Progress. Aside from that, i would suggest a few things that i would like to see in the legislation. I would like to exempt cosmetic, nonstructural things like cladding from the demo calculations. I would like fines to fit, you know, the crime. I would like things in addition to fines, like process, to weed out bad actors. So we know who they are, we know they are there frequent flyers. We currently do not have a process that codified to disallow them to keep gaming the system, other than fines. I think we can do that through a process. I would like to have the demo calculations and additions to be more targeted to neighborhoods. I know we have resisted that, but really build housing is very different in Bernal Heights than it is in balboa terrace. The consequences of maxing out bulk and height are very different in those. I would encourage us to look at that. I would just end by saying, we in this commission see the most egregious things. That is what bubbles up to the surface. As somebody who has raised three kids in the city, and have seen, in my generation, the outmigration in my entire community and all of my friends, once they have kids, you know at fivesix years old and they cannot be housed, it hurts. It hits me in a place where, you know, i sit up here giving all of this time to the city for a reason; to address that. I feel like this is going to make that worse. I want folks to be able to stay in the city, to be able to move in mom to be able to have their kids come back from college like i did with mine. To be able to use theirone a way that they can. I also want to be able to protect tenants. I want a rental registry. I want folks to be able to stay in place and protect that. I fear in this legislation they are. I look forward to keeping this conversation live and to keep working on it. I want to thank staff particularly for the work they have done prior to this. Mr. Heppner, i am available if you want to recruit me and draft me too, you know, to be involved in this process. I think we can solve the problem. I think this legislation is not right there. Thank you. I have commissioner phyllis on the go ahead. Commissioner moss. Please press the button if you want to talk. I want to thank everybody, and again mr. Heppner thank you for coming up and hearing all of this. I echo that i do not believe the legislation is there. I am most concerned about the amount of no answers we got whenever specific costs were brought up both to the various departments. This is wide sweeping legislation that would have drastic consequences for lots of what are now feasible and absolutely necessary projects and i think for us to move forward without having more specific information regarding the costs associated with that would be a little irresponsible, and so i was looking forward to more information being brought to the commissions. I want to thank everyone for coming here today. Thank you. Thank you. Again, thank you mr. Heppner and his supervisor peskin. We took a stab at this a couple of years ago through the residential expansion threshold. Many people opposing the suppose that also. We endure many aspects of doubt that i liked and thought were good. So, we get that this is a contentious issue. I agree with the goals that were laid out here. Straightforward process, eliminate loopholes for demo, promote density and discourage monster homes. I dont think it gets there. It may be gets there on eliminating loopholes on definition. I dont think it does a good job at all on the other items. I get it is difficult in some of these things are competing against each other. There are no definitions of monster homes, i know you kind of focused on this 1200 squarefoot, which i think is a good sized unit. It is typical of these three flat buildings or for flat buildings. But if we are going to preserve our h1 zoning, 1200 squarefoot is not allow for a family. I invite you to spend time with my three teenagers, and my mother who lives with us in 1200 squarefoot zoning, i can guarantee you doubling that over the weekend. I dont know if that is the right way to do it, defined advice where you footage of the unit. One way to get at that is to eliminate our h1 and require everybody to build to the maximum density. He would get rid of monster homes. I agree with the goal but i dont think this gets at it. More so, i agree, i didnt read anything in this legislation that actually promoted density. I think it is doubling down on you cant demo that Single Family home to build three units. Which i think this commission has wanted to do over and over again. I actually think it discourages density instead of promoting density. Like commissioner mel garside, i would work with you to inject language, or changes in this legislation that would promote density. Again requiring people to build to the max, ease demolition. Allow demolition where people are building to increase density. Without example that we showed, it was an okay singlefamily home but it wasnt historic. If you can get three units in that, that is great we should actually encourage it. There is a house on the street for me that i am familiar with. It is an old singlefamily home, it is not historic. The builder wanted to build a larger singlefamily home. The Planning Department encouraged them to add units so they are doing two units. They wanted to avoid to come to this commission to go to a demo. They could build four units if they had it in adu, incentives and code are all in the wrong place in not doing the right thing. We have seen progressive cities, minneapolis and others get rid of exclusionary single families and promote density, Elizabeth Warren running for president , who is progressive is encouraging that. This does not do it. I would expect some of this language, it is more of what palo alto would propose as a solution to some of the problems. Again, i think it is courageous to start on this path and work on this. Our flat policies should be quantified. I would be happy to work with you to further this. I dont think it gets there. Thank you. Commissioner walker. I want to thank the supervisor for putting this forward. I personally have been involved in several different taskforces that dealt specifically with this issue over the last 2530 years and it has resulted in no real action to help us with the definitions and enforcement around this issue. I think the problem is definitely here. I know that our Commission Sees projects that come before us where as a neighbor you see the front of the building go away and then you see all the way to the sky in the back. No pun intended, it is about transparency of the process and making sure what is happening is what the department has approved. It has been really obvious that the issues about getting a common definition of both demolition itself, and the process by which it happens. Inspections at the onset of certain projects as well as how to engage our departments both when changes occur on site. Those are things that are real and i think need to be handled more administratively than requiring an extra process that actually adds to the cost of housing. I am really sensitive around tenant issues. I really appreciate the Tenants Union being here and senior disability action network. Those are real issues. The issues of affordability. The issues of eviction. They often stem from these kind of projects. It is really important that also, the improvements and the repairs and the maintenance be made on these buildings so that the places are habitable. Not just today, but 2530 years from now, this Housing Stock has been mentioned here that most Affordable Housing is the housing that is already up. It doesnt mean in the state it is in. It means that we must make sure the housing stays up. Seismic work, mold remediation, all of those things that people have to live within these old structures where plumbing leaks and there is a lot of work to do. The walls have to be replaced because of mold. It is real work that is needed. I think i would love the supervisor to focus on how to incentivize keeping rents low when this kind of work happens. I think doing the work is necessary. The passthroughs are the issue when it comes to tenants itself. Having programs, i know that we find a program through tbi called the Cover Program where we offer low or no interest loans to landlords who need to do the work that can afford it. Those are programs that we actually should put out in front to make sure that the rents stay low as well as the Housing Stock safe. I am also willing to work with you all. I think our Code Enforcement outreach teams that we found some of the tenant groups on landlord groups would be willing to sit in to make sure what we are doing does not have consequences that we have not anticipated. Again, thank you it is an important issue, i hope that we can really solve this that 30 years from now we are not doing this again. Thank you commissioners. Commissioner johnson. Thank you. I want to thank staff, i think you did an incredible job making the incredibly complex and technical understandable and easily digestible, so thank you so much. I also want to thank everyone for coming out. Im going to read my notes because i have a lot to say and i want to be as distinct as possible. There is a reason that we are here, in case anyone thinks we do not understand that there is a problem there is a real problem that needs to be addressed and i want to go through what i think where we can go from here. First of all, i want to bring voice and context that i dont think is represented enough. If you dont own a home and you want to own a home in this city you needed three hunter thousand dollars down payment grade you have to have an income of 200,000 a year. If you have those things you might be able to get a condo, or a small house that has not been renovated in decades. And then you need several hundred thousands of dollars to make it to the process to do any upgrades. All while paying off student loans, creating a family are taking care of aging parents. If you are a renter in a rent controlled apartment you live in housing that has not been updated since the 60s or 70s. Substandard noncode complying housing unable to move because the rent is too damn high and you live here day today that you will be evicted because of an alice act or rent eviction. The issues im trying to address today are ones that hurt the entire city. Illegal mergers taking off the markets and the need to hold bad actors accountable. So we should really focus on that. One i think there is a better way to do our 311 notices. I appreciate the fact that this legislation tries to address that. You should not need a planning degree to understand whats happening next door to you or down the street. We need our fellow community members, organizations to be able to help us understand when illegal demolitions are happening. I do not envy mr. Halders job, and the committee taking on this issue. I also appreciate in those recommendations that we need to center the folks that are being evicted and the renters, in thinking about how we protect folks as we do look to change our housing and i appreciate miss fevers comments on that. I believe there are cases where demolition is warranted. There is no way were going to get out of this housing crisis without demolishing homes. We have to create the conditions for people to i densify the parcels without illegally evicting tenants. We need to preserve Affordable Housing, or housing that is existing, that we have to build more housing we have to allow for the housing that people are living in to be upgraded. One point on demolitions in general, you know what, i would rather let us create the conditions where we can call a spade a spade. If youre going to do demolition heres the building envelope. Heres how we want to see tenants protected and the number of units we want to see. Make sure there is equity in all unit sizes. I get really uncomfortable week after week when we tell people you can have a parking garage, you can have four bedrooms, but you cant. Thats an overreach in my opinion. I like oprah, i dont want to be oprah handling out handing it out that way. We really do need a more objective way to do that. Saying people can only live in 1200 Square Square feet in my mind is inappropriate. I just want to reiterate, there is a problem here. We have seen scores of illegal demolitions that have come to us. Even though both of our departments are working hard there is a clear leak that is demoralizing to advocate, it is demoralizing to staff, it is demoralizing to us. What we need to do is move into codifying the processes we do have. Staffing up so that we can do better enforcement. Actually helping our Community Organizations and tenant protections help us as well Getting Better to make sure illegal evictions do not happen in the first place. Those are, i think, really important places to start. I think it has been said in many comments, but often i think because we see the worst cases, we feel like we need to create legislation that really errs on the side of stopping anyone from wanting to do anything wrong in the first place. We create in some ways a sledgehammer where we really need a scalpel. We need to get very surgical about the places where there are leaks and people are moving to the system and illegally evicting, and illegally demoing and target exactly those places. The good news from all of the fervor that happened today, as we have developers, we have neighborhood organizations, we have concerned citizens, we have folks that are willing to sit around the table and work to come up with those solutions and i feel hopeful that together we can get to the heart of these important issues for our community. Thank you, commissioner. Pres. Mccarthy. Thank you. Once again, i echo a lot of the comments from my fellow commissioners obviously it is safe to say there is not too many sales, building or architect work being done in San Francisco today here. Everybody seems to be here. I complement everyone coming out here. The architects that came out here, in force today, they are an important part of helping us write this in future legislation hopefully to clean it up and give us consensus where we really need it. I also want to thank the department, planning and dbi working closely with a lot of the inspectors that spoke here today. How frustrated they are doing their jobs, its very difficult. Sometimes this code does not allow them to do it. It puts them in bad positions. I think everybody, at this stage, is a little bit, we been doing this for many years, im a little thick skin here, it does hurt me when contractors are blamed for everything, okay . We are an important part to this family of how we are going to get this housing crisis fixed. I think it is important, what i would like to complement particularly supervisor peskin and mr. Lee today for starting the conversation. I think supervisor peskin coming out here, using the terms that we mightve bitten off more than we can chew right now, tells me a lot that this is a first draft in which a lot of work has to be done. Today, i would call this therapy, which we havent had in quite a long time in our community. From all sides. I think its very healthy and i have sat through a few of the sessions over the years, i think i can honestly say, this is one of the better ones and i appreciate this going beyond the 2 oclock so we could have this conversation. I know we are not going to answer everything here today. We all have our concerns. I think these are real questions that we can address in a property draft that piece of legislation. With that, i will not take any more time, but thank you to everybody for coming here today. What is the next steps which does not have to be answered now. Answering where we go from this, and where supervisor peskins office would like to go with this. And how this time we stay at it and get it finished and have a comprehensive piece of legislation that gets us to where we need to we need housing in this town as we said over and over again. I think this might be the best stuff that we have right now to play. I would like to see this through, okay . Thank you. Commissioner fong. The architects in the room should be happy since building designers and engineers would be prohibited from participating in this process. That means more work for the architects, i presume. The question the goals and the proposed legislation, in my opinion, the perception is a disconnect. The legislation goes way beyond the resolution of some of the issues that are being brought forward as the goals of what is wanted. I think the implications of the legislation are also not being brought forth in the following way. This legislation is basically a nongrowth no growth process. That, i think, is something that needs to be reviewed in a much broader form commissioner lee. There are some things i do like on this legislation, i like it tries to come up with a definition of demolition, i like the idea that it increases penalties for illegal demolition, and i like the idea that they considered serial permitting and take those permits into account when trying to decide if something but, the proposal that i see today goes beyond what i thought we were supposed to be dealing with which was to get a handle on illegal demolition. Im not going to bring up all of the other things that everybody has mentioned on what is a concern, but i do want to add a few things, forgive me if i jump around, because there is just so many things. The Floor Area Ratio is part. I dont understand it. I would also like to see replacing structural elements, removing and replacing them, not to be considered as part of the demolition. Namely, a lot of these things are structural elements that needs to be upgraded. You wont know, some of these things you will not even know until you start tearing things apart, removing a wall, that brings up another thing about having the architect sign an oath to make sure that the plans are accurate. When youre dealing with renovation projects, a lot of things are hidden. You will not know what is there until you start opening things up. And then are you going to start saying your architect is in violation and is criminal, foundations or underground, you cant tell how big a foundation is, if the foundation is sound and able to support your addition until you start digging into the ground. Common walls or structural walls. If your architect said we expect this to be a 2 x 4 wall and you open it up and you find out, actually if you want to build on top of it you probably have to strengthen the wall if youre architects assume that the wall is already thick enough to hold it, that is the plans you submit. But then when you open up the building you find out both of the walls are too thin, the studs are to short, too narrow. You have to increase your stud size. Those are the things that are very difficult to determine prior to construction another thing about distributing structural drawings and calculations during the 311 process. What is the purpose . I am an architect and i can read structural drawings but the structural accounts are beyond me. I dont understand them. What is the purpose of having the neighbor see the structural drawings and structural calculations . This increases the cost to the project sponsors. They have to produce the plans and then if there is a problem and those need to be change they need to reproduce everything again. And then that brings up the part of distributing the architectural plans, the construction plans to the neighborhood. How does that affect the architects on the engineers copyrights . Right now what we want to see, some architects or engineers plans we go through the public records process we need to architects and engineers permission to actually give copies to the requester. If we provide them out there, in the first place we just threw that out the door, we dont even need public records request. Is that proper i dont know. I dont know these answers. Im just tossing them out there, these are things that i see in the proposal that should be looked at more carefully. Thank you commissioner. Thank you. Again, i have agreements with very many of the comments and and abroad philosophical way, the comments ms. Johnson made some up many of the feelings, and broad issues that i share. I will focus on some rather specific points. Before i get to that, you know, i would also like to be sure that i am expressing a concern that i have that when we were going through these egregious demolitions we all talked very much about this is a terrible problem and that we have different building and planning standards and that allows for confusion and manipulation by bad actors and all kinds of things. We set out that we were going to try to resolve that and to some extent what we had asked of our legislative branch was to really look into many of the things that are beyond our scope such as real changes to remedies and fines and the like that require legislative fixes so, that we did not come together quite as well as i would have hoped that a commission or staff level to really resolve these differences and come together and say, heres what we really believe is a good way to go forward, i find disturbing personally. You know, i would like to commit to, again, working together so that we do this and that we meet frequently to make sure we are on track and that we are accomplishing these common goals of getting clear fair standards that any good actor can understand, and follow, and any bad actor cannot find loopholes in. That brings me then to the piece that we did invite legislative assistance on. That in part is the remedies. One of the things we were looking at as a problematic, in our process on demolitions is that one of the primary things that is available to us is the five year moratorium. Unless you want to build exactly the same Square Footage you know, rebuild a demolition to that Square Footage and basic configuration, you have five years of having it sit follow. We all know thats one of the problems that we have all encountered, with that, is neighbors come in and tell us i dont want to live next to an empty hole. They have temporary shoring up that is supposed to last a year or two and now youre going to tell me its been there for five years and im worried about my foundation, and i dont want to live next to a hole anyway. I can completely understand that. We always sympathize, or often, not always, often, sympathize find that the five year moratorium is putting the burden in the wrong place. One thing i would look for in any further developments that we have is an aggressive pursuit of meaningful and strong remedies that will not overburden neighborhoods and communities but will get ads, especially, the proverbial bad actors that are doing things wrong. Next, systematically. We all look at trying to codify anything into 50 , 70 , or 25 of a facade, what constitutes demolition . We all have problems with it, in part, it encourages people to do their filing so they come in just under. Its all fine. That is really a pretty terrible way to do things. We get something submitted to planning and it meets all of their criteria. If they have, you know, 50 is their standard and it comes in at 49. Low and behold us and as we go and open walls and see what is going on, boy, isnt this surprising . Despite all the things we thought about how dangerous and prone to problems the blind walls are, and foundations, suddenly we are amazed to find that we have problems which are unanticipated. I think if i spoke to most of our experienced staff who have been in the field a lot, i dont think they would be so surprised to find a lot of dry rot, deterioration, other conditions. I think, you know, the preinspection process for threshold projects, especially with vertical additions. It is really something that we should not be afraid of. It will add to upfront expense, but it will add to overall more accurate filings, and i would actually suspect instead of having to go back 4five times having permitting and delays, and arbitrations, we may actually see the process move through faster. Really exploring what preinspection does for us, is something i would really love to see incorporated into this. Similarly, one of the things that always comes up that i havent seen addressed here, you know, are again legitimate concerns of neighbors. We always hear about, you know, the shoring isnt working, it wasnt meant for this, it has been there too long, it is failing. Really being certain that we are incorporating those concerns with great transparency so that any neighbor knows exactly what the shoring plan is has a full list of everybody whether its a dbi employee to call whether you feel there is a problem, or who is the architect, who is the structural engineer, who is a contractor so that there will be absolutely no question about how neighbors living next to these projects can feel that they are being respected and that there properties are not in danger. Much of what is written about aggressive enforcement for unprofessional behavior with any licensed professional, is something that really is very needed in my opinion. Perhaps we have to be a little bit heavyhanded with possible penalties or prescribed penalties, because clearly the bad actors in the field have forced us to do this. How we reconcile that with honest mistakes, learnings, in process things is something we really need to work out. This really, in many ways, started out the acting two really bad actors. Being sure that everything that we have here doesnt unduly burden the 99 of people who are trying to build houses, expand houses, most important they improve their houses when they have a legitimate need for it. Stop the bad actors from consistently misrepresenting things, and , you know, developing a track record. I dont think it is a secret that, you know, many of us can identify some of the bad actors. While we are not going to them today, you know, i really think that we need strong protocols for reporting to licensing authorities. Strong protocols for reporting to the city attorney. And the heightened review of anything submitted by somebody who has a history of violations, where the ordinance comes calls out some of these things. I think it is something that we really do need. These are many of my concerns, you know to accomplish all of these things, and to have tenant protections. To really make the considerations with how we densify the city, to really get significant contributions, additional housing. These are all things that i think we are working towards. I think there is not a person here that is not going to commit their time to working with the supervisor, and is aid to see how we can move forward on this. I share the feeling that this is a very very, very broad piece of work. It probably should be broken up into pieces addressing first; demolitions, and you know, penalties on bad actors might be one place to first target and be sure we have that under control since that seems to be the focus of where our concerns originated. All of the other things about, you know, integrity of merged units, sizes, other considerations are very valid, but they may be too much for us to tackle right now. Narrowing in the focus will serve us all well and allow us to accomplish something. I look forward to being part of that process. As a final thought we all know that the city has to engage in major seismic upgrades. So, having incentives built into this as well. We all say there is a need for more space, you know, when you think about when you do a seismic upgrade you are very often taking a 7 foot, no habitation space, and you can make it an eightfoot legal habitation space. When you are talking about maybe not expanding the envelope, but making more living space and accomplishing a good that we all know is necessary like seismic upgrade. Building that into, if you do your seismic upgrade we can work to get you extra living space out of it, as well. There should be ways that we have carrots as well as sticks. Being creative, and trying to find those, is a challenge that i think we should be up to. So, again, i applaud the efforts and i do think it needs focus. Again, i thi welcome to another episode of safety on today is episode well show you how 0 retroactive youre home lets go inside and take a look. Hi and patrick chief officer and director of earthquake for the city and county of San Francisco welcome to another episode of stay safe in our model home with matt well talk about plywood. Great thanks. Where are we we if you notice bare studs those are prone to failure in an earthquake we need to stabilize those they dont lean over and plywood is effective as long as you nail along every edge of the plywood for the framing well nail along the sides and top and on the bottom 0 immediately youll see a problem in a typical San Francisco construction because nothing to nail the bottom of the plywood weve got to wind block between the studs and well secure this to the mud sill with nails or surface screws something to nail the bottom of the plywood. I notice we have not bolted the foundation in the previous episode thorough goes through options with different products so, now we have the blocking well a xoich attach the plywood. The third thing well attach the floor framing of the house above so the top of the braced walls one to have a steel angle on top of this wall and types of to the top of the wall with nails into the top plate and the nails in this direction driving a nail it difficult unless you have a specialized tool so this makes that easy this is good, good for about 5 hundred pounds of earthquake swinging before and after that mount to the face of wall it secures the top of wall and nailed into the top plate of the with triple wall and this gives us a secure to resist the forces. So you now see the space is totally available to dots blocking that he bottom and bolted the foundation in corneas what the code in the next episode youll see you apply good morning, everyone how are you all . So, welcome. Im with the Hotel Council and i want to welcome you all to our first love our city. Its the second love our city event but its the first one that is a tourism and Hospitality Industry have helped organize. So today we have over 700 people here in also waiting out in the neighborhood. [applause] im joined by our chair of our board, mr. James lamb who is here with us today. [applause] and this event is hosted by the Hotel Council of sf travel but it really came together because of a lot of different people working on the event and i want to thank mayor breed and the city of San Francisco and her team for partnering with us on this love our city event. So please give a big hand to them [applause] we also couldnt have done it without our partnership with the Public Works Department and larry stringer and darlene prom, fromand i want to thank all of m fork working with us. Raichal gordan as well. Their team has been incredible to work with. We also have, you can see the signs out here today, im going to call off and make sure we recognize the groups as well. Each of our groups cbd. [applause] our tenderloin cbd. Our fisherman warf cbe and our embarcadero and financial district group. And last but not least our soma groups. [applause] we know that you all clean up all youre long and daily around your hotels and businesses. And it really is a 24 7 job. We want to thank you for everything that you are doing. We also want to thank wreckology. They sponsored our tshirts so thank you for working with us. [applause] a special thank you as we look out on the hyatt region see for sponsoring us with breakfast as well. Thank you very much. If that was designed to bring us to Work Together and partner with the city and our mayor has announced in the last, since she took office, an incredible amount of programs, new funding and new resources all to help clean this city and help make this city safer. So i want to thank the mayor from our hospitality and Tourism Industries for making sure shes doing everything that she is doing. Lets give her a big round of applause. [applause] and last but not least our partners at sf travel who have come together to work with us on this event as well. Its my pleasure to introduce our mayor, london breed. Thank you good morning, everybody now, i will troy to be short because i would love for you all to get out there and do what you came here to do and clean up San Francisco let me just start by saying thank you. We know that we have a lot of challenges in San Francisco. We have far too many People Living on our streets. We have far too many challenges with housing and housing affordability. I know our Small Businesses are struggling. The city is finally making the kinds of investments that i hope will make a difference in your everyday lives as you work in this great city. I was born and raised here and i grew up in public housing. You know, my grandmother, when we were kids, she would make us go out and clean up. She would always say clean it up. Ike like mama, why, would want to clean up. You know how kids are. We would should i look, its our responsibility to keep our community clean. Now here, take this bucket and put water and soap and clean up. You know, at the time as a kid you are like i dont want to do this but then, as you get older, its just a part of who you are. I find myself doing it in my community, doing it where i used to work at the African American culture complex and really feeling good about the investment that ive made and also the example that ive set for other young people to be better stewards of San Francisco. So what you all are out there are doing is not just picking up trash and erasing graffiti and painting, you all are stewards for San Francisco. You are taking care of the city. You all are showing how much you love San Francisco and other people when they see you doing what you are doing, theyre less likely to drop that trash on the ground and actually take it to the trash can. It does make a difference. So i want to thank all of you and all the Community Business districts and the people who are out there every single day. I especially want to thank the department of public works and the many thousands of employees because they are out on the streets everyday. Downtown street teams and so many other folks trying to keep San Francisco clean, green and beautiful. I love our city. I know you all love this city. Thank you for showing your love by taking care of San Francisco today for this amazing event. Have a wonderful time out there thank you so much, mayor. Id like to introduce from district 6 our supervisor matt haney who will be working with the groups as well. Please help me welcome supervisor matt haney. Thank you, thank you. How is everybody doing this morning make some noise if you love our city [applause] make noise if you are ready to pick up a broom and do some cleaning today who would have thought we could call this a cold day in San Francisco. Were glad the temperature came down a little bit but its still a Beautiful Day to demonstrate to everyone in our city we care and were going to do some cleaning up. Im the supervisor of district 6 and i want to give a special shout out to the different communities and cbds of district 6. The tenderloin where i live, soma, union square, everyone who is here, we really appreciate how much you do everyday. I see folks here from the hotel. Make some noise if you are representing the hotels in our city. This is a city that is still a worldclass destination. People come here from all over the world. We want to make sure that when they come here, they understand that theyre going to have an incredible experience and theyre going to see clean and safe streets and theyre going to see the people of San Francisco care about our community. Thats what you are demonstrating today. I want to thank mayor breed for the investments shows made in making our streets cleaner. If you look out there, theres things we can do. We need more trash cans on our streets, we need more bathrooms that are open for longer hours, and we need more street cleaning and deep cleaning and so what you are doing today is not just demonstrating to your residents that you care, you are demonstrating to us, the city, that you care and we need to do more as well. Lets get out there today. Im going to be in the tenderloin and pick up a broom and i just want to say thank you all so much. Have fun. Lets love our city. [applause] thank you supervisor haney. Next id like to introduce our partner from sf travel. We have the share and the board of sf travel with us, mr. Peter gamez. [applause] wow good morning, everyone. This is a great day for us. As many of you know im the board chair and this is one of the issues weve all rallied for all year. This is a special day for all of us. Thank you everyone for coming out and joining the hospitality and Tourism Industry to love our city. Together, here today, we are showing the strength of our industry and the collective passion and commitment we share for San Francisco. I want to thank firstly our awesome mayor breed, im also a native San Francisco an and i completely relate to you how we took pride in all of our neighborhoods and the importance of cleaning our streets. Your leadership and commitment for cleaning our streets and keeping us safe and were very thankful. Were proud to partner with the department of public works. The total council of San Francisco and many of our Community Partners to do tour part to keep San Francisco clean, safe, and welcoming to all. Together, we are a gene that gives back to the city we love and we can not be more excited to work side by side to make San Francisco the most wonderful destination in the world. Thank you. Last id like to introduce the director of public works and his team is a group weve been partnering with on this. [applause] all right are we ready to go to work all right let me begin by joining all the speakers here to thank all of you for coming out to help keep our city clean. Love our city everyday, right everyday the Public Works Department and many city agencies do this everyday but i can tell you, your coming out means a lot to us. You are giving us the extra hands and the extra help that it needs to continue to make our city be the destination where people come and enjoy and people clean up and make our city the most beautiful city in the world, right. San francisco ill be really short. Today we have over 45 different sites. Some people are going to be painting poles, weeding, cleaning, some are going to be sweeping. All that is going to make a difference. The number one thing that when you leave here is, when you are out there, please, be safe. Safety is a high priority. Weve been having these events for over 20 years and we have not had a single incident. How do you be safe . All of you in different work teams and every work team has got someone who will be wearing a vest like me who will be showing you what to do. If you see something that you are in doubt of whether its glass or needle or something in your mind is doubtful, just ask that person and they will deal with it appropriately and they will work with you. Other than that, enjoy yourselves. Its a nice day. Again, im very appreciative for everyone coming up. Lets have fun love our city everyday [applause] thank you. Thank you, very much. Before we close out, were going to do a group picture. Stay where you are. No one move. Just stay still for a minute and well take a group photo. I went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. I am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. I am a community ambassador. We work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. What i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. They ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. Checking in, you guys. Wellness check. We walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. You never know. Somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. You never know if they are alive. We let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they dont want to call the police on, they dont have to call the police. They can call us. We can direct them to the services they might need. We do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. There are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. It is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. When we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311. They give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick it up. We take pride. When we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. It makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. The stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. You can see the community ambassadors. I used to be on the streets. I didnt think i could become a community ambassador. It was too far out there for me to grab, you know. Doing this job makes me feel good. Because i came from where a lot of them are, homeless and on the street, i feel like i can give them hope because i was once there. I am not afraid to tell them i used to be here. I used to be like this, you know. I have compassion for people that are on the streets like the homeless and people that are caught up with their addiction because now, i feel like i can give them hope. It reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i am at now. The Commission Meeting is in section. The secretary will call the roll. Clerk commissioner chow. And commissioner royce and commissioner chung and commissioner green. The second item on the agenda is the june 4, 2019 minutes. Its in your hands and we have time to review them and what you have, accept the motion to approve the minutes from june 4th. Seconded. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Clerk now Public Comment for item 3 at the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners, the directoro