>> >> good afternoon, everyone. >> thank you. you are right. this is a quiet group. i'm going to need these voices to be raised in all of these issues that we have in san francisco. we need you to be a lot louder and a lot more enthusiastic than that. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> yes, there we are. this is a really really big deal. and you know that because when i did my youth commission swearing in, we got sworn in. mayor, you

know how to do a swearing in. >> and i would like to thank mr. -- supervisor ronen, and i am particularly excited because this is where i got my start in public service. to be a san francisco native, and to be appointed as a youth commission is a really big deal. give yourselves a round of applause. let's give a round of applause. >> when i look out at you all and i can say this now because i'm a father of three and i have got some gray hairs. a lot has changed since i was appointed youth commissioner. i see a lot of hope, and i see inspiration because we need your perspective here in san

francisco, especially now. this right here today is an indication of what this city and county looks like. you should be proud as you raise your hand in a few minutes and take this office. >> i'm a san francisco native. i went to the high school here. any alum? today i work as a public affair executive for a national public affairs firm. i have the honor and privilege to serve as commissioner for three consecutive mayors. my last appointment, mayor breed appointed me to the human rights commission and we worked with every department to be sure it has a mandate for equity issues. i was appointed by the late ed

lee and was on the mission structure, with the bay, with the terminal and these are what fell under the office of investment and community infrastructure. >> my first commission appointment was the san francisco youth commission. i was sworn in by mayor gavin newsom where we worked on a myriad of issues to be sure that parents had transparent information and we worked on the muni and the lifeline package. that came from the san francisco youth commission. i bring up those issues to say that the world, the city hall, san francisco is your oyster. there is no issue too small or call too big that you cannot handle. i walk the halls today and in my

full-time job i'm a consultant for a consulting firm and i act as a bridge inside city hall and outside city hall. i remind myself that we have important persons here. we have mayor breed, other commissioners and these are all people that you have access to in this building. >> i'm going to end with this before i call mayor breed up. my challenge for you all is to become masters of all of the tangible. there is enough smart people, there is a lot of smart people in san francisco, but the most successful public servants show up, they are present, they are unafraid to speak. they are, i get emotional here because this city, i love this

city. i'm born and raised in this city particularly during a time right now. one of the most important things that has allowed me to be successful are the relationships. making sure that the people you see sit next to you as youth commissioners, keep these relationships strong because ten years from now, when you are walking the halls, when you are the next mayor of san francisco, the next supervisor of the department ahead, it's going to be the person that sits next to you that you call on for that legislation, or draft policy or make sure our streets are clean. so i want to say thank you. i want to say thank you to mayor breed for inviting me here today. i would like to call you up to do the official oath of office. >> mayor london breed: thank you, theo and supervisors for

showing up for our young people today. in the past, i know gavin newsom was in the basement and i think ed lee was in the focus at the time. when i became mayor, i wanted to be sure that young people like you were a priority. i think this city has spent a lot of time doing a lot of things that often has not led to the kinds of results that you as the next generation of young folks growing up in san francisco deserve. so one of the first programs that i started when i became mayor was opportunities for all. and let me tell you, for any of you that participate in opportunities for all, well, thank you, at least one or two, but the rest of you are going to need to participate in this program. why was that important? it was important because when i was growing up in san francisco, i lived in poverty. so i needed to make money

somehow. my grandmother received welfare for us and food stamps and we didn't have the ability to do some of the things i wanted to participate in. i pretended i didn't want to be a cheerleader but i really wanted to be a cheerleader but i couldn't afford the uniform and the travel associated with being a cheerleader. there is an important program like that where we provide internships so that money is not a barrier to your desire to do anything you want in life. and the fact that you all are committing your time to the youth commission, where you are stepping up to be leaders in this arena, i wanted you to know how important it is not only to me, but to our supervisors who are here, to people like theo

who went through this program as a youth commissioner and continues to serve in various capacities in the city of san francisco. these are opportunities. not just opportunities for you to add something to your college applications, but as theo has said, opportunities, for you to develop very important relationships that could be a part of your lives for the rest of your lives. people that you are going to be working with to push for policy decisions that are important to young people in san francisco. this is where you learn how to develop those relationships, how to fight for what you want and after the fight is done, the debate happens, you are still friends and show respect for one another because all of you are spending your time being public

servants that deliver the kind of results that young people of this city need especially after this global pandemic. it has been very difficult. i can't even imagine what you all have gone through where two years of not being able to be in school. i couldn't wait until the first day of school when i was growing up. i couldn't imagine what it would feel like where you could not go into school and the classroom and not look forward to recess or lunchtime and have the friends and have the quality time. i know it's so important that we start to have an honest conversation about the impact on our mental health to our young people who have experienced the things that you have gone through. you know what's best because you have lived in it and you can provide an opportunity for us as leaders to make decisions that

support moving our city forward in a good direction, but more importantly making sure that we are providing the right kind of support and resources for young people all over san francisco. now, let me just give you a little bit of what the power of the youth commission is. now, the youth commission convinced me to support something i was opposed to. the vote 16 efforts. [ applause ] there were a couple of young people. they came into my office, and then they presented. i was opposed to it. no, you are 18, still live at home, you are not grown. i was opposed to it. these youngster came into my office and they had the data that talked about specifically

how young people voting in their age become more actively engaged and showing up to vote. and they said it but not only said it but they had the data in demonstrating how this was more impactful in getting more people to show up and vote. that was after a few minutes i was engaged in this conversation and something i don't do that often but i changed my mind. but i was so proud that they were interested in something they cared about. you mention the card lifeline. the youth helped to make it free, not just the lifeline. but later on, the muni

generation fought to make it free, no longer sneaking in on the bus, and to making sure that money is not a barrier and to be sure that every young person can get on our busses and not have to dealing with the consequences for not being able to pay. this is the first step for learning how to be a leader and to protect things you care about, how to bring ideas forward and impacting young people in san francisco. we are looking forward to seeing you serve this year, and bring forth not only to myself but the board of supervisors, the legislative branch of government, we are looking forward to see what you bring forward for us to deliver on for young people. we may say what we want to do for young folks, but you all understand it from a different perspective. we are looking forward to your

service, on the youth commission. enjoy every single moment. don't tell your parents i have to go to the youth commission and i can't make-up my bed. make sure you take care of things at home, that you take care of things at school, but you really take this opportunity to be not only part of this meeting where you have discussions but you take the time to get to know one another throughout this process. this is going to be so important to you in life and also this experience is something for you to look back on and when you look back, make sure what you do today makes you proud. with that, i'm ready to swear you in. [ applause ] >> so here is how we are going to do it since all of your family and friends are here and they want to take pictures. everyone who is being sworn in to the youth commission will stand up here facing this way, and i will give you instructions

from there. >> now, if anyone wants to be in the middle, you can. c'mon. there we go. this is a great looking group of young people! [cheers and applause] >> okay, i'm going to ask you to raise your right hand and repeat after me, and then i'm going to point to you when i ask you to state your name. you will state your full name. okay? are we ready? >> are we ready? let's pretend we are at homecoming in high school. are we ready? >> okay. all right. let's go.

please raise your right hand, everyone, and repeat after me. i, state your name, >> do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states, and the constitution of the state of california. against all enemies. foreign and domestic. that i bear true faith, and allegiance to the same that i

take this obligation freely. without any mental reservation. or purpose of evasion. and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which i'm about to enter. and during such time, as i serve as commissioner for the youth commission of the city and county of san francisco. >> congratulations, everybody.

>> congratulations, everybody. [cheers and applause] >> >> >> [cheers and applause] >> >> >> any one of our brave leaders want to say a few words? >> there we go. >> i will take the chance when i have one. i just wanted to say thank you to everyone for joining us here today. my name is plumber, i serve as a commissioner in the san francisco youth commission. i serve citywide but i'm a proud

resident of district 4. i want to thank you all for being here today. this is my third term on the san francisco youth commission. it's been really exciting and we have been able to work on incredible things. i'm looking forward to come back this year and talk about things for youth and every issue that impacts young people in san francisco. we'll have our first meeting on monday. we are getting right to it. [cheers and applause] all right. so first we are going to take a few pictures, and then we are going to host a reception for everyone in my conference room in 201. so that everyone can have a good time after the ceremony. thank you all so much for being here, supervisor mandelman. the principal is going to send you to detention.

[ laughter ] but thank you, supervisor mandelman for joining us as well. we are proud to have all family and community members here to support the young folks who are going to take over san francisco. so we have to make sure that they are prepared and ready to go. that we are building more senior citizen homes so i have a place to live when i become a senior citizen as i watch you lead san francisco. i'm looking forward to it. thank you very much for being [ applause ] >> >>

>> >> >> what say a nice day to build housing in san francisco. good evening, everyone. i'm london breed where we are going to build over 500 units of housing. [cheers and applause] >> man, i don't think i have ever signed a piece of legislation supporting housing that has made me happier than the one i'm about to sign today. you know, president peskin, i want to take us back a tad bit because when you came back to the board of supervisors, the work that we did together by

providing the opportunity for the board of supervisors to make legislative decisions instead of leaving it in the charter, understanding that it is so important that we do economic feasibility studies to ensure that the decisions that get made around our requirements for housing, don't impact our ability to build. we know a lot of things for housing are not within our control. the cost of materials and the economy and setting interest rates is a whole but there are things here locally that are within our control. i want to take this opportunity to really appreciate so many people who came together with the technical advisory committee, who worked day in and day out to ensure that we really dug deep, that we fulfill a process that we made to the people of san francisco. that when we make decisions

about inclusionary numbers, if the economy changes in anyway, we will reevaluate those numbers to determine if they should be either raised or lowered, and we will not play politics with the needs to do everything we can to build more housing in san francisco. and today, fulfills such a promise. no, it is not everything we need to do to get to the 80,000 units that san francisco needs to build in order to fulfill our housing commitment for the element, but it's an incredible start. what does this mean? this means we have come together with stakeholders. i want to appreciate board president peskin and those in my office for the work and the various tac members did to get us to this point. i even said at this point when anne was in my office, what did

you do for president peskin to get him to be so cooperative. i'm not used to this. i don't know what kind of magic she did or worked this committee in the way that she and president peskin did to make this happen, but what i appreciate most is it shows the power of collaboration. it shows what can happen for the greater good of our city when we are willing to come together and to negotiate and to compromise, and to do what is in the best interest of san francisco. so, what does this do? well, this unlocks thousands of units that are now possible because they can get the financing necessary to get these projects done. what does this do? it creates a number of various layers of commitments that we are making to not just wait years to make

adjustments to inclusionary numbers, but to look at inflation, to have built in mechanisms to be sure that we don't wait around for policies to pass or change but able to move forward now with projects that are being approved and already been approved so we can unlock housing in san francisco, so that we can break ground and build more all over san francisco including downtown. what does that mean? it means we are building housing but we are creating jobs. so i want to really thank all of the various labor organizations from the plumbers to the carpenters, to the electricians, all people that are responsible for building housing in san francisco. more housing means more job opportunities and we want to make sure that we are building so much housing that we can barely find the workforce to do

it. that is our goal, but more importantly, and i know, go ahead, clap labor. they are excited about that. [ applause ] but more importantly, affordability is a real challenge and we want to be sure that our san franciscans of various areas of labor and our bus drivers and workforce in san francisco and others and to those who are struggling to make ends meet. we want to make sure that we have as much housing as possible to ensure affordablity for different layers for jobs that exist all over san francisco. we have a lot of work to get there but this is our very very first step. we know that we have to do so much more.

we have to be more aggressive than ever before if we are going to meet our goal. san francisco already has 50,000 units. do you know what that could mean for the city of san francisco? what that could mean for what is happening right now with new technologies that is emerging in every part of san francisco, and not just right now but pier 70 and dog pound and we are the leading company in the world here in san francisco and more to come. so we have to make sure that we are building the housing necessary to meet the needs, to meet the demand. that we are doing everything possible in this legislation that i am about

to sign today is a significant step in the right direction. so i'm looking forward to breaking ground here in those 500 units as well as other parts of our city. let's get to financing, let's get the job going, let's make magic happen for the city and county of francisco. [ applause ] and before we sign the legislation, i want to take the opportunity because this doesn't just happen because we want it to happen. this happens because people come together and they do the hard work to make it happen. as i said, president of the board of supervisors, aaron peskin, ben rosen field, our controller, the director of the planning department, sarah phillips, oewp, and who worked her magic, conrad who was a part

of this team as well from the city side. i want to thank all of the members of the tac who came together to fight it out on the inside and merged together on the outside, and i want to thank the consultants and want to thank the developers estrada, matthew, thank you for the work you do. jim morrison, with hines and erickson and fearless developers here. from 530 howard street. en enrique. carl from fisherman fiore. thank you so much. and we couldn't do this work without the incredible people whose hands build these units, the carpenters, thank you so much.

[ applause ] and the building trades. and of course many of our housing advocates, jay natoli is here. thank you so much to cory from the housing action committee. it is a village. we won't stop, we can't stop now. first step in the right direction. and before we sign this legislation, i would like to introduce supervisor president of the board of supervisors aaron peskin. [ applause ] >>supervisor aaron peskin: thank you, mayor breed. the mayor got it just right. this is government working at its best, collaboratively based on actual data and i have to say, the meetings that we've had over the period of months were actually very pleasant, they were not contentious, they were informed by experts. all of them i was going to thank, but the mayor has thanked

each and every one of them. i will say that the office of economic and workforce development were splendid. i think we named him excel spreadsheet conrad. 22 years ago, san francisco was at the leading edge of creating affordable housing in new market rate development. that legislation was carried by my then colleague supervisor mark, who worked very closely with erickson and we created one of the first on-site inclusionary affordable housing laws in the united states of america that has been copied by cities all across the country. but it was never meant to be static. we enjoyed robust times and that ten percent initial number crept up to 15% and eventually 20%.

but when times are tough, that number has to be adjusted in a way that allows new housing start to happen. the mayor understood that, the entire board of supervisors are almost the entire board of supervisors understood that and that is what led to this process. mayor breed referred to the fact that unfortunately in a number of time, the number got put in the charter at 12% and nobody could bring it down and we took that charter and we made that promise saying we will revisit this every few years and adjust the inclusionary rate number accordingly and we kept our word and that is exactly what happened. now, our job is not done, because as these significant reductions in the requirements for on-site affordablity has

gone down, this city has the obligation to build 80,000 units of housing, the majority that need to be affordable and we have to find a way to do those. we have had that conversation and that is part of this conversation and that is what the mayor and i are also collaborating on and realizing the affordable housing bond will be the opportunity to vote on this march, march of 2024, in the amount of $300 million. we mentioned that this week and working to get that passed. with that, it is my pleasure to witness this signing. it truly has been a collaboration and i will close by saying it is one of many collaborations. it is the kind of collaboration that we had relative to adaptively reusing vacant

buildings in the downtown core that we cleaned up and passed and along with corroboration with supervisor melgar and her work and in the city and county in san francisco. our work is not done. i look forward to more collaborations going forward. thank you, mayor breed. >> good afternoon, my name is michael cohen from strata. thank you all for coming today. it's really fantastic to have you all on this humble parking lot which we are advancing plans to build this incredibly gorgeous 500 units, residential building. i have to say those plans are much brighter today because of this legislation.

indeed this legislation is the most impactful that has come out in a decade and it's so important because it addresses the single barriers which is affecting housing to do and that is affordablity. and there are things that are outside of this city's control, but by significantly reducing this bill, we will be able to build housing and will not happen over night but over the next years, it will have a huge impact. in addition to what it says, this bill says a lot. one, it directly acknowledges that we could not hope to build

additional housing without decreasing the rate to market. and shows when the stakes are the highest, leadership in the state and san francisco can come together to work on pragmatic solutions. i have to say the mayor and supervisors and everyone else, it's remarkable because you did something really important, really well, really quickly with no drama. for that, i will say thank you, and god bless. [ applause ] i think rebecca is going to come up. >> >> hi, everyone. nice to see you. i am rebecca foster, and i had the honor of being in that inside closed door site on the tac, not really, it was pretty

low drama. and i am also the ceo of the housing accelerator fund. those things are really connected. we launched the housing accelerator fund in 2017 as a public-private partnership, really to turbo charge the city and affordable housing developers to be able to preserve more housing more officially and since then, we build millions of dollars for san francisco projects and made over $400 million in investments and supporting those around the city. we love this fund. and we have build more units around the city that help residents stay in their long time homes to amazing beautiful buildings like just down on

howard street, the new 200 unit building unit on howard that will welcome 200 families next income to affordable housing in san francisco. clearly, i don't need to tell anyone here that getting affordable housing, getting any housing built in san francisco is complicated. it's hard. it takes a lot of grit, and for us, it's full of way too many negotiations with a lot of cattle raising and with spreadsheets, and like on the tac, we spend a lot of time looking at the maps of what it takes to make projects work while trying to balance the critical importance of delivering homes faster. this year starting construction, not seven years from starting construction, and getting the systems and policies right so we can massively scale the overall

delivery of housing in our city to hit that 82,000 necessary homes for future generations and for people who live here now. >> we all keep up this hard work together because we know how important each and incremental win is to building homes on this parking lot and that is for our neighborhoods. serving on the tac with my great partners and working with the incredible city staff that the mayor mentioned, was really an honor and an extension of all this work. it was an incredibly collaborative crew and i did not go inspecting this collaboration and i don't think anybody did because this is san francisco. we just spent our time deep in the weeds and really focusing on the imperative of kick starting the delivery of more housing as soon as possible with all kinds

of head wind line the mayor mentioned and that we have the ability to build the affordable housing that the city desperately needs. thank you for serving on the tac and i'm super excited for this legislation and the affordable bond that supervisor peskin mentioned. mayor london breed: thank you, rebecca, to everyone joining us today. now it is time to sign the legislation to make it official. [ applause ] >>

>> all right. are you ready to sign this legislation? >> yes. [cheers and applause] >> i have not seen you smile in a long time. it is official. [cheers and applause] >> all right. >> we'll take a picture here. >> >> it is one of the first steps families and step to secure their future and provide a sense of stability for

them and their loved ones. your home, it is something that could be passed down to your children and grandchildren. a asset that offers a pathway to build wealth from one generation to the next. and you need to complete estate plan to protect the asisets. your home, small business, air looms and more. you and so many communities, black, indigenous, latino and asian worked so hard to make yours but estate plans could be costly and conversations complex proud to partner to bring free and low cost estate plans to san franciscans. by providing estate plans we are able to keep the assets whole for our families, prevent displacement, address disparities and home ownership and strengthen the cultural integrity of the city. working with local non profit organizations and neighborhood groups bringing the serveess to you and community, to workshops

focused on estate planning and why it's important. >> i'm 86 years old and you do need a trustee. you need a will and put who ever you want in charge of it. >> that's why i wanted to be here today. that is why one of the first steps i took when become assessor recorder is make sure we have a partnership to get foundational funding to provide these resources to community. but even more important is our connection to you and your homes and making sure we know how to help you and how to protect them. >> if you don't have a living trust you have to go through probate and that cost money and depending on the cost of the home is associated the cost you have to pay. that could be $40 thousand for a home at that level. i don't know about you, but i don't $40 thousand to give up. >> (indiscernible) important workshop to the community so we can stop the loss of generational

wealth and equity and maintain a (indiscernible) >> why are estate plans important? we were just talking before we started the program, 70 percent of black americans do not scr a will in place. >> as mentioning being in community we had a conversation with a woman who paid $2700, $2700 just for revocable trust. what we are talking about today are free or low cost estate plans that are value between 3,000 to $3500. free or low cost meaning free, or $400 if you make above $104 thousand a year, and capped larger then that amount. because we want to focus on black and brown households, because that's whether the need is, not only in san francisco, not only the bay area but the region as well. and, >> i was excitesed to see the

turn out from the western addition and bayview and want to make sure we cover all the different steps from buying a home to making sure homes stay within the family. >> work with staff attorneys to receive these free and low cost complete estate plans that include a living trust, will, financial power of attorney, and health directive. >> that's why it is so important to make these resources and this information accessible. so we can make sure we are serving you and your families and your generations and your dreams. >> we insure the financial stability of san francisco, not just for government, but for our communities. >> on behalf of the office of assessor recorder, i'm thankful for all the support and legal assistance they have given that makes the estate planning program a realty for you in san francisco and are thank all the community partners like san francisco housing development corporation, booker t washington center and neighborhood leaders and organizations that help families and individuals realize their of building wealth in san

francisco from one generation to the next. to learn more about this program e-mail inquiries at har >> you are watching san francisco rising with chris manner. today's special guest is carla short. >> hi, i'm chris manner and you are watching san francisco rising the show about restarting rebuilding and reimagining the city. our guest is carla short the intric director of public works and here to talk about the storms we had and much more. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> great to have you. let's start by talking about the storms that started beginning of the year. there fsh a lot of clean up recovery and remediation. can you

talk ut what your team did? >> sure. the 17 inches of rain we got starting on new year's eve through the first 2 and a half weeks of january made it one of the wettest periods in recorded history for san francisco, so as you imagine we had a lot of work to do. we gave out more then 31 thousand sand bags, we were operating all most non stop from new year's eve to san francisco residents and businesses out of our operation yard and frequently working thin rain so it was a beautiful dance to watch. we had a corio graphed where people drive in the stop and load with san dags and get on it way so thats was the most visible thij weez had to do. responded to all most a thousand calls for localized flooding for the corner of the street with catch basin. our team trying to address that.

we clear and pick up anything to block and it hopefully get the flooding to go down. if we are able to respond we call in the san francisco pub utility system and are responsible for the sewer system under so they bring ing vack trucks that vacuum out debris inside the catch basin. we also dealt with lots and lots of calls about trees and tree limbs down. i think we actually faired better then some other places in terms of loss of full trees. we did have whole tree failures and that is not that uncumin with super satch waited soil conditions. we had over 950 calls about trees or tree limbs down. a lot of calls were about loss of a limb and we could save the tree. we are still assessing the data to figure how many were full tree failures versus limb failure. >> also had land movement too. the great highway comes to mind. what is your approach to managing rock mud and

land slides? >> that is a great question. we had 28 different slides over the course of that period. it is kind of a interesting process, so the first step is we have our geotechnical or structural engineers take a look to see is the hillside safe, do we need to stabilize it in some way or just need to do some cleanup? once they made their assessment they will recommend the next steps. often times to protect public safety we will place k rails the giant concrete rails at the base omthe slide area to make sure that any debris doesn't get on the edroway and bring ing the heavy equipment to scoop up on the ground and move off the roadway and try to open the roadway. some cases, we will actually inject some rocks or other stabilizing forces either into the slide area or sometimes below the roadway. right now there is nothing that's unstable out there but

be are keeping a close eye on the areas including the gray highway area. >> right, right. well, so talking about the storms in the city response, brings us to southeast community scepter when there is rain remediation projects going on. can you talk about the inconstruction project kblrks that is a favorite project. a beautiful new community facility. we were involved in pretty much every aspect of developing that project for the public utility commission. they were a client. we design project management and construction management and the landscape design for that project. and one thing that we included was storm water management throughout the entire project site. so, that project encapturealize the rain water that lands on the roof and flows into the landscape where we have rain gardens

so intent is slow the water down to and give areas to collect to percolate into the ground rather then the sewer system. when we have sewers that are overloaded, because our rain water mixes with the sewer treatment storm sewer system, we actually can end up dist charging into the bay which we dont want to do. anything we can do to just prevent those combined sewers from overpm loaded is a good thing and in this case allows the water to collect onsite and percolate to the ground which is the best way to manage the storm water and it is beautiful and provides habitat. i encourage everybody to see it. it is special place. >> that's great. there was recently news about how city (indiscernible) powered by steam, which is super unusual i think. i understand public works ablgtually does the maintenance on the system. can you just

talk about that a bit? >> sure. that is a unusual situation. that steam loop was actually built when the city was recovering from the 1906 earthquake. it only provides to steam about 4 buildings in civic center but that is how we keep buildings like city hall warm. the steam goes into the radiators and provides the heat. it is a old system and if you see steam billowing out of the man holes or other spaces, that is indication of a leak actually. we spend a lot of time trying to fix the leaks because it's a old system. it is managed by the real estate department and at one point they were looking trying to replace the whole thing but think that is a massive undertaking so now they focus on making as needed repair said. we did a big repair on growth street where we

spent a month and a half working on the known leaks s in the area. it is a very tight spot and have to use blow torches to seal up the leak so a intense operation and seeing more leaks on polk street so we will be out there once it warms up to fix the leaks. >> excellent. let's discuss what is the reunifiquation of public works. there fsh a proposal or plan to split off the division, called the street and sanitation. now that has been shelved and public works is going to just retain being a single entity. can you talk through the process? >> sure. yeah. the original proposal was a ballot measure voted on to split the department into 2. it basically create the department of sanitation and streets that was really going to incompass all our operation divisions so it was a street cleaning

department but encompass everything we refer to as operations. when we worked preparing for that split with the city administrator office, we found there were actually 91 what we call touch points between the operations work and our engineering and architecture side, so we really felt like it could be very difficult to split into two departments. we have so many areas of overlap. there was a new ballot measure last november to reunit the department. technically we split october one and did split in some ways. we did put on hold some of the behind the scenes things like rebranding all the vehicle jz giving everyone a new e-mail address in the sanitation and streets department, but on january 1 of 2023 we came back together so we are reunited i want sing the peaches and purb song

and think it is a good thing for the 91 areas of overlap. we making #2c3w50d use of the research. preparing for the split. looking at all the touch points and trying to strengthen the department so we are more streamlined and efficient. one of the most important component from the original ballot measure is commission oversight. we retained two commissions, the public works commission which oversee the over-all department and approve the budget and contracts. and sanitation and street commission and their mandate focus on policy and deliverable for street cleaning and basically the operation division. reporting to them regularly how we are doing, we think will help make sure we are as efficient and effective as we can be as a department. >> that sounds great. thank you so much for coming and talking to me today and appreciate the time you have given. >> thank you so much

for having me. it was a pleasure. >> that is it for this episode. you are watching san francisco rising. [gavel] >> the meeting will come to order, welcome to the september 14, 2023, regular meeting of the public safety and neighborhood committee. i'm catherine stefani, to my