can we put our phoneos silence. i made this make and it embarrassing to me. . >> we -- we're ready to go. >> okay. here we are. good afternoon and welcome to the meeting of art's commission on monday, february 3, 2025.

calling the meet to order asking our secretary to call the roll. >> president collins. >> present. >> vice president shiota. >> present. >> commissioner carney. >> present. >> commissioner ferris. >> here. >> commissioner hikimi. >> commissioner rothschild. >> present. >> commissioner schnair. we have quorum. raffle remington and programs even glen. finance and administration sarah hol korenbeck and chief of staff are in attendance. thank you very much. there are agenda changes. >> no.

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department dedicated to promoting diverse environment in san francisco, we are committed to supporting the traditional and contemp refer evolution of the american indian community. item 2, is the approval of minutes. a discussion and possible motion. and so i would ask for a motion to approve. >> commissioner, moved. >> second. >> commissioner beltran. >> thank you.

>> is there any public comment on the minute? for those in person proceed to the podium and fill out the information card. we are on item 2. your time will start with you begin speaking. public comment is now closed. >> thank you. is there any discussion on the approval of minutes by the commission? >> seeing none, ask for a motion all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? >> motion carries unanimously. now calling agenda item 3. general public comment. this item allows for members of the general public to comment on matters within the commission's purview. as well as suggest new agenda

items for the commission's consideration. is there any public comment on agenda item 3? >> for those in person prosecute seed to the comment podium and fill out an information card. we are on item throw. your time start when you speak ump will see a time and are receive a 30 second warning. welcome. il start your time. >> thank you. >> president collins and vice president shiota. commissioners. i'm vin traverseo a board member of the treasure island museum. had long relationships with the body. and our relationship with the out going commissioner i met this past year and look forward to meeting more of you as we progress down this project that i'm introducing today.

but first i will inquire as to any interests or information that this board has received about the possible rebuilding of the statute of pacifica. >> in our public comment instructions you will have heard that we are not allowed comment. proceed. >> a general. welcome that i would welcome feedback i will leave my information here. the real effort is to inform had there is a small mighty working group that is forming. not necessary low under the hospice of a museum but comprised of local artists. island residents. architects, sculptors themselves and even museum bureaucrats. i don't know where this is head 47 year now the hundred year anniversary of the building of a statute for the 1939 world's fair on treasure island.

come out and find relationships that might get had thing done if it were 47 years from now in 2039. pasco should preside over the ggie. she was a plat and meant to be temporary. her sculptor had imagined she being be formed more permanent presence the top ankle island or alcatraz. . with the rebuildings of the newest neighborhood it is an incredible opportunity upon once in a lifetime opportunity. may be once in a century opportunity to give san francisco this landmark back.

she is american in design and precolumbia in stylings and unlike the statute this faces east and welcome nothing she is what san francisco does on the west coast. item 4 the director's report i'm calling mr. raffle remington. >> goods afternoon will happy

lunar new year. and black history month we are allowed celebrate temperature i hope you had a wonderful first month of 2025. january was a jam packed among filled with art throughout san francisco. it is a wonderful way to start the year. there are highlights from events on january 8, i attended the inauguration of mayor daniel lure in civic center plaza and the china town night market that luky t spe time with our former deputy director jo ann lee. even glen our deputy diren atce w a good time at edge on the square. on january 16th we held a receptione north light court at city hall to celebrate the newest exhibition as part of at cit hallprogram.

a recent times. dialogue of the personal, political and cultural. it featured t w o fors and on view on the ground floor and the north light court o city hall through june of 25. >> i like to thank and give a shout out to galleries team for organizing an eventnner wh photo alliance. on january 18th,ip attended the kificasf. and stopped by fog design and art fair at fortmason that week. and i also went to-- commissioner musey'show he this. and■>■q same night as recent ti later in the week. and on january 31st. i attendednd

amazing show. thumb's up there. were you there? >> i was -- no. >> thank you. that wasamazing. >> and some upcoming events and reminders. 2025 convening on thursday february 20 in the herb's eatre in the war memorial building. i will be jned by president chuck collins and program of sx what is in store for 2025. we will honor our legacy grant awardise. tickets are available on event bright. a link is available in our website. as part of overhaul planning work, we like to invite members of the art's committee to save a date for the art's commune open hous. in person. will be march 4 and 5 and

virtual will be march 7. in partnership with our planning consultants we'll host 2 in person community open house and one virtual open house the first week. our next constitutional conversations is scheduled on tuesday march 18. second session will be focussed on the 13, 14 and 15th the reconstruction amendments and impacts on immigration and liberation. will be in the green room at the war memorial building. details on how to r. s. v. p. will be announced soon gallery updates.

opening thursday ceremonies, rituals to self a group exhibition by pj, paula and works by damion and sorry if i'm butchering the names. jericho de la rosa and johnson ricks. ponza and single did the ton will draw on the life and writings of writer editor and activist [inaudible]. is best known for urgent and uncompromising writing on race, class and sexuality and lived experience as an openly gay black man in area. rituals to self reflects on vital thing in his life and desire, defiance and ritual on view through may third, 2025.

please join us for the opening reception on thursday, friday, thursday february 6 from sick-8 p.m. in the main gallery. public art updates. on january 18, our public art staff over sought installation of 18 foot tall polished stainless steal sculptor. titled, talking head. which will be on display in patricia's green in haze valley for a year beginning january of 2026. we saw a number of kids interacting with schoolchildren irpt act with this public art installiation. they were climbing and pulling kids up you know i saw a bad being getting red to happen. it did not and we had have some

precautions around it now. will be better. >> on january 23rd, the art's commission celebrated inallificationation of 11 new digitalks for the 49 south van ness video wall art program. we held a reception and join by commissioner muse lay and artists. and i'd like to also thank our public art's staff. always especially program associate greg for all work in seeing this project through completion. and with this this concludes the direct's report for february third full commission meeting i will be happy to take questions you may have. >> thank you. are there comments by the commission? >> i have a question for the public convening that is up to oplo public? and we can send those r. s. v. p. links in our e mail.

>> yes. we got 300. >> good. >> people are coming. >> and then for the strategic planning events in march that is open to the public? >> all of our meetings are public. yes. so they are open to the public. >> somebody is interesting in participating not involved >> yes. >> and benching. >> c commissioners come or is the a quorum issue >> commissioners come where? >> strategic. >> they are invited you are main event. >> okay. >> you are the stars. >> [laughter]. >> making sure. >> you are stars of the show. >> not sure if it was a meeting in the public. >> you like. the commissioners it is a meeting all commissioners should be there. >> okay. >> i thought that was the may meeting? there is a may meeting all day and we were all. >> that's when we are talking

about, right. no the march one. >> the convening. the convening the commissioners are invited but not a part of the program. >> thing you said did something happen nothing march there are sessions ope constitutional conversations? >> that's what. >> i was confused. >> we'll get had straightened out. open houses. >> yes. >> these are open to the public. >> march open houses will be our commune open houses with the strategic plan consultants ams. it is going to be a drop in style open house. so, members of the art's community can come, provide feedback. it is not a set program. yo don't have to be there at 11 a.m. peep are at work. we will have drop in hours from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5-9 p.m.

we will set up upon a registration. is drop in. >> yep >> great, thank you. >> thank you. commissioner this is in the posted? it is coming up? >> not posted yet. >> can we tag to share >> yes. absolutely. >> thank you. >> if possible no problem if it adds w you sends invitations individually can you sends one e mail this is the full list of the next required which ones are not? that would be handy to make sure i have it right on my callender? >> thank you. joy will upon comment that the convening the yellow one, sent it out and then i reposted it. and then i realized i was

reposting commissioner benzel's post and i linked it and it it is a sharable do you mean. i had dozens of responses i sent it to the public. so, please, it it is a very simple task >> you can download it and then resends it. you will b happy that so many people. and ways that i had not expected. it is irrelevant out there. and what it is saying that this matters. >> people are looking for what is going on. so, i think it can't be lost. so, spread it. >> what is the capacity. >> 892. >> that is00 autoother if you recall, the last times we had the convening, it is patrick [inaudible]. his [inaudible] was there the

most beautiful events i ever been to. >> and so it is a time we'll be celebrating our legacy artists. it means a lot. pandemic interrupted our 80 to celebrate them and they are after all our legacy awardees. it is a big, beautiful event. if you have not been you will be wowed. >> by response the r. s. v. p.'s showing people are ready for community in this time and they want to garth together to talk and -- celebrate our achievements and when we do that is positive in the world. >> so. it is that time. >> are there other comments? on the director's report. >> commissioner ferris. >> i did have one question. so, i was out earlier today. and we were looking at the art on patrish why's green. firstly t is beautiful.

place am is beautiful. we did notice the do not climbing signs they are hard to miss. as i walked up i was confused is it under construction? you know because they are best of my recollection orange and posts as well as the orange cones. i it is needed for safety amt time in addressing what public art guess thumb is one of our question system wil it be climbed on? is it safe? people will climb if they can climb. you know this one is in. it is beautifulism know we need something for safety is there any other option within budget constraints that will not make it electric like it is not under construction >> now that is the immediate bandaid. we had a situation we had 30

kids climbing on temperature and you know it is slippery, right. it is slick polished metal. they could have fall koren down special cracked their skulls. we had to get something up really quick. but we are looking at a better option. but now we the first option of keep kids off this thing. >> makes sense. thank you. >> and adults, too. [laughter]. we saw children for the record. [laughter]. >> are there other comments by the commission on the director's report? may i ask for public comment on the director's report? those in person prosecute seed to the podium and fill out the information card. weer item 4.

comments from those in person. no requests for public comment it is now closed. >> now calling agenda item 5 which the committee reports and committee matters for discussion. item 5.1 the civic design review report. and i'm introducing our chair abbie schnair to present the report on the civic design review committee. >> thank you. president collins. [laughter] we reviewed two projects this past meeting. sf oshg term until throw west modernization the courtyard connector for c4c. phase 2 review. the project team reviewed the

feedback during the review. and they shared ann mated walk through of the exterior. the project team explained the material choices and views for the 5 side facade and materiality samples. and commissioners comp complimented the design you have the horse shoe. terminal 3 is at the end. it is how you connect this beautiful award winning design of the international terminal with the newly phased terminal throw. they have come up with a unique 5 side way of doing this. i will show you more and we'll discuss more once we go through phase throw.

i wanted show you this arnmation. i think it is amaze when they have done. you violate administration building now the redo of the terminal itself of 3 and it will go to the c43 you request see and watch it will go around it and you can get an idea of you know there it looks like a normal 4 sided but it is in the. it is a polyhead ron.

and you can see what they are getting a look of terminal the arch way. which is -- ecose the international terminal. exactly. >> they have fins and they have been careful with the fins in terms of which way they face. for the solar. >> exactly. incredible. yep. you got it. >> well thought out. >> you can -- helicopter view. >> yea. >> trying to give you a sense

of you know in plan you will seat 5 side this is way you get the idea. i think that -- like it is invisibility. they did a terrific job. this area is the services the building and administration? the penthouse stuff is and then under is the passage way for the terminals and the upper part is -- down. >> anyway employmented to show you that. and then the second project we did was -- the sfo westfield campus. and that one is was just a conceptual review this is a huge project will do over 10-20 years. and so the project manager

shared an over view of the catch us team and plan. and the goals are to create a human scale and pedestrian or yenlded environment this . is over not where the terminals are. but this is where if you can show me the first one of the -- master plan? >> yea temperature is a slide. yea. not an animation. anyway. so, as you can see you see where the terminal all that is. this is the westfield campus. and right now what they are doing is -- these are what go become to the first one. these other buildings the ones in blue.

this is how more tell be complete. what they are trying to do, 674 was the first building this of done. mark design today and it was supposed to be that build and then the administration building is now at the terminal the second one. it was the two of them. since then. they decided to expand the■w to the larger -- campus and really create a campus design vision to be a model aviation support campus sets the new standards for employee experience and efficiency and sustain ability and the public realm will serve the connective tissue. you also have the air train also

has the westfield station. well is a way for people back and forth. >> exactly. thank you. so -- anyway. the commissioners encourage the design to soften the image of large scale with methods. we are talking about the 3 projects are basically a garage that is -- sick 70 the yellow one well. and that will create a green court heart to the campus. commissioners when we were encouraging the design to soften the image the using a different

materials and scale. and break up the massing to achieve this. and also.ed the team to contract levels of comfort for each employee working on the site and to consider the wind patterns to avoid creating the wind tunnels temperature is windy and as you -- open everything up you gotta make sure as you build you don't create those. the other thing was that -- there is quite a bit of art enrich am that will happen because the buildings all together is a huge amount funding. we asked them to please. sit down -- with mary chu and go through more of a master plan.

and create i master plan of public art for this campus. so. >> commissioner. is -- the museum in the museum back offices are they in 674? that's a completed building. >> yes. and i am not sure. gi think that is where we are. there may be. trying to remember when we did the last tour through one. i will remember. to your point land scape is very important in a campus. it is different than building the terminals. and so it is a fortunate get right early >> we encourage them to start

wing on this so that the design of the building and the concept of the art works together and come together we know that the best public art done that is how it has been achieved. we have been i think we were very thorough in letting them know and they are in agreement. this garage they are building they are creative with coming up with the whole like large -- stair down to what will be the catch us that can be like a stadium seating thing. they got this as part of it and being creative with how to make the parking structure and how you enter and exit it to become help to make that center part the heart of the campus. i'm intrigued where they will go

with temperature other comments by the commission? >> i wanted to acknowledge the amount of work that commissioner schnair and the other members do. i sat in on the meeting ands it is a lot of work. [laughter]. those meetings are very long. i am so grateful and admire your service. thank you. >> thank you. >> move on to the west view. >> i have completed my report. >> president collins? >> i wanted to also acknowledge commissioner schnair and the wonderful work that you have done. on this cdr committee. and taking it over with [inaudible] and you doe in and your energy is amazing. and you stay your mind is sharp

the entire meeting. you don't ever pause. you can't, right. and you are on it. you are on it! and it is so impressive. i'm just say i can't thank you enough for what you have done with that committee. >> thank you. [applause] >> and also [inaudible] there is, lot of visibility in this committee it is intersexting with many departments. one of the things that we want to do is to facilitate the design process and not to be burden some on it. so, it is not without great notice that it is so important to meet quorum and be there and have done the work. for all ofow that committee, you know we really greatly appreciate the time that you spends in advance. so that00 autodepartments that we are working with are looking forward to. the interaction.

that -- you know is something that takes time to develop that culture. the entire committee you know is a product of leadership. thank you very much for each one. you. [applause] >> thank you. >> is there any public comment on this agenda item? you will see a time and are receive a 30 second warning before where you are time conclouds comment from those in person anyone withhold like to comment on the current item? seeing none, it is now closed. >> in this wonderful not competition but cooperation of committees, now we goat go to va. i'm introducing our committee chair suzie ferris for visual

art's committee report >> thank you, president coli believes. no not competition a cooperative. but that said we had a short meeting and not as impressive as the last presentation. but none the less the work is something we are very excite body what we review. report for witness stand january 29 the visual art's committee. we reviewed the design and budget of pier 27 cruise terminal project. revised the design, based on the modular construction of pole carbonate tiles the design allows for batch production and assembly and permits more dynamic form cantilevering from front to back. you see that in the visual on the right side. this design also enables repair

or replace am in the event of surrender limp or damage. . use the similar the se materials that are used on our bus stop designs. the events on the top. don't fade. they are -- easy 3 buffed for scratching, scraping and can be cleaned with spray paintful each tile since they are not connected can be replaced if needed as needed. following a budget analysis the port is can be thing 61,000 plus a waiver of port fees to make this project possible. this couples with savings found in within the budget equalling 98, 890.

contract increase restored the artist fee of 20% of the original amount and the project contingency. do the -- both -- price increases in the materials as well as fabrication. sometimes when the protects stretch on they can increase. that is the factors this went in this increase. and again thank you very much to the port for stepping up. they wanted make sure that the decrease in furnldzing did not affect the projects that it was small and that great space they have at pier 27. making sure it fits the space and appropriate. and it is going to be an art jewel added to our city. with that, i conclude my report for the visual art's committee unless there are comments or question sns >> any comments or questions from the members of the commission. why one comment is this we

should not only praise the port and our staff but the artists. they stayed very engaged and involved it is an important commission. it is an enunciation of arrive nothing san francisco. thousands of people will see this piece. so, thank you for everyone and putting the resources behind how important this location is. yes, thank you presidency collins, this is so true the staff definitely did the work needed to coordinate that with the pier and with the artist. thank you to anna theresa for being open and flexible to reworking the design. yes. thank you. other comments from the commission. commissioner beltran >> thank you. i wanted to mention for commissioners not thereupon that the upon project supports a

local artist my formy graduate student at san francisco art institute. and how become the local art stars with her career. so, all around, a fantastic project to give our local san francisco based artists an art opportunity like this. >> no other comments. are there public comment on the visual art's committee report? weer item 5.2. your time will start when you begin speaking you will see a timer on the podium. is there anyone who would like to comment on the current agenda item? >> no questions, public comment is now closed. >> now calling item 5.throw.1. which is the executive committee report of i'm chair of the

executive committee and my report will be brooefr. january 15 issue 2025 the executive committee meeting started off with the report by the director of the commission to the committee. we had one important matter before our committee meeting. there was a robust conversation on the budget. which will be presented short low with our recommendation for approval. that is the report of the executive committee. >> are there comments or questions discussion on the executive report? is there public comment on the executive committee report?

public sxhent now closed >> thank you. i'm going to call item 5.3.two of the art's commission draft report. and i'm introducing our deputy director of finance and administration. sarah holbeck to present the item. >> good afternoon president collins. vice president shiota and commissioners. thank you very much for your time and attention this afternoon to this important matter. i'm sarah deputy director of administration. i would not be remiss not to acknowledge the work of kevin kwon and the, counting staff. preparing these materials.

thank you very much. we will try to get to the right -- wrong way. >> presentation summary. first we start with a discussion of the budget process and time line. and we will talk about the budget climate and the instructions this we received from the mayor. in preparing this budget subnigz mission and touch on revenues, speak a bit to the matter of hotel tax performance. as you know is important. to our budget. and then we'll talk about expenditure and it is capitol budget of so, we will proceed. so, as you know we are currently in the department phase of the budget process. we are required to conduct two public meetings a part of this process. this is the second of those two. we will submit or budget in late

february. the operating budgetful capitol budget request already submitted. and will talk about what was included in this budget in more detail later in the presentation. the mayor interacts with all departments in preparing his budget. which has been submitted to the board of supervisors by june first for you our departments for some of the city's larger enterprise funded departments may first time line and of course the board of supervisors considers the budget. make changes they may make and ultimately a budget is passed. in june and signed by the mayor in late and july or august. all of that to say we are the beginning of a process now. and you know given the climate which we will talk about on the next slide, this is going to be an interesting challenging several months.

as you read in the news, the city is facing a budget deficit of 876 million dollars over the next two fiscal years. ultimately, there are a number of factors that have been contributing to this deficit. but at the most basic level it is a matter of expend tours growing faster than revenue. city's major revenues have been under pressure so they are growing at a more moderate pace than they have been or not growing at the momentful as well as the fac that the last few budget cycles the budget was balanced based on the use of one time revenues. in hope so of moderating the affects of the deficits in those years and hopeful leave giving

the city time to grow out of that. we have not stheen robust growth and the one time source are exhausted or soon to be. so we near a position of having to make difficult choices and as you see here the directive that the mayor's office gave to department in preparing budget this is year is to reduce on going general fund spending by 15%. both fiscal year and used the word permanently relating to the expenditure reductions. the directives included assessment of community based organization grant allocations for efficiency. reexamining all service and nonpersonnel expenditures and you may have seen a press release the mayor released i think on the ninth of the saying

stopping all new programs and contracts and noted here hiring freeze. so, we are hoping that is more of a hiring pause. but at this time we are waiting for feedback from the mayor's office we understand will be forth coming in the near future. so. with that, the revenue picture we have here, you will see our budgeted revenues and i will walk briefly through what the major sources as many of you are most of you are not all of you are familiar. largest source is hotel tax under prop e. we have a small general fund allocation that is used to cemetery the art's coission'sarctivities. we have a different presentation of the information this year to

try to be more transparent about that general fun allocation. becausey will see on the row charter allocation, this is general funds support. but it passes through the art's commission and on to the symphony pursuant to charter section i forget. the charter. . so -- that is not money that we retained for our uses and thought it was more clearer to all of us and the public this really that is what is happening there rather than one thing to a single line item. one time source exhaustd and crediting changes the holing time one time line item fund balance from prior years over performance in hotel tax. we were able to use that in

fiscal 25 we have a small amount. in fiscal 27 we don't have that as a source and innerdepartmental services is revenue from other departments and work ordered or transferred to us in a manner to carry out work for them in many cases that is public art work. the grant line is revenue from grant source. and -- the bottom section here

again this is budget requests that were reflecti. we hope for these amounts revenue. i will talk more about that on a future slide. >> as we talk before we get into talking about ecpend tours i wanted to pause on the recent hotel tax performance. and when woo have experienced it affected how we chosen to approach the budgeting of expenditures from the hotel tax revenue in this budgetful what you are seeing here are the red embarrass represent revenue budgeted. the gray embarrass represent the revenue actual collected. you see in each of the last 3 years revenue was a level higher

than what was collected. and so -- for fiscal 26. this has not happened what this set of bars is representing is what was in the budget for the second year of the important budget cycle. you see that was optimistic when now the base budget for fiscal 26 a 2 million dollars difference. there is uncertainty how the hotel tax will perform. you see the hospitality sector slowed down and not quite achiev the. hopes that were reflected in prior years. in the last couple of fiscal years we we are many of our grants are not sized until

spring. there are application roeszs in the fall. they are assessd and awards recommended to the committee and the full commission in spring. in october they were revising down the hotel tax projection and ghaen january. january/february. another reduction to the annual revenue collection and again at the 9 month report in march. that's the trendful as a consequence. what you wll see on the budgeted expenditure slide is a line item you have not seen

before. we have broken the expenditures we have community investments. ongain this allocation -- the charter -- section -- did not have that in the footnote. administration this is the new line item you will not have seen in the past this is to create buffer with what we expect expect program to spends and the budgeted revenue such that if we go through a process like the last year or two where -- the forecast is something today. but the time we get midway to next fiscal year and this revenue is not performancing up to the mate in the budget, wll not have to community a lower

amount of grant funding to our community but will have already accounted for that as we go through fiscal 26 we are confidence the revenue budgeted will be collected we can program the fund its is a buffer or cushion against downward revisions to the forecast. otherwise, so where that shoes up is in that top line you see the investment. operating budget. . is projected to be significant upon next year and the following in fiscal 25 that is as a result of the hotel tax not being the forecast itself or budget lower. partially as a result of this setting aside of portion of that revenue or projected revenue and in is not all of -- the invesen.

there were general fund grant activities not being receiving funding for those in going forward. i would like to decrease in public art and civic direction is reflective of the ending of the recognition for melon grant. this will have been recognized as of fiscal 25. grant period conditions to fiscal 26. that is part of that larger decline. the other item the public art --

as we talked about in the committee meeting that only captures the portion of the public art budget that is budgeted as operate nothing our budget most of the art enrichment activity talked about in of the prior agenda item is the art enrich am funds budgeted in other departments capitol budgets. they are not reflective the small number of 1 and a half million dollars for public art collection is in the reflective of the public art enrichment work we do or the staff that support that work. other departments are carrying out programs that funds that art work when we look at the recent throw-4 years worth of ecpend tours in the art enrichment and

public art program funded it is averaged in the throw envelope million dollars a year. a question was how much do we have this we are managing and electronicing represents the art work and conversation components of those projects and it is about 20 million dollars. we have a system which when we receive it keep know how much we have and the components that we are allocated to spends on which of the activities. moving on to the capitol budget this is the requests again. requests -- for cultural centers

and gal reese. there is awe large request that we have again included in our budget for 10 million dollars for the facility. i did not show it threes the scale you have too much will the rest request range from 20 thousand to half a million dollars. cent culloll centerapitol roofs, doors and floor repairs. fire, tiles for the main gallery. we are hopeful we'll be will successful. we understand the budget climate and the capitol planning committee has been clear with all departments tell be a

challenging time this year given the constraints on the available funding. it is a happier picture from the art collection. at least as of recently this slide reflects the history funding for the civic art collection. back to 2018 and our ask for fiscal 26 and 27. you see -- we were in the getting money before the. pan dem and i can ourudget was just decimated when the pandemic hit. i should noetd note our cost model that the public art team maintains reflects a need of million and a half dollars a year to conserve the collection. we were am extremely pleased to be successful in our asks last

year. we received over 2-1/2 million dollars. we have been able to make progress. i'm sure those of out committees that approve and updated regularly on the activities of the checks's team. they have been hard at work. and so we are going ahead and asking for when we need this year. for fiscal 26 and 27. we don't know we will be as successful. we are hope. . but we're asking for when we need. and we are oorp00 just hopeful we have done such a good jock in deploying funs we were allocated last year and made a difference in publicly. matters of public interests roll to sculptors that will be successful again watch that i would be happy to answer

questions that you may have. i want to thank you and the entire department of the [applause]. with the budget climate and new instructions from our new mayor, we're are appreciative for the care. weave d. have a chance to look at this in committee. thank you for this points to the commission. are there comments or discussions from the commission on the budget? commissioner beltran >> thank you. could you go to the first slide i wanted clarify something. . thank you so much to you. and the team. kevin. thepreadsheet >> i wanted clarify you were

talking about in terms of00 autopast with the symphony that 4.prison and 6. that's the allingcasion but we don't see that revenue? >> so that is the allocation that is computed in the charter and miss to us and we -- pass it through to the simple font competence get i portion back to support some of our operations off set what would be a general fund comp the upon general fund is for our operations? laterally the administrative team. yes. that is -- that is when we retain to runt department. >> and the general fund from the

mayor's office? >> it -- guess through the process the mayor's office and board. approved. looks like it is constant. >> it is fall koren i think if you went back another year it fall koren by a mission. >> yea. >> million and a half >> cut every year. >> since i have been here they cut our fund allocation a year. is that because.

next one. i think. revenue. the revenue. okay. >> the departmental services is this like -- is that what -- add backs. total add backs? >> innerdepartmental service. yes. department this is may work or funding for example to administer for them. right. >> other types of we have a collaborative rep with the library and so -- revenue come

through that and show up in this line item 2 performancervice. >> it connects to this and it is another slides. folks have been talking about for a long time. when -- the stuff is happen nothing other departments those come through. the art's commission. they don't now. i mean -- sometime its is planning department or -- whatever. i think that -- if we do that. tell make more sense to that priority. that -- the city starts looking at all of the stuff what way. so, i'm hopeful as you talk to the mayor's office that -- you

bring it together. because -- we are having, when we don't fail at being efficient, everybody loses. we are not doing when we need to do. so somehow i think we need to use that priority to really coordinate everything better. it worked well when we inform covid. everyone was going in emergency orders. it would be great to keep it there. so we can be more efficient in this way. there will be -- somebody -- determining what -- that efficiency is. are we setting the goal and meeting the goal? are they good with funding all that. we need it consistent. i will just i think put this there. i think it will be more and more

important as we strug welincomes a city. so -- i think that -- so, commissioner, walker. we had a leadership meeting today before this meeting of all the people in my line of reporting. for economic and -- and so -- we're meeting regularly. head to the museum, sfo me, the head of war memory yell we are meeting in the same room that is a first since i have been here. we are meet and talking and coordinating we have a separate pod this is all art's related. programs this we will meet as well in all together we can coordinate all these things as you suggest. >> great. i think that will give us more

revenue from other departments to fund our staff and infrastructure so this we help facilitate it. it makes good sense. great. are there other comments, commissioner carbon and he then commissioner benzo. >> could you go to the last slide? that one. the -- the conversation looks like it was -- it is -- pretty amazeing chart. 7 or 8 years we were urn funded you in we have a huge catch up. is it possible to equalize this now? or -- i'm sure well are politics involved >> well is cosflid there, >> guess way before covid.

we ask for when we need. and communicate you know communicate with the capitol planning committee. what our needs and priorities are. and what the consequences is not funding the needs are. >> and then -- they -- take that information and all the other requests and priority and give when you say they give us. so -- we are sort of at the -- mercy of the capitol planning committee we do be clear about what it is that would enable us to -- conserve the works and as you say not have the feast or famine it is difficult on staff. it can wonderful problem to have

but to have so much little for so long and have just getting our contractors on board. increasing the amounts to push out this much work so it would be -- desirable from perspectives. equalize this. >> all of the conversation come through the capitol planning committee. 91 of it out of the 2% budget that we get? >> the art works that have been funded throughout art enrichment have that 10% conversation allocation have that on going source for a period of time. but -- there are many works in the correction of 4,000 that don't have that allocation. i asked in the future that we have a discussion on this. because it pertains to art collection and it is interesting how for example, of the airport

accounts for the conversation. so it is a one of those things we as commissioners should understand and so -- we asked raffle at the appropriate time to bring that to us and it might be at the invitation we have the new director of the museum at the airport. this is now what you are talking about commissioner carbon sesitting with revolve and he will bring this forward temperature is something important. as director said 1. 5 million is the steady state. right. that it is the heart beat. we are looking at the peek you are concerned about the valley and there is the distribution of work within those things that are ours. who pays for this? that is a part of it. let's not get bogged down in this today it does ask the question. how are those pieces where they

are under who's responsibility to they lie? there are interesting implications in the art of 2%. that's a lot of stuff. and tell be brought to us in an orderly way. >> and those are things we can we will tease out during the strategic planning press. because -- civic maintenance of our art collection has been a very pressing subject for men years. we love putting up new shiny things but deponent like maintaining them. we need to get advocacy around it. commissioner. yea. thank you for the presentation. and all the hard work. i want to comment about the

scale and proportion. you know if we assume there is a 13 billion dollars city budget, we are 1. 5% of 1 percent of total. i understand we have to be part of the sdoougz solution that is important i'm glad we are doing that. that mine00 million dollars condition be solved through the art's commission. and how we work with the city is important, too. on the flip side i'm noticing our budget ecspend tours are going down by 2 million dollars. it is sen and a half % in the 15%. i'm curious if how that squares

given the -- desire from the mayor's office for 15%. i'm not advocating for additional cuts at this moment. i'm wondering how you are think burglar that i'm curious. >> sure. the budget proposal you see today does -- meet the directive. the directive is to reduce general fund spending by 15%. our general fund budget fall koren to the earlier conversation that we don't vice president to cut as much if we had a birth budget of what a silver lining. this proposal does meet that target. >> thank you that's an personal thing for all of us and

the public that is the difference. thank you. thank you. this is all very new to me. and -- thank you for my colleagues for teaching me. the twhoon is grant. is any of nafederal government grant. >> fortunately very small aim. >> i believe we had -- a -- 25 or 50 thousand dollars nea grant. i think we may not have assume today in the fiscal 27.

those grants are -- largely the melon grant we received. >> thank you. why other comments. mii ask for a motion. i like to ask for a motion to approve the proposed fiscal 25-26 and 26-27 art commission budget. knowing this is proposed and there will be revisionss we move through the finalization expect in the july. of this year. >> so moved. beltran. >> second. >> schnair. >> is there public comment on the budget discussion?

is there anyone withhold like to comment on the current item? >> public comment is closed. >> now the motion all in favor? >> aye >> opposed >> motion is approved unanimously. i calling item 6 which is our consent calendar are there recruisal from thes commission at this time? regarding the consent calendar? >> number two. item two. okay. can we get a reason why. >> right.

yes item 6. subnumber two. i work for them. >> thank you. >> we take that. >> so commission secretary how would you like us to proceed? >> we will take item 2 separately and ask rothschild it take the rest of the items. >> are there other recuseals or disclose urs? >> may i ask for a motion to approve the consent with the exception of item two? >> so moved. >> only item two. >> just item two. >> so moved. >> seconded. >> is there discussion of the commission on this item? >> may i ask for public

comment? public comment is closed. >> we will did a final motion. thank you. all in favor, aye. >> opposed? >> motion carries unanimously.

now we are going to entertain a motion for the consent calendar with the exception of item two. so all of the remaining matters on the consent calendar. may i have a motion. >> moved. >> second. >> is there commission discussion or on the remaining equips on consent calendar? >> seeing none, public comment? on the consent calendar items before us now?

the motion carries unanimously. now move to item 7 which is new business and announcements. this allows the commission to introduce new items for consideration to report on art's activities or make announcements. commissioner schnair. >> so, i will try to sum this up quickly as i can. >> a couple of mf a's from act started and -- several year ago their own production company. call teleconscious collective about bringing stories to the front than i felt were important for people to here in terms of

inspect films. they asked my husband and i to get involveod producing a film they had seen it was just shown at sun dance. and the director just won best director award. so. and it is coming to the san francisco festival in april. and once i get date for the viewing of this i will let everyone know. but it is -- a potent story about called ricky. and it is a very potent story about a young man come out of prison when he is 30 gone in at 15 and getting his life back together at that point. it is moving and poent. and he is being taughted now as

this young new exciting director. so. this is our first time out and think we did well. i encourage to you see it. >> all right. >> the most important thing is that more important announce am is coming from commissioner brenzel. >> drum roll. >> i wanted to announce that the san francisco symphony chorus, and our out going music director won the grammy award last night for best opera recording! [applause] the simple phone won several grammy's the chorus won several but never in the bestom are recording category. we are all excite body temperature it is a piece who passed a year ago.

incredible piece. moving performance. i got to see. and one other is i fwt to see commissioner shelby perform with his youth quintet. as part of the motorin luther king day celebrations at the museum of african deacep ra. if you have not seen him perform i commends you to seeing his incredible musician and wonderful speaker about music and art and importance of art and incredible educator. i was inspired. [applause] on the heels of that comment. jason moran and markus shelby will be performing music of duke elington i'm going on friday nights. notice as fast as you can to the ticket office to the box office and get tickets i'm sure.

what -- he was in hillsburg this week also. a breathless schedule for commissioner shelby shows up almost every meeting on top of composing, arranging and directing and motivating and performing, teaching. developing youth. you know what a gift he is to our world. and so, i can't wait to hear him on friday night. are there other new business or announcements? nope. seeing then -- we can move to item 7. public comment. we have public comment on the new business and announcements. please.

weer item 7. is there anyone who would like to public comment on the concern item? seeing no requests for comment. it is now closed. >> with this may i list this and up say we are moving to agenda item 8. the meeting is adjourned.

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drinking together upon today have a nonpretentious pretentious spitz that the community can enjoy each other and the time off we get in this world. [music] >> spends energy elevating artists and credit a safe place. a place to have a community. >> it is i great neighborhood the art district because we have the contemp refer museum of sf. yerba buena for the arts all of the operators and businesses here we get together and xhoukt and support each other this is a very cool neighborhood to be a part of. [music] paint on canvas is primary low when we do. this is guilty pleasures an all female artist show. it is going to be great. fun we have interactive

elements. >> we love having this gem. you know people come in and discover it and get to feel at home. this is like home san francisco >> never be afraid it anybodying on our door. [laughter]. if the hours are post and you had want to seat art we are here 9 o'clock to 5 o'clock most days. [music] >> my name is kristen cline the owner of two vintage stores in san francisco. vacation is a leave 11 years old. started in the tenderloin. it is vintage shop we buy from

the public and keep in the store for avenue wn. it is an electic store. we moved from the tenderloin to north beach in 2022 in december we opened up our sister store 4 doors down. this is vacation and that is called work. we pay attention to the quality of things. we do everything from antique clothes from 1800s up to modern. i try to buy things that are relevant and wearable for all typeoffs people. we have customers that are in there 70 and we got customers 17. everything is affordable as possible, but specialize in a lot of things that are expensive. you see a lot of shirts on the walls. those are super collectible and we have a big collection of those. we do vintage denim and 1930 and 40 clothe. we are saving from being gone forever. my second shop is with business

partner sam and that is a a collective, 10 different sellers all under the one roof. it is fun watching people come into the shop, because you hear a lot of oo and a h or my mom had this or this looks like grandmas and i had thish in the 70 or this is what i wore in high school. the kids are trying it on. we have shoppers that know the store and come here as a destination, but the random foot traffic is always cool to see them discovering something that maybe they haven't seen before. i love san francisco and i feel i would never want to do this anywhere else. >> >> >> >> >> my name is bal. born and

raised in san francisco. cable car equipment, technically i'm a transit operator of 135 and work at the cable car (indiscernible) and been here for 22 years now. i grew up around here when i was a little can i. my mom used to hang in china town with her friends and i would get bored and they would shove me out of the door, go play and find something to do. i ended up wandering down here when i was a kid and found these things.

♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> fascinated by them and i wanted to be a cable car equipment from the time i was a little kid. i started with the emergency at the end of 1988 and drove a bus for a year and a half and i got lucky with my timing and got here at cable car and at that time, it really took about an average five to maybe seven years on a bus before you could build up your seniority to come over here. basically, this is the 1890s verse ever a bus. this is your basic public transportation and at the time at its height, 1893, there were 20 different routes ask this powerhouse, there -- and this powerhouse, there were 15 of them through out the entire city. >> i work at the cable car division and bunch with muni for 25 years and working with cable cars for 23 years. this is

called the bar because these things are horses and work hard so they have to have a place to sleep at night. joking. this is called a barn because everything takes place here and the powerhouse is -- that's downstairs so that's the heart and soul of the system and this is where the cable cars sleep or sleep at night so you can put a title there saying the barn. since 1873 and back in the day it was driven by a team and now it's electric but it has a good function as being called the barn. yeah. >> i am the superintendent of cable car vehicle maintenance. and we are on the first and a half floor of the cable car barn where you can see the cables are moving at nine and a half miles an hour and that's causing the little extra noise we're hearing

now. we have 28 power cars and 12 california cars for a total of 40 revenue cars. then with have two in storage. there's four gear boxes. it's gears of the motor. they weigh close to 20 tons and they had to do a special system to get them out of here because when they put them in here, the barn was opened up. we did the whole barn that year so it's difficult for a first of time project, we changed it one at a time and now they are all brand-new. engineer's room have the four monitors that play the speed and she monitors them and in case of an emergency, she can shutdown all four cars if she needs to. that sound you heard there, that's a gentleman building, rebuilding a cable. the cable weighs four hundred pounds each and they lost three days before we have to rebuild them. the cable car grips, the bottom point is underground with the

cable. it's a giant buy strip and closes around the kab and they pull it back. the cable car weighs 2,500 people without people so it's heavy, emergency pulling it offer the hill. if it comes offer the hill, it could be one wire but if it unravels, it turns into a ball and they cannot let go of it because it opens that wide and it's a billion pushing the grip which is pushing the whole cable car and there's no way to let go so they have to have the code 900 to shutdown in emergencies and the wood brakes last two days and wear out. a lot of maintenance.

♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> rail was considered to be the old thing. rubber tires, cars, buses, that's new. there were definitely faster and cheaper, there's no question about that. here at san francisco, we went through the same thing. the mayor decided we don't need cable cars (indiscernible), blah, blah. we can replace them with buses. they are faster and cheaper and more economical and he was right if you look at the dollars and cents part. he was right. >> back in 1947 when they voted that, i'm surprised base of the technology and the chronicle paper says cable cars out. that

was the headline. that was the demise of the cable cars. >> (indiscernible) came along and said, stop. no. no, no, no. she was the first one to say we're going to fight city hall. she got her friends together and they started from a group called the save the cable car community, 1947 and managed to get it on the ballot. are we going to keep the cable cars or not? head turned nationwide and worldwide and city hall was completely unprepared for the amount of backlash they got. this is just a bunch -- the city came out and said basically, 3-1, if i'm not mistaken, we want our cars and phil and her group managed to save what we have. and literately if it wasn't for them, there would be no cable cars. people saw something back then that we see today that you can't get rid of a beautiful and it wasn't a historical monument at the time and now it is, and it was part

of san francisco. yeah, we had freight back then. we don't have that anymore. this is the number one tourist attraction in san francisco. it's historic and the only national moving monument in the world. >> the city of san francisco did keep the cable car so it's a fascinating feel of having something that is so historic going up and down these hills of san francisco. and obviously, everyone knows san francisco is famous for their hills. [laughter] and who would know and who would guess that they were trying to get rid of it, which i guess was a crazy idea at the time because they felt automobiles were taking the place of the cable cars and getting rid of the cable car was the best thing for the city and county of san francisco, but thank god it didn't. >> how soon has the city changed? the diverse of cable cars -- when i first came to cable car, sandy barn was the

first cable car. we have three or four being a grip person. fwriping cable cars is the most toughest and challenging job in the entire city. >> i want to thank our women who operate our cable cars because they are a crucial space of the city to the world. we have wonderful women -- come on forward, yes. [cheers and applause] these ladies, these ladies, this is what it's about.ontinuing to empower women. >> my name is willa johnson is and i've been at cable car for 13 years. i came to san francisco when i was five years old. and that is the first time i rode a cable car and i went to see a christmas tree and we rode the cable car with the christmas worker and that was the first

time i rode the cable car and didn't ride again until i worked here. i was in the medical field for a while and i wanted a change. some people don't do that but i started with the mta of september of 1999 and came over to cable car in 2008. it was a general sign up and that's when you can go to different divisions and i signed up as a conductor and came over here and been here since. there were a few ladies that were over at woods that wanted to come over here and we had decided we wanted to leave woods and come to a different division and cable car was it. i do know there has been only four women that work the cable car in the 150 years and i am the second person to represent the cable

car and i also know that during the 19, i think 60s and women were not even allowed to ride on the side of a cable car so it's exciting to know you can go from not riding on the side board of a cable car to actually grip and driving the cable car and it opened the door for a lot of people to have the opportunity to do what they inspire to do. >> i have some people say i wouldn't make it as a conductor at woods and i came and made it as i conductor and the best thing i did was to come to this division. it's a good division. and i like ripping cable cars. i do. >> i think she just tapped into the general feeling that san francisco tend to have of, this

is ours, it's special, it's unique. economically and you know, a rationale sense, does it make sense? not really. but from here, if you think from here, no, we don't need this but if you think from here, yeah. and it turns out she was right. so.... and i'm grateful to her. very grateful. [laughter] >> three, two, one. [multiple voices] [cheers and applause] >> did i -- i did that on purpose so i wouldn't. ♪ [ music ] ♪

you're watching san francisco rising with chris manners. special guest is david chu. hi i'm chris manners and you're watching san francisco rising the show that's about restarting rebuilding and re imagining our city. i guess today is david chiu, the city attorney for the city and county of san francisco , and he's here today to talk to us about the opioid crisis, reproductive rights and the non citizen voting program. mr chu, welcome to the show. thanks for having me on happy to talk about whatever you want me to talk about, so can we start by explaining the difference between the city attorney's office and the district attorney's office? i think it could be slightly confused. that is a very common fusion with members of the public so um, if you get arrested in san francisco by the san francisco police department, all criminal

matters are dealt with by the san francisco district attorney . we handle all civil matters on behalf of the city and county of san francisco. what that means is a number of things. we provide advice and counsel to all actors within city government from our mayor. every member of the board of supervisors to the 100 plus departments, commissions boards that represent the city and county of san francisco. we also defend the city against thousands of lawsuits. so if you slip and fall in front of city hall if there's a bus accident if there is an incident involving the san francisco police department, we defend those matters. we also bring lawsuits on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, where most famous for litigating and obtaining the constitutional right to marry for lgbtq couples have sued gun manufacturers, payday lenders, oil companies, you name it, who are undercutting the rights of san franciscans and the city and

county of san francisco. so now moving on to the opioid crisis. i understand you've had some success in court, um, dealing with manufacturers, distributors and pharmacies. could you elaborate a little bit on that for us, so the opioid industry and by that i refer to the legal industry that prescribes pain pills. um over years. uh, deceived americans and resulted in literally thousands upon thousands of deaths and tragedies that we see on our streets every day when it comes to the addictions that folks are experiencing. many of the addictions really stemmed from what happened over a decade plus period where the prescription pain industry marketed prescription pills in ways that were false. we were one of thousands of jurisdictions around america that brought a lawsuit against the opioid industry. but we've had a particular set of successes that

others have not. ah we initially brought a lawsuit a few years ago against every part of the opioid supply chain, and that included manufacturers, distributors and retailers, including pharmacies over the course of four plus years. a number of these corporate defendants settled with us. we've as of this moment brought in over $120 million of cash and services. to the city to help address the root causes of what we're talking about. but a few months ago, we had a really historic verdict against the pharmacy, walgreens and their role walgreens was responsible for literally over 100 million pills, flooding the streets of san francisco over a period of years where they flouted federal law that require them to track where they're pills were going to. they had a what? what we refer to as a phil phil phil. pharmacy culture where folks would bring in their

prescriptions, and the pharmacist would just fill them without checking why someone was coming in multiple times without checking why certain doctors were seen a 100 fold increase in the number of opioid prescriptions that they were prescribing. so we had a historic judgment against walgreens recently, but it's been a very intense lawsuit. and we know that will never bring back the lives that we have lost to opioid addictions. but it's critical for us that we get the resources that we need. maybe one other thing i'll mention because it's often confusion. a large percentage of folks who are addicted to street level drugs say heroin or fentanyl started their addictions. with painkillers, opioid medications that were prescribed through doctors provided through pharmacies and so literally the suffering that we're seeing on our streets was caused by the opioid industry over many, many years and has created the significant crisis that we are

dealing with right now. right right now moving on. i understand after the recent supreme court ruling, striking down robust as wade that you've put together an organization that's designed to help mm. provide free services to people who are both. seeking abortions and providing them can you tell us about the organization? sure so, um, before the dobbs decision came down, but after we learned about the leak from the supreme court about the draft that suggested the decision would be as bad as it has turned out to be, um, i reached out to leadership from the bar association of san francisco because we knew that if that decision came down there would be tens of thousands of patients around the country as well as providers whose legal situation would be in jeopardy. women doctors, nurses who could be subjected to lawsuits who could be arrested who could be prosecuted, particularly in red states? 26 states where rights are being rolled back or in the

process or have already been rolled back because of the dobbs decision. so we put out a call to lawyers all over the bay and frankly, all over the country, and as of this moment there have been over 70 law firms that have answered our call to be part of the legal alliance for reproductive rights who have committed to reviewing cases and providing pro bono assistance to patients and providers who are at legal risk. we also are looking at potential cases that these lawyers can bring against various states. in these areas that are looking to deprive women and patients and providers of their of their rights. um it is a very dark time in america, and i'm really proud that that barrier attorneys, the legal community care have stepped up to answer the call. it's very important that's great. so now the non citizen voting program that was passed by voters just for school boards has faced them court challenges recently, but it was in place for the most

recent election that we've had. how do you see that situation panning out? in fact, it's been in place for now. five school board elections. um so a little bit of background in our san francisco schools over one out of three kids. has a parent who is a non citizen who doesn't have a say in the election of the policy makers that dictate the future of our san francisco public schools, and so over a number of years, there has been a movement to allow immigrant parents to vote in school board elections. few things i'll mention about that is our country has a very long history when it comes to allowing immigrants to vote. from 17 76 for 100 and 50 years until after world war. one immigrants were allowed to vote in most states in our country on the theory that we want to assimilate immigrants in american democratic values and institutions, and it wasn't until an anti immigrant backlash in world war one that that sort of ended. but in recent years,

um cities across america have allowed this to happen. in fact, at this moment, believe there are over a dozen cities that have voted to allow non citizens to vote in a number of context. now, this is particularly important in our schools just given how challenge our schools are, and given that we know that when we engage more parents in her school system, regardless of their citizenship it helps to lift up our schools for all parents. and so in 2016 the voters of san francisco past about measure that allowed this to happen. unfortunately earlier this year, there were conservative organizations that came to san francisco to bring a lawsuit to try to overturn this , and i should also mention it is obviously the perspective of our office and our city that this is constitutional. nothing in the constitution prohibits non citizens from voting. and in fact, there's an explicit provision in the constitution that allows chartered cities like san francisco when it comes to school board elections to be

able to dictate the time and manner of those elections. and so, uh, we are involved in litigation on this issue. there was an initial ruling that was not good for us that essentially said at the trial court level. we shouldn't allow this. um we appealed it up to the appellate level. the appellate court made an initial decision to allow this past november election to proceed as it has for the last previous four elections. we're going to be in front of that court soon. stay tuned. we'll see what happens. it was good to hear that the city was able to reach a settlement with the center for medicare and medicaid services are meant laguna honda could still operate. how did you manage to reach that agreement? it was not an easy conversation . just a little bit of background. so laguna honda has been an incredibly important institution in san francisco for 150 years, taking care of our most vulnerable patients are frail, very elderly patients, many of whom are at end of life.

and a few years ago, there were some issues in that hospital. some violations of rules that we very much want to make sure don't get violated. there were folks that weren't using proper ppe, who are bringing cigarette lighters into the facility, who might have brought some contraband into the facilities. we have zero tolerance for that and have made that very clear. we self reported some of these violations to the federal authorities. and unfortunately from our perspective, they took the very disproportionate step of ordering the closure. the permanent closure of lugano, honda. problematic on a number of reasons. first and foremost, there are just no skilled nursing facility beds not just in california but around the country. after their order came down. we literally were putting 1000 calls a day to skilled nursing facilities around california and around the country and could find nowhere to move the 700 patients that we had had in the gonna honda but just as disturbingly as we were forced to start moving some of

these patients, a number of them died. there's a concept in medicine known as transfer trauma. when you move someone who is that frail and unfortunately, folks folks died and we were at a point where we were five weeks away from the deadline for the federal government. that they had provided to us to close the facility. so uh and we have been trying for months to get the federal government to reconsider their action, so i was compelled to bring a lawsuit on behalf of the city and county of san francisco and very pleased and appreciate that we were able to come to a settlement whereby transfers will be delayed at least until next year. we're going to have at least a year of funding. to keep the facility open, and hopefully we can get back up on our feet and ensure that no future violations occur because this is an institution that has to stay open for the good of these patients. quite right, quite right. so finally, congratulations on winning an important public power service

dispute with pg and e. um why is it important that the city's rights as a local power provider maintained well, so san francisco has been a local power provider for decades. we are fortunate to have access through our hedge hetchy hydroelectric system to provide electricity to a number of providers, particularly public recipients of that. and unfortunately, pg any has used its monopoly when it comes to private electricity to try to stop that, and to block that, and from our perspective, they violated federal law in adding literally tens of millions of dollars of expenses to san francisco and institutions that we're trying to ensure um, public power infrastructure. put years of delays on our ability to do this, and so we had to bring a number of appeals in the federal commission. ah we were successful in those appeals, and there was a decision recently that basically held the pg and e

could not use its monopoly to unfairly delay or add tens of millions of dollars of cost. to the city and county of san francisco, as we are trying to move forward with our vision of public power. clearly pgd has not been able to serve not just san francisco but northern california. well we all know that with the wildfires with its bankruptcies, with all the issues that they've had, we think there is a different model to move forward on and we are grateful to the court. and providing a ruling that allows us to move forward. well thank you so much for coming on the show. i really appreciate the time you've given us here today. i appreciate and thanks for your thanks for your questions. thank you. well that's it. for this episode, we'll be back with another one shortly for sf gov t v. i'm chris manners. thanks for watching. yeah.

♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> the two largest bridges in the road, symbolizing pioneer and courage in the conquest of space and time. between these two great bridges, in historic san francisco bay, here's tribute to the achievements of our time. he's a dream come true, golden gate international exposition on manmade treasure island. >> the 402 acre artificial island was build by engineers from 1936 to 1937 on the neighboring buena island. 300,000 tons of rock was used to build a seawall around an

existing sand ball then followed by filling the interior with dredge material from the bay which was consistent of modern sand. the federal government paid for construction ask three permanent buildings which would serve as a potential future airport. treasure island was constructed at the same time as the bay bridge and it was a project of works progress administration to construct this island, which was initially used to host the golden gate international exposition. >> carnival gone big. it was busy. >> it was going to become an airport after the exposition but it was turned over to the navy and turned over to a military base for the next 50 years. >> 1941, the united states army moved to treasure island as america prepared for world war ii. the island was a major training and education center with 4.5 million personnel

shipped overseas from triangle. after the war ended in 1945, treasure island was slalthed to be an airport -- slated to be an airport but aviation changed and the clipper were no longer in regular service, and the island was never developed as an airport. the navy continued their presence on treasure island. during the cold war ar the island was a myth training center and for military efforts throughout the pacific and asia. personnel trained on and shipped from treasure island and supported military activities in korea, vietnam and the persian gulf. >> the base was listed for closure by the navy in 1993 and the city began a process in 1994 under the redevelopment agency, forming a citizens reuse committee to look at potentially plans for the island, island's future. after the base closed in

1997, the treasure island development authority was created to develop and implement a reuse plan. >> the navy has completed their environmental cleanup in that area and last week, the california department of public health issued a radiology unrestricted recommendation for that portion of side 12. it's a big milestone for the project. >> the treasure island development facility was setup to implement the master plan that was adopted by the board of supervisors in 2011. >> given the importance of housing in the city, both the affordable component and the market rate housing, we felt that it was important to review what the housing plan is at treasure island. >> the development facility and

(indiscernible) that oversees the implementation of the master plan to make sure that the master plan, which was adopted by the board of supervisors and adopted by the city and after meeting, that's plan that the city approved. the members of the board was appointed by the mayor and the board of supervisors. [multiple voices] >> the (indiscernible) is very detailed plan. looking at the ecological aspects of the island, looking at the geotechnical aspects of the island, but also making sure that there is an ongoing of development that's in keeping with what the original plan was, which is that we have up to 8,000 rooms of housing and there's retail and hotels. but also that there is open space that's created so it's an overall plan that guides the

whole development of treasure island and the buena island. >> materials used during the construction of treasure island severely compromises the integrity to build structures. in today's geotechnical engineers standing, treasure island soil is being readdressed for soil stabilization for future development. a mechanical stabilization process is being used to consolidate the liquid fashion of the mud and sandy soil. >> because treasure island is a manmade island, we have to do a significant amount of soil improvement before we can build new infrastructure and new buildings on the island. in the foreground, you see here, it's a process called surcharging we we import additional topsoil to simulate the dead weight of the future buildings to be constructed at that site. so this is causing bay mud that underlies island to consolidate over time and we can monitor

that and as that consolidation primarily consolidation is complete, then this soil will be removed to the intended finished floor elevation of the new structures. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> in the 1989 loma earthquake, the ground level of this island dropped by four inches. pretty much uniform across the island. loose sand material used to build the island, whether it gets hit by a seismic forces, the sand moves and consolidated. >> one of the processes to further stabilize the loose granular ground, a dynamic rate is used to densify the soil by high frequency mechanical vibrations. >> the rig in the background has four h-piles that goes down through the upper 50 feet of sandy material and as they

vibrate, they vibrate causing that san material to consolidate and settle so as we do that process, we observe about 18 inches in settlement so the ground level around that equipment will drop by 18 inches, so this causes that same type of event to happen through mechanical means rather than through a seismic event. >> the dynamic vibrant compaction rate vibrates the soil every four square meters and moved along to the next section. to further assure stability, tamping is followed around the site, compassion takes approximately three to four months to complete 12 acres. once the compassion and tapping is done, it's settled ask using laser alignments to assure a level service to build on. >> i think that every city when they have the opportunity to do

something that is as large as treasure island because treasure island is five hundred acres and it depends on their needs at that time and in 2011 to now, the most important are thing for the city is housing. there's two aspects to that master plan. one, was the new district for san francisco. 8,000 units of housing, which is all levels of stability. the other (indiscernible) is 300 acres of open space and parks. and actually, it's the largest addition to the park system in san francisco since (indiscernible) 300 acres and this is a tremendous gift to the public, both the housing, which we desperately need in san francisco as well as an open space and park system which

really is going to be worm class and it will attract people in san francisco but attract people locally as well as internationally. >> cmg architecture was brought to the project once they award the agreement between the city of san francisco and the united states navy. cmg has earned national recognition and numerous awards for merits and design, social impact and environmental stewardship. >> we were a part of the project in the beginning when the developer initially was awarded the exclusive negotiation agreement or the ena with the city and they partnered with the planning and architecture group and we joined that team to work with the developer around the city and community to come up with a plan for treasure island. >> so there's quite a lot of open space in the master plan and there's a couple of reasons

for that that's pragmatic. one is that the amount of area that could be converted for private use on treasure island was very limited, actually it wasn't allowed at all because treasure island was previously public open waters and protected by the tidal and trust act to be redevelop for public use. but there was a land swap that was allowed and approved by the governor of california, governor schwarzenegger to be put on a public trust for a one to one swap to be taken out of the trust to be developed for private use such as residential and that amount of land was 89 acres which leaves a bunch more space that can't have housing on it and the question was, what to do with all of that space? there could be other public uses that allowed such as conference centers or museums or universities or things of that nature but what made the most sense for this location was to have more parks in a really

robust parks and open space plan and that's what led us to the plan we have now. >> planting strategies for treasure island and buena island are to maximize habitat value in the park areas wherever appropriate and where we can to create comfortable at the pedestrian scale. there are these diagonal lines that go across the plan that you'll see. those are wind row trees like you see in agricultural landscapes where they are tall tree that's buffer the winds to create a more calm areas down at the pedestrian scale. so of course, we do have some areas where we have play fields and surfaces where kids need to run around on and those will be either lawns or like you see in norm at sports field. >> related to where the housing is on the island and its convenience to the walk to the transit hub, i mentioned we're trying to create high-quality pedestrian -- and the

innovations of treasure island is called the shared public way and it's a road that runs down the middle of the neighborhoods. it's a curbless street, cars are allowed to drive on it but pedestrian can walk down the middle of the street and the cars are to yield the right-of-way for pedestrian and it's intended for streets where there's a low traffic volumes and the traffic speeds are low so while car was allowed, there's not a lot of reasons for cars to go on that street but it's to create a social street that's much more pedestrian-friendly and prioritizes pedestrians and bikes. one of the interesting things is working with all architects that have been designing buildings in the first phase to encourage them, to create architecture that welcomes people to sit on it. it's wlm like sticking its toe out and asking someone to sit on its toe so buildings integrate public seating and places for people to hang out at their base, which is really, the

opposite of what you see often times in this city where there's defensive architecture that's trying to keep people off it. this is architecture that's trying to invite people to come and inhabit it at its base. >> incorporated in the landscape architect of treasure island are wetlands, which are designed to factor in coastal erosion control from incoming sea level rise and natural animal habitation and stormwater runoff treatment. >> there's different kinds ever wetlands planned for treasure island and they have different purposes. they are stormwater wetlands that's treating the runoff from the island and filtering that water before it's released to the bay to improve the water quality in the bay and the ocean and the first phase of the large wetland infrastructure is built on buena island to treat the storm water from buena island. we might see that when we go out there. there are tidal wetlands plan for the northern side of the island where the sea level rise adaptation and flood protect for future sea level

rise is held back away from the edge of the island to allow sea level rise to come onto the island to create future tidal wetland which is helpful for the bay in the future as we see sea level wise flood out existing wetlands and there are some natural vernal pool in the wetland that's captured rainwater and capturing certain habitat so there's three purposes of the wetland primarily around water filtration and habitat creation. >> consumable sustainability was incorporated in the redesigning of treasure island. innovative urban farming is included in the plans to foster economic viability, conservation of water, and to promote ecological sustainability. >> the urban farm is 20 island. and it's a commercial farm to produce food. it's not community

where the volunteers and neighbors grow their own, it's commercially run to maximize the food production and that food will be distributed on the island. and interestingly, the urban farm is tied into the on island wastewater treatment plan which creates recycle use for water on the island so water used to grow the island will be a sustainable force and we're trying to close the loop of water, food, and create a new model for sustainability. >> part of the design for sustainable landscape was incorporate natural form water garden filtering systems, the first of three natural stormwater gardens is here on buena island. and a total of ten will be on treasure island. water from storms, street runoffs from neighborhoods has the possibility to collect toxic materials as it makes its way back into the surrounding bay. this garden has been a model for future, natural filtering systems through out the bay

area. >> whenever a storm comes through, all of the water, you know, it lands on the streets, it lands on the top of the buildings, and at times it often collects a lot of heavy metals and greases and it needs to be cleaned and before sent back into the back. it goes into the pipes and stormwater drainage and put into our stormwater basin and then all of the plants and soil you're seeing in there, they are acting as a filter for all those oils and heavy metals and greases and all things that's coming off the roadways, coming off the development and so it's treated here in the storm water basin and then it's sent out into the bay as a clearer product and cleaner water which increases our water quality here and throughout the bay area. so the structure in the center of each basin is what we call the for bay. that's the point at which the stormwater exits out of the storm drainage

system and into the stormwater basin itself. so the for bay is shaped as almost a gate to kind of push all water out through the pipes, all of those rocks help to disburse it before it's sent into the stormwater basin itself. the storm water basin was designed to fill up to the height of the berm of the side you're seeing here. so this is juncus and these are well-known fresh water grasses found in any place around the bay area that you find standing water or in a drainage channel, you're going to find a lot of these junket species. this is a leave a lifter in the bio treatment. it soaks up a lot of water, to soak up the contaminants and heavy metals, so it's kind of our backbone species. this one is called douglas siana and the common name is mug war. it's a

beautiful plant but doing the heavy lift and pulling, those contaminants out of the storm water and pulling oil to help treat the water before its sent back into the system and back into the bay. this plant is known as salvia or hummingbird sage. it has a lot of habitat value in that it's a strong pollinator plant. obviously, you can see the pink and purple flowers which come up in the springtime and attracts a lot of hummingbirds, a lot of bees which help to pollinate the other species within the garden and throughout the rest of the island and all of those native plants. all of these plants are designed to be able to take a heavily inundation of water over a several day per like standing water for a long time. all of the plants can withstand that and honestly, thrive in that condition. so all of these were selected based on the ecological and habitat value but also their

treatment and functional value for stormwater. >> this is super tiny. >> it's very much a big part of our design and master plan for the development of the island. it was a navy base and a lot of navy housing on this island specifically for around 80 years and during that time, a lot of innovative species were introduced on the island, eucalyptus, a lot of different european and algerians plants were on the island. we wanted to bring in the native eye college here on the island before the navy started to redevelop it and introduce some of those invasive species so the species you're seeing in this stormwater garden in the basin and the upland area was a part of those types of ecology s that's trying to be returned to this side of the island but different other

spaces through out the islands development. so whenever we started this process, we identified a number of species of native plants that seem applicable to the ecology that we're trying to grow. there's 45 species, so a -- there's 15 species so they are hard to find in the nursery trade so we needed to grow it ourselves to achieve the biodiversity that's in the design here. as a part that have process, we brought on a nonprofit group called ledge, l-e-g- which is literacy for environmental justice. they grew those plants and put together the plant palates you see. >> most of landscape was inundated with invasive plant species eradicating species and

having the plan on buena island and treasure island. literacy for environmental justice, a community volunteer educational program involved with restoring local habitats and preserving san francisco's unique bio tie varsity, teamed up with the redevelopment group to grow the 50,000 native plants to -- to repopulate treasure island. >> the city of san francisco set up meetings between leg and they came in with high expertise and urban design, and architecture, and green infrastructure, but they really hadn't worked with flytive plants -- worked with native plants at scale and they were also kind of scratching their heads, like how are we going to grow 50,000 native plants from remnant native plant populations. it was a unique partnership of figuring out what plants can grow, what plants

will function in stormwater gardens. not all native plants are ascetically pleasing to landscape architect, so we kind of worked around what plants are going to be pleasant for people, what plants are going to provide habitat, what plants are going to actually be able to sequester carbon, deal with erosion, preserve the island biodiversity as well as be able to manage all of these stormwater treatment on the island. >> there's about 33 naturally occurring native plant species that survived the last one hundred years on yorba buena island. we were able to go in and get the seed and salvage plants in some cases, some of the development work that occurred was actually going to destroy native plant habitat and we went in before the bulldozers

and before the roads were build and the new water tanks were installed and dig them up, divide them, hold them, of the 50,000 plants we grew 40,000 of them in-house and the other ten, we had to rely on our partners to do it. with the 50,000 plants we did, we did 100 species and 95 of them are from the county of san francisco. about the other five are from the state of california. but the other 95 species really are the native plants that have been here for thousands of years. we used collection sites such as angel island, the presidio had genetics for the projects in san francisco. we used remnant plant habitats at hunters point and we used a lot of genetics from san

bruno mountain. just to collect and process all of the genetics was a two-year process. and then it was about a two or three year process to grow all the species. >> this is the infamous -- it's a low, growing sprawling native herb and it's in the mint family and i'm rubbing my hands on this and it's extremely aromatic. it feels like a flush of peppermint just came across my face. it's edible. you can make tea out of it. it's a great digestive plant for settling your stomach. it has been cool to introduce yerba buena to yerba buena. this plant is called dutchman's pipe. when in bloom, the flower looks like a dutchman's pipe. and another

thing that's unique about this plant is, it's the whole specific plant for the pipeline swallow tail butterfly. so some butterflies are able to adapt to other species and can use larva and food from different species. in the county of san francisco, there's only about three or four healthy populations of this plant. these particular plants were going to be destroyed because of the green infrastructure project needed to put pipes in and needed to demolish all water tanks and build new water tanks for the island, so we were able to go in, dig them up, cultivate them, extrapolate dozens of plants into hund hundreds of plants

and restore it through the restoration process. one day one of my nursery managers was down here and she found the pipeline butterfly have flown over from yerba buena island and came to our nursery on treasure island and was breeding on this plant. and successfully did its life cycle inside of our nursery. so, it? how that butterfly knows it's out there and find it, this is one of those unique things that we can't explain why butterflies can find this species but if we grow it and put it in the right location, they will return. so the plants we're looking at here is faranosa known as just dedlia or live forever. the construction is it work happen nothing that area, it's likely to be destroyed. a unique thing about this plant and the unique

succulents we have in california and the live forever plant can live to be 150 years old. recently, the state of california just did special legislation to protect this plant. i think in its intact population on the island, there's less than 50 of them, so to be able to grow several hundred of them and have them be a part of the plant palate of the stormwater gardens that was installed recently is an increase of biodiversity and a step forward towards protecting the natural legacy of the island. >> i moved to treasure island in 1999. i believe i was one of the first residents on the island. i have seen how the island has been destroyed and reconstruct since its beginning to restore the island to its native form is

extremely important to me because that will help all the animals come back to the island and make this place even a better place to live. >> i want to be here because these are people i know, so that was my first thing is just, like, i wanted to come here to help out and be with (indiscernible) and to actually put my hands in dirt. i feel like we as people don't work in army -- we don't see the benefits of plants, like, but i just learned about a plant that if you rub it enough, it turns into soap. that's cool. and we need those things. we need to know about those things. >> one really unique thing about this project is the scale. to use 50,000 native plants over 7 acres is a scale we have never seen. it really is trailblazing

when we think about the 350 or 400 acres of open space that is planned for treasure island, it sets the stage for what is possible. there's a way to use nature-based solutions at scale to meet the needs of climate change, sea level rise, the crisis of local extinction and create natural environment. the first phase of the project sets a stage for what is possible and i just feel really blessed to have been a part of it. >> one of the main focus on triangle is keeping vehicle traffic to a minimum. for residents and visitors, public transportation is highly encouraged and will be the center point of keeping the island pedestrian-friendly, retaining an open space sent and providing an eco system that

reducing carbon emission >> we need the transit to be successful because if we had 8,000 homes here and everybody was trying to use their car to access the bay bridge every month, it will overwhelm the system. new on and off-ramp are being constructed but all over the focus of the development is to be very transit oriented. triangle itself is very flat and very bikeable and walkable as a result and so there's a focus on using both bus and ferry service to get from the island to san francisco in the east bay. there will be a number of transit demand management tools that will be employed of the two new ramps to and from the -- to the island and allowing a limited number of cars to access the bridge and there will be a management toll to encourage the use of transit. >> all the market rate housing on the island, the price for

residential unit whether that's a rental apartment or a for sale condo, the price of the unit is decoupled from the price of the parking spot. so people can buy a condominium without paying for a parking spot. they choose to have a parking spot, they would pay an additional price. market rate residents are required to purchase take transit pass each month through their hoa fees or through their rent so the residents will begin the decision of driving or taking transit with a transit pass in hand each month. that transit pass will function as a muni fast pass allowing people to take muni and transfer within the muni network and function as an ac transit allowing people to take ac transit to the east bay and transfer within the ac transit system and it will also provide unlimited access to the treasure island ferry.

>> treasure island is going to take decades to be fully build out. it's going to take some time for it to reach the envelope that was passed by the board of supervisors and maybe there will be changes to it as well. we don't know what is going to happen in 50 years but i'm confident by the fact that the plan that was adopted was fully, fully thinking even for its time and the building the island to a way it's sustainable, it addresses sea level rise, but also gives the public the open space and parts that are so necessary to fill treasure island. there's economic, certainly, challenges and whether we're going to be able to build out all of what

was desired in the master plan, it will -- time will tell, but i think that the last ten years, we've been coming to this point. we are seeing incredible progress and the infrastructure is being finished by the island. market rate housing is being finished. affordable housing is being finished. and so, we feel within the next five years, substantial part of what we had envisioned is going to come to fruition.

>> in the bay area as a whole, thinking about environmental sustainability. we have been a leader in the

country across industries in terms of what you can do and we have a learn approach. that is what allows us to be successful. >> what's wonderful is you have so many people who come here and they are what i call policy innovators and whether it's banning plastic bag recycling, composting, all the different things that we can do to improve the environment. we really champion. we are at recycle central, a large recycle fail on san francisco pier 96. every day the neighborhood trucks that pick up recycling from the blue bins bring 50 # o tons of bottles, cans and paper here to this facility and unload it. and inside recology, san

francisco's recycling company, they sort that into aluminum cans, glass cans, and different type of plastic. san francisco is making efforts to send less materials to the landfill and give more materials for recycling. other cities are observing this and are envious of san francisco's robust recycling program. it is good for the environment. but there is a lot of low quality plastics and junk plastics and candy wrappers and is difficult to recycle that. it is low quality material. in most cities that goes to landfill. >> looking at the plastics industry, the oil industry is the main producer of blastics. and as we have been trying to phase out fossil fuels and the transfer stream, this is the

fossil fuels and that plastic isn't recycled and goes into the waste stream and the landfill and unfortunately in the ocean. with the stairry step there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. >> we can recycle again and again and again. but plastic, maybe you can recycle it once, maybe. and that, even that process it downgrades into a lower quality material. >> it is cheaper for the oil industry to create new plastics and so they have been producing more and more plastics so with our ab793, we have a bill that really has a goal of getting our beverage bottles to be made of more recycled content so by the time 2030 rolls around t recycle content in a coke bottle, pepsi bottle, water bottle, will be up to 50% which is higher thatten the percentage in the european union and the highest percentage in the world.

and that way you can actually feel confident that what you're drinking will actually become recycled. now, our recommendation is don't use to plastic bottle to begin w but if you do, they are committing to 50% recycled content. >> the test thing we can do is vote with our consumer dollars when we're shopping. if you can die something with no packaging and find loose fruits and vegetables, that is the best. find in packaging and glass, metal and pap rer all easily recycled. we don't want plastic. we want less plastic. awe what you we do locally is we have the program to think disposable and work one on one to provide technical assistance to swap out the disposable food service to reusables and we have funding available to support businesses to do that so that is

a way to get them off there. and i believe now is the time we will see a lot of the solutions come on the market and come on the scene. >> and is really logistics company and what we offer to restaurants is reasonable containers that they can order just like they would so we came from about a pain point that a lot of customers feel which wills a lot of waste with takeout and deliver, even transitioning from styrofoam to plastic, it is still wasteful. and to dream about reusing this one to be re-implemented and cost delivery and food takeout. we didn't have throwaway culture always. most people used to get delivered to people's homes and then the empty milk containers were put back out when fresh milk came. customers are so excited that we

have this available in our restaurant and came back and asked and were so excited about it and rolled it out as customers gain awareness understanding what it is and how it works and how they can integrate it into their life. >> and they have always done it and usually that is a way of being sustainable and long-term change to what makes good financial sense especially as there are shipping issues and material issues and we see that will potentially be a way that we can save money as well. and so i think making that case to other restaurateurs will really help people adopt this.

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

we led 25 tours and for students to reach about 1100 students. and they wanted to make change and this is sorting in the waste stream they do every single day and they can take ownership of and make a difference with. >> an i feel very, very fortunate that i get to represent san francisco in the legislature and allows me to push the envelope and it is because of the people the city attracts and is because of the eco system of policy thinking that goes on in san francisco that we are constantly seeing san francisco leading the way. >> kids know there's a lot of environmental issues that they are facing. and that they will be impacted by the impact of climate change. they will have the opportunity to be in charge and make change

and make the decisions in the future. >> we are re-inventing the way the planet does garbage founded in the environmental ethic and hunger to send less to landfills. this is so many wonderful things happening in san francisco. i feel very fortunate and very humble to live here and to be part of this wonderful place.

>> look at that beautiful jellyfish. the way to speak to students and motivate them to take action, to save the planet, they do, they care and my job is to speak to them in a way that they can understand that touches their heart and makes them feel powerful with simple actions to take every day. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ >> i was born and raised in the desert of palm springs, california. my dad was the rabbi in the community there. what i got from watching my father on stage talking to the

community was learning how to be in the public. and learning how to do public speaking and i remember the first time i got up to give my first school assembly, i felt my dad over my shoulder saying pause for drama, deliver your words. when i was a kid, i wanted to be a teacher. and then when i got into high school, i decided i wanted to get into advertising and do graphic art and taglines and stuff like that. by the time i was in college, i decided i wanted to be a decorator. but as i did more work, i realized working my way up meant a lot of physical labor. i only had so much energy to work with for the rest of my life and i could use that energy towards making a lot of money, helping someone else make a lot of money or doing something meaningful. i found the nonprofit working to

save the rainforest was looking for volunteers. i went, volunteered and my life changed. suddenly everything i was doing had meaning. stuffing envelopes had meaning, faxing out requests had meaning. i eventually moved up to san francisco to work out of the office here, given a lot of assembly through los angeles county and then came up here and doing assemblies to kids about rainforest. one of my jobs was to teach about recycle, teaching students to reduce, reuse, recycle and compost, i'm teaching them they have the power, and that motivates them. it was satisfying for me to work with for the department of environment to create a message that gets to the heart of the issue. the san francisco department of

environment is the only agency that has a full time educational team, we go into the schools to help teach children how to protect nature and the environment. we realized we needed animal mascot to spark excitement with the students. the city during the gold rush days, the phoenix became part of the city feel and i love the symbolism of the phoenix, about transformation and the message that the theme of the phoenix provides, we all have the power to transform our world for the better. we have to provide teachers with curriculum online, our curriculum is in two different languages and whether it's lesson plans or student fact sheets, teachers can use them and we've had great feedback. we have helped public and private schools in san francisco

increase their waste use and students are working hard to sort waste at the end of the lunch and understand the power of reusing, reducing, recycling and composting. >> great job. >> i've been with the department for 15 years and an environmental educator for more than 23 years and i'm grateful for the work that i get to do, especially on behalf of the city and county of san francisco. i try to use my voice as intentionally as possible to support, i think of my grandmother who had a positive attitude and looked at things positively. try to do that as well in my work and with my words to be an uplifting force for myself and others. think of entering the job force as a treasure hunt. you can only go to your next

clue and more will be revealed. follow your instincts, listen to your gut, follow your heart, do what makes you happy and pragmatic and see where it takes you and get to the next place. trust if you want to do good in this world, thattttttttttttttttt >> good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority meeting this morning at 10:00 am., tuesday, january 28, 2025. >> i'm chair mandelman i serve as chair you are