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>> wow. welcome to chinatown first of all, let me say thank you to ryan and i was yesterday on an event for c y c today

there were they're doing performances and getting the clouds u crowds in chinatown excited about being part of that streamlined committee you know san francisco we celebrate our diversity we really talk about chinatown as being one of the highlights of what people want to come to when this he visit san francisco and in performance from this is icing on the cake so we have some incredible restaurants and businesses fact of the matter after spending time with c y c i walked to ryan avenue and decided i want to get 5 chicken wiggins at capital and in chinatown will was so many people here and even this past weekend we officially started

san francisco we had grand masters from all over who came here to celebrate this extraordinary art the streets were packed people are everywhere and seniors and kids and visitors and commenting and staffing and dining and spending time in chinatown at chinatown station this is the place where people want to live here and travel through san francisco. but that is also the place where people from downtown and other parts of the city come to visit they goat of the station it is clean and nice we have ambassadors that are with us today that can be cantonese and speak other languages to make sure we are able to answer questions and meet the needs of people in the communities is just wonderful a have the captain from center station and thank you for the south miami

for the work at the substation and is broader chinatown community yesterday they were everywhere. but we want to do more we want to activate this space and make sure that the cafe is on we're going to work on mta to make sure we get moving quickly and a place for people that buy food and pastries and what have you it is station but activate it and that takes resources and working with the chinese consolidate ben last night association and working with the chinatown administering thank you, eva for today and as well as c y c the incredible working we're going together to make sure that chinatown is the supported but activated. we have events and activities by people

working with a various nonprofit groups and organization here celebrating art and culture and celebrating the experiences of the chinese community specifically in chinatown is what in movement it all about to why are we here to make it clear every weekend during the spring and summer months this plaza will be activated on the weekend and to 5:00 p.m. to get over at the station and who is going on i need to stop for a moment before i head over to capital or to any place else he came here to visit and enjoy the great performs for visitor and community and more popular we are online in our stop and dine 49 campaign launching a chinatown campaign that

highlights all the great businesses here and all the things to do the activities and waverly place a great celebration down to alleyway and other events activities non-stop plenty of surprise i don't know about you but i had had fear of missing out. (laughter) i have that myself going to i don't like to miss anything so if you want to show up in chinatown everyday but especially on the weekends when this is the most active and the most fun and of the $3 million of it city to invest to make those activities happen and make sure we have thriving chinatown we know things have been challenging over the years but you i've been victorville and talking to city council special meeting/budget study session this evening at 5:00 pm, wednesday, june 7, 2023.) who is going on they said thing are mr.

carroll good we can use more and i'm here to shine a light on chinatown to recommend people of what san francisco is an amazing community that is here to say a resilient through criminalization pandemic and other challenges and shill here stronger and bigger than ever and looking at to the things happening you may see me out there every now and then stopping at the restaurant without the councilmember detoy or councilmember detoy to introduce a person used to be the supervisor but assembly mu-n member has make sure that one million dollars you activation supportive of chinatown happened have not state he served at the state assembly member and now our city attorney and doing great things for chinatown in the city and county of san francisco ladies and gentlemen please welcome, david chu.

>> (clapping). >> thank you, a madam mayor and good morning san francisco chinatown who is existed for the summer you guys existed bring on the fwrog i'll start by saying we're standing in a special place not just referring to say that buff mini station but the neighborhood the fact is in 1848 three immigrants came infrastructure chino and two years later on 20 thousand immigrants decided to come and one hundred and 75 years later chinatown is not just the old historical chinatown in the country we are the culture and social and spiritual comparatively the chinese-american and want to say the first certificate of achievement to represent city hall i think about the history

of our asian neighborhoods in san francisco the old in the country here in our city and the little saigon and the currently vicinity and chinese in the richmond and sunset and portal we are here. and we know over the years have gone through challenging times whether that is the side and chinese he rra under the 1800s or rethis after the 1906 kathy we always come back one of the last things i do in the legislative was to work with folks here to bring one million dollars back to the community. and the reason at that time we wanted to do if we had our communities were struggling after the pandemic. and after the impacts of and italian hate but a year and a

half later this was more importantly because we are evolving did good news things are moving toward receipt to the retail businesses are going our night life is coming back we have more to do and thank you, mayor, and thank the office of economic development for working with the community on programs and grants to revise and bring back the small businesses and residents and visitors together building community and building the town thank you all the mannerism that are standing behind us represented the organizations that are actually doing this work in the coming months during the summer self help and the dp and cpa and chinese companies and, of course, the chinatown merchants and the chinese camera and the legacy each you have represent

in our own way communities and businesses and let me close by saying that just as chinatown after some difficult narratives we come back and rise recognize is flexing i know what we're doing this vitality and energy will continue to bring san francisco back like the flexing we always rise and with that, my honor to announce my successor and predecessor on the board of supervisors president supervisor peskin. thank you very much. >> (clapping). >> thank you, city attorney chu and thank you for being here mayor breed it is important to every you once in awhile take stock where we're been and say thank you. and this is an streamlined stop dhoun has the highest dent not only in to but

the western sea board of united states and has been staved for open space? not overly the new chinatown rose pack station this is a new open space chinatown. i saw the movie rally how many of you have shown the moving rally everyone has to see this moving shown and theatre around the corner a store about the last of late great rose pack and the community led fight to name this dhoun station the rose pack station more than that that is really about the community and the way this community leads all of us this community leads and the politicians follow it is true. this is the first time that the mta has been an open space business and rec and park they've been programming open spaces for decades for centuries

but the first for the mta and i had no doubt that with the community association with the chinese chamber of commerce, with the chinatown market street association with the chinatown administering united and chinatown neighborhood association the c y c and the elders louisiana and tom ma gunfire your job is easier because this is the neighborhood that knows how to do it for hold your feet to the fire and come up with the resources and become an attraction far beyond this neighborhood. now we have - that is not just chinatown it is great are chinatown with raufrn hill and north bacterium beach to jackson square the reality all of san francisco is greater chinatown. and this is the center and this segue connected

to the rest of the city a remarkably important state and this rooftop some the icing on the cake and in a way that attracts visitors flu all over the state and country that makes the center of this chinatown and then let me say that because of that leadership this government under the leadership have been london breed has been consistent about the infrastructureal needs not just about having financially finished in project was also about what next up the lake superior of chinatown dougherty have will have groundbreaking and recorder to everything can be to market library on palace street not far beyond the broadway and also on our list so this is just the beginning and with that, that is

my honor and pleasure to i'm going to turn it over to tom ma gunfire from the san francisco pta had the pleasure and pain of residing over this plan thank you, tom and others. >> (clapping). >> thank you, supervisor and tommy ma gunfire the street director for is transportation and welcome you here to our newest subsidy and network every month nearly 50 thousand passengers and community and chinatown voifrtsz pass through the station this is the busiest station in the subsidy not a surprise we built if not just building contractors but we're building contexts and connecting this we're very, very excited to

be hosting the event to celebrate the community and this is what transit it all been in san francisco so takes many people to do the job will be background of the community recovery and working really hard through the ambassador program community partnerships and with the san francisco police department to make sure that everyone customer feel safe with the rearview mirror bus and welcoming to people no matter their background to get from a to s so pleasure and honor to be here to open this station and happy to introduce and with all the organizations and elected officers officials to make that plaza space so great this summer and now introduce fire one from c y c. >> (clapping). >> good afternoon negative declaration my privilege to

thank the tell you on the community leaders and from chinatown we have the living room of chinatown and as a parent paris joy a good is where you have you can remember this is the place on top of of this subsidy station and definitely last weekend had our chinese wellness screening and sold over one hundred not only chinatown but actually of the city i know some visitors came all the way from sacramento to checkout the space is all those are happening because of partnerships with the different partners that are behind me i feel thumbnail to stand in front of them they make

chinatown so vibrate and take the opportunity to take the partnership with mta for their resources and investment to make that a chinatown paris possible and more than that thank the community who is station at the chinatown station from 10 hours a day to provide support and they speak two or three languages to direct the tourists to get to the best restaurants or local resident whether they wanted to take the train or subsidy. >> the other thing to mention personally a lot of people come out buttons the public safety but chinatown we have the best

the central stations will have control in chinatown but some - happen on second street when - young you know what all the neighbors and the people that backpack bad actor ask for help and just ran down the street to capture the suspect and within two minutes and take the whole community to keep us safe and chinatown is stronger than ever because everyone behind me worked together so thank you very much. >> (clapping). >> thank you, so many and for all the guests joining us here and david chiu and aaron peskin thank you for mepgsz the community centers association and thank you for joining us as well as the

chinese (clapping) and doing extraordinary work and thank you to the greater green is advocating for all things chinatown this strictly group of people and thank you for improving the lives of businesses not only for the people that live here and not only the businesses it strive here but visitors to have a warm and welcome experience or experience we appreciate the it takes a village and partnership that's the community and the elected leaders and making that happen thank you for being here..

>> when o'shaughnessy dam opened 1923, there was a grand celebration that was an achievement of ensuring san francisco's new water supply but it was the beginning of a unique collaboration between the city of san francisco and yosemite national park. >> lands around the dam are critically important. we, along with the park service have a very common goal thereof protection of that watershed,

both for national park values and water supply values in yosemite is the cub tree's premiere national park visited by millions of visitors but the protection of our watershed and the city provides significant outside funding for the national park, over $8 million a year is for trail maintenance and wilderness education and park operations and security keeping the water safe and the park a haven. >> one hundred years ago when the dam was first built, there was a different view of the environment back then, than there is today. and the dam was part of changing that view across the nation. that brings an importance to our work here at o'shaughnessy dam, how we manage this dam and manage our releases and the environment downstream, it's very important to san francisco that we need that challenge. >> for 100 years, o'shaughnessy

dam and the park service ensured the bay area has clean water, along with ongoing stewardship much our precious natural resources. >> i went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. i am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. ♪ ♪ i am a community ambassador.

we work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. >> what i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. they ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. checking in, you guys.

>> wellness check. we walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. you never know. somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. you never know if they are alive. we let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they don't want to call the police on, they don't have to call the police. they can call us. we can direct them to the services they might need. >> we do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. there are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. it is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. when we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311.

they give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick it up. we take pride. when we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. >> it makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. the stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. >> you can see the community ambassadors. i used to be on the streets. i didn't think i could become a community ambassador. it was too far out there for me to grab, you know. doing this job makes me feel good. because i came from where a lot

of them are, homeless and on the street, i feel like i can give them hope because i was once there. i am not afraid to tell them i used to be here. i used to be like this, you know. i have compassion for people that are on the streets like the homeless and people that are caught up with their addiction because now, i feel like i can give them hope. it reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i am at now.

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. >> san francisco is a positive impact on my chinese business. >> i'm the founder of joe-joe. i'm a san francisco based chinese artist. i grew up in the bayview district. i am from china i started at an early age i started at age of 10

my grandfather my biggest inspiration. and i have followed with my traditional art teacher in china:i host educational workshops at the museum and local library. and i also provide chinese writing in public middle school and that way i hold more people fall in love with the beautiful of our chinese calligraphy. it is a part of our heritage. and so we need to keep this culture alive. hand writing is necessary field that needs to be preserved generation toieneration. this art form is fading away. but since covid i have been very dedicated to this art and i hope

that my passions and serving this art form. there are many stores and shopping centers and companies that are interested in chinese cal iing ravi. i feel motivated to my passion for chinese calligraphy in today's world. so people can always enjoy the beauty of chinese calligraphy, from time to time i have a choice to traditional chinese calligraphy to make it more interesting. we do calligraphy on paper. i can do calligraphy different low. >> my inspiration is from nature and provide calligraphy that was

popular style of persons time. i will invite to you check out my website or instagram. and there is some events and updated upcoming events that you can participate.

>> >> >> >> >> my name is bal. born and

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

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

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

now. we have 28 power cars and 12 california cars for a total of 40 revenue cars. then with have two in storage. there's four gear boxes. it's gears of the motor. they weigh close to 20 tons and they had to do a special system to get them out of here because when they put them in here, the barn was opened up. we did the whole barn that year so it's difficult for a first of time project, we changed it one at a time and now they are all brand-new. engineer's room have the four monitors that play the speed and she monitors them and in case of an emergency, she can shutdown all four cars if she needs to. that sound you heard there, that's a gentleman building, rebuilding a cable. the cable weighs four hundred pounds each and they lost three days before we have to rebuild them. the cable car grips, the bottom point is underground with the

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

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

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

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

first cable car. we have three or four being a grip person. fwriping cable cars is the most toughest and challenging job in the entire city. >> i want to thank our women who operate our cable cars because they are a crucial space of the city to the world. we have wonderful women -- come on forward, yes. [cheers and applause] these ladies, these ladies, this is what it's about. continuing to empower women. >> my name is willa johnson is and i've been at cable car for 13 years. i came to san francisco when i was five years old. and that is the first time i rode a cable car and i went to see a christmas tree and we rode the cable car with the christmas worker and that was the first time i rode the cable car and

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

the 19, i think 60s and women were not even allowed to ride on the side of a cable car so it's exciting to know you can go from not riding on the side board of a cable car to actually grip and driving the cable car and it opened the door for a lot of people to have the opportunity to do what they inspire to do. >> i have some people say i wouldn't make it as a conductor at woods and i came and made it as i conductor and the best thing i did was to come to this division. it's a good division. and i like ripping cable cars. i do. >> i think she just tapped into the general feeling that san francisco tend to have of, this is ours, it's special, it's

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

>> when i open up the paper every day, i'm just amazed at how many different environmental issues keep popping up. when i think about what planet i want to leave for my children and other generations, i think about what kind of contribution i can make on a personal level to the environment. >> it was really easy to sign up for the program. i just went online to cleanpowersf.org, i signed up and then started getting pieces in the mail letting me know i was going switch over and poof it happened. now when i want to pay my bill, i go to pg&e and i don't see any difference in paying now. if you're a family on the budget, if you sign up for the

regular green program, it's not going to change your bill at all. you can sign up online or call. you'll have the peace of mind knowing you're doing your part in your household to help the environment. >> the bicycle coalition was giving away 33 bicycles so i applied. i was happy to receive one of them. >> the community bike build program is the san francisco coalition's way of spreading the joy of biking and freedom of biking to residents who may not

have access to affordable transportation. the city has an ordinance that we worked with them on back in 2014 that requires city agency goes to give organizations like the san francisco bicycle organization a chance to take bicycles abandoned and put them to good use or find new homes for them. the partnerships with organizations generally with organizations that are working with low income individuals or families or people who are transportation dependent. we ask them to identify individuals who would greatly benefit from a bicycle. we make a list of people and their heights to match them to a bicycle that would suit their lifestyle and age and height. >> bicycle i received has impacted my life so greatly. it is not only a form of recreation. it is also a means of getting

connected with the community through bike rides and it is also just a feeling of freedom. i really appreciate it. i am very thankful. >> we teach a class. they have to attend a one hour class. things like how to change lanes, how to make a left turn, right turn, how to ride around cars. after that class, then we would give everyone a test chance -- chance to test ride. >> we are giving them as a way to get around the city. >> just the joy of like seeing people test drive the bicycles in the small area, there is no real word. i guess enjoyable is a word i could use. that doesn't describe the kind

of warm feelings you feel in your heart giving someone that sense of freedom and maybe they haven't ridden a bike in years. these folks are older than the normal crowd of people we give bicycles away to. take my picture on my bike. that was a great experience. there were smiles all around. the recipients, myself, supervisor, everyone was happy to be a part of this joyous occasion. at the end we normally do a group ride to see people ride off with these huge smiles on their faces is a great experience. >> if someone is interested in volunteering, we have a special section on the website sf bike.org/volunteer you can sign up for both events. we have given away 855 bicycles,

376 last year. we are growing each and every year. i hope to top that 376 this year. we frequently do events in bayview. the spaces are for people to come and work on their own bikes or learn skills and give them access to something that they may not have had access to. >> for me this is a fun way to get outside and be active. most of the time the kids will be in the house. this is a fun way to do something. >> you get fresh air and you don't just stay in the house all day. it is a good way to exercise. >> the bicycle coalition has a bicycle program for every community in san francisco. it is connecting the young, older community. it is a wonderful outlet for the community to come together to

have some good clean fun. it has opened to many doors to the young people that will usually might not have a bicycle. i have seen them and they are thankful and i am thankful for this program.. >> shop and dine the 49 challenges residents to do they're shopping with the 49ers of san francisco by supporting the services within the feigned we help san francisco remain unique and successful and rib rant where will you shop the shop and dine the 49 i'm e jonl i provide sweets square feet potpie and peach cobbler and i

started my business this is my baby i started out of high home and he would back for friends and coworkers they'll tell you hoa you need to open up a shop at the time he move forward book to the bayview and i thinks the t line was up i need have a shop on third street i live in bayview and i wanted to have my shop here in bayview a quality dessert shot shop in my neighborhood in any business is different everybody is in small banishes there are homemade recess pesz and ingredients from scratch we shop local because we have someone that is here in your city or your neighborhood that is provide you with is service with quality ingredients and quality products and need to

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