i'm wondering how as we go through the like regular check ins to see what you know is prosecute posed and when we are doing to consistent. with the priorities and that you have articulated that is one thing that includes mt a and the things you have around housing and youth housing and affordable housing. there is the school district. what i heard a desire to a -- the folks at the district address the moment where we see a rise in fentanyl that is -- in the drugs that youth are experimenting with. and this is something the board

know has no control but we do millions every year through the public education enrich ment fund and now prop g. both could be youth for the purpose. it may be great to at any time conversation and see how we can support the process of it guess forward. and then the thing that i did in the hear in your presentation. is the issue of safety. in the schools.

thank you. and i address a general how does this relationship move forward. i think post covid the youth commission reestablishing relationships with appointing officers supervisors and the mayor. city departments and that is as chair and vice chair last year i'm proud to be involved in and it is a testament to the commissioners for doing this work. i think you can tell improved relationship and communication with the commissioners.

went last two years that you know -- having the on going meetings and check in's is important. i think it is up to you what does this electric like. i encourage to you work with your commissioner and commission staff to set up check in's and make sure the conversations are on going through the budget process. i know there is gets to the end there are more voices involved throughout the process and city hall fills people trying to make sure that their priorities are met awful which are important and we are beens the things out. i say please try to involve the youth commission in the conversations as well. and i'm theme give my contact if you want to speak to me or

appointees that represent your district, too. that is a prevalent issue and ties in the broader school safety issues we see as well. and i know this we worked supervisor megovern on the safe school task force and what things from that report came out in 2017 can be implemented quickly on the side of the city. we want to make sure we are including youth in the conversations as well. i think it is easy to say we will serve 18 and over. but it gets comp katd under 18 when are minors and how best to community with youth verse you adults about legal rights and the services this are available to them. in general san francisco has

great services than i may need more funding and i'm sure they ask, but we have the service in place because we really value having an effective government this serves people. the same time we need to make sure that people are aware of services and easy access to them. that's what i say on that. this is a priority and address today somewhat but 99 those conversations are on going. based on the before and resolutions passed before. so. you know involve us in the conversation as much as possible. and then lastly i will hand it off to the vice chair to talk about food insecurity where that is going. the advocacy on this has been. >> just to talk a bit about food insecurity and what were we are add vo katding for. when it come to food insecurity from a budget stand point the

big thing is increasing like monetary support for commune organizations and for city fund food support programs i believe last year -- like some food support programs food stamps did get cut a bit with how much funding than i got. food sdpachls all the communal organizations that like provide food security support for am the neighborhoods theory under serve when it come toet going access to food nutritional food suspect important and communities that don't have as much access or information when it come to food support like for example i mentionedim grant community. a lot ofim grant communities benefit from food stamps and ebt programs when they are coming in the city often times we don't have the support or employment or don't have access to like and

access to services that provide support of the when it come to food stamps and make sure thatim grant communities have access to nutritional food and especially cultural conscious that is important fr. a budget standpoint the big things are to invest in community initiatives especially neighborhoods under served with getting access to nutritional food and invest negligent initiatives and doing and increasing support for food security support programs that the city does provide and i think like checking in. the d. health and w than i do when it miss to providing support for food security is important to ensure that the task force recommendations are getting impam elements and more.

do you see in over lap in what you just said. it is providing schools. i mentioned earlier school system an issue with nutritional security. school it is don't get funding like food and nutrition we noticed it it is not conscious students don't not want to eat the food provide federal than i eat it it is in the the note nutritional or conscious of the students.

vice chair mandelman. >> thank you. chair chan i want to thank the commissioners i think you covered the university of issues. this impact san francisco that make sense youth are san francisco and provided by the issues. i am grateful for your focus on all of the transportation challenges and solutions. is the situation at gold everyone gate the transit delays

ninth avenue that is always not like something new happened make this bad. one exciting parts of the youth commission how innersectional the issue are i appreciate you recognizing that and that's why it feel it is like i need board supervisors may be we'll be in your seat one day. [laughter]. >> thank you. i want to add a note to -- conversation around. for harassment in school and to -- i think i appreciate my

colleagues here including supervisor walton or former member on the board of educations and supervisor melgar washing with youth. i want to say the supervisor that has george wish wash high school in my district. i find time and time ghaen my communications with sfusd were productive and informative it is always great to have the youth commission. without sfusd and the guardians or parents and hear your voices directly. i want to encourage to occur that and we love to reach out to you, too much for to you come

when you are time we go late in the evening am hopefully after school you can join us and make public comment or reminds us free municipal sewhat you look for. others are out with the discussion about ballot measure those are what i look forward to hearing from you. we no longer have remote public commentful the challenges at times is why i prefer hearing from you. i think that there are moments you know sfusd and others not able to peek for ump they are not youth and young people.

and have the responsibility to respect your privacy and protect you in many ways there is responsibility and our ability. come back with know this is not once and done you are always welcome back here and welcome in the city hall. and tell us when you think and i look forward to seeing you and the youth commissioner clove and he look forward to seeing her as well. thank you for your presentation i don't see names on the roster we will go to public comment on this item. and thank you very much. >> thank you. we are going to public comment

now. seeing no public comment it is closed. i'm excite body this presentation a lot to digest thank you tot youth commissioners here today and i would like to make the motion to have this item heard and filed. and i dent see objections here with this like to second biour vice chair mandelman. and with this a roll call. >> yes on this motion vice chair chan seconded by mandelman. that the hearing heard and filed. vice chair mandelman. why aye >> member melgar. >> aye. >> member walon. why aye >> chair chan. why aye. >> we have 4 aye's with member peskin excused. >> thank you and the motion passes. mr. clerk do we other business today? >> that concludes our business. jot meeting is adjourned.

make this peace out turn out to make she's for us, and it's taken them a while to develop them. but i know that chief kailoa and before him, chief o'connor before him, she have all been working on it as has our health and safety chief, mat who as you may know, you know, still lives with cancer, so he's on this. this is not something that just popped up last week. in fact, we have members that wearing these turn outs as

tests, tests fit in the field right now and from one manufacturer and we're waiting on another manufacturer to deliver some to us to test. so my concern also with the legislation was i didn't just want to buy the first one that is out, maybe something comes out, a year later and a couple of months later that is much better. we want to be intentional about what we purchase and how we do that. but i think we're, you know, we're moving forward and you know, we are in full agreement, you know, 798 and the department is that this is the way to go. and this is what we need to see. but you know, i also stressed the other night, at the gala, that we have different policies in place, we have a de

contamination policy, we have an overhaul policies which is when we are pulling things out of the fire. we have an air monitoring policy for during that same time and that our folks, you know, really need to every one needs to follow those policies because it's not just the peace turn outs, it's all of policies and that together that can really you know, that we can take advantage of and create change. so in addition, chief kaialoa and our grant writing secured a 3 2*.3 million dollars grant for turn outs specifically. and are looking at other grants assistance to fire fighter grant and i'm not sure what other grant for additional funding. so we've been working on this and doing this for a while, as

you know, like you don't get a grant overnight. so it's been something that we've been working very hard on and very proud of and you know, we look forward to when we actually have these piece turn outs for everybody and that concludes my report. >> thank you, chief. that is a really great report. is there any public comment on the chief's report? >> there is nobody approaching the podium and nobody on the public comment line. >> okay, public comment is closed. commissioners? >> chief are there other fire departments across the country that have demand for these cancer free turn outs? >> other departments are looking at it as well. and have been approved some have been approved by their cities to purchase them, but they have not existed and so,

we're testing them and i think we're the first city, this legislation will make san francisco the first city to actually ban the peace s turn out and require these. that's what the legislation does, so you know, if somebody else were to come in here after me and not really care about it or whatever, they have to care about it and so, but yes, it has been a conversation nationwide in the fire service for several years now. that and cancer and mental health have been the big two conversations nationwide in the fire service for the for the last couple of years. >> so the manufactures would understand that there is demand. >> oh they absolutely know that there is demand, yes, yes. >> thank you, madam chair, thank you chief.

just a few comments, thank you for that update in terms of commissioner fraser and collinswell talking about the turn out codes. and the recollection of how long the department has been dealing with it from the days of even look at that as a cancer source to manufacture. so i know there is some issue behind it but also it does not seem like the manufactures there with the products. sol if we're there, i appreciate that particular update. and my other update is visiting the members who responded to the accident in west portal, thank you for that. >> and if i may just say, yes it takes, it's taken a while for the manufactures to develop this technology and test it and then, you know, they find out

that's not going to work they have to develop and test something else. so it has been a slow road. but i also want to give due credit to the san francisco cancer prevention foundation, they are always at the for front of all of this stuff and meeting the conversation across the country. much gratitude to tony stefani and the cancer society as well. >> thank you, commissioners. couple of questions, the turn out coats, i don't know how long this has been a project that this is not something that popped up for you or the san francisco fire department. i'm curious though if we're aware, if you're aware of other fire departments across the country that are testing out the currently available turn out coats?

vice president. >> i almost gave you a promotion, good evening, vice president, commissioners, i'm shane deputy chief of administration, from my understanding there are six cities that are testing the p fast turn outs. i'm sure there is more coming. but i believe there are 6 that are testing the turn outs. >> and chief, you mentioned that there is, our cancer prevention foundation. are there other fire departments that have similar equivalent to what we're doing within their departments? i'm just looking? >> yeah, there have been other organizations that in 501c, but tony started this 7 years ago, and i think that predated pretty much any of the other ones, that would be my guess. >> i look forward to additional

muscle to pressure for the industry. and i'll be interested to see what how staff feels. i guess there is some kind of protocol, they test them for some number of months. there is a protocol that they're following? >> that's in my report, but now that we can talk about it now, we are testing two manufactures one is lion one is fire deck. those are 60-90 day test. there is no blood drawn after, i have discussed what the chief alba that that is coming and he's confident that it is. this test is to see how the turn outs react in fire situations. the three barriers in p-fast is found in water repellent and

repelling oils as well. so we want to ensure that the turn outs are repellent water and aren't flammable due to the absorption of other chemicals. is it comfortable? is there more heat involved? is there more heat stress involved? so we'll find that out after the study, but, but from folks who have been wearing it for a while, it is comfortable. but we'll find better results after the 60-90 day. >> thank you and i know every commissioner joins me in expressing gratitude who are out there testing the new coats. thank you for that. and the only other thing i want to say is the farewell to dr. broke av was tender and sweet.

well done. it was really nice. i think, anything else on the chief's report? thank you, maureen. >> i believe chief kaialao. this is my report for february 2024, we begin with chief brown. during the month of february, they attended the office and development of the chinese new yae, lunar new year. she will be con convenienting

that management team for the next four upcoming events and we'll be previousing you through the following months. that int is very important for this fire department and the city so that when we have our local imagine that, we run operation nz our city, on our own, our folks have been going to training and incident management team such as logitic chief of operations, support services, you can see that throughout the month of summer as well when you're single resource right side deploying two incidents around the state of california, fulfilling the rolls at a state level, gaining valuable training in that and able to bring that back to the city in our management team. throughout the month of february, on going court dated projects is the update of the disaster manual, very important that we're in that manual and ensuring that it's up-to-date

so. that when we have our incident is that we're able to respond accordingly, chief brown is also very involved in grant management, this allows us to gain valuable resources, equipment, it's also known as urban areas security initiative if it's not in your index. she is also working the fire department operation center this is where action plans are developed, where a lot of the multi communications come into that room and chief brown is working with our it division in updating the satellite phones. through her spare time, chief brown gives back to the community attend being the john muir elementary read allowed event in february. next up, the diversion,--i'm sorry, the diversity office under chief baoufeter.

much of his work attends the equity leader, cohorts, he is in two of them one being the pipeline and the other pathway. and pipelines are looking at best practices hiring candidates as well as internship. in the pathway, they developed programs from the date of hire throughout the employees career. looking at providing professional development and mentorship to assist folks in their careers as long as they're with the city. chief buford also giving back to the community, attending the elementary school and being the guest reader for the 20th annual read-in. also attended the 2024 black history month kickoff with the rest of the command staff and

the four good looking folks at the corner. next is our recruitment officer, lieutenant hashin busy as usually looking, and the chief was speaking in her report and developing candidate lists for meet and greet and updating the fire recruitment app. lieutenant anderson has worked with close with our folks. this is a way for us to track, the individuals that we have out reached to, that we have recruited and in our system and that is able to be viewed to see where they are in the resource or in the pipeline and how we can better resource so that they're successful in make iting through our academy and then using that list to develop

our academy as well. he also attended the cohort along with chief buford to discuss the pipeline program. we have delivered three in ternship proposals to the chief fire department. we have received the feedback, we'll be taking that feedback and redeveloping some of those internships and delivering that for approval and we'll that back to you. lieutenant anderson, also works closely with the 99-10 and the city emt. he just fin pishld the cohort 6 which has 11 individuals that are becoming next in the pipeline. he also scheduleds those interviews to fill out the questions and submits the names hr for those individuals to enter the cohorts. also preparing for the next

cohort, cohort, sorry i spoke too early, the one that just completed is cohort 5. lieutenant anderson was acknowledged at the city college workforce and industry forum for his work with city college as you know, we have a instructional service agreement with ccsf, lieutenant anderson does much work with the college so he was recognized there at the forum. our health and safety battalion matt alba, much work in this report, i highlight three studies, one being the sulfurfeign study. it's a powerful chemical found

in vegetables mainly broccoli and brussle sprouts, we have 100 individuals in that study, we have partnered with brock shots. 50 of those participants will be on sulforafanane and the others will not. once we have results, i'll be happy to report to the commission. and working for nutrition study t molds the documentary, you are what you eat. 100 individuals will also be in the study, 50 will be in a plant base diet and the other on a meat diet. initially, the food will be prepared, cooked and delivered to the individuals. for certain amount of time, following that time, the individuals will receive the groceries and we'll have to prepare for themselves.

sxl --and cook for themselves creating a healthy, i don't know why i cannot think of the word now. what did you say? yes, healthy menu, thank you. [laughter] and we touched on the ppe wear test and i think we said, all we can say there, if you have any questions on the p fast and all the great points what we've been doing in the last five years with local 798, supervisor peskin or president peskin on that legislation, working closely with support services on procurement of p fast turn outs, looking at costa nal sis and incrementation as we move forward.

captain in our behavioral health unit, very busy working on many fronts. she has started a cohort for tm or transit meditation, that cohort is going to be meeting for four days straight, to receive initial training and then follow-up for three months once a week with instructors to see how transmittal will be able to reduce stress and improve mental health. during the to of contact there was 17 contacts, of course as always the group's suppression ems followed by the rest, stress factors being general stress and traumatic death and ba bereavement of a family member.

and 495020 injury illnesses where they were seen by a physician. they also set up an auto meter for auto screening, this is done at different locations, whether it's division of training, having this equipment at the oh will benefit us greatly by having members come to one place to receive that test. also, dr. b now dr. c is a part of a health plan, health and safety plan and committee with the focus of a health and wellness program. and as you pointed out, vice

president fraser, we want to congratulate dr. b on her retirement. it was great to see you some of you there and we welcome chang and we are coming up the alphabet to dr. c. [laughter] in our investigative services, cam withedle conditions our program with 30 members being treftd. sxend of probation also provides oaas are much needed surprise. and also took a online marijuana training, this looks at your development of policies regarding marijuana in the work place being handed down from state and federal agencies to ensure that we're in line with the testing processes. also completed the background investigations for the 25th h3 level 1, academy.

david mullin, very busy. we had 120 service request and were completing during the month of february. actually 107 were completed. all resolved by 850 plumber. one additional was purchased, we were in the purchase of organizing three command vehicles, three fire prevention and one arson truck. and the boe is developing idle mitigation and practices for fire apparatus. seeking a grant for implementation as the city moves to electric vehicles. looking at ev fire and also, we are receiving ten ev charging stations at hq through grant funding.

i'm sorry, it's one, it's one, right? ten, we were at one and now we're at 10. i don't know if it's noted on there, but cat wall will be retiring in june. we did hold interviews, we hired lieutenant jason waltruss we'll bring him in for to you meet if you'd like, just cause, i'll do it then when we get to his retirement. but vince has been a lot of time around has put a ton of work and helped us move that needle forward and i cannot thank him enough for all the time he's been with us. and also in the month of february, february 29, chief mullin along with chief miller and the so many others, it was a great event, it was good to see some of you there to look

at the capabilities of this and when we have an emergency or natural disaster, where we're unable to reach water supply that we're unable to utilize, despite our fire engines to deal with incident. under earthquake and emergency response, chief assistant deputy chief miller continues his work in our division of training, new division of training center, currently undergoing site, to reduce cost to design to budget. and so, we're looking at way that's we can reduce the cost to the budget by looking at the site and where we can move undeveloped areas to capture as much cost savings as we can while keeping the scope of the project.

public works is engaging to assess the stations for lead paint and in the department of technology is continued designed to the cabling outside of the fire station. and our neighborhood, fire stations, i'll highlight a few, upgrade, was issued notice to proceed our fire stations 14 generator replacement. the file was it move that generator to the roof. the cost to reenforce the roof to hold that generator, move the piping to fuel that generator on the roof, didn't work for us.

and we would be fueling with the firefighters. the general contractor is complete. i'll update you further once that project moves forward and our contractor is announced. some of the highlights for the month. members of the san francisco police department, attended the lunar new year celebration with the chief, i'm sorry with mayor london breed, this is a photo of our api members and our afa members. february 24th, reattended the lunar new year parade, it was a great day. and members of our tact team attended medical training hosted by the los angeles enforcement bureau. that is the end of my report. thank you.

>> there is nobody approaching the podium and nobody on the public comment line. public comment is there by closed. commissioners, comments, questions? >> go ahead, commissioner nakajo. >> your report covers so much, when you got to the report in terms of inclusion and inclusion and you talked about lieutenant, how she managed, just for my clarification, you

talked about 9110. so just as a clarification, what qualifies for 9110 and for me particular is there an age restriction or age focus that we're looking at? when you say in the pipeline, can you be more clear than that? >> sure. >> i can speak to 9910. so our 9910 comes out of our emt program, once they complete their city emt, pass the national registry, they get all the wrap around classes and services there, then they are able to apply to do a paid inter ship on the ambulance. that's what our 9910 are.

now the typically the age range emt is between 118 and 26. --18 and 26. >> and in terms of hours. >> 500 hours, because 500 hours is what one needs to be able to in a 9-1-1 system, what one needs to apply for the emt position in the san francisco fire department. >> okay, thank you for that detail. also because, i know one of the most difficult things for folks to try to do to find a career as an emt and paramedic is to get hours. so when i hear that this program focused on being able to require that, so when with you say that they're down the pipeline is that they're eligible for application to apply? >> yes, they are.

we find that many graduates apply for the h3 fire fighter. we hired i think a dozen and a half or close to folks into the department that came through city emt in the 9910 program. >> thank you chief for refreshing my recollection, thank you very much. couple more things. when i get to support services, it always takes a while, i mean there is a lot of stuff in here. >> there is a lot of stuff in here. there is a lot of work being done. >> thank you and always goes through my mind besides read iting twice to make sure. is i a imagine, how do they keep all of this information,

there must be a humongous board up there with information. it's so detailed so i want to compliment that, i hope somebody is helping the chief support in terms of this area, did you kind of respond? is there some realization behind your nodding? >> does he have a support staff? >> yeah. >> does he have a support staff? he does, we can all use more. >> i didn't ask that, chief, i've been with you for a while. i always try to read this report and then i get a little confused and then i think about chief miller and we think thank god. it's a lost area in here. >> there is. >> so after i decide about all

the area, one simple question, in terms of report of fire station 7, since that was suppose to be part of a bond and now we're looking at training and probably over cost in terms of that. and we're in a deficit with the city and county, what happens to station 7? does it put on the list in terms of when up the next round? and we go to a maintenance, i'm asking you? >> that's a good question. you know, that bond was slated for the fire training for the completion of station 7 for i believe four other fire house needs. and unfortunately the cost facility was going eat that up so that difficult decision had to be made. that is our division house and it will be managing operations

in disaster when we lose communication, we will move into a branch and battalion control. so it's very important that we get this fire house done, we need, we need to look at other avenues, how we're able to fund this project. we need to find creative ways to have this fire house completed. >> all right, chief did you want to jump in here. >> this is some of what we expressed commissioner collins and i expressed to the city administrator. just how dire need we are. >> thank you for that update, i

was raok --looking at the station. does it still move? and the other thing, you reassured me, it's not for goent. okay, got a game plan, last one. in the fleet management report where does the retired newly medical bus fit? >> where does it fit? >> yes, does that fit in the or ems subject matter, i'm trying to figure out how do rereplace this retired medical bus. you but more than that, i'm asking how do we place and somewhere in the back of my mind, i cannot help but conjure up, how much that is going to cost in terms of figure, not even figure, i'm pretty looking for some source of funding for

that emergency bus that the whole city and county of san francisco could benefit in terms of that. i'm asking because i'm running into people, i'm just asking that question. >> right, i believe it's over 700,000 dollars. >> 920,000. >> let's round that out, that close to a million. >> we can call it a million, i know that chief brown is working with our grants that she can speak on how we can obtain funds to perceive these or are these two buses replaces. i believe chief is having discussions with muni with for

other buses. >> thank you for that, loss and how much we benefited and then my if philanthropy go up in terms of who can support us, that everybody benefits and whether there is a combination. my bottom line. i'm operating this with this deficit, so that's why i'm thinking this way. thank you very much. thank you very much chief. >> do we have a did sign where a cost estimate was done? how far along with we? >> i don't believe that we have a design. so the plan is, station five is the other division house, we were going to take that plan of

that building. and just do it right over there, so we didn't have to reinvent the wheel, station five is also a division house. i think that's working out just fine. we could do the same thing over at station 7. >> so we can take those plans. >> yes. >> and we could get a cost estimate by dpw and get a sense of what in fact it would cost to build that station, as i understand it, pretty critical. >> yes. >> and we can also look at what station 5 cost us, we just did it a couple of years ago. >> yeah, you know how those things.

those things vary. >> but the bigger delta may be i'm guessing between what a estimate to build that 24 months later and the market estimate would be, my guess is that's thed bigger delta and if you're being creative in funding sources and if those sources, you know, are going to look very closely, at the cost estimate, that may put us in good instead, to say we really need this, this is what it really costs, let's figure out a way to get it done. i don't mean to over simplify it, but i'm just saying cost

should not be a variable concept but it is. >> i agree. >> we've got to set a plan. >> right. >> we can to that to have a sense of what it would cost. >> sounds like a good step. >> thank you, this is a very meaty report. first i want to offer my own recipe for brussle sprouts and i know people don't like them but it's a wonderful food.

i also had a question about, you mentioned the h b.c. pipeline for recruitment which is in line with what the mayor talked about in the state of city, to in to invite to move into downtown san francisco and some of our vacant office buildings. so that would be a terrific partnership if that can happen. satellite campus and whatever, and this is not just, this is fire department and maybe police too. >> so i can speak to that if you would like, vice president fraser. >> sure. >> right now for this summer, wore work withing director sharyl davis on internship, six-week internships for young people that are going to be included.

so this is just the first step and as chief kylo said, he and chief buford are coming up with ideas and we'll submit them to dr. davis and see where they lead. this is the first time to putting the toe in the water. >> that's great news, thank you so much. let's see the other question i had was around this comment on page 18 that our department does not have annual health check. can you explain that a little bit? >> that's correct, we don't have an annual health check, this is a discussion that we're

having with the health and safety committee. at some point we'll have the discussion with labor. our intention is to reconstitution yearly health check and what may look like. that is integrating to ensure our folks mental health and safety and also, allows us to apply for a grant in health and safety and we're hoping to get something off the ground within the year. it laox like it's a prerequisite for additional funding. >> yes. >> but we have a rich environment for research among our members and the testing of the p.fast does not include any blood studies. there is a lot of privacy

concerns and i understand that in the future, job security and the way the health insurance industry is. and all of those things, can all very valid but, i think you know, the greater good is possibly there for all firefighters if we can figure out a way to understand the health impacts. >> yeah. >> that are more grandular and specific. >> and what you speak of, those were challenges, i think we're in a better place. i think we have good laeter ship able to work collectively. i think we'll incrementalized and start small. and be able to get something off the ground, i'm confident. >> i think that's great. i think that's all for me, thank you so much.

>> item 5 adjournment. >> that is the agenda. anything else before i adjourn? all right. we are adjourned. thank you. [gavel]locals.

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whom william leaderdorph who lived blocks from here a successful business person. african-american decent and the first million airin california. >> wilwoman was the founders of san francisco. here during the gold rush came in the early 1840s. he spent time stake himself as a merchant seaman and a business person. his father and brother in new orleans. we know him for san francisco's history. establishing himself here arnold 18 twoochl he did one of many things the first to do in yerba buena. was not california yet and was not fully san francisco yet. >> because he was an american citizen but spoke spanish he was able to during the time when america was taking over california from mexico, there

was annexations that happened and conflict emerging and war, of course. he was part of the peek deliberations and am bas doorship to create the state of california a vice council to mexico. mexico granted him citizenship. he loaned the government of san francisco money. to funds some of the war efforts to establish the city itself and the state, of course. he established the first hotel here the person people turned to often to receive dignitaries or hold large gatherings established the first public school here and helped start the public school system. he piloted the first steam ship on the bay. a big event for san francisco and depict instead state seal the ship was the sitk a.

there is a small 4 block long length of street, owned much of that runs essentially where the transamerica building is to it ends at california. i walk today before am a cute side street. at this point t is the center what was all his property. he was the person entrusted to be the city's first treasurer. that is i big deal of itself to have that legacy part of an african-american the city's first banker. he was not only a forefather of the establishment of san francisco and california as a state but a leader in industry. he had a direct hahn in so many things that we look at in san francisco. part of our dna. you know you don't hear his anymore in the context of those. representation matters. you need to uplift this so

people know him but people like him like me. like you. like anyone who looks like him to be, i can do this, too. to have the city's first banker and a street in the middle of financial district. that alone is powerful. [music]

>> i'm san francisco's first drag laureate and the first one in the world. the drag laureate program and the position is one this celebrates an artist for being the best in their craft and i'm proud to have received that xroel it it is afternoon ambassador role. a role that represents the lbgtq+ community in san

francisco the focus on the drag performers and trans-activists and performers in san francisco as well. when i heard the city was creating the drag laureate role i was so excited because it did foal like they were paying attention to us. and cared about when we gave culturally and economically to the city >> here is your new drag laureate for the city and county of san francisco! i'm getting the call from the mayor i was chosen was fantastic day. i will always remember. i thought that it would just be about the bay area. because of what happening in the world it became a national story. i hope it can shine a light on san francisco and how they take care of the drag community and

the lbgtq+ community. i hope that i can help carve out this position and create a role with programs and events this can be passed down to future drag laureate this is come after me and can set a stage and standard for what this program is in san francisco and national low and inner nationally. there is a rich history in san francisco. that the drag community has been part of. i'm very proud to follow in their footsteps and able to maintain what the drag community has done in the past and move forward with creating a bright future. my job is to elevate and celebrate to be. >> hi, i'm average i'm a personal analyst that the human resources examining and

recruitment unit and suffix i started my career as a san francisco state university and got my bachelors in psyched and orientational psyche if they had we have a great relationship that the san francisco unified school district i exploded for american people interim shopping mall and become eligible for a permeate job. >> okay. perfect. >> i love working for our human resources services because of the agriculture we're laid-back with a professional mindset although human resources is a challenge we're light a hearted started as a intern guided through the process eventually one day a a deputy director or staying with the puc is where i

love it you are watching san francisco rising with chris manor. today's special guest is sarah phillips. >> hi, i'm chris manors and you are watching san francisco rising the show about restarting rebuilding and eare imagineing the city. the guest today is sarah phillips the executive director of economic workforce development. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. let's talk about the city economic plan and specifically the city's road map to san francisco future. can you give a brief overview and update on progress? >> absolute e. in february 2023 mayor breed

released the roadmap comprised to 9 strategies to move the city forward understanding there was structural and lang lasting changing by the covid impact. 134 were shorter term impacts how people using transit downtown and coming out and are using small businesses, some of them remember long-term structural impacts. the way we work. how often we are in an office and how much office space companies who had headquartered in san francisco need. some of those were structural impacts how we stop. there has been a long-term change as online shopping takes up a greater share how we performs and covid-19 took a shift that would probably take 10 to 15 years happen and collapse what happened ofern the timeframe to 2 years so saw structural impacts how people shop. we have seen a lot of progress rchlt we are 9 months in and

significant things we have seen is efforts creating permitinant services and homes for people experiencing homelessness is dramatic. we increased the number of shelter beds dramatically and take-up of the beds dramatically, and there is more work to do. on the safety side there are exciting things that happened. we increased our police pay among the highest in the bay area which is a important thing for recruitment. police recruitment across the country is down so recruiting the best we can means we need to give a high pay set. august the highsh return in graduates. we see 75 decrease in retail theft and 50 percent reduction in car break ins which is quality of life crime san francisco experienced so there

is real progresses we are seeing on clean and safe sides. one thing important in the mayor roadmap we are not trying to get back to 2020 vision. i think covid showed having a downtown with people sitting at offices isn't the best downtown it can be. i think it is a opportunity to bring 24 hour life use downtown. >> music and concerts is a great way to bring people to a specific location. golden gate park we had lots of events in plazas throughout the city. can you talk about those and if there is upcoming events too? >> i think you touched on something key to the mayor road map. for san francisco and particularly san francisco downtown to move forward and be successful as a great american

city, it is about bringing people together because they want to be together not because they center to be together and music is a strong part that. the planet concert sear ries coming up and happening throughout the city not just golden gate park but downtown locations are a great example. there are smaller examples as well. the landing at--is a new plaza we constructed in the mayor roadmap where two streets come together akwraisant to a couple restaurants closed to cars in daytime, chairs and seating and throughout the week they have lunch time and evening music to bring people together after work. they participate in that. something we are working on setting up for next year which is really exciting is our sf live program and that will bring a full 2024 concert series where we match local

venues bringing their work and partnership to useian square, music center plaza and embark cadero. we will be able to announce concert series through the sf- >> you mentioned vacant to vibrant, that program has a lot of attention lately. can you talk generally what exactly that program is? >> yeah. so, we opened a program where we put out a call for landlords willing to offer groundfloor space for free for 3 to 6 month jz small business or storefront operators who had a proposal what they would do for 3 to 6 months. it is pilot. we had a incredible amount of interest. we had--i'm forgetting the number of landlords, but more then we expected because we are

in a place where commercial real estate understands they need to come to the table to help make our groundfloor lively and resulting in a transition where the groundfloor is seen less as a money making operation, but more as a leader to lease upper floors. if you have a active ground floor yields better on the other 80 percent of the building you are trying to lease. that was great, a lot of cooperation scr over 700 small business or operators responded to that call. it is pop up. there is no intention this would result in forever small businesses, but there is certainly a hope and i think what we are hearing, i don't have the final data, but there are 17 activators in 9 different spaces, some are colocated, which is why the difference, and out of those 9 spaces that are being leased for free, now 7 of them are in discussions for long-term leases so the spaces continue.

it is the program. we are hopeful to have a second and third traunch and hoping to pilot in other neighborhoods with other partners. it is not an inexpensive program because there is a lot of capital that goes into popping up for short amount of time but what we are seen is they visit the businesses, the businesses are successful and san francisco want to support this activation so hopeful to expand it. >> that's great. can you talk a bit about why piloting programs and testing things is so important? >> absolutely. you know, i would say not only the important generally but important in san francisco specifically. the benefit of pilot programs in the reasons they are really important here is, it allows us to try something and say, there may be consequence but let's understand those in real time rather then waiting to start a strategy while we think about them on paper and if they are too great we can modify the program as we go.

mta has absorbed the strategy whether a bike lane or other to figure how best to use the street? is this working? is it working for bikes and cars and buses? maybe not, let's switch it around and pilots have been important to oewd to our office particularly because we tend to have the ability and the mayor's support through the budget process to pilot things through request for proposals or rfp process where we can put out a small amount of funding, try activation and small public plaza, see if it works and i think the benefit there is, if it doesn't work we tried it and had the benefit of seeing real time and when it does work, we are able to uplift that and move into a permanent strategy and that is where our agency

turns over something we piloted to another agency because it is part of the city operating procedure. pilots also give people hope. when we have the short-term whether it is physical public plaza or activation that shows change is possible and allows them to vote for what they like. >> lastly, in lith light of the current ai boom, do you think there is a way to leverage those new changes to take a bunch of san francisco's status as a tech hub? >> i do, i think they work together. san francisco right now has a strong vacancy problem in our office space. and there is a back-story to that. our zoning downtown has not prevented other uses, in terms of permitting uses of the multi-story building has been

open including allowing residential but we put other barriers, cost and code barriers et cetera and what happened also during the height of our preevious boom is that, the amount that tech companies were willing to pay for office space bid everything out so we-without intentionally zoning a single use downtown, we de facto became a single use downtown and thereat is the opportunity you are pointing out. now because downtown was so convertible from work from home, particularly as tech based downtown was and how much companies put at the market in the office spaces we are seeing high vacancy now, all most 30 percent so there is lot of square feet but that presents a lot of opportunity. we have the ability to absorb expansion of the tech industry we are so strong at. we have seen over 800 thousand square feet of ai space leased

just in 2023 alone and there is still more demand out in the market, more ai companies looking for space so that is a growth spot absorbing some of the vac ancy. the opportunity too is prices for downtown lease s have also dropped and that opens up a breath of opportunity to a breath of companies that were priced out in 2018, 2019, 2020. san francisco has always been great at starting companies and allowing them to grow here. when our prices are too high it prevents that growth so now we are a super fertile ground for more start ups and invasion on the smaller end of the sector because they can come and enter our market and we have the space to offer. to talk about san francisco's assets and the leveraging that, we sit at the epicenter of really great university and educational institutions. we are between uc berkeley and stanford. the graduates produced just from those institutions alone stay in the bay area and want

to rise up and work here, provide a real opportunity for the start ups to build their companies and companies to grow here so we confident we will absorb a certain amount of office space with ai tech. with that, we are interested in increasing our human capital growing graduates. downtown university is something the mayor is open to pursuing and we are in conversations with uc berkeley we love to have as a partner in our downtown and then residential conversions are a great partner to that. as we build back the office space, people will want to live downtown again and we have a number buildings that can be converted to residential. the costs are high. mayor breed and her partners on the board made significant changes to reduce the costs. we waived fees for change of uses in the downtown area. there are code changes that will make the conversions easier. there is a ballot measure on

the march ballot that will attempt to reduce costs for those as well. it is ongoing process and none of those changes we talked about absent ai growth downtown, but institutional growth downtown, arts growth downtown and residential conversions downtown are long-term changes so one thing i want to say recollect i do think there is a opportunity per your question, but we also need to be patient because what we are talking about is is a real shift to the make-up of the downtown since from the growth it has been starting at since the turn of the century so that isn't a 2 year change, that is a 10 year change and we center to watch as it goes. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate you spending the time here today and your creative vision and positivity, so thank you so much. >> thanks so much for having me and hope you all downtown and shop. >> that is it for this episode. for sfgovtv i'm chris manors,

thanks >> come shop dine and play. taraval street is open for business. >> my name is mark recollect the owner of lou's cafe on taraval street. since 2010, my brother and tj and vince and mom [indiscernible] we used to sandwiches all the time. we said why not us. geary boulevard in 2010. i figured i might to start in another location and when i opened the location in 2015. we treat each customer as family and we make our food with love and make sure everyone is happy. i recommend everyone come out to the sunset. >> take time for teraival bingo, supporting small business, anyone can participate. it is easy, collect stickers on a bingo style game board and enter for a chance to win awesome prizes. for

>> [music] you are watching golden gate inventions with michael. this is episode exploring the excelsior. >> hi i'm michael you are watching golden gate inventions

highlighting urban out doors we are in the excelsior. pickleball. let's play pickleball! pickleball is an incredited low popular sport growing nationwide. pickleball combines tennis, bad mitton and ping pong. playod a bad mitton sized court with paddle and i plasticic ball. starting out is easy. you can pick up paddle and balls for 20 buck and it is suitable for everyone in all skill levels you see here. the gim is played by 2 or 4 players. the ball must be served diagnoty and other rules theory easy to pick up. the game ends when i player or team reaches a set score 11 or 21 point bunkham win bright 2 pickleball courts are available

across the city some are and others require booking ahead and a fee. information about the courts found at sf recpark. org if you are interested in playing. now i know why people are playing pickleball. it is so much fun you play all ages. all skill levels and pop on a court and you are red to g. a lot of fun i'm glad i did it. all right. let's go! time for a hike! there is i ton of hike nothing excelsior. 312 acres mc clarin the second largest p in san francisco. there are 7 miles of tris including the there was fer's way this spreads over foresxeft field and prosecute voids hill side views of the city.

and well is a meditative quiet place in mc clarin p you will siendz labyrinth made of rock:now we are at glen eagle golf course special try out disk golf >> now disk golf! so disk golf is like traditional golf but with noticing disks. credit as the sport's pioneer establishing the disk ballsorption and the first standardized target the disk ball hole. the game involves throwing from key areas toward i metal basket. players use different disks for long distances driver, immediateerate. mid range and precise shot, putters.

players begin at the t area. throw disks toward the basket and prosecute seed down the fare way. player with the lowest number of throws the end wins the game. disk golf at glen eagle cost 14 dollars if you pay at the clubhouse. there is an 18 hole course this is free. du see that shot? i won! am i was not very good now i have a huge respect for disk ball player its is difficult but fun. thank you for joining me in the excelsior this is goldenate adventures. -

>> shop & dine in the 49

promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their showing up and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop & dine in the 49 san francisco owes must of the charm to the unique characterization of each corridor has a distinction permanent our neighbors are the economic engine of the city. >> if we could a afford the lot by these we'll not to have the kind of store in the future the kids will eat from some restaurants chinatown has phobia one of the best the most unique neighborhood shopping areas of san francisco.

>> chinatown is one of the oldest chinatown in the state we need to be able allergies the people and that's the reason chinatown is showing more of the people will the traditional thepg. >> north beach is i know one of the last little italian community. >> one of the last neighborhood that hadn't changed a whole lot and san francisco community so strong and the sense of partnership with businesses as well and i just love north beach community old school italian comfort and love that is what italians are all about we need people to come here and shop here so we can keep this

going not only us but, of course, everything else in the community i think local businesses the small ones and coffee shops are unique in their own way that is the characteristic of the neighborhood i peace officer prefer it is local character you have to support them. >> really notice the port this community we really need to kind of really shop locally and support the communityly live in it is more economic for people to survive here. >> i came down to treasure island to look for a we've got a long ways to go. ring i just got married and

didn't want something on line i've met artists and local business owners they need money to go out and shop this is important to short them i think you get better things. >> definitely supporting the local community always good is it interesting to find things i never knew existed or see that that way. >> i think that is really great that san francisco seize the vails of small business and creates the shop & dine in the 49 to support businesses make people all the residents and visitors realize had cool things are made and produced in san

>> good morning, welcome to the march 7 meeting of budget and finance i'm supervisor connie chain chair. joined by vice chair mandelman and melgar. our clerk is brent jalipa. i would like to thank goff for broadcasting this meeting. mr. clerk. >> to those in attendance make sure to silence cell phones and electronics to prep vent interruptions. should you have documents to be included they should be submitted to myself the clerk, public comment taken on each item when your item come up and public comment is called lineup to the west side of the