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that concludes mia nounsments, mr. fuller, do you have any announcements? >> i do have just a few brief announcements in alt our next meeting in november, the commission will consider a proposed calendar for 2025, as well as have an opportunity to elect officers, so that's chair and vice chair and also you'll notice in the director's report, the contracts for items that have been approved recently or likely to be coming up on upcoming public works commission agenda. but that concludes mia nounsments. >> all right, thank you mr. fuller. please call the first item. [gavel] >> item 1 is general public comment which is for topics under the commission mandate but not related to a specific

item on today's agenda. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of general public comment in-person may line up on the wall for this from the door if comment froming outside the chamber, please raise the raise your hand button or star 3 on your phone to be recognized and i do know that we have one in-person commenter who got here a little bit earlier, if you want to come on up. you will have three minutes to speak and you can you'll have three minutes to speak and you'll get a 30-second chime when your time is about to expire. if you don't mind introducing yourself and any organization you may represent. >> speaker: good morning, commissioners. good morning commissioners and deputy, my name is phoebe douglas and i would like to talk to you about two thingser this morning.

the first is mechanical street cleaning. i live on russian hill where majority of the rush streets do not have the service. for a long time dpw rationalize this by saying that over 40 years ago when mechanical streets cleaning was first introduced russian hill opted not to have it. we opted for, annual street methods which since disappeared years ago. in 2018, they conducted a survey showing that majority residents wanted street cleaning but this was ignored to include more russian hill. presently that 90 percent of san francisco city streets receive mechanical street cleaning. but only one-third of russian hill receives this servicement approximately 500 streets, one side corn tore corner which are

not swept except manually by volunteers who try to do their best and this includes people standing in between cars cleaning the gutters. in 2021, was estimated by dpw that for the first year it could cost 1.3 million dollars for a if you sweeper truck. following years having the truck it could be less expensive and this brings us to the second thing i'll quickly talk about. in 2009, the board of supervisors passed the abate enter see ordinance causing a tax for sales within the san francisco. the money is deposited in a secret a abatement fund code section 10.100-70 which was to be used for cleaning cigarette litter. in 23-24 over 4.5 million

dollars was raised by this tax. in talking to dpw staff i learned they knew nothing about this tax decreasing its budget by that amount and then having added back in for their city budget. this certainly was not the board's intent passing ordinance. this could provide the extra funds, a well as funding special programs. we pay similar taxes as other parts of the city. we would like to receive similar services. and i brought you a picture of dirty streets but we all know what dirty streets look like. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you for your comments. and sfgov tv, that was our only public speaker on general public comment. and sf gov. tv is indicating we

do not have any callers for general public comment so. that concludes public comment. >> all right that concludes public comment. please call the next item. >> item 2 is communication and director's report and deputy director, deputy director of operations j ada is here to present and this is informational item. >> good morning, commissioners. director and deputy director for op raisesing hell o city attorney. i'm standing in for carla because she is out sick. a document that stirs our department's priority over the next several years. a lot of effort went into developing this plan which was once, which is at once

aspiration al and unseable. i will not go into great detail but wanted share the three over arching goals, goal one value in our people. goal two, delivering impactful services. goal 3 revitalizing the city. each goal has three to four objectives touching on such things as beautifying public spaces and supporting city wide housing initiative to optimize core services and improving key partnerships. each objective in a strategic has a series of objectable--and new vision statement. b, a value driver of san francisco's come back. it's important to know the extra timing --strategic plan is a living document. this is our north star that helps us guide us towards our destination.

shall we encounter unforeseen obstacles and opportunities along the way that may necessitate to rethinking our route. graffiti wipe out. i want to let you know about our great event we held on october 4th in the tenderloin. we partnered with the tenderloin to conduct a big graffiti wipe out. just want to come back and touch on that. more than 7 volunteers joined us to remove tags from public and private properties in the naubd. it was an inspirational day with positive results. our street environmental graffiti abatement crews and engagement teams were heavily involved in computing a workday. we provided the paint brushes, rollers and protective equipment to volunteers and had our paint matching trucks all on hand as well. we hope and we're optimistic that this will be the first of

many similar events with community benefit district. this event really showcased benefit of resources and coordinating efforts. public praise, i'm happy to share with you a wonderful note we received from a northbeach constituent, sorry about that. a ever the i tal an heritage parade which was held in the neighborhood a couple of sundays ago. he said in a quote, i want to thank you for all of your efforts to make this year's italian heritage parade quite a success. despite my constant double checking emails to you, you were very patient with your responded and baracades, the streets were swept clean and i did not hear a single complaint. public works helped make the

parade a great experience for the entire northbeach community and for the city itself. these types of events take many hands working together to make them a success. and certainly public works was one of those key behind the scenes contributer. so thanks again with many appreciation. first, i was very hardened that he took the time to contact us. second this is once a great reminder that our work here in operations, staff does everyday matters. it beautifies our community, keeps people safe and healthy, safe and healthy and improves lives. thank you, operations. neighborhood beautification day. this past sunday we hosted our greening and cleaning volunteer day in the sunset and they had a great turn out. the volunteers working alongside our staff added much

to the sunset boulevard greenway and elementary landscaping, cut back ice plants along the great highway promenade and planted trees on 24th avenue on ir convenient street and removed litter along sunset and abated graffiti on taraville. next month, our final beautification day event for 2024 will be on mission and portola and other district 9 neighborhoods on the saturday. november kickoff is at 9:00 am at dr. martin luther king middle school at 350 street. for more information it can be found at our website, love our city. i hope you can join us. last, latinx hispanic heritage month. finally i want to give a public shout out to the staff that

lead public works, latin k heritage month committee. they have done an amazing job throughout the month, celebrating the history and contributions of the latinx hispanic community. we have a strong commission, with our month events that represent and showcases diversity of our staff and richness that it brings to uplifting our workforce first and serving the people of san francisco. that's it, thank you. appreciate your patience. >> thank you. does the commission have any questions for ms. jordan? all right, thank you all for your hard work with help with the parade and so forth. that's great. so we have no further question,

mr. fuller, please open public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment in-person on item 2, the communications and director's report may line up against the wall furthest from the door. press star-3 on your phone to be recognized. okay, and we do have any in-person commenters who have come forward. and sf gov. tv is also indicate thating nobody has raised their hand to speak on this item either. sol we have no public comment on this item. >> all right, secretary fuller, please call the next item. >> item 3 is the minutes from the september 16, 2024 meeting of this commission.

and this is an action item before any motion is made, i'm happy to take any questions or corrections to the minutes. >> are there any corrections? all right, i think we're good. do i hear a motion to adopt the minutes? for september 16, 2024? >> so moved. >> do i hear a second? >> i will second it. >> all right. and given the motion, we will now hear public comment, secretary fuller please open public comment. >> members of the public wishing to make three minutes of comment on the motion to adopt the minutes from september 16th, 2024, may line up against the wall furthest from the wall and if you're commenting from outside the chamber, again press the raise your hand button in the webinar

or star-3 on your phone to be recognized. okay, and we have neither in-person commenters or folks in the electronic queue looking to speak on this motion. >> all right, so hearing no comment, is there any debate on this motion? no? all right, so no further debate all in favor of adopting the minutes from september 16, 2024, please say yes. >> yes. >> yes. >> yes. >> all right, and the motion passes. [gavel] all right, secretary fuller, will post the adopted minutes from september 16, 2024 to the commission website. please call the next item. >> item 4, is honorary

commendation recognitions of careers to christopher mcdaniels and matthew naclerio and this is an informational item. >> hello matthew, hello chris. so matthew started as a superintendent for the bureau of street and sewer repairs in august 2014 and repaired june 2024. he joined public works with over 20 years of experience of public works levels of public works bev came with us. his last job before us before he joined sf public works, he was the public works director for the city of alameda. matthew did a wonderful job

taking care of bureaus even when we had to remerge two bureaus, he took on the expertise and he did a very good job. truly want to say that i miss you very very much for the last few months. moore has done a great job but no one can ever take your place, matthew, so thank you so much. it's an honor to work with you. christopher, 24 years of service with public works in the city of san francisco. from may 2000 to hay 2009 mr. mcdaniels worked for mayor city hall office. and then with department of public works as a superintendent of street repair and sewer replacement. for 2014 to 21, he worked with the public utilities commission as waste water operations

manager. and then by my request he returned to public works to work for the bureau of street environmental service frz 2021 to 2024. and he was a great asset to me, i truly miss you. you've done some outstanding work and you really brought the morale up for the department of urban street and sewer, excuse me, hold on for the bureau of street environmental services. the morale has been raised and continue on with your work ethics and currently jv is acting and leading that motion to keep the morale up. thank you very much, chris, i really appreciate you. thank you. [applause] and the commission has two

commendations to present to each of you. thanking you for your service. >> speaker: madam chair and commissioners, i want to thank you for this recognition. i enjoyed the ten years that i worked here at public works, they're challenging but i'm proud to say that the bureau of building and street repair and previously the building of sewer repair did an excellent job. i'm most proud of the work that they did, whether it was taking care of emergency thinking now of the defunk sewer division, we were there when there was a

sink hole we were there at anytime of the day, 24-7 meeting the needs of the public utilities commission. of course the work that was done by the building, repair division on emergencies just thinking about the third street bridge and the excellent work that they did meeting the needs and actually coming in at a much cheaper cost than if we had gone out with a private contractor. and then of course consistently, the street repair commission is exceeding the pothole repairs holes of over 90 percent each year and meeting the goals for resurfacing. and you can see the resurfacing work that was done outside of city hall as a testament to the fine work that this bureau does. obviously they're doing very well without me, i do miss every one and i'm proud to say that the team is here to wish me well and also to make sure that i really did retire. thank you again. [applause]

>> chris mcdaniels i'm going to be short today. first of all i want to thank the commissioners for working with us during some very stressful and challenging times. so as the superintendent, we became very close during these commission meetings and i want to thank you all for helping us keep the city clean. i want to thank the city attorney for always keeping us on the right track. thank you very much. as i look at the certificate, i think of my people. my career has been long but the folks that i've worked with was always the most important thing. a boss can't do any work unless he has a good rapport what his staff members. so i want to publicly thank everybody here in this room, the commissioners, city attorney, jada and all the folks here that have had an impact on my life. this is very serious for me. i have a 21-year-old son. and while i was at dwp and

working for the city, i was lucky enough to have a resource to help me take care of my son. he's the most important thing to me. and the city and county of san francisco has helped me take care of him. and my staff has been very supportive. i couldn't do it without them. so i want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart, okay. that's it for me. have a good day. thank you. [applause] >> so do my fellow commissioners have any further

comments on the honorary commendations. >> commissioner simi? >> thank you both for your service to the county, we really appreciate it. >> thank you just also from me, i know i have asked some serious part questions and so graciously answering these questions and taking me on this tour how this pavements are work and how the streets collect, i learned a lot from both of you, thank you so much. >> yeah, i would like to make a comment about retirement. you finished the easy work, staying busy and staying healthy in your revierment is really important.

walk the streets, keep yourself busy and pretty soon you will not have time for anything, anyway, good luck to both of you on that. >> yeah, thank you both for all of your years. i know that i've along with commissioner eusoepe, i asked challenging questions but i always appreciated your grace and you know, we already missed but you'll continue to be mid-s. so thank you both for all of your years. thank you. [applause] so hearing no further comment from the commission, we will now hear public comment, secretary fuller. please open public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make three minutes of

comment in-person on the honorary commendations, may line up along the wall furthest from the door and if you're comment froming outside of the chamber, please press star-3 or raise your hand on the webinar to be recognized. it appears we have one commenter if you want to come to the microphone and you don't mind introducing yourself and you'll get three minutes to speak and you'll get a 30-second chime when your time is about to expire. >> speaker: thank you, my name is cheryl jackson and i feel that i have the unique position here. i have worked for both of these gentlemen, mr. mcdaniels was my

first superintendent. at public works. as a matter of fact he was my first manager at public works. i am a retired manager myself from at&t and came to public works just to work for a year to buy me a new car, 11 years later, i'm still there. mr. maclio, because from mr. mcdaniels i wnt to mr. maclrio i've been with him for ten years. and he graduated from manager to friend. and i just want to say to both of these gentlemen, it was a pleasure, a pleasure to serve both of them.

i've learned chris, i could not believe this man has a memory. we would be in staff meetings and he would never have anything in front of him but he would respond to every project that was before him like he was look up to the sky or something. matt was one of the most organized people i've ever met in my life. he had everything outlined. we knew what was to be done when it was suppose to be done. he was an excellent manager and again it was a pleasure to me to work for both of these gentlemen. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] all right and that appears to be our final comment on this item as no one else that has come forward and no one else

on the phone lines. >> all right, anything further from the commission? all right, hearing no further discussion, secretary fuller, please call the next item. >> item 5, is the bureau of street en vierlt al services performance measure report. and exacting bureau manager jonathan is here to present this report. and it is an informational item. >> thank you. good morning, commissioner, good morning every one. happy monday. my name is jonathan, i'm the acting superintendent for bureau of street environmental service. i will be presenting a street cleaning and graffiti related information on the data today. looking at the chart here, it's

showing our annual street and sidewalk cleaning request. these are requests that are coming through 311 service order. the service order for physical year 2025 are currently projected to be over 123 percent which is a slight increase of 5 percent comparing to the last fiscal year. this indicate a new normal as compared to the record-breaking number of service request received during the physical year 2022. part of the reason of this increase and service order of volume is due to the increase of proactive effort in our resent year. we usually, we send routes, people would not just responding to complaint itself. we have a assigned rights every person and do proactive cleaning and that will help reduce the effort for the cleaning.

now in the response rate, if you look at the chart's arrow, the year to date average response rate for fiscal year 2025 has increased by 12 percent from last year. the increase can be contributed to increase amount of train staff working in 2025. now this chart here shows a monthly street cleaning request also from 31 and response rate within 48 hour from the date of the service request. we look at the service order of volume for the month of july and august. the service order average 12,000. the service order per month, this compared to monthly average of 11,300 in fiscal year 2024. part of the reason as to why

service order volume has increased is due to staff documenting proactive effort to internal service order. now as the staff goes out, they're not just cleaning they're doing the active documenting service order itself. so where we can record most of this stuff that we proactive currently doing. on the response rate, the first 9 months of 2024 we saw a lower than average, of response rates. despite the decrease in the number of service order, this is due to a higher personnel training that took over occured of several months. once the train staff was on the field, the response rate increase significantly as you can see, you can continue a trend in 2025.

now this chart shows annual amount of debris tonnage collected by our sweeper and non sweeper category. the annual amount of debris ton is collected for the sweeper categories has steadily decreases since 2020. while the amount of debris collected for non sweeper category has increased, part of the reason of this shift is that the digital broom support has been added ahead of the street sweeper. this broom worker will pickup large item that the mechanical sweeper cannot pick. they remove thing to the side and pick it up and the sweeper come through easily to sweep those up. now based on july, august and september 2024 tonnage data, the fiscal year of our dispatch here is projected to be over 136,000 tonnage for this

projection of 2025. so if you look at the data of november and december, it's not completed but dew to the data related issue currently being worked out with our r--this conclude our street cleaning data, i can answer any questions or i can move up to the graffiti data. okay. >> yeah, thanks, i had to step out for a second. you were just mentioning that i think, staff is doing more documentation of service orders? so it sounds like if i were to look at fy22 or 23 data versus right now data, it's almost like they're not apples to apples, right? because this sort of data itself, you're sort of changing, you're documenting more of it. so the past years, we don't

necessarily have ■formation on the service orders are being, you know, addressed. and i'm wondering how, long you would kind of expect the process of doing more documentation and also just wondering how, i think a lot of it comes through 311, right? and so i would think that would be fairly well documented, right? because you have, online or logged in some way. so how would you be missing? how in the past would you be miss ing service orders if that question makes sense? >> you're talking about the response rate from 2023, 2024-self? --itself? >> for example, if we work with the cbds and they need an additional clean up or extra steam, previously we didn't record that, we would just go

steam it. so we don't just get request from 311, we get requests everywhere. and the special request that come in, we tend to go and take care of them. those have not been documented so all you see is the 311, so now we're creating service orders to show 9 additional work that we do. so now, yes, it's gotten better. we've decided to input that data so you can see the additional work that we have coming in including the 311. so we want to be more transparent and document more. and all of these, before previous years we never took before and after pictures now we look before and after pictures to each location. so we're getting better at documenting everything, so yes. if that helps us. >> that does, and i've definitely seen people taking photos on the street and i'm like, i think i know what you're doing. is there a point where we can

say that the data would be consistent, i guess right? and fy24 do you think you logged all of it? better? or like should we start look from fy25. at what point can we look at apples to apples information, year over year, quarter to quarter. >> so we're hoping that it will continue to document better. but as he says, what happens is, when we do a different hiring, during that training period, the service orders will go down because we're in the middle of training. once we train them up and staff them, we should be good. so if you want to say consistency, i say by the middle of 2025, we should be right where we need to be and have a consistent pattern. because this is a new way of documenting and going forward. there should not be anymore changes. this change should clear up all the data on how we work.

when did you guys start adding additional the request from cbds, when did you start reporting? or start talking about it? >> i think 2023. end of 2023. >> all right. >> training staff then. >> so now it's just making it a habit for every one. >> it's a process. it's not a habit, it's protocol. yes, absolutely. >> we feel the more proactive work we do, the less complaints, from constituents. so that's the goal, not just responding to the 311 complaint itself. >> right. so if you see that area past 50 feet, we have document. >> nice.

is this across the other work orders across epw? >> no, actually moving this request throughout the whole section of operations which includes a lot of training. so we're moving to the craft when they do with a client so. when the client puts in a service request for a job they're paying for. we're training them to upload the photos so by 2025 mid-year, everybody should be trained and it's not just for cleanliness, it's across the board. >> all right, that's great. and i think it's important to be really clear about na when discussing with the public, because the first sort of thing, i saw was less, you know, lower response rates, right? and that seems like a bad trend and then you see even less requests come in.

looked at fy24 data. that would look like you're getting less questions and you're responding to less of them at the rate that you want to. that would seem like a bad thing but it seems like there is a bit of a new ans. --nuance. i think it would be important to caveat that as much as possible so it does not create the wrong information. >> right, i definitely need to clarify that. so if you get a group of 50 employees, new employees coming in t takes quite a bit of my staff to train them so. training time, takes time. so it starts off in the office and er and it's then it's one on one with the person. so thank you for that bit of information. that helped me stay on top of that. i can see what you're talking b thank you very much.

>> how does graffiti abatement work does it differ from neighborhood to neighborhood. >> that's our next topic. >> yeah, that will show the graffiti data rates. all right, this slide shows the break down of the annual graffiti service order on public and also on private property. the service order volume for fiscal year 2024, decreases by 12,000 s.o. the decrease in s.o.can be increase of proactive abating graffiti. parts of the graffiti program we have. there has also been a shift in the public and private graffiti. we are now seeing more graffiti request and less private graffiti request. part of the reason of the drop is due to increase in effort

abating graffiti to our opt-in program. now on the public side, staff also start to go document proactive effort through internal service order. this is the annual graffiti staff on property. the response rate ziggy drop starting in 2020. due to staff being allocated in cleaning operation. part of the reason for the low response rate and fiscal year 2024, is due to hiring and training new staff. as this year moving forward, we expect to see an increase in the response for public graffiti. this is a break down on

graffiti private service order annual. the service order private in fiscal year 2025 are currently projected to be over 14,000. this is a drop of approximately 8 percent of compared to fiscal year 2024. part of the reason for this has been contribute in abating graffiti through graffiti program. through this program, graffiti on private property are being proactive lea baited. though the graffiti program did start, this program was ramped up and more resource was added in fiscal year 2024. the response rate is not showing due to the changes during the early part of the pandemic. and now, the program that started, we are now working with our performance team, to report out this response rate

in the future. this slide show our graffiti opt in program notice. as you can see looking specifically, we have this is a graffiti opt-in program. looking ins sits inception of fiscal year 2023, we have performed 5223 abatement on private property within the commercial corridor. 5067 performed by bss crew with 156 performed by our contractor. the monthly review indicate an increasing volume of abatement per month in fiscal year 2024

and 2025. one of the reasons of the increasing number of abatement is once on the property sign for the program 6789 therefore the increase is being driven by proactive abatement, more so than the property signing up, as you can see the chart there. this is performed on the same property, most location has only been abated once. but there is a small number that has required multiple abatement, as working with sfpd and providing data to properties that are continuously being targeted in order to assist with enforcement effort. if you look at the chart, we

have 57 percent of addresses have been abated 3 or less times. 226 address has been a baited only once. 123 or 90 percent twice. 132 or 14 percent of all abated address, has been abated 3 times. the remaining 43 percent of location has been abated 4 or more times. this is a break down of the service order abatement on private property. if you look at the map, if you see the color itself, the graph represents a vapor of zone. now our zone a b through is 123, so if you can see zone d

is representing the mission district basically district 9. 60 properties need ago baitment are located on zone d. followed by 12 percent, in zone f. 7 percent in zone a, 9 percent in zone b, 10 percent in zone c. d is 61 percent is the highest as you can see the window color in the map there, shows all the abatement within the city. sol this concludes my presentation aon graffiti private. i can take any questions on graffiti related questions. how long does the abatement work? can they can go back and then sign up again or they only have that 48? >> this is something we're still working on, try to work out what is after these

two-year pilot program is. >> where is the funding coming from? >> from this program i'm not sure it's budgeted. >> but each you have to pay a certain amount and that's the opt-in and then we just continuously come back? >> yes. >> rachel gordon director of policy and communication. this was a 3-year funded by mayor breed and supervisors. they uped it for another two years. so the issue is for the certain commercial corridors. so there has been some discussion of whether it should be expand today other areas. we know in the tenderloin, so there has been some discussion by the community benefit district and others can that be extended but that is a

financial question as the city's is facing tough financial times right now, i think that may be put on hold. but that's something that you and others can advocate for. >> do others have high case of graffiti, i'm wondering, once the abatement nds, what is the fact? it's going to be a negative impact that'sed where i was heading to? >> yes and that was considered by the mayor and the board of supervisors that we would have a team that would go site the property owner to abate the grao graffiti and owners said that's not fair. you can see by how many properties have opted in and they extended it. so it's a matter of financial

resource that's we need extra funding in the budget. we don't have that within the existing budgets, but we saw they did it for two years. but you're right, if the program is not there, we're going to see the graffiti start to swell up again in concern areas. so we know the tenderloin, china town, some parts of the bay view are the hardest hit areas. we'll see one thing, i'll note director was going to bring us up as well. i think it was last week that the police department arrested 3 serial graffiti vandals which is really good news for us. they caught them red handed, that's what we want them to do. we work very closely with the police department as well as the district attorney to make sure that not only are these folks caught, we can document where all the problems have

been within the district attorney prosecutes. and the courts take it serious too. right before the pandemic, a young man was arrested at least for 140,000 of damage or something. the police put a case on it with public works and district attorney and the judge went, we don't really saddle this young man with a criminal record so he went scot-free. we take graffiti very serious, it's a quality of issue and the amount of time that it takes our staff to abate our city. we want people to take this very seriously. >> i see it, if you don't take care of it right away, it gets piled on and a different group will come but doing all sorts of things that happens to my

neighborhood, so i just want to know, what is the partnership with sfpd how serious this is and how closure work to go make sure that we hold people accountable. like you said it's a quality of life and it's expensive. >> we calculated this cost to the city about about 7 or 8 years it was ten million dollars for the city, because we have our graffiti abatement but also rec and park and muni that skyrocketed. it's a really expensive problem in san francisco it's a west coast phenomena rather than other cities. it starts in vancouver, san francisco, oakland, los angeles, san diego, they go down put their tags and you can go into instagram accounts and

they show them off with pride. >> some locations, they've gone back 91 times. it's pretty repetitive, yeah. but working to get the advisory committee together so we're waiting for the supervisor to see appoint a person from each soap so we can hopefully build that back up and pd is in there as well and we just work together to figure it out. working together as a team so we're waiting to do that there as well too. >> thank you. and if i can add a comment to that, i think i mentioned this a few months ago, last year we saw this data. you mentioned some 90-times, that's every four days.

i would recommend and sort of push that, perhaps, you know if you look at the program again and think about how many times you'll go out to one stop or to maybe get some type of more proactive enforcement. if you know, just looking at the top addresses, you had in the slide they're fairly close to each other. and if there is one spot that you know, it sounds like somebody is tagging it again within a day. if you think about the amount of times that you have to go back out again. i would maybe just, you know, talk to the police department about sticking an officer there or try to do something in terms of the enforcement of it. that's 97 service calls that your crews are doing that they can be doing anywhere else in the city. and pronl in that 70 or above

category. something you can do to get that tail would help the rest of the city for the ones that are less frequent. i do want to say that the three to four people they caught, that was a sting. they caught them. and one would think it would be young people but these people were 35, in their 30s and late 40s that were caught. >> so people my age. >> yes. >> you didn't catch me. >> and just because they have that line where they posted, we were able to put it altogether and say this is you. you are convicted. i'm sorry we have enough to arrest you. but one would think is teenager and right now, it's trending older. and ye, i want to say that sometimes when our team is abating, we have them across the street watching us. and this is one of the reasons why we're happy to do the

before and after, because we have somebody that wrote an s and somebody said you didn't abate it and we put all the pictures you can see that s was just moved around. here's the documentation, oh okay. it's an on going issue that we would like to address. we would like your help as to why we should expand as program and try to find funding. it makes our city look terrible. : >> i have seen mini vans unloading to do what they wanted to do and then once i'll go out and say, you can't do this, and we call the police they never show up.

so then it's us against the graffiti artist. either they leave or like you mentioned, they go across the street and do their thing. so it has to be serious issue to get sfpd to show up when people like us call in and say we need help because somebody is about to get tagged. so maybe that's a collective effort between us? we also going through with the blitz, we're going through all the cbds so we're going to lower pole being and moving all through the city to have a combined effort to help businesses out until we move the gra tee tee until we come up with a permanent solution.

>> i asked somebody not to drink on the sidewalk and when i came out, it was full of art. >> i know this is a very important topic and i don't mean to change it but i have another question in regards to the first speaker that we had from telegraph hill. what can we do to alleviate that problem? showed a lot of leads on the street. what can we do you know, to to

get that problem straightened out? >> so we've been working with that area for the last six months. well there is an issue also there where people do not move when you have a street parking sign. so that's been a big issue for her area. and you just go around. you can see the street sweeper went by but the parked vehicles. so we'll post the whole block and tow until that's the om way that we can alleviate those problems. because in russian hill they would rather get a ticket than to move the vehicle. so we tow, we start towing one car, the whole neighborhood comes out so. we're working with the community until we get this issue revolved. as soon as theytow, they move their vehicles and then we're able to get in there and clean

the streets. that's been a big issue in that neighborhood, people will just not move their vehicles, they don't acknowledge the sign and as a matter of fact, they would rather get a ticket and pay when the taxes come. but now that we're posting the blocks, they're getting, they're understanding we're not playing. >> being proactive. >> so we're trying to help her in the community to get this resolved. >> good. >> she also said too, which is a clear factor, that the half the neighborhood does not want it cleaned because they don't want to move, but the other half wants it cleaned. and as soon as we're towing cars, one side is not talking to the other side which is middle person in there trying to keep the streets clean. >> do you know anything about this cigarette tax that she talked about? >> the cigarette tax fupding

comes to us for the corridor workers in the service area. so you see the people pushing a cart and cleaning the businesses, that's where our funding is going to now and it's for the street, mechanical street sweeping as well. you have access then to that tax money for this. >> it's automatically given to us for that program. we have to do a little research and found out that's where it's at. >> thank you. that's it. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. thank you for your comment. and it is noted commissioner, on the graffiti abatement. i think that's a great idea and we'll continue to work with the city attorney and the police department to help them with

the enforcement. i have one last slide, this is regarding a again, city resceptical, it's a part of a street cleaning. historically service order volume for installation and removal of litter receptacle has been nearly split even. the exception was fiscal year 2021 where we saw a significant increase of removal and drop in insleighsing --insulation. please note the amount reflects service volume only and not action take not by scs. if the request of removal do not meet the established cry tier ya, then the installation removal would not take place. so this is what categorized

itself. that's the end of my city receptacle, any question regarding this is this >> so the next time you present this, could you also put in how many were involved in removed? and does anyone happen to know an update for new trash cans? >> thank you. >> again rachel gord an director of communications public works. so the trash cans we're going

out with the request for proposal for the new trash cans to get them manufactured. there was a little bit of a delay approval process with the rickology contract that runs through the controller process. to be very clear, these are not 20,000, there was a prototype to make them. we're hoping to get them in the 2500 3000 range which is standard unless you go get a large bin at a place like lowe which will not work in our city. we're not putting all trash can work on hold we're still putting new cans or replacing cans. there is a whole process around trash cans, removals and placements in the city. as you know every trash cans seems to have a constituency so we're always dealing with that. we do have more trash cans in

the united states which is a good thing to say. people say we take out other trash cans. but we hope and it's hoping to see new trash cans on the street. we know it's been a very long process and it's been a long process in san francisco of going through design and making sure all contracts are in place. i wish i had better news to say we were putting them out tomorrow but they're not, it's a process that we wish westbound a faster and more efficient but it is what it is. we are moving forward with it, though. i don't know if you have anymore questions about that? >> no, that's pretty much it for now. i have not heard anything in a while about the trash cans i was like ooh. >> yes you will, it's a favorite media topic you'll be reading about them too. i'm sure. but we're moving forward with the project. >> awesome, yeah. >> thank you, it's noted we can share the actual number of installation and removal on the

next time. >> yeah, that would be great. thank you so much. does anyone else have any questions? all right. all right, so hearing no further questions, mr. fuller please open public comment on this item. >> members of the public wish to make three minutes of comment on item 4, the bureau of street environmental services performance measure report, may line up against the wall for furthest from the wall f.you're comment froming outside the chamber press the raise your hand button the webinar or star 3 on your phone to be recognized. okay and we do not have any in-person commenters and we don't have anyone who has expressed interest from callers

to speak on this either. so that concludes public comment. >> all right, secretary fuller, please call the next item. >> item 6, is the department's proposed standards of cleanliness. the potential adoption of these standards is in fulfillment of part of the commission charter mandate. and commissioners we'll recall that we heard four separate reports on the development of standard and a 5th one today including the last presentation in april of 2024. and deputy director of operations jada will present this, the proposed standards and this is an action item.

>> agreed commissioners, this is a recap--greetings commissioner, this is a recap on the presentation that was given in april by christopher mcdaniels and i'm coming with the cleanliness part 2, so i'm going to go through briefly so you can remember what he was bringing up. i don't want to touch on everything i sent you the slides but we can go ahead. so as you can see on here, i'm deputy director bureau environmental services acting superintendent is jonathan vaupg, so we can go to the next slide. our cleanliness standards are from these areas, apwa which is american public works association and department of procedures and our city charter and service agreement wz 311. and by the ways, they're

waiting for your approval so we can input these standards with 311 as well. next slide. types of cleanliness standards that we would like your approval. controlled and uncontrolled mechanical swaoerntion room support, litter control, traemer bio hazards abatement, special projects the bag in tag procedure. clean corridor sf, and private and public graffiti. as you can see here, the purpose here, really the purpose is to ensure that department is clear and free of debris. it's basically to keep our catch basin free of debris and leads and ensure that the street is clean in front of the property. the next one. uncontrolled is for events and areas that need extra cleaning.

but pretty much the same free of litter and usually, or sometimes we have spills in the right-of-way, we'll send mechanical sweeper there as a non controlled. so we have broom support, that is our labor that heads out for anything that is 12 inches or bigger, otherwise the sweeper will go around it. so that's support, so we have room support. next slide. litter patrol, so we've created a time of a response of area now, which means if i go to a location and i have a service order at 111 vaness, i'm going to look 50 feet this way and that way. this helps 311 on the repetitive calls we get in, so they will look 50 years and they will not be created as a

duplicate. we will get that on the block. so that's important to us. and also if you go to an inter section if you get a request on one corner, you're to look at all four corner and clean up the debris, it's pretty standard for us. next slide. this was reiterating on four corners. next slide. steamer, we also clean around the can, ten feet and special areas as well. we also steam other areas of grime where it's if it's really filthy to put a good wash on

that as well. biohazard abatement. we know we prioritize this biohazard for 24-hours but i want to reiterate that it's a courtesy. but we spanned to remove the waste in impacted areas. next slide, please. public works has a special projects where we preplan preand planned schedule. for events such as italian events, warriors, giants, everything. but we also clean our tunnels, stockton and broadway tunnels and make sure that the grime is off the ceiling and off the walls. we make sure that we clean up

those areas. next, bag and tag, it's a serious, serious protocol here. and it's consistently changing with our city attorney. so every time we change our policy we have to reiterate this to our staff, right now we're doing twice a month train withing all of our staff and environmental services. and we have a 90-day, so 30, 60, 90 to get your work. so the standard really needs to be approved by you guys. next. clean corridors this is something where we help out the business district. we provide haz-mat cleaning in the business corridors so here

in the foto you can see those of our corridor workers they wear the vest and we wear the light green vest. so we sweep in front of business sxz remove weeds and things of that nature, all the tree basins and small graffiti and speakers off the parking polls and the polls on the sidewalk as well. next graffiti time abatement. we match the color as close as we can and again we remove stickers and flyers that are on polls that shouldn't be there. next. so private property graffiti no graffiti remains in the private property. public works will return and continue to abate the graffiti

for the endurance on the program. next. people tend to believe that this is public works responsible but it's the city effort. we all have a part in this. so public works, next. public works responsible is tone sure the right-of-way to the city is clean and clear of hazards. so yeah, we have cush geters, curb to curb, sidewalks, stairways over passes of bridges throughout our tee, those are our responsibility. next please. the business districts, it varies in areas but pretty much it's building to building property line in front of their property to the curb that is your responsible to keep clean. so it does well when it does together to create a cbd because they pull in with a

little bit of money and have some money themselves clean up the whole area but it's their choice however they clean it. but we expect you to pick up the litter and power wash at a minimum. next, please. property owners is the same, it's the same, frontage to the curb and we do have public information who provides out reach and education. and it comes to the districts to just remind the businesses and property owners if of their responsibility and they enforce the code as well. but we as a security see give a--courtesy but therefore we'll try to enforce. next. so here's what the request was, hey have you looked around to the neighborhood to see other cities, what have they done?

do they have standards, the answer is knoxer just wanted to put that out there to you. so, i got populations size here so san jose 900,000. san diego over a million. oakland 436,000. los angeles 3.9 million. san francisco 800,000 people. that is the city size. but we all know that san francisco is a pretty dense city, we're kind of compact, a lot of people in a lot of areas. it's not spread out like san diego but to me, oakland is more like us. san jose is pretty spread out too, too kind of hilly. yes they do have it, they only do it once a month. once a month. on patrol only use for emergencies and encampments. broom support, they asked what

is broom support. we don't have room support we just go around it. litter patrol, yes, very small crew. a very very small crew. so they only stay focused on city hall, a lot of government businesses downtown. on as needed basis but it's not a 24-hour thing like san francisco. steamers, yes, limited steaming, mainly encampments. bio hazard yes but very limited, they put the responsibility on the property owners and business owners to pick up biohazards in front of their property. special projects, no they didn't have any. they contract that out. bag and tag is the same process 90 days, 30, 60, 90 and then they get rid of it. i think this is state wide for all of us we're all held to the

same stapped adser when it comes to that. they don't do anything to work with the community, they rely on communities, let me tell you that. graffiti, yes they abate it busan joes neighborhood services, they have a program called beautiful sj where they're focused on addressing the graffiti and encampments and trying to keep a clean safe space. so they're more focused on graffiti in san jose. okay, the next one, san diego, very big place to be. they focus really a around the harbor where the water is. yes, they do have a mechanical sweeping, three swifts fork us on commercial districts mainly and that's handled by the department of transportation in

their city agency. sweeping on as-needed basis. broom support, we don't have that at all. their response rate is 24-hours to 72 hours in a response time. and they focus on business improvement business. skaemg? biohazards mainly focused on animals and medical waste. this is mostly done after encampment cleaning for encampment and proactively parades and routes. but they too focus on businesses. but they focus and resident to see remove their own waste. and they enforce that big time. so they know to come up and clean up. they have events and department

that will work together to provide as needed basis maybe contracted out. their after 12 hours of notification, they focus more on medication, personal items that mean something like a year book of sentimental value, but they dispose of common things like blanket umbrella ands tents. that was interesting. clean corridor, they said that they do not have a program like this but sometimes they do volunteer events maybe once a year with some businesses. public graffiti has a six-day turn around and they don't have a opt-in program. los angeles, los angeles they do have mechanical sweeping, through the hours of 6:00 am to 3:00 p.m. they do have uncontrolled sweeping but that's for

emergencies for small things that block the gutter but anything bigger than that, blocking the gutter or that is the right away. they call out for contractor this they sub it out. broom support, they have never heard about. litter control, they don't have lit control service when trash is called in and they address it day-to-day unless excessively dealing with traffic. so they do deal with a lost contractors. they have a sanitation department and a cleaning department so two sections one handles litter removal and the other handles steaming. so the sanization handle steaming and the litter steaming is street cleaning.

tunnel projects, they do have street cleaning everything else is contracted out. bag and tag same thing, 909 days. clean--90 day. clean corridor sometimes they help up like hollywood and those areas, they contract out and have somebody. graffiti, the department handles public graffiti but no opt-in. last but not least, oakland. this was an interesting city. i found out that they had 20 staff members to clean the city of oakland. and that included supervisor sxz truck drivers the rest is contracted out. they have they do not work with light general labors, they have maintenance workers that was

very interesting. about thu they do have mechanical sweeping they sweep between midnight. after heavy lum nation, that's where they will send out their controlled mechanical sweeper no broom support, they don't have the staff. half the city contracts out the work. i can see why. steamers half the work is contracted out. yes, they do biohazard but that's in incompment areas, they put a port-a-potty in the middle of encampment and they come back and clean it. special projects, yes, they will help special projects but they contract that out as well.

clean corridors, yes, they work with the cbds, it's called up down, downtown community district in oakland so they work with them to do some courtesy cleaning as well. next. and this is just a brief run through of the standards that we would like to approve and control mechanical, uncontrolled litter patrol, steamer biohazard, tunnel cleaning. you can go to the next page. opt in that is our standards that we would like approved. you can press the next button. and if you have any questions, i'm happy to answer those questions for you. >> does anyone have any questions?

about knees standards? all right. thank you, for that presentation and looking at the other cities, i do appreciate that. i guess, the next thing is do i hear a motion to adopt the standards of cleanliness. >> so moved. >> okay, do i have a second. >> second. >> all right. given the motion, we will now hear public comment. secretary fuller, please open public comment. members, of the public who wish to make three minute of comments to adopt the standards of cleanliness, you may line up against the wall next to the door. or if you're commenting outside of chamber raise your hand on

the webinar or press star-3 to be recognized. and we do not have anyone coming forward and there is no one who has called who wishes to speak on it either. so that concludes public comment. all right, is there any debate on this motion? i didn't think so. hearing no more debate all in favor of adopting the public works standards say yes. >> yes. >> yes. >> all opposed say no. i think we all said yes. so motion passes. [gavel] secretary fuller will post the adopted resolution to the commission's website and please call call the next item but

before you do that t i just wanted to thank mr. mcdaniels again for all of his hard work before he left us. i know you worked really hard on this and i do appreciate that. so thank you every one. please call the next item. item 7 is the sunset boulevard update. this is in response to a request from vice chair harrison at the september meeting. and deputy director will provide this update and is it's an informational item. >> thank you, bob. commissioners. sunset boulevard report. so the sunset boulevard is a focal point of operation wz a series of enhancement and

elevated, to improve this highs profile corridor. working from south to north, our plumbers are installing to include house at 3 different points along each median. this capability allows for planting by expanding the access to water beyond the existing pop up irrigation. the timing is important because our colleagues are moving ahead with the conversion of sunset irrigation water from portable to recycle. with this which we can keep the boulevard green without strain straining our water dmrie during the drought years. it's still in design and engineering phases, to date the plumbers have installed these quick cup lers on 77 blocks this year from slope to ortega and the team will continue to work north until completed. there is a lot of work being

done by partners, public works, put out a request for proposal to construct a nature play zone to learn tree and landscape care and maintenance. action now was selected in installing the trees and plants to achieve this. already we're hearing about these improvements, our complimenting the farmers market with the water cup lers. other hard working partners including the california plant society who please other folks continue in large ways and small ways. of course there is some folks installing random plants and they're working to set them up with our resource support along with getting approval to make sure our work a is aligned with

the vision of sunset. our bureau of landscape is keeping us on track on what is suitable while advocating on funding. finally, the bureau is planting trees as a follow-up to the numerous storm emergencies by reducing the heavy weight on the tips of the branches, the trees are left more stable for our future storms. our gardnering are keeping the median in a noticably better condition as we continue to repater aging pop up sprinkler and replacing the heads with stainless steel heads. unlike past years, we have a new option in our toolbox to bring in a contractor to median if we're shorthanded and we deploy once so far all the

medians are using a contractor. can't the escape being done and abandon ways plus graffiti abatement. still a lot of work to be done on the sunset boulevard but all hands are approaching to make a difference and safety of the medians as we change and charge towards a more suitable feet with the recycled project. that's it for my update. any questions? >> thank you, i'm encouraged.

on that sunset corridor, and i think there were a lot of issues with that system. there was one fellow who had it down and he retired and it just fell apart. so i'm glad to hear that this is happening. and also with that h you mentioned you had volunteers doing some planting and such out there. i hope, this is not cactus that was out there. that's just not pretty. and i know that i was in chicago on their magical mile has a center corridor which must be ten feet or 20 feet

wide and on the sidewalks, which are pretty swied some serious planting. practically in a ar bo ridium type of type garden with flowers. some day i would like to see something like that. anyway, thank you for your report and it's encouraging to hear there is work being done there. the recycled water i think is an important factor. the cost to that is similar something less than paying for fresh water, clean water. thank you again.

>> did you say that people are just out there planting their own? >> i get it. divert them so say, hey, but we've got to have it this way. >> it's like gorilla gardening. >> yeah, okay. thank you for the update. so mr. fuller open public comment on this item. >> members of the public who wish to make public comment on the update may line up against the wall furthest from the door. and if you're commenting from outside the chamber press the raise your hand on the webinar or press star-3 on the phone to be recognized.

and we do not have any people who have come forward to speak to this item either on person or via the webinar. so that concludes public comment on this item. >> secretary fuller please call the next item. >> item 8 is new business initialed by commissioners and this is an opportunity for commission inventories make announcement sxz raise topics to be added to a future commission agenda. this is ap informational item. >> is there any new business commissioners that would like to to* raise? all right, so hearing no further new business. mr. fuller, please open the public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment in-person on item 8,

new business may line up furthest from the door. and if you're commenting from outside of the chamber once against press your hand or star 3 to be recognized? okay no one has come forward to speak on this item and we do not have any callers on this item either. so that concludes public comment. >> all right, i don't think we have anything to discuss. so secretary fuller, please call the next item. >> the final item was general public comment continued from item 1 if necessary and it is not necessary since we didn't exceed the 15-minute limit. so. >> all right. and when is our next meeting? >> the commission will meet again our scheduled, i should know this off the top of my

head for november 18th. >> all right. so this commission will meet again on november 18th. hearing no objections, i adjourn this meeting. at 11:47 am. thank you all. [music]

>> san francisco is known as yerba buena, good herb after a mint that used to grow here. at this time there were 3 settlements one was mission delores. one the presidio and one was yerba buena which was urban center. there were 800 people in 1848 it was small. a lot of historic buildings were here including pony express headquarters. wells fargo. hudson bay trading company and famous early settlers one of whom william leaderdorph who lived blocks from here a successful business person. african-american decent and the first million airin california.

>> wilwoman was the founders of san francisco. here during the gold rush came in the early 1840s. he spent time stake himself as a merchant seaman and a business person. his father and brother in new orleans. we know him for san francisco's history. establishing himself here arnold 18 twoochl he did one of many things the first to do in yerba buena. was not california yet and was not fully san francisco yet. >> because he was an american citizen but spoke spanish he was able to during the time when america was taking over california from mexico, there was annexations that happened and conflict emerging and war, of course. he was part of the peek deliberations and am bas

doorship to create the state of california a vice council to mexico. mexico granted him citizenship. he loaned the government of san francisco money. to funds some of the war efforts to establish the city itself and the state, of course. he established the first hotel here the person people turned to often to receive dignitaries or hold large gatherings established the first public school here and helped start the public school system. he piloted the first steam ship on the bay. a big event for san francisco and depict instead state seal the ship was the sitk a. there is a small 4 block long length of street, owned much of that runs essentially where the

transamerica building is to it ends at california. i walk today before am a cute side street. at this point t is the center what was all his property. he was the person entrusted to be the city's first treasurer. that is i big deal of itself to have that legacy part of an african-american the city's first banker. he was not only a forefather of the establishment of san francisco and california as a state but a leader in industry. he had a direct hahn in so many things that we look at in san francisco. part of our dna. you know you don't hear his anymore in the context of those. representation matters. you need to uplift this so people know him but people like him like me. like you. like anyone who looks like him to be, i can do this, too. to have the city's first banker and a street in the middle of

financial district. that alone is powerful. [music] [♪♪♪] >> i just don't know that you can find a neighborhood in the city where you can hear music stands and take a ride on the low rider down the street. it is an experience that you can't have anywhere else in san francisco. [♪♪♪]

[♪♪♪] >> district nine is a in the southeast portion of the city. we have four neighborhoods that i represent. st. mary's park has a completely unique architecture. very distinct feel, and it is a very close to holly park which is another beautiful park in san francisco. the bernal heights district is unique in that we have the hell which has one of the best views in all of san francisco. there is a swinging hanging from a tree at the top. it is as if you are swinging over the entire city. there are two unique aspects. it is considered the fourth chinatown in san francisco. sixty% of the residents are of chinese ancestry. the second unique, and fun aspect about this area is it is the garden district. there is a lot of urban agriculture and it was where the city grew the majority of the flowers. not only for san francisco but

for the region. and of course, it is the location in mclaren park which is the city's second biggest park after golden gate. many people don't know the neighborhood in the first place if they haven't been there. we call it the best neighborhood nobody has ever heard our. every neighborhood in district nine has a very special aspect. where we are right now is the mission district. the mission district is a very special part of our city. you smell the tacos at the [speaking spanish] and they have the best latin pastries. they have these shortbread cookies with caramel in the middle. and then you walk further down and you have sunrise café. it is a place that you come for the incredible food, but also to learn about what is happening in the neighborhood and how you can help and support your community. >> twenty-fourth street is the birthplace of the movement. we have over 620 murals.

it is the largest outdoor public gallery in the country and possibly the world. >> you can find so much political engagement park next to so much incredible art. it's another reason why we think this is a cultural district that we must preserve. [♪♪♪] >> it was formed in 2014. we had been an organization that had been around for over 20 years. we worked a lot in the neighborhood around life issues. most recently, in 2012, there were issues around gentrification in the neighborhood. so the idea of forming the cultural district was to help preserve the history and the culture that is in this neighborhood for the future of families and generations. >> in the past decade, 8,000 latino residents in the mission district have been displaced from their community. we all know that the rising cost

of living in san francisco has led to many people being displaced. lower and middle income all over the city. because it there is richness in this neighborhood that i also mentioned the fact it is flat and so accessible by trip public transportation, has, has made it very popular. >> it's a struggle for us right now, you know, when you get a lot of development coming to an area, a lot of new people coming to the area with different sets of values and different culture. there is a lot of struggle between the existing community and the newness coming in. there are some things that we do to try to slow it down so it doesn't completely erase the communities. we try to have developments that is more in tune with the community and more equitable development in the area. >> you need to meet with and gain the support and find out the needs of the neighborhoods. the people on the businesses that came before you. you need to dialogue and show

respect. and then figure out how to bring in the new, without displacing the old. [♪♪♪] >> i hope we can reset a lot of the mission that we have lost in the last 20 years. so we will be bringing in a lot of folks into the neighborhoods pick when we do that, there is a demand or, you know, certain types of services that pertain more to the local community and working-class. >> back in the day, we looked at mission street, and now it does not look and feel anything like mission street. this is the last stand of the latino concentrated arts, culture and cuisine and people. we created a cultural district to do our best to conserve that feeling. that is what makes our city so cosmopolitan and diverse and makes us the envy of the world. we have these unique neighborhoods with so much cultural presence and learnings, that we want to preserve.

[♪♪♪] >> when i first started painting it was difficult to get my foot in the door and contractors and mostly men would have a bad attitude towards me or not want to answer my questions or not include me and after you prove yourself, which i have done, i don't face that obstacle as much anymore. ♪♪♪ my name is nita riccardi, i'm a painter for the city of san francisco and i have my own business as a painting

contractor since 1994 called winning colors. my mother was kind of resistant. none of my brothers were painter. i went to college to be a chiropractor and i couldn't imagine being in an office all day. i dropped out of college to become a painter. >> we have been friends for about 15-20 years. we both decided that maybe i could work for her and so she hired me as a painter. she was always very kind. i wasn't actually a painter when she hired me and that was pretty cool but gave me an opportunity to learn the trade with her company. i went on to different job opportunities but we stayed friends. the division that i work for with san francisco was looking for a painter and so i suggested to my supervisor maybe we can give nita a shot. >> the painting i do for the city is primarily maintenance painting and i take care of anything from pipes on the roof

to maintaining the walls and beautifying the bathrooms and graffiti removal. the work i do for myself is different because i'm not actually a painter. i'm a painting contractor which is a little different. during the construction boom in the late 80s i started doing new construction and then when i moved to san francisco, i went to san francisco state and became fascinated with the architecture and got my contractor's licence and started painting victorians and kind of gravitated towards them. my first project that i did was a 92 room here in the mission. it was the first sro. i'm proud of that and it was challenging because it was occupied and i got interior and exterior and i thought it would take about six weeks to do it and it took me a whole year.

>> nita makes the city more beautiful and one of the things that makes her such a great contractor, she has a magical touch around looking at a project and bringing it to its fullest fruition. sometimes her ideas to me might seem a little whacky. i might be like that is a little crazy. but if you just let her do her thing, she is going to do something incredible, something amazing and that will have a lot of pop in it. and she's really talented at that. >> ultimately it depends on what the customer wants. sometimes they just want to be understated or blend in and other times they let me decide and then all the doors are open and they want me to create. they hire me to do something beautiful and i do. and that's when work is really fun. i get to be creative and express what i want.

paint a really happy house or something elegant or dignified. >> it's really cool to watch what she does. not only that, coming up as a woman, you know what i mean, and we're going back to the 80s with it. where the world wasn't so liberal. it was tough, especially being lgbtq, right, she had a lot of friction amongst trades and a lot of people weren't nice to her, a lot of people didn't give her her due respect. and one of the things amazing about nita, she would never quit. >> after you prove yourself, which i have done, i don't face that obstacle as much anymore. i'd like to be a mentor to other women also. i have always wanted to do that. they may not want to go to school but there's other options. there's trades. i encourage women to apply for

my company, i'd be willing to train and happy to do that. there's a shortage of other women painters. for any women who want to get into a trade or painting career, just start with an apprenticeship or if you want to do your own business, you have to get involved and find a mentor and surround yourself with other people that are going to encourage you to move forward and inspire you and support you and you can't give up. >> we've had a lot of history, nita and i. we've been friends and we have been enemies and we've had conflicts and we always gravitate towards each other with a sense of loyalty that maybe family would have. we just care about each other. >> many of the street corners in all the districts in san francisco, there will be a painting job i have completed and it will be a beautiful paint

job. it will be smooth and gold leaf and just wow. and you can't put it down. when i first started, it was hard to get employees to listen to me and go along -- but now, i have a lot of respect. treasure island development authority board housing, infrastructure, transportation and sustainability committee. item number one. call to order. director sen. here. director. richardson. here. director. reif. absent. we do have a quorum. okay, so i just wanted to start by just saying. good morning, everyone. i know it is early in the morning. we take care of business. so, glad for those that are in the audiencean