tv BOS Rules Committee SFGTV February 4, 2024 5:30pm-6:31pm PST
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[gavel] >> good amonger, the meeting will come to order. this is the january 29, 2024, rules of committee mooting. i'm supervisor ronen chair of the committee. our clerk is victor and. and i would like to thank sf gov. tv for your. mr. clerk do you have any announcements? >> clerk: when public comment is called, please line up to the right. you may submit comment in writing, email them to myself at bitc. if submit public comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisor and included as part of the file. you may also send written comment to city hall.
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please make sure to silence all cell phones and other electronic devices. items acted upon today are expected to appear on board of supervisors agenda on february 26, 2024, unless otherwise stated. that completes mia nouns 789s. >> thank you, can you please read item number 1. >> clerk: yes, item number 1 is the site of new library branch of ocean view merced heights ingle had noted side and plan instruction of a new library branch serving the neighborhoods at any alternate location except as required bit review process, or other applicable laws.
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just to note that there is a request that this matter be sent out to the bos meeting of january 30, 2024. >> and i'm going to turn this over to supervisor safai. >> thank you, chair. thank you for getting this on the agenda so quickly because, a lot of time has been wasted on this particular issue, i'm sorry. about my voice, but lost my voice yesterday at the game, watching the niners. so let's just say, go niners to begin the game, that's what i'm calling this the game. okay, so as you may recall, i asked mayor breed in question time on december the 129ing, if she would support the library in 100 yasaba in district 11 which the administration had identified five years as the
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best option in the neighborhood and to be honest i was not sure how she would respond and i was taken a back when i heard her response, the mayor said, she wouldn't commit to any new site and made reference to funds available to renovate the existing library. she claimed we don't have the budget for a new library and that the site had traffic and pedestrian safety issues and there was no consensus in district 11, community. all of which is not true. so colleagues if you will indulge me for a moment since we don't have a long presentation and commentators, i want to set something straight. the current library at 343 was spear headed by mayor willie brown. they came together with mayor brown and his administration
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ask for positive investment to the corridor and lakeview. the community was dealing with a rash of shootings and young people were dying in the streets in the ocean view neighborhood and i see people in the audience nodding their head and they identified this site as one that was particular concern, where the library actually stands today, the current library. the community wanted replace something negative with something positive and what is more positive than a library in a neighborhood that is under served. mayor brown listened and help sphere head the instruction of the library. that's what mayors do, they find a way to get things done for them. the ocean view library branch did its branch and help bring traffic to the area and helped
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serve as a catalyst for a safer community. but the library is the smallest neighborhood library in the entire city and county in san francisco and it's past time that we get a new one for the community. fast forward to 2018, the library had set aside money. but the community made it clear, they wanted a real fully functioning larger library branch. so the renovation money that the mayor mentioned was for that particular effort. but that six years past time and we've moved on and we've had extensive community input and community meeting along with multiple departments put ining dig effort to come up with selection of the site that the community stands behind.
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so they did an analysis of multiple location that's could be the future home of the future library. parcel d, or 100 arasaba was the best that met the criteria for the site. we will hear from public works today. at the time, there were concerns raised by some community members about traffic and pedestrian safety, we worked to conduct traffic studies at the location in order to identify way to see make the site more pedestrian friendly and to install traffic common changes to alter traffic behavior along brotherhood way. i have a letter from director tumlin, that states funding planning and implementation can be fully independent of any
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adjacent land use changes including sighting of the san francisco branch at this location. those studies are still under way and i have spoken with director of the who said she is ready to fund short-term improvement for pedestrian safety. we're waiting for the mta to submit their application for funding and i'm in conversation with director tumlin for that. the cost of library was 47 million dollars. according to then library cfo heather greene. identified at 25.5 million dollars gap for the ocean view library. there was and 35 million dollars there in the library fund and we went to work. colleagues as you may recall, we all worked tirelessly past
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review of the renovation, in april 18, 2022 a letter to the library commission he identified that the budgeeter for the new library branch would be funded by the renewal of the library preservation fund. that's why i was the lead sponsor at the renew of the supervisors. so the 47 million dollars price tag in 2020, has undoubtedly gone up a bit. but we have the money a year ago to start the library, it was fully funlded according to estimate that's were provided and as every one knows including colleagues here and others, we never start projects in the city. and and we never wait to start projects in the city until we have full funding. if we have 75 more funding we begin the work, the soft cost, the architecture and all the
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other work putting a bid package together for constructions. and so i have a correspondence from director, and of course, prior to this budget cycle we were working with city liberian and public works director as well as the city attorney's office to discover the transfer of land as of september 2022, and i ofk responded for michael lambert that states he recently met with director short to discuss the property transfer, public works is researching what they've done in the past for effectuating transfers and city owned property. however, by june of 23, all the conversation of transfer halted and public hearings in june, 16, 2023, and june 22, 2023, the library refused to commit to the brother waste site as
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they had put money funding for. and then, with regard to putting money in reserve, we did not want allow waste of resources and put the balance of funding on reserve until there was more clarity. so i'm just going to end folks with saying, that what changed between september 22, and 2023 was that the mayor, unfortunately stepped in and pushed the liberian to look for alternative sites. going against the will of the community and the work that we had done to lay the groundwork for an extensive and neighborhood reasonable serving library. that would go from the smallest to the largest library. so rather than wasting anymore time, city resources and confusing the community, that's why i introduced this piece of
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legislation today. we wasted enough time, i know that there is members of the community that have said that this is one of the things that they want to see get done as, as a centerpiece of the work that they've done and dedicate today san francisco before, before they move on to the next world and i don't want to die, i think that's a negative way to look at it. but i know people have said in meetings, i know i want to see this get done before i die. so the vision for a larger replacement branch aligns well with san francisco's declared emphasis on racial equity that this brand would serve a historic under served community, under resources community and it has strong political senses, fund sufficient and enough to advance the construction of this library. and that was a quote from the cfo of the library at the time, so i could not have said it
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better myself. thank you for sponsoring this and thank you super ronen for sponsoring this and set the record straight. and as this legislation moves forward, i know that we have strong consensus in the community for this library. and when i say community, i say those that have been working and fighting in district 11. i know that there may be some concern from neighbors that are not part of the district 11 community and i respect that. but at the same time, this has to be a conversation driven by those fighting in the community for years. so, that's about it. i don't want to waste anymore taxpayer money on looking for alternative locations. and i think this is the time that we pass this legislation and move forward. and we continue and i look forward to working with the mayor and the community on this and seeing this project move forward. i think we're going to go now
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real quickly to dbw, so that they can just give us a short presentation on how the site selection was done. do you guys have a presentation? or here just to answer questions. maybe i'll just ask you a couple of questions before we go to public comment. can you talk us through about a little bit about the concept design and how the site was actually chosen and what process you went through? i know you looked at 5 locations along brotherhood way. >> good morning, supervisors, i'm andy i'm from san francisco public works, i'm an architect, this is julia she is our bureau manager. we've been working with the community and with the library since 2018 on looking at a new branch for ocean view.
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it started out with the feasibility study of the three branch libraries that were not part of the improvement bond and that was oceanview, china town and mission libraries. they originally budgeted 8 million dollars to renovate the oceanview library which was built in the--the bond program was around 2000 and that library was a new brlg. building, once we got into the process, we heard from the community many of which are here that were at this meeting that they wanted a larger branch that renovating the larger branch would not be sufficient. the library took that heart and ramped up their fund anding committed to a new library. at the time, we we wanted to do
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the project on city owned land. and public open space is city owned land that through a permit would work for a library. supervisor safai you were part of that, as well as our director of public works at the time in looking at the sites. and then we did a feasibility study in 2019 that evaluated the sites on way that would have--and we established criteria, this is that report. we established the cry tier for option 2, and that is the history of the proter hood waste site. one of the drivers was that it was city owned land.
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>> i'm going to have the clerk put that on the screen. you can look, the two out of the five options but maybe you can talk about the decision making. it was closer to randall street than other sites that we looked at. it was a less sleep sites, there were numerous sites back on that open space that would require walking up steeper hill, so this was seen as closer, the m train makes a turn down near by. >> yes, it's a block and a half from the train. and
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>> and there is a bus right there and it's a gateway to the location of the neighborhood. >> i just want to add, out of all the other green space, cross the street, you have dog park, you have an area where a lot of seniors use the flat area, south of wherewith it says brotherhood and north where it says alameda, they use that for ti chi and you say synergy. >> there is a sisterhood garden, a dog park, there is a potential for synergy with other future partnerships that may happen in the same location. but during that, that study,
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concerns were raised. and the library reached out to mt a to address the concerns to look at one of the initiaters for that. >> great, i think you've covered everything. if there is any questions, i'll call you back up. chair, i'll just end with saying, i think we public works put significant time and effort ta and mta put in effort and we do have the ability to make some short-term and long term improvement and i do think that is important. but it is also important to note that it's a block from the m-line, it's a block from the bus line and we do have the ability to engage and inter account and have some cok tiffity with some of the uses.
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so if it's okay with you, can we go to public comment? unless you have anything to say. >> mr. clerk, can we open this up to public comment? >> clerk: yes, anybody wishing to speak, line up at this time and approach the podium. >> good morning, do you want me to start? >> i'm liz, and we are part of the omi collaborative. we have 6 aging, i work for the aging division, we have four programs within that neighborhood. we would love to see a larger
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library to be able to host events, presentations and activities for inter generational activities, part of our, our client, the goal for our clients is to prevent isolation. so it's getting them out to our programs, we have a senior center and i think that would be, it's always wonderful fit when you plan and zoo how beneficial inter generational activities can be. and we're part of the, like i said, we're part of the i'm here representing part of the omi community collaborative. we all work together, we all do different services and we're happy to be part of it. >> speaker: hello there, two months ago, i was fired up
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because i went to a meeting about increased funding and services. and now two months later, we were told that there is no money for both but yet, we have money for projects and being locked into a certain plan. putting a library in a green belt by people who game they're an environmentalist. so i think, we should reconsider the whole idea. but you're going to put a new library, you build on a community that is already there. there is no reason for this library possible built in a new area, chopping down trees and creating a traffic more of a nightmare, spending two million dollars on altering traffic restructure. while we have people scrounging for food in the city and
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fentanyl crisis, this is what we're spending millions on. thanks. >> speaker: my name is anne marie noic, i'm not important except that i vote and i pay taxed and born avenue avenuians. soif a lot of personal investment in making you're communities drive. i'm part of a community center that has book club. during covid the community center got flooded the and oceanview library said, come and meet here. and we were able to continue that book club for senior citizens, a mixed group that was able to have conversations, it's become from 3 people who
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hesitated with showing up with covid to 12 people. but the room was full. there was a person that came for another event and came to our room because she thought it must be up here because that's where everybody here. the library branch was already crowded. we need a new place, we have the property, we have the site identified, we have the plans in place, we have the funding, we need to make sure to provide impotus to build this library now, because the community is growing, there are more families in it and there is diverse community that can be served and as a result we can make san francisco a better place, starting with a forgotten neighborhood like ours. thank you.
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>> speaker: hello, thank you foreseeing us today. my name is renard, i'm the founder of youth first and the president of invest blafjt i'm also a community resident in district 11. so i was a part of along with somebody else said it in the gallery, a part of the first library that was built, by willy brown who supported us. and everything that was said was true, we built that library because we needed something to bring positivity to our neighborhood. so we've out grown that library. i run youth programs, we use the library every wednesday, we have to go in shifts with our children, because the library is not big enough. so we go in wednesday because one day the daycare that is across the street, went on a
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tuesday, we go on a tuesday. the field trip was canceled because it could not hold us all. we should not have to take shifts for our children to learn and grow. our neighborhood is under served, everywhere you look. we don't have a lot of place to see put a library but people were talking about this and that and we get all that as community members. we built a whole new neighborhood, homes that are not affordable hoer san franciscans, but we build a whole neighborhood. but we cannot build a labor refor our kids to learn where one day they can sit in the seats that you're sitting in. we have to find finances to keep our society going and we learn at libraries, we have to have access and opportunity for all. we need equity in our district, we need a library. thank you.
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>> speaker: supervisor, david oskin from the east side. people realize what a ridiculous site this is for a library, most what i heard is we need a library, right. but i have not heard about this terrible location. it's not central located, it's on an expressway, for god's sakes, what are you thinking? and you want to cut trees, are we still in the 1950s here. and you look at 5 sites. and it sounds like you've already decided, right, all three of you have decided, so so much for public input.
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is that what you're really about? one message for all supervisors looking at the bigger picture, quit paving over open space. quit cutting trees in parks, quit building buildings in green belts. this, this is so 1950s. and as has been pointed out, to get the library. by the way, are you listening or looking on your ipad? to cross, it uses five different cross walks. this library would be an
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attractive nuisance, people coming from the crossroads living center, would be in danger. >> clerk: thank you. are there any additional speakers on this matter? if there are any additional speakers, if you can line up at this time, it would be appreciated. >> speaker: good morning, supervisors i'm president of all my neighborhoods in action, native san franciscan and 50 years homeowner in lakeview omi. i am here to ask for your support for supervisor's ordinance to support the library at the brotherhood site, it would help keep costs down and allow for community
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events and outdoor space for classroom and family activities. as you know, we have this small library and smallest school age children with two elementary schools at that site. the library is a valuable resource and hopefully also, will be a cooling center during a heat wave. the longer we wait, the more this library is going to cost. we have looked at multiple locations, but this is the best site for children's terrance, outdoor children's activity, a modern library connected to outdoor space and community does not want a church nonprofit library combination that does not work for us. please vote for the brotherhood with traffic and safety
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improvements. we tried to do our part by voting for prop f for libraries. this saturday, my husband and i had a chance to go to the open spouse at the oceanview library, there is a couple of dozen people and it was packed, it was, this was no room. there is no room for a whole classrooms to come, you have to come, it has to come in stages. and i hope you support this ordinance for our community and our children. we don't even have a bookstore. >> next speaker. >> my name is eric, i live near
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by the library frequently. i'm with merced triangle neighborhood association, i'm on the executive board. and i think my main concern is traffic. i have many concerns, and i agree with the need for the new library, it's very restricted right now. this is one of the toughest intersection sxz one of the most highly trafficked. it seems like we're putting the library right in a hotspot and it does not make sense to me. especially when we have possibilities that would be right there at the m-line. there is a street, that has a long history that is zoned commercial and has easy access for the m-line. so, that seems like a pedestrian friendly site where
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as putting it on this major expressway, to me is at least very concerning. >> hello i'm len rogers and of course you've already made up your mind regarding this project, could you keep quiet. anyway, what i would like to say regarding this project is that, the church, pilgrim community search and their leity support the search site. the idea of have thing earthquake fall organic soils and on a green belt, you know,
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is, to say easily a bad idea. sagmore street, 45 miles the traffic comes down that particular street, different times of the year. the sun blinds the drivers and they cannot see. and this is where the children are going to be crossing the street. however the site has two wonderful handicap ramps 20 feet away from where the library and the it book and the church would be located. transportation food.
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and music for their residents. and they need to, a shot in the arm in order to have that become a better place for the community. and, that, you know, a dog park is not synergy okay. we have to have other numerous places that do have coffee shops. >> clerk: speaker time has elapsed. >> speaker: hi, my name is andy rice i'm a resident of oceanview. i agree with the last couple of speakers what they said, but i would like to add that, the site at the on the green belt, there is two reasons that i'm against this site. one is i really don't want to see the green belt disappear. and the other is that, the it's not accessible to a lot of us
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who live in the neighborhood. it's, it's not a steep hill but it's a hill down to the area, it's a hill back to the area to where we all live. i would like to see it where people can have it for sk sesable. --accessible. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, are there any other speakers? i believe there are no additional speakers on this matter. >> seeing none, public comment is now closed. supervisor walton. >> thank you so much chair ronen. i just have a few comments, the first thing i want to say s libraries are extremely important to communities and particularly to families and communities without means. this is how a lot of people
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receive access to knowledge, a lot of people receive access to technology. this is a space where people get to meet, and community building, education for young people, spaces for seniors to meet. and the good thing about public libraries is they belong to every one. and the resource that's they provide and opportunities that they provide, if there is ever a cost, most certainly is fordable. --affordable. and to have a site identified in this city where land is scarce for opportunities like this. this is something that important and something that i cannot ignore because there has been resourced already committed. and for my stand point, i would never tell a community that their opinion is not important. that their opinion about where
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something should go particularly isolated communities, communities that have not received certain level of equity over the years, and that's part of the problem when people don't listen to our communities of color, isolated communities that speak up for themselves, there is always somebody telling them what it is. and there is a first time for everything. so many people suffer from digital divide, and in some cases, the only place where people can receive the technological opportunities that some people have and the privilege of their own home, a lot of communities don't have that.
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and again, hearing from dpw, knowing that there was a process of input, of having conversation wz members of the community, we can't say that they don't deserve that they want something that is so precious to the community. i didn't plan on anything saying to thed, because i thought this hearing from the communities, listening to the input from the department, having conversations i thought this was something that, really made sense to push forward on. but i did want to let everybody know where i stand and why i stand in this space. so thank you chair ronen and thank you supervisor safai for bringing this to rules today. >> thank you, supervisor walton, i'm going to end with a few words, is that okay? >> absolutely, go ahead. >> so i want to say for the record, for this particular phase of the library, there is
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been five years of community process, okay. multiple community input, by some of the architects have been deeply involved in the process. i think that's a important concern. i literally i was just texting with the head of the director of mta and head of transportation authority, they literally have money right now, they're waiting for the application to put to do some immediate pedestrian safety issues, some of the longer term ideas would be configuration of ways there that would slow the traffic down further.
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that would be more input. but i cannot emphasize enough and you heard from a youth servicing program, and seniors that are book club, people have to wait outside to get into the library right now. we can't serve our community with this library. if we could, we would have gone for the renovation, but we're talking about 9,000 square feet. it's going to be over 20,000 square feet, 25,000, it will literally serve an area. but some of the southeast part of san francisco. and, by the way, for those of you afraid of having people
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come into the neighborhood, that's okay, we will accommodate. we will use the trains, we will use pedestrians, we will use alternative forms of transportation, there will be a little bit of parking onsite, there will be a drop off area. and supervisor walton and i joke about this a lot, we have planted about 3000 trees since 2011, i'm okay with giving up a couple of trees for a neighborhood library, in this instance. and i think green space should be shaken, i'm one of those people. that's what i think is important to note. and the last thing saying, the idea of colocating, that sounds
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like years and years down the road. that's more waiting for more funding. the library preservation fund can only be used for libraries. that money can't be taken and used for any of the other ills that we have in san francisco that were identified. this money by voter mandate and renewed by voter mandate with only be used to build and serve libraries. so we have 35 million dollars there that we will identify new and if they sell the location of the current library that will go towards this library so. we have a lot of things in motion to build this neighborhood library, so colleagues i ask for your support today. thank you chair ronen on this agenda and i think it's a committee report. >> i would like to make a motion to forward this to the full body as a recommendation.
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>> thank you and before i ask for a vote, i just wanted to add my two cents which is, when there is a five-year long community process, to move the ball after that process has gone through, just does not make sense to me. and as it is, it takes so long to accomplish these major neighborhood infrastructure needs and i see libraries as infrastructure to start all over again, would just be so disappointing in every way shape or form. with that, can we have a roll call vote on the item. >> clerk: yes on the motion to recommend the matter to the board as committee report, vice chair walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> clerk: chair ronen. >> aye. >> clerk: the motion passes without objection.
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>> that passes unanimously. mr. clerk, do you have any additional items on the agenda? >> clerk: there are no additional items on the agenda. >> the meeting is adjourned. >> shared spaces have transformed san francisco's adjacent sidewalks, local business communities are more resilient and their neighborhood
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centers are more vibrant and mildly. sidewalks and parking lanes can be used for outdoor seating, dining, merchandising, and other community activities. we're counting on operators of shared spaces to ensure their sites are safe and accessible for all. people with disabilities enjoy all types of spaces. please provide at least 8 feet of open uninterrupted sidewalk so everyone can get through. sidewalk diverter let those who have low vision navigate through dining and other activity areas on the sidewalk. these devices are rectangular planters or boxes that are placed on the sidewalk at the ends of each shared space and need to be at least 12 inches wide and 24 inches long and 30 inches tall. they can be on wheels to make it easy to bring in and out at the start and the end of each day. but during business hours, they
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should be stationary and secure. please provide at least one wheelchair accessible dining table in your shared space so the disability people can patronize your business. to ensure that wheelchair users can get to the wheelchair accessible area in the park area, provide an adequate ramp or parklet ramps are even with the curb. nobody wants to trip or get stuck. cable covers or cable ramps can create tripping hazards and difficulties for wheelchair users so they are not permitted on sidewalks. instead, electrical cables should run overhead at least ten feet above sidewalk. these updates to the shared spaces program will help to ensure safety and accessibility for everyone, so that we can all enjoy these
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public spaces. more information is available at sf.govt/shared spaces. meter. >> hello, i'm captain tom the coordinator for the san francisco fire department. this oversight is the three and 4 anniversary of loma linda earthquake i want to go over a few things to help you preparation building a supply kit and supply kit does is not have to be put together all at once take your time on the website have a list of recommendation and have enough food and water to feed your family through three to 5 days
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turn it over one quarter turn. so in on holler orientation in turn off our gays meter don't turn it back on get a service call fromlocals. >> (music). >> the work go ahead offered i didn't the rec and park friday's local young people between 14 and 17 to be part 6 the workforce and eastern responsibility and professionalism and gain job skills and assignments in neighborhoods parking and recreation centers and includes
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art and crafts, sport, cooking, gardening and facility support and so many more. >> (multiple voices). >> i think we're part of the this is the fact we're outdoors and it is really great to be in nature and workreation is great first step to figure out what you would like to do workreation covers real life working skills and expansion can be allowed (unintelligible) it is a really great program because um, students get placed all the time for what they like. join us in
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the experience and opportunity and i really like the workreation program it is fun to workout at the summer camp with all the kids each is different and the staff is really nice. >> why? is because i used to go to the local park often when i was a little kid. with my mom i often had to translate for my mom i applied in the hope to provide assistance for other people with first language was for the english. >> i like this job we have fun and working and i feel welcome. >> hi. >> like how a job actually works like maybe before then i didn't know like all the jobs i
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don't know any of that now i i things and independence of value of this taught me how to be progressiveal but still learning as i go on. >> i learned a lot like a got to adapt and challenges and obstacles come up everyday and . >> i like that we're able to really work with other people and gaining experience like how in the real world hoe how he work with other people. >> if you're looking to develop your live skills as well as cash and working in the parks, and meeting great people and working with great staff i definitely recommend the corporation.
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>> it is fun. >> i definitely do the scombrifrm again that the workreation and park and i'll do that again. >> i will >> making to may grandkids a program all about pop ups, artists, non profits small business in into vacant downtown throughout the area for a three to 6 months engagement. >> i think san francisco is really bright and i wanted to be a part of it revitalization. >> i'm hillary, the owner of [indiscernible] pizza. vacant and vibrant got into safe downtown we never could
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have gotten into pre-pandemic. we thought about opening downtown but couldn't afford it and a landlord [indiscernible] this was a awesome opportunity for us to get our foot in here. >> the agency is the marriage between a conventional art gallery and fine art agency. i'm victor gonzalez the founder of gcs agency. thes program is especially important for small business because it extended huge life line of resources, but also expertise from the people that have gathered around the vacant to vibrant program. it is allowed small businesses to pop up in spaces that have previously been fully unaccessible or just out of budget.
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vacant to vibrant was funded by a grant from the office of economic workforce development that was part of the mayor's economic recovery budget last year so we funded our non profit partners new deal who managed the process getting folks into these spaces. >> [indiscernible] have been tireless for all of us down here and it has been incredible. certainly never seen the kind of assistance from the city that vacant to vibrant has given us, for sure. >> vacant to ibvooerant is a important program because it just has the opportunity to build excitement what downtown could be. it is change the narrative talking about ground floor vacancy and office vacancy to talking about the amazing network of small scale
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entrepreneur, [indiscernible] >> this is a huge opportunity that is really happy about because it has given me space to showcase all the work i have been doing over the past few years, to have a space i can call my own for a extended period of time has been, i mean, it is incredible. >> big reason why i do this is specific to empower artist. there are a lot of people in san francisco that have really great ideas that have the work ethics, they just don't have those opportunities presented, so this has been huge lifeline i think for entrepreneurs and small businesses. >> this was a great program for us. it has [indiscernible] opening the site. we benefited from it and i think because there is diverse and different [indiscernible] able to be down here that everybody kind of benefits from it.
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meter. >> hello, i'm captain tom the coordinator for the san francisco fire department. this oversight is the three and 4 anniversary of loma linda earthquake i want to go over a few things to help you preparation building a supply kit and supply kit does is not have to be put together all at once take your time on the website have a list of recommendation and have enough food and water to feed your family through three to 5 days and purchase the fire extinguisher if you have an
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extinguisher at hand will stop a small fire from being a by fire it is simple to use check the gage make sure it is charged and then repeat the word task task stand for pull to pin aim the novel and screws the trigger and successes to the because of fire the last recommendation to look at the gas meter electrical gas lines cause fires in the loma linda earthquake and we want to show you how to turn off the gay only turn off if you hear gas or hear hissing and coordinator nathan will demonstrate how to turn that off. >> with a whenever i'm going to turn it over one quarter turn.
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