>> thank you deputy director durden. very interesting as always and i appreciate all the measurements you are tracking. we look forward to seeing them in the months ahead so thank you and we are all very of course sympathetic to the challenges your particular division faces and have said numerous times we never want public works staff to be in any physical danger and the public i'm sure would be supportive of that as well. commissioner turner. >> happy to claim [indiscernible] i guess [indiscernible] carla director short weigh in here too. as we look at operations and i really the challenge is where i'm focused, u.s. supreme court i believe is going to support our ability to further claim to keep safe streets which means we bag and tag more. i know right now we are able to respond but as we have more potentially more authority are we prepared or how should we prepare for this? that will cost more money so wondering how we are anticipating something come down the next quarter and if it is positive that we can help support

you'll see that the whole generation of 1960s anglophone writers is there from chinua achebe dennis durden, the guy who directed it the transcription center that i talked about a moment ago was there, alex lagoon and we'll talk about in a moment was fresh off the publication of a walk in the night he was he was he was invited also another no show because he was in detention the south african authorities would not let him leave the country. christopher akiba oh the great nigerian poet who sadly died in the civil war in nigeria a few years later was there. lewis. in kochi in gujarat. tongo he known as james in googie, was there. ezekiel or esquire? pele, the great south african writer, was in many ways the de facto host of the event. he was the brainchild of it. he was working for the congress for cultural freedom at this time. v.s. naipaul happened to be doing a fellowship in u. south africa at the time, and he was there, as was langston hughes, who was kind of the presiding luminary, the guest of honor at the at the conference. so when i saw this document, a narrative, again, it's very ear

that you're paving forward for the next one behind you that counts. (♪♪♪) hi, my name is jajaida durden'm the acting superintendent for the bureau of forestry and i work for public works operations. and i'm over the landscaping, the shop and also the arborist crew. and some tree inspectors as well. i have been with the city and county of san francisco for 17 years. and i was a cement mason, that was my first job. when i got here i thought that it was too easy. so i said one day i'll be a supervisor. and when i run this place it will be ran different. and i didn't think that it would happen as fast as it did, but it did. and i came in 2002 and became a supervisor in 2006. and six months later i became the permanent supervisor over the shop. >> with all of those responsibilities and the staff you're also dealing with different attitudes and you have to take off one hat and put on another hat and put on another hat. and she's able -- she's displayed that she can carry the weight with all of these different hats and still maintain the respect of the director, the deputy director and all of

kicked off last quarter that has about 25 frontline workers with a huge support of deputy director durden. um, and this this group is receiving leadership training and also will be the thought partner for deputy director durden and her executive team in terms of developing operations specific process improvement. uh, we're also working to increase access to information in all sorts of ways. we've heard loud and clear from our communication surveys with operations staff. they like to hear information person to person. so we're developing morning huddles that are sort of an expanded safety tailgate so that there's more there's more chance for conversation with your supervisor. for uh, and we're also working with, uh, i guess the last item we're also working with, uh, deputy director durden on a facilities facelift, which i think is really important. you know, you where you work, um, affects your sense of pride. so last slide. lastly. so what's what's coming up? what are we working on now. so with our new staff and our new data we're going to develop some smart goals some like specific and m

and i think it is why i still struggle and staff and i don't know if deputy director durden, mr. hills out. i really want to thank you guys for last week and spending some time, but it is still the inherent problem and that, you know, we are effectively being grant makers with limited amount of money. um, in a very big, big task that many of you are taking on. so that i really do appreciate. um, but one of the things as we go through our process and i've struggled with and i even heard it today, is really our nonprofits ability to do this work. and it's not the interviews, it's not the supervisors. it's actually the very simple thing is, can you keep the contract reimbursement? do you have lines of credit? do you have capacity to do this? and the reason i bring it up is this is where a lot of nonprofits, particularly in the homeless service area, are failing dramatically. um, it's because do they have the capacity? do they have the wherewithal to manage multimillion dollar city contracts that often don't pay on time? not because we don't want to do it. it's because you sent that