>> sanitation and streets commission. today is none july 15, 2024 and it 1003 a.m. secretary fuller, please call the roll. >> good morning. please respond wior present. commissioner anderson is present. commissioner eusope is present. vice chair harrison is present. chair hartwig-schulman is present and christopher simi has a planned absence. with four membersprint we have quorum for sanitation and streets commission.taken for all informational and action items on today's ajepdaism to comment in

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chair hartwig-schulman. >> alright. we have our first reading of the land acknowledgment. quite excited for this. it has been a while putting it together. so, the san sanitation and stree on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush communir sovereign rights as first peoples.

the san francisco sanitation and streets commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone, the original inhabitants of what is now the san franci the ramaytush ohlone understand the interconnectedness of all things and have maintained harmony with nature fush ohlone peoples for their enduring commitment to mother earth. and as part of san francisco public works, wpublic spaces as stewards of the public right of way by cleaning and greening throughout the city in respect the land on which we now reside. indigenous peoples from many nations make their home in this regi today. we commit to prioritizing policies and programs to equitably benefit marginalized members of the community, including american indians, while also striving for environmental sustainability. so, i guess we have an announcement. we have a new commissioner, welcome to the team. >> thank you so much. excited to be here at the first meeting. >> awesome. mr. fullerx do you have any announcements? >> i have one very brief announcement, one is there are a number of operations related workforce development agreements that are planned wnfor next week's public works commission meeting. those will be posted later this week and available to

commission for review and i encourage any questions have that we can relay those chair post. i want to extend congratulation to ne commissioner anderson as well-on joining the commission as commissioner simi for the birth of a new child and as well as commissioner eusope for restaurant being recognized with a michelin star this past week. congratulations. huge news. and then, the only other is our 2025 calendar will begin drafting in the weeks, so please look out looking for your availability for next year as we draft our meeting schedule 2025. and that concludes my reports. thank you mr. fuller. please call the first item. [gavel] >> item 1 blic comment, which is for topics under not

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welcome commissioner anderson. carla short, director public works. much happened since our last meeting. we pride celebration, annual ocean beach sand removal, our monthly neighborhood beautification day and we have a exciting announcement i'll share in a moment. so, pride rec had a wonderful and nth and the operation division as well as our key in making this happen. this 8!theme was sowing the seats of love. from the pride celebration and after work mixer and an amazing my queer work besty. it was engaging events and projects for staff during june. many thanks to great lgbtq ia plus the month festivities

culminating in a huge weekend long pride celebration including a parade down market street that featured our puaworks contingent we showed up in bigger nubefore and personally happy to be part of it. afterward our street cleaning team, more then 50 strong for the specialized operation got to work. we also had staff attendeding to department operations center or doc, making sureout a hitch and many thanks to staff at the city emergency eoperation center. last month kicked the sand rolocation activity at ocean beach. over the course of a few weeks the crews redistributed approximately 30 that is enough to more 9 olympic size swimming pools thmpt aim is reduce sand build up on great highway during windy weather. we started june 17 and

ers back hos and heavy equipment to width of sand dunes and move sand away from the road efforts shown in past years to delay the natural progression of sand incursion on the great highway. sporadic closures of the great highway due to the build up of wind blown sand the roadway normally occur every year during wintser and spring, however in recent years sand build up worsdrought and sustained high winds. sand /+cumulation on the great highway makes dif cut and hazardous for vehicles and bicycles to navigate. every year we have a small window to perform this work, it must be timed to make sure crews do not disturb the western snshower bird spreckted under the u.s. endangered specious act. done in coordination the golden

gate. so i want you to everyone involved in this operation. and just in case you missed this important data in most recentnies letter, i want to highlight some of the amazing work we have done the first half of 2024. and i'll take a moment before do to plug our monthly news letter which is available on a beautiful digital journal that highlights the work wethe month. through a strong concerted department wide effort over the last 6 months we filled 6100 potholes rkss pruned 3600 trees, constructed 98 new ada compliant curbramps applied surface sealing streets to 160 roadway and picked up 9494 tons of debris from city streets. these staggering numbers are something we can all be proud of and are the result of a lot of teamwork, planning and determination. i can't wait to report on what we accomplish in the second half of this

year. alright, the big ruveal. i'm not sure how american government agencies can say they have their own video game, but count among them. with help from our communication team, weown internet based video game to capture the spirit of maintaining cleaning and greening san francisco streets and sidewalks. is called, neat street and lives on our website. neat street units civic pride and arcade style gaming to promote the value caring for neighborhoods while always on the look-out for new creative ways the community and teach about the mission to take care of san francisco. from filling potholes and removing graffiti to building benches pinstalling trash cans, kids and kids at heart learn about some of the public works does 24/7 to maintain, clean and beautify san francisco. i want to give a special shout out to ay jewelman fam from communication team who partners with san francisco uctions to bring

the game to life. it is really fun, i am terrible at it, but encourage you and, a couple of of retirements, particularly for our operation staff. we had the opportunity to two long-time staff members fair well as to retirement. chris mack daniels the super intendant of bureau street service and long career with public works and public utility commission retired a weeks ago. happy to report our assistent super-intendant jonathan vang additionally, matt--former superintendant of bureau street and sewer repair and later bureau building repair retired after a successful career at public mora wayne, is acting superintendant. we have a deep bench of leadership and so with throf two strong

leaders our operation bureaus as and responsive as ever. next up our annual report, if you haven't seen it it yet it is beautiful in print and online. our annual report for the fiscal year 22-23 is out. the report spotlights our core services r out of the ordinary work from the response of dedicated and determined front line crews during the historic winter to pothole filling and repaving and many thanks to theresa fong from communication team putting it together so beautiful. when i compare the annual report to some of the see, it is really elevated, beautiful work. very proud that. and lastly, ouneighborhood beautification day. our last month neighborhood event was focused on the neighborhoods of district 11, the excelsior, inglne and ocean view among others.volunteers

to join us. our next event is july 20. we will clean and green in the marina, pacific heights, [indiscernible] presidio heights and other district 2 you can join us. and with that, that's my report. thank you. >> alright. well, thank you. it is amazing to see how to normal after the parade. you guys do such a great job with that, so yeah, thank you for all that. does anyone have any questions r the director? i think we are grood. hearing no further questions, mr. fuller recollect please open this item. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment in person on item 2, communications and director's report, may line up

against the wall furthest from the door. if you're commenting outside the your hand button in the webinar or star 3 on your phone to be recognized. and we do not have any in person commenters, and we do callers own the phone either. >> please call the next item. minutes from the may 20, this is an action item. motion is made, i'm happy totake questions or corrections to those minutes. >> are there any questions to the the commission? don't look like it. do i have a motion to adopt the minutes from can i hear a second? >> secon

we will-given that motion, we will now hear public comment. secretary fuller, please open public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment in pemotion to adopt the minutes from may 20, and commenting outside the chamber, press the raise your hand button in the webinar or star 3 on your phone to be recognized. cz we do not have in enters and sfgovtv let me know there are no callers on the line interested in speaking on this, so that conclu >> alright. all in favor of adopting the minutes from may 20, 2024 say yes. >> yes. >> anyone opposed, no. motion passes. secretary fuller, will post adopted minutes from may 20, 2024 to

the commission website. please call the next item. >> item 4 is the bureau of urban forestry performance measure report and acting super intendant nicolas crawford is here to present the report. this is a informational item. >> good morning. nicolas crawford, acting uperintendant bureau urban forestry. we are a operation group so our crews are at the cesar chavez yard share updates on how we are doing by the numbers to interrupt if you have questions as we go along. so, this first slide is something we have been tracking over the years since the creation of our program, so street tree sfvoter funded and approved proys for street tree maintenance and it started 1, 2017

and this pie graph morphed over the years. it went from entirely gray to goal is to complete pruning of all street trin san francisco and then be able to restart that cycle and continue to improve our process and our service frequency. to give a sense where we are at completed over 90 thousand trees which puts over 72 percent and that leaves us 27.6 percent to go. comment that, there is normally a wedge here. our light blue active wedge and we don't have that now, because we are in between our contract with our contractors. our last contract ended in early march and e is going out to bid. we expect in the weeks folks will be able to bid on that. we'll get new contracts rolling in and think the timeline is about 4 this has been difficult for us because we lean on our contractors a lot to get work done.

we have crews-i will share in the next slides. are in betweeb those contracts and could really benefit from kj that support. lessen learned for us to see just how long it takes to get that going and when we started really early, it has to be evening earlier the next time around. so, this walks through-i think i should explain what this-what is happening on left to right is over the years by year and then going top row shows our pruning work, the shows trees removed and the bottom i'll start with the top one. for our pruning in fiscal year 2020, we did 11.464 trees. that was a combination that green sliver of internal work and then that er chunk of contractor work

and over the years you can @n especially we took a hit. a lot of crew were the pandemic and we recovered over and more, but our maintenance work during the pandemic was effected, especially with the tree pruning. we continued with emergency maintenance removals for safety reasons, but you can see we have been able to pick up speed again once things stabilized.year with internal work and in contractor work and this year we suffered because we lsemonths of contractor work since march.our internal crew to talk through that, we've made prioriau to start out last year and this year we efocused on arborist highering. we have one starting-one more coming this saturday or next and there is another vacanfill and

we'll be in good shape with our arborists, but long time coming. i expect to see the benefits that on-boarding paying off in this next fiscal year. to go down to our removals, you can see early in our had tons of tree removals that we had to do. we avoid removing trees whenever possible. it sets back thin goal of growing tree canopy but if there is a safety issue or the trees died, it is a action we have to take, and there is quite a bit of differed work stacking up when we took over tree mainte i understand if you had a tree that was dying in front and it would have cost you thousands of dollars, wait till the city takes over and of the program. at the beginn had a lot on our plate with removalsthe years. i will say, it spiked last year

with a 1004 removed that is driven by the march storms of last year. march 2023. the numbers, got me thinking because we had one day during that march storm where knwe hauled 125 tons of green waste and trying to wrap my head and that is all most a of green waste hauled in a single day. i don't think we hauled bananas, but leaves and branches. time to recover from that and effected the maintenance work. and a half, 2 years we have been doing a lot of work. it was distracted by a lot of work and we don't mind. we respond to that and but if we had a choice we would rather be doing pruning work and moving forward on that, pruning all the trees. if it is the storm, we'll do it.

and then you can see in e last fiscal year, all most nunthing from our contractor there isn't a number there by our contractors r removals, and that's removals with contractors are more complicated, takes longer. it is easier to do that with our crew in generat we just gave them huge batches of prune ronl contracts and found that was a more effective way to do it. so, when our contractors remove trees, they are also required to grind the stump as part that, unless it is a function that, we've been keep up with stump grinding as they go along, but internal work and storm work just go from one tree to the next and keep moving during a storm, sothere is quite a few stumps you will the sidewalk and in the last fiscal year we put together a package for contractors to deal crew

made a point to focus on that so you ee stump griding over the years is quite and spiking this past year. feel we had the breathing room to focus on that. okay, shifting gears to talk about tree planting. very proud of our 17 to this past year. we defi tree planting work, and this isn2a combination of what we've done with crews and grant partner, friends of urban forest especially, but the-there is more to the story too. we are also issuing permits for tree planting and i think that is a good thing to include in here. we put that in our annual display that going forward. but, you can see that over the last years we are really capped around a thousand trees and

broke lf through that this past year and in our talks with friends of urban forest, that they could repeat to grow beyond that, they re which i respect and as a result for us to get past this and planting more trees, we have to look at growing internal capacity and work with contractors for planting, which is something we pilot and it very successful and we like to do more that. >> question. does this include trees that >> yes. >> okay. >> good question. >> not all just fresh, they are replacements ancations? >> that's right. >> okay >> it could be planting a vacant site where it has might not know what happened years ago oris vacant, or could have been vandalized and then hadn't had a chance to establish and gets replaced

right away, or it could be a totally new site ted basin where there is a conflict and we moved it over. that all included in here. i think that trackingthat a challenging thing to figure out what went wrong. we show up it is just a pile and unless someone comes out and says there is a car accident or i saw what happen ed here, it is hard to make sense of what happened, but we would like to gather more that and be to report. even on a limited basis. mean, it is great. 1700 trees, like, that's awesome. whether they are replacements or not. i was just kind of curious if we knew what >> that is one of our big questions too, are we moving the needle. how does this all net out? do we have more trees in the year then when we started it and without doing a

is pretty expensive, how can we use our daily data to tell we are moving. >> yeah. thank you. >> so, again, this is our internal crew just focused on this slide and it has been very stable in terms of what we ed can do. i'm proud of their ability to stay on track or get back on track after storms, but they lot done ons which i think this coming year is the big question for them.hired more arborists, do we show that we are able to get more work done with that and certainly the burden is on to demonstrate that. alt,for tree inspections. another group in urban forestry. we got arborists we talked about and tree inspectors. this team is-they have ltiple

duties. one of the roles is to go out in the field inspect trees. we do that proactively for our maintenance work. we respond to servicrequests where someone might ask us to prune a tree, or address some kind of issue and we go out and take a look at e feed back. sometimes couldju sorted out on a phone call where we take tons of calls and e-mails and try to call back same day or the next day. that has been a great resource for the public, but inspection is still a core as the nature of the work doing more permit and inspection review, the getting balanced across a number different demands and we want to keep up with that inspection level and we are looking at

ways to speed that up. there is tools that could help us with a check-list type inspection that would be frndly for are exploring that. this graph to me represents an incredible volume of work getting done, thousands of inspections and also something for us to how can we skill up further and make our team able to work with the best technology. this gives a sense of the fi hose coming at us in terms of in-bound requests over the years and you can see how a lot is by storms, where last year the arborist part of the graph spikes and that is something that is welcome for us. we waof trees down and damage so we can respond to it.

there is also a wholmix of things. it could be trash in the median, it could be tall grass or ed somebody is pointing out they want us to deal 5nwith, and we as the in-bound request in a lot of ways. we might not mobilize a crew immediately for each request, but we can see there a proponderance of 311 calls. it takes a while to mobilize on to close traffic lanes but 311 eyes and ears throughout the city and make aware of the issues we can this is a in-bound request on the next slide you see by comparison what we completed. so, we mark those in-bound request as duplicates and might merge them

or redirect them the appropriate agency. sometime s if we get oks like our responsibility, but really someone else's jurisdiction we will forward it to them. within our team we get tremendous amount done and the life line partf the graph is landsc4o that's a lot of type of requests. felt it can be mowing or median maintenance. green waste pickwe get frequently. we'll respond to that, close those out. i think a lot of credit going to our team and leaderover the last couple years to amplify that to vn the light blue has grown all most by a thousand per year, so the team is really stepped the service request closures our arborist too, it is we want to stay on task with our plan

but re311 request too. >> question for that as well. does it show which-how many or diverted for other departments because it was theirs? the last slide showalize the ones you received, it doesn't mean they necessarily are for you, correct? >> right. or might not be something that on immediately. it could be a request to prune a tree and when we go out there and look at it it's-the tree is 99 percent perfect shape. your point is taken and understand it is nice to do this, but we really got to focus on- only the worse things that require pulling a crew want to stay on the planned maintenance t. is discus with the person and wreel polk explain to them bet that is annoying and see how you are lookinow and seeing that every day, but the way i see it, i

would hate to drive past a worse hazto a smaller hazard. we really have to focus on the stuff that's the high safety priority. ca >> makes sense. thank yo >> okay, and another group of our bureau is the cement shop and their work is a mix of client work for mca or we do have a to water boxes, like th installing and repairing the sidewalk area and the christy box that incapsulates those, and then what's illustrated here is tree 4sair work, so we have a crew that is dedicated to this tree maintenance, jñ and they've done an incredible

amount of work fix the damage caused by our own street trees. the data is and drops off and goes up again. tree related service orders we did them in a batch and unfortunately they reflect when we close them and not when we spike in 2020 when we were catching up on en service orders that had been completed already, thousand square feet had been done over previous years as just there. an unfortunate art iificate of the data. the fall ollowing years it falled up. you see the last 2 years it tchas been climbing so this reflects our crew, getting more done last year and this year especially being more

consistent with how they track and close the service orders, so if they do it in real-time it shows up when it should be and we are capturing the work and telling the llry. it is incredible. it is 2 acres of sidewalk in the last fiscal year, and all it is technical, complicated nd a tree with root pruning anof intervention to get this work done. credit to them. and then, the other sidewalk repair-sorry, cement shop crew does curb repair. similar problem in 2020, huge spike from closing out old service orders whto do it but it skews the data. e last several years it has been very stable. the same supervisor who has the same methodology and is tracking that very

well. similar here. a ton of feet of-[indiscernible] 3 year average here, so that tells our curb repair story. before i stop talking there is a bunch of stufhere.'r leadership is here, so it is really not one person at all, it about 120 people working every day and i'm hatalk about it and take questions, but glad we could share what we are doing and happy to answer any questions. >> hi. thank you so much for sharing the information. i have several questions. >> you had questions last time. >> i'm always want to understand. first of all, how do you choose

your subcontractors? is there a specific criteria? bids and then go for the one you have familiarity working with? can you share with us? >> sure. so, we create a pool of contractors and there is quite a bit of selection are qualified to be able to be in the pool, but when we dispatch the work, we create a contract service order, cso and then the companies in this pre-selected pool submit their pricing for that cso and the allows them to compete against each other and we out that pool the lowest bid, a balance of both the knowledge we are working with, but we are getting a competitive price for each one of the cso. there is other ones-different

types of contracts that could be a line item only, and that line item price gets set earlier in the process and then it is just issuing the work to those charge based on how many they complete. if it's the tree is a line item price, but the tree pruning is something they would bid on competitively. and then i think director short may have some information. >> yeah. job summarizing nicolas. for most of our contracts, we have to go through competitiveample, if it is a line item bid, then we do the competitive bid process at the front end of the contract, so we say, here's the work scope, here are the diffe items, give us your best price and all

the contractors who want to bid to go with the lowest bid.pools of contractors, they are meet certain criteria. we do a essentially a mini-competitive bid for the pre-qualified contractors. i also want to note we have done a number of micro lbe set a so that is where we limit the pool to lo part of what we committed when we took over the street trees, we didn't want the smaller tree companies to struggle so they compete against each other, not the bigger tree companies and that insure we are try ing to support the lo5ocal business enterprises. >> how do you supervise them? see if the results are there? >> yes. a benefit of sometimes

thousands of eyes and ears watching out the window as work is getting done, so quick if folks call and alert if somebody is the morning or if they don't pear to have safe work site set up, so we get that instant feedback, even if someone on our team isn't present. ined in advance of it, we organize our work into key maps. we give them a key map of trees, which that might be 400 to 900 trees, and we give them the list of trees to be pruned and then they go out and do it work has been completed. we want to make sure that when we mark that complete and we pay them for the work that we can verify it has

been done. that's our chance before we to have leverage and say, missed this set of trees over here.cars parked there and we'll go back and do that. we also found that a year or more later when we found issues down the road, because we have these pools and long-running relationships with them, they are incentivized to make it right. it isn't like they are just coming in and bouncing out of town, these are companies that have a local presence and want to make sure that they are doing it properly. even in some of the bigger contracts they have a requirement to work with somebody locally, a smaller business. it has been interesting seeing how ey will say, it is a really small trees in tight spaces and you got a small crew that can work through that we'll assign that to you and then the

larger contractor crews will tackle some of the bigger right of ways. it has been good. >> yeah. >> in general we had a good d when we find issues we've gotten good support hauling out and saying this should look like and we'll make it right, so that has been our experience. >> it should be. i like this collective working together. my second question is about the roots maintenance of the large trees. i have gone on a little tour trying to show some of the streets that have roots coming surfacing and it is a bit dangerous and i wanted to understand, do you work with the street pavement pothole team together to maintain this or to eliminate so the street is safe to drive on? >> njust the sidewalk, but

the roadway. >> the roadway. the sidewalk is damaged and still there and nothing has been done and i have gone on a months ago and everything is still the same, so i wanted to understand you all are in the same agency. are you working together? ad sent a report about it , what has been the outcome. how do you work together part of the presentation, so i just want hch- >> for other decisions i want to differ to the director, if there is anything else i'm jump on after. >> sure. so, the way generally the way that we work with the paving crews, if they see damageto be related to trees, they will typically ask to come and take a look to make sure we can safely remove the damage without either needing to remove the tree or causing the

if we can't do that, then we have to go through a process of basica planning for the tree removal before they do the necessary roadway work, but typically it is brought to our attention from the the paving contractors who are going to be doing that can do another presentation on how we prioritize pavement repairs around the city, because we have a pretty robust system priorities but we try to make sure they are working with buff we don't end come through and pave the road an tree falls on the newly paved road because they cut the roots.in terms of--we have a very significant back-log of sidewalk repairs. we took over responsibility street trees in one day, july they suddenly all became ours so inherited over30 thousand locations of damaged sidewalk, many which were

property owner responsibility but the city took over and got that re we developed i think a really defensible process for prioritizing those repairs, which looking at hospitals, senior centers, bus stops, schools and hood commercial districts and then overlaying where we know there is damagewith those areas. really to try to have those be our proxy for vulnerable populations and pedestrian volume, just pedestrians. what happens is, we created what we heat map that said, these parts of the city haveof damaged locations and overlay with one or more of those factors. and we have done a very good job addressing the reddest areas in the what that wont capture though is even lk on a less frequently used street, so those are always going to one or two sites, it is lower on

the heat map, but we basically completed all the highest priority for sidewalk repairs and now working our way through all those othe and so, there are sites that are going to sit for a longer period of time, particularly if they have less pedestrian traffic. if we get a call and it is badly damaged and someone alerts us for example, well, it isn't a hospital, but you know, there are a lot of seniors try to prioritize that and i want to recognize salina here with us today who juggle dozens of requests that come in every day to try to figure out how can we be the most efficient with resources and eliminate trip hazards and she has been doing a great job with her it is more then we have the resources for every year. >> the sidewalk roots also depending on the ap? >> yeah. one thing the primary y the

cement shop exists within the bureau urban forestry is to make sure we are not damaging our trees when we fix the sidewalk.of work not tree related. as nicolas said they install curb ramps and have contracts with sfmta and work order blic utility commission so we are the city's cement shop in a but it's housed within the bureau urban forestry because we make sure when we fix sidewalks around trees we to advice on which roots we can safely cut that around the trees to make sure the trees stay healthy and create the safe sidewalk arou >> has been a very long time, so curious why it is still has same condition, because it is just going to get worse. the reason why i feel like part is not heavily pedestrian walked because it isn't a pavement, safe pavement for if any of us to walk. that was the other aspect, so i

want to understand why it is taking a bit of time. >> happy to check out the street and location. there could be unaccepted streets or there could be weird property lines, so stuff we end do case by case to figure out who is responsible for it and follow up accordingly. >> forgot what--how often do you ect the areas that need root maintenance or tree all these things, how often do you do that? . well you are asking a good question, because this is something we are trying to get a handle on, what are we capable of doing in terms of inspection and the frequency. over the course of our program, we've th first cycle and we've initiated a

goal-setting process for ourselves to figure out what's of the bureau. some questions of how many trees can we prune or how many locations can we visit, those are easier for us to quantify, but the inspection number has been a harder o what's a good number of inspections? what's a safe level that, and for us i want us to both responsive to reports that come in of hazards. we should be out there same inspect hazards and often crew will roll up with a truck within a half hour of call coming in, but then the other question of if it is a standing tree and in pretty how much resources do we need inspecting that

and what's the frequency that we should be there. that is still something we are trying to define. i think that even where we are at today, we have good data on where we are at with sidewalk damage. we know about a lot of these locations. it is about not so much reinspecting, it is still damaged so got to get there, but on the action side of it and getting the crew out there to end the contractor. we have been quick with ma safe. we go out and put asphalt to correct the sidewalk uplift. it is just temporary, but it can go a long way to reducing the risk of more trips and falls in the same way that we have a contractor for slicing sidewalks. if it is a small up and smooth and down. we can buy years out of the

sidewalk and much less expensive then demo replacing it. the other component of inspecting we are considering is, the dialogue contractors who are another extension of our when the slicing contractor goes out, they give great photos and notes saying this is what we fixed, this is too can't fix this, you need to send someone to put a asphalt patchor schedule for full repair and same with the tr they are doing maintenance work, we say trees in the key map and dont worry about removals and they still send photos, saying are you sure about trees and think it needs to be removed. it amplifie these are experts in the field giving fenot all that is captured in terms of the inspections performed, so i think that's part of the story that to quantify

that and share that with you. >> i think important to share information because it just allows everybody to understand the details work behind the scenes. my last question, do you have a report of data that the public can see which area of the city that need more or less of these maintenance? is that somewhere we can see, because you know, 7 foot, which area we putting more effort, which less, because i just want to understand distributed equitably in all areas or not. >> yes. i like coming here giving updates and also at urban forestry council, i'm on that council and each year i give them about one is about pruning and once about tree planting priorities, and they are very diconversations, because

with maintenance we are talking about the areas that already have that changes what we have to do there. it is all about maintenance and we address these existing trees and then when we talking about the rest of the city that needs trees and we have been focusing on pland low canopy areas with high environmental justice burdens. there could be a lot of pollution from freeways cutting through the same neighborhoods, so we are trying to look what most value for planting a tree in the same way we try to determine the most important tree to prune next. where is the high traffic, high need ? both doing it to be responsive from a liability standpoint, but also equity of getting to everybody, ng it in a prioritization that makes sense and when it comes to tree

planting equity, those areas we have trees to plant in to ty wide equity level 5lup and those presentations we have been giving there, but we are alsoracting with our sf environment colleagues and part :é of bio diversity working groups, but your question of how about this? >> is it accessible? >> it is through the annual reporting and we take a 4mquestions, but we have been talking in about how if we can have more information on our website for folks to be able to questions on their own and 20 minute phone call, you get at 2 a.m. and be able to get what you need.want to provide more and it has been a effort now that we have a public information-running out of water. [laughter]

i should keep this gsbriefer in the future. but, our public information officer is funded through this street tree program and that's been incredibly valuable for us, but our recent conversation has been not about putting out fires and getting the word out about what our programand more shifting into how we can >have information and people can answer those type we put up a planting strategy document so people can we are prioritizing our goals for tree planting couple years ago and want to keep updating that. i think that that's a small step in a direction we to go and have more resources available publicly like that. >> i think it is that in the community in that neighborhood just help

beautify their neighborhoods, right? equitably and fairly. if that is successful, that would be amazing. that >> i can't resist adding 2 points. i want to make a we received a few grants recently, so credit to our team who applied for these grants, but they were focused on increases tree canopy in the disadvantage so those grant dollars will be focusing improving equity of tree canopy coverage in the city. the other thing that buff lot of is, goes to community meetings, so at the request of any community group or the district supervisor, we will always happily have folks attend and done a lot of great partnership with neighborhood groups interested in trees and tree planting and we have gone to the community meetings and talked about

replacement trees versus new trees and how that works and in fact we are hosting meeting next monday at our street tree nursery to talk with the east cut community about how they can maximize tree planting in their district. so, we are definitely working improving our public facing information on the website, but it is a group that is very active with attendeding live attending community groups and sharing the word that way as well. >> great just want to commend you and your team. i was ellis and hyde. i saw damage on a monday, but wednesday it was fixed. i was like, that is amazing. so thank you. >> greetings commissioners. i just wantedput a little information out there for you. the cement shop when they receive a request for liability someone got hurt or something that nature the cement

shop wianalyze the entire block, so if you got one tree where it is trip and fall, they will look at both sides and immediately call inspectors to work with us and we do we try to be proactive incidents like that happen. we try to be proactive, but again, we have so many sidewalk repairs throughout the city, we are not able to react immediately. i know it is unfortunately when request, i hear you, but there are so many requests across are doing based on geographically and the communities, it is hard for us, but when we do receive a request and it is high priority we will inspect and make a decision on the moment bu it isn't like cement receive a request, it goes to inspection it and then they go to the site and evaluate the site and once they evaluate the site, then the cement shop gets a service request to come out and repair.

so,ic it is kind of multiple ways it is co >> i understand the steps and stuff, but this pretty heavily damaged. the reason people are probably not using that as a active sidewalk or street is because how dangerous it is. for me--i had two flat tires on that street. so, if i am experiencing it, i'm assuming-just assuming others as well, and we can just talk off-line about this. >> just want to let you know we have so a tire is minimal. is not traveled and it is extremely terrible throughout the city. that's why we base it geographically and we will go out and make it safe. that's why i pressed to nicolas to make sure you know we go out and make it safe to ate the tripping hazard until we can get a inspector out there. >> happy to go back again.

>> absolutely. you should come ride with the tree and cement crews. riding with the crews. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> did you have a question? you are good? >> i have a quick question. i think on the line of questioning it is helpful in the future to have like some timeline of the life cycle from a report to completion. that is what we are looking to see rather then these annual percentage. it looks mostly annual basis things are completed but within the year it is hard to see if it was later or done like within the first 30 daysink for clarity, having that in future reports would be x helpful. >> i think to tackle that we could look at comparing the request receive date can chat with our performance team, because i think that data is there, but it isn't something we reported.

>> i have a up couple questions. this might be more for director short. differenlike kind of communicate to each other, like say you a tree and you notice a garbage ng, does that crew pick up the trash? do they juthe other department that hey, this can is over-flowing, or how does all that work? >> that's a great question. thank you. so, the short answer is we encourage our crews to report issues they see when out in the field. particularly if they are our issues to handle, but another division of public works. they don't generally-a tree crew would r from around a trash can.i would hope that if they were working next to sweep that up. i hope that is true. >> i have done that.

>> okay. oupupil here. but we do them to call in issues as they see them, and i think it could be--i had discussion with a community members recently who was like, this guy is right here and not picking up the litter and i'm like, yes, because his job is steaming, so he esn't have the the space to pick up the litter, but he should be calling that in. we need to make sure they are doing that and we do see that people do that. we look at service requests and can see, so anin for example, a damage sidewalk in their district street cleaner might call that in into us, so we know it happening. probably not at the scale we like and neput the message out but we do try to do and alert if they see something hazardous. certainly we have crews doing that. i will say in defense that it may not be they when they have an assignment, particularly tree crews, i d them

say, i'm looking up, not really looking down so much, so if someone doesn't report it, it may not be because something and ignoring it, it may be they are focused on the job at hand and not seeing it. >> that totally makes sense.wondering if there was a way to make a requirement that like, before you drive away when you are done with your assignment look around the block and make sure there is nothing that needs to be addressed. >> yeah, that is a a really on. we have a new as part of the rticularly with the street cleaners we are asking them to look at thwe can highlight for them, if you see something else, be sure to great suggestion. >> i think that would be helpful to all the departments, rights? you are a street cleaner and you see a tree needs to be pruned or branches are falling down or something you report that and maybe a little bit quicker.

yeah. my last question is, have we planted any trees from the nursery yet? >> happy to take it. so, we have stopped bringing tree deliveries to our yard at cesar chavez, which is giving more because that was taking up quite a bit of space.lnnow taking deliveries at the nursery and the nursery manager is enjoying that responsibility and lovingly taking care of them and watering them faithfully so they are not frying at a parking lot over the weekend. if we are getting planting stock out-growing the container, ;hthe nursery manager and workforce development staff to larger containers, so it is turning into a active nursery which is what we

are working towards so that is uú exciting. there is right now this is the case at the moment and will be for a while where a lot of our stuff planted is still coming from the outside and then getting planted that pathway, but we have this small cohort of have gotten sized up to 15 gallons and we will see those root fill in and be able to get planted, so sort of in the spirit of your first estion, we have more and more collaboration between there were-someone might say see us plant this specing more and we can order then our inspectors when they suggesting planting site, they have to include the specious when service order in, and we are now checking to say, what do we have? what is a good one and would that be suitable for it getting integrated ow and i definitely

excited to see that.are been the question previously? last time you asked to know what trees got planted from the nursery? that is something i suggested to the team and they were like, already thinking that. we think that be a field we track so we can measure. alright. so, none have been planted yet, are still like too small? still growing. >> it is mixed and we are planting out of the nursery, so i can ask about specific trees, but i think what would be fun to celebrate is when the 5 gallon trees are big enough they could be planted as 15 and that is a fun little celebration to plant. >> alright. thank you. do you guys have any other questions? alright. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. i love hearing about trees, so--

[laughter] alright. so, hearing no further questions, mr. fuller please open public comment on this item. >> members of the public who wish to make three micomment on item 4, the bureau of urban nce measure report, you may line up against om the door. commenting outside the chamber, press the r but in the webinar or star 3 on the phone to be recognized. and we do not have any of the public who have come forward on this item any callers who expressed interest on it either, so that concludes public comment. ary fuller, please call the next item. item 5, the racial equity action plan update and beth rubinstein is here to present the report and it is

informational item. >> great to be here again. beth rubinstein, the deputy direcommunication and part of our racial equity team. good morning to our new commissioner. happy to meet you. it was exciting to be here when you did the land acknowledgment for the first i had no idea and congratulations on that. i find personally really moving because we are-the public are the stewards of the public right feel it has particular meaning to us. the land ac it is for us to sort of ground ourselves in our values so i appreciated the starting the meeting that way. >> thank you for your help with it. >> sure. just to remind you sort of where the racia organization, we are under the policy and communication team. what is alit is department wide,

so half our time is operations and half at 49 south van ness, but we work in deep collaboration with our deputy director me as well as the performance team under bruce robertson as the deputy director staffing and lifting up their work and bringing racial equity lens to it. we don't work in isolation by any means. we actually work with the deputy direon her initiative and how it can move for racial equity plan. this is our racial equity working group and actually you can see me on the top left and also have a number other members. half he alexander on the left head of performance team. nicky just left but was here.

she is part bureau urban forestry team, two racial equity specialists that are they are on the top. the other key person from our operation team is guillermo, atop left and also on the operations racial equity team is john sway, bottom left and he was very much part of the nursery off and writing the grants getting the money so we work collaboratively. very excitingly, as you probably been on board 6 or 7 months and they are full time racial equity specialist and divide time between ops and 49. the rest of us and guillermo is me of racial equity projects. the rest of work-we have or responsibilities. for our new commission, in 2021

we came out with department wide racial equity action plan based on really deep research in the department both qualitative and quantitative and interviewed a quarter of the department. the plan is internally focused about work place. from all those interviews and all that demographic data we came up withare around the hammer graphic. phase 2, which we haven't been tasked to do yet, but we are working on already and will come up in the end is externally focused about service delivery and community collaborion. commissioner, your question nicolas crawford how the public knows about this information? it is very much how we communicate to the public and whentalked about our community meetings that is very much part of phase 2. just to remind you, we started

this work because we believe the department it was important and started 5 years and also started because there was legislation that was pased at the board and signed by the mayor that reporting so, this preezentation is based on the progress report that we submitted in may 2024. two months ago, and it is--we have a city wide office racial equity that sets the temp they are both our supporters and they are our accountability patners. they tell us what we need to do the way this is laid out is sort of the way they laid it out. all departments across the city are working in the same way. i have to say when i reach back out to the city wide office racial and say how did our progress go we got positive feedback, so that is testament to our team and i think how

closely we with everyone. i want to say, it may seem obvious are, you are not of work done unless it is lot other departments it is very siloed for all sorts of reasons. some of the most difficult things we do is figure how to work together. the way the office of racial equity asked us to structure ourt this year was to look at these 6 questions and then to apply those 6 questions to our 5 priorities and list we were taking. not everything we are doing, not giving you the whole thing, so looking at these questions.actually for our new commissioner, our racial equity action plan a paper version and i dont know if mr. fuller has given to that to you, but 180 pages long and filled with data you can also access online. easier in paper i think.

that's coming towards you. get rid . so, i will go quic kbecause it is just-- [indiscernible] whatever. okay. thank you. the 5 priorities and so, what- again, the office of racial equity wants us to ground in the disparity and why it is priority. this is the research we did. in terms of ways, the disparity we focused on is there uneven access and information about promotional opportunities and planni for career pathway. this came up a lot in our discussions with operations and i'll tell how we are

rethinking disciplinary processes-when i say disciplinary prosnot just talking about legal process, but how to supervisors and staff deal with difficult situations and how do they hold staff accountable? we heard about uneven of disciplinary actions and uneven understanding what disciplinary processes were and also real need for de-escalation technique and how do we deal with problems before they come big? the need to empower front workers because people on the ground and folks at operation, they want process improvement and department direction and some cases they do and some cases they don't. broaden diversity at all staff is really key. we have a racially diverse department but if you look closely, there is a lot our management level is about 5 management and professional

classes need a better represent our demographics and then finally, assisting and training our managers to support all staff.know there is implicit bias and micro aggressions, how do we nucher inclusion and belonging where all staff can have equal access to information and promotional opportunities?sense of like, what we are looking at and why. this is what we are doing. sorry about that ñpop up. this is--these are the two are addressing what are the steps we did and what did we learn? these are projects wree are working on. under create career pathways for operation just speaking about operations, one thing we worked on and guillermo has been focusewe be sure our front line staff get information about promotional opportunities and we-he's been doing this in a multimodal way having better bull of this is rocket science

but having capacity, staff capacity to do it so grateful #÷ on board. bulletin boards .working with teams at scs and other divisions to have morning huddles where the supervisors --there is g we have done in the last year is a big communication survey for operation folks. we had a robust response and time and time again they told us, we want to get information from our supervisor and from our erpecs. we dont to get it online or get in the text, we want to get it person to person. so, those morning huddles are important. also under career pathways, we are working with r durden and her vision of a one project that a lot of times thinking abo]n,nut your career pathway. folks dont know what is possible.

they dont know wh they may come in public works a general labor with high school graduation and may not know about a arborist or civil engineer. we are workher and guillermo to get information about what people need and setting up computer training, how to get city job training and one on one coaching. we are working on that project. in terms of rethink disciplinary processes, this is a big nut to crack to deal with is multidirection. one is that with our new hr team, which is around for about a year or so, we begun to have very !high conversation about how we deal they want to promote coaching with managers. i think we generally agree but it is working out like the specifics of how things are done. also how we get information to about what are disciplinary

processes? what a problem and how to be clearer about processes. and also working with our university who i sure you know about which so what trainings are possible? we had trainings on courageous conversations like how we support managers. under empower front line workers, a huge project that taking the on and [indiscernible] very strong second, operation racial equity working group. one thing very that the department is very close, operations has its own culture and own needs. that is why you guys exist. we really wanted to build leadership around racial equity and taking action at operation so been working for the last 3 or 4 3, 4 months gathering front line staff, 10 people that meet every 2 weekdeveloping

leadership and they are brt to start work:q wg deputy director durden in terms of the action items of what they to work on at operations to make it a culturesupports everyone's career path priorities with the idea this work isn't just top down. i think we all agree, it is good to top, but also need the [indiscernible] also of the folks front line who know what is going on. the racial equity working group is just getting strong and in the next rt of the projects coming to fruition. the other thing team are working with looking at communication. we worked with hr to give a pocket guide how to deal with the employee portal. there is a digital divide we are working really hard to solve and it comes with computer classes and the

talk it guides and better communication with hr. it is also a multiple lag we definitely have folks mono lingual so we want think there is 9916, we want be have acces i mentioned the training how to gret a city job and access to promotional opportunities. in the last category to assist s7 r support all staff. there is a--since governor newsom was mayor newsom, there is a requirement that all supervisors in the city take a 24 hour plus class on how to be a supervisor. how to be a good supervisor. for the last 10 years works has done their own and device ei own supervisor academy, four eight our days and in the last ting a racial equity model so how do you d come with awareness being anti-racist and micro

aggression and implicit bias and favoritism and how to work against that. at this point we probably trained maybe a over hundred people the mixed operations, 49 south ness classes. what are the outcomes? obvious, but just again this template from office racial equity. we want more staff for promotional opportunities. one thing that is really interesting we begin to get data on promotional-who gets promotions and we can disaggregate by race. one thing we came up in the executive team was like, can we figure out, is it a problem that people are not making it past exams or nopast interviews? maybe they are not applying and really excited to share that in talking to the office of racial equity about 2 weeks ago we heard about a new hr analytics that dhr has that actually

breaks that down. all the different steps during the hiring process and it can be disaggregated by race so about to get the formally request, so look at the data and there is a couple people per department that can look at it and we will be able to see why aren't people moving up the ladder? where are they getting stuck, because that is what we want to in our approach. my guess is are not--there are not enough people applying may be a exam situation and may not be prepared to make them more prepared. i want to--we have gotten the folks who have been attending operatioéxns racial equity working group, the participants have given us rave reviews about that space to be able to talk about issues sort enact change.

another thing really exciting we just recently brought on a new racial equity consultant called liberation consulting working directly our team on the racial equity working group and they are really coming i say a train they are building our capacity of staff to do even better. what we are looking forward? this is the office of racial equity asked about. what are we planning doing next year? obviously we'll continue director durden and one on one coaches and what are all the can help folks with contrary pathways? oup training and one on one coaching so we'll other program the piloting and mentoring prograa month or so ago we started a mentoring program at 49 south van ness with about 36 about 18 pairs of meantees and

liberation consulting is helping us there with contend going really well. it is a pilot and so we are planning on doing that at operations hopefully in the fall or early winter. something like that. the mentoring program, there is a lot of great data around mentoring programs about how it does a number of things. it helps build relationships between st culture of inclusion and belonging. we are also using this opportunity that all the mentors and meantees get racial equity traithey all get -kind of the racial equity module at supervisor academy and there is a lot of data that shows mentoring programs help folks of color move career ladder. really excited about that. disciplinary process we hope to go from high level conversation to mid-level let's implement projects. the operation racial equity workints that

will be implemented at all different kinds of levels. i mentioned the dhr analytics for broadening diversity and then we'll continue that racial equity module at supervisor academy. further disseminating that. last slide, other really important projects for 24/25, the text got small but one project that is very important is the work we are performance team. mentioned at the beginning where we sit, deputy director durden and with the work they are doing that we keyed is strategic plan, employee survey very related to what our ops working group are doing. they are looking at action groups out of employee plan and bringing racial equity lens to that and working on that. nobody is working in isolation and then the third in process improvement work that

performance team heads up. in terms of the strategic plan, the performance team brought our team in several months ago before plan is being rolled out to do a analysis of the plan and to also sort about how a strategic plan will be implemented. we brought a racial equity tool and the racial equity tool questions and here are some basic questions which seem kind of obvious, but when you start to unpack the answers, you really get at so, whatabout, what are we over-emphasizing d under-emphasizing. the other program is language access program. by legislation the city has access ordinance that both is internal anwe work with the public. all documents need to be in english, chinese, spanish, tagalog-spanish.

did i say spanish? and language-so looking in the language access project, we been doing it i say the last several years been doing it but at the moment we can make it much more robust. coming out of covid and moving the other piece is part2. the outwardly working police. -piece. the last item t!has come up when director short talked about the buff contractors and local business enterprise.2 supporting local businesses, which are often local business owners of color, d so in may-like as part of this project is in may we had what we called contractor connections, which was a event of about 90 people we hosted at it soutcenter that helped connect local business

enterprises nts. sort of, what are upcoming projects, so public works team--we had a table all the departmehad tables and we had about 40-50 ves from local businesses enterprises that are contractors of some sort. there could have been tree contractors, street cleaning or whatever and a really good response. the and supportive and i am working with deputy director [indiscernible] to think about the next program which is probably in october. there are probably 2 or 3 a year. how do we best support the lbe and how to connect them the general contractors? that's it. questions? >> you guys have any questions? i just have a question. i'm just going to ask. you don't have to answer. still, i just want context and information. >> okay. >> so, with this all the racial is

union involved with a lot of this decision making or helping kind of? get suggestions >> that's a really great question and i don't have but i will tell you--so, there is city wide work and there is department work, and the office of racial equity is definitely-they are moving forward with city wide work while also departments, so city wide office racial works with dhr, human resources and they are the ones that work with the unions and have gone through negoations with the new union contracts, so in a big way,b it is e office of racial equity. in a smaller way which is really important around unions is our apprenticeship programs which i don't know if you want to speak to.unions for public works, it has to

programs which are really important in terms of our work for our values about how important workforce development is, so i know we work closely with the unions for that, but i can't speak to it. >> we do work with unions on workforce development as far as racial equity and get their buy in on a lot of things as well, soz] as far as the workforce development, definitely union has a say what is going on and fair with the unions. we listen. we agree to disagree.union as well, but i think more so we are working on our issues internally as far as racial equity. we need to work from the top down to really understand we do have issues we need to address. that's what this program beth has been working on has been doing and think she has done a phenomenal job.still have some work. we do have more work but

i hope that helps answer question. now we are working with 261 and the plumbers. >> local 261 is labor international. >> correct. 261 is general labors. the plumbers, can't say the number. >> [indiscernible] >> yes. 38. as we gradually open back up the apprenticeship, we work hand of the unions directly and we sit down face to through these workforce development issues and our apprenticeship program is stepping up now, soon to have other apprentices coming through our programs. >> the apprenticeship programs are a collaboration between us and the unions. they can't do it wi it without them.

>> my next question is, the w- st plan and where is the budget coming from for s project? is it through still the same general fund type of stuff or allocation-separate allocation? >> in terms of implementing the strategic plan? >> you will hear more from my experience is the work is threaded through all core responsibilities. it isn't a add-on.ua defining street paving and there is a strategic goal that has to do-that touches street paving.lming that so it is part of the core work so i don't know if you want add to that. >> supervisor academy. >> that is a part of ersity--the university has staff and our internally we do xthe

training and the folks that attended, it is part of their over head hours so each of us have at least 10 hours of training that we are required to do for performance plans, no matter what you do you have at least 10 hours you coach through professional development. supervisor academy is 24 hour then the 10, but you code that to . i believe, director short? >> yeah. so, yes. the training hours are generally built into our existing operating budget.occasionally ask for additional sources if we wanted to for example get a specific-in the past we've had a request for certain types of computer classes and we allocated a budget to pay for those computer that are externally provided. we do working university, they beginning every fiscal year present

their request for their budget and if there is additional resources needed, we will see if we can accommodate or request from the mayor office t we do support staff when we can to do training in-house or if there are external trainings they want ?s attend and sometimes it is over-head and sometimes general. >> these things are bringing in consult ing firm? >> sorry? >> this include bringing in consulting firm sph >> the ting firm would have been a line item. we did surequests to hire our two new dedicated racial equity staff members and to support that consulting. >> that was new budget and just to be honest and ted the initiative 5 years ago and it was a group of 12 of us doing it on the edges of our core responsibilities. we all had other work, and starting about 4 and a half 1=years ago

started advocating for racial equity and staffing. in the city there is important processes so it took a while to do the convincing and advocating and find the budget and go through the hiring process and rfp, so kind of a wonderfulembarrassment of riching and really good timing we got new staff 7 months ago and the consiltant which ask perfect timing because the-the idea with the consultant is in and leave, they set up for long-term success and so it tional budget request that has been developed over several years. >> thank you. ne else have any questions? no. i would just like to say thank you, because i know this is haancisco is such a melting pot .ñ?)of different people and everything and trying to make everyone feel

included not feat, so good job for you guys. like, yeah. thank you. this isn't easy. >> yeah. i-we have succeeded yet.everybody feels included and belongs, but i think- >> i feel what we are proud of is we having conversations out-loud and naming things in the way years ago and i think everyone agrees so that come to the strategic plan, when say like, are we thinking of the bayview enough and do we have represenfrom the bayview, are we talking to folks in chinatown? when we say those things we don't get push-back. it isn't like no one says why are you like it is becoming normalized to talk about about the issues, so in that way i feel we have en far, we have a lot of work to do. >> yeah.continue the great work, because it is it will just boost morale and everything t. is really

important what you guys are doing, so thank you. >> thank you for your time. >> okay. let's see. if there is no further discussion--do we need to ask-- for public comment? >> we will need to take public comment, yes. >> so, can you please open up to public comment? >> members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment in person on item 5, the racial equity action plan update, may line up against the wall from the and outside the chamber, press raise your hand button in the webinar or star 3 to be recognized. ,> we do not have any members of the public in person and sfgovtv indicated we do not have callers who want to

speak so that is all our public comment. >> alright. so, there is no further discussion from the commission. secretary fuller, please call the next item. itnew business initiated by commissioners. this is a !uopportunity for commissioners to make announcements and raise topics to be added to future commission agendas and it informational item. >> is there any new business? right. hearing no further new business, er, please open public comment on this item. >> members of who wish to comment on item 6, new business may line up against the wall. if you commenting outside the chamber, please press the raise your hand button in the webinar or star 3 on your phone to ized.

and both in person and over the zb phone we do not have any members of this time. >> alright. so, hearing no further discus, sionnext item. >> okay. item 7 s sanitation street performance evaluation in closed session. this is information item and no action will be taken.session, the commission will need a motion to then hear n and then to vote on it. >> alright. do i hear a motion for this commission to enter closed session regarding the secretary performance? >> so move. >> do i hear a second? >> second. >> secretary fuller, please open public comment on this item. >> who seconded that? $ thank you. members of the comment on the motion to enter closed session may line up against the wall furthest from the door and commenting from outside the press raise your hand button in the

webinar or star 3 on your phone to be recognized. we do not'have any in person concludes public comment. >> alright.debate or anything, all in favor of entering cl closed session is 1157 >> okay. commissioners, we'll just have a couple sition while i take us out of the puthe front doors. might be a )yone needs to run to the wash room or [meeting reconvened] >> we have no announcement. secretary fuller, please open public this item. >> members of the public who

wish to comment on the may line up against the wall futhest from the door. if commenting from outside the chamber, press raise your hand button in the webinar or star 3 on your phone to recognized. we do not over the phone public commenters. >> alright. do i hear a motion to ng closed session? >> so moved. >> do i hear a second? >> second. >> secretary fuller, please open public comment. >> members of the public who wish to t on the motion not to disclose discussion during closed against the wall and if you are commenting from the chamber, press raise your hand button in the webinar or star 3 on your phone to be recognized. we have no in-person and we have no callers wishing to speak on

this item. this motion. >>lright. is there any debate on this motion? nope. hearing no further debate, all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> all opposed, say no. there is no noes. the motion passes. secretary fuller, please call the next item. neral public comment continued from item if necessary and it is not necessary since we did not exceed 15 minutes of general ic >> alright. so, mr. secretary, is there furter business? >> there is no further business on the agenda. >> alright. this commission will meet-hearing no objection, and adjourn this meeting. you know when our next meeting is? i dont remember. >> it will be september 15 i believe. >> september 15 is our next meeting.m7çá so, alright. hearing no objections, i

adjourn this meeting. september 16. i adjourn this 1219 p.m. [gavel] [meeting adjourned]]q

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>> i call the san francisco public works commission. today is monday, july 22, 2024. it is c9903 a.m. secretary fuller, please call the roll. >> good morning. please respond with, k@re, warren post. , here. chair post is present. gerald turner, present. commissioner turner is present. paul woolford is absent. fady zoubi, present. vice chair zoubi is present. with three members present we have public comment is taken for informational and action items. to comment in person please line up against the wall screen, the audience left.