Us today. This resolution reflects the t. A. s concerns that up zoning will negatively impact transit by exacerbating existing crowding, increasing wear and tear on existing highcapacity transit lines, and subject transit operators to unforeseen costs. Up zoning directly tied to Transportation Services could have a Chilling Effect on transportation enhancements in places where people do not want to development. This could decrease public demand to upgrade Transit Services to avoid s. P. 50 up zoning. True transitoriented development should account for impacts on transit. It should expand transit and not reduce it and it should improve transit service, not potentially make it worse. Transportation authorities should be concerned and take action on Development Bills that impact and are directly tied to our work. As a body, we need to stand firm on opposing a bill that undermines our Community Transportation plan unless and until our concerns are addressed with amendments and or companion legislation. This resolution calls for a new funding for communitybased planning to evaluate Transportation Needs resulting from will 50. New funding for local jurisdictions to deliver additional transportation infrastructure needed to support the Housing Development enabled under bill 50. And limited ceqa exemptions for Public Transportation projects so that bill 50 landuse impacts are not considered significant for these projects, mitigating the additional time and cost for these projects as a result. The t. A. Staff, including director chang and Public Policy managers analysed model transportation incentive programs that could be expanded or created to provide adequate resources for Public Transit improvements alongside Housing Development. They are available for questions about these potential opportunities. Fellow commissioners, i believe this resolution affirms our shared commitment to good planning and better transportation and i urge you to support it today. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any questions or comments from commissioners . Seeing none, there are a number of individuals who like to testify on this. I have some speaker cards. We will open it up to Public Comment. [calling names] first speaker, please. Good morning, my name is jeffrey. I am a resident in the outer sunset. I am supportive of the board of supervisors vision for bill 50 and the amendment for all the reasons that are good reasons. I know that in researching this and attending town Hall Meetings with scott weiner, i know he has an attitude of we dont need to worry about transit, transit doesnt have to be imperfect perfect to increase housing, is one of the many things we dont like about bill 50. It is kind of the cart before the horse approach and as such, i fully support this similar resolution adopting and opposing this on will 50 for these reasons. Thank you. Can i have the overhead, please . My name is jury with the San Francisco landuse coalition. I support the proposed resolution to oppose bill 50 unless there is an amendment to include transportation mitigation provisions. San francisco has 865,000 People Living in 47 square miles or 18,440 people per square mile. We have the second highest number of residents per square mile in the United States. San francisco has twice the population density of los angeles and three times the density of san jose. It is much more difficult and costly to build and maintain infrastructure in a very dense city. Bill 50 needs to be modified to address the existing disparity in population density between San Francisco, san jose, and los angeles, and allow for transportation mitigation. San franciscos current Public Transit infrastructure is unable to support the Current Population density, let alone the proposed higher densification. Sfmta has the second oldest and the highest mileage Public Transit fleet in the United States. This is a bay area problem. Oakland and fremont are also on the worst city list. The m. T. A. Has a serious staffing problem. As was mentioned, not enough drivers and not enough skilled workers to maintain aging equipment. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please and if we can return the overhead. Thank you. Good morning, transit authority, i am a tenant in district eight. I am a munimobile writer. I take the jay line, the 49, every line. I have been in this city almost 50 years so ive familiar with the transit, which is in a sorry state. The proposed state senate bill 50, the more homes act, links housing density and the proximity to transit. The bill 50 would enable developers to build higher and more dems housing along transit corridors with the highest percentage of the units being market rate housing. It makes perfect sense there be a provision for transportation infrastructure to support the growth policies for transit rich areas because we need to have plans for complete communities. And therefore, i support the resolution to oppose the bill 50 unless it is amended unless there is companion legislation that specifically would provide sufficient new funding for Community Planning to ensure local jurisdictions can evaluate Transportation Service and infrastructure needs resulting from s. P. From bill 50 provide sufficient funding to the local jurisdictions to deliver the additional transportation infrastructure and services to support the Housing Development enabled under bill 50, which could include supporting existing and new grants programs. And provide unlimited exemption from ceqa analysis for Public Transportation projects such that the changes inland use regulations resulting from the project arent considered significant. Please support this bill. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning, commissioners. First of all, i want to welcome our new supervisor, supervisor preston. We are just elated to have you here. And thank you to commissioner marr for introducing this resolution that is very much shedding the light on the sham that bill 50 is. Commissioners, how could we possibly increase population . Lets not talk about density, just population. When the entire Transit System in the city of San Francisco is broken . Chair peskin, you brought up the pin issue. That is an absolute embarrassment. We are bringing in a new fleet of cars, nobody has even quality assured them, and almost a year into this, we realize these are grave, serious problems. So are we transit rich . I daresay not. Here is the report that came out from our late mayor that commissioned this and it came out in 2018. This is not too long ago. According to the report, overhead, police. The city of San Francisco is 22 billion, that is not an m. , it is be, billion dollars in their red. By 2045, because of the deficiencies, the deficit in the funding that we have for transit this is a report out that was commissioned by the city. This is not a made up report by, the public or god forbid, the nimbys or that faction. We are not doing anything about it. There is no source, a Single Source identified to close this gap in 25 years. Secondly, this whole thing about transit rich, here is how transit rich, district four is. Fifty minutes from there to their. That is how transit rich we are. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning. Thank you for listening to all of this information. I support supervisor mores resolution to bill 50 because it was well thought out and includes funding. That is the most important part. Lets make our city better than it is now. Thank you. Thank you. I am with van ness neighbours i actually had the interesting experience the other day. I went, for the first time to the bart station in oakland. For the first time, i saw an area that seems like it was ripe for Affordable Housing. It was covered and surrounded by hundreds and hundreds of acres of deteriorated and closed factories. It would probably be possible to put maybe 10,000 units of new housing there and has a major bart station and major bus station. Lets be positive this works. What would it take . It would take increased funding for bart, increased funding for a. C. Transit, increased funding for s. F. Munimobile because you have to connect the workers to get to the station, to get into the city and get to work, i think the most i think Affordable Housing is actually more possible than transit. I think the transit has to come first to be able to get people to work, which is the and into school and it is one of the most important things we have to do. We cant just plunk down any kind of housing without connections. We know that another important thing is we must have a new tunnel. We are maxed out with everything to do with bart. Put transit first and do support these amendments. Thank you. Thank you. Edward mason. The m. T. A. And the sfcta should participate with the Planning Department to acquire Development Funds. Growth must fund growth and not rely on state funding. The nexus study for development and transportation study resulted in this transit sustainability fee being reduced by 75 . In essence, growth was not funding growth and there should be more reliance on the developers paying the fee. This is an article for the Valley Transportation Authority in santa clara county. On the 208th of december, they will restructure their transit lines. Bottom line is, they will escape probably most of the requirements of bill 50 by having Service Upgraded to 15 minutes from 30 minutes and a lot of lines are going to go that way. However, you the transit stations, they will have anywhere from 30 to 238 buses in our. Indirectly, senate bill 50 has rezoned that area around those centres. This is in direct. My concern is growth must fund growth and dont go to the state piggy bank for funding because the state piggy bank has been funded with our tax dollars that go in there. The developers should be responsible for any type of Development Funds that are required on that. And also, keep in mind what happens when transportation is driving the planning results as it winds its way through senate bill 50. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. Im with the San Francisco transit riders. I am here to support supervisor marks resolution. It is not to like there are a ton of m. T. C. His on munimobile buses and trains waiting to whisk everybody along. Through the mayor do the work on the mayors task force, we have gotten clear on how far behind munimobile is on staffing and maintenance and how much how far it has to go to catch up to current demand, nevermind the mode shift we need to achieve and nevermind future populations if we really prioritize transit to serve new development, then we would have had the 16th street project, the new fair landing and the t6 before the chase center opened and not after. And makes sense for us to tie the streamlining of approvals and funding for transit to increase development and increase housing. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning, commissioners. Welcome to supervisor preston. Looking forward to working with all of you. Im the council of Community Housing organization we were not aware this is coming. This is very smart to support the resolution before you. I know this is coupled with the resolution the full board of supervisors will be considering with a different frame. This makes Public Policy transitoriented development together. We really do that and so you are doing the right things. You are youre talking about pieces of the puzzle. This is not to say i think it is important for everyone listening. Do not up zone, do not plan, do not grow, do not develop. All these things need to happen, but you need to think about them carefully. We need to think about them carefully and do it right. Theres nothing wrong with saying when used to be done right to grow and plan and develop. I also suggest we stepped back from the details of this resolution and consider that we are in a historic time. This is absolutely a transformative change after decades and decades in the region, in california and nationally of suburban sprawl. That is how we accommodate population growth as a nation and as a region. We are reversing that. What that does is it presents massive challenges to tackle. It is not something for simple, a wand waving solutions. That will not fix it. I really believe that San Francisco is built as a place to figure out how to do it and do it right. All of you as electeds are doing excellent jobs as leaders. We have the democracy to do it in this jurisdiction. We have the advocacy committee, folks who are experts in this field and we have dedicated activists on the ground. Lets figure out how to do this right. Thank you for sending the message about how to get it right and grow right. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other members of this public of the public for item number 11 . We will close Public Comment. Would we liked to make a motion to adopt the resolution . Yes. Moved by commissioner mar is there a second . Come seconded by commissioner preston. Is there any discussion . Seeing none, same house, same call, the matter is finally approved. Please call item 12 through 14 together. Item from the Personnel Committee. Item 12 is recommend adoption of a real Program Manager job classification and revised organization chart. Item 13 is evaluation of Public Employee performance and recommend approval of performance objectives for 2020. I do 14, recommended option of the revised Salary Structure amendment of the existing employment agreement and setting annual compensation for the director for 2020. They are all action items. Thank you, colleagues. The Personnel Committee consisting of myself, the vice chair and Personnel Committee member commissioner ronen met earlier today. We have recommendations for you, but if any member of the body would like to meet in closed session, we can do so. If not, if there is no motion to meet in closed session, the item has been called. I would be happy to share with you what the Personnel Committee recommends to this body. Seeing no motion to meet in closed session, the Personnel Committee met to discuss the performance evaluation and recommend approval of our executive director for the performance objectives for the coming year and found her work during the 2019 year to be exceptionally good. We took action in closed session , which i reported out to recommend a revised Salary Structure range, which is a 15 increase in the range, but not in salary to a new range between 217 dollars is a minimum to 304,000 as a maximum. We also recommend to you the amendment of the Employment Contract for an additional three years so this would be the third threeyear contract which would commence on the last day of this month and last until 2022, and finally, the Personnel Committee recommends an annual compensation for the 2020 year with a 5 increase, which is in line with data that the committee reviewed for other similar positions for a total salary of 267,417, and we recommended that the unspent 15,000 for Employee Development , which missed chang did not spend in 2019 because she has been incredibly busy and working her behind off, they spent in 20204 things that will help enhance her Job Performance missed chang, we are delighted to have you. We hold you in the highest of esteem. Colleagues, are there any questions or comments . Are there any members of the public would like to comment on items 12 or 14 in so far as we are not reading in closed session . Public comment is closed. Is there a motion to move the Personnel Committees recommendations . Made by commissioner mar and seconded by commissioner yee. We have the same house, same call. Those items are adopted. Is there any general Public Comment . Thank you, supervisors. I would like to talk about the five m. Building. The reason i am addressing you is that i have contacted multiple people throughout these five years. I want to ensure that there are no encroachments for the width of the street, which is the width of 30 feet. The reason im requesting this, i know some of you have been briefed. There is another alignment with the lying, it is on the alignment it has been on the table for eight years and as we discussed during the first Personnel Committee, the same individual that was responsible what happened and by the way, the procurement as the caltrain railcar. If they are also responsible for ignoring that alignment. I want to give you some updates on this. I have worked walked this alignment with engineers who have done something similar the last few years. And they basically agreed that it works. However, what you are trying to do is the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest with bare feet. I will make you another offer. I will not take my shoes and my socks off. I am willing to volunteer my time between now and the appointment of the new rail manager pro bono to the city and the county. Im not asking for a salary, im not asking for benefits. The only thing i would ask for his assistance with housing because [indiscernible] it is out there on the table. I will leave it up to you. Thank you for your consideration Merry Christmas and happy new year. Thank you for that generous offer which you are welcome to take up with staff. Do want you to know that they went up part of Mount Everest, barefoot. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. I like to provide a commuter bus update, especially at 24th and church. We now have 100 authorized private commuter buses, plus several other buses that have been going on since before thanksgiving that i have been recording on a daily basis. Part of the real problem is with 100 buses in four hours, there is a peak period between 7 00 a. M. And 8 30 a. M. And the consequence is you have simultaneous arrivals. There is only two dedicated flight zones that have been set aside for the commuter buses. The problem is you then have buses three, four, and five that are backing up in the street between church and sanchez. That causes all kinds of congestion. So as a consequence, you know, it is just getting to the point where 24th street is a neighborhood street that has been designated as a minor arterial. It is accommodating innercity over the highway. You put that into the mix with an occasional fire truck or an ambulance or police car, whatever, and all the congestion that you have a 24th and church. I think it really boils down to we need to reevaluate the whole commuter bus program and consider revisiting the hub study because if you work 50 miles from where you work, you will be inconvenienced one way or another. And the detriment is now on the neighborhood. It is something i think that needs to be revisited because having 100 buses coming down your neighborhood, that means theres 100 buses in the evening so theres over 200 buses, plus you have buses that are idling at 205th and castro to initiate a run. It needs consideration. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for the data that you constantly procure for the city and county of San Francisco and we have thank you for that before and i think we all get your emails. I very much would encourage you to speak with ramos after this meeting. If we have to revisit the commuter shuttle battles, both old because you have that many buses backing up, the system, it sounds it may not be working as intended, so i encourage you to get with the sfmta so we dont have to fix it, but if the sfmta doesnt, we can. With that, are there any other members of the public for this item . Seeing none, general Public Comment is closed. I will wish everybody a very happy, healthy, prosperous new year and we are adjourned. Good morning. Thank you so much. I am mayor london breed. I am excited to be here today joined by supervisors safai and vallie brown. This, as you all know, is a representation of a lot of the work that we have been doing in San Francisco t to come up with Creative Solutions to address homelessness. We have to understand sometimes it is not one size fits all, and trying to understand exactly the challenges that people who are homeless are dealing with and meeting them where they are and getting them the help and support they need to transition into a more permanent stable housing situation is something that we care about. This is why we have been fighting so hard to build more shelter beds, to look at places that are under utilized space to identify weighs in which we can have temporary or permanent space for shelter to allow for a situation like this where we are taking a parking lot slated for 100 Affordable House anything the near future and using it when it is not being used for a place for people to safely park, get supported services and resources and make sure that we are able to help people transition into a permanent situation. I will say that i am really proud to work with two individuals who have been the leaders in this effort. Starting with the board of supervisors and understanding there are so many people before the Homeless Count was released that showed we had an increase in the number of People Living in vehicles. These two supervisors led the efforts around solutions around safe parking for those who unfortunately are sleeping in their vehicles. As a way to provide a safe place like where we are standing here today. In october of 2019, the city counted over 700 occupied vehicles in San Francisco, both passenger cars and rvs so we know that this is something that we need to provide a solution for. I want to be clear because the first thing you hear from folks it is not enough. It is better than what it was. There was nothing in the past. Now this is an example. This is not from my understanding what we are trying to propose here today is not something that we are familiar with anyplace in the United States where this is happening and actually has a track record of proving successful. We are stepping out to be the first to try something different, that we are hoping could work to support people that we know need support. I want to thank not just the supervisors but i really want to thank urban because they are the ones that you will hear from them in a minute. This program is absolutely incredible in the Civic Center Area and other places throughout San Francisco working with so many vulnerable population of San Francisco, helping to keep the neighborhoods and civic center and downtown area safe and clean and accessible and treating people with respect and dignity. I appreciate the work they are doing. I also want to appreciate the lake view omi community. Mr. And mrs. Harris are here and steve and others. This is not something always popular to do. Not only did supervisor safai lead in this effort to have Community Meetings to talk about this location used for this purpose, he really took a lot of hits from the community and, fortunately, so Many Community members were open and willing to allow this use to take place, and we truly appreciate the neighborhood for allowing us to do this on a temporary basis. This Vehicle Triage Center is something, i think, that can be potentially duplicated throughout San Francisco. Ultimately, the goal is to get people into safe Affordable Housing that is really the goal of this. This is a way to bring people inside, to provide showers, to provide restroom facilities, to make sure that we are doing it in a way that meets people where they are and treatings them with respect and dignity. I am grateful to be here today to kick this off. I do want to say that a lot of work through the Mayors Office on homelessness has gone into identifying all over San Francisco people who are living in their vehicles and trying to create, you know, a way to know what already exists. I want to make it clear that this is not an open invitation to people in other counties to come to San Francisco because the fact is we have a long waiting list of people who we have identified and they will be our priority along with other unhoused individuals who sadly are sleeping on the streets. We, of course, invite other counties to look at this as an example and to do their part in addressing this issue. This is not just an issue unique to San Francisco. This is an issue that impacts the entire state of california. We are hopeful we will partner in the near future to talk about ways to move forward with Solutions Like this and others to make sure that San Francisco is not the only city and county bearing the burden of the expense of doing unique things like we are doing today. With that since the rain is coming down and you guys know i dont like to get my hair wet. We are on dangerous territory here. I would like to introduce the supervisor safai. [applause] we will pause for mayor breed to have an umbrella. laughter you know, i want to say i think this is historic day in San Francisco. I know that people have been talking about doing safe parking in one form or another for over a decade, but truly we are standing here today because of the individuals that stand behind me. We had a situation where i went out and told the story a few time also. I went out on Christmas Day with my daughter. Santa had gotten her a bike and we went to the playground and the street was lined with People Living in rvs. I thought what is happening . So i called s. F. M. T. A. , got started getting calls from neighbors. They were saying they wanted these cars removed. I think that the knee jerk reaction in these situations is to just think about the vehicles but not think about the individuals that are occupying these vehicles. These are folks that are human being just like you and me. They are working, often times students, often times they are veterans, they are people who are productive members of society and want to be respected like you and me. I will tell you, my knee jerk reaction was to call and say where are the signs, we need no overnight parking signs up. S. F. M. T. A. Said we are going to pause, we are not going to keep doing this. It just pushes people from one block to another. Then i got back to my office and there was a photograph of a young woman living in an rv, and it was a handwritten note from supervisor brown that said lets work on this together in a humane way. That really caused me to pause, and i walked into her office and i said dont blind side me like that again. We kind of had a laugh, but the truth was i said you are right. We have to do this the right way. We buckled down, the staff buckled down and wrote a piece of legislation. We went around the bay area and looked at best practices. We crafted a piece of legislation. The reason that this is able to happen is because of that piece of legislation. We also march would into marched into may or breeds office. Mayor breed you walked. There were two of us. We marched. We had an uncomfortable conversation. By the end, the mayor committed money, and she challenged me. Are you going to put one of these in your district . I said i absolutely am. I know where we can go. I called mission Housing Development. They had gotten control of this site. I called jeff and we had a conversation to say can this be the first place where we do safe parking . Fast forward. It looked like once the census came in that there really was a justification for doing this. Out of the increase in homelessness, 70 of the increase and i think it was 13 increase in homelessness, 70 are living in vehicles. If now, was not the time then it would never be the time. We did that. The mayor allocated over 1 million for this effort. We engaged the community. As the mayor mentioned, steve and the reverend. The improvement association, 45 individuals in the room and we took a vote. After that vote it was a unanimous vote to proceed with this. We had a Community Meeting and 600 people showed up. By the end an and mary and i wil tell you we never have 600 people show up for a meeting. It leaned towards support. We wanted to be the first and share in the responsibility of dealing with the homeless crisis. I want to thank the mayor and i want to give a special thanks to the department of public works. We would not have been able to move as fast as we would if they hadnt been able to get this ready you see the solar panels, security cameras, lighting, privacy fencing, restriping, bathrooms, office space and urban will be here on site 24 hours per day, at least two individuals. We have the captain, liaison with the bart police. Wwe are working with s. F. M. T. A. Yes there will be tough loved involved. When we go out to proactively move people out of the streets where they are living in vehicles, we are not going to invite more individuals to occupy those spaces. S. F. M. T. A. Will put up the signs to encourage people to omentalis these spaces. Myself and soon pe supervisor bn called for a meeting. President yee is looking for a location. Supervisor walton is looking for space in his district. It will be a humane way. I want to thank everyone today. I want to thank the individuals that made this possible, and we are going to continue to look to expand and make this model a successful model. As the mayor said, in one year we will break ground on 100 Affordable Housing on the site. We will see what works, what i am provements can be made and how to do it better and how San Francisco can lead throughout the bay area. I will introduce supervisor vallie brown my cosponsor in this effort. Thank you, supervior and mayor breed. It was over a year ago that i did send a photo to his office of me living in a van when i was 13. As some of you know, my mom had odd jobs. She was always struggling to make ends meet. There were times she didnt have enough money for the next arent. She would borrow a van from a friend and we would live in the van until she was able to get money for the next apartment. As a child of 13 living in a van, there is a lot of struggles. There are things you have to wear a bathing suit all of the time. Why do you wear a bathing suit . Because you went to the gas station to rest up. You couldnt be naked. You had to have a bathing suit. You had to do homework before sundown because there was no light only a flashlight. You had nowhere to cook meals. These things that we dont think about are things that you think about when you live in a vehicle. You have to plan your life so carefully when you live in a vehicle. And i have to say the things sometimes are meant to be. As a child i dont have many photographs of myself. We move so much and you lose things. I found this photo of me living in the van at 13. I felt like it was meant to be of me moving forward to say why arent we thinking differently about housing people . Helping people that are struggling . Iit is a thin veil from from being homeless on the street. I never tried t to do a this wih you. You never know who lives in these vehicles. Thank you may or breed for putting the money forward because it was 1 million to say lets try this out. Thank you to this community for stepping up to say let us be the first. I absolutely feel we are going to need more through the city like we need navigation centers, homeless centers, we need more. This is the beginning. Thank you everyone for coming and for sharing and supporting. Lets move forward. Thank you. [applause] the folks that will manage this is urban. They are the wantings who have been doing an incredible job with the civic center, ambassadors of the community. Managing the public toilets or overseeing public spaces in other areas and trying to get people help and support, and in some cases connectedded to the Homeless Outreach team. This are an invaluable resource in San Francisco. The person in charge is lana miller. [applause] thank you, mayor breed. Thank you. I want to thank everybody who allowed us to be part of this effort. It is very, very important. As we see homelessness is continuing to increase all of the time. We are tasked with continuing to find ways to deal with it. A lot of people, sometimes people get frustrated in the city and there is a lot of that. What i see from my perspective because as mayor breed said we are all around the city in every intersection where you see a mix of homelessness and Mental Illness and addiction, there we are. From what i have seen from that perspective and talking with people from all over the country is this situation is only getting worse. We are not in a position to say we dont want to deal with it. We cant deal with it, we must deal with it and we must find creative ways to address people with love, with respect, with dignity. As supervisor brown said, that used to be her. It used to be and is a lot of our family members. It is not going anywhere. It is up to us as human beings to find ways to scale up. What we saw with the fires recently is that a lot of people are now living in their vehicles. I think when we see more and more people displaced through Climate Change we are going to see more and more people who are living in the streets. Now we have to get in front of this. I am really, really honored to be part of the thought partners who arent saying it is somebody elses problem. We need to find a way to get people out of here so people feel comfortable, but people putting their headins together o find creative ways to address this with love and dignity. Eventually we all have to scale. Thank you very much. We are really great full for the opportunity to be part of this. [applause] thank you. Our last speaker today is a person who grew up in San Francisco in the bayviewhunters Point Community and one of the first clients that we will work with here, sandra youth. applause hello, i am sandra hughes. I was born and raised in San Francisco. As a child i experienced a lot of trauma. As a result i have struggled most of my life with trusting anyone. Even those who want to help me. I am currently home less and i live in my rv. The neighborhood around me has changed. Where i used to ride my bike as a child, there are businesses. The Community Members yell at me not to park there, to move away. They treat me as if i am less than human. I wish they could understand i dont want to live in the rv or have to park there either. I want what everyone else wants, safety, dignity and a community. I dont feel safe living in my rv. It has been broken into five time also. I am scared every night when i try to sleep. I dont feel safe around people. Shelters are not an option for me. When the team told me about the vtc opening up and gave me information, i thought the opportunity to move into the Vehicle Triage Center with my rv would offer me safety and security. Maybe i could learn to build trust with people until i can find stable housing. I want to have a key for my apartment, i want to connect with my family. I want safety. This would be a first step in the feeling of safety my allow me to heal and rebuild my life. Thank you. applause thank you again for sharing your story. As you can see we have a lot of work to do in the city. Part of it is the opening of this parking lot as a safe place for people to park, but ultimately it all goes back to housing. You feel like i repeat this over and over again. It is not just the money necessary to build housing. We know San Francisco is one of the most expensive places to build housing in the first place. It is also about having the courage to cut back on the bureaucratic red tape so we dont have to wait years to build housing so that people like sandra and so many others sleeping on the streets have a place to call home. This is what we will continue to work on. Yes, we celebrate a milestone that we have this parking lot for people to park safely, but, ultimately, they nehousing. We have to do a better job as a city to build it. Thank you to the department of public works, the hot team and be the work you do on the streets, thank you to the San Francisco Police Department and the folks who work with us. Wrap it up. It is time to go. Thank you. [applause] for the first time in nearly two decades fishers have been granted the legal right to sell fish directly to the package right off their boat to the public right off their boats in San Francisco. Its not only helping local fishers to stay afloat but its evoking the spirit of the wharf by resurfacing the traditional methods of selling fish. But how is it regulated . And what does it take for a boat to be transported into a Floating Fish market . Find out as we hop on board on this episode of whats next sf. Were here with the owner and the captain of the vessel pioneer. Its no coincidence that your boat is called the pioneer because its doing just that. Its the first boat in San Francisco to sell fish directly from the boat. How did you establish your boat into such a Floating Fish market . Well, you know, i always thought that it would be nice to be able to provide fresh fish to the locals because most of the fish markets, you would have to do a large amount of volume in order to bring in enough fish to cover the overhead. When you start selling to the public that volume is much less so it makes it hard to make enough money. So being able to do this is really its a big positive thing i think for the entire community. A very positive thing. As a thirdgeneration fisherman joe as his friends call him has been trawling the california waters for sustainably caught seafood since an early age. Since obtaining a permit to sell fish directly to the public he is able to serve fish at an affordable price. Right now were just selling what a lot of the markets like, flat fish and rock fish and what the public likes. So we have been working for many, many years and putting cameras in them. Theres the ability to short fish and we have panels that we open and close so we target the different species of fish by adjusting the net. And then not only that but then the net sort out the sizes which is really important. Joe brings in a lot of fish, around 20,000 pounds per fishing trip to be exact. We had one day one time that we sold almost 18,000 pounds. Its incredible. I know, its hard to imagine. But this wasnt always the case for joe. The markets that we have left in california, theyre few and far between, and they really are restrictive. Theyll let you fish for a couple months and shut you down. A lot of times its rough weather and if you cant make your delivery you will lose your rotation. Thats why theres hardly any boats left in california because of the market challenges. My boat was often sitting over here at the dock for years and i couldnt do anything with it because we had no market. The ability to go catch fish is fine, i had the permits, but you couldnt take them off your boat. That was until the Port Commission of San Francisco rallied behind them and voted unanimously to approve a Pilot Program to allow the fish to be sold directly to consumers right off their boats. The purpose of the program is to allow commercial fishers to sell their fish directly from their boats to the end consumer in a safe and orderly manner for the benefit of the overall Fishing Community at the port of San Francisco. We have limited the program to certain types of fish such as salmon, halibut, tuna and rock fish. Crab is restricted from this program because we did not want to interfere with the existing crab sales on Taylor Street and jefferson street. So this is not meant to favor one aspect of the fishing industry more than another. Its to basically to lift up the whole industry together. And if joe the program has been doing just that. It was almost breathtaking whenever i woke up one morning and i got my federal receiver, my first receivers license in the mail. And that gave me permission to actually take fish off my boat. Once we started to be able to sell, it opened things up a bit. Because now that we have that federal permit and i was able to ppetition the city council and getting permission from San Francisco to actually use the dock and to sell fish here, it was a big turning point. Because we really didnt think or know that wed get such a positive response from the public. And so were getting thousands of people coming down here buying fish every week and so thats pretty cool. They like the fish so much that they take pictures of it when they cook it and they send us all of these pictures and then they ask us, you know, constantly for certain types of fish now. And when they come down here the one thing that they say is that theyre so amazed that the fish is so fresh they could eat a little bit during the week and its still fresh all week in the refrigerator. So thats really cool. The fish is very fresh and the price is super. I dont think that you can get it anywhere in the bay area. I can see it, and i can stir fry it, wow, you can do anything you want. I just can say this is a good place to shop and you have a good experience. This Program Supports the Strategic Plan in terms of engagement, people being connected to the waterfront, and also economic vitality. Because its helping the fishermen to make ends meet. They have no guarantees in their businesses, not like some people, and we want to do everything that we can to help them to have a good and thriving business. How does it feel to be able to sell your fish locally kind of in the traditional way, like your grandfather probably did . When i was a kid and i used to work in my dads fish market, a lot of the markets that we sell to now are second and third and fourth generation markets. So i remember as a kid putting their tags on the boxes of fish that we shipped out of monterey and ship down to l. A. So its kind of cool that were still dealing with the same families. And this is probably about the only way that anyone can really survive in california is to sell your own fish. One of the advantages of this program is the Department People that pull in the fish, they can find out where they caught it and find out more about the fisherman and that adds to their experience. The feedback from the fishers has been very good and the feedback from the customers have very good. And theres a lot of people coming to the wharf now that might not have done so. In fact, theres people that go through the neighboring restaurants that are going to eat fish inside but before they go in they see the action on the dock and they want to kind of look at whats happening on the boat before they go in and they have a meal. So its generated some conversation down at the wharf and thats a good thing. As you can see by the line forming behind me getting ready to buy fish, the Pilot Program has been a huge success. For more information visit sfsport. Com. President cook peace, peace, and glad youre here. This is the meeting of the San Francisco Unified School District on december 10, 2019. The meeting is now called to order. Roll call, miss casco. [roll call] clerk thank you. President cook thank you. Tonight, id like to open this meeting in honor of flo kennedy who said dont agonize, organize. Section 1, general information, accessibility for the public. Number 2 is teleconference information. There is none tonight. Section b, opening items. Nuer
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