that. i think we keep some of those statistics, but i don't know how expansive. so we'll follow up with you. yeah. the way i found them was every, you know, station has their surveys aggregated and summarized. but i haven't seen a department wide analysis of this and how we could use previous years versions to then improve our access and outreach to other communities. but thank you for your work on this manual. thank you. can i get a motion? yeah, i will make a motion to approve revised department manual two for the department to use in meeting conferring with the effective bargaining unit, subject to our labor relations resolution with the requested amendment to change the cd commander to commanding officer and requested between now and final passage, the department reviewed to look for any other rank specific notes and also update those to commanding officer. second, for any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item nine. please approach the podium. there is no public

comment on the motion. commissioner walker excuse me, commissioner clay, how do you vote? yes, commissioner clay is. yes. commissioner walker. yes commissioner walker is. yes. commissioner. benedicto. yes, commissioner. benedicto is. yes, commissioner. yes. yes. commissioner yanez is. yes. commissioner yee. yes. commissioner yee is yes. and president elias. president elia. yes. yes president lyons is. yes. you have six yeses. the suspense. suspense. sorry. they did that on purpose, line item ten. public comment on all matters pertaining to item 12 below. closed session, including public comment on item 11, a vote whether to hold item 12 in closed session. if you'd like to make public comment regarding closed session, please approach the podium. and there is no public comment. line item 11 a vote on whether to hold item 12 in closed session. san francisco administrative code section 67.10 d action. vote to hold item a motion to hold item 12 in closed session. second on the

motion. commissioner clay, how do you vote? yes, commissioner clay is yes, commissioner walker. yes. mr. walker is. yes. commissioner benedicto. yes. mr. benedicto is. yes. commissioner yanez. yes, commissioner yanez is. yes. commissioner yi. yes. commissioner yi is yes. and elias. elias is. yes. you have six yeses. we will go into closed session.

commissioner walker. yes. commissioner walker. yes. commissioner benedicto. yes mr. benedicto is. yes. commissioner. yanez. yes. commissioner yanez is. yes commissioner. yee. yes. commissioner yee is. yes. and president elias. yes. president lyons is. yes. you have six yeses. line item 14. adjournment 804 and a half an hour over. but, hey, that's. that's good.

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>> this is an exhibition across departments highlighting different artworks from our collection. gender is an important part of the dialogue. in many ways, this exhibition is contemporary. all of this artwork is from the 9th century and spans all the way to the 21st century. the exhibition is organized into seven different groupings or themes such as activities, symbolism, transformation and others. it's not by culture or time period, but different affinities between the artwork. activities, for example, looks at the role of gender and how certain activities are placed as feminine or masculine. we have a print by uharo that looks at different activities that derisionly performed by

men. it's looking at the theme of music. we have three women playing traditional japanese instruments that would otherwise be played by men at that time. we have pairings so that is looking within the context of gender in relationships. also with how people are questioning the whole idea of pairing in the first place. we have three from three different cultures, tibet, china and japan. this is sell vanity stot relevar has been fluid in different time periods in cultures. sometimes being female in china but often male and evoking features associated with gender binaries and sometimes in between. it's a lovely way of tying all

the themes together in this collection. gender and sexuality, speaking from my culture specifically, is something at that hasn't been recently widely discussed. this exhibition shows that it's gender and sexuality are actually have been considered and complicated by dialogue through the work of artists and thinking specifically, a sculpture we have of the hindu deities because it's half pee male and half male. it turns into a different theme in a way and is a beautiful representation of how gender hasn't been seen as one thing or a binary. we see that it isn't a modest concept. in a way, i feel we have a lot of historical references and

touch points throughout all the ages and in asian cultures. i believe san francisco has close to 40% asian. it's a huge representation here in the bay area. it's important that we awk abouk about this and open up the discussion around gender. what we've learned from organizing this exhibition at the museum is that gender has been something that has come up in all of these cultures through all the time periods as something that is important and relevant. especially here in the san francisco bay area we feel that it's relevant to the conversations that people are having today. we hope that people can carry that outside of the museum into their daily lives.

good morning and welcome to the september 9th rules committee meeting. i'm supervisor shamann walton, chair of the rules committee. today i am joined by supervisor safaí. and i'd like to entertain a motion to excuse supervisor peskin for this morning's meeting. yes. on a motion to excuse a member peskin from today's meeting. on that motion, vice chair safaí safaí, i. chair walton, i walton, i the

motion passes to excuse member peskin from today's meeting. thank you. motion passed. president peskin is excused. today, our clerk is victor young. and i would also like to thank catalina mendoza from sfgovtv for broadcasting this morning's meeting. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? yes public comment will be taken on each item on today's agenda. when your item of interest comes up and public comment is called, please line up to speak on your right. alternatively, you may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways. email them to myself. the rules committee clerk at v-i-c-t-o-r-y o young at sfgov. org if you submit public comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the file. you may also send your written comment via us mail to our office at city hall. one doctor carlton b goodlett place, room two, 44, san francisco, california 94102. please make

sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of september 17th, 2024, unless otherwise stated. that concludes my initial announcements. thank you so much, mr. clerk, and just for the public for today, we are going to actually call some items out of order. so we're going to start with item seven. then we'll go to five and six because these are all items that are are reflective of the need from the police department. and then we will go back to item one. so with that said mr. clerk, would you please call item number seven? item number seven is ordinance approving the police department's inventory and policy related to the use of unassisted aerial vehicles or drones, and making findings consistent with the criteria and state law, this matter is listed as a possible committee report. thank you so much. and i know we

have representation from pd here today to report. good morning, chair walton, vice chair safaí. my name is carl noceda and i'm principal legislative liaison for the san francisco police department. i'm joined by acting lieutenant for special investigations eric batchelder. so i'll begin with just a brief introduction on the purpose of this ordinance. why we're here before you today, before i turn it over to acting lieutenant batchelder, to discuss sfpd's drone program. so, as you know, ab 481 required sfpd to receive approval for a use of equipment policy for certain types of military equipment that the department had prior to december 2022. the use policy approved by the board of supervisors addressed the equipment the department had acquired prior to january first, 2022. this approved use policy does not include drones under ab 41.

categories of equipment acquired after january 1st, 2022, which are not included in the initial use policy. still must obtain board of supervisors approval of a use policy. then in march of 2024, voters approved prop e, which included an authorization for sfpd to use drones. so in compliance with prop e and ab 41, the department is before you today with an unassisted aerial vehicle inventory and policy, also known as the drone policy, to supplement the approved equipment policy from december of 2022. and now i'll turn it over to acting lieutenant batchelder. good morning, chair walton and vice chair safaí. my name is eric batchelder. i'm the acting lieutenant for the technical services unit at strategic investigations, some of the program highlights. following the passage of proposition e, sfpd deployed six unmanned aircraft systems, or

drones, as part of initial deployment, with more on the wa. these drones are sfpd's first air support in 24 years. all drone operators are trained and certified with a remote pilot's license, a remote pilot's license, part 107. it's issued by the federal aviation administration to ensure that drones are operated in accordance with all laws and manufacturers approved flight manuals to more effectively and efficiently respond to crime. sfpd is integrating drones and other technologies, including automated license plate readers and public safety cameras. drones are deployed within the city and county of san francisco. san francisco airport property, and during sfpd operations outside of san francisco as allowed. benefits include faster response times, situational awareness, more precision de-escalation. officer safety, avoiding unnecessary police chases, and a force

multiplier during staff shortages. the authorized use and responsibilities under prop e, the sfpd is authorized to use drones along with or in lieu of vehicles during pursuits and to assist with active criminal investigations. under the policy submitted to the board of supervisors, drones will be used for training and simulations. critical incidents. exigent circumstances. search and rescue mission. missing persons crime scene investigation during suspicious device assessments. planned operations and disaster response. sfpd has policies in place to ensure that drones are used responsibly. or i'm sorry, responsibly, with safeguards to protect protect the constitutional rights and privacy of the public. deployment responsibilities

during phase one. we have multiple phases to this, but on the first phase, drones will provide aerial support and situational awareness to responding officers during pre-planned crime prevention and investigation operations. spontaneous criminal investigations, at the discretion of the program manager or designee, and response to major and critical incidents as defined by sfpd general order 8.01. we also have prohibitions and restrictions that we put into place department owned drones. their accessories and or their features, functions shall not be used to harass, intimidate, or discriminate against any individual or group to monitor individuals based on their race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or membership in any protected class. for a non-law enforcement related matter in an unsafe manner or in

violation of regulations. the drone shall not be equipped with weapons of any kind, and the drone shall not be used as a force option when the drone is being flown, operators will take steps to ensure that the camera is focused on necessary areas necessary to, to the mission and to minimize the inadvertent collection of data about uninvolved persons and places. the data in reporting the data retention is as follows. video footage with no evidentiary value is deleted within 30 days. recorded data that is found to have evidentiary value relevant to a criminal, civil or administrative matter shall be retained for a minimum of two and a half years. recorded data is not collected or retained for protected first amendment activities. as far as the data

sharing data may be shared with law enforcement partners. for law enforcement purposes and the department of police accountability data may be shared with media outlets or on sfpd social media, with the chief of police approval, and in accordance with media relations and legal division guidelines, we will have standard reporting. the sfpd will post a standard report of drone deployments on its website. the inaugural report will be due 90 days after the first recorded flight. non-training related deployment and will be updated monthly thereafter, we've already, posted this on to the police department's website, equipment for use of drones will be reported in the annual ab 481 report. examples of drone, usage results. drones have already

assisted sfpd in numerous cases, including sex assault, suspect arrests, several auto burglaries, 4th of july disturbances, and violent and wanted fugitives. the arrest of these violent and wanted fugitives, some of the recent incidents they include. on january 26th, officers responded to two subjects on dirt bikes breaking into cars around the embarcadero. a drone was able to follow the suspects and locate their position, allowing officers to make a safe arrest. on july 27th, just a day after plainclothes officers identified an auto burglary crew breaking into vehicles in the same area with the help of the drone, sfpd located, the suspects, spiked their tires, placed them under arrest, and recovered all of the stolen property, both of the incidents, the district attorney was able to file charges and both cases are being prosecuted and are pending. before the

court, just as far as the amount of missions that we've had so far, it's been 65 missions. 18 of those have resulted in arrests. not not totally sure if it was if the drone was a reason for the arrest, but it for sure aided in the arrest of 18 individuals. and we also believe that five pursuits were mitigated, when i explained about the two subjects on the dirt bikes, the drone was able to watch them until one of the main, the primary suspect got off of his dirt bike and walked away from it. so officers could move in and arrest him, thus you know, mitigating a pursuit. okay, this is, a sexual assault suspect, this was in san jose. and what we did is we had the drone up. so in case the subject ran, we were able to take him

into custody. also gave a lot of information. this is the 4th of july celebration. you can see a sideshow started. you had, subjects they were actually shooting, you know, fireworks up in the air. major fire hazard. unruly. the drone was able to get up and give ground commanders an idea of what was going on. and how thick the crowd was, and how to best disperse them, which worked very well. and we were able to do that without, you know, using any physical force against anybody. here is the two dirt bikes that were breaking into cars on the embarcadero, this is when we waited for them to get away from the dirt bike, and we were able to safely take that individual into custody, here's another. oh. went to. anyway, that was another, it's very fast, but that was another just example of, where the drone was able to see and, give the

information to the, the ground units. and that they were able to actually spike that car. thus slowing them down where they ended up arresting him, there's another there's another one that's not shown, but just just in the last few weeks, we had another one where it was another auto burglary, where we ended up arresting them just south of, bryant street. but they ended up they had three guns in the car, so, do you have any questions? thank you so much for the presentation. supervisor safaí, do you have any questions? yeah, i have a couple questions. and i also know, president peskin had some questions, too. so we might ask you to come back next monday since we don't have the full gamut of our committee here. but, one of the questions i have is in terms of there's been a real increase in sideshows that are happening and i'm wondering,

i see that these are utilized at night, and you have five operators. what's how is it that you deploy those and how quickly can you deploy them when the sideshows are happening in the evenings. so, they can be they can be deployed very quickly. but you have to remember that these drones are going to be in inside of a police car, a police vehicle, so that that police car has to be close enough to that sideshow for it to happen, so we haven't had any where we've been able to utilize it for the sideshow yet, but we are going to embed a drone in with the sdr unit. i don't know what. oh, it's just the side sideshow, right? the guys that, will try to combat the sideshows, but to answer your question, it can be put up very quickly, but it has to be deployed with like so there's an officer and a vehicle. the officer has to be

in the area or deployed to the area, and then it has to be able to be trained and know how to function as it is. right now. and remember, we have six drones right now, but really two of those are utilized for interior. they're smaller and they're not for outdoor. and so we really want that for drones interior. oh if you had a, like if you had a critical incident with a swat team, you know, almost, almost in lieu of like a robot where you could have it go in and just check out, check out the inside of city hall, someone could operate it in here if there was a somewhere with high ceilings or something like that. correct. yes. okay. and then i just have a basic question because i think there's a lot of confusion. we got a lot of calls once this got scheduled. so prop e passed and gave the pd the authorization to use drones. so why are you all here today? i understand, ab 481, but can you explain it a little bit again, a little bit more clearly? absolutely thank you, vice chair safaí. so of course, as voters approved

sfpd's use of drones in prop e, that was including for the purposes of ab 41, when questions arose about the technical compliance with ab 41, which generally requires board of supervisors approval and an ordinance, we were recommended by the city attorney's office to prepare a use policy in light of prop e, and ab 41 was just affirming your ability. i mean, affirming your policy, it doesn't change the ability for you to use drones one way or the other. that's exactly right. so as you're saying, this is our policy. we want to put in a writing along with our other equipment use policies. right. the policy before you today does expand on the equipment used and the types of uses. okay. great i don't i don't have any other questions, although i do know that supervisor peskin also had some questions. so we might ask you guys to come back next week. so i think i'll make a motion to continue the item for one week if that's okay. chair. yeah but i have oh you have a lot of questions. okay okay. go ahead.

thank you so much, supervisor. i didn't know if you wanted to ask them today or next week. i'll ask them right now. okay. in lieu of time. yeah, i got it. thank you so much. i mean, just really to piggyback on, your last question, i do want to ask, deputy city attorney rusty. knowing that prop e passed, the voters supported prop e, and there's a drone policy already in place. i thought prop e gave the police chief the ability to skirt around the board of supervisors and skirt around the police commission approval, good morning, supervisors. deputy city attorney brad russ, as the department explained, state law does require, board approval of this type of equipment. but when the voters passed prop e, they stood in the shoes of the word for that approval, at least for the first year. so we recommended that in light of technical compliance issues that arose about this issue and to

give the department more direction in terms of their policy that they submit this proposed ordinance to you for approval. anyway, after the first year, the department will have to come back for an approval from the board as they do with all of the military equipment that the department uses now. so, right now, the drones are in use. are we operating in violation of state law? the voters approved the use of the drones by the department for purposes of state law. so what i'm struggling with, if we're not operating outside of state law, then you wouldn't be here before us today. so this this is confusing to me, because if we're operating in a state in regards to state law, then there's no reason to come to this board today. supervisor, as the department said, and as i said earlier, questions have been raised about technical compliance and that's why we recommended that they submit this ordinance. so we're not

100% sure. if you wish, i could give you a more confidential briefing on this question, but but as i said, yeah, i would love to know if we're violating state law, currently. and i would like a definitive, you know, some definitive clarity on that, so. my big thing, obviously, capturing perpetrators is extremely important. and i see some of the work that has happened. and i think that is of course, something that is protecting the safety of, of residents. but i also believe that protecting civilians, civil liberties of the public is also important. so what guarantee do we have that folks civil liberties won't be violated while drones are in us? i think that, well, i know that we are. we've looked at the case law involving i mean, there's not a lot of case law involving

drones, but there is case law involving police helicopters, just the simple act of flying over. we don't believe, violates anybody's, constitutional rights, also in the policy, we have it where our drones and also the way we're training that our drones are not going to be, zeroing in on just some innocent person or some uninvolved person and watching what they're doing, it would be simply to fly over to the area that's in question, whether it's someone breaking into a house or whether it's a suspect who's jumped over, you know, fences. and we're trying to figure out where he is or he or she whatever. and, so i guess to answer your question is, that's one way where we point the camera. the other thing is, is everything of non evidentiary. we're making sure that we're getting rid of that after 30 days. right and thank

you for saying that because that was going to be my question. if i'm doing something in my backyard or doing something with family that has caught on on camera, that takes a whole 30 days for that to be erased. yeah, yeah, that that's that seems a little bit troubling. and i know and thank you for the presentation because i did ask this question, but i do want to ask it just for the public, exigent circumstances. that seems pretty broad and planned operations seems pretty broad for usage like those are, you know, not very specific on how we're going to be using drones and how they're going to be in the city. i understand your question, and i think that exigent circumstances, it is broad, but i think it's specific in the things that it tackles. i mean, just in general, exigent circumstances allow police officers to act without a warrant where one would usually be needed, and it would just be

the doctrine of if you had a, you know, like a hot pursuit, where if you're chasing a subject and he goes into a house in california or in the united states, you're not allowed to go into anybody's house unless there's an exception or you have a search warrant. and one of the exceptions is exigent circumstances. but as far as how the police department or the attorneys are going to define what exigent circumstances means in this order, i'm not able to tell you. it seems like there's a lot of a lot of gray area that i think is important that we need to deal with. and how is the data going to be stored after the 30 days it would be in compliance with the body camera in fact, we'd be uploading into the same sort of system that the police body cameras go into. it's evidence.com got it. yeah, i don't have any more questions right now. definitely, i will

support your motion after we get to public comment. just because i do believe we should allow president peskin to weigh in on this, but i definitely believe that there are a lot of concerns, and not just with drones, but anything that is going to surveil residents in our communities, making sure that we protect people's civil, civil liberties is very important, as we also weigh in how this supports public safety and definitely understand, what is being done here. but most certainly want to make sure that we have policies that are in place that protect the public as well, i don't have anything else. any more questions? no no, i just wanted to say, because we're going to continue this one week, i held a bunch of my questions. so i'll have more questions next week. i do want to say i appreciate the examples, because they have had an impact. i know they are having an impact, particularly when it comes to car break ins and retail theft. and some of the other activities reckless

driving. i know that it's going to have a positive impact, but i agree with supervisor walton. we i'd like to go a little bit deeper into how it's going to be implemented, ensured that it's not going to infringe on people, but at the same time be a real effective tool. i was with one of the captains, the other night, and they talked about a situation where it was a late night break in instead of a wild pursuit, the drones were employed. they went over to the sunset. the individuals were jumping from, you know, backyard to backyard, and they were able to get them in a situation. and it ended up being a case where they had been involved in a string of late night break ins, which are plaguing our district. i mean, literally every other day i get a call from a small business that's been broken into at night, so i know it's effective. but i agree 100% with supervisor walton. we have to make sure that the policies in place that are not infringing upon people and have unintended

consequences. so i'll make a motion to continue for a week. if you're okay with that chair, we'll get to the motion after public comment. sorry, sorry. yeah thank you mr. clerk, can we call for public comment? yes i would like to request to the department if you could possibly give me a copy of the report for the file. thank you. members of the public who wish to speak on this item should line up to speak along the side by the window. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. there will be a soft chime when you have 30s left, and a louder chime when your time has expired. you can approach the podium. here. yes i'm john lindsay poland of american friends service committee, which documents ab 41 use policies statewide. two things. first, sfpd illegally obtained and used these drones in violation of ab 41 requirement to post a use policy and get it approved before acquiring military equipment. it's the only agency we know of

to have done so in the state. sfpd has falsely said that prop e trumps state law, a law enforcement agency violating the law, sets a bad example for the community and puts at legal risk the prosecutions in which drones were used. the department hasn't acknowledged its violation, which suggests they will do it again if allowed. the board should state that future acquisitions of military equipment that violate state law will not be approved by this board and get a written commitment from the department to abide by state law. ab 41. second, the proposed use policy for drones is overly broad. planned operations can contingency exigent circumstances, which are not defined, and other authorized uses could include searches without a warrant, use of drones inside private residences, and other operations absent a public safety threat. while sfpd has said there are prohibited uses of drones such as weaponizing

drones, use against first amendment activities, and discriminatory surveillance, none of these prohibited uses are in the written use of policy. before you today. for the board to reach a finding required by state law, that the use policy before you is protective of civil liberties, is cost effective, and lacks an alternative. you must send this policy back to sfpd to address these requirements. thank you. thank you. are there any additional speakers for this matter? we have additional speakers. would you please line up? thank you sir. you can come definitely. yeah right here. yes. my name is arthur koch. i'm a resident of district nine, member of the san francisco friends meeting. we have a meeting house just a couple of blocks away here. and, i don't necessarily have anything against drones. i i'm a drone operator. i'm a licensed drone operator. but having but because

of my experience doing that, i realize a lot of people have bad reactions to drones. because they associate it with us assassinating people abroad. they associate it with a lack of privacy. and so i can understand people's concern. but i think the real issue here is that the police department just went ahead and bought some drones because of prop e, without going through the ab 481 process of presenting it to the board of directors, having a policy presented and being approved by the board of directors. so that's that's my main concern about introducing drones to the police force, and then i guess, and generally does prop, does prop e supersede ab for a one, the other issue that that really bothers me is that, the police have not reported all the

assault weapons and submachine guns that they have, and last year there was not one incident where one was needed, but now they want more. i don't i don't understand that. i don't understand why the taxpayers should pay more money for weapons we hope will never be used, and that is that. is that the two minutes? yes almost. 30s left. yeah. so i guess the bottom line is i don't think we need, machine guns and assault weapons and the bigger point is, whatever the police decide they need, they need to run it through the board of supervisors with a detailed plan on how they're going to use them. thank you for your consideration. thank you. are there any additional speakers on this matter? there are no additional speakers. thank you. seeing no additional speakers, public comment is now closed. mr.

clark, i believe we have a motion on the floor to continue this item to next week's meeting. yes, on a motion to continue the matter to the rules committee meeting of september the 16th. on that motion, vice chair safaí safaí peskin. excuse. chair walton, i walton i the motion passes without objection. motion passes. we will continue this item to the next week's meeting. mr. clerk, would you please call item number five? item number five is ordinance rescinding the sunset provision of ordinance number 20522 and approving the police department's continued use of non-city entity surveillance cameras consistent with the department's surveillance technology policy. thank you so much. and you have the floor. good morning, ahsha steeves. i'm the policy development division manager with sfpd, i just wanted to introduce this item. this was, as a reminder, a policy

that was approved by through the 19 b process. so the privacy surveillance advisory board and the committee on information technology revised and vetted this. and recommended it to the board. and the board approved back in september of 2022. so we are not introducing any changes other than requesting the resentment of the sunset provision and that's it. and i'm here to take any questions if you have them. thank you so much, supervisor safaí. any questions? thank you, mr. clerk. we will go to public comment on this item. yes. members of the public wish to speak on this item. should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. are there any speakers who would like to make comment on this matter? there are no speakers on this matter. thank you. seeing no speakers public comment is now closed. mr. clerk, i'd like to make a motion to move this forward to the full board with recommendation on that motion, vice chair safaí i. safaí peski,

excuse chair walton, a walton i that motion passes without objection. thank you. motion passes. mr. clerk, please call item number six. item number six is ordinance approving surveillance technology policy for the department of emergency management. use of shotspotter, a gunfire detection technology. thank you so much, mr. clerk. welcome good morning, supervisor walton, supervisor safaí, my name is robert smuts. i'm deputy director for the department of emergency management, overseeing the 911 center. i'm joined by janet collins, the assistant deputy director of the division. i'm here to present an item number five, specifically following the requirements of administrative code section 19 b, we are presenting our surveillance impact report, surveillance technology policy regarding gunshot detection hardware and services. otherwise

known as shotspotter. this was approved by reviewed and approved by koit back in september 2022. and we're now before the board, i don't have a formal presentation on this. this technology has been used. it started actually in the bay view, visitacion valley valley and, back in 2008 and then was subsequently expanded to some other areas of the city, just a couple key points on this technology. it uses about 20 different sensors per square mile that it operates to triangulate the location of gunshots, that data is then processed by the company offsite at their headquarters, and when a confirmed gunshot is detected, only that information is sent and accessible by the department of emergency management. it sends a snip audio snippet one second before to one second

after the recorded gunshots. and that is the only information, the only audio information we have. in addition to information about the location. the, the sound recorded by these sensors is maintained for, is accessible by the department for one week and one week only, and we do not have access to any of the other, audio recordings made, which is purged at shotspotter headquarters after 30 hours. if there's no gunshot sound detected. i'm available for any questions. thank you, director, so much. just one question, because obviously we've been using shotspotter technology for a while. and as you stated, it started in district ten, in bayview. how are we doing in terms of shotspotter actually catching perpetrators or folks who are shooting in our streets, i don't have hard data on to

speak to that. i do know that it is used very frequently, an estimated only 15% of gunshots are actually called in by by residents. so this does provide a lot more information to the police department to respond. and both check for any victims, which it has been helpful for, as well as try to apprehend any suspects, i could try to look at our, our data and see if i can speak to that or or speak to the police department. definitely. and i appreciate that and would definitely have some follow up about that. okay supervisor safaí, any questions? no, thank you. if you can add me as a co-sponsor. thank you so much. supervisor seeing no more comments or questions from colleagues or colleague, we go to public comment on this item.

yes. members of the public who wish to speak on this item should line would speak. at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. are there any members of the public who would like to make a comment on this matter? there are no public speakers on this matter. thank you so much. seeing no speakers public comment is now closed. i would like to make a motion to move this forward to the full board with recommendation. yes, on that motion, vice chair safíi safaí peskin. excuse. chair walton, a walton i that motion passes without objection. thank you. motion carries. thank you so much. mr. clerk, would you please call item number one? yes. item number one. ordinance requiring that the new public library branch serving the oceanview merced heights, ingleside and lakeview neighborhoods be built on city owned parcel of land at 100 or harbor avenue, subject to environmental review. required approvals and other applicable laws and prohibiting the

expenditures of city funds to explore, pursue, or plan construction of a new public library branch serving those neighborhoods at any alternate location except as required by environmental review process, required approval, and other applicable laws. thank you so much, mr. clerk, and i want to thank the public for your patience as we took these items out of order this morning. supervisor safaí thank you. chair appreciate you scheduling this so quickly, just to start, i have some amendments that i want to pass out, that we can that we can talk about, but essentially the main gist of the amendment is to allow for after listening to some of the community, allow for if the possibility arises, an expansion of this existing site where the library is, if any adjacent parcel comes available. i want to allow for that. so we're not

just locking ourselves into one location. so the amendments that i'm distributing allow us to do that. so provide a little bit of more flexibility. but i want to kind of start with why we're here, the current location at 345 randolph is the smallest neighborhood library in the entire city. it was spearheaded by mayor willie brown in the late 90s, and it was built, i think, in a very quick way. i think you'll probably hear from some of the residents, there was a lot of drug dealing, a lot of illegal activity happening at the site, and it was meant to transform that location into something positive for the community, but the fact that it is the smallest library in the city doesn't allow for the community to get the full use. and there is significant demand being an area that has a has many seniors, many children, many after school programs. so

in 2018, we started a community process. the library had set aside $9 million to renovate the existing site, but through the community process, community made it clear that they wanted a much larger library. and when you look at the southeast part of san francisco, you'll see on the map that having a larger library to serve multiple neighborhoods in that location makes a lot of sense. and that's so that's what we set out to do. we worked with the community and the city librarian and public works, and in 2019, public works published an analysis of five different locations public sites that could be the future home of the ocean view library, parcel d or 100. orizaba scored the best and was the only one that met all of the city's criteria for a suitable site. it is a block away from public transportation muni line. it's walkable from

many different areas of the neighborhood, but there was some concerns for those that live on the other side of brotherhood way about traffic and pedestrian safety. so we worked with the sfmta and the county transportation authority to conduct traffic studies at the location at 100 orizaba to identify ways that we could make the site more pedestrian friendly and to install traffic calming changes to alter driver behavior along brotherhood way. we have a letter from director tomlin that states funding, planning and implementation can be fully independent of any adjacent land use changes, including potential siting of a library nearby. essentially, nothing should stop moving forward with the library. we can do the transportation studies in conjunction and parallel, and that's what we intend to do. and this fall, there's going to be a few hundred thousand dollars of improvements made, and they're still underway for a more medium and long term. but the cost was

identified as an issue in 2020, the cost of the library was estimated to be around 47. $50 million, according to cfo heather green. and the. and the library identified $12.5 million in funds for the ocean view library. so there was about a $34 million gap. but we went to work and as you recall, we were many of us worked tirelessly for the renewal of the library preservation fund on in april of that year, city librarian lambert identified that the budget for the ocean view library would be funded by the renewal of the library preservation fund. and so that's one of the main reasons why i was a lead sponsor at the board and the city for the renewal of that fund. so the $47 million price tag has obviously, as time has gone by, it's gone up, we submitted a letter of inquiry to the public works about the

construction costs and the gaps. but essentially the money was identified to start the library. it was fully funded, according to the estimates at that time, even though the construction costs have gone up somewhere between 42 and 61 million. so around 53 million, but as is the case and i'll give an example, as supervisor walton's district, the potrero yards project is not fully funded, but sfmta and that department is moving forward aggressively, choosing a contractor, moving forward with plans, identifying design, and in no way, shape or form is that project fully funded. but the intention by the city in every case is to ensure that that project moves forward, because it's a it's a need. the potrero yard has to be rebuilt. and the idea is that there has an

opportunity there to have housing and to make it a wonderful neighborhood in the city, very similar to here. and so having done a lot of public works projects, i just want to say for the record that to have something fully funded, having all the money in the bank has never been a requisite for something to begin and to begin in earnest. so i'm going to ask the librarian to come up. we have some i have some questions for him, but i'm going to continue on going on this timeline that we can get into that. another thing that happened in the meantime, it was recently at the youth commission librarian was there to talk and talked about doing, the project at an alternative site on the record in the city, talked about doing it at the it. berkman site at 446. randolph said he had the full support of the mayor's office of housing and community development and so we were a

little bit taken aback. we followed up with the director and asked him, because it's not usual for a director of a department to say that they're in support of moving forward with a project when something hasn't gone through a competitive process. so we reached out to director adams and what we got back was said. there's been some preliminary conversations with the librarian about an alternative site at 446 randolph. they discussed the complexity of accommodating diverse programing at that site. and that mohcd would have to do an open and competitive procurement process. so there would be a request for city funds for affordable housing, and there would have to be a development agreement in place. and that mohcd doesn't have any funding. and i think i've said this to folks in the community, i've said this publicly, but this is what the director of that department said. mohcd

won't have any funding for any new sites until the boffa bond should a passes or should it pass? well, guess what the boffa bond is not even going forward. it got pulled from the november ballot, so they mohcd has not taken a position on supporting any site, and it's not their role to do so. so part of why we're here today is because we had put forward a previous piece of legislation. we tried to be clear in saying we wanted to prioritize 100 orizaba. but it seems as though there's been a different course of action, even after additional community meetings, where again, i think we heard unanimously that the community wanted a library at 100 orizaba. so if the director of the librarian could come forward, have some questions for him, because just some of this stuff doesn't make sense, and i just want to be clear for the

record, why we're coming back with this legislation and why we think it's important to go forward. so you heard what i said, director lambert. i'm just i'm curious why there's still this push to look at for 46 randolph when the community and previously we said that we wanted to prioritize 100 orizaba. thank you. supervisor safaí. and thank you for your continued advocacy for this project. i appreciate you being a champion for a new ocean view branch library for this omi region. and i do not dispute anything that you have said on the record this morning with regards to the prospective exploration of a joint use partnership with the pilgrim community church and the it berkman center, you did astutely point out that the bay area regional housing bond was pulled from the november ballot. so at this point, 100 orizaba is the

only remaining option with regards to the prior legislation to prioritize 100 orizaba, the library has been adhering to that ordinance. we did commission some community meetings this spring, and we affirmed the community's aspirations for the new library. we also requested the department of public works commission, a fresh cost estimate from a professional cost estimator. so we shared that information with the library commission in july at the july library commission meeting, along with a fresh timeline for, prospective construction at 100 orizaba. so i guess my question is, i go back to the other part of my question, which was or statement, which is we have almost $50 million and we have the opportunity to move forward with we've done community meetings at ad nauseam, you just

stated 100 orizaba is the site. so when are you going to move aggressively to begin drawing up plans and moving forward and putting together construction documents so that this project can get because you don't have to have a fully funded project to proceed with that. that's correct. we do have to have a fully funded project to proceed with construction, but we are far away from that. we are continuing to adhere to the key project considerations that were outlined by the planning department. i did share the preliminary planning assessment with the clerk prior to this meeting today. and as a reminder, two of those key project considerations are monitor the traffic studies underway along brotherhood way that could have an impact on the parcel. it would be premature to begin detailed design work if

there's fluidity in the actual parcel of land that we have to work with, the other key project consideration was that the library should consider joint use partnerships to bring other benefits and amenities to the to the community. so we're adhering to those key project considerations. i have had a couple of meetings with my colleagues from public works in the past three weeks to discuss moving forward with a design to build option with the available funds. so we are moving this project forward. well first of all, i don't know what you're talking about. fluidity with the site. and second of all, i don't mean the planning department can make recommendations, but ultimately that's not something that has to be adhered to in terms of joint use partnerships. i mean, again, this is something that was ready to go two years ago and the community has just

been waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting. money is there. we've been wasting people's time. i'm trying to be as respectful as i can this morning. i don't want to get into a back and forth with you, but we are going to proceed with passing this legislation, because it just it doesn't make sense that there were all these conversations with an alternative site. and i said to people from the beginning, we're just wasting time. there's never going to be affordable housing money for that site. and if it is, it's years and years away, there won't be the same level of library. and in the meantime, we've just wasted two years because we were in a position two years ago to really move forward with this aggressively. so i think what would be great would be walking out of here is do you support this legislation? and secondly, can we get a timeline in terms of when you're going to begin the process to really get this project moving? to answer your first question, i

appreciate the amendment i have had. i have not had an opportunity to review your proposed amendment this morning. i haven't seen it, but i appreciate the essence of it. the idea of adding additional land that could be put forth for utilization as part of this project. i do not support the legislation on the principle that it's not good government to limit options. it's antithetical to good government principles. this legislation was amended in the prior form back in january. it was passed. we are adhering to that legislation. so i do not feel that this legislation is necessary. okay. thank you. i think we can go to public comment. i don't want to go back and forth. thank you director. thank you, director lambert. thank you, supervisor safaí. mr. clerk, let's go to public comment. yes. members of the public who wish to speak on this

matter should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. you can approach the podium. good afternoon. supervisors yeah, i know i can approach the podium. been here before, my name is renard monroe. i'm the executive director of youth first. we're located in the district 11. community. i was one of the few members that was called, one morning when we found a 16 year old, had been murdered in front of the library that we have now because there wasn't a library, back in 1998. so i speak from a little bit of experience about the need of our library. we bring children to this library every wednesday. okay. and we have to separate them, because the library is not big enough to fit all of our children in at

one time, i brought my staff here. who's the front line? who actually has to deal with that? you know, making sure that we get these kids in by this time and these kids out and bring in a whole separate group. i'm just in here, to support making sure that we get a new library. i don't know why we keep going back and forth making this political, because the what's losing out is the community, we're the most underserved community in san francisco. that's. you can look at it from data. you can look at it from visiting. you can do all the things. but we don't even have a grocery store in our in our district. we have to have a library that meets the need for our youngsters, for our elders, and for the community as a whol. i'm hoping that we can get past all the other things. i want to thank supervisor ahsha safaí for all of his support for the library. i also want to thank, michael lambert for keeping us in the loop on certain things that was going on with our

library, but our community deserves a new library. we need a new library, and we need it asap. we don't need it ten years, 15 years down the line when some of the people who've been fighting for this community won't even be here anymore. thank you. good morning. my name is delia fitzpatrick, thank you. supervisors for having this issue on the table. i, i represent the oh, my community collaborative, and i've been working in community for 20 years. this district lacks doesn't lack people. it doesn't lack youth. we have the highest youth. we have the highest seniors. we have the highest seniors that age in place. both need supportive resources. we're

not having we don't have any of that. we need schools. we need safe spaces for our children. and we've been arguing, not arguing, but going back and forth about a space that is perfect for our community. i request that we look at this deeper and come to a definitive answer onto the needs of the community and what we want. thank you. are there any additional speakers for this matter? if you don't mind, if you can line up, it would be appreciated. good morning supervisors. my name is mary harris, president of. oh my neighbors in action, 50 year resident of the lakeview, omi. and here again to speak in support of this legislation.

because, you know, we won't have to pay for the land. it's already city owned and we need to keep the costs down and allow for community events and outdoor space for classroom and family activities, what i mainly want to speak about is, equity, which has been short supply in the lakeview omi. so i keep asking for that. and that the project continue in a timely manner, which it hasn't been doing, that we are transparent in what's taking place in the conversations that are happening with other groups and other entities that we haven't been told about until after the fact, so i ask that the community be updated on a regular basis and on the results of the

environmental review. the results of traffic safety and that that we need to, help in raising the additional funds for, the library now that it's nearly doubled in costs. so that's what i am here to say today. and thank you for your support. good morning supervisors. my name is al harris and i got up this morning thinking, five years, six years doesn't mean much if i say 91, 92, 93, it means a lot. i'm 85 years old. i'd like to see this library built before i die. and they keep talking about 20, 30,

2031, 2032. and i'm looking at i'm like, what am i going to be 95 before i ever see this thing? so we don't even have a timeline. can we get a timeline on this thing? right. and i think the location is perfect. let's get it done. thank you. thank you. are there any additional speakers on this matter? there are no additional speakers at this time. thank you. seeing no additional speakers, public comment is now closed and i do just want to reiterate my support for community. i know that community has been fighting for this location for quite some time, and i just want you to know that my support is with the community. i've heard you and respect the direction you want to go in, so you definitely have my support. supervisor safaí yeah, i debated whether i was going to say some of the things i'm about to say, but i'm sorry

i have to i have to put it out there because i have so much respect for the people that came out here today, each one of them has literally given years of their life to this community dealing with death, dealing with near death, dealing with racism, dealing with being neglected. and the sad thing is, in this situation, i'm sorry you have to be in this room right now. i'm sorry when government doesn't work for the people because we had everything lined up and i'm sorry. director lambert. in july of 22, you wrote a letter, and i said this before i got to say it again. you were ready to transfer the property from public works to the library. you were gung ho about this project. so what changed? and i'm sorry, i have to say this out loud, but we have a mayor that plays petty politics. she plays with people's lives, and she's

playing in this situation. and it's true. and it's unfortunate. it's really, really unfortunate because it's disingenuous for the librarian to come here and say, planning studies and all this other stuff when he's meeting with other people in the community, talking about an alternative site and i said out loud, it could never get built, and it's never going to be built on that site. never. the money does not exist. so it's wrong to divide the community. it's wrong to mislead them. it's wrong to play politics with a library for a community that's been so underserved for so long, i shouldn't even have to do this legislation. you're right. it's not good government in some way. but unfortunately, we have to do this because we have to put bumpers around this. so it's very, very clear this is where this needs to be built. and the

only reason i'm making the amendments i'm making today is just in case an adjacent parcel comes up and that becomes an alternative site. so there's two, two options. but for people that have to sit up here and say, please give us a timeline, i might not be alive by the time this gets built. that's sad. that is really, really, really sad. and it's sad when kids have to stand outside on the sidewalk because there's no room in the library. no other neighborhood in the city has to do that. that's a shame. it's a it's a damn shame that we are here today. so i make a motion to move these amendments. supervisor walton, as described, essentially, we're going to accept the ability to expand the adjacent on an adjacent parcel. and it's on page one. and throughout the, legislation. so if i can make a motion to accept those amendments as, as read into the record. thank you. supervisor safaí. mr. clerk, on

that motion on the motion to adopt the amendments, vice chair safaí i safaí peskin. excuse chair walton i walton i that motion passes without objection. thank you. amendments are approved. supervisor safaí. so because this is those amendments were substantive. this will be continued for one week. is that correct? correct motion to continue this item for this amended item to next week's committee meeting? yes. and the motion to continue the matter to september 16th. rules committee meeting. vice chair safaí i safaí i peskin. excused. chair walton i walton i that motion passes without objection. thank you. motion passes without objection. mr. clerk, please call item number two. item number two is a hearing to consider appointing three members indefinite terms to the food security task force. three seats, two applicants. thank you so much. is katherine jackson

here? hi. good morning. good morning. thank you for having me this morning. and i want to start by thanking you both for your work on food and hunger in the city, my name is katie jackson. i am the chief nutrition officer at project open hand, which is a nonprofit organization aimed at providing medically tailored food to individuals suffering from chronic illnesses, in which food can help to improve those conditions, previously to my role at project open hand, i was the director of food nutrition services at zuckerberg san francisco general hospital, the city's safety net hospital and there i was over meal production service to our patients at the

hospital. and, the long term care facility, as well as the medical nutrition therapy at the hospital, so i have a history, a long history of serving those, one who have issues with food access and also who have chronic illnesses in which food is really important in terms of the healing. so i am here today to, support my nomination for a seat on the food security task force. i'm interested in joining the food security task force because as a registered dietitian, i understand the impact of food on health, and also on health equity here in the city. we have, a growing number of folks that are food insecure. and we know that that disproportionately impacts communities of color and, leads to, more divide in terms of

health equity. so i hope to bring my expertise on not only, food and nutrition, but also access to food and have the opportunity to collaborate with the other folks serving on the task force in order to do that, i find that the task force has been a instrumental force in identifying disparities within the city, and coming up with solutions that are based in the community and how we can tackle and address that. so i'm thrilled to be here today. i'm excited to be working on this, this cause i find it to be a very important cause, especially as we address chronic illnesses in in our city and how we can use food and use nutrition as a way to improve health outcomes. thank you, miss jackson. any questions? supervisor safaí no thank you for your willingness to serve. thank you, we will also hear from noriko lim. good

morning, supervisor walton and supervisor safaí. my name is narika lim and i am applying for seat 16 on the food security task force, you know, i spent close to a decade in higher education assisting san francisco state students and being an advocate for them, especially around the issues of food insecurity in order to reduce their time to degree. i found that giving back to my community was where i found the most joy, and i decided to join the san francisco marin food bank as their chief strategic partnerships and advocacy officer. i thought at this point in my career, i wanted to give back to the community and the city that raised me, and i thought food insecurity was one of the places in which could be the most impactful for my work, i feel that my academic policy and also my lived experiences in san francisco would contribute and also complement those on the food security task force and also to just to better serve our

community members. thank you. thank you so much, miss kim tepper, miss lim tepper, my apologies, supervisor safaí, any questions? no, just thank you for your willingness to serve. thank you, mr. clerk. we'll go to public comment. public comment on item number two. members of the public wish to speak on this item should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. are there any members of the public who would like to provide comment on this matter? there are no speakers on this matter. thank you. seeing no public comment. public comment is now closed, and i do just want to reiterate my thanks for you to both wanting to step up and serve. this is definitely an important task force. as you know, we have a lot of folks who are suffering from food insecurity in our community. and so we appreciate your willingness to serve. with that said, supervisor safaí, are you trying to. yeah, yeah, i just i just want to add, you know, we did the food empowerment market and supervisor walton's district, i think that is something that we've got. i've

gotten a lot of positive feedback. i know he has as well, i think it's something it's a model, hopefully, that we can replicate and look to provide greater access to community fol. thank you so much. and with tha, mr. clerk, i'd like to move forward. catherine jackson for seat 12 and noriko lim for seat 16. yes. on that motion, vice chair safaí i safaí i peskin excused chair walton a walton i that motion passes without objection. thank you. motion passes. thank you, mr. clerk. please call item number three. yes. item number three is a motion to approving or rejecting the treasurer's nomination of jackie chen to the treasury oversight committee for a four year term ending june 17th, 2026. thank you so much. and i believe miss chen is here. good

morning, supervisor azar and walton. and i'm currently serving as the chief financial officer at the san francisco unified school district. i excuse me, would you mind pulling the microphone closer to yourself? oh, sure. sorry, given we are a single district county, and also take the role of the cfo for the county of education before this, i was the chief financial officer at high tech, high, one of the largest charters network in california. i have been calling bay area san francisco for my home for over 25 years, where i have built my career from the ground up. my journey started as a tax consultant at deloitte in san francisco. from there i moved to the school district audit and to the governmental auditing. after four years as the auditing supervisor, i transitioned to the role as the director of

finance for both the palo alto unified school district and campbell union school district, and then became the cfo for high tech high and san francisco unified school district. i'm very excited to be part of the treasury oversight committee with my diverse background and in finance, from tax consultant to auditor to cfo, i'm looking forward to bring my valuable insight and to the community. my goal resonated with the committee to help the city manage its surplus funds and investments effectively ensuring we maintain financial, health and security. thank you for this opportunity to serve. thank you so much. supervisor safaí. any questions? no, thank you, thank you. we don't have any questions, mr. clerk. we will go to public comment, yes. members of the public, who wish to speak

on this matter should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. are there any members of the public who would like to make comment on this matter? there are no members of the public who wish to speak on this matter. thank you. seeing no speakers, public comment is now closed. mr. clerk, i would like to make a motion to move this nominee forward to the full board of supervisors. yes. can i make a request to amend the motion to delete the word rejecting throughout the legislation? and i also believe that we need to add a residency waiver for this matter. yes. please include the residency waiver and the omission and the deletion of the rejecting. correct. yes. on the motion to amend and recommend, as amended on that motion, vice chair safaí i safaí i peskin, excuse chair walton i walton i that motion passes without

objection. thank you. motion passes without objection. mr. clerk, please call item number four. item number four is an ordinance amending the administrative code to exempt the legacy business assistance program from the grant making requirement under administrative code, chapter 21, g and all other provisions in the administrative, labor and employment, environmental and police code imposing obligations or other restrictions on contracts. thank you. and i believe we have a presentation on this item. good morning, chair walton. vice chair safaí sfgovtv. i have a powerpoint presentation. i'm richard carrillo, legacy business program manager with the san francisco office of small business. the ordinance before you today would amend the administrative code to exempt the legacy business assistance program from the grant making requirements under administrative code, chapter 21, g and all other provisions in the administrative, labor and employment, environment and

police codes imposing obligations or other restrictions on contractors. our office is proposing this ordinance due to the significant administrative burden to grantees and the city. for example, we would otherwise need to enter into a contract with every single grantee. this would make it extremely difficult and time consuming to support legacy businesses. under the legacy business assistance program. as a reminder, chapter 21 g of the administrative code sets a variety of requirements that departments must meet in order to award funds to an entity in furtherance of a public purpose. for example, chapter 21 g requires departments to award all grants through an open and competitive process to ensure fairness, transparency, and efficiency in the city's grant making process and to guard against favoritism, collusion, and corruption. the legacy

business assistance program is structured differently than most other city grant programs. this is why we believe it is reasonable to exclude the legacy business assistance program from the administrative code requirements. unlike other city grants where multiple entities may be bidding for one grant, the legacy business assistance program provides grants and financial services to all legacy businesses and their landlords, who apply and qualify for the grant as long as there are sufficient funds. additionally, there are several layers of review by different city entities between when a business expresses interest in becoming a legacy business and when the office of small business awards a grant to a legacy business or a landlord of a legacy business. number one to qualify for the registry, a business must meet three eligibility criteria. number two, a qualified business must complete an extensive written application. number

three, a member of the board of supervisors or the mayor must nominate the business for inclusion in the registry. number four, the historic preservation commission can consider recommending the business to the registry. and number five, the small business commission must approve the business as a legacy business and its inclusion in the registry. therefore, due to the differences in how the legacy business assistance program works as compared to what chapter 21 g was drafted for the competitive solicitation and written grant agreement requirements under chapter 21, g do not make sense for the legacy business assistance program. as a reminder, in july, the office of small business created the business stabilization grant. this is a replacement grant for the existing rent stabilization grant, which is under a different section of the admin code, the legacy business historic preservation fund. the new business stabilization grant will require that landlords

share at least 50% of the grant with legacy businesses. through this ordinance, the office of small business is proposing to add the exemption to section two, a 246. the legacy business assistance program. in addition, this ordinance would add the exemption to chapter 21 g under definitions. i'm available for any questions and i thank you for your time and consideration. thank you so much for the presentation. just a quick question in layman's terms, regular language. why is this exemption necessary? so chapter 21 g, which was added to the administrative code i believe, in 2021, has a very strict definition of what a grant is. and this business stabilization grant and other grants that we would like to do through this new section in the admin code that we just created in march, the grants don't exactly meet

the definition of what a grant is in 21 g. it's a little bit different because the way 21 g is written, it has to be a competitive process. but with the legacy grants, if they meet the recommendations and the requirements, then they're eligible for the grant, the competitive process is more on the front end, which is applying for the registry, and they have to do the whole application for that. and get a letter of nomination from the supervisor. so it's more of a front end kind of situation. so we don't quite meet the definition of how it's written in 21 g. thank you so much, supervisor safaí. any questions. seeing no questions. mr. clerk, can we go to public comment? yes. members of the public who wish to speak on this item should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this matter? there are no speakers on this matter. thank you. seeing no speakers, public comment is

now closed. mr. clerk, i would like to make a motion to move this item forward to the full board with recommendation. yes, on that motion. vice chair safíi safaí. i peskin. excused. chair. walton, i walton i that motion passes without objection. thank you. motion passes. mr. clerk, do we have any more business for today? that completes the agenda for today. thank you so much. we are adjourned.

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teams, but also to be entertained, and that's our job. i have wonderful female role models that i look up to here at the giants, and they've been great mentors for me, so i aspire to be like them one day. renelle is the best. she's all about women in the workforce, she's always in our corner. [applause] >> i enjoy how progressive the giants are. we have had the longer running until they secure day. we've been doing lgbt night longer than most teams. i enjoy that i work for an organization who supports that and is all inclusive. that means a lot to me, and i wouldn't have it any other way.

i wasn't sure i was going to get this job, but i went for it, and i got it, and my first season, we won a world series even if we hadn't have won or gone all the way, i still would have learned. i've grown more in the past four years professionally than i think i've grown in my entire adult life, so it's been eye opening and a wonderful learninginstagram. >> hello, everybody this is americans first and the oldest house we are known for handmade our family is the (inaudible) is unique and one of the few places you that is happening in the

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francisco. >> (music). >> city and county of san francisco korean-american is one of the and preserve agrees in america we work with job seeker to make sure they're trained and able to enter the workforce by i work with the number of partners able to then recruit our residents from training and get a solidified trained up workforce the hospitality initiative started in 2012, we saw a need for culinary workers within san francisco is everything from hotels gift services to culinary training to also to security services as well as are jailer training is under the hospitality initiative umbrella and um, the goal so

really try to make sure we have various training tracks for folks to answer within the industry and our program is about a tense week program about job readiness, you know, included with our kitchen work we teach life skills. >> to assess the program not only what my helped my life build. >> i come from a hardship to starting to connect again to changes, you know, and this is a second chance. >> why not to mess up on that and the program has supported me in that you a oewd is amazing; right? one of the things we focus on more on for our workforce development how to help more trained workers would our industry want to help raise the awareness of those

organizations so our members know hey this is a place we could go and find a cook find a things to. >> my sidewalks previously i did 10 years in federal penitentiary i was released into prison and that's how i got introduced with that so to chat they said apprenticeship they taught me to leave the program and i found multiple jobs and owe that to everything i learned here in. >> no wrong donor i feel your department has done is great job throughout the workforce developmen >> i think a lot of times we get in adult lives we are afraid to follow our passions and think life can't be that easy.

but i truly do believe i followed my heart this time in my journal in city government i did not know that is where my passion lied. i kept following it and ltd. to great opportunity to serve the city. [music] >> i'm katy tang the executive director of the office of small business. >> small business contributes to san francisco's economy. they provide the bulk of employment in the city and employing a million people in san francisco. and roughly 90% of the businesses are defined as small businesses. so, they contribute to the economy but also just the quality of life. small businesses are more then and there a place of transaction it is a community center.

a play where people gather. know each other and form memories about the city. >> at the office of mall business i run a team this helps report all mall businesses in san francisco whether they are looking to stfrt a new business or expand or perhaps they are feeling with issues. our office is here as a point of information for anyone with a business that has 100 or nower employees. >> i was growing up i had many ideas of when i wanted to do. i wanted to being an olympic swimmer. and i wanted to men be an architect, you name it i had many ideas for what i wanted do when i grew up. and i never anticipated entering in politics. this opportunity came along wh

started working for former supervisor carmen chu and she became the district 4 sunset district supervisor. that was my firstent row in politics and government in a different level. and so when i was finishing up my time working for legislative aid i thought, i will go off and do something else. may be explore opportunity outside of city government what was then approached by this opportunity to also serve as a district 4 supervisor. if not the traditional route that many people think of when you enter in politics. a lot know that is manage than i want to do and run for office. that was not part of my culture and upbringing with manage my parents were wondering why i wanted to go in that role this legislation and important because so many women when have it return to work after having a

child feel embarrassed or don't feel comfortable asking their supervisor for will any lactation accommodations. i saw it as an opportunity you could use the position where you have tools creating legislation and pass laws and where people listen to to you help the community and pass cause catharsis important to the city and individuals. my family immigrated to the united states from taiwan. and they came here in pronl probably late 20's almost 30. and so, they came also in the knowing english limp barely read or write but had to quickly understand english to i can't haveigate services and find a job in america. i grew up in the san francisco sunset district i spent most of my childed hoo up until i went off to college. so when i started working in

city government, i think i had mixed reactions about my involvement working government because for some of our parents generation, there is i bit of distrust in government. i think there are questions about why i was entering in this field of work. i think you know when i went in city government i thought about my parents like so many other who is have to navigate city services and resources english first language and help the individuals both navigate, intercept that is on an application approximate signage. it is fulfilling to mow to help people like my parent and feel like government is there to support them and not to harm them. my parents are happy that i retired early from politics and being a district 4 supervisor i could have continued on for a couple more years approximate

decided to leave early. i think that over all they were able to see some of my work appear in the chinese newspaper. through that they were able to see i was able to help communities in a tangible way. >> the member of the board of supervisors. >> transportation authority. for the city and county of san francisco. congratulations. >> i think about one importance when i was worn in as district 4 supervisor. years ago, and someone actually came up to me during the swear nothing ceremony and said, wow, i'm traveling here from canada, and i just i could not believe i saw an asian female worn in in this role a leadership role this meant so much that someone would say that and felt they were inspired by the scene. so -- i hope that as more people see people that look like them and more women coming in

positions of leadership than i feel they can doing the same. person this inpyred me is carmen chu who is our city add administrator but also was district 4 supervisor when i worked with her as a legislative aid. at this point, i too, was skeptical of going in politics. i saw someone who had herself never seen herself in politics. got thrown into it and put her heart and soul and dedication to serve people. and it gave me the confidence to pursue that same job and i honestly would not have either chosen or accepted or considered serving on the board of supervisors were not for carmen. >> if you want to make your business accessible. >> in my role in city government where i have seen the most challenge is people who don't know you and you are here to

serve and help them that they classify you as our city government and here to hurt you. so, people will talk to you and -- and just you know treat you disrespectfully. and sometimes i noticed that they might do more to me as a female compared to my male colleagues. but you know i try to be empathetic. one of the most significant barriers to female empowerment we feel like we have to be 100% meeting all of the qualifications before we think that we are qualified to do a job. if we look at a job description or an opportunity to come your way well is self doubt about whether you can fulfill the obligations of that role. i think that the confidence is huge and sometimes i think we make up for it by trying to gain more experience. more and more and more in

whatever we can put under our belts we'll feel better. that may not be the case. we might be qualified with when we have already accomplished. i started rock climbing indoors a couple years ago as an activity to try to spends time with my husband and also to try something new and i finds that rock climbing there are so many parallels to life. you know when i'm on the wall i'm concentrating and trying to make it to the next piece without falling. there are daying you think i'm not making progress. you come back and wow, i hit another level. and so i feel like in our daily lives and w we think we are not making enough of i change in the city. and sometimes we have to take out time to reflect every day as long as you try and give it your

all and you look back you will have made a significant contribution there is no limit to where you go in terms of rock climbing. i want to reminds myself of that in terms of daily life. >> follow what it is you are interested in, what makes you feel excited about wake up every day. you never know and be open to all the possibilities and opportunity. [music]

this is the housing authority board special meeting for july 31st. time is 11. . 15 p.m. we'll start with item 2. commissioner pikes. >> present. >> commissioner kim is absent. should be present later. commissioner lindo. >> present. and president torres. >> present. >> thank you. item 3 the ramaytush ohlone community. [ramaytush ohlone land acknowledgment]