[ ♪♪♪ ] >> monday november 20. 2023. the meeting began at 10:01 a.m. secretary fuller, call the roll. >> >> good morning. respond with here or present. thomas harrison. >> here. >> commissioner harrison is present >> commissioner simi. >> present. >> with 3 members present we do have quorum for the sanitation and streets commission meeting. for members wishing to comment

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for the commission. i'd like to thank the staff of sfgovtv for helping put on this meeting. chair hartwig-schulman are there requesty to amend the order of the agenda? did i skip? showing no requests i have a couple of announcements. first i'd like to acknowledge all the time and effort that commissioner mogannam played in being chair the last year and thank him for his service to the sanitation and streets commission. also i was able to attend the opening of the nursery on

november 9. i'm excited that we will be using the space as vacant for many years. i love trees and i'm excited for the years to come and seeing a canopy across the city. thank you for all your hard work to get this started and for the future work you are going to do. thank you. >> that concludes my announcements mr. fuller do you have any. >> i have one brief one that commissioners have a number of requires trainings that are live on their employee portals the trainings cover a number of topics helpful to commissioner and city and county of san francisco employees as a whole.

commissioners have until the end of the year to complete them and i will follow up with each commissioner to ensure they have access and completed all the required training. >> that is my only announcement. >> thank you. mr. fuller. call the first item. >> item 1 is general public comment. members may address the commission on topics went subject matter of the commission but not part of this agenda. comments specific it an item men heard when this item is considered. members of the public may address the xhikz commission up to 3 minute and public comment continued to the end of the agenda if speakers exceed 15 minutes of general public comment. members who wish to speak may lineup against the wall further from the door if you are in the chamber. if you are call nothing use that

call in number of 415-655-0001. access code: 2660 767 2136. and then star 3 to raise your hand. there it is 10:05 a.m. we don't have any in person commenters. and sfgovtv is indicating we don't have any folks who are have call in the to speak during general public. either. during comment. we have no public comment at this time. call the next item. >> item 2 communication and the

director's report and newly named director carla short is here to present. this is informational item. good morning, commissioners. i'm carla short public works director. as of november 8 i no longer have the word interim in my title. i am honor exclude humbled that the mayor asked me it stay permanent. many of you know i was ash pointed interim director in 2021 and expected to be in the job for 6 months and returned my job which i loved superintendent of the bureau of urban forestry. when the public works commission launched a search for i permanent director i intentionally did in the throw my hat in the ring many strong

candidates were interviewed. for a variety of reasons the step dids not lead to a hire. i was asked fiwould reconsider and after soul searching i was red to say yes with optimism and purpose. fuelling my change of heart the inspiration i get from staff. all of the expert i pride they bring to the job in the care and improvement of san francisco we have an incredible team and a privilege to be a part temperature commissioners, i want to sthk for your support and look forward to continuing my work with you. on to updates. i'm sure are aware san francisco hosted the summit last week. a huge event that brought president biden and near low 2 dozen world leaders. 2,000 journalists, 150 corporate leaders and tense of thouz arounds of others.

kicked off on november 11 and wrapped up a week later. the city had been preparing for this epic event for a year with the ground work ramping up in the last couple months. many team usa were involved. street and environmental service. building and street repair. construction management. urban forest. project manage. community engagement. street inning spection. permit, finance and director's office this was a big deal for san francisco. there were disruptive protests but over all everything was smooth. as a city we put our best of foot ford replagues the narrative with the bloom loop. i want to shout out to public works employee who is stepped up before and during the summit. . we had our crews on the ground address being issue is thats need attention our work was not about cleaning and not only cleaning, landscaping and

building repair we had beautification projects. they were driven by apeck the benefits will last for years to come. 2 weeks ago our crews intalled 2 new crosswalk one at stockton and washington in china town. show casing a series of clouds. it is a true delight i encourage to you look. dp the other at stockton and union in north beach that boasts the colors of the italian flag. they are great additions to our street skachl awe third project the webster street bridge. start we unveiled the repainted webster period of time bridge during a community celebration. the u bridge spans geary is more then and there a pedestrian crossing. at the core it is a connector between to communities. jeopardy an town and the western edition fillmore. which physically torn apart

during the redevelopment era 50 years ago. demolition a few years back leaders, residents and business reps fought become than i prevailed and advocates for improvements this month they got their wish. bridge once bear concrete now is red. chosen to have the color on gate in japan that symbolize gratitude and harmony. in addition to the painting crews painted the metal railing and repaired cracks and repaired the over head lanterns that light the path way we celebrated this with a walk across the bridge. joining us were mayor breed, the council you will other than will japan it was an amazing moment with folks walk arm and arm

across the bridge cementing connections and history. with a peck behind us we are dive nothing how we keep the momentum generated going. with a focus continuing the successful cordination with our cysteder city agencies and state agencies san francisco's big challenges. our employees to go pride in our work and sure we bolled that with input from the staff on what worked well. as you needed the grand opening on november 9ful thank you for attending we are joined by the goner and mayor breed. the nursery is on fifth between bryant and harrison. and sits on a vacant 14,000

square foot freeway parse and he will enough space to grow 1,,000 street trees to be planted throughout san francisco. managed by urban forestry delivered a system of prospectgation and care and educational programming related urban forest and climate protection. it brings needed green space to the surrounding south of market neighborhood lacks trees and open space and burdened by the air pollution. having it close we reduce the transportation costs associated with delivering them from nurseries. transplant shock when trees are grown in other climates the new roots workforce development operate by nonprofit partner friends of urban forest provide

job training for those facing barriers to employment bolster efforts to tree cover in bay vushg tenderloin and south of market and provide access to nature and deliver economic and eastbounding lodge cam benefits to neighborhoods across san francisco. there will be enough space for young trees native species california buckeye and coast live oak and other tree groups known to thrive in san francisco climate. the timing could not be more perfect in september greening efforts received a boost with the award of the 12 million dollars tree planting grant via federal inflation reduction act. they'll serve as a hub and wroshg force training and space for workshops and educational

programs focused on health and care of benefits of our urban forest this . is a fantastic addition to the public works portfolio. and lastly, we held our final neighborhood beautification day event of 2023 on near 4. the marine precylinder no and cal hallow. hit the surrounding neighborhoods for a morning of cleaning. greening and clueing. we had a solid turn out and they were joined by large public works colleagues. special thanks to the team urban forest and streets and environmental services and folks throughout central prescriptions and everyone when came out and volunteered.

we are gearing up for the 20 torseason and i will be sour to provide more witness they are cemented. and with this i am happy to take questions. thank you. >> thank you. and congratulations. does the commission have questions on the director's report? congratulations for the official minutes. happy to have a permanent head and employees are as well. good for the city. >> so hearing no further questions mr. fuller, open public comment on this item. members of the public who wish to make 3 minuteos item two of the director's report lineup

further from the door if you are in the chamber. if you are call nothing use that number of 415-655-0001, access code: 2660 767 2136. . we don't have members who have approached in person. and sfgovtv is indicating we don't have callers wish to speak on the director's report. we have no further public comment. is there any further discussion from the commission? secretary full are call the next item. >> item 3 is the draft minutes from the october 16, 2023

meeting of the commission. this is an action item and before motion is med i'm happy to take questions or corrections to the minutes. there are questions from the commission? all right. do i do a gavel? we'll need to take public comment. >> given the megz we will hear public comment. secretary fuller open public comment. why members of public who witch to make comment on 3 the minutes from the october 16, 2023 commission meeting may line up against the wall.

or if you are call nothing dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2660 767 2136. naacp concludes public comment to the motion to approve the minutes. is there [inaudible].

did i do this right? i think we are good. all right. hearing no further debate all in favorite of adopting the minutes from october 16, 23 say, yes. >> yes, yes, yes. >> opposed? >> the motion passes. secretary fuller will you post the minutes to the commission call the next item. >> item 4 is the bureau street environmental service performance measure report. and deputy director of operations is here to present this report. and this is an informational item. goods morning. director, city attorney and bob. deputy director for operations speaking on behalf of street environmental service. mr. mc daniels had an emergency

i'm step nothing for him today. first i will star with the performance and this evaluation street cleaning. and as you look at service othered response time.

first i like to point out that -- 2024 is quarterly. it is looks small but it is quarterly. 70% response rate. other things going on where we had to reallocate staff throughout the city during this time tell increase. at the next one. upon the second page is monthly % of street and sidewalk dleening in the level agreement 48 hours.

from 62 to 80% now. that was in september. this is quarter low and a monthly graph. this is from july first to 20 attempt. we trended in the same direction i have updated data from 10/31. for the sweeper data it is 2, 772. and nonsweep are data moved up to 4, 714. that's ending in october 31. we added air month in there for you.

this is graffiti removal break down public and private property n. pink this is private. and that is a total of 6, 792. and then the public is 5, 530. i'm sorry you guys i don't have my glass fist you hear me mumbling can't see this good. we updated in numbers for october 31st they increased. so your private is at 8, 912. and the public is 7, 500. all right. this one right here if you look at the trends the trended in the right direction.

so as of 2022, we were 20% and we increased up until to date. to 43%. we are starting to improve and you see we had a significant drop we are slowly to catching up and do when we need to bring numbers up and take care of business. >> graffiti is important we are moving. this here is a look at just the volume only. and this is for private property only. a volume look. performance data from opt in programs. so -- you can see, applications

approved. so far we are only 6 months into the year. you see 2024 as 237 versus physical year 2023 of 388. and below or denied applications and then below that is abated you see we increased abatements to 583 this year and last year to 389. and below the light blue is our private contractors. small w that we have given our contractors. all right. graffiti private opt in program. this one is the first big high one the 150 or abated one time second is abated twice.

the second one is abated 3 times. the remaining 22% are abated 4 or more times. you can see how many times on the addresses below. and at first we started out additional low not to contact the property owner this is a question for carla. because we signed up for a year opt in and abate. but we started this month. to reach out to property owners and provide resources and offer the mural program with the art's commission as well. we started this as well. throughout the city i will highlight d. the biggest area and 62% of

graffiti throughout the city and next zone footwork 18%. you can see how significant in areas throughout the city. just near graphical you see the colors for the zones and areas. before we move on if i might add to so zone d the mission district. and mission merchant's association did a push to help small businesses. opt in to the programs. than i have our highest uptake of this. new program. and -- also as you see there is a high concentration in the mission. >> thank you, director. them graph looks odd but it it

is easy top explain. so historically the data usually runs side by side. then during the 21 the year of 21 when we had the pandemic and things going on it separated out. we had increased removeals but decrease in replacements. just during the pandemic a lot of removals and people were illegally dumping in areas. they were asking you to remove can and decrease the illegal dumping. so that was my definition of why the graph is split like that.

any questions? yea. do you minds if i start? yea. >> hi. thank you. i -- couple of things i wanted to ask about i think on the opt in graffiti program, when i look at the slide which is number 9, where you just show sort of how many visits were made to different addresses. i think i mention third degree but the thing this blows my upon mind.

you made 122 visits to 5 addresses on the graffiti opt in i get it people sign up for the program as you look to ght future are you looking revising the program to like annual cap on things or encourage the property owners to throw up a mural? i said that now we start to reach out to the property ordinance resources and educating them on what resources they can use. paint, murals. other options. so, we are educating them and offering other resource for them i agree. it is easy to tag. the property ordinance are opt nothing it is so difficult for them.

>> we are trying to give them other ideas to -- help them. may be a mural. in areas work well. and working with the art's commission to help funds some of it, it is working. >> sure. >> sure. i think of the visits they could do other places. instead of the same place. you know every other week. >> yep. >> and i have one more on the first slide on the street cleaning... the i guess street and sidewalk cleaning requests the response rate is down and you indicated tell go up at 70%. and strategies besides hire to nudge that up?

well, we are doing precleaning. and doog during the areas we repeat, graffiti areas we know trash builds up we are trying to go to the areas prior to a call. so we are doing proactive clean nothing areas. hire suggest a big issue. but although we just hired and worked with the union combined and over 50 labelerors with the union that will help us. >> okay >> most of all we are doing the proactive clean areas and working with owners to come up in the neighborhood. all across the board we are working on plans. >> okay. increase the level of response. >> got it the idea is to do proactive clean to use requests and throw more bodies as you hire up? >> that and work with the cbd's and everyonech yes.

>> thank you. thank you. >> so. find of piggybacking off of that i looked at graffiti. is it the same thing more body and we are -- trying to be proactive. >> yes. >> hot spots. >> and another thing, the trash cans. i happened notice this there are broken trash cans around the city. i know this we are working on getting the those new ones but are we just waiting? until we -- no, no, no.

we do our best to repair as we go as quick as we repair they are prying opening statement cans but we do repair as we go and ricology as well to dot best with the doors, it is a bad habit throughout the city repeat offenders going through and popping the look. so, no , i'm interested for the can replacement as well until then we are prosecute active low and active low repairing them as we go. does ricology help repair or do they just report it. >> they do repair as well. yes. >> uh-huh. do we know about the new trash cans. i'm excite body them. we are advancing in the setting up stake the condition transact for you new cans we are working

through this now. it will than i will do tell beingitytive as they figure out the manufacturing process they are unique. we were bring nothing our consultant to help contractor with that. so we are figuring out this contracting mechanism. >> great. thank you. >> no problem. any other questions? all right. see. hearing no further questions mr. fuller, open public comment on this item. thank you. commissioners. members who wish to make 3 minutes of comment on item 4 the bureau street light environmental service performance measure report lineup against the wall. if here in the chamber. if you are call nothing dial

415-655-0001, access code: 2660 767 2136. we don't have in person commenters and sfgovtv indicating we don't have callers. that concludes public comment. >> any further? is there further discussion from the commission? i think we are good. secretary full are call the next item. >> item 5 is the bureau central operations performance measure report. and manager warren hill and acting manager pit stop coordinator gains will present this report.

>> this is an informational item. we will give you an operational review of the central operations. we are going to get started i'm assistant manager.

going over the programs we have our public service program serves 194, 9916ee they are throughout the clean corridors program. street sweeping and we have our general labor program returned for the first time in 4 years, zee 17 active general labor aprentices started 5 last monday. they completed orientation on our currently starting rotation throughout san frap operations. last we have an update for this one who did graduate last week and considered a journey level

plumber we had one general plummer aprentice. on this is a lifetime break down of our program it is. when we have had 208 individuals the labor program and there are currently 93 of those individuals employed with the city. and as if you are not aware the program is designed to train the individuals to the standard by the state to become labors. and than i come in and take that certification and go on to public or patriot sector w to end up here with the city of san francisco but men have taken job in the patriot seconder or of other municipalities.

we have our street inspector training program. 12 individuals are still work for the city and 11 in the street inspector 6230 and one went to an administrative role instead. we have our aprentice arborist program. there were 3 that completed, two employed with the city. our aprentice submit mason program. 5 completed that program. two are employed with the department. our gardener program. we had the numbers may look skewed. 22 individuals complete the program and 34 are employed with the city. this mean system those individuals may not have completed their program with the department but they did go on to city employment it may be

transit operator or general labor or other take your pick. but the individuals are still employed with the city and county of san francisco. next our engineer that program graduated 5, 4 are currently employed with the city. and last but not least our general plumber program this will be 2 active 2 graduate and 2 active employees. for our grant funded programs and staffing levels. so we are several community based operations that operate grants. starting with our pit stop promise. it is our largest most visible workforce development programs with hunter's point family they employ 171 individuals they are all workforce development with

mission hiring hall they employ 82 with the summer youth program. they serve 63 individuals this summer. with our tree treasure can steam cleaning program that employs 13ed vs with the tree watering grant that is 11 with our sweeping and workforce grant was giant block sweep. there are 7 and the sidewalk pressure wanging employs 5. i'm going to hand this over to mrs. gains. good morning i'm [inaudible]. gains i am a 2917 program analyst. and my role with the pit stop

program under the workforce development is to ensure and have open communication with the 2 community based organizations at the city has a contract with and to make sure that our 30 cites are that has ash tendees that will clean after each use. provide a safe box where they dispose needles safely. and hand out doggie bag waste to the visitors that visit our cites about the pit stop program. we provide a clean and safe public toilet. used needle disposal stand. doggie waste station and clean site at the different cloekzs throughout the neighborhood in

san francisco. we are partner with nonprofit organization that staffed the cites where they learn job development skills. as you see, this we have 30 locations around san francisco and the neighborhoods as you see on your right hand side, the different neighborhood starting with the bayview. and as you seat circles the size of the circle represent the usage amount in each area so the birth the circle the more usage at that location. for additional hours and locations you can visit the website at sfpublicworks.

org/pitstop. as you see on the graph, that is up highlighted. you will see the first per this shows on the left side it shows the 24/7 location and the daytime location. the graph on the left shows an over all usage of the last 3 months. as you seat use anning was high in august. there was a slight dip in september. but it is gradually increased in october and still is. and the reason due to the dip in september was we were in switching and changing communicate based xoergz we had slight equipment challenges. but as you see it has picked up.

and on the graph on the right, it just sos the usage between the day, swing and grave yard shift to show you a difference at the location and the amount of usage during the shift times. and as you see here, the program not only provides a safe and clone facilities we also once again provide doggie bags issued to each of the visitors. we have a needle stand people can dispose needles. and also we collect litter from our visitors. if the city can is not near we encourage them to dispose lit in our garbage bin at the facility to keep our streets clean.

. the 2 charts shows usage based on location by counts and percentage. so if i can direct your attention to the location. non24 hour site you see the mission district and the outer sunset the end jouda turn around, you see that is a high number of usage of visitors. and when we look, i'm sorry that was the non24/7 hour sight in the mission and the end at the outer sunset. and for the 24/7 site you see that the tenderloin has the highest usage throughout the night. and the right hand side also

just reflects the break down by each shift of the day the swing and grave yard how you seat different percentage of visitors that visit this one location. and that concludes my presentation for the pit stop program. thank you. commission. director short. department city attorney taylor and secretary fuller. community engagement made of community programs and out reach team i will start with community

programs 4 core volunteer initiatives >> partnering with the department at 428 clean up everyones. 69 greening days, grand jury feety abatement sxevent 5 month low neighborhood beautification

events. our most popular are litter pick up it is followed by greening. in total they collected 10, 907 bags of treasure and 622 bags of green waste. our out reach and enforcement team is a collection of staff tasked with upholding codes related dumping and right-of-way cleanliness. i want to emphasize the out reach we follow a progressive discipline model. we try to gain compliance working with people but when out reach is ignored we use the tool in our tool box to get people to do their part. we start with informal out reach letter or verbal inneraction telling people about a violation they may exhibit and after a period of time we perform a reinspection and if the

violation is still there we issue a notice of violation. a stearn letter warning saying further noncompliance is subject to a fine it there is no action we issue a citation with a monetary compoint to it. >> there are 2 ways the one team starts enforcement one is from our 311 reports our unit received 2, 163, 311 reports for code violations. most come from zone d the mission. bernal heights and castro and the richmond and d bayview and visitation valley are second and third place. for most reported zones. the most common violation we have and are asked to enforce is people leaving treasure cans out 24/7.

followed by improper container wragz and illegal dumping. you see a break down of top 8 codes on the bottom right of this slide. more than finished to 311 our team is actively looking for and enforcing code compliance. if than i see a bag on the walk well is left there they rib it open and try to find the source and issue out roach to the person or business that left the bag for the city to pick up. in total real reported 5, 312 instance of out reach the most out reach going to around the bayview. i like to point out the heat map and actions broken down by month fr. january to june of the year we had one-2 staff members hired. since june we on boarded a full staff with out reach coordinator. today we now have a person assigned every area of san

francisco. that was not possible 6 months ago. i think we will open collectively to questions. first, i like to say, welcome and congratulations to the new trainees and aprentices this is great to hear the new people. and have successful low completed trainings and everything. i did notice that the mission and outer sunset, the pit stopful the numbers are huge! would it be better to open it 24/7? or is it because it is -- out by the ocean? that people are visiting and that's why and slows down this

much at night? do we need like a second pit stop? >> including the tenderloin >> pit stop locations are driven by service orders. if we tend to receive a lot of calls for street bathroom usage that makes an impact where we place a pit stop unit. for the outer sunset and for the mission, those service calls have decreased, let since we placed pit stops in the areas. it is not as driven for the outer sunset this . is at the beach that is the ocean beach location. and the turn around location. for mission, the majority well we have one unit this is 24/then is addressing this issue. and the other units are open to 7 at night. we are not seeing as many

numbers later in the evening that would need a 24 hour pit stop at this time. what about putting a second one in the tenderloin? i believe we have about 6 unit in thes tenderloin. we have a lot. >> okay. i didn't realize you had 6. thank you very much for your presentation and everything. >> does the commission -- do other commissioners have questions? no. all right. secretary fuller open up to public comment. >> members of the public when wish to make 3 millionos comment on item 5 central operation performance measure report line up against the wall. if you are call nothing dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2660 767 2136.

we don't have public commentser and sfgovtv indicated there are no callers. this concludes public comment. >> secretary, fuller call the next item. >> item 6 is the election of the sanitation and streets commission chair and vice chair. this is an action item this i will present. so the commission adopted rules of order section 2 state election of officers should take place on the first day of

december or after. and begin the december meeting of this commission is schedule to be cancel and theed january meeting will be held with public works commission, we are holding the election today. and in order to hold this election the commission will need to temporarily suspend rules a motion and vote of 2 of the 3 members. and since because this is a procedural matter. public comment is in the required to wave the rules to hold the election today. we mead to do that and then take nominations for each position. >> i motion we suspend the rowels to hold the election of officers today. all in favor.

in the new year i suggest an aspect to provide sfleksability and timing of election of officers. so you see this in the new year. on to the election. you are aware the chair presides at all meeting preserving order order decides questions of order. works with the department director and the commission secretary to plan meetings. may appoint members and directs the work of the secretary. the chair may appoint members as representatives to organizations or agencies. and the chair works with public works to navigate issues that involve both commissions or others as well. if this come up. the chair participates in the proceedings of the meeting

voting and making or seconding motions. the primary role of the vice chair is to fulfill the chair's duties when the chair is not available. the role of the chair entails more w than is expected of other members however as commission secretary i make every effort to ensure the role is meaningful not a burden on our volunteer commissioners. the commission will have discussion during which time members express interests in serving. following this discussion commissioners may nominate for each role. if there are no more than one nominee for each position i suggest voting to elect the chair and the vice chair in a single voice vote and if there are multiple to a position the commission will vote on each

candidate in the order than i were nominated until one nominee received 3 vote in favor. >> does the commission have questions on this item? do i here a nomination for commission chair. >> nominate mrs. commissioner hartwig-schulman for chair. secretary does this require a second? motion it does not but shows strong support. >> do i here a nomination for commission vice chair? i would like to nominate commissioner harrison for vice chair. >> begin the nomination we will

now hear public comment. members of public wish to make 3 minutes of comment on item 60's election of the sanitation and street commission chair and vice chair, may lineup against the wall. if you are calling in dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2660 767 2136. we don't have in person commenters on the nominations and don't have callers this concludes public comment. >> is there debate on the

nominations? all right. all in favor of electing myself as chair and commissioner harrison as vice chair say, yes. >> yes, yes. >> the motion passes. secretary full are call the next item. >> congratulationses to chair hartwig-schulman and vice chair harrison. item 7 is new business neighborhood by commissioners. and this is an opportunity for commissioners to make announcements or raise topics to be added to future agendas. this is an informational item >> is there new business? i had a couple of quick comments just to building up on the directory report the city -- i

pent a day downtown it locked clean and beautiful. so prospects to all the people who worked on this across the city. and also former chair mogannam had a call with and mr. wiener from the analytic's team. and helpful for commissioners. that's all i had. just comment initiate new business i would like to express my appreciation for your appointment accepting the appointment that is congratulationses.

i think it was the right person. for the job. as far as your tree you can do a lot there as your add vocation. i like to congratulate kim for her appointment to chair. >> thank you. >> thank you. hearing no questions mr. full are open public comment on this item. members of public who wish to make comment on item 7, new business by commissioners lineup against the wall or call in 415-655-0001, access code: 2660 767 2136.

there are no in person public commenters. and sfgovtv indicating we don't have callers. this concludes public comment. >> is there further discussion from the commission. >> all right. hearing no further discussion. secretary fuller call the next item. item 8 is general public comment continued as necessary. and since we did not exceed the 15 minute maximum in item one this is not necessary. >> okay. >> and is there further business? >> no further business on the agenda. >> all right.

yea. this commission will mote on january 22nd, 2024 in i joint budget hear with public works. hearing no objections i adjourn this meeting. >> congratulations. on a successful. for force

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>> this is an exhibition across departments highlighting different artworks from our collection. gender is an important part of the dialogue. in many ways, this exhibition is contemporary. all of this artwork is from the 9th century and spans all the way to the 21st century. the exhibition is organized into seven different groupings or themes such as activities, symbolism, transformation and others. it's not by culture or time period, but different affinities between the artwork. activities, for example, looks at the role of gender and how certain activities are placed as feminine or masculine. we have a print by uharo that looks at different activities

that derisionly performed by men. it's looking at the theme of music. we have three women playing traditional japanese instruments that would otherwise be played by men at that time. we have pairings so that is looking within the context of gender in relationships. also with how people are questioning the whole idea of pairing in the first place. we have three from three different cultures, tibet, china and japan. this is sell vanity stot relevar has been fluid in different time periods in cultures. sometimes being female in china but often male and evoking features associated with gender binaries and sometimes in between. it's a lovely way of tying all

the themes together in this collection. gender and sexuality, speaking from my culture specifically, is something at that hasn't been recently widely discussed. this exhibition shows that it's gender and sexuality are actually have been considered and complicated by dialogue through the work of artists and thinking specifically, a sculpture we have of the hindu deities because it's half pee male and half male. it turns into a different theme in a way and is a beautiful representation of how gender hasn't been seen as one thing or a binary. we see that it isn't a modest concept. in a way, i feel we have a lot

of historical references and touch points throughout all the ages and in asian cultures. i believe san francisco has close to 40% asian. it's a huge representation here in the bay area. it's important that we awk abouk about this and open up the discussion around gender. what we've learned from organizing this exhibition at the museum is that gender has been something that has come up in all of these cultures through all the time periods as something that is important and relevant. especially here in the san francisco bay area we feel that it's relevant to the conversations that people are having today. we hope that people can carry that outside of the museum into their daily lives.

>> you are watching san francisco rising with chris manners. today's special guest, carolyn mante. >> hi, i'm chris manners and you are watching san francisco the stow about restaffing rebuilding and reimaging the city. the guest is carolyn manteto talk about the organization is helping to preserve the city cultural heritage and architecture. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me e. >> good to have you here. >> can we talk bat the history of your organization and the mission. >> sure, thank you.

san francisco heritage started 51 years ago and the main mission is to preserve and enhance the architectural and cultural identity of san francisco. when it started out the focus was really on the buildings, historic landmark listings and really concentrated on downtown area with all the development happening. our organization was raising a reg red flag with historic landmarks in danger and victorian mansions so a hallmark of our organization is moving these victorian mansions in the way of development to inwestern addition neighborhood and other areas to get out of the way of development and preserve them. our organization was around before there was the historic preservation commission of the city so we were at the forefront drawings attention to historic preservation, landmarking and over the last 51 years we have seen

how there are more then just buildsings in safeguarding the city cultural resources, there is also small businesses and the different neighborhood icons that make a neighborhood special, so our outreach has really-it is really come full circle in a way because it moved downtown into the neighborhoods and now with the covid epidemic it is really going back to downtown again looking at how we can play a role in the economic recovery and revitalization of downtown san francisco. >> that's great. so, now i understand your organization is also responsible for maintaining a couple properties. could you tell us a little about those? >> yes, our non profit was gifted in 1973, the historic (inaudible) house. it is now a historic house museum but this was a family since 1886 built this victorian mansion

in the same family year after year and one of the last resident of the family when she passed way gifted the mansion to san francisco heritage so since then we have been running this historic house and the home of our office. in 2018, one of the long time members nor aa lasten gifting a building on the e h-as hate polk became a commercial corridor after the earthquake, the owner at the time, he raised the house and put 6 store front underneath in order to take advantage of the commerce so we are in charge of the house on the corner and it has been a wonderful way to get new numbers, new audiences interested in the work of our

organization. during the pandemic, we have been using it as a artson residents and partnering with different bay area artists as well as cultural institutions, cultural districts and then one of the storefronts we converted into a pop up galleries so gives a opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of the art and cultural resources in san francisco. >> that's fantastic. so, now, let's talk about legacy business. what does the designation mean? how does somebody get add today the legacy business registry and what benefits does being named a legacy business? >> i love this program. it was started by san francisco heritage and adopt ed by the city and run by the office of small business but the program looks what are the businesses really contributing to san francisco and the neighborhood. when we started the first

focus was bars and restaurants but over the years it exb panded to include other businesses so these are places that contribute to the character of a neighborhood, so sam's grill downtown, the amazingarian press in the presidio. book stores like city lights oergreen apple recently named. this year we had a lot of attention on the legacy business program. we put out a contest to the public of what you think should be the next legacy business and one of the businesses that was recommended was the club deluxe, jazz club on the corner, and 2 or 3 days after we launched the contest, the owners announced they would have to close. the rent was driven up, they couldn't afford it, coming out of the pandemic so we worked at speed to get that application submitted with them and that status convinced

their landlord to negotiate with them a lower rent and this way they have been able to stay, there was a lot of social media support around this, so when you become a legacy business, not only do you get marketing and business support from the office of small business, but you also eligible for grants and we work closely with the legacy businesses as we do our work for san francisco heritage. >> that's great. so, apart from architecture and buildings, you also work with cultural districts, and the castro theater strikes me as a place that is both. a beautiful building and cultural hub and center. what has been happening with the recent acquisition by new owners; >> it is leased to another planet entertainment and been in contact with planet entertainment by the castro theater is historic land mark building. it is recognized as

a very important architectural monument. one thing-one of the main activist organizations of the preservation of the theater we work together with supervisor mandelman on a interior landmark historic landmark designation for interior, but what happened over the is summer and people learned is there is a lot of concern not just by san franciscans but people all over the world, movie directors, stars who are very concerned about the risk to the lgbtq and film programming at the castro theater. another planet hosted community stakeholder in august, and it was so

moving to see the number of people who took the microphone-everyone had two minutes to say their testimony of what castro theater meant to them and those testimonys showed this building is contributing not just as a architectural monument but plays a role in the lgbtq community that is irrelaceuble able. >> it is beautiful theater. >> it is. my involvement in the theater raised awareness to not only the castro theater to be emblematic of the lgbtq culture and history but also there are many other sites in the city that also contribute to the identity. that is why so many people come to san francisco as a place of freedom and diversity so in my previous work i worked at the world heritage center, so

when i joined san francisco heritage i was thinking why isn't san francisco a world heritage city? for the architecture alone it could be inscribed. golden gate bridge to name a few but the city is so unique in the architecture, the mansioned and historic landmarks so hoping to start a conversation on that with city stakeholders this year. >> that is great. let's talk about your relationship with other agencies. you mentioned economic and office of work force development and planning commission. how do you unt integrate to them? >> these relationships are essential. we are working with office of small business for the legacy business program and the planning department is really one of our most crucial relationships. we meet quarterly with them and we really see how we can support not only historic land

mark listings and historical cultural context statements, strategy for culture districts and city survey among many other activities that really are of concern to both of us. for the office of workforce development, i attended a etmooing recently that the chamber of commerce organized with them on the downtown revitalization and a key goal in that meeting and in the downtown revitalization is to make sure that the city historic culture resources play a key #r0e8 in the economic recovery and revitalization especially after the pandemic. the office of workforce development has the city build program which is admirable program where youth are trained in construction techniques for rebuilding and especially with the new housing legislation, and we really want to see how can that workforce be expanded

to include training in historic preservation. we have so many victorian homes, historic buildings and other places that really need a skilled labor force to make sure that they are preserved and that they help keep the special identify of the city. we really value these relationships, we meet quarterly with the various organizations and we are really grateful for grants of the arts we receive and other supports so definitely that is a key relationship for san francisco heritage. >> the city build is great. i like that a lot. thank you so much for the time you have given today. appreciate you coming on the show. >> thank you so much raising awareness about san francisco heritage. we hope the people watching will join us in the mission to help keep san francisco special. thank you. >> that's it for this episode. we'll be back shortly.

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