>> [inaudible] >> this meeting will come to order. welcome to the monday november 6, 2023 meeting of rowels of san francisco board of supervisors. i'm supervisor dorsey chair. i'm joined by vice chair walton

and safai. we would like to express our graft tude to victor young thanks to sfgovtv for broadcast our meeting. >> public comment on each item on the agenda when your item come and up upon comment is called lineup to speak on your right. you misubmit it in writing e mail them to myself the rules clerk victor. young sfgov.org commit is e mail will be forward and include as part of the file. sends u.s. mail to city hall 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place room 244. san francisco, 94102. silence all electronic device.

documents to be include should be committed to myself. items acted upon today will bear on the agenda on november 14 unless otherwise stated in regards to meeting decorum i ask that any signs you are carrying not raised kept at chest level or lower and don't block views and with regards to a mruz we suggest that you limit your applause and give jazz hands to express support if you wish to. that completes my announcements. >> thank you. call item one. item 1 the motion approving rejecting the mayor's nomination for kent lim ending november third of 26 to the assessor agency commission known as the commission on community investment and infrastructure. >> thank you, mr. clerk. mr. lim is in person this

morning. i want to note for everyone we have 4 items on the agenda a couple may be high interest and time consuming for appointments considered we ask presenters to limit to 2 minutes. and be available for questions from myself and my colleagues. mr. lim welcome. and you can step up to either microphone to peek for a couple of minutes. good morning i'm kent lim and our family came to san francisco in may of 1963. i went to liefrngon high school and after i joined the sheet metal trade in july of 1969.

i start my business in contract nothing 1985. and retired in 2014. and my business at the peek hire over 100 workers. and i i'm proud of that i first workforce and was recognized by the department of labor. i serve on many boards in the upon communities such as chinese 4 affirmative action. mission hall. workforce investment san francisco. and so on. and -- i start my consulting business in 2014.

>> and today i am here delighted to be nominated to the ocii commission. and i understand there are a bit about the function of this commission. if approved, actions related to enforceable obligations. the 3 main enforceable obligations one is the hunter's point ship yard, mission bay and transbay. and it over cease the creation of affordable housing, infrastructure and parks. and also exercise the land use authority. and authorize financing of budget, community facility and bond for housing. and i also with my experience in contracting that my wishes to increase the contracting

opportunity for the san francisco microlbe's. and also increase the local hiring from the community working on these oci projects. and -- thank you. if you have questions for me? >> no questions i really appreciate your work. you know on this committee. 2 of us. vice chair walton and myself represent the districts most served by ocii and really i want to express my appreciation for your service to our city and service that included some of the seismic work we are in. thank you for serving our city. i don't see. supervisor safai. >> thank you, mr. lim. for the work you have done over the years with city build the work you have done to help upgrade many of our city's

buildings like the war memorial building and the federal building in the area. and for your leadership in an industry not always supportive and receptive to people of color. and asian americans and ap i. soing for being a lead and willing to step forward at this part in your career. many could walk off and enjoy when they are doing and free time but you are coming become to serve. thank you for stepping forward and look forward to working with you. i only have one request of you. so ocii is in charge of making sure that the project in front of the chase center that is a green space gets done example it lit irrelevant has sat undeveloped fenced off, for years. last year when we were in the

finals the year before. had a shot of that the chase upon center was beautiful but the area was unfinished and undone. that's my request. make that a priority along with the other things you carry and the things we talked about in the past. >> i have not stopped a job yet. [laughter]. thank you. thank you mr. lim. seeing no one on the roster mr. clerk open up to public comment. >> members of public who wish to speak should lineup now along the side by the windows. each be allowed 2 minutes that will be a soft chime when you have 30 seconds and louder when your time expired. i see members who wish to comment. >> thank you. public ment on this item is now closed i like to make a motion to strike reject and send this to will full board.

>> the motion is to athlete word direct the legislation and recommend as amended the full board. on that motion vice chair walton. >> aye >> supervisor safai. >> ayech >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> motion passes without objection. >> thank you, mr. clerk item 1 appointments kent lim is sent to the board amendd and approved. congratulations, mr. lim >> call item 2. >> item 2 an ordinance approving airport surveillance goning use of application based commercial support tech mology and electronic read and detection system for gunshot and other noises. >> thank you. we are joined this morning by airport staff guy clark as always with the items we have court director jillian johnson on stand by if there are further questions or technical question

says. i mentioned before we got a packed agenda limit to a couple minutes. but this is basically fulfilling the obinggations of technology ordinance. there are thoughts to the use of surveillance technology. take a few minutes to describe the item and your process, appreciate it. >> thank you. good morning. we had 3 surveillance technologies put through the approval process. the first is the application based commercial transport technology. that deals with the airport to manage our transportation network companies. uber, lyft and so on if a monitoring stand point agreements with them on p and pick up in certain yours that is

part of the process. big part is the collection and billing of injoys voices for the city and the airport. they do pay a fee when they pick up like the way taxis do as well. critical application. second policy was electronic tell readers using fast track. reads the license plates for people coming in and out of parking. from that stand point. we are able to charge using fast electronic and third technology is the gunshot detection solution. this is going to be pilot not in place the other 2 were in place. and lit really uses an algorithm to track loud noises. break of glass if somebody picked up a chair special through it against the windows in the terminals gunshots an algorithm is every gun can

provide that via text. not does not sync with our cameras it is a sect that gets sunday to first responders so they know what type of gun they walk to and provides our security center with the triangulation of where that shot came from they can tell the first respondeders how to best prop it to minimize risk to life from passengers or themselves as they responded. those other 3 technologies we put up. agreement thank you. i don't have questions i have gone through the filings i don't know if my colleagues have questions or comments. appreciate your time. >> thank you. mr. clerk. anything to add? or are we jooshgs good. >> if there are no questions and if there are follow ups e mail them and we will provide

answers. gi appreciate your work >> thank you very much. >> great. mr. clerk can we open up to public comment? >> members of public who wish to speak can line up at this time. each speaker allowed 2 minutes there will be a soft chime at 30 seconds left. if you like to make comment you can approach the podium at this time. i seal no public commenters. >> thank you, mr. clerk. public comment is closed. and i'd like to make a motion to send to the full board with period recommendation. a roll call. where on this motion vice chair walton. >> ayech >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> motion pass without objection. thank you, on a unanimous vote item 2 code prove of the airport surveillance technology policy sent forward with a positive recommendation.

>> can we please call the next item 3 >> item 3 ordinance the code to reduce membership of behavioral health commission from 17 to 11 seats provided the board make the appointments. require one seat be held by a veteran or advocate. reduce seats reserve said for consumers and families of consumers from 9 to 6. reset staggered terms for all seats and remove seat requirement for child advocates and certain mental health professionals. >> thank you, mr. clerk. we have some amendments for this item. they are not ready today. i think what i doll is make a motion to continue this item. i did want to give a bit of an explanation for the comp position behavioral health commission. this is a state mandated body. there are requirements the state law puts on and requirements we

as a city and county add to that. and sometimes there are requirements that we have where the state is asking that a certain number designated and other stay requirements and when can happen in a body like this is it can get big and unwield and he sometimes we don't make kwoer tum is complicated and there are too many people there. we have been working with public health and turn it back to something that is workable and not missing meetings because we are not making a quorum. because we don't have the amendments ready today and have people here for other thingsil make a motion to continue this to the call of the chair. mr. clerk. can we open to public comment. >> yes. members wishing to peek should lineup to speak at this time. each peeshg allowed 2 minutes

there will be a soft chime at 30 seconds and louder chime when your time has expired. we have speaker at the podium. you may begin. >> thank you. mr. clerk. i'm happy to hear the amendments are going to be proposed and i support continuance. back to you mr. clerk. there are other members who would like to comment at this time? i see no other speakers. thank you, public comment is closed. and i would like to make a motion to continue item 3 to the call of the chair. yes. on the motion to continue 3 to the call of the chair, vice chair walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> the motion passings without objection >> thank you on a unanimous vote item 3 comp position behavioral

health commission is continued to the call of the chair. >> can you call the next item 4? >> item 4 a charter amendment third draft to amend the charter to define officers for stake minimum staffing for sworn officers of the police department and upon controller certification a future tax measure passed by the voters generate additional ref now to funds the cost of the employing the duty sworn officers at minimum staffing levels and minimum amount necessary to implement police staffing fund. >> great. thank you, mr. clerk this is a round number 3 for the staffing charter amendment. which was gutted left week and advanced over my strong objection this is amendment began to deliver on the promise of a fully staffed police department given the historic

crisis we face police under staff nothing san francisco and safety challenges we face in open air drug. theft and public disorder. instead, the 11th hour hostile amendment turn third degree to a comp tax scheme postponed progress on police staffing unless voters pass a future tax to quote from the measure supervisor safai is the experience of minimum staffing levels for sworn recovers police department will be upon the controller certification of a future tax measure passed by the voters. in my view, this cop tax ploy cynically manipulates voters concerns about our public safety challenges to incentivize the court for new or modified tax to be enacted next year. i said, most upon san franciscans will be o fenldz by

this ploy and i think most are already offended the original amendment would have allow the voters whether or not to priorize their own existing tax dollars for a fully staffed police department. hijacked version denies them that agency unless voters approve a future tax for temperature if voters were to agree to a tax height or modification in the election full year from now this amended version will deny voters having a role to fix our police crisis for 18 months. if anyone needs a reminder about why voters need to fix this problem hijacking of this amendment should be proof why only voters can fix this problem with police under staff nothing san francisco and remind you of the gravity of the crisis by noting that in sfpd commander

describe toed this board catastrophic. our police staffing crisis given the current pace of officer retirements a third of the police force we are supposed to have in san francisco is not there. and with between 350 and 4 current police officers eligible for retirement now. we could look at a police force half the combaft if we fail to act prompt low. i will not support this hijacked version of the amendment and continue to fight against it. however far it migo. i'm grateful to cosponsors supervisors engardio and mandelman for with drawing their support. i want to express gratitude to the mayor for standing strong with me in opposition do supervisor safai's cop tax version and grateful to public safety advocates standing with me. i'm informd that near low 8,000e

mills have been sent opposing the cop tax scheme. and the poison pill amendment. i say everybody thank you for participate and say that thank you to everybody on every side of this. that you know participation in government wherever people may be is important to the process. we are all better served by temperature i am obviously not done fighting with this i want to hand it off to supervisor safai. thank you i think it takes time for supervisors to understand the legislative process. chair dorsey voted for this left week. sounded positive and later i of course he was told he should not have done that. he is still learning how to be a legislator. that's finey will give everyone the room to do that. using inflammatory language

consistently as an extension of his old job having formerly part of the police department is taking him time to understand he is an elected official now. and no longer the spokes person for the police department. i ask you all in the odd yents give him time we will learn how to be a legislator. but saying that, we are in a fiscal crisis. when i say crisis, i mean if you were part of the process left year, this mayor proposed cutting funding for childcare services in the city. this mayor cut funding for foodservice in thes city. that's last year. this was when we were facing less then and there a quarter billion dollars deficit. this year we are facing a 700 million dollars deficit and

growing. the mayor just last week announced 3% budget cuts to every department including the police department. so this proposal although it might sound nice without funding source it is a false promise. it is setting up police officers against 911 call operators. against emergency room nurses. against priorities, paramedics, sheriffs the people involved in public safety we need true public safety in san francisco now. i know the voters of san francisco will agree with that. 100%. okay. we have been waiting for true leadership this mayor had 6 years of what did we hear from the police chief last year a quarter of a million dollars dedicated to recruitment. under this mayor.

i did in the hear one word of recruitment from the mayor last year during the budget process. nor supervisor dorsey, nor the police department. where is the union that represents police officers on your measure, supervisor dorsey? they are not present than i are not in this recommend they have not come out in favor of your proposal. they are in favor of true public safety. at the end of the day i know they are. they don't want police officers pit against the true public safety net in this city. so, i'm going to realign from the controller an objective source sad to hear he is going to be leaving. he said, this proposal would have a significant impact on the cost of government. and would in the be viable without a funding source. so. i'm saying, at the end of the

day, we have to be reasonable, we have to be fiscally responsible and i sat in the room when someone said we want a 50 million dollars take 50 million dollars out of our reserve for the small site's program i no, to that too much you know why? i predicted where we are today i knew we were going to be in a fiscal crisis. we have to think about the city in the totality in service. you can continue to use inflammatory language hostage and hijack when i asked to you be respectful of my background and you continue to be this way i ask you respectfully again be more respectful and sensitive to what is happen negligent world now. this proposal, is thoughtful. i knowledge the voters of san francisco will go for it i'm sorry you chose to take your name off. i look forward to continue to working with you on it. and anyone else that wants to be a part of this i'm for minimum police staffing and moveing

forward in a thoughtful way and believe the votereds will also agree we can't pit service against another. i'm proud to move this forward and again i hope you come back around in and want to be a part of real true minimum staffing and true public safety >> thank you >> thank you. vice chair walton >> chair chair dorsey. i want to state that this charter amendment is a fallacy there is no way we can guarantee the level of staffing proposed in this charter amendment. and i think the original author knows and understands that. it will be writing a blank check and taking away resources from things we need to keep people safe in san francisco. i did want to thank supervisor

safai for pointing out this amendment was supported unanimously at this very meeting a week ago. every last one of us voteed support and push this forward i want to make sure everyone understands that's what happened here last week. >> i'm sorry want to add. thank you, supervisor walton and chair. i want to be claire cleaner the intention is to look at existing tax rough neil i feel strongly about had we have an opportunity to sit the the table and have true public safety and ensure this is funded properly. does not have to be a new tax i happened to under score that you look online 14 a modified tax passed by the voters. that means we take an existing tax and restructure it and dedicate it to this service of public safety in all functions i out lines. thank you.

>> thank you, supervisor. before openingum to public comment i had a muscle memory yes to the amendment this i was not i did in the recognize until after. i don't think anybody in san francisco is under any elusions where i stand on this. i think this is a cop tax scheme that takes a measure that could work because it follows a play book work nothing other counties throughout northern california that are aggressively competing for law enforcement officers and one of the most competitive environment for law enforcement personnel in modern history. i may be a now legislator butt reality is, this is a predictable crisis. we have known there is a disproportionally large cohort of police officers reaching retirement age. this building did in the do enough to fix the problem. today we are going off a cliff.

in 2020 a charter amendment removed the minimum staffing level and put us in worse shape this intended do one thing to give voters, agency to make a decision how they spends their particular dollars or not and this hostile amendment the cop tax scheme denies them agency in this decision. this is putting words on the ballot i appreciate people think this will not work but that raises the question if you don't think this is workable why would you put it on the ballot with a modification trigger? i think it indicates to me their is some workability here to gift department resources to compete with agencies. that are fixing their problems while san francisco is not. supervisor safai. i will end with, i said this

last week had is something that can be done if the mayor torch come out and say this were a high priority she can prioritize this in her budget to make immediate action as we talked about last week and the controller highlights that in their letter. says that the policy seeks a limit set asides reduce the general fund allocated by the mir and the board in the budget process. >> thank you, supervisor safai. i know there are people here today would like to express thoughts on this. because we have a number of people we'll do what we have done the last meetingos this and limit to a minute. mr. clerk. can we open this up to public comment >> for member his wish to speak lineup along side the window. each be allowed one minute. there will be a soft chime at 30 seconds left and louder when time has expired.

you may begin. >> thank you. and good morning, everyone. i'm theresa i'm president of sciu1021. i'm here to ask we support safai's amendment to id funding source for this public good. you know public safety means 911 dispatchers. affordable housing addiction treatment. care givers and so much more. we all want to make our city safe. but we need to be smart. we need to take buildable approach and supervisor dorsey, you voted your conscious left time continue to do this you did the right thing don't change your mind. stands up for the community and stand up for a wrap around complete service for san

francisco. do not play politics. approach this the right way. do it with integrity. vote the way you voted the last time. thank you. >> good morning i'm a san francisco resident and the president elect of local 21. i, too, here in support of the improved version of the sfpd full staffing act this . amended version calls for inclusion of new ref now streams which is a crucial shift from 200 million dollars budget set aside. we know that prove public safety encompasses nurse, 911 dispatchers, afford annual housing, addiction treatment and more. also the improved version of the sfpd full staffing act acknowledges policing alone will

never be the all public safety concerns. residents know this as limp residents know that all the piece matter the safer coalition polling shoes most want this comprehensive approach. and they support asking corporations to pay their fair share. thank you. >> good morning. david, 1021. will i'm here to peek in support of supervisor safai's amendment. because supervisor dori's charter amendment and set aside pits 911 dispatchers, facing a 40% vacancy rate. pits against police officers and pits police officers against mental health workers and it is divisive at a time when we are struggling to hire folks we have

thousands of vacancies that the city is struggling to fill and so it is highly irresponsible also to add 200 million dollars on top of already existing deficit that we are the measure is the responsible way to g. which is find one of existing taxes and -- reorganize a tax and so we can pay for -- all services that are necessary in the public safety puzzle. thank you. >> good morning. supervisors i'm aj thomas. i'm the san francisco back chair for local 21. i have been a residents for 15 years. i'm here to voice my strong support for improved version of full staffing act. now amended new revenue sources

instead of 200 million dollars budget set aside. according to the control are. without additional funding our city face a projected 500 million dollars deficit by fiscal 25-26. we need to rescue noise this police alone cannot fix our public safety issues we need nurse, 911 dispatchers, and more. and final low new poling shoes san franciscans understands if we want to expand the efforts that we need to assign an existing tax revenue source or new one to pay for it x. san franciscans are in support of a smarter, safer, san francisco. please support measure, thank you. >> good morning i'm annie li with chinese for affirmative

action. provide services to monolingual chinese immigrants since 1969. not nearly the absence of harm but presence of thriving communities. to create thriving community in every neighborhood, our city public funding must be directed increasing language access in all city services and revitalizing our shared public space. p, transit and schools we need to reinvestment in safety net so no one falls throughout crack we can't forward to spend public fundos policing. focus evidence based solutions that really keep us safe. transform lots to small businesses. tenants have safe, stable housing. make sure we support upon teach and ares childcare workers. city voters approved prop e.

>> thank you. i appreciate the opportunity to talk about true public safety. >> hi. i'm claire wow with the chinese progressive association and we have served wing class chinese immigrants for 50 years. i'm a san francisco resident. talked to over a thousand community members and our community is concerned about safety and long lasting solutions prevention and address the root causes of crimeful that includes adequate responses from 911, police, medics, rehab providers, councilors, after school programs and protect tenants, work and families the city projected have half billion dollars deficit in fiscal twief-26 and headed mid year budget cuts we need to be smrt

in funding for safety. any increase in police funding must not come at expense of so many other life saving priorities. thank you. >> good morning. supervisor safai are you going to listen. not be on your phone. thank you. >> greetings to the committee. 2 weeks ago many san franciscans came up to express passport for matt dorsey's charter amendment for increased funding and staffing brought to voters to decide. the last monday poisonous change to the memo were presented in order to restore a police of full staffing votereds accept a new tax, forget it. no way. dorsey's charter amendment was sabotaged self serving political interests feel them in the room earlier. dump the poisoned safai charter

amendment. we don't want it. scrap it. thank you. >> good morning i'm michelle a compliance manager and voter. i live in the tenderloin. i see what is happen nothing my community and the city. i work for the health department. i represent local 21 as a health professional delegate and i, prove the amended version of this act. i served a police commissioner in another county. and it is important to recognize that this alone cannot fix our safety concern issues. i work for the city. i see had is happening i'm a compliance manager. i find out what is happening with the most vulnerable. and putting funds behind

policing and not focusing on service that will help those that are in need will really affect our community. remember we are voters, too. and voices matter. >> good morning i'm gloria dave and is i am the purchase chapter president for local 21. lived in the city most my life am active low all my life and one point represented the san francisco labor council at the d10 implementation committee. i am here in support. the improved vefrthz of sfpd full staffing act. as my son is also a police officer. this improved version is amended incorporate new revenue sources instead of the 200 million

budget set aside. without additional funding our city according to the controller, already faces a projected 500 million dollars deficit by fiscal 25-26. we also need to rescue noise police alone >> time elapsed. >> thank you. i live in the san francisco for 20 years i'm here in support of the improved version of the staffing act. it is important it recognize we will not police our way out of safety issues. this needs to be a full scale community approach to ensuring

that the community is receiving the services they need. and it is responsible to physical policy to have a funding source when you are doing the set aside. i appreciate this this has been amendd and in support. thank you very much. >> good morning. sf rising. don't pit services and programs against police. that is wrong. the mayor funded the police department yet they are under staffed. why? sfpd is one of the worse in theination in closing case. why? now sf population flunk waited why look ourselves in a number of police? we may go up. our down again. police don't keep us safe they come after the fact. invest in what keeps us safe is that the service and programs

that have had 2 cut this is year. we need jobs, schools, affordable housings and more service for people unhoused. thanks. good member rules i'm jackson i here to behalf of the chamber of commerce. the chamber opposes the amended police department full staffing act today. we support initial charter amendment intent fund crucial sfpd recruitment and retention from the city's general fund the amend version imploys that inference france agree to pay xr for a full staffed police department. critical to dem strit a commitment to public safety. more than ever we neat to combat

open air drug markets and property crimes that affect accidents, residents and tourists the chamber of commerce does not support this public safety is a critical function of public service and funds from the concern general fund. thank you for your time and consideration. >> i'm nina i lived in san francisco for more then and there 35 years i'm aville tear with san francisco rising. i'm opposed to increased funding for the police the expense of all other city work and service they provide. with the potential 700 million dollars deficit in the next 2 years other departments are asked for 3% cut this . is not fair. increased numbers of police don't increase public safety for residents. supervisors safai said left week public safety is created by a

large ecosystem of support. 911 will emt. mental health. after school programs. tenant counciling caseworkers and more. why should we add more police if we get them to a department that in the last quarter of 2022 used force on black people. 25 times as often on white people. this is not increased public safety. top of the morning. brandon dawkince [inaudible]. my hope is we are not here next monday sharing the same from last monday we are repeating today. increased police, staffing does not keep san francisco safe. what keeps san francisco safe is more funding for mental health service. homelessness serve service and other services that keep san

francisco safer in the additional police officers not additional funding to the police department. therefore we are here in support of supervisor safai's amendment to the resolution. thank you. >> good morning. i'm kristin heardy with 1021, san francisco native and roar. out of san francisco general hospital chapter. i'm here to support supervisor safai's amended proposal which no long are mandates a set aside from the general fund which serves all the service we work for. limited flexibility in budget allocation which is not something local 10 to 1 could spchlt public safety requires more not that police, supervisor dorse the original set aside

drained 200 upon million over 5 years using services firefighters, nurse, 911 dispatchers. mental health, homeless services and additional services you once used. we need new funding streams alining the safety policy rather then and there playing politics invest in our city and deliver for residents without shrinking vital public services i will make sure my voter in my county don't vote for this. >> good morning. i'm tatiana and i'm a community advocate with the asian law caucus. criminal justice reform program. on behalf of them we are o in opposition. supervisor safai's changes adopted left week will likely reduce financial impact over all proposal is troubling.

it would shock the judgment of city leaders based on assumptions that complex public safety problems can be reduced with worn officers who are on the payroll. the proposal does not credit a 5 year set aside the funds in section 16. 132 will continue until 2035. changes to the staffing planning and budgeting process will continue permanent low they threat tone convert the existing system of police and commission staffing plans to a [inaudible]. thank you. hello i'm the president offin are mission association. i oppose san francisco police staffing act as amended by supervisor safai and urge you to vote against temperature the supervisor's amendment public

safety to unknown future tax. that voters must approve. the leaves dorsey's legislation without a funding source is to hold our safety hostage asking varieties to raise taxes to get a fully staffed police department. staffing the sfpd is critical. we demand a fully staffed police department now. this is time for action. in the politics. supervisors safai is playing politics with our public safety. we need courage. we don't need the status kwoechl i have friends this are afrid to leave their house. please, don't vote for this amendment. thank you. >> good morning. supervisors i'm richard i'm 78 years old and livid my life in

san francisco. and the pedestrian 2 meetings i represented the seniors and vet sxrans talked about how the criminal element is in the city preyed upon our community and the asian community. today i'm representing the catholic alumni action community. it is a super pack. we raised 1.3 million dollars and we use that 1.3 million dollars to remind the voters how you voted today if you don't believe me ask supervisor dorsey how i helped him get lected left year. you remember all those times 7 o'clock, supervisor? when i commit to something, we follow general dorsey last year my people will follow this retired brigadier general next year and i never lost a battle

in my 31 years in the u.s. army i'm not going to lose it one, either. can you take that thot bank. bye-bye. thank you. good morning. rudy gonzalez san francisco building trades i representative the public employee committee of san francisco. one thing that we have to be careful b. is the word this is we use. but also the posturing because these are sick cal in nature and prosecute posing mandates without identifying funding and jenning update electorate around a new tax that is politically something this may favor some folks up for election is reckless an unfunded mandate without a collaborative scene to talk about existing particular ref now have you home ordinance

worried someone will come after their taxes but we have corporations and businesses this are in need of recall bragz of tax reform. and you are jenning up an electorate that will not be favorable to you in the long range. we have a deficit coming and appreciate supervisor safai's commitment to working families in san francisco and urge your support for the amendment. >> good morning i'm corey a representative with team sters 856 a resident in stan fran for 21 years i'm here to support the improved versions the full staffing act now amended incorporate new revenue sources. without additional funding our city already faces half billion dollars deficit next year. recognize police alone cannot fix all issues we need more nurses, 911, and more.

new polling shoes supporting a safer and smarter sf. thank you. >> good morning i'm harvey cantonese interpreter. [speaking cantonese]. hello i'm may-may i'm an ihss home care provide they're care for residents in the city of san francisco. hi.

i'm also a vice president with local 2015 the largest long-term care union and california a large labor union representing near low 450,000 nursing home work xirs home care providers. >> i'm here to express my full support of the version of the

full staffing act. now incourt reporter rit new ref now sources instead of 200 million budget set, side. without additional funding our city are calling to the controller already face a projected 500 million deficit by fiscal 25-26.

we need to recognize the police cannot fix all of our public safety issues we need more nurses and emergency dispatchers. paramedics. and mental health provide and more. thank you. i'm benny zinc i'm a staffer. staff in the our environment department. a rank and file member of local 21. i'm here to speak in support of supervisor safai's improved version of the sfpd full staffing act. i just hope this if there is a strong desire for opinion safety we think of our city holistic don't pit our staff against each other.

all department in need of additional staffing and all of us working hard to make it a better and safer place for residents and don't pit us against each other by takeing portion of funds out of the general fund and asking our other departments to do cuts staffing update police department. thank you. i'm a chapter president for local 21. and proud resident. under the support of supervisor safai's improved sfpd full staffing act incorporate new revenue source instead of 200 million set aside. without additional funding our city according to the controller faced a projected 500 million deficit by fiscal 25 and 26. we need to recognize this police

alone cannot fix all of our public safety issue we need nurses, 911. paramedics and more in san francisco. new polling show san franciscans want a comhencive approach. supporting a safer, smarter sf. thank you. >> hello i'm brendza i'm with 1021. out at san francisco general hospital. and i want to say what this is very important. because if the deciding the direction of san francisco. does san francisco want it become a police state. that's where it is headed with when you are talking b. you want more and more police and you thank you will be the solution to the problems. yet the under lying problems will still exist. so, when you are arresting the people where will you put them

and closing the jails yoendz this and thank you supervisor safai. for coming with something logical and sensible to deal with this problem. we need more police and everybodiment tologist be police staff i know we do at the hospital we want to be fully staffed, too we help the public, too. we go good notoriety public and sometimes we can't do everything we want because there are not enough people. keep this in minds. police. >> good morning i'm tonya a member of local 1021 a nurse at san francisco general. i support supervisor safai. i have been living in san francisco for 35 years. thank you. >> hello. incoming our faxes to solve the sfpd staffingly crisis isiff

responsible. we pay taxes that should provide us basic public safety and fully staffed police department t. is unacceptable and a failure on your part to listen to your constituents who pointed to public safety as their top prior. some of you who are for reelection in 24 know that the major of front franments safer streets and cars and simultaneous businesses not to get broken in to. multiple meetings connie chan voted defunds the pleas is demanding more police resources and officers all overnight district. surprising to see others of you running for office not getting the memo. so if she were here i would tell her that i'm asking as a d1 residents to oppose this measure or stop pretends to care in d 1. public safety is cornerstone to quality of life in san francisco. raising tax for basic service

this ain't happening. get out of your clown sxars oppose this offensive charter mem. >> the people san francisco are not the guinea pigs for the political gain of members of committee. we are tired of victims of crime this harms residentses and simultaneous and large businesses alike the dire staffing crisis of the police department affects all residents and workers. do your jobs and figure it out. and figure it out without adding a tax. it is imperative for san francisco recovery to fully staff sfpd. vote, no on this amendment we have a deficit as a direct result of visible increase in crime and exits of businesses. fix this and you will if i can your deficit. >> good morning. irresponsible we heard the word

irresponsible from supervisor safai last week. and about dorsey's proposal. supervisor dorsey's proposal is not irresponsible when is irresponsible this supervisors to the left and right of supervisor dorsey these supervisors took our city budget from the 7 or 8 billion the time they were electd and doubled it to the 15 billion it is today. these 2 supervisors. not dorsey. had no hands in this sf they defunded our police by within 20 million dollars in 2020. despite when we hear frutemperature is documented. dorse he no hand in that. supervisor dorsey make a motion to continue this item supervisor safai second that motion and continue this for the collaboration you say you want. you say you want collaboration. let's have temperature continue

this item. thank you. >> hello i'm leah i live in d6. around market and 7th street. i am here to point out this supervisor safai consistent low alined with entireses dorsey, ga engardio, mandelman on more police fund and power. i'm sure supervisor safai surprised his propolicing buds it i'm against this charter amendment especially if it gives more money to an already loaded sfpd budget. it rained yesterday. i handed out extra jackets i had to the people who are homeless had exposed out in the walk used of where i live and the first, thing a homeless woman said when i said i had jackets i'm broke now. and i found that shameful for

us. stop focusing on funding sfpd and homes for the homeless and food for the hungry. >> good morning i'm deb are the proud skwutive director of local 21. and i want to say i trust san francisco voters and i think if you trust san francisco voters you would also put this on the ballot. polling shows they support a martyr, safer, san francisco. san franciscans know when we need. i'm tired of hearing about our members who live in san francisco who are getting mugged every day and targets of hate crimes and i'm tired of you all playing politics and not having solutions i commends supervisor safai and walton who 90 percent of the time are on different sides of issue who came together to stand up for san francisco. and i think if you trust the

voters of san francisco you would let them vote on this in march instead of playing politics. >> good morning. 30 year resident of san francisco. went to middle, high school here i live in the mission and support the amendment that is more sustinable prop to the budget, we need more funding for 911. teachers, nurse and not full police. supervisor dorsey believe in public safety i would loch everlove to see more support for the legislation. [inaudible]. >> are there additional members for public comment. ? i don't see additional commenters. public comment is now closed.

vice chair walton yoochl thank you, chair dorse. i want to thank the diverse amount speakers that came out today and provide public comment we appreciate you coming out. i adopt to start my comments with i will be brief but it is a fact that the police department was not funded 120 million dollars in 2020. this is not manage this supervisor walton is making up i don't care what documentation people may want to believe ask the police chief and the mir that question can you go back and look at the budget for this year the police department was not defunded 120 million dollars. i adopt to reminds people what did help in 2020 the voters of the city overwhelmingly 71% voted to get rid of minimum staffing here in san francisco. because they knew -- that it was

arbitrary and unachievable. well is no way can you guarantee a number of police officers. in any city. our city fluctuates in population. resources need to go to the entire safety net in san francisco. and again like i said last time. we don't have a funged issue within the police department. we have an issue of folks not want to join the police department. not just here in san francisco. you can't throw monnet air and think that people ament to join the police force. officers. the police department, leadership of the city have to provide connections with community special police officers so that folks work together to build relationships andment to be officers. we don't have a police funding issue. so i want to make sure this when we have conversations we put out

factual information in the community because this is an important issue here. in the city and make sure we are speaking with facts when we make statements. thank you. >> thank you. vice chair walton. supervisor safai >> thank you, thank you supervisor walton and all the people that came out i appreciate the comment on both sides. listen i understand that there is a lot of anxiety in the city now. we all had people touched by this personal low most likely. i personally had my own car and home had my daughter's soccer there is a lot of stuff going on in the city now. that has not happened always. we have to talk about that. and we have to talk about it in an honest way. but guess when. when you pick up the phone, you pick up phone call 911. see if you get someone on the phone in a mandated time? you most likely will not. they are literally working 14-16

hour shifts. i went over there a couple months ago i was horrified. i would not to work in those conscience but those people make sure our public safety net is working they are under paid and under appreciated and they are under staffed. go to the emergency room at general. see how quickly you see a nurse. you won't. you might sit in that emergency vehicle. until they make room. our emergency rooms are staffed. do we agree that is part of public safety in the city. if you call 911 and. this paramedic or that response team to show up, they are often not in a timely manner. so i know dorsey heart he know

this is is part of the public safety net in this city and so men a couple years ago we would not have this debate. we are faced with a fiscal crisis and a crisis in leadership. the mayor has been silent on this. might have put your name on your charter metropolitan but i have not heard her speak about recruit am and the public safety net in a thoughtful way. what is happening now people pitted against one another and i think what i heard from everybody is we all want to address public safety? a thoughtful way. so -- listen, i know we will not win over supervisor dorsey now i look forward to continuing the work with you on that. i think it is an important part of the process i invite to you be part of the budget process i don't say that in a condescending way i money it when i was elected i was not on

the budget committee i came and spent hours with the committee to learn the enemy's and out what is it moneys to put a budget together in the city. it is not easy. you have people in tierce saying i will not get service. this room was packed with twice the number of people with screaming babysit left year in the budget mittee because the mayor was going to cut funds to childcare. we have difficult decisions to make. public safety is a number one issue for many people. we have to do it in a responsible way that's why we made this amendment and i agree, with when i heard from the majority of people in the room. i think the voters care about this with you care about it in a responsible way for our public safety net. i would like to make a motion, chair, to sends this to the board without recommendation out

of respect for your position. we can do it without recommendation and then we can take this matter up at the full board. when it is there. >> great. >> thank you, supervisor safai. i will close by i think it is -- good that there was some historical context mentioned about the charter amendment from november of 2020. the reason that is important is i think people need to remember this over the last 30 years, the city and county of san francisco has had a minimum full duty police staffing level for 27 of those years. and while san francisco you know came often did in the hit the minimum staffing level this staffing level kept the city honest about getting close. when we know about the 2020

charterer amendment, since this time our police full duty staffing levels gone off a cliff. voters you in have information about when happens when we have no minimum staffing level in the charter we have been in this world for 3 years it is the worse police staffing crisis. we had in modern history. we had sfpd brass here describe it catastrophic. a third of the police department we are poseed have is not there. there is close to 400 populars eligible for retirement and looking at potential low a police department at half the level. this would restore minimum staffing and flexible way this the 1994 charter metropolitan diagram and give us a workable plan over 5 years it dig out of the hole and get there i'm absolutely going to participate in legislatively and other ways to make sure we are making progress on this.

i will be the first to admit that police are not the sum total of public safety challenges we are faith but an important part of it. and i will continue to work on it. vice chair walton >> thank you, chair dorsey i thank you for bring up on record this the minimum staffing level was not achieved when it was a policy in san francisco. because arbitrary and unachievable i want to thank you for pointing that out for everyone. >> okay. and we have a motion on the floor? yes. wondering if the dc has anything? nothing. okay. >> the motion to refer the matter to the board of supervisors without recommendation. vice chair walon >> aye >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> no. >> the motion passes with chair

dorsey decent nothing committee. >> thank you, mr. clerk item 4 charty amendment minimum police department staffing and 5 year funding requirement guess to the full board without a recommendation. >> mr. clerk, do we have further business? >> that completes our agenda for today. great. thanks everyone. we are adjourned. clear clear

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>> growing up in san francisco has been way safer than growing up other places we we have that bubble, and it's still that bubble that it's okay to be whatever you want to. you can let your free flag fry -- fly here. as an adult with autism, i'm here to challenge people's idea of what autism is. my journey is not everyone's journey because every autistic child is different, but there's hope. my background has heavy roots in the bay area. i was born in san diego and adopted out to san francisco

when i was about 17 years old. i bounced around a little bit here in high school, but i've always been here in the bay. we are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to emp. we don't turn anyone away. we take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. the most common thing i hear in my adult life is oh, you don't seem like you have autism. you seem so normal. yeah. that's 26 years of really, really, really hard work and i think thises that i still do. i was one of the first open adoptions for an lgbt couple. they split up when i was about four. one of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my biological mother, who is also a lesbian. very queer family. growing up in the 90's with a

queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here, i felt safe. i was bullied relatively infrequently. but i never really felt isolated or alone. i have known for virtually my entire life i was not suspended, but kindly asked to not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change. the school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. one of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so they know what it's about, but my parents wanted my life to be safe. when i have all the neurological issues to manage, that was just one more to add to it. i was a weird kid. i had my core group of, like, very tight, like, three friends. when we look at autism, we characterize it by, like, lack

of eye contact, what i do now is when i'm looking away from the camera, it's for my own comfort. faces are confusing. it's a lack of mirror neurons in your brain working properly to allow you to experience empathy, to realize where somebody is coming from, or to realize that body language means that. at its core, autism is a social disorder, it's a neurological disorder that people are born with, and it's a big, big spectrum. it wasn't until i was a teenager that i heard autism in relation to myself, and i rejected it. i was very loud, i took up a lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space let everybody else know where i existed in the world. i didn't like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared.

i was very difficult to be around. but the friends that i have are very close. i click with our atypical kiddos than other people do. in experience, i remember when i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me because it hurt. i remember throwing chairs because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it meant that i couldn't cope. i grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i got development cal -- developmental psychology from all sides. i recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of that, and not everybody's in a position to have a family that's as supportive, but there's also a community that's incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. it was like two or three years

of conversations before i was like you know what? i'm just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male. i have a two-year-old. the person who i'm now married to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasn't sure, so i went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth control, so there's no way you can be pregnant. i found out i was pregnant at 6.5 months. my whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. i think i've finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. i think the access to care for parents is intentionally

confusing. when i did the prospective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. we have a place where children can be children, but it's very confusing. i always out myself as an adult with autism. i think it's helpful when you know where can your child go. how i'm choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy. how do -- speech therapy. how do you explain that to the rest of their class? i want that to be a normal experience. i was working on a certificate and kind of getting think early childhood credits before i started working here, and we

did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in san francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i don't really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight person's perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and i'm like absolutely. so i'm now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. i love growing up here. i love what san francisco represents. the idea of leaving has never occurred to me. but it's a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. what i've done with my life is work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that we're still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a

resource center, and this resource center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. i would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. so many things that i would love to do that are all about changing people's minds about certain chunts, like the transgender community or the autistic community. i would like my daughter to know there's no wrong way to go through life. everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all of those things are temporary. 5 o'clock. >> (music). >> co-founder. we started in 2008 and with the intent of

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active. >> food and drinks. there is a lot for a lot of folks and community. for us, it started back in 1966 and it was a diner and where our ancestors gathered to connect. i think coffee and food is the very fabric of our community as well as we take care of each other. to have a pop-up in the tenderloin gives it so much meaning. >> we are always creating impactful meaning of the lives of the people, and once we create a space and focus on the most marginalized, you really include a space for everyone. coffee is so cultural for many

communities and we have coffee of maria inspired by my grandmother from mexico. i have many many memories of sharing coffee with her late at night. so we carry that into everything we do. currently we are on a journey that is going to open up the first brick and mortar in san francisco specifically in the tenderloin. we want to stay true to our ancestors in the tenderloin. so we are getting ready for that and getting ready for celebrating our anniversary. >> it has been well supported and well talked about in our community. that's why we are pushing it so much because that's how we started. very

active community members. they give back to the community. support trends and give back and give a safe space for all. >> we also want to let folks know that if they want to be in a safe space, we have a pay it forward program that allows 20% to get some funds for someone in need can come and get a cup of coffee, pastry and feel welcomed in our community. to be among our community, you are always welcome here. you don't have to buy anything or get anything, just be here and express yourself and be your authentic self and we will always take care of you.

>> good afternoon everyone and thank you for joining me today. joining us all here today. my name is special agent jeremy brown with united states secret service and i'm the asian pacific enomic coordinator. the secret service and federal and state local partners joining me here today have been preparing for the apec leader

summit, which was designated a national special security event. this event will take place in san francisco from november 15-18. the apec summit is a part of the apec leaders week and designated a national special security events. we refer as a nsse. due to the size significance and anticipated attendance. this will be the united states secret service 75 national security event. this designation is given to insure the full weight leverage talent and resources of the federal government and our state and local partners to this event and other events like this. when an event is designated the u.s. secret service assumes its mandated role as the lead agency for it design and implementation of the operational security plan.

however, the success of these events cannot be obtained by any one agency alone and i can say it has been a collaborative effort between the u.s. secret service, the san francisco police department, the california highway patrol, the federal bureau of investigation, the federal emergency management agency, u.s. coast guard, san francisco fire department and many federal state and local partner tuesday design the security plan. during the last several months and in fact today, this collaborative team has conducted numerous training exercises, one of which we finished this morning a table top exercise to prepare for this event cht this insures that each agency is properly prepared for this event of this magnitude. the number one priority for the secret service and everyone standing here today is the safety of the world leaders,

the attendees coming to the apec summit, but as well as the general public here in san francisco while the apec summit is here in san francisco. because of the nature of this designation and impact to the normal daily lives of san francisco residents and visitors is unavoidable. however, the team here has taken extraordinary measures to minimize that impact where possible while maintaining our obligation to the safety of the attendees oof the apec semt as elwith as the general public. the public will experience increased traffic on both roads and walkways in and around the apec venues. vehicular public transportation and pedestrian impacts should be expected in the downtown area around the muconey center. around the san francisco waterfront, as well as the nob hill neighborhood.

residents and businesses generally will have access to their normal residents and their normal businesses, however, they may under go a security screening and mild inconvenience to traverse these areas. specific road closures and pedestrian and vehicle access information have been provided on a map like the one displayed behind me here that can be accessed online. also made available to mapping software people are familiar with here in san francisco that they have on their personal smart phones and other devices. secret service establish remote delivery and vehicle screening at pier 27 that allow all delivery vehicles going into their zones to be screened and then they will be given specific instructions once they are screened. their vehicle will be sealed and can access the perimeter

under certain conditions. deliveries should occur between 10 p.m. 7 a.m. there will be temporary flight restrictions. this will impact commercial and private air traffic as well as drown operators. the federal aviation administration this and notice to all airman for all effected air traffic. again to include drones. there will be restrictions for commercial and private maritime traffic around the waterfront area. those restrictions will be communicated directly by the u.s. coastguard and notice to mariners. the summit security plan is part of the secret service zero no fail protective mission and also a part of each and every state federal local agency participated in this security plan. we have absolute confidence in this plan and we have taken extraordinary measures to minimize the impact to the

public and to the residents and visitors of san francisco. we thank the residents and visitors of san francisco for their patience. we will do our best to collectively keep the public informed of changes or impacts or incident that occur during the apec summit. i like to personally thank chief scott with the san francisco police department as well as the san francisco department of emergency management and many other federal state and local partners who mentioned for all the work thus far. it is truly a collaborative effort and i thank you all for your continued partnership. my pleasure to introduce chief bill scott. >> thank you special agent brown. first of all, i want to thank our partners and like to start with special agents jeremy

brown for leadership and professionalism planning the apec alongside the sfpd. i want to thank and acknowledge the partners at the cal highway patrol. we have [indiscernible] here and also thank commissioner [indiscernible] for their assistance and commitment of resources to this event. we cannot do this without their help and this is a unprecedented event for the city of san francisco. we are very excited to take part in this event and putting the global spotlight on the city and county of san francisco. we are expecting up to 20 thousand people from across 21 member apec economys, ceo's around the world and expecting close to 1 thousand media representatives. our city is ready to meet this moment. the san francisco police department has a full time team working with all department bureaus to insure adequate service provided to the apec event and to the city as a

whole. our department of emergency management headed by director carol and mayor office are working full time to coordinate all city agencies to be prepared for this epic event. the san francisco police department is also partnering with federal, state and local agencies to support the u.s. secret service, their security mission. sfpd is working to insure first amendment activity is properly facilitated and remains peaceful and let me be very very clear, any act of violence against any member of the public or law enforcement will not be tolerated. this department has a lot of experience in handling large scale security events. yearly we have the pride event. the 2018 global climate action summit superbowl and victory parade for golden state

warriors and san francisco giants. we have experience with this but so do all our partners. that experience will make us successful with this year's apec event. ypt to talk about our staffing. the san francisco police department is staffed up and prepared to make sure this event is safe for everyone. work wg our department of emergency management and will have a joint information center to respond to inquirys and get information out in real time. we do not anticipate apec impact city services by ems or 911. emergency responders will be available everywhere in the city. several hundred sfpd officers are dedicated to normal operations, including calls for service and emergency response acrauz the city. and we plan to maintain adequate service for the greater city in our 10 district stations outside of the apec conference boundaries in order to handle our routine normal calls for service and provide

the public safety needs of this city. all of our sworn members will be working. we are mobilized for that week and we will have hundreds of sfpd officers ambassadors, volunteers dedicated to this apec conference to insure the safety of visitors and dignitaries in both the city limits and at the san francisco international airport. the california highway patrol and over a dozen local agencies are providing personnel to supplement the needs for the uniform law enforcement as designated apec venues and events. our san mateo county agency is supporting the san francisco airport so we are well prepared for this events. here is our call to axz. we are asking the public, stay vigilant. if you see something, say something. we should do that always no matter what you see, we will

check it out. don't be afraid to call. be patient. as special agent brown mentioned, many areas of the city will be impacted by street closures, detours, buses rerouted, public transportation rerouted and dignitaries escorts. it will take all patience to get through this week. we will keep you informed and make sure you know what routes you can take for public transportation, what routes are closed so you can plan accordingly. we encourage you to take public transportation or walk, but most importantly, please enjoy the city as you would normally. this police department and our public safety partners will be out 24/7 as always insuring our community is safe. last, let's please be respectful and tolerant of one another. many people from many cultures and many different countries with many different ways of life will be converging on the city of san francisco during

apec. we are that city. we are a welcoming city that respects every culture, so let's make sure that we model that this week and beyond. let's show the world that we are truly a world class city. the map has been provided. working closely with city partners and agencies to assist with road closures. working with mta on public transportation but pay attention to the alerts because that will help us get through this with hopefully minimized disruption to normal routine. with that, i like to close by saying, thank you, thank you again to our partners. this will be a exciting time for the city of san francisco as we will be on the global stage. we are prepared. we have done this before. we have the experience. we have the collaboration. we have partnership and we are committed to making this a safe

event for everyone and with that, i like to introduce special agent in charge from the fbi, bob trip. >> good afternoon everyone. thank you chief scott. my name is bob trip. in november, apec will bring together the leaders of nations that account for 40 percent of the global population and 50 percent of global trade. the fbi is committed insuring these leaders, other visitors and the city and residents of the bay area can enjoy these events in a safe and security environment. we are bringing all fbi resources to bear to fulfill our own mission and to plan for contingencies. our role will focus on crisis management, investigation, and intelligence support as part of our preventing terrorism mission. we will work together with partners to collect threat

intelligence and mitigate any threats in support of this event. a driving force behind the summit is the power collaboration that same principle is guiding the planning and engagement of the federal state and local partners that you see gathered here today. the fbi is proud to stand among our partners and to provide them all with our full support. i'll turn things back over to secret service for questions. >> we can take some questions related to the apec event. first up. >> hi. there. what measure s might the secret service might conduct sweeps to make sure any unhoused individuals in zone may be removed, is that something the secret service will be working on? >> first off, thank you for that question.

i know there is a lot of concern in san francisco regarding the homeless population. we have a plan that we work closely with san francisco police department on. i will turn it over to chief scott. i think he has more detailed information to answer this specific question. >> thank you for that question. first of all, let me say, we are not conducting sweeps. we have a infrastructure in the city to address some of the challenges with our unhoused population and we will plug into that infrastructure to make sure people need help need help. the main thing, the main focus that we are all here for is public safety and the safety of this event. there will be places where we wont allow access and we are prepared to deal with that if we have unhoused people that are displaced. they will have opportunities for shelter. they will have opportunities for help, but the main thing is to make sure it is a safe environment, so we will plug

into our regular infrastructure. the department of emergency management. the fire department has a street crisis response team. we have shelter beds available. we have the resources to make this work and that's what we intend to do. i want to say this, it isn't a crime to be unhoused. it isn't a crime to be homeless. we are out there to make sure we help people. we are out there to make sure this event is a safe event but we also want to represent our city in the finest light, so all these components and infrastructure pieces we put together over a number of years will come together and help guide us to a successful event. >> should people start expecting to see like,

[indiscernible] things in the ramp up to this since they are necessary to [indiscernible] heads of state. >> thanks for the question. in the days leading up to the period of the nsse, you will see what we would call administrative movement of motorcade vehicles throughout the city to prepare. you will see instillation of various physical barriers to assist with the restrictions displayed on the map here in the days leading up to the 15-18 period. it is slow ramp up a few day ahead and culminating the evening of the 14 to early morning hours of the 15 of november. >> on the map, what are all the colors mean? can someone point out what everything up there means [indiscernible] >> if i could get a map here i

can refer to real quick. i got one with me and will try to talk through it. so, the colors and everything on the map are self-explanatory. there is a legend at the bottom corner and so i'm happy to visit privately after this to answer those questions, but for me to explain entirety of the map, there is a lot on the map. there is vehicle restricted zones. there is pedestrian restricted zones. there is closures of public transportation routes. there are reroutes available to the public of san francisco to take in lieu of the closed public transportation routes. those are all displayed on the map. those are what the different things mean, but detailed explanation of the map for the purpose of time here today, not going through from a-z on that. >> [indiscernible] for people listening at home.

where can people read and find out the closures that effect them? >> excellent question. i know this map is going to be most important to the public so i'll differ that question to a san francisco pd or city partners. >> [indiscernible] >> you are saying there is a [indiscernible] can you elaborate on that? people are wondering [indiscernible] we had the president here. we had a lot of people from out of town. what type of extra security are we expecting, especially 21 leaders? >> great question. again, as i said earlier, this event has warranted full resources of the federal, state and local government, so i'm not going to speak to specific numbers. what i can tell you is there will be a extraordinary amount of law enforcement, military and public safety personnel in san francisco for this event,

so well above what anybody has ever seen here before. >> can you give us the idea--we have seen the president in san francisco before. can you give comparison how much more locked down the city will be? >> i can't give you a detailed comparison other then to say, it will be much more then a normal presidential visit to san francisco. we are anticipating not just the president of the united states, also the vice president, also potentially heads of state from 21 other countries that are coming to this event, so you know, minimum, 21 times what you would normally see might be a good opening ball park, but again, very hard to specifically describe and compare because you are comparing apples to oranges. >> [indiscernible]

>> that's a great question. so, the major closures around muconey will be from second street to 5 ethstreet. those streets will be open beyond the points the streets will be closed. then from market street to harrison street. again, both streets being open, but anything beyond that boundary is closed to vehicular traffic. >> [indiscernible] >> i'm going to differ to the city of san francisco on the public transportation questions because they are the experts on that. >> good afternoon. i name is jeffrey tumlin the executive director of the san francisco municipal transportation agency. we are very grateful how closely the secret serve iss worked with us to minimize negative impact to the transit system and particularly to center naerbds like chinatown, union square, south of market and the whole southeast

quadrant of san francisco. that said, for security reasons, the yurba buena station and 4th and brandon station of the central subway will need to be closed for it duration of the event. we are grateful we are able to reroute trains, so the t3 trains instead of going into the central subway will simply follow the old route to market street subway and very importantly will be able to run high frequency shuttle trains between union square, market street station, and chinatown. this is very important for us to make sure we maintain strong conductivity to chinatown. bart, caltrain will be fully operational uneffected. sams trans and golden gate experience very miner reroutes so if you are coming to san francisco that week, please do take public transit. very importantly, we will be publishing very detailed traffic walking biking and especially transit updates

under our website later this afternoon and will continue to update that as we get more information. please go to sfmta.com/apec. where you can not only find information, but also sign up for regular alerts and updates. >> what about the cable cars and [indiscernible] >> yes. the cable cars will be disrupted by the nob hill area zone but grateful to the secret service and our team who found a way to continue operate the hyde street line from the cable car barn at mason street to the hyde street terminal so that will keep running. the rest of the line needs to be replaced by bus connectivity. >> it sounds like there are three areas.

there is muscone, nob hill and waterfront portion. can you talk about the waterfront portion? >> i will differ to secret service for the details of the dates and boundaries, but for each of those, they worked very closely with us in order to develop plans to make sure public transit can be rerouted around those closures as needed. >> i wondered about the-- >> if i can answer that question first and come to you. so, your questions about the waterfront. >> [indiscernible] three security [indiscernible] >> that's correct. so, the question i think is about the waterfront, and that will primarily be on the day of and especially the afternoon and evening of the 15 of november. we expect the embarcadero to be closed that day on the 15 of november from battery to broadway that will be a closure

there. you will also see diversion of traffic before you get to battery or before to broadway to prevent congestion. also on the map you see a area in the water that is maritime restriction zone. that will be in effect the afternoon and evening of 15 of november that include ferrys and such diverted around that zone. we made large enough to account for safety needs and security needs we intend to have for that particular venue, but also allowing as much traffic as possible around that zone to take place. >> [indiscernible] >> i wondered about the people in the area they might have to undergo security check. is that bag check or beyond that? >> great question. for people that live around or operate businesses around some of these venues, particularly mos coney if you are trying to access for example the met rion

or something of that nature, you will have to go what is effectively a bag check. any packages or bags you have with you would have to be inspected, but nothing beyond the bag or package check will be the procedure there. >> how are you planning to respond to protesters and can you confirm if and where there will be zones that protesting cannot take place. >> appreciate the question. the question is regarding protest and demonstration. so, i'll answer part of it and turn the rest to chief scott. so, from secret service perspective, to answer your second part first, secret service does not designate protest zones, no protest zones. we designate general public areas and areas restricted from the general public. as far as your question regarding any concern over protests, as chief scott stated in his remarks and i'll second

this, during this planning, we accounted for the fact there will be perhaps many different groups and many different type of people that want to come to san francisco and exercise their first amendment rights and we are prepared to see that. we dont want to discourage that, however we want to make sure that if anybody is doing anything in conjunction with those activities that result in violence or criminal activity, that will not be tolerated by the u.s. secret service or the san francisco police department. i'll turn it over to chief scott for any second comments on that question. >> thank you special agent brown. i just reiterate what was just said. it is about facilitation of peaceful first amendment activity and also about the general public safety for this event and the public as well. including the protesters themselves. we will facilitate like we always do first amendment activity. we do that very well and we

will employ similar tactics and strategy we always have and it is about facilitation. if and when protesters show up we will be deployed to handle that. we have extra officers that we will be able to handle that type of event if it occurs. the message is this and want to reiterate, criminal activity will not be tolerated and anybody think they are going to come in name of protest and hurt somebody or do crime or start fires that will not be tolerated so want to reemphasize that. we will do it consitutionally and respect rights and professional in our actions but will not tolerate the nonsense so i want to make that clear. we are all professionals up here. we respect the country consitution and will facilitate that, but we also want to make sure this is a peaceful event.

>> question for chief scott. well aware sfpd had under staffing issues working with mutual partners in other counties and cities, is it safe to say during this time that sfpd might be fully staffed? >> everybody is working, so we will be fully staffed and we have assistance. i said earlier in my remarks, can't thank the california highway patrol enough, the u.s. secret service, all our partners, we are all in this together but the municipal policing is the san francisco police department with help from other local agencies. we have motorcycle officers from other agencies, squads to deal with the security assignments and we have squads to deal with the fixed posts and we are prepared to adequately police the rest of the city during this event, so we are ready, and we are short,

but thank goodness we do have the assistance of calling everybody in that make this work. thank you, great question and fair question. thank you. >> businesses operating in some of the security zones, is there going to be any impact to their hours and also, is there cases where there is inconveniences because of dignitaries? is there compensation for some of the [indiscernible] >> so, appreciate the question regarding the impact to businesses. with very few if any very rare exceptions there will be no businesses asked to effectively close. there will be impacts. already discussed that people that are patrons of the businesses may need to undergo

screening if they wish to do business with these places or perhaps the business workers or owners. there will also be impacts during motorcade movement. there is restriction of traffic and restriction of pedestrian traffic during key times so there will be impacts, but we are anticipating any full closures of any private businesses here in san francisco as a result of this. because of that, we are not anticipating any need to compensate business owners due to these impacts. it is something that as part of this national special security event and the fact it is here in the city of san francisco and hosted by the city that is anticipated these types of impacts will occur and i'll turn it over to the city for further comment on that, but that's effectively comes with the territory of with these type of events. >> from a city perspective, our

mayor's office worked very hard to coordinate with small businesses, with all businesses. office of economic development, our office of small business development have been working at this for monthss to keep everybody informed as to what the impacts will be. online there will be a lot of people in the city that attend the conference. we hope it helps our businesses economically, but that only happens if we are well coordinated, people well informed and people understand what the closures are, how to get to and from daily routine of life and we will do that well. the department of emergency management does a great job informing the public when we have these types of events and public notices particularly if there is a emergency that are tied into this or as a result, or emergencies around the city. we will keep everybody informed and i think that will be the key to making this a smooth as possible, but we definitely are--we understand the businesses will be-people will

be disrupted and why we are here today and continue to message to the public to make sure we minimize the disruption and businesses can go about their routine. thank you. >> [indiscernible] you're watching san francisco rising with chris manners. special guest is david chu. hi i'm chris manners and you're watching san francisco rising the show that's about restarting rebuilding and re imagining our city. i guess today is david chiu, the city attorney for the

city and county of san francisco , and he's here today to talk to us about the opioid crisis, reproductive rights and the non citizen voting program. mr chu, welcome to the show. thanks for having me on happy to talk about whatever you want me to talk about, so can we start by explaining the difference between the city attorney's office and the district attorney's office? i think it could be slightly confused. that is a very common fusion with members of the public so um, if you get arrested in san francisco by the san francisco police department, all criminal matters are dealt with by the san francisco district attorney . we handle all civil matters on behalf of the city and county of san francisco. what that means is a number of things. we provide advice and counsel to all actors within city government from our mayor. every member of the board of supervisors to the 100 plus departments, commissions boards that represent the city and county of san francisco. we also defend the city against

thousands of lawsuits. so if you slip and fall in front of city hall if there's a bus accident if there is an incident involving the san francisco police department, we defend those matters. we also bring lawsuits on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, where most famous for litigating and obtaining the constitutional right to marry for lgbtq couples have sued gun manufacturers, payday lenders, oil companies, you name it, who are undercutting the rights of san franciscans and the city and county of san francisco. so now moving on to the opioid crisis. i understand you've had some success in court, um, dealing with manufacturers, distributors and pharmacies. could you elaborate a little bit on that for us, so the opioid industry and by that i refer to the legal industry that prescribes pain pills. um over years. uh, deceived americans and resulted

in literally thousands upon thousands of deaths and tragedies that we see on our streets every day when it comes to the addictions that folks are experiencing. many of the addictions really stemmed from what happened over a decade plus period where the prescription pain industry marketed prescription pills in ways that were false. we were one of thousands of jurisdictions around america that brought a lawsuit against the opioid industry. but we've had a particular set of successes that others have not. ah we initially brought a lawsuit a few years ago against every part of the opioid supply chain, and that included manufacturers, distributors and retailers, including pharmacies over the course of four plus years. a number of these corporate defendants settled with us. we've as of this moment brought in over $120 million of cash and services. to the city to help address the root causes of what

we're talking about. but a few months ago, we had a really historic verdict against the pharmacy, walgreens and their role walgreens was responsible for literally over 100 million pills, flooding the streets of san francisco over a period of years where they flouted federal law that require them to track where they're pills were going to. they had a what? what we refer to as a phil phil phil. pharmacy culture where folks would bring in their prescriptions, and the pharmacist would just fill them without checking why someone was coming in multiple times without checking why certain doctors were seen a 100 fold increase in the number of opioid prescriptions that they were prescribing. so we had a historic judgment against walgreens recently, but it's been a very intense lawsuit. and we know that will never bring back the lives that we have lost to opioid addictions. but it's critical for us that we get the resources that we need. maybe

one other thing i'll mention because it's often confusion. a large percentage of folks who are addicted to street level drugs say heroin or fentanyl started their addictions. with painkillers, opioid medications that were prescribed through doctors provided through pharmacies and so literally the suffering that we're seeing on our streets was caused by the opioid industry over many, many years and has created the significant crisis that we are dealing with right now. right right now moving on. i understand after the recent supreme court ruling, striking down robust as wade that you've put together an organization that's designed to help mm. provide free services to people who are both. seeking abortions and providing them can you tell us about the organization? sure so, um, before the dobbs decision came down, but after we learned about the leak from the supreme court about the draft that suggested the decision

would be as bad as it has turned out to be, um, i reached out to leadership from the bar association of san francisco because we knew that if that decision came down there would be tens of thousands of patients around the country as well as providers whose legal situation would be in jeopardy. women doctors, nurses who could be subjected to lawsuits who could be arrested who could be prosecuted, particularly in red states? 26 states where rights are being rolled back or in the process or have already been rolled back because of the dobbs decision. so we put out a call to lawyers all over the bay and frankly, all over the country, and as of this moment there have been over 70 law firms that have answered our call to be part of the legal alliance for reproductive rights who have committed to reviewing cases and providing pro bono assistance to patients and providers who are at legal risk. we also are looking at potential cases that these lawyers can bring against various states. in these areas

that are looking to deprive women and patients and providers of their of their rights. um it is a very dark time in america, and i'm really proud that that barrier attorneys, the legal community care have stepped up to answer the call. it's very important that's great. so now the non citizen voting program that was passed by voters just for school boards has faced them court challenges recently, but it was in place for the most recent election that we've had. how do you see that situation panning out? in fact, it's been in place for now. five school board elections. um so a little bit of background in our san francisco schools over one out of three kids. has a parent who is a non citizen who doesn't have a say in the election of the policy makers that dictate the future of our san francisco public schools, and so over a number of years, there has been a movement to allow immigrant

parents to vote in school board elections. few things i'll mention about that is our country has a very long history when it comes to allowing immigrants to vote. from 17 76 for 100 and 50 years until after world war. one immigrants were allowed to vote in most states in our country on the theory that we want to assimilate immigrants in american democratic values and institutions, and it wasn't until an anti immigrant backlash in world war one that that sort of ended. but in recent years, um cities across america have allowed this to happen. in fact, at this moment, believe there are over a dozen cities that have voted to allow non citizens to vote in a number of context. now, this is particularly important in our schools just given how challenge our schools are, and given that we know that when we engage more parents in her school system, regardless of their citizenship it helps to lift up our schools for all parents. and so in 2016 the voters of san francisco past

about measure that allowed this to happen. unfortunately earlier this year, there were conservative organizations that came to san francisco to bring a lawsuit to try to overturn this , and i should also mention it is obviously the perspective of our office and our city that this is constitutional. nothing in the constitution prohibits non citizens from voting. and in fact, there's an explicit provision in the constitution that allows chartered cities like san francisco when it comes to school board elections to be able to dictate the time and manner of those elections. and so, uh, we are involved in litigation on this issue. there was an initial ruling that was not good for us that essentially said at the trial court level. we shouldn't allow this. um we appealed it up to the appellate level. the appellate court made an initial decision to allow this past november election to proceed as it has for the last previous four elections. we're going to be in front of that

court soon. stay tuned. we'll see what happens. it was good to hear that the city was able to reach a settlement with the center for medicare and medicaid services are meant laguna honda could still operate. how did you manage to reach that agreement? it was not an easy conversation . just a little bit of background. so laguna honda has been an incredibly important institution in san francisco for 150 years, taking care of our most vulnerable patients are frail, very elderly patients, many of whom are at end of life. and a few years ago, there were some issues in that hospital. some violations of rules that we very much want to make sure don't get violated. there were folks that weren't using proper ppe, who are bringing cigarette lighters into the facility, who might have brought some contraband into the facilities. we have zero tolerance for that and have made that very clear. we self reported some of these violations to the federal authorities. and unfortunately from our perspective, they took the very disproportionate step of ordering the closure. the

permanent closure of lugano, honda. problematic on a number of reasons. first and foremost, there are just no skilled nursing facility beds not just in california but around the country. after their order came down. we literally were putting 1000 calls a day to skilled nursing facilities around california and around the country and could find nowhere to move the 700 patients that we had had in the gonna honda but just as disturbingly as we were forced to start moving some of these patients, a number of them died. there's a concept in medicine known as transfer trauma. when you move someone who is that frail and unfortunately, folks folks died and we were at a point where we were five weeks away from the deadline for the federal government. that they had provided to us to close the facility. so uh and we have been trying for months to get the federal government to reconsider their action, so i was compelled to bring a lawsuit on behalf of

the city and county of san francisco and very pleased and appreciate that we were able to come to a settlement whereby transfers will be delayed at least until next year. we're going to have at least a year of funding. to keep the facility open, and hopefully we can get back up on our feet and ensure that no future violations occur because this is an institution that has to stay open for the good of these patients. quite right, quite right. so finally, congratulations on winning an important public power service dispute with pg and e. um why is it important that the city's rights as a local power provider maintained well, so san francisco has been a local power provider for decades. we are fortunate to have access through our hedge hetchy hydroelectric system to provide electricity to a number of providers, particularly public recipients of that. and unfortunately, pg any has used its monopoly when it comes to private electricity

to try to stop that, and to block that, and from our perspective, they violated federal law in adding literally tens of millions of dollars of expenses to san francisco and institutions that we're trying to ensure um, public power infrastructure. put years of delays on our ability to do this, and so we had to bring a number of appeals in the federal commission. ah we were successful in those appeals, and there was a decision recently that basically held the pg and e could not use its monopoly to unfairly delay or add tens of millions of dollars of cost. to the city and county of san francisco, as we are trying to move forward with our vision of public power. clearly pgd has not been able to serve not just san francisco but northern california. well we all know that with the wildfires with its bankruptcies, with all the issues that they've had, we think there is a different model to move forward on and we are grateful to the court. and

providing a ruling that allows us to move forward. well thank you so much for coming on the show. i really appreciate the time you've given us here today. i appreciate and thanks for your thanks for your questions. thank you. well that's it. for this episode, we'll be back with another one shortly for sf gov t v. i'm chris manners. thanks for watching. yeah. >> in november of 2016, california voters passed proposition 64. the adult use of marijuana act. san franciscans overwhelmingly approved it by nearly 75%. and the law went into effect in january of 2018. [♪♪♪] >> under california's new law, adults age 21 and over can legally possess up to 1 ounce of

cannabis and grow up to six plants at home. adults in california can legally give up to 1 ounce to other adults. >> in the state of california, we passed a law that said adult consumption is legal. if you are an adult and in possession of certain amounts, you will no longer be tried. you will not be arrested or prosecuted for that. that is changing the landscape dramatically. [♪♪♪] >> to legalization of cannabis could bring tremendous economic and social benefits to cities like san francisco. >> this industry is projected to reach $22 billion by the year 2020. and that is just a few years away. >> it can be a huge legal industry in california. i think very shortly, the actual growing of marijuana may become the biggest cash crop in the state and so you want that to be a legal tax paying cash crop,

all the way down the line to a sales tax on the retail level. >> the california medical industry is a 3 billion-dollar industry last year. anticipating that multiplier as 20, 30, 50 times in the consumer marketplace once adult use is really in place, you could go ahead and apply that multiplier to revenue. it will be huge. >> when that underground economy becomes part of the regular tax paying employment economy of the bay area, it not only has a direct impact, that money has a ripple impact through the economy as well. >> it is not just about retail. it is not just about the sensor. is about manufacturing pick a lot of innovative manufacturing is happening here in san francisco in addition to other parts of the state as well as the cultivation. we should be encouraging that. >> there is a vast array of jobs

that are going to be available in the newly regulated cannabis industry. you can start at the top tier which a scientist working in testing labs. scientists working at extraction companies. and you work towards agricultural jobs. you have ones that will require less education and you look towards cannabis retail and see traditional retail jobs and you see general management jobs. those things that are similar to working at a bar restaurant or working at a retail store. >> we are offering, essentially, high paid manufacturing jobs. typical starting wage of 18-$20 an hour, almost no barrier to entry, you do not need an education. >> that means that people who do not have college educations, working-class people, will have an opportunity to have a job at cultivating cannabis plants. there's a whole wide array of job opportunities from the seedling to the sale of the cannabis. [♪♪♪]

>> last year, they said 26 million people came to san francisco. >> the tourism industry continues to be very robust here and the city and county of san francisco is about a billion-dollar industry. >> if we use a conservative cannabis user adoption rate to 15% that means 4 million tourists want that means 4 million tourists want to purchase cannabis. and we need to be ready for them. >> in 2015, as adult use legalization efforts gained momentum in california, the supervisors created the san francisco cannabis state legalization task force. this task force offered to research and advice to the supervisors, the mayor and other city departments. >> we knew that adult use legalization was coming to the ballot and stat that would bring with it a number of decisions that the city would have to make about zoning and regulation and so forth. and i decided at that time, at a

know it was a great, that rather than have a fire drill after the ballot measure passes, as suspected it would, we should plan an event. so i authored a task force to spend a year studying it and we made it a broad-based task force. >> we prepared ourselves by developing a health impact assessment and partnered that with key stakeholder discussions with washington, oregon, colorado, to really learn lessons from their experience rolling out both adult and medicinal cannabis. >> within days of the passing of the proposition, ed lee called on agencies to act decisively. >> he issued an executive order asking the department of public health, along with planning and other city departments to think through an internal working group around what we needed to do to consider writing this law. >> we collectively, i would say that was representatives from

g.s.a., as well as the mayor's office, met with a lot of departments to talk through what prop 64 and the implementation of prop 64 it meant to them. >> the mayor proposed an office of cannabis, a one-stop shop for permits allowing operators to grow and sell cannabis. >> he wanted a smart structure. he wanted a regulatory structure that ensured that kids didn't have access and community's were safe and that consumers were safe. and he wanted to ensure, more importantly, it was a regulatory structure that encouraged diversity and inclusivity. >> this is an office that will be solely charged with a duty of wanting not only the policies that we create, implementing and enforcing them, but also executing the licenses that are needed. we're talking about 20 different licenses that will put us into compliance with what is happening on the state level.

>> this is a highly, highly regulated industry now, at this point. we have anywhere from 7-10 departments that will be working with these industry participants as they go through the permitting process. that is a lot of work at a loss of coordination. we are creating a permitting process that is smart and is digital. it is much easier for the user and for community input, and is less mired in bureaucracy. >> for the first time ever in san francisco history, standalone licenses are available for all aspects of the nonretail side of the cannabis industry. now, a cultivator can go in to the department of building inspection and to the department of health and say, with this first registered and temporary license, and then what will eventually be a permanent license, this is the project, this is what i am going to do. >> very rarely in city

government do we interact with industries that are asking to be regulated. these guys want to be regulated. they want to be compliant. they want to work with the city. that is rare. >> san francisco has created a temporary licensing process so that the pre-existing operators here in san francisco can apply for a temporary state licensed. >> we have taken teams of up to 12 inspectors to inspect the facility twice a day. we have been doing that with the department of building inspection and the department of public health. and the fire department. >> it is really important for the industry to know that we are treating them like industry. like manufacturing. like coworkers pick so that is the way we are approaching this from a health and safety and a consumer protection network. this is just the way practice happens with restaurants or manufacturing facilities. >> because there are so many pieces of industry that people

haven't even thought about. there are different permits for each piece. you have to set up a permitting system for growing, for manufacturing, for testing. for delivery. for retail. you have to make sure that there is an appropriate health code. certainly the regulation of alcohol in terms of restaurants and retail it's probably a model for how this industry will be regulated as well, both on sale and consumption. >> it is completely uncharted territory. there is a blessing and a curse with that. it is exciting because we are on a new frontier, but it is very nerve-racking because there's a lot at stake. and quite frankly, being san francisco, being the state of california, people are looking to us. >> we hope that cannabis does become more of an accepted part of society in the same way that alcohol is, the same way coffee is. >> it is a very innovative fear,

particularly around manufacturing. san francisco could be an epicenter. >> san francisco can be a leader here. a global leader in the cannabis movement and set a bar just to other communities and cities and states and this nation how it is done. [♪♪♪] [music]

>> san francisco is known as yerba buena, good herb after a mint that used to grow here. at this time there were 3 settlements one was mission delores. one the presidio and one was yerba buena which was urban center. there were 800 people in 1848 it was small. a lot of historic buildings were here including pony express headquarters. wells fargo. hudson bay trading company and famous early settlers one of whom william leaderdorph who lived blocks from here a successful business person. african-american decent and the first million airin california. >> wilwoman was the founders of san francisco. here during the gold rush came in the early 1840s.

he spent time stake himself as a merchant seaman and a business person. his father and brother in new orleans. we know him for san francisco's history. establishing himself here arnold 18 twoochl he did one of many things the first to do in yerba buena. was not california yet and was not fully san francisco yet. >> because he was an american citizen but spoke spanish he was able to during the time when america was taking over california from mexico, there was annexations that happened and conflict emerging and war, of course. he was part of the peek deliberations and am bas doorship to create the state of california a vice council to mexico. mexico granted him citizenship. he loaned the government of san

francisco money. to funds some of the war efforts to establish the city itself and the state, of course. he established the first hotel here the person people turned to often to receive dignitaries or hold large gatherings established the first public school here and helped start the public school system. he piloted the first steam ship on the bay. a big event for san francisco and depict instead state seal the ship was the sitk a. there is a small 4 block long length of street, owned much of that runs essentially where the transamerica building is to it ends at california. i walk today before am a cute side street. at this point t is the center

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

>> (music). >> the ferry building one of san francisco most famous that

as many of 15 thousand commuters pass through that each gay. >> one of the things that one has to keep in mind regarding san francisco is how young the city we are. and nothing is really happening here before the gold rush. there was a small spanish in the presiding and were couriers and fisherman that will come in to rest and repair their ships but at any given time three hundred people in san francisco. and then the gold rush happened. by 182948 individuals we are here to start

a new life. >> by 1850 roughly 16 thousand ships in the bay and left town in search of gold leaving their ships behind so they scraped and had the ships in the bay and corinne woods. with sand the way that san francisco was and when you look at a map of san francisco have a unique street grid and one of the thing is those streets started off in extremely long piers. but by 1875 they know they needed more so the ferry building was built and it was a long affair and the first cars turned around at the ferry building and picking up people and goods and then last night the street light cars the

trams came to that area also. but by the late 1880s we needed something better than the ferry building. a bond issue was passed for $600,000. to build a new ferry building i would say 800 thousand for a studio apartment in san francisco they thought that was a grand ferry building had a competition to hire an architecture and choose a young aspiring architect and in the long paris and san francisco had grand plans for this transit station. so he proposed the beautiful new building i wanted it wider, there is none tonight. than that actually is but the price of concrete quitclaim two

how and was not completed and killed. but it opened a greater claim and became fully operational before 1898 and first carriages and horses for the primary mode of transportation but market street was built up for serve tram lines and streetcars could go up to the door to embarcadero to hospitals and mission street up to nob hill and the fisherman's area. and then the earthquake hit in 190 six the ferry building collapsed the only thing had to be corrected once the facade of the tower. and 80 percent of the city would not

survive the buildings collapsed the streets budges and the trams were running and buildings had to highland during the fire after the actuate tried to stop the mask fire in the city so think of a dennis herrera devastation of a cable car they were a mess the streets were torn up and really, really wanted to have a popular sense they were on top of that but two weeks after the earthquake kind of rigged a way getting a streetcar to run not on the cable track ran electrical wires to get the streetcars to run and 2 was pretty controversial tram system wanted electrical cars but the earthquake gave them to

chance to show how electrical cars and we're going to get on top this. >> take 10 years for the city to rebuild. side ferry use was increasing for a international exhibition in 1950 and people didn't realize how much of a community center the ferry building was. it was the center for celebration. the upper level of ferry building was a gathering place. also whenever there was a war like the filipino war or world war two had a parade on market street and the ferry building would have banners and to give you an idea how central to the citywide that is what page brown wanted

to to be a gathering place in that ferry building hay day the busiest translation place in the world how people got around transit and the city is dependent on that in 1915 of an important year that was the year of our international exposition 18 million living in san francisco and that was supposedly to celebrate the open of panama differential but back in business after the earthquake and 22 different ferry boats to alamed and one had the and 80 trips a day a way of life and in 1918 san francisco was hit hard by the flu pandemic and city had mask mandates and anyone caught

without a doubt a mask had a risk ever being arrested and san francisco was hit hard by the pandemic like other places and rules about masks wearing and what we're supposed to be more than two people without our masks on i read was that on the ferry those guys wanted to smoke their pipes and taking off their masks and getting from trouble so two would be hauled away. >> the way the ferry building was originally built the lower level with the natural light was used for take it off lunge storage. the second floor was where passengers offloaded and all those people would spill out and central stairway of the building that is interesting

point to talk about because such a large building one major stairway and we're talking about over 40 thousand people one of the cost measures was not building a pedestrian bridge with the ferry building and the embarcadero on market street was actually added in and in 1918 but within 20 years to have san francisco bay the later shipbuilding port in the world and the pacific we need the iron that. as the ferry system was at the peak two bridges to reach san francisco. and automobiles were a popular item that people wanted to drive themselves around instead of the ferry as a

result marin and other roots varnished. the dramatic draw in ferry usage was staggering who was using the ferry that was a novelty rather than a transportation but the ferry line stopped one by one because everyone was getting cars and wanted to drive and cars were a big deal. take the care ferry and to san francisco and spend the day or for a saturday drive but really, really changed having the car ferry. >> when the bay bridge was built had a train that went along the lower level so that was a major stay and end up where our sales force transit center is now another way of getting into the city little by little the ferry stopped having

a purpose. >> what happened in the 40 and 50's because of this downturn we were trying to find a purpose a number of proposals for a world trade center and wanted to build it own the philly in a terrible idea objective never gotten down including one that had too tall towers a trade center in new york but a tower in between that was a part of ferry building and completely impractical. after the cars the tower administration wanted to keep americans deployed and have the infrastructure for the united

states. so they had an intrastate free plan the plan for major freeway systems to go throughout san francisco. and so the developers came up with the bay bridge and worked their way along embarcadero. the plans were to be very, very efficient for that through town he once the san francisco saw had human services agency happening 200 though people figure out city hall offender that the embarcadero free was dropped and we had the great free to no where. which cut us off from the ferry building and our store line and created in 1989 and gave us the opportunity to tear down the free. and that was the

renaissance of ferry building. >> that land was developed for a new ferry building and whom new embarcadero how to handle travel and needed a concept for the building didn't want- that was when a plan was developed for the liquor store. >> the san francisco ferry building has many that ups and downs and had a huge hay day dribbled adopt to almost nothing and after the earthquake had a shove of adrenaline to revise the waterfront and it moved around the bay and plans for

more so think investment in the future and feel that by making a reliable ferry system once the ferry building will be there to surface. >> 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 is a very

welcome to the city gardens brand opening very, very excited i want to thank mayor london breed this is acquired and helping us to get families here. i want to thank supervisor dorsey for your for the support for the acquisition stream and shout out to you you all are amazing (clapping.) i know that was this was tough that was tough, tough and very quickly i heard mayor breed talked about how that was an incredible and everyone in here worked for us worked to make that happen and thank you,