Profession and the work. As a civilian member, you have a different perspective as well. I know command staff is diligent about ensuring that the organization his cohesive and that there is no real difference in treatment or behavior between staff. Again, at the onset, there will be differences of opinion, but i think overall the organization is pretty even keel in terms of how people are treated whether you are sworn or civilian. Does anybody want to make i had one more question before we wrap it up. And this is i asked this earlier about our organizational charts and i flipped through the report to find out where i saw it and it is on page 21. And it is only two short paragraphs. The last paragraph says sufficiently detailed organizational charts for the remaining and the Strategic Communication chief of staff policy and Public Affairs were not provided. It contradicts what your response was, miss mcguire. You didnt respond to that. Im sorry. Supervisor yee is looking at appendix c. , it is the last page in our report from may. Again, i dont want to give the impression that the sfpd wouldnt give us any information that we asked for. We will, including charts that list the job class, the name of the individual there, and the function. So that is not a problem. Just to put everybodys mind at rest, but the kind of analysis that would let you determine whether or not there tat they there are tasks within a job that should be civilianized, even if that job is been performed by uniformed officer, that is not the determination that you can make by looking at a chart, so that is what i was thinking. So, i guess, if im taking this statement to be true, than one then what are you looking for . What is the statement for . Is it to say we need more information or more details . Im just responding to yes, i guess i am sorry if the statement in this report is confusing. What was going on at the time, we were trying to anticipate the fiscal year 1920 budget process the Police Department was underway with a review of civilian options. It was done by many of their command staff. We got details in many bureaus. Not in these, so i do think that when you see the results that will start to come out from the matrix study, you will probably see a civilianization option in these bureaus. If there arent, my office will certainly raise it again with the Police Department and make sure they are reviewed for civilianization. So you do need more information and you were not getting it . That is not the intention here. We know that there is still functions that need civilianization review. We are committed to working with the Police Department and being a second set of eyes on the information that comes from their expert consultant. And doing those tasks in advance of anything you have to look at for the next budget process. Okay. Hopefully you will get the details that you need to do the analysis so that in the next report it wouldnt be stating this. It is a little confusing. I understand. But thank you. If anybody else wants to wrap up and then i will wrap up after. I have a sidenote point on police hiring, particularly as they hire more civilians. There is still in the Police Departments hiring process and antiquated view of the use of cannabis, particularly, which seems to me particularly a problem as it affects civilian potential employees who may have a medical cannabis card and may using cannabis for medicinal purposes. I have seen that in a particular civilian position as an issue and i guess i would just encourage, there are many things for the department to worry about, but as you think about hiring, it does seem like an unnecessary bar for someone being hired for a civilian position in the Police Department and cannot have a medical cannabis card to be using medical cannabis. I just want to thank vice chair stefani and president yee for calling for this hearing. I think it is very important. I think it has highlighted some issues we need to look into further and probably at a continued hearing and then also in this additional hearing that you two are talking about related to hiring more generally and some of the challenges around that in the city. Thank you, chair madelyn. Erupted up pretty nicely. I will think the Police Department and also the Controllers Office for todays report. Its a little frustrating that it is moving as slowly as it is, but i do appreciate that we are moving in the right direction versus where we had it a year and a half ago. Thank you very much and maybe in terms of the speed of the movement, we will see it move a little bit quicker the next time you report out and i will reach out to the department of Human Resources to see if they can help move folks along on this process. Thank you very much. Great. Thank you. I will then move that we continue this to the call of the chair. We can take that without objection. Thank you, everyone for coming for item two. Mr. Clerk, please call the next item. Agenda item three is an ordinance amending the police code to require that cannabis retailers at permitted advents hold cannabis business permits issued by the city and the applicants are cannabis event permits identified the retailers that we selling goods at such events and affirm that retailers hold city issued cannabis business permits and that recipients of cannabis event permits take steps to reasonably ensure that only said retailers will sell cannabis goods at such events to provide that material false statements made in connection with an application for cannabis event permits maybe subject to administrative penalties, calls for denial of a pending or a future application for cannabis business permit and cause for suspension or revocation of the existing cannabis business permits and affirming the appropriate findings. Thank you. Colleagues, thank you for considering this ordinance. In march, the board of supervisors passed a prior ordinance to authorize the issuance of cannabis events permits. Prior to the development of the permit, San Francisco events experience significant unregulated sales and consumption of cannabis. This resulted in a number of negative Community Impacts including the use of cannabis by minors in the sale of him rick regulated cannabis goods. Of the Pilot Program authorized by the ordinance, the city issued its first temporary cannabis permits to grasslands and outside lands in august. This first cannabis event was a success. We had zero medical calls or transports or calls to law enforcement, demonstrating a legal and regulated approach can create a safe environment for cannabis sales and consumption and we have heard that many festival attendees said that grasslands was their favorite part of the event. To further the goals of enhancing Public Health and safety and supporting local Small Businesses, i have introduced the ordinance before us today which requires the following. One, that cannabis retailers at permitted events hold cannabis business permits issued by the city and can teach county of San Francisco. That applicants for cannabis events permits that identify their retailers so we selling cannabis good that such events and affirm that San Francisco retailers hold city issued cannabis business permits, and three, that recipients of cannabis event permits take steps to reasonably ensure that only San Francisco retailers will sell cannabis goods at such events. This requirement provides additional Regulatory Oversight allowing the office of cannabis to ensure permit conditions will be followed by the San Francisco regulated his emphasis will permitted retailers as well as the event organizers. It also ensures the sales that happen at San Francisco events benefit our local Small Businesses. Colleagues, i do have some further amendments today, and i have given them to you. I think our clerk would love a copy. These amendments, which were drafted by the office of cannabis, will ensure that applicants for cannabis events permits take specific actions to support the citys equity goals. The amendments are shown in the copies i handed out. The amendments require that any applicant for cannabis event permits submit a written event permit equity plan that describes specific actions that it will take to support our city s equity goals. Such actions can include ensuring that these work hours are performed by workers to meet the equity criteria, providing training and mentorship opportunities to these workers, ensuring that cannabis products are provided by equity operators and offering donations of cash, inkind goods and services or Technical Assistance to Community Organizations that serve equity goals. The amendments gave the office of cannabis the authority to grant or deny a permit based on the successful completion of an event permit equity plan. Colleagues, i have been pleased with the early success of the citys cannabis event permits program. The amendments described here will continue to allow San Francisco to be a leader in the state and reducing producing cannabis events that ensure Public Safety and supports local Small Businesses and equity populations. I would like to thank and acknowledge mr. Rodriguez, eugene hills men and right law of the office of cannabis and i also want to thank Sarah Crowley from the City Attorneys Office and my eight tom soprano for his work on this ordinance as well. If there are no comments or questions from my colleagues, we will open this to Public Comment i do not see any Public Comment. So if there is no Public Comments, i will close Public Comment. Public comment is closing oh, Public Comment is now closed. Supervisor walton . I would like to be added as a cosponsor. Fantastic. Thank you. We will gladly do that. Thank you for your support. I will move to accept the amendments. We can take that without objection. And then i will move that we forward this to the full board with a positive recommendation , mr. Clerk . We may want to listen to the city attorney. Deputy city attorney. The amendments that the committee made today are substantial and require a continuance in committee before you can send it. Thank you. I will move we will continue this until our next meeting. The next meeting will be the november 8th special meeting. Is that where you would like it to go . Yes. Then we will take that without objection. Mr. Clerk, do we have anymore business . There is no further business. We are adjourned. Thank you. Still a lot of people wonder since the trees have a lot of issues, why did we plant them in the first place . Trees are widely planted in San Francisco. With good reason. They are workhorses when it comes to urban forestry. We have begun to see our ficustrees are too big and dangerous in San Francisco. We have a lot of tree failures with this species in particular. This is a perfect example of the challenges with the structure of the ficustrees. You can see four very large stems that are all coming from the same main truck. You can see the two branches attached to one another at a really sharp angle. In between you cant it is a lot of strong wood. They are attached so sharply together. This is a much weaker union of a branch than if you had a wide angel. This is what it looks like after the fi c. U. Resolution s limb. We see decline. You can see the patches where there arent any leaves at all. That is a sign the tree is in decline. The other big challenge is the root system of the tree are aggressive and can impact nearby utilities, and we can fix the sidewalk around the tree in many cases. We dont want to cuts the roots too severely because we can destabilize the tree. In a city like San Francisco our walks are not that wide. We have had to clear the branches away from the properties. Most of th the can canopy is one street side and that is heavyweight on those branches out over the street. That can be a factor in tree limb failures. A lot of people wonder since these trees have a lot of issues. Why did we plant them in the first place . They provided the city with benefits for decades. They are big and provide storage for carbon which is important to fight Climate Change and they provide shade and really i think many people think they are a beautiful asset. When we identify trees like this for removal and people protest our decision, we really understand where they are coming from. I got into this job because i love trees. It just breaks my heart to cut down trees, particularly if they are healthy and the issue is a structural flaw. I have also seen first hand what happens when we have failures. We have had a couple of injuries due to tree failures. That is something we cant live with either. It is a challenging situation. We hate to lose mature trees, but Public Safety has to always we are celebrating the glorious grand opening of the chinese rec center. 1951, 60 years ago, our first kids began to play in the chinese wrecks center rec center. I was 10 years old at the time. I spent just about my whole life here. I came here to learn dancing. By we came we had a good time. Made a lot of friends here. Crisises part of the 2008 clean Neighborhood Park fund, and this is so important to our families. For many people who live in chinatown, this is their backyard. This is where many people come to congregate, and we are so happy to be able to deliver this project on time and under budget. A reason we all agreed to name this memorex center is because it is part of the history of i hear to name this rec center, is because it is part of the history of San Francisco. They took off from logan airport, and the call of duty was to alert American Airlines that her plane was hijacked, and she stayed on the phone prior to the crash into the no. 9 world trade center. I would like to claim today the center and the naming of it. [applause] kmer i actually challenged me to a little bit of a ping pong the mayor actually challenge me to a little bit of a ping pong, so i accept your challenge. It is an amazing spot. It is a state of the art center. Is beautiful. Quarkrights i would like to come here and join them usf donates 100120 pounds of food a night. For the four semesters we have been running here, usf has donated about 18,000 pounds of food to the Food Recovery Network. Im maggie. Im nick. Were coechairs of the national led organization. What food recovery does is recover and redistribute food that would go wasted and redistributing to people in the community. The moment that i became really engaged in the cause of fighting food waste was when i had just taken the food from the usf cafeteria and i saw four pans full size full of food perfectly fine to be eaten and made the day before and that would have gone into the trash that night if we didnt recover it the next day. I want to fight food waste because it hurts the economy, its one of the largest emitters of Greenhouse Gases in the world. If it was a nation, it would be the Third Largest nation behind china and the United States. America wastes about 40 of the food we create every year, 160 billion worth and thats made up in the higher cost of food for consumers. No matter where you view the line, you should be engaged with the issue of food waste. Access edible food that we have throughout our Lunch Program in our center, i go ahead and collect it and ill cool it down and every night i prep it up and the next day ill heat it and ready for delivery. Its really natural for me, i love it, im passionate about it and its just been great. I believe its such a blessing to have the opportunity to actually feed people every day. No food should go wasted. Theres someone who wants to eat, we have food, its definitely hand in hand and it shouldnt be looked at as work or a task, were feeding people and it really means so much to me. I come to work and theyre like nora do you want this, do you want that . And its so great and everyone is truly involved. Every day, every night after every period of food, breakfast, lunch, dinner, i mean, people just throw it away. They dont even think twice about it and i think as a whole, as a community, as any community, if people just put a little effort, we could really help each other out. Thats how it should be. Thats what food is about basically. An organization that meets is the San Francisco knight ministry we work with tuesday and thursdays. By the power of your name i have faith to move mountains because i believe in jesus. I believe its helpful to offer food to people because as you know, theres so much homelessness in San Francisco and california and the United States. I really believe that food is important as well as our faith. The San Francisco knight ministry has been around for 54 years. The core of the ministry, a group of ordain ministers, we go out in the middle of the night every single night of the year, so for 54 years we have never missed a night. I know its difficult to believe maybe in the United States but a lot of our people will say this is the first meal theyve had in two days. I really believe it is a time between life or death because i mean, we could be here and have church, but, you know, i dont know how much we could feed or how many we could feed and this way over 100 people get fed every single thursday out here. Its not solely the food, i tell you, believe me. Theyre extremely grateful. Its super awesome how welcoming they are. After one or two times theyre like i recognize you. How are you doing, how is school . I have never been in the city, its overwhelming. You get to know people and through the music and the food, you get to know people. We never know what impact were going to have on folks. If you just practice love and kindness, its a labor of love and thats what the Food Recovery Network is and this is a huge i believe they salvage our mission. To me the most important part is its about food waste and feeding people. The Food Recovery NetworkNational Slogan is finding ways to feed people. Its property to bring the scientific and Human Element into the situation. Hi. I am cory with San Francisco and were doing stay safe and were going to talk about what shelter in place or safe enough to stay in your home means. Were here at the urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco and joined by carla, the Deputy Director of spur and one of the persons who pushed this shelter in place and safe enough to stay concept and we want to talk about what it means and why its important to San Francisco. As you know the bay area as 63 chance of having a major earthquake and its serious and going to impact a lot of people and particularly people in San Francisco because we live on a major fault so what does this mean for us . Part of what it means is that potentially 25 of San Franciscos building stock will be uninhibit tabl and people cant stay in their homes after an earthquake. They may have to go to shelters or leave entirely and we dont want that to happen. We want a building stock to encourage them to stay in the homes and encourage them to stay and not relocate to other locations and shelters. Thats right so that means the Housing Needs to be safe enough to stay and we have been focused in trying to define what that means and you as a former Building Official knows better than anybody the code says if an earthquake happens it wont kill you but doesnt necessarily say that can you stay in your home and we set out to define what that might mean and you know because you built this house were in now and this shows what its like to be in a place safe enough to stay. Its not going to be perfect. There maybe cracks in the walls and not have gas or electricity within a while but can you essentially camp out within your unit. Whats it going to take to get the Housing Stock up to this standard . We spent time talking about this and one of the building types we talk about was soft story buildings and the ground floor is vulnerable because there are openings for garages or windows and during the earthquake we saw in the marina they went right over and those are very vulnerable buildings. Very and there are a lot of apartment buildings in san that that are like that. And time to. Retrofit the buildings so people can stay in them after the earthquake. What do they need . Do they need information . Do they need incentives . Mandates . Thats a good question. I think it starts with information. People think that New Buildings are earthquake proof and dont understand the performance the building will have so we want a transparent of letting people know is my building going to be safe in it after an earthquake . Is my building so dangers i should be afraid of being injured . So developing a ranking system for buildings would be very important and i think for some of the larger apartment buildings that are soft story we need a mandatory program to fix the buildings, not over night and not without financial help or incentive, but a phased program over time that is reasonable so we can fix those buildings, and for the smaller soft story buildings and especially in San Francisco and the houses over garages we need information and incentives and coaxing the people along and each of the owners want their house to be safe enough. We want the system and not just mandate everybody. Thats right. I hear about people talking about this concept of resiliency. As youre fixing your knowledge youre adding to the city wide resiliency. What does that mean . Thats a great question. What spur has done is look at that in terms of recovery and in new orleans with katrina and lost many of the people, hasnt recovered the building stock. Its not a good situation. I think we can agree and in san we want to rebuild well and quickly after a major disaster so we have defined what that means for our life lines. How do we need the gasolines to perform and water perform after an earthquake and the building stock as well, so we have the goal of 95 of our homes to be ready for shelter in place after a major earthquake, and that way people can stay within the city. We dont lose our work force. We dont lose the people that make San Francisco so special. We keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our economy, and everything because its so interdependent. So that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it over the long time so thank you very much for hosting us and hosting this great exhibit, and thank you very much for joining my name tom hewitt. First of all, i would like to welcome everyone to come to this fair. This safety fair, we trying to educate the public regarding how to prepare themselves during and after the earthquake and then to protect themselves for next 72 hours. Hi. My names ed sweeney. Im the director of services at department of building inspection, and we put together a great fair for the city of San Francisco to come down and meet all the experts. Weve got engineers, architects. We have builders, we have government agencies. Well, we have four specific workshops. We have the accessible business entrance. My name is leah, and i am the assistant manager with the department of small business. I am leading the new accessibility ordinance that helps existing owners better comply with existing access laws. So all buildings that have places of public accommodation in San Francisco, they must comply with this ordinance. The a. D. E. Was setup by the board of supervisors, and the ordinance was passed about a year ago. One of the biggest updates that we have is that the deadlines were extended, so all of the deadlines were extended by six months. And its really to help the public, the Business Community to be specific, to cut down on the amount of drive by lawsuits. So on this workshop, were going to be covering what the compliance looks like, what business examiand property owne need to know how to comply with the ordinance. Well also talk about the departments that are involved, including the office of small business, department of building inspection, planning department, as well as the Mayors Office on disability. Hi. Im marselle, and i manage a team at the building department. Today, well cover the meaning of a. D. U. S, more commonly known as accessory dwelling units. Well talk about the code and permitting processes, and well also talk about legalizing existing dwelling units that are currently unwarranted. This is the department of Building Inspections residential remodelling workshop. My name is senior electrical inspector cheryl rose, and at this workshop, were going to be answering questions such as do i need an electrical permit when im upgrading my dwelling, when do i need to have planning involved in a residential remodel, and whats involved with the coerce process . Were going to also be reviewing inspection process, and the permitting process for residential remodel in San Francisco. Theres always questions that need answers. Its a mystery to the general public what goes on in construction, and the more we can clarify the process, the more involved the consumer can be and feel comfortable with the contractors theyre working with and the product theyre getting in the results. If you have questions that arent addressed in this workshop, youre always welcome to come up to the third floor of 1660 Mission Street, and were happy to discuss it with you and find out what you need to do. The program is very successful. The last piece is already 60 in compliance. Well, we have a very important day coming up. Its sept 15. Last four has to be compliance, which means that the level four people that have to register with us and give us a basic indication of how theyre going to deal with their seismic issues on their building. Im francis zamora, and im with the San Francisco department of emergency management, and today we talked about how to prepare for emergencies in San Francisco. And so thats really importantiimportant. In San Francisco, its no secret. We live in earthquake country. Theres a big chance we will be involved in a major earthquake in the next 30 years, but we dont have to be afraid. These are going to be your First Responders outside of the police officers, paramedics, First Responders, these are going to be the people that come to your aid first. By getting to know your neighbors, youre going to know who needs help and who can help in case of an emergency. One of the great ways to do that is for signing7for nert, San Francisco neighborhood Emergency Response team. It teaches you how to take care of yourself, your loved ones, and your neighborhood in the case of an emergency. Information is just as important as water and food in an emergency. San francisco has an emergency text message alert system, called text sf. If theres some kind of an emergency happening in San Francisco or your neighborhood, it could be a police action, a big fire, a tsunami or an earthquake. All you have to do is text your citizenship code to 888777, and your mobile phone is automatically registered for alert sf. My name is fernando juarez, and im a fire captain with the San Francisco fire department. We have a hire extinguisher training system. You want to pull the pin, stand at least 8 feet away, aim it at the base. If youre too close, the conical laser that comes out, its too small, and the fire wont go out on the screen. If you step back, the conical shape on the screen is bigger, and it will take the fire go out faster. So it can tell when youre too close. My name is alicia wu, and im the director of a San Francisco based nonprofit. Since 2015, we go out to the public, to the community and provide training in different topics. Today were doing c. P. R. , controlling external feeding and how to do Perfect Communications in each topic, and also, i hope that they can bring it home and start gathering all the supplies for themselves to. On any given day in San Francisco, were very well resourced in terms of Public Safety professionals, but we all know in the event of a large scale disaster, it will be hours and days before the Public Safety professionals can get to you, so we encourage people to have that plan in place, be proactive. Theres websites. We have a wonderful website called 72hours. Org. It tells you how to prepare yourself, your family, your pets, your home, your workplace. We cant emphasize enough how important it is to be. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you so much for joining for the grand opening of our public lobby. It has been a long process. Were so honored to have you all here today. First, before we get into our short speaking program, i first want to acknowledge a few parties that have worked really hard to make this all possible. Id first like to thank our budget analyst and project Management Team that have worked really hard to make this run smoothly. Thank you very much for that. [ applause ]. Theyve also worked very closely hand in hand with the mayors budget office. Id like to thank Kelly Kirkpatrick for coming here today. Thank you. [ applause ]. Next i would like to thank our public facing team who provides excellent Public Service. Our Public Service team and our recorder division. Thank you very much. [ applause ]. They provided Excellent Customer Service even throughout a lot of yay. They provided a lot of Excellent Service even throughout a lot of construction. Thank you for keeping the office running. We also are joined by some neighborhood friends. So thank you to them for coming. We have some people from the womens building here. Yay, thank you. [ applause ]. And we also have people from the dog patch northwestern petril hill green benefits district. Its a little bit of a mouthful. Thank you for coming. Of course thank you to our neighborhood historians who have joined and helped us go through a lot of historic photos that we have and we have been able to create a little wall. Thank you for that. We have the western neighborhoods project, s. F. Heritage, glen park history project and sunny side history project. Thank you. [ applause ]. So now i would like to introduce our beloved assessor carmen chu who is newly back from Maternity Leave and later we will be hearing from our director of public works and also our city librarian. Thank you. [ applause ]. I have to say that its rare that i ever hear the word beloved and assessor in the same sentence, but here we are. I want to thank isabella from my team. Theyve done quite a lot of work to help and partner with our publicfacing folks in order to make sure that our lobby is well thought out and we have a great plan to help improve service. Thank you to isabella and vivian. [ applause ]. So when i first started as assessor years ago, i think when i first came in, i think i walked into this office and probably like a lot of taxpayers i came in through different doors at different points in time and at the time it was confusing. How do you get into the office and where do you go for service. And if i couldnt speak the language, which luckily i could, where do you go for help and who could assist . It was with that eye that we started to take a look at our front lobby area to see how is it that we are able to improve Customer Service and access and be cognizant of the different people coming to our city every single day, whether you are an immigrant who cant speak the language well like my own parents or someone with a disability who needs assistance or people who dont know how to find documents in our system. How is it that we as a Public Service and government serve our public in the best way possible. We started on this process to say, well, the first thing they do is come into our office and try to figure out wayfinding signs and the way forward. We need to make sure that when people come into our office they feel welcomed and they feel that we have an abundant amount of Services Available here. With that, we really started to say lets do a few things. I think today when were doing our big unveiling along with the blue angels out there cheering us on that were showing our good faith. A few things that we want to point out to you here, and this is something we couldnt have done without the partnership of our dpw is that weve done a few things to reconfigure our lobby area to improve public access. Weve transformed the physical space. We have a wonderful and lovely seating area for people to come here and wait comfortably, to be able to get their documentation and information. We actually have implemented a kiosk system so when people first come into our office they can directly find and get tickets, that theyre served in an expeditious way. We have implemented a lobby navigator, someone who is greeting people when they come in to make sure theyre in the right place to make sure theyre not wasting valuable times waiting in the wrong lines. That does happen at city hall. We want to make sure were preventing that. If you look around our office, you will see many of our kiosks and information are in multiple languages. Were cognizant of the fact that San Francisco is a Universal City with universal languages that we want to access and share with people. This is also something that is part of our lobby system. Of course were doing a lot more to make sure that its a welcoming environment here. So we hope that some of these improvements are really going to show that government is open to everyone, its accessible, transparent, and we welcome you here. Were here to serve you. With that, i want to say thank you. We hope youre going to take a look at around. We have more spaces for people to be served. We know this is going to be a public improvement for the public as a whole. We couldnt do this without the partnership of wonderful people. I know some of our folks behind the scenes that were helping. I want to thank the Mayors Office for helping us fund this, but of course i want to say if we bring in the money, help us serve the public better. Thank you for all of your assistance and your partnership. No further ado to bring someone forward who ive known for quite a long time, who most of the time is doing work outside on the streets, picking up litter or cleaning up graffiti, but one of the lesser known things he does is help our buildings function better and stay in a state of good repair. With that i want to introduce mohamed nuru and thank him and his team for the fantastic work helping us make these improvements in a historic building. Thank you, mohamed. Thank you, carmen. Yes, kelly and carmen bring in the money. I get to spend the money. [ laughter ]. I think a few years ago when carmen brought up the idea of doing the project, we were very excited. It had a lot of different work that needed to be done. It is a historic building. So trying to match things and to really make a place that really works with all the things we heard from carmen was something that we were excited about. Whats great about this project is it involved many parts of our building of bureau repair, carpenters, glazers, locksmith, laborers were all involved well in fact, every shop in public works was involved in one way or another in making this happen. Its a very unique project because we have a lot of staff that actually custombuilt many of the shelves over here, matching the doors, all the things that we had to work with. All of those were built at public works at our shop. It was really an exciting project for the team. I think we delivered. I think youre very happy about that. Just so you know, we do a lot of these type of services for all over the city departments. City hall was very special, trying to match the wood, the different glass and just making the rails, building all the cabinets, painting and sprucing it up. You know, the paint was actually peeling in some cases. So doing all the scraping and going through all the processes making the space happen. Im excited and our teams are excited. Well continue to serve you or any of the city departments that want us to do work for them. We actually do many of the jobs in many of the city offices. Thank you very much. Well enjoy it. Thank you. [ applause ]. Mohameds nickname is mr. Clean. Now that extends to cleaning up our city buildings as well. Thank you, mohamed. When we talked about the services here, again, city hall is very special and unique to all of us because of its historic nature, but also because it is an essential place people go when they want to access government and the people who represent them. Its important to make sure that these doors are open and accessible to everyone who comes in. I think theres no other patron group that feels that same way than our public libraries. We know that no matter which Branch Library it is that we go to across the city, we have an open door where people can find a safe space and learn and get educated and borrow materials and really explore. We have worked in Great Partnership with our city librarian Michael Lambert who is also working with us. You might seen behind me is a wall of 15 different curated historic photos. One of the things you may not know is in order for this to be accomplished, we had to clear out many of our old property files. We went through this intensive process to digitize over a million files. When we went through that process, we found many, many historic photos we thought was not only worth preserving but sharing and putting out to the public space. Something that is important to our history, buildings that used to look a different way but are important of our fabric, it is important to share that with san franciscans to come, not to put the away in a box never to be seen. We worked with the library to make sure we cataloged and got those photos to them to be accessible. Were proud to announce we have over 92,000 photo images that are available at our San FranciscoPublic Library in order for people to see our history and our shared buildings and resources. These photos here are just a small set of the photos that are now available in our Public Library. We couldnt have done that without our city librarians staff and time. I want to invite michael up to say a few words. Thank you. It is so wonderful to be here with my esteemed city colleagues and so many members of the public. This lobby is magnificent and sparkling. I want to congratulate assessor chu and all of her staff. What a remarkable job youve done with public works to transform this space. I admire the commitment to Service Excellence with all the tenant improvements and significance enhancements. What a warm, friendly atmosphere youve created here. I appreciated the office of the assessorrecorder, not only for providing the library the biggest book budget in the country, but also for the partnership we enjoy. Earlier this year, assessor chu and her team transferred over 92,000 photographs to the Public Library. You see a sampling here on this wall. It really makes history come alive for all the visitors to this space. These photographs are priceless. They are an invaluable snapshot in time of San Francisco and some places that dont exist anymore. These photographs are now accessible to any member of the public that wants to view them. They can come into the library to the San FranciscoHistory Center and they can take a walk down memory lane and reminisce and relive some treasured memories of their past. Its so wonderful to have this partnership. I want to congratulate assessor chu and her team again. Thank you so much for the partnership. [ applause ]. All right. So now id like to ask evelyn and amy from glen park and sunny side to come up and woody and nicole and david from western history project to come up as well. Thank you. [ ]