budget letter. this item is for discussion and possible action. >> thank you. commissioner has this been the practice of this commission to send a letter to the mayor each year about the department's budget submission? >> we've been sending this letter to ensure we memorize our important conversations and most importantly our concerns about funding the climate action plan and ensuring the department has the necessary resources. i felt like i don't need to make any more further comments . we've heard so many excellent presentations to really showcase that we need this fully funded in order to continue our goal. so with a new administration locally like the challenging administration federally where we are in the dark ages, i think it's important we continue this tradition. >> so like other commissioners before me i offered this very simple letter for your review and approval and are open for any questions or comments and any changes on the letter that i hear any comments or any

changes on the letter. i have no changes on the letter . >> a clarification on that two line. would we also be able to forward this to the board of supervisors or any relevant committees for policy committee? >> it's a director too. yeah, that's the discretion of the commission who they like to direct letter to. right. so we could also send it to the full board or supervisor. thank you. >> yes. yeah. no, no comments to the letter. >> i just want to say we all acknowledge that there's a budget crisis at the city and when you have budget problems you have to focus on priorities and and we have a climate emergency in san francisco. and so it doesn't mean you cut everything. it means you prioritize what's really important and there's absolutely nothing more important than fixing the climate problem in san francisco and and doing it here

has ramifications around the country and around the world because we are a leader. i'm really glad to see the climate community coming out today and i wish i wish there were more people like you and we need more people like you. so no comments to the letter. i think we've got to really emphasize in san francisco. prioritized doesn't mean cutting everything. >> it means focusing on priorities. thank you vice president. hearing no other discussion or changes except that we'll also send this letter to the boards of visor. >> do i hear a motion to approve the letter your commission of a may own second i'll second. all right. we have a motion by commissioner bermejo and second by vice president sullivan. >> let's open up for public comment. are there any members of the public who wish to comment on this item? i just think it's important to be brief.

>> hi, it's me again teresa lawless. i particularly want to talk about the climate equity hub electrification program. so $0 allocated. so i know when you're talking about priorities aren't we priorities also the community that actually low income community that do not have the money to actually replace these these gas water heaters into electric. and then we also have landlords who can't afford it. >> when i heard about this you know, i heard it from some ken and sophie we were educated right. >> you know, in our faces what the actual impacts is for health and safety about gas in our homes and cleaner air in our in our city in s.f..

please help us. can you please include climate equity hubs allocation? please be funded in this letter. i would really appreciate it. have to we have to remember we're also citizens here or residents here in san francisco . we're just low income. we don't have the money. and this program would actually help, you know, low income tenants and landlords. >> i would really appreciate that. >> god bless everybody. are there any additional commenters? madam president, we have no more speakers. thank you all the comments. public comment is now closed. please call the roll for item 11 president one i. >> vice president sullivan high commissioner honors excused commissioner bermejo. i. commissioner hunter. commissioner tompkins. commissioner you and as excused. >> thank you. the motion passes and we hear all the concern.

>> thank you. next item please. the next item is item 12 directors report with speaker tyrone joo director. and this includes the five year sfp strategic delivery plan report. >> commissioners first if i can just take a moment just to thank the number of public speakers that have come out today. really appreciate and echo vice president comments around just how important your advocacy is. and i also did want to respond to one of the questions and that in the letter that the commission is sending they are asking for full funding of our five year strategic delivery plan which includes funding the incentive program for the climate equity hub. and so i want to make that point very clear that the commission through their action is advocating through the process that resources be allocated for this important program and we share that concern as well.

>> i won't go into detail but the annual or the report on the five year strategic delivery plan was included in your packet. we said we would summarize all of the activities and that is there for your review and for the public review as well. a couple of just quick note i know it's been a very long meeting so i'm going to abbreviate a bunch of things. just today i just wanted to confirm that mayor lori has approved me serving as his appointee on the bay area air quality management district. again. and so that i will be sworn in tomorrow at the air district meeting and so thankful for being having the opportunity to represent near lurie after representing marilee and mayor breed over the past now almost nine years. now on that on that air district i did want to call out again last at the last commission meeting we talked about the accepted expen process that we were initiating through this department to

accept all of those federal dollars that are currently on hold from the federal. and i want to call out and appreciate charles and alice and joe basically from the public affairs and policy team on their work kind of organizing with our board of supervisors, the clerk of the board, the comptroller's office, the mayor's office all of the activities to get a massive accept and expend process through in record time for our city. we got the accept and expand approval from the board of supervisors in one week which is a process that normally takes about a month and a half to two months. and so hats off to the team for leading that effort not just on our behalf for the department but on behalf of the entire city. and so while that money is on hold due to the executive orders laid out by president trump and by departmental actions, it does put us in a better position to advocate for those resources going forward and so we're coordinating with our city attorney's office on all the appropriate next steps

we need to take to ensure those dollars come in to our city and to our communities. and we're coordinating with other cities across the nation as well. lastly, i did want to just mention that we have initiated conversations also on another federal funding opportunity around the iris direct pay mechanism. and so this is a tax credit that is available now to non governmental organizations and cities that has never been available before. just opened up last year. we are organizing conversation options thanks to pro bono services that we secure from deloitte several months ago. and so we're again we're initiating conversations across our city departments to look for those tax credit opportunities to advance our vehicle electrification within the city and clean energy projects and take advantage of this funding while it's still available. and so one of the think again alice and cindy and the entire

team for their work on that and we're continuing to push that forward while that window is available to the city. and finally i'll just mention that on january 22nd i was one of the few departments that was able to attend the san francisco chamber of commerce city hall advisory day to speak to all of our business leaders in the city. and the message that i relayed to them echoed by this commission was in short we have to be able to walk and chew bubblegum at the same time. we have to address all of the challenges that i know our mayor and our board are focused on on our streets in our city and we also need to be able to keep an eye towards the future we want to create in san francisco in the future we want to create is one that attracts people to come and invest and live here that supports our marginalized communities and underserved populations. and that's what our climate action plan is all about. and so i deliver that message

to business leaders saying the conversation i want to have with each one of them is not debating where we need to go. i think that future needs to be in a common agreement that we have to end our dependance on fossil fuels. we have to improve the health of our communities by ending that dependance and we can then debate and how we transition there and how quickly we get there through our climate action plan and do our work. and i think that message was received pretty well by the business community. so one to give that update and i'll conclude my director's report there. >> thank you, director. any questions or comments? >> quick follow up question. so if the federal funding is on hold, would that result in any short term impact? >> we are doing that analysis now as leo mentioned, it's it's kind of tough to exactly know what the impacts are going to be because it seems like each and every day there's a new executive order, there's a new action coming out and so being

able to project exactly what the impact is is difficult. >> we are halting future kind of grants that we've been awarded. obviously the $20 million grant we got for building performance standards, the $50 million grant we got for ev charging for do the charging and fueling infrastructure grant the million dollars that we had been awarded to fund our curbside ev charging program those new programs are definitely on hold because there's no way to move those processes forward without the support of the federal in executing those contracts. where we're we're looking at right now is through to your point president one all of the existing programs that we were counting on through this budget that you just approved. and what that looks like just from a deficit standpoint. so we're doing that analysis right now. we weren't ready to kind of get this ready in time for this committee meeting because like i said, it's changing each and every day. and so the rest assured this will be part of our conversation with the mayor's

office as we advance submitting our budget on the 21st. >> thank you. any other questions and comments? >> if not, we're open for public comment. are there any members of the public who wish to comment on this item? >> madam president, we have no speakers. thank you. public comments and i'll close next item please. next item is item 13 new business feature agenda items. speakers charles sheehan chief policy and public affairs officer. >> this item is for discussion . >> good evening. good evening commissioners. thank you. >> the next commission meeting is slated for march 24th. >> there is some chance we may cancel that so stay tuned on that and then the commission meeting after that is slated for april 28th. >> we've heard that there will be a refuse rate presentation though they will be further along in the process and so

they will come back and give you the latest update where it stands. and you know, the first to commission meetings are the first two commission meetings of the year. always very, very crowded and that's all i have. so we will be working to populate future agendas and so if you have any suggestions, please always let us know. are there any questions since then? let's move on to a public comment. >> are there any members of the public who wish to comment on this item? madam president, we have no speakers. >> thank you. public comment is now closed. next agenda item please. >> next item is item 14 adjournment. the meeting is adjourned. the time is 7:51 p.m.. thank you for joining us

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our city. he's with us to talk about how our library's economic recover. mr. lambert, welcome to the show. >> thank you. i'm glad to be here. >> i know it's been difficult to have books going virtual. have we recovered? >> yes, we are on our way. our staff stepped up big time during the pandemic to respond to the health emergency. since last may, we have been able to steadily increase in person access to library facilities. currently we are at 95% of our precovid hours of operation. in the coming weeks we are going to fully restore all of our hours. we have four branches that we are going to bring back to seven day service. they are currently operating at

5 days a week and we are going to go to every tag line and i know all the foot traffic has not returned to san francisco, but our library is seeing a resurgence coming back. >> can we talk about programs after covid? >> absolutely, that is part and parcel of our mission. we were doing that work precovid and certainly the library stepped up during the pandemic. we doubled our level of programming for personal finance, small business help, jobs and careers. we have a dedicated small business center here at the library. there is a wide suite of programs that our librarian led. we have a financial planning day coming up in october and we have financial coaches that members of the community can come to the

main library and take advantage of their expertise. >> i understand the mission is in the middle of a renovation. how is that going and are there other construction projects in the horizon? >> yes, we have major projects in the pipeline. the historic mission branch library, carnegie library over 100 years old and we are investing $25 million to restore that facility. we are going to restore the original entrance on 24th street, the staircase from the lower level up to the grand reading room. we are going to push out on the orange alley side of the library and expand space for teens and children, we are going to create a robust community room, a multipurpose space. we are also investing $30 million in the chinatown branch, we are going to upgrade the

mechanical systems to the highest level of filtration as we increasingly respond as cooling centers and air respite centers and open access to the roof. it has some unique views of chinatown to create the inspiring space it is. >> i believe you have programs for families that have free and low cost entries for museum and zoos, is that correct? >> yes. it's a fabulous resource. go to our website. with your library cart, patrons, our residents can go to the public library and get passes to the museums, all of the incredible cultural institutions that we have in san francisco all for free with your library card. >> how are these great free services paid for? how is the

library system funded? >> we are so fortunate in san francisco. we are funded for by the library fund and those that taxed themselves just for library services. we also get a dedicated portion of the general fund. that together allows us to be one of the most well supported libraries in the nation. we have the third most library outlets per square mile of any municipality. all of our branch libraries have professionally trained librarians on-site. service that we are able to provide, the collection, we are a leading library in our country. >> that lead know ask about your biggest annual event in the city. how does the event work

and what's happening this year? >> we are excited for this year's one city one book. this is our signature annual literature event. we have everybody in the community reading the same book. this year's title is "this is your hustle" named after the pulitzer prize nominated and pod taste. this is about the population. one nice thing about this selection is that they are both local. we are going to have several weeks of programming, kicking off next month. it will culminate here in the auditorium november 3rd. so our library patrons will get to meet the authors, hear from them directly, and one other important aspect about this year's selection, we have our

own jail and reentry services department. recently the foundation awarded the san francisco public library $2 million to work with the american library association to shine a light on our best practices here in san francisco, and really help our peers in the industry learn how they can replicate the service model that we are doing here in san francisco. >> that's great. well, thank you so much. i really appreciate you coming on the show, mr. lambert. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you, chris. that's it for this episode, we will be back shortly. you are watching san francisco rising. thanks for watching.

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