn it over to deputy city attorney. worn aspect is the board of supervisors can continue to prescribe roles for the commission. so i think it is correct chair post that the upon general powerhouse of commissions in charter sections 4.102 and 3 and 4, are will the references that remain in the charter section 4.140. 4.141. so i think, too, the -- board of supervisors will continue to provide input i'm certain and i think it is a helpful policy

approach to speak to people with subject matter expertise such as rape and he will working with director short and her leadership to help determine how the roles and responsibilities between the commissions allocated to the most result. thank you. >> thank you. >> item 1 is the secretary's report and i -- my report is brief. and remindser we'll need to take public comment after since it is not an agendaized item. is that we include in your agenda in the attachment to it are the logs and so that includes both public comment we

have not received any for this agenda or the previous one. and also any memorandums from the department to the commission following up on outstanding questions -- so. as those questions and the outstanding questions are addressed i will be distributing those to the commission and making sure they are part of the logs so the commission has easy access and the public has it as well. on a logistic's matter we have a couple of meeting in march i will pull commissioners in the next week to see about potential alternative dates that since we vasome -- we have some danger of not making quorum for the 2 meetings until we explore the other possibilities. and then, this will be the last

part of my report is my first discussion of the sanitation and streets commission and work in the month of december. they had a regular meeting scheduled for the 19th of december where they had both a number of program items they were going to look at. >> and last grant item contract with service provider provide ing not -- professional development but workforce development as well as supportive service for cleaning the streets in china town. they needed to consider that for that grant by the end of the year.

unfortunately, there were a number of conflicts that caused that commission to lose quorum. ahead of the december 19th meeting. we held a special meeting on the 28th of december to consider that grant item and it pass and continued the good service the grantee is providing in the china town community. so -- the minutes for that meeting and for the november 2022 meeting will be available and i will send them out to this commission once they are prepared for the next sanitation and streets commission on january 23rd. that concludes my report i'm happy to take questions on those 3 announcements. >> >> thank you. open public comment on this item

>> okay. >> for members of the public wish to make comment on item one the secretary's report. if you are present with us in the hearing chamber lineup against the wall further from the door if you mean are calling in -- to call 415-655-0001 and access code: 2488 204 0766 ##, press star 3 to raise your hands. look next the hearing chamber does not appear we have any in person public comment. sfgovtv, do we have callers who wish to speak on this report. >> they indicate that there is

no public comment on this. and so this public comment concluded. >> thank you. secretary full are call the next item, general public comment. item 2. >> item 2 is general public comment. members may address the commission on topics in the subject matter of the commission but not part of the agenda. comments specific to an item on the agenda may be heard when that item is considered. members of the public may address the commission for up to 3 minutes and general public comment may be continued to the end of the agenda upon if we exceed 15 minutes for general public comment. members of the public who wish to make 3 minutes of upon general public comment may lineup against the wall. if you are calling in dial

415-655-0001, access code: 2488 204 0766 ## then star 3 to enter the queue. looking in the hearing room we don't have members wish to speak on this item of sfgovtv, do we have callers who raised their hand wish to speak in general public comment? >> sfgovtv indicating that we do not. we have no public comment. general public comment on this. >> thank you. we will move on to item number 3 secretary fuller call that item. >> item 3 is the director's report. interim public works director carla short is here to present

and this it is an informational item. >> good morning, commissioners. carla short interim director i'm coming to you from the other side of the dias this morning. because i want to give a presentation as part of the director's report today. but first i want to wish everyone a happy new year. we will talk about storms. but i have a couple other topics i wanted to touch on. we had a brief conversation about prop b. you know, we were official low reunited on january 1. so our operation side is part of the public works department again. thanks to san francisco voters. i'm really excited start the new year as a unified department. we are committed to building on our strengths.

working together to address the challenges and make sure we remain focused on meaningful service for the people of san francisco. another update i wanted share before i ghet our storm response is a bit of information about the court ruling on emcampments. i'm not sure if you heard but the u.s. district court ruleod december 23rd by federal magistrate judge donna rue that with few exceptions, that ruling blocks san francisco from removing unhoused residents from encampments as long as the city lacks shelter house them. point include the acl sxushgs coalition on homelessness the ruling means the city cannot remove anyone from the street until everyone has been provided housing. our city attorney is seeking a court clarification. we are correspond the ruling is

in direct conflict with an earlier federal order by a different judge that mandated san francisco needed to have enhanced enforcement in the tenderloin. so our city attorney said that the new ruling defies logic requiring the city to offer shelter for all persons experiencing homelessness before one person is adequately sheltered. it would take years and 1.45 billion to build the beds and homeless services and many beds go unused people refuse shelter. i'm bringing this to your attention we are involved in encampment resolutions. these resolutions are lead by services, before public works goes in at all they have been

out reach from the department of homelessness and supportive housing from the department of public health. so there has been an out reach effort. many days sometimes weeks before we go to clean an encampment. our job is to clean once the people have been offered the services. a big part of the role we play in addition to cleaning is bagging and tagging. many items removed we will collect. we catalog and store them at the operation's yard until ordinance come to retrieve them later. i'm sure we'll hear more about this as the case moves throughout courts and get clear direction if the judge and do our best to feel keep you updated on that. >> okay. this morning we feel we are all sand bags all the time i think that is our new modo.

but i wanted share a brief presentation with you all. about our storm response. our department the forefront of san francisco storm response efforts with multiple city departments. the d. emergency management, 3 upon 11, handles many calls and the san francisco public utility's commission and the fire department. anyone who is anywhere close to the city the past week or in northern california knows how wet it was. this was the wettest period in more than 100 years. >> one of the biggest operations all sand bags was giving out free sand bags to residents and

businesses. this is a year round operation demand swells during heavy rains and this week was no exception. we handed out more than 14,000 sand bags since saturday and limited the number to 5 her household or business. the chief challenge has been procuring the sand bags. we had how did we get flat foot federal. we didn't we had a stash of 8500 this was not predicted to be the storm it turned out to be. we scrambled i want to shout out to the procurement team and cfo working over the holiday to procure the sand bags. we -- sourced them from all overnight region. we -- tracked down more every day. we have approximate trucks coming and sent our own to

fremont to pick up sand bags and some of the loads we got from delivers were from as far as tracie. some came with 112 sand bags one small load we will take every load. others with thousands. we hoped by the end of next week to have about 20,000 sand bags available. which we expect will hopefully keep us in good stock for the season. i want to recognize our sands bag team and a shout out to acting deputy director of operations darlene sloan working nonstop since new year's eve. and i had to sends her home to get sleep. she was determineed continue working. they are out in the rain bindz and have been amazing. want to shout out to them.

and here are some images of this operation. you see the driving rain coming down as our folkses are loading people and up helping residents the palettes sand bag its is an amazing operation. any time there will is a big storm our tree crews are involved. we had almost 500 service requests we had to sort and triage. somewhere duplicates. most of the damage to the urban forest occurred -- approximate on january fourth when we had the gusty winds of we hadistries that took out municipal and he power lines and blocking sidewalks. some sat on cars. we had extra crews and dispatched them to urgent

locations and like the staff our tree crews were out in rain gear getting to work when everybody was hunkering down at home in high winds and heavy rains. i want to give a very big and public thank you to our tree crews as well. i upon often say that as that storms are our time to shane had everybody else is avoid whatting is happening we are run nothing and getting things doneful >> not to be forgotten our street cleaning staff spendses time in advance of the storm and during the storm. trying to keep leaves and dpe brae away to prevent flooding. they would were not able to clear them we worked with the public utility's commission to bring in the trucks to clear them.

and this is actually rock park lands our department has the engineering expertise and we are always brought in. >> and sorry. i did not highlight marina. this is upon under what looks like a river. marina boulevard the roadway sustained no permanent damage. our crews then come in to clean up the mess the public right-of-way. our street and building repair crews.

the team when is this happens. >> i justmented highlight while the public's attention is aimed at on the grounds work we have a lot behind the scenes. there is planning that goes into any of our operations. making sure the staff will be on hand and ensuring they have gear and tools they need and timing the operations to get the work covered while giving people time to recharge. we have tom sends some people home. but ensure they are also being safe and working safely. we opened our department operation. ran who shifts one from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. and over night from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. our staff from the department to monitor what is happen nothing real time. help to dispatch staff. keep track that is needed going

forward. in an operation center like this, there is an operation's section. logistics, planning, communication section, finance section and over all command team. this mimics the department operation center throughout the city. we use the same systems and structure to try to ensure the mungz is really smooth. we do rain to prepare for the emergencies and use events as a simulation of an emergency. when we have a warrior's parade we need to clean up we will activate the search and practice the systems. hopeful low we build that muscle bhrm we have an emergency as we did we have folks ready to roll who know what to do. we provide staff for the city's emergency operation center. the central operations centers all the department operation

centers work with and report to that helps to ensure that all city departments and outside partners the utilities will and the school district are coordinated and sponse. i want to commend the mayor this week she was making surety city was firing on all cylinders. keeping the public inform side a priority. our communication team is part of the joint information center. we worked on coordinated messaging and department specific topics. there is public interest in our work and our team was responding to media requests constantly. and delivering information from early morning to late at night. a lot of the media work is with television, radio and online publications we are active on social media.

and our posts on twit and linked in had 400,000 views the past several days that is sand bags learning about and we update and real time if we have you know if we are running low and if we need to close while we get a new shipment. it is an effective way to community. i want to really recognize there are lots of everyone at public works involved in a way in storm response. finance team was needed to keep resources flowing. street inspectors make sure job cites were ready for the storm. pothole repair crews see a surge in the work load. radio room dispatchers and the. left we had a [inaudible] interview and they are interviewing monica, our very long standing and experienced radio room dispatchers.

they make sure they are handling the service requests and getting them to the right people. of course i'm happy top have a lot of reign to alleviate the drought. i love rain because i love trees and plants but big storms that saturate our soils and upon can cause harm i'm not a fan of. when a storm blows through i'm thankful for public works. it is our time to shine. we have an incredible team. we are working together and expert at the job we dom our crews are so dedicated. it just makes me proud this . is who we are and what we do. and with that i'm happy to take questions. >> i did not show all our

twitter people were following. thank you. [applause] thank you very much. chair short. that inspiring presentation and hair raising video footage and photos. i did have one question when i hear about downed power lines i get nervous. i presume we have long experience in protecting our employees when they are downed power lines and wet streets? yes. thank you for that question. we dom all of our tree crews go through a certification to be electric willal hazards they the get train nothing how to recognize and work around electrical hazards if there are downed power lines the crews throughout the organization know to stands upon by.

will if the sfmta if they are over head t. is scare and he crews are trained. i'm calif.ed they know when they should not go near. thank you very much. >> any commissioner woolford. ch we are in a hundreds year event the city was safe, secure and acting normal. so i think we are reliefd and thankful of the job the department is doing. i had a question on the update of the ruling on the homeless situation. ir think all of us are deeply

aware of what happens in the streets in front of us. and one thing i wanted to ask is that will the city still be maintaining the current policy and implementation so that people are offered housing. encampments that occur in more than 4 groups and people are offered housing and belongings are recorded and kept? >> i think the short answer is, yes. however, i want to emphasize that -- we are all working very carefully to ensure that we are add hering to the court injunction. so. i know that service are continuing to be offered, that is an important part of when we do.

our crews continue to clone. but and in fact, the injunction said public works you have a good bag and tag policy, follow it. the dreshgz we got was straightforward. stick to your policy and follow it carefully. so that is when we are doing. i don't want to speak to and i'm not the right person to speak to the offering of shelter and moving people. so -- what i say is you know we are adhering to the court injunction carefully on our bag and tag policy and the city is continuing to offer services to folks. but in terms of moving people i think -- i don't want to say the wrong thing but i know there is very, very clear direction to all of the city departments we

have to be certain we add here torthis as we wait for clarification from the judge. >> i finds alarming development that this would happen from what i had been able to foresee in my experience living in san francisco and working and operating a busy the city done a humane and considerate engagement with the homeless population and no one wanted a person to be homeless the city has done what is important for the individual rights of our citizens and the public hasn't of the community. i would appreciate it if you could continue to update us this strikes me something that could precipitate a very unfortunate situation. depending how it goes.

>> i will absolutely make a point to let you know updated as i get them. i will second that. commissioner newhouse segal? so this relates the court ruling about the encampments and the storms we had. and we will probably have againful may be not this bad. so -- we all noticed that it appears that the encampments are very often in low areas. as i emerge from my safe home, i noticed abandon encampments in yours that were obviously had been flooded and still drenched. i wonder, you got hit with the

storm and the new injunction. i'm speechls about how you would deal with the 2. because people have to flee. for safety. and taking their belongings with them you had to deal with a lot of abandoned and destroyed or damaged belongings i don't expect an answer but i -- let us know how we can help in any way. i will say part of our policy we are adhering to is if we come across belongings. we will bag and tag if there is in the someone there and at the request we can take belongings

and store them for them if we come across that our crews should be collecting the belongings and bagging and tagging and taking them back to the yard. i note because this is a public forum that our homeless and supportive housing team opened emergency shelters. to tronz port anyone who may need shelter an emergency shelter. the city is mindful and doing what we can and public work system always happy to support help in any way we can to try to get people in shelter during the scary storms. thank you very much. i will echo sentiments to the

dpw staff. we were thinking of them during the storms. knowing everybody was out there in the conditions. to that ends i think upon given dpw response the commission would like to commends the staff for their work. and award the staff certificates of commendation. for service to the city and keeping the public safe and the city operating. we will leave it to to you determine which individuals should get the certificates of commendation but like to award those and of course anything for mrs. froem you think would be appropriate we would endorse and want to act on. >> thank you so much chair post. that would be very meaningful for our crews. we appreciate that and happy to get you the names of employees working during this time >> thank you very much, that

will be helpful. >> any further questions before we turn to public comment? members of the public who wish to make comment on item 3 the director's report. may lineup against the wall. if you are in the chamber. if you are calling in dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2488 204 0766 ##, star 3 to enter the queue. does not appear the members of the public approached wishing to comment on this reportful

sfgovtv do we have callers in the queue wish to speak on the report. and they are indicating we have none. no comments on director's report. >> thank you. we will now move to item 4. call that item. >> item 4 is the consent calendar of routine matters. includes minutes from the december 16th of 22 meeting. construction contract award for claremont yerba buena sewer replacement and modification for period of time safety at various locations 100011946. the minutes include corrections

to typos and changes for clarity in items 3, 8, 10 and 11. and for both the contract award which is 4b and the contract modification 4c. the contract value is boost 1 mission threshold for consideration by the commission and below the 5 million dollars tloeshld to be heard individually with the contract delegation policy adopt by this commission. >> all consent items can be heard individual low upon request by a commissioner, staff or public. and adoption of the consent calendar and resolutions contained in it is an action item. >> thank you. i have a question or a comment on one item. i don't know if mr. congress is in the audience. this regards the street and

sewer replace am contract. he followed up with a helpful map. of the locations of the pave am renovations and sewer replacements. i was going to thank him and request in future presentations or documentations supporting items on consent and regularical dar when we are talking about projects that have more than one location if we could include a map that would save adding of google map every segment as i did when i was reading in the beginning to know where they were and upon be impressed how much of the city i don't know and streets i never heard of. it was helpful to have that map and even if he could in the future and other staff could number the segment and tie it to a member and that would make our lives easier.

thank you for providing that map as a follow xup look forward to seeing more in the future to get a grasp where the projects are being performed by dpw. >> do commissioners i guess now. questions? other questions before we go for motion on this? i do hear a motion and second to adopt the consent of routine matters. >> i move to adopt the consent calendar. >> i will second. >> we'll turn to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make 3 minutes of commentom this item 4 the adoption of the consent calendar and resolutions within it. may lineup against the wall if present in the chamber. if you are call nothing dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2488 204 0766 ##, press star 3 to

enter the queue. does not apeer we have members wish to speak in person. sfgovtv, do we have callers wish to speak on the consent? it appear we do have one, please, go ahead and unmute the caller and caller, once you are unmuted you will have 3 minutes and i will provide you with a 30 second warning when your time simple expiring. >> can you hear me. daved pilpel. first time this year i have a number of commentsos 4a, b and c. i don't feel a need to have them

pull exclude heard separately i will do it within 3 minutes if i go over ask me to conclude so i can get everything on items item 4a under item 4, on page 4 of the draft minutes, my public comment i did suggest moving it prior to the votes in the minutes. i also commented and appreciated the expanded text read about items 4c and d at that meeting related to ceqa. and i think something should be inserted there related to my comments about ceqa on -- page -- on item 8 in the upon minutes on page 5. commissioner newhouse segal

requested lower case r on item 11 and public comment. suggesting lower case s and i don't be if and wait, and adding the meeting schedule attachment to the resolution or, too, is missing finotice anything else i'm happy to communicate that to commission secretary. manager full and suggest that throughout where it references members present and voting it should indicate voting in favor. so it is clear. and the record. it is also just as a side note. not clear where the various commission requests which were made throughout the meeting where they are being captured. there was not a calendar.

it would be helpful to have some consolidated roar of commission requests is the stats of those perhaps with the calendar. that's item 4 a. 4 b. the top of pages 2 and 3. >> 30 seconds. >> thanks. the top of pages 2 and 3 it still says insert staff report and insert 8. looks like that did not get attended to. i think it would be helpful to clarify in the future the scope, elements including the sue are work and the pavement work which are different scopes and are covered by different ceqa -- >> time concluded. >> can i continue my comments? >> should i request 4b and c be. >> you can continue your

comments. >> for 2 more minute system this reason? sorry i got a lot of cross talk with the system. why please condition for up to 2 minutes, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> okay. continuing on 4b the ceqa check list -- date related to the better street's plan is not, well, it is referenced in the staff report on page 3 but not clearly spained as to the 2 specific approval dates for the ceqa documents that would be helpful to me. i found on pages 250 and 279 for the exemption for the sue are work. there was a lot of duplication

in the attachments made it complicated to work through all of that material. of and i agree with the chair post that a map is helpful and i think that should being a regular part of all staff reports. for a map where there is a project specific location. that's it on 4c the resolution and the staff report have information about ceqa but -- does not make entirely clear what the ceqa status is as relates to the work if this is a scope change. if so is within the prior ceqa review the holiday is referenced but not explained and map and photos will be helpful as relates to the delay due to

changed conscience that were not discovered having the photo of what it is that was discovered would be helpful to explain and justify the change. i have no objections to either 4 b or c or the consent calendar thank you for allowing me time and thank you for listening. >> thank you. >> thank you. caller. that is our last public comment on this consent calendar >> thank you. >> is there deby the this motion it is >> hearing none. all in favor of approving the consent cal daughter say, yes. >> yes. >> ychls i don't hear, no's. the motion passes. and secretary fuller will publish the adopted minutes and

resolutions to our commission website. >> we will move on to item 5. mr. fuller? >> will item 5 is the over view of the street use and mapping and this will be presented by bureau manager nikolas hough this is an informational item. i'm manager for are street use and mapping. thank you for giving meet opportunity to tell you when we do and who we are. i started with the department 21

years ago as a junior engineer at the time there were 5 diameters and remained with idc we were the only permitting bureau. we are organized in 3 groups permits, inspections and enforce and want subdivision and mapping. there is little over lap but coordination between them. we have a fourth service that is distinct from the 3 under the subdivision of mapping that is field survase the field survey group does surveys for projects within public works. for bureau of architect and project management. we dpo [inaudible] for the puc and for mta, rec park and the

port and to a less extent gent rit maps for department this is own and operate real estate for real estate transactions. we don't do those often. this is our leadership group. our permit manager. mike is our inspection enforce am manager and kate is our surveyor. so, why do we have permits? that's a question i get a lot. and the simple answer is so that it is in the the wild west. to ensure we have a safe and have a roads and sidewalks that are safe and free of hazzard. and ensure the public right of way is in the taken for private use. which does happen, it is in the malicious. people don't know the bound

easier of property and assume they build their fence up to where they think they can build it. we work with those people. if anything could demonstrate what we dot image on the screen. the orange block is a building frontage the dashed line is the property line and the blue box a view of the street. the dark green is asphalt. light green is curb, gut and sidewalk. we issue permits for just about everything in the blue box the exception of the trees. they are by urban forest row on traffic permits. hi a question about special events. those rz handled by mta. typically the special events require closures to vehicular traffic that i have a group called special events, i can't remember the title. and then areas where like

holiday and un plaza, there are joint jurisdiction with rec park, rec park handles the special events. we will sometimes issue a permit like with winter wonderland. for rec park to operate that. also to the county surveyor's office we manage street remaining the board renames streets or sections in the county surveyor takes the updates and notifies the postal service. and the oranges block the county surveyor does function there is as well. they do lot line adjustments and mergers and subdivisions. vertical subdivisions to name a few things. so, left year was not that busy year we issued directly 16,000, 300 permit this is is permits we

issued directly. you may or may not know the department of building operates the permit center on the second floor on 49 south vaness we have a window on that floor. and through that window we issue 2 types of permits. if you are renovating your home and get a permit from dbi you entitleed street space per notify have park nothing front of your home and store items on the sidewalk. we issued 8,000 of those permit last fiscal year there is another function we provide at the dbi permit centers when someone come in to renovate their home they are doing work in the right-of-way tell get flags and routed. we'll review it for that. to make sure it is compliant and did 3,000 of the sign off's last

year. 3,000 plus 8 thousand and 16,000 is 27, 300 permits. that was actually a slow year for us. and we also issued 112 permits to sas street and environmental service last year and another function we have that is not captured on the slides to answer how much we coordinate with sas we do back office operation work for the blight and graffiti group. we handle all of their hearing the director hearing set ups presentation materials and then if the hearings result in liens that go to the board we do that with the clerk of the board and handle their billings and directions.

the 3 types of permitsil highlight. the mep and s ap's. the reason is because the process for these is thorough. deliberate and meticulous and involved coordinating with others. i will talk about that in a later slide. for permits per murals there are 2 ways they will reach out to the director's office or another group and will be connected with them. kickoff meetings and walk them throughout code and

employs and review authority over the permit. a lot of times groups reach out to someone like the mta or puc they will say we got approval from puc and mta. no you did in the talk to the right person. for grants that are given sometimes those are -- with community groups utilize operations to build the improve am and the operations will do the initial application pack sxaj we will help get that through the process. there was a request we are

updating our old data base system. it was home grown and programmed does not have reporting capable. you can't track and you see from 27,000 permits we will have reporting capabilities and tracking ieblt.

we also drafted proposed legislation for murals so we got a lot of requests for murals and tried to do a hi brifd major and encroachment and minor permits so people can community groups can obtain a mural permit. currently it is getting a major encroachment requiring the board approval temperature is a long process and people get frustrate when they hear that. but that is how the code is. the next type of per mists are commercial. they include banners on live poles and traffic signals and coffee shops and restaurants. food trucks parked in the right-of-way. we don't permit food trucks from private lots there are a couple in the city like that. sidewalk ventzing a new program the board legislated left year and shared spaces the pandemic program. i will discuss those during the inspection and enforcement portion of the presentation. this is a process i eludeed earlier. so if you are getting for a typical permit, if you are getting -- your house renovated and needlement from planning, go to dbi to get building permit.

dbi will circulate and if they determine you may or may not have items that you are improving in the right-of-way, then we will put ail hold on your permit. and -- you will have to submit an s ip. some individuals are familiar with the process they do their s ip permit application at the same time. anyway. we get the s ip and we circulate it with the 3 departments at the puc. the various departments at mta and d ph. collect their comments and return them and this takes 2-3 cycles before we issue a permit. some designers are good and able to address things rapidly. but generally per a large are project people don't care they wait until last minute we get complaints like why can't i get this done now.

>> so this is just an image of the typical project. i think for sewer. here is two different types of street space. for pg sxeshgs on the right this is the shared space shared street space permit begin to someone with a dbi permit. inspections and enforcement this group has the biggest charge of our 3 groups buzz they handle a number of complaints others usually dismiss through 311 we have to figure out who has ownership of an issue in the private right-of-way and seek

resolution. we get a thousand of those every fiscal quarter. and they are organized by zip code. we also have as needed repair contracts the abatement program and sidewalk inspection and repair program. reactive -- and we work with the city attorney's litigation group for trip and fall claims. we got a request to go to acorn they're had a bad lift someone injured themselves and suing the city. we put that in our package when we do the repair. the contract is proactive. it is a 25 year cycle. we are like 15 or 18 now. but we will request every year

priorities from buff and incorporate those to the sidewalk repairs they have a backlog of work. the utility and street improvement inspection program organizing the permits we issue and enforcing terms and conditions and code requirements for those permits. i said i would speak about illegal sidewalk this was passed last year we issued permit in august. most of this is to address the disregard for everything in the mission an open flea market i did not know how bad until i saw the pictures. and it was people could not get on and off buses. wheel chairs could not get down the sidewalk, it was a nightmare. most of the individual who is want to be legal have got permits now we are dealing with so called back pack so people

get stolen goods out of their back pack. shared spaces was the board the city's response to the shelter in place requirements of 2020 when restaurants could not dine in. so shelters were built on the right-of-way to allow out door dine to give them relief. public works pivoted to this in a short time with no funding or staff. we issued 2,000 permits that year. the number has fallen we are under the emergency authorization that expires the end of march this year. we are moving to fully legislatedive program and expect a number of units to fall. for some it is not worth the trouble.

lastly, we go out for civic events for parades we clear the route and make sure everything is buttoned up ahead of time and the left 2 we were asked to do ventzing patrol. to make sure illegal venders were not selling during the parade. these are 311's we get. someone tearum their sidewalk we get called out to make it safe and get them to get a permit. on the right this is typical developer decided i will close the sidewalk and put a sign, sidewalk closed. we get called and fine them and make it legal. table and chairs not placed correctly prevents people from getting in and out of the car. on the right a hot mess it is dirty and -- we make the restaurant, clean it up and

diverter is illegal and advertising on it. not supposed to do that. there is another complaint we get this is more acute with -- mom and pop grocery stores. they are selling. we fix it and called back because they are doing it again. so lastly, the subdivision and mapping by county surveyor unique from most of the other counties in california other counties are review a map and a couple associated documents. and planning is in charge of the bulk of document this is get

reviewed. san francisco the county surveyor is in charge of reviewing the package i did here. several years ago with the acting county surveyors and had 3 banker box of documents to get recordd and i was there for 3 hour this is is the list, 3 hours. right now the county surveyor is looking at, she is new. looking at everything she can do to expedite the process and acknowledges things are slow and she is -- figure out ways of delivering. because they know that she knows she is integral to the process of getting housing developed. these are some of the item this is she is in charge of. the map is not an acronym is from the olds days. when i started -- 20 something

years ago and had volumes and blue lines and amennia machine and file cabinets that were shallow and wide and a number or letter. it was the -- the -- drawer number and carried on as a name for the match those were the boundary and grade maps. >> so these are the -- 18 to 20 major development in san francisco. they represent tens of thousands of housing units and they committed to partnering with the city and delivering housing and we understand this we have the essential and making the city and front and center in helping it guide the developments. we are also here to protect the stele's interests and ensure the state map and local codes are followed. lastly the developments by the

maps that applications receive and recorded you see -- we lag boy a year. shelter in place hit us hard. we and 2023 to be equal to 22. that is reality of the economic condition that is it. >> if you have questions? thank you very much. >> that was very interesting and i'm impressed by the many, many obligations the department of public works has diversity in the department of everything you carry out and the impact you have on our daily lives. i have several men evercomments and questions. one is you mentioned the repeat offenders the next day they are again seems like a waste of staff time and taxpayer money. what how do we ~esque lit that so you are not going to the same

properties? >> we will start finding them. that's the simple way out. on we issue fines. >> effective? >> generally. >> thank you. a bit more on major versus minor encroachment what is the difference how it is determined what is minor and which is major and how does this have the process differ. >> so -- there are 2 sections in the code. one is for major and one for minor. minor are only issued to fronting property ordinance. i will go become to the example i gave of renovating your home. if you are putting lite say replacing the sidewalk with a

fancy brick work that could be a minor. the coat has a provision for -- the percentage of the area in front of your home. that you are allowed basically a cap on a minor. say you redot area with custom stuff to the curb. this would be a major encroachment it would be 100% of the work in front of your home. that is a bad example that seldom happened. and -- let's see i'm thinking of anything else. there are other considerations for major i can't think of them off the top the major -- also someone doing -- let's see -- if -- third party is doing work in the right-of-way say a

community group redoes a corridor with special stuff? they would have to get a major encroachment they are not the fronting property owner. so minors are only for fronting property owners and majors kick in if -- it is a third party doing work an hoa, they are dog it they would pull the major permit. does this make sense. >> it does i'm not syria i like it. sounds like not based on the size of the encroachment. are you getting in the way of the public and of the right-of-way or safety or -- or are you not? but that is a conversation for a different day that is not up to you if it is by the code. >> thank you for understanding. not up to us. >> yea. that put that on the list of changes but -- anyway. i had a lot commentsil make at

the ends now i will go to my fellow commissioners for questions and comments. commissioner woolford. thank you. one thing i think as an architect i'm aware most of the public does not see it or take its for grantd that our streets, parks and squares are the only public rooms except for city hall and the library this most of us can occupy together. importance of them is paradox. they are our common rooms. i wanted to thank you and for the work hayour department is doing and points out to the importance of the work the department of public works does. because largely we live in a 73 without chaos on the streets. it is a first world city and kept clean and safe. and organized in managed and

feel comfortable and proud of being in the public realm. i wanted compliment you and thank you for the work you do. >> and acknowledge it. >> thank you. >> thank you. so i guess i have a slightly different perspective based on my activism. hai like to request is a proposal from your. i am requesting a project. a neighborhood activist said something to me. neighborhood initiatives are stifled because of permitting problems. we need to fix that. and i'd like to be heros to i i don't think you are viewed as hero in all aspects i request your division develop a principle for how to work with the community to allow for timely permitting for projects

of public benefit i'm think burglar you partner to put this proposal together with the council district merchant's association and for the community benefit district and the community benefit district alliance the parks and liveable city. buoy do believe that there is room for improvement allowing commune organization hos want top provide public benefits to the city in getting permits for events and for tables and chairs on sidewalks and murals and for quality of life issues. that makes the city better for all of us. we have a problem, i'm sorry to be the bearer of this we have a problem i would like it fixed and what i like to request in july that you come become to the commission with a proposal for how to improve the permitting process. as i said in consultation with the organizations that have had

issues with the permits and that in 3 months i like to request a progress report on how the proposal is coming along i hope this is a reasonable request i feel this is an area dpw needs to improve and could come out as heros instead approximate viewed as obstructionists. >> thank you. chair post. if i may jump in here. we -- i think we recognize this can be a problem as well and really one challenge we have is some of the proposed ideas we -- don't have existing clear permits for those -- what is proposed. and so then it is a change to figure out that is the appropriate permit mechanism. we will use the mural example. mural on a public bridge. depending who is where the

bridge starts. we worked through this process. . and may determine whether public works have a role or whether it goes to department of real estate. as a result of the projects, we have begown do what i think you are asking for and our deputy director for communication, beth who works with rachael gordon has very great relationships with arts commission and the other city agencies that need to weigh in on the types of projects. she has begun to look at how we stream line community neighborhood permitting projects. we also have this we had a permit we were calling. the major/minor. >> hybrid. >> working but had a name we worked on with a deputy city attorney. to try to create the hybrid

permit that would may be not have the burden of a major encroachment if not a major project but they are not adjacent property owner. we recognize this is an area for improvement. if we might suggest that beth and rachael office could take the lead working them as she has been, to come up with your requested proposal i think this would be a great path forward buzz she started to work on this already. >> that sounds fine i will leave it to your judgment. i would like topping request that the merchant's association and the community benefit direct alliance consultd and involved. i think they will give you good information on the problems so you know how to address them. and everyone looks like a hero

and make improvements thank you very much. i hope 6 mont system a reasonable time line for a proposal for changes on stream lining the process? >> i think so. that sounds reasonable. we give you your 3 mont update photocopy we see anything we'll flag it at that time. >> perfect. thank you very much. >> thank you. those are -- commissioner newhouse, segal. >> yes. thank you for your work and thank you for your report. and -- i have been on the sufficiented giving permits as a rec park commissioner and applying for permits as a president of a neighborhood associations. and -- may be i just know the process or may be i just live in a neighborhood that is much older than the other

neighborhoods that the other commissioners live in. but -- in audio. i'm not say thering is not a problem i would be happy to work with you and i of course a lot of neighborhood organizations go, i know you mentioned park's alliance. i think there are supervisors since we don't have district elections of supervisors with some people are not that -- that -- practical, here it would be good to get i know that a lot of the supervisors have somebody responsible for working with neighborhood organizations and may be that would be a way to coordinate with the mayor's office of community services and the mayor's office of neighborhood services. the planning department they all have names of -- neighborhood organizations that they work

watch you know something is being -- if there is a permit applied for building per nit our neighborhood the planning department knows which neighborhood organization that they should sends this to. we review it -- some neighborhoods are not as organized but i think this is may be a good opportunity since san francisco is going through a lot of changes in the past decade and the past couple of years since the pandemic to bring everybody up to speed of old established neighborhoods and say this is what would be expected. this is an on00 this is a bench mark for what we should -- expect neighborhood organizations to do. and so -- so homeowner's

associations and the representative, i don't know. i don't know if home ordinance or whatever. know who they should think that is shocking my homeowner's association is not allowed to join a neighborhood organization we allow individuals to join. issuing the permits i don't think this is be on our plate how we second. we should connect better but it is -- something evolved over a hundred years. you are right the city has been changing and growing a lot and we need a way to do it.

i will be happy to work with you all. got a let on your plate and you do a great job. thank you. thank you. i will just add -- and of course the proposal if the code changes are required in your judgment then then we will go for it. i'm not for what dpw can do but what the city can do to facilitate this that means code changes if this make its easier look at code changes you got the idea. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> further questions or comments on this item? i think that is it. why thank you very much. >> thank you. now open public upon comment on this item.

members who wish to make 3 machines of comment on item 5 the over view of bureau of street use and mapping may lineup against the wall. if call nothing dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2488 204 0766 ##, star 3 to enter the queue. no one has approached in order to be recognized. sfgovtv, do we have members of the public who expressed interest in speaking to the call in, we have one member of the public wish to speak. caller. you will have 3 minutes. can you hear me now?

>> yes. great. daved pilpel. il cope it to 3 minutes i appreciate the comprehensive presentation. and the discussion, very helpful. a couple of thoughts the organization chart that was on page 5? that was helpful. what i did not see in this presentation was the total staffing. of the bureau and number of vacancies and how they are impacting service deliver and he turn around time on permit requests and other work matters. i did appreciate the discussion about process improvements. i think this is -- certainly a

bureau that has a lot of public interaction. and so continuous process improvement to customer service is important. it is important throughout dpw and at bs m relating to as far as i understands it all permits in san francisco are discretionary. and effort at the dsm related to appeals filed at the board of appeals i'm not sure if this came out as clearly in the presentation and finally to relate in the different way the other night i saw an early

screening of living. . which has opened and playing at the plaza, which is an older person in early 1950s. london. who actually heads when appear to be the permit section. very muches people asking permits and bureaucrats at the time using file fold and arguing about whether the permit is appropriate in public works or the park's department or the schools department, well is a lot of paddling the in terms of permit requests. >> 30 seconds j. interesting and i would encourage everyone to check out this film. folks who work at bs m and dpw. those are my thoughts on this

issue. thanks for listening. >> thank you, caller. that concludes public comment on this over view of with item 5. further discussion on this item? we now move on to item 6. secretary fuller call that item. >> item 6, the public works director hiring update. and chair post will provide this update and it is an informational item. >> thank you. i have nothing further to add to the remarks i made in my announcements. there will be public comment on this even though there was no -- >> yes. we will do that. >> members of the public who wish to may 3 minutes of comment on item 6 the director update.

line up against the wall if you are call nothing dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2488 204 0766 ##, press story 3 to enter the queue. no one has approached to speak. of sfgovtv are there speakers in the queue? we have none. no public comments on this. >> thank you. we'll move on to the next item 8. new business by commissioners. call that item. >> just to clarify it is item 7. which is new business initiated

by commissioners this is an informational item. >> thank you. >> i have 2 items of new business i like to initiate. please. >> the first presentations and so -- the first is i'd like to understand the affect of facility's maintenance in a separate division of dpw and operations from design and construction. i'm concerned after project deliver theinefficiency can result in client departments not having sufficient information and expertise to properly funds and maintain the projects dpw delivers. i understand that -- this could result in no role process for dpw design and construction to receive feedback from our client organizations and learn important lessons on how they use the new facilities we carry forward. i feel and fear improved

communication may be needed between dpw as well as our client organizations regarding project scope and how scoping decisions affect budgeting allocating for proper o, and m and project completion. i request director short a presentation in the future that we can fit in without delaying contract approvals. on how this can be improved. how this inefficiency of having o & m for project in a separate division without the benefit of the design and construction teams expertise. the other presentation i would like to request somewhat related for the commission, on the city's capitol plan in general. abcs on the plan if you will. with emphasis on general fund

allocations for capitol projects after they are completed. apparently the plan does address the need for consistent and timely facility operations but does in the get funded. if is that the case, that is a problem. i'd like to know the cost to the city and taxpayers and money is spent on high quality projects on the time dpw and other city departments deliver only to see them deteriorate quickly do you to lack of proper care because o & m has not been budgeted for. both of these presentations or one -- could address the need for city standards for the capitol projects i am putting infrastructure in this. and perhaps need for formal system for managing facilities and partnership with dpw partner

ship that is embraced by all city departments. dpw after delivering infrastructure and projects remains a partner and ensuring that our beautiful new projects whether a sewer replacement or medical facility or a park or street median is properly maintained. so that less taxpayer money funds deteriorating and dpw does in the waste resources. on problems down the road that could have been avoided with proper planning and communication from day one. do you have questions director short or clarifications on anything i spoken about? >> thank you, chair post. i think i'm understanding your request i would suggest this we include someone from the capitol planning program to present to

you as well. for your second request the abc's. and then we can talk about how requests are made by within the department -- to capital planning and budget initiatives. >> thank you very much. >> commissioner woolford? >> yes, hearing the having the presentation on the bureau of streets today, it occur today me i'm late to this but the american institute of architects is convening the national conference here in early june. they will be 20,000 architects plus family bunkham guests 40-50,000 people. they organize tours. my own practice offered tours for projects we lead. one with the city of san francisco the public safety building over in the mission bay. we are waiting to hear if this

is accepted. it occurred to mow i did in the initiate the tour opportunity and don't know if the bureau of architecture did. but if we could ask julia the director of architecture to see if san francisco has volunteered tours of the civic center and golden gate park? the golden gate bridge. these seem like area when is san francisco has been painted in the press as one type of place it would be appropriate to put our very best public places and infrastructure on display for the entire country. so i would ask if we follow up with julia, it might be too late to do these if they have not been initiated i think the architects would be interested. >> i like to second that proposal and i seen facilities.

this might sounds odd the chief medical examine are office should go on the list. it is unique and national precedent type of design or the southeast community center that just opened. why they might have. >> they may have >> check with greta. they might have put this. because we are not building the civic center and city hall now it may not vehicle submitted but something. >> check out the medical office. that might be -- yea. we will leave it to director short. >> there are several projects we might ask if she did it is in the too late. >> we'll check with her today and i might take a moment to note that when the american society of landscape architects in town we did a tour in partnership with the capitol planning team to talk about san

francisco may not be unique with our capitol plan and process but it is many cities don't have a process similar to ours. our one of our landscape architects and with bryant strong from city administrator office did a tour and talked about having a to the planning sxroesz how that enabled the infrastructure that has been developed the last 10 years. they did -- china town -- to i can't remember. they did a lop of the tour. looking at lots of different civic project this is were enabled because of the capitol plan. we may already have something in the works but will check in and let you common if not too late i love the suggestions thank you. >> i was going to suggest a way to short circuit contact stacy williams. i will be glad to.

she is the local director of american institute of architects. and shed have the attention of national. >> thank you. we may take you up on that. >> other new business before public comment? open public comment. >> members of public when wish it make 3 minutes of comment on item 7, new business initiated by commissioners may lineup. if you are call nothing dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2488 204 0766 ##, press story 3 to enter the speaker's queue.

no one has approached to be heard on this item. sfgovtv do we have callers wishing to speak. >> there are indicating we have one caller. unmou the caller. you will have 3 machine it is. can you hear me? >> we can hear you. >> great. david pilpel. hopeful low the last time today. i want to reenfers my earlier point documenting for the commission the staff and public commissioner requests, which are seem to be stack up like sand bags.

so well is clarity about what the asks was when it may be scheduled the staff person we can get a sense of the various requests and the sequencing given the contract budget. is got a lot on the plate and having a public way to track those requests. i think would be helpful. >> thanks for listening. >> thank you, caller. that is our only commenter on this item. >> thank you. we will go on to the next item. general public comment item 8 >> item 8 general public comment continued from earlier in the

meeting if necessary is not necessary. as we did not exceed the 15 minute limit on general public comment. >> thank you. mr. fuller do we have remaining business? >> there is no further business. >> i adjourn this meeting we will meet again friday january 20 at 9:30 a.m. our new start time. thank you.

>> i'm connie chan district one supervisor and welcome to the richmond. >> i'm an immigrant and came to san francisco china town when i was 13 years old with my mom and brother. my first job is at the community organizer for public safety with san francisco state. and land in the city hall and became a legislative aid to sophie maxwell.

went through city departments when kamala harris was our district attorney i'm proud to represent the richmondad district supervisor. [music] we have great neighborhood commercial corridors that need to be protected. the reason why we launched the neighborhood business for supporting the [inaudible] for 15 years special more. we have the legacy business program the business around for 30 years or more and thought, you know, we gotta make sure the next generation contains for generations to come. am i'm ruth the owner of

hamburger haven we came back on july 11. we were opened in 1968 at that time i believe one of the owners of mestart today went through a guy named andy in the early 70s and my father took it mid 70s. >> originally was just a burger joint. open late nights. then it changed over the years and became the breakfast staple. we specialize in breakfast, brunch come lunch now. i love this neighborhood. i grew up here. and it feels like home. i walk down the block and recognize people of people say hello. you say hello you talk and joke. has that familiar environment that is enjoyable and i have not experienced anywhere else. there are many things i would like to see improve ams the things we might see are making sure that our tenants stay

housed our small business in tact and those are the solutions that will contain to push to make sure that you know our communities can take root, stay and thrive. >> i'm proud of you know, welcoming folks to the richmond. everyone loch its we got farmer's market every sunday there. the you see really business at the noaa. ice cream at toy folks and going to chop for book like green apple. and that's when you like the deal is pizza place haall families love. you will see a lot of great chinese shops that is readily available for everyone. >> and that is just thein are richmond there is more to do in the richmond. what is love is the theatre.

>> i mean adam and with my wife jamie, own little company called cinema sf we operate the balboa theatre. the vocabularying theatre on sacramento and soon the 4 star on clement. >> balboa theatre opened in 1926 and servicing this outer richmond neighborhood since then. and close on the heels the 4 star opens since 1913. >> when you come in to a movie theatre, the rest of the world has to be left behind. but you get e mersed in the world that is film makers made for you. that is a special experience to very much we can all think of the movies that we saw in the big screen of with everybody screaming or laughing or crying. it is a shared human experience that you get when you go in to places that are gatherings and

artist presented to you. >> a shared experience is the most precious. and the popcorn. [laughter]. at the balboa especially, we stroif to have movies for people of every generation from the pop corn palace movies on the weekend mornings, for families and kids. this is for everybody of all ages. >> what is great about the richmond is it is a neighborhood of the immigrants. belongs to immigrants not ap i immigrants you will see that there are also a huge population of rush wrans and ukrainian immigrants they stay united you am see that the support they lend to each other as a community. and cinderella bakery is another legacy business.

if you go on the website it is known as a russian bakery. the first thing you see their pledge to support the ukrainian community. you will see the unity in the richmond i'm so proud of our immigrant community in the rich monthed. >> my dad immigrate friday iran the reason he stayed was because of the restaurant. has more centamential value it is the reasonable we are in this country. when he had an opportunity to take over the instruct he stayed that is why we are here part of our legacy and san francisco history and like to keep it going for years to come. >> another moment i'm proud to be supporting the richmond and the only asian american woman elect in the office and as an immigrant that is not happen nothing 3 decades.

you see it is my ability to represent especially the asian-american community. in my case the chinese speaking elders in our community that really can allow me to communicate with them directly. i'm program director of adult day centers. i have been here for 7 years i love to help the communities and help and the people with disability. i foal a connection with them. i am anim grant i love helping our community and new immigrants and improvements. >> if you want nature, richmond is the neighborhood to go we are between ocean beach heights and golden gate park.

>> i love the outer richmond. for me this is the single best neighborhood in san francisco. everybody knows each other. people have been living here forever. it is young and old. the ocean is really near by. and so there is that out doors ocean vibe to it. there are places to seat golden gate bridge it is amazing. businesses are all small mom and pop businesses. houses get passed down generation to generation. it has a small town feel but you know you are in a big city at the same time. it's got a unique flavor i don't see in other neighborhoods j. it is about being inclusive we are inclusive and welcome the communities, anybody should feel welcome and belong here and shop local, eat local. we believe that with that support and that network it come

in full circle. it is passing on kinds knows. that's when richmond is about that we are together at once. welcome to the richmond. [music] we spoke with people regardless of what they are. that is when you see change. that is a lead advantage.

so law enforcement assistance diversion to work with individuals with nonviolent related offenses to offer an alternative to an arrest and the county jail. >> we are seeing reduction in drug-related crimes in the pilot area. >> they have done the program for quite a while. they are successful in reducing the going to the county jail. >> this was a state grant that we applied for. the department is the main administrator. it requires we work with multiple agencies. we have a community that includes the da, rapid transit

police and san francisco sheriff's department and law enforcement agencies, public defender's office and adult probation to work together to look at the population that ends up in criminal justice and how they will not end up in jail. >> having partners in the nonprofit world and the public defender are critical to the success. we are beginning to succeed because we have that cooperation. >> agencies with very little connection are brought together at the same table. >> collaboration is good for the department. it gets us all working in the same direction. these are complex issues we are dealing with. >> when you have systems as complicated as police and health and proation and jails and nonprofits it requires people to

come to work together so everybody has to put their egos at the door. we have done it very, very well. >> the model of care where police, district attorney, public defenders are community-based organizations are all involved to worked towards the common goal. nobody wants to see drug users in jail. they want them to get the correct treatment they need. >> we are piloting lead in san francisco. close to civic center along market street, union plaza, powell street and in the mission, 16th and mission. >> our goal in san francisco and in seattle is to work with individuals who are cycling in and out of criminal justice and are falling through the cracks

and using this as intervention to address that population and the racial disparity we see. we want to focus on the mission in tender loan district. >> it goes to the partners that hired case managers to deal directly with the clients. case managers with referrals from the police or city agencies connect with the person to determine what their needs are and how we can best meet those needs. >> i have nobody, no friends, no resources, i am flat-out on my own. i witnessed women getting beat, men getting beat. transgenders getting beat up. i saw people shot, stabbed. >> these are people that have had many visits to the county

jail in san francisco or other institutions. we are trying to connect them with the resources they need in the community to break out of that cycle. >> all of the referrals are coming from the law enforcement agency. >> officers observe an offense. say you are using. it is found out you are in possession of drugs, that constituted a lead eligible defense. >> the officer would talk to the individual about participating in the program instead of being booked into the county jail. >> are you ever heard of the leads program. >> yes. >> are you part of the leads program? do you have a case worker? >> yes, i have a case manager. >> when they have a contact with a possible lead referral, they give us a call. ideally we can meet them at the scene where the ticket is being issued. >> primarily what you are talking to are people under the

influence of drugs but they will all be nonviolent. if they were violent they wouldn't qualify for lead. >> you think i am going to get arrested or maybe i will go to jail for something i just did because of the substance abuse issues i am dealing with. >> they would contact with the outreach worker. >> then glide shows up, you are not going to jail. we can take you. let's meet you where you are without telling you exactly what that is going to look like, let us help you and help you help yourself. >> bring them to the community assessment and services center run by adult probation to have assessment with the department of public health staff to assess the treatment needs. it provides meals, groups, there are things happening that make

it an open space they can access. they go through detailed assessment about their needs and how we can meet those needs. >> someone who would have entered the jail system or would have been arrested and book order the charge is diverted to social services. then from there instead of them going through that system, which hasn't shown itself to be an effective way to deal with people suffering from suable stance abuse issues they can be connected with case management. they can offer services based on their needs as individuals. >> one of the key things is our approach is client centered. hall reduction is based around helping the client and meeting them where they are at in terms of what steps are you ready to take? >> we are not asking individuals to do anything specific at any

point in time. it is a program based on whatever it takes and wherever it takes. we are going to them and working with them where they feel most comfortable in the community. >> it opens doors and they get access they wouldn't have had otherwise. >> supports them on their goals. we are not assigning goals working to come up with a plan what success looks like to them. >> because i have been in the field a lot i can offer different choices and let them decide which one they want to go down and help them on that path. >> it is all on you. we are here to guide you. we are not trying to force you to do what you want to do or change your mind. it is you telling us how you want us to help you. >> it means a lot to the clients to know there is someone creative in the way we can assist them. >> they pick up the phone. it was a blessing to have them

when i was on the streets. no matter what situation, what pay phone, cell phone, somebody else's phone by calling them they always answered. >> in office-based setting somebody at the reception desk and the clinician will not work for this population of drug users on the street. this has been helpful to see the outcome. >> we will pick you up, take you to the appointment, get you food on the way and make sure your needs are taken care of so you are not out in the cold. >> first to push me so i will not be afraid to ask for help with the lead team. >> can we get you to use less and less so you can function and have a normal life, job, place to stay, be a functioning part of the community.

it is all part of the home reduction model. you are using less and you are allowed to be a viable member of the society. this is an important question where lead will go from here. looking at the data so far and seeing the successes and we can build on that and as the department based on that where the investments need to go. >> if it is for five months. >> hopefully as final we will come up with a model that may help with all of the communities in the california. >> i want to go back to school to start my ged and go to community clean. >> it can be somebody scaled out. that is the hope anyway. >> is a huge need in the city. depending on the need and the data we are getting we can definitely see an expansion. >> we all hope, obviously, the program is successful and we can implement it city wide.

i think it will save the county millions of dollars in emergency services, police services, prosecuting services. more importantly, it will save lives. >> i have been a cable car grip for 21 years. i am a third generation.

my grand farther and my dad worked over in green division for 27. i guess you could say it's blood. >> come on in. have a seat. hold on. i like it because i am standing up. i am outside without a roof over my head and i see all kinds of people. >> you catch up to people you know from the past. you know. went to school with. people that you work with at other jobs. military or something. kind of weird. it's a small word, you be. like i said, what do people do when they come to san francisco? they ride a cable car. >> california line starts in

the financial district. people are coming down knobbhill. the cable car picks people up. takes them to work. >> there still is no other device to conquer these hills better than a cable car. nobody wanted to live up here because you had to climb up here. with the invention of the cable car, these hills became accessible. he watched horses be dragged to death. cable cars were invent in san francisco to solve the problem with it's unique, vertically challenged terrain. we are still using cars a

century old >> the old cable car is the most unique thing, it's still going. it was a good design by then and is still now. if we don't do something now. it's going to be worse later. >> the cable cars are built the same as they were in the late 1800's. we use a modern machinery. we haven't changed a thing. it's just how we get there. >> it's a time consuming job. we go for the quality rather than the production. we take pride in our work and it shows in the end product. >> the california line is mostly locals.

the commuters in the morning, i see a lot of the same people. we don't have as tourists. we are coming up to street to chinatown. since 1957, we are the only city in the world that runs cable cars. these cars right here are part of national parks system. in the early 1960's, they became the first roles monument. the way city spread changed

with the invention of the cable car. >> people know in san francisco, first thing they think about is, let's go (music >> 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 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 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 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 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

>> this is one place you can always count on to give you what you had before and remind you of what your san francisco history used to be. >> we hear that all the time, people bring their kids here and their grandparents brought them here and down the line. >> even though people move away, whenever they come back to the city, they make it here.

and they tell us that. >> you're going to get something made fresh, made by hand and made with quality products and something that's very, very good. ♪♪ >> the legacy bars and restaurants was something that was begun by san francisco simply to recognize and draw attention to the establishments. it really provides for san francisco's unique character. ♪♪ >> and that morphed into a request that we work with the city to develop a legacy business registration. >> i'm michael cirocco and the owner of an area bakery. ♪♪ the bakery started in 191. my grandfather came over from italy and opened it up then.

it is a small operation. it's not big. so everything is kind of quality that way. so i see every piece and cut every piece that comes in and out of that oven. >> i'm leslie cirocco-mitchell, a fourth generation baker here with my family. ♪♪ so we get up pretty early in the morning. i usually start baking around 5:00. and then you just start doing rounds of dough. loaves. >> my mom and sister basically handle the front and then i have my nephew james helps and then my two daughters and my wife come in and we actually do the baking. after that, my mom and my sister stay and sell the product, retail it. ♪♪ you know, i don't really think about it. but then when i -- sometimes

when i go places and i look and see places put up, oh this is our 50th anniversary and everything and we've been over 100 and that is when it kind of hits me. you know, that geez, we've been here a long time. [applause] ♪♪ >> a lot of people might ask why our legacy business is important. we all have our own stories to tell about our ancestry. our lineage and i'll use one example of tommy's joint. tommy's joint is a place that my husband went to as a child and he's a fourth generation san franciscan. it's a place we can still go to today with our children or grandchildren and share the stories of what was san francisco like back in the 1950s. >> i'm the general manager at

tommy's joint. people mostly recognize tommy's joint for its murals on the outside of the building. very bright blue. you drive down and see what it is. they know the building. tommy's is a san francisco hoffa, which is a german-style presenting food. we have five different carved meats and we carve it by hand at the station. you prefer it to be carved whether you like your brisket fatty or want it lean. you want your pastrami to be very lean. you can say i want that piece of corn beef and want it cut, you know, very thick and i want it with some sauerkraut. tell the guys how you want to prepare it and they will do it right in front of you. san francisco's a place that's

changing restaurants, except for tommy's joint. tommy's joint has been the same since it opened and that is important. san francisco in general that we don't lose a grip of what san francisco's came from. tommy's is a place that you'll always recognize whenever you lock in the door. you'll see the same staff, the same bartender and have the same meal and that is great. that's important. ♪♪ >> the service that san francisco heritage offers to the legacy businesses is to help them with that application process, to make sure that they really recognize about them what it is that makes them so special here in san francisco. ♪♪

so we'll help them with that application process if, in fact, the board of supervisors does recognize them as a legacy business, then that does entitle them to certain financial benefits from the city of san francisco. but i say really, more importantly, it really brings them public recognition that this is a business in san francisco that has history and that is unique to san francisco. >> it started in june of 1953. ♪♪ and we make everything from scratch. everything. we started a you -- we started a off with 12 flavors and mango fruits from the philippines and then started

trying them one by one and the family had a whole new clientele. the business really boomed after that. >> i think that the flavors we make reflect the diversity of san francisco. we were really surprised about the legacy project but we were thrilled to be a part of it. businesses come and go in the city. pretty tough for businesss to stay here because it is so expensive and there's so much competition. so for us who have been here all these years and still be popular and to be recognized by the city has been really a huge honor. >> we got a phone call from a woman who was 91 and she wanted to know if the mitchells still owned it and she was so happy that we were still involved, still the owners. she was our customer in 1953.

and she still comes in. but she was just making sure that we were still around and it just makes us feel, you know, very proud that we're carrying on our father's legacy. and that we mean so much to so many people. ♪♪ >> it provides a perspective. and i think if you only looked at it in the here and now, you're missing the context. for me, legacy businesses, legacy bars and restaurants are really about setting the context for how we come to be where we are today. >> i just think it's part of san francisco. people like to see familiar stuff. at least i know i do. >> in the 1950s, you could see a picture of tommy's joint and looks exactly the same. we haven't change add thing. >> i remember one lady saying, you know, i've been eating this ice cream since before i was born. and i thought, wow! we have, too.

♪♪ a city like no other, san francisco has been a beacon of hope, and an ally towards lgbtq equal rights. [♪♪] >> known as the gay capital of america, san francisco has been at the forefront fighting gay civil rights for decades becoming a bedrock for the historical firsts.

the first city with the first openly gay bar. the first pride parade. the first city to legalize gay marriage. the first place of the iconic gay pride flag. established to help cancel policy, programses, and initiatives to support trans and lgbtq communities in san francisco. >> we've created an opportunity to have a seat at the table. where trans can be part of city government and create more civic engagement through our trans advisory committee which advises our office and the mayor's office. we've also worked to really address where there's gaps across services to see where we can address things like housing and homelessness, low income,

access to small businesses and employment and education. so we really worked across the board as well as meeting overall policies. >> among the priorities, the office of transgender initiatives also works locally to track lgbtq across the country. >> especially our young trans kids and students. so we do a lot of work to make sure we're addressing and naming those anti-trans policies and doing what we can to combat them. >> trans communities often have not been included at the policy levels at really any level whether that's local government, state government. we've always had to fend for ourselves and figure out how to care for our own communities. so an office like this can really show and become a model for the country on how to really help make sure that our entire community is served by the city and that we all get

opportunities to participate because, in the end, our entire community is stronger. >> the pandemic underscored many of the inequities they experienced on a daily basis. nonetheless, this health crisis also highlighted the strength in the lgbtq and trans community. >> several of our team members were deployed as part of the work at the covid command center and they did incredit able work there both in terms of navigation and shelter-in-place hotels to other team members who led equity and lgbtq inclusion work to make sure we had pop-up testing and information sites across the city as well as making sure that data collection was happening. we had statewide legislation that required that we collected information on sexual

orientation and our team worked so closely with d.p.h. to make sure those questions were included at testing site but also throughout the whole network of care. part of the work i've had a privilege to be apart of was to work with o.t.i. and a community organization to work together to create a coalition that met monthly to make sure we worked together and coordinated as much as we could to lgbtq communities in the city. >> partnering with community organizations is key to the success of this office ensuring lgbtq and gender nonconforming people have access to a wide range of services and places to go where they will be respected. o.t.i.'s trans advisory committee is committed to being that voice. >> the transgender advisory counsel is a group of amazing community leaders here in san francisco. i think we all come from all walks of life, very diverse,

different backgrounds, different expertises, and i think it's just an amazing group of people that have a vision to make san francisco a true liberated city for transgender folks. >> being apart of the grou allows us to provide more information on the ground. we're allowed to get. and prior to the pandemic, there's always been an issue around language barriers and education access and workforce development. now, of course, the city has been more invested in to make sure our community is thriving and making sure we are mobilizing. >> all of the supervisors along with mayor london breed know

that there's still a lot to be done and like i said before, i'm just so happy to live in a city where they see trans folks and recognize us of human beings and know that we deserve to live with dignity and respect just like everybody else. >> being part of the trans initiative has been just a great privilege for me and i feel so lucky to have been able to serve for it for so far over three years. it's the only office of its kind and i think it's a big opportunity for us to show the country or the world about things we can do when we really put a focus on transgender issues and transgender communities. and when you put transgender people in leadership positions. >> thank you, claire. and i just want to say to claire farly who is the leader of the office of transgender initiatives, she has really taken that role to a whole other level and is currently a

grand marshal for this year's s.f. prize. so congratulations, claire. >> my dream is to really look at where we want san francisco to be in the future. how can we have a place where we have transliberation, quality, and inclusion, and equity across san francisco? and so when i look five years from now, ten years from now, i want us to make sure that we're continuing to lead the country in being the best that we can be. not only are we working to make sure we have jobs and equal opportunity and pathways to education, employment, and advancement, but we're making sure we're taking care of our most impacted communities, our trans communities of color, trans women of color, and black trans women. and we're making sure we're addressing the barriers of the access to health care and mental health services and we're supporting our seniors who've done the work and really

be able to age in place and have access to the services and resources they deserve. so there's so much more work to do, but we're really proud of the work that we've done so far. [♪♪] >> right before the game starts, if i'm still on the field, i look around, and i just take a deep breath because it is so exciting and magical, not knowing what the season holds is very, very exciting.

it was fast-paced, stressful, but the good kind of stressful, high energy. there was a crowd to entertain, it was overwhelming in a good way, and i really, really enjoyed it. i continued working for the grizzlies for the 2012-2013 season, and out of happenstance, the same job opened up for the san francisco giants. i applied, not knowing if i would get it, but i would kick myself if i didn't apply. i was so nervous, i never lived anywhere outside of fridays fridays -- fresno, and i got an interview. and then, i got a second interview, and i got more nervous because know the thought of leaving fresno and my family and friends was scary, but this opportunity was on the other side. but i had to try, and lo and behold, i got the job, and my first day was january 14, 2014. every game day was a puzzle, and i have to figure out how to

put the pieces together. i have two features that are 30 seconds long or a minute and a 30 feature. it's fun to put that al together and then lay that out in a way that is entertaining for the fans. a lucky seat there and there, and then, some lucky games that include players. and then i'll talk to lucille, can you take the shirt gun to the bleachers. i just organize it from top to bottom, and it's just fun for me. something, we don't know how it's going to go, and it can be a huge hit, but you've got to try it. or if it fails, you just won't do it again. or you tweak it. when that all pans out, you go oh, we did that. we did that as a team.

i have a great team. we all gel well together. it keeps the show going. the fans are here to see the teams, but also to be entertained, and that's our job. i have wonderful female role models that i look up to here at the giants, and they've been great mentors for me, so i aspire to be like them one day. renelle is the best. she's all about women in the workforce, she's always in our corner. [applause] >> i enjoy how progressive the giants are. we have had the longer running until they secure day. we've been doing lgbt night longer than most teams. i enjoy that i work for an organization who supports that

and is all inclusive. that means a lot to me, and i wouldn't have it any other way. i wasn't sure i was going to get this job, but i went for it, and i got it, and my first season, we won a world series even if we hadn't have won or gone all the way, i still would have learned. i've grown more in the past four years professionally than i think i've grown in my entire adult life, so it's been eye opening and a wonderful learning

>> 7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe neighbor's park fund which was on the ballot four

years ago and look at how that public investment has transformed our neighborhood. >> the playground is unique in that it serves a number of age groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the children's play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were a lot of people that came to the table that had their wish list and we did our best to make sure that we kind of divided up spaces and made sure that we kept the old features of the playground but we were able to enhance all of those features.

>> the playground and the soccer field and the tennis fields and it is such a key part of this neighborhood. >> we want kids to be here. we want families to be here and we want people to have athletic opportunities. >> we are given a real responsibility to insure that the public's money is used appropriately and that something really special comes of these projects. we generally have about an opportunity every 50 years to redo these spaces. and it is really, really rewarding to see children and families benefit, you know, from the change of culture, at each one of these properties >> and as a result of, what you see behind us, more kids are playing on our soccer fields than ever before. we have more girls playing sports than we have ever had before. [ applause ] fp >> and we are sending a strong message that san francisco families are welcome and we want you to stay.

>> this park is open. ♪♪ >>

for us, we wish we had our queue and we created spaces that are active. >> food and drinks. there is a lot for a lot of folks and community. for us, it started back in 1966 and it was a diner and where our ancestors gathered to connect. i think coffee and food is the very fabric of our community as well as we take care of each other. to have a pop-up in the tenderloin gives it so much meaning. >> we are always creating impactful meaning of the lives of the people, and once we create a space and focus on the most marginalized, you really

include a space for everyone. coffee is so cultural for many communities and we have coffee of maria inspired by my grandmother from mexico. i have many many memories of sharing coffee with her late at night. so we carry that into everything we do. currently we are on a journey that is going to open up the first brick and mortar in san francisco specifically in the tenderloin. we want to stay true to our ancestors in the tenderloin. so we are getting ready for that and getting ready for celebrating our anniversary. >> it has been well supported

and well talked about in our community. that's why we are pushing it so much because that's how we started. very active community members. they give back to the community. support trends and give back and give a safe space for all. >> we also want to let folks know that if they want to be in a safe space, we have a pay it forward program that allows 20% to get some funds for someone in need can come and get a cup of coffee, pastry and feel welcomed in our community. to be among our community, you are always welcome here. you don't have to buy anything or get anything, just be here and express yourself and be your authentic self and we will always take care of you.

shop and dine on the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within neighborhood. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and vibrant. where will you shop and dine in the 49? san francisco owes the charm to the unique character of the neighborhood comer hall district. each corridor has its own personality. our neighborhoods are the engine of the city. >> you are putting money and support back to the community you live in and you are helping small businesses grow. >> it is more environmentally

friendly. >> shopping local is very important. i have had relationships with my local growers for 30 years. by shopping here and supporting us locally, you are also supporting the growers of the flowers, they are fresh and they have a price point that is not imported. it is really good for everybody. >> shopping locally is crucial. without that support, small business can't survive, and if we lose small business, that diversity goes away, and, you know, it would be a shame to see that become a thing of the past. >> it is important to dine and shop locally. it allows us to maintain

traditions. it makes the neighborhood. >> i think san francisco should shop local as much as they can. the retail marketplace is changes. we are trying to have people on the floor who can talk to you and help you with products you are interested in buying, and help you with exploration to try things you have never had before. >> the fish business, you think it is a piece of fish and fisherman. there are a lot of people working in the fish business, between wholesalers and fishermen and bait and tackle. at the retail end, we about a lot of people and it is good for everybody. >> shopping and dining locally is so important to the community because it brings a tighter

fabric to the community and allows the business owners to thrive in the community. we see more small businesses going away. we need to shop locally to keep the small business alive in san francisco. >> shop and dine in the 49 is a cool initiative. you can see the banners in the streets around town. it is great. anything that can showcase and legitimize small businesses is a wonderful thing. wonderfu >> 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]

>> welcome to union with square the petitioner of harvest of san francisco which is wllts go on it means- >> we're so excited to welcome the ring side for the 50 year in a row and excited about downtown and come ice skating with the holiday season is here in the square.? an opportunity for every one of all ages to come

down and enjoy the ring in fact, if you can't skate that's okay they'll help you around the way. >> it is fun for our whole family come on down and enjoy isn't heart of san

>> 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.

[ music ] >> [door opening] >> okay, kids. our next guest speaker for career day is the

sheriff from san francisco. >> hi, everyone. does anybody know what a deputy does? >> they involve the law. >> you know what, let me show you what it takes to be a deputy. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> at the san francisco sheriff's office, we're looking for a few good deputies. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> we need people who aren't afraid to push themselves. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> who are willing to go the distance. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> men and women who is up for a

challenge. >> who love it as much as we do. >> [foreign language] >> you'll probably drink coffee with us. >> [foreign language] keeping it real, this job is challenging. >> when one door closes -- >> we make sure another one opens. >> we protect san francisco courts. >> court is now in session. [gavel] >> helping justice to be serve. >> during election season, we make sure every vote is counted. >> we wet people where they --

we get people to where they need to go. >> and forward our city's hospitals. >> it's important we can keep you safe. >> whether you're celebrating your quinceanera or getting married >> congratulations! >> we'll stand up for you so your voices can be heard. >> protecting your first amendment rights. [cheers and applause] >> (indiscernible) in uniform. [cheers and applause] >> go warriors >> we train hard to get to where we are. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪

>> [whistle] >> we offer a competitive salary. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> and average of more than $100,000 a year to start. >> (indiscernible). >> including great medical coverage. >> and a pension you can actually retire on. >> [foreign language] >> this folds really good. >> we're looking for those who think outside the box. >> and people who want to save lives. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> for people who want to change lives. >> for those who want to serve our city. >> we need you. >> we're committed. >> you bring something to our team that no one else can. >> you! >> all right. now, who wants to be a deputy? ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪

[laughter] >> three, two one. >> top notch benefits. >> is that too much. [laughter] >> no. >> say your line, sheriff. >> your line, sheriff. [laughter] >> let me show you what it takes to be -- >> action. >> when one door closes -- [laughter] >> what did you say?

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