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cultural heritage district. language access is very critical . every second counts and it's critical, you know, to the city's health care infrastructure, our to the city government, our government's infrastructure, to our cbos, infrastructure and everything. every second count when i say because an emergency, it's a life or death. situation and i'm the type of parent, actually, who is looking for a filipino bilingual program. when my kids went to school like 30 years ago and i, i, i seek also help also in, in strengthening our bilingual education. you know, in the sfusd because i didn't

get any help from epcc. it's critical because because i, i really i really do hope, you know, that my children would understand that, that that being bilingual or multilingual is really an asset. and in, in every case in every lives that we actually, you know, have here in, in the city of san francisco, we are a diverse, city. it's really important that language access is actually there. and thank you. i want to thank you, you know, to everybody, we, we seek your help and support and your commitment. maraming salamat po. thank you for your comments. next speaker. good afternoon. my name is anne and i am a tenant councilor from the south of market community action network. most of our clients are filipino immigrant families, and we are advocating to close the language gap across

the city. most of our clients are in need of counseling services regarding their tenancy and disputes with their landlords. as a tenant counselor, i have witnessed how most of our clients could not understand notices, legal documents and agreements that are needed for their tenancy. most of the time they are being tricked by their landlords and tenants are forced to move out of their homes just because they do not understand the english language. they do not know how to seek help from the city or rent board. because of the language barrier. we are here to support number 79, reaffirming the commitment to language access in san francisco. it is important to increase bilingual staff in the city to help the families in urgent need that that need translation services. maraming salamat. thank you so much. thank you for your comments. next speaker. good afternoon, board of supervisor, my name is shannon lee and i'm an advocate with chinese for affirmative action. as josé mentioned earlier, we are a member of the organization of, language access network. lan sf

and the network is made up of six community based organizations representing a multi lingual, multi ethnic and multicultural coalition. so the advocacy around language access, has been a long journey for us and each immigrant community. we eagerly anticipate the positive impacts of the language access resolution, which builds up upon the language access ordinance amendments, i would also like to share an experience i had last month on muni, and one day when i was on the bus, a muni fare inspector boarded and began to check in with the passengers. tickets and when the inspector reached a chinese elder, the rapidly repeatedly asked him to show the clipper card of course they asked in english only, and the elder, not understanding, keep waving his hand with confusion and trying to avoid eye contact. and, thankfully there is a passenger who spoke cantonese and, he stepped in and

helped translate it with just three simple words, and the elder immediately understood and reached to his pocket to find his card and hand it to the inspector. the whole process took only about five seconds. so this is a living example showing how language barriers exist in aspects we may never have imagined. there are life or death situations, but there are also like daily inconveniences or fractions like this. we hope the resolution won't continue to allow city leaders like you to work with the community, including but not limited to, increasing paid opportunities for the culturally responsive and community based translators and interpreters, thank you so much for your time. thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. hello. my name is marty douglas, and i'm with tomken, south of market community action

network. and i'm here reaffirming language access. so i had an experience when i had lived in japan where i woke up one day and i lost hearing in one of my ears. and to get to a hospital and speak with somebody was just anxiety inducing. and i know how that feels when i. i also accompanied a friend from ukraine who had a similar situation where she needed language like health access, but having somebody there that can speak the language makes a huge difference. so we urge in your leadership to continue building the diversity for everyone here in the city to live a beautiful life that is holistically healthy, that you don't have to be worrying about your physical health, your mental health, nor even just daily living. like transportation and housing. and this should be a concern for our

leaders. so i do hope you still and continue reaffirming this for language access for all. thank you. thank you for your comments. next speaker. good afternoon, board of supervisors. my name is nick g. and i'm an advocacy manager with chinese for affirmative action and we're a civil rights based organization in sf chinatown. we're also a part of the language access network of san francisco. and as you heard this afternoon, many of the sf partners and community members are here to affirm that language access is critical in this city of san francisco. i would like to express my gratitude to supervisor walton and his dedicated team for their unwavering leadership in driving forward the language access ordinance resolution. in addition to the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs, immigrant rights commission, human rights commission, and supervisor connie chen's office, your commitment to ensuring that limited english speaking communities in our city have access to vital resources and

services is truly commendable. the lao resolution represents a significant step forward in our ongoing efforts in to enhance language accessibility and inclusivity in our city. building upon the foundation laid upon laid by the la amendments, this resolution reaffirms our commitment to working closely with the community to address their needs effectively. this resolution is an acknowledgment that all communities deserve equitable language access, because we believe language access can make our community stronger, our city stronger, and can save lives. and we urge the board to support the passage of this resolution. thank you. thank you for your comments, before you speak, mr. d'costa, i just want to invite, if there are any other members of the public who'd like to address the board during general public comment, please line up on your right hand side. otherwise, mr. da costa may be the last speaker. welcome. so,

supervisors, we have a budget of $15, $15.9 billion. and i've been listening to all of you, all listening to san franciscans who are not happy with what is happening in our city. supervisors every representative must address quality of life issues. we cannot harm our children and we harm them. we cannot harm our youth and we help them. we don't help them. people have to come here and beg of you all to give them support. $15.9 billion budget. this

nation now one third of the nation are fanatics. and it's slowly creeping into san francisco. so when you are a representative, you have to know everything about quality of life issues and set your example all. let me tell you, supervisors, we can run a check on each one of you. so all i'm going to say have your hearts in the right place to do the right thing. if you are into corruption, stay up it. and when our people come here to ask for help, help them. thank you very much. thank you, mr. da costa. all right, mr. president, seeing no other

members of the public for public comment, public comment is closed. madam clerk, would you please read the adoption without committee reference? calendar items 74 through 85 were introduced for adoption, but without committee reference. a unanimous vote is required for adoption of a resolution on first reading today. alternatively, a member may require a resolution on first reading. to go to committee would any member like an item or item severed? supervisor mandelman item 75 i assume yes. supervisor walton. thank you, president peskin, please sever item 79, item 79 on the balance of the calendar. item seven. mr. president, supervisor dorsey, supervisor dorsey. oh, i just wanted to be added as a co-sponsor. i thought i was for 75. supervisor dorsey will be added as a co-sponsor for item 75. and on the balance of the calendar, mr. president, supervisor ronen as well, supervisor ronen wants to be

added, can i please be added to item 75, 76, 80 and 84? supervisor melgar. thank you. i'd like to be added to, item 77. and also. so, 84 and 85. thank you. supervisor dorsey, you're already called supervisor safaí. thank you. i think we sent this in. i just want to confirm, please add me as a co-sponsor to 75 of item number 76, 80, 82, 83, 84 and 85. we have all of those. okay. thank you. thank you. and, madam clerk, i think we sent this in too. but add me to 75 for confirming that i've been added

to 75. supervisor stephanie. thank you. i know i sent an email earlier, but i just want to make sure i'm added to 74, 75, 77, 79, which, i don't know if we sent that in 80, 81 and 82. thank you. okay, so now on the balance of the calendar item 7476 through 78, 80 through to 85, we can take those same house, same call. those resolutions are adopted. madam clerk, would you please call item 75, item 75. this is a resolution to declare san francisco to be a sanctuary city for transgender gender non-conforming, non-binary, and two spirit people. mandelman, thank you, president peskin. and i want to thank supervisors engardio preston walton, chan,

safaí, dorsey melgar, stephanie and ronen for your co-sponsorship, of this resolution, i again want to thank suzanne ford for coming to us in the first place and to honey mahogany and all the folks from the trans advisory committee and from your office who've worked with us. thank you for that. and i also want to thank melissa hernandez from supervisor preston's office, who suggested an amendment to reference an unfortunate and ill conceived and bad report that the national health service in england came up with and then drove a change in policy there. so we've circulated by email and handed out, just an additional recital that i would like to move as an amendment to this resolution. second, okay, motion made by supervisor mandelman to amend item 75. seconded by supervisor walton. can we take that without objection on the item as amended? same house, same call. the resolution is adopted, as amended. madam

clerk, will you please read item 79, item 79, this is a resolution to reaffirm san francisco's commitment to equitable language access for all residents through city services and the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs supervisor. walton. thank you. president peskin. i just want to state that we are happy to finally pass the language access ordinance amendments earlier today here at the full board. and now we have the resolution reaffirming san francisco's commitment to language access. we want all city departments who interact with the public to comply with the law. and we hope that as a city, we can work towards improving all of our language access services, including recruiting more bilingual staff and ensuring materials and information are provided and required. languages. i like to thank my chief of staff, natalie g. for her hard work and working with our city departments and community partners on this. i also want to thank supervisor chan and her entire team. i want

to thank oca director george rivas and his staff. chloe noonan, former oca director adrian pond, immigrants rights commission and president kenleigh sarah singh from the human rights commission. our deputy city attorneys alicia cabrera and anne pearson for helping us draft these amendments. city administrator carmen chu for her support. and of course, all of our community advocates through the language access network chinese for affirmative action, poorer african american advocacy network, african advocacy network, filipino community center, psalm cam, arab resource and organizing center, and carecen. and we would not have been able to do this without community advocacy and support. and i would also like to just say thank you to all co-sponsors, supervisor chan preston and safaí. thank you. thank you. seeing no other names on the roster, we will take this item same house, same call. the resolution is adopted. madam clerk, will you please read the

imperative calendar? yes. offered by supervisor ronen. this is a motion to modify the deadline to introduce a non skeletal skeletal charter amendment under rule 2.22.8 of the board's rules of order to allow introduction on june 11th, 2024, of a charter amendment approved by the city attorney as to form to provide that money set aside for the san francisco unified school district in the student success fund cannot replace, supplant, count as, or substitute for other city funding for the school district or children and youth required under the children and youth fund, the public education enrichment fund, or other provisions in the charter. supervisor ronan sure. i'd like to introduce this motion as an imperative item. so first i'd like to make a motion certifying the need to take this action. i need to do this right. president can ask for it. well, we need colleagues as we have an imperative item, a motion before

us, which requires the board to adopt two separate findings by a supermajority of eight votes before unanimous adoption of the item itself, the first one would be sunshine ordinance, findings that the item, requires a serious injury finding. so, i believe we may find that failure to adopt the resolution today would do serious injury to the public interest, and thus, meets the standards of the sunshine ordinance, so is there a motion to that effect made by supervisor ronen, seconded by supervisor chan? colleagues, can we take that without objection. and then we need to make brown act findings. is there a motion that finds the need to take action? came to the attention of the board after the agenda was posted, and thus the resolution meets the standards of the brown act? motion made by supervisor ronen, second by supervisor dorsey. can we take that? without objection? and now, on the substance of the imperative motion itself, madam clerk, a

roll call, please. mr. president, we'll take public comment. very quickly. is there any public comment on the modification of time for introduction of a charter amendment for the student success fund? seeing no members of the public on this item? public comment is closed and on the motion a roll call please. supervisor chan chan i. supervisor dorsey. dorsey i supervisor engardio engardio. oh i supervisor mandelman i mandelman i supervisor melgar. melgar i supervisor peskin i. peskin i supervisor preston. preston i supervisor. ronen i. ronen i supervisor safaí. safaí. i supervisor stephanie. stephanie i and supervisor walton i walton i there are 11 eyes the motion is adopted. madam clerk are there any immemorially? i have none to report. mr. president, we are adjourned.

>> [music] in the town inside here i'm young. he was putting art, music and drinking together upon today have a nonpretentious pretentious spitz that the community can enjoy each other and the time off we get in this world. [music] >> spends energy elevating artists and credit a safe place. a place to have a community. >> it is i great neighborhood the art district because we have the contemp refer museum of sf. yerba buena for the arts all of the operators and businesses here we get together and xhoukt and support each other this is a very cool neighborhood to be a

part of. [music] paint on canvas is primary low when we do. this is guilty pleasures an all female artist show. it is going to be great. fun we have interactive elements. >> we love having this gem. you know people come in and discover it and get to feel at home. this is like home san francisco >> never be afraid it anybodying on our door. [laughter]. if the hours are post and you had want to seat art we are here 9 o'clock to 5 o'clock most days. [music]

(clapping). >> so nice today. you know, everyone should have the day off today and yeah. >> know i'm joint tenant kidnapping especially the union square ambassadors know not today. um, hi, everyone i'm san francisco mayor london breed and joined today by our union square ambassadors our downtown ambassadors and our union square alliance ceo melissa rodriguez and yerba buena executive director and so many people have a lot to do in the downtown area i want to express my appreciation to all of you for being here but more importantly

all of you for building in and never giving up on san francisco (clapping.) and for all you have folks shopping on line please stop. >> but in all seriousness we're here and began cars one of our most sergeant off designation for people visiting san francisco we know before the pandemic what we saw happened in downtown many of the visitors and people who he welcomed if all over the world and conventions san francisco was a place that for tourism and vegetables and even businesses we never had to work for and now we do work from home has challenged our city like never before the challenges around crimes and other things having put a lot of information that isn't entirely adequate as you

can see today, this city is beautiful this city sister vibrant and exciting and we are back folks. we're not coming back we are back (clapping.) so why is it important to be here today? fall to talk about the momentum but also as you might have heard i just introduced any budget last week. and we have some really exciting investment in we plan to make in the downtown area to make that visibly more exciting and a lot for fun and support and enhance a lot of existing programs that are here as well. now here's the thing i want to give a facts what is happening in san francisco. and we know that people have been talking about public health and like in the major city challenges did you know that crime is down in 2023

and continuing to be one of the lowest crime rates we've seen in 10 years not including the pandemic and break-ins for cars continuing to decline significantly because of the resources and support that we gotten from our district attorney's office from our police department and all the incredible work that ma many of our city agencies to combat those issues and starting to see and feel a difference. is that perfect 90? no, but doubling down and working hard with the support of our downtown and union square ambassadors we are really changing the experience that people have when and come downtown but, you know, downtown can't be a place for retail it

can't be a 9 to 5 has to be one of the to newest neighborhoods people live and work and play so we know a lot of great events how how many of you went to are going to first thursday that thursday? >> (clapping) how many of you love it when he close down the streets and bring people together in downtown? >> (clapping.) my budget investments includes more active and night life downtown and more opportunity to turn areas of the downtown into entertainment zones can you imagine buying a small beverage and hang 0 in the sunny plaza and century and enjoy yourselves and say hi and meet people we're creating an environment people want to be in places where this

is activation and excitement and we'll be making more investment in actuating and bringing the culture and exciting experiences here to downtown san francisco. the other program we had that was extremely sketch is our have an opportunity to vibrant program do you change that is? of our better late than never gave free space for the a lot of small businesses that started in their garages in san francisco during the pandemic. and a doughnut spot a coffee and closing locations and vacant to vibrant free startup spaces for the entrepreneurs and 7 of them signed long term wlaez for downtown we're going to be doing more of that along that powell street and making more and more investments how much how many of you love tour neighborhoods in

san francisco? >> we want to bring that neighborhood feel to downtown those favorite businesses can actually be in downtown san francisco that is our goal and that's what i'm excited to do we want the vest more activation for downtown. the city has to be a partner little partnerships to make that work for small businesses and retail, to make sure that we are investing in public safety and to make sure we're turning s400 to into a neighborhood i can, live and in effect my budget invests $15 million in 0 o to that exist and that fun and enjoy that we so specially need in our city i'm grateful we have extraordinary partners to help us continue to do do work and build we get the resources, and work as a partner but the people who are on the on the ground in

union square do the work every single day to make that best and the last thing i want to mention before i bring up mri rise roger's how many of you look at plaza not the most attractive design in an urban environment that is underutilized i introduced a bond before the divorces voters in november you providing $50 million to make is an attractive designation for people (clapping.) to enjoy make sure you vote 2307b that body in november so many xiecht and activation and fun and so many joy that's what we're going to do to make downtown san francisco the place we know and love

(sirens) and i want us to remember one thing? not unfamiliar territory to us weaving been in challenging places before in fact, due went this building the info center a couple of stores that weren't even on at one point and this city had the violation to tear down those stores with a center and mission bay was recall tracks and any it is where the categorical state warriors with housing and it is whole that new neighborhood with bike trail and parks and open space so we are not going to be deferred by what we know we're capable of that is exactly why we're making investments working out to transform downtown into

the neighborhood that we can joy for the people who work here, the people who visit here and the people who live here thank you all thank you for being here today. >> and with that, i'd like to introduce our partner whose working hard rat union square and doing an amazing job more and more businesses signing leases and oh my god, in the union square area and 60 businesses for the last two years in union square thanks to the leadership or mri rise rodriguez. >> all right. >> (clapping) how is everyone feeling. >> i can't hear you loitered. okay. >> now i'm happy to be here and mri rise with the union square alliance i'm a san franciscan make should noise san

franciscans. >> i want to hear you (clapping.) i live in the beautiful city i work if if beautify city and pend my life in this city hoping to understand and know have well in order for our entire cities and community to thrive we need a downtown that is thriving too many with that without a thriving dentist we can't support the infrastructure that is needed to support all of our community, our schools and roads and infrastructure, our city services so important and right now you're downtown needs all of us. what we're seeing behind us is all of us a village we brought the heart of our city to be strong again that is union square. and yerba buena. we want this area to feel what is the

potential we're 12 hotel rooms in union square another 10 in house u thousand in the yerba buena area for people to experience lives greatest moments and as is bayview residents we put our best foot forward and show people that san francisco is a beautiful city we all know love and cherish by the bay this is our culture when you're walking up powell student we have work to do thanks to our mayor and police chief and our city administrator and thank you mta thank you, sf traveler and mike who is here our ambassadors whoer here comes everyday in the trefrjz and down here when san franciscans won't come downtown we want you back come back and

continue to enjoy lives moments the holidays or moerdz and this great opportunity that mayor present makes us without excuses we can access it and park and enjoy shows and music and beauty and activation and so pleased and so excited for this opportunity for our future 0 support in bond. imagine housing above plaza and imagine music here and imagine an area filled with tourism we love this city by the bay i love it city and thank you for being here. and for your help making f this happen and we need clean streets thank you, mayor so, yes all of that is happening thanks to the support of our leadership.

[off mic.] >> thank you. >> yes, we need all of three and going to bring our city back with that, i'd like to welcome up the director of the yerba buena cdb scott. >> (clapping) (laughter). >> hi, everyone i'm scott the executive director for the yerba buena community benefit district and south of market and thank you, mayor london breed and dennis and oewd for their support on creating this comprehensive program like this and will energize downtown. >> thank you mri rise and the entire team with the union square alliance for partnering us with us to do this existing program and yerba buena we are a community of museums and combraerlz galleries and restaurants and garden centers

and it is pretty amazing neighborhood we have 12 thousand resident across the street in the neighborhood to call yerba buena their home very diverse and amazing neighborhood. um, we also have a lot of momentum as mri rise mentioned mortality here and in yerba buena an amazing health fair snowflake with 20 thousand people across the street actuating the street and we have 25 new restaurants and bars opened in the last two years we have seeing change that is happening. our organization in yerba buena district we are about creating safe and welcoming and beautify neighborhoods and we do that on a daily basis with ambassadors see our ambassadors yerba buena ambassadors the union square ambassadors and the welcoming ambassadors. (clapping.) they sdwefr for hands we can clap but keep on clapping for

them they're on the streets everyday taking care of the important things thank you for your hard work and commitment and programs lake what we're talking about today enhances the street level experiences and bifurcation and safety programs and community programs really comprehensive anticipate new businesses will be attracted and strengthen sour existing arts and culture and museums that is really important we have 12 museums. >> and we are very excited about that as i mentioned thank you all and now i get the exciting pleasure to introduce our partners from the filipino community whew sorry about that desie and he's been an amazing executive director and runs an

amazing cultures business please come up. >> thank you for the warm introduction thank you. i'm representing the filipino community today and for us this is not just a press conference foreclosure guess revitalization of the downtown but a press conference step up to the plate and helping san francisco recover from the pandemic so the investment mayor london breed is talking about not a hail mary but concentrated investments been investing in the philadelphia pen community with the market in the san francisco mix and the first community to showcase what is the possibility of the community coming together and taking over the streets and make arts and commerce together and that market with the economic development not just for filipinos but chinatown and

so forth and during the pandemic, you know, we stepped up to the plat and given a by platform called it it the garden and 0igd 350 volunteers over 6 months to have 15 beautiful color to bring the community together and during the pandemic give a retail space with sfmta for over a decade and turned it into is fabric artist maker space creating exhibitions and artwork phenomenal not only to bring people back mayor london breed will be giving the filipino community we want the world to think about the filipinos on the same day that chinatown came to san francisco and that option of culture

attractiveness and designation not a hail mary they're are one half a million philippines many of you may be married to a filipino or a dj that is filipino we have to turn part of the downtown spot next contribution for san francisco and one of the things that often bugs me in the work i had is do all the economic development and bring out vendors like 50 different businesses on the streets and yet an by wall is half by i'm hoping to open up the mall to transform the mall and make three a filipino transition for all of san francisco so at the mayor london breed and thank you to all my

partners three building for the filipino community like the yerba buena and all the agencies like oewd and mpdu the whole albeit so, thank you. >> thank you, so much desie and you mentioned the room in the mall and our haven't do vibrant program is hopefully will help us get to a place where some that have the ground zero that want a brick-and-mortar business that the city will be that angle that partner yes property owners to have reduced rates and - but we can do this together. and it will be a partnership because the representation of the filipino community is strong if neighborhood and it should be stronger within our retail establishments and hopeful with the investment we'll start to

realize i also wanted to mention, of course, we want you to take public transportation and bike to downtown, but we know some of you won't get out of our vehicles that's okay. part of my budget includes the possibility of some free parking i don't know what is is about free parking that gets people excited but during lunar increasing with parking with available and little square people went crazy we love about that parking lot was packed and more people visited chinatown to we broke down and provided additional resources in the budget because there is something for everyone and has to be something for the additional public comment may be provided later in the agenda. like i said what work here and, live and time to come here to play. so with that, i want to thank you for being here. and we are looking forward to seeing transformation in our downtown.

and again, this week first thursday down on second street between market and mission (clapping.) we'll have a disco dj and those restaurants down there are amazing you don't have to wait night thursday but more activity and more excitement for the dentist let's show san francisco and feel the magic thank you all. >>

[music] >> sarah duncan the honeer chef here. alexa and i own this location today. we are wem omen in business. we started this location in san francisco about 5 years ago, and previous--had a kitchen in the back on geneva avenue. we moved over here about two years into that venture and opened this one november of 2019. i grew up in east texas and [indiscernible] bbq venture and wanted to do something different here which is our new orlean style. gentilly is a district in new orlens that remeans we of the excelsior. [indiscernible] i lived out here for 17 years. alexa also lived in the

neighborhood and we wanted to stay in excelsior. we think people enjoy. there isn't a lot ofication food left in the city. there used to be before covid so we wanted to do something the city wasn't already flooded with. gumbo is your traditional style new orleans style stew. we have a nice dark rich broth. pulled chicken, shrimp [indiscernible] the other popular items are fried chicken, a grilled mac and cheese. cajun green beans. number two seller. san francisco is a special city. it got a very big food driven industry. it is very hospitality friendly. i feel like especially in the restaurant industry, me being a chef it

is a pretty male dominant world out there, and i think it is really special the two of us have been able to come together as women and open this restaurant four months to the day before shutdown and keep the doors open still. we put a lot of love into this place. we try to make it feel you are walking into someone's living room where you are comfortable. we are at 482 mission street. welcome to check our lovely environment and have a cocktail culture. >> well to c h f a the society of america here on a chinatown the district preserved and the

history of chinatown with any person of any background is sketch plan or accepted for all people the founder help to create the studies and with a major collection on the objects that tell the material history of chinatown and so much is offend in chinatown incredible all the texture of the design a way to get from the east to the west and beyond that have an amazing institution like c h f a to >> # >> >> >> >> you are watching san

francisco rising. >> hi, you are watching san francisco rising. reimagining our city. he's with us to talk about how our library's economic recover. mr. lambert, welcome to the show. >> thank you. i'm glad to be here. >> i know it's been difficult to have books going virtual. have we recovered? >> yes, we are on our way. our staff stepped up big time during the pandemic to respond to the health emergency. since last may, we have been able to steadily increase in person access to library facilities. currently we are at 95% of our precovid hours of operation. in the coming weeks we are going

to fully restore all of our hours. we have four branches that we are going to bring back to seven day service. they are currently operating at 5 days a week and we are going to go to every tag line and i know all the foot traffic has not returned to san francisco, but our library is seeing a resurgence coming back. >> can we talk about programs after covid? >> absolutely, that is part and parcel of our mission. we were doing that work precovid and certainly the library stepped up during the pandemic. we doubled our level of programming for personal finance, small business help, jobs and careers. we have a dedicated small business center here at the library. there is a wide suite of programs that our librarian led.

we have a financial planning day coming up in october and we have financial coaches that members of the community can come to the main library and take advantage of their expertise. >> i understand the mission is in the middle of a renovation. how is that going and are there other construction projects in the horizon? >> yes, we have major projects in the pipeline. the historic mission branch library, carnegie library over 100 years old and we are investing $25 million to restore that facility. we are going to restore the original entrance on 24th street, the staircase from the lower level up to the grand reading room. we are going to push out on the orange alley side of the library and expand space for teens and children, we are going to create a robust community room, a

multipurpose space. we are also investing $30 million in the chinatown branch, we are going to upgrade the mechanical systems to the highest level of filtration as we increasingly respond as cooling centers and air respite centers and open access to the roof. it has some unique views of chinatown to create the inspiring space it is. >> i believe you have programs for families that have free and low cost entries for museum and zoos, is that correct? >> yes. it's a fabulous resource. go to our website. with your library cart, patrons, our residents can go to the public library and get passes to the museums, all of the incredible cultural institutions

that we have in san francisco all for free with your library card. >> how are these great free services paid for? how is the library system funded? >> we are so fortunate in san francisco. we are funded for by the library fund and those that taxed themselves just for library services. we also get a dedicated portion of the general fund. that together allows us to be one of the most well supported libraries in the nation. we have the third most library outlets per square mile of any municipality. all of our branch libraries have professionally trained librarians on-site. service that we are able to provide, the collection, we are

a leading library in our country. >> that lead know ask about your biggest annual event in the city. how does the event work and what's happening this year? >> we are excited for this year's one city one book. this is our signature annual literature event. we have everybody in the community reading the same book. this year's title is "this is your hustle" named after the pulitzer prize nominated and pod taste. this is about the population. one nice thing about this selection is that they are both local. we are going to have several weeks of programming, kicking off next month. it will culminate here in the

auditorium november 3rd. so our library patrons will get to meet the authors, hear from them directly, and one other important aspect about this year's selection, we have our own jail and reentry services department. recently the foundation awarded the san francisco public library $2 million to work with the american library association to shine a light on our best practices here in san francisco, and really help our peers in the industry learn how they can replicate the service model that we are doing here in san francisco. >> that's great. well, thank you so much. i really appreciate you coming on the show, mr. lambert. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you, chris. that's it for this episode, we will be back shortly. you are watching san francisco rising. thanks for watching.

(clearing throat). >> supervisor safai and supervisor ronen (gavel) good afternoon. >> welcome to the san francisco city and county board of supervisors regular meeting this afternoon at 2:00 pm., tuesday, june 11, 2024. madam clerk, call the roll. >> thank you, mr. president. >> commissioner walton present. >> supervisor dorsey present and supervisor engardio present. >> supervisor mandelman present address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction

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