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. good afternoon and welcome to the february 11th, 2025 regular

meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madam clerk, will you please call the roll? >> thank you, mr. president. supervisor chen chan present supervisor chen chen present supervisor dorsey dorsey present supervisor in cardio and cardio present supervisor fielder fielder present supervisor mahmoud mahmoud present supervisor mandolin president mandell amin president supervisor melgar present melgar present supervisor sartor sartor present supervisor cheryl sherald present and supervisor walton walton present. >> mr. president all members are present. thank you madam clerk. will you please call the roll? oh, you just did actually. okay, let's try that again and adapting the san francisco board of supervisors acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramakrishna aloni who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula.

as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions the raw material oni have never been have never ceded lost or forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homelands . we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the ramakrishna owning community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. >> colleagues, will you join me in saying the pledge of allegiance? i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> on behalf of the board i want to acknowledge the staff at s.f. gov tv and especially today kaleena mendoza who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. and with that, madam clerk can

we go to our 2 p.m. special order? >> yes. the special order at 2 p.m. is the appearance at today's meeting by the honorable mayor daniel murray president to engage in a formal policy discussion with eligible board members prior to the discussion the mayor may address the board for up to five minutes. >> welcome, mr. mayor. >> do you have any opening remarks? i do. thank you. thank you for having me. good afternoon president management and members of the board of supervisors. it's an honor to be here on what is an important fun and exciting week for our city. i look forward to marching with you all and the lunar new year parade welcoming fans to san francisco for the nba all star weekend to ensure residents and visitors feel safe and welcome. public safety is key. last week supervisor dorsey and souder joined me to announce the san francisco police department hospitality zone

task force which will main which will make downtown safe and kickstart our economy. the hospitality zone task force will be an important part of our public safety plan for this weekend nba all-star game and then lunar new year parade. but it will continue after those events are done. the hospitality zone task force will provide residents and visitors with the security they deserve. 365 days a year. this new effort is part of our diversified strategy to get san franciscans back to work, clean up our streets and welcome more people to our city. san francisco is open for business conferences, tourism and the community events that make our city special. and with your help in this new era of collaboration, our potential as a city is sky high. so thank you all for your support on that.

>> thank you, mayor lurie. >> madam clerk, could you please call the topic? yes. the following topic is short term operational funding for the san francisco municipal transportation agency offered by supervisor melgar. >> thank you, madam clerk. >> supervisor melgar. thank you president randleman and good afternoon, mayor. >> thank you for being here. san francisco is a major global hub of commerce, hospitality technology, finance, education. >> in order for all of these sectors to thrive the way we all want them to and for our neighbors right here in san francisco to be connected to one another and to all those sectors we rely on are public transportation systems. the bay area is home to many different systems muni bart caltrain that are interconnected and the trains, busses, ferries are the backbone of our city and keep

the economy going even through times of economic difficulty. nearly one third of san franciscans do not own a car and rely on public transportation to get to work to school and to complete daily errands. a couple of years ago we made muni free for kids and that affected at truancy rates and allowed them the freedom to get ound. >> for residents who do not own a car. public transportation reduces citywide congestion allowing for quicker trips for everyone . >> a safe, accessible, affordable public transportation system is essential. an essential element of san francisco's past and our present in our future and a key ingredient for the success of our economy education system, public health infrastructure and the growth of the west side which i represent part of. unfortunately as you know muni is facing a current short term budget deficit in more than $300 million annual structural deficit going forward. >> we are already seeing the

impact of this possible shortfall in you know, maybe impending cuts this summer without both short term and long term fixes. we are all but guaranteeing the failure of some of these elements for our city and robbing an entire generation of opportunities in the future. so therefore mario, my question is this. will you do everything in your power to ensure that we can weather the next couple of years with no service cuts to muni while we work together on long term solutions for the system? >> thank you for the question supervisor melgar. i'm here to do everything in my power to support muni's immediate and long term health. as you set it correctly muni is the backbone. it is the lifeblood of this city. weekday ridership is up to 500,000 daily boardings. muni isn't just critical for

san francisco it's vital to the entire region. over 60% of all regional transit trips start or end in san francisco. residents and visitors rely on muni every day. and as ridership steadily returns to pre-pandemic levels, it plays a vital role in our city's economic recovery. san francisco's chief economist ted egan said it best if we don't have a solvent transit agency we will never have an economic recovery. no one especially myself, no one wants to see muni service cuts. >> but the city's budget crisis is real and the reality is this is what muni may need to do to solve the wider budget crisis they're facing. i know s.f. mta is not only evaluating service reductions but they are also evaluating all of their expenditures to determine what can be cut back or improved through efficiencies. >> so i want to work with you supervisor melgar and all of you the entire board of

supervisors to find long term solutions to make muni and the city thrive. >> thank you, mayor lurie. supervisor melgar. you may now ask a follow up question directly related to the opening question. >> thank you, president. my follow up question is what ideas do you have for funding sources or sources of income for the system? >> i was up in sacramento just yesterday advocating for state funding and i'm doing everything in my power to secure those resources. but we need a multi-pronged approach. is almost certain that we will need both local and regional revenue measures on the 2026 ballot to support muni's budget and we're going to need help with stopgap funding this year so i can continue alongside all of you to advocate for our state officials for help from sacramento. >> thank you, mayor. >> thank you, mayor lurie. you may now ask a question to supervisor melgar or to any

other supervisor in attendance pertaining to the same topic but not necessarily related to the previous question. i just i want to say thank you for inviting me over. supervisor thank you for the questions and look forward to working with you all on on this important and vital topic. >> thank you marilyn you very much. >> this concludes the district seven topic discussion. >> thanks. good to see. >> and with that this matter has been discussed and is now filed and then rifling back in my papers. madam clerk let are there any communications? >> thank you, mr. president. the san francisco board of supervisors welcomes your attendance in this meeting in person in the board's legislative chamber room 250 here on the second floor in city hall.

you may watch the proceeding on s.f. govee tv's channel two x or view the live stream at w w w dot s.f. geo vtv.org. >> you can submit your public comment in writing by either sending an email to bos at s.f. gov.org or the u.s. postal service to the san francisco board of supervisors. >> the number one dr. carlton b goodlatte place city hall room 244 san francisco, california 941022 make a reasonable accommodation request under the americans with disabilities act or to request language assistance please contact the clerk's office at least two business days in advance by calling (415) 554-5184. thank you members. >> thank you, mr. president. thank you, madam clerk. and i believe that takes us to the approval of meeting minutes. today we are approving the meeting minutes from the january 8th, 2025 inaugural board meeting.

does anyone have any changes to these meeting minutes? seeing none. can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented moved by dorsey seconded by melgar. >> madam clerk, can you please call the roll on the minutes as presented? supervisor fielder fielder eyes supervisor mahmoud mahmoud i. supervisor randleman hi randleman i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor sartor sartor i supervisor cheryl cheryl i supervisor walton walton i supervisor chen chen i supervisor chen chen i supervisor dorsey dorsey i and supervisor in cardio and cardio either are lebanese. >> thank you madam clerk. without objection the minutes will be approved after public comment as presented. let's go to the consent agenda items one through nine items two through five, mr. president. >> absolutely.

items two through five. >> yes. these items so much these items are on consent. they may be considered routine if a member objects an item may be removed and considered separately. all rights i don't see well does anyone want to remove anything from the consent agenda? i don't see anything without objection these well madam clerk can we take that same house and call if you could, mr. president. >> okay then let's take that same house, same call. without objection, these ordinance ordinances are finally passed. >> and with that, madam clerk, let's go to the regular agenda unfinished business item six item six this item amends the business and tax regulations code pertaining to commercial vacancy tax exemption pursuant to article 29 section 20 909 of the business and tax regulations code. final passage of this ordinance today requires an affirmative vote of two thirds of the

entire membership of the board. that's eight votes. >> all right. and i think we can take this same house, same call without objection. the ordinance is finally passed . >> madam clerk, please call item seven. item seven this is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to provide that to provide for the core initiatives to strengthen the city's response to homelessness, drug abuse, mental health needs and related crises. >> madam clerk, can you please call the roll on item seven supervisor fielder fielder i supervisor of mahmoud mahmoud i supervisor randleman all right, gentlemen i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor sadr sadr i supervisor cheryl cheryl i supervisor walton walton no supervisor chan chin i supervisor chin chin i supervisor dorsey dorsey i then

supervisor in cardio and cardio i there are ten eyes and one no with supervisor walton voting no thank you madam clerk can you please call item eight a oh nope. >> the ordinance is finally passed. >> madam clerk can you please call inmate yes. item eight this is an ordinance to appropriate 526,000 from the general reserve to the san francisco municipal transportation agency to support free two hour parking in the portsmouth square parking garage january 28th through february 28th, 2025 and transit fares for the lunar new year parade weekend on february 15th and 16th 2025 for the fiscal year 2024 through 2025. >> and can you please call the roll on item eight supervisor fielder fielder i supervisor mahmoud mahmoud i supervisor randleman i randleman i supervisor melgar i melgar i

supervisor sadr sadr i supervisor cheryl cheryl i supervisor walton walton i supervisor chan chan i supervisor chin chin i supervisor dorsey dorsey i and supervisor in cardio in cardio either are elevenses without objection the ordinance is passed on first reading madam clerk can you please call item nine item nine this is a resolution to authorize the human services agency to apply for and accept the county allocation award under the california department of housing and communities development transitional housing program for approximately 4.2 million and the housing navigation and maintenance program for 630,000 to provide funding to assist young adults to secure and maintain housing. and i think we can take this item same house, same call without objection the

resolution is adopted. madam clerk, will you please call item ten? >> item ten. approves a retro active grant agreement with the young community developers for the following programs black to the future and the school site mentoring program for a five year term july 1st 2024 through june 30th 2029 and for approximately 12.4 million. supervisor walton thank you president madam and colleagues. item ten is a grant to young community developers my former employer. i do not have a financial relationship with y c d nor have i since i left over six years ago and i do not have a conflict of interest on this item but to avoid the appearance of any conflict i would like to ask for a motion to excuse me from participating in this retroactive item. >> all right. is there a motion to excuse zero so walton made by fielder seconded by melgar. >> i think we can take that

without objection and then madam clerk, can you call the roll on the item on item ten supervisor fielder fielder i supervisor mahmoud mahmoud i supervisor mandel bin hi randleman i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor sadr sadr i supervisor cheryl cheryl i supervisor chin chin i supervisor chin chin i supervisor dorsey dorsey i and supervisor in cardio and cardio i there are ten i's thank you madam clerk without objection this resolution is adopted. can you please call our next item item 11 this is a resolution to approve the first amendment to an agreement with bay area community resources for following programs sunset media waive reset just as collaborative the youth line

technology pathway and career pathways for undocumented youth to increase the contract amount by 1.5 million for a new total of 10.4 million with no change to the five year term through june 30th 2029. >> please call the roll in this item i'm item 11 supervisor fielder fielder i supervisor mahmoud mahmoud i supervisor randleman hi mendelson i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor sadr sadr i supervisor cheryl cheryl i supervisor walton walton i supervisor chen chen i supervisor chen chen i supervisor dorsey dorsey i and supervisor in cardio and cardio i there are 11 eyes without objection the resolutions adopted madam clerk can you please call item 12 item 12 resolution to approve and authorize the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to execute

a contract water capital program management with hdr stantec jv to provide program management consulting services to support delivery of the water enterprise and hedge hagee water capital improvement program and the water system improvement program for 80 million and with the duration of ten years with an anticipated timeframe from april 2025 through march 2035 and i think we can take this same house same call without objection the resolutions adopted madam clerk, can you please call item 12 or item 13 rather item 13 is a resolution to approve a third amendment with a lease lease use and operating agreement for a bart station and related facilities and grant of easement at san francisco international for a rent credit in support of the san francisco bay area rapid transit transit district's next generation fare gates

replacement project for 3.15 million with no changes to the term of of june 20th 2nd to 2000 and three through june 21st 2053. >> we will take this item same house, same call without objection the resolution is adopted. >> madam clerk, can you please call item 14 item 14 resolution to approve the fourth amendment to the grant agreement between the city acting by and through the department of homelessness in support of housing and catholic charities for the s.f. home rapid rehousing program for families to extend the grant term by 16 months february 28th 2025 for a new term of july first 2018 through june 30th 2026 to increase the amount by approximately 4.7 million and a new total of 14.5 million and we can take this item same house, same call without objection the resolution is adopted. >> madam clerk, can you please call item 15 item 15 this is an

ordinance to approve the amended airport surveillance technology a new policy governing the use of automated license plate readers ground transportation management system and parking assist parking guidance system. >> we can take this item same house, same call without objection the ordinance is passed on first reading madam clerk can you please call item number 16 item 16 this is a motion to appoint supervisor belal mahmoud to the bay area air quality management district board of directors term ending february first, 2029 or the conclusion of his term as a member of the board of supervisors. >> is there a motion to excused supervisor mahmud i moved by melgar seconded by cheryl. we can take that without objection. >> supervisor mahmud is excused if and on the motion madam clerk, will you please call the roll on item 16 supervisor

fielder fielder i supervisor randleman hi mendelson i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor sartor sutter i supervisor cheryl cheryl i supervisor walton walton i supervisor chan chin i supervisor chin chin eyes supervisor dorsey dorsey i and supervisor in cardio and cardio i there are ten eyes without objection the motion is approved madam clerk can you please call item 17 and 18 together? >> item 17 and 18 are two motions to appoint supervisor connie chan to the san francisco bay conservation and development commission and free city college oversight committee for an indefinite term or the conclusion of her term as a member of the board of supervisors. colleagues can i have a motion to excuse supervisor chan moved by mahmud seconded by chen. we can take that without objection supervisor chan is

excused. and then on the motions. >> madam clerk, will you please call the roll and item 17 and 18 supervisor fielder fielder i supervisor mahmoud mahmoud i supervisor mandelson hi middleman i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervise her sadr sadr i supervisor cheryl cheryl i supervisor walton i walton i soup her chin chin i supervisor dorsey dorsey i and supervisor in cardio and cardio i their attorneys without objection these motions are approved madam clerk will you please call item 19 item 19 this is a motion to appoint supervisor danny sadr to the golden gate bridge highway and transportation district board of directors term ending january 31st 2027 or the conclusion of his term as a

member of the board of supervisors. >> colleagues can i have a motion to excuse supervisor sadr from voting on this matter moved by chen second by walton without objection the supervisor sadr is excused. >> and on the motion madam clerk, will you please call the roll on item 19 supervisor fielder fielder i.e. supervisor mahmoud mahmoud i supervisor randleman hi mendelson i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor cheryl cheryl i supervisor walton i walton i supervisor chan chin i supervisor chin chin eyes supervisor dorsey dorsey i and supervisor in cardio and cardio i there are ten eyes without objection the motion is approved madam clerk could you please call items 20 through 22 together items 20 through 22 are three motions that appoint supervisor matt dorsey to the

outside boards or commissions for the four an alternate member to the san francisco bay conservation and development commission for an indefinite term item 21 to the reentry council term ending june 1st 2026 or the conclusion of his term as member of the board and for adam, 22, as a member to the association of bay area executive board term ending june 30th 2025 or the conclusion of his term as a member of the board. >> colleagues can i have a motion to excuse supervisor dorsey from voting on these matters moved by cheryl seconded by mahmoud without objection supervisor dorsey is excused. >> and on the motions madam clerk, will you please call the roll on items 20 through 22 supervisor fielder fielder eyes supervisor mahmoud mahmoud i supervisor randleman hi management i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor sadr sadr

i supervisor cheryl cheryl i supervisor walton walton i supervisor chan chin eyes supervisor chin chin i and supervisor in cardio and cardio i there are ten eyes without without objection the motions are approved madam clerk can you please call item 23 item 23 a motion to appoint supervisor myrna melgar to the metropolitan transportation commission term ending february 10th 2027 or the conclusion of her term as a member of the board of supervisors colleagues can i have a motion to excuse supervisor melgar from voting on this matter moved by field or seconded by sauder and we can take that without objection supervisor melgar is excused and on the motion madam clerk can you please call the roll? >> oh, and item 23 supervisor fielder fielder i.e. supervisor mahmud ahmad i supervisor randleman all right gentlemen i supervisor sadr sadr i

supervisor cheryl cheryl i supervisor walton hi walton i supervisor chin chin am supervisor chin chin i supervisor dorsey dorsey i and supervisor in cardio and cardio i there are ten i's thank you madam clerk without objection the motion is approved congratulations and thank you colleagues for stepping up to serve on these various boards. >> madam clerk, can you please call item number two for item 20 four was referred without recommendation from the rules committee. it's a resolution to accept the san francisco sheriff's office military equipment use policy 2024 annual report and inventory and to approve the request for purchase and use of the additional equipment consistent with the criteria set forth in state law. >> supervisor chen thank you president. >> i would like to make a motion referring item 24 back to the rules committee for

amendments and i have been working with this year with our sheriff miyamoto to introduce some amendments regarding the acquisition of our pepper ball launchers. >> the amendments will refer to the usage guidelines in the pop up menus and this manufacturer guidelines in the product menu for the pepper ball we spro launchers and munitions include four of the amendments one it's never a point or discharge the launcher at any time that and anything that we do not intend to suit. >> the second one is increasing the velocity of this product increase the risk of death and injury and the third bullet point is never discharge our launcher at the personal property of others. and last one is keep all pepper ball put projectiles and launchers out of the site and rich off children's. all right. thank you. supervisor chen supervisor

walton one i'd like to second the motion to send back to committee but just also want to state for the record that we have already had some negative impacts with chemical weapons from the sheriff's department. >> we've actually had children in san mateo county school that is located next to the jail in the environment have also already received chemical impacts from testing and training at the san bruno county jail site. there continues to be an ongoing investigation of the harms of these chemical weapons used by the department and so this is always been a red flag for me so i appreciate supervisor chin sending this back to committee but i hope that we get the results of the investigation very soon or even when we come back to the full board. there's no way i would support those chemical weapons. >> supervisor fielder thank you, president.

i want to thank my colleague supervisor chen for working on the amendments. i also have concerns for all the reasons that supervisor walton noted and and also the just the the limited role of of sheriffs in our city security at jails, hospitals, city buildings. >> i definitely have major concerns about how these will be deployed and and what other equipment exists in the department's inventories and why at this time especially in our budget deficit are these being considered? >> so thank you. thank you. supervisor fielder is there a representative of the sheriff's office here? >> come on up. >> good afternoon. board chief john ramirez with the sheriff's office, the sheriff's office have any objection to our rules having another look at this? >> no, we don't.

>> all right. thank you. then the motion has been made and seconded to send this to rules and i guess and on that, madam clerk, can you please call the roll on the motion to send item 24 to the rules committee? supervisor fielder fielder i supervisor mahmoud mahmoud i supervisor randleman hi randleman i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor sutter sutter i supervisor cheryl cheryl eyes supervisor walton high walton eyes supervisor chin chin eyes supervisor chin chin eyes supervisor dorsey dorsey eye and supervisor and cardio and gaudio i there are 11 eyes thank you. >> thank you madam clerk and i would just as a mild admonition ask colleagues to the extent that they can to get their amendments into committee well while the mat matters are still pending before committee it can't always happen. sometimes things do get sent back to committee but as a best practice that's ideal.

madam clerk, can you please take us to our 30 2:30 p.m. special order? >> yes. this is the recognition of commendations for meritorious service to the city and county of san francisco and i think we have one commendation today and that is from supervisor walton in district ten. >> thank you so much, president madam in the legacy of black excellence is built upon the dedication and resilience and unwavering commitment of individual girls like officer jason johnson, jason, if you could come on up. officer jason johnson better known as officer jj is a 17 year veteran of the san

francisco police department. he has not only upheld his duty to serve and protect but has gone beyond the badge to uplift and empower the next generation through his visionary leadership officer jj founded operation genesis inc., a transformative program that bridges coaches and builds identity by taking youth and adult chaperons on life changing journeys to ghana africa. his work extends far beyond this initiative he has spearheaded programs like genesis academy a journey to self-discovery youth career academy blow up girls group body engineer fitness community essential relief and neighborhoods united each of these programs reflects his deep commitment to mentoring guiding and supporting over 300 youth and their families particularly in the bayview. officer jay's impact is

immeasurable. he is a mentor, a role model and a beacon of hope for countless young people thriving to see beyond their circumstance choices and reach their full potential. his dedication to fostering self-discovery, career development and community engagement is a testament to his belief in the power of transformation and collective progress as we celebrate black history month we recognize offer jay's officer jj as a modern day changemaker someone who is not only shaping the present but laying the foundation for a future where every young person has the opportunity to rise. his work embodies the true spirit of service, leadership and black excellence. officer j.j., we commend you. we honor you and we thank you. your impact will be felt for generations to come. >> thank you.

>> so i guess this is the part where i give a speech i know this is this is you guys yeah, yeah, this is this is this is pretty cool. this is a huge honor. you know, since i became a police officer and you know, i just fell in love with san francisco. i'm not originally from here but i feel like i am now and just being fully immersed into the community. yeah, it's just this is great, you know, we've served over hundreds of community members. we've taken over 90 people have gone to africa and brought back some of that culture that they have their back to san francisco and immersed it with the culture we have here and it's been tremendous and the results you kind of see the

numbers for the how the crime is down a part of it is what we've done in the community, what community members and community members buying into the community and giving back. it's just been it's been amazing. this is such an honor and i'm grateful. >> thank you. >> and i do see we have deputy chief lazaro on here and i don't know if you want to say anything. >> well, first i want to say congratulations officer officer j.j. and i want to thank you, supervisor walton for making this announcement for his award. and you know, oftentimes the san francisco police department's asked about well, what are you doing about community policing and what is it to you? and i look at officer j.j. as one of many great examples about how it's not just enforcing the law, it's not just arresting individuals but it's what is our intervention strategy to get people out of a certain lifestyle of criminal

if they're involved in crime and get them connected with jobs and training and education and doing all those things. and he has been a role model and a mentor to so many people for so many years that this is very fitting. so on behalf of chief scott and the entire san francisco police department, i want to thank you supervisor walton and this entire board and i want to congratulate j.j. for everything you do and will continue to do for our city to make our city safe. >> so thank you so.

madam clerk, let's go to committee reports. please call item number 25. >> item 25 will be considered by the audit and oversight committee at a regular meeting on thursday, february six, 2025 and was recommended as amended bearing the same title as a committee report. >> it's a resolution to authorize the office of the mayor, the office of the city attorney and the office of the city administrator and the head of each division, office and department under the supervision of the city administrator to solicit donations from various private, nonprofit, philanthropic and other entities to support services fundraising for services related to immigration, lgbtq plus rights

,environmental protection, reproductive rights and racial equity for the be hosted payment waiver. >> madam clerk, can you please call the roll on this item on item 25. supervisor fielder fielder is supervisor from would mahmoud i supervisor mandel mendelson i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor carter sutter i supervisor cheryl cheryl eyes supervisor walton walton absent supervisor chin chin eyes supervisor chin chin eyes supervisor dorsey dorsey i and supervisor and cardio and guardian i there are ten i's thank you madam clerk without objection this resolution is adopted. can you please call item 26? item 26 was considered by the land use and transportation committee at a regular meeting and was forwarded as a committee report. it's an ordinance to amend the

planning code and the health code for the inclusionary housing ordinance non non-potable water exemption we can take this item same house, same call without objection this ordinance is passed on first reading madam clerk can you please call item 27 item 27 what's considered by the rules committee at a regular meeting on monday february 10th and was also forwarded as a committee report. item 27 is a motion to appoint supervisor jackie fielder to the local agency formation commission term ending february 4th, 2027 at the conclusion of her term as a member of the board. >> colleagues can i have a motion to excuse supervisor fielder from voting on this matter moved by chen seconded by chan. we can take that without objection. supervisor fielder is excused. >> and on the motion. >> madam clerk, can you please call the roll on item 27 supervisor mahmoud mahmoud i

supervisor randleman. >> all right, gentlemen, i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor sartor sadr i supervisor cheryl cheryl eyes supervisor walton walton absent supervisor chan chin eyes supervisor chin chin eyes supervisor dorsey dorsey i and supervisor in cardio and cardio i there are nine eyes without objection the motion is approved madam clerk let's go to roll call for introductions of first member up to introduce new business is supervisor fielder hey hello thank you colleagues i am sure many of you are aware of an incident that took place in my district on sunday night as super bowl sunday was getting underway i got a call from fire chief chrisman at 350 that a car had crashed into a parklet injuring

six including a mom and a child who were sent as of general under a red code for that reason i was completely prepared to arrive at a tragic scene and now we know that thankfully all six are expected to be okay. we know that the crash was a result of a police chase of a wanted vehicle that started at stone's town and continued all the way to 24th street in mission district. the horrifying crash destroyed a parklet at a popular sports bar that was full of people enjoying the first quarter of the super bowl. >> i saw the video of the crash myself and it is an absolute miracle no one was killed. >> i talked to witnesses up and down 24th street and learned that before the wanted car crash into the parklet it sped northbound on mission, crashed into a light pole at 24th in mission and crashed into

another parked car outside of the mcdonald's which i noticed on the scene had all its airbags deployed due to the impact. >> i am so relieved no one was killed but this day could have been an even more tragic one for our city as well the injured victims and witnesses while not in critical condition and will be traumatized for a long time. it is unclear to me at this time whether there was an imminent threat to anyone's lives before as apd began to pursue this vehicle. >> and as you all know, voters passed prop eight last year which among other things expanded the criteria criteria for four vehicle pursuits to allow as of greater discretion in those decisions between 2018 and 2023 before this new policy was implemented as live pd reported, 150 police chases. 38% of these ended in a collision in june 2023 a police

chase killed someone. san francisco's new vehicle pursuit policy loosens restrictions on vehicle chases beyond that of most other major american cities. >> and so i am submitting a letter of inquiry to as of pd chief scott to better understand the circumstances and decision making surrounding the case. i would like to understand one what were the circumstances surrounding this case and what was the top speed of the police car or cars involved to what is the existing as of pd policy regarding police chases and how have officers been trained on it? three how did this incident comply with current as a pd policy and how did it arrives to the level of vehicle pursuit that ultimately put many lives in danger or what is the pd protocol after a car chase that leads to injuries or fatalities?

five who made the judgment call and based on what factors? >> six were there other options such as drones or other measures that could have been deployed to avoid a vehicle pursuit that puts lives in danger. seven lastly, what accountability mechanisms are in place for officers whose decisions injure innocent bystanders and extensively damage local businesses as of police car chase policy calls for police to safely apprehend a fleeing violator without unnecessarily endangering the public and or officers according to state law. >> members of law enforcement are also supposed to balance the offense and need for immediate capture against the risks to motorists, pedestrians and officers. public safety requires holding all people accountable for the harm that they cause no matter who causes it. >> and i'm doing this out of concern for the safety of our community and i want to ensure

that the san francisco police department is doing all that it can to avoid such an incident in the future while balancing the needs of all of our public safety. thank you your honor's i submit. >> thank you supervisor fielder supervisor i would submit thank you. supervisor mendelsohn colleagues i'm asking that we adjourn today's meeting in memory of reverend robert crummy who passed away on january 14th at the age of 93. >> robert was born in new york city in 1931. he earned an athletic scholarship to attend new york university where he was the captain of the swim team and earned his bachelor's degree in english and philosophy in 1954. after graduating he attended general theological seminary and was ordained as a priest in 1956. in 1962 he was recruited by james pike, the progressive bishop of california at the time to invigorate the episcopal episcopal ministries in the mission district of san

francisco. the following year he was invited to preach at grace cathedral church. his sermon argued for the equal treatment of and lesbians by the church. in 1963 he was not invited back. he went on to co-found the council on religion and the homosexual. after police raided the group's 1965 new year's eve costume ball, crowley and other clergy denounced the police polices discriminatory practice practices in a press conference that led to all charges being dropped at st aidan's episcopal church in diamond heights where he served first as victor vicar and later as rector. robert performed what is believed to have been san francisco's first same sex church wedding ceremony in 1968. he performed many more when he became rector of trinity episcopal church on gough. when the church hierarchy forbade him from officiating weddings for same sex couples, he responded that if he could not marry same sex couples he would stop performing marriage ceremonies altogether.

eventually he got around the prohibition by inviting in visiting ministers to perform the nuptials while while he stood by robert open trinity kitchen to ruth brinker and project open hand when she outgrew her home kitchen. feeding men dying from malnutrition and aids they ran project open hand from trinity for several years until they found their own building. he performed more than 70 funeral services for gay men who died from aids complications. a true ally of the community robert solidarity was not limited to any one community or cause. he joined dr. martin luther king on his march to selma, preached in support of farmworkers and cesar chavez and defended nudity in north beach bars. his very first sermon at trinity delivered on december 15th, 1981 called for then-defense secretary caspar weinberger to resign his membership in the episcopal church because of his hawkish views which ran contrary to the church's antiwar positions. robert was arrested proudly, many times for many causes.

>> in later life he was an avid blogger and kept writing until the end of 2024. in one of his final blog post titled how to stay cheerful, robert wrote the only way i know how to be cheerful is to be thankful. positive thinking does not work. it avoids acknowledging pain and sorrow. being thankful makes pain and sorrow part of thankfulness. rest in peace and power robert crummy. may your memory be a blessing. >> the rest i submit. thank you, mr. president. >> supervisor melgar. i thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, as i mentioned to the mayor earlier, our public transportation system is in a financial crisis. i am hopeful that all of us on the board can commit to working together to fill the funding gap for muni and ensure that the city keeps running. today i am introducing a resolution affirming san francisco's commitment to developing fiscal solutions to ensure that public transportation remains safe, affordable and convenient as an option.

>> thank you to supervisor sauder tenant and cardio for your early co-sponsorship. and madam clerk i have two in memoriam. the first is for charles kopecky marion. >> we honor charles miscarrying today. he recently passed away at the age of 91. he is survived by his loving wife of 34 years, diane, his brother and sister, his sons, grandchildren, nieces, nephews and relatives who brought him immeasurable joy. charles led a model life of service and entrepreneurship. he served our country in the air force and was very active in the reserves and later in the veterans community. >> he spent an incredible amount of time helping boys and girls through the boys and girls club of santa ana and was dedicated to his armenian community in northern california. he was an active member in the effort to save the mt. davidson cross in district seven and served four years in the council of armenian american

organizations of northern california. his legacy of service and compassion will continue to inspire and resonate for resonate for generations to come. >> lastly colleagues i am offering an in memoriam for san francisco firefighter and san francisco police officer bob geary who died january 26th at the age of 85. robert geary was born november 22nd, 1939 in oakland and he was five minutes younger than his twin sister patricia. he attended zero school in bishop o'dowd school in oakland. he was a seven time elected member of the democratic central committee and served two terms as a on the board of directors of the air. >> he was one of those characters that made san francisco space ideal. he was assigned to a community policing position in north beach and how he made it his own was to order an expensive

wooden dummy out of a vintage tril equis catalog. he taught himself how to use it in front of the mirror and he chose the name smarty as a pun of the word dummy and the full name. brendan was smarty to add dignity to the doll geary took the dummy to entertain children while he was out on patrol dressing it in police uniform with a badge one half and a water pistol. despite carrying the dummy, geary was able to function as an officer chasing and tackling at least one suspect with the dummy at hand. >> in 19 93 he placed a ballot measure to the voters after being told by his captain and then chief ribera that he could no longer be a ventriloquist with a psychic proposition. bebe was supported by 68,000 san franciscans. this was the second ballot victory. he had already won big by championing proposition b which saved a mounted unit from elimination in 1988. >> bob geary walked a beat in

north beach and retired on the west side. >> he will be missed by all who knew him and voted for him. he is survived by his twin sister patricia and geary and his partner in ventriloquism brenda no marti. the rest i submit and i would like to be referred after supervisor dorsey please. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor melgar. supervisor sutter. >> thank you, madam clerk. first i'd like to build on supervisor mcguire's words related to bob geary. even many years later he is someone who the community of north beach remembers fondly and share stories of. and i think he also represented the best of community policing and what we subscribe to in central station and in the north beach community of making our police officers and our public safety responders part of our neighborhoods. >> next i'd like to introduce a resolution recognizing the

month of february 2025 as children's dental health month in the city and county of san francisco. kerri is also known as cavities are tooth decay are the most common chronic disease in children across our country. kids only get one set of permanent teeth and it's crucial to protect them from day one so they last a lifetime. >> when kids have poor oral health it affects their ability to succeed at school, to sleep, to eat and to grow. and we want our city to remain committed to protecting and improving the health of our city's children. youth and families because we know when they are healthy our city thrives. some of the most effective oral habits kids can form include brushing twice a day, flossing every day, eating healthy food ,limiting sugary beverages and going to the dentist for a checkup twice a year. i say that as much a reminder for the children as for all of us in this room and as an expecting father i plan to ensure my daughter performs all of those healthy habits so that no matter how big her sweet

tooth might be her teeth can stay in good condition. >> this resolution also recognizes the work of cavity free s.f. which is a citywide oral health collaborative committed to addressing children's oral health disparities. our kids in chinatown, the mission and bayview hunters point in particular bear the highest burden of tooth decay. cavity free s.f. works to engage with kids and parents in those communities to support them in accessing resources to improve their oral health. i want to thank nico's chinese health coalition and their executive director kent wu in particular for bringing this important issue to the attention of our office and for their important work in district three to improve the oral health of children in chinatown. thank you to all ten of my colleagues for co-sponsoring this resolution and working to improve the health of kids across our city and the rest i submit. >> thank you. supervisor sutter. supervisor cheryl. >> colleagues today i'm introducing two items. first, i'm introducing an ordinance to implement a simple amendment to the planning code

that will better allow our corner stores to attract foot traffic on our commercial corridors. we all know that our small businesses have struggled to recover since the pandemic. citywide we have persistently low levels of tourism and commercial vacancy rates that remain higher than 2019 levels. our sales tax revenues are lackluster compared to the pre-pandemic years. it is our responsibility to do everything we can to create an environment where small businesses can thrive. the legislation i am introducing is a commonsense code change that lets businesses on corner lots have to projecting signs for the two adjoining facades further inviting patrons and contributing to a violent, vibrant streetscape. >> planning department analysis agrees that visual cues like signs will not only introduce patrons to the individual business but also draw attention to and in court encourage activity throughout the entire merchant corridor. >> amidst troubling economic indicators and a shift away from brick and mortar commercial businesses, we must

do all that we can to encourage flexible city that encourages economic recovery. when analyzing prior signed legislation. the planning department staff also found that today nine noncompliant businesses that have that already have two projecting signs are mostly concentrated in our city's cultural heritage districts. we must acknowledge the historical context of san francisco's design controls and the impact of past regulations on diverse cultural expression. since the mid 1960s the city has implemented sign controls that sought to restrict quote visual clutter. this term is often employed as a proxy to minimize the expression of cultural identity and diversity. recently, however, we have rightly implemented design guidelines in our cultural districts that recognize the importance of promoting and protecting businesses that advance the variety of cultures that make san francisco so unique by allowing additional signage flexibility. this ordinance will not just bring these shops into

compliance with the law. we will also ensure that more corner stores can reflect the artistic and cultural identities of their communities. this legislation is straightforward yet it serves as another powerful step toward economic revitalization and toward fostering a welcoming, vibrant streetscape across the city. >> i want to thank supervisor sutter, supervisor melgar and board president mandel min for your early co-sponsorship. and i look forward to working with all of you to gain your support. furthermore, i'm joining mayor lurie as a co-sponsor of a resolution to execute a loan agreement between the mayor's office of housing and community development and the tenderloin neighborhood development corporation. this loan finances the acquisition rehabilitation and preservation of over 100 affordable homes in district two located on ellis street between goff and laguna. this project the normandie apartments converts 108 privately owned units into permanently affordable housing. >> this acquisition expands much needed affordable housing

opportunities for low and moderate income households in a neighborhood with strong transit access and senior services. critically, rents in these apartments will be capped at 30% of household income. i'm thrilled that the normandie apartments is a second site acquisition in d2 and most notably this site is one of the lowest public cost per unit acquisitions in the small cites program history. i'm grateful for the extensive work that most city and tienda have done to make this project a reality. it's pivotal that we continue to create and preserve affordable housing across the city, ensuring that every district remains accessible to the diverse range of residents that make san francisco the vibrant city it is. >> by fairness, by financing this project we make a cost effective investment to protect needed affordable housing and support a future in which all communities can continue to thrive and live in their homes without the risk of the place of displacement. >> the rest i submit thank you . >> supervisor sheryl supervisor walton. thank you, madam clerk.

first i just want to be added to the letter of inquiry read supervisor fielder and the questions around police chases. i know at some point with the law changes someone is actually going to die because of these police changes. intentional or not. >> and so it's disheartening today. >> colleagues, i just want to speak on a silent hearing that i introduced last week. i introduced the hearing regarding the mistreatment of residents at the alice griffith apartments by mccormack berrien salazar and property management around the quality of services they are providing mistreatment of residents and oversight responsibilities. our office has heard from numerous residents about the lack of services as well as quality of life issues. we are requesting the san francisco housing authority

john stuart company, mccormack bear and salazar office of community investment in infrastructure five point bayview hunters point multi senior services and the mayor's office of housing and community development to report at this hearing. >> there have been other hearings that we've held around public housing communities here in this body and we've most certainly had some successes as a result of these hearings. it's unfortunate that we have to go through the trouble of calling a hearing to make sure that the quality of life for our residents are met and their needs are met. but this is something that continues to be a problem in some of our our housing communities. and so we're going to continue to fight to make sure residents have the services and the quality of life that they deserve. >> the rest i submit thank you . supervisor walton. supervisor chen submit. thank you. supervisor chen submit. thank you. supervisor dorsey.

>> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i have requested the city attorney advice and begun the process of preparing a formal legislative drafting request in response to a recent police commission resolution urging this body to amend relevant provisions of the san francisco administrative code that govern rewards for information pertaining to unsolved homicide cases. in general this would seek to address expanding rewards for information leading to the file filing of homicide charges rather than solely for criminal convictions and potentially certain other circumstances for which i will need to work more closely with our city attorney. i would however, like to extend my gratitude to miss paulette brown for her advocacy for this and also for her long time support of those who like her have suffered the loss of a family member or loved one to homicides that remain unsolved for many years. ms. brown has been nothing short of the conscience of the san francisco police commission reminding us of law enforcement's important and enduring work to do justice and

to offer a measure of closure for those left behind in the wake of tragedy. to the extent we policymakers can incentivize information that may help law enforcement's task in solving homicides, we should do so. and i look forward to working with advocates, with colleagues and with our city attorney's office to accomplish that. >> separately, i would like to reserve the right to offer a more complete in memoriam next week. but we received sad news of the passing earlier this morning of a true sun of san francisco a long time labor leader, a conscientious civil service commissioner and an admired and beloved leader of san francisco's irish-american and roman catholic communities in ethics. crowley. for those of us who knew ethics as a friend, i think we still have some processing and grieving to do before we can collaborate on an in memoriam that is fully worthy of alex's remarkable legacy to the city he loved. preliminarily, however, i would

ask that we also adjourn today's meeting in honor of ethics. crowley extending our condolences to his beloved family members, his wife nancy and his children jill, robbie, carrie and meg. our hearts go out to all of you in this difficult time and the rest i submit. >> thank you. supervisor dorsey supervisor melgar, thank you so much, madam clerk. thank you, supervisor dorsey. i also just wanted to weigh in as commissioner crowley was a friend and was a constituent up until two years ago when that a neighborhood with redistricted into district four. i wanted to highlight a little bit commissioner crowley's great contributions to the labor movement in san francisco and as a civic leader and civil servant. commissioner crowley at joined i see the stagehand at union and if he served for 30 years

he was a member union member of society at local 16 and he began his career as a stagehand in 1982 working for the san francisco opera and broadening his field experience in motion pictures and performing arts. he joined the management staff in 1990 and was elected president of piazza local 16 in 1994. rising to business manager in 1997 where he was elected to seven consecutive terms he was a highly skilled labor negotiate and mediator. >> he had his own firm where he advised folks on nonprofit labor business negotiations. he served as port commissioner from 2010 to 2012 and also as commissioner from 2008 to 2010. he served as president of that commission from september of

2009 through 2010. also serving on the sampras's go labor council executive committee and is a charter member of the friends of the san francisco film commission. commissioner crowley has served three terms on the travis san francisco travel board of directors and also as a member of the san francisco cork ireland sister city committee. we will miss him dearly. he was also a candidate for supervisor of district seven. his wife nancy also a dear friend is an avid cyclist and activist in these circles. we send all our love to nancy and i hope that we can close the meeting in his memory. >> thank you. let's have that be from the full board. >> thank you. supervisor melgar. supervisor walton, you asked to be re referred on this item. >> thank you so much, madam clerk. my apologies, colleagues. i'm also requesting a hearing

on the budget and legislative analyst's performance audit of the san francisco police department over time requested by former supervisor dean preston. i want to thank him and his staff for initiate this audit with the bla. the findings in this report raise serious concerns about accountability oversight and financial management within s.f. pd and fiscal year 2022 2023 s.f. police overtime expenditures totaled 108.4 million. yet just 12% of officers were responsible for 32% of all overtime hours. at the same time sick leave and injury related leave among sworn staff increased by 77% over five years. with troubling patterns suggesting potential abuse, the audit also found that cpd failed to enforce absenteeism

policies did not adequately monitor attendance and violated key provisions of its mou with the police officers association resulting in 51,000 ineligible ten b overtime hours between 2020 and 2023. additionally, 13 percent of overtime cards were improperly approved with the missing or duplicate signatures and even officers approving their own overtime. perhaps most concerning s.f. pd spent over 30.8 million in general fund dollars on 319,945 overtime hours for special initiatives without clear performance metrics or oversight. these findings demand answers. >> i'm calling on both the budget and legislative analysts and as a pd to report on these issues and explain how they

plan to correct these systemic failures. san franciscans deserve transparency and accountability in how our public safety dollars are spent. the rest i submit, is for real this time. >> thank you, supervisor walton ,supervisor and cardio colleagues. i'd like to express my condolences to the family of f crowley. he was a neighbor. he lived not too far from me such a respected member of the community when i was brand new to politics he was a front runner for supervisor. i learned so much from him and perhaps most importantly him and nancy raised some great kids. so my condolences to crowley's family. >> the rest i submit thank you supervisor and guardian. >> mr. president, seeing no names on the roster that concludes the introduction of new business. >> thank you, madam clerk. >> let's go to public comments. at this time the board welcomes your public comment. please line up on your right hand side of the chamber along the curtains. you may speak to the mayoral

appearance today the approval of the meeting minutes as presented. other general matters not on today's agenda but within the board subject matter jurisdiction. all other agenda content has been reported out to the board by an appropriate committee where the public comment requirement occurred. we are setting the timer for two minutes and will welcome our first speaker. welcome ms. brown. good morning. i mean i said i'm sorry. i like to use it over here and i want to thank you matt darcy for speaking on the resolu ation is over here working now i'm here concerning my son aubrey zappacosta who was murdered august 14, 2006 as matt darcy spoke about about unsolved homicides i bring these pitches with me because they're all unsolved homicides and these cases have never been set. so this is a new new one of all unsolved homicides and there are people of color are unsolved homicides and i say

this because i'm a mother have been fighting for years about my son. this is me standing over my son lifeless body. this is something i have to remember for the rest of my life. >> so that's why i asked for this to be done. this is my son's corpse. this is what i see. so i'm saying that if we can implement this new resolution and max carter over stone was the one that implemented this at the border. he's the the vice president at the board at the police commission. so he may implement this and i'm hoping that the board of supervisors can help us mothers heal. we need we need our cases solved. i've been doing this for almost 20 years for my 17 year old boy who was shot been to different supervisors, different days, different police chiefs, different everybody and i have

to start all over again and start all over again. >> what can we do please approve this resolution. >> i thank dean preston for the street renaming of the street renaming of the 1500 block of my son. i see that every day and i thank god for that and i thank all of you that showed up. but please implement this resolution that matt dorsey just to read to you. >> thank you. thank you, ms.. brown for your comments. okay. >> welcome to the next speaker . >> good afternoon. i want to make this real quick perjury, forgery, fraud, identity theft. everything was taken wrongfully from me. i had two pieces i'm still getting attacked, still getting wrongfully arrested outside the the shelter i'm at they're coming inside the shelter.

>> nobody's doing nothing. but yet if i hit an officer i go to prison, right? >> so my lawyers come up with a new tactic because my service dog got kicked. >> see, i'm going to get my i'm going to get my justice. the investigation's taking so long when my lawyer is due to the fact of all the officials involved in fact i brought videos to this man's office and he ran behind the wall like a coward. >> yes, sir. so this is what my lawyers are doing investigating each single one of you because when i brought this to your attention, you should have launched off an investigation. in fact, we got two people that cheated on their spouse, so i'm going to ruin your reputation as you being behind this table and these deaths doing your jobs as well as your home lives. >> you can bank on it. mr. dorsey. i do like you, sir. sir, remember to address your comments to the board as a whole. >> i do appreciate what you do as well as a couple other people in here but i can assure you ladies and gentlemen, my

lawyers are ruthless and the investigator your team is ruthless. you're going to give me my justice. you're going to stop these officers and my ex who's a registered sex offender for assaulting a child under the age of five. >> that's you you're helping. you're going to get my justice or don't i don't care. we're going to take it and then you're going to get humiliated with your jobs and with your families you can take on it. and they tried to arrest me again yesterday for not paying to get on the bus. they stopped me from being able to get my id here in california and stopped me from getting my cash out of my bank. >> ladies, gentlemen, y'all have a beautiful day. you know why i'm happy for you to find out. >> thank you for your comments. let's hear from our next speaker, mr. amen. >> good to see you, angela cavell, thank you for your time today. thank you for the reelection of

connie chan in this south supervisor melgar let me see i see your district five where i've been for 24 years at the oasis apartments between leavenworth and i. i help you, sir joel you're able to keep your position. i read something about the great highway. i know some places that are familiar and some are not. congrats. elections supervisor ralph hillman and i want to thank you for yourself supervisor management and jackie thornhill for helping sylvia margulies who passed away on july 12th. he was a retired doctor who died of cancer, a supervisor ralph hillman. and then you did a lot for sylvia as well as jackie thornhill over and over. i'm grateful to see all of you. the last board was magnificent and i know you all do a good job. be safe and be well.

thank you for your time. >> bye bye. thank you for your comments. next speaker good afternoon supervisors and all the other people in the chamber. my name is tina martin and i'm a member of transit justice. you might have guessed that that's what i'm here to speak about from the way i'm decorated i think it's really, really important that we support our public transportation and i really appreciate what supervisor mel gar said today and the questions that she asked. i don't feel it was sufficiently answered and i'm disappointed because i really thought this was going to be a presentation of a plan to save public transports motion my favorite saying i've been taking muni since 1966 and in many many different roles is a mother with a toddler, an infant babysitting going to school and now as a retiree i get all over the place on muni and i really love it and i

really want to see that is supported. maybe that over time problem we have with a police department could go the money that's being wasted in the systemic failure could go to public transportation. i don't know how these things work but it's got to work and my favorite saying is when done by the mayor of bogota, former mayor who said the progressive city is not one where even the poor have cars. >> it's one where even the rich take public transportation. so let's see that we support it. thank you. thank you for your comments. >> welcome to our next speaker . good afternoon. good afternoon. supervisors and staff. my name is cyrus hall. i'm a sustainable transportation advocate. i'm also a district seven resident and today i'm speaking as part of the muni now muni forever campaign i urge the board to work together with mayor o'leary to find the $15 million needed to stop the 4% service cuts planned for this summer.

sfm today has spent the last five years tightening its belt . the agency runs somewhere between 80 and 90% of pre-pandemic service. and while muni has already cut a number of routes, they have also drastically increased on time consistency service with new transit only lanes headway management and a muni metro that rarely has delays public opinion is at an all time high yet many routes are now bursting at the seams with riders and our economic headwinds present a monumental financial challenge starting in fiscal year 27. >> this is a challenge we can meet if we try. most immediately the board could transfer 15 million from the general reserve to sfm to to alleviate the need for summer cuts. that's the same fund that was used today for free parking for a month and for free transit for the 15th and the 16th. >> the 4% cuts planned for this summer would likely remove additional routes one that i

use the 36 teresita would be cut back to one bus every 45 minutes. >> this is a level of service that will ensure lower ridership and doom the lines to being fully removed during future cuts that will leave my disabled neighbors have no choice but to use paratransit service in the medium term the city needs to face this crisis heads head on and work towards holding a special election this year to raise the revenue. the alternative is we would run smack into the $320 million deficit next year which would imply 30% service cuts. >> so let's all work together. >> let's figure out how to solve this. thank you so very much. thank you for your comments. >> welcome to our next speaker . >> hello supervisors. my name is sara. i live in d5 five and like so many folks in the room and more importantly hundreds and thousands of people not in this room i rely on muni if you as a governing body in partnership with the mayor are not serious

about finding funny finding funding for muni service this year and into the future you are not serious about the future of san francisco if you're not serious about funding muni you're not serious about safety and muni safely brings people to and from work school and leisure with far fewer fatalities and automobiles. if you're not serious about funding muni you're not serious about economic recovery. there is no downtown recovery or neighborhood vibrancy without muni service. if you're not serious about funding muni you are not serious about facing the effects of climate change. public transportation is one of the strongest most financially efficient ways to fight climate change. the gravity of cutting muni service won't just affect safety, the economy and the environment it will affect individuals, artists, teachers, students, nurses, engineers, service workers and according to our city charter and at least once a week this very governing body hundreds of thousands of people ride muni every day totaling over half a million daily trips. now imagine all of those folks in the room with us would be more packed in the 30 at at rush hour. now imagine letting each one of

them know that you couldn't figure out funding for their bus line or train. now imagine letting them know that you could figure it out. sure. >> that one feels a little bit better, huh? so supervisors and to wherever you're listening, mayor lurie, if you're not serious about funding muni you are not serious about serving san francisco. thank you. thank you for your comments. let's hear from our next speaker. welcome. no outburst from the public, please. well i'm sorry. hello board of supervisors. my name is jackie liquido ba i'm a frequent voter in district eight and i take muni everywhere. i'm here to urge this board to reject any cuts to muni service in san francisco especially those that would cut service hours to 10 p.m. or any plans that would cut lines most taken by residents of the tenderloin western addition and fillmore. i love this city and i didn't leave the conservative state i grew up in to come here and watch the same forces shredding public infrastructure and funding federally do so here we should be setting an example

for the nation by doing the opposite and ensuring our transit system is prioritized, well funded and expanded. >> there was a proposition on the ballot that would have eliminated this problem tax rideshare companies fully funded muni and the majority of s.f. voters said yes on it. but dark money groups like grow s.f. and together have put their weight behind a proposition that was written with a poison pill to kill proposition l even if it passed ,most voters were not aware of this by design those shady groups backed the campaigns of many city officials including some in this room. the people of san francisco tried to fix this problem. it would be shameful for those complicit in killing proposition l to community service now i urge you to vote no on any cuts so that we can have a transit system worthy of a major city and stay in line with our climate and equity goals. >> if the issue is the budget deficit i'm sure we can shift funding priorities around starting with not funding further military and chemical weapons for sfpd as i mentioned earlier in this meeting. >> thank you. thank you for your comments. >> next speaker please.

>> good afternoon. i am the win. i'm a voter in district five. i'm here this afternoon to also urge you to prioritize funding muni service and to prevent harmful service cuts. as someone who does not own a car i rely on muni service to go about my daily life on lines that are in danger of being cut . >> muni is a primary way i'm able to enjoy our city, move around, visit our cities, engage our community and patronize our small businesses . >> decreased muni service means more cars on the road which means more traffic for motorists higher risk of injury to pedestrians and cyclists and increased greenhouse gas emissions. muni directly supports our city's public safety, economy and climate goals. in the shadow a presidential administration that is seeking to dismantle infrastructure and undo climate progress. s.f. should be an example of a city that chooses to invest in public transit. >> the voters have made it

clear that they support funding muni with the majority of voters voting yes on prop eight this past november. it's crucial that the board of supervisors work with the mayor and ask to find solutions that are alternatives to cutting service. i salute you use your leadership and power to fund muni's future to ensure that it can continue to serve our city and its people. thank you. thank you for your comments. welcome. next speaker. >> good afternoon, burt. i am christopher peterson and i live in the ingleside. aside from my own feet muni is my primary mode of transportation. i'd like to start off by thanking supervisor melgar for raising the issue of muni funding with the mayor today and for her other comments. i urge this board to take action to avoid the need for serious cuts in muni service this summer. the board can do this in at least two ways. first the board should support

sfm to in its own efforts to raise revenue. unfortunately the board in the past hasn't always done this. in particular the board should support expanding where and when fees are charged for on street parking. this would be good both for muni and small businesses. it increased parking turnover thereby increasing parking availability for customers who prefer to drive. second, the board should establish new additional funding for muni at least until ballot measures are passed establishing new long term sources of funding for muni. as a citizen economist ted egan has pointed out the city's economic recovery depends on a healthy public transit system shutting down muni metro at 10 p.m. for example would be devastating for the city's nightlife and performing arts organizations. please be creative and generous in establishing new funding for

muni. >> thank you. thank you for your comments. >> next speaker. hi my name is sarah greenwald and with 350 san francisco. >> and i was just thinking, you know with all the challenges the city everybody is facing now it's easy to forget san francisco's a fantastic city. it's got these beautiful views. it's got all this greenery and the parks and and you know, it's a center of learning and innovation and and culture and the arts and and a transit system i would point out that is fabled in song and story. it's worked really well for a really long time. it's older than a lot of the systems in the country. and i often also mentioned that it's tremendous benefit to the climate. and the mayor was just reminding us that you think of somebody getting on muni that happens half a million times a day even now after covid.

>> so i would just say let's keep this thing running. >> thank you for your comments . >> welcome. next speaker. >> hi, my name is annabel little john bailey. i'm not with an organization but i'm a resident of district three in the tenderloin. >> i rely on the 38 to get everywhere i go. i take it to work. i take it to the grocery store which is especially important for tenderloin residents because so many services we need are not accessible within our own community. >> i just urge urge you very very strongly to find a budget solution before cuts are made. the 38 is already incredibly packed as are many of the most popular bus lines and we require as residents without a car the bus and the muni to take us where we need to go. thank you. thank you for your comments. >> welcome. good afternoon. board of supervisors.

>> my name is young and i'm a resident of cavalli district eight. >> i'm also a doctor. i work at the sutter hospitals across the city from the one up on venice down to the one on mission bernal. i have a clinic at pac heights so i take transit to work every day. >> so transit is a service that's deeply important to me. >> but more importantly, i'm here today because many of my patients have told me that they either don't own a car or they can't drive and they rely on muni to get to their doctor's appointments. >> these are people who are the most vulnerable in our city. >> and if you make these service cuts they will have even harder time getting access to health care. >> the other thing that i want to say is that this budget deficit as of now should not be and cannot be expected to solve this problem on its own. >> the board of supervisors and the mayor have just as much responsibility to find a solution without resorting to service cuts. >> thank you.

thank you for your comments. >> speaker welcome. good afternoon supervisors. i'm dillon fabris, community and policy manager at san francisco transit riders and member of the muni know me forever campaign. last week the s.f. mta proposed three scenarios that would bring devastating service cuts to every corner of our city. cuts could include ending muni service hours earlier increasing wait times up to 45 minutes shortening and even entirely eliminating some lines . every one of these cuts will hurt riders who depend on muni to get around the city and access city life. san francisco loves muni but we also need muni expanding access to affordable and reliable transit as a cornerstone to meeting so many of our city's goals from climate to safety to housing to downtown recovery to economic recovery in our neighborhoods. allowing muni to crumble will make it even harder for us to address each of these issues and more. for several years now the mta has been doing what it can to find efficiencies and prepare

for its deficit. it was ahead of the game when it came to implementing its hiring freeze. it streamlined its schedule and cut down on operating inefficiencies and has raised fares and increased enforcement. but now we're reaching the point where the agency's options to balance its own budget are limited and unfortunately it looks like massive cuts are coming as soon as this summer. but these cuts are not inevitable. we need the board of supervisors to be working along with the mayor to address this service cuts like the emergency that they are. we need to be having a serious discussion about how to fund transit service before lines get cut. >> the board should be doing all in its power to find the 15 to $50 million necessary to prevent this year's cuts so we can begin working toward a more sustainable solution to address the even larger deficits that s.f. mta faces next year. this is an urgent issue for us. it to be slowly moving towards disaster while seemingly nothing is happening to stop it. so we need the board to be

treating service cuts like they like the problem they are for so many san franciscans. >> thank you. thank you for your comments. welcome. the next speaker. >> hello. my name is natalia. so the cobalt i have a privilege of living in san francisco for the past 37 years . >> and during this time unfortunately i have seen the public transportation is getting worse, worse and worse . now i am retired. i am living in subsidized housing. >> and from what i read the busses that we use to go to the doctor's to take to grocery stores they are going to be eliminated on sutter street where i reside. >> does several subsidized housing for seniors like new housing market theros for example we are going to see the doctors in kaiser hospital. >> we are going to shop in

people with walkers people was you know you seybold elderly people it is difficult for us really like i have never had a car since i arrived this seat to always use public transportation. >> and this is really causing a lot of stress because 38 bus which is very full it's you know, overcrowded. >> so what what is the choice for us? because every year it seems busses are going our way and we don't have cars. we will be balanced in the in the houses. we can't go anywhere. >> we can't visit the park. we can't enjoy the city because we are not driving. >> so please help us find the money. >> thank us. thank you. thank you for your comments. >> welcome to our next speaker . >> hi, my name is etan adler. i'm a district three resident and voter. i personally take the bus

nearly every day and i make extreme sacrifices to do so. in one recent example i found that the bus took about an hour for me to to to go when it should have taken about 20 minutes by car. and another example it was an hour and a half by bus for what it was a 15 minute car ride and i have the google maps receipts to prove it. i came today to give this kind of personal stories that would explain why muni is so important. but sitting here in the last hour i changed what my statement was going to be. as the mayor said, we have a realget c a we have a real and muni has a real budget crisis that's going to lead to service cuts. yet in the hour and a half that i was sitting here more than an hour and a half i already and found $526,000 that we could have used to solve the budget in just sitting here. i started. >> you should continue. thank you. thank you for your comments. >> next speaker.

>> hello. >> my name is lisa platt. i'm a d2 resident and as a former elected official i truly do appreciate the budget challenges that you're facing. >> but we prioritize our spending and we absolutely cannot compromise on muni service. we just transferred a half million dollars to cover free parking for a month in transit for two days. so that's that's one of the messages that we're sending and how we're thinking about spending our dollars. >> we are at an absolutely critical point. >> we are now at the point where it's nearly a non-viable public transit system. no viable system has trains that stop running at ten. if you aren't convinced that it's non-viable. come with me as i out walk the 19 on my way to saint francis for my auto appointments. >> very ironic.

>> help me make that last 10 p.m. 45 bus that was cut in the pandemic. so i can see the final set at the saloon and still get home which i can't today. >> transit is the highest roi thing that we can do right now . we have a perception of crime despite crime dropping more people out and about on our streets. >> make people feel safer. >> that's what they're looking for is to feel a sense of community who is going to be there. >> our small businesses need the foot traffic. >> we're talking about signage and all of those things to get more people into our small businesses. >> i could have bought one more drink at the saloon but then it would have cost me $25 to get home. >> so i beg you today to transfer funds from the general fund to cover the shortfall. >> we will absolutely work with you to find solutions to fund muni long term.

please avoid any service cuts. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. welcome to our next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is hymie viloria from the muni now muni forever campaign and also from the tenderloin. thank you so much to supervisor melgar for asking the question to the mayor. and it's disappointing to hear the answer is something that is frankly not inspiring nor did it evoke a brand new day for san francisco go for something as the backbone and the lifeblood of the city. we sure do treat it like a hernia. i'm asking this board and the mayor to help the mta solve the problem and not rely on service cuts for a department that has 73% approval rating the highest in 23 years. we understand it's a huge deficit we face. that is why we've been working to address this for a couple of years now. and you all except for one and including the mayor supported prop l to fund the bus and raise money. thank you for the support but it didn't win enough to beat

the the poison pill. now i ask that we do something now. we cannot let our transit system fail. we need you all and the mayor to do something or we'll end up the way we are dealing with the housing and the drug crisis. now we're both have become a deeper problem and continue to cost us more. a brand new day for san francisco requires a proactive approach to find muni. we can start by helping now to stop service cuts this summer and we can spend more time to help fund muni in the future to have it forever. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. welcome to our next speaker. >> hello. my name is liam mckeever. >> i live in d six. last week a few disabled homeless people living in decrepit rv using bayview begged you to help them because police would be evicting them in three days on valentine's day. >> that's the police leaving you. >> what have you done for them? i hope someone is doing something. residents at the site have also complained about the failures to accommodate people with disabilities, prompting investigation by hud.

>> $15.5 million have been wasted on this experiment and offensive waste of our money would have been better just to give people the money directly. >> but this is the soulless circus that is played here at city hall. >> just before this i was at a meeting with homeless families from the hamilton family shelter and mr. murray of the chief of health, homelessness and family services showed up instead of the mayor. >> he said he was there to listen only and why is that? what were these people these campaign people doing researching during their entire campaign? >> so now already have informed plans ready to deploy just sounded like now they're starting to gather information and hear stories and. he also said he couldn't imagine what these families are going through. everything. maybe the people who can't imagine who have been homeless or who are currently homeless who understand the daily emergency of what being homeless is should be the ones to be given this power since

they seem to be the only people who will act with the urgency this requires. >> don't admire their resilience create a society where they don't need to be resilient. one person said every day is like a year. >> something needs to be done to date. >> they're basically just asking to have a real shelter to stable housing solutions. they don't have to exit onto the streets with their kids who are depressed, some of which are contemplating suicide because of their dire straits. that's serious enough for you? is that urgent enough for you? is that an emergency enough for you? i'm just like this is pathetic. thank you leo mckeever for your comments. >> welcome to our next speaker . >> hello. my name is taylor and i'm the youth t v prevention coordinator with back revolt against domestic violence. i want to thank you for our next item on the agenda which is recognizing teen dating violence awareness and prevention month for the second year with appreciation a d-10 supervisor shemar walton for

his support in bringing this to the youth commission in its inaugural year. teen dating violence is a type of domestic violence that affects middle high school and young college students. according to the cdc, 1 in 12 dating high school students will experience sexual violence and 1 in 12 will experience physical violence at the hands of a dating or a consensual partner. in the last 12 months right some will experience both for a total of up to 1 in 3 high school students by their graduation. i am thankful for our partnership with the san francisco youth commission asian women's shelter which is a fellow san francisco domestic violence consortium member and sfi usd students for raising this issue that affects their fellow students. limiting their personal lives, relationships, safety and academic opportunities on and off campus. >> we look forward to continuing to promote healthy relationships skills in accordance with the california healthy uk act. while also raising awareness for the need for intervention, resources and services for youth 12 to 24 who are both experiencing and perpetrating

dating violence. leo to bring this to you the board of supervisors in january of next year to amplify our efforts for the prevention event. thank you to those of you who joined us today for wear orange day and in co-sponsor the resolution to support survivors and imagine a world without teen dating violence. >> thank you for your comments. >> welcome to our speaker. good afternoon. my name is and i'm live sharma speaking with developers texas millennials. the reason why i brought this piece of ten it costs me $250,000. it's an affiliate fighting vector with swiss watch. if i bought that good souls that i can sell for $2,000 what those do for 250. but this is worthless. this is handcuff because city want us to rely on disabled wheelchair to ramp taxi people's business. they do not want us to give any white collar people's business . >> how can we provide services to them if we don't make any

money? i'm there fraud don't fund any money to empty. >> before you bail us out taxi drivers are in limbo. we express our angst to hundreds of time. no one cares of us. empty your territories. join their hands with right should increase their own income to own their pet tech. we get a bleeding to death. >> you give us curse nor empty for taxi drivers. >> empty place out of the woods. they allowed our empty you to pick up at the airport because there is no ramp taxi yet people's business in this city . >> so this type of business suffocates of a life drive your taxi cab is a misery. our life is terrible. we want you to lower the price on morality $125,000 because empty a sold 200 medallion 11 years ago for $125,000 price. but it kind of you know

despicable this ammunition with us we are paying higher interest extra amount which is like a $125,000 extra compared to 11 years some driver got for that same mode only for $125,000. >> thank you. thank you for your comments. next speaker are there any other members of the public who would like to address the board? come on up out of there. you go. >> welcome. good afternoon sam again and again. you know it's as everybody knows taxi business is dead only we are running on the street but there's nothing is going on. we're word how to feed our families. we're worried how to pay our bills and we are stressed all the time. we don't have future. we don't have a dream to come to america. even our families i mean like our kids nobody has that dream is killed and is killed by you

city and is killed by mta because everyone they know well know that we're business is done. there's no business and any other state has done something for the cab drivers release them but why are we have been punished have we done something wrong for the city? no. we served that city for years and we deserve something better not to get into that slavery by slavery and paying the bills and all these things. i swear to god we're we're tired. we're sick and we want you to listen to us because it's been years and even you ask the kids out on the street nobody knows even taxi anymore. only some very sick people maybe 1 or 2 cars in a day or you sit for six hours at the airport and get somebody from there and just to trip is not going to be good enough to pay your bills and feed your kids. so we really want you guys get

together please before something happened to us save our lives so our families so our kids and let us be free. >> we are stuck. we're okay. i mean like and we feel like we're in a cage all the time. i appreciate it. >> thank you. please concerned about us. thank you, sir, for your comments. >> mr. duffy mr. president, madam secretary, my name is alan duffy although i'm known as james duffy, a curry senior center and in the vicinity of willow alley i'm known as willow where a kindly spinster took me in many years ago. you're lucky or otherwise a serving at a time of probably the biggest change up in the board since district elections . you're there. you're following in the footsteps of the great ammiano . i don't know too much. i know a few things. i do know one thing the person who sits in the seat closest to where public comment is i have complete respect for that

person and in fact i once many years ago pointed out that alan cranston, former presidential candidate once said in that seat no, not actually. thank you, mr. duffy for your comments. >> hello. board of supervisors and madam clerk i'm a wonder a school garcia the director of the san francisco youth commission my apologies are commissioners cannot be here today due to school restraints. we're here today to thank you all for supporting teen dating violence awareness and prevention month. a special shout out to the author district nine supervisor jackie fielder and her legislative aide jen ferrigno for supporting the legislation through working out this legislation this year. one of the things that we've noticed and we'll hope to continue working with the board on is that there's a lot of issues regarding violence

amongst youth. >> there's been cuts to legal aid for youth facing domestic violence. the department of education has vowed to gut title nine which affects our youth here greatly. we've already been seeing title nine shortfalls and so the commission will continue to work with our partners our asian woman shelter and black women revolt to advise the board of supervisors and the mayor on this issue. so thank you again for supporting teen violence awareness month and we hope to continue working with you all on this issue. >> thank you. thank you, director, for your comments. >> welcome. >> last if it were well about only a flushing and the transit you'd be fine. >> okay. no gov tv you make sure you are in sync with me unlike two weeks ago when i launched the revolution that you can't stop by. it's not possible which is about reconnecting humanity

with our fellow creatures. all living spaces. yeah. okay. the business as it is today is avail no markup. >> we have enough time now it's raining revelations so good story for you today there is no time doesn't exist. it's just a construct of human activities. >> so some between 5010 thousand orbits of the earth around the sun ago a tribe somewhere around what's called to the eurasia fell in one of the many traps that eternity sets on to challenge itself on these creations. >> this trap was in the shape of a mushroom that they ate and hope it was one of these mushrooms which are allicin you see. so all of a sudden the thoughts whoa we have a vision. we must be selected.

i don't know no matter what to time it became a sort of a gold up to the point where it ended up being where on the eyes it the jolt of the mushroom all based on a total alice ition you are in the tribe we are all in a tribe. >> we need to get out of it because the trapper won't save you it's easier to kill you if you do not understand that you are less intelligent than the rabbit that we cut into a trap . don't expect to be saved but bite me no. thank you for your comments. are there any other members of the public who would like to provide general public comment? >> mr. president? all right. >> seeing no other speakers public comment is now closed. madam clerk let's go to our for adoption without committee reference. >> agenda item number 30 item

30 was introduced for adoption but without reference to committee therefore unanimous vote is required on adoption of a resolution on first reading today. alternatively a member may require resolution on first reading to go to committee. >> all right. >> seeing no one on the roster madam clerk, can you please call the roll on item 30? supervisor fielder fielder eyes supervisor mahmoud mahmoud i supervisor randleman hi randleman i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor sutter sutter i supervisor cheryl cheryl i supervisor walton walton i supervisor chan chin i supervisor chin chin i supervisor dorsey dorsey i and supervisor and cardio and guardian i there are 11 eyes right without objection the resolution is adopted madam clerk do we have any imperative agenda item to report mr. president then can you please read the in memoriam?

>> today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals on behalf of supervisor mandel men mr. president for the late reverend robert crummey on behalf of supervisor melgar for the late charles kay pesky marian and robert j. bob geary on behalf of supervisor dorsey and melgar and in guardian on behalf of the entire board of supervisors as declared by the board president for the late civil service commissioner fox crowley thank you, madam clerk. that brings us to the end of our agenda. >> is there any further further business before us today that concludes our business for today then thank you. >> and as there is no further business we are adjourned

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to host the golden gate international exposition. >> carnival gone big. it was busy. >> 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 s, 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.

>> i'm san francisco's first drag laureate and the first one in the world. the drag laureate program and the position is one this celebrates an artist for being the best in their craft and i'm proud to have received that xroel it it is afternoon ambassador role. a role that represents the lbgtq+ community in san francisco the focus on the drag performers and trans-activists and performers in san francisco as well. when i heard the city was creating the drag laureate role i was so excited because it did foal like they were paying attention to us. and cared about when we gave

culturally and economically to the city >> here is your new drag laureate for the city and county of san francisco! i'm getting the call from the mayor i was chosen was fantastic day. i will always remember. i thought that it would just be about the bay area. because of what happening in the world it became a national story. i hope it can shine a light on san francisco and how they take care of the drag community and the lbgtq+ community. i hope that i can help carve out this position and create a role with programs and events this can be passed down to future drag laureate this is come after me and can set a stage and standard for what this program

is in san francisco and national low and inner nationally. there is a rich history in san francisco. that the drag community has been part of. i'm very proud to follow in their footsteps and able to maintain what the drag community has done in the past and move forward with creating a bright future. my job is to elevate and celebrate >> san francisco has always been very diverse, very progressive and not only open in other ways but music as well. musicians always want to try to find something new to play and

if they are thinking about playing something new or different. i'm the product of the san francisco schools. i started when i was 10. i joined the band and that was the most interesting instrument to play. and you have to be able to put yourselves in different situations. that's what made me better. if you do with two or three ingredients, that makes it

pretty boring. most people know me for playing with carlos santana, touring the world all over the place. phenomenal place with music and also being around him you have a lot of fun and learning a lot about music and things beyond music too. this place is history, i have been here many many times like any 70s and seen some really incredible groups and that is being here a number of times is kind of a full circle moment. it's really something that we cherish when we play is getting the energy back and forth with the audience and kind of a symbiotic thing. playing for the home crowd and your family is really a

meaningful thing to be and just a fun place to be in. a lot of great memories seeing so many groups here over the [music]

>> my name is lana. i am part owner of the excelsior coffee. my roll with excelsior coffee is pretty much the [indiscernible] i do a lot of the back-end operating procedures and a lot of customer front facing, a lot of customer outreach, naerbd outreach, but for the most part the coffee is it driving force of the community. i have been here in the excelsior district for 11 years. the idea behind excelsior coffee spouted 6 years ago out of the need for community space and coffee. excelsior coffee to me is a cornerstone of the neighborhood. next to this iconic mural on excelsior

along with the legacy businesses. we decided that this corner of san francisco on the southeast side of the mission is the place we like to be. i know you see a lot of eththetics of motorcycles behind us. a lot of people ask, what's up with the motorcycles behind you? motorcycle and classic cars are a big yite of our upbringing so the idea was to connect to this neighborhood from classic cars to low riders to motorcycles and my husband is is a high school teacher that teaches automotives and history. we love the history of motorcycle engineer and design. for us it was more like a talking point and connection. honoring that and that is also the driving force between who we are and the make-up.

i think what separates from other coffee shops is that, we are serving a community that has been here for a decade before us, and i think it is really special that there is a vortex of non english speaking communities here. between my husband and i, we represent many cultures. i'm [indiscernible] he is black, his mexican and through our cultures is how we connect with people in the excelsior. to speak their languages, and i think honoring our culture background through coffee and pastry. excelsior coffee, we are at 4495 mission street on mission and excelsior in the excelsior district. call excelsior coffee in your face excelsior. we are open 7:30 to 4 p.m. for now.

[laughter] dev mission's goal is aiming to train young adults, youth so we can be a wealth and disparity in underserved communities like where we are today. my name is leo sosa. i'm the founder and executive director for devmission. we're sitting inside a computer lab where residents come and

get support when they give help about how to set up an e-mail account. how to order prescriptions online. create a résumé. we are also now paying attention to provide tech support. we have collaborated with the san francisco mayor's office and the department of technology to implement a broad band network for the residents here so they can have free internet access. we have partnered with community technology networks to provide computer classes to the seniors and the residents. so this computer lab becomes a hub for the community to learn how to use technology, but that's the parents and the adults. we have been able to identify what we call a stem date. the acronym is science technology engineering and math. kids should be exposed no matter what type of background or ethnicity or income status. that's where we actually create

magic. >> something that the kids are really excited about is science and so the way that we execute that is through making slime. and as fun as it is, it's still a chemical reaction and you start to understand thith th materials that you need to make the slime. >> they love adding their little twists to everything. it's just a place for them to experiment and that's really what we want. >> i see. >> really what the excitement behind that is that you're making something. >> logs, legos, sumo box, art, drawing, computers, mine craft, and really it's just awaking opportunity. >> keeping their attention is like one of the biggest challenges that we do have because, you know, they're kids. they always want to be doing something, be helping with something. so we just let them be themselves. we have our set of rules in place that we have that we want them to follow and live up to.

and we also have our set of expectations that we want them to achieve. this is like my first year officially working with kids. and definitely i've had moments where they're not getting something. they don't really understand it and you're trying to just talk to them in a way that they can make it work teaching them in different ways how they can get the light bulb to go off and i've seen it first-hand and it makes me so happy when it does go off because it's like, wow, i helped them understand this concept. >> i love playing games and i love having fun with my friends playing dodge ball and a lot of things that i like. it's really cool. >> they don't give you a lot of cheese to put on there, do they? you've got like a little bit left. >> we learn programming to make

them work. we do computers and programming. at the bottom here, we talk to them and we press these buttons to make it go. and this is to turn it off. and this is to make it control on its own. if you press this twice, it can do any type of tricks. like you can move it like this and it moves. it actually can go like this. >> like, wow, they're just absorbing everything. so it definitely is a wholehearted moment that i love

experiencing. >> the realities right now, 5.3 latinos working in tech and about 6.7 african americans working in tech. and, of course, those tech companies are funders. so i continue to work really hard with them to close that gap and work with the san francisco unified school district so juniors and seniors come to our program, so kids come to our stem hub and be exposed to all those things. it's a big challenge. >> we have a couple of other providers here on site, but we've all just been trying to work together and let the kids move around from each department. some kids are comfortable with their admission, but if they want to jump in with city of dreams or hunter's point, we just try to collaborate to provide the best opportunity in the community. >> devmission has provided

services on westbrook. they teach you how to code. how to build their own mini robot to providing access for the youth to partnerships with adobe and sony and google and twitter. and so devmission has definitely brought access for our families to resources that our residents may or may not have been able to access in the past. >> the san francisco house and development corporation gave us the grant to implement this program. it hasn't been easy, but we have been able to see now some of the success stories of some of those kids that have been able to take the opportunity and continue to grow within their education and eventually become a very successful citizen. >> so the computer lab, they're doing the backpacks. i don't know if you're going to be able to do the class. you still want to try?

. yeah. go for it. >> we have a young man by the name of ivan mello. he came here two and a half years ago to be part of our digital arts music lab. graduating with natural, fruity loops, rhymes. all of our music lyrics are clean. he came as an intern, and now he's running the program. that just tells you, we are only creating opportunities and there's a young man by the name of eduardo ramirez. he tells the barber, what's that flyer? and he says it's a program that teaches you computers and art. and i still remember the day he walked in there with a baseball cap, full of tattoos. nice clean hair cut. i want to learn how to use computers. graduated from the program and he wanted to work in i.t.. well, eduardo is a dreamer.

right. so trying to find him a job in the tech industry was very challenging, but that didn't stop him. through the effort of the office of economic work force and the grant i reached out to a few folks i know. post mates decided to bring him on board regardless of his legal status. he ended his internship at post mates and now is at hudacity. that is the power of what technology does for young people that want to become part of the tech industry. what we've been doing, it's very innovative. helping kids k-12, transitional age youth, families, parents, communities, understand and to be exposed to stem subjects. imagine if that mission one day can be in every affordable

housing community. the opportunities that we would create and that's what i'm trying to do with this

>> come shop dine and play. taraval street is open for business. >> [indiscernible] the owner of tabita's on taraval on-my business is focus on [indiscernible] my mom's res aef and we make muffins and scones and cookies and everything home made. for me, it is being able to be a community cafe where everybody feels comfortable. please come in, play and eat at the tabita's cafe on 1101 teraival street. >> take time for teraival bingo, a community game supporting small business. anyone can participate. it is easy, collect special

stickers on a bingy stale game board and enter a raff raffle event for a chance television. >> (music). >> my name is vet at a original artist based in san francisco. >> i love it i love it i've never seen something else and we see how the people see which is happening and what is going on. kind of cool i wanted to be part of that. >> i saw it 2, 3, 4, 5 minutes you yeah.

>> so we have you - yeah. i started going when i was young but not the type of kid would get food but this is something i really have been progressing on a talent from like other artists. >> this is amazing. >> this is so good yeah, it is so good like the artists. >> i love it. >> what a great project. >> part of the part for have i grants. >> yeah. i love it. >> i serve in for 2 two years now and i really am fortunate to live in a place for art. >> an effort creating places

it serve san francisco soul and that makes them want to see this place; right? with the experience of art in san jose experience in from the get-go sometimes our environmentalist has created tests but we have an opportunity for that and have artists in the storefront part of project you can walk in and experience and hoping we'll be there for a long time. >> this is the first farther easy way of going to spaces i didn't know how it is really cool it would be and we're forced to be in the moment when we're test and creating something really cool. >> makes us feel good. >> as far (unintelligible)

done all temporary and took them down i like the temporary aspect base (unintelligible) (microphone distorted) not permanent can enjoy it. >> (music). >> i started the o was with a financing and had a business partner all ended up wanting to start the business and retire and i did was very important to

me so i bought them oust and two weeks later the pandemic h-4 one of the moments i thought to myself we have to have the worse business in a lifetime or the best. >> we created the oasis out of a need basically so other people bars and turning them into a space and when the last place we were performing wasn't used turned those buildings into condos so we decided to have a space. >> what the pandemic did for us is made us on of that we felt

we had to do this immediately and created this. >> (unintelligible). >> where we would offer food delivery services with a curbside professionalism live music to bring spectacular to lives we are going through and as well as employ on the caterers and the performers and drivers very for that i think also for everyone to do something. we had ordinary on the roof and life performances and with a restaurant to support the system where we are and even with that had terribly initiative and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt had

to pay our rent we decided to have an old-fashioned one we created club hours where you can watch to online and or be on the phone and raised over one quarter of a million dollar that of incredible and something that northbound thought we could do. >> we got ourselves back and made me realize how for that people will show up if i was blown away but also had the courage but the commitment now i can't let anyone down i have to make the space serviceable so while this is a full process business it became much more about a space that was used by

the community. and it became less about starting up a business and more about the heart of what we're doing. this building used to be a- and one of the first one we started working on had we came out what a mural to wrap the building and took a while but able to raise the money and pay 5 artists to make a design around many this to represent what is happening on the side and also important this is who we are this is us putting it out there because satisfies other people we don't realize how much we affect the community around there when he i want to put that out there and show up and show ourselves outside of those walls more fabulous. and inspires other people to be more fabulous and

everyone want to be more fabulous and less hatred and hostility and that is how we change the