that's why there's so much interest in the haight-ashbury.. people were growing their hair long, they were wearing beads, playing music on the street. it was just an incredible environment at that point, in the beginning. that's when it was just like one big, giant family. >> before you knew it, it was a congregating place for artists, and the dividing line seemed to be the psychedelic experience. you couldn't understand the posters, you couldn't understand the fashions, you couldn't understand anything if you hadn't gotten high. >> the diggers group scrounges food and money to feed free those who arrive in panhandle park with a bowl and an appetite. diggers are people who share, says their manifesto, and their aim is a society where everything is shared, everything free. >> the diggers were one of the first groups that were into social consciousness about what was needed to take care of this huge group of people that were coming into the haight-ashbury. >> their free shop looks more like a playground at first sight. here they make sheets and

haight ashbury is home to many homeless youth. what plans do you have to provide support and services for these youth in need? and we're going to start with mr. lamb. >> so i want to bring formal navigation center to lower haight where people can register and use the services there. i want to continue the services of people going around the city, looking for homeless families, homeless youth and giving them the resources to help them succeed, so they can have a job and start rebuilding themselves. when it comes to homeless youth, i was a homeless youth in 2017. i would be about 16 years old. and i had these services reach out to me. and they were really helpful. i didn't use them. but i would continue those resources for our homeless youth. >> thank you very much. ms. o'mara. >> i think i would agree. i think ryan offers some insight into how he's dealt with it. and i kind of felt the personal sense and connection in from him in describing that. that's very valuable what he had to say. i would go with some of the points he's made,

jana, we miss you and thank you for your amazing service to the haight-ashbury community and the city of san francisco. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor. supervisor -- [applause] >> clerk: to the good in the public gallery, we welcome your support, but we ask you to do it silently pursuant to the board rules. thank you. supervisor fewer? >> supervisor fewer: thank you. today, colleagues, i'm requesting a hearing with the department of good health and the sheriff's department good food purchasing. these departments have been working -- in that time, these departments have been working closely to conduct the assessment, and now that they are completed, i am calling for a hearing to hear the results as well as the plans for the two departments to officially adopt the good food purchasing standards and set goals for they procurement moving forward. it was a model that was developed in 2012 to incentivize communities. it works with the institutions to establish a buy chan transparency -- buy chain transparency from food to fork, measures progress and celebrates institutio

. >> i guess my question is, because i'm thinking of haight-ashbury, it is summertime , this is where they make most of their money because they are a tourist area, and i have porsche to try to make sure that the sidewalks are not ripped up until after labor day, but i have also heard from merchants that a lot of them stores have been close during the time when sidewalks are ripped up because they won't be able to afford to have staff come in, and they won't be able to afford it without that kind of business. so we are looking at a revolving loan, but i guess my worry is that what if people don't make it through and then they are supposed to pay a loan back? i am really worried about that. i know that the merchants have said to me, how long do i have to pay it back, what -- what if i don't survive this construction project? there are all of these questions i'm merchants are asking. to take your name and sign, you are responsible. i worried that i would be out of business and two years. i would be stuck with this loan. it would be an insult to injury with the situation. i just need to

i don't know how many people here bound haight-ashbury what have read emerson or teilhard teillard de chardin. but it did talk about the shifting of the human relationship to the natural world along with elements of the renewed search for the sacred in nature. ae counterculture included type of back to nature or back to the land romanticism. thisw personal examples of , that emphasized the importance of getting in touch with and living close to nature, living more simply. and often in communes. -one of the more novel things about communitarianism in the 1960's was that they were not only in rural areas but also in urban areas. that was different from the 19th century. counterculture, they lived in communes and begin eating natural, organic foods, promoting vegetarianism and so forth. it was part of that scene if you well. the counterculture interest in nature was a last spiritualize -- a less spiritualized character than what i find in transcendentalist lot. it was more of an ecological sensibility relating to growing concern at the time about pollution, chemicals, pesticides and othe