waiting patiently for this opportunity to really we celebrate selena in this way. um, because of what she does to bring so much joy and happiness and excitement to the tenderloin community and this community, more than any other community in the city, deserves joy. i know that it's been a very challenging time, and every single day with the work that we're doing to try and improve the conditions of the neighborhood, it's become because of people like selena who really put her heart and soul in the work that she does for her restaurant, but also the work that she does in order to

improve the community for the people who also live there. and that's why today is important. and some of you may already know her story. i mean, the fact that she she came here, taught herself english and used food as a way to communicate and to bring people in. and it is really a testament to what so many of you all know about her is she is a loving person. she is a good person and she loves to take care of people with food, good food. i mean, let me tell you, someone could be really mad at you and you, you you you give them something to make them smile, give them some good food and it just changes the conversation. then it changes the experience. and we appreciate the fact that in addition to your restaurant,

that you are willing to serve the city and county of san francisco. so in this capacity, and i truly believe that the work we need to do to improve the conditions of our streets, it starts with the people who are out there on the streets looking at what is happening and what is going on, and holding the people responsible for improving those conditions accountable to doing so. so that's why you are the perfect person to serve in this role. um we appreciate all that you have done and what you will continue to do to not only serve the tenderloin community, but to serve the city and county of san francisco. so at this time, i'm going to ask you to come forward, and we are going to swear you in. i want to hear

you. all right. okay. so what you want to do? wait. let's put you over here so they can get some good pictures. you want to face me? there we go. i'm going to face you. and then a little bit this way. there you go. please raise your right hand and repeat after me. i state your name. i selena yusuf, do solemnly swear. do solemnly swear that i will support and defend that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states. the constitution of the united states, and the constitution of the state of california and the constitution of the state of california. against all enemies, against all enemies, foreign and domestic, foreign and domestic. that i bear true faith, that i bear true faith and allegiance and

allegiance to the same that i take this obligation that i take this obligation freely, freely, without any mental reservation, without any mental reservation reservations or purpose of evasion. or purpose of evasion. and that i will well and faithfully, and that i will well and faithfully fully discharge the duties. discharge the duties upon which, upon which i'm about to enter, which i am about. i am about to enter. and during such time and during such time. as i hold the office of as i hold the office of member, member of the sanitation of the sanitation and

streets and streets conditions in the city and county of san francisco. for the city and county of san francisco. congratulations. you're going to give you the official pin for the city and county of san francisco. welcome aboard. as a true public servant. thank you. yes, yes. so we're going to have you say a few words first, and then we'll get to you. carlo okay? okay. hi everyone. i can see your face, mayor. breed, your. you are the true embodiment of san francisco. dynamic rich, resilient and powerful empowerment and grit. i

am truly honored and grateful for your trust, for allowing me to become one of the commission here in the city of san francisco. i'm a little nervous. i'm sorry. uh, my story is a typical immigrant soundbite. we left our country for pursuit of happiness, and along the way, we find our community that shares the same narratives and values. um, one of the values that i always stand upon is the responsibility that we have among each other, that is, to be at service of each other. um, measurable results with a steady momentum, collective effort, and the fairly distributed resources will bring the much needed improvement for the city of san francisco, especially in tenderloin street. and

sanitation is a crucial part of our everyday life. it helps improve the residents and the businesses and the families that lives. not only in the greater san francisco, but tenderloin is such a beautiful little neighborhood that people should give more compassion and empathy to us. i hope my fellow commissioners and the department head will guide me and value my perspective. active in working together in making san francisco the greatest city on the planet, i would like to thank for everyone that came here for spending your little afternoon, your time with us. um, your support, your generosity, your kindness is all the real talk. you know who you are. and, um, the unconditional love. and i

hope i'll will be part of the san francisco and keep making the impact through my food and my story. and, like, maybe was saying joy, love and love and love. thank you. thank you. i'm going to. oh yes, of course. thank you. ah, i'm just so happy . so at this time we have a fearless leader who is responsible for public works here in san francisco. and i will say before i ask carla short to come up, that this city is really an incredible city and it's an incredible city because we have a lot of people who work for this city, who work really

hard. and the person who inspires so much of the amazing team of public works to work very hard every single day is someone who is probably the person who loves trees more than anybody else. here today, and that is the leader of the public works department for san francisco, carla short. thank you, mayor breed, for giving me an opportunity to say a few words today about about azalina usop. i truly believe that she will be a great addition to the sanitation and streets commission with her background as a small business owner who chose to open her restaurant in the tenderloin, a neighborhood that can be at once beautiful and rough, vibrant and down on its luck, but always packed with life. if restaurants aren't just

about food, then are also about hospitality and making people feel welcome and creating a good experience not only inside the restaurant but outside as well, is important. well, i first came to know about azalina through her amazing malaysian food stand at the market. the best laksa i've ever had. i got a glimpse of her passion and care for the community as she was opening her azuolynas restaurant at 4.99 ellis street, and wanted to make sure that the streets in the neighborhood were clean and looking good as you. as you all know, it's no secret that keeping the tenderloin clean is an ongoing challenge and that it takes a team effort to get the job done. public works has cleaning crews on the ground every day and every shift every morning, every noon, every night . but our work alone is not enough. the tenderloin community benefit district is an amazing

partner, as well as other nonprofits. and then there are individual residents and businesses, and that's where azalina stands out. while she asked us to do more and do better, she also took the time to get a fuller understanding of our operation. both the opportunity and the limitations. as important, she asked what she and her neighbors could do to help, and as she said in her confirmation hearing for the commission post six peacefully solving problems requires collective effort as a new sanitation and streets commissioner, i and the entire public works team look forward to hearing her ideas seasoned by her experience as a small business owner in san francisco, about how we can do better to serve the tenderloin and all our neighborhoods. thank you so much for joining the commission. thank you. okay, azalina, it is

time to sign the official paperwork and make sure that you're in there to do the job. um, last but not least, let me just say again, when the amazing, uh, public works department, uh, there are a lot of people who work for the department, and you'll get to meet them and see the work that they do. they take so much pride in what they are able to do for the city and county of san francisco. and i, i hope that they look at you and they get inspired by just what you have done and what they will continue to do and hopefully continue to do some great work in the tenderloin city and county of san francisco as a whole. uh, you're going to bring a lot of great excitement to the role, and i'm looking forward to it. so thank you for agreeing to serve as a commissioner for the city and county of san francisco. so let's sign this paperwork. let's make it super duper official, and then let's have a good time. all right. thank you all so much

for coming. super. there we go. hey. all right. now, do you want to guess? yeah.television.

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

and serve old-fashioned ice cream. >> over 20 years. >> yeah. >> had my own business i was a firefighter and came in- in 1969 her dad had ice cream and left here still the owner but shortly after um, in here became the inc. maker the manager and lead and branded the store from day to day and in the late 90s- was obvious choice he sold it to him and he called us up one night and said i'm going to sell the ice cream store what you you talking about diane came and

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

generations have been coming her 20 er thirty or 40 years and we have the ingredients something it sold and, you know, her dad said to treat the customers right and people will keep on coming back and 75 or 74 years, you know, that is quite an accomplishment i think of it as our first 75 years and like to see that, you know, going into the future um, that ice cream shop will be around used to be 4 hundred in the united states and all gone equipment for that one that is the first and last we're proud of that we're still standing and people people are you tell people it's been around

in 50 years and don't plan on francisco rising with chris manner today's special guests i'm chris you're watching san francisco rising the rebuilding and reimaging and our guests the executive director of the homeland security and today to talk about the city and solutions and welcome to the show. >> thank you an honor to be here. >> let's a start by talking

about people traeld don't consider that much the business programs what does the city need to have that. >> most people think of homeless they think of people they see on the street in the tenderloin and many people experiencing homeless have not visible to the average person and a lot of those people are children or older adults and families that is what we see at the department of homeless on top of homeless among the black community we don't realize there. 40 percent of our homeless populationist with the african-americans and only 5 percent of the population today the with the african-american and the same thing about the communities that over represent and we we try to make sure there is equity in the system and

reaching the goals not seeing by the public as much we know that housing is essentially what everyone needs to thrive in the community. >> quite correct some of the solutions often vulnerable or smaller scale how do we expand those solutions as we go about. >> a attended in the homeless he roman numerals seeing none, three interventions need presentation for the people experiencing homes in the first place and pouting are ways for people to get to permanent housing on their own and need shelter so really need all three of the intefrjz for people to assess one the things we often don't understand meet people

where they are and sometimes did have the documents or other things to move into housing. they maybe waiting on disability income or themes so we have to be prepared to have things ready to use the sheltered are reality important. we know that ultimately preservation ask one of the most important toltz we can put into our systems if people don't have that mri better off for many reasons but way cheaper to have someone out of homeless in the first place and the permanent housing is a wonderful tool for many people can't get housing on their own and needed case management or other services to be able to assess the other part of their life employment and things. >> so the home by the bay plan

can you explain the basics and how to address the needs? >> sure the home by the bay the strategic plan the 5-year plan to prevent homelessness i want to do what at mayors said homeless is not just owned by e department of 40e789s but the responded didn't has to include a number of stakeholders what that requires is really a collaborative approach we're really continuing to work very close with the 0 department of public health and law enforcement or the department of - aye. >> by linking to the voices of people exercising homelessness need to create programs without listening to the people experiencing and finding what is like for them to go through the system we're not going to make that better and ultimately will

not be successful. your first goal really to produce inexacerbated in our system remarkably equity and also want to reduce the number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in 5 years and over all address homelessness by 15 percent your offer arching goals for us and some people said that didn't seem like enough or didn't seem bold enough to given where we are not just a a city but country wiring proud of that goal and look forward to implementing the work that it takes to get there and hoping will be can he have in 5 years. >> we are here the property interrupt trip to the lovely

agreement can you talk about that and then maybe talk about how public housing will be a solution? >> one of the very exciting things about that building it accommodates names families in a neighborhood with grocery stores and transportation a little bit out of the tenderloin when we think of families with children finding places in the area that are enacted by homeless. so very again community space and actually have a partnership with the housing authority the housing authority has different kinds of vouches they have available and in case with the vouches we use those vouchers with the unit and help to cut the cost we have homekey dollars that provide money to the counties our acquisitions and

able to leverage that. >> can you you, you talk about the voucher programs how they help public housing and help landowners into the whole thing. >> sure we have a few voucher emergency vouchers from the federal government during covid and dispersing those with the housing authority and the programs one they can help prevent people from 0 becoming homeless and people are in danger of becoming homeless with a necessity they can stay in the place they have and people are experienced homeless and in a shelter and kwobtd with the system the best way for them to find it themselves with the help of a case manager or a housing locate our that makes sense in

san francisco we will have a number of buildings in certain neighborhoods in san francisco and a number of places in san francisco we find people experiencing homeless across the decide but don't have an easy option with a number of neighborhoods so emergency housing voucher program we partnered in bay view and been successful in making sure that people from that neighborhood and that neighborhood kind of a proximity for people who have experienced homelessness with born and raised in bay view and, you know. instead of putting them in a place across town a unit available able to work with them to find their units in the neighborhood eventually and we hope when lvrndz will see the

value got a number of landowners buildings with a lot of vacancies we think that it is really um, helpful for them and hopeful for us we can work together and see the number of units in partnerships we can get people housed with a steady income from the rent. >> thank you i appreciate you coming into here today. you know. this is great. >> thank you chris appreciate that. >> that's it for in episode and for sfgovtv i'm chris thanks fo

>> one it is now, 1:04 p.m. i'm chair brackett our regular meeting it is tuesday, january 16, 2024, and i'd like to say happy new year to everyone here and welcome you to joining us at today is held in hybrid and thank you to our staff for preparing the report for today and i guess for being here all participating in the meeting and like to welcome our newest commissioners recently approved by mayor breed welcome. >> glad