year-round, make your dollar matter and buy black. >> first off, i want to of course welcome all of you to san francisco, my name is carmen chu, san francisco city administrator. i hope as you have all come to san francisco, i believe monday was the first day that many of our folks, our partners across the country have come to san francisco, that you've had a chance to take in the breathtaking views of san francisco and the wonderful food and the people and community that is here. a monthly jiez, i'm a little bit under the weather -- i apologize, i'm under the weather. this is resilience from my three-year-old's germs and i want to welcome you from across

north america to san francisco. we're here today along our partners and cities from houston so montreal to reaffirm san francisco's commitment to building a stronger and more resilient san francisco. it's no secret that san francisco grapples with some of the most daunting challenges that face cities of our time. we have challenges around affordable housing, it is not unique to san francisco. but lasting impacts of a global pandemic, the shots and stressors of climate change and our seismic risk in the bay area. san francisco has never shied away from these challenges from the great earthquakes and fires of 1906 so the loma prieta earthquakes to the boom and bust of past economies, we have proved that we can rise up and come back stronger when we face these challenges head on. in the coming years, of resiliency of our cities will be tested by our ability not only to respond quickly but bounce back from climate related events. that's

why it's so important we are investing in strategies and programs that improve our resiliency and capacity to extend climate emergencies while strengthening our economy. i'm grateful for the work of elaine forks, the director of the port who you'll hear from, with preparing our waterfront ages to the challenges of sea level rise and flooding. i'm grateful to work of brian strong who is our chief resiliency officer for overseeing, yes, applause is great. [applause] for overseeing and coordinating citywide resiliency initiatives including our earthquake city implementation program. in a few minutes, we'll be here signing a letter that affirms san francisco's continued commitment to the resilient city's network, a global network of committees committed to urban resiliency. this signing underscores our pledge to build a city that meets the demands of the future, and we value the opportunity to share our knowledge and best

practices with our partners cities around the globe and hear what everyone else is doing. in only that way will we build a stronger community. so i want to thank the resiliency partnership and supporting this work and bringing cities from around the globe together and for being here and choosing to be in san francisco. so thank you for that. i'd like to bring up elaine forbes who will share a few remarks with you. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you, city administrator chu and welcome, climate experts, resilience folks from around the city and public officials trying to build a safer and resilient community. we're happy to host you at the port's waterfront today. it's really an honor to have you here and i thought my comments to uplift what our city administrator has provided to you, would be to say, what it's like to be an agency that is in a city that is totally dedicated to resilience. so, here you are

at the port. we have 7 and a half miles of waterfront property and about ten years ago, we began a journey of figuring out we have something very, very challenging to solve in a hard place to solve it and we had to get to work. we got our seawall put into the city's assets and ten years ago the city said, what's under there and protecting our shoreline and provides flood protection to the downtown and city administrator's team and the mayor's won a grant called the city administrator's award and we went to other cities to see how we would insure flood insurance along this important shoreline. we started investigating very deeply, learning about all layers of mud down to the bottom, down to the top, how this, how this shoreline is stable and then, the city family decided we would go out to our voters with a general obligation bond, now six

years ago, i believe or yes. to say we know we have a bad problem. look at all this earthquake risk. we know the tide is rising and we know the waterfront is important and protects all the city infrastructure and what we love about this town but but we don't know what to do. can we have a ten percent down payment to figure it out. i was shocked the city officials were willing to be that proactive and aggressive to say this is a problem to solve. and amazingly, 84% of the san francisco voters agreed with these city officials, so where are we now? now, after this long journey of forward planning, we know all of the soils of the 3.5 miles of the historic shoreline that projects so much city infrastructure, transportation systems, et cetera, and we know how to prioritize city improvements and we have a study we're doing with the army corps of engineers and we're months away of figuring out a plan for flood protection, that the city and our city family will engage in. it's the

long-term vision and such an honor to be an agency that serves the city completely committed to our future and so i'm very proud to be here and i see my resilience team members are here, brad benson and adam barrett and others on the front lines of working on these challenges so excited to be here today with you all and excited to see an exchange, great ideas about how to make our community stronger in the face of climate change and the resiliency challenges we face and i would like to invite brian strong, the resiliency officer and he'll remember everything i described to you. with that, brian strong. [applause] >> thank you, elaine and yes. it has been a long journey and i remember every step. there's more to go. yeah. i'm brian strong, the resiliency officer of the city and county of san

francisco. i want to echo what carmen and elaine next pressing gratitude for the resiliency networks and the partners coming to the bay area. we were in oakland yesterday and learning this knowledge sharing, it's so important. these are really difficult and difficult issues and the more we can work together, i think the better it lifts all of us up, right, in ways we can't think about now. the synergy that gets formed. so, i oversee citywide programs and initiates to bring city departments and community partners together in san francisco to strengthen our resilience. we've been a long-time champion of coordinated citywide resiliency planning and initiatives because we know meeting the challenges of today and the future requires working and innovating together. that's why we really appreciate and participate in organizations like the resiliency network.

yesterday and today we're learning from these cities like norfolk, miami and miami-dade who are experiencing their sea level rise challenges and working closely with the army corps of engineers so we're learning and working together and learning from vancouver, los angeles and berkeley and other places where they have similar challenge was seismic risks on top of climate and sea level rise risk we face, that we know are somewhat unique to different regions of the country. san francisco is the first city in the 100 cities network in the globe to hire a resiliency officer. we released our first strategy in 2016 and completed 90% of the objectives in that strategy. to date, we are now following through on a next set of action items and a lot of those are really focused on and

has resiliency climate action planning effort and around our retrofit programs that we're successfully completed but we're moving to vulnerable buildings in san francisco. we are also doing a lot of work in passing critical bonds, elaine mentioned seawall bond, we've done a significant, over billion dollars of housing bonds because we understand affordable housing is critical to resilient and focused on equity to make sure our most vulnerable communities are also being lifted up and not left behind. we know there's more to do and we need to continue to push forward with the various programs that i've talked about. ultimately, you know, resilient is about improving structures, processes, to make sure people's lives and communities more equitable, and safe and able to respond and thrive is what i would say, thrive -- you know, benefit from the challenges we're going to be

facing. with that, i would also like to thank my boss, city administrator carmen chu, again, for taking on this mantle and being a champion in san francisco for this work. i would like to introduce my very good friend and someone i've been working with for several years, laurian farrell. she's the global director of the knowledge, transportation, of knowledge transformation, sorry for the global cities resiliency city's network and oversees the north america chief resilient officer who's are here today. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, thank you, brian. good morning, everyone. thank you, city administrator chu and elaine forbes for your words. through your examples you have shown the examples that all cities can take to move toward a resilient future and we're joined by 189 cities from -- 18 cities from across the united

states and canada. when we started our regional convening and chose the bay area, we did it in part because of this amazing beautiful geography of the area, of course, but also in part because of the breath of resilience activities that you are all undertaking across the bay area. but i would say that we truly picked this area to come and visit because of the people that are here doing this work in resilience, and you truly are leading the pack in resilience. you see building a resilient city is extremely hard and it takes technical know-how across many disciplines, but it also takes people with holistic mindsets with coalition building skills and the optimism and belief that it really is possible for us to build urban resilient cities that serve every member of our communities. and we know we must do this because the shocks and stresses that cities are facing are

inevitable. we must deal with them. we recognize the leadership of san francisco and fine strong and thank you for supporting the work of the network, since it was originally formed in 100 resilient city days and reinvented as resilient cities years ago. it's vehicles for knowledge sharing and cocreation. personally, i'm a water resources engineer by trade from toronto canada and i started thinking about resilience when i was work nothing the city doing flood risk management, so i'm happy to be beside the water this morning. i feel comfortable here. i worked in, i was a person drawing the flood lines, the person telling people where the risks were. i was issuing flood warnings to get people to stay safe and stay away from the rivers and i was the person trying to figure out mitigate

plans for flood risk. along the way, i realized there has to be, there was something missing in my practices in engineer and it was the people element. i've spent a lot of time looking at maps and drawing lines and doing budgets this led me to resilience and how did i bring in my scope of practice and become a better engineer. in resilience, i have many people who are different discipline was the same mindset, how do i become a better economic person? how do i become a better politician? how do i become a better person working on social coalition? and we come together to form resilience, to build resilience. brian strong was one of the first people that i met, when i started this journey. bryan exemplifies why we need cro's working on resilience. bryan was instrumental in shaping this network from its inception. he embraced the idea

that our network is city led, meaning our cities tell us what they need help on and we help to bring everyone together to share ideas, to share knowledge. yesterday, brian spoke about how the city established funds to implement resilience actions, something that many of our cities sought up in their seats and said how did you do that and how can we learn from you? during the pandemic, when cities were really struggling in the early days, brian came to our group and talked about the economic recovery plan that the city of san francisco was developing and many, many cities took lessons away from that and applied them to their cities and these are practical tangible solutions that's not easy but san francisco found a way to get things done. we want, in this network, to share our knowledge in a way that transforms action so changes the way we can build

cities, so we can build stronger and resilient cities when we work together and brian said that word along much i want to thank brian strong and city administrator carmen chu for your support and the continue support of this network and global community of resilient cities. and with that, i would like to thank you all for joining us this morning and i will turn the mic over to city administrator chu, thank you. [applause] >> i think often times as we do the work, we are doing our work in front of au a computer and planning documents and meeting and i think being out here, which is a rare thing for me to be able to come out of my office, but to be able to stand out here at the waterfront with all of you, serves as a reminder of what is at stake here and i want to thank the team who is here for all the work they are doing because what is at stake is the city, right. what is at stake are the people who live

and work here and the economy that thrives here and it's this beautiful place we call san francisco and the cities and we need to do right and do the right thing and plan and prepare for the things that may not come tomorrow, but we know surely are coming. we know earthquake risk is real. we know that climate change is real and sea level rise is real. and so, these are things we can't just pretend don't exist and we don't plan for. what's at risk is making sure we have a city that's resilient and that can withstand all of the shocks that will come. and that's our responsibility, that's all of your responsibilities. so, again, i want to thank all of you for being here and again, on behalf of the mayor, we are very, very excited to have you here. we're glad you have a chance to see our city. we hope you have fallen in love with the city as much as we love our city and will come back again. with that, i would like to i object viet our chief resiliency officers, all the folks who joined us here to come as we

sign now. thank you so much. come on up. [applause] we're not going to sign until you're up here, okay. [laughter] >> all right. are we all ready? >> yeah. >> okay. i wish my signature was longer, but.... [laughter] yay! [applause]

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. i didn't - >> sound familiar do you keep on getting up there's an easier way. >> of course there's easier way get rid of of mosquito they breed whatever this is water no water no mosquito mosquito feed on good blood the eggs hatch and stay near the waters san francisco to breathe and the adult underlying mosquito waits on the as many until it's sexuality hardens

water pools in any areas and creates places you'll not normally think of budget and any container that holds water and hidden in bushes or else were dump the water and do it over soil not into a drain the larva can continue growing in the pooled water is sewage disthe first of its kind the area if the sewage is two extreme have a licensed plumber assist water pools in rain gutters and snaking and cleaning out the water when keep the water from pooling and keep in mind that mosquito breed in other waters like catch balgsz and construction barriers interest crawl spaces with clmg is an issue you may have is week to cause the water to collect this is an sour of mosquito so for

buildings just fix the clean air act drains and catch basins can be mosquito ground it will eliminate it as a possible location keep shrubbery and growths estimated any water to can be seen and eliminated birdbath and fountains and uncovered hot tubs mosquito breed but it is difficult to dump the water out of a hot top can't dump the water adding mosquito finish rids the source of mosquito there are also traditionally methods to protect you installing screens on windows and doors and using a mosquito net and politically aau planet take the time to do the things

we've mentioned to eliminate standing water and make sure that mosquito are not a problem on your property remember no water no mosquito [music] so, can you tell us what it was like for you during your first encounter with the san francisco fire department? >> yep. it was super cool! i got to learn about the dry standing pipe correction. it is actually called, dry sand piper just stand pipe. tomato. you know. yea. >> so, what is coming up next for what is that for? >> oh , firefighter backsterinvited mow to a fire

station to see the cool stuff firefighters use to put out fires. you have seen the had doors open like a space ship from out of nowhere. i close my eye its is like i'm there right now! wow! whoa. watch out, man. what is that for? >> what is this? these are fire engines they might look alike they are both red. white top and red lights on top. this is a new 2021 fire engine and this is an older 2014 fire engine. if you can't tell, this one is shorter and narrower than our older fire engines. they have cool things like

recessed lights. roll up doors. 360 degree cam ares and more that is important as the city is moving toward slower and safer streets adding parklets and bulb outs and bike lanes we need to decrease our footprint to keep us and the community safer on emergency scenes. >> what's back there? >> when is not guilty fire engine. great question. i want to see, sure. >> let's go back and look at the equipment and the fire pump on the fire engine. >> this is a fire pump. it is cool all the colors and all that. this fire pump and this engine holds 500 gallons of water that is a lot. >> a lot of water. >> it is push out 1500 gallons a minute of water. we can lose our 500 gammons quickly. why we use hoses like this to

connect to a fire hydrant and that gives us unlimited amount of water to help put a fire out temperature is important we have enough fire engine in san francisco to put fires out. so we can reduce the injuries and minimize loss of life and minimize property damage. [music] >> mr. will. mr. will. will! >> oh. daydreaming. thanks, everybody for watching! bye! [music]

>> my name is julie maw. i am a captain in the san francisco fire department. i didn't grow up thinking i would be a firefighter. i didn't realize it was an option. i didn't see other people who looks like me in the fire service, so i didn't have an idea that this was a possibility for me. what inspired me is i had a few friends from the hip -- hawaiian community who were applying for the job at the time and they encouraged me to apply as well. we are a pretty tightknit community. we are like a family, the fire service is like a family. food is essential -- is central to our gatherings in the fire service as well. and teamwork and being part of something bigger than yourself and really having community. that is what inspired me to be part of the fire department. when i was applying for this job and i was going down that route of the hiring process, i looked around and i started looking at

the different engines and the rigs driving around the street and i said, you know what, there is somebody that looks like me. there is somebody that looks like me. to me, that was really important. and that representation, what i saw, the light bulbs went on and i could see myself in the job. for me, being in this position as a captain, and being on the track and going around to her neighborhood, even when we are doing the most mundane of tasks, it is important that they see me in the role, right? asian pacific islander woman in a leadership position, that i am in this job. and even ringing the bell for the kids in the neighborhood, they see me, they cs, they see my crew and it is huge. that lightbulbs can go off for them as well like it went on for me. it truly is important to me to be part of an organization that

supports diversity and representation. being in a job where we serve the community is really important that we represent the community. i think visibility, representation is key to opening doors for others, other people of color, other women, other people in the asian pacific islander community and say, hey,, that could be need too. i could be here serving the community and being a firefighter. [♪♪♪]

>> everything is done in-house. i think it is done. i have always been passionate about gelato. every single slaver has its own recipe. we have our own -- we move on from there. so you have every time a unique experience because that slaver is the flavored we want to make. union street is unique because of the neighbors and the location itself. the people that live around here i love to see when the street is full of people. it is a little bit of italy that is happening around you can walk

around and enjoy shopping with gelato in your hand. this is the move we are happy to provide to the people. i always love union street because it's not like another commercial street where you have big chains. here you have the neighbors. there is a lot of stories and the neighborhoods are essential. people have -- they enjoy having their daily or weekly gelato. i love this street itself. >> we created a move of an area where we will be visiting. we want to make sure that the area has the gelato that you like. what we give back as a shop owner is creating an ambient lifestyle. if you do it in your area and if you like it, then you can do it

on the streets you like.

>> i'm connie chan district one supervisor and welcome to the

richmond. >> i'm an immigrant and came to san francisco china town when i was 13 years old with my mom and brother. my first job is at the community organizer for public safety with san francisco state. and land in the city hall and became a legislative aid to sophie maxwell. went through city departments when kamala harris was our district attorney i'm proud to represent the richmondad district supervisor. [music] we have great

neighborhood commercial corridors that need to be protected. the reason why we launched the neighborhood business for supporting the [inaudible] for 15 years special more. we have the legacy business program the business around for 30 years or more and thought, you know, we gotta make sure the next generation contains for generations to come. am i'm ruth the owner of hamburger haven we came back on july 11. we were opened in 1968 at that time i believe one of the owners of mestart today went through a guy named andy in the early 70s and my father took it mid 70s. >> originally was just a burger joint. open late nights. then it changed over the years

and became the breakfast staple. we specialize in breakfast, brunch come lunch now. i love this neighborhood. i grew up here. and it feels like home. i walk down the block and recognize people of people say hello. you say hello you talk and joke. has that familiar environment that is enjoyable and i have not experienced anywhere else. there are many things i would like to see improve ams the things we might see are making sure that our tenants stay housed our small business in tact and those are the solutions that will contain to push to make sure that you know our communities can take root, stay and thrive. >> i'm proud of you know, welcoming folks to the richmond.

everyone loch its we got farmer's market every sunday there. the you see really business at the noaa. ice cream at toy folks and going to chop for book like green apple. and that's when you like the deal is pizza place haall families love. you will see a lot of great chinese shops that is readily available for everyone. >> and that is just thein are richmond there is more to do in the richmond. what is love is the theatre. >> i mean adam and with my wife jamie, own little company called cinema sf we operate the balboa theatre. the vocabularying theatre on sacramento and soon the 4 star on clement. >> balboa theatre opened in 1926 and servicing this outer

richmond neighborhood since then. and close on the heels the 4 star opens since 1913. >> when you come in to a movie theatre, the rest of the world has to be left behind. but you get e mersed in the world that is film makers made for you. that is a special experience to very much we can all think of the movies that we saw in the big screen of with everybody screaming or laughing or crying. it is a shared human experience that you get when you go in to places that are gatherings and artist presented to you. >> a shared experience is the most precious. and the popcorn. [laughter]. at the balboa especially, we stroif to have movies for people of every generation from the pop corn palace movies on the weekend mornings, for families

and kids. this is for everybody of all ages. >> what is great about the richmond is it is a neighborhood of the immigrants. belongs to immigrants not ap i immigrants you will see that there are also a huge population of rush wrans and ukrainian immigrants they stay united you am see that the support they lend to each other as a community. and cinderella bakery is another legacy business. if you go on the website it is known as a russian bakery. the first thing you see their pledge to support the ukrainian community. you will see the unity in the richmond i'm so proud of our immigrant community in the rich monthed. >> my dad immigrate friday iran the reason he stayed was because

of the restaurant. has more centamential value it is the reasonable we are in this country. when he had an opportunity to take over the instruct he stayed that is why we are here part of our legacy and san francisco history and like to keep it going for years to come. >> another moment i'm proud to be supporting the richmond and the only asian american woman elect in the office and as an immigrant that is not happen nothing 3 decades. you see it is my ability to represent especially the asian-american community. in my case the chinese speaking elders in our community that really can allow me to communicate with them directly. i'm program director of adult day centers. i have been here for 7 years i

love to help the communities and help and the people with disability. i foal a connection with them. i am anim grant i love helping our community and new immigrants and improvements. >> if you want nature, richmond is the neighborhood to go we are between ocean beach heights and golden gate park. >> i love the outer richmond. for me this is the single best neighborhood in san francisco. everybody knows each other. people have been living here forever. it is young and old. the ocean is really near by. and so there is that out doors ocean vibe to it. there are places to seat golden gate bridge it is amazing.

businesses are all small mom and pop businesses. houses get passed down generation to generation. it has a small town feel but you know you are in a big city at the same time. it's got a unique flavor i don't see in other neighborhoods j. it is about being inclusive we are inclusive and welcome the communities, anybody should feel welcome and belong here and shop local, eat local. we believe that with that support and that network it come in full circle. it is passing on kinds knows. that's when richmond is about that we are together at once. welcome to the richmond. [music]