it is a 35 community. there is so many to see come come in and buy certify increases and ongoing exhibitions here t t t ? it is a big one. let's hear it, give yourselves a big round of applause? i love the echo in here. this is big moment now and happy to be here. my name is franco finn, a native of this great city, san francisco, and proud to be a san franciscans to the core and also product of this great city, and i'm also proud film commissioner for city county of san francisco and many may know me as a

long time voice for your favorite basketball team here. what is that? the golden state warriors! yes. and it is such a honor to be here with all of you, because it is about you today. congratulations. give your is selves a big hand. bridge to excellent ceremony and scholar shf award and so proud to be here to give this alongside our great mayor along with you. you have gone through the journey and here you are to embark on the next chapter of your are live. lifep. life. are you excited? probably nervous too, but what a big step and will have a awesome time i'm sure where you may go, but it starts here and we want it just make sure we award you properly from your family and friends, in front of our mayor. with that said, proud to introduce our

45 mayor of great city and county of san francisco, make, some noise, for mayor london n breed! [applause] >> goodness franco, me already? how is everybody doing today? you guys don't look exseated. come on! [applause] i got to say, this is something that was really important to me. when i first became mayor, it was really important that i did two things. number one, i started a program called, opportunities for all that provides paid internships-has anyone done opportunities for all? good. good. paid internships for young people, because that is how i got my start and i also wanted to provide scholarship opportunities as well. some of you know that i was born and raised in san francisco and in

fact, i grew up in public housing in the city where my grand mother raised me. i never knew my biological father, i sadly have a sister who i lost to drug overdose and brother still incarcerated. i lived in a community gun violence was all too common and on a regular basis i attended more funerals then i can count. i saw my community crumble before me, and it inspired me to want to do something different to invest in and work with the city and county of san francisco in some capacity. i didn't know what it was, but i know when i got a opportunity through the mayor youth employment training program to get paid, because i had no money, to get paid and an opportunity to eventually go to college. i went to uc davis. it was really hard and yes i got a couple scholarship, but i worked cleaning houses, i worked baby

sitting kids because my grand mother had nothing to provide me with resources and i also wanted to take care of her because she took care of me. the reason it is so important to share this with all you, because i read all the stories. i read each and every story and when i wanted to do the scholarship, it was so important i look at the young folks in san francisco and look at kids who might be the first in their families to go to college, who may have had challenging experiences and despite everything you have been through, the fact that you are here and you are going to a number of universities all over the united states is extraordinary, and i am so incredibly proud of each and every one of you for this major accomplishment, because the environment to a certain extents around you, don't always make what you

doing normal and you are making going to college and you're making success normal and that's why the scholarship is so important and this opportunity to see you thrive is so important to me personally. so, i want to say congratulations for despite the obstacles still succeeding. despite the challenges, but here's the thing, it is not done. you still have a mountain to climb, so don't get discouraged. stay focused and more importantly, make sure that you keep positive people around you, because the reason why you are here for whatever reason, it is not just because of the people around you, it is because of the decisions you personally have made to get here. you have made those decisions. you have succeeded in life and you are choosing to go to college and continue that success and so stay the course, stay focused, stay positive and

keep positive people around you. i remember when i went away to college, it was really hard, because again, my grand mother was older and things were really challenging. they took down the projects i living in so i didn't have a home to go back to. people were dying funerals i couldn't make it to, it was crazy and i got to a point i just felt lost and felt hopeless and felt i wanted to give up and walk away, and the people in my community when i show said up, they told me not to give up. they encouraged me. they supported me. you know what? they told me to stay off the block. they pushed me out of danger, because they want ed something more for me and that's why every day i do this job, i give it all i got for this city and for the people that made it possible for me to be here. and just remember that as you go through life and what you do, what you do matters and also, so many

people are watching you. they are watching you be trailblazers in whatever career [audio cut out] hoping we get graduates and i know today you will be hearing from one of those graduates, cecilia gomez, thank you for being here and congratulations graduated from college and you will be hearing from her, but she didn't give up and looking forward hearing her story and how she is doing great things, and i want to take this opportunity to again thank franco finn, he is like a super rock star. [applause] >> i was hoping he would bring warriors tickets or something. i want to also recognize for those of you, all of you in our public

school system, the persons who are responsible for making all those decisions, include people like a lita fisher on the school board, so thank you so much for being here today and supporting our students. continue onward and upward and to much success, i will keep you in my prayers to insure that i'm always thinking about just the challenges that you will continue to overcome to be successful in life. thank you to the parents and all the folks from the different non profit agencies that made the recommendations of the students. [applause] thank you for being there for them. thank you for supporting them and keep them encouraged as they go through this journey called life. thank you all so much. [applause] >> thank you mayor breed. thank you for being such a inspiration and you are truly the inspiration here as well, so congratulations

again and we are going to hear from one of our alums from this bridge to excellence scholarship award recipient. a graduate now to talk about her experience, how important this changed her life, so please welcome to the stage, ms. cecilia gomez, our alumni speaker. come on up! praech [applause] >> >> good afternoon. thank you for having me here and congratulations to the class of 2024. [applause] my name is cecilia gomez and as of a month ago today exactly i'm a recent graduate olmcallister college with bachelor in education and spanish, and a 2020recipient of the bridge to excellence award. for four years ago i reconsidered whether going out of state was worth it or even a possibility.

with the financial implications of the pandemic and the unknown uncertainty of university open again, i thought perhaps the best decision was to stay closer to home instead, even though my dream was to go to liberal art institution. fortunately with the support of mayor london breed and the bridge to excellence award, i didn't have to sacrifice my education and with the support i can now say i graduated summa cum laude from mcallister and will be starting the stanford teacher education program in two weeks. [applause] the bridge to excellence award was proof i was capable of achieving my dreams and i had support systems that believe in me. even when i didn't always believe in myself. this award was a reminder to carry home pride everywhere i went. whether was in main minnesota or spain, i always had sunnydale,

bayview and san francisco in my heart and made priority to return home back to my roots. believe me when i say, we all believe in you. be the light and hope we need. bring the invasion and the strength to create the solutions to tomorrow's problem. channel your strength to keep moving forward and most importantly, always remember to shoulders you stand on, those sholders that hold you with love and pride and hope. thank you. [applause] >> thank you so much cecilia, congratulations to you. the moment we have been waiting for, the honor roll of scholarship recipients ready to announce, mayor breed if you can join on stage. i will announce them. this is a great moment, huge chapter in these lives and we are going to have

fun while we are doing it. they brought the hypoman for a reason, so let's hype it up. you ready! make some noise! bridge to excellence scholarship recipients, here we go. in order. we reedy? ready? first up is arele larkin [applause] photo, yes. go to morgan. give a round of applause to arele! [applause] okay. next we have kami zou! [applause]

uc san diego representing here. let's go ucsd. next we have scholarship recipient d'antonio samuel, cal state la. going to socal. [applause] and now we have the [indiscernible] going to jackson state university! [applause]

those are nice certificates right there, i tell you. next we have daniel romero! [applause] going to columbia university everybody. out of lincoln high. we'll get the order--that might have been my fault. now we have--this happens all the time. derel brown. let's hear it for derel brown. jackson state university!

[applause] next we have out of lowell high school, [indiscernible] going to uc santa cruz. future banana slug here. banana slug in the house. [applause] and next we have, aya [indiscernible] going to san francisco state university, local right here. go gators! [applause] congratulations. next we have, jeremiah jovana gomez! [applause] coming out of sota high school

and going to uc santa cruz, everyone. congratulations. next we have out of galileo high school, kelly wu, going to san diego state! going down south. [applause] great job. next we have, out of academy, kalil going to san jose state university. go spartans! [applause] next, out of balboa high school, let's go bal, mandy going to williams college! [applause]

alright. out of lincoln, let's see--actually , no. kipp sf college prep. nazir travis! [applause] out of lincoln high school, --going to cal poly! [applause] and out of galileo, we have waylen tang, uc irvine representing in the house! [applause] and last but not least, out of

lincoln high school, wilson lee going to san jose state university. another spartan in the house! [applause] let's hear to ladies and gentlemen to bridge to excellence scholarship recipients here tonight! wow, congratulations. you are going to make our city so proud. we cannot wait to see your next journey here and hopefully come back to share your experiences and inspire more people. once again, let's hear it for 2024, bridge to excellence scholarship recipients tonight. [applause] thank you so much. thank you mayor breed. now, we will have a group photo of everyone here together. the rotunda we will get out there and get oen the steps, do a nice little photo. we got our professional paragraphs to stand by. congratulations one more time. we'll see you at the rotunda and once again our 2024, bridge

excellence scholarship resip yntd recipient in san francisco. family and friends, what a great honor. see you next year. thank you for being a inspiration. keep doing what you are doing and thank you for making san francisco proud. see you at the rotunda and shout out to ms. gomez for sharing your story with us. (music).

>> thank you all for thank you for being here. and i'm come the cfo at planned participate hood and a request from gilda is not here but as i know the u.s. supreme court overturned rodeo and many today, i can't believe it but 12 satellites are restrictive reproductive rights we see a tax going on beyond deposition and witnessing assault think conception and from joined affirming care those

are under it minnesota the. >> too many of women and in reality they're graveling effected. >> the message if the reproductive rights freedom is clear they won't stop until adoption are completely polished and in this ever evolving environment we need all the government to act when it comes to reproductive rights freedom the local and state and federal level and the local is vital in the operation by approve the security and implementing buffer zip codes that protect the patients if protesters. local coalition like the bayview coalition is critical to find solutions and working collaborating to strengthen us at the san francisco reproductive rights act you'll hear important about another

shining example of san francisco leading the way once again at the local level and i want to thank you for your commitment and dedication and any my great honor to introduce someone a long time supporter and vocal championship k champion please join me mayor of san francisco london breed (clapping) thank you. >>. thank you very much. nicole for the introduction and for opening up the space an opportunity to come together to deal with something we all every thought we'd be dealing with and in fact, where robe wade was overturned two years ago that set in motion a monument that i think is brought women all over the country to fight for the ability to make decisions about our bodies. we shouldn't have to

explain what it is we need when it comes to any health decision thereby protected and the fact we have to now fight against policies that provide technical detailed around what you can and cannot it is really offense and it is our bodies it is our choice and we should be able to make any decision we need to and we shouldn't have to talk about whether or not in raise or inner safety net arrest this and that not part of the excavation i'm proud no, when rodeo wade was overturned 2 years our director of the commission on the status of women kimberly through the vision leadership created the bayview adoption rights coalition as a way - we figured out back. created this as an

opportunity to bring the various bayview counties together to prepare sadly for women who might be traveling to the bay area and looking for reproductive rights care no questions asked i appreciate her leadership and what we've been able to do to provide the resources to make sure that is possible and that we are able to be that sanctuary for women. it is really extraordinarily to be here today at the scene of coalition of leaders here joining us to make that clear including members of board of supervisors i'm proud of the work they have done and will continue to do to stand up for reproductive rights and whatever capacity they serve and have why is this important? it is important for the reasons that nicole stated but more

importantly it can't be a conversation that we have at the board of supervisors. this can't just think or be an ordinance we have to demonstrate with the voters of san francisco what our values are and how we'll continue as a city to fight against any injustice that reproductive rights health and freedom will continue to be protected in the city in whatever way possible one of the things i want to touch on we have two of those crises pregnant centers in our city that have been to women and efficient when you're going to said what all your options you're told like you'll go to hell if i get an abortion we don't need people telling someone we don't know what they're going drove and what it leads to the fact up and coming

those kinds of centers exist and people are not aware of what they are when they're walking into the doors another reason we need to that signage is appropriate and make sure that that we are using every resource san francisco has to protect reproductive rights in any way, shape, or form and so that's what had ballot measure represents and the reproductive rights act will do a couple of things declare a policy of the city for the comprehensive reproductive rights freedom and require our department of public health and dr. colfax the director be located here today to provide public library information where people can access repulsive services including the city supported clinics all over san francisco and prohibit the use of the city funds to cooperative or support

prosecution of an adoption or reproductive rights services that is laugh in 80 california we'll not be moving forward into synagogue we don't believe in and restrictive the funding for facilities don't provide or prefer a comprehensive health services have to have all the services that require signages and crises pregnant centers centers and people don't provide reproductive rights healthcare and where they can get the information that establishes the fund that private dollars the city dollars support people in accessing reproductive rights healthcare and amend the planning code to they are a admitted use whatever ruse permitted so a lot of technical bureaucracy but ultimately this you accomplishes the goals it is more important so 0 we're here

standing today, i know we to have a number of speakers and i will save my long list of thank you's to the at the end i want to make sure we have an opportunity to hear from all of them i'll so grateful and humble that so many of us have come together in the fight to make sure three pedestrians freedom for all women and i'm proud that this is not just a san francisco thing but this is a bayview thing that is all of our counties coming together to demonstrate that we are whether our das or elected leaders and public health folks we're together for one pursue to protect the reproductive rights for all women everywhere and take this opportunity to introduce another supporter of this initiative from the board

of supervisors soon assemblymen supervisor stefani (clapping.) good morning, everyone. >> thank you you'll for thank you for being here. and to our fabulous mayor for inching this i'll so grateful for planned parenthood i'm the supervisor for district 2 and have been privileged to work alongside to make sure we have security access and make sure we have the funds to provide for security for people can safely access the healthcare here and, of course, for the district attorney's office to improve the buffer zone a privilege to work with planned parenthood and start out by expressing any gratitude i i think is the so important to really what we're grateful for i'm grieve gratifying to the city like san francisco and the bayview that cares about the

reproductive rights for all and thank you, mayor. and they my colleagues for leading the charge it means too much to me i know there is a problem that i am grateful for the people that i get to work welcome to get that problem and thank you to them and grateful for planned patient thank you for all you do but in fear and i think all don't talk about the fear of what is happening in our country roadway what is happened to the adoption decision i have a 14-year-old drought my daughter has less rights this terrifies me and project manager a woman for murder in texas is absolutely terrifying to me the fact that 121 states are for restrictive laws since rodeo

wade was over turned is absolutely terrifying to me and 22 million we have a long way to go and girls are effected the fact we have a hope here in san francisco that means so much to me that fear we're all in especially women i know especially those have daughters we can't sit not tear? so important please removal this fear and direct any attention to what you'll have me do and we're getting into action and the fact we're in action that is powerful to let the world know and the entire of our country knows that san francisco will not stand for this means so much to me the fear is adjudicated so thank you, everyone i'm here with today. to really take this issue by storm and say we're not going to take it and let you have

control over you are both sides and our daughters both sides and make sure doing everything we can to turn the. >> (repeated.) >> and the constitution of the state of california. tied so thank you for being here. and i wanted to take this moment to introduce one of my colleagues supervisor mel greater and a mother to a daughter. >> thank you i'm the supervisor for district areas 7 and i'm a latino on the board of supervisors. and - but the first one to the elected with a appoint for the mayor we are underrepresented in politics but overrepresented um, in terms of the poverty in california. >> in california poverty as a single mom is latino i say this

in san francisco we have been the beacon people came from all over the world to reinvent themselves so upward possibility and my family came here pe i was 12 and adoption was still illegal and people were prosecuted for having adoptions and, you know, this place san francisco is values of openness and tolerance of freedom. and we must continue to do so. i am a mother of three girls i think that what i am seeing right now in terms of changing metrics around our country about the basic human rights of controlling your body is deeply terrifying as my colleague said in district 2 a woman.

>> but supervisor stefani but also, we are recovering from the pandemic around the country as a city and country no such thing an economic progress as upward mobility and freedom for everyone without repreoccupation rights and the basic rights to have control over your body, your families who you're responsible for so we're going to be consistent with our san francisco scrawls vacation dwellings we must continue to be that beacon of hope that sanctuary for everyone in the country to access basic human rights i'm grateful to planned parenthood and the mayor and colleagues over in the family month grateful for so clear from the beginning we must do this and a practical thing with the

legislation i was under the planning commission was entitled people picketed that and actually one of any colleagues it was intense having is there be no question this is a permitted use no later than is important. and that process so for the practical reasons but also the values that we are putting out into the world and doubling down. because we are all activists here and going to continue to be that beacon of hope for the rest of the crises as needed thank you for being here. and i will now introduce my dear dear colleague in district 9 supervisor ronen.

>> thank you, everyone. it is very exciting to be here today and an honor to be here and that's because i think what all of us have of the since the adopted decision in unthinkable reality of oewd wade over turned in the united states of america to make sure that my daughter and mother and sister my cousin and aunts and that they will continue to have the only control over higher both sides that's the way it should be and as a former supervisor of the former location of planned parenthood i have talked about this for decades and thought that san francisco especially with in charge the status of

women i thought we have doing everything we can with our local laws to protect women's was over the control of our own both sides of mayor a ton of additional things she fud found we can do and it is fantastic what at supervisor stefani touched on that inability to figure out what we call to fight back by putting this on the ballot we have had this in the board of supervisors but on the ballot we are telling every san franciscan you california do something meaningful in our own city to fight back and part of making history and laying down the law and saying that's who and what we stand for we're not going to do this for you we're going to bring you into the office and all join and fight

together that's district attorney (clapping.) thank you everyone. >> i'm brook jennings the san francisco district attorney and honored to stand understood mayor london breed the women of the board of supervisors, of course, our head of the department on the stuts kimberly and a number of leaders today to crawl on the voters to pass the san francisco reproductive rights act. when i think of the adoption decision i don't think we saw the domino affect on is rights that we have. i think we all understood the impact on the

rights of adoption but i watched things play out and watched other opportunities for reproductive rights healthcare is diminished across the country i had to confirm and personal story not that long ago i was told by a physician i couldn't conceive children to you as you can tell healthcare to figure out how i was going to be able to have children that meant considering imbet and went through that i learned after that that i was capable of having kids naturally after paying a large bill (laughter) but, but any bring that up again watched this play out we have seen across the country families ofard mber testa

fertilization services and i don't think we i thank the leaders behind me for pushing us for the record will i supervisor ronen in a moment you know that is nothing more to do they've figured out something else to continue to make sure that women in san francisco and from all over the country to come and have access to the care they need working to make sure that punishment privacy is protected and no jurisdiction outside of california and seek

to demonize women he or them or seeking care is just something we can't accept and that we must protect against here in san francisco my offense doing everything we can to make sure that women to access the care in the medical professionals that provide that care are are save and protected and crystal clear we will not tolerated any threats of violence or vibrant actions again women or facilities like the one we stand in today, if you come here to harm people or do thing that threaten them or make them feel bad we're for the scared to prosecutor i - i want to just to be clear, we're coming to push for this act to be passed i stand here as a a district attorney doing everything we can to protect those that seek this care and so

at this time i'm honored to pass it off to the cfo of the access health amy (clapping.) good morning imagine. >> i'm amy for access health in the bayview organizations for champions that had healthcare for all and it is the honor and privilege of my career i've been doing this for 25 years and 25 years ago we started ringing the alarm bells and the core supreme court can overturn rodeo wade and now the devastating nightmare has come to bear and the impact has been rapid and effected the lives of more than $20 million of millions people across the united states and i

think about the helpers and that i wake up in california and in individual our families and community health and well-being so the central access we're proud to establish with a coalition partner and leaders with new grant programs to protect and providing funding for partnered hood and other key partners to make sure that anyone in need of adoption care whether you live in san francisco or california or other states can come to san francisco and the funding is not enough. so we have to make sure we can continue to booster the

resources to expand the access. so across the country continues to impact really cruel and callous measures it restrict access to essentially healthcare and body autonomy in san francisco o in california and san francisco we have an obligation and responsibility to every tool to use it to stand healthcare and this measure introduced and built on it san francisco long history of taking bold action in support of justice a unique model for other jurisdictions to adopt and building on san francisco leadership as the leaders and we urge san francisco to stand up for san francisco values in support of this measure and we also thank mayor london breed for her leadership bringing this forward at the

(clapping.) and my pleasure to introduce a colleague and examine jessica the executive director of access for justice (clapping). >> good morning average everyone i'm jessica and the executive director at access reproductive justice for adoption funds and in the year following we supports 18 hundred people across california and beyond in accessing adoption care so the primary folks we support through our adoption funds are in california accessing care in the state so and folks who come if other states to california to access care. not only following the decisions in one hundred and one hundred and fifty percent caller

volumes by saw a 10 to 15 percent increase for the out of state and we know that the level of care that folks were coming from out of state is dramatically different and increased we're going looking at airfares and lodging and transportation and childcare and food. a number of kind of wrap around services that make it possible for the healthcare they want and need and so access r) is california and the municipalities is im3e6r we make sure that our since and those who travel for adoption care know and understand they are

safe and they are seen and they are heard. as california statewide domestic funds we see experiences of individuals seeking adoption care throughout the stay and regularly answering the callers questions whether they'll be judged for the or treated with dignity and went that they deserve. this initiative makes sure that if approved by the voters san francisco city and county of san francisco will unequally say yes to each of the questions. access r j callers are identified as black or inagainst people of color or in their 20s will been city and county of san francisco valid indicts them and experiences but also doing everything we can as so the mentioned to make sure two and three interest increased access

to financial services there the reproductive rights act. as well as protections discrimination as crises pregnant centers a finally would further protect individuals of the decision making for investigated or prosecuted for such a has access we are building we're all people in san francisco, california have the freedom to make powerful decisions including the decision to have an adoption without shame or stigma and regardless of race and risen and we're hopefully this initiative will help us get closures to the reality and with that, i'm grateful to i'm going to turn it

over to our partner kimberly from the status of women. >> (clapping) well a big thank you to everyone that came out today good afternoon. i'm kimberly the director for the status of women i close don't worry this will be short. the reproductive rights act about san francisco. leveraging it's strength and assets to codify repulsive freedom and justice into the rule of the law the high stakes presidential this is an example of san francisco proactively that contingency planning. we are backing down the hatches not to get catch flat-footed one thing we've learned from the

pandemic the call fall of rodeo wade that is not it is go time. and with this measure that our mayor has announced today san francisco is once again demonstrating that that is ready and prepared to lead and make no mistake, the reproductive rights act is a call to - to arms and action and what mayor london breed last done with that initiative is given the voters of san francisco the opportunities to say when you come for us when you come for our rights not only will when i fight back. (laughter) thank you. >> (clapping). >> wow. >> (laughter.) >> well, first of all, thank you to all the speakers i want

to take the opportunity to acknowledge a number of the folks thank you to the contra costa district dining i'm tongue-tied. >> thank you for coming here and working with us as well. we also have a couple of members would be here from the community college boards including merrill and fillingal williams and proud that so much of our departments heeds have joining us including our, as i mentioned, dr. colfax and county healthy officer dr. susan phillips is joining us as well (clapping.) and the director of public works carla short and our city administrator carmen stu and

maria the department of children, youth, families. and we also have a number of democratic central members including the chair of the agency nancy chung thank you for being here. and emma, (clapping.) and- any ho. >> (clapping) and did i get everybody i got almost everything and some partners beverly for joining us as well (clapping.) i know that gil doesn't - but appreciate her work throughout california and for planned parenthood and our city attorney david chiu and jose cisnero and the state controller malia cohen a village of people and as you

can see a fourth of a village here to not only roll up our sleeves but to bark and bite to get the job done and demonstrate it san francisco will continue to lead and continue to partner and collaborative and continue to doing everything we can to protect the pedestrians freedom of all san franciscans and people all over this country thank you for being here.

>> i am supervisor melgar. i am the supervisor for district 7. [music] i am a immigrant to san francisco. my family came when i was 12 from el salvador during the civil war. this place gave us security, safety and an opportunity to thrive, so i love the city deeply, and as a mother of three kids who have grown up as city kids, i'm grateful for everything the city has to offer for people like me and families. i have been politically involved my whole life, either in government or a non profit worker and i care

about the community. i care about people around me, and i want to make sure that as the world changes around us, other people have the opportunity that my family did. >> we are back in san francisco post pandemic. so important to be out supporting our businesses, supporting our neighbors. >> i'm the first woman to represent the district, believe it or not. i'm the first latina elected to the board of supervisors without an appointment first ever, so i do think that (indiscernible) i want immigrants to be represented, women, moms, people that have different experiences because that brings richme our decision making and i think it makes for betting decisions so that inspired me to run. district 7 is one of the most diverse districts in san francisco both

in economics and ethnicity. it spans north from golden gate park. it includes all the institutions in the park, the wheel. the music concourse, mew seem to the south to the daly city boarder and west to the organization. includes the zoo (indiscernible) all those fun things and to 280 oen the east. includes city college, san francisco state. i had ucsf parnassus so very large geographically. it is mostly single family homes, so it is the place where for generations family (indiscernible) nice parks, lake merced, mount davidson. >> this is like a village within the city, so we are very close nit community. we tend to band together and try to support one another and it is a friendly place and families and people to have a cup

of coffee and check out the park. >> ocean avenue, which is the southern end of our district is vibrant commercial corridor that mostly cater tuesday the local neighborhoods and the students. as you go further west you have the mall which has some of the best pan asian food offerings in the city. if you haven't been there, it is really fun. as you go up a little bit further, there is west portal avenue, which is a very old school commercial district where you can still find antique shops and cobbler shops and as well as like more modern restaurants. it is definitely hopping and full of families on any weekday. >> i'm matt roger, the coowner or (indiscernible) >> carl, other coowner in west portal. >> we are a neighborhood hardware store. been a community institution

since it was founded in 1936. we had a little bit of everything. (indiscernible) to gardening or gift buying. >> my entire experience in san francisco is this community. it is a very small town feel for a big city. the community is caring and connected. >> what makes me excited doing business in district 7 is i know it sell well. i grew up here. i knew a lot of customers, parents of friends. it is very comfortable place and feels like home. >> if you go up north, you have the innerpz sunset commercial corridor which has a awesome farmers market on weekdays and plethora of restaurants. there is everything you need. >> friendly and safe and (indiscernible) i love they bring

their kids with them. they teach them how to use their money, and it is something you dont see in too many markets in other communities. i love to see the kids come and talking to you. it is something different then i see from (indiscernible) >> the ev access to transit in inner sunset and ability to do a lot of shopping on foot, and now the improved biking with jfk closed to cars, because we have a 4 and a half year old who rides her bike. we now have a safe place to go and ride bike jz don't have to to worry about traffic. >> graffiti continues to be one of these things that during the pandemic just got out of control everywhere in the city and i do think that it is hampering our recovery of commercial corridors, so some of the volunteers on west portal avenue, some of the merchants got together with interns at our office

to do some hands on abatement and we have been doing it regularly. we are doing it once a week and we have a wonderful neighbor, carrie organizing and storing the paint and supplies in her office on west portal, but this needs more then just a volunteer efforts. >> i'm grateful for the collaboration. we passed legislation at the board and put $4 million in the budget over the next 24 months to help the department of public works hire laborers and labor apprentices to abate the graffiti on private property on commercial corridors. i think that for a couple years this recovery strategy so we can get back up as normal after this awful pandemic. participatory budgeting is a pot of money that is available every year for district 7 neighbors to propose projects that

improve the neighborhood and the district. anyone, any organization in the district can propose a project and then it's a vote. it is popular vote. we have 14 projects just approved and they span from you know, a vegetable garden at aptos middle school to pedestrian safety projects on (indiscernible) it runs the gamut, but it is wonderful because it allows people to be engaged in a real way, and then to see the outcome of their energy and work, because the things get improved in front of them. >> i like it is really close to the parecollect parks and bunch of businesses as well as a calm feel. it is a very peaceful feel even though it is close to a lot of things.

(indiscernible) also not boring. there is stuff to do too. >> so, there is lots to see and experience in district 7. [music]

>> 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

>> i don't want to be involved in the process after it happens. i want to be there at the front end to help people with something in my mind from a very early age. our community is the important way to look at things, even now. george floyd was huge. it opened up wounds and a discussion on something festering for a long time. before rodney king. you can look at all the instances where there are calls for change. i think we are involved in change right now in this moment

that is going to be long lasting. it is very challenging. i was the victim of a crime when i was in middle school. some kids at recess came around at pe class and came to the locker room and tried to steal my watch and physically assaulted me. the officer that helped afterwards went out of his way to check the time to see how i was. that is the kind of work, the kind of perspective i like to have in our sheriff's office regardless of circumstance. that influenced me a lot. some of the storefronts have changed. what is mys is that i still see some things that trigger memories. the barbershop and the shoe store is another one that i remember buying shoestrings and getting my dad's old army boots fixed.

we would see movies after the first run. my brother and i would go there. it is nice. if you keep walking down sacramento. the nice think about the city it takes you to japan town. that is where my grandparents were brought up. that is the traditional foods or movies. they were able to celebrate the culture in that community. my family also had a dry-cleaning business. very hard work. the family grew up with apartments above the business. we have a built-in work force. 19 had 1 as -- 1941 as soon as that happened the entire community was fixed. >> determined to do the job as democracy should with real consideration for the people involved. >> the decision to take every

one of japan niece american o japanese from their homes. my family went to the mountains and experienced winter and summer and springs. they tried to make their home a home. the community came together to share. they tried to infuse each home are little things. they created things. i remember my grand mother saying they were very scared. they were worried. they also felt the great sense of pride. >> japanese americans. >> my granduncle joined the 442nd. when the opportunity came when

the time that was not right. they were in the campaign in italy. they were there every step of the way. >> president truman pays tribute. >> that was the most decorated unit in the history of the united states army. commitment and loyal to to the country despite that their families were in the camp at that time. they chose to come back to san francisco even after all of that. my father was a civil servant as well and served the state of california workers' compensation attorney and judge and appellate board. my parents influenced me to look at civil service s.i applied to police, and sheriff's department at the same time. the sheriff's department grabbed

me first. it was unique. it was not just me in that moment it was everyone. it wasn't me looking at the crowd. it was all of us being together. i was standing there alone. i felt everyone standing next to me. the only way to describe it. it is not about me. it is from my father. my father couldn't be there. he was sick. the first person i saw was him. i still sometimes am surprised by the fact i see my name as the sheriff. i am happy to be in the position i am in to honor their memory doing what i am doing now to help the larger comment. when i say that we want to be especially focused on

marginalized communities that have been wronged. coming from my background and my family experienced what they did. that didn't happen in a vacuum. it was a decision made by the government. nobody raised their voice. now, i think we are in a better place as country and community. when we see something wrong we have change agents step up to help the community affected. that is a important thing to continue to do. you talk about change and being a leader in change and not knowing whether you have successes or results. the fact of the matter is by choosing to push for change you have already changed things. through inspiration for others, take up the matter or whether it is through actual functional change as a result of your voice being heard. i think you have already started on a path to change by choosing

that path. in doing that in april of itself creates change. i continue in that type of service for my family. something i hope to see in my children. i have a pretty good chance with five children one will go into some sort of civil service. i hope that happens to continue that legacy. >> i am paul, sheriff of san francisco. [ music ] (music).

>> i started the o was with a financing and had a business partner all ended up wanting to start the business and retire and i did was very important to me so i bought them oust and two weeks later the pandemic h-4 one of the moments i thought to myself we have to have the worse business in a lifetime or the

best. >> we created the oasis out of a need basically so other people bars and turning them into a space and when the last place we were performing wasn't used turned those buildings into condos so we decided to have a space. >> what the pandemic did for us is made us on of that we felt we had to do this immediately and created this. >> (unintelligible). >> where we would offer food delivery services with a curbside professionalism live

music to bring spectacular to lives we are going through and as well as employ on the caterers and the performers and drivers very for that i think also for everyone to do something. we had ordinary on the roof and life performances and with a restaurant to support the system where we are and even with that had terribly initiative and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt had to pay our rent we decided to have an old-fashioned one we created club hours where you can watch to online and or be on the phone and raised over one quarter of a million dollar that of incredible and something that

northbound thought we could do. >> we got ourselves back and made me realize how for that people will show up if i was blown away but also had the courage but the commitment now i can't let anyone down i have to make the space serviceable so while this is a full process business it became much more about a space that was used by the community. and it became less about starting up a business and more about the heart of what we're doing. this building used to be a- and one of the first one we started working on had we came out what a mural to wrap the building and

took a while but able to raise the money and pay 5 artists to make a design around many this to represent what is happening on the side and also important this is who we are this is us putting it out there because satisfies other people we don't realize how much we affect the community around there when he i want to put that out there and show up and show ourselves outside of those walls more fabulous. and inspires other people to be more fabulous and everyone want to be more fabulous and less hatred and hostility and that is how we change the

>> why does it been a process and celebration standing up together a difference luther against deliberation and i think justice and. freedom and love over the decades more and more people are standing up against bigotry and hate a media to celebrate love and resilient of our community. now over 5 hundred on people to anti legislation introduced across the country many targeting trainers youth to me not just a month but drawing how ethnicity say fighting for justice everyone person to

celebrated for who they are this is a reunion time to lift up our voices and shower our community with love and appreciation. pride month so showing up confidently in myself i love to have ethnicity and solid a dart anyone's our community and to jose for the indulgence and more. >> our city has a rich legacy of queer and transand occupy myself we are the history and the strulgsz the triumphant and the resilience of our community. in san francisco throughout the country and all over the world especially where we face persuasion this fried let's stand together in solidarity and justice and celebrate love.

>> happy pride month san >> i don't think you need to be an expert to look around and see the increasing frequency of fires throughout california. they are continuing at an ever-increasing rate every summer, and as we all know, the drought continues and huge shortages of water right now. i don't think you have to be an expert to see the impact. when people create greenhouse gases, we are doing so by different activities like burning fossil fuels and letting off carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and we also do this with food waste. when we waste solid food and leave it in the landfill, it puts methane gas into the atmosphere and that accelerates the rate at which we are warming our planet and makes all the effects of climate change worse.

the good news is there are a lot of things that you can be doing, particularly composting and the added benefit is when the compost is actually applied to the soil, it has the ability to reverse climate change by pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil and the t radios. and there is huge amount of science that is breaking right now around that. >> in the early 90s, san francisco hired some engineers to analyze the material san francisco was sending to landfill. they did a waste characterization study, and that showed that most of the material san francisco was sending to landfill could be composted. it was things like food scraps, coffee grounds and egg shells and sticks and leaves from gardening. together re-ecology in san francisco started this curbside

composting program and we were the first city in the country to collect food scraps separately from other trash and turn them into compost. it turns out it was one of the best things we ever did. it kept 2.5 million tons of material out of the landfill, produced a beautiful nutrient rich compost that has gone on to hundreds of farms, orchards and vineyards. so in that way you can manage your food scraps and produce far less methane. that is part of the solution. that gives people hope that we're doing something to slow down climate change. >> i have been into organic farming my whole life. when we started planting trees, it was natural to have compost from re-ecology. compost is how i work and the soil biology or the microbes feed the plant and our job as regenerative farmers is to feed

the microbes with compost and they will feed the plant. it is very much like in business where you say take care of your employees and your employees will take carolinas of your customers. the same thing. take care of the soil microbes and soil life and that will feed and take care of the plants. >> they love compost because it is a nutrient rich soil amendment. it is food for the soil. that is photosynthesis. pulling carbon from the atmosphere. pushing it back into the soil where it belongs. and the roots exude carbon into the soil. you are helping turn a farm into a carbon sink. it is an international model. delegations from 135 countries have come to study this program. and it actually helped inspire a new law in california, senate bill 1383. which requires cities in california to reduce the amount of compostable materials they send to landfills by 75% by 2025.

and san francisco helped inspire this and this is a nation-leading policy. >> because we have such an immature relationship with nature and the natural cycles and the carbon cycles, government does have to step in and protect the commons, which is soil, ocean, foryes, sir, and so forth. -- forest, and so fors. we know that our largest corporations are a significant percentage of carbon emission, and that the corporate community has significant role to play in reducing carbon emissions. unfortunately, we have no idea and no requirement that they disclose anything about the carbon footprint, the core operation and sp360 stands for the basic notion that large corporations should be transparent about the carbon footprint. it makes all the sense in the world and very common sense but is controversial. any time you are proposing a policy that is going to make real change and that will change

behavior because we know that when corporations have to disclose and be transparent and have that kind of accountability, there is going to be opposition. >> we have to provide technical assistance to comply with the state legislation sb1383 which requires them to have a food donation program. we keep the edible food local. and we are not composting it because we don't want to compost edible food. we want that food to get eaten within san francisco and feed folks in need. it is very unique in san francisco we have such a broad and expansive education program for the city. but also that we have partners in government and nonprofit that are dedicated to this work. at san francisco unified school district, we have a sustainability office and educators throughout the science department that are building it

into the curriculum. making it easy for teachers to teach about this. we work together to build a pipeline for students so that when they are really young in pre-k, they are just learning about the awe and wonder and beauty of nature and they are connecting to animals and things they would naturally find love and affinity towards. as they get older, concepts that keep them engaged like society and people and economics. >> california is experiencing many years of drought. dry periods. that is really hard on farms and is really challenging. compost helps farms get through these difficult times. how is that? compost is a natural sponge that attracts and retains water. and so when we put compost around the roots of plants, it holds any moisture there from rainfall or irrigation. it helps farms make that corner and that helps them grow for food. you can grow 30% more food in

times of drought in you farm naturally with compost. farms and cities in california are very hip now to this fact that creating compost, providing compost to farms helps communities survive and get through those dry periods. >> here is the thing. soil health, climate health, human health, one conversation. if we grow our food differently, we can capture all that excess carbon in the atmosphere and store it in unlimited quantities in the soil, that will create nutrient dense foods that will take care of most of our civilized diseases. so it's one conversation. people have to understand that they are nature. they can't separate. we started prowling the high plains in the 1870s and by the 1930s, 60 year, we turned it into a dust bowl. that is what ignorance looks like when you don't pay attention to nature. nature bats last. so people have to wake up.

wake up. compost. >> it is really easy to get frustrated because we have this belief that you have to be completely sustainable 24/7 in all aspects of your life. it is not about being perfect. it is about making a change here, a change there in your life. maybe saying, you know what? i don't have to drive to that particular place today. today i am going to take the bus or i'm going to walk. it is about having us is stainable in mind. that is -- it is about having sustainability in mind. that is how we move the dial. you don't have to be perfect all the time. >> san francisco has been and will continue to be one of the greener cities because there are communities who care about protecting a special ecosystem and habitat. thinking about the history of the ohlone and the native and indigenous people who are stewards of this land from that history to now with the ambitious climate action plan we

just passed and the goals we have, i think we have a dedicated group of people who see the importance of this place. and who put effort into building an infrastructure that actually makes it possible. >> we have a long history starting with the gold rush and the anti-war activism and that is also part of the environmental movement in the 60s and 70s. and of course, earth day in 1970 which is huge. and i feel very privileged to work for the city because we are on such a forefront of environmental issues, and we get calls from all over the world really to get information. how do cities create waste programs like they do in san francisco. we are looking into the few which you are and we want innovation. we want solutions.

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