with me and hand it back to you. >> thank you cumbersome would you like this hearing to be filed. >> make a motion to file that. >> this matter has been heard and filed madam clerk read items 25 and 26 25 and 26 25 and 26 25 and 26 25 and 26 25 and 26 25 and 26 25 and 26 together. >> 25. hearing of the board of supervisors sitting as a committee of the whole on october 1, 2024, at 3:00 p.m., to hold a public hearing to

consider an ordinance authorizing the department of public health to amend an existing grant to planned parenthood northern california by increasing the not to exceed amount by $171,000 for a total not to exceed amount of $571,000 to fund security personnel to support access to family planning and other sexual and reproductive healthcare services, with no changes to the grant term of april 1, 2023, through march 31, 2025; and waiving the competitive solicitation requirements in the administrative code; scheduled pending approval of the motion contained in file no. 240945, to be considered on october 1, 2024. >> supervisor safai president peskin and thank you for the attention it is you're not that's why i called for the committee of the whole as we know clinics that provide reproductive services have been targeted of violence this is not just a local issue but a national crises and intensifies the and pushes this into the conversation and anti rights groups radio more yes, ma'am botanical in clinics in district 2 are increasingly reliant on training personnel to help the clinicians we take the protection california provides for reproductive rights read into the record from the chronicle offers a sober reminder a woman miss carrying twins was turned away in eureka that the as we sit here today,

it protects vublz exist and diddy hear about that and get the pictures and doing everything we can to get the police to work with and the clinics as that is happening and it is increasing it is increasing the reasons 40 days for life campaigns as furtheres lasted the need for hidden security and 201828 documented incidents one of the first two see of these 40 days life protest since september 28th

that escalating for harassment for individuals seeking planned parenthood northern california they underline public safety and infirst thing on the rights to privacy and given in planned parenthood northern california must be safeguard and the item before will proud an additional one hundred and $71,000 to covered the unanticipated security needs will cover the cove of observe security personnel to two security on site for the protests through november 3rd the department is sourcing the future grant that was awarded and allocated by the mayor's office everyday without

safety we can't afford to wait. >> thank you supervisor mandelman and supervisor preston and hope to have the support of the entire board and also acknowledge we have with us ruth a senior health director at planned parenthood northern california drew from our department of public health and chief financial officer and kimberly the crocker of the department status of women and here to give horticulture comments i think i'll call drew up first. >> thank you, supervisor. and chief financial officer thank you for the opportunities to discuss this before the board approved in 2023 the ordinance authorized the san francisco

department of health for a granted for planned parenthood northern california. for security purposes in order help other sexual and healthcare services has in an amount not-to-exceed $400,000 and a term of april 2023 to march april 1, 2023, through march 31, 2025. the proposed ordinance before you is so department of economic and workforce development for a total in an amount not-to-exceed to secure to support planned parenthood northern california and other sexual haight services conditions april 1, 2023, through march 31, 2025, and planned parenthood northern california reports have had an unprecedented level of protest activities san francisco health

center starting earlier this year as a result the budget was exhausted by july of 2024 in addition 40 days that planned parenthood northern california including in san francisco. as mentioned by supervisor stefani the protest started september 25th and continues to november 3rd and phase one will resume in the spring. planned parenthood northern california share that during they're just like 2024 through september 2024 period san francisco health care center reports 28 separate security incidents 18 occurred the first two days of 40 days of the protests for 2023/24 an afternoon of 20 incidents in the same period therefore planned

parenthood northern california requesting an additional $171,000 for the expenses for security representative kennemer. >> planned parenthood northern california funding proposal includes 200 and $19,000 for one security personnel on site during all hours of operation and additional money for two concerts personnel for 40 days of life this is 200 plus shy of 200 and $80,000 and planned parenthood northern california is partially funding this bring us it to one hundred and $71,000 regarding the reporting for the legislation dph has an manual report to the board reviewing the security personnel by planned parenthood northern california in an amount not-to-exceed the security

personnel as well as the summary of the incidents we submitted the first report as part of the budget failing legislation in may of 2024 and the second report will be available 24 months april 2025. >> sfdph plan to expand was required in the original legislation to have monthly or quarterly monitors to make sure we are tracking the spending closely of planned parenthood northern california thank you and we're here i'm available for any questions that you may have. >> thank you, supervisor stefani. >> open up for public comment? >> actually like to hear from director ellis.

>> sure. >> good evening supervisors. kimberly ellis director on the status of women. i first want to start off by thinning thanking the body to have a competitive landscape analysis of access to reproductive healthcare including abortion i have copies what we found was that the reproductive healthcare system in the 9 bay area counties has withstood the increase for support and is also under stransz one of the need for increased funding for security and for privacy and for legal

protection. i'm here this evening to voice strong support for the increase in funding for planned parenthood northern california but also to offer to you that, yes this is about the need for increased fund for security. but ultimately what it is about is about the anti choice extreme i was pushing the envelope - very, very specific i want to encourage um, and voice support for increased in funds for this. all eyes are on san francisco. and in moment not

just because the top of 38 hails in the city but as we are doing at the local level to push back for a violent environment towards women and women that experience their choice with their bodies so thank you for the works you do and visa the strong support for that. >> thank you director ellis and ruth would you like to comment from planned parenthood northern california the director from planned parenthood northern california. >> good evening supervisors i'm the director for the san francisco planned parenthood northern california flagship as my colleague talked about on assaults not only in san francisco bus nationwide i'm experiencing here as i run the

flagship is continued harassment and continued infestation of our patients making sure they are being - we see patients four cancer and other reproductive services their equally being intimidated for example, this week i just had to call the police on monday and tuesday specifically someone came in and brandishing a gun inmating the staff and today, i had to call the police a suspicious bag left in front of of the building those funds are important what

san franciscans need in the bay and your support for this grant very much needed we ask for your support and continue to be with planned parenthood northern california. thank you. >> thank you. so much president peskin those are all the speakers. >> is there anything public comment on this committee of the whole please come forward on this item? >> yes. on this item sorry about that sorry about that there is a extremely regarding children remember women and children first. so i think that problem is you can't stress the things we have to dismantle the concept and children are being

human trafficking and not good for you for everybody; right? >> because you're in the city since everybody is obsessed and we look at it clearly what do when i do? i don't know what to do but part of concept any san francisco is absolutely key that san francisco shows the example it is worldwide problem mother just the nation bay area my country france is try to find a way to address this problem with

competency benchmark. >> okay. hello board of supervisors and madam clerk i'm garcia and here in my capacity of the president of women's political country i urge you you to booster the planned parenthood northern california security services in light of the adoption protests a dramatic increase at the sf clinic in the past few weeks and so that planned parenthood northern california have protection. >> i used planned parenthood northern california since i was a young child and without this grant the patient like me young women will not have productive healthcare. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> yeah, this will be brief i

know in an amount not-to-exceed the number but increase it with a woman mental health services and kind of things that go on though the victims themselves. thank you. >> it is good to hear from front line people. i absolutely all eyes are on san francisco and some cubits counties /* counties. >> i know everyone wants money and services but this is

one. >> public comment is closed. (gavel) and a motion to excuse supervisor safai made by the supervisors and a roll call, please. >> on item 20th century - 26. >> express my appreciation to supervisor safai and more than. >> remembering on item 26 supervisor dorsey, aye. >> supervisor engardio, aye. >> supervisor mandelman, aye. >> supervisor melgar, aye. >> aye. >> supervisor preston, aye. >> supervisor ronen, aye. >> supervisor safai, aye.

>> supervisor walton and commissioner walton 10 ayes. >> madam clerk the ordinance is passed on first reading (gavel) madam clerk could you please read millennium for late mr. john amos we're adjourned [meeting adjourned]

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exposition on manmade treasure island. >> the 402 acre artificial island was build by engineers from 1936 to 1937 on the neighboring buena island. 300,000 tons of rock was used to build a seawall around an existing sand ball then followed by filling the interior with dredge material from the bay which was consistent of modern sand. the federal government paid for construction ask three permanent buildings which would serve as a potential future airport. treasure island was constructed at the same time as the bay bridge and it was a project of works progress administration to construct this island, which was initially used to host the golden gate international exposition. >> carnival gone big. it was

busy. >> it was going to become an airport after the exposition but it was turned over to the navy and turned over to a military base for the next 50 years. >> 1941, the united states army moved to treasure island as america prepared for world war ii. the island was a major training and education center with 4.5 million personnel shipped overseas from triangle. after the war ended in 1945, treasure island was slalthed to be an airport -- slated to be an airport but aviation changed and the clipper were no longer in regular service, and the island was never developed as an airport. the navy continued their presence on treasure island. during the cold war years, the island was a myth training center and for military efforts throughout the pacific and asia. personnel trained on and shipped from treasure island and supported military activities in korea, vietnam and

the persian gulf. >> the base was listed for closure by the navy in 1993 and the city began a process in 1994 under the redevelopment agency, forming a citizens reuse committee to look at potentially plans for the island, island's future. after the base closed in 1997, the treasure island development authority was created to develop and implement a reuse plan. >> the navy has completed their environmental cleanup in that area and last week, the california department of public health issued a radiology unrestricted recommendation for that portion of side 12. it's a big milestone for the project. >> the treasure island development facility was setup to implement the master plan that was adopted by the board of supervisors in 2011. >> given the importance of

housing in the city, both the affordable component and the market rate housing, we felt that it was important to review what the housing plan is at treasure island. >> the development facility and (indiscernible) that oversees the implementation of the master plan to make sure that the master plan, which was adopted by the board of supervisors and adopted by the city and after meeting, that's plan that the city approved. the members of the board was appointed by the mayor and the board of supervisors. [multiple voices] >> the (indiscernible) is very detailed plan. looking at the ecological aspects of the island, looking at the geotechnical aspects of the island, but also making sure

that there is an ongoing of development that's in keeping with what the original plan was, which is that we have up to 8,000 rooms of housing and there's retail and hotels. but also that there is open space that's created so it's an overall plan that guides the whole development of treasure island and the buena island. >> materials used during the construction of treasure island severely compromises the integrity to build structures. in today's geotechnical engineers standing, treasure island soil is being readdressed for soil stabilization for future development. a mechanical stabilization process is being used to consolidate the liquid fashion of the mud and sandy soil. >> because treasure island is a manmade island, we have to do a significant amount of soil improvement before we can build new infrastructure and new buildings on the island. in the

foreground, you see here, it's a process called surcharging we we import additional topsoil to simulate the dead weight of the future buildings to be constructed at that site. so this is causing bay mud that underlies island to consolidate over time and we can monitor that and as that consolidation primarily consolidation is complete, then this soil will be removed to the intended finished floor elevation of the new structures. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> in the 1989 loma earthquake, the ground level of this island dropped by four inches. pretty much uniform across the island. loose sand material used to build the island, whether it gets hit by a seismic forces, the sand moves and consolidated. >> one of the processes to further stabilize the loose

granular ground, a dynamic rate is used to densify the soil by high frequency mechanical vibrations. >> the rig in the background has four h-piles that goes down through the upper 50 feet of sandy material and as they vibrate, they vibrate causing that san material to consolidate and settle so as we do that process, we observe about 18 inches in settlement so the ground level around that equipment will drop by 18 inches, so this causes that same type of event to happen through mechanical means rather than through a seismic event. >> the dynamic vibrant compaction rate vibrates the soil every four square meters and moved along to the next section. to further assure stability, tamping is followed around the site, compassion takes approximately three to four months to complete 12

acres. once the compassion and tapping is done, it's settled ask using laser alignments to assure a level service to build on. >> i think that every city when they have the opportunity to do something that is as large as treasure island because treasure island is five hundred acres and it depends on their needs at that time and in 2011 to now, the most important are thing for the city is housing. there's two aspects to that master plan. one, was the new district for san francisco. 8,000 units of housing, which is all levels of stability. the other (indiscernible) is 300 acres of open space and parks. and actually, it's the largest

addition to the park system in san francisco since (indiscernible) 300 acres and this is a tremendous gift to the public, both the housing, which we desperately need in san francisco as well as an open space and park system which really is going to be worm class and it will attract people in san francisco but attract people locally as well as internationally. >> cmg architecture was brought to the project once they award the agreement between the city of san francisco and the united states navy. cmg has earned national recognition and numerous awards for merits and design, social impact and environmental stewardship. >> we were a part of the project in the beginning when the developer initially was awarded

the exclusive negotiation agreement or the ena with the city and they partnered with the planning and architecture group and we joined that team to work with the developer around the city and community to come up with a plan for treasure island. >> so there's quite a lot of open space in the master plan and there's a couple of reasons for that that's pragmatic. one is that the amount of area that could be converted for private use on treasure island was very limited, actually it wasn't allowed at all because treasure island was previously public open waters and protected by the tidal and trust act to be redevelop for public use. but there was a land swap that was allowed and approved by the governor of california, governor schwarzenegger to be put on a public trust for a one to one swap to be taken out of the trust to be developed for private use such as residential and that amount of land was 89

acres which leaves a bunch more space that can't have housing on it and the question was, what to do with all of that space? there could be other public uses that allowed such as conference centers or museums or universities or things of that nature but what made the most sense for this location was to have more parks in a really robust parks and open space plan and that's what led us to the plan we have now. >> planting strategies for treasure island and buena island are to maximize habitat value in the park areas wherever appropriate and where we can to create comfortable at the pedestrian scale. there are these diagonal lines that go across the plan that you'll see. those are wind row trees like you see in agricultural landscapes where they are tall tree that's buffer the winds to create a more calm areas down at the pedestrian scale. so of course, we do have some areas where we have play fields and surfaces where kids need to run

around on and those will be either lawns or like you see in norm at sports field. >> related to where the housing is on the island and its convenience to the walk to the transit hub, i mentioned we're trying to create high-quality pedestrian -- and the innovations of treasure island is called the shared public way and it's a road that runs down the middle of the neighborhoods. it's a curbless street, cars are allowed to drive on it but pedestrian can walk down the middle of the street and the cars are to yield the right-of-way for pedestrian and it's intended for streets where there's a low traffic volumes and the traffic speeds are low so while car was allowed, there's not a lot of reasons for cars to go on that street but it's to create a social street that's much more pedestrian-friendly and prioritizes pedestrians and bikes. one of the interesting things is working with all architects that have been

designing buildings in the first phase to encourage them, to create architecture that welcomes people to sit on it. it's wlm like sticking its toe out and asking someone to sit on its toe so buildings integrate public seating and places for people to hang out at their base, which is really, the opposite of what you see often times in this city where there's defensive architecture that's trying to keep people off it. this is architecture that's trying to invite people to come and inhabit it at its base. >> incorporated in the landscape architect of treasure island are wetlands, which are designed to factor in coastal erosion control from incoming sea level rise and natural animal habitation and stormwater runoff treatment. >> there's different kinds ever wetlands planned for treasure island and they have different purposes. they are stormwater wetlands that's treating the runoff from the island and filtering that water before it's released to the bay to improve the water quality in the bay and

the ocean and the first phase of the large wetland infrastructure is built on buena island to treat the storm water from buena island. we might see that when we go out there. there are tidal wetlands plan for the northern side of the island where the sea level rise adaptation and flood protect for future sea level rise is held back away from the edge of the island to allow sea level rise to come onto the island to create future tidal wetland which is helpful for the bay in the future as we see sea level wise flood out existing wetlands and there are some natural vernal pool in the wetland that's captured rainwater and capturing certain habitat so there's three purposes of the wetland primarily around water filtration and habitat creation. >> consumable sustainability was incorporated in the redesigning of treasure island. innovative

urban farming is included in the plans to foster economic viability, conservation of water, and to promote ecological sustainability. >> the urban farm is 20 island. and it's a commercial farm to produce food. it's not community where the volunteers and neighbors grow their own, it's commercially run to maximize the food production and that food will be distributed on the island. and interestingly, the urban farm is tied into the on island wastewater treatment plan which creates recycle use for water on the island so water used to grow the island will be a sustainable force and we're trying to close the loop of water, food, and create a new model for sustainability. >> part of the design for sustainable landscape was incorporate natural form water garden filtering systems, the first of three natural stormwater gardens is here on buena island. and a total of ten

will be on treasure island. water from storms, street runoffs from neighborhoods has the possibility to collect toxic materials as it makes its way back into the surrounding bay. this garden has been a model for future, natural filtering systems through out the bay area. >> whenever a storm comes through, all of the water, you know, it lands on the streets, it lands on the top of the buildings, and at times it often collects a lot of heavy metals and greases and it needs to be cleaned and before sent back into the back. it goes into the pipes and stormwater drainage and put into our stormwater basin and then all of the plants and soil you're seeing in there, they are acting as a filter for all those oils and heavy metals and greases and all things that's coming off the roadways, coming off the development and so it's treated here in the

storm water basin and then it's sent out into the bay as a clearer product and cleaner water which increases our water quality here and throughout the bay area. so the structure in the center of each basin is what we call the for bay. that's the point at which the stormwater exits out of the storm drainage system and into the stormwater basin itself. so the for bay is shaped as almost a gate to kind of push all water out through the pipes, all of those rocks help to disburse it before it's sent into the stormwater basin itself. the storm water basin was designed to fill up to the height of the berm of the side you're seeing here. so this is juncus and these are well-known fresh water grasses found in any place around the bay area that you find standing water or in a drainage channel, you're going to find a lot of these junket

species. this is a leave a lifter in the bio treatment. it soaks up a lot of water, to soak up the contaminants and heavy metals, so it's kind of our backbone species. this one is called douglas siana and the common name is mug war. it's a beautiful plant but doing the heavy lift and pulling, those contaminants out of the storm water and pulling oil to help treat the water before its sent back into the system and back into the bay. this plant is known as salvia or hummingbird sage. it has a lot of habitat value in that it's a strong pollinator plant. obviously, you can see the pink and purple flowers which come up in the springtime and attracts a lot of hummingbirds, a lot of bees which help to pollinate the other species within the garden and throughout the rest of the island and all of those native plants. all of these plants are designed to be able to take a

heavily inundation of water over a several day per like standing water for a long time. all of the plants can withstand that and honestly, thrive in that condition. so all of these were selected based on the ecological and habitat value but also their treatment and functional value for stormwater. >> this is super tiny. >> it's very much a big part of our design and master plan for the development of the island. it was a navy base and a lot of navy housing on this island specifically for around 80 years and during that time, a lot of innovative species were introduced on the island, eucalyptus, a lot of different european and algerians plants were on the island. we wanted to bring in the native eye college here on the island before the navy started to redevelop it and

introduce some of those invasive species so the species you're seeing in this stormwater garden in the basin and the upland area was a part of those types of ecology s that's trying to be returned to this side of the island but different other spaces through out the islands development. so whenever we started this process, we identified a number of species of native plants that seem applicable to the ecology that we're trying to grow. there's 45 species, so a -- there's 15 species so they are hard to find in the nursery trade so we needed to grow it ourselves to achieve the biodiversity that's in the design here. as a part that have process, we brought on a nonprofit group called ledge, l-e-g- which is literacy for

environmental justice. they grew those plants and put together the plant palates you see. >> most of landscape was inundated with invasive plant species eradicating species and having the plan on buena island and treasure island. literacy for environmental justice, a community volunteer educational program involved with restoring local habitats and preserving san francisco's unique bio tie varsity, teamed up with the redevelopment group to grow the 50,000 native plants to -- to repopulate treasure island. >> the city of san francisco set up meetings between leg and they came in with high expertise and urban design, and architecture, and green infrastructure, but they really hadn't worked with

flytive plants -- worked with native plants at scale and they were also kind of scratching their heads, like how are we going to grow 50,000 native plants from remnant native plant populations. it was a unique partnership of figuring out what plants can grow, what plants will function in stormwater gardens. not all native plants are ascetically pleasing to landscape architect, so we kind of worked around what plants are going to be pleasant for people, what plants are going to provide habitat, what plants are going to actually be able to sequester carbon, deal with erosion, preserve the island biodiversity as well as be able to manage all of these stormwater treatment on the island. >> there's about 33 naturally occurring native plant species that survived the last one

hundred years on yorba buena island. we were able to go in and get the seed and salvage plants in some cases, some of the development work that occurred was actually going to destroy native plant habitat and we went in before the bulldozers and before the roads were build and the new water tanks were installed and dig them up, divide them, hold them, of the 50,000 plants we grew 40,000 of them in-house and the other ten, we had to rely on our partners to do it. with the 50,000 plants we did, we did 100 species and 95 of them are from the county of san francisco. about the other five are from the state of california. but the other 95 species really are the native plants that have been here for thousands of years. we used

collection sites such as angel island, the presidio had genetics for the projects in san francisco. we used remnant plant habitats at hunters point and we used a lot of genetics from san bruno mountain. just to collect and process all of the genetics was a two-year process. and then it was about a two or three year process to grow all the species. >> this is the infamous -- it's a low, growing sprawling native herb and it's in the mint family and i'm rubbing my hands on this and it's extremely aromatic. it feels like a flush of peppermint just came across my face. it's edible. you can make tea out of it. it's a great digestive plant

for settling your stomach. it has been cool to introduce yerba buena to yerba buena. this plant is called dutchman's pipe. when in bloom, the flower looks like a dutchman's pipe. and another thing that's unique about this plant is, it's the whole specific plant for the pipeline swallow tail butterfly. so some butterflies are able to adapt to other species and can use larva and food from different species. in the county of san francisco, there's only about three or four healthy populations of this plant. these particular plants were going to be destroyed because of the green infrastructure project needed to put pipes in and needed to

demolish all water tanks and build new water tanks for the island, so we were able to go in, dig them up, cultivate them, extrapolate dozens of plants into hund hundreds of plants and restore it through the restoration process. one day one of my nursery managers was down here and she found the pipeline butterfly have flown over from yerba buena island and came to our nursery on treasure island and was breeding on this plant. and successfully did its life cycle inside of our nursery. so, it? how that butterfly knows it's out there and find it, this is one of those unique things that we can't explain why butterflies can find this species but if we grow it and put it in the right location, they will return. so the plants

we're looking at here is faranosa known as just dedlia or live forever. the construction is it work happen nothing that area, it's likely to be destroyed. a unique thing about this plant and the unique succulents we have in california and the live forever plant can live to be 150 years old. recently, the state of california just did special legislation to protect this plant. i think in its intact population on the island, there's less than 50 of them, so to be able to grow several hundred of them and have them be a part of the plant palate of the stormwater gardens that was installed recently is an increase of biodiversity and a step forward towards protecting the natural legacy of the island. >> i moved to treasure island in

1999. i believe i was one of the first residents on the island. i have seen how the island has been destroyed and reconstruct since its beginning to restore the island to its native form is extremely important to me because that will help all the animals come back to the island and make this place even a better place to live. >> i want to be here because these are people i know, so that was my first thing is just, like, i wanted to come here to help out and be with (indiscernible) and to actually put my hands in dirt. i feel like we as people don't work in army -- we don't see the benefits of plants, like, but i just learned about a plant that if you rub it enough, it turns into soap. that's cool. and we

need those things. we need to know about those things. >> one really unique thing about this project is the scale. to use 50,000 native plants over 7 acres is a scale we have never seen. it really is trailblazing when we think about the 350 or 400 acres of open space that is planned for treasure island, it sets the stage for what is possible. there's a way to use nature-based solutions at scale to meet the needs of climate change, sea level rise, the crisis of local extinction and create natural environment. the first phase of the project sets a stage for what is possible and i just feel really blessed to have been a part of it. >> one of the main focus on

triangle is keeping vehicle traffic to a minimum. for residents and visitors, public transportation is highly encouraged and will be the center point of keeping the island pedestrian-friendly, retaining an open space sent and providing an eco system that reducing carbon emission >> we need the transit to be successful because if we had 8,000 homes here and everybody was trying to use their car to access the bay bridge every month, it will overwhelm the system. new on and off-ramp are being constructed but all over the focus of the development is to be very transit oriented. triangle itself is very flat and very bikeable and walkable as a result and so there's a focus on using both bus and ferry service to get from the island to san francisco in the east bay. there will be a number of transit

demand management tools that will be employed of the two new ramps to and from the -- to the island and allowing a limited number of cars to access the bridge and there will be a management toll to encourage the use of transit. >> all the market rate housing on the island, the price for residential unit whether that's a rental apartment or a for sale condo, the price of the unit is decoupled from the price of the parking spot. so people can buy a condominium without paying for a parking spot. they choose to have a parking spot, they would pay an additional price. market rate residents are required to purchase take transit pass each month through their hoa fees or through their rent so the residents will begin the decision of driving or taking transit with a transit pass in hand each month. that transit pass will function as a muni

fast pass allowing people to take muni and transfer within the muni network and function as an ac transit allowing people to take ac transit to the east bay and transfer within the ac transit system and it will also provide unlimited access to the treasure island ferry. >> treasure island is going to take decades to be fully build out. it's going to take some time for it to reach the envelope that was passed by the board of supervisors and maybe there will be changes to it as well. we don't know what is going to happen in 50 years but i'm confident by the fact that the plan that was adopted was fully, fully thinking even for its time and the building the island to a way it's sustainable, it addresses sea

level rise, but also gives the public the open space and parts that are so necessary to fill treasure island. there's economic, certainly, challenges and whether we're going to be able to build out all of what was desired in the master plan, it will -- time will tell, but i think that the last ten years, we've been coming to this point. we are seeing incredible progress and the infrastructure is being finished by the island. market rate housing is being finished. affordable housing is being finished. and so, we feel within the next five years, substantial part of what we had envisioned is going to come to fruition. the city of offer a pm

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hi, my maim is judy seeber and owner and bier for emily joubert my-my husband and i own the store together and i started 20 years ago. my husband always thought we should open more doors, and we had two middle school age children and were waiting for them to get older. once they left for college we opened more doors andf is was a natural for me because my grand mother raised my mom in the city on california. emily joubert is my mother's mother and when i original bought the store in woodside it was named in any event and wanted to make it more personal so my inspiration for my whole life has been by grand mother. she was really into fashion and

sewing and cooking and all things that make a home and i love the thought my grand mother strolled up and down the street and i feel it is perfect location for the store with her namesake and i want to be a source of inspirational things and something convenient for the neighbors. and the community at large. in the neighborhood i like to think of it as a wonderful place that if you need a gift we have a lot of hostess gifts. if you need table pillows. we have everything for the home. it is like a mini-general store. i don't know there is a lot of home and garden stores in the area. i know there is dedicated garden stores rchlt what sets me apart i think is just my dedication to doing things that i think my grand mother would love what inspires me and i find in her

home if she were alive today and things again, that make a house a home. i take great pride in really discovering and sourcing things that you can't easily find at the store down the street. we want to welcome everyone in the neighborhood and in the city and in the greater bay area to come and discover emily joubert. [music] >> [music] you are watching golden gate inventions with michael. this is episode exploring the excelsior.

>> hi i'm michael you are watching golden gate inventions highlighting urban out doors we are in the excelsior. pickleball. let's play pickleball! pickleball is an incredited low popular sport growing nationwide. pickleball combines tennis, bad mitton and ping pong. playod a bad mitton sized court with paddle and i plasticic ball. starting out is easy. you can pick up paddle and balls for 20 buck and it is suitable for everyone in all skill levels you see here. the gim is played by 2 or 4 players. the ball must be served diagnoty and other rules theory easy to pick up. the game ends when i player or team reaches a set score 11 or

21 point bunkham win bright 2 pickleball courts are available across the city some are and others require booking ahead and a fee. information about the courts found at sf recpark. org if you are interested in playing. now i know why people are playing pickleball. it is so much fun you play all ages. all skill levels and pop on a court and you are red to g. a lot of fun i'm glad i did it. all right. let's go! time for a hike! there is i ton of hike nothing excelsior. 312 acres mc clarin the second largest p in san francisco. there are 7 miles of tris including the there was fer's way this spreads over foresxeft

field and prosecute voids hill side views of the city. and well is a meditative quiet place in mc clarin p you will siendz labyrinth made of rock:now we are at glen eagle golf course special try out disk golf >> now disk golf! so disk golf is like traditional golf but with noticing disks. credit as the sport's pioneer establishing the disk ballsorption and the first standardized target the disk ball hole. the game involves throwing from key areas toward i metal basket. players use different disks for long distances driver, immediateerate.

mid range and precise shot, putters. players begin at the t area. throw disks toward the basket and prosecute seed down the fare way. player with the lowest number of throws the end wins the game. disk golf at glen eagle cost 14 dollars if you pay at the clubhouse. there is an 18 hole course this is free. du see that shot? i won! am i was not very good now i have a huge respect for disk ball player its is difficult but fun. thank you for joining me in the excelsior this is goldenate adventures. >> i am supervisor melgar. i

am the supervisor for district 7. [music] i am a immigrant to san francisco. my family came when i was 12 from el salvador during the civil war. this place gave us security, safety and an opportunity to thrive, so i love the city deeply, and as a mother of three kids who have grown up as city kids, i'm grateful for everything the city has to offer for people like me and families. i have been politically involved my whole life, either in government or a non profit worker and i care about the community. i care about people around me, and i want to make sure that as the world changes around us, other people have the opportunity that my family did. >> we are back in san

francisco post pandemic. so important to be out supporting our businesses, supporting our neighbors. >> i'm the first woman to represent the district, believe it or not. i'm the first latina elected to the board of supervisors without an appointment first ever, so i do think that (indiscernible) i want immigrants to be represented, women, moms, people that have different experiences because that brings richment to our decision making and i think it makes for betting decisions so that inspired me to run. district 7 is one of the most diverse districts in san francisco both in economics and ethnicity. it spans north from golden gate park. it includes all the institutions in the park, the wheel. the music concourse, mew seem to the south

to the daly city boarder and west to the organization. includes the zoo (indiscernible) all those fun things and to 280 oen the east. includes city college, san francisco state. i had ucsf parnassus so very large geographically. it is mostly single family homes, so it is the place where for generations family (indiscernible) nice parks, lake merced, mount davidson. >> this is like a village within the city, so we are very close nit community. we tend to band together and try to support one another and it is a friendly place and families and people to have a cup of coffee and check out the park. >> ocean avenue, which is the southern end of our district is vibrant commercial corridor that mostly cater tuesday the local neighborhoods

and the students. as you go further west you have the mall which has some of the best pan asian food offerings in the city. if you haven't been there, it is really fun. as you go up a little bit further, there is west portal avenue, which is a very old school commercial district where you can still find antique shops and cobbler shops and as well as like more modern restaurants. it is definitely hopping and full of families on any weekday. >> i'm matt roger, the coowner or (indiscernible) >> carl, other coowner in west portal. >> we are a neighborhood hardware store. been a community institution since it was founded in 1936. we had a little bit of everything. (indiscernible) to gardening or gift buying. >> my entire experience in san francisco is this community. it is a very small

town feel for a big city. the community is caring and connected. >> what makes me excited doing business in district 7 is i know it sell well. i grew up here. i knew a lot of customers, parents of friends. it is very comfortable place and feels like home. >> if you go up north, you have the innerpz sunset commercial corridor which has a awesome farmers market on weekdays and plethora of restaurants. there is everything you need. >> friendly and safe and (indiscernible) i love they bring their kids with them. they teach them how to use their money, and it is something you dont see in too many markets in other communities. i love to see the kids come and talking to you. it is something different then

i see from (indiscernible) >> the ev access to transit in inner sunset and ability to do a lot of shopping on foot, and now the improved biking with jfk closed to cars, because we have a 4 and a half year old who rides her bike. we now have a safe place to go and ride bike jz don't have to to worry about traffic. >> graffiti continues to be one of these things that during the pandemic just got out of control everywhere in the city and i do think that it is hampering our recovery of commercial corridors, so some of the volunteers on west portal avenue, some of the merchants got together with interns at our office to do some hands on abatement and we have been doing it regularly. we are doing it once a week and we have a wonderful neighbor, carrie organizing and storing

the paint and supplies in her office on west portal, but this needs more then just a volunteer efforts. >> i'm grateful for the collaboration. we passed legislation at the board and put $4 million in the budget over the next 24 months to help the department of public works hire laborers and labor apprentices to abate the graffiti on private property on commercial corridors. i think that for a couple years this recovery strategy so we can get back up as normal after this awful pandemic. participatory budgeting is a pot of money that is available every year for district 7 neighbors to propose projects that improve the neighborhood and the district. anyone, any organization in the district can propose a project and then it's a vote. it is popular vote. we have 14

projects just approved and they span from you know, a vegetable garden at aptos middle school to pedestrian safety projects on (indiscernible) it runs the gamut, but it is wonderful because it allows people to be engaged in a real way, and then to see the outcome of their energy and work, because the things get improved in front of them. >> i like it is really close to the parecollect parks and bunch of businesses as well as a calm feel. it is a very peaceful feel even though it is close to a lot of things. (indiscernible) also not boring. there is stuff to do too.

>> so, there is lots to see and experience in district 7. [music] >> good morning, every one and welcome to the beautiful park

side! [cheers and applause] thank you all for coming out on this historic occasion of a once in a 100 years, major repair of a street and all of its underground utilities. we are here today to celebrate the completion of the l.a. taraval project on time and on budget, not that has not taken a very long time. we're also here to celebrate this extraordinary community neighborhood that is so vital to our city and to the city success and to muni in general. thank you all for your paishs and for joining us. i'm jeffery tom land i'm the directer of transportation agency, and i want to start by expressing my gratitude for so many people who made this

possible and i will not have a chance to thank all of you, in fact i should thank every one who joined us today. this project was a collaboration from the very beginning and the first and most important people that we need to thank are the people of the parkside and all the sunset community, along with our city and state funding partners and the elected officials many of whom are behind me. i rally want to offer profound gratitude in particular to the merchants and neighbors of taraval street! [cheers and applause] really, thank you. you have, you have worked with us hand and hand from the very beginning, this project was terriblely disruptive, we had to dig out the entire street and replace all the underground infrastructure while still allowing you to flush your

toilet and turn on your faucet, this work was not easy and we're very grateful for your patience and engagement. you through your engagement made this project so much better, thank you so much for your persistence. in particular, i want to thank the people of park side sunset who were critical partners with us every single day insurance that the places of residents and places were heard. we'll hear from pop's president, albert chow who was texting me at least every week and pushed us in exactly the right way in order to make the project better and the construction less impactful. [applause] we also appreciate the persistent of ed sue of merchant united to made sure to uplift the voices, particularly the voices of merchants who do

not speak english so thank you to ed sue. we want to thank the western neighborhoods project who is here and i hope you visit their table to catch the history of el taraval and how it vaped this neighborhood as it ran its tracks across the sand dunes across this neighborhood before the businesses were here and you'll also see the photos of the infrastructure that was sitting on sand and almost collapsed. so thank you. so and i want to thank the advocate too many to name, transit riders, walk sf and jamie velaria who is here to

help push to make taraval street safer for everything, particularly for seniors and kids and pedestrians and transit riders. i want to appreciate all the elected officials who helped shepherd this project from the beginning. we'll be hearing from mayor london breed and engardio and i want to thank gored an marfor his partnership as well as former supervisor katy tang who is here who is part of this project making sure that it got funded and, and also thank katie tang for her role as the direct of small business helping to make sure that merchant voices were heard and we were engaged on helping to engage mini backs.

through, though this project of course is called the l.taraval project and we're cutting a ribbon on a train behind us. this was not just a muni project this was a major update on a corridor that was neglected for decades. this is a modernization of every aspect of infrastructure from ten feet below ground to 30 feet above ground. as a result of i would say modest work that muni did all cities agencies banded together to catch up on maintenance and deliver a project that will benefit this neighborhood and san francisco for another 100 years. so thank you to the public utilities commission for working with us to completely replace all of underground water and sewer lines, thank you to the office of economic

examine workforce development for helping the merchants in this corridor navigate the process and help us get smarter and mitigating. many of our crews are here today for making this project safer and more dutiful for every one and making the curve grants and for putting out trees and repaving the entirety of the street from one end to the other. and a special thanks to our regional state and federal partners who funded all of this work, particularly to the san francisco county transportation authority, tracy trang here. [applause] for allocating funding for this project and for their strong funding support and to the public utilities commission for helping us make sure that the rail service is safe and ready

to go. and then last but certainly not least, i want to thank the entire l.taraval team, we have folks who touched every aspect of this project here today and i'm so grateful for your hard work and technical expertise al as well as your participation. nearly 30,000 passengers per day. those folks endured a bumpy ride on old and absolute tracks, there were traffic signals that didn't respond to the train and all of our crews came together in order to figure out how to make the train service work better every one while the infrastructure worked better as well. so way too much people to name but a special shout out to sean kennedy for your role and

bringing the improvement through the process and coordinating with all the other agency to see make this project come together. i also really want to thank our lead construction crew nt k for your collaboration and your cret i havity and professionalism that allowed us to deliver this project on time and on budget. and i want to thank all of the technical crews who are out there in the street, day after day, replacing 5,070 new power lines, water lines and train tracks and 22 new and extended and much safer and accessible boarding islands, 11 new bow bouts and 71 new street lights and over 175 new street trees all of that work was done thanks to the incredible

skilled work of hundreds and hundreds of laborers with whom the city would simply not work. so thank you to all of the crews who made this happen. [cheers and applause] today muni is faster, cleaner, safer and more reliable than it has been in decade and that is thanks to projects like these that includes the sacrifice of thoz along the corridor who have endured the construction period. when we invest in muni success, we invest in san francisco success, to ensure that you can count on muni and enjoy. now to share a little bit more about the benefits of this project, i would like to invite up somebody who has been a champion for project and for

supporting businesses across our city, san francisco mayor london breed. [cheers and applause] >> mayor breed: thank you, jeff. jeff just summed up everything about this project but let me give a shout out for those who live in the avenues and sunset and, and that's all the same. and we're so happy. i really want to reiterate our thanks for your understanding and patience. i know that this has had a tremendous impact on the community and it has been of course inconvenience. inconvenience for those who rely on the, and so many of our merchant that's have been here for decades and have struggled and we want to appreciate albert chow and ed su for all

of their work to make sure that we provide the support necessary to at least deal with some of the challenges that they had at this time. but we especially want to thank the people who live in this neighborhood because you still showed up for those businesses. you still helped them survive this challenging time and now we are coming out of that time with hope, and excitement for what this new system means for the future. i know everybody here with agree on one thing, that we like running water. and we like it to come when we turn on the faucet and we sometimes will drink it without a filter because san francisco has some of the best water anywhere! [cheers and applause] and when we flush our toilet, we want the stuff that is in there to go down. we can all agree on some of those things, and what happens with projects like this, all of the different technical things,

you don't realize something is wrong until something is wrong. when you have to deal with the sink hole like what happened in pacific heights and in parts of this time in this area when we've had intense flooding and other issues. you don't realize the problems until you the lights go out or something happens. and what we have done, with our dig once policy, when we go into the ground and we try to not go back but we try to go in there one time and ten feet below ground and get into the roots of the system and really upgrade with a system that will last for the next 100 years. so then, none of us will be alive examine somebody else problem it will be by that time. but the fact is, this is incredible. and it was hard, and it was inconvenient and as san francisco continues to grow and continues to change and as we build more housing, we need to

make sure that our infrastructure, the things that we don't see are developed in a way that protects the homes and the things that exist here. and so i'm really excited about what this is going to mean for the future and the decline in the number of complaints about those particular issues. and ultimately, we all know and katie kang is hiding, i see you in the back, she's running the office of small business and people would step out and some folks had been hit. and it was not safe, you were taking your life in your own hands and we had to change that. who live in in community who co rely on public transportation to take them from one end here we also have so many seniors at the ocean at the zoo all the way in the avenues and all the way to the other end and embarcadero and now with the central subway that transferred to china town and just how

excited people are to be able to use this system to get to city hall to get to work to get to where you need to go safely and efficiency and these new 22 islands will provide an opportunity to board and unboard safety. that's part of our vision zero project and even these cables are replaced, it's an energy efficient system and we're doing so much with this one project. so i'm excite beside what this means for the future. and emigrateful to each and every one one of, the folks who participated in building the system, the folks who are contractors and architects especially our muni operators who are going to be the ones riding the system down the street. so make sure you smile and don't give them any problems. show them some love, they work hard! [cheers and applause] so it's all of that, and it's

why san francisco is special. when it comes to putting things together and making systems work and building for the future and thinking about how it meets the needs of people, no one does it better. so i'm really excited to be here to say thank you for every one who played a role and for those who have lived through this challenging time and my hope is that this system is so good and it feels so great, that you don't even remember all the problems that existed. and i know, jeff has said, we have delivered this project on time and on budget, but at the end of the day, the folks who are part of this community are the ones who really wept through this, no matter whether or not it was delivered on time and on budget, it was an inconvenience and now we hope that it's so good and so impactful and to so* transformative that it makes

you say, it was worth it. thank you all for being here today. and it is my pleasure to introduce the chair of the county transportation authority. but let me clear, mta all of this money from the feds, it's all of your tax dollars at work. so thank you to every one who is here who pays their tax to see san francisco and the state and the feds and that includes me too, so welcome rafael mandelman. [applause] >> thank you, madam mayor and thank you jeff tumlin, the mayor and i were in an event a few months and willie brown as he sometimes does, was joking about fixing within 120 days and he didn't do that. but i would say that madam mayor and jeff tumlin that 20 years later, you're managing to fix muni everyday, you have

achieved the best performance in decades and you are making an investments that are going to last not just a couple of years but carry san francisco for decades and even centuries in our transportation system and in our infrastructure, so congratulations. you know, i, i, i like the mayor, i grew up in san francisco and sometimes i think about our transportation system from the perspective that i had when i was a kid. for me, i know the l.is important to lots of people, but i still think of it as the way you get to the empire movie theater with grandma and you know the empire is not there anymore but there is still people that need to get across to the city who just need to get from neighborhood to neighborhood work and fun and this is just one of those workhorse lines that we have that is so critically important for san francisco. great congratulations to the

mta and public works and all the partners who delivered this. i'm here to represent the board of supervisors in the transportation authority. i'm the chair of us, when and transportation. to voter approved sales tax, thank you san francisco voters for renewing that in 2020. and our vehicle registration fee, double a program and till got a little shout out but i want to give our ta director a big shout out, she's shaking her head no, and i'm because i'm a chair i'm going to go a deeper, but our deputy directer of policy programming and she is amazing and thinking through all of these projects and how

we can best help them and emilia and emilia's team some of them may be here as well. and emilia is our senior analyst, thank you, thank you all. today marks the return of l.taraval tain and half the decades work to deliver access and safety and art trees and other improvements to the community. of course we all know public transit is the backbone of san francisco's economy and at the core of a more livable city. we heard about the burden that this project has been for neighbors and businesses. these projects are tough and happening all over the city and in a city na is 100 years old with infrastructure that is crumbling underground. these projects are going to have to get done from time to time but so many thanks to all the folks who will survived and now going to thrive. so many restaurants and activities and with the

delivery of these robots enhancements, our people with arrive with new roads and enhanced pedestrian safety features and underground infrastructure upgrades. thank you thanks again, every one who works in those departments every level all the way for all that you've done to get us here. this is a great way to celebrate transit month and i get to introduce my colleagues, supervisor of joy, representing this district joel engardio. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, everybody.

>> this is going to set us up for a renaissance in the sunset. who is ready for the renaissance? it's coming, because of all the these businesses that are choosing to come and locate on taraval because they can see the future, this train is going to take people to the coast, to the zoo, to the panda and all the amazing places in between and it's just the sunset is a wonderful place and so so much is happening here. i see angie in the from the crowd. she is putting our next sunset market is going to be tomorrow, 20,000 people. let's hope for more, we're going to have a great halloween celebration at the end of taraval that you can take the

train to. we're going to have movies and in this park, so take the train come to the movies dress up as a favorite character. because it's happening on taraval and thank you for being here, and i look forward to seeing you in all the amazing events and all the business that's will thrive here in taraval. and i would like to introduce my colleague supervisor imelda melgar who serves with me in district 7. >> thank you, i'm supervisor mirna mell began. my colleagues was elected in 2022 and i was elected in 2020

and since we were supervisors this train has not been running but here we are. we went through a worldwide pandemic and changes to the way we live. and nevertheless, we have managed to do extraordinary things, thank you mayor breed. for taking us through and manage to mack a better west side. this is an incredible opportunity imagine al opportunity that we will have something that was not there before the pandemic and now it is better! so our businesses will be better, our kids will be connected to educational and work opportunities. things will be better! and this is a testament of how working together even through our challenges and problems we can come out ahead and make progress.

i'm excited that businesses will have both come to our city as visitors and now they'll bring specialist and go to the ocean and do the things that we know are magical for the west side. thank you so much for being here. this is very exciting. let's keep going. i want to also highlight the amazing work of our director of mta, where is sean, the team has managed to not just do this but also make improvement to the cross town tunnels that manages the l, the m, taet as west portal elementary school was doing construction and also make ing improvement to the m and k to make the entire system better. again this is how we make for a better west side.

this is better our transit geeks, it's very sexy and i hope you agree. again i'll say the backbone of our community is small businesses and nothing, more to support their success than to have a transportation system that works, that can get customers here efficiently, easily, cheaply so it is my great pleasure to now, introduce one of the pillars of the small business community, here on the west side, the president of the pops and our wonderful albert chung. [applause] >> oh wow. i just want to say thank you to the people who have spoken before me p our elected official, london breed, joel engardio, supervisor melgar and tumlin and whew, we're done, my god we're done!

i still remember this started october, 2015 somebody walked into my store and showed met plans and i thought this is crazy. and i feel like i had black hair when i started, i've grown old with this project. and i have to say, you know, muni, sfmta has gone through vanness, central subway and some other projects that were problematic. and when it came to taraval, he started evolving, we start today work together, started getting result some help that we through our merchants, our community suffered through this experience but because of sfmta because of the people that reved out to the mayor's office and so forth and supervisor office, we made it, we made accommodations that made the project at least a little easier to go forward. i want to say shout out to ntk,

awesome company, they did a great job for us. they were to cooperative, so [applause] so now that the project is done, i hope our street can be back to where it should be. and even better! okay, i do want to say that we're going to have starting october 4, movies at mcarthur every friday in october, we're going to have movies out here so please come. free food, popcorn, bubbles gifts and a movie. okay, so i want to say i'm a little sorry because now i'm out of a job because there is nothing to explain anymore. so i'll be sending some resumes to sfmta for a job. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you so much albert for your excellent partnership. now, let's get this show on the road! while regular--the mayor wants

me to tell you which we will demonstrate later when you board the train that the train is going to be quieter! >> yeah! >> meantime we're rerey to make some noise, so firstly we're ing to do a little ribbon cutting. then for those who would like to jane us, we're going to take a train ride so the zoo and back to west portal, you can get off where you want and get on where you want or you can stay here and enjoy some dim sum or a cocktail. [laughter] sometimes i just need to edit some things that the mayor tells me to do. so we're going to go to ribbon cutting but in the meantime i want you to listen to some

noise of the marching band and coast guard as we go down to cut the ribbon. congratulations, every one and thank you. [marching band music] >> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! [cheers and applause] [marching band music]. >> (music).

>> my name is package scott i'm a general manager and vice president of the yerba buena ice skating and bowling center. >> we opened in 98, we are celebrating our 25 anniversary. the last ice relation at 48 avenue with the redevelopment agency started to reconstruct a yerba buena the city had suggested how about around ice skating we have a podium we run from the tiny to the we have a whiff adult community of beginners and entering meats and so many people that only to san francisco and california for the

east coast who grew up circulating and when they finding a pair they fall in love with that. >> my favorite ring it is a beautiful skyline and yeah. it is really nice (background noise.) our bowling center is adorable perfect for conference party and birthday party or have a good time and children's activity and wonderful playground and a great area to relax and enjoy the view it is 35 part of the city and a lot of great places to go around and have lunch. skating is fun for the whole family we have an amazing program a huge adult population sea sorry about that

in his skating and is or have a ton of programs it is walkable in their yerba buena community. we have everything you need. if i forgot our socks we have those and we charge a.d. mythics, inc., if you have no skates the general public typically e traditionally have public skating and open on the weekends and multiple sessions for everyone to [♪♪♪] >> at san francisco animal care and control, we care for all animals, any species.

we get about 10,000 a year. they can be injured, lost, victims of abuse or violence, and we take them all in and we care for them. >> i felt really passionate about getting the spca a new building. i had personally seen first hand when my family was searching for our first rescue dog what conditions a lot of the animals and the staff from a.c.c. where working in. >> we were really excited to be moving into this new shelter. our current physical plant is in terrible shape. i like to describe it as the building is working against us rather than for us. this shelter was put together in six months, 30 years ago, in a building that is now 80 years old. our staff and our volunteers are amazing and wonderful, and they are warm, but the space makes it difficult for people to connect with the pets because we have families coming into adopt, we have families surrendering their animals, people looking for their lost dogs, and they are

all crammed together in a very small, emotionally fraught space our heating and ventilation system is very poor. right now, our shelter is not capable of good ventilation to prevent the spread of disease. we have no security features. our veterinary suite is cramped into one room. we can only perform one procedure at a time. >> one of the main lessons learned from hurricane katrina is people were reluctant to evacuate. if they were fearing that their pets were going to be left behind and not cared for. >> in the event of an earthquake , we need to be off the grid for 72 hours. it is unlikely that we would be able to fulfil our mission to take in domestic pets that need to be temporary looked at while parents are out of their home. in a new building, we will be able to meet those earthquake standards.

[♪♪♪] >> we are standing at the site of the future animal care and control facility. that is the beautiful brick building you see in the background behind me. this building is part of the showplace square historic district which is a collection of brick warehouses and factories that was built in the late 19th century. this was built in 1893 as the original coal-fired power plant for the first street car in san francisco and has been owned and operated by munimobile ever since. >> we chose this building for the project for a number of reasons. one is we are not far from the existing animal care and control facility, san francisco spca is nearby, and it is a nice nexus to have in the center of the city. [♪♪♪] >> what we are doing is we are going seismic upgrading the building. it is un- -- and unreinforced masonry building. we are going to be installing

floor prate -- floor plates across the space to put in all of the animal housing. >> we will be able to get our -- give our animals adequate space. we will also be separating our small animals into different rooms. right now we have reptiles and bunnies and birds, everyone all crammed in together. >> the tricky part of it is to find open space in this existing urban environment. we did that by inserting an open air courtyard, and also using the roof deck for another dog in small animal run. [♪♪♪] >> three, two, one! [cheering] [cheers and applause] >> when the new a.c.c. opens and two years, it will be incredible and we will finally have the world-class facility that our animal shelter needs in the city [music] right here.

then put it and pull it. [music] it is an important part of the work that mission cultural center for well tino arts does. steb in the 1977. as part of the graphic's department. >> mission graphica created block print. cut, screen printing, t-shirts to support social causes. and also the studio inhabited emerging and established artists from all over the world. [music] so the name of this exhibit this is installed at the

hall is public voice. and the exhibition is in partnership with mission cultural center and archives. [music] this installation is 5 decades of the work that they have been doing since the upon upon 70s. it is a chronicle of san francisco's history. >> mission graphica part of latino image makers, educators. activists and memory keepers through the art this body is important it preserves the people's history. >> these are our new historical arsigh files >> every artist donated a piece of art work and so that collection is over 8,000 piece of latino created art work. >> it was exciting to see their incredible archives and what has

been great to see for us is how they work in community. in the ways this community has been in partnership with other communities throughout the last 6-7 dkdzs and longer in the bay area and the nation. political, we grapple with today has been part of our history and part of the print making history of mission graphica. this was the place everybody would come and get their prints med for free or at low cost. >> it will be successful for the area:may be work >> mission graphica is still the most accessible, low cost studios for emerging and established artists. people can come here to clean screens, expose them, learn the

art form at a low cost. we offer studio rental space as well as classes, low cost classes and free workshops and collectives. >> this is like history and contemporary coming together for us. and thinking about how the things that have changed and the things we still need to work on and support. >> i hope the people will recognize the transformtive power of art. and the impact that posters have in a community. posters are accessible they other people's art. anyone can do it. it is a strong tool of communication and social change. the posters have not only mobilized community they have also raised money for communities. and they have raised social consciousness. which is something this goes

well beyond any art exhibit. san francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and preparedness, not only for san francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] >> fire station 35 was

built in 1915. so it is over 100 years old. and helped it, we're going to build fire boat station 35. >> so the finished capital planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on sea level rise. >> the station 35, construction cost is approximately $30 million. and the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. it is being fabricated in china, and will be pier 22 and a half for installation. >> we're looking at late

2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. the historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. >> this totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of sea level rise over the next 100 years. that's what the city's guidance is requiring. it is built on the float, that can move up and down as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed guide piles. so if the seas go up, it can move up and down with that. >> it does have a full range of travel, from low tide to high tide of about 16 feet. so that allows for current tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming

decades. >> the fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. >> the access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a pivot or hinge connection, and then it is sliding over the top of the float. in that way the ramp can flex up and down like a hinge, and also allow for a slight few inches of lateral motion of the float. both the access ramps, which there is two, and the utility's only flexible connection connecting from the float to the back of the building. so electrical power, water, sewage, it all has flexible connection to the boat. >> high boat station number 35 will provide mooring for three fire boats and one rescue boat. >> currently we're staffed with seven members per day, but the fire department would like to

establish a new dedicated marine unit that would be able to respond to multiple incidences. looking into the future, we have not only at&t park, where we have a lot of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along these new developments. >> there are very few designs for people sleeping on the water. we're looking at cruiseships, which are larger structures, several times the size of harbor station 35, but they're the only good reference point. we look to the cruiseship industry who has kind of an index for how much acceleration they were accommodate. >> it is very unique. i don't know that any other fire station built

on the water is in the united states. >> the fire boat is a regional asset that can be used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup. we have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. this is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. we're proud to serve our community. and we're willing to help people in any way we can.

[off mic.] >> all right. >> good morning, everyone i'm san francisco mayor london breed and i'm here with our public safety leaders in san francisco including our police chief bill scott and district attorney and one of our most advocates from the board of supervisors for public safety new mexico and joined by lgbtq revenue officer mark who will be giving a demo why we're here in the first place i want to express my appreciation to san francisco voters technology has been a guardroom and proposition e has given our police department the tools they need to not only stop

crime as they occur but prevent that that the first place this is what people want to see and more importantly the information that we put into prop e before we put that on the ballot came from the police officers when i had an opportunity to visit the stations get an understanding what they wanted to see and how they want to do their jobs and time and time again proud to be part of san francisco police department but lots of tools the 21st century necessary to be effective no wonder as a result of primarily using technology like license plates right side and drones and other things we've seen what happened then july and june over the past month 70 percent decline it is

the heart breaking has to do with with technology and san francisco fortunately is seeing a record low in terms of crime the lowest crime rates in 10 years but know that what when things happen the results matter we'll continue to do everything we can to combat issues why we're not letting the up and starting to see prepandemic applications in our staffing. and we're exciting what that means right now with our class of 40 and one with 60 that is coming the classes are starting to fill up and anticipate. and within the next 2 1/2 years our department will be filling but we are also making sure in light of challenges that exist we are still doing our jobs and getting the kinds of results making a significant difference

in san francisco today is an exciting time more importantly we have our law enforcement leadership and work handing together and the a factor so many years of the disconnect on the same page pushing for the same kind of results public safety for the entire city and every resident and every corner of our city. so not just one thing or another all of that we are doing that every single day and today is an example of noting with a new tool that will transform how we aid issues around the important thing related to the challenges of that with public safety. including some of the issues we're dealing with open survey drug dealing and sideshow you name that is any tinge will lend itself to making things better we're looking forward to learning more about that and

seeing a deems and just know that is one of many tools we are using to help come battle the challenges of safety in the city we are excited and can't wait and finally before i introduce chief scott what you're seeing with a number of situations that occurred recently in san francisco gotten a lot of attention but i want to just to be clear, whether that was a shooting whether that was retail theft or other issues car break ins our officers made the arresting and in some cases pro-active that led removing people that are removing crimes if our city off the streets time and time again, this is a clear message all over the behaving san francisco has accountability and we will not tolerate in any situations lawlessness and we'll

work together to use every tool to insure way address public safety even better and with that, let me introduce our police chief bill scott. >> those tools are being a game-changer and start with the bottom line what mayor london breed said your crime reduction is phenomenal we have 33 percent below where we were last year our car break-ins have down 66 percent and burglaries and robberies and homicide rate is that one, the lowest levels that anyone what e can remedy labor of the synergy we have our da here you'll hear from her in a minute and we are working

together as mayor london breed said those tools are going handing i want to talk about security cameras you know we're implemented the use of drones and power tools and implemented the use of our councilmember campbell systems and made arrests on really bad people and we wouldn't have been able to do that without the technology that is another piece of technology another tool for the officers we can use in the spirit of having our officers identify crime whether brown that happens we can be pro-active we lose the values of the city but we want to in terms of who we focus either demonstration on don't wait open and this technology allows us to do that and the the other thing is about lgbtq technology is fwls like a siding

mobile camera units and they have sound devices we can give warnings and move from one hot spot to another when we need them additional be more responsive to the community who are calling for safety across the city. again, this is this is huge for us and prop e was thank you, to the voters and the leadership 6 mayor has allowed united states to do this we wouldn't have been able to do this before and we're going to be not thoughtful or going to be goinging the community concerns and ignore privacy concerns we're being very, very careful how we implement those processes and our local and listening to community and our public safety cameras before we introduce

public safety cameras this is not to any community we have community meetings so community can get feedback we want to invite anyone has thoughts an idea we want to do this right and make this right i'm going to the bottom line our bottom line is is a safe city video where we don't see crime we're trying to get to. a note to people that do crime that day is over where you get to come here and live here and regime the streets and vindicate news our community we want to keep that in mind and that is what we intend to do with the security cameras to our officers to do and get things right and i know this request he

will be asked. we plan to after getting a lot of community feedback but there is open air drug dealing and concerns about traffic what is the mission district and another one in the embarcadero area around the plazas where we've been relentless in addressing open air drug use this will aid and then what we intend to do we catch people and give it to the da. who are committing crimes in the city with that, i'd like to turning it over to our district attorney a great partner district attorney jennings. >> thank you, chief and thank you, mayor. as well as the law enforcement partners for spearheading prop e across the finish line to make sure that the voter understood why the

police department and law enforcement agencies use this technology and for making sure that with that finding they voted to passed that piece of legislation and have in the tech capital of the world and have to make sure we're not behind the circle in moving technology we know that, yes, we have been combatting a police department that is short staffed what that means on the ground we have fewer people to respond we have to be able to use technology and a substitutes but of we were putting that as a prosecutor i want to be able to support them knowing i can prove my case having technology 3 captures incidents and assaults and automobile burglaries so i can

give to the jury what happens at the description and they can see we're practicing prosecuting the right person and the appropriate crime that is what technology provides my office the ability to better prosecute our cases that's why i shoond in support of this legislation what that means is that not only you. could to san francisco and conditional use permit crimes that's the first and for the most part but have to make sure that people hear a consequence on the back i understand the only way to make sure we have cases in the district attorney's office. and so, yes, i want to highlight something the mayor said only a few years ago you may have seen the type initiative and the type of um, tool these types of tools now you see a full partnerships

within city hall, between law enforcement agencies and my office to stand firm that san franciscans and everyone who comes here for whatever workforce visit deserve they deserve to park their cars and not be concerned of whether or not the windows will be broken or the car will be gone shouldn't have to be concerned about attacks and assaults and have have to give people functional safeties that's why we work hard and seen the progress that our city makes sure those numbers we don't just highlight data people say they feel safe again that's our goal thank you for everyone standing up here i will continue it stand with them as we push forward and now i'm going to turn it over to our sheriff tom mother. thank

you. happy to be here standing alongside our partners in public safety not justices to make sure that over is safe by the mayor and legislations to make sure we have the support i want to say this is going to equip us to make sure the people in the city don't fear crime. they're going to help us support our deputies and officers must needed in key areas by the police chief and a note the sheriff's office has been using technology for years to make sure our job is enhanced by keeping places safe and in the hospitals and all the public spaces and we are very happy to see had occur in public safety to help the police departments

with that to continue to occur. surveillance footage we'll acquire is helpful to be able to see what has happened but on the time it takes to get other surveillance and this will help us with the staffing levels and putting vision out there when we don't have people out there. i would like to acknowledge the support of the entire community not just business community but the community it that are helping us to embrace this voting on the technologies to make sure the tools are utilized we're excited to partner with the police department to keep people safe and the units will help us in the capacity out there and excited we're still on the right side to mark sure that everyone in it san francisco is

safe and without further ado, i'll introduce the supervisor supervisor mandelman. >> thank you. chief 19 mother and welcome to district 6 i'm expressing my gratitude to mayor london breed for proposition e and other people expressing my gratitude to san franciscans who that made the use of safshgs technology possible and with us on the playing field with an outdoor county don't have the rules that san francisco last this enables us to make our city safer proportion e my district passed by within the largest masters over 60 percent of voters supported this is the district hyphenated mow

downtown, district 6 residents know the kinds of issues this technology will help us solve. are the things human resources under my wife and i our commuters and vegetables and tourist people talk about safety in district 6 if necessarily mean their thinking you save but a recognition things are rob our county and worse of all especially, when it comes to drug market and open air drugs this is unprecedent in our history. we need to do more with technology i'm incredibly grateful to member of the board and as the leadership behind me i've been in government for a long time i can't think of a time we had federal and state and local partners in the right

direction and i've said this 2340er years good news most cities in the america we have issues we need to address we are on the come back i appreciate mayor london breed limp with the congress back and we have further progress to make and this technology will help us get through. thank you very much. and with that, like to welcome lgbtq mark to speak (clapping.) thank you, supervisor dorsey to the lgbtq very proud and excited to partner city and county of san francisco proud to support our drug and crime reduction initiatives and help property protection and confident that

live have you technology as well as county and being able to defer the detract and defend against crime in high crime areas as well in situations like open air drug markets and the car smash and grab that the mayor discussed. lgbtq offers the unique municipal letter for officers and as well as our enterprise consumers you may have noticed the limits around the bay area shopping malls and as well as mtc on the private side users for years we have

many employs we run them a fleet and take care of the abatements and upkeep in the moving of those units and extremely excited for the city and county of san francisco to reduce crime going forward with their initiatives so mayor london breed and her team will be using our flagship products as you can see that is rapidly mobile is secure unit. it runs on solar and it is cellular connected. and using a combination of security cameras and speakers and to eliminate blind spots and protect property and defer unwanted behavior like to toourngs or to your attention to

the units we do a quick deems deferring smash and grabs and bad actors walking in and out or weaving in a parking lot looking in windows and cars before they do a smash and grab it can detect unwanted behavior. >> this area is monitored with security cameras of san francisco. >> few if it didn't scare away the bad actors we give them pause should trigger an alert. >> you're loitering the authorities have been notified. >> ideally the bad actors runs walmart away with those lights audit that are automated with a

we it is 50 to 75 percent reductions in those incidents but have to keep at um, we have to keep at the 20, 30 percent of more determined people we have the facility to assess the cameras in real estate and do a remote live walk down and retrieve eves of a crime that the committed during or after that takes place and another example the mayor and at chief and sheriff described the open air drug market people loitering in an area a i triggers the response. >> this area is monitored and the security for the citizens of san francisco. >> in a situation the crowd

didn't dispersing or individual approach the technology and pick up like drug transactions are taking place do another esz levitation. >> you are trooepg practical leave the area the area is in radio surveillance and this is reported. >> i dealing about defer the dealers in they're i dealing make them leave before a crime is captured at the minimum will capture the crime on camera and authorities now have evidencing to build a case for an arrest and/or prosecution those two scenarios to provide the technology can bring to the table. for the city of san francisco and another arrow in

the quiver for law enforcement. and what at the point i'd like to a thank the mayor and the entire team excite to partner and point your contamination to the tent a deems of our video management system and see the preset of the parking lot and rob over there our architect can walk you through other things and i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you, mayor. and the everyone else appreciate it

(clapping.) and i lee others do technology that is reported that we mentioned before to you all the camera technology is 2340r7ks with the drones and in conformance with the less is that camera captures a license plate on a car that committed a crime the officer can put that into the system and that is picked up on the camera not only san francisco but neither bay area but with other technology we've been able to find one or tow people just by could go that that gains that.

>> the beauty of this city of edgewater the mission district within a couple of weeks have the technology now and here's i deal scenario if we resolve the issues been for decades those cameras cabaret located this is i mean to have this type of flexibility is a wonderful thing for the city. >> we have had 3. we have 3 so, yeah the third one to be determined. >> right behind you. >> yeah. we will deploy that third one just determine when and wrm when that decision has

been made. thank you. >> if i can have mark talk about in other cities we did research in other cities but director ryan is one who's the project leader and standing behind you and, of course, the system chief we have done our research and talk about what one of the things. >> and santa clara county one of the biggest thing on the in the public segment santa clara county public utilities commission particularly for the bart 3 extension. so um, another california counties la county a big yours announcing ammunition

with public utilities commission as well. transportation to a couple of example and sacramento users and across the bay a lot of units as well. >> all right. depends on how you configure it but you saw the service like a guard service or a fully loaded officer in hospitals of hundreds of thousands of dollars and, of course, a multiplier before you factor in the return reduction as well so um, i want to add something just for clarity around technology. because this is not the end of what we will use as a city in order to address issues around public safety. we have the ability to use whatever technologies are available at our disposal as a

way to help defer crime so those units are mobile but we also and give i a perspective we have the ability and we'll be installing 4 hundred license plate right side and i believe the latest count is one hundred and 80. and even at the point where we had a hand license plate right side we respectable for example, make an arrest for someone that that committed a crime in santa fe and address issues around car break-ins and other things here's the thing we put up stationary cameras that provide surveillance in particular areas and we are working with communities to look at those as an option, too i want to just to

be clear, this is a big part of all of what we are using to maximize you're use of whatever technology is available to help us combat the issues in the city and should be noted that, you know, the chief talked about car breaks yrtd 50 percent lower than last year but we started to use the drone technology we realized the forbidden what that entails a 70 percent reduction in june of car breaks in comparison to last year and saw a 70 over 70 percent reduction in july in comparison to last year, we are seeing the change because all the technology combined is making a difference what is excited about adding another important tool to

addressing it into the mission um, related to some of the challenging issues in particular prostitution and what is happening in 3 community the open air drug dealing those cameras will be front and center in the hot spots and follow people when they today to move to others location we'll have you think camera and sends throwers our home letting our family know our car was in a hot spot for prostitution we're not backing down to the use of technology norman to address issues burn public safety and simultaneously negotiating the best contract that our police department has seen that's why people are deciding to leave other law enforcement agencies around the bay to leave san francisco and the technology as interest to

wanting to serve in law enforcement in san francisco a combination of all those things we're really exciting and at this time i'll show you a demonstration what that looks you are watching san francisco rising with chris manor. today's special guest is sarah phillips. >> hi, i'm chris manors and you are watching san francisco rising the show about

restarting rebuilding and eare imagineing the city. the guest today is sarah phillips the executive director of economic workforce development. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. let's talk about the city economic plan and specifically the city's road map to san francisco future. can you give a brief overview and update on progress? >> absolute e. in february 2023 mayor breed released the roadmap comprised to 9 strategies to move the city forward understanding there was structural and lang lasting changing by the covid impact. 134 were shorter term impacts how people using transit downtown and coming out and are using small businesses, some of them remember long-term structural impacts. the way we work.

how often we are in an office and how much office space companies who had headquartered in san francisco need. some of those were structural impacts how we stop. there has been a long-term change as online shopping takes up a greater share how we performs and covid-19 took a shift that would probably take 10 to 15 years happen and collapse what happened ofern the timeframe to 2 years so saw structural impacts how people shop. we have seen a lot of progress rchlt we are 9 months in and significant things we have seen is efforts creating permitinant services and homes for people experiencing homelessness is dramatic. we increased the number of shelter beds dramatically and take-up of the beds dramatically, and there is more work to do. on the safety side there are exciting things that happened.

we increased our police pay among the highest in the bay area which is a important thing for recruitment. police recruitment across the country is down so recruiting the best we can means we need to give a high pay set. august the highsh return in graduates. we see 75 decrease in retail theft and 50 percent reduction in car break ins which is quality of life crime san francisco experienced so there is real progresses we are seeing on clean and safe sides. one thing important in the mayor roadmap we are not trying to get back to 2020 vision. i think covid showed having a downtown with people sitting at offices isn't the best downtown it can be. i think it is a opportunity to

bring 24 hour life use downtown. >> music and concerts is a great way to bring people to a specific location. golden gate park we had lots of events in plazas throughout the city. can you talk about those and if there is upcoming events too? >> i think you touched on something key to the mayor road map. for san francisco and particularly san francisco downtown to move forward and be successful as a great american city, it is about bringing people together because they want to be together not because they center to be together and music is a strong part that. the planet concert sear ries coming up and happening throughout the city not just golden gate park but downtown locations are a great example. there are smaller examples as well. the landing at--is a new plaza we constructed in the mayor

roadmap where two streets come together akwraisant to a couple restaurants closed to cars in daytime, chairs and seating and throughout the week they have lunch time and evening music to bring people together after work. they participate in that. something we are working on setting up for next year which is really exciting is our sf live program and that will bring a full 2024 concert series where we match local venues bringing their work and partnership to useian square, music center plaza and embark cadero. we will be able to announce concert series through the sf- >> you mentioned vacant to vibrant, that program has a lot of attention lately.

can you talk generally what exactly that program is? >> yeah. so, we opened a program where we put out a call for landlords willing to offer groundfloor space for free for 3 to 6 month jz small business or storefront operators who had a proposal what they would do for 3 to 6 months. it is pilot. we had a incredible amount of interest. we had--i'm forgetting the number of landlords, but more then we expected because we are in a place where commercial real estate understands they need to come to the table to help make our groundfloor lively and resulting in a transition where the groundfloor is seen less as a money making operation, but more as a leader to lease upper floors. if you have a active ground floor yields better on the other 80 percent of the building you are trying to lease. that was great, a lot of

cooperation scr over 700 small business or operators responded to that call. it is pop up. there is no intention this would result in forever small businesses, but there is certainly a hope and i think what we are hearing, i don't have the final data, but there are 17 activators in 9 different spaces, some are colocated, which is why the difference, and out of those 9 spaces that are being leased for free, now 7 of them are in discussions for long-term leases so the spaces continue. it is the program. we are hopeful to have a second and third traunch and hoping to pilot in other neighborhoods with other partners. it is not an inexpensive program because there is a lot of capital that goes into popping up for short amount of time but what we are seen is they visit the businesses, the businesses are successful and san francisco want to support this activation so hopeful to expand it. >> that's great. can you talk a bit about why

piloting programs and testing things is so important? >> absolutely. you know, i would say not only the important generally but important in san francisco specifically. the benefit of pilot programs in the reasons they are really important here is, it allows us to try something and say, there may be consequence but let's understand those in real time rather then waiting to start a strategy while we think about them on paper and if they are too great we can modify the program as we go. mta has absorbed the strategy whether a bike lane or other to figure how best to use the street? is this working? is it working for bikes and cars and buses? maybe not, let's switch it around and pilots have been important to oewd to our office particularly because we tend to have the ability and the

mayor's support through the budget process to pilot things through request for proposals or rfp process where we can put out a small amount of funding, try activation and small public plaza, see if it works and i think the benefit there is, if it doesn't work we tried it and had the benefit of seeing real time and when it does work, we are able to uplift that and move into a permanent strategy and that is where our agency turns over something we piloted to another agency because it is part of the city operating procedure. pilots also give people hope. when we have the short-term whether it is physical public plaza or activation that shows change is possible and allows them to vote for what they like. >> lastly, in lith light of

the current ai boom, do you think there is a way to leverage those new changes to take a bunch of san francisco's status as a tech hub? >> i do, i think they work together. san francisco right now has a strong vacancy problem in our office space. and there is a back-story to that. our zoning downtown has not prevented other uses, in terms of permitting uses of the multi-story building has been open including allowing residential but we put other barriers, cost and code barriers et cetera and what happened also during the height of our preevious boom is that, the amount that tech companies were willing to pay for office space bid everything out so we-without intentionally zoning a single use downtown, we de facto became a single use downtown and thereat is the opportunity you are pointing

out. now because downtown was so convertible from work from home, particularly as tech based downtown was and how much companies put at the market in the office spaces we are seeing high vacancy now, all most 30 percent so there is lot of square feet but that presents a lot of opportunity. we have the ability to absorb expansion of the tech industry we are so strong at. we have seen over 800 thousand square feet of ai space leased just in 2023 alone and there is still more demand out in the market, more ai companies looking for space so that is a growth spot absorbing some of the vac ancy. the opportunity too is prices for downtown lease s have also dropped and that opens up a breath of opportunity to a breath of companies that were priced out in 2018, 2019, 2020. san francisco has always been

great at starting companies and allowing them to grow here. when our prices are too high it prevents that growth so now we are a super fertile ground for more start ups and invasion on the smaller end of the sector because they can come and enter our market and we have the space to offer. to talk about san francisco's assets and the leveraging that, we sit at the epicenter of really great university and educational institutions. we are between uc berkeley and stanford. the graduates produced just from those institutions alone stay in the bay area and want to rise up and work here, provide a real opportunity for the start ups to build their companies and companies to grow here so we confident we will absorb a certain amount of office space with ai tech. with that, we are interested in increasing our human capital growing graduates. downtown university is something the mayor is open to pursuing and we are in

conversations with uc berkeley we love to have as a partner in our downtown and then residential conversions are a great partner to that. as we build back the office space, people will want to live downtown again and we have a number buildings that can be converted to residential. the costs are high. mayor breed and her partners on the board made significant changes to reduce the costs. we waived fees for change of uses in the downtown area. there are code changes that will make the conversions easier. there is a ballot measure on the march ballot that will attempt to reduce costs for those as well. it is ongoing process and none of those changes we talked about absent ai growth downtown, but institutional growth downtown, arts growth downtown and residential conversions downtown are long-term changes so one thing i want to say recollect i do think there is a opportunity per your question, but we also need to be patient because what we are talking about is is a

real shift to the make-up of the downtown since from the growth it has been starting at since the turn of the century so that isn't a 2 year change, that is a 10 year change and we center to watch as it goes. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate you spending the time here today and your creative vision and positivity, so thank you so much. >> thanks so much for having me and hope you all downtown and shop. >> that is it for this episode. for sfgovtv i'm chris manors, thanks

>> in the bay area as a whole, thinking about environmental sustainability. we have been a leader in the country across industries in terms of what you can do and we have a learn approach. that is what allows us to be successful. >> what's wonderful is you have so many people who come here and

they are what i call policy innovators and whether it's banning plastic bags, recycling, composting, all the different things that we can do to improve the environment. we really champion. we are at recycle central, a large recycle fail on san francisco pier 96. every day the neighborhood trucks that pick up recycling from the blue bins bring 50 # o tons of bottles, cans and paper here to this facility and unload it. and inside recology, san francisco's recycling company, they sort that into aluminum cans, glass cans, and different type of plastic.

san francisco is making efforts to send less materials to the landfill and give more materials for recycling. other cities are observing this and are envious of san francisco's robust recycling program. it is good for the environment. but there is a lot of low quality plastics and junk plastics and candy wrappers and is difficult to recycle that. it is low quality material. in most cities that goes to landfill. >> looking at the plastics industry, the oil industry is the main producer of blastics. and as we have been trying to phase out fossil fuels and the transfer stream, this is the fossil fuels and that plastic isn't recycled and goes into the waste stream and the landfill and unfortunately in the ocean. with the stairry step there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish.

>> we can recycle again and again and again. but plastic, maybe you can recycle it once, maybe. and that, even that process it downgrades into a lower quality material. >> it is cheaper for the oil industry to create new plastics and so they have been producing more and more plastics so with our ab793, we have a bill that really has a goal of getting our beverage bottles to be made of more recycled content so by the time 2030 rolls around t recycle content in a coke bottle, pepsi bottle, water bottle, will be up to 50% which is higher thatten the percentage in the european union and the highest percentage in the world. and that way you can actually feel confident that what you're drinking will actually become recycled. now, our recommendation is don't use to plastic bottle to begin w but if you do, they are

committing to 50% recycled content. >> the test thing we can do is vote with our consumer dollars when we're shopping. if you can die something with no packaging and find loose fruits and vegetables, that is the best. find in packaging and glass, metal and pap rer all easily recycled. we don't want plastic. we want less plastic. awe what you we do locally is we have the program to think disposable and work one on one to provide technical assistance to swap out the disposable food service to reusables and we have funding available to support businesses to do that so that is a way to get them off there. and i believe now is the time we will see a lot of the solutions come on the market and come on the scene. >> and is really logistics

company and what we offer to restaurants is reasonable containers that they can order just like they would so we came from about a pain point that a lot of customers feel which wills a lot of waste with takeout and deliver, even transitioning from styrofoam to plastic, it is still wasteful. and to dream about reusing this one to be re-implemented and cost delivery and food takeout. we didn't have throwaway culture always. most people used to get delivered to people's homes and then the empty milk containers were put back out when fresh milk came. customers are so excited that we have this available in our restaurant and came back and asked and were so excited about it and rolled it out as customers gain awareness

understanding what it is and how it works and how they can integrate it into their life. >> and they have always done it and usually that is a way of being sustainable and long-term change to what makes good financial sense especially as there are shipping issues and material issues and we see that will potentially be a way that we can save money as well. and so i think making that case to other restaurateurs will really help people adopt this. >> one restaurant we converted

2,000 packages and the impact and impact they have in the community with one switch. and we have been really encouraged to see more and more restaurants cooperate this. we are big fans of what re-ecology does in terms of adopting new systems and understanding why the current system is broken. when people come to the facility, they are shocked by how much waste they see and the volume of the operations and how much technology we have dedicated to sort correctly and we led 25 tours and for students to reach about 1100 students. and they wanted to make change

and this is sorting in the waste stream they do every single day and they can take ownership of and make a difference with. >> an i feel very, very fortunate that i get to represent san francisco in the legislature and allows me to push the envelope and it is because of the people the city attracts and is because of the eco system of policy thinking that goes on in san francisco that we are constantly seeing san francisco leading the way. >> kids know there's a lot of environmental issues that they are facing. and that they will be impacted by the impact of climate change. they will have the opportunity to be in charge and make change and make the decisions in the future. >> we are re-inventing the way the planet does garbage founded in the environmental ethic and

hunger to send less to landfills. this is so many wonderful things happening in san francisco. i feel very fortunate and very humble to live here and to be part of this wonderful place.