workforce development how to help more trained workers would our industry want to help raise the awareness of those organizations so our members know hey this is a place we could go and find a cook find a things to. >> my sidewalks previously i did 10 years in federal penitentiary i was released into prison and that's how i got introduced with that so to chat they said apprenticeship they taught me to leave the program and i found multiple jobs and owe that to everything i learned here in. >> no wrong donor i feel your department has done is great job throughout the workforce developmenhere.

>> we're going to get going right now. >> yeah, my name is steve adamy and i wanted to thank you for attending this morning's rally to support mayor lurie's phenomenal state of emergency legislation. >> over the past decade parts of our city have become unrecognizable. san francisco was once known as a beautiful city for families, businesses and tourists. today we're known for open air drug markets, public drug use, overdose deaths, encampments and boarded up businesses. >> the mayor's legislation is going to give him the tools to be able to clean up our streets and support people struggling

with homelessness, addiction and mental illness. it's a great honor to introduce the host of today's rally my friend and peer gina mcdonald. >> hello everyone. thank you for coming. sorry, let me set that down. this is going to be short and sweet. i want to thank everybody for joining us today especially where larry who put forth this legislation and co-sponsors supervisor dorsey supervisor moon supervisor cheryl supervisor sauder and supervisor and cardio i stand before you today as not only a person in recovery and an

advocate for recovery but as a mom who's had to deal with the gut wrenching pain of not knowing if her child was alive out here on these streets for too long. we've seen people suffering in the name of compassion and body autonomy and it has to end. >> we believe that this ordinance this fentanyl state of emergency emergency ordinance is a state of emergency. it's a five alarm fire that needs to be mitigated did and we 1,000% support mayor larry and the supervisors in bringing this forward. and we hope all of you will join us and give public comment afterwards. thank you. just i'm doing well.

>> good morning, everybody. thank you all for being here. thank you for organizing. >> i'm honored to stand with the dedicated community leaders, activists, law enforcement and elected officials who are taking action to address the fentanyl crisis. >> two weeks ago i introduced my first major legislative proposal the fentanyl state of emergency ordinance. and today we stand united in our belief that we must treat this crisis like the emergency that it is. since taking office i have visited sixth street a number of times and just last week i

walked through the tenderloin with supervisor mahmud and we encountered a woman that we both know and we both know quite well. i've seen her on the street for years. she's struggling with addiction with no clear path to treatment. and this story is not unique. it is happening all across our city. >> but we can no longer afford to look away. i entered this mayor's race not as a politician but as a dad who couldn't explain to my kids what they were seeing on our streets. people in san francisco are suffering every day that we don't act is another day of life lost to addiction to overdose and to despair. our response must be just as urgent as the crisis that we are facing.

>> what we are doing is not working and we all know it. we need a comprehensive approach one that includes public safety, expanding treatment, increasing shelter capacity and addressing the behavioral and mental health challenges that are holding people back from recovery. we also need to hire the public safety and behavioral health professionals. with your support we will bring the full force of our cities resources to bear on this crisis from the beginning of this process we have worked closely with our colleagues and partners at the board of supervisors. it is a new day of cooperation at city hall and we might not always agree on every detail but we will engage in the spirit of collaboration and work together to find common ground. i want to thank my co-sponsors

supervisor dorsey and guardian cheryl mahmud and senator, thank you. all right now. >> i also want to thank president mailman and supervisor chan for their partnership. but most importantly, i want to thank all of you the community leaders, the advocates, the families, the organizations on the front lines of this fight. you are the ones who are showing up who are demanding action and who have stood with me for the last year while i have said this and i will say it again today. san francisco is no longer a place that you come to deal drugs or to do drugs on our streets. >> get it together. together and only together can we make a difference and

together we can save lives. thank you for being here today . all right. >> good morning, everyone. showing up. good to see a lot of good people out here today. and when the recovery community is called, they show up. >> it's time now san francisco to be able to look at this. we have to stop playing political football and ideology on people's lives. there's been enough suffering that has happened in this city and it's time for it to stop. and we will stop it today because i see a collective of people together that want change in this city. i see people in their eyes, in their gleam in why are you here today? because you want to see and do something different. and the way we do it different is being able to stand together, stand tall with one

another to be able to make the change we have seen the mothers that have been suffering. we have seen people countless people dying from drugs and alcohol. and today we're going to stand here. we're going to go on that board of supervisors as is chambers. and we're going to have our voice be heard. and it's going to be heard collectively as one to make a change in this city. in the 60s they had a movement called the black power movement which was about collective sustainability people standing together as one. and they called to choose that and call it nation time. and it's nation time now for all of us in san francisco because we cannot in san francisco set an example for the country and the world. if our own house is dirty, it's time to clean up this house. and then we can make a difference in the city and the state and the nation. it's nation time brothers and sisters.

it's time to do it. >> time for change. think everybody. i'm supervisor matt dorsey and i just want to ask how many of my brothers and sisters in recovery are here today out and proud. >> thanks so much. it's so moving to see this. but now i want to talk about the center part of the audience participation portion. how many of us have lost a friend or loved one in the last few years to a drug overdose? a lot of hands up here. many of you know the story of why i'm here, why i'm on the board of supervisors, why i ask for a job i frankly never thought i would want let alone have because when i served in the san francisco police department during covid there was a meeting that i took part in every month representing s.f. pd with officials from the department of public health and the office of the chief medical examiner to preview the monthly

report on how many people died of drug overdoses the month before and month after month. i looked at a number knowing i am one bad decision away from being there and at a time when everybody was paying attention to covid and nobody was paying attention to a drug overdose crisis that was literally twice as deadly, that was why i asked for a role on the board of supervisors in city hall. and i am so grateful that city hall and mayor lori are paying attention today and bringing solutions as big as the problem. and i am proud to be a co-sponsor and i want to express my gratitude to mayor lori. thank you so much for your leadership and also to my co sponsors, supervisors and cardio. cheryl mahmoud and who am i missing for? >> and all the other groups in my own will also want to give a shout out to the laborers local 261 who do the work to keep our city safe and clean.

and as we talk about doing what we can for drug free sidewalks and ending the phenomenon of public drug use in san francisco, they're doing the hard work and i am so grateful for the work that you're doing . salvation army and all the other other drug rehab programs and the work you're doing. so salvation army stop crime s f everybody. thank you so much. let's get it done. >> thanks. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. come on up. >> so first off i want to give a shout out to everybody who's out here on recovery harbor lights one little y'all keep your head up. >> i want to thank you. i want to thank the mayor for looking for this legislation. this is real. this is god's real movement. >> he's running through this brother right here. so let me get straight to it. i was a drug dealer on sixth street, daniel lord. >> i was a drug dealing entail

i probably sold some dope to sony y'all but let me get straight to it. you know how they say don't hate the player, hate the gang ? well, you know what i'm i hate to play it because this ain't no game no more. this is real, y'all. you got people out here who look like it's the night of the living dead. we got two people out there who is the walking dead and it cold poor about it. it's the folks in our people we work with the kids and when the kids got to see needles and people bent over half dead we not having dan this a responsibility we got to ask people that's why i shouted out number one the people for harbor lights man you guys are standing tall represented our right to choose barbecue over mildew any time i'm talking about life over death you ain't got to just be getting high.

>> it's everybody around you who's dying when a kids is walking down and they see you bent over they looking at life dying in front of their yard, you take away hope from the kids and so it was our responsibility and our duty to stand banner the stand behind our mayor and all these legislators when they bring in a policy to change what's going on out here because when i say yo man, people need to get a rest, they say rudy, you trippin. you've been locked up too. i'll say, yeah, that's right. but these folks are not getting arrested. >> they get rescue. that's right. >> and we got to go hard in the paint if we going to do some hard out here on the streets. and so i thank you dan you lord our mayor for having enough courage and being bold to say, you know what? enough is enough because i stand with anybody, man who wants to bring life. that's what i'm about. i'm the real player. i'm a you're not a player. like i said, i bring soup of

others, i bring males, i bring the homies, i bring everybody together the women because guess what? the fed no you don't give a f of you black you white or you peppermint stripe young oh whatever you hit that yo is out back. thank you guys. morning everyone. my name is belal mahmood. i'm the supervisor of district five which covers the district from the tenderloin all the way to the. >> i'm also a resident of the tenderloin who hears from the seattle. yeah. for those who live in the teal it's a community. it's a community of immigrants and refugees of families and children. >> there's over 3500 children who live in the teal that's 3500 children who go home from home to school and school to home every day having to walk by street conditions of people suffering on our streets or drug dealers that are making

our streets unsafe as well. that is not the community the neighborhood that these people who have come here for a better life deserve or need. and that's what our legislation here today is is to claim is that no longer with the tenderloin be used as a neighborhood for drugs or for drug dealing and that's what we are here to do when the mayor alluded to a walk we took earlier last week where we met people across the neighborhood, small business owners what you didn't see on the cameras though was his compassion and his empathy. he talked to small business owners when the cameras were rolling. he talked to people suffering on the streets when the cameras weren't rolling. >> and what i saw represents what this legislation also represents. he showed both compassion and accountability and he also sure showed a forward looking progressive vision where he's not going to let government get in the way of outcomes. this federal emergency ordinance cuts the red tape to ensure that the shelters we

need to support those who are suffering on our streets can be built as fast as possible wherever they may be. this legislation cuts the red tape to ensure that we are able to fully staff our police department to hold the drug dealers accountable who are preying on the vulnerable on our streets. and that i want to commend again the mayor and the respective board of supervisors who are co-sponsoring for creating not letting government get in the way of its people and getting actual outcomes that this neighborhood has deserved for so long. i as i mentioned, this neighborhood is a community of families and immigrants and children and small business owners and there's no one who i feel represents that better than our next speaker as elina from his holiness. >> so thank you for being. hi my name is asa lena and i currently operate my business in tenderloin seeing what is happening on the street out in public. it's not only heart wrenching

but it's definitely upsetting. we can't continue normalizing our streets for public addictions and overdose treatment is needed and policy needs to change. >> we can't afford permissive behaviors that impact negatively on quality quality of life of others. >> as a woman, as a mother and a small business owner, i urge everyone to work together to resolve this issue and not keep creating a new experiment and roadblock that continues on cycles that allow people to die on the streets. >> let's give families and children's in these neighborhoods a clean and safe streets so they can experience a simple life pleasure of getting ice creams at the corner stores and walking with freedom to the playground. >> no more containment zone in

a densely populated low income neighborhood. mayor luis fentanyl emergency ordinance is providing that first step in right directions and to ensure safety in revitalizing in the total financial and shopping in san francisco world class music and artistic rescue has been in the video coming out city supervisor and guardian did go baby go horn. hello i'm joel and guardian i represent the great sunset district proud to be here proud to stand with everyone here to address the fentanyl crisis. i have a very simple message to address the fentanyl crisis it requires bold and swift action. but first we need bold and swift changes to the bureaucracy t gets i the way and that's why it's important that we support mary louise ordinance to streamline

the pathways to solutions so we can treat fentanyl like the emergency that it is. so thank you for being here. thank you for joining in the fight to make sure we have safe and clean streets and that we can create our best san francisco all right. good morning everyone. i'm steve and cheryl representing district two here in the greatest city in the world and thank you to all of you for taking the time to show up and be here today to be a part of this community today and every day it speaks volumes to the urgency of this moment. >> but before i want to go any further, i want to thank the people the incredible people in the organizations that made today possible to mothers against drug addiction and death. gina specifically thank you for organizing this and thank you for your tireless advocacy to mayor lori for your leadership and for not only listening to but responding to calls for action. to cedric steve rudy as selena tom your voices, your stories,

your commitment inspire us all and my fellow supervisors hr's dorsey, mahmoud souder and gaudio collaboration will be necessary in every step we take and i am proud to join you in this effort. >> we stand here today because san francisco is at a breaking point. the fentanyl crisis and it is a crisis is a public health emergency that has devastated too many lives and touched every corner of our city. every one of us has seen or felt its impact on our streets, in our neighborhoods and with our family and our friends. this is a crisis of addiction. it is a crisis of safety. it's a crisis of opportunity and it is a crisis of our community. we cannot afford to treat it with half measures or delays. today we're here to say enough is enough. >> i'm proud to stand with mayor lori and my colleagues to support this fentanyl emergency

package and it isn't just another proposal. it is a call to action and san franciscans demand action. it is a comprehensive plan that strengthens enforcement against drug trafficking and it expands the drug market agency coordination center and it cuts the red tape and removes the bureaucratic barriers that have slowed our response for too long. but this plan goes beyond enforcement. it is about recovery. it is about selling breathing recovery. we are a city that will celebrate recovery and we will support our recovery community in their efforts to stabilize people suffering from addiction and to start their path to healing. >> this package is about giving resources care support to people who will reclaim their lives and build a better future free from substance use disorders. in all my conversations with these leaders and advocates and department heads many of whom are on this stage today, i've heard the daily challenges resulting from this crisis but

i also hear about the hope that bold action can turn this around and we will turn this around. let's be clear this is just the beginning. this is a statement that we will not give up, that san francisco will not give up. every person standing up here today and out here we will not give up. we will fight for our neighborhoods. we will fight for our families and we will fight for our recovery community. we are here to take decisive action and i want to let you know i will always partner with you and elevate your voices. thank you for giving me the opportunity to stand with all of you today. and now i want to introduce somebody for whom i have the deepest respect tom wolf like tom thank you supervisor thank you to the mayor and everyone from being out here. my name is tom wolf. i'm a recovery advocate. in 2018 i was homeless and addicted to heroin and fentanyl right up there on golden gate

in hyde. >> i'm also living proof that we do recover. >> yeah, that's right. everybody on the street out there has the ability within them to recover from addiction and yes, we have a huge drug crisis on our streets and we also have a drug crisis inside permanent supportive housing too. i want to make that clear. there's probably 15,000 people in the city right now struggling with fentanyl and meth addiction and we can help them. they deserve that opportunity. they deserve to have that chance. this fentanyl package actually starts to provide some of those resources and if you remember for the last five years for many of us we felt like we were kind of alone in the dark calling out for changes in the fentanyl crisis we were even demonized for calling out some of the more radicalized harm reduction practices being implemented on the street. and if you remember 4 or 5 years ago the message was from public health was do it with friends. that's not the message that we want to convey to someone who after taking one hit a fentanyl can die. the message should be recovery

is real, recovery can happen. you can get clean and sober. you can reclaim your life. this is the beginning of that today no more piecemeal approaches more no more divided approaches. this is the biggest group of the recovery community that i have ever seen assembled at one of these and there have been many of these in the past but this time it feels different. why? because the mayor is 100% behind us and the board of supervisors is 100% behind us and the community is 100% behind us. fentanyl has brought san francisco to its knees. we have no choice but to respond and actually start injecting some accountability along with the public health approaches that we have because at the end of the day accountability is a cornerstone of recovery. >> that's right. it's a cornerstone. ask anybody in recovery and they'll tell you at a certain point they had to own the things that they did in their

recovery. that was their key to freedom. this is what what we're trying to offer people on the street. this is what we're trying to offer our city a chance to recover a chance to be a shining light again on the pacific, a chance to be that that beautiful city that everybody used to be jealous when we say we lived in san francisco they were jealous. now when you leave and you go talk about san francisco, we're the of too many jokes and that has to change and it changes when we begin to actually take real action to get people off the street, get them into recovery and reclaim our city. >> are you with me? yeah. yeah. all right. thank you all for coming out to this. i invite you all now to come into city hall and let's go to room 250 and let's give our public comment. let's hold the board of supervisors accountable. let's ask them to unanimously support this federal state of emergency package and let's get our city back on the road to recovery. >> thank you.

yes. >> all right. thank you. thank you everybody for coming. we're going to go inside now and let the supervisors hear what we have to say. >> thank you

meter. >> hello, i'm captain tom the coordinator for the san francisco fire department. this oversight is the three and 4 anniversary of loma linda earthquake i want to go over a few things to help you preparation building a supply

kit and supply kit does is not have to be put together all at once take your time on the website have a list of recommendation and have enough food and water to feed your family through three to 5 days and purchase the fire extinguisher if you have an extinguisher at hand will stop a small fire from being a by fire it is simple to use check the gage make sure it is charged and then repeat the word task task stand for pull to pin aim the novel and screws the trigger and successes to the because of fire the last recommendation to look at the gas meter electrical gas lines cause fires in the loma linda earthquake and we want to

show you how to turn off the gay only turn off if you hear gas or hear hissing and coordinator nathan will demonstrate how to turn that off. >> with a whenever i'm going to turn it over one quarter turn. so in on holler orientation in turn off our gays meter don't turn it back on get a service call from