Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

Like an earthquake. We worry about extending awss and cobenefit pipeline to the west side and putting in cisterns. We dont have this conversation around the park merceds. If we want to impose upon ourselves something that is more strings get than the state imposes upon us with the resulting impacts to surroundings Property Owners or future development, is there away we can model the risk and derm whether or not this is not worth our time and money and we should do what we continue to do which is cisterns and expansion of awss and new intake man folds on port property or something we will look back at when there is a huge fire that burns down half of district 11. We will say we were not concentrating on the wrong things or not enough things. I know you cant predict fire. Can you model fire out of the relatively small handfuls of the recand park. They have wasted the afternoon because you are not a problem. I am having a problem. University of california are great partners. Is there a way to figure this out with some risk benefit assignment . Each site has a different level of risk. Tothe guidelines are there over the experience. They are there for a reason. They do call out for different grades and spacing of trees. That is from learning from past fires. It is already there. We can use those requirements where it is spelled out and say, hey, does this fall under, you know, that hazard. If i had a flat space and my trees are relatively spaced, is that a lesser hazard than in glenn canyon . Absolutely. The slope of the hill, proximity of the trees, canopies, the ground, the fuel on the ground. Yes, we can on a case to case with experience with what is already out there derm what is a greater hazard than other areas. I dont know if that answers your question. This is not one size fits alsoution. Whe fits alsoution. When there is a sidewalk and houses. It is more than 30 feet. It seems to me everything is about a defensible perimeter. The question is the standard is 30 but do we want to impose a larger perimeter, which would cut to dennys property, right . Do we want to do a comprehensive assessment of all of our urban interfaces and derm these are places where 30 feet is right. These are places where we need a larger perimeter before the fire jumps. I assume glenn canyon the fire burns uphill. At the top it is crowned and moving. You are still going uphill. Can it jump the street . Doesnt have to jump the street . Why . There are houses on the park side, too. To answer your question it is resources. Fire department is willing to go out there and visit each and every site. We can do that. The other think we take into account is our resources. The number of appar rat tuesday we get there in a timely matter and in the Water Supplies we take into account if i it is a Reasonable Risk or not . Good afternoon. One of my roles is to coordinate mutual response from the Fire Department to the state. For the last seven years i was responding to fires up and down the state. We have special equipment in all of that where they are assigned. They train all of the time. You will see us every mayor beginning of june training within the park for the city. We prepare for that. Wwe prepare for that in the cit. If this and your department and other departments were interested. The question is if we want to to allocate Financial Resources for jurisdiction and planning and see what that yields . I agree with that statement you just made, yes. It is november getting to february when everybody submits the budget to the mayor. It is a conversation to have as the rest of the state is burni burning. I agree with that. I guess i was alluding to that. There is really a way to plan this and figure out what resources we need to make this happen, let us know. I would like to be Crystal Clear. We do respond to these areas with other departments. If we need to clear areas, we will clear them. I am responding to your call about a comprehensive plan. I want to be sure we are Crystal Clear on that. To the earlier question that happens to be where i live and i say this to everybody, not only around issues of fire but every issue in this town except for when you get a parking ticket is complain driven. I get an email that says people are camped out on his property. That is how i learn about it. He gets the call. Gets the call. Is this an instance where we need to be more proactive . I think so. Thank you very much. I will be quick. It sounds like there are two potential projects here. One requires Greater Partnership between the fire marshal and departments. One is making sure we do the things we think we are doing now. We think we are maintaining this 30foot area. It would be really great for people in glenn canyon living on a house next to glenn canyon to have the reassurance the fire marshal has checked out that 30foot area and given it his blessing that we are good. At least in so far as we are upholding the state standards, based upon what the state is telling us, nobody here should be worried. There may be a secondary project that may require more money. Does San Francisco want its own standards. We are dense on top of each other with the memory of the 1906 earthquake. There is kind of two things in there. I do think and what i present to you is a immediate task of doing the checking to make sure in areas with special concern like glenn canyon that, yes, at least as far as our current standards, San Francisco has got this right and we checked. You can be absured about that. I dont remember 1906, but i remember 1989. If there are no other presenters, lets open this up to public comment. Would you like to speak to item 3 . Thank you for spending your afternoon with us . Coalition for San Francisco neighborhoods. At the october General Assembly meeting the coalition passed a resolution regarding emergency firefighting capabilities. Besides the transit it includes water and sewer replacement, the water supply system. Doing this would be consistent with the city policy. It is a shovel ready project. Installing dedicated would provide direct firefighting coverage fo for the for police. It would contribute to the citys ability to prevent and manage wildfires as to the owned property. Thank you. Mr. Sig. Jake sig. I have been leading volunteers working for the city for 29 years now. The last three weeks we have been working on Mount Davidson. It is very much on my mind. We got the natural Management Plan passed a couple years ago. Nothing is done. The ivy crawling up the trees, they are full of dead leaves. They can easily start a fire from the ground up to the crown. I can see with the kind of weather we have been having with the cold, dry winds out of the north, they fortunately did not last very long. Sometimes like in the past they do. In october 1991 in oakland, that was exactly the kind of weather they had, and the combination of that and a spark, Mount Davidson could go. It is a frightening prospect even though it is not likely to happen, but what if it does . It appears it is mostly a matter of money. The risk of the city burning down for lack of money does not make any sense. I want to mention the Fire Department and cal fire came to a meeting about seven or eight years ago and explained the risk of a fire happening. It is identical conditions on Mount Davidson, just different landowners. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you. I am paul. I want to speak on this issue. Regarding the wild land interface, the maps the state put out are based on relative humidity and the fact we normally have a higher humidity than most of the other wild land areas. There are times when the conditions are right we can have a catastrophic wildfire with loss to lives and property, and what the city doesnt have is unconventional firefighting methods. While they are really good at doing code enforcement, Defensible Space, which is really important, they have conventional firefighting methods. What gets the upper hand on the firestorms which glen park canyon, mic chairren park and Billy Goat Hill and others, we would need unconventional methods for the head of the fire which you cant fight with conventional methods, you need water drops. The city has helicopters. Is it possible through the Fire Department no longer. Okay. There is going to be a time when there arent any aerial support because they are occupied somewhere else and timing is on the essence. What the city needs is nonconventional firefighting with therel copter with aerial drops in the parklands, national parklands, stateowned properties and city properties. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am betsy eddy president of Diamond Heights Community Foundation which has been meeting for 11 years to prepare the neighborhood for emergencies. I am encouraged by the hearing today and the questions by the supervisors, but we really do perceive a much more dangerous fire hazard than some of the people here today. It was just three years ago that Diamond Heights started to realize there is an urban wildfire hazard here in glenn canyon park and in the five parks that surround Diamond Heights. On a very windy day, there is the potential for a fire started in a park to reach home. I want to give an example. Our winds are so fierce they sometimes knock me over and some of the trees go at a slant because of the wind. There are windy areas of San Francisco but the wind in Diamond Heights, green park would carry a fire up the canyon described together. 30foot Defensible Space is not going to stop the fires from spreading. I could take a picture of every fire hazard in glenn canyon, the pictures of the dead trees and dead logs and dried grass that could spread a fire really quickly. I hope the fire marshal and Fire Department will take a look at that themselves with their environmental crews. Thank you very much. Any other members of the public to testify . Public comment is closed. President yee. Thank you to all departments and u. C. S. F. And procedo land trust. There seems to be two areas to work with rec and park to look at the issues brought up by the public and also supervisor mandelman. I think glenn canyon we need to look at more carefully. I would follow up with the current park to see what needs addressed in terms of the conditions in that area. Again, i want to move beyond the immediate actions that you could take and look at a long term comprehensive plan for San Francisco and see you how we can improve our situation. Lets dont wait until something happens, lets prepare for it. Thank you very much. Thank you to each and every department for coming and the members of the public, supervisor mad delmen. Do you want to continue or file this . We could file this and if we have a policy to put together. I will take that without objection. We are adjourned. Happy monday. 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. 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 Francisco Produce 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 Francisco Produce 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 we can sweep by in front of a house in a matter of seconds. The only people who dont like it are the people who get the tickets. This is a street sweeping sign. Dont let it get you. Pay attention. [ ] in the morning, when we first go out, we start at six in the morning or seven in the morning. We call that our business run. We sweep all the main arteries of the city. After 8 00, we go into the residential areas and take care of all the other customers. The idea with the Street Sweeping Program is to get the leaves and the debris off the ground. We for not only appearance and cleanliness but safety as well. We will get anywhere from 2 7,000 pounds per truck depending on the season and the route. The street sweeper and the choice of the use right now is an error sweeper. They have a motor in the back and it blows winds down one side and carried by air into the hopper. What will mess this up is new large pieces of cardboard or sticks or coat hangers. Anything that is more than 12 inches. The tube on the tracks is only 12inch diameter. People asked what they can do to help to keep the city clean. There are people that letter. Leaves are one thing. Any of the garbage you see is from people being careless. [ ] one cars parked in the way, we cant sweep under the congress. To deal with this, we have parking control officers that are provided by m. T. A. And they go in front of our sweepers and pass out citations to people that are parking the wrong way. Once the sweepers sweep past in San Francisco, you may park behind the street sweeper. We all know parking is a big issue. North beach hasnt been swept since the eighties because of opposition. But we are getting a lot of requests to sweep. Basically our trucks are 10 feet wide. We stick the brooms out and they are may be 12 feet wide. There are a lot of blind spots when driving a large truck pedestrians and bicyclists and cars. And navigates this 22,000pound truck through the city. We involve the public here to adhere to traffic laws. These routes were developed back in the eighties around the capability of the sweeper. Things have changed since then so we have to adapt. Luckily, public works is embracing technology and working on a system to alter our maps. This is literally cut and paste cut and paste. We will have a Computer Program soon that will be able to alter the maps and be updated instantly. We will have tablets in the checks for all of the maps. We will send a broom wherever it needs to go and he has the information he needs to complete the safety. What is needed about these tablets as they will have a g. P. S. On it so we know where theyre at. You do get confused driving along, especially the inner sunset. Recall that to the be made a triangle. Thanks for writing along with us today. I enjoyed showing you what we do and i urge you to Pay Attention to the signs and move your car and dont litter. He is a real leader that listens and knows how to bring people together. Brought this department together like never before. I am so excited to be swearing in the next chief of the San Francisco Fire Department, ladies and gentlemen, lets welcome, Jeanine Nicholson. applause . I grew up total tomboy, athlete. I loved a good crisis, a good challenge. I grew up across the street from the fire station. My dad used to take me there to vote. I never saw any female firefighters because there werent any in the 1970s. I didnt know i could be a fire fighter. When i moved to San Francisco in 1990, some things opened up. I saw women doing things they hadnt been doing when i was growing up. One thing was firefighting. A woman recruited me at the gaypride parade in 1991. It was a perfect fit. I liked using my brain, body, working as a team, figuring things out, troubleshooting and coming up with different ways to solve a problem. In terms of coming in after another female chief, i dont think anybody says that about men. You are coming in after another man, chief, what is that like. I understand why it is asked. It is unusual to have a woman in this position. I think San Francisco is a trailblazer in that way in terms of showing the world what can happen and what other people who may not look like what you think the fire chief should look like how they can be successful. Be asked me about being the first lbgq i have an understands because there are little queer kids that see me. I worked my way up. I came in january of 1994. I built relationships over the years, and i spent 24 years in the field, as we call it. Working out of firehouses. The Fire Department is a family. We live together, eat together, sleep in the same dorm together, go to crazy calls together, dangerous calls and we have to look out for one another. When i was burned in a fire years ago and i felt responsible, i felt awful. I didnt want to talk to any of my civilian friends. They couldnt understand what i was going through. The firefighters knew, they understood. They had been there. It is a different relationship. We have to rely on one another. In terms of me being the chief of the department, i am really trying to maintain an open relationship with all of our members in the field so myself and my deputy chiefs, one of the priorities i had was for each of us to go around to different fire stations to make sure we hit all within the first three or four months to start a conversation. That hasnt been there for a while. Part of the reason that i am getting along well with the field now is because i was there. I worked there. People know me and because i know what we need. I know what they need to be successful. I have known Jeanine Nicholson since we worked together at station 15. I have always held her in the highest regard. Since she is the chief she has infused the department with optimism. She is easy to approach and is concerned with the firefighters and paramedics. I appreciate that she is concerned with the issues relevant to the Fire Department today. There is a retired captain who started the Cancer Prevention foundation 10 years ago because he had cancer and he noticed fellow firefighters were getting cancer. He started looking into it. In 2012 i was diagnosed with breast canner, and some of my fellow firefighters noticed there are a lot of women in the San Francisco Fire Department, premenopausal in their 40s getting breast cancer. It was a higher rate than the general population. We were working with workers comp to make it flow more easily for our members so they didnt have to worry about the paper work when they go through chemo. The turnout gear was covered with suit. It was a badge to have that all over your coat and face and helmet. The dirtier you were the harder you worked. That is a cancer causeser. It casser. It is not cancer causer. There islassic everywhere. We had to reduce our exposure. We washed our gear more often, we didnt take gear where we were eating or sleeping. We started decontaminating ourselves at the fire scene after the fire was out. Going back to the fire station and then taking a shower. I have taught, worked on the decontamination policy to be sure that gets through. It is not if or when. It is who is the next person. It is like a cancer sniper out there. Who is going to get it next. One of the things i love about the Fire Department. It is always a team effort. You are my family. I love the city and department and i love being of service. I vow to work hard to work hard to carry out the vision of the San Francisco Fire Department and to move us forward in a positive way. If i were to give a little advice to women and queer kids, find people to support you. Keep putting one foot in front of the other and keep trying. You never know what door is going to open next. You really dont. [cheers and hi everybody, we down here at the ep is a center which is our pop up space down here in San Francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has center which is our pop up space down here in San Francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has never done anything in the house to the most advanced structure engineers we have working around here. We were going to here from kelly to talk a little bit about San Francisco. How are you doing kelly . Very well, thank you for having us here. In front of us, we have a typical soft story building. When i see this, i think this is some of the most beautiful architecture our city has. A lot of people dont know these are problematic buildings. Why dont you tell us about some of the risks he we have in these buildings . Soft stories are vulnerable in past earthquakes and the northridge earthquake to this type of building and character of building. When we talk about the soft story, what were talking about is generally a ground story that has less wall or other pwraeugs to resist the lateral forces that might be imposed by the earthquake. So were looking for something that is particularly weak or soft in this ground story. Now, this is a wonderful example of what some of the residential buildings that are soft stories in San Francisco look like. And the 1 thing that i would point out here is that the upper force of this building have residential units. They have not only a fair amount of wall around the exterior of the building but they also have very extensive walls in the interior and bathrooms and bedrooms and corridors and everything that has a certificate amount of brazing yea its significantly less country srabl in those stories. Now very often, we get even a garage or storage or sometimes commercial occupancy in this ground story. That very often not only has a whole lot less perimeter wall but it often has little or no wall on the interior. That wall is the earthquake bracing and so he see very significant bracing in the top floor and very little on the bottom. When the earthquake comes and hits, it tries to push that ground floor over and theres very little that keeps it from moving and degrading and eventually paoerblly keeping it from a collapse occurring. So we know theyre vulnerable because of this ground story collapsing is this only a problem we see in sentence france . San francisco . No, this is certainly a national problem. More acute in western but more up to california, washington, moving out into other states. This kind of building exist and this kind of building is vulnerable. When youre involved with the community safety, this is a different way of thinking about these types of things. We had a Community Group of over 100 people involved and upper 1 of them. Tell us about how that conversation went. Why did we decide as a city or a community to start fixing these types of buildings . There were a lot of aspects that were considered well beyond just the engineering answer that these are vulnerable. And that effort brought in a lot of people from different aspects of the community that looked at the importance of these buildings to the Housing Stock and the possible ramifications of losing this houbgs in the case of an earthquake. The financial implications, the historic preserve vacation s implication as you mentioned, these are very handsome looking buildings that are importance to the tourist city ask which make San Francisco something that people are interested from outside in coming and visiting. Its such animation story when you think about the 10 years that the community spent talking about this seurb but we actually did something about it. Now we have an order unanimouses put in place to protect 100,000 residents in San Francisco and retrospective in 2020. So on behalf of residents and employees in San Francisco, we want to say thank you for the work youve done in pushing this forward and making people more aware of these issues. And it was a fantastic community effort. So in an earth quake, what happens in these kinds of buildings . What happens when an earthquake comes along is it moves the ground both horizontally and vertically. Its mostly the horizontal that were worried about. It starts moving the Building Back and forth and pushing on it. When you see im pushing on it, the upper stiff of the wall stay straight up but the lower floors, they actually collapse just like i did there. Luckily, we can put this building right back up where it came from so its a lot easier. Now kelly, obviously these arent real frame walls here but when you talk about buildings, what makes the property for stiff . The easiest and most costeffective type of bracing you can put in is either put in a brand new wall or to potentially go in and strengthen a wall thats already there where you dont need to have an opening is where you maybe have a garage door or access to commercial space, you might go to a steel frame or other types of bracing systems that provides the strength and stiff if necessary but at the same time, allows continued use of that area. But some combination of walls or frames or other tools that are in the tool kit that can bring the building up to the strength thats required in order to remove the vulnerability from the building so that when ground shaking comes, it in fact is a whole lot more resistant and less vulnerable. Ideally, this story down here would be made as strong and stiff as the floors above. If im a property owner, what is the first thing i should do . The first thing you should do is find professional that can come in and help you evaluate your building in order to, 1, figure out that indeed it does need to be retro fitted and 2, give you some idea of what that retro fit might look like. And third, evaluation and design to help you determine the retro fit requirement. Well kelly, i cant thank you enough for being here today. Thank you so much for your wealth of information on how we can take care of our soft story problem in San Francisco. And you the viewer, if you have any questions, please feel free to visit our website [ ] homelessness in San Francisco is considered the number 1 issue by most people who live here, and it doesnt just affect Neighbors Without a home, it affects all of us. Is real way to combat that is to work together. It will take city departments and nonprofit providers and volunteers and companies and Community Members all coming together. [ ] the product homeless connect Community Day of Service Began about 15 years ago, and we have had 73 of them. What we do is we host and expostyle event, and we were the very force organization to do this but it worked so well that 250 other cities across the globe host their own. Theres over 120 Service Providers at the event today, and they range anywhere from hygiene kits provided by the basics, 5 to prescription glasses and reading glasses, hearing tests, pet sitting, showers, medical services, flu shots, dental care, groceries, so many phenomenal Service Providers, and what makes it so unique is we ask that they provide that Service Today here it is an actual, tangible Service People can leave with it. I am with the hearing and Speech Center of northern california, and we provide a variety of Services Including audiology, counselling, outreach, education, today we actually just do screening to see if someone has hearing loss. To follow updates when they come into the Speech Center and we do a full diagnostic hearing test, and we start the process of taking an impression of their year, deciding on which hearing aid will work best for them. If they have a smart phone, we make sure we get a smart phone that can connect to it, so they can stream phone calls, or use it for any other services that they need. San francisco has phenomenal social services to support people at risk of becoming homeless, are already experience and homelessness, but it is confusing, and there is a lot of waste. Bringing everyone into the same space not only saves an average of 20 hours a week in navigating the system and waiting in line for different areas, it helps them talk, so if you need to sign up for medical, what you need identification, you dont have to go to sacramento or wait in line at a d. M. V. , you go across the hall to the d. M. V. To get your i. D. Today we will probably see around 30 people, and averaging about 20 of this people coming to cs for followup service. For a participant to qualify for services, all they need to do is come to the event. We have a lot of people who are at risk of homelessness but not yet experiencing it, that todays event can ensure they stay house. Many people coming to the event are here to receive one specific need such as signing up for medical or learning about d. M. V. Services, and then of course, most of the people who are tender people experiencing homelessness today. I am the representative for the volunteer central. We are the group that checks and all the volunteers that comment participate each day. On a typical day of service, we have anywhere between 40500 volunteers that we, back in, they get tshirts, nametags, maps, and all the information they need to have a successful event. Our participant escorts are a core part of our group, and they are the ones who help participants flow from the Different Service areas and help them find the Different Services that they needs. One of the ways we work closely with the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing is by working with Homeless Outreach teams. They come here, and these are the people that help you get into navigation centers, help you get into shortterm shelter, and talk about housing1st policies. We also work very closely with the department of Public Health to provide a lot of our services. We have all types of things that volunteers deal do on a day of service. We have folks that help give out lunches in the cafe, we have folks who help with the check in, getting people when they arrive, making sure that they find the services that they need to, we have folks who help in the check out process, to make sure they get their food bag, bag of groceries, together hygiene kit, and whatever they need to. Volunteers, i think of them as the secret sauce that just makes the whole process works smoothly. Participants are encouraged and welcomed to come with their pets. We do have a pet daycare, so if they want to have their pets stay in the daycare area while they navigate the event, they are welcome to do that, will we also understand some people are more comfortable having their pets with them. They can bring them into the event as well. We also typically offer veterinary services, and it can be a real detriment to coming into an event like this. We also have a bag check. You dont have to worry about your belongings getting lost, especially when that is all that you have with you. We get connected with people who knew they had hearing loss, but they didnt know they could get services to help them with their hearing loss picks and we are getting connected with each other to make sure they are getting supported. Our next event will be in march, we dont yet have a date set. We typically sap set it six weeks out. The way to volunteer is to follow our newsletter, follow us on social media, or just visit our website. We always announce it right away, and you can register very easily online. A lot of people see folks experience a homelessness in the city, and they dont know how they can help, and defence like this gives a whole bunch of people a lot of good opportunities to give back and be supported. [ ]. My name is naomi kelly the singlestory for the 775 i started with the city and county in 1996 working for the newly elected mayor willie brown, jr. Not only the chief of staff a woman but many policy advisors that were advising him everyday their supportive and nourished and sponsored United States and excited about the future. My name is is jack listen and the executive director of a Phil Randolph institution our goal to have two pathways to sustaining a family here in San Francisco and your union jobs are stroen to do that i have this huge way to work with the Community Members and i think i found my calling i started in 1996 working for willie brown, jr. I worked in hes Mayors Office of housing in the western edition and left 3 years went to law school of San Francisco State University and mayor brown asked me to be the director of the Taxicab Commission and through the process i very much card by the contracting process and asked me townhouse the city purchaser and worked with me and i became the deputy administrator and. Having trouble struggling to make ends meet folks will not understand what importance of voting is so we decided to develop our Workforce Development services after a couple of years offering pathways to sustainable jobs. clapping. weve gotten to a place to have the folks come back and have the discussion even if participation and makes sense we do Public Services but we also really build Strong Communities when i started this job my sons were 2 and 5 now 9 and 6 i think so the need to be able to take a call from the principal of school i think that brings a whole new appreciation to being understanding of the work life balance. clapping. i have a very good team around me were leader in the country when it comes to paid and retail and furiously the affordablecare act passed by 3079 we were did leaders for the healthcare and were in support of of the women and support. In my industry i feel that is male dominated a huge struggle to get my foot in the door and i feel as though that definitely needs to change this year needs to be more opportunities for i dont know women to do what tell me dream i feel that is important for us to create a in fact, network of support to young people young women can further their dreams and most interested in making sure they have the full and whatever they need to make that achieveable. Education is important i releases it at my time of san mateo high ii come back to the university of San Francisco law school and the fact i passed the bar will open up many more doors because i feel a curve ball or an where you can in the way cant get down why is this in my way we have to figure out a solution how to move forward we 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 where i used to be and where i [gavel] good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the november 4th, 2019, meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. We will be joined shortly by supervisor shamann walton, who is the vice chair and to my left is supervisor norman what is wrong with me, gordon mar. Excuse me, gordon. Our clerk is victor young. Id like to thank matthew and michael at sfgov for staffing this meeting. Mr. Include, do you have any announcements . 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