>> hi imagine i'm san francisco mayor london breed and excited to be here today with all of you excluding our chief jean nicholson and the fire commission thank you for the service and command staff and

san francisco and fire department our chief bill scott and maryellen carol we talked about jean and her service for the fire department and done on extraordinary job leading the department and creating and diverse environment and making plans around equipment replacement and all the nuts and bolts but more importantly serving and protecting this city and many of the folks are are that are out there doing the incredible work of helping to support people in san francisco many of the policies, did investments and things to lead this department has been good we are grave for her service and hope that we'll see you around san francisco in different

capacities who knows what will come and when we talked about that a couple of weeks ago we didn't talk about what comes necessary to identify and my chief of the department but in the meantime, today is the last day that chief nicholson and the police commission mr. the leadership of president morgan has an opportunity to work with someone has an extraordinary career in the san francisco 0 fire department. >> so today, i'm proud to announce the interim chief another san francisco event is sandy it's been a long time coming. >> (clapping) i have known sandy it's been a

long time coming. for many, many years and she has consisting step up to the plate and she's been in the department for 35 years. um, serving in the ems capacity becoming a leader it through the ranks as you can see the event does an extraordinary job of putting out fires and saving lives and all the incredible work 80 percent of calls button department came into for the ems division requires someone who understand as a deputy chief of ems understand the incredible work including the members of station 49 to help keep people safe and to deal with challenges as at the. come and specifically our paramedics the programs that supports especially in communities like the tenderloin to shape that and help us

implement this in the city other responsibilities she has to help to make sure an alternative to deal with those who having pelosi we know her intimate knowledge will make her a great leader as we move forward with the appropriate process in order to select a new chief for the san francisco fire department. >> i'm also really happy that she's a native daughter of san francisco born at chinese hospital in chinatown her family has deep roots in san francisco she's served in the ems them chinatown someone been in the department for over 35 years and knows every inch and councilmember eychner this city and will work with every single member of san francisco fire department to sure continuity of

services and the success of all the meanwhile work over the years with that, before i swear her into this interim position u78z to our out going chief and someone we'll, of course, miss darryl ladies and gentlemen, please welcome jeanine nicholson. >> (clapping) thank you, mayor london breed and i'll say this year for the last time i'll still our san francisco fire chief for a few more minute. >> thank you mayor london breed firing faith in me and your believe in me and allowing me to run this department and really um, thank you for your support of everything in the department for getting our training center

tea to our street crises team to be able to hire class after class after class of people who have shown yourselves to be a champion thank you and as for chief it's been a long time coming. was once my supervisor when i was a paramedic in the early 20 thousand don't take her for granted she knows what she'll doing a ph.d in psychiatry tray try to say that and a hard work and the right things she does i'm confident in passing the torture on it chief it's been a long time coming. we have a very, very strong command staff as well with chief. >> (calling names.) >> and our new chief sandy

it's been a long time coming. you've been there with me running the department and i thank you for everything and so a chief it's been a long time coming. congratulations i'm here for everything i need and live a mile away so plenty of people will be seeing me in san francisco let's do the swearing in. >> all right. >> please raise your right >> and the constitution of the state of california. >> (repeated.) >> against all enemies. >> (repeated.) >> foreign and domestic. >> (repeated.) >> and that i will bear true faith and allegiance.

>> and to the constitution of the state of california. >> (repeated.) >> that i take this oath freely. >> (repeated.) >> without any mental reservation. >> (repeated.) >> that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties. >> (repeated.) >> (repeated.) >> and during such time as i hold office i serve as interim chief of the san francisco fire department for the city. >> congratulations (clapping.) damn (laughter) (clapping). >> wow.. thank you.

>> for all of you being here um, mayor london breed thank you for this and chief nicholson and morgan and frazer and commissioners and. >> (calling names.) >> i see back there and chief scott and my command staff thank you for being here. i have is prepared a statement i'm not not as intelligent as these two women mayor london breed thank you, for this incredible honor i'm humbled and will serve you to the best of my ability and thank you for your consideration for the paramedicine division and overdose teams are making an impact of vulnerable community here in san francisco those suffering on the streets experience mental health and substance abuse are served by

those to meet the periodic needs if i 2021 we supported the mid budget to have additional emt and paramedics they increased the call volume and response time you made a great choice chief and have been grateful and this is a responsibility. and i'd like to thank when we have nicholson a leader and really model and a privilege to work them the past 5 years the initiative she have impacted the organizations and for those who serve. we have an may i team here. deputy chief of operations and deputy chief in administration the command staff and dedicated civilian st. patrick staff will continue with

the confidence and throughout the medical emergencies about meet the day to day challenges and having served for many, many years and having worked with many firefighters and paramedics and others in the field i've seen the dedication and hard work do an excellent job every day and will continue so mayor london breed for this interim appointment i'll carry on the legacy of the san francisco fire department

san francisco is known as a city filled with diversity culture and progressive ideas. our ever changing city and the people within in. but it was not always this way, women struggled to have one of their own on their life until 2021. it would not be until 32 years later that the mex women clarissa mcman served in the board of supervisors. since then women have continued to make significant contributions to the board of supervisors. so who are these women? and what impact have they made with their time on the board. >> to be honest it came as a surprise when i became as a supervisor. i was working as a deputy director in the mayor's office and there were some challenges with the then supervisor and mayor gavin newsom at the time removed that supervisor from office.

i was asked to serve on the role. it was a quick transition, but i got into public service because i really believe that government is a place where you can create opportunities and level the playing field. >> madam clerk, would you please call the roll. >> i was on the board of supervisors from 2001 to 20111. i have been involved in working my community, there was scheduling to be a redevelopment area plan and as african americans we knew that meant, that was usually a removal of certain kinds of people. so because fs path, there had to be a committee formed of all the people that lived in the community. everybody had to be involved in this committee and there were certain rules and regulations and we had to get neighbors to vote for us and so we did that and i did that, and i won the seat on that committee and that kind of started everything. >> supervisor kristenson. >> i think having women in the

board of supervisors and legislative bodies all around the country have meant that some of the issues that have traditionally called family issues are now raised .d >> i think san francisco and the rest of the country here is very behind and i think that you know, many mothers, they don't have a choice about whether they get to return to work or not. >> having individuals who are women in all of these places helps to create, a more rich dialogue around what policy choices actually mean and what the impact to people and family and lives would be. so sing having women on the board here in the city has been impactful in that way. >> supervisor kim, kim presentation. >> democracy is about representation, how can you leave off over half of the population. a lot of women are not just taking care of children but taking care of parents and working so all of those life's experiences are part now of our policies of our city policies and throughout the country >> supervisor breed. >> here.

>> breed present. >> supervisor maxwell. >> we saw two of san francisco female mayor having originated from the board of supervisors as well. that's where people are seen as leaders and get exposure and have the influence to influence policy. i think it's important to see ourselves in that. >> supervisor cohen. cohen present. >> doris championed rent control. contracts for black women, women of color and small businesses, he will a was really really special, she was really who motivated me. she worked for the lawu, she was a switch board operator and then secretary. and then founded an organization cofounded with somebody called congress of racial equity core.

so the lin she came with was about equity, about young women, seniors at-risk youth having jobs. it was about more police guided. those three women to me left their legacy. >> supervisor elliot. >> when you think about the legislative and women legislatures, i think the tendency is to find a women issue that would otherwise won be covered. but so many of our legislatures women included have touched on so many faucets of policies. it's important to be seen through your life experiences how you identify and for a young girls, i think having women on the board is important because you get to see that you actually changed seat yourself in that power of decision. >> that concludes business for today. >> there was one where the fellows, at the time, they were arguing and i was the only

women and only african-american, and i'm sitting there, thinking oh my god, it's a room full of people because it's a board day and i'm thinking, what can i say to stop this. so the universe gave me the words, gentlemen, let us be about the people of business. and of course all the people started clapping. and they had to do what? they had to act like gentleman, that one for me, showed the importance of having women, having the importance of having african-americans and the african-american women. >> to the women of the board, past, present and future, thank you for your strength, grace, and commitment to changing san francisco for the better. let's continue to make history.

>> i started the o was with a financing and had a business partner all ended up wanting to start the business and retire and i did was very important to me so i bought them oust and two weeks later the pandemic h-4 one of the moments i thought to myself we have to have the worse business in a lifetime or the best. >> we created the oasis out of a need basically so other people bars and turning them into a space and when the last place we were performing wasn't used

turned those buildings into condos so we decided to have a space. >> what the pandemic did for us is made us on of that we felt we had to do this immediately and created this. >> (unintelligible). >> where we would offer food delivery services with a curbside professionalism live music to bring spectacular to lives we are going through and as well as employ on the caterers and the performers and drivers very for that i think also for everyone to do something. we had ordinary on the roof and life performances

and with a restaurant to support the system where we are and even with that had terribly initiative and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt had to pay our rent we decided to have an old-fashioned one we created club hours where you can watch to online and or be on the phone and raised over one quarter of a million dollar that of incredible and something that northbound thought we could do. >> we got ourselves back and made me realize how for that people will show up if i was blown away but also had the courage but the commitment now i

can't let anyone down i have to make the space serviceable so while this is a full process business it became much more about a space that was used by the community. and it became less about starting up a business and more about the heart of what we're doing. this building used to be a- and one of the first one we started working on had we came out what a mural to wrap the building and took a while but able to raise the money and pay 5 artists to make a design around many this to represent what is happening on the side and also important this is who we are this is us putting it out there because satisfies other people we don't

realize how much we affect the community around there when he i want to put that out there and show up and show ourselves outside of those walls more fabulous. and inspires other people to be more fabulous and everyone want to be more fabulous and less hatred and hostility and that is how we change the [music] san francisco emergency home program is a safety net for sustableable commuters if you

bike, walk, take public transit or shares mobility you are eligible for a free and safe roadway home the city will reimburse you up to $150 dlrs in an event of an emergency. to learn more how to submit a reimbursement visit sferh. [♪♪♪] >> i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world, you shouldn't just be something in museums, and i love that the people can just go there and it is there for everyone. [♪♪♪]

>> i would say i am a multidimensional artist. i came out of painting, but have also really enjoyed tactile properties of artwork and tile work. i always have an interest in public art. i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world. you shouldn't just be something in museums. i love that people can just go there, and it is there for everyone. public art is art with a job to do. it is a place where the architecture meets the public. where the artist takes the meaning of the site, and gives a voice to its. we commission culture, murals, mosaics, black pieces, cut to mental, different types of material. it is not just downtown, or the

big sculptures you see, we are in the neighborhood. those are some of the most beloved kinds of projects that really give our libraries and recreation centers a sense of uniqueness, and being specific to that neighborhood. colette test on a number of those projects for its. one of my favorites is the oceanview library, as well as several parks, and the steps. >> mosaics are created with tile that is either broken or cut in some way, and rearranged to make a pattern. you need to use a tool, nippers, as they are called, to actually shape the tiles of it so you can

get them to fit incorrectly. i glued them to mash, and then they are taken, now usually installed by someone who is not to me, and they put cement on the wall, and they pick up the mash with the tiles attached to it, and they stick it to the wall, and then they groped it afterwards. [♪♪♪] >> we had never really seen artwork done on a stairway of the kinds that we were thinking of because our idea was very just barely pictorial, and to have a picture broken up like that, we were not sure if it would visually work. so we just took paper that size and drew what our idea was, and cut it into strips, and took it down there and taped it to the steps, and stepped back and looked around, and walked up and down and figured out how it would really work visually. [♪♪♪]

>> my theme was chinese heights because i find them very beautiful. and also because mosaic is such a heavy, dens, static medium, and i always like to try and incorporate movement into its, and i work with the theme of water a lot, with wind, with clouds, just because i like movements and lightness, so i liked the contrast of making kites out of very heavy, hard material. so one side is a dragon kite, and then there are several different kites in the sky with the clouds, and a little girl below flying it. [♪♪♪]

>> there are pieces that are particularly meaningful to me. during the time that we were working on it, my son was a disaffected, unhappy high school student. there was a day where i was on the way to take them to school, and he was looking glum, as usual, and so halfway to school, i turned around and said, how about if i tell the school you are sick and you come make tiles with us, so there is a tile that he made to. it is a little bird. the relationship with a work of art is something that develops over time, and if you have memories connected with a place from when you are a child, and you come back and you see it again with the eyes of an adult, it is a different thing, and is just part of what makes the city an exciting place. [♪♪♪]

>> like to call the meeting to order. first of all, i like to ask for a roll call. >> president rivera, here. commissioner ajami, here. commissioner stacey, here. we have a quorum. >> before calling the first item, i like to announce the san francisco public utility commission it own-of the oholone tribe and other descendants of the recognized mission san jose. the sfpuc recognize every citizen residing within the greater bay area has and continues to benefit from the use and