Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Budget And Finance Committee 20240713

For the deliverables as well as the outcome objectives, and then as we get new fellows, we do modify the contract to make sure that the deliverables and the outcome objectives are in par with the was that your question . I think the question was, is ucsf doing this as an evaluation since are they doing it is ucsf doing their own evaluation . Right. I understand im not sure, but i can certainly get a more clear answer to that question. Given their other work in this area, im just curious if theyre going to use this as an evidence based project. Right. I assume that there would be because this is part of this Community Arts for Brain Health Initiative thats already in existence there. So yes. Thank you. Any other comments or questions from the commission . Any comments or questions from the public . Hearing none, call the question. All in favor. Any opposed . Thank you. The motion carries. Item k, requesting authorization to enter into a new Grant Agreement with ymca for the provision of a silver plus program during the period of january 1st, 2020, to june 30th, 2023 in the amount of 700,000 plus a 10 contingency for a total grant amount not to ex see the 770,000 and fanny again. Thank you. Thank you. Last but not least, bayview Hunters Point ymca will provide a silver plus program to participants in district 10. They have partnered with hope sf sites in that district including hunters view, and sunny dale to provide a Wellness Program to residents as well as to others in the neighborhood. Some activities will also be offered at the it Bookman Community center and dr. Davis Senior Center in addition to the bby. Program activities will include group exercises. There will be lunch and learn activities, enrichment excursions, volunteer opportunities through the Community Ambassadors program that they have, and resource connection by the Community Engagement specialist over there. The other ymca Branch Activities include the active older adult policeman designed to provide opportunities for participants to build social connections and improve health, physical health. In addition, the bby will be providing transportation to the Program Participants as needed to and from the hope sf sites. The bayview y and other excursion trips throughout San Francisco. Monday through friday. May i have a motion to discuss. So moved. Do i have a second. Second. Thank you. Just like to make a general comment about all of these programs that fanny has discussed. Two of them are in district 2, which is an area of the city where that is generally considered wealthy, and the value of these programs is that as we have learned, social isolation and elder abuse exists across all socioeconomic lines and that if we can engage members of the upper middle class in the wealthy parts of the city to become advocates for these programs, were better off because theyre wellconnected and they can be powerful allies. Its very important to remember that, these are programs that affect everyone. With that, any other comments or questions about the specific contract before us . Thank you, commissioner. Any comments or questions from the public . Hearing none, call the question all in favor. Any opposed . Thank you. The motion carries. We are now up to item 9, general Public Comment. Take your time, please. I am the abilities integrator at the clc. Have you noticed the sidewalks get lost around construction sites . San francisco departments arent maintaining safe pedestrian pathways around construction zones. We have to. We created a search party for sidewalks. The sf sidewalk search party has been meeting since may, 2019, to educate city departments and private construction sites on making sure temporary pathways around construction areas are accessible for all types of ability. Now we are taking our action to the streets. I want to invite you to the sidewalk search party fix our sidewalks on wednesday, march 18th, at noon. We are meeting on the corner of 12th street and south van ness across from the Paratransit Office at 68 12th street. The orders will be to take photos of inaccessible sidewalks with a rubber duck in the corner of the picture. Well provide you with rubber ducks. Everyone some download the app on to their phones before coming to the action. 311 also has a website or you can call to make a service request. If you call remember to mention seeing rubber ducks at the bad sidewalks. To stay updated, please join the sf sidewalk search Party Facebook group. We to see you on march 18th. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Any other comments or questions from the public . Hearing none, may you have a motion to adjourn . So moved. Second. Thank you. By rising vote, we are adjourned. Thank you very much. My name is jean alexander. Im an attorney in the San Francisco City Attorneys Office. I supervise the tax team, giving tax advice to the treasurer, tax collect or, drafting tax legislation. The thing i remember my mother telling me as a child is that you need to be prepared to take care of yourself and i knew that i wanted to be able to do something that i enjoyed. I didnt expect anybody to give me anything because nobody ever gave her anything and i also i always saw her fighting for the things that she wanted in life for herself and for her children. My name is jasmine flores. I am working as an Admin Assistant in the City Attorneys Office. I have always enjoyed the tasks that i have been given. On the days i show up and work on my own is empowering. For me, happiness in being more involved in a persontoperson interaction. My dream jobs includes being a physician, paramedic, firefighter, working with animals with the public. On a personal level with self improvement. My sister is the biggest influence in my life because she taught me to go forward with what makes you happy rather that what makes you the most money. I graduated from law school in 1972 at a time when there was a beginning to be an influx of women in the Legal Profession and tried criminal cases for about 10 years, treatment for delinquent operating programs, government budgets, analyzed fiscal legislation. I came to the San Francisco City Attorneys Office and i have been here for about 12 years advising on tax matters. I did just about anything you can think of. Some things that lawyers do and some things that lawyers dont do. Im from the mission in San Francisco. I have grown up there and i have lived there pretty much my whole life. Living there, i do see other women, some of them older, some of them look just like me like my age and a lot of them work nanny jobs, child care jobs, retail jobs. I dont know, it seems kind of like a reminder that you are kind of lucky to be where you are, i guess. Just when you havent gone so far at all. I want them to go on maybe go on an interview thats more challenging that they think that they cant get that job. You know, just to kind of challenge and surprise themselves when they get that job and feel better. There had been women practicing law for many years, but there were so few of them that a lot of the issues hadnt really come into play and some of them worked out and some are still being resolved like equal pay and women in lawfirms and making sure women get fair assignments and in the Decision Making and working with law firms. I consider myself more of a beneficiary of all the women that fought really difficult battles along the way. [gavel]. Chair fewer good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is the march 4, 2020 meeting of the budget and finance committee. I am sandra lee fewer. Seated to my right is supervisor shamann walton. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you. Madam clerk, would you please call item number one. Clerk item number 1, modifying the push Side Management services with fsp ppm management llc, accept and expend grand retroactive. Chair fewer i requested some more information. I received the information. I want to thank s. F. O. For supplying the information. Any questions or comments from my colleagues . Seeing none, lets open this up for Public Comment. Any members of the public wish to comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Can we move this to the full board with a positive recommendation . Seeing no objection, well pass the motion. [gavel]. Chair fewer madam clerk, will you please the next item. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer would you please give us a brief presentation. [inaudible] oh, im sorry. So at the p. U. C. , in order for us to participate in the i. S. O. Market, we are required to have a scheduling coordinator contract so that [inaudible] while we were looking into this, we found that there was a mistake. We have amendment one to this contract, and we found that when we began to look into an amendment two, we found there was a mistake in amendment one. So this is also requesting a retroactive approval of amendment one to fix that mistake. So amendment two is asking for an additional two years on the a. P. X. Contract and an additional 39. 9 million to the pass through charges. This is the actual pass through charges that we have to pay to the i. S. O. To participate in the energy market. So if we and we do have a we do have on track a new r. F. P. For a new scheduling coordinator, and we dont want to have a gap until we get the new services. So this is cover that. Chair fewer could we have a b. L. A. Report, please. Good morning, chair fewer. Severin campbell from the budget and legislative analysiss office. This item is asking the supervisors to approve two things. Approve a retrotiff contract between s. F. O. And a. P. X. For for pass through charges, introducing the prior amount, which is really a technical correction, and then approve a second amount which increases the amount of the contract by nearly 40 million, and then send the contract through 2022. Theres a piece of this contract, 7 million, being paid to a. P. X. For the scheduling of electricity services. And then, the other amount, the 142 million above the 7 million is actually pass due charges that are requiredt for scheduling on the grid. Its not part so pass through, its not to the contractor itself. Extending on the contract, we dont have good historical contract, but spending on the contract, 37 to 40 million a year, and we recommend approval. Chair fewer thank you very much. Any questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, lets open this up for Public Comment. Any member of the public wish to comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. Chair fewer i think about this prior contract, you may be asked about that at the board. Id like to move this item to the full board with a positive recommendation. We can do that without objection. Thank you. [gavel]. Chair fewer madam clerk, can you call the next item. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much. At the request of the sponsors, i am going to make a motion to continue this item to the meeting of march 11. But lets take Public Comment on this. Any member of the public wish to comment on item 3 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. Chair fewer i make a motion to pass this item to the meeting of march 11, and we can take that without objection. [gavel]. Chair fewer madam clerk, can you read item number 4. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you, madam clerk. At the request of the sponsor, this item is also to be continued, so lets open this up for comment. Any members of the public want to comment on item number 4 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. Chair fewer id like to make a motion to continue this to the Board Meeting of march 11. [gavel]. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, can you please read item 5. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much. At the request of the sponsor, this item has been asked to be continued to the meeting of march 11. Id like to take public on this. Any members of the public want to comment on item number 5. Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. [gavel]. Chair fewer id like to make a motion to continue this to the meeting of march 11. We can take that without objection. Madam clerk, is there any are there any other items before us today . Clerk theres no further business today. Chair fewer thank you, and we are adjourned. [inaudible] im a illustrator by day and a [inaudible] composition teacher. Right now im practice by transscring [inaudible] that is what i have been doing the past couple years, teaching myself. California college of the arts, illustration there has really great teachers. Robert hunt, vance story taught me a lot. What im working on is a portfolio [inaudible] riding a donkey unicorn in the process. My name is dawn richardson and musician, drummer and drum teacher. I guess i would say i started my professional path quh i started playing in bands and teaching drum lesson when i was in college. They were definitely not that many women that would do what is doing. In 198 8 i graduated from cal state los ang and studied mostly classical percussion and Music Education but at the same time i was in hollywood so played at night in rock bands so was doing two different things. The reason im [inaudible] the people. There is a extremely vibrant Art Community especially arounds the red poppy art house [inaudible] as a artist in the past 2 or 3 years there is a event called the [inaudible] every 3 months a free art Music Festival that i usually play at and just met so many people. I was teaching a little bit and doing odd jobs like waitressing and going at night and playing in bands and meeting a lot of people. I chss in ban that had cool break jz get parts on tv shows or things like that. A friend of mine, we had mutual friends that got signed to a record deal in San Francisco called 4 nonblaunds and i addition frd the bands and moved to the bay area. I think things are different now than 30 years ago, the World Evolved a lot. It could be a challenge but have to know how to negotiate everything and sometimeatize is [inaudible] it was great to get to a point where i was just treated like another one of the people, a musician not a female musician and that is always what [inaudible] you dont hear stuff on the radio [inaudible] i need to write music [inaudible] be more conscious in their decisions and somehow make that poetic so they will be convinced. I think i will do that. [singing in backgrounds] drawing and writing music since i was a really little kid and fortunate enough to have a good education in art and parentss who supported me. I hope my life will continue to allow me to do both. For me now having all male, female girls, boys students it shows the world has changed a lot and people areope toon open to a lot more than they were in the past. You can get a deep satisfaction from responding a lot of year practicing in one thing and becoming really good at something. Sometimes i think that it is better to get lost. You have to practice and become good at what you do, so if you have everything together then go out in the world and do what you do and then i think people weal accept that. President bleiman hello and welcome to the march 3, 2020 meeting of the San Francisco Entertainment Commission. My name is ben bleiman, and i am the president of the commission. If you want to speak on Public Comment, you need to fill out a speaker card or you can just come to the podium when its Public Comment. I want to thank sfgovtv and Media Services for sharing this media with the public, and well start with roll call. [roll call] president bleiman all right. Thank you. The first order of business is general Public Comment. This is comment on any item that is not on our regular agenda tonight. Seeing none, general Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. President bleiman next agenda item is number two, which is approval of our minutes for the february 18, 2020 meeting, and ill ask if we have a motion for the approval of the minutes from the february 8, 2020 meeting. I move to approve. Second. President bleiman is there any Public Comment on our minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] [roll call] president bleiman all right. The minutes have been approved. Next item on the agenda is a report from our director, commissioner weiland . Director weiland thank you, president bleiman. From friday to monday and this past weekend, the two of us with ben van houghton, we attended the president ial cities annual social city conference. We were with folks that do similar work as us from across the United States as well as folks from amsterdam and cancun from outside the United States. President bleiman and i spoke on a presentation sunday, and we were on a panel sunday, and we were on the panel with two people from new york and two people from washington, d. C. A lot of what we did was educate people on having an Entertainment Commission or an Entertainment Office of some kind to promote the economy but also regulate it. We pride ourselves on being oneofakind in San Francisco, and so many people were coming up to us maybe a little bit envious, but also a little bit curious figuring out how they sort out their cities in regards to night life. Did you have anything you want to add . President bleiman yeah. I think its shocking when you realize weve had this Entertainment Commission going on for 17 years now, and the city of new york, they have one director with a couple people, and theyre going on one year, and in d. C. , its even less than that. New york is two years, and d. C. Is one year. President bleiman and we have an insurmountable comparison to theirs. Its amazing to see. Director weiland and although were a Baby Department compared to other offices in San Francisco, were far ahead of where were at, so we should be proud of that just because we weve had so much time to evolve. And so much of the thanks goes to the folks who built out our groundwork and our founding commission and our founding director, and jocelyn cain, who came after him. So we need to just keep evolving our work into the future. So do you have any questions on that . Okay. President bleiman yeah, i did say that our one job on that panel was to make all the other cities jealous, and i think we fully accomplished that. Check a box there. Is there any Public Comment on the directors report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. President bleiman the next agenda item is sorry. Number 4, which is the report from our Deputy Director azevedo. Thank you, commissioners. Ive highlighted the independent band practice going on. We received 26 complaints since our last hearing. Eight of them were from for the independent or businesses in that area . Our investigators west we we to the area, and they were in compliance during both visits. There was a complaint that the back door was open. When inspector fiorentino went, the door was closed, and there was another complaint with invasive base, and inspector fiorentino went, and they were in compliance. I do want to be responsive to the neighbors and the landlord who is reaching out to me on a regular basis on what we can do. Thank you for that important addition. Aside from that, there were 46 venue inspections that happened over the weekend or rather since last weekend, and the majority of our venues were in compliance . So to director weilands point or im happy to answer any questions. Good evening. L lets start with the independent. Our executive director used the word neighbors. Is it singular or plural. So its anonymous, and its two neighbors who live in the same unit. President bleiman so the volume of calls that were getting, is it primarily these two people. Are we able to ascertain that . For the most part. We also believe that based on the language thats used, its the same complainant even when its reported anonymous. Weve got used to seeing the complaints coming in so frequently, weve gotten used to the language thats used, and its similar to the language thats used when they are not anonymous. President bleiman okay. Director weiland there isnt any way of knowing because theyre either identifying these specific neighbors who are represented by the landlord as i just mentioned or theyre representing themselves as anonymous. President bleiman the 311 trac commissioner falzone the 311 distinguishes between 311 and online, correct . Yes, and these calls are being made through the app. Commissioner falzone okay. I got it. So my sense is im just trying to get an understanding of, is there some kind of person vendetta is this a Community Problem or is this an individual problem with one club . I know theres some conjecture in this, but we dont know . Its we do not know. Commissioner falzone so whats our next step then . Thats a great question. I think thats what director well, yeah, ive got to be responsive at this point . And ive been responsive along the way, but ive got to i guess i would just like to know from the commission if you have any feedback on this or commissioner falzone i have some more questions for this. Have we pulled the Actual Police calls for service for the address . No. Theres no need to. Commissioner falzone im just trying to see what it is, and if theres a lot of police calls for service. That may help substantiate this. On the other hand, if there arent any, that starts to lend itself to a different scenario. That sounds good. I can certainly reach out to northern station for that. Commissioner falzone we take the police calls, and we can get pretty granular there, and if we can match it up to the 311, it might be helpful. Ill defer to our director. Was the star able to contact the residence staff able to contact the residents . Yes, we were contacting them regularly. And they were complaining or not complaining . When they identify themselves, the inspector has contacted themselves and stated ive just responded to your complaint. The venue is in compliance. President bleiman so im just curious. Do we know how long these neighbors have lived in this unit . From my understanding, i believe its been about a year . President bleiman okay. And how long has there been a music venue at this location. Commissioner falzone at least over 20 years. I believe its 30plus in different iterations. President bleiman and prior to these neighbors moving in, were we getting a lot of complaints about this venue . No. Director weiland no. President bleiman and just so im clear, at least two of the calls about a back door and another call seemed to involve an inaccurate description of the venue in that the back door was closed on one of the nig s nights. And i may note in one of our inspections, they noted that the door was open, and two other inspections, it was auto body shop was having practice really loud. Even i, on one of the occasions, when a complaint was coming in, went out on divisadero and heard the live band practice. President bleiman and that would be a p. D. Matter. That would not be our jurisdiction. Right. President bleiman and im just curious. How many times have we visited independent in your best estimate since it starts happening. So ive quantified it since september, and weve visited 15 times, and weve found them in compliance 14 of the times. One time, the rear door was open. President bleiman and thats the first time, if my memory serves me. So the next 14 times, the venue has been in compliance. And weve also been checking emporium because theyre side by side, and emporium has also been in compliance. President bleiman and each visit is taking time . Especially, if its taking time to go to two venues. It depends on what their starting point is, but sure. President bleiman i have real concerns about the use of our resources. The poor venue is not acting outside of its purview at all, and in the meantime, we need to address other concerns at other venues. If the venues complaint and the neighbors still having an issue, one thing that comes to my mind is maybe the building requires some extra sound proofing or mitigation. Where the resident lives . President bleiman where the resident lives, because if the venue is doing something within the code, maybe theres some other issue going on. I dont know if is there any precedent for us having a landlord come before us and speaking with them . I mean, theyre a member of the public. Thats one thing they can certainly do, they can come and certainly address you themselves. President bleiman i think we should offer that, at least. Every case that ive seen up here, you know, every single time that ive since ive been here when theres a repeated complainant, we are finding violations or out of compliance with a venue, so this seems to me to be very one sided in whats going on. But id welcome any thoughts that the rest of the commission has. So they get the complaint 311. Does it get there within 30 minutes or is it, like, an hour or two hours later . So that can vary, and youre looking at a 2. 5week report since thats passed, and some of them are within a 30minute period, and theres some of them where more than an hour has passed just because theres been another complaint elsewhere, but i think in general, its within an hour. If theyre complaining at 11 42, theres not a reason they should be complaining if theyre closed. Is there a time stamp . So there is, on this report in front of you so is this when they show up or is that the complaint . So the first three let me tell you how many pages. The first six pages are the complaints, and then, starting on page 7 are the inspections, and so they coordinate. So they time and you can see they correspond to one another, so if we were to look at the first one, saturday, the 15 february 15, the complaint came in at 11 52 saturday, the 15, and they were there by 11 57. President bleiman so commissioner falzone have we visited the complainants address . Yes. Commissioner falzone and does it have anything, additional sound proofing, windows, drapes, anything . No. Commissioner falzone so i can share my thoughts. If weve been there 15 times, and 14, they had no merit. Looking at it from the Police Departments perspective. At this point, we would stop responding because we have a limited use of our resources. If its 15 visits, and 14 times theyre in complains, i would be incline compliance, i would be inclined to have our investigators stop visiting for a while. I can tell you that some people will just keep blowing up 911, and at some point, the Police Department determines this is not a good use of our resources. Weve responded 15 times. 15 calls, and 14 were no merit. Im seeing an incredibly strong pattern. I can tell you from the work i used to do, the one thing that bugged me the most is when people would try to exploit city resources for their own vendettas. I can tell you one from my experience. People like massage parlors, but the minute they get 86ed from a massage parlor, they start blowing up the phones. Was there a person who was satisfied until they could no longer participate and then just started blowing up the phone. Im just looking at the data, 15 visits and 14 no merit, im inclined that our investigators take a reprieve from responding. I dont think its a good use of our resources. Well, in the back in the day when we were on the street, the a. B. C. Would come so many times. We dont come anything, the number is closed. Commissioner falzone yes, but the number is three. We go three times, not 15. Because there are some people that just i wanted to get a little feedback because especially in cases where we were receiving multiple complaints, and we go out and we visit, and theres noncompliance, and they dont progressively get better, thats when i say, can we bring this business in . Can we bring the neighbors in . I just wanted to bring it to you. If theyre not complying, but youve gone there three times, four times, theyre in complains. You just close the compliance. You just close the file. Commissioner falzone we can literally use that phrase that we close out the case. Because if we cant substantiate it. My feeling is if the investigator felt something, they would be saying that. We picked up on the vibe of the place and the complainants and their willingness to participate and what the under lying issues were, but i really feel like were chasing something that may not exist, unfortunately. So i do have a question. Outside of these outside of this current report, have has have has these callers actually registered complaints in the past . In the past . Outside of it . Yes. Yes. And in terms of your dialogue with the neighbors, are they aware that they moved into a district that provides night life and entertainment . Yes. He wants to get a better sense of the unit there might be and what kind of sound he was picking up from the venue walls when they were operating. In terms of the times that they complain and call, it ranges from saturday to sunday anywhere from 6 00 p. M. To 12 . And that theyre very different he from from a lot of the calls that come in generally, which is ill be generous, 11 00 until 3 00 a. M. , so im just concerned that the time frames where somebody would decide to register a complaint. And the fact that the sound is traced to two, potentially three different venues, and one be being a permitted venue, but a garage, that theres band practice happening, happen. I i actually am very aligned with my fellow commissioners and the majority of their comments. Okay. Thanks. President bleiman all right. No further thoughts on that. I dont have anymore thoughts on the on the report unless anybody wants to bring up any other wanted to bring up any other similar things. Im so glad that we have salt and straw. Weve determined theres no Live Entertainment at salt and straw. President bleiman all right. Is there any Public Comment on the Deputy Directors report . Seeing none oh, there is. It is open. Step to the microphone. Please state your name, and you have two minutes, please. Hello. My name is umbra, and this report it was caused in muscle stress it was only, what you call it, recycle, reduce, and it had went to a to a different area. And the area that it went to, i had no idea. The counselors and the missionaries seeing over at [inaudible] needed to be more responded to it was in the hallway, and i knew that i needed to explain this to the Health Department because there is a certain thing that he had to do to stop a lot of these infections thats going in the water, and which its already been in washington, d. C. I used to call the state up and all these departments to, you know, put more you know, substantials on a lot of these informations to, you know, explain to them a more, you know, brief it and the police and deputies. And this was closed because of one reason, i had the evidence that needed to get and all of a sudden, because of the evidence that i had, it was due to what i had said in [inaudible] was that deputies on this president bleiman all right. Thank you. Thank you very much. Is there anymore Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. President bleiman our next agenda item is number 5, which is hearing and possible application regarding applications possible permits regarding applications for the agenda. Thank you, president bleiman. The first matter is at nightingale, located at 239 fillmore street. One of their businesses is located across the street. The applicants are applying for a p. O. E. Permit to host live d. J. S and entertainment in the premises. They reached out to supervisor peskins out, four community groups, and reaching out from the venue. Here to tell you more is brian sheehy. Can you, commissioners, and as always, thank you for your guidance, and to the director, thank you for your guidance on this process. Were very fortunate that there are no residential neighbors on this side of the street. We are a sixdayaweek business, closed on sundays. We just opened in december in this location which, for the previous two years, was a bar, and for eight years prior to that, it was a restaurant called gaetan. Since we opened in december, business has been pretty good. Were a happy hour bar, but by 9 00 at night, people are pretty much moving on their way home. That is basically the reason for our application for a permit. Wed like to offer different types of jazz on weekdays and late night. We do a lot of corporate business in this location, as well, and a lot of our venue events need to have the opportunity for Live Entertainment. Officer matthias came to visit and tour the space two days ago, and he was happy with what he saw at the location. Be happy to answer any questions you have about the location. We also have our general manager, daniel shield. If you have any questions for him, and my Business Partner, doug dalton. The location is kind of across the street from your other location. Yes. This is the end of it. Weve got little storefronts a little further up. Perfect for you. I dont have any further questions. Ive already seen it. Hello. Thanks for coming in. I have a question about your Neighborhood Outreach . I think you commented that there was no neighborhood in the facility, but you had a Neighborhood Outreach. How did that go . We had to incentivize people to come out. We had 12 of our guests at the neighborhood home that had been neighbors at our wreckhouse bar, so 12 of them joined us for beverages at our bar. That was the attendance. And would you let us know your process, if there are complaints from any people in the neighborhood, how would you address those complaints . Sure. So we have our Good Neighbor policy listed at our business. Our general manager and owner telephone numbers are listed along with the Good Neighbor policy. My cell phone number as well as dougs is available to the commission 24 hours, as well as officer matthias. First, they would call the bar, and the bar manager would take care of it. And the bar manager would offer minor dougs number if they are not happy with the response, and we would work with them to resolve it. Thank you very much. Yeah. How many businesses do you have . I can tell you how many locations we have. Yes. We have seven. How many l. L. P. S . We have seven. Okay. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on this agenda item . Two minutes per item here. So my name is umbra, and on the kearney street, that i last night, the application, i dont know if this is going on tonight or not. Were needing, you know, some kind of reasons on the list, you know, to, you know, make a Better Company in our rediscovery and, you know, try to improve our state, you know, in this difference. And i would appreciate for any comments on that. Thank you. President bleiman thank you very much. Seeing no more Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. We can deliberate. I would like to make a motion to approve this permit with our Good Neighbor policy. Ill second it. [roll call] president bleiman congratulations. Youve been approved. Please follow up with our Deputy Director at your earliest convenience. All right. Your turn. Thank you. Okay. The next permit on the regular agenda is for a place of entertainment minor amendment to the parksides existing p. O. E. Permit. The parkside has held a p. O. E. Since 2010. The original permit is not include the use of their outdoor speakers. They are here tonight to come into compliance and are requesting to use their outdoor speakers on their patio until 10 00 p. M. As such, Senior Inspector roberts took a sound measurement and is recommending we set their sound measurement at 75 d. B. A. Over 85 d. B. C. Southern station recommends adding the three listed conditions below, and additionally, we wanted to cleanup their existing p. O. E. Conditions as their Current Conditions are all covered by the regular conditions and Good Neighbor policy. To view their existing permit, please turn to the last page of the section. Its on pages 2 and 3 . And here to address the commission is owner malia spanyol. Hi. Hows it going . Malia spanyol. Ive had the parkside since 2007, and weve always had those outdoor speakers there. Theyre just for entertainment. We keep it quiet. Its just nice, subtle ambiance. They get turned off at a nice early hour, and the patio dies down just about every day. Any questions . So the outdoor speakers are just, like, serial muzak . Yeah. Theyre about this big. Youre not piping any d. J. S or bands . No. Just ambient stuff. Yes. Hi. Thanks for coming in. On your application, i dont see anything about outreach, but you do have signatures. Youre across from a park, right . Right. There are not any residents in that neighborhood. So no other questions, just want to check about the neighbors. Thanks for coming in. Thank you. President bleiman i dont have any questions, you can have a seat. Is there any Public Comment on this agenda item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And deliberate. I just have a question. Regarding southern stations condition number one, i dont know how you enforce that . I dont, either. Thats their cleaned up section. I know malia worked with officer lawrence about this . And so they came to an understanding about that although it wasnt further defined within this condition, but she agreed with it after a conversation. No. I totally understand that, but the spirit of a condition is that its enforceable, and i totally get the well intended efforts, but im not sure were being fair to the department let alone the applicant with a condition like this because it sets a condition to the public that we can do Something Like this. The word efficient is too ambiguous. Im just saying i dont know how we would enforce it. Can you just remind me is this redundant . We have a standard fire occupancy. One per every 100 patrons. We may not need this. Well, Deputy Director azevedo, what was the agreement with malia . I think malia would best be able to answer this. President bleiman talk into the microphone. I can look at the email, but i think i have the same question, whats what . I think we can just common sensing. If were having an author come in and do a book reading, our standards are going to be a little bit different than if were having, you know, a busy show. And so it no, i understand that. And its a matter of i guess, i asked to clarify that, and i got sort of a rational answer, and i would hope that, you know, that who was that was working with me, that we would both be, you know, verify understanding about this, and proactive. President bleiman yeah, no, thats okay. Its already in our code that you need to have certain security based on your size. So i think what commissioner falzon was asking, what would you think, based on your size. Commissioner falzone i think it means working collaboratively with the Police Department when an issue comes up. The only thing im thinking is this is unenforceable, so it sets up an expectation that is in the longterm problematic with our commission. Whatever is agreed, i understand completely. Im just trying to work with whoever i need to work with. Commissioner lee can i ask a question, how are these speakers powered . They are powered with one single amp and a tiny mixer. Commissioner lee so the amp has 100 watts . If that. Commissioner lee so youre not going to be using it with a d. J. It would blow the speakers. I mean, its just a patio. To have a Security Guard when theyre turning on the speakers. This is because were also cleaning up all of the conditions that was previously on the place of Entertainment Permit . Because a lot of them were outdated and a lot of them were already unenforceable . Commissioner lee why cant we recommend, like, the one security for commissioner falzone we already have that. Commissioner lee but its only when she has events real events. President bleiman all thats implicit in our code. Its not even implicit, its explicit in the code statute. President bleiman statute. Im in the same mind of commissioner falzon that this may not be enforcement and a recipe of disaster. And they did reach out to southern station with their calendar regarding their events, so that could potentially be the bridge. Commissioner falzone right, and im not suggesting that be removed. This is no suggestion of the department or the applicant or one individual. But i think its the commissions role to make sure that our staff is capable of enforcing these, and i did look at these 16 original conditions which are suitable for framing, theyre so flawed. So were certainly heading in a great direction, but im prepared to make a motion if people want to entertain it. President bleiman you can have a seat again. You can make the motion. Commissioner falzone so id like to make the motion that we approve it with the conditions provided by the staff minus Condition One of southern station. I would like to strike southern stations number one, but go with the other two conditions, that the permit holder be responsible for outside promoters, and that southern stations provided a list of events in advance. I second. [roll call] president bleiman congratulations. Been approved. Please follow up with our Deputy Director at your earliest great. So the next item on your agenda is amendment for the permit for the midway. This is 900 marin street. This is just something that for 9 00 p. M. Theyve already gone through all of the approvals, and its been on their application. It just wasnt actually agendaized, so this is a formality. As you know, theyve been hosting outdoor venues prior to now . There was no opposition to the permit, and bayview station approved the permit with no added conditions, so pete and andrea are going to address you. Hi. President bleiman hi. Yeah. So we are looking to bring everything up to code and be in compliance with whats going on and extend the afterhours permit to the outdoor patio area. So that would continue till 10 00, and then, anything special oneoff events, it would go later, wed continue to go through that process. Any questions . Commissioner lee none. Thank you commissioner falzone oh, actually, i apologize. I do have one quick question. Just to clarify, do you have any residents . Residents in the area . No. Commissioner falzone thank you. President bleiman all right. Is there any Public Comment on this agenda item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thoughts . Motions . I move to approve sorry. Commissioner lee i second. With staff recommendations. Commissioner lee i second. [roll call] president bleiman all right. Its been approved. Thank you very much for coming in. Please follow up with our Deputy Director at your earliest convenience. Okay. The final permit on the regular agenda is a place of entertainment minor amendment at 26 mix located at 3424 Mission Street to revise their existing security plan. The current owner of 26 mix has held a p. O. E. License since 2011, but theyre here to okay. You threw me off there at the request of director weiland because weve seen an uptick of incidents occurring inside and outside of the address. Ive included a list of the occurrences for your review. We also wanted to modernize their existing permit conditions as many are now covered by statute, the Good Neighbor policy, or the revised security plan. The revised security plan was reviewed by s. E. Plan and sfpd mission. Please note the applicant is also requesting to extend their hours until 2 00 a. M. Daily as their current permit conditions allow them to end at 1 00 a. M. Daily. The easiest amendment is just to strike all the amendments on their permit and adopt the ones listed below. In the back of your packet is their existing p. O. E. Permit to take a look at what their current permit conditions read . And here to tell you more is mark bernie. Mr. President , commissioners, staff, glad to be back. Im here today with william tony mayorago whos the general manager of the past few years of 26 mix. We dont know how long this bar goes back, but it goes back at least 20 years, and the president owner has had it 11 years. I half kiddingly call it the last real mission bar in the mission. Its very interesting. Its primarily a latino crowd, and its really its a fun place. Its fairly large, about 3,000 square feet. Its located on the corner of 26 and mission, and there were some issues. Were trying to clean them up. I think theyve done a good job in the last month or so. I have some feelers out for a good Security Team, and i know one thats interested and is going to come and look at the place. Ive reviewed the weve reviewed the 14 conditions that were outlined by staff, and we have no problem with any of them. We did we did some outreach, even though weve been there forever. I think its a good idea to, hey, go meet all your neighbors, go meet all the people who own stores in the neighborhood. We did talk to james who owns a wig store nearby, the stop and store market, dylan, g. M. Of the fedex office across the street. Knocked on some doors. There were six residents that we talked to. They were very reticent to give out their phone numbers, but we gave them our phone numbers, let them know hey, we want to be a Good Neighbor. Tony is here to answer any questions that you might have. But we went the security plan is fairly robust. I got it back from kaitlyn, and it was all marked up. It was about a twohour fix, but thats all right. Im glad to see that kaitlyn really does hawkeye these things and doesnt miss a trick. We want to be a Good Neighbor out there. We want to preserve whats the last bar of its type in the outer mission, and we would request a grant tonight. [inaudible] i didnt . I did, too. [inaudible] so the manager has been there ever since for the last ten years . That is correct. And so youre changing your security plan, which is great. But at the same time, you know, security plans are only good if you follow the security plans, so what im wondering is, whats the difference between this new updated security plan to what you were doing when theres almost, like, two or three, even four complaints a month . I mean, what were you doing then or what you were not doing then to where its happening now or what you think is going to happen and we went get these complaints on you are on records anymore. Right. Well, our main concern is keep a Good Relationship with our neighbors. Unfortunately, there were some incidents. There was some shortage of personnel management, and weve addressed that. Weve hired an extra manager to address any issues in realtime with the neighbors. We have given our phone numbers to our neighbors so they can reach us at any time so we can respond in realtime and address any issues that we have. A lot of the complaints i think have been more of the patrons have been too loud outside rather than the music. I think for the last month or so or more, we have been really working on trying to get everybody out as fast as we can as soon as possible, even though we have rig, right in f of our door, a bus stop. We usually try to do it by 1 50, i would say by 1 50, the street is clear. Commissioner lee so this is a Security Team that used to work for you, or were you instructing your team to get the people out. Are you on the premise pretty much every day . Yes. Commissioner lee so whos in charge of enforcing these people, you know, to get them on their way or maybe not even let certain people come in, you know, that dont have an i. D. Maybe or Something Like that . Is that you specifically or is that a head of security that you have on staff . Im the person right now that is taking over that. We let the security handle that in the past, but now, im doing it. I direct security to go outside and push people out, tell them, hey, do us a favor and leave. Commissioner lee before that, youd let the Security Guards handle it. Thats correct. I figured theyd do a better job than i do. Commissioner lee and are they still with you . Were in the process of changing them. We gave them a 90day notice to improve or quit, but in the meantime, ive been working with mark to consult with some new security companies, and if we find someone that can we can come to some kind of arrangements, were definitely, were changing because just we want to start over and be able to run our business in a Good Neighborhood manner with our neighbors. Commissioner lee and whats the capacity of your its 198. We get to about 120 on a busy day or on a weekend. Commissioner lee do you impose any dress code . Sk we dont allow, like, gang type of colors and stuff like that, but otherwise, were kind of flexible. Commissioner lee i see. I guess in this new security plan, i didnt read it, all of it, but theres no dress code. Its just basically, its up to you guys. Right. Commissioner lee okay. All right. All right. Thats all. Thank you. Hello. Thanks for coming in. Are you familiar with this report that were looking at, a series of complaints dating back since may 2019, are you familiar with this . Yes. Okay. So its a period of about nine months. So were you personally aware that this was going on in your venue . There were some issues, but we really didnt know the amount of it at the time until we were contacted by the by the some of the people in the Entertainment Commission. Ev even though we have a Good Relationship with our neighbors above us, but there was more of a concern with the neighbors across the street. Weve been trying to reach out with them, as well to try to get a communication with one of the ladies its a real concern. We give our numbers, and we have talked to her a couple of times that she feels this theres an issue, and like i said, were not there, take care of it, and she and were right there, take care of, and she seems to be pleased with it lately. Im just concerned because there seems to be a lot of issues, and it doesnt seem like you did a lot of things to rectify the problem. Can you tell us what youre going to do besides the security plan is the plan, but its not going to be enforced by you if youre not concerned about these issues coming up. Its kind of an issue, so can you tell us what will be different moving forward, as far as the management . We like i said, weve been consulting with some people to help us out to control different type of issues and prepare ourselves in the learning process of how dealing with things, like, the different persons that have run out of the businesses. Weve talked to some other cab owners in the area so they can help us out and how to deal with that issue. I think the concern right now is to try to work in our relation with our neighbors, which i think has been the issue that we havent had that closeness to them, and i think that would be the major issue. If we can keep continue being close to the neighbors, any issue before it blows out of proportion, well be able to solve it and are you yourself tracking it down or writing it down in a notebook when it comes in, a complaint. We are starting a log in on a report, which were going to keep in there for whether it be for review or just for personal information, yes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner falzone hi. Good evening. How are you . Good. Commissioner falzone good evening, mr. Renne. How are you . Im good. Commissioner falzone actually, i want to start by paying a compliment to you. I think you did a great job of taking our original 24 conditions and condensing it down to 14. By reviewing it, i feel there was a lot of effort and logic that was put into it, and i want to applaud that. Im also appreciative of the owners willingness to drop the limit down to 80. One sentence reads the ratio of security to patrons shall be one Security Guard to every 80 patrons, but the next line reads there will be three to four Security Guards outside at all times. Onsite at all times. Commissioner falzone onsite, thank you. So my only thing im wondering from an interpretation point of view, so that means if the place is empty, youre going to have three to four Security Guards onsite at all times . The commissioner falzone and we can come up with we can fix this. I just want to make sure you understand it. Yeah, the bottom line, yes. The whole idea is to try to get enough personnel to try to keep our patrons going. The reason were asking, as well, for the 2 00 a. M. Extension is so with that 1 00 to either 2 00 a. M. Venue that were going to be able to make, well be able to pay some of the extra costs of security. Commissioner falzone sure, no, im following you. Im just going to make a suggestion, although im okay with leaving this. It might make more sense, and im putting this out to my fellow commissioners, the second condition where it says there will be three to four security outside at all times, it might be helpful if we add when the ratio exceeds one guard per 80, there will be three to four Security Guards onsite. That will at least give you a bit of a buffer, so when staffing, when occupancy is lower than that, you wont be committed to the three to four people possibly. Sometimes i confuse myself. Please jump in. My only thought is the main reason why were here tonight is because of outside patron noise on the outside of the premises. Commissioner falzone yeah, im aware of the complaint. That being said, if theres only one Security Guard onsite, and theyre not outside, the real thing that were trying to resolve is the outside patron noise, and so commissioner falzone well, let me look at this a different way, then, would it be logical that we should consider striking the ratio one per 80 if were going to keep the condition that says there will always be three or four onsite . Commissioner lee i dont think thats viable for a business. Commissioner falzone well, im agreeing. Thats why im bringing it up. Commissioner lee yeah, im agreeing with you. Commissioner falzone im just giving you the letter of the law. Commissioner lee we just say a minimum of two. If our staff believes we should have one inside and one out, a minimum of three to four outside, does that mean i think its a timing concern, too, right . The business opens much earlie three Security Guards when theres 50 people, and thats whats going to have to happen until you come back to us and say i cant afford it anymore. Yes, and like i said, our main issue right now is to try to do that, to accomplish that. The im there five days of the week, and then, we hire the extra person, which is going to be two days of the week, so that way, theres always going to be a manager, and we communicate with kaitlyn basically on every time that there has been a complaint. And i think she acan testify t that, that the complaints has gone down quite a bit since weve been talking. So were enforcing and doing everything within our power to accomplish that. At this time, i dont mind three Security Guards if thats what we need to keep the noise happy and neighbors happy. Maybe, like i said, in a future, we can amend that, but at the time if thats what you guys consider thats what we need, were more than willing to agree to that. Commissioner falzone so let me try this one more time. Let me try this slightly different approach. I think, are we willing to address one Security Guard per 80 . What im actually thinking we should i would propose to my fellow commissioners, we strike and leave the rest, that the Security Guards would patrol a 100foot radius of the property in an hour. My only problem is were getting into a dilemma thats really hard for us to enforce. Commissioner falzone well, you sit out there and watch. How are you going to enforce this . Well, its counting, right . They do commissioner falzone no, no, im still trying to overcome this ratio of 1 to 80, and then, there will be these three to four Security Guards onsite at all times. I guess my intent is we should strike the first condition. If everybody wants the three to four Security Guards at all times then we probably dont need the 1 to 80 because based on occupancy, weve met it. I would agree with that. You guys can take that condition further and amend it, and say the owner agree there will be agree to four Security Guards onsite at all times. Director hs commissioner lee theyre recommending three guards until they mitigate their problems, why dont we scratch the 1 to 80, and we come back in six months and see. Hes willing to try it. We need to reduce these calls for service. I think we keep the 180, but then, we change the timing, and we dont do three to four because a minimum of three to four doesnt exist. Its three is the minimum. Four is not a minimum. If the range is always the minimum will be two. Based on occupancy, the minimum would be two. And again, our main concern is no, we would say, the minimum would be three, not three to four. Yeah, good point. Commissioner lee but then have that on a time. It does not read minimum of three. Commissioner lee there would be three to four Security Guards onsite at all times. Commissioner falzone i think we will say there will e be may i point your attention to the bullet point that starts on monday through fridays from 4 00 p. M. To close . Commissioner falzone let me try this. What if we leave the first condition of 1 to 80, and then, the language we need to work in the next condition is based on the previously stated ratio. Then we go into how staffing gets diverted. Im just trying to go to the president s point, if theres less than 80 patrons. If were going to say the ratio is 1 to 80, then the next thing is based on the previous stated ratio, take out three to four. On weekends, two will be on the inside, and then one to two outside, etc. , etc. , and that doesnt impact your next condition. Im just trying to say if people are comfortable with the 1 to 80, which i think is a positive, given the past history, i just think the next condition needs to follow that same ratio, and that addresses the occupancy issue. With the understanding there will always be one security outside in your recommendation because thats what wed like to see. Commissioner falzone so what youre saying is if no ones shown up yet, you want one Security Guard out front. Thats what staffs recommending . Okay. So we can add that, we can include that so i think, then, the first condition perhaps should read at all times, there shall be one guard onsite during all operating hours. And then go, the ratio of security after that one guard shall be one guard per 80. So weve got one guard at all times. After that, its one per 80. And then, the next one would read, based on the afo aforementioned ratio. I just wanted to restate what i previously stated is its during these pertinent hours of 8 00 p. M. To 9 00 p. M. Its not during all business hours. Commissioner falzone correct, but thats why im addressing this issue because right now the conditions written, theyre going to pick up violations because we are telling them to have three to four. You want to dictate that to me if were going to commissioner falzone so i think the first condition, the one that talks about the ratio. Yes. Commissioner falzone reads in spirit, at all times, there shall be one Security Guard on premise during operating hours. Subsequently, there shall be one guard to every 80 patrons. Then, the next condition, strike the first sentence, and it would say, based on the aforementioned formula, staffing shall be as follows. And then, on weekends, towo, ad then, so on and forth. Okay. My only concern is were forcing them commissioner falzone no, no, we just struck it. So this is totally occupancy driven. Its protecting them. I definitely want them to have adequate security, but paying for three people or four people at all times commissioner falzone so mr. Renne, are you following this . Yes. Commissioner falzone wow. Ive never seen him so in the affirmative. Commissioner lee so are they going to be able to have three or four Security Guards on a friday . If the occupancy requires it . President bleiman i think its simpler than this. We just say theyre going to have a minimum of one Security Guard for up to 80 people, and after 9 00 p. M. Or 9 00 p. M. , seven days a week, right now, they have a minimum of three and one of them is posted outside at all times. Can you redictate that. President bleiman yeah. So they always have one Security Guard for 80 people, and then, seven days a week, after 8 00 p. M. Because there have been major issues, this would be my vote. Commissioner falzone yeah, i agree. President bleiman that they have a minimum of three, and at least one is posted outside during that entire time. So this way, youre not having because i run businesses, too. Paying for three people all day at 3 00 p. M. And 4 00 p. M. , its not economically viable. Its not going to help you. Are you then recommending to scratch the entire condition that reads, there will be three to four security onsite at all times, that whole condition . Im okay keeping it, i just think that first sentence should be changed to what you just read . President bleiman yeah. Obviously, with these conditions, we want to be specific on what we want them to be doing just so they can be compliant with the plan and we can enforce it and were not forcing the poor business commissioner falzone can i just make one comment. Let me just try this. We leave the first condition the way it is, and maybe the all the next condition has to say is regardless of occupancy, at 8 00 p. M. , there shall be three guards or more but a minimum, actually so regardless of occupancy, there shall be a minimum of three guards onsite at 8 00 p. M. , and then, the rest continues. President bleiman i think thats enforceable. Commissioner falzone i like that. Im with you. So regardless of occupancy, there shall be three. Commissioner falzone a minimum. So the 1 to 80 will always be in play, but come 8 00, there shall be three guards, one posted on the exterior. And i think thats picking up the essence of both what the president is saying and what im trying to ferret through. Commissioner lee so basically, the inspector shows up at 8 30, and there better be three there. Were still actually reducing your experience. Just so for my clarification so i can understand commissioner falzone mr. Renne apparently completely understands. So it would be as soon as we open doors, there should be one Security Guard. Commissioner falzone one guard. During all business hours, a minimum of one. President bleiman also, the staff can help you. Were happy to help you. Okay. President bleiman yeah. Okay. Anything else . All right. You can have a seat. Thank you very much. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Good evening, commissioners. [inaudible] one thing i might add is it sounds like people converge outside and talk and hangout. Maybe just putting up some signage that say no loitering. And then, the security can explain to the guests that you cant hangout outside because we, as part of our condition, we had to put a no loitering sign up like that. Thats what it sounds like where its at. And the other thing is, you know, mark can get a better Security Team. Its not the number of the urt sko security, its the quality of his team for the patrons, and i think thats going to work. President bleiman thank you very much. Hello. My names rebel. And on this one, the 26 mix, is that part of the mixture for or is that just part of the classroom, because, you know, its a good idea, but hes explained to you that about this security. Thank you. President bleiman thank you very much. Seeing no more Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. I hope you do the motion. Commissioner falzone im going to give it a shot. President bleiman i want to hear you repeat what you just said. Commissioner falzone so based on our previously mentioned amendments would you like to take a shot at it first and see if we have concurrence . Yes. Okay. So im just speaking about the condition that you proposed to commissioner falzone the one that follows the one to 80 ratio. Regardless of occupancy, beginning at 8 00 p. M. Daily, there shall be a minimum of three security onsite, one of which must be outside. On weekdays, and that goes into the remaining of the sentence. Commissioner falzone okay. And the other part we want to get in there is during all operating hours, there always shall be at least one guard, and that can possibly go in front of the ratio one. Sure. Yes. Commissioner falzone and that was the point. There was always one guard, regardless of occupancy. There will always be one guard onsite during operating hours. Commissioner falzone a minimum of one guard. And with that amendment and the remaining 13 conditions, i would recommend approval the 13 conditions from staff. Commissioner lee i second. [roll call] president bleiman congratulations. Been approved. Thank you, and you can follow up with our Deputy Director, and feel free to ask her as many questions as you need to know whats happened here. Thank you very much. All right. Moving onto the last agenda item, which is commissioner comments and questions, i believe, the coronavirus issue, i know were all being cautious and theres major hysteria going on, but all the businesses, please come and patronize. Theres no disease or virus going on in chinatown or any neighborhoods, San Francisco at this point. And so right now, businesses are really, really hurting, and even the ones that are related to me. Were forced to layoff or have some unfortunate forced vacations until this crisis is over, so in the meantime, it would be great if people would just, you know, relax and look around and notice its business as usual and come to chinatown or any of the communities that dinner or lunch. Jump in. I do want to jump in. This issue is a moving target, and so we are involved, so just wanted to give you all a heads up that we should have substantial updates as we go. Weve also just been asked to staff the Emergency Operations center for 10 or 12 hours a week from our staff so we can be helpful and responsive to large scale events in the city. And well continue to take the guidance, leadership and messaging thats coming from the c. D. C. , department of public health, and department of Emergency Management. President bleiman all right. The only thing i was going to add was we all should be washing our hands. Just having visited seattle this week for the conference. I think we need to remember how good we have it, the synergy between our community and the night life. We are the Gold Standard maybe in the entire world, and everybody let us know that every single time we spoke with them. This was not made overnight, but we are the beneficiaries of it here, and the light. Great job, anyone. Lets keep it going. Any Public Comment on commissioner comments and questions . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed, and well adjourn the meeting at 6 54 p. M. Shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of San Francisco. We help San Francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. So where will you shop and dine in the 49 . Im one of three owners here in San Francisco and we provide mostly live Music Entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and its not a big menu, but we did it with love. Like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. For latinos, it brings Families Together and if we can bring that family to your business, youre gold. Tonight we have russelling for e community. We have a tenperson limb elimination match. We have a fullsize ring with barside food and drink. We ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. Were hope og get families to join us. Weve done a drag queen bingo and were trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. This is a great part of town and theres a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. Theres a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hanhang out at. We have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. Some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and its exciting. We even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. Its in the San Francisco Garden District and four beautiful muellermixer ura alsomurals. Its important to shop local because its kind of like a circle of life, if you will. We hire local people. Local people spend their money at our businesses and those local mean that wor people willr money as well. I hope people shop locally. [ ] chairwoman good morning, everyone, the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the march 2, 2020, meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. Seated to my right is captain stefanie, and well soon be joined by supervisor gordon marr. Mar. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes. Please silence your cell phones and all electronic equipment. Completed speaker cards and copies of any documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the march 10 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Chairwoman can you read item number one. Item one is appointing two members to the commission on aging and Advisory Council. Chairwoman than thank you so much. I believe were joined by juliette rothman. If juliette would like to come up and address the committee, thank you so much. If you just want to share with us your interest in the appointment. How are you . Good. Im here to seek reappointment to the Advisory Council, and just to tell you a little bit about myself. I worked in the direct practice of aging and disability for 25 years and have chaired ethics committees and hospice committees and all that kind of stuff. I got really concerned about some of the ethical issues in health care, and went back and got a ph. D. In health care ethics. And taught at catholic move to franchise, taught at cal for 15 years in special welfare and public health, and in the si sixyear joint medical program. And now im retired, and im really enjoying the shift from micropractice, direct practice, to looking at things on a more macro level, after i taught macro, and now im getting to experience it. Im serving on the aquatic park Senior Centers team lead, the neighborhood circle, and etc. , etc. I really have been enjoying what im doing with the council. And i would like to continue. Chairwoman thank you so much for your service. Do you have any questions . No. I just want to thank you for your service, especially with regard to aquatic park Senior Center since that is in district 2. Thank you so much. Chairwoman if we could hear from ms. Graff. Is that all we need from you . Thats all. Chairwoman youre so impressive, we need no more information. Good morning. Thank you for listening to my petition here. Im Margaret Graff and im a senior. This is specifically for reappointment to the Advisory Council to the commission for das. I am nominated by supervisor gordon mar. And i have the honor to be nominated by two different supervisors since i was originally, first time around, a nominee of katie king. Ive been my term expires on march 31. And i am seeking renomination because i think my work isnt done, or what i can contribute to the Advisory Council. Presently on the Advisory Council, i serve on the executive committee because i am also the elected second vice president. I also serve on the legislative committee. What that specifically does is we review pending bills that are in the state legislature and follow them as they work their way through, or not, as the case may be. And as they work their way through, if we feel a response is a good idea, we bring to the Advisory Council a suggestion of writing a letter of support. As far as my background is concerned, im a retired registered nurse, and im a retired attorney. So i have a medical and a legal background. Chairwoman can came first . The registered nurse. I was a registered nurse, and then i was a stayathome mom for 13 years, raising my three children. Ive been a 56year resident of district 4, so basically i was born in the midwest, and midwesterners tend to put down roots deep, so i did. Chairwoman can i ask you what inspired you to go to law school and get a law degree . Im just curious. Well, youre talking to an older woman here. I always wanted to be a lawyer. But i grew up in a very small town in the midwest, and at that particular time, women didnt go off to become attorneys. We, at best, got to be teachers or nurses. And so that had to be put aside, which i did. And empty nest syndrome, where the children are beginning to get their wings a little and spread them, i thought, now or never. So i went to law school. Chairwoman well, speaking to two women attorneys, thank you for forging the bath for us. In my case, what Glass Ceiling . One of the things that inspired me to get so involved in the community, approximately seven years ago, my husband started to develop the symptoms of dementia and alzheimers disease. And i was scared to death. And i didnt know where to go or what to look for or where to get help. And in the process of finding my way through that maze, and finding that i didnt feel that there were so many agencies in San Francisco, and it is so hard to evaluate what will help, but i felt i needed something locally, in my so about a year and a half ago, i went to katie king, and i said, i have an idea. I cant find what i want to meet the needs of a caregiver for a dementia patient, so i want to start something. And i started a group called senior power. And if supervisor mar were here, he would readily tell you that i talk about it all of the time. No one is safe from my talking about senior power. But basically it is a nonprofit organization. It is communitydriven, and the focus is on seniors, their families, and the caregivers. Because of the nature of the district i come from, which is predominantly asian and pacific islander, im very proud to say that within this past year we now have offer Translation Services at our meetings. We meet monthly. We have guest speakers. We practice chi gong, and we have raffle prizes and light refreshments. It is a socialization, getting them out of the household. And that has led me to serve presently on three committees for supervisor mar. One for the elders. One for the safety street safety. And the other one for the city college satellite that we were able to bring to district 4. And within that city college satellite program, what we now have is a class for older adults, which basically is t taichi. So roundabout circle, one of the things we tried to do im probably going way over my minutes. One of the things that we need to do is all of these good services, to bring them to the outer districts, the to community, and serving on the Advisory Council, i have a firsthand seat at learning these. And i take it back. Thats the whole point, frankly. Chairwoman thank you so much. Thank you very much for listening. Chairwoman thank you. I will now open this item up for Public Comment. If any member of the public wishes to speak of these two appointments, seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I just wanted to thank supervisors peskin and mar for appointing these extraordinary candidates for this advisory board. Thank you so much for your willingness to do this work. It is crucially important. And captain stefanie has a few words. I want to echo your thanks to both supervisors for coming forth, both of you. I think this is such an important topic. I talk about seniors all of the time. I just actually returned home from mersed, where my dad was diagnosed with lewy body dementia two years ago, and he is declining rapidly. This weekend was the first weekend where he didnt recognize me. And it is very difficult for caregivers, and watching a man who his library is full of the most difficult books one could ever wrapped their minds around, and now he is holding childrens books, and watching this, someone just disappear, is extremely difficult. I want so badly to be able to figure out how we can help those suffering from dementia, and also how we can help the caregivers. So i really want to follow up with both of you, and to see if we can bring any of the programs you talked about to district 2, and how we can just support those that are caregiving, and those that are suffering. And if there is anything that we can do, i cant even begin to tell you what my family has been through with this diagnosis and just watching my dad disappear. Thank you again for this extremely important work. Im thrilled to be able to support both nominations today. So with that, i need to put my glasses on. I would like to move forward with positive recommendation. The appointment of juliette rothman to seat 4 on the aging council, and Margaret Graff, to the full board without objection. Chairwoman without objection, that motion passes unanimously. Thank you so much. [applause] chairwoman mr. Clerk, can you please read item number two. A hearing to consider appointing one member to the parks and recreation open space advisory commissioners. Chairwoman good morning. Thank you for the opportunity to come in and speak about this. My candidacy for the prozac committee. I have been a district 4 resident since 1986, so that is 34 years, and i married a district 4 native, with hi our two sons in district 4, who have now grown. And we have really relied on the open space and parks we have out there and throughout the city. The recreation centers, the west sunset, south sunset, were very lucky to have these resources in our community, as well as the summer lakes, the kisar sports camp. That is to say i realize how important it is to have access to open space and parks for everybody, all ages and especially kids growing up in an urban environment. Since 2016, ive been managing playland at 43rd avenue. It is a Community Resource that turned a vacant lot around the old Francis Scott key school into a Community Recreation area, that has skateboarding, gardens, art programs, yoga for all ages which i want to tell margaret about later. So that has been a really rewarding opportunity to see all of the different people in our neighborhood coming together in different ways and using this really active space that houses all these different things. However, playland will be closing at the end of this year because of the teacher housing that is coming in, which is a great thing. And we knew that from the start of playland, even as the community was building and managing the space. Supportive of the teacher housing, it is something we really need in San Francisco. But it points to the other need of recreation and open space that we will now be losing. What is going to happen to those activities and where will the people go . I know ive been talking with supervisor mar, and i know he is looking at alternatives and what can we do . Where can we find other spaces, other types of spots for these kinds of activities . And thats something im really looking forward to having the opportunity to support him on, as a member of this committee. There are other things going on in district 4, like the sunset boulevard master plan where we might be able to combine some play or some gardening or maybe a little skate park. There is possibly vacant storefronts, Church Properties that gordon has been working on transitioning. I think it is opportunities and being creative and thinking of recreation and open spaces and environment in maybe different ways, and maybe alternative types of spaces than were used to seeing in terms of rec and park. So if i have the opportunity to serve on this committee, i hope to make sure there are these kinds of spaces for our district 4 residents, but also throughout all of the districts. Districts in San Francisco. And at the same time, supporting our citys sustainable green infrastructure. Thank you. Chairwoman thank you for all of your service. I appreciate it. No questions for me . [laughter] chairwoman im opening this item up for Public Comment. Is there any member of the Public Comment that wishes to speak. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Again, supervisor mar made an excellent appointment. Thank you so much fo for your extraordinary work. Thank goodness we have such amazing people in San Francisco willing to invest in their community. And all women. Womens history month. Chairwoman do you want to do the honors again . I would like to move forward the appointment of susan ryan to seat 3 on the park and recreations open spaces. Chairwoman that without objection, that passes. I would like to note that supervisor mar was absent for that vote. Chairwoman can you please read item number three. Item number three is a hearing to appointing one member, ending march 31, 2022, to the Pedestrian Safety advisory committee. Chairwoman thank you so much. Is ms. Marta here . Thank you so much. Good morning. My name is marta lyndsay, and an Education Instructor at walk San Francisco, and ive been there about two years. And i have enthusiastic support from the organization to be the person to represent the Pedestrian Safety advisory committee. And i am a longtime San Francisco resident. I have two young children. And i walk for almost all of my trips everywhere, and i feel these issues very personally, and im extremely committed and excited to get on the committee at this time. Ive attended several meetings. We need to kind of get the committee sorted out on some fronts. And really harness the energy of the group for being another voice for pedestrians. So i think thats all i have to say. Chairwoman im just wondering, given what a horrible start to the year weve had with pedestrian fatalities and injuries, just your thoughts on how the group is doing and what additional resources, if any, you need. Yeah. Thank you. I would like to report back on that after getting to participate in the meetings actively. But i think there is one thing, onthing one thing wed is more members. There are several vacancies, and it is making it hard to have a quorum for voting. Were reaching out to senior and disability groups to fill the two empty seats right now that need to have folks representing senior disability groups. And there are a couple of other districts, i think, that i cant name right now. So thats going to be important. I think we have some great folks on there that are ready to get organized as a group and be a stronger voice, which we need right now. We need every voice possible. So, yeah. Thanks. Chairwoman opening up this item for Public Comment. Any member of the public wish to speak, or from city departments . Good morning, madam chair. Elo ramos speaking on my own personal time. I want to take the opportunity this morning to support ms. Lindseys appointment. Ive had the privilege of knowing marta forgoing on 14 years now. Ive had the privilege of working with her in the past, when she was an advocate with myself, working for a safer, more inclusive and more functional, sustainable streets. She is a fierce advocate. She will hold us accountable. I knew her the whole time i was on the board of directors for the m. T. A. , and just being her coworker did not mean anything to her when it came to pulling me into conversations around doing better to get to our vision zero target more quickly. She has an extraordinary love for this city. She is deeply committed to the safety, and not just for her children, but for everyone. And she brings this incredible, talented lens that speaks to communications and inclusiveness, and just a wonderful vision for vision zero. So im confident knowing the two of you, and your values, from a safety and security perspective, youll very proud to make her appointment. Chairwoman any other Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] chairwoman go ahead. Okay. Great. Well, im thrilled to be able to put forward with positive recommendation to the full board Marta Lindsey for seat 1 on the Pedestrian Safety advisory committee. Chairwoman without objection, that motion passes unanimously. And i would like to note that supervisor mar was ab sen absent for the vote. Chairwoman can you please read item number four. Item four is a motion for the board of supervisors rules of order to set the process for the administration of oath for individuals testifying before the board, and to authorize the government audit and Oversight Committee to issue orders and issue subpoenas. Chairwoman thank you. And were joined by supervisor peskin. Do you have any remarks, supervisor peskin . Thank you, chair ronen, supervisor stefanie. Before you are the amendments that were proposed in Committee Last week, that you verbally suggested the City Attorney, in consultation with the clerk of the board, insert into the language that is before you today. I know that the clerk of the board, ms. Calvio, is here if you have any questions for her. Id like to thank her and deputy City Attorney pearson for their work on this. I would like to, subject to Public Comment, duplicate the file and remove, in section 6. 7. 1, in a file to be forwarded to the full board, the language with regard to the administration of oath to a department head, and leave that in committee so that if there is any desire by the m. E. A. To meet and confer on that, we can do so. And send this item, with the amendment removing that, to the full board with recommendation, if this Committee Sees fit. Chairwoman and to the City Attorney, have we reached out to the m. E. A. . Yes. This draft has been sent to the m. E. A. Chairwoman and when was that done . That was done at the end of last week. I believe it was on thursday. Chairwoman and have we heard back . I have not. Chairwoman and have we been in touch with d. H. R. . It was sent to d. H. R to m. E e. A. Through d. H. R. I dont know if theyve determined there is a need for it, so we sent it to them. And it is up to them to decide if there is a need for meet and confer. Chairwoman why hasnt that happened before today . I dont know. It is a decision to be made by d. H. R. I dont know. So the legislation, without that language, was introduced and approved, and d. H. R. Had no comment two years ago. So the only thing that changed is this language, which i think spurred the City Attorney to send it to d. H. R. I think we have some options, one is we can send it to the full board with this language, and if there is a desire for meet and confer, we could remove that language at the full board. That would be another option. Chairwoman yeah. I mean, this other language is important to me, given what were facing. And it doesnt seem like there was the urgency to reach out to d. H. R. , to ex them for their conclusion. It doesnt take two weeks to determine if the legislation is subject to meet and confer. I think a week has gone by. I like the language. I would like to keep the language. But i think perhaps, rather than duplicating file or we could duplicate the file, and keep one here, and send the exact same file to the full board. And if the full board needs to remove that clause in section 6. 7. 1, we could to so next week. Chairwoman okay. Im just expressing my disappointment to d. H. R. , i dont know why it would take an entire week to decide if this is subject to meet and confer. It is a simple analysis and decision. So i dont know why that didnt happen, and im frustrated, so i just want to communicate that. Having said that, are there any other questions or comments before opening this item up to Public Comment . No . I do want to thank you for approving item number one. Chairwoman yes. What an excellent candidate. Is there any member of the public who wishes to speak. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. So i will make the motion i guess any supervisor it doesnt have to be a Committee Member can duplicate the file . Or does it have to be a Committee Member that duplicates the file . I believe a member of the committee to request a duplicate. Chairwoman motion to duplicate the file and to send and we already accepted the amendments last week, so we dont need to do that again to send the item as amended with recommendation. Yes. Just to clarify, you have duplicated the file. The version of the file that will be referred to the board of supervisor with recommendation will not have the information regarding chairwoman no. No. No. Were duplicating the file so that theyre identical. Yes. Chairwoman were sending one version to the board of supervisors, and were keeping one version in committee, but theyre identical. Oh, yes. Just to note that if they are identical, one of them there are some rules regarding identical files. But we can discuss that at a later time. Chairwoman okay. We have both the clerk of the board and the City Attorney here, so im wondering if we want to talk about those rules . No . If they chairwoman okay. Great. One more time, ill just repeat were going to duplicate the files so we have two identical versions. One is going to stay in committee, and one is moving to a full board. My motion is to send the duplicated file to the full board with positive recommendation. Yes. Chairwoman can we take that without objection . Without objection, that motion passes unanimously. Payers than thank you, madam chair and colleagues. Chairwoman mr. Clerk, can you please read item number five. [item five read] chairwoman good morning, mr. Agustine, how are you . David augustin augustine her. Were here to talk about the exciting world of unsecured personal property taxes. Things like business fixtures and things of that note, and equipment. We have an ordinance for the first time that were approaching the board to consider. I would like to spend a couple of minutes to talk about why were coming to the board because this is something we have not done, at least in my 15year years in office. It will allow the patroller to collect personal property debt on an ongoing basis. I want to make sure this legislation does not allow for cancellation of any secured security taxes, i. E. , secured by land or ones difficult to collect. This ordinance would allow only for cancellation of unsecured personal property debt. All bills that could be canceled, we would only cancel them if theyre literally uncolleccollectible. There are three categories only. First, any amounts over 30 years old. Second, any amounts that have been discharged after bankruptcy, again, we would be legally barred from collecting these accounts. And, third, any lean that has failed to have been filed or renewed. As a side note, before 2015, we had a manual lien removal process, essentially within three years of the debt being valid, to go and record with the recorders office, and we could renew it up to two different times. We now have an automated process where liens are automatically renewed, and we dont have to have people walking across city hall to record a document. So that would be the third category. It is a relatively small category. So why now . Why are we asking now for this power . The office of the treasurer and controller are migrating to a new tax operation. And wcancellation of these accounts will allow us to transport tens of thousands of accounts. Again, some of these obligations go back 50 years. Were proud, we have a high collection rate for unsecured personal property tax collection, about 95 . Every year we collect about 170 million annually in unsecured personal property taxes from about 80,000 different taxpayers. Our systems have all been overhauled and allowed for automated contact and imposition of liens. Canceling uncollectible debt is a practice other counties engage in. In addition, i did a quick survey of our colleagues in our california Tax Collector group and found out that hum belt, spanish law, and del nor have all canceled debt recently. What were talking about is the accounts that have about 20 million, and with interest, it is about 100 million. And the reason the interest is so high because sometimes the accounts go back to about 50 years, and numbers about 35,000 accounts. By far, the greatest challenge to those accounts represent bills that are over 30 years old, and the other challenge is bankruptcy or failure to renew a lien. With that, i would be happy to take any questions or discuss this in more detail. Chairwoman sure, does this authority currently rest with the board of supervisors . Thats right, it does. Chairwoman out of curiosity, what ask to delegate this authority . Great question. We proposed taking it out of the boards hands because we wouldnt be exercising, en m, in my view, any judgment. If we were choosing judgments that were difficult to collect, maybe there was a debtor that moved out of the country, i feel like that is of province of the board to cancel. These accounts we are legally unable to collect, so i thought we would take time off if we took ought off the board. We could come back to the board if it was not falling into any of the three buckets i articulated earlier. We want to make sure we use the power judicially and appropriately. It is not our business to cancel accounts to begin with. It is my job to collect these taxes, and so thats certainly what we look forward to doing. Chairwoman why the controller and not the treasurer directly . Is that because you want an outside party making the judgment call that is the state revenue and taxation code requirement that allows this to happen upon the state controller, usually the responsible power. It is a separation of powers issue, which we think is extremely appropriate. We would make a recommendation, and the controller would accept it or not accept it and we would go forward from there. Chairwoman thank you. Is there any Public Comment on this item . See none, Public Comment is closed. It makes a whole lot of sense to me. It looks like my colleagues agree. So we would like to move this forward with a positive recommendation, and without objection that motion passes unanimously. Mr. Clerk, is there any other items . That completes the agenda for today. Chairwoman and the meeting is adjourned thank you. Working with kids, they keep you young. They keep you on your tones on your toes. Teaching them, at the same time, us learning from them, everything is fulfilling. Ready . Go. [ ] we really wanted to find a way to support Women Entrepreneurs in particular in San Francisco. It was very important for the mayor, as well as the Safety Support the dreams that people want to realize, and provide them with an opportunity to receive funding to support improvements for their business so they could grow and thrive in their neighborhoods and in their industry. Three, two, one because i am one of the consultants for two nonprofits here for entrepreneurship, i knew about the grand through the renaissance entrepreneur center, and through the Small Business development center. I thought they were going to be perfect candidate because of their strong values in the community. They really give back to the neighborhood. They are from this neighborhood, and they care about the kids in the community here. When molly molly first told us about the grant because she works with Small Businesses. She has been a tremendous help for us here. She brought us to the attention of the grand just because a lot of things here were outdated, and need to be uptodate and redone totally. Hands in front. Recite the creed. My oldest is jt, he is seven, and my youngest is ryan, he is almost six. It instills discipline and the boys, but they show a lot of care. We think it is great. The moves are fantastic. The women both are great teachers. What is the next one . My son goes to fd k. He has been attending for about two years now. They also have a summer program, and last summer was our first year participating in it. They took the kids everywhere around San Francisco. This year, owner talking about placing them in summer camps, all he wanted to do was spend the entire summer with them. He has strong women in his life, so he really appreciates it. I think that carries through and i appreciate the fact that there are more strong women in the world like that. I met dandrea 25 years ago, and we met through our interest in karate. Our professor started on cortland years ago, so we grew up here at this location, we out he outgrew the space and he moved ten years later. He decided to reopen this location after he moved. Initially, i came back to say, hey, because it might have been 15 years since i even put on a uniform. My Business Partner was here basically by herself, and the person she was supposed to run the studio with said great, you are here, i started new Nursing School so you can take over. And she said wait, that is not what i am here for i was by myself before for a month before she came through. She was technically here as a secretary, but we insisted, just put on the uniform, and help her teach. I was struggling a little bit. And she has been here. One thing led to another and now we are coowners. You think a lot more about safety after having children and i wanted to not live in fear so much, and so i just took advantage of the opportunity, and i found it very powerful to hit something, to get some relief, but also having the knowledge one you might be in a situation of how to take care of yourself. The selfdefence class is a new thing that we are doing. We started with a group of women last year as a trial run to see how it felt. Theres a difference between selfdefence and doing a karate class. We didnt want them to do an actual karate class. We wanted to learn the fundamentals of how to defend yourself versus, you know, going through all the forms and techniques that we teaching a karate class and how to break that down. Then i was approached by my old high school. One once a semester, the kids get to pick an extra curricular activity to take outside of the school walls. My old biology teacher is now the principle. She approached us into doing a selfdefence class. The girls have been really proactive and really sweet. They step out of of the comfort zone, but they have been willing to step out and that hasnt been any pushback. It is really great. It is respect. You have to learn it. When we first came in, they knew us as those girls. They didnt know who we were. Finally, we came enough for them to realize, okay, they are in the business now. It took a while for us to gain that respect from our peers, our male peers. Since receiving the grant, it has ignited us even more, and put a fire underneath our butts even more. We were doing our summer camp and we are in a movie theatre, and we just finished watching a film and she stepped out to receive a phone call. She came in and she screamed, hey, we got the grant. And i said what . Martial arts is a passion for us. It is passion driven. There are days where we are dead tired and the kids come and they have the biggest smiles on their faces and it is contagious. We have been operating this program for a little over a year all Women Entrepreneurs. It is an extraordinary benefit for us. We have had the Mayors Office investing in our program so we can continue doing this work. It has been so impactful across a diversity of communities throughout the city. We hope that we are making some type of impact in these kids lives outside of just learning karate. Having selfconfidence, having discipline, learning to know when its okay to stand up for yourself versus you just being a bully in school. These are the values we want the kids to take away from this. Not just, i learned how to kick and i learned how to punch. We want the kids to have more values when they walk outside of these doors. [ ] growing up in San Francisco has been way safer than growing up other places we we have that bubble, and its still that bubble that its okay to be whatever you want to. You can let your free flag fry he fly here. As an adult with autism, im here to challenge peoples idea of what autism is. My journey is not everyones journey because every autistic child is different, but theres hope. My background has heavy roots in the bay area. I was born in san diego and adopted out to San Francisco when i was about 17 years old. I bounced around a little bit here in high school, but ive always been here in the bay. We are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to emp. We dont turn anyone away. We take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. The most common thing i hear in my adult life is oh, you dont seem like you have autism. You seem so normal. Yeah. Thats 26 years of really, really, really hard work and i think thises that i still do. I was one of the first open adoptions for an lgbt couple. They split up when i was about four. One of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my biological mother, who is also a lesbian. Very queer family. Growing up in the 90s with a queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here, i felt safe. I was bullied relatively infrequently. But i never really felt isolated or alone. I have known for virtually my entire life i was not suspended, but kindly asked to not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change. The school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. One of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so they know what its about, but my parents wanted my life to be safe. When i have all the neurological issues to manage, that was just one more to add to it. I was a weird kid. I had my core group of, like, very tight, like, three friends. When we look at autism, we characterize it by, like, lack of eye contact, what i do now is when im looking away from the camera, its for my own comfort. Faces are confusing. Its a lack of mirror neurons in your brain working properly to allow you to experience empathy, to realize where somebody is coming from, or to realize that body language means that. At its core, autism is a social disorder, its a neurological disorder that people are born with, and its a big, big spectrum. It wasnt until i was a teenager that i heard autism in relation to myself, and i rejected it. I was very loud, i took up a lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space let everybody else know where i existed in the world. I didnt like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared. I was very difficult to be around. But the friends that i have are very close. I click with our atypical kiddos than other people do. In experience, i remember when i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me because it hurt. I remember throwing chairs because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it meant that i couldnt cope. I grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i got development cal developmental psychology from all sides. I recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of that, and not everybodys in a position to have a family thats as supportive, but theres also a community thats incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. It was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what . Im just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male. I have a twoyearold. The person who im now married to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasnt sure, so i we went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth control, so theres no way you can be pregnant. I found out i was pregnant at 6. 5 months. My whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. I think ive finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. I think the access to irrelevant care for parents is intentionally confusing. When i did the procespective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. We have a place where children can be children, but its very confusing. I always out myself as an adult with autism. I think its helpful when you know where can your child go. How im choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy. How do speech therapy. How do you explain that to the rest of their class . I want that to be a normal experience. I was working on a certificate and kind of getting think Early Childhood credits brefore i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in San Francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i dont really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight persons perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and im like absolutely. So im now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. I love growing up here. I love what San Francisco represents. The idea of leaving has never occurred to me. But its a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. What ive done with my life is work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that were still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a Resource Center, and this Resource Center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. I would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. So many things that i would love to do that are all about changing peoples minds about certain chunts, like the Transgender Community or the autistic community. I would like my daughter to know theres no wrong way to go through life. Everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all grief and sadness, and that all of those things are temporary. 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But most importantly, working for the city and county of San Francisco gives employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas, energy, and commitment to shape the citys future. Thank you for considering a career with the city and county of San Francisco. San francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and preparedness, not only for San Francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] fire station 35 was built in 1915. So it is over 100 years old. And helped it, were going to build fire boat station 35. So the finished Capital Planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on Sea Level Rise. The station 35, Construction Cost is approximately 30 million. And the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. It is being fabricated in china, and will be brought to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. Were looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. The historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. This totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of Sea Level Rise over the next 100 years. Thats what the citys guidance is requiring. It is built on the float, that can move up and down as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed guide piles. So if the seas go up, it can move up and down with that. It does have a full range of travel, from low tide to high tide of about 16 feet. So that allows for current tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming decades. The fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. The access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a pivot or hinge connection, and then it is sliding over the top of the float. In that way the ramp can flex up and down like a hinge, and also allow for a slight few inches of lateral motion of the float. Both the access ramps, which there is two, and the utilitys only flexible connection connecting from the float to the back of the building. So electrical power, water, sewage, it all has flexible connection to the boat. High boat station number 35 will provide mooring for three fire boats and one rescue boat. Currently were staffed with Seven Members per day, but the Fire Department would like to establish a new dedicated marine unit that would be able to respond to multiple incidences. Looking into the future, we have not only at t park, where we have a lot of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along these new developments. There are very few designs for people sleeping on the water. Were looking at cruiseships, which are larger structures, several times the size of harbor station 35, but theyre the only good reference point. We look to the cruiseship industry who has kind of an index for how much acceleration they were accommodate. It is very unique. I dont know that any other fire station built on the water is in the United States. The fire boat is a regionalesset tharegional assete used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup. We have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. This is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. Were proud to serve our community. And were willing to help the department of Emergency Management declared this local emergency really to help us prepare better for the c