>> hello everybody and happy anniversary to the cable cars! [applause] >> i'm rick recollect the president of non profit market street rail way. we advocate for the cable cars and historic street cars on market street. we work with sfmta to enhance their operation and do it without any government money. this year, we partnered with numerous history and business groups and sfmta to celebrate 150 years of cable cars. [applause] one of the celebration partners union square alliance contributed wonderful banners behind us you see. melissa rodriguez, if you are here, stick your hand up. they are all here somewhere. she's the ceo. another partner,

the flood building which is overlooked this turn table since 1904 is gifting you folks with these great flowers passed around here. they work with the alliance to decorate this cable car. will the flood sisters please put their hands up? [applause] we really miss jim flood. sorry he cant be here. he's here--that's right. china town merchants, fisherman whafer, downtown san francisco parthnership all contributed to help us bring you cable car history. mike fips and don (indiscernible) cable car mew museum are here and should be inside the circle and if they are not, they should make their way up. when you say cable car you see temporary photos on

the side windows. we did these to teach a little cable car history to everybody who sees the car and rides them this year. many of the photos come from the wonderful and i mean wonderful, sfmta archive and show the san francisco fast decades these cable cars operated in. jeremy (indiscernible) is the photographer. he is busy working. there he is. i knew you would be front and center. thank you jeremy. rather then run down cable car history, we summarized critical things on handout cards that should be available over there. take a look, pick up a program next to the banners over there. thank you. thank you anton. turn up your hearing aid. that might help. tony subella, another san francisco family. pick up the program

and you'll see there--somebody is giving us feedback. thank you. i have professional audio people here. so, there is all kinds of special cable car history on the website we put together. sfcablecars.org. you can type that in or scan your phone on any of these pictures and you will be taken right to it. now, let's get to the important speakers here, starting with someone i knew a huge cable car lover, working so hard for san francisco every single day, our mayor, the honorable london breed. [applause] >> maybe this might work a little bit better. [applause] alright! alright, let's celebrate 150 years of cable cars in san francisco! [applause] let me tell you why that is

important. because san francisco is a city of firsts. not only was the cable car invented here and other fallowed in other cities around the entire world, right now the cable car only exists in the city and county of san francisco. let me tell you why. because of women. [applause] yes! yes, a man invented the cable car and we named holiday plaza after him, so he is credited with that, but it was women who stepped up to make sure that this amazing cable car continued to be a part of the fabric of san francisco for 150 years. i know that we acknowledge all the amazing flood women who are joining us here today. so great to see you. [applause] but it was freeda clauseman who saved the cable cars

in 1947 when everyone wanted to start to automade san francisco and use san francisco. people love technology and love to get somewhere quick, she stepped up, fought hard, put a measure on the ballots and passed to not only save the cable cars in san francisco, but to allow them to continue. another woman who stepped up to help make sure that the cable cars continued was our former mayor, diane feinstein. [applause] in the late 1970 needed a complete over-haul. we needed to make sure it continued to run and it was safe, so she raised money in the private sector to allow for an opportunity to make investments in the cable car to maintain and keep the system running. the other woman who was

instrumental in the success of the cable cars, the conductors are pretty amazing. they do a lot of great work. they got to be strong. 25 years ago (indiscernible) barnes [applause] the first woman to lay hands on the equipment, to run the cable car system. to make it work and to make people feel welcome to san francisco. this woman was a trail-blazer and we are so glad to have you here. that's your mama! [applause] her whole family is here, because we are honoring you and your legacy and are everything you did to make the cars so successful. thank you mrs. barnes, so great to have you here. women do it all. but we also know san francisco is a special place, and so

many people again talk about the firsts. the first to invent the cable car. the first to invent television. did you all know that? and the first to invent the clap on here in san francisco which actually opened the door for all the technology advancements we are seeing today. it is no wonder people want to be here. it is no wonder many folks who left san francisco have decided to come back and start their business and open the door to new technology, new industries, because every time you think about some of the amazing things that happen in the world, it all starts here and the cable car is a important tribute to san francisco's resilience, its history and its legacy. last but not least, today we are going to dedicate a cable car in honor of someone who symbolizes the love for san

francisco. the person who talked about what it means to ride the cable car on our rolling hills and to all most touch the stars. a person who loved the city and county of san francisco, mr. tony bennett. [applause] that amazing tribute, i left my heart in san francisco. performed at the farmont hotel in the vunesia room for the first time. that has been a true ballot and contribution to san francisco that is like no other song that exists. today as we recognize him and his legacy and his love for san francisco, we will honor him by dedicating a cable car named for tony bennett. [applause] thank you again for everyone who is joining, those who live here, those who work here, those who visit here.

those who got dressed in outfits that represent san francisco's history early on, but also the movement. the first birthday in 1970 was here in san francisco in golden gate park and it set off a movement for environmental change, environmental justice and a number of things. i can go on and on about how great san francisco is, but i know you will experience it for yourself on this cable car, so thank you all so much for being here and i want to turn it back over to rick. [applause] >> thank you madam mayor. do we have women leaders in this town or what? we always-we have even more now, and now we are going to have a very special leader. one who set a new standard in this

country of dignity, of smarts, of resilience, and it is my as they used to say in washington, it is my high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the speaker emeritus of the u.s. house of representatives, the honorable nancy pelosi. [applause] >> thank you rick. thank you very much rick and-thank you madam mayor. honored to be here with you always. let me just say to rick, thank you for your leadership. the private sector and non profit sector and public sector who have been a real champion for san francisco. thank you rick. honor to be with you. karen flood, oh my gosh--

family. what a special day this is. imagine-you want me to hold it higher? imagine it has been this many years. this many years. the market street railway has been something that has been a model to the country. has been a symbol of san francisco's spirit of invasion right from the start, and i want to recognize mayor london breed for her tremendous tremendous leadership of our city. thank you very much madam mayor. honor to be with you. i know how important this occasion is to you, in terms of what it stands for historically, and what it means for the future. aaron peskin, thank you honor to be with you. bill ting, assemblyman with us here. we have

representation of federal, state and local government. again, most importantly, woo we have each and every one of you representatives of the community. jeff tumlin thank you for your leadership and fanny may barnes, the first female cable car (indiscernible) >> one and only! >> the first and foremost. so, here we are and again i want to mention senator feinstein. she was such an advocate for the cable cars. some times we would have our moments together because she would be praising some republicans in congress who had helped with the cable cars and some republicans did then and i said why are you are

praising them, we are trying to defeat them, but she was always about san francisco and she was always about the cable cars, and she even-the cable cares that again started our city invasion and with tony bennett and are diane nighting with him on the cable cars, taking us to the stars. to a brilliant brilliant future. i won't sing. i won't sing, but not only tony bennett, but mia anglo 15 years old set her sights working as a conductor aboard the street cars. think of all these incredible connections. it is my honor b to here with all of you. there is so much to be said about the families, about the sense of community, about the businesses, about the entrepreneurship, about the invasion of san francisco, but it is also a moment for us to take pride in our

past. i say a third time, a past about invasion for the future. congratulations to all of us on this. madam may, i know you take great pride being mayor of san francisco every minute of every day, but isn't it exciting today? >> yes! [applause] >> very special, very special. now it is my privilege to yield back to rick. rick, thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. thank you for your leadership- >> (indiscernible) >> thank you for your leadership of our nation as well as our city. we owe you. [applause] tough act to follow, but the guy i will introduce is up to it. there are 11

members of the board of superrisers in san francisco, but only one president. there are 11 members of the board of supervisors but there is only one who has every cable car in his district. ladies and gentlemen, president aaron peskin. [applause] >> thank you rick and thank you to the market street railway for your stewardship. thank you to twu local 258 and fanny barnes and all her colleagues before, during and since. much is made of the symbol of rezilancy, the phoenix rising from the ashes, but i suggest to all of us san franciscans that the real symbol of resiliency is our cable car. a cable car that survived not one, but two pandemics. that survived the city burning to the ground. that survived two great earthquakes. that

survived mayors who wanted to rip them out. this is the symbol of the city that knows how knew how and continues to know how. god bless these cable cars. [applause] let's put this in a monetary context. i think mr. hal day raised $27 thousand to build the first 5300 feet of track along clay street. it took diane feinstein in her efforts 110 years later, $60 million to refurbish it. i are want to thank and acknowledge the sfmta that has kept it in a good state of repair every since. [applause] but these cable cars are linked to the economic success of san francisco. not only because they attract tourists from around the world, but because they continue to

deliver our people to work each and every day before pandemics, during pandemics, after pandemics and i will leave you with this remaining thought, if you ever want to run for supervisor of district 3, i never revealed this until now, the best place tocome pain is the cable car in the morning when everybody who is commuting to work from district 3 to jobs in district 3 is available to receive your fliers even though i think technically you are not supposed to do that on the cable car. congratulations on 150 years! [applause] rick >> thank you aaron. thank you. so glad telegraph hill is represented here. such a core part of the city. most people dont recognize how unusual our transportation agency is. besides transit they oversee taxies, bike infrastructure, parking street scapes and a lot

more. leading that agency is a huge job and a tough one never tougher then the past three years through pandemic, fiscal threats and city recovery. so glad it has been in the very capable hands of director of transportation jeff tumlin. >> thank you rick! [applause] >> i'm jeff, san francisco director of transportation and there is a reason the phoenix rising from the flames is on the flag of the great city of san francisco. when andrew hal day and father immigrated to california from scotland, they failed at mining gold but they reinvented themselves by reinventing a way of making wire rope and then having the completely crazy idea of taking mining ore car technology and applying it to san francisco's equally crazy topography. 4 a.m. on august 2,

1873, andrew had to be the one to trial the first run of the cable car, because no one else wanted to do it because they thought it was a crazy idea. it is here in san francisco that crazy technological ideas come to life, and every 10 to 15 years this city transitions from a bus to a boom economy by once again reinventing technology and figuring out what is next. but even thinking bet the future, san francisco continues to hold on to its core, its heart. it holds to the core values, particularly civility and (indiscernible) nothing exlempifys both creativity and technology, but also civily and joy at the same time better then san francisco's cable cars and i am humbled to be here for

my short-term being a steward of these incredible resources. we couldn't do this without strong support from our federal, our state, our local policy makers, even our own board of directors and lydia so our newest board member, the steward of the cable car system. the people who make the cable cars work are staff. alfred butler, earny hanson, (indiscernible) and we have folks including (indiscernible) and derrick johnson who will be taking us on this inaugural run. we also remember our history here, including the incredible history of our staff. i like to now bring up the speaker and mayor to honor

the fanny may barnes, the first (indiscernible) [cheering and applause] >> would you lake to say a few words? >> yes. so happy to be here, and very happy about being the first female on the cable car. growing up in a small town in georgia, my mom told me you can do exactly what you want to do, you just have to put in the work. that is exactly what i did. that's what my mom told me to do. i put in the work and (indiscernible) i did it at age 52. absolutely unheard of. [applause] >> thank you so much. i'll bring back rick and

offer equal thanks to phenomenal volunteers at market street railway. [bell] that's a bell for fanny may. >> a treasure for our city, and a real (indiscernible) we appreciate that. we must not leave out sacramento. we depend on our representatives in the state capital to fight fight fight for more transit funding, and more funding of other kinds the cities needs to survive. we have a great team of legislators and one of them assembly member ting, matt haney and scott wiener with a resolution. we will present it to jeff. >> thank you rick. come on up jeff. you heard how important the cable cars, not just are to

san franciscans but everything who thinks about san francisco. to me, this is city that is a beacon, a light where people come to san francisco. people want to be tourists here, people want to live here, people want to make their way here or find a better life here and there is no better symbol. there are two symbol the golden gate bridge and the cable car. a symbol of inclusion, welcoming. how important it is when you ride the cars. you heard from the supervisor talk about the san francisco residents getting to work running their errands. everything that is part of their day and then you have our amazing tourists who come to line up at this turn around to enjoy it. to me this symbol is precious, we have to preserve it and make sure we are doing everything possible to make sure that we can maintain it. that's one reason why work very very hard at the state level to do more funding for

transit this year. $5 billion across the state. part is to make sure that muni, bart, ac transit can keep operating. very very critical services, absolutely needed and making sure these cable cares keep running is at the top of the list. again, congratulations jeff on behalf of senator wiener, assembly member haney, just appreciate you and your staff for all the hard work. woo ehad a couple rough years with the pandemic and still getting through it but appreciate you, all the operators who showed up every day, rain or shine no matter what happens, make sure the system and cars are running. making sure that we don't forget our amazing cable cars on market street railway so thank you. appreciate it. [applause] >> well, okay. cable

cares can take you half way to the stars, we all know that. today they can take you 150 years into the past as well. at least that is true of the distinguished past san franciscans who have time traveled to be here with. edward norton is here. [applause] let me introduce you to someone who we wouldn't be here today without the inventor of the cable car, mr. andrew haliday. [applause] this is a microphone. you talk into it and-- >> amazing. i want to thank professor brown for bringing many of us here on this delorian time machine. you know, that very first day we were going up the clay street hill and the man i

hired panicked who he saw down below and he ran away, so i had to take the grip myself. i was sure the grip will stay on theer -car, right? it will, yes. so, today we are looking at cable car number one. looking just like the original cars on the powell street line, which began to operate in 1888. isn't she a beauty? i personally want to thank all the workers, the carpenters, the painters, the iron workers who lovingly restored and rebuilt and refurbished these cars with skilled hands and dedicated hearts. i also want to thank the gripman and conductors and power plant operators who maintain this system that all sorts of weather, day and night. i think they are to be congratulated for their hard work. [applause] and i also want to thank the city for continuing to fund the cable cars, and i hope you will

keep the fares at 5 cents. [laughter] i invite all of you, the residents, our dear residents and our dear visitors to ride the cable cars, enjoy the journey, enjoy the views, and know you are riding one of the treasures of san francisco where they continue to run for another 150 years. [applause] >> thank you so much mr. haliday, honor to have you here. turn up the delorian to 1873 when you go back. i want to do a quick shout out to the crew on this cable car. they are all special, they are all hard workers. (indiscernible) also a noted cable car historian. (indiscernible) he is wonderful guy. we appreciate him very much. derrick johnson, our conductor today. he is a great

conductor. he is also active in local 250a and i want to shout out to all organized labor represented in all the crafts of cable car. that shows you what union work can do. [applause] the quality is unbelievable and never been better then today. so, we had great support from the san francisco historical society and steve and his reenactors, steve johnson andrew -done a great job rounding all the people up. we have people from every era here. dona hugens is here as a person of the 60's i guess. you never know. and all the folks from the art deco society and all the groups who have come. i know i will miss some people. we all know how

valuable our cable cars are to san francisco, but i thought it was time to get a professional assessment, so who better to do that then our city and county assessor? i wanted to ask you professionally, how valuable do you think the cable cars are? >> we are lucky because there is no taxable value of the cars, the values are immeasurable in the benefit to the city and county of san francisco. the memories they make, the workers they employ, experiences provided to san franciscans and visitors to enjoy the city. heading to union scare, swenson to the other side of the hill to see the bay. those are the memories in san francisco and that's the value. >> swenson (indiscernible) since 1948. locally owned business. the cable cars actually do provide

economic value that you can assess through all these small businesses and other places that benefit from their value, is that right? >> the best part is you can just huv off the train and visit each neighborhood along the way filled with diverse vibrant small businesses that make our city shine. >> thank you joaquin. >> thank you so much rick. >> joaquin represents the next generation of city leadership and we are in really good hands with folks like joaquin. also i went to college with his father art. art owes me now. that is not true, joaquin is a great leader of our town. our cable cars are still with us because of the work of thousands of san franciscans as said here who built operated and maintained them, and because of special cable car heroes who created them, saved them, rebuilt thement, senator

feinstein we are thinking of you, and who celebrated them to the entire world. we lost one of those heroes 10 day ago, but the gift he gave to the cable cars will live on through the enduring populearity became his song that enticed millions from free mont, oakland and paris and china and all over the world. to feel the fog he sang about and to ride those little cable cars half way to the stars. we have requested and so glad to hear the mayor say what she said today, a cable care dedicated to tony bennett. we will have a party when that happens and we'll be here for that, and let's remember him. is don nealy here? don nealy is a wonderful san

franciscans and wave your hand don. musician, musician. there he is. don, can you play for us? you know what we need. don nealy. nope. we will have to sing it by ourselves. [singing i left my heart in san francisco]

[applause] >> thank you all!

>> >> >> >> >> 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 ] ♪ [music] >> san francisco is known as yerba buena, good herb after a mint that used to grow here. at this time there were 3

settlements one was mission delores. one the presidio and one was yerba buena which was urban center. there were 800 people in 1848 it was small. a lot of historic buildings were here including pony express headquarters. wells fargo. hudson bay trading company and famous early settlers one of whom william leaderdorph who lived blocks from here a successful business person. african-american decent and the first million airin california. >> wilwoman was the founders of san francisco. here during the gold rush came in the early 1840s. he spent time stake himself as a merchant seaman and a business person. his father and brother in new orleans. we know him for san francisco's

history. establishing himself here arnold 18 twoochl he did one of many things the first to do in yerba buena. was not california yet and was not fully san francisco yet. >> because he was an american citizen but spoke spanish he was able to during the time when america was taking over california from mexico, there was annexations that happened and conflict emerging and war, of course. he was part of the peek deliberations and am bas doorship to create the state of california a vice council to mexico. mexico granted him citizenship. he loaned the government of san francisco money. to funds some of the war efforts to establish the city itself and the state, of course. he established the first hotel

here the person people turned to often to receive dignitaries or hold large gatherings established the first public school here and helped start the public school system. he piloted the first steam ship on the bay. a big event for san francisco and depict instead state seal the ship was the sitk a. there is a small 4 block long length of street, owned much of that runs essentially where the transamerica building is to it ends at california. i walk today before am a cute side street. at this point t is the center what was all his property. he was the person entrusted to be the city's first treasurer. that is i big deal of itself to have that legacy part of an african-american the city's

first banker. he was not only a forefather of the establishment of san francisco and california as a state but a leader in industry. he had a direct hahn in so many things that we look at in san francisco. part of our dna. you know you don't hear his anymore in the context of those. representation matters. you need to uplift this so people know him but people like him like me. like you. like anyone who looks like him to be, i can do this, too. to have the city's first banker and a street in the middle of financial district. that alone is powerful. [music]

>> (indiscernible) i just know it. excuse me boys, but does anybody have sun block to block this skin from the sun? >> yes. that's right, i need to get my (indiscernible) >> many of us last summer (indiscernible) reapplying sun screen is like getting the second dose of mpox vaccine. >> wait, two doses- (indiscernible) >> isn't it too late to get my second dose? >> girl, it is like sun screen, never too late to put more sun screen on. >> that's right, i need to get my second dose of mpox vaccine before the summer starts. >> let's (indiscernible) 21201 to find the

closest location to get the vaccine or go to sf.gov/mpox. >> thank you for the information (indiscernible) >> excuse me boys, do you mind checking please? >> sure. >> that doesn't look like a sun burn, you might want to getd it checked out. >> what do you mean clecked out? >> checked out. i was told if i got my second m pox vaccine i would have less severe symptoms. (indiscernible) >> maybe i schedule the second dose just to be safe from mpox. >> most vackeens offer you a level of protections, just like sun block. sometimes you need to reapply for more protection. the m pox vaccine is based on two shots several weeks apart to provide the strongest level

of protection. visit sf.gov/mpox to get yours. >> thank you boys for that reminder! make sure your are fully vaccinated for m pox this summer. text summer vibes to 21201, to get >> once i got the hang of it a little bit, you know, like the first time, i never left the court. i just fell in love with it and any opportunity i had to get out there, you know, they didn't have to ask twice. you can always find me on the court. [♪♪♪] >> we have been able to participate in 12 athletics

wheelchairs. they provide what is an expensive tool to facilitate basketball specifically. behind me are the amazing golden state road warriors, which are one of the most competitive adaptive basketball teams in the state led by its captain, chuck hill, who was a national paralympic and, and is now an assistant coach on the national big team. >> it is great to have this opportunity here in san francisco. we are the main hub of the bay area, which, you know, we should definitely have resources here. now that that is happening, you know, i i'm looking forward to that growing and spreading and helping spread the word that needs -- that these people are here for everyone. i think it is important for people with disabilities, as well as able-bodied, to be able to see and to try different

sports, and to appreciate trying different things. >> people can come and check out this chairs and use them. but then also friday evening, from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., it will be wheelchair basketball we will make sure it is available, and that way people can no that people will be coming to play at the same time. >> we offer a wide variety of adaptive and inclusion programming, but this is the first time we have had our own equipment. [♪♪♪]

>> shared spaces have transformed san francisco's adjacent sidewalks, local business communities are more resilient and their neighborhood centers are more vibrant and mildly. sidewalks and parking lanes can be used for outdoor seating, dining, merchandising, and other community activities. we're counting on operators of shared spaces to ensure their sites are safe and accessible for all. people with disabilities enjoy all types of spaces. please provide at least 8 feet of open uninterrupted sidewalk so everyone can get through. sidewalk diverter let those who have low vision navigate through dining and other activity areas on the sidewalk. these devices are rectangular planters or boxes that are placed on the sidewalk at the ends of each shared space and need to be at least 12

inches wide and 24 inches long and 30 inches tall. they can be on wheels to make it easy to bring in and out at the start and the end of each day. but during business hours, they should be stationary and secure. please provide at least one wheelchair accessible dining table in your shared space so the disability people can patronize your business. to ensure that wheelchair users can get to the wheelchair accessible area in the park area, provide an adequate ramp or parklet ramps are even with the curb. nobody wants to trip or get stuck. cable covers or cable ramps can create tripping hazards and difficulties for wheelchair users so they are not permitted on sidewalks. instead, electrical cables should run

overhead at least ten feet above sidewalk. these updates to the shared spaces program will help to ensure safety and accessibility for everyone, so that we can all enjoy these public spaces. more information is available at sf.govt/shared spaces.

>> san francisco department of disability and aging service commission meeting of july 19, 2023 to order. i'm martha knutzen. this is conducted to the provision of the brown act. members of the public may observe the meeting at sfgtv.org and call the comment phone number. i like to well compl the members of the public and staff watching us live on sfgovtv. the commission ask jz thanks interest your patience during the unprecedented times. we ask the public to have patience and expect delays (indiscernible) all panels and presenters presenting