Brain injury or traumatic brain injury, and we also have one of the larger after School Programs for children with special needs that serves the Public School system. The Sf Carbon Fund for us has been the launching pad for an entire program here at the pomeroy center. We received about 15,000. The money was really designed to help us improve our garden by buying plants and material and also some infrastructure like a drip system for plants. We have wine barrels that we repurposed to collect rain water. We actually had removed over 1,000 square feet of concrete so that we could expand the garden. This is where our participants, they come to learn about gardening. They learn about our work in the greenhouse. We have plants that we actually harvest, and eggs from our chickens that we take up and use in cooking classes so that our participants learn as much as anybody else where food comes from. We have two kitchens here at the pomeroy center. One is more of a commercial kitchen and one is more setup like a home kitchen would be, and in the home kitchen, we do a lot of cooking classes, how to make lasagna, how to comsome eggs, so this grant that we received has tremendous value, not only for our center, for our participants, but the entire community. The thing about climate, climate overlaps with everything, and so when we start looking at how were going to solve climate programs, we solve a lot of other problems, too. This is a radical project, and to be a part of it has been a real honor and a privilege to work with those administrators with the Sf Carbon Fund at the department of environment. San francisco carbon grant to for us, opened the door to a new a new world that we didnt really have before; that the result is this beautiful garden. When you look at the Community Gardens we planted in schools and in neighborhoods, how many thousands of people now have a fabulous place to walk around and feel safe going outside and are growing their own food. Thats a huge impact, and were just going to keep rolling that out and keep rolling that mayor breed i just figured everybody would be at work and it would be a couple of us today. But i see the cole Valley Community came out. Thank you so much for being here today at wooden, one of the newest establishments right here in the cole Valley Community. This is an amazing neighborhood. So many great places like reverie and the ice cream bar and zazie. This is an incredible place to enjoy the day. Theres wine that you can buy. There is a postal service. There is hardware. Anything that you want is located in this community. Its one of the bestkept secrets in San Francisco. I know that because i come out here and hide a lot. [ laughter ]. Mayor breed but of course the community, they recognize me because i served as a supervisor and one of the things that we know happens sometimes with our Small Businesses, they get caught up in the bureaucracy, when all they want to do is provide a service to the community. This is a neighborhood where people know one another, where they walk down the street and see one another, where they hang out in places like this to enjoy each others company. Where we have watched kids grow up in this neighborhood. The fact that Small Businesses which oftentimes are run by the owners of the Small Businesses, the fact that they have to deal with so much bureaucracy makes me crazy. One of the things i have said we need to do time and time again is can you tell the bureaucratic red tape that gets in the way of allowing our Small Businesses to just exist and be enjoyable for communities like cole valley. [ applause ]. Mayor breed so id like to use this as an example, and let me pause for a minute and recognize captain bailey and the folks from park Police Station and the people who keep our community safe. We really appreciate you. [ applause ]. Mayor breed but when i was supervisor, val, you remember this, free gold watch. You all know that, the pinball machines in that place. So free gold watch, an incredible place. There were pinball machine tournaments, there were activities, a place where the Community Came together. Well, unfortunately it discovered after they opened that they were basically not in compliance with the law. Years ago in the 1980s when we thought that video games were going to destroy young people, destroy civilization as we know it, all these laws were created that limited the ability to have these arcade locations within the certain area of the school or a park or gas station and all this craziness. I just couldnt believe it that we could potentially lose this amazing institution because of some dated laws. Of course, its not just about creating new laws, but about fixing the old laws that put us in this situation in the first place. We got rid of that. Free gold watch and all these other amazing places are open to bring back our childhood for most of us who lived through that time. This is no exception, where i think you just if you just wanted to basically have music and sell a little bit of wine and beer for a comedy night. What he had to go through has been crazy because of some laws that were passed that impact neighboring communities which is sometimes unfair. What we are doing today is making it easier for Small Businesses to provide what i think is a basic community service. Of course, when youre watching comedy, you have to have wine or beer or some kind of beverage in your hand to just enjoy it. Because most of the comics sometimes arent even funny. [ laughter ]. Mayor breed so here we are. Trying to make it easier for our Small Business community and sign this legislation. My commitment to addressing what we know is a real challenge around how Small Businesses are able to survive and thrive in this city is important to me. Dealing with our empty store fronts, coming up with new solutions, both with changes to our policies but also with financial investments. Even if we cant get rid of certain fees, i do think its important that we continue through the Mayors Office of economic and Workforce Development under the leadership of qua joaquim torez to make sure we are working with Small Businesses to do facade improvements and many others. This is how were going to get there and the board of supervisors who has been incredibly focused. Even before she was on the board of supervisors where she served as a legislative aid for two previous supervisors, i was one of those supervisors, there was no one more committed to supporting Small Businesses and being responsive to the community than your supervisor, district 5 supervisor, val brown. [ applause ]. I just want to thank a few people. I have them written down. I want to first thank the mayor. I want to thank the team at o. E. W. D. , ben, when we were doing this legislation, it was grinding. Just because it was pushed out, came back. Ben would come back and think he had a way to do that. I want to thank my aide in the corner hiding like normal. [ applause ]. He kept saying, we can do it, we can do it. I want to thank the chamber of commerce. They were there all along coming to meetings and speaking in favor. The council of district merchants. And really especially the cole Valley Community. When this came to me i have to say, though, this is kind of a bit of a strange groundhog day for me. When we talked about this, actually planning came to us ten years ago and asked us to clean up a lot of the regulations around these kind of restrictions for businesses, because they said they were archaic, hurting Small Business. You have to remember ten years ago we were in a downturn, the economic downturn. We just didnt have time or the bandwidth to deal with it. When this came back to me ten years in the making, that happened with clean power. I started clean power and finished it in supervisor breeds office. This was ten years in the making again. But this time i said, hey, you know what . This is a heavy lift, but we need to do this for Small Businesses. We need to do this for the person that comes every morning, opens up their door, is here serving coffee, is here cutting your hair, giving you some of the best cheese youve ever had at say cheese. We need to do this for Small Business. Theyre struggling. We, as a city, should be doing everything we can to keep Small Businesses in place and to open Small Businesses. We need to be able to take the regulations away that hurt them, to take the time it takes to open a Small Business. I dont know how you can afford to pay for a space for a year to 18 months before you even have a business. How is that possible . You have to probably save for two years just to open a Small Business. So we have to say no. We have to make sure that we protect Small Businesses. Because, look, i lived in lower haye for 20 years and then i moved into this community. I feel its a mayberry. I walk down the street and know everybody. I can go from one store to another and get what i need for my Everyday Needs and meet the people that i absolutely adore on these streets. So we have to keep these neighborhood corridors vibrant. If we dont have vibrant neighborhood corridors, what does that do . That affects the whole entire community. When the neighbors came to me, cole valley, and said, look, we really support this business. They want a simple beer and wine license so he can have comedy night. How many times does a neighborhood come to you and say we want this business of a beer and wine . Usually its the owner, right . I said, wow, steve, you must have done something right in this neighborhood because they absolutely loved steve and said, steve, we want you to be here and successful. The least i could do was take this legislation and push it through. Now, it took me three times before it went through l. A. N. Use and i had third time is a charm and we got it through. We did it and we all worked together, and it was unanimous at the board. I want to thank everyone who was involved. There was so many people who came out for public comment. People behind the scenes saying this is what we need. Steve, you came to those public comments. Your staff watched the store while you came. Your cafe. You waited and spoke three times. Im sorry. We shouldnt be doing that to Small Businesses. So really appreciate your time becau because, steve, you helped the whole city. You helped the whole city when the supervisors heard your story and they said, weve got to help this person, this Small Business, you helped the whole city. So youre an activist. [ applause ]. So that point im going to introduce steve wikwire that owns this marvelous cafe and give you a few words. Thank you. [ applause ]. Thank you all for being here. So some of you know i opened this shop after working in San Francisco for ten years. I wanted to bring my passion and dedication for really highend Coffee Service to cole valley, where i thought it was needed. Its been really awesome and amazing being able to contribute to this community. With this legislation passing, well be able to contribute more, namely, staying open later, providing beer and wine service, and doing really fun comedy shows here that i think will just breathe some new life into the neighborhood and add to the mix around here. I really just want to thank our District Supervisor vallie brown and her team for supporting this. [ applause ]. If we do want to see more Small Businesses opening and being run by community members, people who want to serve their communities. It just needs to be a little bit easier to do. We need more pathways for these businesses to grow and adapt as they move forward. So thats really what this is all about. All of your support has made that happen here, so thank you all so much. [ applause ]. Thank you. Up next is rodney fong. Thank you, steve. Congratulations. I feel like its a new day. Its a fresh breath of air. It literally is a chamber of commerce day here in San Francisco. I want to thank mayor breed, supervisor brown for being champions of this legislation. All of the points you bring up about the vitality of San Francisco, how important it is for our streets to be filled with people and to get involved with businesses. At the chamber of commerce weve put an emphasis on Small Businesses. I feel growing up in a Small Business and running our wax museum down at fishermens wharf, creativity is the secret sauce. If we can give entrepreneurs the ability to be cultivators of things, were going to do well. Im happy to be here. I hope we have many, many more opportunities like this. Congratulations to the Planning Department and clearing some of the red tape. Hopefully we can get more businesses open here this San Francisco. Thank you very much for coming, and congratulations to you. [ applause ]. Mayor breed thank you, rodney. Before we sign this legislation, i just want to thank our two Small Business commissioners for being here today. Thank you so much. Steve, who is the president of the commission and sharkie, one of the newest swornin commissioners because of his challenges with his Small Business here in San Francisco. So you really have some champions helping to push forward the kinds of policies that hopefully will make a difference for our Small Business community here in San Francisco. Now, lets get this piece of legislation signed. [ applause ] [ applause ] [ ] better. San Francisco Department of environment is a place where climate hits the street. We know that we dont have all the answers. We need to support our local champions, our local community to find Creative Solutions and innovations that help us get to zero waste. Zero waste is sending nothing to landfill or incineration, using reuse and recovery and prevention as ways to achieve zero waste. The Grant Program is a Grant Program specifically for nonprofits in San Francisco to divert material from landfill. Its important to find the San FranciscoProduce Market because theres a lot of edible food that can be diverted and they need positions to capture that food and focus on food recovery. San francisco Produce Market is a resource that connects farmers and their produce with businesses in the bay area. I think its a basic human right to have access to healthy foods, and all of this food here is available. Its a matter of creating the infrastructure, creating jobs, and the system whereby none of this goes to waste. Since the beginning of our program in july 2016 to date, weve donated over 1 Million Pounds of produce to our community partners, and thats resulted in over 900,000 meals to people in our community, which were very proud of. Carolyn at the San FranciscoProduce Market texts with old produce thats available. The produce is always excellent. We get things like broccoli, brussels sprouts, bell peppers. Everything that we use is nice and fresh, so when our clients get it, they really enjoy it, and its important to me to feel good about what i do, and working in programs such as this really provides that for me. Its helping people. Thats what its really about, and i really enjoy that. The work at the Produce Market for me representing the intersection between environment and community, and when we are working at that intersection, when we are using our resources and our passion and our energy to heal the planet and feed the people, nothing gets better than