or some of the top sponsors here , making sure that the resources are available so that community can have support and i see valley brown. from grants for the arts. thank you for making sure that we continue to invest in our arts organizations are parades are festivals in our exciting events of san francisco , and i'm going to just, um, leave you with this. um apec is going to be extraordinary in san francisco. and what is so amazing about what it represents ? david shoe touched upon it a little bit, but this is going to be an international event. of. a magnitude proportion and when i say that no other event on an international scale has existed in san francisco since 1945 when the united nations was created right here in our city. and so we will have heads of states. we will have ceo s and folks and

companies. this will be an opportunity to showcase san francisco like never before, and the asian community will be on full display. we know that there are so many people who come from asia in different parts of asia and we know that there is a very close knit relationship. for community but also for business and so that will be on full display during november, when apec will descend upon san francisco like never before, we will be on center stage and this community will be at the forefront of so many events and activities that we will do. to make it clear what is great about san francisco to make it clear all the wonderful things that are happening in our city. no one is going to define the narrative of our city. we are the writers of what happens in this city and our history and also our awesomeness as it

relates to the work that we do to bring community together. so what we're gonna do in our celebration. we're going to show them what san francisco is all about. during the month of may during a pack and year round as we continue to build relationships and change san francisco for the better working with each and every one of you, thank you all so much for being here to kick off asian american and pacific islander. heritage month in the city and county of san francisco. thank you. mayor. london breed. um. uh so our next speaker will city administrator come and chill comments one of one of our honorees in earlier years and obviously haven't you illustrious public service career through city home. so many positions as part of

supervisors assessor we call the and our city administrator, so thank you for being here coming. hello well, you really can't follow the mayor. so i'm not sure why i got this wonderful responsibility, but i really wanted to be here to celebrate with you. and to tell you how excited i am to celebrate with my daughter, she's finally vaccinated. she's four years old. we're going to get out there and want her to see what our city is all about. and to be able to experience all the wonderful, um, parts of our city , but i really want to take a minute to acknowledge the mayor and her championship. of all of the wonderful things that happen in our city. there are so many things that happen. the things that you see might be the headlines that grace to our news . it might be the information that is kind of top of mind when it comes to conversations in the public sphere, but by and large, sometimes the support that you get from leadership comes in ways that are small and quiet

but effective. i don't know if you know, i know. she just mentioned valiant and the grants for the arts program. but this mayor understood just how important it was to not only revitalize our economy and make sure that we're activating our spaces in our city. but the fact that every time we have these parades, these festivals, these cultural events, there are an opportunity to uplift the communities that we value so much in our city. i don't know if you know, but in our last budget, she doubled the amount of investment that we made in parades and festivals. these are not things that ever get covered impressed because maybe people don't pay attention to those small things, but they are the things that make a difference, and i just really want to acknowledge her support if anybody saw her at the cherry blossom festival, you know, just recently i was on that float with her. oh, my goodness. she is no better champion. she was dancing, enjoying it, and i'm like, how am i going to dance next to the mayor? that is not. that is not something that that , um is definitely in my forte. but she really is a champion. i

want to thank the mayor for all of her support for these events because it truly is important. but i have the wonderful opportunity today to be able to acknowledge the 30 40 and 50 year old contributions of these organizations. so it's not only about getting the voice of our api community out there, but it's also about recognition recognition of the people and the organizations who have been steadfast in our community, supporting our community and helping less weather all of the storms. so this time i want to be able to recognize that people and ask you to stand so we can get give you a big round of applause. for their contributions. representing the asian pacific fund, caroline wang colin, who is the president and executive director. asian pacific fund is celebrating their 30th anniversary. they have been doing so much to not only be a community foundation that helps to support our organizations across the bay area, but really has been focused on making sure that they were continuing to make the investments in our api community funds all across the board. i want to thank you for being here

representing the organization, and we look forward to recognizing your contributions. the agent, angel island immigration station foundation, represented by darlene shoe, bryant. celebrating their 40th year. as you know, the angel island immigration station foundation is devoted to preserving the former u. s immigration station at angel island and promote the history of the exclusion, detention, hope and determination of all immigrants who arrived there. so i want to thank you, darlene for all of your great work and continue to keep our history alive. thank you. and finally the japanese cultural and community center of northern california. scott okamoto, are you there? there you are. and laurie matoba as well. the deputy director is celebrating 50 years in our city. the center preserves and promotes japanese american culture and historical heritage enhances understanding and appreciation among people, the united states and japan and

promotes a multiservice community space to serve the community. so for those organizations who have had an immense impact on san francisco , thank you so much, and we look forward to continue to celebrate with you throughout the month. thank you. thank you, carmen. i see that. seven point, miyamoto is also here. would you like to see if it was. thank you. i just want to say one thing that, um the theme this year is strengthening the fabric of our community, and if i could draw your attention to my pants i just happened to be wearing denim today. today is world denim day in recognition of the support that we in public safety and in and all the different positions in our community we give to women victims of sexual assault victims who have to suffer sometimes through biases and prejudices on, uh, being

victims, and we want to show that support for them. by wearing denim jeans and i don't want to go into too much detail other than to say something happened in italy. where someone was blamed for being assaulted because of the clothing that she wore, and that's why legislatures in that country the next day war denim in support of the victim, and we do we do that now and recognition of that, so i think it's very timely because we're strengthening the fabric of our community. denim is a very strong fabric. and it also represents how we how we support each other worldwide. on things , and that just brings us all together. over one issue. we're coming together now and celebration, but i also want to make sure we always remember community is there to support each other through good times and bad. and as we've all gone through the experiences of a p i hate as we've all gone through the experiences of the challenges that we have in public safety right now. i just want to remind everyone we rely on you to make sure that we're

in this together to keep people safe. so please keep that in mind. you mentioned apec. more than a few people have mentioned apec. and every time i hear that as a public safety member were challenged with keeping everyone safe and we'll need your help to do that. so let's start with the celebration and roll up our sleeves. really good work to come. thank you. thank you, paul. um as the mayor have mentioned, and on previous speakers, we this we are so fortunate that this, uh, celebration every year was really support well supported by many organizations that our community sponsors or the non profits, you know to our business sponsors. um, three, uh, so we are very thankful. and today we want to specifically acknowledge our heritage champion, um, sponsors because they really have been amazing to want to support how we

strengthen the fabric of our community. um i want to first knowledge, fargo because in 2005 when we started in 2005 when we never have done any celebration before wells fargo was there to support us and through the years and now returning we are so excited, so i want to in spite lorenzo cordovan from. marco he's the vice president of philanthropy and community impact, say if it was. good morning, everyone. i'm lorenzo cordova on the philanthropy and community impact team at wells fargo, and we're thrilled to be here this morning to kick off and celebrate the start of aapi heritage month here in san francisco. there's no denying that the same. francisco is the great city. it is today because of the contributions of our api community past and present. whilst fargo like claudine mentioned has been a steadfast partner of our api community. in

fact, it was one of the first california companies to service our chinese customers in their native language. just last year through a partnership with the chinese cultural center of san francisco, we unveiled a community mural where we depicted 12 ap i community heroes, so as you engage in a p i related activities. i invite you to visit the corner of jackson and grant avenue to view this mural. this year. one of the many ways that we're celebrating aapi heritage month is through the sponsorship of the heritage awards at which we will be celebrating these three organizations that work day in and day out to equip our api community with the resources and tools that are api community needs to succeed. i want to take claudine claudine chang. for her stent, fat, steadfast leadership and dedication to execute this event to our mayor, mayor london breed for her commitment to celebrating and amplifying the

voices of all the communities that make this city a special place to call home. thank you. thank you, lorenzo. and next i'd like to invite our friend from us bank send you william, who is the senior vice president and baby area? market leader? thank you for your support. send it. good morning, everyone. my name is sandy wall. yeah, and i'm the bay area market leader for us bank where we believe every day that we invest our hearts and our minds to help power. human potential, um, in alignment, actually, with the theme for aapi heritage month, which is strengthening the fabric of our community. us bank has recently committed to $100 billion investment back into our communities with 60% of that right here in california. over the next five years to really help make community possible through inclusive and equitable growth, so very excited about that commitment back to our

communities we are passionate about and committed to creating more access as well as more opportunities to help all of our minority owned businesses succeed, as well as helping to close the racial gap. racial wealth gap in this country through our dedicated program that we've launched, which is called access commitment. we really believe in putting our people first, um and drawing all of that strength through the diversity, which we can see in this room today and really be on behalf of all of us that u s bank. we look forward to our continued partnership to serve san francisco and help make the area a wonderful place. thank you. thank you. u. s bank and also appreciate amazon's multi year support. unfortunately sally k cannot be here today. so um, we are almost at the closing of press conference. i want to acknowledge i see a couple of commissioners here, commissioner irene e. riley from the human rights commission is here. um commissioner ian lou from the us

commission is here. anybody i'm missing? and, um, we, um as we're going to may i already mentioned preschool to our website a psf dot org for the celebration guide that has a good listing of everything that's happening in the city. i want a specific and not what is not on the website is our to kick off events this saturday. it's very exciting. we are kicking off this saturday, april 29th first at noontime in japantown. great sorry, curious there and then in her team, we are going to have a 23 hours of celebration. japantown after which we are going to samoan community parliament center in precipitation fairly. thank you very much. restituto and your team. they are also going to have the aapi month kick off. so you know, everywhere in the city . we want to have action. we want to engage, you know, met people in the different neighborhoods so that you know we are all part of it. so, um and i look forward to seeing of

your next wednesday. we will have a full house if you have not registered. please do so, and, uh, as many of you have been to our events, the first hour is at the herbst theater where we do the piece was presentation and some cultural performances. but then everybody comes to city hall, where we will transform it to be our party space. so i hope that all of you will stay and come and enjoy yourselves. so thank you very much for being here. and please take a poster with you if you can put it in your organization office space and what not help spread the word that would be great.

please, rise for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> like to take roll. >> commissioner walker. >> present. >> commissioner benedicto. >> present. >> commissioner byrne. >> here. >> also with us we have chief scott from the sfpd and paul hendz son from the police accountability. >> sergeant, first item >> 1, weekly officer recognition presentation. officer alfredo oropeza from mission station and officer jose

canchola, mission station. >> good evening. thank you. i'm captain from mission police station officer canchola and officer alfredo oropeza. sorry. >> working on that all day. >> let me thank the commission for this opportunity. director henderson and chief scott, thank you very much temperature has been my pleasure to work with jose and alfredo for the better part of 2 years now. they are my foot beat officers work in the castro. to say this lightly does not give them enough credit. jot gentlemen working up in the castro for over 4 years as the foot beat. they have been a vital part of commission police station. you know there are challenges

throughout the city of san francisco with the unhoused mentally ill and drug addicted the 2 set an example of what foot beat officers really do and how valuable they can be to the police department and to the community at large. >> i will give you an example. last year at about this time. we were having a number of problems in the castro with the unhoused and mentally ill. and as you imagine we have an active community group up there who brings that to the attention of the police department and the board of supervisors and the mayor's office regularly. >> we put together a team of city agencies the d. public health and homelessness. emergency communication division and the police department to come up with a solution to address these.

when we sat down to identify those individuals in the castro who were causing the most calls for service and causing most disruptions up tlshg jose and alfredo here wasted now time in let'sing us know who the folks were. i credit that to their ability to know upon the business ordinance. the community and those in their beat that are in distress. they have spent years make those relationships with folks and we have made great strides up there. we do have a number of community group individuals regular low sends us a graph on tent counts. calls for service, number of homeless and i tell you without a doubt, in the last 6 mont wes seen the numbers go down

dramatically. so great has the program been because of the officers participation that the other districts are looking at that as a model. and they know everybody in the district and -- with the challenges we had with the injunction regarding the unhoused, we have had to change gears and come up with a different plan on how to deal with will people in need of services and get an upon number of complaints b. hose competence alfredo know those individuals. developed relationships with them example when we go and i get an e mail in the morning they gallon out and make contact with the persons and services and many times they decline the service. they connect with them and know them and know their backgroundses and know by their first and nick names and street

names and whatever they are going by on that day. they have been invaluable resource there and set the example of what foot beats can do and how they can be operated when i went with my first walk with them we walked the different businesses on the castro district. it was refreshing they knew business owners and the community and the dynamics of everything going on up there. and a vital resource. i'm going to callum captain harvey who is now the captain at mission police station and an example of something they did today a recognition of how vital they are. tom? >> okay i will get to this this morning we received a complaint at the station. regarding an individual who was causing disturbance on -- hartford street.

and -- in no time flat information was developed that the person causing a ruckus had a warrant for their arrest. i reached out to the 2 gentlemen and asked, can you respond to this area and attempt to locate the person? within minutes, the person was located. and placed under arrest. bring about a sense of reprieve to the neighborhood once more. so that is sort of a very recent today example of the good work the two do, thank you >> with that, thank you very much for honoring these 2 officers. and i don't have anymore to say. thank you. [applause]. hold on one moment. thank you. captain and harvey for

highlighting these officers. extraordinary work. before we take photos i want to offer the officers if they like to say a few words. >> thank you. captain it has been an honor and pleasure working with you the past 2 years and thank you very much for nominating us for this award. thank you, chief scott and my piers and commission. it is an honor. we don't need this but it is nice you know, thank you. also want to thank captain for being an amazing boss. pier as well and definitely a mentor for alfredo and myself. the boss we work with in the upon even on along sergeant reynolds. so, i do want to thank everyone

that you know for the award and we did not expect that. we like doing our work in the castro. the people we work with makes us feel we are at home. end of the day. we walk out if we did a good job and okay we think we did a good job. thank you, guys. >> [applause] >> san francisco police department recognizes officer alfredo oropeza star 432, mission police station officer of the week in recognition of your professionalism through outstanding community police and inspiring greatness with the ideals of the police officers as guardians of our community an example is worthy of the highest

esteem by san francisco. and the san francisco police department. presented on may 3, 2023, signed by chief william scott. [applause]. jose? >> i will not repoe that. this is presented to you on this third day of may 2023 signed by chief william scott. thank you very much. >> [applause] thank you, i appreciate it. >> thank you, i express thanks to officers oropeza and canchola for the service to the city to community policing and commitment to the work. i than my colleaguesment to say a couple words. director henderson? >> sure, thank you. used to be my district. i been work president folks that are still doing the work both

specifically in general low for the work you have been doing i talk about the is that you goos the quote was they were the best and the model should be using not like praise i want to acknowledge i think that it is important that we -- i think it is complicated we focus on things that need to be fixed when things are working that we acknowledge. when that gets done and who is doing that work. i want to thank you for the work you are doing. and the captain. you have a long history of doing this work and setting a good model for folk whats needs to get done, thank you all. american benedicto. >> thank you vice presidentism want to congratulate officer oropeza and canchola. hearing what the tasks were

taken on foot beat is the community policing and knowing the community and building relationships with the community that we want to see and really thank you for your will commitment. we ask a lot and expect of lot of our officers that means asking hard questions and means recognizing when officers are doing great work. it is important part of our job to recognize commitment to community policing and when things work. thank you. i want to recognize captain retiring and step down from commission for your work [inaudible] organized might have first ride along when i was sworn in a year ago and a great resource and -- also to extend the best wishes to captain harvey taking over admission station. commissioner walker. >> thank you.

congratulations. i lived in mission i want to sort of thank you for your service in my neighborhood. and i spend a lot of time in the castro talking to folk and they love you there. i just you are an example. we need to continue to do the work that works. and i want to commends you for that. a lot. they appreciate it there and so do we. and i want to welcome captain harvey to the neighborhood. again. i think. yes. thank you. chief scott. >> thank you. commissioner benedicto and walker part of what i want to say i want to thank him for 33 years of service for the san francisco actually 40 years he was a cadet before. this was the last day and about the officers but that's no small

feat, thank you for your service. welcome tom harvey wee have him in mission. thank you, captain harvey. and my last upon comments. i want to thank the mission for this recognition. this work this than i do the daily work. not medal of valor stuff butt work that is the life of the sudden front police department it is when they do every day. may not be the extraordinary thing that makes the news but this is the work that makes the community want foot beats all over they do it right. i've seen them. i heard many positive comments about them. thank you and thank the mission for recognizing this time work that's important. so, thank you president and vice

president. and the mission for rescue noising this work, it makes a difference. [applause]. make public comment regarding item one. prop the podium or press star 3. >> you have 2 minutes >> commissioners. i'm francisco decosta. and i'm trying this