out the cafe are the famous poet lawrence william getty and jack herb man go hung out. >> they work worked at a play with the god fathers and photos he had his typewriter i wish i were here back there it there's a lot of moving parts the meeting spot rich in culture and artists and musicians ep people would talk with you and you'd >> 2024 and we're beginning at 10:02 am. secretary fuller please call the roll. >> good morning, please respond with here or present.

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chair hartwig schulman. >> all right. so that concludes the announcement. mr. fuller, do you have any other announcement? the only announcements that i have that we're currently preparing the 2025 meeting calendar so i will be distributing some potential dates to commissioners and if, if commissioners can respond with their availability or lack of availability, that will be incredibly helpful. we hope to adapt a new calendar at least by the november meeting if not earlier. and this is included in the

director's report and that's related to the operation division that the public works commission has approved. and that concludes mia nounsments. >> thank you. please call the first item. >> item 1 is general public comment which is for topics under the commission's mandate but not related to a specific item on today's agenda. members of the public who wish to make 3 minutes of general public comment, may line up against the wall from furthest from the door if commenting on from outside of the chamber please raise your hand on the webinar or star-3 to be recognized. and it appears we do not have any in-person commenters.

and sf gov. tv is letting me know if we have any callers. and we do not have any callers for general public comment. so that concludes general public comment. >> all right, that concludes general public comment. please call the next item. >> item 2 is communication and the director's report and director carla short is here to present this informational item. >> good morning, commissioner carla short. sorry i'm just getting the right document pulled up and my computer is making it hard on me. i apologize, one moment.

all right here we g good morning, commissioners, i have a few topics i want to go through. the first is the grants ruling, i wanted to give you you an update and how it affects city and public works. as you know a federal injunction was in place restricting how san francisco can clear incampments. a portion was lated in late july in response bit u.s. supreme court. that portion concerned when san francisco can site or arrest somebody for violating our ordinances about sleeping or erecting tents in public. what has not changed since the grant's past ruling is our bag and tag policy which pertains to the storage and disposal of people's belongings. the policy continues to be litigated in the federal court

and the city remains under injunction with the paper bag bahing and tag policy. while san francisco continues to conduct encampments operations by offering shelter and service to see those on the street. the city is now better able to enforce laws when refusal of shelters occur. this includes being able to follow-up to a later time to an area that has recently been cleared to precleared encampment. to address smaller encampments. the goal of these engagement is to prevent reand to prevent small incampments from become larger ones. police department conduct regular to identify any encampment and then work with our staff to clean them. all right, next up is dream force. tomorrow kicks off dream force.

the annual global tech conference that is expect today draw 45,000 participants. this is a major event, not just for the tens of millions of dollars that will be pumped into the economy into the short-term but for the city's post pandemic recovery. a successful kfrntion will build on contract attracting more visitors and conventions which bolt sters the local economy. weighs do for all major events we have a de tail operations plan to maintain a public environment. we will have cruise from our environmental services out enforce keeping streets clean and abated. i do want to emphasize, this is work we do everyday whether or not there is a conference but we do want to make sure that there is some deployed and dream force runs through thursday. commissioners i want today tell

you about a ribbon cutting we held in the outer richmond for a set of new solar po watered safety beacons that were installed with the skills trade workers and our engineers. the beacons aim to bolster pedestrian safety. the new formerly known as rectangular flashing beacons and can be activated by the push of a button by any pedestrian want to go cross the busy boulevard. once turned on the flashing rights. this is a collaborative project with public works and sfmta. several are involved in this vital efforts including our disability access coordination and engineering and from our operation side, carpenter and cement mason help with the installation work. under this initiative, public

works installed the first safety beacon earlier this year at the diamond heights neighborhood. the outer richmond marked the second. the next flashing beacon is set to installed at beacon and bolt on near the university of san francisco. last deputy director al degraph participated in a press conference with 311 to announce the expansion of language access at the 311 customer service center. with the app now available in chinese, spanish and filipino, no longer just english. it's vital to the work that we do on behalf of the people of san francisco, in fact public works receives more 311 service requests than any other department, accounting for one-third of all requests. last year we received 378,285

service request through the 311 system. that's almost 38 requests an hour or one every two minutes everyday of the year. i want to take this opportunity to encourage members to use 311, it does make a difference. this marks the beginning of mexican heritage month. the heritage month committee has packed number of events. this year's theme is honoring and recognizing lat i can x contributions to the sciences which i'm particularly interested to learn more about. in addition to a great variety of events, the heritage team will be sending out emails that highlight and explain some of the most scientific cxz of the latinx community. i want to give a huge thank you

to the entire heritage planning committee for their work to organize and promote all of these exciting events. it's great seeing none gather and seeing the diversity that makes our department so strong. and last up, a reminder that our next beautification day, cleaning workday will take place in the debut and other neighborhoods, this saturday september 21. this is a great opportunity to beautify and meet neighbors and give back to the community. the kickoff is at 9:00 am, at 1601 armstrong avenue. more information can be found on our website at sf gov.org, i hope maybe you can join us and that wraps up today's report. thank you. >> thank you, does any--do any commissioners have any questions? no? thank you, guys.

oh okay, go ahead. >> director short, i just have a question, on all the events that happened. so when the resources being pulled to this particular area, what happened to some of the hotspots around surrounding areas like south of market? union squai, tenderloin, especially i do see some big drops in some of these things that has been happening. so i'm just curious? >> generally, we try not to pull from those areas because we know those are hotspots and so in fact, particularly we're trying to have a strong cleaning presence both south of market and union square and mosconi area. so generally, if we are pulling resources for an event like this, we'll try to do like an

early morning, everybody comes through and tries to help and then they go back to their other areas and we're generally pulling from some of the less impacted neighborhood commercial corridor areas where we have staff working. so it's, we do not pull resources from the most challenging areas to keep clean and we try to, redeployed from areas that missing a day or two is not going to have too much p an inpact on their cleanliness. >> i'm just bringing it because smft usual folks in the area, is no longer there for the entire week. i just want to know what replaced that. and about the encampment, i know we've been doing really great job, it's pretty amazing. so my question is there is

always no answers. once this encampment being cleaned and then they come back within minutes and there is nobody there to enforce this rules. then they're back there and the resources, so is there strict regulations or can enforcement be there? so they're not coming back? instead of us wasting three times a day cleaning the same encampments? >> we have our healthy streets operation center initiative, we have been focused on returning to areas once thaifn cleared. if somebody is not sited and they leave the area, it's hard

to prevent them after they come back. the effort, the healthy streets operation center is really focusing on trying to go back more consistently and more quickly to areas where we've had a resent resolution. the other thing, as i mentioned in my report, the district stations are working much more with our crews than previously to try to help support those efforts. so if an area has been cleared, the district stations are trying to keep an eye on it and we try to go with them to prevent that. but, that's, that's the best we can do to try to address those challenging spots. we have had some success in some areas but there are, some areas that remain very difficult to address. >> is this something that we have to work closely with ambassador, programs or something like that that some

of these hotspots get a little bit enforcement? so it's clean or? >> we have worked, we always try to work with a serious of partners and there has been some reemployment to try to prevent people from reestablishing once we've cleared an area, so there is that coordination happening that's also helping with the healthy streets operation initiative so. they're coordinating those ambassadors as well as all the city agencies that are involved with any kind of encampment resolution. >> thank you. >> to kind of follow-up with that healthy streets. i know we're trying to get people under shelters, do you know if there is room in shelters for people to even go to right now? >> it, there are, there is room

in shelters, the healthy streets operation center continues to offer shelter as we resolve areas and they typically are have a number of beds that are held for their availability as they're doing this work. so, from the updates that i've been getting, their offers of shelters are being made when they are doing their work and there are beds available. >> awesome, that's great to hear. that's been a challenge in the past. : anybody else have any other questions? no? all right, well thank you for your report. >> thank you. mr. fuller, please open to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment in-person on item 2, the communications and director's office *t report you

may line up along the wall next to the door. if you're commenting on webinar, press star-3 to be recognized. and we do not have any in-person commenters and there are no callers on the line, currently for this item. so that concludes public comment. >> great. again, just checking no further discussion? correct? all right, awesome. so hearing no further discussion, secretary fuller please call the next item. >> item 3 is the minutes from the--yeah, item 3 is the minutes from july 15, 2024 meeting of this commission. and this is an action item to approve them. before any motion is made, i'm happy to take questions or corrections to the minutes. >> are there any corrections to

the minutes or questions from the commission? all right, do i hear a motion to adopt the minutes for july 15, 2024? >> so moved. >> do i hear a second? awesome, given the motion we will now hear public comment, secretary fuller please open public comment. >> just to check was that commissioner eusope who seconded? >> yes, sorry. >> members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment in-person to adopt the minutes of july 15, 2024 may line up against the wall furthest from the door. and if commenting from outside of the chamber press the raise your hand button from the webinar or press star-3 to be recognized. we do not have any in-person commenters, and we do not have

any callers for that item so, that concludes public comment. >> all right, is there any debate on this motion? no. hearing no, further debate all in favor of adopting the minutes for july 15th, 2024, say yes. >> yes. >> yes. >> all right. and that's every one, so the motion passes. [gavel] secretary fuller post the minutes to the commission website. please call the next item. >> item 4 is the bureau of building street--participate, the bureau of building and street repair performance measure report and mara is here to present this report and this is an informational item. >> good morning, commissioners,

director short, city attorney taylor and mr. fuller, my name is mora wayne. and today i have jeff soria the assistant superintendent and jacob nicole the accounting superintendent of street repair will help with the data presentation. so i'll reach out to jeff to present the building repair information. thank you. >> thank you, mar. good morning, jeffery soria for assistant superintendent for building repair. for the first dashboard we have for total request received by year and shop in fiscal year 2024 we do show a slight reduction off our four-year average. but subsequent to the report coming out, we definitely have

seen a uptick in request for our services. so our the request for our services is definitely strong even with the, with the chart showing the slight reduction. for corrective and project order by shop. this chart usually stays pretty consistent with plumbing and lock being two of our busiest shops just because of the volume of service requests that they get across all city agencies for their services. paint glass carpenter electrical sheet metal, shows shops show a mix of project base and corrected base service. everything else stays pretty consistent, steam fitting shop is mainly a project base shop because they have more of a, a

request for service come for larger projects for our clients from heat from agencies such as the sheriff's department, fire department. and as we go down, near the end of the chart, roofing always sees an uptick as the weather changes so we can always count on slight up take in roofing as we get into fall and winter months. most of this stays very very consistent our paint, service orders have increased. we have goent a lot of request for lot striping as of late from partnering and agencies such as dph and they have seen a pretty good influx of work coming in from the sheriff's department for their services. so our workload seems to

consistently match this chart. the next charge is our total request for fiscal year 2024. and one again, this pretty much mirrors and consistent year-in and year-out with sfpd public library real estate and our own in-house work that we get from our public works group. coming up i do see a a bigger influx of work from treasure island as we've been requested and going out at looking doing quarterly maintenance on their parks. so we're in that beginning of development of that but that is going to be coming up here

shortly. and a nice larger influx subsequent to when this report came out for both natural resource sxz land management. their water quality team, we've gotten, we're doing tentative improvement project in millbreak and burrling game so we'll be doing an influx from partner and agency. the next chart is our conversion what we estimate and what turns out for a real job for us. and right now, we are well over 60 percent which is consistent with what we've seen in year's past. and we, we will take any work that we can get for lack of a

better term. so we're happy with that conversion rate but we would like to see it go up. but, if we can get 7 out of 10 estimate that's we provide to our clients and partner and agencies, we'll definitely take it. and with that, i will if there is no questions, i will see to jacob-nicole the acting assistant superintendent for street repair. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> how is everybody doing? how is everybody doing? good morning, my name is jacob nicole i'm the acting superintendent for sanitation repair. and if we look at this, this is our 311 service orders coming

in and the response rate that we have to those. so we have a 72-hour response rate we would like to reach a 90 percent goal of reaching those public. we're at our 90 percent for fiscal year 24. let me go to this next slide. so this is our annual quantity of potholes repaired. this is not only 311 but this is potholes that we prepare with our sweep crew, this is some possibly sewer-related potholes. but compared to last year, we're up on our pothole considerable amount. and we completed 12,440 potholes last year.

with the 311 calls that come in p.the proactive sweep is accounting for nearly 26 percent of potholes being filled around the city which i think is pretty amazing. it cuts down on the 311 request and it let's the public know hey, we're out here trying to get ahead of the 8 ball and make sure that we make those repairs and the public is safe. and our last, i think this is, no, so in this slide, this shows our block paving. the number of blocks that we complete per year and as you can see in year 24, we reached our 120 block goal. and we were able to keep on to this next year coming up. and then, this here, basically shows where we are as far as we

have patch paved voids, depression and blocked paving. as you can see, fiscal year 24, we had more a little bit more scare footage completed on our program than the previous year. patch pave has stayed pretty consistent. it has jumped awe little bit highser this year. and that's because i believe that proactive engagement that we're getting into, we're going to do more patches with the distance with the sweep crew. and you can see that our depressions, that's work that we do that is basically puc it could be a sewer depression, something that needs to be taken look at. but that number has gone down and that's because of our coordination and being able to, to you know, just work in concert with them, they will let us know of a location that

needs to be addressed and made shave will come out proactively and complete those repairs, that's why i believe our sewers are down for this year. any questions? >> i know we talked about this before, what happen at a certain street that is still under sf county but somehow become another county's responsibility and it remains not repaired? i know jeffery mentioned earlier, that dpw partner with other counties on some works. so why we not partnering with this particular county to fix these street road potholes? >> thank you, thank you for bringing that up. i remember us being out there and checking that area out.

so right now, you know, there is some confusion as to who owns that street city of brisbane or is it city and county of san francisco. so what we need to do and what i'll get on top of and differ with colleagues that may have gone through this before is just kind of coordinating with them, if there is a way that you know, we can just come to an agreement with who is going to make these repairs. if assistance is needed because brisbane may not have the tools that we have and maybe differ them more. >> currently streets and highways is work width city, the county of san mateo and it's reviewed by the board of supervisors, the agreement

between the two counties before any improvements can be made in the area. so that's what we're waiting for before we can actually resurface the street. i've been told once we resurface it will go under the maintenance of san mateo county. >> is this an on going thing? >> it's been on going thing. i don't know if it's reached board of supervisors at this point. but this is the position that's been provided to me by streets and highways. so. >> years, months? i'm just curious, this thing has been there right in front of us. >> yeah, unfortunately, they could not give me anytime line but i've been told it can take sometime for it to go through the process, because it needs to be approved by the county of san mateo though. it will take some time unfortunately. thank you.

>> director short? >> just to add, so it's part of our department of engineering, they've been negotiating to try to come with a reasonable, we should be invested in getting this roadway repairs and ultimately maintained. so they've been in those negotiations. and i would say not years but a few more months likely before we can get the, the plan accepted. and then, the hope is that, you know, that we'll have an agreement on the future maintenance of that area and essentially, bring it up to standards and then, one of us will be responsible for the long term maintenance. so it has been a longstanding area but i don't think we've been working on it actively for a long time. that's been relatively resent. so we should be able to get

this finalized. >> that's why it's taken this long to kind of get going you know, so thank you. that's very helpful. all right, do we have any other comments? oh i would like to say great job with you know, with especially with the filling the potholes and being proactive with that, that is awesome. i know i appreciate that when i drive. so i was wondering, do you why you've been able to repair for potholes this past year? is it staffing? or? >> well it could be that a lot more people are becoming familiar with that 311 app. so more requests are being made. i know that, you know, there was a pretty substantial rainy

season as well. and that definitely affects, you know, the payment index on these streets and drives up calls into 311. that's what i would, you know, amount to the increase and the potholes. >> yeah, i think last year, we also had a big rainy season as well so. it's been a challenging last three years for you guys. >> it's great that sweep crew, we're creating service orders, a couple of different things kind of bring to the reason why that number is up. >> that's awesome, thank you for that. >> thank you. >> all right, so hearing no further questions, mr. fuller, please open this to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make 3 minutes of comment in-person on item 4, the bureau of building and street repairs performance measure report may line up against the wall furthest from the door.

and if you're commenting from outside of the chamber, press the raise your hand button in the webinar or press star-3 on your phone to be recognized. and we do not have any in-person speakers and there are no callers who have expressed interest on this item either so. that concludes public comment. >> all right, secretary fuller please call the next item. >> item 5 is new business initiated by commissioners and this is an opportunity for commission inventories make announcement sxz raise topics to be added to future commission agendas and this is an informational item. >> all right, commissioner harrison? >> yeah, i had occasion to be out on sunset boulevard and was wondering why it looks so rough?

so with that, i would ask that the department could give us a report on the sunset boulevard maintenance issues at our october meeting. is there any new business? no? does not look like it? so hearing no further new business, mr. fuller please open public comment on this item. >> members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment in-person on item 5, new business, may line up against the wall furthest from the door and if you're commenting from outside of the chamber press the raise hand button or star-3 to be recognized.

and we do not have any in-person or telephone commenters at this time. sol that concludes public comment. >> all right. hearing no further discussions, secretary fuller please call the next item. >> so item 6 is the general public comment continued from item 1 if necessary is not necessary since we did not pass the 15-minute park of total comment at that time. so this item is not necessary. >> all right. and then, mr. secretary, is there any further business? >> there is no further business on the agenda. >> okay. this commission will meet again on hearing no objection. yeah. on hearing no objection, are we okay with--adjourned this

meeting at 10:42 am. i think that's our quickest meeting. >> it's great to see everyone kind of get together and prove, that you know, building our culture is something that can be reckoned with.

>> i am desi, chair of economic development for soma filipinos. so that -- [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and it's also our economic platform, so we can start to build filipino businesses so we can start to build the cultural district. >> i studied the bok chase choy heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy. working at i-market is amazing.

you've got all these amazing people coming out here to share one culture. >> when i heard that there was a market with, like, a lot of filipino food, it was like oh, wow, that's the closest thing i've got to home, so, like, i'm going to try everything. >> fried rice, and wings, and three different cliefz sliders. i haven't tried the adobe yet, but just smelling it yet brings back home and a ton of memories. >> the binca is made out of different ingredients, including cheese. but here, we put a twist on it. why not have nutella, rocky road, we have blue berry.

we're not just limiting it to just the classic with salted egg and cheese. >> we try to cook food that you don't normally find from filipino food vendors, like the lichon, for example. it's something that it took years to come up with, to perfect, to get the skin just right, the flavor, and it's one of our most popular dishes, and people love it. this, it's kind of me trying to chase a dream that i had for a long time. when i got tired of the corporate world, i decided that i wanted to give it a try and see if people would actually like our food. i think it's a wonderful opportunity for the filipino culture to shine. everybody keeps saying filipino

food is the next big thing. i think it's already big, and to have all of us here together, it's just -- it just blows my mind sometimes that there's so many of us bringing -- bringing filipino food to the city finally. >> i'm alex, the owner of the lumpia company. the food that i create is basically the filipino-american experience. i wasn't a chef to start with, but i literally love lumpia, but my food is my favorite foods i like to eat, put into my favorite filipino foods, put together. it's not based off of recipes i learned from my mom. maybe i learned the rolling technique from my mom, but the different things that i put in are just the different things that i like, and i like to think that i have good taste.

well, the very first lumpia that i came out with that really build the lumpia -- it wasn't the poerk and shrimp shanghai, but my favorite thing after partying is that bakon cheese burger lumpia. there was a time in our generation where we didn't have our own place, our own feed to eat. before, i used to promote filipino gatherings to share the love. now, i'm taking the most exciting filipino appetizer and

sharing it with other filipinos. >> it can happen in the san francisco mint, it can happen in a park, it can happen in a street park, it can happen in a tech campus. it's basically where we bring the hardware, the culture, the operating system. >> so right now, i'm eating something that brings me back to every filipino party from my childhood. it's really cool to be part of the community and reconnect with the neighborhood. >> one of our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantown or little saigon, there's little communities there that act as place makers. when you enter into little

philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve. >> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000

for every event. undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i tnk in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic

maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. when you're positive and committed to using that energy,

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>> there is a lot of unique characteristics about visitation valley. it is a unique part of the city. >> we are off in a corner of the city against the san francisco county line 101 on one side. vis station valley is still one of the last blue color neighborhoods in san francisco. a lot of working class families out here. it is unusual. not a lot of apartment buildi a lot of single family homes. >> great business corridor. so much traffic coming through here and stopping off to grab coffee or sandwich or pick up food before going home.

>> a lot of customers are from the neighborhood. they are painters or mechanics. they are like blue color workers, a lot of them. >> the community is lovely. multi-racial and hopefully we can look out for each other. >> there is a variety of businesses on the block. you think of buffalo kitchen, chinese food, pork buns, sandwich. library, bank of america with a parking lot. the market where you can grab anything. amazing food choices, nail salons. basically everything you need is here. >> a lot of these businesses up and down leland are family owned. people running them are family. when you come here and you have an uncle and nephew and go across the street and have the guy and his dad. lisa and her daughter in the dog

parlor and pam. it is very cool. >> is small businesses make the neighborhood unique. >> new businesses coming. in mission blue, gourmet chocolate manufacturing. the corridor has changed and is continuing to change. we hope to see more businesses coming in the near future. >> this is what is needed. first, stay home. unless it is absoluteliness scary. social distancing is the most important step right now to limit spread of virus. cancel all nonessential gather everythings. >> when the pandemic litly land avenue suffered like other corridors. a few nail salons couldn't

operate. they shut down. restaurants that had to adapt to more of a take out model. they haven't totally brought back indoor seating. >> it is heartbreaking to see the businesses that have closed down and shut because of the pandemic. >> when the pandemic first hit it got really slow. we had to change our hours. we never had to close, which is a blessing. thank god. we stayed open the whole time. >> we were kind of nervous and anxious to see what was going to come next hoping we will not have to close down. >> during covid we would go outside and look on both sides of the street. it looked like old western town. nobody on the street. no cars. >> it was a hard eight or nine months. when they opened up half the people couldn't afford a haircut. >> during that time we kept

saying the coffee shop was the living room of the valley. people would come to make sure they were okay. >> we checked on each other and patronized each other. i would get a cup of coffee, shirt, they would get a haircut. >> this is a generous and kind community. people would be like i am getting the toffee for the guy behind me and some days it went on and on. it was amazing to watch. we saw a perfect picture of community. we are all in this together. >> since we began to reopen one year later, we will emerge stronger. we will emerge better as a city because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. >> when we opened up august 1st. i will not say it was all good.

we are still struggling due to covid. it affected a lot of people. >> we are still in the pandemic right now. things are opening up a little bit. it is great to have space to come together. i did a three painting series of visitation valley and the businesses on leland. it felt good to drop off the paintings and hung them. >> my business is picking up. the city is opening up. we have mask requirements. i check temperatures. i ask for vaccination card and/or recent test. the older folks they want to feel safe here. >> i feel like there is a sense of unity happening. >> what got us through the pandemic was our customers. their dogs needed groomed, we have to cut their nails so they don't over grow. >> this is only going to push us

forward. i sense a spirit of community and just belief in one another. >> we are trying to see if we can help all small businesses around here. there is a cannabis club lounge next to the dog parlor to bring foot traffic. my business is not going to work if the business across the street is not getting help. >> in hit us hard. i see a bright future to get the storefronts full. >> once people come here i think they really like it. >> if you are from san francisco visit visitation valley to see how this side of the city is the same but different.