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

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madam chair, please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. public comment will be taken on each item on today's agenda. when your item of interest comes up and public comment is called, please line up to speak on your right. alternatively, you may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways. first, you may email them to the land use and transportation clerk, john carroll at j-o-h-n dot c a r r o l l at sfgov. org or you may submit your written comments via us postal service to our office at city hall one doctor carlton b goodlett place, room 244 san francisco, california 94102. if you submit

public comment in writing, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and also included as part of the official file. items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of september 17th, 2024, unless otherwise stated. madam chair, i thank you. madam clerk, please call item number one. yes. item number one is a resolution adding the commemorative street name. aubrey. aubrey plaza junior street to the 1500 block of grove street to honor the legacy and life of aubrey aberra kassa junior and to bring attention to his tragic death and the need for action against gun violence. thank you, supervisor preston, for introducing this item. the floor is yours. thank you, chair melgar. and thank you for calendaring this resolution, there are a lot of items and folks seeking to be calendared in this committee, but i very much appreciate you getting it on so quickly. after our legislative recess. this is a

resolution to rename the 1400 block of grove street between baker and lyon to aubrey abbott junior street. aubrey grew up in the north of panhandle neighborhood in district five, part of the broader western addition community, in august of 2006, he was just 17 years old and about to begin his senior year at raoul wallenberg high school. aubrey played guard on his high school basketball team and coached other young athletes at the bernal heights recreation center, where he worked part time. on the afternoon of august 14, 2006, while walking near his home on his way to work, aubrey was struck when unknown assailants fired 30 rounds from a semi-automatic gun, hitting aubrey in the back as he ran to warn others. aubrey was a

junior, succumbed to his injuries at san francisco general hospital at just 17 years old and since that day, aubrey's mother, who is here with us today, paulette brown, has been relentless in her pursuit of justice for her son. for 17 years, she has recounted the story of aubrey's unsolved murder on wednesdays before the police commission on tuesdays, often here before the board of supervisors and at vigils that she organizes every august at the scene of his death. and i want to thank, chair melgar for joining us at the vigil this year. my colleague, supervisor dorsey, who was there, and so many leaders sheriff miyamoto, chief scott, the mayor and others who came out, and many

community members who came out to support. i also want to acknowledge that we are in receipt of a letter from san francisco district attorney brooke jenkins in support of this item, and in support of this street renaming and in support of the family. i want to thank the district attorney for submitting that letter to us through paulette's loss and her family's story. paulette paulette brown has become a powerful advocate against gun violence in san francisco and beyond, advocating for stronger gun control legislation and other common sense solutions. to prevent this kind of tragedy from happening to others. she's also dedicated her time to supporting other victims and survivors as a lead facilitator of the healing circle, a bimonthly support group that provides a safe space for those

impacted by violence to heal and find community. by renaming the 1500 block of grove street to aubrey abbott casa junior street, we will commemorate a young man whose life was cut short and also make a statement against the violence that took his life. this commemorative street renaming will also be a call to action to our city to stand united against gun violence, and it will stand as a permanent tribute to a mother's unyielding commitment to keeping her son's memory alive and bringing her son's killers to justice. i. madam chair, if it's okay. i would like to give paulette brown an opportunity to say a few words. i also know we have a number of folks. chief scott here, a member of the police commission, i believe i saw as well. but if we could start with miss brown, that would be great. yes. welcome, miss brown. at flesh getting

older. i just want to thank everyone for being here today, those that are supporting me today and those that that couldn't make it and send well wishes to me and saying that they'll be here with me in spirit, i just want to thank them all and all of you that showed up today. and maybe there's probably more that's going to be coming. this day is, is a gang for me because i've been on the battlefield for like 18 years now, almost 20 years bringing, trying to bring justice not just to my son, but unsolved homicides. again, this is like yesterday to me. the day

my son was murdered and just still hearing that 30 rounds of bullets from a semi-automatic gun into my 17 year old boy who i worked so hard with, of being an african-american young man to take his life like that, who has the right to pick up a gun and take someone's life? i am tirelessly and relentlessly is not going to stop bringing awareness to unsolved homicides and to protect my son's character and not let no one defame him and make him as if he was a criminal himself. he died saving others lives and all he said was on his way to work for

bernal heights recreation center, leaving out to go to work saw the gunman and, you know, at 17 years old, you're really not thinking you know, and children's brains aren't developed fully at that time. and i'm not saying my son was crazy, but just going back to school and getting my mental health certificate and license to understand why people take lives and to know that their brains aren't developed. even when my daughters came home from camp, they weren't able to cry because they're not understanding that their brother has been murdered. i am the first person in my family to have lost a loved one to murder, not natural death, but murder. i just remember that day. getting

the news that my son was shot. but the way they said it is almost like, well, he he got bruised. no one told me how many times and how many bullets left that gun into my son. that semi-automatic gun into my son. not until i got to san francisco. general. almost running lights and getting there. and going into san francisco. general and asking for my son and being put in a room where other mothers and fathers like myself have been put in a room here. wait here. and i waited there for hours, and then finally they took me upstairs to another room where i was supposed to be waiting to see my son because he was still in the operating room, six hours in the operating room, removing bullets. and i remember. the

doctors walking down the street, lynn westry was with who was with first responders was there. and i am so glad she was there, i just remember the doctors coming down the hall with their white jackets on, and i stood up and i said, lynn said, it's time to go see your son. and i stood up and when i stood up, they i didn't get to walk out that room door. they came and kind of hovered themselves around me, and the first words came out of their mouths is i'm sorry. i'm sorry. he didn't make it. that day, my life changed. i can just remember running out the room trying to find what room my son was in. there were so many door,

and i didn't know what room to go in. and i fell to my knees and i begged. god, please let him leave. let him live. i just remember grabbing the doctor's coats and i said, bring him back. and all he can do was pry my hands away from their coats. and lynn wishtery came down with me on my knees and hovered over me as if there was an angel touching me and we got up and we walked into the room and all i could see was my son's lifeless body with his eyes open wide. and all i can say is what happened, and he was not able to speak to me. i just took my hands and closed his eyes. today i still cry. i am a strong mother, a strong grandmother, a

strong auntie, a strong person that goes out. but yet i still cry. the birthdays come. the anniversary comes to see my own grandchildren passing the age of my son. i have a 22 year old grandson sitting right here named idris pearson and i am so glad i have them. but i want people to remember that lies in san francisco are being taken, and us as mothers and fathers are suffering in silence, i refuse to takes. b i refuse to take medication. i need you to see the raw me and self-medicating some of us. but see how i'm really dealing with this. but i'm not going to let it take me down because i do have children left that i have to be strong for, grandchildren,

that i have to be strong for. and if anything ever happens to them in this world that they can stand and not fall. i'm praying that this resolution will help and bring focus to not just my son, but other mothers and fathers to not give up, to stay strong. i have other mothers saying, miss paulette, you're strong. how could i do this? and i said, look, this is your child. you can stand and fight for them. i'll show you the way, but you have to take it in for yourself. so i just thank everyone that's here and i bring my pictures with me all the tim. because i can talk all day. and if you don't see what i'm going through, you won't know what i'm going through. this is what i

have to remember. each day when i wake up. that my son's smile, his bright smile and that they took from me. and if i can use the overhead, if anyone can help me use the overhead, i'm going to put his picture down there and, i'm sorry, i don't know if i have every. oh oh. this is. oh, gosh. sorry. it's kind of bright, but this is my son, aubrey plaza. these are the pictures that i stand up on. poles and pride to the poles. and not only that, to have them snatched down by street cleaners. and i go, and i catch

him and i say, look, there's no statute of limitations for murder, and i have the right to put these up here. so i go to the police commissioner and i complain to them about. and so now they put the logos on here of do not remove this, but do people care? they still get torn down. not as much. but they still get torn down. i bring pictures of other unsolved homicides that are not solved. mind me. these are other unsolved homicides. i stand with matty scott. this is her son right here. here's other unsolved homicides that are not solved. this is a recent poster that has been made recently, and my son's picture is finally on a

poster. but yet i have nowhere to put it. like i said, i want to bring awareness to unsolved homicides. $0 has been paid out and we want to change these laws about other ways the people that can come forth and pay the tipsters, other ways to tell what happened that day, not just about my son, but but any child that has been lost here in san francisco. if they can find new ways to pay tipsters to bring information about unsolved homicides. and not only that, you know, hiring new investigators that are retired investigators to make sure that they call us every other week and let us know. i do have an investigator named scott winker. i hope i'm not butchering his name, but he calls me. and even

if there's nothing that he can tell me, i am happy that he has called. i tell other people, this is my son laying in a casket, and me standing over hi. this is what they left me. a lifeless body. like i said, i need people to see what i'm going through. instead of talking about it all the time. and it's just not me going through this. think about the other countless mothers and fathers have to see their children's lifeless body. think about the autopsy people that have to cut to see where the bullets and have to cut you open. they even lift my son's head face off for his body. there was no bullets there. i

don't understand why so much of that had to been done. i bring the names of the perpetrators to the police commission every wednesday. like i said, if i had been there when my son was being murdered, there's no way i would have watched that. these are the names of the perpetrators, and i pray one day. that justice is served. mayor gavin newsom said he know former mayor gavin newsom said you could put the cameras back on me, that i know who killed her son. the d.a. know who killed her son. the police know who killed her son. we can name names, give

addresses of all the perpetrators that murdered my child. i remember being at 850. bryant up there trying to get. i was in the room and looking at all the perpetrators that were there, and there was three boards. one of them said the perpetrators, all of their names, the intended target and the victim. the victim was my son. the intended target ran. to this day, i have no justice and i just want to thank or for not falling through all the years that i am still standing and that i just not stand for myself. but i stand for other mothers and fathers. we host a healing circle every second and fourth thursday of the month. we go out to schools. i go into the prisons, san quentin prison, chowchilla, san bruno jail to do

victim impact panels, to let them know that your crime has affected mothers and fathers like myself. and what can you do now before you get out? i don't want the perpetrators that murdered my son. i don't want an eye for an eye. i want them to live because i want to go there, and i want to have a chance to say why? why did you kill my child? let me shake your hand. let me show you the love that i have for my son. but i still want justice. i still want them to go to prison. i want them to be accountable for what they've done. you don't get a get out of jail card for free for murdering somebody because you were young. i know you were raised well. and if you're hearing me now, you see me every day on the streets. half of you are on facebook and

you know you done the crime. please have accountability. think about what you've done. i know you can't go to bed every day at night and lay your head down and think about the murders you've done. but as a mother, i don't want. i want you to live. i'm not in for a retaliation. i'm not in for a having an eye for an eye. i don't want that to happen. because when you do that, it's a rippling effect. other families and mothers continue to die because you killed their brother. because you killed their sister, because you killed that. why does that have to keep going on? let's change the laws. let's change the laws. and i just want to thank that when this this name get up there, i have something

to look at and no one can tear it down. thank you. thank you so much, everyone, for being here. and those that are still coming. i just want to thank you. and if you could just come up here, i have no script today. i didn't plan one. there's no script to talk about. murder of your children. but i just want to thank for being at the police commission every wednesday with chief scott. i mentioned earlier that all the police chief that i've been through, and i'm not saying that they weren't attentive, but the most attentive one has been chief bill scott. and i thank god for him because i feel like he listens and not just to me, but other mothers and fathers. he's been to our, our things and com.

and you know, when i come there and i'm having a problem and my investigator might be gone and i'm feeling a certain way, he makes sure that things happen. and like i said, he's been the most attentive to us. and thank you, dean preston, for being here. and district five for all of us. and i pray that you continue to be here for us. and i thank you so much in all of you for being here and coming to the visual. thank you. i tend to do this every year to bring awareness and thank you again. thank you paulette. thank you so much for sharing your story. i know it's hard and you do it, it has such an impact on all

policymakers in the city, before we go to the general public comment, i wanted to see through the chair. chief scott, if you wanted to, to say any words. thank you. thank you. supervisor preston and chair melgar, president peskin. and to miss brown and your entire family, i won't be long winded, but i will just say that this police department and this city will continue to stand by miss brown and all of our victims. but miss brown really epitomizes fight determination. never give up, never give up, never give up. and she's exactly right. you know, she we've had a lot of investigators that have been

assigned to her son's case over the years. and, we have to listen when she speaks. and listen to what she's saying, because we are still working that case. and i'm hopeful that one day we will actually solve the case with the evidence to bring a prosecution forward. but until then, we'll continue to work on it. so i just want miss brown, you and your family to know that we're with you and we always will be. thank you. thank you, chief, and thank you for all your support of the family. and i said this at the vigil, but to you and your investigators on this case, i know that one of the hardest things is to be talking to families who've lost loved ones and not be able to be delivering the news that cases solved. and here's the result of it. but what i've heard from from the first time i met, paulette, is that she still gets those calls

from you and your investigators with that update. i know those aren't easy calls to make when the case isn't solved, but thank you for continuing to support the family, madam chair, if we could open this item up for public comment, that would be great. thank you. supervisor preston, miss brown, as always, much love to you and your famil, let's open up for public comment, please. madam clerk. all right. for those members here, joining us today for item number one, please line up to speak now on your right. everyone will be provided two minutes. each there's the other microphone works just fine to ma'am if you want to. probably easier. there we go. that one right there. all right.

greetings. board of supervisors. and, paulette, queen paulette, paulette has been a sister friend of mine for a really long time. and it just hurts me to my heart that this is still not been resolved, i have a lot of feelings with, former, our governor saying that he knew who murdered her son, and there has not been no resolution on this case. she's a beautiful sister, and i love her. i just want to say that, we really need to make this happen. she needs to have some closure on this. she deserves to have some closure on this. and i'm absolutely in support of the street being named after her son. and that's

a beautiful step. and in following that, we need to get some closure on this case. so my thing is whatever needs to take place to make this happen, even holding the mayor responsible, he put that in the paper that she needs to have closure. it's been 18 years, if i had a child that was murdered, i mean, i just want people to take a moment to think about. what if it was your child? so, paulette, i love you. keep doing what you're doing, queen. and i'm here to support you in all that you do. thank you. good afternoon. my name is kevin benedicto, and i'm a member of the san francisco police commission. and i'm here to speak in support of this resolution. i'm going to avoid trying to repeat what's already been said, the incredible things. but i'd like to start by sharing a personal story about

miss brown that when i was just a newly barred attorney doing pro-bono work for the blue ribbon panel, and the first time i had to speak before the police commission, i was incredibly nervous and i was sitting in city hall, and i was so nervous that my nose started bleeding and i almost just left and gave up and miss brown reached over to me. i had not met her and she offered me a tissue and told me not to be nervous. and i knew in that moment that that was the love of an incredible mother. and that's absolutely who miss brown is. and we've seen we've all heard the stories of how she's turned incredible tragedy and grief and channel that into being a powerful and relentless and tireless advocate, both for her son, for our advocacy and for gun violence throughout san francisco. and for unsolved homicides throughout san francisco. i think the street renaming is such an important step as a show from the city that we're committed to ending gun violence, we're committed to these unsolved homicides, both to the committed to solving aubrey's case and committed to

all the faces that miss brown always puts in front of us. i think it's important that this is a good step. it's important to recognize that this step is not in itself justice, but a reminder that justice still needs to be done and that we need to do that and that while this is not the first street that's renamed that we hope that with each successive solving of a case, this, that one could be the last. so i'm here to speak in strong support of the resolution and strong support of the continued efforts to get justice for casa and the unsolved homicide victims, and in support of miss brown and her incredible advocacy to privilege. thank you. thank you for your comments. next speaker. john avalos, speaking as a former legislative aide and supervisor here on the board of supervisors in san francisco, i was working as a legislative

aide in 2006 when aubrey casa junior, was murdered, and met paulette at that time and there were many people in the western edition who were murdered that year. and the year before as well, 2005 and 2006 were incredibly difficult years, and very few, if any of these homicides have been, have been solved. i also in my family, have lost family members, close family members to homicide. i've lost immediate family members to gun violence here in san francisco. and there are families who will never get over their grief. it's a constant companion. but what can ease the

grief is getting answers and getting a sense of justice. and as paulette brown says, not for vengeance, but for understanding and feeling the void, filling the void that we have of lack of information or lack of justice, let this street be a pact that aubrey, a casa junior street, can reflect all the young men and women who have lost their lives to gun violence, who still seek justice, and the families that still seek justice as well. and let this street also be a recognition of a mother's relentless, relentless pursuit of equanimity and justice. in her family, in her life, and not just for herself, but for all the families who have experienced the loss that she has as well. thank you, thank you. next speaker. thank you

all. i'm here. my name is bilal mehmood. i'm a elected member of the democratic party. i was asked by miss paulette to be here as well. i wanted to thank supervisor preston for introducing this resolution, i think i've known paulette for a short period of time, but i remember when i first met her, i saw the same fire that i see in my own mother's eyes. and i can never completely understand the pain that you go through, no parent should have to watch their child go through what you have, but i know as a city we can all come together, and i'm honestly just inspired by you. and i think so many of us here are inspired as well. your resolution, your resilience, gives a lot of us hope. and i remember at your vigil, so many other women were inspired by you, and you've led a movement. and i'm so thankful to have you as a member of the community.

and again, thank you, supervisor, for introducing this resolution. and i know and i've seen in the aapi community how these commemorations can give hope and inspiration to the next generation. and i look forward to seeing the impact of this commemoration as well. so thank you. thank you for your comments. next speaker. hi. good afternoon. my name is scottie jacobs and i am here as a neighbor of miss brown's and someone who didn't live in the neighborhood when aubry passed. but as someone who has since come into the neighborhood and come to understand not just miss paulette's story, but also aubrey's story and how important it is for us to make sure that we honor the memory of people who have come before us in this way, and honestly, the legacy of the work of miss brown and advocating so tirelessly, not just for her son, but for, as we've heard, all the other mothers and families that have lost their children to unsolved homicides. for me, as someone

who is more recently a member of the community in this neighborhood, to come in and know, looking up, seeing streets named after people as a way for people who weren't present when tragedy occurred to connect with and help join the movement that people like miss paulette have started. and so, miss brown, i'm just so grateful to know you and proud to be standing here with you today. and in awe of your resilience and strength and courage and the movement that you've built and the advocacy that when we get this street named after aubry, you will continue to do to support all the other families who are waiting for the streets in their neighborhoods to be renamed. thank you. thank you for your comments. next speaker. good afternoon. my name is jorge duran, longtime resident native of san francisco. i met paulette

18, 19 years ago and, what her perseverance and her struggle has brought many members of san francisco together. i work in the criminal justice system, in the in the jails of san francisco. and there are so many individuals who are upset that the crime is not solved, so many support. she gets from inside and outside the work we've done in san quentin, the work we've done in san bruno and downtown san francisco is unmemorable, and i support the legislation. i will support this wholeheartedly. what a tribute to aubrey, a young man that wasn't involved in gangs. he wasn't a drug dealer. he was a

young man that was working, supporting his community and his siblings. what a tribute to the panhandle. it would be an honor to have that street named after aubrey, and i just want to commend paulette to keep doing what you're doing, because if you're down, if you could look up, you can get up. and that's what she's done. thank you. thank you for your comments. next speaker. my name is ebony and i'm a childhood friend of aubrey. and when, miss brown started speaking. and that's why i'm getting a little choked up, it took me back to that time, and mr. avalos was very. he was very correct. that was a hard time in our community between

2000 and 5, 2006, i was between 15 and 17. at that time, there were a lot of shootings. there was a lot of loss to the point where i'm not even joking. i just went to school and came home. i didn't want to go outside. i didn't want to play with my friends because i you never knew what was going to happen. i've seen, feel like it's important for me to say something, because this is very impactful for the community. and there was another gentleman that was just up here, your neighbor that was just speaking. and i love the fact that he is not like an original

person from the community, but he's well aware of everything like that. that really warms my heart. and i'm definitely, obviously in support of this because like she said, this is something that nobody will be able to take down. she can go outside and she can see that, and that will be a memory of not even just him. that's you. that's you. like, i'm still like to this day, blown away by the fact that, like, you're able to stand up here and able to get this stuff done, like that is amazing. so i am like, i definitely need you guys to support this. if for no other reason for this woman right here and the strength that she's been able to do and just showing up every day. thank you for your comments. i got some pictures for you to. hello, i'm karina

velasquez, i'm president of stop crime sf is, really emotional, listening to a mother. and that's what our organization tries to do to listen to victims of crime, to support them in the courts, and for being advocating for victims of crime. we have been attacked and being called names far right and whatnot. so and i only been living in the bay area for 22 years. so when i started coming to the police commission and i saw her with the picture of, i went out and googled, and i'm like, wow, no words can describe it. so i'm thankful for this resolution and

i want please to that you guys pass it and i want you to bring attention to those that have been calling for defunding the police. we have a robust police force. we will not have to name streets after victims. we have now technology, we have drones, we have robots. we have a lot of things. and i've been in these rooms in city hall when people have been disrespecting our police force, and that's unacceptable. why because they are more of them then we don't have victims. and that's important to say. endorsements have consequences. we right now have an extraordinary district attorney that is trying to work with the police officers and the sheriff's department, and we need to become stronger

together. as san franciscans, regardless of what our ideology is. so we stop crime, we stop victims. we don't need that anymore. please. this is serious, right? thank you so much. thank you. sweetie i love you. thank you for your comments. next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. for those who don't know me, my name is jay connor ortega and i am president of team jay connor. and co of iconic d3. i support paulette at the police commission every wednesday side by side with her calling for justice. and i am here to support her as well. the cycle of life is supposed to consist of the next generation bearing their parents, but not parents bearing their kids like paulette and so many others have. i'm here to support the street renaming in memory of aubry in

the name of aubry. i am here also to push and advocate for our board to back a fully staffed sfpd with the ability to go after the animals who murdered him and the many other young men and women who continue to lose their lives to gun violence, even to this day in san francisco, naming the street after those we failed. as a city, especially aubry, is a step forward to honoring his and many others lives. but it's not going to bring justice to his family, nor the many mothers who lost their children to animals that took them. what will bring justice is bringing those criminals to account by stopping future victims of crime, criminal violence. i am calling for a supervisors to bring justice by supporting sfpd and their ability to prevent this senseless tragedy, and to get us all, especially the mothers justice. thank you. thank you for your comments. next speaker.

good afternoon, supervisors. my name is betty canton and i have met miss paulette through the western addition family resource center and knowing miss paulette is really an honor because until you find out what she survived, you know, the strength that she brings and the strength that she represents. i'm here in support of naming the street on behalf of her son, but also to make sure that families are aware that what violence can cause the harm the suffering, and also the opportunities to get communities together as miss paulette have

done. so i thank you for supporting this initiative, and i hope that this will be an example of how other communities can protect their children. thank you, thank you, thank you for your comments. are there any other speakers who would like to provide public comment on item number one? is. my name is kippy hogg. i'm the quiet, shy one, so i hadn't planned to speak, but all i want to say is i'm here to support paulette and i am here to support the renaming of grove street to aubry. god bless. thank you for your comments. next speaker. good afternoon.

i'm cora mccoy, long time resident here in the city of san francisco. and i've met mrs. paulette or about seven years ago, and my heart bleeds. i have a son. he's old and grown now, but she didn't get a chance to celebrate and honor her son as long as i have. but my prayer is that you do name the street to honor her and to give her strength to fight on and need all of us here in the city to try to do away with this gun violence. whatever. thank you, thank you, thank you for your comments. next speaker. hello

everyone. i'm gonna keep it short. i'm editor. i also work at the y with miss betty. and, i've known miss paulette for a while now. and one thing about her is she's very resilient, very strong woman. and she participates a lot in the community events that we have. and i'm just in support of naming the street after aubry. so i can, help a little bit with the closure. thank you. thank you for your comments. all right. seeing no other speakers, madam chair. thank you, madam clerk. public comment on this item is now closed, i'd like to be ■added as a co-sponsor, please. as would i, madam chair. supervisor preston, did you have any closing comments? did you want to make a motion? so thank you both for co-sponsoring. so we have unanimous co-sponsorship of the resolution from this

committee. i want to thank all the members of the public who took the time to come out today and also, all who came to the vigil and various, events and just want to thank you again. paulette for all your advocacy, to also want to recognize and thank you that your entire family and it's great to have your grandson here today as well. and, chair melgar, i'd like to go ahead and make a motion to move this resolution with a positive recommendation to the full board of supervisor. okay. on the motion for item number one, vice chair preston, i. preston, i member peskin, i peskin i chair melgar i. melgar i there are three ayes. thank you. okay. that motion passes. thank you all. thank you for all the members of the community who came to support miss brown, and thank you, supervisor preston.

let's go to item number two, please. yes. agenda item number two is an ordinance amending the planning code to designate the rainbow flag installation at harvey milk plaza by gilbert baker, located at the southwest corner of the intersection of market street and castro street. as a landmark and making the appropriate findings. i don't see that. i think you're on the wrong agenda. i have the community benefits district. i'm sorry. my apologies. sorry madam clerk, item number one is an ordinance amending the administrative code to establish the greater downtown community benefit district master permitting for entertainment activation program to coordinate and streamline permitting for community benefit. district sponsored public events taking place at certain locations in the greater downtown area, and to designate greater downtown activation program locations as entertainment zones to allow the off site consumption of alcoholic beverages purchased at

businesses within the entertainment zone. during events. amending the public works code to establish the requirements for the greater downtown activation program. amending the fire code to establish a new permit type. amending the police code to exempt the program events from amplified sound limited live performance and entertainment permit requirements, and making the appropriate findings. okay, thank you so much, president peskin, for introducing this item. i know you have remarks. do we have anyone here from the staff? we have all sorts of folks who help formulate this, and let me just start, madam chair, by thanking you for accommodating this. we have been working for actually quite a long time after the worst parts of covid. i convene as a supervisor who represents much of downtown, a working group with a host of downtown stakeholders. the chamber of

commerce, advance sf, the various community benefit districts, and our one business improvement district. the union square bid, now called the union square alliance, to just deal with a host of potential changes to laws and some of that has manifested in, discussions around business tax reform that are now proposition m on the november's ballot. some of it took the shape of the legislation that we unanimously passed, that the mayor and i offered to make it easier to convert downtown, vacant buildings to offices, some of it manifested in our middle income financing work, and i really want to thank the folks from really the four downtown communities, community benefit districts slash one business improvement district for using that as an opportunity to suggest a totally different, way

around permitting to help activate downtown. and as we've been struggling with downtown, in addition to some of the policies that i just discussed, there's obviously been any number of efforts that we have collectively undertaken to add vibrancy, whether it's vacant to vibrant, first thursdays, you name it, the first entertainment zone on davis on front street. and what we realize in all of this, really because of the expertise of the leadership of these four downtown districts, is that, the permitting for each and every one of these is very cumbersome and that we could actually create master permits, and particularly given that all of these four organizations eastcott cbd, downtown cbd, called the partnership the union square alliance, the you, the former us bid, and the yerba

buena cbd all have done these public realm plans that we could actually do something that is a lot simpler and ask that these organizations do a minimum amount of programing in specified activation areas, and that is what this legislation does. i want to not only thank, rob silver from the downtown partnership, ken rich and marissa rodriguez from the union square alliance, scott roberts from yerba buena cbd and andrew robinson from eastcott for all of their help and expertise. i also want to thank my staff who started this, sonny angulo and then nate harrell, who inherited it for working with them and the array of different departments ranging from the sfmta to public works to the entertainment commission and fire and food,

and scott and ask, mr. harrell to walk us through a little powerpoint presentation. and we will run through it as quickly as i can. i have a number of amendments today, colleagues that have been deemed to be substantive by our at his first land use committee in his own right, new deputy city attorney brad rusty, and so i will introduce those today and ask that the item be continued. one week, and each of the four cbds have three activation areas covered by this legislation. actually, one of them has two. and we will go through that in the powerpoint presentation. so mr. harrell, if you can stand up and run us through, we will start this legislation, as i said, creates a streamlined master permitting program for

arts and culture activations within four downtown community benefit districts, slash business improvement district, and, you know, we talked about downtown recovery, and we have some pretty amazing assets in the form of these kind of little mini self-taxing, institutions, the cbds, which have their own governance boards, and as i said, have gone through in-depth creation of public realm action plans that have involved community and stakeholder input, and this ordinance is about helping these community benefit districts more easily put their resources to use and activate the public realm. and the purpose of this approach is to continue to build long term commitments to arts and culture and revitalize downtown, as well as to commit to the stewardship of underutilized public realm spaces, anyone who wants to

activate downtown public space now faces, and look at that little slide, colleagues, the a myriad permits which they must each manage with a separate agency for any individual single event. it is rather daunting, to say the least. and while i appreciate the work that's been going on relative to the single entertainment zone that has been designated by the mayor, it doesn't really address the much larger underlying problem, which is the incredible time consumed, the confusion, the duplicative, duplicative requirements, the overlapping jurisdictions. an example of that is the landing at leidersdorff, and i really want to thank the downtown partnership for all of the work they did to activate that public realm space, and, which we funded with funds. it took

almost a year after city funds were awarded to use those funds because of the duplicative and time consuming pruning permitting process that this helps cut through, and quite frankly, if we are committed to revitalizing downtown, it's not going to be done with one off events. we need to really have all engines on at once. and this master permit is predicated on a minimum of 20 events per cbd on an annual basis. so the purpose of this program is to allow each cbd to be the master permit holder so that once they go through the process of ensuring compliance with the transportation code, the fire code. et cetera. they can more flexibly hold numerous small activations put on by community based organizations, and these permits could be up to five. these master permits could be up to five years, it will shorten

the timeline through the consolidation with dpw at the helm. removal of entertainment commission approval. however, the master permit will still require approval from the mta and fire. there was no getting around that, but we have vastly simplified that as you can see in the chart there. and i really want to thank the cbds for their willingness to take on responsibility as the holder of these master permits, as well as to their commitment to build sustained relationships with arts and culture and small businesses and community based groups. this goes beyond authorizing an entertainment zone. as i said early earlier, what we are doing here is the hard work of rationalizing, overlapping permit permitting regimes and getting buy in from the cbds to take leadership in each of their geographically distinct areas, as i said earlier, 20 events per, activation area, a minimum, a maximum of five years, of each

master permit, and the new entertainment zones that are authorized, are set forth, hold on a second here. i'm getting a little ahead of myself, in selecting the activation zones, the master permitting program does take advantage of the new state program for entertainment zones authorized by sb 76, which allows brick and mortar venues, to participate instead of cannibalizing their businesses. and then finally, we'll just run through very quickly the yerba buena cbd. the activation locations are any alley, any plaza, jesse alley, mina alley, union square, the beloved claude lane, maiden lane and harlan place, the east coast cbd, natoma street and second street and east cut, or the downtown

partnership balance and gold alleys, down by jackson square, front street, which is already an entertainment zone, and the aforementioned landing at leidersdorff, and subject to public comment. i also, by the way, want to thank, the sf travel organization for their endorsement of this piece of legislation. and i see john anderson here from sf travel as well as folks representing the union square alliance and the downtown partnership and other organizations who we would love to hear from. and then after we hear from that, i'll introduce the amendments and ask that the item be continued one week as amended. okay that's it. mr. harrell, for you. you okay, let's then go to public comment

on this item. members of the public, if you're here to speak on item number two, please line up to your right. everyone will be provided. two minutes. please come forward. hello. my name is michelle delaney from 111 minna gallery. i just want to thank you, supervisor peskin. this is very exciting. and yes, we will use any help we can get down there, i also just love that you recognize all the challenges we go through trying to get something fun and activated for the city, and we just really appreciate your appreciate your support, your thoughtfulness through this. i love that the cbds are involved. i have a wonderful experience with them, and i'm so grateful that we have them. they're very important, and i think that they'll do a very good job on this, i also and i love that this is for open to the public events and to get more activated. i also would like to, kind of throw in that it might be nice to also give

some benefit to the folks that come in to visit us and do events at the moscone center, because we want to show them a nice time, too, and make things easy for them, and give them a thank you for coming to our beautiful city. and visiting us and bringing us those revenue dollars that we're all looking forward to. so again, thank you so much. we are very excited about this. much appreciated. thank you for your comments. next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. rob silver, president and ceo of the downtown s.f. partnership. and obviously, we're very excited to be introducing this piece of legislation today. board president peskin, thank you for hanging in there, being very creative, when we first announced that we would put this legislation out there, in the sf chronicle, i received numerous emails from my colleagues, really around the country. tomorrow we're all representing san francisco at the international downtown association association in seattle this week. and i can

tell you, this is the first of its kind, master permitting program. believe it or not, there's over 2000 organizations like ourselves, in north america and in europe, and so far, no one has, seemed to think that they've had this sort of, innovative permit program. so this is one piece of the puzzle to help our downtown recover, in a much more accelerated fashion by programing, activate our public realm. and we've been able over the last couple of years, while we've hosted events and activations, we've tied an economic development and an roi to dollars being spent in our city, in our tourist areas and our downtown, and i encourage when this legislation comes before, after amendments, that it gets moved to the board of supervisors. and we are absolutely committed, again, as one piece of this downtown economic puzzle of bringing arts

and culture and entertainment to downtown. so thank you. and mr. silver, thank you for being at those early meetings that we had now a couple of years ago, very persistent about pursuing this first of a kind master permitting program. it was really your brainchild, for which i am now happy to take some credit. absolutely. thank you. good afternoon, supervisors. i'm ken rich, representing the union square alliance. we're very happy and enthusiastic in support of this legislation. as you know, one of our core functions is sponsoring events in the public realm. and we're aware just how complex permitting through various city agencies can be from many years of experience. this master permit seems seems like a good idea, long overdue. i was kind of surprised to just hear that this may be the first time it's ever been done. that's amazing, we look forward to exploring ways once this is passed to make

use of it for some of our event programing. and thanks again to president peskin. my colleagues in the other cbds, sonny angulo, nate harrell and staff for moving this forward. thank you. thank you, ken. good afternoon, supervisors john anderson, i'm the board chair of the board of directors for san francisco travel association, and i am here to deliver some great news that last week, our public policy committee overwhelmingly voted to support this. and we want to thank supervisor peskin, president peskin, for your leadership in this as well as, you know, the revitalization of the downtown corridor. as you know, the charge of sf travel is to market the destination of san francisco. and we have beautiful tools and beautiful assets all over this great city of ours. and this legislation will only add to the extensive creativity of some of the arts community, as well as supporting those small businesses that are down in that area. so we appreciate everything you're doing. thank

you for believing in san francisco and driving us forward. appreciate you. thank you, mr. anderson. next speaker, please. good afternoon, supervisors. for those who don't know me, my name is j conner b ortega and i am president of team j conner and co of iconic d3. it's true that union square is the place people leave their heart in san francisco, and i took time to walk through every neighborhood of our district and our heart of san francisco union square, and in four hours, i found 172. if i can get the overhead. if you can see, i found 172 closed businesses, effectively making the place where our people leave their heart and end up coming cemetery. while i know that this is going to take time to rebuild what we are losing, and in many cases lost, i want to extend my

support for giving cbds and ability to host more events to bring our dying union square, specifically back to life. i urge the remaining supervisors to support this legislation. thank you. thank you for your comments. seeing no other public speakers, madam chair. okay. thank you. public comment on this item is now closed. president peskin so i have distributed to you and will give to the clerk the amendment signed as to form by the city attorney. and i do want to thank miss goodman at the city attorney's office for her work on this over the last several months. page nine, lines five through 12 is legal cleanup of the sfmta approval as set forth in the transportation code, page ten, lines eight and nine, is the addition of mark lane to harlan place, which is made to

include the irish bank on mark lane. page 14 is language to clean up the entertainment zone definition to conform to changes in state law. page 15. line ten is a change of required number of events, dropping it from 30 to 20 to make it more feasible for all of the cbd's page 16, line 16 and page 21, line four. page 27, line 19 are non-substantive language cleanup. page 25. line 22 removes a change to the definition of limited live performance, which was requested by the entertainment commission. and i would like to move those amendments and continue the item. one week. on the motion to amend item number two and continue it to the date of september 16th, vice chair preston i. preston i, member peskin i, peskin i chair. melgar

i. melgar i there are three eyes. that motion passes thank you. let's go to item number three, please. yes. item number three is an ordinance amending the park code to allow dogs in certain types of athletic activities in yerba buena gardens. to clarify that existing law prohibits the riding of bicycles and electric scooters in the gardens and to make a non-substantive correction regarding the authority of the real estate division. welcome, mr. panic. good afternoon, chair chan. supervisor preston, i'm sorry, supervisor melgar. my apologies. i'm so used to being on budget and finance. sure. yeah let me try that again. ptsd good afternoon, chair melgar, supervisor chan, president peskin and again, my apologies. enrico panic, director of real estate. i'm here before you this afternoon seeking your positive recommendation for an ordinance making certain amendments to the

park code as it applies to yerba buena gardens or ybhg. on or about june 2018, the city and county of san francisco acquired yerba buena gardens from the office of community investment and infrastructure, formerly known as the redevelopment agency. yerba buena gardens is currently under the jurisdiction of the real estate division. under the existing law, animals are not allowed in the gardens. certain athletic activities and the operation of road equipment are also prohibited in the gardens. the proposed amendment to the current law would allow people to bring dogs to yerba buena gardens, so long as it remained on lease on leash. the ordinance would also allow roller skating, rollerblading, and kite flying in the gardens, and would clarify that bicycles and electric scooters will remain prohibited. the. the

ordinance also contains non-substantive corrections to reflect that yerba buena gardens currently falls under the jurisdiction of the real estate division. this concludes my presentation. i'm available to answer any questions you may have. okay, okay. thank you. so much, mr. panic, let's go to public comment on this item, please. if we have any public speakers here for item number three, please line up to speak now on your right. seeing no public commenters, madam chair, i thank you. public comment on this item is now closed, i would like to make a motion that we send this out with a positive recommendation to the full board on the motion for item number three, to recommend it to the full board. vice chair preston i. preston i member peskin i peskin i chair melgar i melgar i

there are three eyes. thank you. that motion passes. madam clerk, do we have any other items on this agenda? that concludes our business for today. we're adjourned. thank you. thank you. someone special. welcome to corona height in the height of the cast strow located district the eye kong bay bridge and on towards the east bay. cone oi shakes park is one the city's best kept secrets on lake twin peaks it's hardly crowded on a day any day you will run

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his legacy and philosophy in life is one i want to live by. when i moved to america, i became exposed to many more cultures. something else--[indiscernible] with chinese thai. i enjoy making connections with other people. happy aapi heritage month, san francisco. asian pride. when i shoot chinatown, i shoot the architecture that people not just events, i shoot what's going on in daily life and everything changes. murals, graffiti, store

opening. store closing. the bakery. i shoot anything and everything in chinatown. i shoot daily life. i'm a crazy animal. i'm shooting for fun. that's what i love. >> i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer for the last i think about 20 years. i joined the chinese historical society. it was a way i could practice my society and i can give the community memories. i've been practicing and get to

know everybody and everybody knew me pretty much documenting the history i don't just shoot events. i'm telling a story in whatever photos that i post on facebook, it's just like being there from front to end, i do a good job and i take hundreds and hundreds of photos. and i was specializing in chinese american history. i want to cover what's happening in chinatown. what's happening in my community. i shoot a lot of government officials. i probably have thousands of photos of mayor lee and all the dignitaries. but they treat me like one of the family members because they see me all the time. they appreciate me. even the local cops, the firemen, you know, i feel at

home. i was born in chinese hospital 1954. we grew up dirt poor. our family was lucky to grew up. when i was in junior high, i had a degree in hotel management restaurant. i was working in the restaurant business for probably about 15 years. i started when i was 12 years old. when i got married, my wife had an import business. i figured, the restaurant business, i got tired of it. i said come work for the family business. i said, okay. it's going to be interesting and so interesting i lasted for 30 years. i'm married i have one daughter. she's a registered nurse. she lives in los angeles now. and two grandsons. we have fun. i got into photography when i

was in junior high and high school. shooting cameras. the black and white days, i was able to process my own film. i wasn't really that good because you know color film and processing was expensive and i kind of left it alone for about 30 years. i was doing product photography for advertising. and kind of got back into it. everybody said, oh, digital photography, the year 2000. it was a ghost town in chinatown. i figured it's time to shoot chinatown store front nobody. everybody on grand avenue. there was not a soul out walking around chinatown.

a new asia restaurant, it used to be the biggest restaurant in chinatown. it can hold about a 1,000 people and i had been shooting events there for many years. it turned into a supermarket. and i got in. i shot the supermarket. you know, and its transformation. even the owner of the restaurant the restaurant, it's 50 years old. i said, yeah. it looks awful. history. because i'm shooting history. and it's impressive because it's history because you can't repeat. it's gone it's gone. >> you stick with her, she'll teach you everything. >> cellphone photography, that's going to be the

generation. i think cellphones in the next two, three years, the big cameras are obsolete already. mirrorless camera is going to take over market and the cellphone is going to be better. but nobody's going to archive it. nobody's going to keep good history. everybody's going to take snapshots, but nobody's going to catalog. they don't care. >> i want to see you. >> it's not a keepsake. there's no memories behind it. everybody's sticking in the cloud. they lose it, who cares. but, you know, i care. >> last september of 2020, i had a minor stroke, and my

daughter caught it on zoom. i was having a zoom call for my grand kids. and my daughter and my these little kids said, hey, you sound strange. yeah. i said i'm not able to speak properly. they said what happened. my wife was taking a nap and my daughter, she called home and said he's having a stroke. get him to the hospital. five minutes later, you know, the ambulance came and took me away and i was at i.c.u. for four days. i have hundreds of messages wishing me get well soon. everybody wished that i'm okay and back to normal. you know, i was up and kicking

two weeks after my hospital stay. it was a wake-up call. i needed to get my life in order and try to organize things especially organize my photos. >> probably took two million photos in the last 20 years. i want to donate to an organization that's going to use it. i'm just doing it from the heart. i enjoy doing it to give back to the community. that's the most important. give back to the community. >> it's a lot for the community. >> i was a born hustler. i'm too busy to slow down. i love what i'm doing. i love to be busy. i go nuts when i'm not doing anything. i'm 67 this year.

i figured 70 i'm ready to retire. i'm wishing to train a couple for photographers to take over my place. the younger generation, they have a passion, to document the history because it's going to be forgotten in ten years, 20 years, maybe i will be forgotten when i'm gone in a couple years but i want to be remembered for my work and, you know, photographs will be a remembrance. i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer.

this is my story. >> when you're not looking, frank's there. he'll snap that and then he'll send me an e-mail or two and they're always the best. >> these are all my pinstagram >> hello, everybody this is americans first and the oldest house we are known for handmade our family is the (inaudible) is unique and one of the few places you that is happening in the

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for me. what inspired me is i had a few friends from the hip -- hawaiian community who were applying for the job at the time and they encouraged me to apply as well. we are a pretty tightknit community. we are like a family, the fire service is like a family. food is essential -- is central to our gatherings in the fire service as well. and teamwork and being part of something bigger than yourself and really having community. that is what inspired me to be part of the fire department. when i was applying for this job and i was going down that route of the hiring process, i looked around and i started looking at the different engines and the rigs driving around the street and i said, you know what, there is somebody that looks like me. there is somebody that looks like me. to me, that was really important. and that representation, what i saw, the light bulbs went on and i could see myself in the job.

for me, being in this position as a captain, and being on the track and going around to her neighborhood, even when we are doing the most mundane of tasks, it is important that they see me in the role, right? asian pacific islander woman in a leadership position, that i am in this job. and even ringing the bell for the kids in the neighborhood, they see me, they cs, they see my crew and it is huge. that lightbulbs can go off for them as well like it went on for me. it truly is important to me to be part of an organization that supports diversity and representation. being in a job where we serve the community is really important that we represent the community. i think visibility, representation is key to opening doors for others, other people of color, other women, other

people in the asian pacific islander community and say, hey,, that could be need too. i could be here serving the community and being a firefighter. [♪♪♪] 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, >> i'm rebecca and i'm a violinist and violin teacher. i was born here in san francisco to a family of cellists, professional cellists, so i grew up surrounded by a bunch of musical rehearsals an lessons. all types of activities happened in my house. i began playing piano when i was 4.

i really enjoyed musical activities in general. so when i was 10, i began studying violin in san francisco. and from there, i pretty much never stopped and went on to study in college as well. that's the only thing i've ever known is to have music playing all the time, whether it is someone actually playing next to you or someone listening to a recording. i think that i actually originally wanted to play flute and we didn't have a flute. it's always been a way of life. i didn't know that it could be any other way. >> could you give me an e over here. great. when you teach and you're seeing a student who has a problem, you have to think on your feet to solve that problem. and that same kind of of thinking that you do to fix it applies to your own practice as well. so if i'm teaching a student and

they are having a hard time getting a certain note, they can't find the right note. and i have to think of a digestible way to explain it to them. ee, d, d, e. >> yes. then, when i go on to do my own practice for a performance, those words are echoing back in my head. okay. why am i missing this? i just told somebody that they needed to do this. maybe i should try the same thing. i feel a lot of pressure when i'm teaching young kids. you might think that there is less pressure if they are going on to study music or in college that it is more relaxing. i actually find that the opposite is true. if i know i'm sending a high school student to some great music program, they're going to get so much more instruction. what i have told them is only

the beginning. if i am teaching a student who i know is going to completely change gears when they go to college and they never will pick up a violin again there is so much that i need to tell them. in plain violin, it is so difficult. there is so much more information to give. every day i think, oh, my gosh. i haven't gotten to this technique or we haven't studies they meese and they have so much more to do. we only have 45 minutes a week. i have taught a few students in some capacity who has gone on to study music. that feels anaysing. >> it is incredible to watch how they grow. somebody can make amazing project from you know, age 15 to 17 if they put their mind to it. >> i think i have 18 students

now. these more than i've had in the past. i'm hoping to build up more of a studio. there will be a pee ono, lots of bookshelves and lots of great music. the students will come to my house and take their lessons there. my schedule changes a lot on a day-to-day basis and that kind of keeps it exciting. think that music is just my favorite thing that there is, whether it's listening to it or playing it or teaching it. all that really matters to me is that i'm surrounded by the sounds, so i'm going top keep doing what i'm doing to keep my life in that direction. .

>> (music). >> the ferry building one of san francisco most famous that as many of 15 thousand commuters pass through that each gay.

>> one of the things that one has to keep in mind regarding san francisco is how young the city we are. and nothing is really happening here before the gold rush. there was a small spanish in the presiding and were couriers and fisherman that will come in to rest and repair their ships but at any given time three hundred people in san francisco. and then the gold rush happened. by 182948 individuals we are here to start a new life. >> by 1850 roughly 16 thousand ships in the bay and left town

in search of gold leaving their ships behind so they scraped and had the ships in the bay and corinne woods. with sand the way that san francisco was and when you look at a map of san francisco have a unique street grid and one of the thing is those streets started off in extremely long piers. but by 1875 they know they needed more so the ferry building was built and it was a long affair and the first cars turned around at the ferry building and picking up people and goods and then last night the street light cars the trams came to that area also. but by the late 1880s we needed

something better than the ferry building. a bond issue was passed for $600,000. to build a new ferry building i would say 800 thousand for a studio apartment in san francisco they thought that was a grand ferry building had a competition to hire an architecture and choose a young aspiring architect and in the long paris and san francisco had grand plans for this transit station. so he proposed the beautiful new building i wanted it wider, there is none tonight. than that actually is but the price of concrete quitclaim two how and was not completed and killed. but it opened a greater

claim and became fully operational before 1898 and first carriages and horses for the primary mode of transportation but market street was built up for serve tram lines and streetcars could go up to the door to embarcadero to hospitals and mission street up to nob hill and the fisherman's area. and then the earthquake hit in 190 six the ferry building collapsed the only thing had to be corrected once the facade of the tower. and 80 percent of the city would not survive the buildings collapsed the streets budges and the trams

were running and buildings had to highland during the fire after the actuate tried to stop the mask fire in the city so think of a dennis herrera devastation of a cable car they were a mess the streets were torn up and really, really wanted to have a popular sense they were on top of that but two weeks after the earthquake kind of rigged a way getting a streetcar to run not on the cable track ran electrical wires to get the streetcars to run and 2 was pretty controversial tram system wanted electrical cars but the earthquake gave them to chance to show how electrical cars and we're going to get on top this. >> take 10 years for the city

to rebuild. side ferry use was increasing for a international exhibition in 1950 and people didn't realize how much of a community center the ferry building was. it was the center for celebration. the upper level of ferry building was a gathering place. also whenever there was a war like the filipino war or world war two had a parade on market street and the ferry building would have banners and to give you an idea how central to the citywide that is what page brown wanted to to be a gathering place in that ferry building hay day the

busiest translation place in the world how people got around transit and the city is dependent on that in 1915 of an important year that was the year of our international exposition 18 million living in san francisco and that was supposedly to celebrate the open of panama differential but back in business after the earthquake and 22 different ferry boats to alamed and one had the and 80 trips a day a way of life and in 1918 san francisco was hit hard by the flu pandemic and city had mask mandates and anyone caught without a doubt a mask had a risk ever being arrested and san francisco was hit hard by the

pandemic like other places and rules about masks wearing and what we're supposed to be more than two people without our masks on i read was that on the ferry those guys wanted to smoke their pipes and taking off their masks and getting from trouble so two would be hauled away. >> the way the ferry building was originally built the lower level with the natural light was used for take it off lunge storage. the second floor was where passengers offloaded and all those people would spill out and central stairway of the building that is interesting point to talk about because such a large building one major

stairway and we're talking about over 40 thousand people one of the cost measures was not building a pedestrian bridge with the ferry building and the embarcadero on market street was actually added in and in 1918 but within 20 years to have san francisco bay the later shipbuilding port in the world and the pacific we need the iron that. as the ferry system was at the peak two bridges to reach san francisco. and automobiles were a popular item that people wanted to drive themselves around instead of the ferry as a result marin and other roots varnished. the dramatic draw in

ferry usage was staggering who was using the ferry that was a novelty rather than a transportation but the ferry line stopped one by one because everyone was getting cars and wanted to drive and cars were a big deal. take the care ferry and to san francisco and spend the day or for a saturday drive but really, really changed having the car ferry. >> when the bay bridge was built had a train that went along the lower level so that was a major stay and end up where our sales force transit center is now another way of getting into the city little by little the ferry stopped having a purpose. >> what happened in the 40 and

50's because of this downturn we were trying to find a purpose a number of proposals for a world trade center and wanted to build it own the philly in a terrible idea objective never gotten down including one that had too tall towers a trade center in new york but a tower in between that was a part of ferry building and completely impractical. after the cars the tower administration wanted to keep americans deployed and have the infrastructure for the united states. so they had an intrastate free plan the plan for major freeway systems to go

throughout san francisco. and so the developers came up with the bay bridge and worked their way along embarcadero. the plans were to be very, very efficient for that through town he once the san francisco saw had human services agency happening 200 though people figure out city hall offender that the embarcadero free was dropped and we had the great free to no where. which cut us off from the ferry building and our store line and created in 1989 and gave us the opportunity to tear down the free. and that was the renaissance of ferry building.

>> that land was developed for a new ferry building and whom new embarcadero how to handle travel and needed a concept for the building didn't want- that was when a plan was developed for the liquor store. >> the san francisco ferry building has many that ups and downs and had a huge hay day dribbled adopt to almost nothing and after the earthquake had a shove of adrenaline to revise the waterfront and it moved around the bay and plans for more so think investment in the future and feel that by making a reliable ferry system once the

ferry building will be there to surface. >>

>> my name is raymond fong. i'm 1 of the owners one of 3. wine impression is a wine shop made of people that were probably dedicated their life studying line. we open august 1990, 34 years. you wonder how wine impression came along? we couldn't figure the name. my wife said, i got it, you always make a impression, call it wine impression. i thought maybe she came up with the name because both of us our favorite period of modern art is impressionism. the buildings was built in 1948. it was one of the two, probably three buildings built first in the whole shopping center before they did the shopping center, there was golden gate park. this cemetery ran from masonic to [indiscernible] the building

next door is jointly owned. [indiscernible] was a want to be [indiscernible] and they were digging new pipes and everything into it and the owner came to me and he said, what are we going to do? what am i going to do. we are digging the pipes and found a coffin half way between the kitchen and i think your refrigerator. i told him what to do. i said you are not go toog say a word. if you do they will do a archaeological survey and you won't get anything built. all i know, it is still down there and [indiscernible] i saw the article i said, wow, i came back from a visit from china 2016 and they were there when you welcome this [indiscernible] it is similar to the--in

japanese and day of the dead. i decided to do [indiscernible] i have food in there. i can do all the things --[indiscernible] and realize the mistake. the problem is they want and need and a lot has to do is they don't dine iloan. alone. a average person is 3 to 4 bottles and don't dine alone, it is family squl friends and when they have social events they come to us. we this is how the community uses the wine and think where we are different. a lot of stores can sell a product and the product given by labels, we sell the product, but i always say, we don't just sell a wine or product, we sell satisfaction with this.

>> i don't want to be involved in the process after it happens.

i want to be there at the front end to help people with something in my mind from a very early age. our community is the important way to look at things, even now. george floyd was huge. it opened up wounds and a discussion on something festering for a long time. before rodney king. you can look at all the instances where there are calls for change. i think we are involved in change right now in this moment that is going to be long lasting. it is very challenging. i was the victim of a crime when i was in middle school. some kids at recess came around at pe class and came to the locker room and tried to steal my watch and physically assaulted me. the officer that helped afterwards went out of his way

to check the time to see how i was. that is the kind of work, the kind of perspective i like to have in our sheriff's office regardless of circumstance. that influenced me a lot. some of the storefronts have changed. what is mys is that i still see some things that trigger memories. the barbershop and the shoe store is another one that i remember buying shoestrings and getting my dad's old army boots fixed. we would see movies after the first run. my brother and i would go there. it is nice. if you keep walking down sacramento. the nice think about the city it takes you to japan town. that is where my grandparents were brought up. that is the traditional foods or

movies. they were able to celebrate the culture in that community. my family also had a dry-cleaning business. very hard work. the family grew up with apartments above the business. we have a built-in work force. 19 had 1 as -- 1941 as soon as that happened the entire community w japan niece amer o - japanese from their homes. my family went to the mountains and experienced winter and

summer and springs. they tried to make their home a home. the community came together to share. they tried to infuse each home are little things. they created things. i remember my grand mother saying they were very scared. they were worried. they also felt the great sense of pride. >> japanese americans. >> my granduncle joined the 442nd. when the opportunity came when the time that was not right. they were in the campaign in italy. they were there every step of the way. >> president truman pays tribute.

>> that was the most decorated unit in the history of the united states army. commitment and loyal to to the country despite that their families were in the camp at that time. they chose to come back to san francisco even after all of that. my father was a civil servant as well and served the state of california workers' compensation attorney and judge and appellate board. my parents influenced me to look at civil service s.i applied to police, and sheriff's department at the same time. the sheriff's department grabbed me first. it was unique. it was not just me in that moment it was everyone. it wasn't me looking at the crowd. it was all of us being together. i was standing there alone. i felt everyone standing next to

me. the only way to describe it. it is not about me. it is from my father. my father couldn't be there. he was sick. the first person i saw was him. i still sometimes am surprised by the fact i see my name as the sheriff. i am happy to be in the position i am in to honor their memory doing what i am doing now to help the larger comment. when i say that we want to be especially focused on marginalized communities that have been wronged. coming from my background and my family experienced what they did. that didn't happen in a vacuum. it was a decision made by the government. nobody raised their voice. now, i think we are in a better

place as country and community. when we see something wrong we have change agents step up to help the community affected. that is a important thing to continue to do. you talk about change and being a leader in change and not knowing whether you have successes or results. the fact of the matter is by choosing to push for change you have already changed things. through inspiration for others, take up the matter or whether it is through actual functional change as a result of your voice being heard. i think you have already started on a path to change by choosing that path. in doing that in april of itself creates change. i continue in that type of service for my family. something i hope to see in my children. i have a pretty good chance with five children one will go into some sort of civil service.

i hope that happens to continue that legacy. >> i am paul, sheriff of san francisco. [ music ]

>> who doesn't love cable cars? charging emissions and we're free which we're proud of you know, it's not much free left in the world anymore so we managed to do that through donations and through our gift shops. you got a real look and real appreciation of what early transit systems are like. this was the transit of the day from about 1875 to about 1893 or later, you know. cable car museum is free, come on in. take a day. come down. rediscover the city. you can spend as time you want and you don't have to make reservations and it's important to be free because we want them to develop a love for cable cars so they do continue to support whether they live here or other places and people come in and say, yes, i have passed by and heard of this and never come in and they always enjoy themselves. people

love cable cars and there's none left in the world so if you want to ride a cable car, you've got to come to san francisco. that what makes the city. without the cable cars, you lose part of that, you know, because people who come here and they love it and they love the history ask they can ride a cable car that has been running since 1888 or 1889. wow! that's something. can't do that with other historical museums. rarely, have i run into anybody from outside who didn't come in and didn't feel better from knowing something about the city. it's a true experience you'll remember. i hope they walk away with a greater appreciation for the history, with the mechanics with people are fascinated by the winding machine and i hope the appreciation, which is a part of our mission and these young kids will appreciate cable cars and the ones who live here and other places, they can make sure there will always be cable cars in san francisco because once they are

gone, they are gone. it's the heartbeat of san francisco that founded the cable and the slot and without the cable cars, yeah, we would lose something in san francisco. we would lose part of its heart and soul. it wouldn't be san francisco without cable cars. [bell ringing] >> bring up person that [laughter]. for me it was we had neighbors growing up that were fold my dad he is raising me wrong for having me pursue the things that are not traditionally female roles. and i think the biggest barrier to anyone in general is when you have cultural norms that make you feel like you can't do something that make you doubt yourself and make you feel you

should not be there i don't belong. those other big efbarriers i think that is the thing to focus on the most is belong everyone should belong here. [music] >> wishing we trained women grow in production. and recording arts and so we have everything from girls night classes for middle and high school girls. we have certification academy program. that would be women and gender [inaudible] adid you tell us. progress in the internship frm program where they are working in the studios. they are helping to mentor the youth in the youth programs and

the job place am component. most of the time we hire interns instructors in our programs and engineer in our studios here. we have conferences we do all overnight country and we have concerts that we feature bay area women and gender artists. [music] [music] >> an education forward organization. and so advocacy organization. dedicated to closing the gender gap and the audio and production industries. >> started out of the lead

answer, why is there a critical gender gap in this industry that started at city college. why are there so few in this

class i was ashamed i did not have the answer being a feminist. why have i never thought of this i have been in the industry for decades and why have i accept today of all people. it was out of that and unraffling it. actually started the infernship last fall and just fell in love with all the things about women's oshg mission because we are diverse and so many aspects of audio i did not know and i feel like eyes opened up and i gained a lot of confidence in myself and other fells and queer people in the industry i felt there was more connection and community. ironically my time in the industry is all pretty good. i think what happened is i was raised by a father who is an engineer. i was comfortable being strounlded by men all the time in his lab i was used to technology. when i got in industry my mentors were men and i saw i had a unique importance that got mow in the place i could be fluent and navigate something difficult and it was the norm for me. what if it was not woman was createed provide it for everybody. have this environment you are surrounded by technology and people that are going to support you and get you in this industry in a good way. i have been interested in audio i was never trained in music took piano when i was a kid. i never pursued it because not a lot of women doing that.

and my family is not musically inclined. when i want to davis the first time i took a music class there were few females in the class. like a rodey for my dayed was load you will the mixers and monitors and the giant speakers and gigs and help run out the cables and take things down and set up mics i did all of that growing up and never occurred to mow that that was a field they could at all. and then one i could pursue i didn't nobody else was doing temperature my dad and then i go with him to studios and see -- the men in the studio. dj for 5 years now and comments you get like wow you are a girl dj that is crazy.

that is wild. and i have great moments where it does not happen. and they treat me like easy. telling mow what to do they correct mow in ways that make me feel less i sprjs the opposite and i notice hand's on like you don't know what you are doing rather than asking me. not consistent times it happens. it is like when i talk to other females they are like say the same things it is like funny i know that nice men don't experience tht main thing triggers me when i experience different treatment and that happens a lot in the audio world. industry is changing slowly. there is still that issue making the places that are places belonging for everybody. i don't think so. having a studio where it is not

all run by white men like most studios. the studios are only in the word built and run by women. it has been super normalize thered are opportunity for girls and nonbinary people. you go in school and middle and high schoolers know that this is a field. this is a thing there are many jobs you can have in this field. some producing pod casts to setting up live shows. there are so many things you can do >> wee go in and teach the audio skills and give them equipment. i pads and then teach them how to make music and they get to come in here and will getting the tools to people who don't have t. that is really important to me. that's why i was like wow. i want to be there for other fell and queer people who don't have the opportunity and also to

be a mentor for them to really push them to experiment and not going to break it. does not matter if it sounds bad that is the point to try it. i think it is the goal to see confidence what they are doing and passionate and asking for hymn and excite body learning and excited about making music and it changed my life to realize i'm callented in the field i can make music without being trained to it it is amazing to be able to be part of that process and -- ushering women to the field. we can entirely transform how -- the technology part of what you hear every day. we can put xhg something in women's points of view in this every time. it affects the store and he

messaging. think our best example is how we transformed an entire city. place that major artists on tour one of the men looks likeip don't get it there are woman every where i go and the person was like you are in san francisco. you like oh , you are right it is here. most venues have graduates we are grateful to the city for that reason because than i supported us at the beginning. following your curiosity and interest and don't let anybody get in the way what is presented to you, go for t. no matter what! we are here for a reason. find what it is. don't let somebody else tell you what it is. you are the oldsmobile one that have been can know when you are supposed to do.

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the airport. >> so first, we actually find a table and once we know what we want a sit-down we go to the neighborhoods in san francisco and other people seminary of the retail let us know about the rain water and are excited to have the local operators in the airport. >> we have to go going through the conceive selective process and they award a lease to the restaurant. >> they are planning on extending. >> we that you could out the china and the length evens and the travel serve and fourth your minds and it's all good. >> how long for a vendor to

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dev mission's goal is aiming to train young adults, youth so we can be a wealth and disparity in underserved communities like where we are today. my name is leo sosa. i'm the founder and executive director for devmission. we're sitting inside a computer lab where residents come and get support when they give help about how to set up an e-mail account. how to order prescriptions online. create a résumé. we are also now paying

attention to provide tech support. we have collaborated with the san francisco mayor's office and the department of technology to implement a broad band network for the residents here so they can have free internet access. we have partnered with community technology networks to provide computer classes to the seniors and the residents. so this computer lab becomes a hub for the community to learn how to use technology, but that's the parents and the adults. we have been able to identify what we call a stem date. the acronym is science technology engineering and math. kids should be exposed no matter what type of background or ethnicity or income status. that's where we actually create magic. >> something that the kids are really excited about is science and so the way that we execute that is through making slime. and as fun as it is, it's still

a chemical reaction and you start to understand that with the materials that you need to make the slime. >> they love adding their little twists to everything. it's just a place for them to experiment and that's really what we want. >> i see. >> really what the excitement behind that is that you're making something. >> logs, legos, sumo box, art, drawing, computers, mine craft, and really it's just awaking opportunity. >> keeping their attention is like one of the biggest challenges that we do have because, you know, they're kids. they always want to be doing something, be helping with something. so we just let them be themselves. we have our set of rules in place that we have that we want them to follow and live up to. and we also have our set of expectations that we want them to achieve. this is like my first year officially working with kids.

and definitely i've had moments where they're not getting something. they don't really understand it and you're trying to just talk to them in a way that they can make it work teaching them in different ways how they can get the light bulb to go off and i've seen it first-hand and it makes me so happy when it does go off because it's like, wow, i helped them understand this concept. >> i love playing games and i love having fun with my friends playing dodge ball and a lot of things that i like. it's really cool. >> they don't give you a lot of cheese to put on there, do they? you've got like a little bit left. >> we learn programming to make them work. we do computers and

programming. at the bottom here, we talk to them and we press these buttons to make it go. and this is to turn it off. and this is to make it control on its own. if you press this twice, it can do any type of tricks. like you can move it like this and it moves. it actually can go like this. >> like, wow, they're just absorbing everything. so it definitely is a wholehearted moment that i love experiencing. >> the realities right now, 5.3 latinos working in tech and about 6.7 african americans working in tech. and, of course, those tech

companies are funders. so i continue to work really hard with them to close that gap and work with the san francisco unified school district so juniors and seniors come to our program, so kids come to our stem hub and be exposed to all those things. it's a big challenge. >> we have a couple of other providers here on site, but we've all just been trying to work together and let the kids move around from each department. some kids are comfortable with their admission, but if they want to jump in with city of dreams or hunter's point, we just try to collaborate to provide the best opportunity in the community. >> devmission has provided services on westbrook. they teach you how to code. how to build their own mini robot to providing access for the youth to partnerships with adobe and sony and google and

twitter. and so devmission has definitely brought access for our families to resources that our residents may or may not have been able to access in the past. >> the san francisco house and development corporation gave us the grant to implement this program. it hasn't been easy, but we have been able to see now some of the success stories of some of those kids that have been able to take the opportunity and continue to grow within their education and eventually become a very successful citizen. >> so the computer lab, they're doing the backpacks. i don't know if you're going to be able to do the class. you still want to try? . yeah. go for it. >> we have a young man by the name of ivan mello. he came here two and a half years ago to be part of our

digital arts music lab. graduating with natural, fruity loops, rhymes. all of our music lyrics are clean. he came as an intern, and now he's running the program. that just tells you, we are only creating opportunities and there's a young man by the name of eduardo ramirez. he tells the barber, what's that flyer? and he says it's a program that teaches you computers and art. and i still remember the day he walked in there with a baseball cap, full of tattoos. nice clean hair cut. i want to learn how to use computers. graduated from the program and he wanted to work in i.t.. well, eduardo is a dreamer. right. so trying to find him a job in the tech industry was very challenging, but that didn't

stop him. through the effort of the office of economic work force and the grant i reached out to a few folks i know. post mates decided to bring him on board regardless of his legal status. he ended his internship at post mates and now is at hudacity. that is the power of what technology does for young people that want to become part of the tech industry. what we've been doing, it's very innovative. helping kids k-12, transitional age youth, families, parents, communities, understand and to be exposed to stem subjects. imagine if that mission one day can be in every affordable housing community. the opportunities that we would create and that's what i'm trying to do with this

[music] >> sarah duncan the honeer chef here. alexa and i own this location today. we are wem omen in business. we started this location in san francisco about 5 years ago, and previous--had a kitchen in the back on geneva avenue. we moved over here about two years into that venture and opened this one november of 2019. i grew up in east texas and [indiscernible] bbq venture and wanted to do something different here which is our new orlean style. gentilly is a district in new orlens that remeans we of the

excelsior. [indiscernible] i lived out here for 17 years. alexa also lived in the neighborhood and we wanted to stay in excelsior. we think people enjoy. there isn't a lot ofication food left in the city. there used to be before covid so we wanted to do something the city wasn't already flooded with. gumbo is your traditional style new orleans style stew. we have a nice dark rich broth. pulled chicken, shrimp [indiscernible] the other popular items are fried chicken, a grilled mac and cheese. cajun green beans. number two seller. san francisco is a special city. it got a very big food driven industry. it is very hospitality friendly.

i feel like especially in the restaurant industry, me being a chef it is a pretty male dominant world out there, and i think it is really special the two of us have been able to come together as women and open this restaurant four months to the day before shutdown and keep the doors open still. we put a lot of love into this place. we try to make it feel you are walking into someone's living room where you are comfortable. we are at 482 mission street. welcome to check our lovely environment and have a cocktail