aculous way. i'm living proof that treatment works. >> every day i use was a form of suicide. i just didn't die. the methadone program saved my life. i love my life. my recovery is the best thing that ever happened to me. if you want your life back, methadone works. you are to let it work. i'm living proof. . >> all right. good afternoon everyone. >> good afternoon all welcome to the historic preservation commission hearing for wednesday, february 5th, 2025.

when we reach the item you're interested in speaking please line up on the screen side of the room or to the right. >> each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes. when you have 30s remaining you will hear a chime indicating your time is almost up. when you are a lot of time is reached i will announce that your time is up and take the next person. q to speak. there is a very convenient timer on the podium where you can see how much time you have left and your time tick down. >> please speak clearly and slowly and if you care. state your name for the record. i ask we silence any mobile devices that may sound off during these proceedings. finally i remind members of the public that the commission does not tolerate any disruption or outbursts of any kind. at this time i will take role. >> commissioner baroni expected to be absent. commissioner baldauf, your commissioner vergara you're commissioner right here. >> commissioner foley vice president no sworn is expected to be absent and commission president matsuda here. great.

we have five members of the commission here. >> we will move on to our general public comment at this time. members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except for agenda items with respect to agenda items your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached. >> each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. okay. any members of the public please come to the desk. you may 2nd. yeah i'm just trying to figure out how. >> there we go. gotcha. commissioners, can you hear me? >> here we go. good afternoon. i'm catherine petrone and i'm here to talk for just a couple of minutes about what the implications of historic district designation really are in this rather charged moment when we are dealing with so much misinformation. >> i want to take the opportunity to push back a bit

on the especially on this idea that historic district designation freezes a city in amber. it's an odd phrase. it's inaccurate because amber is actually fossilized tree resin. >> it doesn't freeze but it's often used phrase and it was most recently repeated by scott wiener in this morning's chronicle article about the north beach national register historic district nomination. my belief is that historic preservation is information. it informs positive change and is not an obstacle to it. >> in san francisco we have 32 designated national register historic districts and i'm going to talk today about just one that has seen significant change in the form of new construction and significant investment and that's the port of san francisco embarcadero national register historic district. it was designated in 2006. it runs from pier 48 at the

south to pier 45 at the north. >> and it now includes a new cruise ship terminal at pier 27 that was constructed post designation. there's a proposed multi-use project at piers 30 to 3032 which includes a new swimming pool, various other thing components. >> it's not the first project that's been proposed there but the ones that haven't panned out have not been due to historic preservation. >> the oracle arena giants ballpark the giants vest mission rock residential development are adjacent to the district boundary line. but in my opinion this project what projects would have happened regardless of the historic designation? and you might remember that a couple of years ago red's java house was nearly demolished but it wasn't saved by any kind of historic designation. it was public advocacy and

outcry. >> so i just want to reiterate that preservation is good public policy. >> it informs change. i still believe in preservation. >> i hope that you do too. thank you so much. thank you. >> any other members of the public please come up to the podium. not seeing any. we'll move to our next agenda item. >> department matters. >> i think we have one item for 1687 market street informational discussion but we have no other department matters. >> thanks. good afternoon. >> good afternoon commissioners rebecca salgado planning staff. i'm the design planner for a mixed use arts and affordable housing project at 1687 market street that proposes the demolition of an article ten landmark building at the subject property. today i wanted to give you an overview of the project as well as answer any questions you may have about it. >> 1687 market street the

project site is a contributor to the just contiguous article ten market street masonry landmark district which was designated in 2012. >> this district consists of eight architecturally significant buildings along market street. >> 1687 market street also known as the mccloskey building after the mattress company that constructed and occupied it was built in 1925. in may of 2024 a project was submitted to the planning department under assembly bill 2011 and the individually requested state density bonus program that proposed demolition of the existing building at 1687 market street and construction of a new building on this lot and the neighboring surface parking lot. the new building would contain approximately 100 new units of 100% affordable housing atop four floors of art space to include a blackbox theater rehearsal and practice rooms and additional services supporting the arts assembly building. 2011 or ab 2011 the affordable housing and high roads job act

of 2022 requires the ministerial approval of eligible 100% affordable and mixed income housing developments located on sites where office retail or parking are principally permitted at the time that the project was submitted in 2024. ab 2011 also allowed for the demolition of a historic structure that was placed on a national, state or local historic register. if the project consisted of 100% affordable housing the version of hb 2011 that was in place at the time this project was initially submitted also noted that a project would not be eligible for hb 2011 if any of the proposed housing were located within 500ft of a freeway as defined in section 332 of the vehicle code. >> after the project was submitted in may of 2020 for a review of the ab 2011 eligibility criteria determined that the project was within 500ft of the on ramps and off ramps of u.s. route 101 at market street and octavia boulevard.

>> as such, the project was determined to be ineligible for use of ab 2011. the project team requested the withdrawal of their project application in august of 2020 for in september of 2020 for governor newsome approved assembly bill 2243 which amended ab 2011. effective january 1st, 2025 ab 22 43 modified the definition of a freeway under ab 2011 to not include the portion of a freeway that is an on ramp or off ramp that serves as a connector between the freeway and other roadways that are not freeways. ab 2243 also authorized a housing development located within 500ft of a freeway to be subject to the streamlined ministerial approval process of ab 2011 provided that the building meets specified criteria including that it will have a centralized heating, ventilation and air conditioning system. the bill also modified hb 2011 to prohibit an affordable housing development subject to the act from demolishing a

historic structure that was placed on a national state or local register. lastly, this bill allowed for the provisions of the affordable housing and high roads job act of 22 as applicable on december 31st 2024 to apply to a housing development project application that was submitted on or before december 31st 2024 unless the development proponent chose to be subject to any of the provisions of the act as applicable on january 1st, 2025. in november of 2020 for the project team who had previously submitted a project in may of 2024 submitted a new project under assembly bill 2011 and the individually requested state density bonus program that is largely the same as the originally submitted project. under the modifications to ab 2011 created by ab 2243 the planning department determined that the project is eligible for approval under ab 2011. >> the department sent out an initial plan check letter for

that project last week and is awaiting further information from the project team in response to that letter. >> this concludes my overview of this project and i'm available to answer any questions. great commissioners keep in mind this is an informational discussion at your request to add this item to the agenda for discussion. >> commissioners i apologize. >> we probably should take public comment on this item before we are sure. at this time we'll take public comment on department announcements for the 1687 market street informational discussion. any members of the public please feel free to come up to the podium seeing none. commissioners commissioner baldauf yes. i wanted to understand how the black box theater works into this approval because i thought

the project had to be 100% residential or not. >> and having a black box theater is certainly not it's a mixed use project at that point . >> the requirement is for the housing to be 100% affordable but not for the project to be 100% housing. >> is there language that you can share from the legislation that makes that clear? >> i could i can look up the legislation on the on the website if you like and we don't need to do that now i just yeah, i guess i would like to see the legislation because i had understood that it was had to be a residential project that was 100% residential and if it has a black box and i don't know what other facilities are in it i'm happy to chime in really quickly over here. liz wati, director of current planning we can provide you the exact specifics but typically with the ministerial housing programs, the various housing programs they're not 100%

residential. they typically allow for a small percentage of commercial for example, a lot of times we see buildings that have ground floor residential or ground floor retail with residential above for other i understand but what i'm this is getting down to very specific legislation that's changing distances by feet. i just want to understand that the law says that they get this right to tear a building down for a mixed use project. that's all i'm trying to understand. >> we'll follow up we'll follow up with you with a specific law detail. they have gone through an extensive prescreening with our housing experts who would have screened for that exact question. so i have confidence with the application being in. >> we've screened that question but we'll follow up with you. thank you. any other questions or comments from the commission? so if you could just summarize

what we're dealing with now is that the property through this amended piece of legislation will be demolished and a new affordable housing complex will be built in its place. yes, that's correct. >> and there is no because it's a ministerial action there is no recourse. >> yes, that's correct. available for a historic building. >> that is correct. this this is i would say this project is quite distinct because it happens to fall perfectly within all of these amendments to the assembly

bill. the the hb 2243 was amended to be more restrictive for our listed historic properties but it did give the caveat that a project submitted by a certain date could choose to use the earlier version of the bill a.b. 2011 and then only use aspects of the modified bill that they wanted to use. >> that window has passed for projects. could you use that at this point? and so any projects that come in now would have would not be allowed to demolish a listed historic property that is until further modifications to state law occur but as it exists right now. so it's just unfortunate. are you telling me just in terms of timing. yes. and is there any will there be any memory of this building are available to new residents in

that area? >> we since the project is not subject to sequel, we can't enforce any mitigation measures, anything that the project does would be at the you know, at the decision of the property owner. >> it's possible to request but we have no we have no recourse to require anything any i think i don't know what we can do but i think this commission would at least like to request that something be considered to remember the site of a national historic building. >> yeah that's i think that's that's definitely something that can be passed along to the project team. >> commissioner vergara it sounds like this legislation was passed just for this one project. i'm not sure if or planning department i'm not i'm not

aware of what exactly went into it but it does fit exactly for this project. is there any time to try to persuade the developers to modify their plans to integrate the existing building into the new one as the sullivan funeral home was integrated into that project farther down market street? i know we can't order but can we try to do we have time to try to persuade? >> i believe there were earlier discussions around this project prior to formal submittal that i was not a part of but i, i have not made that request since it was formally submitted to the planning department. >> is there time to to try at least to go on record? >> i'm not sure we're happy to put it on the record and i'm not confident it'll be taken.

>> yeah. lisa at least we've done our due diligence that the department did work with the developer under the previous iterations when they were coming in at a very high level schematic and there were conversations about are there ways to integrate, retain, do an alteration etc. ultimately i think given various constraints that we're competing constraints. the project that rebecca described as the project that they ended up submitting and per state law we have to respond to the application they filed and so we have very tight constraints timelines again step one is eligibility are they eligible to utilize a ministerial program? there's very strict eligibility criteria that we that first and step one once they've passed the eligibility criteria we have a very strict time frame to do our full plan check and there's not the downside of ministerial is there's not a dialog it's checkboxes. do they comply yes or no? >> if yes, we have to issue the approval. all right. thanks. >> thank you.

a commissioner, right? yeah. thank you. >> yes. i am not sure you know as the other commissioners are stating what what if anything could be done or it sounds like there's really no potential for persuasion. i do like the suggestion that that we try to focus maybe on documentation and a memory of the building if you know at the very least and i don't know who would be responsible for that you know i think it sounds like it couldn't be required of the owner but i don't know if city staff could potentially further any documentation prior to demolition. >> it's just too bad that it

seems like a missed opportunity to retain a wonderful facade at the very least and incorporate it into this new housing project. commissioner foley yeah. so my recommendation would be is we ask staff to ask the project sponsor very nicely, very nicely. would you consider taking a picture of the building and framing it in the lobby or potentially put in the outside and we don't we don't try to force anything. we just ask them nicely because they you know, would i like this building saved? of course i'd like this building saved but the reality is it's not going to be saved. so how can we try to get some memory of the building at the project site for a long time? and i think the way to do that is you know, i carried as much better than a stick would be my

recommendation. commissioner baldauf, i agree with commissioner foley that at this point we need to ask nicely assuming that they have met all of the details of the law and i await reading that myself. >> but but if we asked nicely i think it would be appropriate for us to note that because of this very specific loophole in the law, an article ten building is going to be lost and that we would suggest just as the hpc that if there was some way they could at least preserve the facade because i have a hard time believing that you can't take a facade and put that a very short facade relative to the building that sounds like is going to be

described and save it. they can choose to not follow that but we could say and if you are not we would love you to and find some way to memorialize the presence of the building on market street. it's just a suggestion we're all citizens of san francisco. this is supposedly a nonprofit doing something for the arts on behalf of san francisco. i don't know if we would do this as a motion. i'm prepared to make a motion if that's appropriate and the chair is mine but i think it would be nice to be able to at least go on record that this is an unusual situation. >> i believe this is an informational presentation, is that correct? right. but i do believe that the commission is is very concerned, very sad that this is happening and would definitely encourage if we can the planning department staff to really have a good conversation about our concerns

with the developer and what we would like to respectfully request. >> and i just want to acknowledge that we have a member of the public that bought this particular building to our attention. thank you for doing that. i know you worked very hard to make sure that we could save the building and i appreciate all your efforts. i know the commission appreciate all your efforts and please continue to be a very vocal and informed citizen and continue to let us know when situations like this and we hope there are no more situations like this come around. thank you. but commissioner foley, did you have another yeah, i again i would love to see this building saved i think planning staff in the first and second and third iteration really worked with the project sponsor to try to have them save the facade. i think they made the decision not to change the side and i

and i think we really have one shot at the project sponsor and i think we go to the project sponsor and say we want you to save the facade and then if you don't do that can you actually take a picture of the building? you can keep the building with little history i think i think it's not going to go over well. >> so i think if we really want to if if we really want something for the building, i think we have one shot at it is my recommendation and we go to them and we said could you could you have a picture of the building with little history of the building i'm in your lobby and i think i think they might my guess is that's the easy thing to say yes to if we asked them to maintain the facade and we asked for something inside the building that's really easy to say no to them. so that's just my my $0.02. >> okay. thank you, commissioners. if there's no further discussion we'll move on to our next agenda item. agenda item four commission matters consideration of adoption of your draft minutes from january 15th 2025 motion

to approve was there a second second no motion we should take public comment on this item public comment on the item for adoption of your draft minutes from january 15th 2025 seeing none we will move on a motion made by commissioner foley seconded by commissioner vaccaro. commissioner baldauf i commissioner vergara yes. commissioner right. yes. >> commissioner foley and commissioner president matsuda yes. >> this item passes 5 to 0. >> we move on to commission comments and questions any commission comments, questions, disclosures. >> all right. commissioner vergara just a question for mr. speaker. i see that on our next calendar is going to be a discussion of the ferry building, the plans

for the ferry building i thought it was on i just wanted to make sure it was i can i might have to coordinate with a port because we have not reached out to them on this even if they're able to to join us. so if it's not at the next hearing then i will confirm it for basically future hearing. so it is important that we have the port yes. in attendance our advance calendar says february 19th ferry building informational so hopefully yeah i will i will confirm that and if it's not there i'll make sure we communicate back accordingly. >> thanks. okay commissioners, if there's no additional comments or questions we can move on to our next item consideration of items proposed for continuance the only item on this is are up on your agenda is election of

officers proposed for continuance to february 19th 2020 five motion to continue second motion made by commissioner foley seconded by commissioner wright. we should take public comment on this item any members of the public that would like to provide public comment on the continuance of the election of officers seeing none we move on to the vote. >> commissioner baldauf i mr. vergara yes. mr. right yes. commissioner foley and commission president masuda yes. >> this item passes 5 to 0 moving on to our only item on the calendar and our regular calendar which is the proposed department budget and work program. >> good afternoon commissioners. deborah landers deputy director of administration here to go over our proposed budget and ask for your recommendation

that the planning commission recommend to the mayor's office what we are proposing this year. so it's going to sound very familiar to anybody who's been through this more than once in the last few years. >> so let's just jump into it and i'm happy to answer any questions at the end of the presentation we're going to do the mayor's office overview some background and highlights volume trends, revenue expenditure, the historic preservation work program and then the overall calendar. >> so as you've heard for the last few years and as you've probably read in the papers and heard on the news as well, the city is looking at a deficit overall and it's basically the the expenditure is outpacing revenue for the entire city. >> so we are being asked to

reduce our general fund in the department by approximately $1.4 million to play our part in helping to reduce that anticipated shortfall. a lot of this is because salary and benefits have been negotiated for various contracts and every year every employee gets more expensive. >> we also have the business tax, property tax, hospitality sector you know those are very ,very large factors in the city overall that are contributing to this deficit. so in general the background is that coming out of the 2008 recession we had a few years of

very, very big growth. we saw a softening of that starting around 2018 and that has continued and we have been asked to as i mentioned, reduce our general fund by 1.4 million and so that's the equivalent of a reduction that we're going to take out of or sorry in addition we're going to reduce our fee revenue as well. so you can see here that we had those years where we had a lot more coming into the department and then the flattening which has really been fairly consistent for the last five years or so and we anticipate that this year will continue to look like the last few years. so what we do is we take a look at our volume and then we project revenue based on that. >> okay. so like i mentioned just a

moment ago, we're looking at taking our fees down by about 2 million so from 36 million to 34 million. one bright spot is that we anticipate getting a few very large grants so you can see that our grants line is going up by many millions of dollars which is exciting news the expenditure recovery it's pretty much about the same. that's where we perform work for other departments in the city and then we get paid for the work that we do for them it's a little bit lower we're projecting but not any large order of magnitude and the general fund supports we are reducing it. >> it doesn't show in this table because every year we start with a base budget that is different from the current year budget. so the base budget includes

those salary and benefit increases. so the base budget dollar amount is around eight point nine. >> thank you. and so we're reducing the 1.4 to get back to where we are in the current year. so i think that might be a little confusing just looking at this table but we are following the instructions and we are making that reduction so we are taking down salaries and fringe as you can see here mostly by reducing vacant positions and in the budget we have an overhead number that the comptroller's office provides to us. >> we don't have any say in that number. it almost changes every single year by whatever amount they decide is our allocation that will go in after we submit our budget to the mayor's office the non personal services we're

not really proposing to change materials and suppliers very very slight decrease there. >> the projects number is where you're going to see the the grants number. so with grants because until we get the award letter we don't know exactly what they're going to be spent on. it could be personnel. it could be contracts. so we get to budget that in the projects line and then allocate it once we get our award letter based on what the grand tour has approved, we have one piece of equipment which is i.t. which has been out of maintenance since 2018. so we are proposing to replace that so that we can keep keep things turned on and then the inter-departmental services is what we pay for other departments. >> so rent out city attorney,

department of technology those are pretty much the big ones overall. >> so you can see that we're not yet fully identified where we might cut the vacant positions from. so these numbers are pretty stable year to year but we will be cutting vacant positions at that will be identified shortly and then the preservation work program here i think in your memo it's i don't remember if it's the first or second attachment at the end but you can see the detail there and we just pulled it out here so you can take a look if you have questions. i believe that we have other staff that can speak more to the program and project level. i can i can definitely speak to numbers but maybe not which

buildings are being landmarked and those kinds of things and then so we have been asked to take a look at how much of our budget goes to equity projects and this year it looks like we have about 22% of overall staff time that can be attributed to equity and the criteria that we use are the priority issue areas, the geographies or equity populations. >> and then finally we were at the planning commission on the 23rd. we're here today we're going back to them next week and then on the 21st of february we submit our proposed budget to the mayor's office and then 1st

of june the mayor's office publishes their entire citywide budgets and then through june we're working with the board of supervisors and then they pass the budget finally in july. so with that if you have any questions i'm happy to answer or to defer to people with more of the program expertise. thank you. >> i guess we asked for public comment first, correct? >> correct. at this time we'll take public comment on item number five the proposed department budget work program seeing none commissioner commissioners commissioner baldauf i'm curious about the grant money and how much if any of that affects the budget of hpc kind of hpc specific programs. >> so the larger grants are not

specifically related to hpc. there could be components put in there as part of the application process if our staff works together to see if there are pieces that might fit . >> we definitely always have the office of historic preservation and national park service that we put into our budget every year. so those are definitely and again this year if there are other grants that you know about, please let us know and we can include them and apply for them. well i guess the thing that i'm concerned about given what's been in the news is how confident you are about this money ever showing up and do you have a game plan if it doesn't? >> well, i would say i don't believe that i have an answer to whether or not it's going to show up. i think there's a lot of uncertainty right now and what i do know is that we have been

awarded at least one of the bigger ones and so moving forward i have to i have to i have to go with the assumption that the award that we've been given will happen if it doesn't happen then we we pivot in some way whether it's changing projects that we're working on or pulling back scaling back on different options i think until we know exactly what's going to happen there's not really an answer. >> and maybe if i can just follow up though no aspect of the bbc's current work program is predicated on receiving those grants and it's listed here right on page four of the potential all grants that and the level of grant moneys that are hopefully going to come in and i would say for most of those grants particularly the hud grants that's the biggest one. the component of that not all

of that is going to the planning department. the component that does go to the planning department as it relates to development review or historic preservation it was mostly earmarked for permit reform efforts, process improvement, streamlining things of that nature to help move particularly housing projects faster so again, not a direct corollary to the bbc's work program and how i've developed the bbc's work program for the coming year and the out year none of it was relying on that. it was if you look at it as compared to the current budget year that we're in of 2425, it's actually we're proposing an increase in fte count for preservation specifically focused on landmarks and national register nominations by about a point nine fte so almost a for additional staff person to focus on that especially given the pressures that are being put on our gems that we want to make sure get put on to local listings. so we've really shifted resources from non historic preservation work program in

current planning to specifically staff that up. but i think the short answer is i wouldn't worry about not getting the grants as it relates to hpc work program. thank you. any other questions or comments from the commission? >> i had a question about the enforcement fee line or the graph that shows does it help in any way with the increase of of enforcement fees that are now being imposed? >> will it help at all with okay, well so enforcement is a specific fund so it's not related to the general fund in terms of what's collected. you know, that really depends on the the complaints that come to us. >> right? so it's kind of hard to predict if you are looking you know, a few years back before short term rentals was fully established and that the airbnb be agreements that were put

into place enforcement cases were a lot higher in volume. i think that is really more of an outlier. but in terms of revenue overall anything that comes into the enforcement fund needs to be spend spent on enforcement. >> okay. >> commissioner foley, i just want to say thanks to the planning staff for trying to get us another full time employee to work on all this. >> i really we all we all really appreciate it. i appreciate this report. i don't know if it was liz or who put this report together because i've been here long enough to know what we initially received in terms of a budget and and its findings and to where it is today. >> i think for the current commissioners you're very fortunate in that it really

lays out who is in charge of do. particular department and >> we did not know that before and it wasn't documented for any member of the public to just be able to pick up a report like this and understand okay, i know the various departments. i know what's happening, i know the budget and get a really good feel right away about what's happening. >> so thank you for doing that. it it really, really makes a difference and i could really tell you that this is a big, big in change and improvement from years past. >> and the second thing is that i appreciate the whole analysis and the whole description about racial and social equity particularly where we are with what's happening in the nation and about federal policy. and i really think that our commission as well as the planning commission really has to make sure that we use our best efforts to make this a priority. we we passed a resolution some

years ago to make it a priority and i think despite what's happening at the federal level ,we just really, really make need to continue to make sure that that is something that we continue to focus on. so i thank you for doing that. >> those areas really stood out to me those areas i didn't see before. i think in reports like this particularly regarding the budget. >> so i'm very appreciative of that. thank you. >> and mr. speaker, do you agree? i more than agree recommendation for approval so second okay, we have the maker of the motion to adopt adopt recommend adoption of the budget as proposed maker from commissioner foley second by commissioner right and we will move on to the vote. commissioner baldauf i mr. vergara yes commissioner right . >> yes. commissioner foley i mean commission president matsuda

yes, right. >> and the item passes five to zero. >> thank you everyone. we're adjourned. great

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dedication and commitment to teach art of braiding to the incarcerated women at the san francisco county jail. >> not only has the freedom braiding class kind of paved the way of the training we want to have moving forward; we have already taken steps for more programs such as this. i think we are on the right electronic. >> my hope for this program is -- i want the women it get out and go home to their families to love on their babies, nieces and nephews and mothers. and giving them the skill set for them to love themselves again. although the lives stay on 24/7. their place is dark. i hope this program is shining a bit of light in their histories and minds to wanting to stay

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>> sfmta.com. >> it is the walking parking, and riding muni and it is all here in one place. >> sitting in front of my computer waiting transportation options that is not exactly how i want to spend my saturday night. >> the new sfmta.com is mobile friendly, it works great on a tablet, smart phone or a lap top, it is built to go wherever we go. >> cool. >> but, let's just take the same route tomorrow that we always take, okay? >> it might be much more fun to ride our bikes. >> i am going to be way too tired to ride all the way home. >> okay, how about this, we can ride our bikes there and then we can take muni home and it even shows us how to take the bikes on the bus, so simple right here on my phone. >> neat. we can finish making travel plans over dinner, now let's go eat. >> how about about that organic

vegan gluten free rest rft. >> can't we go to the food truck. >> do you want to walk or take a taxi. >> there is an alert right here telling us there is heavy traffic in soma. >> let's walk there and then take a taxi or muni back. >> that new website gives us a lot of options. >> it sure does and we can use it again next weekend when we go to see the giants. there is a new destination section on the website that shows us how to get to at&t park. >> there is a section, and account alerts and information on parking and all kinds of stuff, it is so easy to use that even you can use it. >> that is smart. >> are you giving me a compliment. >> i think that i am. >> wow, thanks. >> now you can buy dinner. sfmta.com. access useful information, any

listen, thank you all for being here. >> i mr. barry bonds it's an honor to have you in the people's house here at city

hall. thank you for coming on to 525 day and after last year your godfather we celebrated two for two for only fitting that we honor you here today. so thank you for coming here. john miller another legend welcome to city hall. we appreciate you being here today. when barry joined in 1993, the san francisco giants san francisco turned into a baseball town again with 762 home runs, seven mvp awards and countless other records including 35 splash hits. barry forever changed the game of baseball, but his legacy in this city goes beyond stats. his charitable work especially with youth in the bay area is a

testament to his heart and his commitment to our community. so thank you for that, barry and i want to take a moment to honor your godfather who we lost last year. not only a mentor but someone not only important to barry but to our entire community. so but take a moment to remember willie. so with that being said, i'm going to be brief. i got a proclamation. barry that's what i get to do now it's weird but i do this now so therefore be it resolved that i daniel lary mayor of the city and county of san francisco do hereby proclaim february 5th 2025 as barry bonds day here in san francisco. >> barry come on up here. let's do this and then you got to talk.

yeah. all right, barry, your your podium. thank you, mr. mayor. appreciated and congratulations to you as well as becoming our city mayor and and good luck and hope you do exactly what we need you to do. yeah, well, we're behind you all the way. first of all, i want to thank god. great honor. unbelievable to be able to have this opportunity and this honor. it's very, very special to me and my family. my family goes back a long way. i'm a godfather to giants. i got to think the giants too basically for coming to san francisco. leaving new york. thank you. come to san francisco with my godfather willie and it's such

a great honor to be able to stand up here for 25, 25 and 2424. i, i think i'm going to try not to cry for that like the godfather like son is great because i've only wanted to have willie be proud of me as a godson and my father as well as my family. i thank my kids for being a part of my life all the time and keeping me in control and my mom and my my dad. thank you very, very much for raising me and my dad teaching me all i ever know about baseball. i don't know really what to say. i'm so in all of this. this day is so special to me and so special being raised here in san francisco and going to run the school and then carry school and sierra high school and then off on my journey over to arizona state and then pittsburgh and then have an opportunity come back home and play for such a great

city who took me and my family underneath their their wing and accepted us as one and i will forever forever ever not take this lightly and thank you so much san francisco. thank you, mayor. thank you to my community. thanks to my friends and family . >> this is a great honor and thank you. congratulations, barry. mr. mayor, thank you and thanks to all those of you for coming today. my name is john miller. i broadcast giants baseball on radio and television and the cool thing about barry is that barry is san francisco. he was born and raised here. the giants came here from new york. willie mays was already a huge star with the new york giants

and came to san francisco with them and then years later here was barry bonds growing up he was willie's godson. his dad was a teammate of the great willie mays and yet it was a natural for barry to come here but he got drafted out of college by pittsburgh so he didn't go to the jazz. he went to the pirates. that's the way baseball works. but when he became a free agent the giants had new ownership was coming in at that time and a lot of other owners sort of felt like maybe they had jumped the gun a little bit because they signed the free agent barry bonds before they been approved as the owners by all the other owners. these owners were a little upset you gave him how much money and so there were a lot of gnashing of teeth and whatnot. but barry bonds came to the giants and the giants that first year won 103 games that

season barry's first year here and not much was known about it at that time but the ball was already rolling there. peter mcgowan and knowing that they had to get out of candlestick park and get a new beautiful new ballpark for the future giants baseball to be secure and that was already starting where they were going to build it themselves and i know barry you said it and we all have said it that well you started in 93 and the interest that you brought to the giants and the giants were getting so good that barry really got that ballpark built and it is oracle park today was packed bell park then it is the house that barry bonds built and as barry said in the parade, a 2010 2012 when

those giants won the world series first time that a giants team had won the world series in san francisco then they won it three times and barry said to us broadcasters he said, you know, i really got that ballpark built and we all should play that. absolutely. but these guys they're the ones who taught us all how to win in that ballpark and coming from you i thought that was that was pretty good. yeah. so anyway, so congratulations to 525 and for barry bonds we all know the numbers and you talked about the great achievements, mr. mayor. for me that was how smart very was as a player are the things that i always remember that barry knew so much about the game that he was such a student of the game. and one of my favorite moments

and you may not even remember it because you had a lot of these kind of moments but we were in san diego at the old ballpark there which barry old talk about. he got our ballpark built but he owned it was qualcomm stadium man. he's the only guy who ever hit a home run to right center field. he hit the scoreboard out there which was on the other side of the bleachers and that was just yeah par for the course for him down there. but barry hit the ball down the left the ally on the left fielder reached out for it almost caught it kicked off his love and rolled in under the bullpen bench which were right along the foul line and barry's raised it around the bases. the left fielder had to go over and dig that ball out from under that bench and barry kept around third and he's heading home and now they get the relay in the relays it to the shortstop and you're thinking oh no, barry is going to be out by 25ft at the plate. this is not going to be close. i don't want to look and the throw came in and it hit you

and bounced away and you scored a inside the park home run and after the game the writers were all like what was barry doing there talking to the manager dusty baker what do you think he was doing? i mean why not just stop at third and he's going to get thrown out? i mean what a lucky break for barry. and dusty looked at him, says you you obviously didn't see what barry saw which barry saw the catcher was going to take this throw and he may take a little peek behind him to see where that little man was and barry veered over and got in the way of that throw. that's the reason he scored. there was not going to be any question about it. that's why he kept going and he made it happen and he said the only other guy i've seen do that on a repeat basis the way barry just did it here today was the great henry aaron dusty's former teammate and one

of the greatest to ever play the game. so that's the kind of company that barry's in and for me i mean we know all the numbers and it's some of the most exciting stuff that any of us should ever seen. but plays like that are the things that stand out for me the smart and the baseball smarts at barry bonds. so it's your day in san francisco and we're all the better here in the city. mr. mayor, congratulations to you and the best for your administration and barry, have a great day here in the city by the bay. >> thank you, john. >> thank you, barry. thank you to your daughter. thank you all for being here on behalf of penny culture and myself, we welcome you up for a reception right over here to our left. so stick around. congratulations on 25. tell you one more thing it's your day.

one more thing so i don't get in trouble two 5 to 5 is also happy birthday to daddy loves you is your birthday i don't want to get in trouble my daughter's birthday today and happy birthday to the great hank aaron and i'm glad my dad is born on your day so that's three to 5 to 5 eight. all right, come on. come on. come join us over here. thank

>> black history month kickoff here at city hall and neutral williams president of the black/african american culture society on behalf of the society again, thank you for being here to kickoff the celebration with us a tradition for us to this with the participation of office of the mayor and everyone should have a copy of the program. in our seats. um, and we will be following the program u pretty much as it is laid out start of on invitation by reverend osborn first baptist church of san francisco river road osborn. >> few we could quiet our

hearts everyone if we could quiet our hearts let us come together in prayer. we invoke the street of the divine with knowledge of our labor movement among the blatant community here in san francisco. may the spirit of equity guide our effort was we fight against the oppression and vocation facesthe brother and sister in the workforce knowledge the efforts of mary a pip randolph and charley walker and notice of violation andes peel jacobs and

others who made carbon monoxides to make sure that black people were treated fairly in the workplace and may our action be guided by love and compassion we work toward an equitable future bless us dear lord with previous certain we face the challenges and they are are collective voices be heard and bring about those changes. let the pray for unit any and solidarity and honor those though fought for works rights and let their struggles and victories inspire us four justice and fairness and dignity in the workplace and may

your spirit guide with us we straf for solidarity in a labor movement today and all the folks. amen. >> thank you richard osborn and also our custom sing the negro national anthem a copy and for those who don't know all the olympics in honor of ridership before all are printed this is the high school cherry under the direction of the registrar-recorder/county clerk foster the director.

>> (music). >> (singing). >> of liberty and let us enduring the strive and honor the things we pride (singing).

>> let us on lead us on father. out of the gloomy past actually now we stand at last.

god of our silent years. god of our swlient tears. though who has by your might lead us into the light. >> keep us forever in the path we pray. >> until our feet stray from the places our god where we admit you. >> lit our haters are drunk with the wine of the world, we

forget you. >> may we forever stand, true to where you are god, true to our native land. >> (clapping.) thank you. >> . thank you. >> and now we'll have reading from commissioner chan in district 10. >> supervisor walton (clapping.) good afternoon. >> good afternoon.

>> good afternoon. >> that's a little bit better first of all, it is wonderful to see all the amazing people in city hall this afternoon before i sharing are few words i want to acknowledge my colleagues here we have chair mandelman, i see dmvrnd and supervisor melgar and supervisor sherrill and you supervisor mahmood and recognize the rest of the executive family as well as department heads and leadership and the mayor will have words to say that that black history is about more than a month to commemorate black his of the month of february and most certainly appropriate when woodman started negro history

welcome back that turned both blpts this black history month that is what his vision is become wallpapered we must remember black people in this country every single day. the fact this country thrives climate change. the fact the country is a melting pot a large portion of it is owed to the black sweet and tears in the nation. people ask as we celebrate black history month and connect black history and labor together people ask black folks what this have in common i'll tell you right now in 2025

most are under attack in this country. and we need to recognize that (clapping.) and so it is for that we remember we remember the commonality of the people who have shared struggles here in this country. because at least for foreseeable future the attacks and the fights that we have in front of us are more are more surgical then we've seen in a very long time we need to be prepared for all black people fighting together. so as we - (clapping.) as we commemorate black history today as i said let's remember

if you don't stand with the people if you don't stand in the fight, of injustice you will be next. with that said, i want to bring up our newly elected mayor for over a month mayor daniel lurie. >> less a month (laughter). >> thank you all for being here today to celebrate the opening south america of black history month i would like to thank mr. al williams for they continued service to san

francisco and the african-american community by hosting this event in city hall this year - yeah (clapping.) thank you. >> as a supervisor mentioned this year's theme for the most celebrating celebration is african-american and labor we stand here today, we honoree the great explorations and commitments 90 from leaders like martin luther king and president barry recognize obama and kamala harris by have local heros have championed civil rights and inadequate housing and employment we have the big 5 in bay area women fought for investment in their communities.

let me be very clear investing in the african-american community is a core priority of my administration. (clapping.) earlier today we moungsz dedicated invest in the youth and i did not know adult in the workforce programming i have a committee to offer opportunity to all and black sf (clapping.) i've said this and i will think it to say this with our neighbors and communities are strong, the whole city benefits. many of you, you here today stood with me last week on the steps we advocated for a state of emergency to tangible the i

fentanyl crises we are often the way to treat this issue with the emergency it demands and improve our streets and save lives in the process. and this this country dispersonal property effects african-american and thirty percent of overdose this is not only an emergency public health by an african-american issue. that fact this is a gotten headlines but i remain committed to is all african-american issues i know many of you have waiting for the funding for the city african-american v b o i hear you. did human rights commission has given me their record word that requests for proposals will

be released on or before march 1.521st my administration is taking this seriously. the funds allotment to the african-american communities are critical to the stabilization of our neighborhood and many organizations have waited for payment far too long and made sacrifices i know that many of these organizations while making sacrifices also you want this and i want this have confidence in the procurement systems. though i've been mayor for just under a month, i understand that it is imperative we clean this with the same commitment to effect and accountability i priority it's during my campaign

not because it is black history month but because this community deserves it. those are - (clapping.) these are just the first steps. we have many more challenges to tackle in the city and in or neighborhoods and in honor of wlment i ask the community to remain commitment to this city and continues to be you've done it before and i'm asking you do that besides me and we have lost work to do we find hope in the commitment i truly commit to remaining steadfast in the i commit to black san francisco today and always.. thank you.

(clapping.) >> thank you mayor daniel lurie if you look at the back of our programs it mentioned this the society was formed in 1955 one of our founding members jerry johnson celebrated his one hundred anniversary we're saying happy birthday to jerry but realize the mayor celebrated a birthday a few days go we'll sing happy birthday to him let's all sing happy birthday. you happy birthday to you. happy birthday dear mayor daniel lurie happy birthday to you.

>> (clapping). >> any we'll continue with the special choir they'll give us more singing. >> (music).

>> (clapping). >> (singing). >> we lift our hands. and we will serve you for the rest of our days serve you for the rest of your days and we lift our hands giving to give you a (unintelligible). >> we lift our hands to praise and we will thank you for the rest of our days. we'll thank you for the rest of our days. (clapping.) we clap our hands. we clapped our hands.

>> we clap our hands to give you the praise and we will praise you for the rest ever to our days yes, we'll praise you for the rest of our days (yelling). >> we - (clapping.) we sing our songs to give you the glory we sing our sos children's villages florida to give you the place and we thank you for the rest of our days. the book of receiving last. any never shall they thrift they shall wipe away tears from the eyes and ready for a revolution.

>> coming let's go. >> (singing). >> do i want a revolution com. >> do you want a revolution and do you want a revolution. >> among those killing each other to everyone wants to play around are you man enough to stay around. >> no more race no pollution. >> this is our revolution. >> (clapping) do you want a revolution? >> do i want a ref litigation. >> coming come on, come on and do i want a revolution.

>> (clapping). >> to make a dollar. >> make my life (singing). >> a revolution. >> (clapping) oh, oh. >> oh. >> >> do you want a revolution. >> do you want a revolution. >> oh, oh, oh. >> do you want a removing illustration. >> hey do you want a revolution. >> yeah. >> (clapping.)

(singing). >> they try to bust me try to break me but they can't bust me or break me. >> come on. >> oh, oh. >> you (unintelligible). >> oh, oh. >> what, what he going to do? >> put your hands up. >> they got their hands up. >> put their hands up they got their hands up. >> with their hands up and they got their hands much. >> put their hands up yeah. >> yeah. yeah. >> thank you. (clapping.) from the castle high school

choir. >> and just get you warmed-up for the keynote speaker is from the johns temple knows obey the history of san francisco, california and the africa nations and he'll share his thoughts with us a black/african american in labor john temple to. >> black history can be summoned up in one word. work. >> every aspect of our history

is about work. and we look beyond the now, and use it as herb black history works. over here is the membership of the apprentice hall of california. and on the 15 going to be doing a tour to hannibal number 1 the first apprentice hall west of mississippi founded in 1951852

right there. is dr. amos brown pastor of third baptist church also founded in 1852 we have 5 black organizations that are one hundred and 73 years old. on the 1570 are founder day program and as i stand with dr. osborn the new pastor of third you baptist church. so if you came here for a celebration, you should get up and leave because black history month is about work. it's been

doing the hard work of discovering, preserving and renewing. our history. >> so if you read the words uplift over voice and sing, we're going to talk about where the black labor force is right now. my 70 book african-americans 1980 we see there are 20 african-american a growth of 2 millions in the last two years and over 5 years had

the most expressive growth in the black labor force in 5 hundred years. because of some research at san francisco public safety committee in 2020 had a 50 percent increase in black nurses in the last 4 years think, one and 60 thousand new black nurses (clapping.) we've had a 28 percent increase in african-american in computer occasions in the last 5 years clap in the 1990s i was on the implementation team at counsel when we created the first

computer academy in california and glad to see katherine here today (clapping.) and because of the historic investment that speaker pelosi led from 2021 to 2022 a $9,000 average increase in african-american immediate income so brings us to our theme for today african-americans in labor. back in 2012 after 9 years of - the royal king

allowed me to have the dock me with the king job with mandel. after i talked to him, i called the late dianne feinstein senator and mayor brown. and that is correct pelosi to ask donor an interview and in the time i made the request do we completed the interviews for 48 hours, so to get all 3 of them to stop whatever they were doing talk about the royal king and they all that king was responsible for their careers.

so i want to give you a sense of the new traffic light of blank organized labor in san francisco and the bay area to labor standards for everybody because without these diminished people we wouldn't - you wouldn't have the national labor relationships act. so roy king came here from fresno in 11937 but got here was a foundation had been laid the strict of 1934. some of the people were involved in it were

students. so we think what was those students doing in the strike of 34 in san francisco. we lived in this, 35 um, lombardi street in san francisco right where the cable cars come. that's where he lived in 1934 and 35. and in our book come to the water we had he was one of the founder of san francisco labor union and went down to selma a hang out with jimmy caughey and raised money for the labor movement. so one of the

other people sergeant johnson came here at at age and won his first prize in the arts association. so when the new deal happened blacks couldn't get jobs in the new deal age but somehow sergeant johnson was hired for projects but a supervisor. and so if you go to the national maritime museum see his photo on the front a depiction of strikes of 34; right? >> and on the back we have his - that shows some of his other

specialities in terms of to - but unfinished. because he walks off the job. when we proposed that the bathhouse will be a complete job for the wealthy. i've been a expert for the maritime i'm i'm trying to understand how does a black man get in this position? and then be so bold that we walked off the job and then continues to - so that is the kind of history of courage and dedication that foretells organized labor. so we

found the research on the hotel witnessing come 1934 where randolph gave a speech and part of what we didn't know before was that the san francisco naacp had to pick even though the conference in order to randolph to speak for the neighborhood recognizes as the first black union. so that's the foundation that leroy king comes into the part of garner for a group of black members of the international long shore and warehousing so why would out of all the people in the district

why would nancy pelosi cho choose him to be at elector of the election of barry recognize obama to be president? >> well as we shown in the documentary that was local 10 iou you provided the funding and volunteers. and then that was all o w irked that refused to - in the san francisco bay area that sparked the end of apartheid in south africa. one thing who had a hand in the jim

crow apartheid. so that it is the sorry about that traffic light of black labor motorist in san francisco as we mentioned people like hunch who was a secretary of o w u and irked the coalition of negro labors who went turned into core (unintelligible) started out a draft man and became the national chamber of commerce in 67, it was will was the co-chair of the mobiletion committee the deliberation of south africa so

not only was the labor most of the concerned with their own welfare but the international i look at the papers of john pittman who had a paper called the spokesman in the 1930s had a list of all the african-american colonial resistance in 19 thirty beginning to that was out of for the labor movement. so as our people take their place in the next phase of history, and this is very important to me because i actually one thing i won't see

in my bio is graduating from high school i didn't graduate i got suspended; right? to for our young people you need to understand that people like lift ev'ry voice and sing roadway king had to leave the country and go to canada in the 1950's like johnson and who insured we had san francisco housing development corporation, african-american art and encouragement complex for martin luther king waterfall. they fought for it nobody handed to them they did the work and so as

you learn about the history don't - have random facts and dates by the what the workload and dedication and understand if you're called upon to rise to that same level. so i'll end with an example of how history um, impacts our young people. back in 2003 we did the history in san francisco history. three hundred and innovators of historical and culture society. you'll see the plazas at o ferry terminal street 64 people we use

their folks and the relatives. so when we designed it i said we need people in the community to actually do the interviews. so after specifically gang members. one of them to get a picture of the community they live in this is after 2003. so 2007 some of you in law enforcement remember. there was a gang war in western edition. 7 young men got shot at the same spot. in a twenty-four hour period and somebody should figure out maybe; right? but

that's how bad things got. so we went out to all the shot callers all of the collectionist in the western edition someone was a sho caller and we talked in the middle of night and tell him the people that those complexed remain. because all of work of them were names for people that are active in building the community. not that your not representing - and so and dr. brown remembers we talked and had a circle of elders around us, we can't go to the grocery store or walk down the street but calm down we need jobs;

right? and a scholarship and we gave them the - what black works and leadership and churches has been in san francisco, nobody got shot. in the worst condition. so um, i've been working for the last 5 years and the reason i'm developing the cooperation corporation and we had the steepest reduction in crime in new york city to the power of black history all the authority is nothing that we happen to claim culture

sovereignty over that is the most 0 important property in the world. so last 25 years since johnson and bert williams and someone black in san francisco has been among the most famous people in the world. so we have to make sure that people know the standards of excellence, they're impact on the world, and they are in a position to say things even had you thank you for your time and want to remind you to move forward dr. caterer is starting black history welcome back i thank you and if you're no a member have to

society, you should join. if you are, there's a manipulating table over there and if you are - then get something else to join. because those people have been doing the work for 70 years and give them a hand (clapping). >> thank you, thank you john. thank you. >> for your work. >> and timing is perfect we are just about out of time here and for this thank you for being here. and john want to acknowledge um, my colleagues on the board over here and membership and in our program there is an application for membership we love to have you

join us in this work so important that we continue to do the work we're doing. thank you for being here. and for the support you all provided for the years and enjoy the rest of black history month and the rest of the year and get about the work of learning one conceptual thing we look at what is happening on the national level, i'm often reminded we don't think of 1964 as the count when barry goldwater was length for the president of the united states and now a conditional mansion of that movement and was a link game we are to make sure we're in the long game to get others to