Our clerk is ms. Linda wong. I would like to thank those from s. F. Gov tv for broadcasting. Can we excuse supervisor fewer. Please make sure to silence all cellphones and electronic devices. Completed copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items will appear on the next minutes. Can you please call item number 1. Clerk lease amendment lexington lion San Francisco, lp 350 rhode island streetnorth 2,600,000 rent credit. I would like to make a motion petitioner this to be continued for one more week. Before that i will take Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item 1, seeing none, that item is closed. I would like to make a motion to continue the item to october 16. Clerk item 2 is resolution retroactively authorizing the department of Public Health, Behavioral Health services to enter into a multiyear organized Delivery System Intergovernmental Agreement for Substance Use Disorder Services with the state department of health care services, in the amount of 171,714,918 for the term of july 1, 2019, through june 30, 2022. Thank you. I have been working on this contract for about 27 years. Please continue. The first thing i want to point out is that the contract is retroactive. The source of the retroactivity was we first received the agreement for our perusal on october 20. There are changes in the funding since the Crime Prevention Public Safety act of 2011. It involves them work through centers of medicare and medicaid services. Our services get back and forth before signed, so its not unusual that theyre slow. Okay. Having said that, not guilty 1922, all of the amendments to this will be retroactive to july 1st. So theyll all be retroactive contracts. Anyway, this contract is practically the same as it was last year. The big changes came two years before. Its really a pretty straightforward contract. Basically what it is is the rules and regulations and procedures for billing if one successfully follows those rules, you get paid whatever your legitimate costs were. So its delightfully straightforward. Okay. Colleagues, any comments or questions . Good morning. The board is being asked to approve a Grant Agreement from the state department of Healthcare Services for Substance Use Disorder Services. This is 171,000,000 grant. The city would be reimbursed by the state. The amount in each year is shown on table 1 of 57. 2 million. I think you probably know historically in each year of the grant is the state budget changes. They do come back for an amendment so the second and thirdyear amount could potentially change from the amount in this agreement. We recommend approval. Thank you very much. Any members of the public like to comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. This is moved to the board with a positive recommendation. Madam clerk, can you please call item number 3. Clerk resolution retroactively authorizing the office of the treasurer Tax Collector to accept and expend a grant in the amount of 962,892 from the California Student Aid Commission every Kid Counts College Savings Program for the office of Financial Empowerment kindergarten to College Program for conducting outreach to families and provide incentives for families to contribute to College Savings accounts for the period of may 1, 2019, through june 30, 2021. Again, eric mankey with the office of the treasure and Tax Collector. Im here to seek an approval for our office to spend 926,000 for the California Student Aid Commission. This funding will go to support the kindergarten to College Program. Just as a way of background, this was started in 2011 based on research that shows kids with College Savings for up to seven times more likely to attend college if they have a College Savings account. Since 2011 kindergarten to college has automatically opened more than 42,000 accounts for students when they begin kindergarten. Including we just opened 11,000 new accounts this year. The city and county provides 50 as an initial deposit into that account, and we use private funds to incentivize families to further save. The incentives work. Since the inception of kindergarten to college, families have saved 4. 6 million into those accounts. If you include the city funding we have a total of 7 million in those accounts. What this grant will do is allow us to continue to do outreach and continue those incentives. As you see, we are seeking retroactive approval. This is because being a state grant we didnt receive the information and the grant approval from the state until the end of may as the budget was closing. So we decided to hold off since we couldnt get it in our budget submission for 2019 and 2020. Thank you very much. Lets open up for Public Comment. Any members of the public like to comment on item 3 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, any comments or questions . Seeing none we will move in to the board without objection. Clerk item 4 resolution retroactively authorizing the department of Public Health to accept and expend a grant in the total amount of 2,300,400 from the California Department of state hospitals to participate in a program, entitled pretrial Felony Mental Health diversion, for the threeyear budget period of september 15, 2019, through september 14, 2022. Thank you very much. Good morning, supervisors. As is also stated, we are requesting the ability to accept and spend a threeyear grant from september 14, 2022, from the department of state hospitals that would Fund Services for those who qualify for Mental Health diversion. This is a Pretrial Diversion Program for those competent to stand trial on felony charges who also have a mental illness. This grant would fund intensive Case Management services as well as funding for stabilization rooms and a Behavioural Health clinician that would work in the jails to support evaluation for the courts to admit people into the program as well as expeditiously making refers into treatment. Of course im happy to answer any questions that you may have. Seeing no comments or questions, there is no b. L. A. Report on this. Are there any members of the public that would like to comment on item 4, seeing none Public Comment is closed. I would like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Taken without objection. Thank you very much. Clerk item number 5 resolution declaring the intent of the city and county of San Francisco city to reimburse certain expenditures from proceeds of future bonded indebtedness; authorizing the director of the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development director to submit an application and related documents to the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee cdlac to permit the issuance of Residential Mortgage Revenue Bonds in an aggregate Principal Amount not to exceed 56,700,000 for 410 china basin street i am a senior project manager with the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development. The resolution before you will authorize an application for bond proceeds to pay for the construction and related Development Costs for Mission Bay Block south 9 and to approve the hearing that the city conducted already to comply with the federal tax equity and financial responsibility act. This project is located within the Mission Bay South redevelopment plan area and its administered by the office of Community Investment and infrastructure. The block 9 team is comprised of Bridge Housing and Community Housing partnership who have formed a limited partnership. The project will provide 141 units, including a managers unit, of affordable rental housing for formerly households. Units will be all studios and a portion of the studio units will be sized to accommodate inhome care support and medical equipment. The project will receive operating support through the local subsidy program. The building includes a large courtyard and adjacent community room, lounge, closed bicycle parking. The project also includes a Community Garden that will be operated by a nonprofit organization. This bond does not require the city to repledge the bond. If approved the sponsors will submit an application to the Planning Committee in january. We anticipate that well return to the board of supervisors in march of next year to approve the issuance of the bond. The project is scheduled to begin construction in june of next year and will be ready for occupancy in september of 2021. This concludes my presentation. Im happy to answer any questions you may have. Im joined by a representative from the development team. Thank you. Thank you very much. There is no b. L. A. Report on this. Are there any members of the public that would like to comment on item number 5 . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Clerk resolution authorizing the issuance and delivery of multifamily housing Revenue Bonds in an aggregate Principal Amount not to exceed 26,967,500 for the purpose of providing financing for the acquisition and rehabilitation of a 67unit, affordable multifamily rental Housing Project located at 385 eddy street good morning. Im from the Mayors Office of Housing Community development. Item 6 is a resolution to approve of the issuance of the 28. 9 million in taxexempt bonds for the rehabilitation of an existing single room occupancy development. The issuance of the bonds will allow the project to be acquired and undergo a significant rehabilitation, which would include systems and unit work. There will not be tenants will have a right to return to those units. There will be internal relocation within the portfolio. The units will continue to serve hopefullies at the 60 line and below. We ask for the committee today to recommend approval of the resoluti resoluti resolution. And the project sponsor is here if you have any additional questions about the project. Thank you very much. Any comments or questions . Seeing none there is no b. L. A. Report. Any members of the public that would like to comment on item 6 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. If we can move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Clerk item 7 resolution authorizing the execution and delivery of a multifamily housing revenue note taxexempt in an aggregate Principal Amount not to exceed 76,680,000 and of a multifamily housing revenue note taxable in an aggregate Principal Amount not to exceed 30,000,000 for the purpose of providing financing for the construction of a 167unit multifamily rental Housing Project located at 242 hahn street resolution approving and authorizing the director of the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to execute an amended and restated Loan Agreement with block 6 housing partners, l. P. , a california limited partnership, for a total loan amount not to exceed 18,647,014 to finance the construction of a 167unit multifamily rental Housing Development for lowincome households. I am the senior project manager with the Mayors Office of Community Housing development. I am here to present on item 8. For item 7, the transaction fundamentals have not changed since the presentation was presented in april of this year. The issuance is still a conduit and financing. The project is in compliance with all city requirements, including prevailing wage and l. B. E. Requirements. Since then, the developer has secured a debt limit allocation from sidlak and with the cityidentified Financing Team, including a lender, equity investor, bond counsel, other attorneys and the citys municipal adviser. The Financing Team has met several times and pretend the package before you today. For item 8, this is to enter into a loan of 18 million. The block 6 project is the first onsite affordable Housing Development for sunnydaily hope s. F. The development adjacent to the site was completed construction last week. Were excited about that. And it will soon house families. Block 6 is going to consist of 167 units, of which 125 of them are public hufing replacement units. The other will be tax credit units and all of them are under 60 tax credit a. M. I. The 125 replacement units will be subsidied by project vouchers. Affordability is maintained at a 99year ground lease with the Housing Authority that continues to own the land. Construction closing for block 6 is expected at the end of november when the documents before you today would be executed. Blocks 6 construction will start soon after that with completion expected in december 2021. Here with me is the director of hope s. F. We will be glad to answer any questions you have about the project. On behalf of this project, we would like to thank you for your consideration and ask for continued support of the project. Thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues. There is a b. L. A. Report. Can we hear that. We reported on item 8 which is the 18. 6 million on gap financing. In terms of sources of funds, we showed that in table 1 on page 11 of our report, and then these funds would be used specifically for the nonconstruction costs, the Development Costs, for this project. The total project, as youre going to see here summarized is 148. 7 million including other sources of funds other than city funds. City funds total on page 12. They add up to about 129. 6 million. In terms of the policy consideration, we call out in our report that the perunit cost of this project is now about 890,000 development cost. The citys share is in table 2, which is 177,000. But the overall cost is 890,000. We consider this high. Weve seen over the years the housing cost construction has gone up. We do recommend that you request from the Mayors Office of housing a report back on the drivers of these housing costs. We are revising it a little bit to have the report back for december 9, 2019, to allow them to have the work. Otherwise we do recommend approval. Thank you very much. Are there any members of the public that would like to comment on item 7 or 8 . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Colleagues, any comments or questions . Yes, supervisor mar. Thank you, chair fewer. I know theres a recommendation from the b. L. A. For a report to the board on with more explanation about the high the relatively high perunit cost of this project. I was wondering if you could touch on that a little bit right now. So in regards to the overall costs, one of the things we need to think about as well is the amount of city subsidy in this project. In general we see on average about 229,000 per unit in subsidies. This particular project which has infrastructure costs associated is at 171,000. So it is less than most of our projects in our pipeline. One of the reasons its so expensive is general, its a hope s. F. Project, the topography of the. Its very difficult because its sloped and they are grading issues. We also have relocation issues to move the residents on site to this new housing. Thats an additional cost. Were also building parking which is not something we would see on any of our infill sites. Those have assisted in keeping these project costs lower. Had there been other projects where the cost per unit is in a similar range of 890,000 . Yeah. Youll see it on other hope s. F. Projects. Youll see some of our projects that are higher density. We will put the reasons in our report. Thank you so much. I also have the same question because parcel q i think that was two years ago, it was dlsh 770,000 per unit and that was two years ago. Are we on a time constraint for this because i would like to continue this item and see a detailed charge side by side the expenditures and also why this is costing so much. You were just telling us very casually that topography, blah, blah, blah. I would like to see some of those numbers on why the cost is so expensive. I would like to make a motion continuing this item unless you have a chart with you today. I also think when we got a briefing on this and i looked at it with my legislative aid, it never mentioned the cost per unit which should have been included in a briefing to the budget chair and it was not included. Is there a time constraint on this today or can we pick up this item next week, as we are going to have a meeting next week . We can pick it up next week. That would be great. Lets take these items separately. I would make a motion to move 7 to the board with a positive recommendation without objection. Thank you very much. And i would like to continue item 8 until the meeting of next week. We can get a detailed breakdown why the cost is so expensive for this project versus another, for example, project q. If i can take that without objection. Thank you so much. Madam clerk, do we have any other business for today . Clerk theres no other business. Thank you. We are adjourned. The new friday farmer his market is in the u. N. Plaza. It features the best of San Francisco. Grab fresh foods and veggies from the heart of the farmers market. Shop from marker local vendors. Engage in free diy craft sessions and grab lunch representing cuisine from around the world. [ ] we offer 60 varieties of organic fruit and 30 varieties of conventional. One of our best sellers so sellers is our manager in. It is super sweet. We sell 600 pounds a week. One of the things they like about the market as i get to see my regulars on a weekly basis. I get to meet their families and kids and it is really good to be here. San francisco won my heart. One of our vegetables that is very popular is kale. A lot of people go for dino kale our mission is to make sure we have access for everybody to get organic foods, no matter your financial status. We make greeting cards, invitations, enamel pins, and we do workshops. I am participating in this market because it is a great opportunity for local makers to sell to a really Diverse Community of people in San Francisco. They partnered with the market here and invited us to come out and reach out to the public. We are going to do a full event of workshops where you get to arrange your own bouquet. We will teach you all the tricks and techniques and you will be able to take home a bouquet of your own. You. [ ] we really are wanting to bring opportunities to the community to introduce these local makers to a larger audience. This is my own pakistani recipe. It goes with rice, chicken, lamb we have a very delicious drink. We have a lots of variety of foods. [ ] we do lots of different curries. We do three different types of wontons. Spring rolls, too. Thats right. It is really great they are bringing out local artists from around the city to participate and really help us making our business more successful. Today in the omi in district 7 [cheers and applause] they say it takes Broad Strokes to make something truly incredible, people to enjoy and thats the message we have here today. Theres no better person to articulate the vision for advancing Economic Opportunity and equity in our city than our next speaker that is joining all of us and leading these efforts with us today and that is our mayor, london reed. Hello, lakeview hello i am so excited to be here let me tell you, this centre is long overdue in the Omi Community. [cheers and applause] i want to start by thanking supervisor safaye, who is really, i think the best supervisor district 11 has ever had. Let me tell you, because of his work and advocacy, we are bringing more resources than ever to this community. We saved 21 units just on Mission Street where low income families were facing eviction. He took the leadership, we purchased that property and protected those units for generations to come. [cheers and applause] we know that you want your library and supervisor safaye and i are working to get it done for this community, making sure that even though sometimes i know over the years you felt forgotten, your supervisor and your mayor, were doing everything we can to continue to focus on bringing resources to this community. [cheers and applause] and you know, you only have to look at the data to know that a place to provide Employment Opportunities should have been here a long time ago. In fact, 94112 had sadly one of the largest populations of people who were looking for Employment Opportunities but couldnt find them. 1600 people in this zip code alone. Now while we enjoy this tremendous economic boom in San Francisco, too many residents in this community are left behind. We see a significant increase in the number of people who are unemployed and looking for opportunities and that number is even higher for our africanamerican community. And so we as a city have to look at those numbers and make the right kinds of investments in the communities where we know it could make a difference. And so, it is only fitting that today, we celebrate the seventh workforce or whatever this place is called, access point. They changed the name so many times. [ laughter ] they used to be job center and this and that, a place where you can come and find help to get employment. Thats what it is. [cheers and applause] so today is a celebration of something long overdue and i just, im so excited to be here and i know that innercity yout. Youre going to speak, right . [ laughter ] i know that i just want to really acknowledge and thank mike brown, who we all miss and remember for his work and his advocacy. And we know that his daughter, gwenn, carries that same passion for young people and were grateful for you for following in your fathers footsteps, to make sure opportunities are available to all of the folks in this community and she needs your support, your continued support to continue the work of innercity youth in the lakeview community. So today were opening this incredible place where you can come and get the help and the support that you need to either build a resume, to talk about job interviewing skills, to do mock interviews, to do whatever it takes and i want to thank Young Community developers and dj brrokter for partnering with innercity youth to make sure that this space is really a Space Available to the community to meet people where they are. Not let me just be clear, there are so many Job Opportunities in San Francisco. You can drive muni, you can be a police officer. Hell, you can run for mayor, but after im done. [ laughter ] there are so many opportunities and it is time that we look at the tech sector the healthcare sector and all of these other industries and we make sure theres a direct connection between all these companies that want do business in San Francisco and making sure that they hire the people of this city. [cheers and applause] in fact, your long awaited grocery store, what is it called . Hmart, hmart is coming to the Omi Community and here is the thing, theyll be hiring 150 new parttime and fulltime employees. [cheers and applause] and this center will be grounddaughter rogroundzero ft because we will make sure the people who live here have the first opportunity to work in their community, if thats the kind of job they want, we have to be deliberate in our investments and connecting the people of this community to these incredible opportunities. And i am excited to be here today. I also just want to point out that our workforce director, josh arsay, is here as well. Cheer cheer. [cheers and applause] so if you run into problems in finding employment, josh is always there and available. He will pick you up personally and take you to the job interview, take you shopping to buy the appropriate clothes to get ready for that job, whatever it takes. We will make sure that we change those statistics so that everyone in this city has an opportunity to get a good paying job so that they can take care of their families and create a Better Future for their lives. Someone who has been a real partner for me on the board of supervisors every step of the way, not just on citywide policies to address homelessness and housing and the things unnetted tthings weneed to do tn francisco, hes been a real strong advocate for this community, the community he represents. Leads and gentleman, your district 11 supervisor [cheers and applause] thank you, mayor. This day is a day of many years coming. I see a lot of history in this room. I see reverend amos brown, who has given his life and dedicated his life to this community. I see dr. Honeycut, marion harris. This community has been too over overlooked and forgotten. So when i came into office, it was president breed at the time and melia cohen were having hearings and they were extremely frustrated with Work Development at the time. They said where the unemployment is, where the violence is, thats where the jobs and resources should go. And that was just a reflection of what was happening in the community. So as mayor breed said, we looked at the numbers. We reached out to the then director of ycd and we talked by gwenn brown and said what can we do and what is the most important thing . Guess what . This is ground zero for a month before i came into office, there was a murder and the first week i was in office, there was a murder and it was a continuous state of violence. And then you looked at the unemployment in the black community that has historically been here and it was extremely high to the rest of the community. I went to then mayor lee and said we need your support. We want to put money towards a Great Organization and a great young lady standing and carrying on the tradition of her father and that young lady is gwenn brown. [cheers and applause] and we have a phenomenal organization named innercity youth and innercity youth should be the beacon and the leader for job creation and Job Development in this community. They can bring people together and so gwenn, at first was like, are you sure . I said, im sure. I said, well lock armed and do this together. We had the support of shamon and then to dj at ycd and we are here today now because then president breed and now mayor breed invested in i this community. She has been in office for a little over a year and we have gotten more year and more attention ant more investments than any other mayor in the last 25 years. [cheers and applause] so im just the beneficiary of great partners. Im the beneficiary of great leadership from the Mayors Office and communitybased organizations and those, like, mike brown and now gwenn brown that are taking over the torch for this community. I know gwenn, that your father is smiling down from heaven right now because he truly gave his life for this community. And what is the words they say . If you can give someone a job, you can give them dignity and respect for their entire family and thats what this is about. So i just want to end with saying, thank you again to the Young Community developers. Thank you again to gwenn and icy and owd and joaquin torez and never, never finally but least, mayor breed for your continued investment and dedication and love and support for this community because you all, this is called the hub, so welcome to the hub [cheers and applause] and i have a short certificate ill present to gwenn and icy on behalf of the board of supervisors and the mayor to congratulate her for the phenomenal job shes done and the phenomenal job we know she will do. [cheers and applause] take a little photo. And next up is our fearless leader and ucy and who will be taking this hub to the next level, miss gwenn brown [cheers and applause] thank you, guys, for coming to our grand opening. Im be the Programme Director here at this neighborhood access point that well be calling the hub. And the reason why well call it the hub is because this is going to be a place where anyone who lives in the omi, whether youre an entrylevel job seeker or experienced person that wants to refresh their skills and technology and get training, youre going to be able to get that here. I want to thank everyone whos here, all of the cbo partners, oewd, joshua, arsay. He was literally here at 9 00 sweeping with his team, fatinya homes, ground movement, shamon, asha. Hes not lying about what he said. Are you sure you want icy do it . He was, like, yes. So i thank you for leaving this in my hands and this is my way of thanking my father and grandmother for the work that theyve done excuse me. [cheers and applause] to be able to do this in her honor is my way and honor to pay homage to those who have come before me and who have created pathways. I hope to create pathways for other residents in the omi like i had. I went to school in San Francisco, born and raised in this community. I am so honored to be able to give back to the neighborhood that i grew up in and sorry for the tears, guys. At this time, i want to invite up my new boss, dionne j. Bri dionne j. Brickter. I work for gwenn and the entire district of district 10. Im the executive director of Young Community developers. I always tell myself we have the best weather in district 10 but i tell you what, this weather is beautiful in district 11 [cheers and applause] i dont think thats coincidence. I think it speaks to today. I want to thank mayor breed for her jovialness in participating today. But none of this happened by chance. It was a vision. It was a conversation that then executive director of the Young Community developer sat down and we had a conversation with gwenn brown and talked about the needs in our communities. It wasnt just one community. It was communities. And as we sat down and talked about those communities, we said, how can we collaborate and Work Together . How can we provide collective impact . Were stronger when we Work Together. Im happy to say this hub is just that. So i have an opportunity to tell a quick story and i dont even know if gwenn remembers. I remember the first time we came into the omi and we had to follow gwenn and we got an opportunity to talk to young men on plymouth and broad. We stood there for about three minutes and gwenn left me. So it was just me and folks from me and the Omi Community having a conversation. We talked for 45 minutes. They said for so long people have come into this community and do things and you need to be about it. And today, were about it. Cheer cheer. [cheers and applause] so i think as two organizations were collaborate together just to provide some of the Work Readiness training were doing in district 10 and really just want to allow gwenn and her team the resources that they need to ensure that we dont just come into the community and provide economic sustainability. Were about economic mobility. And thats one of the things well focus here at the hub. So i want to thank everybody who was involved. Of course, our phenomenal mayor, mayor breed, supervisor safaye, supervisor walton, who has quietly been behind the scenes but hes never quiet. Pretty sure you know that. Our director joaquin torez and gwenn, all of my team at Young Community developers. When you look in this room, there are so many based communitybased organizations and helping to negotiate and get this space. It took seven to eight months to get into this space. I want to thank toni brock. All of the things youve seen, thats through toni brock ang ad the work she does in ensuring our Community Stays beautiful. Lets enjoy the hub and this weather and we look forward to providing services to the communities in our communities. Thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you, dj. You know, these important moments of legacy and creating opportunity for our residents are impossible without leadership and partners beyond d those who are standing and talking to you today but all Community Members who are tirelessly put efforts and hard work and volunteered time on commissions at volunteer associations, demanding resources and i want to give a shoutout to Joseph Bryant who was here earlier today. [cheers and applause] to apri, jackie flynn, to the governor sending his california director here today, to a success center, to the Community Leadership to reverend brown and, of course, leading efforts for our youth on behalf of mayor breed and cheryl reed at the human rights commission. Thank you all for being here and to the urban services ymca and the beacon team who are also here today, thank you. [cheers and applause] and i want to give a shoutout specifically to josh arsay and the element team. They go above and beyond to make this work happen on behalf of all of you. To morris young, thank you for all of work youve done and now, lets cut this ribbon [cheers and applause] we create opportunities around here. [cheers and applause] there we go. You all ready . Ok, you ready 54321 its open [cheers and applause] working with kids, they keep you young. They keep you on your tones on your toes. Teaching them, at the same time, us learning from them, everything is fulfilling. Ready . Go. [ ] we really wanted to find a way to support Women Entrepreneurs in particular in San Francisco. It was very important for the mayor, as well as the Safety Support the dreams that people want to realize, and provide them with an opportunity to receive funding to support improvements for their business so they could grow and thrive in their neighborhoods and in their industry. Three, two, one because i am one of the consultants for two nonprofits here for entrepreneurship, i knew about the grand through the renaissance entrepreneur center, and through the Small Business development center. I thought they were going to be perfect candidate because of their strong values in the community. They really give back to the neighborhood. They are from this neighborhood, and they care about the kids in the community here. When molly molly first told us about the grant because she works with Small Businesses. She has been a tremendous help for us here. She brought us to the attention of the grand just because a lot of things here were outdated, and need to be uptodate and redone totally. Hands in front. Recite the creed. My oldest is jt, he is seven, and my youngest is ryan, he is almost six. It instills discipline and the boys, but they show a lot of care. We think it is great. The moves are fantastic. The women both are great teachers. What is the next one . My son goes to fd k. He has been attending for about two years now. They also have a summer program, and last summer was our first year participating in it. They took the kids everywhere around San Francisco. This year, owner talking about placing them in summer camps, all he wanted to do was spend the entire summer with them. He has strong women in his life, so he really appreciates it. I think that carries through and i appreciate the fact that there are more strong women in the world like that. I met dandrea 25 years ago, and we met through our interest in karate. Our professor started on cortland years ago, so we grew up here at this location, we out he outgrew the space and he moved ten years later. He decided to reopen this location after he moved. Initially, i came back to say, hey, because it might have been 15 years since i even put on a uniform. My Business Partner was here basically by herself, and the person she was supposed to run the studio with said great, you are here, i started new Nursing School so you can take over. And she said wait, that is not what i am here for i was by myself before for a month before she came through. She was technically here as a secretary, but we insisted, just put on the uniform, and help her teach. I was struggling a little bit. And she has been here. One thing led to another and now we are coowners. You think a lot more about safety after having children and i wanted to not live in fear so much, and so i just took advantage of the opportunity, and i found it very powerful to hit something, to get some relief, but also having the knowledge one you might be in a situation of how to take care of yourself. The selfdefence class is a new thing that we are doing. We started with a group of women last year as a trial run to see how it felt. Theres a difference between selfdefence and doing a karate class. We didnt want them to do an actual karate class. We wanted to learn the fundamentals of how to defend yourself versus, you know, going through all the forms and techniques that we teaching a karate class and how to break that down. Then i was approached by my old high school. One once a semester, the kids get to pick an extra curricular activity to take outside of the school walls. My old biology teacher is now the principle. She approached us into doing a selfdefence class. The girls have been really proactive and really sweet. They step out of of the comfort zone, but they have been willing to step out and that hasnt been any pushback. It is really great. It is respect. You have to learn it. When we first came in, they knew us as those girls. They didnt know who we were. Finally, we came enough for them to realize, okay, they are in the business now. It took a while for us to gain that respect from our peers, our male peers. Since receiving the grant, it has ignited us even more, and put a fire underneath our butts even more. We were doing our summer camp and we are in a movie theatre, and we just finished watching a film and she stepped out to receive a phone call. She came in and she screamed, hey, we got the grant. And i said what . Martial arts is a passion for us. It is passion driven. There are days where we are dead tired and the kids come and they have the biggest smiles on their faces and it is contagious. We have been operating this program for a little over a year all Women Entrepreneurs. It is an extraordinary benefit for us. We have had the Mayors Office investing in our program so we can continue doing this work. It has been so impactful across a diversity of communities throughout the city. We hope that we are making some type of impact in these kids lives outside of just learning karate. Having selfconfidence, having discipline, learning to know when its okay to stand up for yourself versus you just being a bully in school. These are the values we want the kids to take away from this. Not just, i learned how to kick and i learned how to punch. We want the kids to have more values when they walk outside of these doors. 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. Sustainability mission, even though the bikes are very Minimal Energy use. It Still Matters where the energy comes from and also part of the mission in sustainability is how we run everything, run our business. So having the lights come on with clean energy is important to us as well. We heard about cleanpowersf and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. It was super easy to sign up. Our bookkeeper signed up online, it was like 15 minutes. Nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. Its an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around Climate Change and its so easy that its hard to not want to do it, and it doesnt really add anything to the bill. Supervisor peskin good afternoon. Welcome to the land use meeting for september 30th. I am aaron peskin. Ms. Major, any announcements . Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and documen
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