Review this count and ensure that its not stale. So eventually through the process of usdoj recommendations implementation, we may have discovered actually we have to change a policy to do this one thing, even though the recommendation doesnt necessarily call out that theres specifically a policy change that needs to happen. But there may actually be a resulting change that needs to happen from the work of starting the implementation of a particular recommendation. So we are going to take this back and do a more thorough dig on those kinds of items and make sure that we have a very clear picture of which recommendations are impacted by policy. Thank you. Vice president taylor. Thank you. This last page is good and theres more questions than you anticipated. Yes. When you come back and do that deeper dive can you report on not only what the correct numbers are but of the correct numbers where are we in terms of our implementation of changes . Yes okay. Yes, chief . I would just like to add, those numbers will be a living document as commissioner taylor and elias are well aware of with our work on the bias dgo which led to other dgos that werent necessarily on that list. We anticipate that there will be more of that. Well dig into a dgo and recognize we need to change another one to make that one make sense. So it will have fluctuations on that. A good example of that is 5. 03, as you all know. It was slated in the schedule already, but it made sense to marry the two. Great. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next item. I have a comment online item 3 this is Public Comment online item 3 you said . Okay. Public comment just on item 3. Not general Public Comment yet. Just item 3. Seeing none, its closed. Line item 4. The general Public Comment. The public is welcome to address tonights commission on subjects that are not on the agenda. They shall address the remarks to the commission as a whole and not to an individual. During Public Comment Neither Police or dpa personell nor commissioners are required to respond questions presented by the public but may provide a brief response. Individual commissioners and personnel should refrain from entering into debates or discussions with speakers during Public Comment. Okay. Finely. Thank you. My name is daniel pais. We have a new district attorney. And you are the board of supervisors. All right. 62 years on this planet, i spent 47 involved in politics, starting with the Mcgovern Campaign in 72. I was also a volunteer coordinator to pass the equal rights amendment to the constitution while living in texas. I am a cofounder of queer nation San Francisco. Politics is my passion. And if theres one thing i know its politics. In all those years ive never seen a more incompetent campaign than that against bodine by the establishment specifically the Police Officers association. They ran a trumplike campaign. Dirty, personal attacks, much like the ones they used against jeff even after he died. Just like Trumps Campaign and attacks against john mccain. It used to be the norm that attacking the dead was considered trashy and low class behavior. But without the poas immature crapslinging campaign and without the mayors appointment as interim da the powers that be would have probably gotten their way. Remember breed only won by a squeaker against jane and mark. Her first big political test this election failed miserably. She doesnt have what it takes to be the mayor. The brains the political astuteness or high character. She is weak. To her allies reconsider your options. The poa is feeding like maggots on the rotting corporation that corporation corpse that is the past. The poa needs higher iq and lower blood alcohol level counts. Next speaker. Any other public speakers . Can i get the overhead . Yes. [off mic] there should be a button. My time speaking tonight is three minutes. And i appreciate all this that i have here. The forum that i have. And speaking about this statue i would like to put up in memory of mario woods. This is a memorial drawing i have to the time that we spend here for mario woods and stuff. And you know, i really appreciate this because when you come down here and everything, when you speak into the mic, when you see the pledge of allegiance, because this is what they are doing. They are pledging allegiance. Its not like the national anthem. But this pledge of allegiance. And we all are americans. And mario is a hero. Hes a martyr. And when mario woods was spoken occupy by can because of the wardrobe malfunction, she said, you know like she said a lot. It was like a pledge of allegiance. So this football hes putting here and mario woods and everything, you know. When i was a teen, what happened in chinatown and everything, you know, i was walking down polk street, and this girl said help me help me and i said no youre crazy people right there by all the homeless people. Why are they looking at me . Im 7 years old. But you know, i was really lucky that i was able to be there because i could do something. She says really, he broke my window, i was just driving down the street and he takes my phone. You know . Its a very dangerous thing to have 100 waving it in front of these people. And i say, you know, i was really afraid for her at that moment, because he really gave her a dirty look. And i said ill take care of it, ill take care of it. And you know, when it comes to the police, youre really lucky to have them around when you need them. You could take this off. Its all right. I wouldnt mind being on the camera. You know . Like when it comes to getting down here and being able to speak to you all and be here. You know . Its so blessed. Its a blessing, you know . So you know, as i walk around the corner following the guy, you know ill take care of it. Who shows up but the police, four of them. Unmarked car. And i say help me, help me, help me. One second we had them down. And you know, they were so good what they did that day. You know . And i was too. Im a hero in my own eyes. Thank you. Your time is up. Thank you. [laughs] just hand it to all right. Thank you. [off mic] all right. We are ready for our next speaker. Thank you. Today is my mothers birthday. Happy birthday to her. [off mic] we need our next speaker. Im sorry. Okay. Good evening. Hi there we need the mic please. With the Public Defenders Office. Im focused on Police Misconduct among other things for a couple of reasons. I want to sort of go back to the basics for a minute. Or ten seconds perhaps. Number one is because Police Misconduct undermines public trust in our systems. Number two, it jeopardizes individual case integrity. Number three, it victimizes the individuals that suffer directly from misconduct. And number four, it devalues the work of so many, many good cops. Last week a commissioner opined people watching the meet would feel unsupported of discussion of the 79 reports of misconduct in the dpas 2018 annual report. It struck me in a couple ways. First its important to note that those 79 cases are just from the folks that had the wherewithal and courage to not only report to dpa to follow up. Second the point of the information is to allow everybody to see it and talk about it and digest it. The third the innocent victims might feel unsupported to hear the commission questioning a relatively short discussion on the topic. And then last its because those honest and wellintentioned and respectful and peaceful and hardworking Police Officers should feel great that misconduct in their ranks is rooted out so that they dont suffer the discredit that comes from it. I wanted to ensure that you all saw the study that was published by the Sacramento Bee and other out lets this weekend. And i have copies of it. This is a problem. The fact that many police have convictions and pending cases and we are not focused on making sure that those criminal convictions and pending cases are disclosed that we have a system for disclosing it, at least in active cases that those police are involved with, is a problem that we all need to come together and solve in my opinion. After personally witnessing all right. I will stop there. You have thirtyseconds. I have 30 seconds . Okay. Thank you. After personally witnessing pd perjury not so long ago the judge put out a call to all of us. He asked how do you protect the integrity of the judicial process to ensure he find that is presented in court is truth . I think this is a call for action for all of us who care about that integrity and that truth. And so okay. Now your time is up. I want to hand out. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good evening. Good evening commissioners. Did you have a comment to this last just quickly. I want to be clear and defend my fellow commissioner a little bit. I dont think anyone on the commission has an issue with dpas report. In fact, we are the one who asked director henderson to give us that report of the 79. We are the ones asking for the information. There was a discussion last week about the way certain things in the report were represented. And thats what the lively discussion was about. But theres no impression we all wanted that information and we asked for it. I dont think any commissioner was trying to suggest that any bidirector henderson giving us that information there was something improper about it. We all wanted it and we asked for it. Commissioner mazzucco you may have missed a point there. I agree with you. The Police Officers one bad Police Officer makes it bad for every other officer in this department. And ive heard that mantra for years. But the officers are not feeling supported. Because they do a lot every day that we dont know about and you as a public defender coming here and you raise these issues because your job is to be a public defender, you raise those before the judge where your client has a case pending. But the constantly are taking this negative nobody ever focusing on the positive. So in order for us to bring change, its difficult to bring change when we are continually hammering on the negative. The negative is recognized. You would be surprised that we do as a commission. But the reality is theres a certain that seems not to want to let it go. You as a public defender represent people who have been accused and sometimes wrongfully. It happens on both sides of the aisle. Commissioner elias. Thank you. I wanted to thank you with bringing up the point with respect to 79 instances because i think i lost sight of that. 79 instances out of a police force of 2,000 what is it 2300 . So you have 2300 officers and 79 instances in one year . The odds are great in terms of theyre not being a lot of instances of misconduct. So it is very low. And so i think that thats why its important for us to take a deep dive into the sort of few instances that are recorded and really explore them. So thank you for reminding me about that. Okay. Well resume Public Comment. Thank you. Good evening commissioners, chief scott, director henderson. Im here to ask sfpd to report to the commission and public about the lead program, Law Enforcement assisted diversion. This program was molded after seattles awardwinning program to refer drug offenders. To Community Based health and social services as an alternative to jail and prosecution. Programs like lead are exactly what we need to improve the Health Status of participants and end the cycle recidivism. So far the program appears to be unutilized and appears to those arrested for low level drug offenses are by and large black and brown people. They dont participate in the same rates in the lead program through referrals or social contacts. I have a chart that illustrates that Racial Disparity. Bring that out. There we go. Wrong way. There we go. The whole thing. Okay. Thank you ms. Brown. Theres a thing on the side. Yeah. Times up. Sorry. [laughter] thank you. Well give you an extra 20 seconds for being technologically challenged thank you. The Racial Disparities are kind of the opposite of what we do expect. So normally onethird of participants are black and nine percent are latin while more than half are white. Similar disparities exist for those referred to lead instead of those who are booked. Recently published at the Public Defenders Office. And i brought copies that push back on the citys representations to the board of supervisors that they were arresting mid to high level drug dealers. The data showed they werent. It revealed 93 percent of people in the operations were black or brown. Weve heard that referrals to lead dont happen after 5 00 p. M. Because of the parole dont work after 5 p. M. I think the data here prompts us to at least should prompt the commission to take a hard look at lead starting by sfpd to present on the topic focused on the Racial Disparities the number of participants compared to the eligibility ones and all validation measures. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Commissioner elias. Thank you. I appreciate that. Can we grab a copy . Copies . Thank you. The lead program i think ive spoken several times about the program. Because i actually was the attorney at the Public Defenders Office when we tried to implement this program from seattle. And i had the opportunity to travel to seattle and meet the lead team there who had created this program. And its a nationallyrecognized program and being implemented in other major cities like atlanta, new york different cities like that. So i think it is a great program. And ive spoken to the chief about the Program Prior to joining the police commission. And i have to say that the chief actually he was committed to sort of making sure that the program succeeded. I know one of the issues was officer buyin in terms of having a new program and getting them to buy into the program and make these referrals. Because from the officers perspective what they were feeling is its like another drug quarter where they refer people and nothing gets done and they arent seeing people actually utilize the services but rather return on back to the street, which sort of gave the officers they lost hope in referring people to the program. So i know that that was an issue. And sort of the Racial Disparity was an issue in terms of the referrals when i had left the program more than a year ago. So i would ask you chief to give us an update and status on the lead program. And ive said how hsoc resembles that program by taking people and rather than arresting them providing them with services and giving them more hand holding and resources to sort of navigate through the system rather than just giving them a court that says hey, show up here. So i would like an update on the status of the program. Because i know it was grantbased and i thought it was three years. There was extra funding that was unused. They are rolling through that. Do you know what the Expiration Date . The end of this fiscal year, june 30 of 2020 so yeah. As of june 30 you have to reply . What happens . Or if the program is being successful given the evidence of the program, we have to find a way to fund it. The Police Department did not get any funding for lead. So we are on a our own like we often are in terms of that. Its through dph. It was like 2 million. It was a big grant. It was almost 6 million. I know it was a couple. Million. The program. I was like can i get that . The dph would like to support there was a lot of funding because its a multiagency. Its the Police Department dph its glide. Theres other agency. So they were at the table when this program was sort of implemented. So again, i would like an update of status. And i do want an answer or analysis of the racial composition in terms of what type of people are being referred to the program and why there are sort of some Racial Disparities that may or may not be existing with respect to the referrals. And its only in the tenderloin and mission district. So its not even throughout the city. Its two very targeted areas in the city that are participating in the program. Commissioner hamasaki. Thank you. And thank you for bringing this to our attention. I know that commissioner elias has spoken about this many many times. And so i would actually go in the quest for a report on this. It does sound like a new and innovative and potentially productive program. So we obviously all want to learn about things that work, where theres room for improvement and especially if we are coming up on a funding issue in the middle of next year maybe its a time we took a look at it as a commission and heard more about it. Vice president taylor. Yeah. I want to join them. I think the issue is not so much that its a third because you can say black people are a third of the program but given the small percentage of the San Francisco population and given the large percentage of the incarcerated population, that is concerning. I know you shared these concerns when i was talking about the templates. Every little thing we do in terms of how we present who minorities are in the city, all those things we internal lies so to have pamphlets to know your rights that have black and brown people on them, but in the program like lead which gives people a Second Chance you have a relatively small percentage considering the population thats actually in the jails. We can do better as a city. So every little thing that we do as a department, as a commission to instill in people okay, you are either valuable or you are less valuable i think is really important. And, you know down to the pamphlets that we have on know your rights. We should have as many white people as they do brown. Like scholarships should not just have white people on it. So i know you agree with those things. I would like to delve people. We do ourselves a disservice if we are not giving our minority population the same chances. Thank you. Next public speaker. Good evening. Good evening. Drives me crazy i would like to use the overhead again as usual. Im here concerning my son. Can i fix this . Its hard to fix. Other way other way. Dont start my time yet. All right. Lets go back. There you go. Yes. My son was murdered august 14 2006. And i come here every day i mean every wednesday. I am still saying that my sons case isnt solved. And what is it that we can do to get it solved. And its been 14 years now. And im not of resources about what to do anymore. I know i have my investigator. I know i do all the things that i do. But i was wondering if theres anything in the law that can change that can solve these homicides for mothers like myself. So that i wouldnt have to come here like i do every day i mean every wednesday and bring this up. As i say all the time i always bring up not just my sons homicide but all the other homicides because we want a healing circle of mothers and fathers who have lost their children. And some of these people on here are mothers of children of mothers that i stand with all the time. But i want to bring it back concerning my son. I want to let you know that my son had two parents at home. This is his father. This wasnt a one singleparent family. We raised our children well. We did welby well we did well by them. We paid school constitutions. Tuitions. We did what we had to do. Still the world took my son from me. I want you to know he had his father and his father was home with him. We were both there at the funeral home that day. I bring this because everybody these names are down of all the perpetrators who murdered my son who were there that day. I cant say which one pulled the trigger. But i can say all of them were there. They have the names. And i dont understand why the case isnt solved. Because they say no witnesses. When you have former mayor gavin newsom saying i know who killed their son the da knows who killed her son, the police know with the exception of no witnesses. When are we going to get these witnesses . How do we go about getting them . No one comes forth. Is my son case never going to be solved . This is what the perpetrators last name my sons lifeless body laying on a gurney. And i am so tired of it. Thanksgiving is coming. Christmas is coming. What am i going to do . Thank you. Thank you. The tip line is 415 5754444. There is a 250,000 reward. Any other Public Comment . Okay. Public comment is closed. Next item, please. Item 5 Public Comment on all matters pertaining to 7 below, closed session, including Public Comment on item 6 vote whether to hold item 7 in closed session. Is there any comment about the commission going into closed session . Public comment is closed. Next item. Item 6 voting whether to hold item 7 in closed section. Action. Is there a motion to go into closed session. Motion. All in favor . Aye opposed . It carries unanimously. Okay. We are going okay. We are back in public. We are in open session. Yes. Line item 8 vote to elect whether to disclose any items on 7 held in closed session. Action. Is there a motion not to disclose . So moved all right. All in favor . Aye opposed . It carried. Next item. Line item 9 adjournment, action item. Is there a motion . So moved all in favor . Aye opposed . Thank you all. [stand by] my name is amanda [inaudible] over see the girls sports program. When i came to San Francisco and studied recreation and parks and towerism and after i graduated i moved to Candlestick Park and grain r gain adlot of experience work with the San Francisco 49 and [inaudible] be agfemale in a vore sports dynamic facility. I coached volo ball on the side and as candle stick closed down the city had me move in92 too [inaudible] immediate interaction and response when you work with kids. I think that is what drives other people to do this. What drew me to come to [inaudible] to begin with for me to stay. I use today work in advertising as a media buyer and it wasnt fulfilling enough and i found a opportunity to be a writing coach. The moment [inaudible] you to take advantage of how you change and inspire a child by the words you say and actions you do. You have a 30 different programs for girls through rec and park and fast ball, soft ball and volley ball. I started the first Volley Ball League and very proud what i have done with that. Being a leader for girls is passion and showing to be confident and being ambiggish and strong person. [inaudible] for about 5 years. Programs offered thraw thirtythree rec and park and oversee thg prms about a year. Other than the programs we offer we offer summer camp squz do [inaudible] during the summer and that is something i wherei have been able to shine in my role. Couple years we started the civic center socking league and what an amazing opportunity it was and is it for kid in the neighborhood who come together every friday in the Civic Center Plaza on green grass to run and play. You otonly see soccer and poetry but also see books t. Is a really promoting literacy to our kid and giving them to tools to make it work at home. Real fortunate to see the [inaudible] grow. Girls get pressureed with society and i know that is obvious, but we see it every day, magazines, commercials the idea what a woman should look like but i like to be a Strong Female role for it goals that play sports because a lot of times they dont see someone strong in a female role with something connected with sports and athleticism and i love i can bring that to the table. Soccer, poetry, community service. We now have field of dreams. We are [inaudible] all over the bay area and excited to be share our mission with other schools across the bay to really build the confidence and character of kids when they go out to play and close their eyes and think, why was [inaudible] we want to make surei want to make sure they remember me and remember the other folks who [inaudible] get out there and do it. Who cares about what anybody else says. There will be poopal people that come up and want to wreck your ideas. That happen today eme when i went to candle stick part and wanted to [inaudible] people told me no left and right. Whether you go out for something you are passionate about our something you want to grow in and feel people will say no. Go out and get it done. I can be the strong leader female and i love that. 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 Francisco Public 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 Francisco History 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. [ ] when i look at an old neon sign thats working or not working, i feel the Family Business that was in there. Since 2009, citywide, sf shines has supported businesses and sites like the ones that receive new neon signs. You know sf shines is doing an amazing job to bring back the lighting and the neon glow of San Francisco. Sf shines is such an amazing program, and i cant think of another program in another city that gives matching gunned funds to store owners mom and pop owners and if theyve got a neon sign theyve really got a great way to advertise their business. This is a continuation of the sf shines program. Focusing other neon signs is relatively new to us. Of the seven neon signs, weve invested about 145,000. A good quality sign costs more, but it lasts infinitily longer. As opposed to lasting five years, a good neon sign will last 15 to 20 years. In San Francisco, the majority of neon signs are for momandpop businesses. In order to be able to restore these signs, i think it gives back to your community. Part of the project has to do with prioritizing certain signs in the neighborhood based on their aesthetics based on their current signs, and base on the history. In the time that weve been here weve seen a number of signs restored just on eddy street. There are a number of signs in the tenderloin and many more that are waiting or wanting to be restored. I have worked with randall and al, and weve mapped out every single one of them and rated them as to how much work they would need to get restored. That information is passed onto sf shines and they are going to rank it. So if they have x budget for a year they can say all right were going to pick these five, and theyre putting together clusters, so they build on top of whats already there. A cluster of neon signs is sort of i guess, like a cluster of grapes. When you see them on a corner or on a block, it lights up the neighborhood and creates an ambient glow. If you havy got two of three of them, youve created an atmosphere thats almost like a movie set. Some of the hotel, weve already invested in to get those neon signs for people to enjoy at night include the elk hotel, jefferson hotel, the verona, not to mention some weve done in chinatown, as well as the citys portal neighborhood. We got the fund to restore it. It took five months and the biggest challenge was it was completely infested with pigeons. Once we got it clean, it came out beautiful. Neon signs are often equated with film noir and the noir genre as seen through the hollywood lens basically depicted despair and concentration. You would go downtown and see the most recent Humphrey Bogart film filled with neon in the background. And youd see that on Market Street and as Market Street got seedier and seedier and fewer people continued to go down that was what happened to all the neon strips of light. The film nori might start with the light filled with neon signs, and end with a scene with a single neon sign blinking and missing a few letters. One of my favorite scenes orson welles is chasing ritarita Rita Hayworth with neon signs in the background. I think what the office of economic and Workforce Development is very excited with is that well be able to see more neon signs in a concentrated way lit up at night for visitors and most especially residents. The first coin laundry, the elm hotel the Western Hotel are ones that we want to focus on in the year ahead. Neon signs are so iconic to certain neighborhoods like the hara like the nightcap. We want to save as many historic and legacy neon signs in San Francisco and so do they. We bring the expertise and they bring the means to actually get the job done. People in tenderloin get really excited as they see the signs relit. As youre driving through the tenderloin or the city it pretty much tells you something exciting is happening here. Knee an was created to make the night more friendly and advertise businesses. Its a great way of supporting and helping local businesses. Theres so many ways to improve public safety. The standard way is having more eyes on the street, but theres other culturally significant ways to do that and one those ways is lighting up the streets. But what better way and special way to do that is by having old, historic neon signs lighting up our streets at night and casting away our shadows. When i see things coming back to life its like remembering how things were. Its remembering the hotel or the market that went to work seven days a week to raise their money or to provide a service, and it just it just it just
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