>> good morning welcome to rules of the board of supervisors for today-month-old, january 30, 2023.

i am for this last meeting the chair of the committee aaron peskin joined to my right by vice chair supervisor mandelman. and to my left by committee member supervisor connie chan. our clerk is mr. victor young and it has been a pleasure working with you colleagues and clerk young the last couple of years as chair of ruleless. thank you for your service and your work. our -- same goes for deputy city attorney ann pierson. >> clerk, do you have announcements. >> yes it is board and committees hybrid meetings. while providing remote access via phone. the board recognizes equal access is essential and take public comment first will be taken on each item. those in person allowed to speak first then those waiting on the

phone. watching 26, 28, 78 or 99 and sfgov.org the call in number is streaming. the number is 415-554-0001 then access code: 2481 9318934 ## you will hear the meeting discussions but muted and in listening mode onliful when your item come up. and public comment is called those in person lineup to speak and those on the line dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line.

>> if you submit by e mail tell be forwarded to the supervisors and part of the official file. you may sxhentds u.s. mail to city hall 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place room 244, san francisco, california 94102. >> thank you. mr. young. our deputy city attorney is reviewing the latest version of the military equipment policy why don't we call items 3-6 together out of order. >> item 3, motion appointing engardio to the golden gate highway and transportation district board of directors. item 4 is a motion apointing engardio term ending december first of 23 as alternate to the california state association of

counties. item 5 is a motion appointing hilary ronen termening june 30 of 23 to the bay area government executive board. item 6 is a motion appointing supervisor preston term ending february 4, 2026 to the local agency formation commission. item 7 is motion appointing connie chan as an alternate to the san francisco local agency formation commission. i did not call for 7 this is okay, mr. young. is there public comment on any of these appointments of members of the board of supervisors tonies various bodies of california state association of counties the bay area government. lafco, the golden gate bridge highway and transportation district. anybody in chambers who would like to comment. is there remote comment on items

3-7. >> members of the public who are on the phone line, listening remote call 415-554-0001, access code: 2481 9318934 ##. forthose in the queue wait until the system indicated have been unmuted that may begin your comments we have one caller. >> first speaker. please. >> david pilpel 2 comments on item 3. not clear to me why this would be a committee report the next meeting of the bridge district board is not until end of february i did not seat urgency for this to go as a committee report for tomorrow and in the sure if supervisor chan can

participate in item 7. other then and there that i have no objection to the proposed appointments and -- possible low reappointments. thanks. >> public comment is closed. why i did not originally call it we will not vote on it where supervisor chan present. with that i will make a couple of housekeeping amendments. on item 3 -- we need to conform the in title with language within the motion. and so i will move to amend as line 9. the date 2023 to 2025. on that motion a roll call, please? >> yes. on that motion. supervisor chan? >> aye.

>> vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> chair peskin. >> aye. >> the motion passes without objection. >> and then item 5. i will make a motion to remove the word in the long title at line 3 as an alternate. replace with the letter, a, a member and line 9 to turn seat 3 into seat 2 and strike the word, alternate. so this it is clear that supervisor ronen is being appointed seat 2 not an alternate seat but permanent seat. i'm informs that is in the a substantive change a roll call, please. >> on that motion. supervisor chan? >> aye.

>> vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> chair peskin. >> aye. the motion passes without objection. okay. and then i want to thank the clerk of the board of supervisors for putting out the survey of supervisors to serve on the outside board and commissions. and for the individual members who have aplied filling a number of long-term vacancies i want to thank supervisor engardio for stepping up to joiz supervisor mandelman in a number of outside bodies abag and the association of counties as well as supervisor ronen. approximate with those amendments can we take items 3-6 together. and sends them with

recommendation as committee reports? as amended in the cases 3 and 5 on that multifaceted motion mr. clerk a roll call, please. >> one moment. if you don't mind i have been getting i -- sorry my apologies. there were indications that supervisor ronen was going to step down in favor of supervisor melgar. >> i have not heard a word of that and i have no e mails to that affect and i know nothing of it. i had my staff meet thanksgiving morning i'm up-to-date on my e mails as of 9:58 in morning. and this it is news to me. and if they would like to do that they can make that suggestion at the full board tomorrow and we can be send it become if this is the case. >> yes. why my apologies i was trying

to -- not heard a word until this moment and the show is going on. >> okay. >> i believe item 3 will be upon recommend as amended committee report. item 4, will be recommend as a committee report. item 5 will be recommend as a report and item 6 will be recommended as committee report. on those motions, supervisor chan. >> aye. >> my apol joes i vote while there is -- discussion going on. one minute. we will recess for 2 minutes.

>> we'll reconvene rules for today january 30, 2023.

and let me start by rescinding my motion that we were just about to vote on. and -- i would like to offer an amendment to item 5 already amended once. to replace rumor was true, mr. young, supervisor hillary ronen with supervisor melgar for seat number 2 to the association of bay area governments. why don't and then i once we vote on i will do this the same motion i would like to make that motion and continue item 5 to the next meeting of the rowels committee alcohol be chaired by supervisor dorsey. on that motion to substitute supervisor melgar for supervisor

ronen for the appointment to abag item 5 a roll call, please. >> and this is also vote for the others. why only an amendment to item 5 and congress that item to this committee >> item 5, to amend and continue to the next meeting of rowels committee, on that motion supervisor chan. >> aye. >> vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> chair peskin. >> aye. >> the motion passes without objection. >> now i will make a motion to sends item 3 as amended as i committee report, item 4 as a committee report. item 6 as a committee report with recommendation for tomorrow's board of supervisor's meeting. on that motion a roll call, please. >> yes, on that motion, supervisor chan. >> aye.

>> vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> chair peskin. >> aye. >> the motion passes without objection. >> and while item 7 has been called we'll go to that later on this morning's agenda. mr. clerk this should be quick. lieutenant and council from the sheriff's department. could you read item 2. >> yes, item 2 an ordinance amending the administrative code a city policy against seek sez iingination letters from importance seeking or being considered for appointment or reappointment to city boards and commissions and other city bodies. >> thank you, mr. young. this ordinance is sponsored chiefly by supervisor preston and cosponsored by a number of other supervisors including myself. and with that supervisor preston

the floor is yours. >> thank you so much, chair peskin and vice chair mandelman and supervisor chan for hear thanksgiving today. thank you chair peskin for your cosponsorship of this. approximate we don't have a formal presentation on the item but i have remarks. colleagues, i introduced this ordinance in response to last year's revelation that the mayor was requesting undated resignation letters from a number of appointed commissioners as her discretion. max carter blew the whistle on this practice approximate thanks to him the letters collected by mayor's office were deemed unenforceable. when this came to light, i believe that the practice was a problem. on various levels including some later highlighted by the city attorney's office and the public memo issued in this matter.

first, requiring a commissioner to sign an undate letter that can be filed any time. places appointed commissioners at risk of undue it influence by appointing authority. regardless what the mayor and representatives have said regarding their plans to use these letters there is in reason we should leave the decision whether to use undated resignation letter to the whims of an appointing authority. for the police mission and others this contradicted the city charter. which states specific low that the board of supervisors must approve00 autoremoval of any police commissioners even police commissioners appointed by the mayor. and this is not spelled out in the city attorney's memo. i found the practice a problem because it underminds the

purposes of many of our commissions. commissioners and other appointees should feel empowered provide meaningful oversight and guidance to our departments. otherwise, what is point? so, in order to address the issues the legislation before you will set forth as city policy that an appointing authority may not ask or require a person's seeking appointment to a mission or other city body to prepare or submit a letter of residence ignition prior to our as a condition of their appointment. it clarifies the decision whether to resign from a committee or city body rests with the appointee even if the authority asks resignation. my hopes the ordinance will help avoid situations like what we saw unfold last september. and prevent this from coming up

in the future x. that tell top about appointing authority requesting undated residence ignition letters from their commissioners in an attempt to exert control over them. as i wrap up on this, i would be remiss not to recognize that the circumstances giving raise to this legislation or related the extremely personal changes that were being occurred to ban pretext stops the police commission passed a few weeks ago this come left week as you all know the memphis police department released vo of police officers beating a black man to death after a pretext stop it is important we ban pretext stops here in san francisco and the police mission come commissioner cart or to enact the policy

banning pretext stop in san francisco in spite of the political pressure he was facing exetch foils why it is crucial to make sure commissioners use independent judgment as they w with community with stake hold and city diameters and elected officials to credit nuance but transformational policies. with that, happy to answer questions our city attorney is also here if there are legal quos temperature i thank deputy city attorney an pierson for their work in putting this together. thank my cosponsors president peskin and also supervisors walton and ronen and also. to rescue noise and thank my legislative aid for her work on that. thank you. >> thank you supervisor preston, supervisor mandelman.

>> thank you chair peskin. it sometimeless the case on this body have a dprn view and will not support the ordinance today. i question whether it is necessary. in that -- the letters that were requested appear to have been ineffective and appear to have been a protection that the -- several mayoral administrations have sought in error about whether the letters many anything at all. my take away is different from some off body i'm not oshg felonieded the mayor's office and this area and others have sought some way of ensure a

mechanism to remove more easy low remove appointees not doing that the executive wanted those appointees doing on commissions where the mayor may have a narrow majority. i think -- there are commissions and commissions there are commissions this have you quasi ajudeicate function and policy and hiring and firing functions and i think my feeling about what the mayor's authority to try to pull out one of her appointise dependses on what the different functions of the commission are. the police department case and police commission case, public safety now is i think if not the issue of the concern it san franciscans. they look to the mayor to set

policy and run hear police department in a way that advances criminal yesterday reform and keeps francescas save. because of the way our charter works she no longer apores to be alined with the majority of the commission over seeing a department that in some version of a chart is above. >> that is challenging and i think when i think about the problem with san francisco i'm not seeing excess of executive mirrial authority i see a government disuneified. run through a number of commissions that you know that

seem to independent. it took chair peskin a lot of work and effort to rairn in one commission that probably ought to be most low independent. it is not setting policy. general low should be insulated from us unless until they are doing things that are insane. so i thought this was an interesting issue a complicated one and was in the deeply oshg fenldzed by what the mayor's office was trying to do even though it was ineffectivism don't feel the mead to vote and will not be today. >> thank you for sharing that

view, supervisor mandelman. and it is a thorny concept within i'm not speaking pacific he about resignations in the larger context of the diffuse gentlemanal structures we have with an executive and legislative branch and devolved 4 and authority to a number of commissions. having said that, and this come from my view and experience with a breadth of different commissions in the city and outside the city. the notion of the exercise particular low in quasi judicial bodies. of independence is pair mount. i was chagrinned a number of years ago as a member of the california state coastal commission. when i found out that one of my colleagues having trouble in vast political pressure over what was to my mind and a major of commissioner's mind a fair and just application of the california coastal act as related a project. this individual confided in me that the reason this commissioner was having trouble come least low agreed ha -- i was right on the issue.

was because she had signed such a residence ignition letter i found to be profound low troubling. she ultmitt low did cast her vote for the right thing and was not fired or undated residence ignition letter was in the used against her. it was high prosecute file project on california's coast. which -- you know was going to i think harm the interest of californians and i have seen the same thing on san francisco's planning commission which is when lead to the passage of prop d in 2003 when then mayor brown would tell his commissioners how to vote on items. and the public manage in for fair impartial hearings on the application of the law, were getting screwed and lead to a

distrust in san francisco's gentleman and that is why we created the charter provisions the voters voted for in the face of a wave of money that allowed those commissioners to actually vote their conscious pursuant to the law. and i would say that -- the trust and confident in the planning commission has increased great low since those days. for all of those reasons, and i understand supervisor mandelman's larger concerns about the role of the executive that people vote for, i am a proud cosponsor of item 2. and i will not belabor it why don't we open public comment on this, oops sorry, victor. supervisor preston you want to say something. >> okay. why don't we open up public ment on item 2 and get back to ab481.

>> yes. members of the public had wish to speak and join nothing person line up to speak at this time. for those remote call 415-554-0001, access code: 2481 9318934 ##. >> we have one person for public meant at this time. >> please, come forward >> good morning member of the board of prierzs thank you so much for the time for public comment on this. i'm michael a district 9 resident. a mont okay launchedage anticaucus and proud of this mission. everything you said president

peskin thank you very much. for your comments this is the reason i'm here to support item twom and passage. but thank you all for the time to listen to me. have a good morning >> thank you. >> are there remote speakers for this item? >> we have 4 persons not guilty line for remote public comment. >> first caller? thank you, good morning why the organization seek preempive resignations and bodies credits limitations on the individuals ability to make decisions. people seeking appointment or reappointment should not being forced give the authority collateral like a resignation all right to be ash pointed. city commission and boards meant top have oversight duties and

take input. the individuals have residence ignition letters can prevent inspect decisionmaking based on data and public concern and lead to bend to the will of authorities or face extreme pressure that under mines the function of commissions and city bodies to fulfill duty and responsibilities. porcommissioner burton former chair called it, horse shit. the pressure residence ignition can condition strain commissioners and, pointes from meeting with members of the public. we witnessed this play out with mayoral appointise for the police commission through the mayor's unsuccessful attempt its derail the review process. leverage in this influence. [inaudible] attempt to deriwhat commissioner carter was lookinga

the and the other appointise refuse to meet with community members and [inaudible] from very misleading statements about the dgo and derail and under mine that process. the city structure can trust they are making decisions based on evidence and feedback and pressure and threats. we ask yes on this ordinance. thank you. >> this is chad i strategyly support this ordinance. undated residence ignition letter system contrary to accountability. our commissioners approximate board members are to be autonomous and to intercept and over see city guidelines that

nobody else should be interfearing w. pass this ordinance this is basic ethics of government of thank you so much. >> next speaker, please. >> good morning i'm brent turner i'm speaking on [inaudible] the behalf of the [inaudible] lgbt lgbt anticorruption caucus express full support with sproirz preston regard thanksgiving matter the events rerolled the past few months forcing predated residence ignition letters on appointees is another case of corrupting forces, controlling the san francisco county government. the equation of the overly clever mayor and clever city attorney and now all powerful board president work nothing tandem to circumvent the charter

and public interests left the public exaceerated we theed the political players use the resignation letters part of the [inaudible] to control appointees. to note the severity nancy pelosi's chief of staff [inaudible] from the power and intimidation of the current mir there were 20 victims as well as the publics. woe real noted [inaudible] and stacking of this commission by supervisor peskin working with mir breed. the public [inaudible] and [inaudible] we are better than this. we can do better than this. the public rejects the sentiment others have done this dirty deed therefore it is acceptable. thank you

>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hey this . is chris i want to call in put my 2 cents appointed to a city commission. this ordinance is absolutely necessary. it is i basic matter. ethic in how our city works the point of, pointing people to commissions they have expertise or sfrns that is useful not for them to be proxy of the elected official who appointed them. there should be independence there. and i think the [inaudible] brought up it is like in addition to the mayor appointing police commissioner and the chief and to have this and have the commissioners with the threat of resignation any moment. this is not a billions in the government. i think the ordinance is necessary. and would like to [inaudible].

thank you very much. >> thank you. why can we have the next caller? >> good morning allen calling and i'm calling to support the comments of my supervisor, supervisor mandelman. to hear supervisor preston talk about how this will help guard undue influence on commissions seems absurd to the public. we just watch third degree board 5 months before [inaudible] her appointment was expired watched this board shove her through and so, we think that undue influence this is i bad thing we need to avoid it but you need to look inworried not out ward when you are trying to correct this. that's my comments. thank you, supervisors.

>> thank you. can we have the next caller? hi i'm edward i live and work in san francisco the last 10 years and organize and tech worker coalition sad to hear the board believes this is positive mechanician for appointmenting commissions and. and not the mayor's department and responsible for everyone time the p d killed someone. responding where the victim and person attacking the victim escalate the situation. be clear sfpd is in the a model of reform the not foolish to say they don't appear antipolice those antipolice violence and create public safety for all.

this ordinance is absolutely necessary and i support it. thank you. can we have our caller. great. david pilpel you thank you is a good approach in law this discipline not cover busied created by resolution. there men a few bodies that advise the board that were created by resolution i don't think we are doing that anymore. nor does it cover passive meeting bodies in the sunshine. i would suggest that you consider dub indicating the file. and amend it in the future. were make it explicit. defined in this legislation that are appointed by the board of supervisors arbitrate of submit

resignation letters to the clerk of the board. so it is clear. this that is where the residence ignition letters should be directed and final low, i would encourage to you ask the city attorney to rescueicize this with 1.57 the online data base of piments to bodies. it is important to keep that data base updated so any resignation letter should be prompt low trig are an update to that data base so this vacancy can be known. along with the maddy act and other vac analysisy posting and timing requirements. so. there is a small but important area of law related appointments resignations and vickanceies for various bodies not just boards

and commissions but add sunrise row body and wanted to suggest all of that be harmonized. thank you very much for listening. >> thank you. that was our last remote caller. public comment is closed and final comments supervisor preston. >> thank you chair peskin i want to thank everyone who called in. i will say that i thought we had really come together to in agreement of the under lying practice here was a problem. i think upon even the mayor's office representatives when they came before the gao committee on these practices vowed not to condition them. the city attorney's memo i referenced earlier made clear. and so i will say i'm disappointed hear any defense of this practice.

i think this is the kind of back room approaches and potential manipulation of commissioners that stands in the way of change and leads people to lose faith in government. i do want to note that you know this is today the first time i'm hearing at my office heard concerns from any colleagues about this ordinance. again i thought this was something we come together and decided it would be good to be moving forward with clarity and make sure this does not happen again. on the issue -- around the mayor's power. i want to issue clear and don't anyone to wuk away thinking the mayor lacks the power to remove a commissioner. you know the mayor has the power to remove someone she ash pointses she has to follow the chart exert go through the

process. that is set fourth and follow the law. that dependses on the commission and appointment hat rules are. when we don't get to do is circumvent the rowels whether the board president or the mayor or whatever the a pointing authorities you don't ignore the rowels. require an undated resignation letter this sits on your desk you can file when a commissioner does something you don't, prove of. the other thing is this ordinance does not bar an appointing authority from ask for a resignation. to the extent that the mayor or whoever the authority is displeased with the conduct of an appointed commissioner, they are fro and it is in the ordinance, they are still fro to ask for a resignation. when they can't do is require an undated residence ignition letter to hold on and hang over

the head of commissioners who are supposed to be engaged in inspect in exercise of their judgment. so. i will just close by saying that -- if people believe there is a problem with the removal procedures something that needs to be addressed. you than is a conversation we can have bring forward a principle. we can't have a situation where apointing authority the mayor this mayor or future mayor board of president, future board presidents come up with these type of ways to circumvent the system of removing lay outside in the charter. i urge support, thank you very much. >> thank you. and with that -- why don't we have a roll call on a motion to send item 2 to the full board with a positive recommendation mr. young call the roll.

>> yes. on that motion. supervisor chan. >> aye. >> vice chair mandelman. >> no. >> chair peskin. >> aye. >> the motion passes with supervisor mandelman dissenting in committee. could you read item 1. yes. an ordinance amending the if an apology needs of law enforcement equipment the sheriff's consistent with the crip tear naacp why in state law and the use of equipment policy. >> the sheriff's department not for that little procedural hiccup before the meeting started i would have taken you in the order that were on the agenda as item 1. thank you for your patience. moreover and important low thank you to sheriff and his staff. and counsel for hai think has

been a really model process around our implementation of bill 481. which this committee well knows was quite electy and difficult. in the case of the previous ab481 policy. that the police department brought that -- ended up with initial headlines and not only a half a dozen different hearing in this committee but appearances at the board of supervisors that has not marked the case with the sheriff's department -- that with little w on mine and my staff's part. ir thank and acknowledge my staff for his work on this. was a model in so farz the

sheriff's department work directly and clantive with the american friends's service committee and did so and listened and there was a back and forth. which resulted in the updated equipment will list policies that are before us this morning that were amended as early as 5:50 a.m. today. and while i will not speak on behalf ofien fer tu, i'm in receipt of e mills from her i think share the sentiment that ronnie singh at the sheriff's office andllow lute coons have listened and adjusted accordingly. having said that, i don't think that there is totalune millenniumity but close and i will repeat the words that weutters relating to the police

department's military equipment policies. which is this this it is the baseline first time out. these policies will come become to this board of supervisors as required under law. each year, so there are opportunity to do that. and now i will drill down in irrelevant when i think is the only remaining issue having to do with a half dozen unused submachine guns. that the heckler submachine guns the mp5 policy in the possession of the department. i think they have not been used and not operable. the sheriff's office can put in their word fist they desire that come next year i the make a slight amendment the end of calendar year.

i want to line up as i said and the sheriff was fine with the police department and sheriff's department policies they come to this committee in the bull board at the same time and not over i period of time. that if you will come forward with additional training should you unmoth ball that weaponry. with that, colleagues, i have circulated a few amendments that i spoke to to the actual ordinance itself. one was -- to just bring the recitals on page 2 up-to-date. because a lot of things happened since this was first introduced. those strike outs on page 2 from lines 5 to 15. and then there the insertion of the fact on december 13th, the

board of supervisors adopted the police department's equipment policy. and then based on that date, and our desire to lineup the reporting, rather than it being a year from when the board approves this policy. next week or there were, that they the report be at the board of supervisors every year by december 13th. and then we also public low discussed in the sheriff was supportive of the notion that the public public meeting held that amendment is on page 4. all of those are not substantive and for the purpose should this committee see fit, of sends

thanksgiving to the full board, mr. clerk, it would include the policy that was submitted this morning has one deletion as it relates to chemical launchers and otherwise is the same as what has been on the department's website. and is i part of our committee package. with that, it is my pleasure to again thank and publicly acknowledge the sheriff's department for their collaborative work. may you be a model to the police department next year. and with this, lieutenant or councillor singh or if you want to say anything. the floor is yours. thank you, sheriff. >> i want to say thank you on behalf of the sheriff's office

for this rules committee patience. its collaboration. the sheriff is present today but is upstairs viewing by teams and available if there are other questions. but i think the presentation left week and the on going commitment by our office of to engage with all the supervisors as well as you, chair, peskin and the public; highlights our sense of responsibility. in this area. of the work that we do and i think that it is very important to -- continue that collaboration and we do invite suggestions next year when we -- blow off the dust of equipment we intends to potential low reinstate and open to comments from the board but the full board and the public. >> thank you. are there members of public had would like to speak to item 1 and thank you for your patience,

my apol joe this is was in the called at the beginning of our agenda as schedules. first speaker. >> if i make my announcement. members who wish to speak and join nothing person lineup now. if call nothing dial 415-554-0001 and access code: 2481 9318934 ##. >> request we have our in person speaker? >> thank you. good morning i'm arthur. i live in san francisco. district 9. i'm a mfbt san francisco friend's meeting otherwise known the quakers. serveos peace and social concerns committee. we believe noni have 11

confranation of injustices and peaceful reconciliation are superior to the use of force. law enforcement and the military also apply noni have 11 means before use of force and firearms. only if other means remain ineffective or without promise of achieving the result. we have more in common then and there differences. i'm here to support with you and work with you. thank you to the rowels mittee and the sheriff's department for your collaboration with advocates on this policy and commitment to improvement in transparency. as a quaker committed to nonviolence and human rights i'm concerned how weapons authorized for the use in san francisco jails and how use in such condition fined space. i'm interested in hearing what increased risk of injury there

men for people in san francisco jails or a risk of unnecessary force on innocent bystanders may be detained there. interested in information on deployment and uses in the annual report location and deploy am and [inaudible]. i add haveicate per inclusion of private ratify action which means people in san francisco are affected by violations and the policies can file a civil lawsuit. decommissioning or putting real controlless on the deployment of automatic assault weapons pistols and the submachine gun and prohibition on aiming chemical agents launchers at people of >> work on this issue. where thank you. >> time is up. >> thank you. german to remote public meant wrchlt can we have the first caller.

>> upon good morning. this is regina a resident of district 2. can you hear me? >> yes. >> thank you. i'm pleased to be able to support this ordinance. with all of the work that members of the rules committee. the american friend's service committee. the police department and the sheriffy department staff. i have in the seen today's early 550 a.m. draft but the description provided by supervisor peskin reassures me that and the sheriff's department listened very well to the community. about the needs the ordinance. i sent an e mail with resource that could be useful in the years coming. from other approximate belonging institute. which is the part of hov

institute at uc beshg low berkeley on policing issues relevant to the ab481. and am main purpose. i recommend hato staff. my supervisor stefani staff already roached out to me and thanked mow for this restowers. it appear to be relevant and useful. i want upon to thank the sheriff's department for provide nothing their presentation pictures of objects of the rifles and the equipment that will be helpful for the be public. i want to recommend reading the letters i sent contain further comments about the annual report process. and transparency and the need for the public involvement and that. and -- i was pleased hear about

the amendments and re, linement or the 2 reports will be >> thank you your time elapsed. >> can we get our next caller, please. >> can you hear me >> yes. >> i'm with the american friends service committee. extraordinary engage of the sheriff's office with our organization. and the development of the proposed military equipment policy. all components required for law enforcement agency principle for considering boy a body.

>> these were very little restriction on the diployment of the submachine gun this is is a real concern to us. the department states the machine guns the primary for swat in the 80s and phased out. the weapons are being maintained and no one is authorizeed deploy. we propose to be commission the machine gun the department can in become to the board if it wishes to phase the weapon become in. short of the commissioning we propose one not deploy in the crowds. deployment respond it obstruct the light or series body low your and that variables considered prior to deploying the mp5 deter its deployment

including the presence of elderly, children individuals with mental and physical disabilitieds. medically comprehend myselves and non-english speaking persons. and finally we have not seen that removeod chemical agent launch and ensure that the launchers are in the aimed directly. >> time elapsed. >> thank you very much. this was our last remote public call in. public comment is closed the i note the comment.s left peeshg approximate one of policy changes relative to the launchers was adopted in part at least by the sheriff's department this morning. and the submachine gun issue i spoke to earlier, and with that

i will like to make ail motion to adopt the amendments that i discussed proposal and distributed to you nonsubstantive according to the city attorney in nature. and can be voted on today and sent at this time full board on that motion a roll call, please. >> on that motion, supervisor chan. why aye >> vice chair mandelman. >> aye >> chair peskin. >> aye. >> the motion passes without objection. i would like to make a motion to send the item as amended to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> on that motion supervisor chan. why aye. >> vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> chair peskin. >> aye. >> motion passes without objection. >> thank you colleagues, thank you again to sheriff and his staff. mr. clerk please read item. you read item 7. so -- i will make a motion to

excuse supervisor chan for the rest of this meeting. >> on the motion to excuse supervisor chan. supervisor chan. excused. >> vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> chair peskin. >> aye. >> the motion to excuse supervisor chan is approved. without objection. i will pick a motion to sends item 7 with recommendation to the full board as a mittee report for hearing tomorrow, january 31st on that motion? >> you like to confirm we have no callers on the line for item 7. >> we took public comment already. why yes. i wanted to double -check to be sure. >> item 7, supervisor chan. excused. vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> chair peskin.

>> aye. >> the motion passes without objection. >> thank you, colleagues it hen a pleasure serving with you and we are adjourned and the next rules will be chaired by supervisor dorsey.

>> i am iris long. we are a family business that started in san francisco chinatown by my parents who started the business in the mid 1980s. today we follow the same

footsteps of my parents. we source the teas by the harvest season and style of crafting and the specific variety. we specialize in premium tea. today i still visit many of the farms we work with multigenerational farms that produce premium teas with its own natural flavors. it is very much like grapes for wine. what we do is more specialized, but it is more natural. growing up in san francisco i used to come and help my parents after school whether in middle school or high school and throughout college. i went to san francisco state university. i did stay home and i helped my parents work throughout the summers to learn what it is that makes our community so special.

after graduating i worked for an investment bank in hong kong for a few years before returning when my dad said he was retiring. he passed away a few years ago. after taking over the business we made this a little more accessible for visitors as well as residents of san francisco to visit. many of our teas were traditionally labeled only in chinese for the older generation. today of our tea drinkkers are quite young. it is easy to look on the website to view all of our products and fun to come in and look at the different varieties. they are able to explore what we source, premium teas from the

providence and the delicious flavors. san francisco is a beautiful city to me as well as many of the residents and businesses here in chinatown. it is great for tourists to visit apsee how our community thrived through the years. this retail location is open daily. we have minimal hours because of our small team during covid. we do welcome visitors to come in and browse through our products. also, visit us online. we have minimal hours. it is nice to set up viewings of these products here.

>> stop the press conference and i'm amy chung and for the

elderly and lady senior housing is one of our project build and open in 1990. upon so upstairs 85 seniors and this year, mayor, david and brook and they are happy. some of them came down this morning and be with this press conference we know you have a very important announcement to make. welcome to self help and the lady shore senior housing. i want to take this opportunity to thank mayor and thank all of our elected officials while supporting the seniors during the pandemic. you know this self help is concern body our senior safety. so00 mayor when you announce the tax on the asian community, and when the self help for elderly need in order it protect our seniors, i remember this we were at square and asked the mayor to

please, give us 30 thousand dollars to jump start a senior project. and the mayor did. almost over night. committed the money to us. we hire 2 senior escort people to bring the seniors to doctor appointments and banks. to come out for fresh air. mayor, thank you so much for supporting this project. from the may of 21 when we started the program to january 19, my staff have now served 1437 seniors and totally brought out 19, 455 escourt this is is a necessary program and thank you, mayor. at this time i will turn the program to david chuor city attorney. thank you very much for raul of our guests to attends today's

press conference. >> a hand to amy chung! thank you for everything you are doing it is grit on have our seniors with us and want to take a moment and thank self help taking care of families, seniors approximate protect them. i want to thank everyone for gathering today for the announcement how our city respondeds to hate crime there is has been communities that reflect the diversity of the world who experienced hate and violence. and we then and there is trough for ap i communities. with lunar new iary upon us we need to remain vigilant about antiasian violence this saturday we mark the 2 year anniversary of the brutal death of [inaudible] last week in an eerily similar attack involving

an asian elderly man walking with a came south of market in the morning. visiting his daughter's home who was brutally pushed to the ground. last week a few days after the newest art's center was opened. the square was defaced. a few weeks ago a woman was kicked in the stomach boarding a muni bus the violence against our communities still persist. now, san francisco has seen a decrease in reported hate incidents during the pedestrian year. but we are here because we know our work is not done. we know we need to come together to ensure that everyone in our communities are safe. and we need to make sure the community understands all that we are doing together. between our city, agencies and community organizations to keep us safe during this lunar now

year build and w by everyone here to address what has been a spike of hate motivated violence that started at the beginning of the pandemic. fuelled by racist zebo by lead ergs. i want to thank organizations doing work on the grounds. self help. chinese new comers and chinese sick companies. and of course, the ap counsel, stop hate as well as a new generation of great organizations including asians are strong, stand with asians and dear community. they worked hard with city leaders to increase services to victims and identify gaps in our city's response to hate crimes. this topic was the focus of a lawsuit filed against our city

last year. labors the city and county of san francisco. which victims are served and procedures instituted to protect our community. >> i want to thank the alliance for asian american justice and my deputy city attorney for working to resolve this case and recognize mr. lei with us today. >> today's announce am stems out of all of these conversations. the 3 public officials who will speak head up an office or administration that worked this past year in conversations with my office on how we can initiate programs, bolster resources and coordinate responses boy city agencies and commune organizations to hate incidents. i will rescue noise and ask to come to the podium someone who needs no introduction but when i was in the legislator, during that spike of antiasian violence before i new i was going to be

your city attorney for 2 years, almost every time we spoke, this woman asked me, david, what more san francisco and california going to do around antiasian hate. she is the 45th mayor of our great city. mayor london breed. [applause]. >> thank you. david chu and thank you for your work and advocacy on this issue and working in partnership with my office. the da's office and the san francisco police department. you know, when you see these incidentses occur on video, i know that in many communities, not just our asian community, it really hurts. and it touches people's heart and soul in a different way. as david mentioned there are alegality of asian organizations that have stepped and up done extraordinary work. i want to acknowledge the cross

cultural rep this continueless to help bridge that gap and bring communities together. and we have street violence intervention programs here which has been instrumental in helping to deal with a lot of the violence in the city. especially challenges around retaliation. we appreciate their work with sarah juan and cyc and how they come together to be the eyes and ears and ambassadors on the streets to take care of thank you roberto hernandez from the mission and demonstratingior love and support for this community. when we say in san francisco is you come for one of us you come for all of us. we will band together it make sure this we support communities no matter what the issue is. and especially involving our seniors. you know, it has been

unfortunate that over the years, there was a disconnect for victim services. in fact, we saw a lot of other people's rights were being honored more than the people who were actually impacted by the violence that occurred against them. and i understand there needs to be balance and fairness and justice in our criminal justice system. but victims should in the be retraumatized over and over. go to this discipline this nonprofit and this person whochlt is here to advocate for them? had is here to hold people's hands and to help them through the most challenging time whether someone is a victim of violent crime. domestic violence. gun violence and i want to take a moment she is in the here but acknowledge the work of lynne west low putting our heart on the line to help victims regular

low. there are so many different departments and agencies will and part of what we are here today is to say we are working together so this we collaborate to provide a better stream lining process so when a victim is in need of services, they get the services they need. they get the support they need. they get the nonprofit appropriate for the issue this occurs. now many of the voters approve prop d. supervisor stefani spearheaded the initiative to create a department of victim service. and our goal is to make sure we are speaking with one voice to address these challenges. working clantive not pointing the if anything are but clantive with the da's office and the police department so that we can really focus time and attention on listening to what the victims are dealing with and to be

aggressive advocates to fight for them. and that is what this is b. also we have to been more creative way and programs this will help support people. amy chung talk about theed escort program. a mall dollar amount to provide someone who can be with a senior to run errandleds. picking up medicine, grocery shopping or having someone so they feel safe. some of the, programs we provides are education classes

around banking. we want to make sure that people feel they don't have to carry carbwith them. looking at solutions to help address challenges of this nature. also, providing couchers if people don't feel safe on one mode of transportation this they have alternative modes of transportation so they get around the city. so we are investing in various programes and the great nonprofits we work with to deliver those services are the ones with boots on grounds not with just paid staff. there are so many amazing mobile homes here who have stepped up to provide support to many of our senior in san francisco who don't feel safe and also i want to express my appreciation to the san francisco police department. and those who continue to put themselves on the line to be proactive and engaged with the community and know the community and work with community based organizations. so that we prevent crime in the first accomplice. when a crime happens they are really on the frontline addressing the challenges and trying to make sure that the victims of the crimes get the justice that they deserve so it does not happen to other people. there are a lot of pieces to

this puzzle. when you walk away with today is this our different agencies who support not only criminal justice reform, support pushing to prevent crimes in the first place, but we support this after hose lines are cross thered is a coordinated response to get to the bottom of the situation so that people are held acounsel abltd and victims feel as though justice was served and get the support and service they need to feel safe in san francisco. that is the goal that is why i'm excited be here today and i want to thank you for your support of the community. after what we saw, on television what happened in monterey park and in half moon bay, it is rocked this community here. in san francisco, our asian community, to the core. as we come in the year of the rabbit which represented kindness and mercy we need that now to really make a difference in our communities and

leadership of the city is definitely committed to doing that. i want to wish all of you a happy lunar new year because yes this , is i challenging topic and yes, we gotta continue to be vigilent and provide the services and support we need. but we also will not let it take away from celebrating the extraordinary community during lunar new year. >> thank you all for being here today and with that i want to turn it over to our district attorney, brook jenkins. good morning e everyone i will give this fire engine a chance to pull up here.

i'm here because the city thought we needed to make sure our residents are taken care of. to develop a coordinated response when a crime occurs the types of crimes we have been seeing. that have been targeted toward the asian community in san francisco. we stand today with the a ap i community that has been hurt and deeply impacted by asian hate and other violence that targeted this community. 91 of us regardless of race or ageef hasment today see the videos the mayor mentioned. >> our asian elders attacked on the streets. to hear the stories over and over that they no longer feel safe going to the grocery store. riding the bus to china town to run erands or to go to medical appointments. >> i want to start by thanking ani chung and the other

community partners for being here today. and for being willing to work with us. on key issues. i want to express appreciation to those who are standing with me today. mayor breed, of course, for leading this charge. city attorney david chu as well as chief scott. each us, i know, are committed to working together to ensure our a ap i community members are safe and that their businesses are protected. we all than again, over the last 2-1/2-3 years we have had significant attacks on this community. and realize we have i language way to go after seeing the events in monterey park and half moon bay. we must use the events as an opportunity to work together to

a leaveiate fears and show our support when violence occurs, especially in incidentses where hate was the reason. i want to be sure our community members in san francisco and the bay area the san francisco da's office takes crimes against asian americans seriously and hate crime in the city will not be tolerated. >> i worked as the hate crime prosecutor in san francisco. i know specifically that the impact the crimes have on our victims and on the over all community. when something like that happens. i also deeply believe that those perpetrators of hate crimes have to be held to answer for those crimes. since taking over i start a new unit focusing on victims including elders that also handle hate crimes.

this team of attorneys and support staff will practice cute hate where evidence supports and makes sure we are doing more for the elder low community in san francisco that has become the target of violent acts. i'm proud to announce my vehicle services crafted an information fly they're consolidated resources and information for hate crime victims. >> this form will be translate in the different languages and our goal is this noticer will inform residents of how my office can assist with filing a police department, provide support during the court process and link victims with community organizations and counselling services after something happens. additionally, the division in the da's office has a new process of collaboration in relation to a ap i hate crimes. >> we all then and there is a city of tremendous resources.

and that we have community based organizations all over the city who are dedicated to the mission of serving our residents when we had to do was make sure we were coordinating efforts. that we were aligning with the mission of providing services to victims in a way that was more efficient and less onerous and better than some to the victims of crime. partnership will ensure victims get response and services from my office. we must uplift voices within our a ap i community to better understand their lived experiences and take their stories in account when we are drafting policy and creating new programs and services. while it is great that our city special honorable our city came together to make sure we had escort services to prevent attacks on the elder low

community. i will not be complatant or satisfied with the fact we have an elderly community this feels it has to have an escort service to go to the bank or appointment. we as law enforcement in the city are dedicated to making sure we get to the point upon where that is no longer the case. where no matter what you look like or community you live in you can walk outside your door and feel safe. i want to announce today that as a part of this effort we are partnering with the mayor's office with city attorney chu and the police department to credit a city summit we will host in the coming months to focus on providing more information arnold what hate crimes are. how to report them and what services are available to victims. so that our community has more information in the events this something happen and w together to continue to prevent the crimes from happening and this

we work on unifying cross cultural to stop the crimes from happening the da's office is fortunate to have great relationships and such great partners. and it is my prior that we continue to work close low with each person that is responsible for serving victims of crime so we move the ball forward. i, tooshgment to recognize the violence as i said that resulted in the loss of lives in monterey park in oakland expect half moon bay. roberto hernandez is here, who is a tremendous community stake holder and organizer, and has been essential to bringing together the latino and asian community to support one another. we know, it was both asian lives and latino lives lost amongst

the farm workers in half moon bay. i want to thank him for being here today and doing that great work. thank you. i will turn it over to chief scott. >> good morning. thank you da jenkins. good morning, everybody. i will start with d ajenkins left awl off expressing my condolences to the victim's families and everyone impacted by the mass shootings at half moon bay, monterey park and oakland. these types of incidents shake us to our core. and the basis of many of the incidents approximate are route in the hate. it is quite simple. they are rot in the hate. so -- it was tragic to start what should be such a great time with the new year and lounar new year with tragedies of this magnitude. as we always have to do, we have

to look at each other and ban together and pick up piece and move forward. that's what this is about. this is about how we do it as a community. all of us in the san francisco police department value our long standing partnerships and nowhere is that more true than in china town. through this time of year for celebration i'm here to talk about something had is serious. and also want to say a few words hat san francisco police department is doing to strengthen our bond with the asian community and when we are doing to help you if you are the victim of a crime and more important low how to prevent the crime from happening in the first place. our officers here to my right, work to address the crimes against asian community. i want to thank everyone here and we know that -- the pd cannot do it a11 we are stronger together. with people like the leaders standing here to my left and right under the leadership of

our mayor issue london breed. we have to be together and work in collaboration to address the challenge this is face our city. hate ms. no place in the community it betrays the values the city cherishes and against what the lunar new year is all about. as stated by every speaker, we did see a decrease in hate crimes against the asian community 22-21 a significant decrease. so we are and will never be satisfied with a decrease. we cannot be satisfied until we e eliminate the crimes that is a daunting task. now what you heard from mayor breed city attorney chu and jenkins, the many things they introduce are all in my opinion, lead to the fabric of community. when i look and seat many community members when are not

from the china town community but always here for their community but every community around this city when we have to come together. that is what community is about. because we are here to protect not only our elders who are sit to my left butt people that worked hard to make china town what it is today. which is an iconic treasure of this city as also to the world we want to keep it this way >> the first step in building the bond system communication. in that regard, the san francisco police department has over 500 bilingual officers. 100 know cantonese officers 20 manualed rain and 20 filipino speaking recovers under the leadership of the mir we stepped update liaison unit. a lot said how important it it is to offer and coordinate services to our victims and

families when they are subject to hate related crimes or serious crimes. under the major's leadership we started the unit that added value. we worked with the da and her team to make super when services are appropriate we -- collaborate and give people guidance to get to the services and that hen a huge value add to this process that is daunting when somebody is victimized. it is the goal of our community liaison units to across the relationships with the police department and under served people in the communities. people that have been marginalized and many of those individuals and people are from limited english proefficiency communities. our cou officer they coordinate with investigation's bureau to provide support, out reach on prejudiced based incident. hate crimes and life threatening incidents of violence against

the members of the communities. they have done a tremendous j.w. we have whether commended staff in crisis to keep the community in tact and our commit commitment to you we will have a liaison unit in the san francisco police department because that is a prior to us. we continue is a priority to you all employs our members that we serve. our investigation's unit, especially investigations division is the entity responsible for the investigations of hate crimes they have done that for many years they have specialized training and focus on the investigation of prejudice based incidents. we track all prejudice based incidents i will ask everyone's cooperation to report these type of any types of crime his they occur this is how we get to a better place. and sometimes -- things happen

that are hate fueld that may not amount to the elements of a hate crime. we are still asking to you report them. because the basis of a hate crime and the rot of the hate crime is something lesser. if we track those incidents feign than i don't amount to a crime and attach a name we can give our da and her team if a case gets prosecuted better ammunition to charge hate crime offenses. please, it is important that you report those crimes. >> a way is to call the tip line. we facilitate the tip line in 9 languages and although witnesses to in progress crimes are encouraged to call 911 and report hayou see immediately. if it is nonemergency or if you think you have a clue that leads to solving of a crime, please, call that number. 575-4444. lastly i will speak with b

things that are important and the mir talkod one that is the many ambassador programs the mayor made significant investment t. is a shim we have to escort people to the bank but where the blessing is this city has a will and resources to make that happen. we do believe that makes a difference. many of our most vulnerable members are attacked doing lifelike going to the bank to get money. we want to make sure that is done in a safe way and resources are available to make that happen. police department has its own set of ambassadors refired san francisco police officer who is have police radios and trained through long careers. to know what to do when they see whatever it is they are seeing and work with our patrol officers. to make sure we independent to incidents. as they occur that hen a

tremendous resource i want to thank the mayor and everybody who hen a part of making that happen. lastly, our presence this this community. after the shoot nothing monterey park, i know assistant chief approximate deputy chief. the captain here acting captain, immediately put a plan in action it increase the presence and this community with police officers. the difficulty sustaining that type of increase in presence we are committed to do what we can do do that. if something the mayor talked about and we know we are facing staffing crisis but making when modifications weical to make sure in community in china town, the police officers do a tremendous job. they know the community and know people trust them. often time people call them directly than 911 i don't add sunrise if that's the way you

community it we will take it. they built those reps. the officers some here and captain will continue to support this community and than i have my and the command starch's backing as well as the unyielding support of our mayor. you will see presence in this community. our community events have been historically well attended boy the members like china town night out. easter egg hunt. toy give awaves and the like. those are events that help us come together before there is a crisis. and because we do this we are better able to handle a crisis when they happen. i will end by saying thank you to everyone here. thank you to the community members from the city and again, for the mayor's leadership. together, we can make this happen and better. and that is our commitment from the san francisco police department. so, i turn it back over to our city attorney david chu to close

us out. [applause]. >> thank you. i have a couple closing comments. of course i want to thank our great mayor. police chief and district attorney for their commitment when we have done is ensure that off the services, all programs geared in the area than i are alined and connected putting protocols and process together to make sure we are working together as a city and working together with communities. the second thing i say is while today is focused on the issues that we have been grabbling with in the ap i community when we are doing is building the infrastructure to make sure we are safer as a city to protect all our communities we know nahate crimes and incidents impact us whether you are black, latin x or lgbt lgbt a woman jewish, et cetera, well is more weave had to do and part that is what today is about. third thing is obviously the

work that has been put in today would not have been done not just because of the leaders here but because of amazing staff i thank from the mayor's office ivy lee. policy advisor and mason lee from the san francisco police department. i want to thank david lazar. julian ang and your command staff in the da office willis and your leader ishmael team ana gonzalez. nancy tongue and i will say this this hen in the works for a time. certainly predating the horrific ins debts occurring outside of the city during this past week and everyone here we not only hearts bleed for those no, ma'am members and communities in monterey park and half moon bay and oakland the hope is the work here will be a model in how we

address violence. how we take care of victims. how we think about addressing the mental health of communities to make sure we are safe moving forward. with that. i want to thank you for coming. i know a number of officials have to leave quickly. what i suggest for the press if you have questions for any of officials just grb us on the way out. happy new year and lunar new year and stay safe. thank you very much. streets. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i wanted to wish you a best

wishes and congratulations the community has shifted a lot of when i was growing up in the 60s and 50's a good portion of chicano-american chinese-american lived in north beach a nob hill community. >> as part the immigrant family is some of the recreation centers are making people have the ability to get together and meet 0 other people if communities in the 60s a 70s and 80s and 90s saw a move to the richmond the sunset district and more recently out to the excelsior the avenue community as well as the ensuring u bayview so

chinese family living all over the city and when he grape it was in this area. >> we're united. >> and growing up in the area that was a big part of the my leave you know playing basketball and mycy took band lessons and grew up. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> allergies welcome to the community fair it kicks off three weeks of celebrations for

the year and let's keep everybody safe and celebrate the biggest parade outside of china on february 11th go best wishes and congratulations and 3, 2, 1 happy enough is enough. >> i grew up volley ball education and in media professional contrary as an educator he work with all skids whether or not caucasian hispanic and i african-american cumber a lot of arrest binge kids my philosophy to work with all kids but being here and griping in the chinese community being a chinese-american is important going to american school during the day but went to chinese

school that is community is important working with all the kids and having them exposed to all culture it is important to me. >> it is a mask evening. >> i'd like to thank you a you all to celebrate an installation of the days here in the asian art museum. >> one time has become so many things in the past two centuries because of the different did i licks the immigration officer didn't understand it became no standard chinese marine or cantonese sproupgs it became so many different sounds this is convenient for the immigration officer this okay your family name so

this tells the generations of immigrants where they come from and also many stories behind it too. >> and what a better way to celebrate the enough is enough nuru with the light nothing is more important at an the hope the energy we. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> relative to the current administration it is, it is touching very worrisome for our immigrant frames you know and some of the stability in the country and i know how this new president is doing you know immigration as well as immigrants

(fireworks) later than you think new year the largest holiday no asia and china those of us when my grandparents came over in the 19 hundreds and celebrated in the united states chinese nuru is traditional with a lot of meaning. >> good afternoon my name is carmen chu assessor-recorder i want to wish everything a happy new year thank you for joining us i want to say. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i'm proud to be a native san

franciscan i grew up in the chinatown, north beach community port commission important to come back and work with those that live in the community that i grew up in and that that very, very important to give back to continue to work with the community and hope e help those who may not be as capable in under serving come back and give

♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> the two largest bridges in the road, symbolizing pioneer and courage in the conquest of space and time. between these two great bridges, in historic san francisco bay, here's tribute to the achievements of our time. he's a dream come true, golden gate international exposition on manmade treasure island. >> the 402 acre artificial island was build by engineers from 1936 to 1937 on the neighboring buena island. 300,000 tons of rock was used to build a seawall around an existing sand ball then followed by filling the interior with

dredge material from the bay which was consistent of modern sand. the federal government paid for construction ask three permanent buildings which would serve as a potential future airport. treasure island was constructed at the same time as the bay bridge and it was a project of works progress administration to construct this island, which was initially used to host the golden gate international exposition. >> carnival gone big. it was busy. >> it was going to become an airport after the exposition but it was turned over to the navy and turned over to a military base for the next 50 years. >> 1941, the united states army moved to treasure island as america prepared for world war ii. the island was a major training and education center with 4.5 million personnel shipped overseas from triangle. after the war ended in 1945,

treasure island was slalthed to be an airport -- slated to be an airport but aviation changed and the clipper were no longer in regular service, and the island was never developed as an airport. the navy continued their presence on treasure island. during the cold war years, the island was a myth training center and for military efforts throughout the pacific and asia. personnel trained on and shipped from treasure island and supported military activities in korea, vietnam and the persian gulf. >> the base was listed for closure by the navy in 1993 and the city began a process in 1994 under the redevelopment agency, forming a citizens reuse committee to look at potentially plans for the island, island's future. after the base closed in 1997, the treasure island development authority was created to develop and implement

a reuse plan. >> the navy has completed their environmental cleanup in that area and last week, the california department of public health issued a radiology unrestricted recommendation for that portion of side 12. it's a big milestone for the project. >> the treasure island development facility was setup to implement the master plan that was adopted by the board of supervisors in 2011. >> given the importance of housing in the city, both the affordable component and the market rate housing, we felt that it was important to review what the housing plan is at treasure island. >> the development facility and (indiscernible) that oversees the implementation of the master plan to make sure that the

master plan, which was adopted by the board of supervisors and adopted by the city and after meeting, that's plan that the city approved. the members of the board was appointed by the mayor and the board of supervisors. [multiple voices] >> the (indiscernible) is very detailed plan. looking at the ecological aspects of the island, looking at the geotechnical aspects of the island, but also making sure that there is an ongoing of development that's in keeping with what the original plan was, which is that we have up to 8,000 rooms of housing and there's retail and hotels. but also that there is open space that's created so it's an overall plan that guides the whole development of treasure island and the buena island.

>> materials used during the construction of treasure island severely compromises the integrity to build structures. in today's geotechnical engineers standing, treasure island soil is being readdressed for soil stabilization for future development. a mechanical stabilization process is being used to consolidate the liquid fashion of the mud and sandy soil. >> because treasure island is a manmade island, we have to do a significant amount of soil improvement before we can build new infrastructure and new buildings on the island. in the foreground, you see here, it's a process called surcharging we we import additional topsoil to simulate the dead weight of the future buildings to be constructed at that site. so this is causing bay mud that underlies island to consolidate over time and we can monitor that and as that consolidation primarily consolidation is complete, then this soil will be removed to the intended finished

floor elevation of the new structures. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> in the 1989 loma earthquake, the ground level of this island dropped by four inches. pretty much uniform across the island. loose sand material used to build the island, whether it gets hit by a seismic forces, the sand moves and consolidated. >> one of the processes to further stabilize the loose granular ground, a dynamic rate is used to densify the soil by high frequency mechanical vibrations. >> the rig in the background has four h-piles that goes down through the upper 50 feet of sandy material and as they vibrate, they vibrate causing that san material to consolidate and settle so as we do that

process, we observe about 18 inches in settlement so the ground level around that equipment will drop by 18 inches, so this causes that same type of event to happen through mechanical means rather than through a seismic event. >> the dynamic vibrant compaction rate vibrates the soil every four square meters and moved along to the next section. to further assure stability, tamping is followed around the site, compassion takes approximately three to four months to complete 12 acres. once the compassion and tapping is done, it's settled ask using laser alignments to assure a level service to build on. >> i think that every city when they have the opportunity to do something that is as large as treasure island because treasure island is five hundred acres and

it depends on their needs at that time and in 2011 to now, the most important are thing for the city is housing. there's two aspects to that master plan. one, was the new district for san francisco. 8,000 units of housing, which is all levels of stability. the other (indiscernible) is 300 acres of open space and parks. and actually, it's the largest addition to the park system in san francisco since (indiscernible) 300 acres and this is a tremendous gift to the public, both the housing, which we desperately need in san francisco as well as an open space and park system which really is going to be worm class and it will attract people in

san francisco but attract people locally as well as internationally. >> cmg architecture was brought to the project once they award the agreement between the city of san francisco and the united states navy. cmg has earned national recognition and numerous awards for merits and design, social impact and environmental stewardship. >> we were a part of the project in the beginning when the developer initially was awarded the exclusive negotiation agreement or the ena with the city and they partnered with the planning and architecture group and we joined that team to work with the developer around the city and community to come up with a plan for treasure island. >> so there's quite a lot of open space in the master plan and there's a couple of reasons for that that's pragmatic. one is that the amount of area that could be converted for private

use on treasure island was very limited, actually it wasn't allowed at all because treasure island was previously public open waters and protected by the tidal and trust act to be redevelop for public use. but there was a land swap that was allowed and approved by the governor of california, governor schwarzenegger to be put on a public trust for a one to one swap to be taken out of the trust to be developed for private use such as residential and that amount of land was 89 acres which leaves a bunch more space that can't have housing on it and the question was, what to do with all of that space? there could be other public uses that allowed such as conference centers or museums or universities or things of that nature but what made the most sense for this location was to have more parks in a really robust parks and open space plan and that's what led us to the

plan we have now. >> planting strategies for treasure island and buena island are to maximize habitat value in the park areas wherever appropriate and where we can to create comfortable at the pedestrian scale. there are these diagonal lines that go across the plan that you'll see. those are wind row trees like you see in agricultural landscapes where they are tall tree that's buffer the winds to create a more calm areas down at the pedestrian scale. so of course, we do have some areas where we have play fields and surfaces where kids need to run around on and those will be either lawns or like you see in norm at sports field. >> related to where the housing is on the island and its convenience to the walk to the transit hub, i mentioned we're trying to create high-quality pedestrian -- and the innovations of treasure island is called the shared public way and it's a road that runs down the middle of the neighborhoods.

it's a curbless street, cars are allowed to drive on it but pedestrian can walk down the middle of the street and the cars are to yield the right-of-way for pedestrian and it's intended for streets where there's a low traffic volumes and the traffic speeds are low so while car was allowed, there's not a lot of reasons for cars to go on that street but it's to create a social street that's much more pedestrian-friendly and prioritizes pedestrians and bikes. one of the interesting things is working with all architects that have been designing buildings in the first phase to encourage them, to create architecture that welcomes people to sit on it. it's wlm like sticking its toe out and asking someone to sit on its toe so buildings integrate public seating and places for people to hang out at their base, which is really, the opposite of what you see often times in this city where there's defensive architecture that's trying to keep people off it.

this is architecture that's trying to invite people to come and inhabit it at its base. >> incorporated in the landscape architect of treasure island are wetlands, which are designed to factor in coastal erosion control from incoming sea level rise and natural animal habitation and stormwater runoff treatment. >> there's different kinds ever wetlands planned for treasure island and they have different purposes. they are stormwater wetlands that's treating the runoff from the island and filtering that water before it's released to the bay to improve the water quality in the bay and the ocean and the first phase of the large wetland infrastructure is built on buena island to treat the storm water from buena island. we might see that when we go out there. there are tidal wetlands plan for the northern side of the island where the sea level rise adaptation and flood protect for future sea level rise is held back away from the edge of the island to allow sea level rise to come onto the

island to create future tidal wetland which is helpful for the bay in the future as we see sea level wise flood out existing wetlands and there are some natural vernal pool in the wetland that's captured rainwater and capturing certain habitat so there's three purposes of the wetland primarily around water filtration and habitat creation. >> consumable sustainability was incorporated in the redesigning of treasure island. innovative urban farming is included in the plans to foster economic viability, conservation of water, and to promote ecological sustainability. >> the urban farm is 20 island. and it's a commercial farm to produce food. it's not community where the volunteers and neighbors grow their own, it's commercially run to maximize the food production and that food

will be distributed on the island. and interestingly, the urban farm is tied into the on island wastewater treatment plan which creates recycle use for water on the island so water used to grow the island will be a sustainable force and we're trying to close the loop of water, food, and create a new model for sustainability. >> part of the design for sustainable landscape was incorporate natural form water garden filtering systems, the first of three natural stormwater gardens is here on buena island. and a total of ten will be on treasure island. water from storms, street runoffs from neighborhoods has the possibility to collect toxic materials as it makes its way back into the surrounding bay. this garden has been a model for future, natural filtering systems through out the bay area. >> whenever a storm comes through, all of the water, you know, it lands on the streets, it lands on the top of the

buildings, and at times it often collects a lot of heavy metals and greases and it needs to be cleaned and before sent back into the back. it goes into the pipes and stormwater drainage and put into our stormwater basin and then all of the plants and soil you're seeing in there, they are acting as a filter for all those oils and heavy metals and greases and all things that's coming off the roadways, coming off the development and so it's treated here in the storm water basin and then it's sent out into the bay as a clearer product and cleaner water which increases our water quality here and throughout the bay area. so the structure in the center of each basin is what we call the for bay. that's the point at which the stormwater exits out of the storm drainage system and into the stormwater basin itself. so the for bay is

shaped as almost a gate to kind of push all water out through the pipes, all of those rocks help to disburse it before it's sent into the stormwater basin itself. the storm water basin was designed to fill up to the height of the berm of the side you're seeing here. so this is juncus and these are well-known fresh water grasses found in any place around the bay area that you find standing water or in a drainage channel, you're going to find a lot of these junket species. this is a leave a lifter in the bio treatment. it soaks up a lot of water, to soak up the contaminants and heavy metals, so it's kind of our backbone species. this one is called douglas siana and the common name is mug war. it's a beautiful plant but doing the heavy lift and pulling, those contaminants out of the storm

water and pulling oil to help treat the water before its sent back into the system and back into the bay. this plant is known as salvia or hummingbird sage. it has a lot of habitat value in that it's a strong pollinator plant. obviously, you can see the pink and purple flowers which come up in the springtime and attracts a lot of hummingbirds, a lot of bees which help to pollinate the other species within the garden and throughout the rest of the island and all of those native plants. all of these plants are designed to be able to take a heavily inundation of water over a several day per like standing water for a long time. all of the plants can withstand that and honestly, thrive in that condition. so all of these were selected based on the ecological and habitat value but also their treatment and functional value for stormwater. >> this is super tiny.

>> it's very much a big part of our design and master plan for the development of the island. it was a navy base and a lot of navy housing on this island specifically for around 80 years and during that time, a lot of innovative species were introduced on the island, eucalyptus, a lot of different european and algerians plants were on the island. we wanted to bring in the native eye college here on the island before the navy started to redevelop it and introduce some of those invasive species so the species you're seeing in this stormwater garden in the basin and the upland area was a part of those types of ecology s that's trying to be returned to this side of the island but different other spaces through out the islands development. so whenever we started this process, we

identified a number of species of native plants that seem applicable to the ecology that we're trying to grow. there's 45 species, so a -- there's 15 species so they are hard to find in the nursery trade so we needed to grow it ourselves to achieve the biodiversity that's in the design here. as a part that have process, we brought on a nonprofit group called ledge, l-e-g- which is literacy for environmental justice. they grew those plants and put together the plant palates you see. >> most of landscape was inundated with invasive plant species eradicating species and having the plan on buena island and treasure island. literacy

for environmental justice, a community volunteer educational program involved with restoring local habitats and preserving san francisco's unique bio tie varsity, teamed up with the redevelopment group to grow the 50,000 native plants to -- to repopulate treasure island. >> the city of san francisco set up meetings between leg and they came in with high expertise and urban design, and architecture, and green infrastructure, but they really hadn't worked with flytive plants -- worked with native plants at scale and they were also kind of scratching their heads, like how are we going to grow 50,000 native plants from remnant native plant populations. it was a unique partnership of figuring out what plants can grow, what plants will function in stormwater gardens. not all native plants are ascetically pleasing to

landscape architect, so we kind of worked around what plants are going to be pleasant for people, what plants are going to provide habitat, what plants are going to actually be able to sequester carbon, deal with erosion, preserve the island biodiversity as well as be able to manage all of these stormwater treatment on the island. >> there's about 33 naturally occurring native plant species that survived the last one hundred years on yorba buena island. we were able to go in and get the seed and salvage plants in some cases, some of the development work that occurred was actually going to destroy native plant habitat and we went in before the bulldozers and before the roads were build and the new water tanks were installed and dig them up,

divide them, hold them, of the 50,000 plants we grew 40,000 of them in-house and the other ten, we had to rely on our partners to do it. with the 50,000 plants we did, we did 100 species and 95 of them are from the county of san francisco. about the other five are from the state of california. but the other 95 species really are the native plants that have been here for thousands of years. we used collection sites such as angel island, the presidio had genetics for the projects in san francisco. we used remnant plant habitats at hunters point and we used a lot of genetics from san bruno mountain. just to collect and process all of the genetics was a two-year process. and then

it was about a two or three year process to grow all the species. >> this is the infamous -- it's a low, growing sprawling native herb and it's in the mint family and i'm rubbing my hands on this and it's extremely aromatic. it feels like a flush of peppermint just came across my face. it's edible. you can make tea out of it. it's a great digestive plant for settling your stomach. it has been cool to introduce yerba buena to yerba buena. this plant is called dutchman's pipe. when in bloom, the flower looks like a dutchman's pipe. and another thing that's unique about this

plant is, it's the whole specific plant for the pipeline swallow tail butterfly. so some butterflies are able to adapt to other species and can use larva and food from different species. in the county of san francisco, there's only about three or four healthy populations of this plant. these particular plants were going to be destroyed because of the green infrastructure project needed to put pipes in and needed to demolish all water tanks and build new water tanks for the island, so we were able to go in, dig them up, cultivate them, extrapolate dozens of plants into hund hundreds of plants and restore it through the restoration process. one day one of my nursery managers was down

here and she found the pipeline butterfly have flown over from yerba buena island and came to our nursery on treasure island and was breeding on this plant. and successfully did its life cycle inside of our nursery. so, it? how that butterfly knows it's out there and find it, this is one of those unique things that we can't explain why butterflies can find this species but if we grow it and put it in the right location, they will return. so the plants we're looking at here is faranosa known as just dedlia or live forever. the construction is it work happen nothing that area, it's likely to be destroyed. a unique thing about this plant and the unique succulents we have in california and the live forever plant can live to be 150 years old.

recently, the state of california just did special legislation to protect this plant. i think in its intact population on the island, there's less than 50 of them, so to be able to grow several hundred of them and have them be a part of the plant palate of the stormwater gardens that was installed recently is an increase of biodiversity and a step forward towards protecting the natural legacy of the island. >> i moved to treasure island in 1999. i believe i was one of the first residents on the island. i have seen how the island has been destroyed and reconstruct since its beginning to restore the island to its native form is extremely important to me because that will help all the animals come back to the island

and make this place even a better place to live. >> i want to be here because these are people i know, so that was my first thing is just, like, i wanted to come here to help out and be with (indiscernible) and to actually put my hands in dirt. i feel like we as people don't work in army -- we don't see the benefits of plants, like, but i just learned about a plant that if you rub it enough, it turns into soap. that's cool. and we need those things. we need to know about those things. >> one really unique thing about this project is the scale. to use 50,000 native plants over 7 acres is a scale we have never seen. it really is trailblazing when we think about the 350 or 400 acres of open space that is

planned for treasure island, it sets the stage for what is possible. there's a way to use nature-based solutions at scale to meet the needs of climate change, sea level rise, the crisis of local extinction and create natural environment. the first phase of the project sets a stage for what is possible and i just feel really blessed to have been a part of it. >> one of the main focus on triangle is keeping vehicle traffic to a minimum. for residents and visitors, public transportation is highly encouraged and will be the center point of keeping the island pedestrian-friendly, retaining an open space sent and providing an eco system that reducing carbon emission >> we need the transit to be successful because if we had

8,000 homes here and everybody was trying to use their car to access the bay bridge every month, it will overwhelm the system. new on and off-ramp are being constructed but all over the focus of the development is to be very transit oriented. triangle itself is very flat and very bikeable and walkable as a result and so there's a focus on using both bus and ferry service to get from the island to san francisco in the east bay. there will be a number of transit demand management tools that will be employed of the two new ramps to and from the -- to the island and allowing a limited number of cars to access the bridge and there will be a management toll to encourage the use of transit. >> all the market rate housing on the island, the price for residential unit whether that's a rental apartment or a for sale

condo, the price of the unit is decoupled from the price of the parking spot. so people can buy a condominium without paying for a parking spot. they choose to have a parking spot, they would pay an additional price. market rate residents are required to purchase take transit pass each month through their hoa fees or through their rent so the residents will begin the decision of driving or taking transit with a transit pass in hand each month. that transit pass will function as a muni fast pass allowing people to take muni and transfer within the muni network and function as an ac transit allowing people to take ac transit to the east bay and transfer within the ac transit system and it will also provide unlimited access to the treasure island ferry. >> treasure island is going to take decades to be fully build

out. it's going to take some time for it to reach the envelope that was passed by the board of supervisors and maybe there will be changes to it as well. we don't know what is going to happen in 50 years but i'm confident by the fact that the plan that was adopted was fully, fully thinking even for its time and the building the island to a way it's sustainable, it addresses sea level rise, but also gives the public the open space and parts that are so necessary to fill treasure island. there's economic, certainly, challenges and whether we're going to be able to build out all of what was desired in the master plan, it will -- time will tell, but i

think that the last ten years, we've been coming to this point. we are seeing incredible progress and the infrastructure is being finished by the island. market rate housing is being finished. affordable housing is being finished. and so, we feel within the next five years, substantial part of what we had envisioned is going to come to fruition.

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the shared spaces program will help to ensure safety and accessibility for everyone so we can all enjoy these public spaces. more information is available at sf dot gov slash shared you're watching san francisco rising with chris manners. special guest is david chu. hi i'm chris manners and you're watching san francisco rising the show that's about restarting rebuilding and re imagining our city. i guess today is david chiu, the city attorney for the city and county of san francisco , and he's here today to talk to us about the opioid crisis, reproductive rights and the non

citizen voting program. mr chu, welcome to the show. thanks for having me on happy to talk about whatever you want me to talk about, so can we start by explaining the difference between the city attorney's office and the district attorney's office? i think it could be slightly confused. that is a very common fusion with members of the public so um, if you get arrested in san francisco by the san francisco police department, all criminal matters are dealt with by the san francisco district attorney . we handle all civil matters on behalf of the city and county of san francisco. what that means is a number of things. we provide advice and counsel to all actors within city government from our mayor. every member of the board of supervisors to the 100 plus departments, commissions boards that represent the city and county of san francisco. we also defend the city against thousands of lawsuits. so if you slip and fall in front of city hall if there's a bus accident if there is an incident

involving the san francisco police department, we defend those matters. we also bring lawsuits on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, where most famous for litigating and obtaining the constitutional right to marry for lgbtq couples have sued gun manufacturers, payday lenders, oil companies, you name it, who are undercutting the rights of san franciscans and the city and county of san francisco. so now moving on to the opioid crisis. i understand you've had some success in court, um, dealing with manufacturers, distributors and pharmacies. could you elaborate a little bit on that for us, so the opioid industry and by that i refer to the legal industry that prescribes pain pills. um over years. uh, deceived americans and resulted in literally thousands upon thousands of deaths and tragedies that we see on our streets every day when it comes

to the addictions that folks are experiencing. many of the addictions really stemmed from what happened over a decade plus period where the prescription pain industry marketed prescription pills in ways that were false. we were one of thousands of jurisdictions around america that brought a lawsuit against the opioid industry. but we've had a particular set of successes that others have not. ah we initially brought a lawsuit a few years ago against every part of the opioid supply chain, and that included manufacturers, distributors and retailers, including pharmacies over the course of four plus years. a number of these corporate defendants settled with us. we've as of this moment brought in over $120 million of cash and services. to the city to help address the root causes of what we're talking about. but a few months ago, we had a really historic verdict against the pharmacy, walgreens and their

role walgreens was responsible for literally over 100 million pills, flooding the streets of san francisco over a period of years where they flouted federal law that require them to track where they're pills were going to. they had a what? what we refer to as a phil phil phil. pharmacy culture where folks would bring in their prescriptions, and the pharmacist would just fill them without checking why someone was coming in multiple times without checking why certain doctors were seen a 100 fold increase in the number of opioid prescriptions that they were prescribing. so we had a historic judgment against walgreens recently, but it's been a very intense lawsuit. and we know that will never bring back the lives that we have lost to opioid addictions. but it's critical for us that we get the resources that we need. maybe one other thing i'll mention because it's often confusion. a large percentage of folks who

are addicted to street level drugs say heroin or fentanyl started their addictions. with painkillers, opioid medications that were prescribed through doctors provided through pharmacies and so literally the suffering that we're seeing on our streets was caused by the opioid industry over many, many years and has created the significant crisis that we are dealing with right now. right right now moving on. i understand after the recent supreme court ruling, striking down robust as wade that you've put together an organization that's designed to help mm. provide free services to people who are both. seeking abortions and providing them can you tell us about the organization? sure so, um, before the dobbs decision came down, but after we learned about the leak from the supreme court about the draft that suggested the decision would be as bad as it has turned out to be, um, i reached out to leadership from the bar association of san francisco because we knew that if that

decision came down there would be tens of thousands of patients around the country as well as providers whose legal situation would be in jeopardy. women doctors, nurses who could be subjected to lawsuits who could be arrested who could be prosecuted, particularly in red states? 26 states where rights are being rolled back or in the process or have already been rolled back because of the dobbs decision. so we put out a call to lawyers all over the bay and frankly, all over the country, and as of this moment there have been over 70 law firms that have answered our call to be part of the legal alliance for reproductive rights who have committed to reviewing cases and providing pro bono assistance to patients and providers who are at legal risk. we also are looking at potential cases that these lawyers can bring against various states. in these areas that are looking to deprive women and patients and providers of their of their rights. um it

is a very dark time in america, and i'm really proud that that barrier attorneys, the legal community care have stepped up to answer the call. it's very important that's great. so now the non citizen voting program that was passed by voters just for school boards has faced them court challenges recently, but it was in place for the most recent election that we've had. how do you see that situation panning out? in fact, it's been in place for now. five school board elections. um so a little bit of background in our san francisco schools over one out of three kids. has a parent who is a non citizen who doesn't have a say in the election of the policy makers that dictate the future of our san francisco public schools, and so over a number of years, there has been a movement to allow immigrant parents to vote in school board elections. few things i'll mention about that is our country has a very long history when it comes to allowing

immigrants to vote. from 17 76 for 100 and 50 years until after world war. one immigrants were allowed to vote in most states in our country on the theory that we want to assimilate immigrants in american democratic values and institutions, and it wasn't until an anti immigrant backlash in world war one that that sort of ended. but in recent years, um cities across america have allowed this to happen. in fact, at this moment, believe there are over a dozen cities that have voted to allow non citizens to vote in a number of context. now, this is particularly important in our schools just given how challenge our schools are, and given that we know that when we engage more parents in her school system, regardless of their citizenship it helps to lift up our schools for all parents. and so in 2016 the voters of san francisco past about measure that allowed this to happen. unfortunately earlier this year, there were conservative organizations that

came to san francisco to bring a lawsuit to try to overturn this , and i should also mention it is obviously the perspective of our office and our city that this is constitutional. nothing in the constitution prohibits non citizens from voting. and in fact, there's an explicit provision in the constitution that allows chartered cities like san francisco when it comes to school board elections to be able to dictate the time and manner of those elections. and so, uh, we are involved in litigation on this issue. there was an initial ruling that was not good for us that essentially said at the trial court level. we shouldn't allow this. um we appealed it up to the appellate level. the appellate court made an initial decision to allow this past november election to proceed as it has for the last previous four elections. we're going to be in front of that court soon. stay tuned. we'll see what happens. it was good to hear that the city was able to reach a settlement with the center for medicare and medicaid

services are meant laguna honda could still operate. how did you manage to reach that agreement? it was not an easy conversation . just a little bit of background. so laguna honda has been an incredibly important institution in san francisco for 150 years, taking care of our most vulnerable patients are frail, very elderly patients, many of whom are at end of life. and a few years ago, there were some issues in that hospital. some violations of rules that we very much want to make sure don't get violated. there were folks that weren't using proper ppe, who are bringing cigarette lighters into the facility, who might have brought some contraband into the facilities. we have zero tolerance for that and have made that very clear. we self reported some of these violations to the federal authorities. and unfortunately from our perspective, they took the very disproportionate step of ordering the closure. the permanent closure of lugano, honda. problematic on a number of reasons. first and foremost,

there are just no skilled nursing facility beds not just in california but around the country. after their order came down. we literally were putting 1000 calls a day to skilled nursing facilities around california and around the country and could find nowhere to move the 700 patients that we had had in the gonna honda but just as disturbingly as we were forced to start moving some of these patients, a number of them died. there's a concept in medicine known as transfer trauma. when you move someone who is that frail and unfortunately, folks folks died and we were at a point where we were five weeks away from the deadline for the federal government. that they had provided to us to close the facility. so uh and we have been trying for months to get the federal government to reconsider their action, so i was compelled to bring a lawsuit on behalf of the city and county of san francisco and very pleased and appreciate that we were able to come to a settlement whereby

transfers will be delayed at least until next year. we're going to have at least a year of funding. to keep the facility open, and hopefully we can get back up on our feet and ensure that no future violations occur because this is an institution that has to stay open for the good of these patients. quite right, quite right. so finally, congratulations on winning an important public power service dispute with pg and e. um why is it important that the city's rights as a local power provider maintained well, so san francisco has been a local power provider for decades. we are fortunate to have access through our hedge hetchy hydroelectric system to provide electricity to a number of providers, particularly public recipients of that. and unfortunately, pg any has used its monopoly when it comes to private electricity to try to stop that, and to block that, and from our perspective, they violated federal law in adding literally tens of millions of dollars of

expenses to san francisco and institutions that we're trying to ensure um, public power infrastructure. put years of delays on our ability to do this, and so we had to bring a number of appeals in the federal commission. ah we were successful in those appeals, and there was a decision recently that basically held the pg and e could not use its monopoly to unfairly delay or add tens of millions of dollars of cost. to the city and county of san francisco, as we are trying to move forward with our vision of public power. clearly pgd has not been able to serve not just san francisco but northern california. well we all know that with the wildfires with its bankruptcies, with all the issues that they've had, we think there is a different model to move forward on and we are grateful to the court. and providing a ruling that allows us to move forward. well thank you so much for coming on the show. i really appreciate the time you've given us here today. i appreciate and thanks for your

thanks for your questions. thank you. well that's it. for this episode, we'll be back with another one shortly for sf gov t v. i'm chris manners. thanks for watching. yeah.. >> (music). >> the ferry building one of san francisco most famous that

as many of 15 thousand commuters pass through that each gay. >> one of the things that one has to keep in mind regarding san francisco is how young the city we are. and nothing is really happening here before the gold rush. there was a small spanish in the presiding and were couriers and fisherman that will come in to rest and repair their ships but at any given time three hundred people in san francisco. and then the gold rush happened. by 182948 individuals we are here to start

a new life. >> by 1850 roughly 16 thousand ships in the bay and left town in search of gold leaving their ships behind so they scraped and had the ships in the bay and corinne woods. with sand the way that san francisco was and when you look at a map of san francisco have a unique street grid and one of the thing is those streets started off in extremely long piers. but by 1875 they know they needed more so the ferry building was built and it was a long affair and the first cars turned around at the ferry building and picking up people and goods and then last

night the street light cars the trams came to that area also. but by the late 1880s we needed something better than the ferry building. a bond issue was passed for $600,000. to build a new ferry building i would say 800 thousand for a studio apartment in san francisco they thought that was a grand ferry building had a competition to hire an architecture and choose a young aspiring architect and in the long paris and san francisco had grand plans for this transit station. so he proposed the beautiful new building i wanted it wider, there is none tonight. than that actually is but the price of concrete quitclaim two

how and was not completed and killed. but it opened a greater claim and became fully operational before 1898 and first carriages and horses for the primary mode of transportation but market street was built up for serve tram lines and streetcars could go up to the door to embarcadero to hospitals and mission street up to nob hill and the fisherman's area. and then the earthquake hit in 190 six the ferry building collapsed the only thing had to be corrected once the facade of the tower. and 80 percent of the city would not

survive the buildings collapsed the streets budges and the trams were running and buildings had to highland during the fire after the actuate tried to stop the mask fire in the city so think of a dennis herrera devastation of a cable car they were a mess the streets were torn up and really, really wanted to have a popular sense they were on top of that but two weeks after the earthquake kind of rigged a way getting a streetcar to run not on the cable track ran electrical wires to get the streetcars to run and 2 was pretty controversial tram system wanted electrical cars but the earthquake gave them to

chance to show how electrical cars and we're going to get on top this. >> take 10 years for the city to rebuild. side ferry use was increasing for a international exhibition in 1950 and people didn't realize how much of a community center the ferry building was. it was the center for celebration. the upper level of ferry building was a gathering place. also whenever there was a war like the filipino war or world war two had a parade on market street and the ferry building would have banners and to give you an idea how central to the citywide

that is what page brown wanted to to be a gathering place in that ferry building hay day the busiest translation place in the world how people got around transit and the city is dependent on that in 1915 of an important year that was the year of our international exposition 18 million living in san francisco and that was supposedly to celebrate the open of panama differential but back in business after the earthquake and 22 different ferry boats to alamed and one had the and 80 trips a day a way of life and in 1918 san francisco was hit hard by the flu pandemic and city had mask mandates and anyone caught

without a doubt a mask had a risk ever being arrested and san francisco was hit hard by the pandemic like other places and rules about masks wearing and what we're supposed to be more than two people without our masks on i read was that on the ferry those guys wanted to smoke their pipes and taking off their masks and getting from trouble so two would be hauled away. >> the way the ferry building was originally built the lower level with the natural light was used for take it off lunge storage. the second floor was where passengers offloaded and all those people would spill out and central stairway of the

building that is interesting point to talk about because such a large building one major stairway and we're talking about over 40 thousand people one of the cost measures was not building a pedestrian bridge with the ferry building and the embarcadero on market street was actually added in and in 1918 but within 20 years to have san francisco bay the later shipbuilding port in the world and the pacific we need the iron that. as the ferry system was at the peak two bridges to reach san francisco. and automobiles were a popular item that people wanted to drive themselves around instead of the ferry as a

result marin and other roots varnished. the dramatic draw in ferry usage was staggering who was using the ferry that was a novelty rather than a transportation but the ferry line stopped one by one because everyone was getting cars and wanted to drive and cars were a big deal. take the care ferry and to san francisco and spend the day or for a saturday drive but really, really changed having the car ferry. >> when the bay bridge was built had a train that went along the lower level so that was a major stay and end up where our sales force transit center is now another way of getting into the city little by

little the ferry stopped having a purpose. >> what happened in the 40 and 50's because of this downturn we were trying to find a purpose a number of proposals for a world trade center and wanted to build it own the philly in a terrible idea objective never gotten down including one that had too tall towers a trade center in new york but a tower in between that was a part of ferry building and completely impractical. after the cars the tower administration wanted to keep americans deployed and have the infrastructure for the united

states. so they had an intrastate free plan the plan for major freeway systems to go throughout san francisco. and so the developers came up with the bay bridge and worked their way along embarcadero. the plans were to be very, very efficient for that through town he once the san francisco saw had human services agency happening 200 though people figure out city hall offender that the embarcadero free was dropped and we had the great free to no where. which cut us off from the ferry building and our store line and created in 1989 and gave us the opportunity to tear down the free. and that was the

renaissance of ferry building. >> that land was developed for a new ferry building and whom new embarcadero how to handle travel and needed a concept for the building didn't want- that was when a plan was developed for the liquor store. >> the san francisco ferry building has many that ups and downs and had a huge hay day dribbled adopt to almost nothing and after the earthquake had a shove of adrenaline to revise the waterfront and it moved around the bay and plans for

more so think investment in the future and feel that by making a reliable ferry system once the ferry building will be there to surface. >>

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