>> may 19, 2023 special meeting of the san francisco ethic's commission. today's meeting is live cable cast on sfgovtv and live online at sfgov.org/ethicslive am public comment members of public may attend in person or participate by phone or the web ex platform explained in our agenda document. >> clerk, can you explain to the public how today's remote comment will be handled. >> thank you, madam chair >> public comment made on each item on this agenda. each member will be allowed 3 minutes to speak. for those in person opportunity to speak during the comment period made available in room

416 in city hall. remote. public comment can be provided phone call, calling 415-554-0001, access code: 2597 1112 3412 ##. when your item come up press star 3 to raise your hand to be added to the public comment line. >> public comment is available i have at web ex complaint application. use the web ex link on connect and press the raised hand button to be added to the public comment line. for instructions about how to interact with the phone system or web ex refer to the public comment section of the agenda document for this meeting.

public comment may be submitted in writing and shared with the commission and include part of the official meeting time written comments sent to ethics. commission @sfgov.org. members who attend meetings including remote attendance are expected to behave respectfully. during comment, address your comments to the commission as a whole and not individual members. importance who engage in name calling or other distracting behavior may be excluded from participation. the following behaviors are strictly prohibited during remote participation. applause for support or opposition. signs regardless of condition cent or message. profanity. threats of aggression. the prohibition of signs does in the apply to clothing including

signage pinned to clothing. messages on clothing. pins, hats or buttons this supplements rules and policy adopted by city hall the sheriff's office or the board of supervisors. related to the decorum prohibited conduct or activities and noise and not meant to be exhaustive. thank you. >> thank you. >> i call the meeting to order. roll call, please. commissioners responded by saying aye when your name is called. >> commissioner florez. >> aye. >> commissioner finlev. >> aye. >> chair lee. >> aye. >> commissioner romano. >> absent today. well. commissioner. >> aye. >> welcome aboard and welcome to

the commission. >> and on behalf of the commission i want to welcome our newest member commissioner, and look forward to an engaging and productive tenure with you. >> thank you, chair lee it it is a privilege and i look forward to that as well. >> i have a quorum. >> thank you. now let's go to agenda item 2 which is general public comment. on matters not appearing on the agenda. >> i see members of the audience. in the room would anyone want to comment before we go to our virtual audience? you 3 minutes begins now. >> would be good afternoon

[inaudible] ethics wow. it is huge. for humanity. okay. try your best. >> all right. thank you. >> thank you. anyone else if not go to -- our virtual audience >> there are no callers in the queue yoochl public comment is closed for item 2. now let's go to agenda item 3. which is a proposed closed session. today's agenda includes a closed session item under item 3 for public, employee employment executive director this has been scheduled for the commission's discussion and possible action. for purposes of this item today there are for you steps involved. first under 3a we will receive public comment on all matters

pertaining to item 3 including weather to mote in closed session. second, vote on weather to mote in closed session under government code section 54957b1. and the administrative code 67. 10b to discuss the public employee appointment. this will be an action item as noted in item b. third if held the commission will initiate that meeting. fourth, pursuant to code section 54957. one and section 87. 12b and shown in the agenda item, we'll discuss and vote on the motion regarding whether or not to disclose action taken or discussion in closed session regarding the public employee appointment. is any commissioners have questions regarding today's

process? i see none. i ask our deputy city attorney is there anything you wish to add on the closed session. >> no, commissioner. thank you. >> thank you. >> let us now proceed to public comment on item 3. >> madam chair kwooe we have no one in person and no callers. >> terrific. public comment is closed. so now let us proceed to vote whether to conduct the public i mean, closed session. why move to go to closed session. >> okay. we have a motion. made and seconded. roll call. >> motion made and seconded to proceed to closed session. commissioner feng. why aye >> commissioner finlev. >> aye >> chair lee. >> aye. >> [laughter].

>> testimony take awhile to realize your last name again. thank you. >> okay. thank you we have 4 votes now move to closed session. and for the viewing public on screen notice stating the commission is meeting in closed session will remain on for the duration of closed session. audio and visuals will commence witness we are finished with closed session we thank you for >> madam chair. >> we are ready. >> okay

>> we are back in session. i want to thank the public for patience and engagement as we resume our open session meeting. do i have a motion whether or not to disclose the discussions held in closed session? >> i move to not disclose the content of the closed session. >> second. >> roll call. >> motion made not to disclose and seconded. i will take the roll. commissioner feng. >> aye. >> commissioner finlev. >> aye >> chair lee >> aye >> commissioner salahi. >> aye. >> 4 votes. okay. approved. >> thank you very much. agenda item 4 discussion on possible action on items for future meeting. >> public comment? please.

madam chair no one in the public we are checking to see. there are no callers. >> public comment is closed now agenda item 5. additional opportunity for public comment on matters not on the agenda ethik's law article upon 7. public comment. madam chair we have nobody in person and we have no callers in the queue. >> okay. item 6 adjournment. no public comment or discussion. thank you, everybody. happy friday.

the tenderloin is home to families, immigrants, seniors, merchants, workers and the housed and unhoused who all deserve a thriving neighborhood to call home. the tenderloin initiative was launched to improve safety, reduce crime, connect people to services and increase investments in the neighborhood. as city and community-based

partners, we work daily to make these changes a reality. we invite you to the tenderloin history, inclusivity make this neighborhood special. >> we're all citizens of san francisco and we deserve food, water, shelter, all of those things that any system would. >> what i find the most fulfilling about being in the tenderloin is that it's really basically a big family here and i love working and living here. >> [speaking foreign language] >> my hopes and dreams for the tenderloin are what any other community organizer would want for their community, safe,

clean streets for everyone and good operating conditions for small businesses. >> everything in the tenderloin is very good. the food is very good. if you go to any restaurant in san francisco, you will feel like oh, wow, the food is great. the people are nice. >> it is a place where it embraces all walks of life and different cultures. so this is the soul of the tenderloin. it's really welcoming. the. >> the tenderloin is so full of color and so full of people. so with all of us being together and making it feel very safe is challenging, but we are working on it and we are getting there.

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 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. all of those are just the beginning of what is possible in terms of growth and

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as latinos we are unified in some ways and incredibly diverse in others and this exhibit really is an exploration of nuance in how we present those ideas. ♪♪ our debts are not for sale. >> a piece about sanctuary and how his whole family served in the army and it's a long family tradition and these people that look at us as foreigners, we have been here and we are part of america, you know, and we had to reinforce that.

i have been cure rating here for about 18 year. we started with a table top, candle, flowers, and a picture and people reacted to that like it was the monna lisa. >> the most important tradition as it relates to the show is idea of making offering. in traditional mexican alters, you see food, candy, drinks, cigarettes, the things that the person that the offerings where being made to can take with them into the next word, the next life. >> keeps us connects to the people who have passed and because family is so important to us, that community dynamic makes it stick and makes it visible and it humanizes it and makes it present again.

♪♪ >> when i first started doing it back in '71, i wanted to do something with ritual, ceremony and history and you know i talked to my partner ross about the research and we opened and it hit a cord and people loved it. >> i think the line between engaging everyone with our culture and appropriating it. i think it goes back to asking people to bring their visions of what it means to honor the dead, and so for us it's not asking us to make mexican altars if they are not mexican, it's really to share and expand our vision of what it means to honor the dead. >> people are very respectful. i can show you this year alone

of people who call tol ask is it okay if we come, we are hawaii or asian or we are this. what should we wear? what do you recommend that we do? >> they say oh, you know, we want a four day of the dead and it's all hybrid in this country. what has happened are paper cuts, it's so hybrid. it has spread to mexico from the bay area. we have influence on a lot of people, and i'm proud of it. >> a lot of times they don't represent we represent a lot of cultures with a lot of different perspectives and beliefs. >> i can see the city changes and it's scary. >> when we first started a lot

of people freaked out thinking we were a cult and things like that, but we went out of our way to also make it educational through outreach and that is why we started doing the prosession in 1979. >> as someone who grew up attending the yearly processions and who has seen them change incrementally every year into kind of what they are now, i feel in many ways that the cat is out of the bag and there is no putting the genie back into the bottle in how the wider public accesses the day of the dead. >> i have been through three different generations of children who were brought to the procession when they were very young that are now bringing their children or grandchildren. >> in the '80s, the processions were just kind of electric.

families with their homemade visuals walking down the street in san francisco. service so much more intimate and personal and so much more rooted in kind of a family practice of a very strong cultural practice. it kind of is what it is now and it has gone off in many different directions but i will always love the early days in the '80s where it was so intimate and sofa millial. >> our goal is to rescue a part of the culture that was a part that we could invite others to join in there there by where we invite the person to come help us rescue it also.

that's what makes it unique. >> you have to know how to approach this changing situation, it's exhausting and i have seen how it has affected everybody. >> what's happening in mission and the relationship with the police, well it's relevant and it's relevant that people think about it that day of the dead is not just sugar skulls and paper flowers and candles, but it's become a nondenominational tradition that people celebrate. >> our culture is about color and family and if that is not present in your life, there is just no meaning to it you know? >> we have artists as black and brown people that are in direct danger of the direct policies of the trump administration and i think how each of the artists has responded so that call is

interesting. the common2023.) >> good afternoon, everyone. >> >> welcome to the san francisco historic preservation commission meeting this afternoon at 12:30 pm., wednesday, may 17, 2023. to enable public proclamation live and we'll receive comment for each item limited to 3 minutes per speaker and we have thirty seconds you'll hear when you time is up and next person needs to speak take public comment those persons in city hall and open up the access