>> [applause] my goodness. well, hi, everybody. clear everybody here is happy. and you know this is a contrast to when happened before during last year's time when we were here at laguna honda and talking about the decertification and the challenges and the issues. ir will start over. i'm san francisco mayor london breed.

[applause]. and all these people behind me have official low saved laguna honda. [applause] and the difference between then when we had a decertification and now is the sad faces the tears and now the smiles, joy and excitement. for the people when work at laguna honda this is in the just about their jobs. this is about their patients. this is about the people this they help every day. the people this depends on them. for help for support because they can't take care of themselves. we know what is at stake. when the decertification came to us. we knew we had no other choice but to come together to make hard decisions and to fight for

laguna honda. and fight we did. and as a result, we worked really hard and i gotta say no one worked harder then and there the people who physically worked here. and we did all the paperwork. but it was touch and go for i minute and one of the best decisions this the department of public health made, doctor coal fax was to send the best add administrator anywhere to help us and guide this ship. i want to thank roland pickins for his work. [applause]. times i came up to lug luge and walked the halls with roland i know you want to keep him. you got a new director. sandra will be great! it was so like over the past

year see the excitement serving folks. how people felt and mote the patient and family members and hear the stories. we had no choice. and we had to make very decisions that were criticized. i want to thank david chu for the lawsuit. . because it did take a lot of courage because people discouraged us from going there. but we reached out to everyone on the state level and on the federal level. and i got to point out key leaders on the federal level who were instrumental with helping us to get tow this moment. i want to star with jackie spear. who really not only sounded the alarm but worked hard up until

the day she left office to help support us and man, what will we do without our fierce leader nancy pelosi. she was absolutely invaluable in this process. and really pushed aggressively it make sure that it was clear where we stood on saving this institution. i want to thank our governor and gavin newsome and scott wiener for heard work on the state wide level and helping us get to this point. so, this irrelevant was a collective effort of national support of state support and of course of a lot of local leaders. i said our city attorney and the supervisor who represents this district, melgar and thank the president of the board of supervisors aaron supervisor

peskin. >> and i want top extra super thank the members who are the staff but especially our partners in helping. seiu for your work. because of the advocacy that was helpful to put the pressure on. but again i want to keep back to the doctors and the nurses and the clinicians and the people who distribute the food and hands that make the food. the blessed machine when makes the food the people from the food makers and creative to the folks who have patience and people taking care of everyone and the folks in between who show up daily to take out the treasure to make sure that we are discarding needles appropriately there are many moving parts to laguna honda and the people here when you have done to work hard to fight your concerns about what was happening in the uncertainty.

you know men of you could say i don't want it and i gallon some place and he wills do manage so my financial situation is protected but no you rolled up your sleeves and worked hard and smart and said i'm stick with laguna honda i want to take care of the people i care about the patients at laguna honda. thank you all so very much. thank you. [applause] whoa! if i don't when to say anymore. but i want to say -- to the department of public health e approximately and i know grant colfax will talk about how this works because it is different layers the patients at laguna honda depend on medicare and medicaid and the state after going through the various

processes and trying to get up to parmaking adjustments to new policies. giving a list of new rules that weep had to adjust to, we got to the accomplice on my birthday august 11 we submitted an application. and in record time the state responded with, you are approved. what does this mean? that means the majority of the money over 200 million dollars a year this we rely on from medicare from the state will now come flowing in laguna honda to ensure that we protect this institution so that those who are most vulnerable and those who could least afford tell not only be in laguna honda and get the passport and care but mean this is if sillity will be open to the next generation of folk

who is need it the most for another 150 years. >> so i can go and on. i will come back later. in the meantime i want to say that doctor colfanatic be proud a pandemic now make sure we save laguna honda you got a lot of great things under your belt and appreciate this more than anything else. and we are truly grateful to you and the folks you put in accomplice to get us here. ladies and gentlemen, to provide the specifics when this means is doctor grant colfax. thank you, thank you mayor breed. thank you mayor breed. have we been waiting for this day or waiting for this day!

200 million dollars in medicaid dollars will flow to lug luge. a great day. i really want to thank everybody. because with this funding secure laguna honda is here to stay. and -- this represents a new beginning for laguna honda. going forward, laguna honda will be the if model of the new modern guild nursing facility. our job is to ensure the health of our community especially for those who are most vulnerable. and laguna honda is a key part of that mission. over 150 years laguna honda served san franciscans. it is a place and will continue to be a place where we provide compassionate long-term care for low income people when need us.

for them, this is not just a skilled nursing facility. this is their home. this is why all of dph pulled together with our colleagues at laguna honda and collaboration with many others to put time, resources and effort to making significant improvement this is lead to our ref certification. we brought in experts skill in the nursing home care to sustain improvements from clinical operations to staff training. we moved record pace and for those. you who know this city it was a referred pace. outstanding pace to hire our new nursing home administrator and ceo sandra simon. [applause] and sandra 2 assistants jennifer wade and

jill. yea. our new leadership team is in place. and we were not alone we could not do this alone we had partners who worked with us advocated for us and done everything in between to get us here. we could not have done this without passport and mayor london breed. thank you, mayor. i was not happy going in the mayor's office and giving her the news we were decertified the mayor said you can and will do it i want it done. thank you, mayor. i want to thank yes. i want to which thank the support of city attorney chu. and his team lead boy julie. amazing work. this team the teach attorneys

every day worked with us. advocates. you we think the legal side is remove from the clinical side this was a close relationship. thank you, david for you and your team's leadership thank you to the board of supervisors president supervisor peskin and melgar incredible making sure weave got it done and i want to thank the leadership of the health commission for effort in guidance. and of course, we are grateful for the leadership and support of speaker pelosi and not without laguna honda itself this team crucial low included the per inship and support of the leadership and membership local 1021. under the leadership of theresa

and union employees. we had to mission in minds! and thank you roland pickins. i called you. you anyhow that call was coming you took on daily responsibility, leading the change. you truly went above and beyond. thank you. and you know i don't i feel like with roland and the team it does come to minds the quote from st. francis do what is necessary then possible and soon you will do the impossible. i feel like this reflects the ethose you and your team brought to this work. [applause]. most of all we are grateful to our residents and their families. who despite uncertainty in the

situation were supportive of us. gave us the reason and will to succeed. and if you stay patient centered you keep resident in mind the work will take care of itself we went become to when is benefit for the residents of lug laguna honda this is why laguna honda represents the best san francisco and why we work so hard and success have gone low for our residents, fells and our city. thank you, and i would now like to turn it over to city attorney david chu. [applause] brother and sisters inference france the sun is shining today. who ask happy about this day! so, let mow sill this every time i come to laguna honda i think this is true for so many, we may have had quibbles with regulators the last couple years.

when i step through the doors, we feel the care. we feel the professionalism. we feel the spirit of the city of st. francis in this building and that would not be the case but for the men and women behind us first i want to star boy thanking and sallowing the staff and workers of laguna honda. thank you very much. friends, this hen quite a journey. it turns out it was one year ago this month when this facility under the threat of closure our office joining the mayor, dph the leadership of the institution and otherings we filed a let you to continue funding. pause resident transfer and keep laguna honda open. we all heard from countless resident fells and staff when

faced uncertainty. who were worried more transfer exclude the tolls the transfers could have on vulnerable patients. and through this litigation, we reached a fair settlement to condition funding pause transfers and give the institution the troop apply for recertification. there were thanks today. and of course i want it echo the thifrpgs for federal and state partners but irrelevantment to thank the local willful, mir, doctor colfax, dph come laguna honda staff there is a joke with relationships with lawyers and health care professionals. i'm so proud we came together to preserve this critical institution that so many of most vulnerable san franciscans rely on. i want to take a moment and

acknowledge folks from my office work helped lead us today. san francisco city attorney's office we are the best municipal law office in the country no part because of those who are part of team laguna honda. i wish that the folks were here next to right in front of me were behind us. i want to tick a moment and thank julie. hen row lip ton. tera steely. and medina. glen levy. michael. jessy smith. sarah, jen. star. katie. lilly and pam. >> [applause] jop love it when lawyers and heck folks come together. i want it take a moment and acknowledge the efforts of my former city attorney lewis. >> i will close by saying this

together we have preserved this incredible institution and restored a safety net for san francisco. laguna honda taken care of most vulnerable we look forward to this happening for the next 100 years. with this my honor to bring up someone helping to represent our neighbors and residents of the city of san francisco the supervisor of d 7, supervisor melgar. >> thank you very much. i want to say thank you, mir for your leadership and for being able to tune out the noise. while the task at hand needed get done. sometimes we have contentious rep with the board and the major's office. [laughter] and i remember very vivid low that meet whenning we decided no we need to work together. tune out the noise and figure

out how to get this done and cord nit and work together the messaging together the same page and get it done. this was you, mayor. thank you very much. for your leadership. i want it thank a couple people in your office. this is shawn your chief of staff. thank you for all that. and someone when has in the been thanked from dph besides pickins whom i appreciate is doctor baba. and i look forward so much to working with sandra simon through the work ahead. come with years of experience as a nursing home add administrator in san francisco worked at the jewish home the other institution that does this time of work. i thank you for stepping up. in doing this. and of course local 1021. for all of the partner help the

work and strategy and communication and organizing all of that thank you. i also. to say thank you to the advocates joe request urban. the doctor palmer the california advocates enoughsing home reform and gray panthers than i organized the letters to the feds and a annoying folk and made sure everybody understand to preserve the people we serve and the gem for 150 yearers florence nightinggale over seen in terms of making sure we are doing right. and being true to our san francisco values. thank you so much, everyone. keep going it is now on us to make sure this never happens again. we have the appropriate compliance, training but also

the wonderful things we need to make sure this is the tradition continues to serve san franciscans thank you and with this i will bring up the machine of the day. our ceo and director of the san francisco health network mr. roland pickins. [applause]. good afternoon will everyone. supervisor melgar said, wonderful day to be in the saddle of the statute of florence nightinggale. this is a great day for everybody the laguna honda. nurses, doctors and therapist and the staff most of all or residents and their families whom laguna honda their home. will past 18 months seen nothing short of trans formation laguna

honda in a world class the world class skilled nursing facility. one this will continue to serve for generations to come. our goal has been dem strit this we meet the highest standards and meet them every day. we have prouven this in multiple surveys the past 18 months. those results taken an extraordinary effort with extraordinary dedication and attention it detail. everyone working at laguna honda in every capacity has done outstanding work. and they have done this under stressful and challenging circumstances. and i'm so proud of them. and grateful. for their commitment to our residents. i want to express my thanks to theical cal department of public health and the federal center for medicare and medicare services working with us on this

journey and recognizing the progress we made. we all share the same goal to provide the best service public to those who rely on public funded health care. and finally, i'm grateful to residents and families who have been patient and supportive of our people and our efforts. it hen has been stressful for them. with today's recertification our residents can feel secure about 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? today.

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and chief at straw combinations of street food and festival food and carnival food i realize that people try to find this you don't want to wait 365 day if you make that brick-and-mortar it is really about making you feel special and feel like a kid again everything we've done to celebrate that. >> so nonprofit monday is a program that straw runs to make sure that no matter is going on with our business giving back is treated just the is that you as

paying any other bill in addition to the money we impose their cause to the greater bayview it is a great way for straw to sort of build communicated and to introduce people who might not normally get to be exposed to one nonprofit or another and i know that they do a different nonprofit every most of the year. >> people are mroent surprised the restaurant it giving back i see some people from the nonprofit why been part of nonprofit monday sort of give back to the program as well answer. >> inform people that be regular aprons at straw they get imposed to 10 or 12 nonprofits. >> i love nonprofits great for a local restaurant to give back

to community that's so wonderful i wish more restrictive places did that that is really cool. >> it is a 6 of nonprofit that is supporting adults with autism and down syndrome we i do not involved one the wonderful members reached out to straw and saw a headline about, about their nonprofit mondays and she applied for a grant back in january of 2016 and we were notified late in the spring we would be the recipient of straw if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer thems in the month of genuine we were able to organize with straw for the monday and at the end of the month we were the recipient of 10 percent of precedes on mondays the contribution from nonprofit monday from stray went into our post group if you have any

questions, we'll be happy to answer theming fund with our arts coaching for chinese and classes and we have a really great vibrate arts program. >> we we say thank you to the customers like always but say 0 one more thing just so you know you've made a donation to x nonprofit which does why i think that is a very special thing. >> it is good to know the owner takes responsibility to know your money is going to good cause also. >> it is really nice to have a restaurant that is very community focused they do it all month long for nonprofits not just one day all four mondays. >> we have a wall of thank you

letters in the office it seems like you know we were able to gas up the 10 passenger minivan we were innovate expected to do. >> when those people working at the nonprofits their predictive and thank what straw is giving that in and of itself it making an impact with the nonprofit through the consumers that are coming here is just as important it is important for the grill cheese kitchen the more restrictive i learn about what is going on in the community more restrictive people are doing this stuff with 4 thousand restaurant in san francisco we're doing an average of $6,000 a year in donations and multiply that by one thousand that's a lot to

okay. good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco planning commission hearing for thursday, september 14th, 2023. to enable public participation, sf govtv is broadcasting and streaming this hearing live and we will receive we will receive public comment for discussion and action items on today's agenda. each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes and when you have 30s remaining, you will hear a chime indicating your time is almost up. when your allotted time is reached, i will announce that your time is up and take the next person cue to speak. we will take public comment from persons in city hall first and then open up the remote access lines for those persons callingn