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so presidio yard is i happen to be a project manager for presidio yard so that is a priority for me. but but i would say that the other priorities outside of the individual sites are working with the planning department and our elected officials on the rezoning. i can't overstate how important that rezoning is because it sets the value it sets the density for our land and so making sure our colleagues at other departments understand that which they do and and elected officials understand that. so i think it was a really positive sign that supervisor melgar introduced that resolution. we'll continue to meet with them on on on the importance and the relationship. so i think like policy wise that's an important next step over this this next year also working on if there are tools in the legislative toolbox to help meet the strategies that are in in this policy then in terms of specific projects it is a bit of an agency capacity staffing issue to actually deliver and project manage more projects but we can partner with our other agencies to see if they have capacity to support us on some
so presidio yard is i happen to be a project manager for presidio yard so that is a priority for me. but but i would say that the other priorities outside of the individual sites are working with the planning department and our elected officials on the rezoning. i can't overstate how important that rezoning is because it sets the value it sets the density for our land and so making sure our colleagues at other departments understand that which they do and and elected officials understand that....
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this is the presidio creek that's their concern. an electrical malfunction coupled with heavy rain and debris caused this creek to overflow a bit and the neighborhood did flood. they have debris crews on stand by and the pumps have been tested. i do want to make that clear. it was tested ahead of today's rain. and cries are ready in case of another malfunction. but city officials do not think that will happen. so a spokesperson for the county says there is a plan in place in case of mud slides, and that is another one of the issues that they're worried about here. and collin crawford who lives near this neighborhood, him and his son they actually have a family home here. they say they're prepared for the worse. >> can do so much but i think it's down to the residents, to the well prepared as they possibly can. for events that hopefully will never happen. >> reporter: he's been sweeping up debris all day. hopefully at this point he's finished but he says they're ready just in case. and the county is encouraging everyone to keep up wi
this is the presidio creek that's their concern. an electrical malfunction coupled with heavy rain and debris caused this creek to overflow a bit and the neighborhood did flood. they have debris crews on stand by and the pumps have been tested. i do want to make that clear. it was tested ahead of today's rain. and cries are ready in case of another malfunction. but city officials do not think that will happen. so a spokesperson for the county says there is a plan in place in case of mud slides,...
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something in the city of the nice of so that you some of the just assume you see me wanna city of presidio was bought a 2nd place to go down 0 spoken with ms. phosphato over here, when you put a simple simple list of or give us a guess what? the, what is, what is the other side? we have the 0, it is going to split the inside of months, so it used to sit a mazda, really, but still thinking about the point is that the spirit of human is supposed to really have a certain group. the group is that so be nice to go to like a southern chest that's here again, i'm sorry, systems to the lab. you must of stuff believe me. so somebody at least so i will ship them, but have the ability to put it way into the component that was submitted on the door. see bring in the assignment, assessed on the key until uh, next week. as soon as you come find me that the interest of gardner multi c o. as in nancy said the the company's headquarters, we're located from key to to by here on the 7th floor of the prestigious citadel. it's our business center. debbie told you rented an office for the international network,
something in the city of the nice of so that you some of the just assume you see me wanna city of presidio was bought a 2nd place to go down 0 spoken with ms. phosphato over here, when you put a simple simple list of or give us a guess what? the, what is, what is the other side? we have the 0, it is going to split the inside of months, so it used to sit a mazda, really, but still thinking about the point is that the spirit of human is supposed to really have a certain group. the group is that...
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one of the city of presidio was bought a 2nd place to think of that owns the spoken with it. of course, the principal proposed list of all i did was to be a star, e is what is, what is the other side we have the 0 is going to split the inside of months. so it used to sit and was a couple of really, but still thinking about the point is that the spirit of human is supposed to really have a certain capability. milton group is i, so be nice to go to like a southern chess up here. again, i'm sorry, this is tim was to the lab. you must of stuff supplements with somebody at the so i will ship them, but after that that was completed. wait. another component that was submitted on the door see age again. you bring in any assignment assessed on the key into my create the cushions, come find me the need some time and then we'll see what she wants. she said the, the company's headquarters. we're located from key to to by here on the 7th floor of the prestigious citadel. it's our business center. debbie told you rented an office for the international network key executive, the in mid 2024
one of the city of presidio was bought a 2nd place to think of that owns the spoken with it. of course, the principal proposed list of all i did was to be a star, e is what is, what is the other side we have the 0 is going to split the inside of months. so it used to sit and was a couple of really, but still thinking about the point is that the spirit of human is supposed to really have a certain capability. milton group is i, so be nice to go to like a southern chess up here. again, i'm sorry,...
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on california live the love story of james and the giant peach comes to life at san francisco's presidio theater. make sure you join the adventure inside the giant peach with james and his electric group. eclectic group. it is of interest. and insect friends. 1130, right after up for you at i'm barbara and i'm from st. joseph, michigan. i'm a retired school librarian. i'm also a library board trustee, a mother of two, and a grandmother of two. about five years ago, i was working full time, i had an awful lot of things to take care of. i needed all the help i could get. i saw the commercials for prevagen. i started taking it. and it helped! i was better able to take care of all those little details. people say to me, "barbara, you don't miss a beat." prevagen. for your brain. new developments coming out of sweden. authorities say ten people are dead. this is after a gunman opened fire at an adult education school. that school, located about 50 miles west of stockholm. it serves students over the age of 20. police say that the primary gunman also among the dead. so far, there is no word on
on california live the love story of james and the giant peach comes to life at san francisco's presidio theater. make sure you join the adventure inside the giant peach with james and his electric group. eclectic group. it is of interest. and insect friends. 1130, right after up for you at i'm barbara and i'm from st. joseph, michigan. i'm a retired school librarian. i'm also a library board trustee, a mother of two, and a grandmother of two. about five years ago, i was working full time, i...
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one the presidio and one was yerba buena which was urban center. there were 800 people in 1848 it was small. a lot of historic buildings were here including pony express headquarters. wells fargo. hudson bay trading company and famous early settlers one of whom william leaderdorph who lived blocks from here a successful business person. african-american decent and the first million airin california. >> wilwoman was the founders of san francisco. here during the gold rush came in the early 1840s. he spent time stake himself as a merchant seaman and a business person. his father and brother in new orleans. we know him for san francisco's history. establishing himself here arnold 18 twoochl he did one of many things the first to do in yerba buena. was not california yet and was not fully san francisco yet. >> because he was an american citizen but spoke spanish he was able to during the time when america was taking over california from mexico, there was annexations that happened and conflict emerging and war, of course. he was part of the peek deliber
one the presidio and one was yerba buena which was urban center. there were 800 people in 1848 it was small. a lot of historic buildings were here including pony express headquarters. wells fargo. hudson bay trading company and famous early settlers one of whom william leaderdorph who lived blocks from here a successful business person. african-american decent and the first million airin california. >> wilwoman was the founders of san francisco. here during the gold rush came in the early...
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funding facilities for all of those including the poters yard replacement yard and housing projects in presidioou for the opportunity to the street side vision zero means much need focus on the high injury network he seeing prop l and advantec consulting engineers tax that are our proposition d and later on talking about the a many of those focused on the pedestrian improvement and traumatizing and quick build i'll not go over all of them you'll see them over and over but a major policy a couple years ago that is finally starting to initiate this year and on the streets reconstruction i hope you're seeing the benefits in our district and citywide, of course, with the taraval the repaving and the richmond and you'll see in here they really are sprinklers throughout the city and the setback that is happening as we speak this coming year an 19 after a state project on caltrain and programs important and very popular improvement we see in those citywide. assessable access to the curve and signals very exciting to see more of those rolling out dedicated prop l signals just not enough money, however,
funding facilities for all of those including the poters yard replacement yard and housing projects in presidioou for the opportunity to the street side vision zero means much need focus on the high injury network he seeing prop l and advantec consulting engineers tax that are our proposition d and later on talking about the a many of those focused on the pedestrian improvement and traumatizing and quick build i'll not go over all of them you'll see them over and over but a major policy a...
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one the presidio and one was yerba buena which was urban center. were here including pony express headquarters. wells fargo. hudson bay trading company and famous early settlers one of whom william leaderdorph who lived blocks from here a successful business person. african-american decent and the first million airin california. >> wilwoman was the founders of san francisco. here during the gold rush came in the early 1840s. he spent time stake himself as a merchant seaman and a business person. his father and brother in new orleans. we know him for san francisco's history. establishing himself here arnold 18 twoochl he did one of many things the first to do in yerba buena. was not california yet and was not fully san francisco yet. >> because he was an american citizen but spoke spanish he was able to during the time when america was taking over california from mexico, there was annexations that happened and conflict emerging and war, of course. he was part of the peek deliberations and am bas doorship to create the state of california a vice coun
one the presidio and one was yerba buena which was urban center. were here including pony express headquarters. wells fargo. hudson bay trading company and famous early settlers one of whom william leaderdorph who lived blocks from here a successful business person. african-american decent and the first million airin california. >> wilwoman was the founders of san francisco. here during the gold rush came in the early 1840s. he spent time stake himself as a merchant seaman and a business...
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because all of presidio is math team is piloting, right? so that is a leadership move and asking people to like look at their leadership moves and say this is how it's related then lifts up what they're doing but also lifts up what happens when an entire team pick something up and then i also want to lift up another school which is everett who had great increases from fall of last year to follow this year not all of their teachers are piloting but when i asked principal evelina to lift up what was happening she talked about schools piloting and she also talked about the use of science happening with her. neko um she also talked about the coaching and not so this idea of where do we put our resources, how do we put our resources and how do we help school leaders to identify what are the things that they're doing in order to better support their principals? we do see changes in both of those schools. there are two assistant principals, one of whom focuses on math. so just a little side note that as we think about reducing um alignment saying
because all of presidio is math team is piloting, right? so that is a leadership move and asking people to like look at their leadership moves and say this is how it's related then lifts up what they're doing but also lifts up what happens when an entire team pick something up and then i also want to lift up another school which is everett who had great increases from fall of last year to follow this year not all of their teachers are piloting but when i asked principal evelina to lift up what...
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it's one of the main creeks flowing through mill valley, the arroyo corte madera del presidio creek, running alongside many homes and businesses. and today, residents here are watching the creek closely. >> our garage had we think about a foot of water in it. we say that only because that's where the water lines were on some of the boxes. and then our backyard had flooding. >> lars munro has lived in the neighborhood for 30 years. in december, his garage was one of the many impacted by the overloaded sycamore pump station, where several pumps failed, leading to major flooding. here. >> one of the water pumps a little bit away from here just wasn't functioning for some reason, but at the same time, we just had so much rain in, i think the 24 hour period or so before the flooding that i'm. i can only guess at what the pumps would have done to help had they been working. >> the mill valley police department sent a weather advisory to all its residents, urging them to be prepared. following the national weather service flood watch alert for marin county and the city of mill valley. >> we
it's one of the main creeks flowing through mill valley, the arroyo corte madera del presidio creek, running alongside many homes and businesses. and today, residents here are watching the creek closely. >> our garage had we think about a foot of water in it. we say that only because that's where the water lines were on some of the boxes. and then our backyard had flooding. >> lars munro has lived in the neighborhood for 30 years. in december, his garage was one of the many impacted...
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the arroyo corte madera del presidio creek, running alongside manydio homes and businesses. and today, residents here are watching the creek closely. >> our garage had we think about a foot of water in it. we say that only because that's where the water lines were on some of the boxes. and then our backyard had flooding. >> lance monroe has lived in the neighborhood for 30 years. in december, his garage was one of the many impacted by the overloaded sycamore pump station, where several pumps failed, leading to major flooding here. >> one of the water pumps a little bit away from here just wasn't functioning for some reason, but at the same time, we just had so much rain in, i think the 24 hour period or so before the flooding that i could only guess at what the pumps would have done to help had they been working. >> the mill valley police department sent a weather advisory to all its residents, urging them to be prepared. following the national weather service flood watch alert for marin county and the city of mill valley. >> we have obviously some rain that has saturated th
the arroyo corte madera del presidio creek, running alongside manydio homes and businesses. and today, residents here are watching the creek closely. >> our garage had we think about a foot of water in it. we say that only because that's where the water lines were on some of the boxes. and then our backyard had flooding. >> lance monroe has lived in the neighborhood for 30 years. in december, his garage was one of the many impacted by the overloaded sycamore pump station, where...
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we used collection sites such as angel island, the presidio had genetics for the projects in san franciscoant 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 fou
we used collection sites such as angel island, the presidio had genetics for the projects in san franciscoant 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...
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programs defining success academic support continuum sixth through 12th grade beacon pathways at presidio middle school and beacon pathways at roosevelt middle school and multicultural arts program k through 12 art pathways for a total term of five years from july 1st 2024 to june 30th 2029 and for a total not to exceed amount of of approximately 10.4 million. >> madam chair, thank thank you mr. clerk. and then today we have the department our direct executive director for the department of children, youth and their families. >> thank you chair chan and vice chair dorsey and supervisor and garcia my name is cherise dorsey smith. i am the acting director for the department of children, youth and families. no relation but maybe we should talk with the acting executive director for the department of children, youth and families. i'm here today to present on for a grant agreements and for your approval that the clerk has read and i do have a slide and august 2023 dcf issued a request for proposals for the 2429 funding cycle. the contracts are with the community youth center san francisco inst
programs defining success academic support continuum sixth through 12th grade beacon pathways at presidio middle school and beacon pathways at roosevelt middle school and multicultural arts program k through 12 art pathways for a total term of five years from july 1st 2024 to june 30th 2029 and for a total not to exceed amount of of approximately 10.4 million. >> madam chair, thank thank you mr. clerk. and then today we have the department our direct executive director for the department...
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we used collection sites such as angel island, the presidio had genetics for the projects in san francisco 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
we used collection sites such as angel island, the presidio had genetics for the projects in san francisco 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...
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one the presidio and one was yerba buena which was urban center. there were 800 people in 1848 it was small. a lot of historic buildings were here including pony express headquarters. wells fargo. hudson bay trading company and famous early settlers one of whom william leaderdorph who lived blocks from here a successful business person. african-american decent and the first million airin california. >> wilwoman was the founders of san francisco. here during the gold rush came in the early 1840s. he spent time stake himself as a merchant seaman and a business person. his father and brother in new orleans. we know him for san francisco's history. establishing himself here arnold 18 twoochl he did one of many things the first to do in yerba buena. was not california yet and was not fully san francisco yet. >> because he was an american citizen but spoke spanish he was able to during the time when america was taking over california from mexico, there was annexations that happened and conflict emerging and war, of course. he was part of the peek deliber
one the presidio and one was yerba buena which was urban center. there were 800 people in 1848 it was small. a lot of historic buildings were here including pony express headquarters. wells fargo. hudson bay trading company and famous early settlers one of whom william leaderdorph who lived blocks from here a successful business person. african-american decent and the first million airin california. >> wilwoman was the founders of san francisco. here during the gold rush came in the early...
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mahmood at one jones street january 11th, 2025 attended the swearing in for supervisor cheryl at the presidio officers club january 14th, 2025 attended the public safety st teams discussion and january 15th 2025 attended demak and budget priorities meetings january 18th, 2025 attended a created and attended a water supply demonstration at our fire boat station 35 pier 22.5. we appreciate the attendance of commissioner frazier and commissioner nicole jo to that event january 20th, 2025. the command staff and other members of the department marched in the mlk freedom march. president morgan and commissioner collins marched with us as well. january 21st, 2025 labor management meeting was 798 also on january 20th 2020 first 2025 attended a street teams meeting. >> second street teams meeting today we address the 135 104 35th age to recruit academy a 54 new recruits probationary members and we also toured the treasure island training facility. i would like to conclude my comments with a deep appreciation of the two departing command staff members who have provided an amazing amount of knowledge an
mahmood at one jones street january 11th, 2025 attended the swearing in for supervisor cheryl at the presidio officers club january 14th, 2025 attended the public safety st teams discussion and january 15th 2025 attended demak and budget priorities meetings january 18th, 2025 attended a created and attended a water supply demonstration at our fire boat station 35 pier 22.5. we appreciate the attendance of commissioner frazier and commissioner nicole jo to that event january 20th, 2025. the...
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we used collection sites such as angel island, the presidio had genetics for the projects in san franciscod 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.
we used collection sites such as angel island, the presidio had genetics for the projects in san franciscod 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...
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we used collection sites such as angel island, the presidio had genetics for the projects in san franciscobitats 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 p
we used collection sites such as angel island, the presidio had genetics for the projects in san franciscobitats 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...
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that fall under the jurisdiction of another agency including the federal government such as the presidio crissy field aquatic park. we work in partnership with these agencies when requested and staffing is available. the majority of these jurisdictional agreements focus on cpd assisting with criminal investigations such as homicides and other serious crime. in many instances an agreement or or memorandum of understanding is entered into that outlines the specific responsibilities of each agency involved. the agreements also specify the responsibility of other pd members including compliance with all departmental policies when operating within these agreements. for example body worn cameras, immigration use of force reporting, etc.. then there's task forces members of the department may be assigned to a specific task force that has been established to focus on a specific type of criminal activity such as gunfire, lence and organized crime incidents. the majority of these interagency operations have agreements and or m.o. use in place to articulate the purpose of the task force. the respon
that fall under the jurisdiction of another agency including the federal government such as the presidio crissy field aquatic park. we work in partnership with these agencies when requested and staffing is available. the majority of these jurisdictional agreements focus on cpd assisting with criminal investigations such as homicides and other serious crime. in many instances an agreement or or memorandum of understanding is entered into that outlines the specific responsibilities of each agency...
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in becoming a paramedic so i did work experience at the ems division when it was actually in the presidiod that program, did my paramedic internship at the same time i volunteered with san francisco fire reserve and able to learn a lot of hands on skills associated with becoming a firefighter. san francisco went through a period of 7 years without hiring, so we hired about a 130 people off of the 2001 test which is the first fire test that and ever sat for, so i took that test, did pretty well on it test, interviewed, didn't do as well as i liked so they hired 130 people off that list and didn't hire again for another 7 years, so here i was training to do a job where i was really excited, but there were no jobs after 911 so things slowed down and once the fire department started hiring again i was in the second class hired full time in 2012. because of the experience i had here at city college, it was always really important for me to be able to give back. so, when i got to the fire department, i didn't have a college degree, and in order to teach at a community college you need a college
in becoming a paramedic so i did work experience at the ems division when it was actually in the presidiod that program, did my paramedic internship at the same time i volunteered with san francisco fire reserve and able to learn a lot of hands on skills associated with becoming a firefighter. san francisco went through a period of 7 years without hiring, so we hired about a 130 people off of the 2001 test which is the first fire test that and ever sat for, so i took that test, did pretty well...