the future of the accomplice they call home. today, we are all prud of what we accomplished together. we are a different and better laguna honda. and we intends to keep this journey going. for our residents, city and our nation. . by meeting high standards every day, day in and day out and in every way. this is how we will ensure san francisco can be proud of laguna honda for decades to come. and finally as i introduce our next and final speaker whom none of this would be possible were not for she and her members and

those of our other union partners my long-term cowork and friends kristin hardy vice president of 21 san francisco. [applause]. >> thanks roland for this great introduction this might have been the best in awhile. but i'm kristin hardy. i'm the vice president for san francisco for 10 to 1 and this is a very, very proud moment for me. i'm a san francisco native born and raised and i grew up and born and raised in this neighborhood. i live 5 minutes from here i drive past this place every day and i am also a 12 year employee at san francisco general hospital with customer competence roland back in the day when than i were there. i anyhow when colfax appointed and pulled terry i was mad. and brought them here i knew they were the right people to the make sure laguna honda survive and got through what it needed to get through.

i wanted to say, it is in the one person. it is me and my members that you see behind me the nurses. janitors the hair dress ors, central supplyers. my nurses. clerks. everybody and everybody i come from general hospital i know when the level of care is like i want to appreciate my members. i have one of my fabulous leaders here with me. debbie dobson, she has taken charge on making sure that she hen in the weekly meetings when i'm not available to join. she has been there. and i can get an update with her and our rep who k could not be ear jessica done a fabulous job day and night supporting the workers. helping them understand education and training than i

needed. third and second and first shift whatever was. we are celebrating the work of member and resident and bringing back laguna honda so we want to know i just want everybody to know that this is a hard work of our member and this was i team effort not just my members the residents joint effort i don't think we do this often but my political alis. our wonderful mayor. board of supervisors, melgar is my supervisor and aaron. [laughter] and the rest. you know, i'm just glad we are at this day and like i want to i especially want to thank our city attorney david chu. he has been a great alli for us in the labor movement. i know we don't do too much with attorneys and at a federal level

you know secretary came through and tap in the and just -- grant colfax and the administration you have done an awe some job you kept us in the loop. mark leech. everybody else that represents other members. my brother. vice president of organizing. brandon dawkins. used to work here at laguna honda and a shop store and a shout out to my president to speak theresa who is a cna used to work here and is still a member and wants to give her love and support to all you guys and administration i am turn it back over to doctor grant

colfax. upon again, thank you for being here a great day and think we will you heard the story and the different partners involved. many groups that helped lead the way and i think we have time for a few questions. for the mayor. my grand mother lived here. well, my grand mother lived here for about 13 years. and i used to come up to laguna honda when it was the patients in the old location and the new. and the difference is the building butt people and the care she got were the same. and to think that there are other people who could not get this care was heart breaking this was a life safer for me personal low and my family when

we could not take care of her daily. it was hard. and it was harder to leave her some accomplice like laguna honda until i first coming up here every day. the nurses rubbing my back while i was crying i did in the want to leave my grand mother they made me feel okay. her nurses like albert and denise and others. just the joy this changed in her from no smiles to smiles demonstrated all i needed to know the care she experienced over the years of coming here an accomplice i thought what would have happened. so there are other people who need this accomplice.

and when was important to us buzz in light of when was going on with the recertification. you know when this monies for the families who can't you know get their family member in laguna honda, that was weighing on me heavily as the people who are already here getting services. when are we do when we have to tell people, no when they need this place and so this was so important on a whole level and i'm grateful to god today for you know putting forth a blessing to not only the people who work here and live here and those who will be able to eventual low call laguna honda home and cared for at the end of their life in most case and live with dignity. this is truly amazing we are happy to be here because it is a challenging time for so many people this is a joyous occasion. thank you. [applause]. >> okay. thank you so much, appreciate it. thank you for being here we move

forward together. thank you. [applause].

>> hello everyone. thank you so much for being here today. welcome to the 2022-2023 san francisco youth celebration. give yourselves a round of applause. my name is emily nguyen the chair district chair on the san francisco youth commission. i feel grateful to be here today to celebrate this incredible group of youth commissioners. there is no way that i can incapsulate everything we accomplished together in a 5 minute speech, but i'll try do my best. when i first stepped into city hall for the first youth commission meeting, i knew nothing about government but now it is one of my greatest passions. little did i know how much we would accomplish as a team and how much the youth commission would mean to me. seriously though, it has got ten to the point where family and

friends are concerned how much time i spend in isthe building. coming back from the pandemic a main goal is bring back the youth commissionism we interacted with youth from all over the city through office hours, our budget town halls and our community events. from passing out candy to youth at the great-to teaching third graders about local government and district lines to tabling sunday streetss, we have been able to center youth input and engagement in our work. another main goal was to have all our work and all our legislation be rooted in empathy and personal experiences. growing up next to freways my whole life, i'm so grateful to have gotten there opportunity to explore the central freeway on the youth commission and to speak on a panel with senator scott wiener about the freeway harmful impacts on youth and are marginalized communities.

we priortaz issues thatd mat to us. we advocated for more transit stops and frnd lestreets. mew free muni for all funding and embarking to make bart more youth frndly and youth accessb. additionally, we are working to advance 16 to the 2024 ballot to champion youth civic engagement. lastly, we are exploring how to make juvenile hall more rejuvinated. we held a hearing meeting with several departments and district offices and hearing from constituents to advance the issue. all this work and much more culminated in a 75 page budget policy report with 16 recommendations to the board of supervisors. making this report in under three months was probably one of the hardest things we ever had to do together, but we did it and we did it together. this youth commission achieved so much this year, but most

importantly, we made life-long memories and lifelong friendships. commissioners dedicated them sevl jz gave their all to the youth commission. i can't count all the hours we spnt in city hall arguing about legislation until ten p.m. on a school night or working on youth commission legislation instead of homework. grateful to say i made lifelong friends and lifelong partners through the youth commission. i firstly want to appreciate vice chair barker plumber for all the support this term. thank you for all the 10 p.m. phone calls to plan town hall meetings and presentations and thank you for being the best partner i could ever have on the youth commission. can we give commissioner plumber a round of applause? [applause] i also want to appreciate our staff for all their hard work and endless dedication to this youth commission. we cannot have done everything we did

this year without their hard work and their expertise on organizing and government. can we please give them all a round of applause? [applause] all and are all i'm so proud of everyone and everything we accomplished this term and grateful for all the memories. you all make the youth commission what it is. can we please give every commissioner here today a round of applause? [applause] thank you everyone so much and now i'll be passing it off to commissioner barker plumber for his speech. [applause] >> thank you chair nguyen and thank you all for joining us today as we celebrate the work and accomplishments of the 2022-2023 san francisco youth commission. it has been a busy year to say the least. it is kind of surprising to think it was les then a year ago we were on this very balcony with our mayor getting sworn in

to serve and during that time we focused on service the young people of san franciscoism i want to say one statistic that i was really surprised by at the end. one of our staff members added up all the hours youth commissioners have put into public meetings here in san francisco, whether that's the commission or our subcommittees, and a totaled to over 138 hours of work youth commissioners did here in city hall representing young people in the city and county of san francisco and that is really important work we all partake in and something i'm really proud i was able to do alongside all you, so thank you for that opportunity. i want to say one thing of what i'm most proud of us doing this yoor, which is really the yurk we did investing our time, our energy and connecting with our communities. covid has been a difficult time and people got disconnected in this city because of isolation and

because of people's individual struggles and the work that not only the youth commissioner is doing, but our mayor is doing and many of the elected leaders and appointed leaders in the city are doing to reconnect with our san francisco community is so important and something that i'm very proud we were a part of. so, i want to really introduce and welcome someone who i think really understands that. who understands the importance of connecting to these communities, listening every day and that is our mayor london breed who is a personal inspiration and someone the youth commission learned from over the past year in terms how we can connect with our communities and how we can create a good coalition to fight for the best san francisco we can, so thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you. thank you for your work and your advocacy and thank you for the great remarks to emily put those

into perspective. all the great work that you all did throughout the time that you served as youth commissioners, i bet you didn't think you would be working so hard. but, you were able to accomplish great things in the process. what is interesting about being here today, it takes me back, because just recently i was redoing my retirement forms, and one of the persons who i was meeting with to help understand what was going on said, you have some time that you could actually buy back in 1991, and i said, 1991! wait a minute, i was in high school in 1991 because i graduated 1992. i remember i was a part of one of the first organizations to bring youth into city hall to learn about policy in

government. i completely forgot about this, but it was called the mayor's youth forum. the mayor's youth forum was put together by former mayor art agnus and i like to remind mayor agnus i got to meet him in his office in high school and he laughs about that. the mayor's youth forum was filled with a lot of department heads at that time. people who helped us learn about government and how to make a impact. what is interesting to hear emily talk about the amazing work you all did over the course of the past year, what we did back then pailed in comparison to how advanced you are in your thought process and how you have taken the positions that you are in and have gone above and

beyond to really try and shape policies and to shape resources for young people in san francisco. now, we collected a small pay check and we learned more about government and learned from those who represented government, but never were we given or even asked for a platform to do the kinds of things that you all are doing, because the youth forum i think had a lot to do with why we have the mayor's youth forum that existed then has a lot to do why the youth commission was created. it was created to provide a real platform, because it has been a long time since i have been a young person, even though i consider myself young at heart, and the experiences that you have are a lot different then what we experienced growing up. how do

we evolve? how do we change as a government to meet the needs of young people today? the internet want around when i was in high school. it was just forming somewhat when i was in college. the access to computers were very limited and cell phones, forget about it. those things remember expensive and i don't know if you have seen an original cell phone but it was heavy and had to carry it around in a case and unless you had money you could ntd afford it. when i think what i experienced growing up and what you have access to and the kinds of experiences you have now, it is so important as policy makers that we are not shaping policy for young people based on what we experience. we need to hear the voices of young people based on what you are experiencing today so that our policies reflects the needs of the next generation in a way that is effective. is

more effective in delivering for you at a faster pace then we have in the past. so, i want to express my appreciation to all of you, because it take as lot of time. there are so many other things that you could choose to do. you could-i'm sure you all in looking at your various applications and your resumes and what you submitted, many of you are involved in other extracurricular activities. you have responsibilities at home. you have responsibilities in community and the fact you are dedicating so much of your time to not just make your lives better, but to make the lives better for other young people in this city is stored. extraordinary. it was important we not just swear you in and talk about what you are going to do, but we take a moment to reflect on what you have done, so that you can put it into perspective and to really appreciate all that you

accomplished, because sometimes we do things and then we are on to it next thing and we do something and on to the next thing and we don't take a moment to pause to real ly appreciate the heart and soul watt we put into making something extraordinary happen so today is about that. a day to honor all of you on your accomplishments, especially those who are moving on to universities, including places like howard and washington dc, across the water to uc berkeley and even harvard. it is really a accomplishment to move in this direction and to be able to go on and to take what you learned here in your further studies and my hope is that public service is calling you to a certain capacity. public service is what was my calling. i realized that after we were seeing changes in the community and i was being exposed to so many extraordinary things, i wanted to be a part of

the decision making body that has a impact on community. now, it may be public service for you, it may be making policies, it may be creating the next new cell phone that you don't have to hold, but it is just in you- [laughter] with technology the way it is moving today you never know what it could be. i used to watch the jetsons cartoon and had flying vehicles and now we have vehicless in the city driven without drivers so anything is possible and you are the nest generation that will lead the city and create. san francisco has a history of resiliency and invention. the first television was invented here. the first (indiscernible) no one was talking about climate change and what we needed to do to protect our city and our planet.

so, that is the kind of invasion that we have in the people who are part of the fabric of our city, and you all as leaders in san francisco represent that. i want to say thank you for your work. thank you for your service, and thank you for all that you have done, and will continue to do for san francisco, but also i know without a doubt that you will go on to whatever university or whatever job opportunity and a lot of the same things you did here you'll carry that with you in those various positions, and you'll do great things, so just be proud of that, take a moment to reflect, and also continue to maintain your very important relationships with one another. i still have friends that i had since i was in kindergarten, and those relationships are special. you will look back on those relationships and think, wow,

we have known each other this long and those are going to be the people that carry you through and sustain. thank you again for being here and all your hard work and commitment to san francisco and congratulations on a successful year for those who are going away to college, good luck and make sure you come back and you work for opportunities for all so you can earn some money during the summer and you can develop some additional skills and for those who are moving on to the next level, whether high school, continuing high school or moving from junior high to high school, continue to do great things and much success and please know this city will always be there for you. thank you and congratulations. [applause] >> can all the commissioners come up front?

>> we can sweep by in front of a house in a matter of seconds. the only people who don't like it are the people who get the tickets. >> this is a street sweeping sign. don't let it get you. pay attention. [♪♪♪] >> in the morning, when we first go out, we start at six in the morning or seven in the morning. we call that our business run. we sweep all the main arteries of the city. after 8:00, we go into the residential areas and take care of all the other customers. >> the idea with the street sweeping program is to get the leaves and the debris off the ground. >> we -- for not only appearance and cleanliness but safety as well. >> we will get anywhere from 2- 7,000 pounds per truck depending on the season and the route. the street sweeper and the choice of the use right now is

an error sweeper. they have a motor in the back and it blows winds down one side and carried by air into the hopper. what will mess this up is new -- large pieces of cardboard or sticks or coat hangers. anything that is more than 12 inches. the tube on the tracks is only 12-inch diameter. >> people asked what they can do to help to keep the city clean. there are people that letter. leaves are one thing. any of the garbage you see is from people being careless. [♪♪♪] >> one cars parked in the way, we can't sweep under the congress. to deal with this, we have parking control officers that are provided by m.t.a. and they

go in front of our sweepers and pass out citations to people that are parking the wrong way. once the sweepers sweep past in san francisco, you may park behind the street sweeper. we all know parking is a big issue. north beach hasn't been swept since the eighties because of opposition. but we are getting a lot of requests to sweep. basically our trucks are 10 feet wide. we stick the brooms out and they are may be 12 feet wide. >> there are a lot of blind spots when driving a large truck pedestrians and bicyclists and cars. and navigates this 22,000-pound truck through the city. >> we involve the public here -- to adhere to traffic laws. these routes were developed back in the eighties around the capability of the sweeper. things have changed since then so we have to adapt.

luckily, public works is embracing technology and working on a system to alter our maps. this is literally cut and paste -- cut and paste. we will have a computer program soon that will be able to alter the maps and be updated instantly. we will have tablets in the checks for all of the maps. we will send a broom wherever it needs to go and he has the information he needs to complete the safety. what is needed about these tablets as they will have a g.p.s. on it so we know where they're at. you do get confused driving along, especially the inner sunset. recall that to the be made a triangle. >> thanks for writing along with us today. i enjoyed showing you what we do and i urge you to pay attention to the signs and move your car and don't litter. with all

secretary fuller call the roll. >> good morning respond with here or present. commissioner segal is absent. warren post. >> here. >> chair post is present. >> commissioner turner. >> present. >> paul woolford. >> present. >> zoubi vice chair zoubi is absent with 3 members present we have quorum for the public works commission. and for members wish to make comment on an item outside the hearing room. dial 415-655-0001nd