to have the city's first banker and a street in the middle of financial district. that alone is powerful. [music] >> in meeting will come it orders. welcome to the monday, september 11 meeting of rowels of the san francisco board of supervisors. welcome become to our first meeting after summer recess. before we get started it bears mentioning today marks a somber

day in american history. 22 years ago terror attacks. claimed lives of 3,000 people from 100 countries many of us knew victims and i like to observe a moment of silence to honor those left behind and those lost. >> sthk. first off our gratitude to our clerk mr. victor young and everyone in the clerk's office who supports us well thanks to the team at sfgovtv for facilitating and broadcasting today's meeting and our producer today matthew. >> mr. clerk, do you have announcements? >> yes. the board of supervisors are convening hybrid meetings in person and public comment still providing remote access i have phone. public comment will be taken on each item. those in personal be allowed

speak first then those on the phone line. the public comment number is streaming on the screen. you will hear the meeting discussion but moud and in listening mode only. when your item come up and public comment is called. those in person should line up to speak and those on the phone dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line if you mean are on the phone remember to turn down your tv and all other upon listening device. alternateively you may submit in writing in the following ways. e mail them to myself the rules clerk will at victor. young @sfgov.org and send written comments to city hall 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place room 244, san francisco, california 94102. items acted upon today are expected to appear at the board agenda on september 19th, 2023

unless otherwise spesified. i have a memo from president supervisor peskin appointing supervisor chan in play-offs supervisor waltonful would you like to take a motion to excuse supervisor walton. >> thank you, i like to make a motion to excuse vice chair walton. can we have i roll call >> on that motion. supervisor chan. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> vice chair walton is excused. >> thank you, mr. clerk. call item one. why item one hear to consider appointing a member ending january 15 of 24 to the san francisco health authority. i believe we have our applicant on microsoft teams today. >> thank you. thank you, mr. clerk the san francisco health authority

established the local initiative under medical to create an efficients health care delivery system in order to provide contracted by california state d. health services with the authority. access to health care services for medical beneficiaries and other importance as the health authority deems promoteful quality compassion at and appropriate and to ensure preservation of the safety net. there is a vacancy on the health authority seat 9 and requirement system that they must be nominated by the labor council. cooper is nominated and joining us we have a brief agenda and ask presenters to take no more than 2-3 minutes to allow for questions after. ms. cooper. welcome. the floor is yours. >> good morning. thank you. i hope this everyone has the opportunity to review my résumé that was submitted. i will not rehash that.

with my 15 years of clinical experience at san francisco general hospital my 10 you'res of the executive leadership at start up organizations and existing organizations. my training as an in the practice of examining the 96 us with policy practice and patient out come with emphasis on identifying health care disparities and my passion for policy will passion for policy and commitment for leveraging policy will make me an asset to the health authority board. my goal is to help contribute to a health care deparity in san francisco. increasing access to quality health care. services irrelevant voluntary to the san francisco population. while meeting state and local goals. thank you for your time i'm here to answer questions you may

have. >> thank you, ms. cooper. >> i want to i'm impressed with your become ground and express my appreciation. this is a body that over cease the health care safety net. i department to shout out to the work done more then and there i decade ago on healthy san francisco by tom and the mayor newsome. i was in the office that did litigation on in. this is something what does important work. one thing i thought after my own heart in this ms. keeper was your backgrounds on fighting big tobacco that is important to me. i know for all the thing this is we talk about with we have upon terrible drug crisis and cigarette smoking is the cause of death and disease in the united states and welcome your thoughts on anything you think this any irrelevant the san

francisco health authority could play on that issue. >> i think what -- because i not they work at san francisco general i think expanding services and talking to people about tobacco would be critical. also just speaking about expanding beyond just adults and talking to children. we then and there second handled smoke is very detrimental. talking to children in high schoolers about it as well and a family affair and in the just targeting the vsed. this would be helpful in terms of combating smoking. >> great. >> thank you and thank you for your wellingness to serve our city. no one on the roster mr. clerk, can we open up for public comment? >> members of public when wish to speak and joining in person lineup at this time of for those remote low on the call in line press star 3 to enter the lionel. those in the queue continue to wait until you have been unmuted and that will be your queue to

begin your comments. there is then in the chamber for public comment at this time. and just double checking our on line system. nobody on line for public comment at this time. >> thank you, mr. clerk. public comment is closed. >> and i would like to recommend cooptory seat 9 and send it to the full board. mr. clerk? >> on this motion, supervisor chan. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> motion passes without objection >> thank you, mr. young on a unanimous vote recommended seat 9 and the appointment moves to the full board. >> mr. clerk can you call item 2? >> item 2 a hear to consider appointing a member june first of 24 to the reentry council. >> thank you, mr. clerk this is the appointment on seat 6, added

through legislation from our colleague supervisor ronen. the requirements for seat 6 is representative from the entity or agency that is primarily responsible for administering pretrial services involving alternatives to incarceration. david is one applicant to the seat. welcome to the rules committee. floor is yours. you like to say a now words? >> hello, good morning, everyone and thanks to supervisor robe sxen rules accept thanksgiving seat. a great opportunity. not as much about me but for san francisco pretrial as an agency delivering pretrial service in san francisco for 47 yearsch and also00 autoorganization is responsible for about 70% of the people released from county jail temperature is i great opportunity for us to sit on this board. and work with all the partners.

it is we have been connected with agencies joined at the hip since our inception and this gives the opportunity to sit in that space and w closely with everyone in more of i leadership capacity. and just help shape public safety and the communities response to san francisco and bring our knowledge of pretrial services and clines we serve. i really appreciate your consideration. >> great. >> thank you. i want to express my appreciation. i know it is in the like have you, lot of time given the role you have i appreciate your willingness to serve in this expand the capacity. i don't see anyone with questions, i do. supervisor safai >> thank you for stepping forward this . is extremely important body. and advises us with a lot of direction when it come to the areas around addiction and

employment and i than is stuff you have been wing on and a number of qualified trained individuals there those are 2 of the things i care beeply about and dorse and he others do as well. just making that a top priority. is important to mow. i appreciate you stepping forward and look forward to working with you. >> thank you. why thank you supervisor safai and appreciate your leadership on these issues as well. no one on the roster, thank you for your time. mr. clerk, can we open up to public comment? >> members of public had wish to speak and joining person line you believe to speak. for those remote low on the public call in line press star 3 to enter the speaker line. for those in the queue continue to wait you have been unmute exclude this will be your queue to comment. there is nobody for public comment at this time and nobody on the call in line.

>> thank you, mr. clerk. public comment on item 2 is closed. and i would like to make a motion to recommend david to seat 6 on reent row council and send it to the full burden. a roll call? supervisor chan. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> the motion passes. thank you on a unanimous vote. david is recommended to seat 6 on the reent row council the appointment moves to the full burden, congratulations. >> mr. clerk do we have further business. >> that completes the agenda. >> thank you we are adjourned.

>> there is a lot of unique characteristics about visitation valley. it is a unique part of the city. >> we are off in a corner of the

city against the san francisco county line 101 on one side. vis station valley is still one of the last blue color neighborhoods in san francisco. a lot of working class families out here. it is unusual. not a lot of apartment buildings. a lot of single family homes. >> great business corridor. so much traffic coming through here and stopping off to grab coffee or sandwich or pick up food before going home. >> a lot of customers are from the neighborhood. they are painters or mechanics. they are like blue color workers, a lot of them. >> the community is lovely. multi-racial and hopefully we can look out for each other. >> there is a variety of businesses on the block. you think of buffalo kitchen,

chinese food, pork buns, sandwich. library, bank of america with a parking lot. the market where you can grab anything. amazing food choices, nail salons. basically everything you need is here. >> a lot of these businesses up and down leland are family owned. people running them are family. when you come here and you have an uncle and nephew and go across the street and have the guy and his dad. lisa and her daughter in the dog parlor and pam. it is very cool. >> is small businesses make the neighborhood unique. >> new businesses coming. in mission blue, gourmet chocolate manufacturing. the corridor has changed and is continuing to change. we hope to see more businesses coming in the near future.

>> this is what is needed. first, stay home. unless it is absoluteliness scary. social distancing is the most important step right now to limit spread of virus. cancel all nonessential gather everythings. >> when the pandemic litly land avenue suffered like other corridors. a few nail salons couldn't operate. they shut down. restaurants that had to adapt to more of a take out model. they haven't totally brought back indoor seating. >> it is heartbreaking to see the businesses that have closed down and shut because of the pandemic. >> when the pandemic first hit it got really slow. we had to change our hours. we never had to close, which is

a blessing. thank god. we stayed open the whole time. >> we were kind of nervous and anxious to see what was going to come next hoping we will not have to close down. >> during covid we would go outside and look on both sides of the street. it looked like old western town. nobody on the street. no cars. >> it was a hard eight or nine months. when they opened up half the people couldn't afford a haircut. >> during that time we kept saying the coffee shop was the living room of the valley. people would come to make sure they were okay. >> we checked on each other and patronized each other. i would get a cup of coffee, shirt, they would get a haircut. >> this is a generous and kind community. people would be like i am getting the toffee for the guy

behind me and some days it went on and on. it was amazing to watch. we saw a perfect picture of community. we are all in this together. >> since we began to reopen one year later, we will emerge stronger. we will emerge better as a city because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. >> when we opened up august 1st. i will not say it was all good. we are still struggling due to covid. it affected a lot of people. >> we are still in the pandemic right now. things are opening up a little bit. it is great to have space to come together. i did a three painting series of visitation valley and the businesses on leland. it felt good to drop off the

paintings and hung them. >> my business is picking up. the city is opening up. we have mask requirements. i check temperatures. i ask for vaccination card and/or recent test. the older folks they want to feel safe here. >> i feel like there is a sense of unity happening. >> what got us through the pandemic was our customers. their dogs needed groomed, we have to cut their nails so they don't over grow. >> this is only going to push us forward. i sense a spirit of community and just belief in one another. >> we are trying to see if we can help all small businesses around here. there is a cannabis club lounge next to the dog parlor to bring foot traffic. my business is not going to work if the business across the street is not getting help. >> in hit us hard.

i see a bright future to get the storefronts full. >> once people come here i think they really like it. >> if you are from san francisco visit visitation valley to see how this side of the city is the same but different. television.

>> in 1948 swensen's ice cream used to make ice cream in the navy and decided to open up an ice cream shop it it takes time for the parent to put money down and diane one of the managers at zen citizen in arena hills open and serve old-fashioned ice cream. >> over 20 years.

>> yeah. >> had my own business i was a firefighter and came in- in 1969 her dad had ice cream and left here still the owner but shortly after um, in here became the inc. maker the manager and lead and branded the store from day to day and in the late 90s- was obvious choice he sold it to him and he called us up one night and said i'm going to sell the ice cream store what you you talking about diane came and looked at the store and something we want to do and had a history of her dad here and

growing up here at the ice cream store we decided to take that business on. >> and have it in the family i didn't want to sell it. >> to keep it here in san francisco. >> and (unintelligible). >> share worked there and worked with all the people and a lot of customers come in. >> a round hill in the adjoining areas loved neither ice cream shop in this area and support russia hills and have clean up day and give them free ice cream because that is those are the people that keep us the opportunity to stick around here four so many years next generations have been coming her 20 er thirty or 40 years and we

have the ingredients something it sold and, you know, her dad said to treat the customers right and people will keep on coming back and 75 or 74 years, you know, that is quite an accomplishment i think of it as our first 75 years and like to see that, you know, going into the future um, that ice cream shop will be around used to be 4 hundred in the united states and all gone equipment for that one that is the first and last we're proud of that we're still standing and people people are you tell people it's been around in 50 years and don't plan on

12, 20. 23 is now called to order. roll call, please. thank you. commissioner alexander. i am here. thank you. good to see you. commissioner fisher. i am also here. commissioner lamb. commissioner montgomery. here. thank you. commissioner sanchez . vice president wiseman. ward here. and president. bogus here. thank you