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tv   Mayors Press Availability  SFGTV  April 21, 2023 12:00pm-1:01pm PDT

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and i'm checking now to see with -- if we have further callers. we have no further callersch >> public comment is closed. clothes i would like to make the motion to approve item 6 and 7. and continue item number 8 to the next meeting. mr. clerk call roll wrochl motion offered by chair chan and seconded by commissioner preston. that agenda item 6 the mou approved and that the proposed budget and work plan for fiscal 2-3 in agenda 7, proved. on this motion. vice chair fielder >> aye. >> commissioner williams. >> aye. >> commissioner preston. >> aye. >> chair chan.
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>> thank you the motion all item 6, sxeven 8 are approved mr. clerk call item 9. >> du have an action for the executive officer's report. foil this inform that motion i continued. okay. >> i continued. >> >> yes. yet next meeting. thank you. >> we will call item 9 this it is public comment members may address the lafco on matters within lafco's increase and not on today's agenda. if you wish to speak on this item and connected remote dial star 3 and that will add you to the queue you otherwise we will hear the speaker here with us in the chamber for a minute. >> lafco, local agency formation commission, this is great so what we have heard a
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lot had great presentations i paid attention to the peninsula clean energy. what folks there are doing. which is incredible by 2025 they want to create renewable energy for 90% renewable or 100% or 99%. great when they are doing. i lived there for 2 years. out in the open in the streets. used any energy i could get any building heat to keep warm at night. [laughter]. so, that's pretty much all i got. thank you i learned, lot. thank you. why thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. remotely, please. >> good afternoon. commissioner eric brooks again. our city sf and cans cans for energy choice. the one thing that key thing we
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did not talk about in the meeting today is revenue bonds. i believe i sent you an e mail about the board's ability to float revenue bonds without going to voters to get it approve exclude a way to funds not only clean energy and housing improvements. there can be used for clean energy purposes to get federal funding. if you did in the get this you got my e mail ask about the revenue bonds information i sent and sends it to you again. we need to make sure as we move forward with the discussions reinvestment and clean energy and housing we are using ref now bonds so we don't go to the voters to get funding. so they pay for themselves instead of requiring tax. thanks. >> thank you. eric brooks for sharing comments. we have no further callers.
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>> thank you. public comment is closed. and mr. clerk could you please call item 10. >> future agenda items? >> clothes any future agenda items you would like to note for now? vice chair fielder >> the obvious which is final public bank plans. or update at next meeting >> great. look forward to it. >> thank you. >> okay. go to public comment on future agenda item. the last time we take public comment today on future agenda items. do we have anyone whoments to provide comment for future agenda items if so in forward or dial star 3 to be added to the queue if you are remote. >> with future agenda items i say keep the powerful presentations are great people
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like me learn a lot what is going on in the city and the end of the dayment in clarity and answers. try to figure out when is going on. it hen so long you know. it hen a long time since i -- had any contact with anybody in society. absolutely none and this is where i find it. you know get to see it and i get to be seen which is crazy it does not help to me for over 10 years it is incredible how that happens. and you know age we near and time we are in. i guess i heard great news my brain heard and like in a different mode. lafco you know all the power to you, thank you. >> thank you for sharing your comments. could we have the remote caller, please. >> hello good afternoon one left
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time. eric brooks our city sf and california for energy choice i e milled it to you yesterday the 4 o'clock. ab538 a state assembly bill take away california's local noncontrol to christ coal prirts in states with heff prescription and transfer to the federal government so we would not control our electric grid anymore. if a procoal president like trump got elected we be in a wagz trump would control or clean energy program in california and san francisco. so it is vital on the next agenda you put ab538 and as you
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did with a similar bill 5 years ago oppose that bill >> thank you for sharing your comments. there is a minute limit. i don'tee we are further callers in the queue. >> thank you. seeing no public comment. it is now closed. just thank you for today. we appreciate all the work that everyone has doneful mr. clerk do we have other business. >> no further business. why great. the meeting is adjourned. go.
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>> shop and dine the 49 promotes local businesses and changes san franciscans to do their shopping and dooipg within the 49 square miles by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique, successful and vibrant so where will you shop and dine the 49 hi in my mind a ms. medina
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francisco. >> my name is fwlend hope i would say on at large-scale what all passionate about is peace in
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the world. >> it never outdoor 0 me that note everyone will think that is a good i know to be a paefrt. >> one man said i'll upsetting the order of universe i want to do since a good idea not the order of universe but his offered of the universe but the ministry sgan in the room chairing sha harry and grew to be 5 we wanted to preach and teach and act god's love 40 years later i retired having
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been in the tenderloin most of that 7, 8, 9 some have god drew us into the someplace we became the network ministries for homeless women escaping prostitution if the months period before i performed memorial services store produced women that were murdered on the streets of san francisco so i went back to the board and said we say to do something the number one be a safe place for them to live while he worked on changing 4 months later we were given the building in january of 1998 we opened it as a safe house for women escaping prostitution i've seen those counselors women find their strength and their beauty and their wisdom and come to be able
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to affirmative as the daughters of god and they accepted me and made me, be a part of the their lives. >> special things to the women that offered me a chance safe house will forever be a part of the who i've become and you made that possible life didn't get any better than that. >> who've would know this look of this girl grown up in atlanta will be working with produced women in san francisco part of the system that has abused and expedited and obtain identified and degraded women for century around the world and still do at the embody the spirits of women that just know they deserve
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respect and intend to get it. >> i don't want to just so women younger women become a part of the the current system we need to change the system we don't need to go up the ladder we need to change the corporations we need more women like that and they're out there. >> we get have to get to help them. >>
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is r. my name is debra alvarez rodriguez. i'm the deputy director in san francisco. my background is one in which i have spent the entirety of my life committed to finding solution to poverty and addressing the issues of inequity so people and communities can have accesses to resources and financial freedom. one thing true anode dear to my heart was the power of business ownership in creating pathways to financial freedom. we have still in infancy. we had over 100 entrepreneurs come and start their businesses. some are food trucks. some are restaurants. some are in farmer's markets and so farther. that's an incredible legacy
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and record to build upon. this was the perfect opportunity for me to come back home, you know, come back to the neighborhood and take my skills and networks and resources and put it backseat in service of the community. given everything with racial reckoning and pandemic it was time for me and everyone else that had the opportunity to leave and get educated to come back home. we have a opportunity to grow our impact in terms of the number of people we serve and how we serve them. we grow our impact in taking the money we make with our entrepreneurs and circulate those resources back interview the community for community development. the third thing is we have a opportunity to have an impact on public policy in terms of the policies and practices the district has been notorious about interms of inequities.
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all of those are just the beginning of what is possible in terms of growth and impact. ♪ [ music ] ♪♪ >> i don't want to be involved in the process after it happens. i want to be there at the front end to help people with something in my mind from a very early age. our community is the important
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way to look at things, even now. george floyd was huge. it opened up wounds and a discussion on something festering for a long time. before rodney king. you can look at all the instances where there are calls for change. i think we are involved in change right now in this moment that is going to be long lasting. it is very challenging. i was the victim of a crime when i was in middle school. some kids at recess came around at pe class and came to the locker room and tried to steal my watch and physically assaulted me. the officer that helped afterwards went out of his way to check the time to see how i was. that is the kind of work, the kind of perspective i like to have in our sheriff's office
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regardless of circumstance. that influenced me a lot. some of the storefronts have changed. what is mys is that i still see some things that trigger memories. the barbershop and the shoe store is another one that i remember buying shoestrings and getting my dad's old army boots fixed. we would see movies after the first run. my brother and i would go there. it is nice. if you keep walking down sacramento. the nice think about the city it takes you to japan town. that is where my grandparents were brought up. that is the traditional foods or movies. they were able to celebrate the culture in that community. my family also had a dry-cleaning business. very hard work.
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the family grew up with apartments above the business. we have a built-in work force. 19 had 1 as -- 1941 as soon as that happened the entire community was fixed. >> determined to do the job as democracy should with real consideration for the people involved. >> the decision to take every one of japan niece american o japanese from their homes. my family went to the mountains and experienced winter and summer and springs. they tried to make their home a home. the community came together to share. they tried to infuse each home are little things. they created things.
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i remember my grand mother saying they were very scared. they were worried. they also felt the great sense of pride. >> japanese americans. >> my granduncle joined the 442nd. when the opportunity came when the time that was not right. they were in the campaign in italy. they were there every step of the way. >> president truman pays tribute. >> that was the most decorated unit in the history of the united states army. commitment and loyal to to the country despite that their families were in the camp at that time. they chose to come back to san
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francisco even after all of that. my father was a civil servant as well and served the state of california workers' compensation attorney and judge and appellate board. my parents influenced me to look at civil service s.i applied to police, and sheriff's department at the same time. the sheriff's department grabbed me first. it was unique. it was not just me in that moment it was everyone. it wasn't me looking at the crowd. it was all of us being together. i was standing there alone. i felt everyone standing next to me. the only way to describe it. it is not about me. it is from my father. my father couldn't be there. he was sick. the first person i saw was him.
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i still sometimes am surprised by the fact i see my name as the sheriff. i am happy to be in the position i am in to honor their memory doing what i am doing now to help the larger comment. when i say that we want to be especially focused on marginalized communities that have been wronged. coming from my background and my family experienced what they did. that didn't happen in a vacuum. it was a decision made by the government. nobody raised their voice. now, i think we are in a better place as country and community. when we see something wrong we have change agents step up to help the community affected. that is a important thing to continue to do. you talk about change and being a leader in change and not
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knowing whether you have successes or results. the fact of the matter is by choosing to push for change you have already changed things. through inspiration for others, take up the matter or whether it is through actual functional change as a result of your voice being heard. i think you have already started on a path to change by choosing that path. in doing that in april of itself creates change. i continue in that type of service for my family. something i hope to see in my children. i have a pretty good chance with five children one will go into some sort of civil service. i hope that happens to continue that legacy. >> i am paul, sheriff of san
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francisco. [ music ] you. >> well to the epic center are you ready for the next earthquake did you know if you're a renter you can get
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earthquake shushes we'll take to the earthquake authorities hi welcome to another episode i'm the chief resilience officer for san francisco i'm joined by my good friends for the earthquake authority we're at the el cap center for the city and county of san francisco started in 2013 to get the community and talk about the risk we think about earthquake if usual great city you'll see one of the demonstrates we've built the model home and i encourage other episodes we'll be retroactively retrofitting and showing you as property owners to employ you work for
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the california earthquake authority talk about your role and earthquake shirnls up think the viewers want to know if you're a renter or property owner how the insurance issues. >> i'm the chief mitigation officer or c e a a property line funded pubically managed entity that provides earthquake shiners for one to four units and mobile owners to come down and renters throughout the state of california. >> what make the c e a deft. >> we work with 19 participates the insurer that sells you, your homeowner policy you're not obligated to buy it but you can buy a policy. >> am i covered with homeowners insurance. >> no california homeowners understand their homeowners
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insurance doesn't cover earthquake they need a separate policy if you're an shiners you can get the earthquake insurance policy. >> so explain why it is for the c e a is deft if a traditional insurance agency. >> irreverent so in the 80s the state of california passed a law that requires any company that writes the policies to over earthquake insurance the homeowners are not required by commissioner cranshaw can bye there was so much loss they were going to stop writing the insurance policies for earthquakes they wanted to stop a serious insurance policy. >> we're talking about the homeownership's buying the earthquake shiners but 70 percent are renters what's my opposite. >> the option for renter the earthquake be insurance company is affordable i think people
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don't realize just exactly what it covers it covers damaged property but loss of use if you have to be under a building they have a quarter main that was broken as well as emergency repair if interests glass breaks in the carpet you need to be in our unit that's whether earthquake is important. >> you're title you're the excessive mitigation officer for the state of california when i think of insurance i don't think about mitigation. >> so as part of public safety mission the c e a started to put aside mitigation loss fund 5 percent of invested income and when i joined the company 34 years ago we had $45 million to make a difference for moving and incentivizing and mitigation for california homeowners to structure engineering a unique
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opportunity to cervical homeowners to help them to mitigate the equivalent. >> whether an owner or renter i want to find more information about earthquake insurance where should i go. >> earthquake authority.com not only information about insurance but a calculated figures and as of january lots of deductible and 25 percent if a homeowner mitigate their hope up to 20 percent off their premium as an incentive for the work. >> what does mitigate the home mean. >> strengthen, renovate, retrofit through a home particularly older to earlier codes and you put in adding streamlining maybe collar bolts to tie to the foundation or to the wall so it is braced to
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earthquake can be very, very affordable and really makes a difference. >> thank you very much for being with us i encourage the viewers not only to checkout the earthquake authority but we'll talk about
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