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behalf of the commission, i like to extened our thanks to the serving for helping staff this meeting. chair hartwig-hulman. >> 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 francisco sanitation and streets commission we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who abitants 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 living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknoedtush community and by affirming their 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 francisco peninsula. we recognize that the ramaytush ohlone understand the interconnectedness of all ings and have maintained harmony with nature for millennia. we honor the ramaytush ohlone peoples for their enduring commitment to mother rt and as part of san francisco public works, we affirm our responsibility in maintaining our public spaces as stewards of the public right of way greening throughout the city in collaboration with our communities, so as we now reside. indigenous peoples from many nations

make their home in this region today. we cmit to prioritizing policies and programs to uitablbenefit 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, shawn anderson. welcome to the team. >> thank you so much. excited to be here athe fit meeting. >> awesome. and that concludes my announcements. mr. fullerx do you have any announcements? >> i have one very brief announcement, one is there are a number of operations agreements that are planned for xt works commission meeting. those will be po week and available to this commission for review and i encourage any questions you all may have that we can relay those chair post. i wanto extend congratulation to new commissioner anderson as well-on commissioner simi for the birth of a new child and as well mmissione eusope for her restaurant being recognized witha michelin star this past week.

congratulations. huge news. [applause] and then, the only other announcement i have is calendar will begin drafting in the next couple weeks, so please look out for e-mails from me looking for your availability for next year as we draft our meeting schedule for 2025. and that concludes my reports. >> awesome. thank you mr. fuller. please call the first item. [gavel] >>it 1 is general public comment, which is for topics under the commission mandate but not related to■6 a item on today's. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of general public comment in person may line up against the wall furthest from the door and if you are commenting from outside the chamber,

please press the raise your hand button in the webinar or ess star 3 on your phone to be recognize and it appears we do not have inperson commenters and sfgovtv is letting me ierested o not have callers in speaking for general public comment either. so that concludes public comment. thconcludes general pub lic comment. please call the next item. >> item 2 is communications and the director's report. director carla short is here to present and this is an informational item. >> good morning commissioners. welcome commissioner anderson. carla short, retor public works.

much happened since our eting. we had city wide pride celebration, annual ocean beach sand removal, our monthly neighborhood óv beautification day and we have a exciting announcement i'll share in a moment. so, pride recap, we had a wonderful and hugely successful pride month and the operation division as well as engineers. our key in making this happe. this theme was sowing the seats of love. from the pride celebration and after wok mixer and an amazing my i queer work besty. it was engaging events and projects for staff during june. many thanks to at lgbtq ia plus committee for spearheading all of it. the month festivities culminating in a

huge weekend long pride celebration including a parade down market street that featured our public aworks continnt we showed up in bigger numbers then ever before and personally happy tobe part of it. afterward our street cleaning team more then 50 strong for the specialized operation got to work. we also d staff attendeding to our department operations centeror doc, making sure the event went off without a hitch and many thanks to staff at the city emergency operation center. last month kicked off the sand rolocation activity at ean beach. over the course of a few weeks b the crews redistributed approximately 30 thousand cubic yards of sand. that is enough to fill more 9 olympic size swimming pools thmpt aim

is reduce sand build up on the great highway during windy weather. 17 and wr said up by the end of the month. the operation staff used frunlt end loaders back 4ohos and heavy equipment to reduce the height and width of sand dunes and sand away from the road and towards the ocean. efforts shown in past ears to delay the natural progression of sand incursion on the great highway. sporadic closures of the great highway blown sand on the roadway normally occur every year during wintser and spring, however in recent years sand build up worsened due to climate change drought and sustained gh winds. sand accumulation on the kes di vehicles and bicycles to navigate. every year we have a small window to perform this work, it must be timed to disturb the snowy-a small shower

bird spreckted under the u.s. endangered specious act. done in coordination with th golden gate. so i want to give a big thank you to everyone involved in this operation. and just in case you missed this important data in the most recentnies letter, i want to highlight some of the amazing work we have done over e first half of 2024. and i'll take a moment before i do to hich is monthly news letter available on our website and a beautiful digital journal that highlights the work we accomplished over the 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 blocks of 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 determinatn. 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 us officially among them. with help frour communication team, we created our very own inthe spirit of maintaining cleaning and greeni san francisco streets and sidewalks. it 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 having fun. public works are always on the

look-out for new creative ways to engage the community and teach about the mission to take care of san francisco. from filling potholes and removing graffiti to building benches and pinstalling trash cans, kids and kids at heart learn about some of the crucial work public works does 24/7 to maintain, clean and beautify san francisco. i want to give a specl shout out to jewelman fam from communication team who partners with san francisco based lower case productions to bring th it is really fun, i am terrible it, but encourage you to try. and, a coleof announcement of retirements, particularly for our operation staff. we had the opportunity to wish two long-time staff members fair well as they head to retirement.■k chris mack daniels the super inndt of bureau street service and long

career with public workand public utility commission retired a weeks ago. happy to report our assistent super-intendant jo is acting. additionally, matt--former superintendant of bureau street and sewer repair and later bureau street and building repair retired aul career at public works. mora wayne, is acting superintendant. we have a deep bench of leadership and so with the loss of two strong leaders our operation bureaus as robust and responsive as ever. next up our annual report, if you haven't seen it yet it is beautiful in print and online. our annual report for the fiscal year 22-23 is out. threport spotlights our core services and our out of the ordinary work from

during the ststores pothole filling and reving an thanks to theresa fong from communication team puttg it compare the annual ■1 po the annual reports i see, it bjis really elevated, very proud that. and lastly, our neighborhood beautification day. o last month neighborod autification day event was focused on the neighborhoods of district 11, the excelsior, ingle side, crocker amzane and ocean view among hers. d volunteers to is july 20. we will clean angr■ marina, pacific heights, [indiscernible] presidio heights and other district 2 neighborhoods and we hope you can join us.

and with that, that's my report. thank you. >> alright. well, thank you. it is amg to see how quickly market street gets back to normal you guys do such a great job with that, so yeah, thank you for all that. does anyone have any questions for the director? i think we are grood. hearing no further questions, mr. fuller recollect please open public comment on >> members of the publ 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 chamber, please press the raise your hand button in the webinar or

ar 3 on your phone to be recognize and we do not have any in person mmente, and we do not have callers own the phone either. >> please call the next item. >> item 3 is the minutes from the ■xmay 20, 2024 meeting and this is action item. before any motion is made, i'm happy to take questions or corrections to those minutes. >> are there any questions to the minutes from the commission? don't look like it. do i have a motion to adopt the minutes from may 20, 2024. can i hear a second?

>> alright. we will-given that motion, we will now hear public comment. secretary fuller, please open public comment. >> members of the public who to make three minutes of comment in person on the motion to adopt the minutes om 2024 meeting may lin up ainst the wall furthest from the door and commenting outside the chamber, press the raise urhain the webinar or star 3 on your phone to be recognized. in person commenters and sfgovtv let me know there are no callers on the line interested in aking on this, so that concludes public comment. >> alright. all in favor of adopting the mi from may 20, 2024 say yes. >> yes. >> anyone opposed,

motion passes. secretary fuller, will post the adopted minutes from may 20, 2024 to the commission website. please call the next item. >> item 4 is the bureau of ■4urban 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 superintendant bureau urban forestry. we are a operation group so our crews are at the cesar chavez yard and happy to share updates on how ■we are doing by the numbers and feel free to interrupt if you have questions as we go along. so, this first idis something we have been tracking over the years since the creation of our program,

tree sf is voter fundedand approved program that pays for street tree maintenance and it started july 1, 20 and e years. it from entirely gray to more and more blue and our goal is toing san francisco and then be a restart that cycle and continue to ove our process and our service frequency. to give a sense where we are at now, we completed over 90 thousand trees which puts over 72 percent and that leaves us percent to go. i will comment that, there is normally a wedge here. our light blue active wedge and we ■] we are in between our with our contractors. our last contract

and our next one is going out to bid. we expect in the next couple weeks folks will be able to bid on that. we'll get new contracts rolling in and think the timeline is about 4 months from now. this has en difficult for us because we lean on our contractors a lot to get rk done. we have crews-i will share in the next slides. but, we are in betweeb those contracts and could really benefit from that support. lessen learned fous to see just how long it takes 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 ppening on this slide. left to right is over the fiscal year and going top

down, the top row shows our pruning work, the middle row shows trees red and the bottom row is stump griding. with the top one. for our pruning in fiscal year 2020, we did 11.464 trees. that was combination that green sliver of internalwork and then that larger chunk of contractor work and over the yes you can see during covid especially we took a hit. a lot of crew were reassigned doing other things to help during the pandemic we recovered over time doing more 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 n once things stabilized. last year was a strong year with intealwo and in contractor work and this year lost several months of contractor so, our internal crew to talk through that, we've made priority of hiring within the bureau to start out with gardener hiring which happened last year and this focused on arborist highering. one starting-one more coming this saturday or next and is another vacancy to fill and we'll be in good shape with our arborists, but that's been a long time coming. i expect see the benefits that on-boarding paying off in this next fiscal year. to go down the line to our removals, you can see early in our program, we had tons of tree removals that we had

to do. we avoid removing trees whenever possible. it sets back thin goal of growing the tree canopy but if there is a ety issue or the trees died, it a action we have to take, and there is que bit of differed tree removal work stacking up when we took over tree maintenance responsibility. i understand if you had a tree dying in front of your house and it would have cost you thousands of dollars, wait till the city takes over and does it as part of the program. at the beginning you can see we had a lot on our plate with removals, but that's dropped over the years. i will j"say, it spiked last ye with a 1004 removed by our internal crew and 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 we hauled 125 tons of green waste and trying to wrap my head around how much that is and that is all most a million bananas of green waste . i don't think we hauled bananas, but leaves and branches. it took a long time to recover from at effected the maintenance work. in the last year and a half, 2 years weing a lot of work. it was distracted by a lot of storm work and we we respond to that and here to do that, 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 the

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

along the sidewalk and in the last fiscal year we put together a package for contractors to deal with and the crew made a point to focus on that so you see stump griding over the years is quite and spiking this past year. we feel we had the breathing room to focus on that. okay, shifting gears to talk about tree very proud of our progress from 2017 to this past year. we definitely have grown our tree planting wo, and this is a combination of what we've done with internal crews and grant of urb especially, but the-there is more to the story too. we are also issuing permits for good thing to include in here.

we put that in annual reports, but i would like to display that going forward. but, you can see last several years we are really capped around a thousand trees and broke thuour talks with ies of urban forest, they thing that they co repeat another banner year, but to grow beyond that, they reached capacity limits, which i respect anas a result for us 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 was very successful and we like to do more that. >> question. >> yes. >> does this include trees that like are replacements? >> yes. >> okay. >> good question.

>> not all just fresh, they are replacements and new locations? >> that's right. >> okay cool, just making sure. >> it could be planting a vacant site where it has been years and might not know what happened years ago or why that site is vacant, or could have been vandalized and then hadn't had a chance replaced right away, or it could be a totally new site or shifted basin where there is conflict and we moved it over. that is all included in here. i think that tracking that is a challenging thing to ■out what went wrong. sometimes when we show up it is st a pile of branches 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 é

even on a limited basi >> i mean, it e>is great. like, ethethey are replacements i was just kind of curiouif we knew what the break-down was. >> that is one of our big questions too, are we moving the needle. how do■jes this all net out? 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. thanyou. sothis ■;is our internal crew just focused on what we i'm prou■+d of their ability !. stay on track or get quickly back on

track after storms, but they are getting a lot done with staffing limitations which i think this coming year is the big question for them. we hired more arborists, we show that we are able to get more work done with that and certainly the burden is on us to demonstrth alright, shifting gears for tree inspections. another group in urban forestry. we talked about and talk about this team is-they have multiple duties. one of the roles is to go out inthe field and inspect trees. we maintenance work. we respond to service requests where someone might ask us to prune a tree, or address some kind of issue

and we go out and take a look at it and provide feed sometimes could just be sorted out on a phone call where we take tons of calls and e-mails and try to the next. ats been a great resource for the public, but ection is still a core part that. as the nature of the work shifted doing more permit and inspection review, the time isgetting balanced across a number different demands and we still want to keep up with th 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 a lot more user for our team, so we are expl

this graph really to me represts of work getting done, thousands also something for us to reflect on. how can we skill up further and make our team able to work with the best technology. the fire hose coming at us in terms years and can e how a lot is driven by storms, where last year the arborist part of the graph spikes and that is something that is welcome for us. we want to get those reports of trees down and damage so we can mobilize and there is also a whole mix of things. it could be trash in the

median, it could be tall grass or weeds that somebody is pointing out they want us to deal with, 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 is a proponderance of 311 calls. it takes a while to mobilize on medians to close traffic lanes but 311 is the eyes and ears throughout the city an make aware of the issues we can respond to. this is a in-bound request on the next slide you see by comparison what completed. so, we mark those in-bound request as duplicates and might merge them

or redirect them to the appropriate agency. someme s if we get something that looks like our responsibility, really someone else's jurisdiction we will forward it to them. within our team we get a tremendous amount fe line partf the graph is landscape crew, so that's a lot of median open space type of requests. felt it can be mowing or median green waste pickups which we get frequently.respond to that, clo those out. i think a lot of credit going to our team and leadership over the last couple ars to amplify that to the light blue has grown all most by a thousand per year, so the team is really stepped up with the

service request closures and landscape.■ our arborist too, it is a function of storm work for that. we want to stay on task with our plan maintenance work, responsive to 311 request too. >> quesion for that asell. does it show which-how many or diverted for other departments because it was 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 we want to take action on immediately. it could be a request to prune a tree and when we go out there and lookat 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 to focus on- >> priorities. >> only the worse ings that

require pulling a crew to do it, otherwise we want to ay on the planned maintenance t. is discussion with the person and wreel polk explain to them, i bet that is annoying and see how you are looking out the window and seeing that every day, but the way i see it, i would e past a worse hazard to get to a smaller hazard. we really have to focus on the stuff that's the high safety priority. >> makes sense. thank you. >> okay, and another grouof our bureau is the cement shop and their work is a mix of client work for mca or other departments. we do have a crew dedicated to water boxes, like the meter boxes, installing

and repairing the sidewalk area and the christy box that incapsulates those, and then what's illustrated is tree related sidewalk repair work, so we have a crew that is dedicated to this funded through tree ■c maintenance, and they've done an incredible amount of work to fix the damage caused by our st trees. the data is spikes and drops off and goes up again. when we close out the tree related servicorders we did them in a batch and unfortunatthlose them and n the work so there is a huge spike in on open service orders that had been completed already,

so that 99 thousand square feet had u9■hhbeen done over previou as well as just clustered there. an unfortunate art iificate of the data. the fall ollowing years it falled up. you see the last 2 years it has bethis reflects our crew, getting more done last year d this year especially but being more consistent with hothey 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 fuller story. it is incredible. itof sidewalk in the last fiscal year, and all of it is technical, complicated around a

tree with root pruning and quite a bit of intervention to this work done. credit to them. and then, the other sidewalk repair-sorry, cement shop crew doe curb repair. similar problem in 2020, huge spike fr closg out old service orders which is good we needed to do it ■(■but it skews the data. you can see over the last several years it has been very stable. the same supervisor who has thee same methodology and is tracking that very well. similar here. a ton of linear feet of-[indiscernible] 3 year average here, so that tells repair story.

before i op tking there is a bunch of stuff here. our leadership is here, so it is really not one person at all, it is about 120 people working every day and i'm happy to represent us and talk about it and #y 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 great questions last time. >> i'm always want to understand. firsofall, how do you choose your subcontractors? is there a specific criteria? do you usually wait for the 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 to make sure they are qualified to be able to be in the pool, butwhen we dispatch the work, we create a contract service order, cso and then the coies in this pre-selected pool submit their pricin for that cso and the allows them to compete agd we select out that pool the lowest bid, so that gives a balance of both the knowledge the qualified companies we are working wit we are getting a competitive price for each on 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 about issuing the work to those folks and they charge based on how many they complete. f it's the tree planting and establishment it is a tree prun something they would and then i think director short may have some additional information. >> yeah. so, good job summarizing nicolas. for most of our contracts, we go through competitive bid process and so for example, 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 different line items, give us your best price and all the contractors who want to bid do that and we have to go with the

lowest bid. for the pools they are pre-qualified so have to 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 aside contracts so that is where we limit the pool to local business enterprises. part of what we over the street trees, we didn't want the smaller tree companies to struggle to compete so they compete against each other, not the bigger tree companies and that way we insure we are try ing to support the local business enterprises. >> how do you supervise them? do you check on the check list

to see if the results are there? >> yes. i think we have +!benefit and watching out the window as work is getting done, so 311 is very ick if folks call ■ too early in the if they don't safe work so we get that instant feedbackeven if someone on our t presnt. ined v6 in advance of it, we organize our work in wegive them a key map is a grid thatmight be 0 to ■ 900 trees, and we give them the list of 6t trees to be pruned and do it an

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 pay them to have leverage and say, hey, you missed this set of trees over here. sorry, there were 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 mpans that presence and want to make sure that doing it properly. even in some of the bigger contracts they have a requirement to work

with sobody locally, a smaller business. it has been interesting seeing how they work together and they will say, it is really small area with big trees in tight spaces and you got a small crew that can work through that over a couple weeks. wel assign that to you and then larger contractor crews will tackle some of the bigger of ways. it has been good. >> yeah. ]# >> in general we had a good relationship and when find issues, we've gotten good support hauling out and saying this is what it should look li and we'll make it right, so that has been our experience. together.is collective working my second question is about the roots maintenance of the large trees. i have gone on a little tour

trying to have some of the streets that roots miit is ■ma bit i wanted to understand, do you work with the street pavement pothole team together to maintain th■=is or to eliminate this, so the stre is safe to drive on? >> not just the sidewalk, ut the roadway. >> the roadway. the sidewalk is damaged and still there and nothing has been done and i have gone on a tour several months ago and everything is still the same, so i wanted to understand you all are in the same agency. are you working together? i personally had sent a report about it , what has been the outcome. work together about this, because that was part of the

presentaon, so i just want hch- -- >> for other decisions i want to differ to the director, but i can--yeah. 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 damage that seems to be related to trewill typically ask to come and take a look to make sure can safely remove the damage without either needing to remove the tree or causing the tree to decline. if we that, then we have to go through a process of basically planning for the tree l before they do the necessary roadway work, but typically it is brought our attention from the paving crews or the paving contractors hoe gointo be doing that pavement repair. we can do another presentation ■won how we prioritize pavement repairs around the city, because we have a pretty

robust system for making the priorities but we try to make sure they are working with buff so we don't end come and a 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 for all the street trees in one day, july 1, 2017 they suddenly all became ours so we are inherited over 30 thousand locations of damaged sidewalk, many of which were property owner re but the city took over and got that responsibility. we developed i think a really defensible process for ■w prioritizing those repairs, which hospitals, senior centers, bus

stops, schools and neighborhood commercial districts and then overlaying where we know there is damage with those areas. really to try to have those be our proxy f■álnerable populations and pedestrian volume, just lots of pedestrians. is, we created what we call a heat map that said, these parts of the city have the highest number of damaged locations and overlay with one or more of and we have done a v job addressing the reddest areas in the heat map. what that wont though is even badly damaged sidewalk on a less frequently used street, so those are always going to be lower--if only 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 other sites.

and so, there are sitethat 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 in this building, then we will try to prioritize that and i want to recognize salina here with us today who has to juggle dozens of requests at come in every day to try to figure out how can we be the most efficient with resources and eliminate trip been doing a great job with her team on that. it is more then we have the resources for every year. >> so, the sidewalk roots also >> yeah. one thg reason why the cement shop exists ththe

bureau urban forestry is to make sure we are not damaging our trees when we fix the sidewalk. so, they do a lot of work not tree related. as nicolas said they install curb ramps and have contracts with sfmta and work order with public utility commission so we are the city's cement shop in a way, but it's housed within bureau urban forestry because we want to make sure when we fix sidewalks around trees we have the arborists available to advice on which ots we can safely cut that we are expanding the basins around the trees to make sure the trees stay healthy and create the safe sidewalk arndvery long time, curious why it is still has been the same condition, because it is just gointo get worse. the reason why i feel like part heavily pedestrian walked because it isn't ent

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 a lot of stuff end do case by case to figure out who is responsible for it k and sfollow up accordingly. >> forgot what--how often do you inspect the areas that need root maintenance or tree maintenance and all these things, how often do you do that? >> yes. well you are asking a good question, because this is something we are trying to get ■ a handle on, what are capable of doing in terms of inspection and the frequency. over the course our program,

we've been learning a lot in the we've initiated a goal-setting process for ourselves to figure out what's a reasonable goal for each part of the bureau. some questions of how many trees can or how many locations we visit, those are easier for us to quantify, but the inspection number has been a harder one. what's a good number of inspections? what's a safe level that, and for us i want us to be both responsive to reports that come in of hazards. we should be out there same day to inspect hazards and often our crew will of the call coming in, but then

the other question of if it a standing tree and in pretty good shape, how much resources do we ne devote to 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 the locations. it is about not so much reinspecngto get there, but on the action side of it and getting the crew out there to fix it or we have been quick with make safe. we go out and put asphalt to correct the sidewalk uplift. it is just tempory, 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 uplift, can slice and smooth and down. we can buy years out of the sidewalk and much less expensive then demo and replacing it. the other component of inspecting we are consethe dialogue with our contractors who are qdanoth extension of our bureau, but when the slicing contractor goes out, they give great photos and notes saying ththis is too big, can't fix this, you need to send someone to put a asphalt patch down or schedule for full repair and same with the tree contractors. they are maintenance work, we say map and l the trees in the key dont worry about removals and they

still sendphotos, saying are you sure about the trees and think it needs to be removed. it amplifies the ears. these are expes in the field giving feedback. not all that is captured in terof the inspections performed, so i think that's part of the story that is worth telling and how to quantify that and share that with you. >> i think it is 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 ese maintenance? is that somewhere we can see, because you know, 7 by 7 mile square

foot, ich area we putting more effort, which less, because i just want to understand distributed equitably in/z all areas or not. >> yes. i like coming here updates and also at the urban forestry council, i' on that council and each year i give a update to them about our program. one is about pruning and once about tree planting priorities, an they are very different conversations, because with maintenance we are talking the areas that already have trees, and that changes what we have to do there. it is all about maintenance and how do we address trees and then when we talk about planting i am talking about the rest of the city that needs trees and we have been focusing on planting and low canopy areas with high environmental justice burdens.

there could be a lot of pollution from freeways cutting through thtryi to look whatthe place with the most value for a tree in the same w todetermine the most important tree to prune next.igtraffic, doing it from bualso equity of ,getting to everybody, in prioritization that makes and when it comes to vtr planting equity, those areawe have a lot more trees to anin■ bring that city equity level and the giving there, but we are also interacting with

our environment colleagues and part of bio diversity working question of how does the public find out about this? >> is it accessible? >> it is through the annual reporting and we take a lot of questions, but we have been talking internally about how if we can have more information on our website for folks to be able to answer questions on their own and not require 20 mite phone call, you get all that yourself at 2 a.m. and be able to get what you need. that is what we want to provide more of and it has been a effort now that we have a public information-running out of water. [laughter] i should keep this briefer in th

our public information officer is funded through this street tree program and that's been incredibly valuable for 40 us, but our recent conversation has been not about putting out fires and getting the woout about what our program is and more shifting into how we can have a website with more information and people n answer those type of questions. we put up a planting strategy document so people can see where 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 like to go and have more resources available publicly like that. >> i think it is crical so everybody that in the community in that beautify their neighborhoods,

right? equitably and fairly. if that would be amazing. that was it. >> i can't resist di i want to make a moment to highlight 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 communities so those grant dollars will be focusing improving equity of tree canopy coverage in thty. the other thing that buff does a lot of is, goesto 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 th works and in fact we are hosting a meeting next monday at our street tree nursery to talk with the east cut commvçunity about how they can maximize tree planting in their district. so, we are definitely working improving our public facing informatioit active with attendeding live attending community groups and sharing the word that way as well. >> great. i just want to commend you and your team. i was driving on ellis and hyde. i saw damage on a sidewalk on a monday, but wednesday it was fixed. i was like, that is amazing. so thank you. >> greetings commissioners. i just wanted to put a little information out there for you. the cement shop when they receive a

request for liability, someone got hurt or something th nature, the cement shop will analyze the entire block, so if you got one tree whre it is trip and fall, they will look at both sides of the street and immediately call inspectors to work with us and we do e repair for the entire block. we try to be proactive when incidents like that happen. we try to be proactive, but again, we have many sidewalk repairs throughout the city, we are not able to react immediately. i know it is unfortunately when you say i put in request, i hso many re city and since we are doing based on geographically and the communities, it is hard for us, t when we do receive a request and it is high priority we will insp■zt and make a decision on the moment but it combined effort. it isn'tlike cement receive a

request, it goes to inspection it and then they go to the siteand evaluate the site and once they evaluate the site, then the cement shop gets a rvicand . so,ic it is kind of multiple ways it is coming in. >> i understand the steps and but this is ged. the reason people are probably not using that as a active sidewalk or street is because how dangerous it is. for me--i had on that street. so, if i am experiencing it, i'm assuming-just assuming others as well, and we can talk off-line about this. >> just want to let you know we have areas a foot high, so a is minimal. this is a area that 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 nicolas to make sure you ow we go out and make it safe to eliminate the tripping hazard until we can get a inspector out there. >> happy to go back again. >> absolutely. you should come de with the tree and cement crews. >> i love 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 questioning it is helpful in the future just to have ■ñ like some timeline the life cycle from a report to completion. that is what we are to see pe9her then these annual it looks mostly annual basis things are completed but withthrddone 11 months later or done like within the

first 30 days so i think for clarity, having that in future reports would be very helpful. >> i think to tackle that we could look at comparing the request receive date and completion date. can chat th our performance team, because i think that data is there, but it isn't >> i have a up couple questions. this might be more for director short. do different departments like kind of communicate to each other, like say you are pruning a tree and notice a garbage can is over-flowing, does that crew do they just report it to th he 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 issuesto handle, but another division of public works.don't generally-a tree crew would trash can.king i would hope that if they were working next to it they might sweep that up. i hope that is true. >> i have done that. >> okay. our star pupil here. but we do encourage them to 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

doesn't have the equipment or 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 and can see, so and so called in fo example, a damage sidewalk in their district street cleaner might call that in to us, so we know it is happening. probably not at the scale we like and need to continue to put the message out but we do try to do and we want crews to alert if they see something hazardous. certainly we have crews doing that. i will say in defense that it may not llfully ignoring it, but when they have an assignment, particularly tree crews, i had them say, i'm looking up, not really looking down so much, so if someone doesn't rert itit may not be because they're seeing something and ignoring be they are focused on the job at hand and not seeing it. >> that totally makes sense.

just kind of wondering if there was a way to make a requirement that like, before you drive away when u 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 good suggestion. we have a new as part of the cleanliness standards, particularly with the street cleaners we are asking them to look at the block so we can hilight for them, if you see something else, be sure to note that as well. 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 orsomething you report that and it will get addressed maybe a ■6quicker. 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 breathing room, because that was taking up a bi of space. we are now taking deliveries at the nursery and the nursery manager is enjoying that responsibility and and taking care of watering them faithfully so they are not frying at parking lot over the weekend. if we are getting plting stock out-growing the container, the manager and workforce development staff have been sizing up to it is tu into a active nursery which is what we are working towards so that is exciting. there is right now this is the

case at the moment and will be for a while wha lot of our stuff getting planted is still coming from the outside and then getting planted that pathway, but we have this all cohort of little baby trees that have gotten 15 gallons and we will see those root fin and be able to get planted, so of in the spirit of your first question, we have more and more collaboration between there were-someone might say i like to see us plant this specing more and we can order more that and then our inspectors when they are suggesting planting site, they have to include the specious when they send that sevice order in, and we are now checking to say, what do we have? what is a od one and would that be suitable for this site?

it getting integrated into our work flow and definitely excited to see that. i think that may are n previously? last time you asked know what trees got planted from the nursery? that is something i suggested to the team and they were like, already thinking tt. we think that should be a field we track so we can measure. >> yeah. alright. so, none have been planted yet, these 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 fun little celebration to plant. . thank you. do you guys have any other

es >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. i love hearing about trees, so-- alright. so, hearing nofurther questions, mr. fuller please comment >> members of the publi wish to make three minutes of comment on item 4, the bureau of urban forestry performance rt, you ainst door commenting chamber, press e raise your hand in to ■=be recognized. and we do not have anymethe public who have come forward on this item and we do not have any caterest on it either, so that concludes ■bpublic comment >> alright.

secretary 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 fo >> good morning commissioners. great to be here ain. beth rubinstein, the deputy director of policy and communication 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 time. i d no idea congratulations on that. i find it personally really moving because we are-the public are the stewards of the public right of way so i feel it has particular meaning to us. the land acknowledgment is for

us. it is for ■)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 the racial equity initiative sits in the organization, we are under the policy and communication team. what is really important about our work so half it is our time is operations and half at 49 south van ness, but we work in deep collaboration with our deputy director durden behind me as well as the performance team under bruce robertson as the deputy director of finance and administration and we are staffing and liing 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 director of opration on her initiative and how it can move forward the racial equity plan.'; this is our racial equity working group and actuallysee me on the top left and also have a number other members. half here today. alexander on left head of performance team. nicky just left but she was here. she is part of bureau urban forestry team, two rasts that are behind me. they are on the top. the other key person from our operation team is guillermo, top left and also on the operations racial equity team is john sway, bottom leftand he was very much part of getting the

nursery off and writing the grants and money so we work collaboratively. you probably remember, [indiscernible] they have 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 full time of racial equity projects. the rest of us work-we have or core responsibilities. for our new co 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 with 5 priorities, which are around ha graphic. phase 2, which we haven't been tasked to do yet, but we are working in the end is externally focused about service delivery and community collaboration. coissioner, your question to nicolas crawford how the public knows about this information? it is very much part of phase 2. how we mmunicate to the public and when director short talked out our community meetings that is very much part of phase 2. just to remind you, we this work because we believe the department it was importa5 years and also started because there was legislation that was pased the board and signed by the mayor that said the departments were responsible for doing a racial equity plan and also reporting on it annually.

so, this preezentation is based on the progress report that we submitted in may 2024. two months ago, anit is--we have a city wide office racial equity that sets the template. they are both our supporters and they are our accountability patners. they tell us what we need to do and help us get there. the ■fis sort of the way they laid it out. in the same way. i have to say when i reach back out to the city wide office racial equity and say how did our progress go we got positive feedback, so that is testament to our team and i think how closely we work with everyone. i nt obvious are, you are not getting this kind of work donunless it is collaborative, but a lot other departmentit is

very siloed for all sorts of reasons. some of th is figure how to work together. the way the office equity asked us to structure our progress report this year was to look at these 6 questions and then to apply those 6 questions to 5 priorities and list one or two action items we were tang. not everything we are doing, not giving you the whole thing, so looking at these questions. and actually, for our new commissioner, our racial equity action plan is online and there is a paper version and i dont know if mr. fuller has given to 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 of this. so, i will go quickly through this slide, because it ■jis just-- [indiscernible] whatever. okay.■2 thank you. so, those are the 5 priorities and so, racial gain, the office equity wants us to ground in the dispity and why it is priority. this is just really repeating the research we did. in terms of create clear pathways, the disparity we focused on is there uneven access and informaon about promotional opportunities and planning for career pathway. this came up a lot in our discussions with operations and i'll tell how we

are doing it. rethinking disciplinary processes-when i say disciplinary prosnot just talking about the legal process, but how to supervisors and staff deal with fficult situations and how do they hold staff accountable? we heard about uneven application of disciplinary actions and uneven understanding what disciplinary processes were and also real need for de-escalation techniqud before come big? the need to empower front line 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 of job segregation and our management level is about 50 percent white, so our management and professional classes need a better represent our demographics and then nasisting :jto support all staff. we know there is implicit bias and micro aggressions, how do we nucher inclusion anbelonging where all staff can have equal access to information and promotional opportunities? that's giving a sense like, what we are looking at and why. this is what we are doing. sorry about that pop up. this is--these are the two questions we 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 st operations, one thing we worked hard on and been focused

on this is how do we be sure our front line staff get information about promotional opportunities and we-he's been doing this in a multimodal way having better bulletin boards. none of this is rocket scnc but having capacity, staff capacity to do it so grateful guillermo is on board. bulletin boards . he has been working with teams at scs and other divisions to have morning huddles where the supervisors --there is information. one thing we have done in the last year big communication survey for operation folks. we had a robust response and time and time again they told us, we t ■ information from our supervisor and from our peers. 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 deputy director durden and her vision of a one on one coaching project that a lot of times thinking about your career pathway. folks dont know at is possible. they dont know where they want to go. they may come in public works as a general labor with high school graduation and may not know out a arborist or civil engineer. we are working with her and guiermo to get information about and se training, how to get city job training and e on one coaching. we are working on in terms of rethink disciplinary processes, this is a big nut to c deal with and it is

multidirection. one is at with our new hr team, which is around for about a year or so, begun to have very high level conversdeal with this. they want to promote coaching with managers. i think we generally agree but working out like the specifics of how thinhugs are done. also how we get information to folks about what are disciplinary processes? what do you do when there is a problem anw tobe clearer about processes. and also working with university who i sure you know about which is our training division sowhat trainings are possible? we had trainings on courageo conversations like how we support managers. under empower front line workers, a huge project that taking the lead on and [indisceiblevery strong second, operation racial equity working

group. one thing very important is 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 or 4 maybe 3, months gathering front line staff, 10 or 12 people that meet every 2 weeks, brt to start work wg deputy director durden in terms of the action items of what they want to work on at operations to make it a culture that supports everyone's career path and all these priorities with the idea this work isn't just top down. i think we all agree, it is good to be

strategic at the top, but also need the [indiscernible] also folks front line who know what is going on. the racial equity wo is just geing strong and in the next year you'll see sortof ■é■the projec the other thine working with hr to-again, always give a e employee portal. there ó"is a digital divide we are working ref'ally hasolve and it the mmication th hr. it is also a multle languages. s abe sure that i think there is 9916, we want be sure they have access. ret a

city job access to promotional opportunities. in the last category to assist and train manager support all staffp 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 public works has done their own and device their own supervisor academy, four eight our days and in the last year been piloting racial equity model how do you supervisor for racial equity and come with a mindset awareness being anti-racist and micro aggression and implicit bias and fa ns at this point we obably trained maybe a over hundred people in the mi

operations, 49 south van hness classes. what are the outcomes? obvious, but just again this is the template from office racial equity. we want more staff to apply for promotional opportunities. one thing that is really interesting is we begin to get data on promotional-who gets promotions we can disaggregate by race. one thing we came up the executive team was like, can we figure out, is it a problem that people past exams or not making past terview 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 gett because that is what we want to be targeted our approach. my guess is people are t-enough people applying for promotional opportunity. may a may not be prepared for the testing so how to make them more prepared. the other thing --we have gotten the folks who have been attending operations racial equity working group, the people participants rave reviews about that space to able to talk about issues and not to sort of strategies

how to enact change.another thing real we just recently brought on a new racial equity consultant called liberation consulting working directly with team on the racial equity working group and they are really coming i say a train to trainers. they are building our capacity of staff to do even better. what we é]are lookforward? this is the office of racial equity asked about.w3 what are we planning doing in the next year? obviously we'll continue working with deputy director durand one on one coaches and what are all the ways we can helfolks with contrary pathways? had could be group training and those programs out.

the other program the piloting and mentoring program starting a month or sostarted a mentoring program at 49 south van ness with about 36 people, abou8 pairs mentors and meantees and liberation consulting is helping us there with content as well, and going really well. it is a pilot and so we are ■st hopefully in the fall or early winter. something like that. the mentoring program, there is a lot of great data ound mentoring programs about how it does a number of things. it helps build relationships between staff and build a of inclusion and belonging. we are also using this opportunity that all the mentorand meantees get racial equity training so -kind of in thracial equity module at supervisor academy and there is a lot of data that shows mentoring

programs help folks of color move up the career ladder. really excited about that.scipl go from high level to mid-level let's implement projects. the operation racial equity working group will have their own projects 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 further disseminating that. last slide, other really important projects for /25, the text got small but one project that is ve important is the work we are doing with performance team. mentioned at the beginning where we sit, we work closely with deputy and with the

performance team and the work they are doing that we keyed in is strategic plan, employee survey and action items. that is 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 rking on that. nobody is working in isolation and then the third thing is like, 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 the strategic plan is being rolled out to do a analysis of the plan and to also sort of talk about how a strategic plan will be implemented. we brought a racial equity tool and the racial equity tool is a series of questions and here are some

basic questions which seem kind of obvious, but when you start to unpack threally get at so, what are we not thinking about, what are we over-emphasizing and under-emphasizing. the other program is language access program. by legislation the city has a language access ordinance ■u■%that both internal and external in terms of how we work the public. all documents need to be in english, chinese, spanish, tagalog-spanish. did i say spanish? and so, the language-so looking in th language access project, we are-we have 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

into 49 south van ness. the other piece is part of phase 2. the outwardly working police. -piece. the last item has come up when directabout the buff contractors and local business enterprise. that is huge piece of phase 2 supporting local businesses, which are often local business owners of color, and so in may-like part of this project is in may we had what we called contractor coection which was a event of about 90 people we hoat it southeast community center that helnlocal business enterprises with city departments. sort of, what are upcoming projects, so rks all the departments had tables and we

had about 40-50 representatives from local businesses enterprises that are contractors of some sort. there could have been tr contractors, street cleaning or whatever and we dpot a really good response. the lbe felt seen and supportive and i am working with deputy director [indiscernible] to think about the next program which is ob there are probably 2 or 3 a year. how do we best support the lbe and how to connect them with the general contractors? that's it. questions? >> you guys have ons? >> i do. i just have a question. i'm just going to ask. you don't have to answer. still, i just want context d information. >> okay. >> so, with this all the racial equity things, is union involved with a lot of

kif? decision making orhelping get suggestions to the table? >> that's a really great question and i don't have a very good answer, 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 helping departments, so city wide equity works with dhr, human resources and they are the ones that work with the ions and have gone through negotiations with the new union contracts, so in a big way,b it is the office of racial equity. in a smaller way which is really important around unions is our apprenticeship programs which i don't know ifspeak to.

working with the unions for public works, it has to do with apprenticeship programs whicour work for our values about how important workforce development is, so i know we work closely with the unions fo speak it. >> we do work unions on workforce development as far as racial equity and get their buy in on a lot of things as well, so as far as the workforce pment, definitely uni has a say what is going on and fair with the unions. we listen. we agree to disagree. we run things by the union as well, but i think more sowe 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 thk she has done a phenomenal job. still have some work. we do have more rk to do, but i hope that helps answer your question. now we are working with 261 and the plumbers. >> local 261 is labor international. >> correct. 261 is general the plumbers, can't say the >> [indiscernible] >> yes. 38. as we gradually op up the apprenticeship, we work hand in hand with each of the unions directly and we sit down face to face and work through these workforce development issues and our apprenticeship program is stepping up now, so 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 without us, we cant do it withou >> my next question is, the strategic plan and where is the budget coming from for this various project? is it through still the same general fund type of uff or allocation-separate allocation? >> in terms of implementing the strategic plan? >> yeah. >> you will more from alexandria when she presents. my experience is work is threaded through all core responsibilities. it isn't a add-on.

defining street paving and strategic goal that s to touches street paving. i will beinvolved imlming that so it doesn'■@t so need extra budget. i don't know if you ■[want to a to that. >> supervisor academy. /í >> that is a rtof ■"our university--the university has staff and our intely wedo the training and the folks that attended, is part of their over head hours so each us have at least 10 hours of training that we are requ■mired to do for foans, no matter wh you do you have at least 10 hours you can supervisor academy is 24 hours so more en but you code that overhead. i >> yeah.

so, yes. the training hours are generallbuilt into erating budget. we do occasionally ask for additional resources 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 have been allocated a budget to pay for those computer classes that are externally ovide we do working with our 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 ■l accommodate or request from the mayor office but we do support staff when we can training in-house or if there are external trainings they want to attend and sometimes it is over-head and >> these things are bringing in

consult ing firm? >> sorry? >> this include bringing in >> the consulting firm would have been a line item. we did submit specific requests to hire two new dedicated racial equity staff members and to support that consulting. new budget and just to be honest and put in context, we started 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 years ago started advocating for equity consultant and staffing.is impo■x■ñrtant 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 wonderful embarrassment of riching and

really good timing we got new staff 7 months ago and the consiltant which ask ■q perfect timing because the-the idea with the consultant is that they drop in and leave, they set up for l success and so it was additional budget request that has developed over several years. >> thank you. >> anyone else have any questions? i would just like to say thank you, because i know this is hard work. san francisco is such a melting pot of different people and everything and trying to make everyone feel included and supported is not an easy feat, so good job for you guys. like, yeah. thanyou. this isn't easy. >> yeah.

i-we have succeeded yet. i dont think everybody feels included but i think- >> it is ongoing. >> i feel what we are proud of is we have been having conversations out-loud and naming things in the way that were not named 4 years ago and i think everyone agrees so th we come to the strategic plan, when we say like, are we thinking the bayview enough and do we have representatives from the bayview, are we talking to folks in chinatown? say those things we don't get push-back. it n't like no one says why are you asking these questions, it is like it is becoming normalized to talk about race and to talk about the issues, so have gotten far, we have a lot of work to do. >> yeah. continue the great work, because it is needed and it will just boost morale and everything t. is really

important what you guys are doing, so thank you. >> thank you so much. >> thank you for your time. >> okay. let's see. if there is to ask-- for blic 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 the wall from the door and outside the chamber, press raise your hand button in the webinar or star 3 on your phone to be recognized. we do not have any members of the puic in peson and sfgovtv indicated we do not have callers who want

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

to be recognized. and both in person and over the phone we do not have any members of the public wishing to comment at this time. no further discussion, secretary fuller, please call the next >> okay. item7 is sanitation ession. this is information item and no action will be taken. to enter closed session, the commission will need a to then hear public comment on that motion 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. >> second. >> secretary fuller, please open public comment on this item. >> who sended that?

thank you.■] memberof the public who wish to comment on the motion to enter osed session may line up against the wall furthest from the door and commenting from outside the chamber you press raise your hand button in the webinar or star 3 on your phone to be recognized. we do not have any in person commenters and we do not have anyone in the quue for the phone either. that concludes public comment. >> alright. hearing no further debate or anytng, all in favor of entering closed session say yes. >> yes. >> all opposed say no. and the motion passes. time entering closed session is 1157 a.m. >> okay. commissioners, we'll just have a couple minutes of transition while i take us

out of the public broadcast and close up the front doors. a good opportunity if anyone needs to run to the wash room or [meeting reconvened] >> we have no announcement. secretary fuller, please open public comment on this item. >> members of the public who wish to comment on the announcement following closed session may line up againstthe ■r 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 be recognized. we do not have any in-person or over the phone public commenters. >> alright. do i hear a motion to not disclose discussion during closed session? >> do i hear a second?

>> second. >> secretary fuller, please open public comment. >> members of the public who wish to comment on the motion not to disclose discussion during closed session may line against the wall and if you are commenting from outside the chamber, press raise your hand button in the webinar or star 3 on your phone to be recognized. we have -person and we have no callers wishing to speakon this motion. >> alright. 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, pleasecall m. >> item 10, general public from

necessary and it is not necessary since we did not exceed 15 minutes of general public comment. >> alright. so, mr. secretary, is there furter business? >> there is no further business on the agenda. >> alright. this commission will meet-hearing no this meeting. you know when our next meeting is? i dont remember. >> it will be september 15 i believe. >> september 15 is our so, alright. hearing no objections, i adjourn this meeting.$ç september 16. i adjourn this meeting at 1219 p.m. [gavel] >> good afrnoon anthe ,a&zú

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