all boats rise and all boats go down at the same time because it appears there has been a very successful program for the entire city and unfortunately the asian pacific islander remains with that same disproportion within the city but it is great to have the very important absolute numbers being done. really thank you for the extra effort. it happens-i found this article so many years ago and thought gee, did we really make a difference, and it is sort of nice to see that we really are making a difference. thank you very much. >> thank you commissioner chow. vice president green. >> yes. i wanted to applaud the department and all the affiliations for the efforts making in women's health. it was announced this week maternal mortality is higher then 1965 and that's

before the travesty and destruction the dobbs decision is going to cause. we have so many invasion programs. team lily, the (indiscernible) innovative and fantastic. the black infant health program. i think we have the potential to lead the way in health for birthing people and individuals seeking contraception in a way we did for hiv in the past. i fully support these programs. the discrimination in this country is absolutely appalling and if we don't lead and all these programs so many show that we are really on the cutting edge and forefront trying to address inequities in the countsry so supportive of everything the department is doing and the mental health component as well which will only worsen as more and more women across the country who don't want to stay pregnant are

forced to give birth. very appreciative of this work. >> thank you vice president green. any other comments or questions? seeing none, we'll move to the next item, which is other business. commissioners, do we have other business? >> you want me to bring up- (indiscernible) >> commissioner chow. >> yes, commissioners i like to bring to our attention and ask that we consider a adjournment in memory of supervisor tom shay. tom was a member of the board from 1987

approximately 1987 to-for about 11 years, and is truly a success story in san francisco. a giant who lead our community, the asian pacific islander community to become more active to become more involved in on the city state and national levels so that our community could have a voice. he was first appointed to the board of supervisors by mayor diane feinstein and at that time we had city wide elections, which is really difficult to really as a broad base requires broad base to win. he won his on term and actually served two full terms. he was the budget chair of the board. my family and

myself had very close relations with the shays, and we were able during the time of fiscal crisis at the time he came into office, as the budget chair of the board to help explain the roles and the importance of public health to our residents and the need for adequate funding for the various programs. and through his years there, he often reached out in order to understand the public health needs as he deliberated first as budget chair and of course as a member of the board, the health needs of san francisco. on a national level-well, i should say his story is

really amazing on reflection because it is truly the american story. he was basically a refugee during the chinese civil war moving from china to taiwanism came to the united states and san francisco at the age of 9 years. was educated locally here through our own public schools and the university california. became a architect and as a architect in his work he was able actually to create design and help build 1600 units of low and moderate income housing at that time. he also built the largest building in china town, the mandarin towers, so when you see it and opposite what he had promised the people which of course he could not deliver the subway that came into china town, but of course

the subway today faces the mandarin towers, so--he was always thinking of people. he also realized it was really necessary to get involved in national politics, and actually was the founding and chairman of the asian pacific caucus for the-national democratic party. served many years in that role, and it was always not necessarily just together partisan, but to demonstrate that it was important to be heard that you had to participate. so, i believe that it would be very appropriate for commission here to really pay our respect to tom's passing and i

would ask at the time of adjournment that we adjourn in his memory and let his family know who are still in san francisco that we had that action taken. thank you. >> thank you commissioner chow. i know the commission will be glad to adjourn in memory of tom shay and gratitude for his leadership and with condolences to his family. any public comment? >> no hands for this issue. ; and our next item is closed session. we will take a vote as to whether or not to hold a closed session in relation to item 11d on the agenda, which is laguna honda hospital rehab center quality update regarding recent regulatory survey activity. motion to go into closed session? >> so moved. >> second. >> commissioners, i'll note there are two votes. you vote on item b as you said

commissioner bernal and item c is whether to vote to call-assert attorney client privilege in closed session. you can move forward with the vote but there was another. >> is that one motion? >> separate motion. >> the first motion on the table is whether to go into closed session? >> yes. >> any public comment? >> i see no hands raised. >> all in favor say aye. opposed? and then our next item is whether or not to assert attorney client privilege. >> so moved. >> second. >> seeing no public comment, all in favor say aye. opposed? alright. we are in closed session. members of the public, this is the last item on the agenda unless you choose to stick around after

adjournment we thank you for joining the meeting and will see you at the first meeting in april. >> e content of the open session. close session. >> i move not to disclose. >> second. >> any public comment? all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> opposed? motion carries. we will not disclose the contents of the closed session. that's the only motion we need, right? next, we'll entertain a motion to adjourn and i'll hand it over to commissioner chow. >> i would make a motion to adjourn in the memory of former supervisors tom shay. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> alright. we are adjourned. [meeting adjourned]

going 90 charlie. go ahead. we moved to san francisco in 1982. we came from the philippines. i have three kids nathan, jessica and iva. i was really young. when i had neat, i turned 19. and then two weeks later, he was

born. so when he was fine, i used to watch cops all the time. all the time and so he would watch with me. he had his little handcuffs and his little toy walkie talkie. and then whenever the theme song came on, he would walk around and he just thought he was the baddest little thing. i think he was in kindergarten at sheridan because he and i attended the same elementary school there was an officer bill. he would just be like mom officer bill was there then one day, he said, mom, i touched his gun. and he was just so happy about it. everything happened at five minutes. i would say everything. happened at 4 to 5 years old. it's like one of those goals to where you just you can't you can't just let go. high school. i think you know everybody kind of strays. he was just riding the wave. and i

mean, he graduated. thank god. one day i think he was about 20 or 21. he told me, he said mom. i want to be a cop or a firefighter, i said. no you're going to be a firefighter. but that's really not what he wanted to do. his words were i want to make a difference. and that was a really proud moment for me when he said that my dad was a cop in the philippines for 20 years. i think a lot of that played a role into his becoming a cop. my dad was really happy about it. my mom. she was kind of worried, but i just figured i can't stop him. he can make his own decisions. stu. i just want to say what's up? how you doing? good. good. no i'm trying to look good for us to looking good for us to so when he was in the

police academy, mind you this kid was not a very studious kid. but i've never seen him want something so bad when he was home. he'd be in his room studying the codes. he really fought for it. hi. what's your name? i'm nate. nate is great with kids, and he would give them hugs or give them stickers. i think that that's a positive influence on the kids, and then the people around you see it. once he makes that connection with people and they trust him that foundation that respect people look at you and see your actions more than your words and so that i think will reach people more than anything. you could say you later, brother. thank you. all right, see you. it's a really hard job. i know you. you see a lot of the

negative for me. i would not put myself through that if i didn't care. you know, you have to be the right kind of person. you have to have the right heart to want to do that. when people ask me if you know what my son does , um, i just tell him he's a cop , and i just feel like i'm beaming with pride. i always told him when he was young that he would do something great. and so to see it. it's i have a moment. i'm very proud of him.

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raised in san francisco. cable car equipment, technically i'm a transit operator of 135 and work at the cable car (indiscernible) and been here for 22 years now. i grew up around here when i was a little can i. my mom used to hang in china town with her friends and i would get bored and they would shove me out of the door, go play and find something to do. i ended up wandering down here when i was a kid and found these things. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪

>> fascinated by them and i wanted to be a cable car equipment from the time i was a little kid. i started with the emergency at the end of 1988 and drove a bus for a year and a half and i got lucky with my timing and got here at cable car and at that time, it really took about an average five to maybe seven years on a bus before you could build up your seniority to come over here. basically, this is the 1890s verse ever a bus. this is your basic public transportation and at the time at its height, 1893, there were 20 different routes ask this powerhouse, there -- and this powerhouse, there were 15 of them through out the entire city. >> i work at the cable car division and bunch with muni for 25 years and working with cable cars for 23 years. this is called the bar because these things are horses and work hard so they have to have a place to

sleep at night. joking. this is called a barn because everything takes place here and the powerhouse is -- that's downstairs so that's the heart and soul of the system and this is where the cable cars sleep or sleep at night so you can put a title there saying the barn. since 1873 and back in the day it was driven by a team and now it's electric but it has a good function as being called the barn. yeah. >> i am the superintendent of cable car vehicle maintenance. and we are on the first and a half floor of the cable car barn where you can see the cables are moving at nine and a half miles an hour and that's causing the little extra noise we're hearing now. we have 28 power cars and 12 california cars for a total

of 40 revenue cars. then with have two in storage. there's four gear boxes. it's gears of the motor. they weigh close to 20 tons and they had to do a special system to get them out of here because when they put them in here, the barn was opened up. we did the whole barn that year so it's difficult for a first of time project, we changed it one at a time and now they are all brand-new. engineer's room have the four monitors that play the speed and she monitors them and in case of an emergency, she can shutdown all four cars if she needs to. that sound you heard there, that's a gentleman building, rebuilding a cable. the cable weighs four hundred pounds each and they lost three days before we have to rebuild them. the cable car grips, the bottom point is underground with the cable. it's a giant buy strip and closes around the kab and

they pull it back. the cable car weighs 2,500 people without people so it's heavy, emergency pulling it offer the hill. if it comes offer the hill, it could be one wire but if it unravels, it turns into a ball and they cannot let go of it because it opens that wide and it's a billion pushing the grip which is pushing the whole cable car and there's no way to let go so they have to have the code 900 to shutdown in emergencies and the wood brakes last two days and wear out. a lot of maintenance. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪

>> rail was considered to be the old thing. rubber tires, cars, buses, that's new. there were definitely faster and cheaper, there's no question about that. here at san francisco, we went through the same thing. the mayor decided we don't need cable cars (indiscernible), blah, blah. we can replace them with buses. they are faster and cheaper and more economical and he was right if you look at the dollars and cents part. he was right. >> back in 1947 when they voted that, i'm surprised base of the technology and the chronicle paper says cable cars out. that was the headline. that was the demise of the cable cars. >> (indiscernible) came along and said, stop. no. no, no, no.

she was the first one to say we're going to fight city hall. she got her friends together and they started from a group called the save the cable car community, 1947 and managed to get it on the ballot. are we going to keep the cable cars or not? head turned nationwide and worldwide and city hall was completely unprepared for the amount of backlash they got. this is just a bunch -- the city came out and said basically, 3-1, if i'm not mistaken, we want our cars and phil and her group managed to save what we have. and literately if it wasn't for them, there would be no cable cars. people saw something back then that we see today that you can't get rid of a beautiful and it wasn't a historical monument at the time and now it is, and it was part of san francisco. yeah, we had freight back then. we don't have that anymore. this is the number

one tourist attraction in san francisco. it's historic and the only national moving monument in the world. >> the city of san francisco did keep the cable car so it's a fascinating feel of having something that is so historic going up and down these hills of san francisco. and obviously, everyone knows san francisco is famous for their hills. [laughter] and who would know and who would guess that they were trying to get rid of it, which i guess was a crazy idea at the time because they felt automobiles were taking the place of the cable cars and getting rid of the cable car was the best thing for the city and county of san francisco, but thank god it didn't. >> how soon has the city changed? the diverse of cable cars -- when i first came to cable car, sandy barn was the first cable car. we have three

or four being a grip person. fwriping cable cars is the most toughest and challenging job in the entire city. >> i want to thank our women who operate our cable cars because they are a crucial space of the city to the world. we have wonderful women -- come on forward, yes. [cheers and applause] these ladies, these ladies, this is what it's about. continuing to empower women. >> my name is willa johnson is and i've been at cable car for 13 years. i came to san francisco when i was five years old. and that is the first time i rode a cable car and i went to see a christmas tree and we rode the cable car with the christmas worker and that was the first time i rode the cable car and didn't ride again until i worked here. i was in the medical field for a while and i wanted a

change. some people don't do that but i started with the mta of september of 1999 and came over to cable car in 2008. it was a general sign up and that's when you can go to different divisions and i signed up as a conductor and came over here and been here since. there were a few ladies that were over at woods that wanted to come over here and we had decided we wanted to leave woods and come to a different division and cable car was it. i do know there has been only four women that work the cable car in the 150 years and i am the second person to represent the cable car and i also know that during the 19, i think 60s and women

were not even allowed to ride on the side of a cable car so it's exciting to know you can go from not riding on the side board of a cable car to actually grip and driving the cable car and it opened the door for a lot of people to have the opportunity to do what they inspire to do. >> i have some people say i wouldn't make it as a conductor at woods and i came and made it as i conductor and the best thing i did was to come to this division. it's a good division. and i like ripping cable cars. i do. >> i think she just tapped into the general feeling that san francisco tend to have of, this is ours, it's special, it's unique. economically and you

know, a rationale sense, does it make sense? not really. but from here, if you think from here, no, we don't need this but if you think from here, yeah. and it turns out she was right. so.... and i'm grateful to her. very grateful. [laughter] >> three, two, one. [multiple voices] [cheers and applause] >> did i -- i did that on purpose so i wouldn't. ♪ [ music ] ♪

america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> president elias, i would like to take roll. >> yes, hello. good evening, welcome to the march 15th regularly scheduled commission program, sergeant. >> commissioner walker? >> present. >> commissioner benedicto? >> present. >> commissioner january yes? >> yes. commissioner byrne? >> here. >> commissioner walker? >> here. >> commissioner e