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>> san francisco television. >> there we go. good morning and happy monday. welcome to our january 27th, 2025 rules committee meeting. i'm supervisor walton. i'm joined by committee members supervisor cheryl and we are waiting for president amanda men who will be here in a little while. >> our clerk is victor young and i want to 100% thank james kawana for making sure that this proceeding is covered by s.f. gov tv for the public. >> mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? yes. public comment will be taken on

each item on this agenda when your item of interest comes up and public comment is call please line up to speak on your right. alternatively may submit public comment in writing to either of the following ways. email them to myself the rules committee clerk at visy to your dot y o u and g at s.f. gov talk if we submit public comment via email it will be included as part of the file. you may also send your written comment by us mail to our office at city hall one dr. carlton v good that place room 244 san francisco california 94102. please make sure to sign into all cell phones and electronic devices documents to be included as part of the effort should be submitted to the clerk items act upon they are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of february 4th, 2025 unless otherwise stated. >> thank you so much mr. clerk and we are going to take a couple of these items out of order. >> we're waiting for president mendham in and we are also

waiting on sheriff miyamoto. >> so mr. clerk, why don't we start with item number three. item number three ordinance exempting midtown apartment parking apartments located at 1415 scott street from construction contracting requirements and administrative code chapter six but requiring compliance with the prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements of administrative code section 23.61 affirming the planning department's determination under ceqa and making findings of consistency with the general plan. >> thank you mr. clerk. and we have sheila nicholas gillis from mossad for a short virtual verbal presentation. >> yes, you have the floor. thank you. good morning, chair walton and supervisor cheryl. i'm sheila nicholas, director of policy at mossad. i'm here to present a request to exempt the midtown apartment park apartments from administrative code chapter six

chapter six requires the property owned by the city comply with contracting procurer rules for public work or other improvement projects built in 1964. the midtown park apartments is 140 unit family housing development that includes six separate buildings and is located in the western addition at the corner of geary and de visit arrow originally constructed by a private developer, the city acquired midtown park after the private developer defaulted on a hud insured mortgage. midtown park is one of the few affordable developments owned by the city. most affordable buildings are owned by nonprofit developers on land that's owned by the city but under long term lease midtown families are predominantly african-american and senior heads of household no major repairs have been made to midtown since the time of construction for example, the plumbing for the heating system still uses 1964 pipes. these old pipes have a buildup of sludge that impacts the boilers boilers typically have a useful life of ten years but due to the old pipes going into the boilers the useful life of the boilers is cut in half and property replace management has

to replace boilers every 3 to 5 years currently the property has 3 or 4 vacancies that are being held to allow for any required on site relocation of tenants while repairs are being made. so the reasons for this ordinance so midtown has critical urgent repairs and capital needs that include replacement of those boilers and the plumbing installation of a new roof installation of life safety improvements including a fire sprinkler system replacement of windows to address water intrusion and addressing the city staff soft story code improvement requirements the 20 2220 three budget included funds for upgrades to affordable properties like midtown. certificates of participation bonds have been issued to fund this work and imo city is expediting the process in order to address urgent repairs at miown typically major city funds, repairs and upgrades to its affordable housing portfolio through loans and grants to the owner of the building which is usually a nonprofit affordable housing developer. the building owner then contracts for construction services as well as tenant support services including relocation moving assistance

and translation. but because midtown apartment is owned by the city, we we need to request an exemption from chapter six requirements in order to contract with various vendors who have expressed specific experience working on tenant occupied rehabilitations with vulnerable communities. the waiver will allow the city to complete a broader scope of repair work at midtown more quickly than under the chapter six framework and note that all work will be performed usi prevailing wage and overseen by licensed construction manager. so we are requesting that the board approve this exemption for midtown park apartments from the administrative code chapter six. thank you. >> thank you so much. sheila, do you have any questions? sheila i do have one question. how will this provide for opportunities for local contractors? >> project manager will help address that question.

>> good morning, supervisor walter. good morning, supervisor. it is that we still have to do our folks rfp and have and meet the sba contractor requirement. even with the the even with the rehabilitation work occurring under the property manager got thank you so much and seeing no other statements from colleagues we will call for public comment on this item yes. >> members of the public who wish to speak on this item should line up at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. >> are there any members the public would like to speak on this matter? there are no speakers on this matter. thank you so much mr. clerk. no public comments. so this item public comment is now closed and i like to move that we move item number three to the full board with recommendation. >> yes, on that motion. >> vice chair cheryl sorry we

do not need a second at committee. i cheryl i management naps absent chair want in i the motion passes with member in being absent. >> thank you item number three moves for recommendation mr. clerk we are now joined by our sheriff. >> would you please call item number two? item number two is a resolution accepting the san francisco sheriff's military equipment use policy 2024 annual report and inventory approving the requests for purchase and use of additional equipment consistent with the criteria set forth in state law. >> thank you, mr. clerk and thank you for your flexibility. sheriff miyamoto, you have the floor now. good morning, chair walton and steve. member of the rules committee. happy to be here and thank you for the accommodation of moving

this forward on the agenda because i believe that it is very important that you have a full understanding of all of this related to our military style equipment usage that we've had and what we were asking for upcoming in the next fiscal. presentation is being assisted by captain khabib here who will also be available for any follow up questions on the items that we are showing right now in our presentation and try to be as quick as possible. however, please feel free to ask any questions as we go along this again is to seek approval for the following continued use of existing equipment from our original mi up from 2023 additional equipment to replenish that which has been used in 2024 and additional equipment to supplement that that is in limited quantity right now of our current inventory. we do have a request for approval for one new item that will be presented as well if we can go forward with this again these presentation moves are to

just give you a visual and to get you an understanding of the different items that we have on ami up list. i will go where there is applicable information be able to provide you with how many times we've used it throughout the past year. we're looking at calendar year 2020 for for usage up on the screen right now is an example of our unmanned aerial drones deputies who use this are actually required to pass fcc remote pilot certificate which is a license to be able to fly these we do this in conjunction with an auxiliary unit. our air squadron and for our deployments i believe our most recent one was the apec conference that was our largest event that we've covered with our use of our drones in conjunction with the law enforcement efforts of the san francisco police department and we have had numerous training

exercises but no other deployments since then. next slide our mobile command vehicle speaks for itself. it's an item which we are able to get out to a site whether it's a planned event or a spontaneous event■snd make sure that we have command and oversight of that with the use of this vehicle. we also have what we call a rapid response vehicle those are the two vehicles in our inventory for emergency response and emergency preparedness right now we have in 2024 three events which we call them out to and ten training events and exciting police. the following items i'm just going to go through just to give you an idea of the different things that we have that we use most of these have been used only in training context. this first item here breaching shotgun with the requisite ammunition was only used on one day of training throughout the year. next slide this next item here

are 5564223 caliber rifles and ammunition. these are deployed both with our special response team as well as our patrol units that are out there a total believe the total for that is 21 and 24 for the deployments and these are deployed several times they have not been discharged throughout and yes, to confirm we have 21 total srt and 24 patrol rifles currently in our stock. in addition to those types of platforms, we also have our sniper rifles and ammunition all on two separate events total ten training events by just the srt police diversionary devices otherwise known as flashbangs are part of our inventory. we have a number of high risk situations that we may or may not deploy these in. our only deployment for 2024

has been in training exercises. we did not deploy during any of our other call outs. we do take into consideration when we use these items additional considerations for the presence of elderly individuals children flammable or explosive objects. anyone with physical, mental or intellectual disabilities medically compromised people or non-speaking non-english speaking persons those are very careful considerations in our deployments which occur outside of our custody division as well as what happens inside of our jails as well as part of our planning process. and again we did not use any of these in any operations last year. next item please. >> chemical agents and launchers. so in addition to the pepper spray that all of us carry on our belts, we have the ability to deploy chemical agents through these devices. they're called launchers. we have different types which are all listed in our inventory

list. there has been no field deployment of these in the past year. these are used only during training. and i will touch upon that further down in the slides. in addition to that next slide please. we have what we call impact weapon launcher and less lethal impact munitions. these are basically rubber bullets that are used to make sure that we have intermediary use of force steps other than firearms and lethal to and potentially life threatening situations. the irwin is one of those items that we use. i believe that we use them in our training and we've deployed them in the field many times but they have not been fired at all in 2024 not currently in use or the items listed here as well. heckler and koch mp five and

glock 18 both of these items have the ability to go fully automatic and we do not currently deploy them or have used them in the past year. next slide please. kinetic breaching tool is an item that we have that's an alternative to other breaching methods the ones that we showed previously was the breaching shotgun. this is a tool that is specifically designed for breaching a locked doors or hinges. it's on order not currently in our inventory. >> and these next items here are items that we use to make sure that staff remain safe and we can get an idea of what's going on in a certain situation without having to send people in. one of one of which is called the recon scout. this recon scout that you see here in the image is an item that we actually phasing out of our inventory but it's currently in our inventory.

you'll see what we're phasing it out for in the next slide. but this item is basically a throw robot. we can throw it into an environment and get visuals through the use of video surveillance to know what's going on inside of that area. they have not been deployed throughout the year and i believe we've only used it for training in the past year. >> so our requests what's coming up now is going to be our equipment request for 2025. we want to make sure we replenish items used during the reporting period and we also want to make sure we supplement our limited quantities that we currently have. these equipment requests do include one new equipment request which is a chemical agent launcher which is a pepper ball viscous pro and ppc breacher. you can see both items pictured here. and these are basically platforms designed to launch an irritant similar to pepper spray from up to 150ft away. so instead of trying to get very close to an individual who

may be in crisis or a threat to the safety of others or themselves, we have these items which will allow us to deploy from a safer distance safe for both the individual and for our staff. excuse me. they're designed to break upon impact when hitting an impacting the body or target and they are designed to disperse the chemical irritant in a way that centralizes on the individual and not on the environment around them. definitely used to stop violent individuals people in crisis making sure that we have a tool which is more capable than our current inventory to disperse chemical agents. i know this is the newer item and it may be time to take time to take a look at that. so if you have any questions about that please feel free to ask. just as with our other platforms there'll be a requir just clarify?

it stres launcher than the other one. i think you said specifically you could target one person instead of an area. do i have that right? over why you're using this new chemical launcher versus the existing one. yes. this is as you can see if you can see on the platforms there's actually a targeting system there. a red dot system for us to be able to focus on one individual as opposed to dispersal of chemical agents to a larger area. it does help us with distance as i mentioned. so these items are this platform is something that can allow us to stay about 150ft away from somebody as opposed to having to get closer. thank you. again, certified training certified platform for only limited use of specify that individuals in our emergency services unit special response team people that have the training to use these items and next slide. i want to take a few moments just to go into the complaints

component of our process in regards to complaints and internal audits we rely on to a great extent on the department of police accountability. we partner with them to help us in regards to investigation of complaints. although we have an office of inspector general, they currently do not have any inspectors or investigators assigned to them. so we still rely on dpa to help us with that. for 2024 dpa did not receive any formal misconduct complaints regarding the use of our military equipment. the department itself did receive complaints numerous complaints from several community members in san bruno, california regarding an incident that occurred on may 21st of last year. that incident was a training exercise where members of the special response team were conducting chemical agent training out at our site at the san bruno complex. the dispersal of the chemical agents was affected by wind currents and carried over to a school in close proximity to

our to our location and we are in the middle of completing our investigation on that incident. we do have some preliminary reports that were generated by our administrative division but they are not completed as of yet. we have been working with the bay area quality management district in regards to follow up on that and we are also working on making sure that while one we stopped all of our training after that occurred we revisited our procedures and processes. we currently have a directive not allowing for any outdoor chemical dispersal for training usage anymore and we are not doing any of that training at the san bruno complex at this time. next slide this slide here just gives an idea of how we actually do process and accept complaints on any usage or any activities that we have to include usage of military style

equipment and as you can see from my previous report out, it was used very vigorously after our last incident on may. that's everything i have. hopefully i've covered all the information that you need and if you have any questions please feel free. thank you, sheriff momodu and you have any more questions? summarize here. i got a few questions. sheriff one i know you mentioned using certain weapons while sheriffs are patrolling. what areas of the city is the department patrolling right now? right now we have to our primary jurisdiction extends to well, it's county wide but specific to department of public health sites and facilities. so we operate on the three campuses that they are in control of as well as all the clinics throughout the city. we also have our field training program which takes care of the

civic center footprint here which takes care of responses to the clinics and other areas and our secondary operations right now that have our people in the streets is our operation safe streets which is in conjunction with the with the dimock operations, the drug market allied coordination center. we have currently one squad out for that performing patrol functions. >> and then how are the unmanned remote piloted vehicles any different from the robots that some of us at this body fought against previously ? two considerations on our inventory now and the inventory that we have requested in the past. they don't have any quotable abilities. we have live feeds from our current inventory not the ability to record and in addition t that they can't deliver anything. there's no there's no consideration for them to

deliver less lethal items or anything of that nature. they're strictly for observation and i believe that they have the capable lety to broadcast or issue public. speaker announcements. other than that though those are the only two things that they they currently do and then obviously i serve on the bay area air quality management district board and it was definitely disturbing to hear reports that we were training with chemical weapons outside and of course that elementary school was affected. where is the training happening now? >> previously during that incident the training was happening on the san bruno complex grounds. we had actually a training identify training area which is basically a connex box self-contained, had open doorways. the dispersal during that day on may 21st occurred when they discharged the chemical agent.

items and the doors were open as opposed to close as they normally are and that's why the cloud dispersed and went downwind to the school. >> and then how how does it happen that the doors were open? that's part of the yes, members of the public w wish to speak on this item investigation that we're should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will allowed two looking into. i believe that what we are the minutes. are there any members of the public who like to comment on this matter? investigation isn't complete. >> hello, my name is leah so i'm trying to be cautious mckeever. i live in d6 which is actually but i believe that our investigation will find that it part of the us the apec zone was an open air dispersal and that's the reason for that. that was all fenced off and usually we do open air dispersals with smaller amounts militarized and as a resident i felt it actually made my . i believe during that day there personal safety as a trans was a large amount of chemical agent that was actually used for the training exercise and that's what led to the effects bisexual person living in that area even worse. so me and my wife left town on the school where we're doing the training now. actually so i am not in favor we ceased all chemical agent training right now and we're of any further militarizing of looking into in closed areas with h back systems and any policing type departments

negative airflow capabilities for starters because they are not the military. so that we don't have that affect anybody on the outside with the military you have an enemy that you're using your anymore. >> thank you, chef. i don't have any more questions. weapons against and i feel like >> seeing no other questions from colleagues. >> let's go to public comment i am the enemy of the policing on item number two. departments here especially >> thank you. given the long, long history of the policing departments and how they use violence and brutality against people like me and many other people living in the downtown tenderloin. so my areas and beyond but i'm just talking about where i live as a resident stressful living. >> i have seen the further policing and militarization and clean street cleaning of the area where i live and it's just horrible. it's horrible. it has police everywhere. there's camouflage, there's guns, there's weapons flashing

lights all the time from vehicles parked where i live with the incoming i'm sorry the current federal administration. it also raises concerns of how these weapons are going to be used and maybe when orders are given that are in conflict with our constitution and city charter. >> so i would like that to be taken in consideration as well . >> are there any other speakers or so i'm just wondering about the new equipment request for the chemical agent launcher. >> would that be any chemical agent that the sheriff's office wishes to have or would that be limited to pepper spray or certain just like riot control agents or beyond right control agents? >> also perhaps it dismiss

something but if there is an ongoing investigation with damages from the chemical agent training, why would they be allowed to have a new equipment request that involves chemical agents actively? >> that's all. >> good morning supervisors. my name is on mickey. >> i'm a resident of san francisco. >> i am a civilian volunteer with a speedy for 14 years and i earned my masters in criminal justice at university of southern california and considered an academic expert in criminal justice. and i would like you to support our request of sheriff miyamoto because having tools and havin o keep sheriffs safe, officers

safe and the public safety and having options and having training in advance of incidents happening is the way we can keep our entire communities safe. >> thank you very much. are there any additional speakers? there are no additional speakers on this matter. thank you. >> no additional speakers. public comment is now closed. >> mr. clerk i'm going to move that we continue this item to next week for a few reasons. >> one i don't think it is fundamentally appropriate to approve items when we still have an investigation in place. but i do want to allow for a full committee to be in place before we actually vote on this. so i move to continue this item to next week's meeting. >> yes. and the motion to continue the

matter to february 3rd to rules committee meeting on that motion vice chair cheryl cheryl i remember management on the continuance amendment i chair walton i want deny the motion passes without objection. >> thank you so much. item number two is continue to. >> next week's rules committee meeting. >> mr. clerk let's now call item number one and welcome president madam. yes, item number one is ordinance amending the administrative code to create the cavalli entertainment zone on cole street between frederick street and parnassus street parnassus avenue and on carroll street between schrader street and clayton street. to delete the requirement that an entertainment zone event be a special event permitted or licensed by the california

department of alcohol beverage control and affirming the planning department's determination of california rental quality act. >> thank you president gentleman. thank you. chair walton welcome vice chair cheryl to to the committee. i apologize to both of you for my tardy arrival. >> the ordinance before you is simple but we're excited about it. it would establish a new entertainment zone in cole valley. we have seen what we saw during the pandemic. san francisco activated public spaces in new ways and in some ways i think this is a legacy of that experiment in california in san francisco and other cities in california and around the world we have now seen two entertainment zones established one on front street and another in the thrive city area area again to to allow act more activation on the street and better a better bigger

events to let folks enjoy themselves in in public spaces. this would be i think the first entertainment zone in more of a neighborhood commercial district we have and i think we may be hearing from some folks from coal valley we've we've talked with folks from the coal valley improvement association, coal valley merchants association. >> they are excited about allowing allowing an entertainm z festivals and night markets. >> and so this as easy as the entertainment zones do this would allow for the neighborhood to work with the office of economic and workforce development to come up with appropriate rules for for the for the for those events it would allow restaurants and bars to sell alcohol alcoholic beverages again at night markets and street festivals and that's another sort of post-pandemic i

don't know if learning or desire but to try to support these businesses that have continued to struggle since the pandemic and give them a way to benefit from the street activations that are that are going on and bringing folks so much joy. we have a few non substantive amendments that that we worked with deputy city attorney victoria wong on. thank you to her and i think those have all been circulated. i think our clerk has the maybe and i think members i've not i have copies and i will hand them out and then i think ben van houten, our director of nightlife initiatives is is at ewg is going to talk a little bit more about this. i want to for his work on this entertainment zone and others as well as kelly varian also at ewg. and then i want to thank calvin

and my office and i want to thank the merchants for being here as well as for their support. and with that being said, ben van houten great. thank you. president mandolin good morning chair walton vice chair cheryl ben van houten from the office of economic and workforce development. i'm going to do a short presentation on entertainment zones. this is i think the third or fourth piece of legislation before the board on entertainment zones. but it's going to provide a just a little bit more background to supplement what president mainland said. again, entertainment zones are areas designated by the board of supervisors through ordinances like this that allow adjacent restaurants and bars to sell open to go beverages for consumption in shared outdoor areas such as on a

sidewalk or a street or in a plaza within that zone. and again, as president allen said, these are tools to help activate streets with entertainment and really support community businesses in supporting community events to accelerate economic recovery and help our neighborhoods thrive. under state law only restaurants, bars, breweries and wineries can sell to go beverages for consumption and entertainment zone. this is not for liquor stores to sell to go bottles for consumption in the zone beverages must be served in a nonmetal or non glass container and there has to be a process in place to identify patrons that are over 21 and finally open beverages in the entertainment zone can't leave the zone and must also not be brought inside any business locally we develop a management plan for each entertainment zone that can have additional layers of operating requirements that are particular to the zone. so this ordinance kicks off a process and actually the

process that's already been underway with community stakeholders toçbalbo considerations around the zone and the management plan is is designed to align with other required permits street closure permits, other permits that are required. so we're not trying to reinvent the wheel here really just trying to add this entertainment in its own layer to support thriving events. and again this would propose the cavalli entertainment zone in the boundaries described in the ordinance that could only operate in conjunction with the street closure permit issued by mta again for the night markets and other events happening in cavalli and then also just a technical fix in the legislation to conform with state law prior to january first state law required that an entertainment zone event operator had to also acquire a one day abc event permit under sb 969 that senator wiener authored that is no longer a requirement in state law and therefore this ordinance

proposes to remove local references to abc event permits. this was a really duplicative layer of permitting that that required a that was not necessary and not aligned with the goals of entertainment zones. happy to answer any questions here but we appreciate this technical fix that will benefit all entertainment zones as well. and with that happy to answer any questions and thank you for the time. thank you so much. >> colleagues, any questions or statements? i don't see anything. >> so with that we will call for public comment on item number one. yes. before i call for comment i like to ask if the department rep can send me a copy of your presentation. thank you. yes, members of the public who wish to speak on this item should line up to speak at this time each speaker will be allowed two minutes. >> good morning supervisors. thank you for your consideration of this important matter. my name is dan sarratt and i'm the president of the coal valley merchants association. i'm also one of the owners of finnegans wake bar and coal valley and you know we know through our experience over the

years finnegans has been on coal valley since 1989 along with many long standing businesses on the street. we know we activate the street . it really brings the community together. it enhances business. it's good for our employees, it's good for our community, our children. and this legislation just gives us the option that if we have an event that we feel is appropriate for open container to be allowed, then we can activate it with you know, the passing of this legislation and then permission with ewg and all the permitting departments at city hall we performed outreach to the community in the form of we had a booth set up for about five hours during the holiday market we had on cole street on december was it december 5th december 5th and we had tremendous support with all the people we interacted with. we have support from the coal valley improvement association which is a homeowner's association that was formed in 1987 and they have about a 600

person group of members who they have a newsletter that they submit every quarter in their winter newsletter. they had a piece about the entertainment zones and we speak with the improvement association all the time and they attend our merchant meetings which we have once a month in coal valley. >> there's been no negative response from any of the community members. if anything their support. >> i also have a letter from the coal valley improvement association that should have been submitted. if you put it in the box in the site i will pick it up. thank you. okay. just to make sure that the supervisors have a chance to to see that that letter. >> so thank you for your consideration. >> good morning. my name is jim angeles. i am the owner of cavalli tavern and owner of bacon bacon and vice president of the cavalli merchants association and president mandolin. congratulations. thank you for your support. supervisors president and we

hope we still see you at our cvm meetings. we appreciate the work your office has done and calvin has been great in support and attending the meetings and i'm also a resident of cole valley. i've lived there since 2009 and i'm here in support of the activation. you know it's these events have been really impressive for the businesses of cole valley and with this legislature we think it'll be even have a greater impact. the businesses are struggling. you know we had a little boost in 2023 coming out of the pandemic but things have really tightened up. we still have some open we still have some spaces still for rent that are still sitting there and by giving the neighborhood and these blocks an extra boost would really have a significant impact. so i'm here in support of it. >> so thank you for your time.

>> are there any additional speakers at this time? there are no additional speakers thank you. see no other speakers public comment is now close present amendment any other comments statements? well i've handed out copies of the amendments. >> maybe i'll just walk through them for the record so we have that on page two line 17 to 19. the amendment would strike and all establishments holding permits or licenses from abc■ that are located on either side of said locations and then add and all premises specified in section 94 b point to see that are adjacent there two comma and then the other place where we would make a change again non substantive would be on in line 23 striking receive and adding instead take place in conjunction with so i guess i would move move that those

amendments. >> mr. clerk on the motion on the motion to adopt the amendments. vice chair cheryl cheryl i remember madam and madam and i chair walton all deny that motion passes without objection amendments adopted unanimously and chair i would like to move this item forward as a committee report would oppose recommendation as amended. >> yes on the motion to recommend as amended as a committee report. vice chair cheryl cheryl i remember amendment i amendment i chair walton i while deny that motion passes without objection. >> thank you adam one passes unanimously without objection. >> mr. clerk let's move to item number four, please. >> yes. item number four is ordnance. many of the administrative code to add the bay area law enforcement assistance fund to the list of organizations to which city officers and employees may make donations by payroll deduction.

thank you. and i believe we have sergeant ari howard or art howard art howard with the police department. my apologies. no, no worries. good morning. morning. good morning, supervisors. my name is sergeant art howard with the san francisco police department. i am the officer in charge of the behavioral science unit which is basically our peer driven employee assistance program. our responsibility is to help our members and their families access mental health resources both active and retired. i'm also part of i serve on the commission as a commissioner with the health service board and i'm the executive director of bay area law enforcement assistance fund, otherwise known as bay leaf. and today we're here to see if we can become a payroll deduction like the san francisco firefighters cancer foundation was made a payroll deduction about a year or two ago. like the firefighters cancer foundation, we got a significant portion of our

funding from combined charities ■h g combined charities with the employees a couple of years ago that really dried up our funding. and so you know, bay leaf was basically formed by our unit in the 1990s. our unit started in the 80s and then in the end it's recognized as a best practice in law enforcement in terms of mental health practices. in the 90s we realized we needed some extra support. there were some gaps that we needed. we filled so bay leaf was formed with active and retired some really good friends of law enforcement to basically fill in the gaps of mental health resources especially for our widows and orphans. what happens is when you're no longer city and county employee you no longer have access to certain mental health benefits. and so this was designed to fill that gap and then we've expanded the bay area wide on nine counties in terms of support. so if there's an officer killed in the line of duty anywhere in

the bay area, a check's cut immediately for that family within a week. so you know they can take care of some immediate financial expenses. one of the things that i think is really brilliant about bay leaf is that the board funds all the administrative costs themselves through their own donations. so 100% of the administrative costs are taken care of by the board. we have e. the hundred percent of the donations go to help people since 2000 since we started with combined charities till 2024 we've given away $2 million. so it's been really a great resource. all right. we're in good standing with the irs, the franchise tax board, california attorney general's office and the california secretary of state. we're 5a1c3. i would really appreciate your support to move this forward. i thank you for your time and attention. if there's any questions i'm here. >> thank you sergeant howard. colleagues, any comments, statements seeing none. >> mr. clark let's go to public comment on ite number four.

yes. members of the public who wish to speak on this matter should line would speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. >> good morning supervisors. my name is john mickey. i'm a resident of san francisco . >> i was a civilian volunteer with s.f. pd for 14 years and i've been a board member at bay leaf for the last couple of years. i was recently elected the vice president and i'm the only civilian not affiliated with law enforcement sitting on the board. this board is run with integrity and this board supports law enforcement individuals, their families and civilians who work for law enforcement agencies. >> and i think me was to really start building a bridge between the community and law enforcement so we could understand each other better, understand public safety issues ,understand the challenges of being in law enforcement and as

art said, fill the gap. >> san francisco's at the cutting edge of solving the challenges of law enforcement issues. but there's still work to be done and we really need your support. thank you very much. >> hello, my name is liam mckeever. >> i live in d6. i just think it's really sad the officers and other officers who are injured or killed in the line of duty have to be here begging for money to take care of their widows and family members and the gaps in mental health services. >> i think it's indicative of a general failure of our society to just provide that in general for every resident of san francisco. that's my take.

my name is john erlich. i'm the secretary of the bay area law enfme want to make clet we are not asking for money. we are asking for the ability to have employees from san francisco donate through charitable causes to our 5a1c3 or just asking for that possibility. thank you. are there any additional speakers on this matter? there are no additional speakers. thank you. seeing no additional speakers public comment is now closed and i would like to move item four forward to the full board o forward as a committee report? it's not in my notes but i don't see an issue with it. i don i believe it's on o for committee works for me. >> yes. item number four the recommendation to be

recommended as a committee report by cheryl. cheryl i remember amendment. all right. an i chair walton. all right. well, tonight that motion passes without objection. >> thank you. item four moves forward as a committee report. >> mr. clerk, please call item number five. item number five is a motion reappointing supervisor joann gaudio to the golden gate bridge, highway and transportation district board of directors term ending january 30th 1st to 2027 or the conclusion of the term as a member of the board of supervisors. >> thank you. colleagues, do we have any comments on this? seeing none we call for public comment on item number five. yes, members of the public wish to speak on this matter should speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. >> eileen bogan speaking on my own behalf as a long time district four resident. on monday january 13th i was in city hall during business hours.

i went to the district four office. the door was locked and the lights were completely dark. >> the same was true today and i took an image. >> there appears to be an issue with core functions in the district four office as mondays are prepped days for full board meetings. i would strongly urge the district for a supervisor to focus on these core functions and strongly urge him to reevaluate his seeking reappointment to the golden gate bridge highway and transportation district board of directors. >> i would also strongly urge the board president to evaluate the district for supervisors appointment to the board's budget and finance committee. this committee alone is a heavy lift not to mention members of the budget and finance committee are also budget and appropriations committee members do their project. projected deficit of up to $1 billion. this budget cycle will be more challenging than ever focusing on district for current core

functions. not to mention being distracted by the recall would make it even more challenging for anyone to effectively serve on the golden gate bridge. district as well as on the budget and finance committee. this is the equivalent of putting country over party. thank you. >> are there any other speakers? there are no additional speakers. thank you. see no additional speakers. public comment is now close and i would like to move to move this item forward to the full board as a committee report. >> yes and motion to recommend as a committee report vice cheryl cheryl i member amendment. i. i don't mean i chair walton i want tonight the motion passes without objection. >> thank you. >> item five passes without objection and mr. clerk. >> i am going to have to recuse myself from item number six. >> yes, i want to go over one

of the other members like to make a motion to recuse a member madam in makes a motion to recuse. >> chair walton. >> yes. and that motion to recuse vice chair cheryl cheryl i member my momentum and i madam and i walton recused are excused recused. that motion passes without objection. >> item number six motion reappointing servisor sherman walton to the bay area air quality management district board of directors term ending february 1st 2029 or the conclusion of his term as a member of the board of supervisors. >> if i can ask for your patience and your guidance here and guiding me through this first session as public comment, is there any public comment on this issue item yes.

>> are there any members who like to make public comment on this matter? there are no speakers on this matter seeing no public comment i would like to see if any of my colleagues would like to speak on this issue. >> i would like to make a motion that we forward item six to the full board with positive recommendation as a committee report. yes on the motion to recommend the matter to the board as a committee report on that motion. vice chair cheryl cheryl i remember madam high management i walton excused that motion passes without objection with chair walton being excused. >> thank you vice chair cheryl . mr. clerk do we have any more items on the agenda that

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plan for and thinking about every year as i'm working everyday and hoping not to work anymore but go around and introduce yourselves and then let us retired right now or like what kind of career and starting with crystal clear i'm crystal clear a fourth generation from california and in san francisco. identify himself is pronounced. one way san francisco i taught school educational system in the school indict and educated in san francisco and in 37 years and went to high school and married to my wife sidney and marveled

thirty years and several times because we didn't have the marriage take because of will you get and in cameron house i live currently in sunny does the fogist part of of the city and retired since officially retired from the school district in 2005 and done a lot of community work with the lgbtq+ and focusing on as i get older in intergenerational work trying to create a stronger community corporatively. >> did you like working with education. >> in the 7th grade had an

incredible teacher mrs. burke and from then on i know i was going to be a teacher in 7th grade i became a teacher so no time off. >> okay. dave. >> renderings david today is any one year anniversary of being retired. >> so last september when i retired after serving three presbyterian churches in san francisco and covenant presbyterian and the last one presbyterian church. i originally from colorado and raised our kids in denver but came to san francisco in 2020 went to the seminar to be a presbyterian minister and done that for the last years. >> before i came to

california. >> before i was a baptist minister. >>. thank you. >> jimmy how about yourself. >> i'm jimmy retired in the department of public health in san francisco and served as is deputy director of health and for a sponsor for hiv for all in my work as deputy i red in 2008, on a friday and monday started at nonprofit another executive director and for four years and came then officially retired retired in 2011, i served obtain community board's and active through retired and they don't seem healthy to me in a lot of ways i knew wanted to

be healthy i'm a first generation no my family and over 50 years in san francisco and went to la for 5 years. >> (laughter.) >> also. thank you. >> and linda how about yourself. >> good morning linda parker for l t b the founder i have been in california since 1981 came out for graduate school and in for 25 years since i got married i don't consider myself required i created my own business in 2006 and i do leadership development and consulting. and you know, i'm described as a trip threat i worked for apple computer as an

aide and then google when i was in any 40s. which made me a - only two powers of people and google were reporting american and some small percentage anyway, i was 0 unicorn and now i'm still doing my own business at my open pace doing the things i enjoy i serve on a few board's i'll claim as served on a number of board of supervisors over the years because i enjoy working with nonprofit organizations like goodwill and spent a lot of time at goodwill in the center and tried to be an point with my purchase serving admit people and helping people do what

necessary, do and my son is 21 so i learn a lot from him and on social media podium and now i use them god help me. you know, but somewhat row like it or not but have a son that age or child you feel this way too it keeps you current. that's me. >> thank you. >> so let's just start with an easy question. i think that you know, for me think whatever it is odd when i take a vacation i came back how will i get ready to retire to do what i want to do? i was wonde at what age or who moment you start thinking about whether it

is finance or health or like things you do when - that what time or age or moment you have when you think about retirement? >> anyone? >> i think for me it was a natural being in education every summer was a retirement and over september was a renewal so that i had the great principle and pleasure and not teaching summer school but enjoying life you know, progressives and my an ed psychiatrist and called the golden handcuffs because you have this job you work for a certain amount of time physically and emotional and supervisorial and thin you can relax for a couple of months

like a retirement and come back to say that gave me a lot of practice at taking time off and doing what i needed to do recharging and coming back. >> so you know, i have a different view i signaled about retirement i don't think i ever thought i'd retire someone tell me a long time ago livestock unfolds in three stages and lastly, to safety officer. i coming from school but being a lifetime learner transition and earn bucks and make money and help my family be comfortable i moved into service early in any career service is the work i do and it is you know, whether or not i don't get paid or not a reflection of change in my values how i want to show up in the world and serve and .

>> huh? and if someone wants to pay me that's okay. >> and later on you're working in a field and i came early my family is multi generational i had a wonderful cook was the first black women journalist and worked for the boys and graduated for the university of mini so the so i sat with her and spent the weekend with her and she was in her 90s and passed in when she was 98 she taught me about her life was that meant the impact of that that was her legacy i thought about what will be the legacy so put me on the path of this pretty early. >> for me, i had

(unintelligible). >> for my cousin and brother and sister work and came to and went to work (microphone distorted) always had a formation about work i thought about retirement seriously in 2008, and was in financial health eda is came out with that idea you were from the hi paid will give you three years in aid and three years of service i decided to retire in 2008, as of the offer but more - because maybe three years older gave more service i retired based on that fact and also knew that um, and public health was

hard the next a place was the health direct i knew that was not going to happen. >> as is i moved into my 70s a couple of years ago my wife of 50 years have you thought about retiring yet? i said no, i'm not ready to retire i feel like i have something to say still. writing a sermon every week for example, and also i don't know if i can afford so i'll keep on working until i can't anymore and one day i had a oh, huh? moment maybe i said what i had to say and consider setting that aside and not making that my

main thing but also, realized that in the time we left in my live things we wanted to do travel and seeing friends in different places around the world we have done a little bit before but want to do much more and shift gears and do those kinds of things. and so about a year about two years ago i started thinking more and more what retirement will look like and being at a financial thing the pension, benefits from my presbyterian church and social security and things like that and doing in on figuring out that and i think we can doe this and however like two weeks after i retired i missed writing so i

upgrade back to writing but also realized that i enjoyed doing what was was doing and right now that is temporary for the pa kind like the flexibility of this going to colorado in a couple of weeks and going to go to new zealand in the winter that freedom makes a big difference. >> i want to ask you know, obviously we're sort of after post covid when thatj1■ñ happent go obviously did that give you an inch to do more and maybe my health i need to slow down and not do as much. did covid slow down i know for my mom she was

like more fearless she's like i don't want to be occupied up and made many light bulb moment my life is shorter now and i should do more. >> well covid wasn't have that made me crazy i'm anyone that likes traffic and get out of country every year and i literally community-based nuts so the ability to traffic but i started taking long walks in the park near where i live in the bayview and kicking with nature and took up mediation the two things that saved me confined you know, would have been too much for me. >> i'm glad that is something

that is very popular. >> yes. >> covid for me really looking at what had is important in our lives and any mother um, was one hundred and 4 i - she was one of the pioneers and had to maintain her life she was independent until she was one hundred in check up walking around and doing her grocery shopping we had to visit her and help her out with groceries that made us less carefully we had to go out and no choice but started delivering my partner and i started delivering totes seniors and a lot of people were more

senior than we were we of the they needed the help and actually, we needed to do that and the fact we are very careful and therefore, be it resolved never caught covid 19 neither one of us did but able to take care of other folks we didn't stop but my mom showed us that you know, she was fierce in her on ways and lived life show kept going. >> for me, i run. so i had an opportunity to run in my neighborhood in outer mission and st. mary's park i run in that area and go run look the marina and got me out six the house and i got to know people

had the connection i run a few times a week and run 7 mile and so that for me is the way i dealt with covid by having been a health professional and working with hiv and aids i saw a lot of loss families destroyed in some cases so some way that is a - i was able to recognize what did i need to be helpful for other folks and take care of me when it comas to helping other folks i'm helping them and it is not about me by about them. >> i like what you say. >> i like what you say about getting out and running i hate running thou (laughter) but that's one of the things i realized and now in retirement

is i really got sedentary in covid and sat around a lot and today, i'm finding that hard to maturity myself to get out and do stuff let's take a walk well. okay. but when i do it i'm glad but having to unlearn that as well as that sedentary lifestyle. >> but the health identifying is very important and we have to pay attention to that no doubt about. >> that taser into a what i was going to say one of my coping thing is music i started a church, i went to church and was the one that was singing that day she sank we can be kind. and so i started play

list called we can be kind so the music is note just the music i sing but also i have but with 24 plays listed one is room makes sense and resistance and one is sexy whatever. but anyway, i find i love to sing and caps to the music and reminds me when i was a teenager in the song and now, whatever we connect to my heart and my memories and the words of the music i think is good because i understand people with dementia can play and song and will remember the words; right? and the mules memory of the brain i think the music and the rediscovering music and reclaiming it in my life was

huge and got me off the couple i didn't care before if people were looking at me before. (laughter). >> that's serious. >> one of the things we need th part of the seniors drumming group i am we started zoom in covid but you can't drum during covid you're off and nobody can hear you, we met in the park and 10 feet away from each other and 20 people drumming that is the cne with people the we're far away and keep a distance really kept us going and in a year we began drumming in the park that was really, really wonderful and kept us sane actually. >> that is interesting that

like i guess you know, we're hearing stories that made you help more people during the time like you know, downtime versus like i guess the notion that we need to help you know, the older people during covid and actually you stepped out and and you're t me but everything else and it is good you do that. >> one of the most important things health wise to be with people. loneliness will be continue to be a really, really bad thing for our society and in america. more and more people are living by themselves without connections to other people and we need to find ways to get out of that kind of thinking and with people despite our concerns

about infection disease the downsize to that to that. >> and a - and the - about $24 million a year to nonprofits in san francisco and population is interested in serving older adults we have articulated that population and one of the reasons you said a was welcomeness and isolation and how to help others and providing nonprofit with the resources and some of the nonprofit we funds are doing emergency generational work it is critical for seniors to have interrelationships to the community and for folks to get resources available from us

and really have to say we have to sort of push back against the devices (laughter). you know, caterer us to kind of existence i'm not sure wasn't the solutions are to that. i get sucked into that really easily so how we can do the community in spite of our devices or incorporate them into our lives. >>i want to build on what you said the community because they need to be together is critical and i was conscio of kind of being with my tribe you know, whether that was with my church group or my community groups you know, that i am with. and you know, for better or worse

helping each other we are all in the together for the families i was conscious of you know, keeping our eye on that on my family and you know, my sister one of my sisters has not come through as well, not coming out of the house and she's literally angled 10 years in the last two years of the pandemic. and so i'm conscious of everyone's mental health and the need you call people randomly three years but i pick up the phone and call them now to reconnect and check own all of that i think the conscious rebuilding and row claiming of our community and i know i refer to them as my tribe for whatever reason it is critical coming. >> i'm curious like do you all

have subcontractors with other people regularly lying share whether that is personal stories or advise or more keeping with people. >> absolutely most of my work is gotten ordinarily working ha intergenerational work it is important if i'm aging physically can't do things i mean, we have a daughter that is thirty and as many young people are doing but all my political work and community work is intergenerational and a conscious effort to do that and we learn from each other and especially for e pi young folks need to see they're future can be positive and as elders in the community we're not we are

people see continuous and support and advise and listen and intergenerational work it is building community to cross over and help each other as elders and thanks or things to share a all the technology things i don't know i'm asking how do you do this? so■c really, really crucial for our survival. >> which was the google a woman over 40 in 2007 i started there and i was on used to be the younger permanent; right? but there was the early and the

group. people over 40 so i had to learn really quickly a crash course in how to stand back and um, be okay with a tower-year-old telling me what to do; right? and i'll say in general you know, please don't tell me what to do i've been around long enough to know what to do but you know, whateve when we think they came out of schools i can learn something in the folks the i thought i hired me for my experience and worrisome and in google nobody looked like me but since then wonderful to have done the work, work in cross generations and having a 21-year-old son was way

a baby boermz but now i'm focused own young people the the other day there was a young african-american woman at another table so fm was getting up to go and this older woman f (laughter) limiting go over they're just to get to know her i feel i - we need each other; right? i know i need the i don't want to put words in your mouth full energy and so i thinking about my son. >> (laughter.) >> yeah and yeah. so, anyway that is really i cherish and a cherish kind of butt the might about elders and you know, one ev my son is surprised i say

yeah on my play list and technology i'm always training people in my age group whatever the thing is to get more experience i like modern elders. >> one of the things i think i like about being a senior that i so we have worrisome a life of experiences and i thought about what those experiences mean not just experienced it took a lot about what any life is and find myself writing my memory jars but given all that i realize i have a lot to learn and to have an attitude of continually learn and not just sort of sitting back and

saying i can get but for must new but having go curiosity to learn and the challenng assumes that you know, that i've you know, thought i knew that maybe i don't know but continuing to learn. >> significant thing. >> i was going to ask linda i'm curious were you always out going or talk to strangers before or is that something at an age i don't care what people think of me anymore (laughter). >> what's the benefits of getting older he grew up she i wouldn't talk to strangers and strangers or whatever but at some point i slipped by certainly i got in any 40s and

now, whatever that i want to talk to last night - and you know, you know what that is why i guess part of the essence of life as you get older you're titled to that; right? and people like tony morrison and people you know, just who they are; right? and maybe that came with their age and being elder so i should mention people that are story tellers their life and connect with them and you know, i had those models. >> (multiple voices.) >> and when we approach as elders they sort of see us as harmless. >> right. right (laughter). >> that's true someone is sitting there and- >> (multiple voices).

>> coming up to take. >> you're■wa much more open t >> my mother was like i said passed at 1 hundred and 4 but a curious person with her life and always said she may with living in north beach the first chinese person an open authoritative but because she was curious this was a really modeling for myself and i feel like elders we just have a we're able to approach 0 anyone and hey how are you? and they're open to take with us.

>> i think for me my challenge and career forced me to be a more public person and away from work i became more quiet and less engaged. so this pierson of being in the room and doing what i needed to do and saying what i needed to do and after a speech people will come up and start talking to me and forced me to engagement and that work into my life i became more and more willing to talk to folks because they didn't know me. and when i was doing my that public health work and - but i a group of people sometimes large and maul groups of people i needed to

engage with them. >> which i found myself doing from the pull petty had things to say to people and i learned how to be you know, a public person with whatever congregation i was working with but sometimes would hold back in the morning that kind of thing and it takes a lot of energy to be up front you know, and so but then once i would get through it reluctance to be engaged always wonderful conversations that people seem to joy. seems even any grandchildren bus that's pretty rare they enjoy my conversation (laughter). >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> okay. so i want to kind of

do in rapid fire questions with short answers or kind of short comments shot out questions to you guarantees. okay. so one question is you guys regret not taking more photos or videos not having great memories documented. >> i have to st out. >> i yep. >> i wish i had taken more of those days you know, and digitally preserved with film cameras. >> yeah. about you guys sleep less and do like what you try to use more time to do stuff. >> it takes more time. >> i sleep more. >> i take a nap every afternoon

(laughter). >> yeah. >> huh? >> that's great. do see the term seniors or he recalls negative or norm? >> i'm not crazy about the terms but, yeah yeah. >> i agree with that and i'm a modern early which the thing i'm embraced the term he recalls. >> and part of what i am. >> with that do you like to use your senior ask for a senior discount. >> no way (laughter). >> absolutely and what age and what- >> (multiple voices). >> you know. >> (laughter.) >> that's right take my 10 percent. >> do you guys expect people

to kind of give i more respect now you're older like how to listen but there's a seat there and they should get up or open the door for you things like that more respect. >> no, no. >> this is california. >> (laughter) that's a regional thing. >> i'm on the bus someone gets off their seat i'm offended. >> (laughter.) >> you know, i say no i don't need it (laughter). >> i'll take the seat- >> (multiple voices). >> thank them but. >> younger people but don't want them to offer it to me. >> i offer it to older people. >> and birthdays accompany do you have celebrations for each birthdays. >> i'm having two parties 0 would think in southern california and one here.

>> (laughter.) >> 75 a landmark for me. >> (laughter.) >> i have a party every year sometimes in new york or mexico last year. >> i do every 35 years now they don't mean that much laughter. >> that's a party. >> i mean do you think that acknowledging this is good or bad hindrance or - >> i think a hybrid is good people connect through the pandemic and items if we if have you know, zoom and face time and things of that nature we feel isolated but i can call or face times someone across the world and say hello. >> you know, and it is not a big deal i can do it earlier i

agree with three it's good i mean, i guess i get confused my 13-year-old granddaughter no, but that's a good tool. >> my mom had church at one hundred and 4 without leaving the house so attend church on sundays that is really good for her. >> silicon valley and apple and google? addicting it is a downside but putting that it brings us together but is distracts for the notifications but a i see scary i'm trying to stay ahead of that. >> the last one do you think about like your health everyday

like the meals you eat? i don't know the way you move about you know, your day is that like every single kind of step you think about it or month when something happens you'll figure it out. >> i pile there if moving i w know, i'll stop moving. i think that to me heavily into ti which he and i feel it is need to do that and keep on moving otherwise i'll stop. >> i have two hip replacements one on each side and as soon as as i get back to running that is important friends in my age group we do 5 minutes and after that (laughter). >> we have to do something

else. >> i'm aware i'm moving more slowly. i don't have as much flexibility as i used to have so i'm trying to - i'm aware of that and trying to move more deliberately. and then also around eating my wildlife's are deliberate how we eat and thinking much more carefully about the nutrition and we pay attention to that. >> the one thing about the. >> well, do nuts (laughter). >> and i'm kind of everything hurts but- >> (multiple voices). >> i community-based what that didn't hurt yesterday why is it hurting today? as we're dancing or whatever it didn't hurt but once you stop yeah. >> so another topic i want to

talk about for me and my culture i know you'll take care of my mom and i am right now but wondering for you who have kids when you were i guess getting up to the retirement or now are you hoping to expect you're kids will take care of you when our older or a hindrance for them to take care of you and trying to figure out a way they won't have that not a problem but a task in our lives how do you feel about that and i don't want my son to take care of me i expect to provide for my niece i don't want to sadly him with that and want to be able to dance at his we can do better or we're

adjourned and if he gets a academy awards he'll help. >> i work with kids in my life and my wife and i have talked about we know we want them in our lives but set up our lives financially we hope we don't need them we'll be able to take care of ourselves and live on our own and t though, come and visit us sour grandkids. >> i feel the same way but 76 years with my enemy which was an incredible experience. and again, i said at one hundred she was still. >> at one hundred and three (unintelligible). >> (laughter.) >> but she taught up us to be independent but i knew

culturally was a gift to take care of her and i want to have my daughter have the independence and trying to set it up we don't have to be. >> you never know you can't plan for that. >> i have 4 kids that live in various country we talk about buying an r v and spending time at each kids highway in the driveway and they say dad that joke is getting really tired laughter we don't ids are to be close to them they can come and see us, we spend our times with friends and have our kids and grandkids in our lives but not relying on that in that

sense. >> so uk i guess i want to ask this as well as far as a topic of like come to your mind like revisit you because of friends or oat family are passed away is that on your mind kind of often or not oven at all? >> every funeral at everyone i learned so much from that legacy i love to hear the stories and talking about the person and celebrated so that's how i processed that i don't think about my own debate but celebrate people what though attributed to the wor and i get good are death.

>> i think about my own death celebration my mom we celebrated her life and have several friends on the verge of transitioning but they have taught me that in life i live life until you transition you're not dying i have a celebration you know, we have drag shows and have parties and have like celebrations drumming and i think that is you know, celebrating our lives and before we transition. >> i have to say had i contemplated the idea of retiring one little calculations how many years to do those other things. and retirement will food me so i have been thinking more about when will i die? but yo-yo

want to spend the rest of my life getting ready to die but being engaged in the living and new experiences and will not jump out of open airport or par shutting but i want to living is the significant thing and not just the design. >> i like it reflection my work in hiv and aids spent a lot of time talking about the little things as as opposed to dying i'm ready and continue to be living apartment the quality but not dying but living. >> and we're really, really principles at it table we have a financial resources in education and language and the situation but we can do what we want to

do. so many he recalls and seniors you know, that don't have that. and that's where we focus a lot of our attention others can make the choices we make because they're not in our situation. and people's lives maybe be fairly stable the medical thing hits and it's devastating my friend will have to spend his life in a facility and- >> (multiple voices). >> but its costing them thousands of dollars a month and it is financial butcher is serious. so our healthcare system can an fixed up a little bit better (laughter) and i agree. >> (laughter.) >> i want to quickly mention a tv show about this man that

studied whether that is a high concentration of people living around the older so found 5 places and i only got through two episodes and italy and loma linda and what are the rituals and how are they doing that caused that and coming up with i highly recommend watching it is spirlg i learned about things i can shift with my mind set things. >> we saw last night too. i don't know what podium it is on but result is facilitating and oc no was over one hundred.

>> music was incredibly important part of her life and continues to play and think and keeps you going. >> and people were walking up steps; right? >> (multiple voices) (laughter). >> walking up and down north beach everyday, everyday. >> wow. >> and linda was talking about the legacy leaving it and other milestones that your trying to community church or i feel like for me when i say and talk to my friends and imperative or enemy whatever any milestoneyou're trying to achieve in the next 10 years. >> a bunch of criticize i want to go to and the big thing to do my memoirs and got to get my

memoirs and my friend says to write my memoirs. >> there's a lot of places we want to visit and have friends in various places of worlds and saw them once 20 year ago and want to see them again but the thing i found the writing was important part of legacy thing i start writing down my life. my working title my life but also realized used to have is experiences need to get back to the history of things going on and in chicago in 1968 and what things were happening and recommending it and - but part of it say, i want to pass it on leave a legacy for my grand children and great grandchildren

that is the life i lived and don't want to leave it but that's what happened (laughter). >> for me, i have a bucket list of travel and absolutely want to go to africa i want to go to africa and go to ghana through the don't ever no return it is important for spiral kind of way to know that my ancestors went through that door and literally turned i wanted to go through the door of no return. and who made it and we survive. >> i guess mine is simpler i want to see the northern light and want a grandchild that is far away i'm already seven 7 my

daughter has no interest at all that but i'm interested in my grandkids i was 50 before had we adopted our daughter from an older parent and we have friends with grandchildren and great grandchildren at the end of the day, if if i go to bed happy and consent and have a connection with friends and family and joy know i've done the best i could that's my milestone. >> jimmy you mentioned wanting to go to guatemalan in a - i came back in 2020 and 6 weeks

later we were in lock down and thank god i went to guatemalan in a and discovered so many things the feeling of seeing people that look like me and have been to beautify music and clothing and just the sense of purpose and close to your here's and americans are a exodus livestock their best lives beating cancer and, you know, having a baby and up and running 7-year-old you know, that's the baby but anyway, that i couldn't do but i'm saying reconnecting was amazing i hope to make that trip to georgia in a soon.

>> and lastly for someone i'm in any 40s and is there anything you share to me as advise for my next how many years what i should? any advise for me, i'm sure i can apply it to people younger than me. >> be curious be about new things and being willing to embrace new ideas. i find that is really is invigorating and keep drumming. >> (laughter.) >> yeah. >> (laughter.) >> i agree with that stay curious and like keep on swimming swimming in neuro

month. >> thank you. >> if you think that is possible go for that go for that and whenever you go and whatever you achieve will be yours. >> continue don't be afraid to make a major change in our life i decided to become a presbyterian minister at the age of 50 and wonderful 2 plus years and best things i ever did and put aside what i did before that but i think willing to do thing embrace new things at whatever age is a good thing. >> and the last thing to know who you are and who you are all

the time and people from a young age trying to figure out who am i and the sense you are and that; right? and if you want everyone around you to be you. that's where all the joys is. >> engagement is critical energy and family whatever be games spiritual and even with grujz we think we'll get over them (laughter.) >> sometimes you have to let things go a family member in work anymore let it go and say. okay. >> that's■- the way what it i >> thank you so much for coming today and i feel like learning and hearing your stories your

life stories is encouraging and people say that it has more meaning what they've done it themselves and what they've done in life and very super inspiring to hear from everyone i'm super, super glad. >> thank you for sharing our stories. >> thank you. >> a new community. >> a new tribe. >> yeah.

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