Mandelman. I would like to thank Samuel Williams and michael from sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Do we have announcements . Please silence cell phones and electronic documents. Submit documents to the clerk. Items today will appear on the march 17th agenda unless otherwise stated due to the deck rarcoronavirus we are asking yoo wash hands and avoid touching high volume surfaces as much as possible. Please call item one and two. Resolution authorizing the department of Public Health to accept 3 million from the Tipping Point community for creation of new Psychiatric Center for two year period beginning january 162020 through january 15, 2020. Two. Resolution authorizing the director of property to lease Real Property located at 11567 valencia street for 404,000 per year for three years with an estimated commencement date of mar1, 2020 to expire on februar. Thank you very much. Supervisor mandelman. Thank you. Colleagues. These two items will allow the department of Public Health to open a 30 bed shelter at 1156 valencia street. It is to extend a 3 million grant to help Fund Creation of the 30 bed Community Hummingbird facility. Two is to enter a lease with Salvation Army for use of 1156 valencia for a term of three years. Soon after i took office in the summer of 2018, i visited the citys first and still only hummingbird place located on the General Hospital campus. It is a 24 hour Behavioral Center with 29 beds serving Homeless People with Mental Illness. With an estimated 4,000 unhoused in San Francisco meeting these suffering from Mental Illness and Substance Abuse it is clear our current 29 hummingbird beds dont come close to meeting the need. We can see every day what happens when we dont have enough places to take unsheltered people. Too many end up in Psychiatric Services or Emergency Rooms or jail. More than half all patients are homeless and between october and december 2019, pes was on diverse upwards of 40 of the time. We also know that far too many people leaving pes are released back to the street to return to the hospital in weeks or hours later. I have been working with the department of Public Health to identify potential sites for one or more hummingbirds in district 8 since my first days in office. I will continue to beat the drum for hummingbird citywide. I live three blocks away on valencia street. I am eager to welcome the first hummingbird to my neighborhood. I want to thank the dent of department of Public Health and mayor breed and prc baker place for helping bring this online. Over the past month, they have worked to hold two Community Meetings providing venue for hundreds of neighbors and Community Members to raise concerns, have questions answered and engage in conversation how the city and neighborhood can Work Together to make it a success for clients abneighbors. I want to thank Community Members who attended and those who emailed or visited my office with feedback and i want to thank Tipping Point for the 3 million grant, Salvation Army for welcoming hummingbird and for all they do to address homelessness and addiction. While this facility will more than double the current hummingbirds capacity, as i said, these beds barely scratch the surface of need. In my ideal universe everyone released from emergency rumor jail would have a hummingbirds and would avail themselves of that opportunity. We must work to open many more hummingbirds throughout the city. This is a good step and i hope you will join me in that effort by forwarding both resolution goes to the full board with positive recommendation. Thank you, supervisor. Today we center kelly from the department of Public Health and the director of real estate. Is mr. Pennick here . I will be representing the information for real estate and claudia is here for questions. Thank you. I am kelly. I am the special project manager for the department of Public Health here to give you a quick overview of proposed program and location at 1156 valencia. We have a clear need in the district during the january 2019 point in time count there were 317 Homeless People on that day. In district 8in district 9. Three know we need to support them locally. We want to create a safe place for them to rest afternoon consider options. The proposed project will operate a 24 7, 365 day a year program with 30 beds overnight for 25 days participants. For clients the experience would be low barrier, meaning we are always open. You dont need appointment. You can drop in or stay overnight. Bring partner,ment and belongings. You dont have to change between that and care. Inside are compassionate staff and access to services such as counseling, individual and group, laundry facilities, snacks and meals. Connections to Mental Healthcare, links to social services, help signing up to Social Security and ssi an and reuniting with families. We are planning to partner with baker places. Prc is providing Services Since 1964. The continuing care and wraparound legal and Health Services include the Behavioral Health navigation at 887. In patient detox center with 29 beds. They do many substance Mental Health treatment programs and transitional and permanent support of housing. Thethey are a qualified partnero do this expansion. The lease deal is the premise is the entire building. The term three years. Two one year options to extend. The rent is 33,667 monthly, 404,000 annually. Improvements Tipping Point provided 300,000 reimbursed by the city to Salvation Army. Working with them on the design model and right now the renovation is anticipated to be very minor to adding two showers and making sure that the bathrooms have ada upgrades. Thank you very much. Can you please tell me if annual operating cost of the humming bird place . Right now it is 3. 8 million. Thank you very much. Could we have a report on item two. Good morning. Budget analyst office. I will be repeating what she had to say. This is improving a 3 year lease we between city analvation army for finance sal wa 40 pee foot rent. There is discrepancy. It is below the required appraisal for the property considered within market rate. The rent increases 3 per year over the first three years for 1. 2 million over three year term. Improvements 300,000. There is a Tipping Point grant for cost of improvements. On page 6 of the report is the annual cost 3. 9 million per year. There is a 2 year option to extend this property is slated for Affordable Housing development. The city might have the option to extend. The way the lease is written now, it doesnt specify the increase in rent on the option. We are recommending amending the resolution to say the option can be exercised up to 3 increase per year in the option term consistent with the base term of the lease. Otherwise we recommend approval as amended. My members of the public to comment on items one or two . Seeing none, Public Comment is. Supervisor walton. Thank you, chair fewer. One quick question. I see Tipping Point is providing 300,000 grant for renovations for the Salvation Army to add more. The city is going to give that back in. Tipping point designated 300,000 to be used towards renovation costs. Because Salvation Army is doing orin novation in the building, the plan is to make that our contributing to cost to renovate. Thank you. I want to add the real estate accepted the amendments proposed by the bla. I would make a motion to accept amendments proposed. Also, i would like to move items one and two. Supervisor mandelman, please. I move we forward items one and two with positive recommendation. Thank you very much. We can take that. Madam clerk please call item 3. Resolution authorizing Police Department to accept expand grant 65,000 from state of California Department of parks and Recreation Division of boating to procure equipment and gear following board approval through november 30, 2020. We have mr. Young here from the San FranciscoPolice Department. Good morning. I am patrick. I am the chief Financial Officer for the San FranciscoPolice Department. The department is requesting the committees recommendation for our grant. This will help to replace two motors from the marine three vessel. It ha gone under a refurbishment paid with another grant. With this grant award and replacement of two motors, we will be extending the useful life of the vessel and will be minimizing the future maintenance costs because the two new motors will be under warranty. With this grant we will extend the useful life of the vessel and increasing its operational capacity. If anyone has any questions, i would be more than happy to answer them. There is no report on this. Colleagues, i think this is replacing the motors in an existing boat, and this unit actually comments what the jurisdiction of the coast guard is. We have our own jurisdiction within the city and county of San Francisco. This is why we have this marine unit that actually does that function for us around our coastal waters we have jurisdiction of and that the coast guard did not, that is correct . Thats correct. Okay. Open up for Public Comment. Any members of the public to comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is. No comments or questions. I move with a positive recommendation. We can take that without objection. Thank you, madam clerk. Thank you, sergeant. Can you please call item 4. 4 and 5 together. Authorizing the issuance and deliverrance of multifamily bond not to exceed 37. 1 Million Financing for acquisition and rehabilitation of 108 unit Family Rental project three structures located at south park street. 5. Resolution authorizing authorization of loan with mhdc south park property in an amount not to exceed 30. 5 million for 55 years for a portion of the loan amount and minimum term of 40 years or another portion of the loan based on requirements of the Funding Sources to finance acquisition of 108 unit affordable multiFamily RentalHousing Project for low income households consisting of three structures located at south park street. We have Caroline Mccormick here. Did you want b la to report . Normally we get a brief presentation from you and hear from the bla. It is recommending amendment, is that correct . Yes, they are. Good morning. I am Caroline Mccormick, project manager at the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development on the acquisition and preservation team. It is three Single Room Occupancy Hotels 22, 102, 106 south park street in selma within the same block. The total is comprised of 108 units. All except one will be affordable to household ifs 25 to 60 a. M. I. The buildings currently serve primarily formerly homeless adults. Per most typical restrictive declarations residents pay no more than 30 of income toward rent. The project will receive make or rehabilitation of all three buildings including seismic upgrades, upgrading Building Systems and other key life safety improvements. In particular, one of the buildings the Filipino Hotel about half of the buildings dont have proper access to light and air. That will involve the completed reconfiguration of the interior to provide access to light and air for all residents. No residents will be displaced. Temporary offsite relocation will be required to facilitate rehabilitate. Two requests. First approve issuance and delivery of Revenue Bonds and other action necessary to make the bond issuance possible. The proposed bond issuance will beacon do wit and will not require city funds to retainment of bonds. Second is to approve and authorize execution of a Loan Agreement with the sponsors lp entity not to exceed 30,000,000. 500000. Within that total request we have three different pieces. The first is request to approve the recasting and reconsolidation of existing debt on the project. We have been providing loans to the project since 1984. Mission housing owned two buildings since then. What we would be doing is bringing all of those loans into conformance with current standards. Low Interest Rate on that portion of the loan. We will be providing 3. 3 million in gap financing. The proposerred source is proposed source is housing trust. We are going to provide 13. 2 million in preservation and seismic safety loan products as opposed to a conventional First Mortgage this will be utilizing cd program. It is hard paying senior financing they will make Monthly Payments on that loan. These three will be into one Loan Agreement and in terms of the schedule the financing is anticipating to close next month. The construction will started right after. Regarding the bla recommendation, our position is we would like to keep the higher amount and the reason for that is due to the fact this project has existing debt on it, that existing debt is accruing interest every day. In the project timeline gets pushed out for some reason the bond closing gets delayed interest will continue to accrue. We our preference is to have the flexibility to not have to come back to you in the event the existing debt interest keeps accrues and goes above and beyond the 20. 8 million amount. I can answer questions about that. Lets hear from the bla first. Could we please hear the bla report on item 5 . The board of supervisors is being asked to approve an amended restated Loan Agreement between the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development and Mission Corporation for the three hotels in south park. The loan itself is twoparts. 11. 8 million in consolidating prior loans approved, 16. 5 million in new loans for rehabilitation. The loan amounts and the loan documents is 28. 3 million. There is a difference between the loan documents and the budget we were provided. We showed the budget on table four page 12 of our report. The actual budget is 24. 7 million. The major difference between the budget and loan documents is the budget provides for 9. 2 million in preservation seismic safety bonds to be used for this project. The loan documents provide for a liar amount of 13 higher amount of 13. 5. Our recommendation is to amends the legislation to reduce the amount in the legislation of 13. 5 million to the actual amount of the loan documents which are 28. 3 million. Basically we recommend to the legislation reflect the actual loan documents we were provided. In terms of the risk, there is the department is asking for 5. 1 million buffer in case there is project uncertainty. We are recommending a buffer of 3. 6 million between the budget and loan amount. We recommend approval of the resolution as amended. Open up for Public Comment. Any members of the public like to comment on item 4 or 5 . Seeing none, Public Comment is. I would like to make a motion to approve amendments as brought forth by the bla without objection. Thank you very much. I would move with positive recommendation as amended. Please call item 6. Resolution approving in accordance with section 147f of the Internal Revenue code of 1986 as amended execution of taxexempt loan by California Municipal Finance Authority pursuant to financing in an amount not to exceed 23 million. We have rachel here from the controllers office. Good morning. I am from the contro controllers office. I have anthony stubs here and clair to speak in more detail if you have questions. As reminder, tax equity allows exemption of interest on certain debt. In this case the proposed financing is through California Municipal Finance Authority. City and county of San Francisco is a member. Bonds or obligations refunds previous debt. The resolution before you today is because federal tax law requires the jurisdiction in which the project is located approve the financing after providing the opportunity for duly noticed public hearing before the obligations can be issued on taxexempt basis. This is the city and county of San Francisco not obligated for participation. Hearing notice was publish understand the San Francisco chronicle on february 24, 2020. Hearing was held on march 3, 2020. No comments were heard or received through the public hearing process. To give you background on the borrower. It is the school founded in 1967 based on the internationalism accredited by the french system of education to provide confidence by emphasizing intellectual curiosity to empower future generations to make meaningful contributions to the world. They have a total enrollment of 950 students from three campuses. 800 on the ash bury campus in San Francisco. That is what the project relates to. The proceeds of the loan will be loaned to the borrower for the following purposes. One, refinance all or portion of certain outstanding debt of the borrower. Financed and refinanced acquisition and furnishing of educational facilities at 755 ash bury street within the city. 1201 ortega street within the city. Each owned and managed by the borrower with other services in the city and to finance maintenance of the facilities not limited to seismic and infrastructure upgrades at both campuses and expansion of the campus to add classrooms and office space and extra space including reimbursement of incurred expenseses with the tax code. Also to pay some or all of the borrower cost in connection with one ormer of the prior obgydations and to obligation and to pay issuance. Collectively they are referred to as the San Francisco project. Assuming all of the approves are obtained they expect to issue tax ex attempt obligations of 23 million. City is not obgy gated obligated. The legislation will have no fiscal impact to the city and county of San Francisco. The projects are in district 4 and 5. It is sponsored by supervisor mar. If you have any questions for me or the staff they are here. Is this taxexempt because they are Nonprofit Organization . Yes school is nonprofit under section 501 c3 of the tax code. No bla report. I have a question. If i may ask a question or two. Thank you. I am the director of finance. So you have 950 students . Yes. This is a nonprofit private school, is that correct. Yes. What is the annual tuition . Average is 25,000. Is that for kinde kin radio . Preschool is below 25,000. High school is below 30,000. 30,000. Annually for high school . Yes. Ethnic breakdown of the school . Ethnic breakdown is hard to tell. More than 50 nonamerican citizens. Combination of european citizens and french and a lot of families with dual citizens american and french, spanish and english. 50 of your student body are from nonamerican families . Yes. What is the ethnic racial browning down of your student break down of your student body . I dont have those statistics here, unfortunately. What is your average income from a family . Do you have accommodate any students that are below the federal poverty line . We have a program of Financial Aid. We spend 1 million each year to finance scholarship for the students for families that cannot afford the school, and we have also some french families that can also the french government and additional subsidy to make the school. Today we are helping 25 of the students through the Financial Aid at the school. 25 of your students are on Financial Aid of some sort . Yes. That pot is about 1 million . Correct, yes. You cant give me a rational ethnic breakdown of the student body, is that correct . I dont be have the statistics. I can look in my file. It is very hard to gather this type of information because when we have the registration, most of the families dont want to answer to those questions. Supervisor walton. How many students . 950. It is 950 among three campu campuses is that correct . Thats correct, yes. This is the ash bury and ortega campuses this is for. Yes. This is not your preschool site, this is High School Site . This is from sixth to 12th grade. Ash bury is from prek to fifth grade. Is there a time constraint on this approval . I will defer to mr. Stubs with the finance authority. They are managing the actual transaction. They can speak to the impacts of delay. Yes, you know, due to Market Conditions, time is of the essence, basically, we are trying to get it closed in early april. Even if you are delayed by one week you feel as though that would actually hinder the issuance of this loan . Potentially, yeah. Every week that it is delayed has potential Market Conditions that can impact the project. Okay. I think that what i would like to see is some data about the students that you are serving in San Francisco. You have told us 50 of them are nonamerican families, is that correct . You said many of them are french nationals. You cannot give me a racial or ethnic breakdown of the students that you serve . I can provide. I will find out if i can find accurate information. How many students of your student body serves a special education population in San Francisco . I mean how many students are getting special Education Services in your schools . What do you mean by special education . Children that actually qualify for special Education Services . Okay. I dont have the statistics. We have a few of them. We dont provide the statistics. Please speak into the microphone. I dont have the statistics of that. We have a lot of kids that benefit from extra time and additional help. We have education specialists, three of them working on the campuses to help the kids that need more attention. I think i am speaking of children that actually qualify by the state of california for special Education Services. Not children that might just need a little bit more time. This is actually. No, no, it is something we track and also because, you know, our system is both american and french. Within the french system we also track the children that need extra time or special education. Those are followed and the children receive the support they need. Are your teachers credentialed in the state of california . The teacher is by the french education system. Not the state of california . Im not sure, to be honest. I need to check probably, yes. The school is accredited. The question was about the instructors. I need to follow. I knew they have a specific accreditation for the younger age. For the rest, i am not sure. I need to give you the information later. If you wouldnt mind, i think the things i would like you to send to three of us on this committee is the racial breakdown of students, actual amount of students that are on Financial Aid, racial ethnic breakdown, how many do you search of special education population . Because these are the factors, quite frankly, we would ask of any public school, not just private. I think that 23 million is a lot of money. I understand that it is not out of our pocket, but, quite frankly, if it is through any sort of assistance that comes from any taxpayers money, it is our responsibility here. I think that you it is in front of a committee with a strong commitment to public education. There is no bla report. We have also taken Public Comment on this. Are there members of the comment to comment on item 6 . Seeing none, Public Comment is. I am a little on the fence. I feel there is information i would like before i actually send this to the full committee, but colleagues what do you thi think . Supervisor walton. Move to continue to the next meeting. Supervisor. I am okay. I dont know that we know exactly what the financial implications are for them. I am not sure how often, if this board has ever said no to a resolution. It would be unusual. I have something to add. We have a local rate agreement with the bank. We have chosen the bank. It expires on the march 31st. For us it would be much better if we can finalize the transaction before march 31st. Otherwise we have to go again to the bank. Madam clerk, if this was to be continued to the next meeting, would they still meet the timeline . I think the board doesnt meet the last week in march, is that correct . This is heard at the next meeting the budget and finance Committee Meeting march 17th forwarded to the march 24th board of supervisors meeting. I think there would be time before the end of the month. I would make pay motion to continue this to the next budget Committee Meeting next week to get the proper information from you and all feel positive about a recommendation to the full board. I would like t like to option ma motion without objection. Thank you we look forward to hearing from you. Please read items 7, 8, 89. 7. Resolution approving harvey milk terminal one boarding area c food and beverage for a term of 10 years at 240,000 for the first year of the lease to commence following board approval. 8 the lease of 136,000. And 9. Elevate gourmet brand group for 10 years minimum guarantee of 250,000 for the first year following board approval. We have ms. Wagner from the San Francisco international airport. Good morning. San Francisco International airport. The airport is seeking your approval for two new food and beverage kiosk leases and grab and go market lease in if harvey milk terminal one and three with park cafe doing business as deloris park cafe as pronto market. These three leases are all the result of a request for proposal process. Both kiosk leases are Small Business set asides with proposalsers required bros revenue 7. 5 million per year for previous three years. All three lease opportunities had multiple proposal goes with park cafe, sidewalk juice and elevate gourmet with the highest ranked. 10 year terms with no options to extend. Would pay the greater of the proposed minimum guarantee rent or percentage of gross revenue. Minimum rent associated are delores park 250,000 per year. Sidewalk juice 136,000 per year, pronto market 250,000 per year. Over the 10 year terms of the lease the airport would receive a minimum rent payment based on the minimum annual guarantees of 6. 2 million. The budget analyst makes recommendation to approve. I would be happy to answer questions you might have. Thank you very much. Could we hear the report on items 7, 8 and 9. Three concession leases one in the harvey milk terminal and two in terminal three. These were selected through competitive process. We summarized the scores in table one on page 16 of the report. We summarize the lease terms in table two. These are 10 year leases. They pay the greater of the minimum represent or percentage rent. If they pay the minimum guarantee rent the revenue 6. 3 million to the airport. It is expected they will papers age rent at pay percentage rent and we recommend approval. I have this open up for Public Comment. Any members of the public to comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is. I want to ask you are there any requirements for local hire for the agencies . Yes, i confirmed with staff it applies to all airport leases with tenant improvement of 750,000 or above. That would not apply to the two Small Business set asides. Those two proposesers are both local businesses. I would assume they would pull from existing employee pool and did i mention that the first source hires is included in all leases. There would be coverage there as well. Maybe we should look at that ordinance. Then i discussed with you about the four person panel. You said three in the report it says four. I clarified that as well. There is one standing member who is part of our concession lease pan alepanels who is a planner d forecaster not included. That person is on all r. F. P. For food and beverage and concession leases. In this we had a retired airport employee who was the Deputy Director for administration. There was a representative from a consortium of airlines that do business at sfo and panel listing who does similar work for the oakland airport. Those are the four panel lists. In light of the contracting at the airport. I will make a note as we come back for these things we include that as part of the presentation. Than thank you very much. I would move these items 7, 8, 9 to the board with positive recommendation. Without objection. Thank you very much. Madam clerk any further Business Today . There is no further business. We are done. Are we ready . You guys ready . Are you excited . All right. Who is going to help us out . A round of applause. applause . Top of the morning to you. Lets hear it from you. Top of the morning. Good morning, everybody. It looks great to see all of our not old friends but long time friends that have been with us since the early days of San Francisco and also, of course, with our sister city that is 36 years old today. [applause] now we are blessed to have so many Irish Americans that have made San Francisco what it is. We have one that is very special to us, and that is our in house Irish American. That is shawn, the chief of staff to the mayor, and we have something that is going to help you because you need help, right . A shot of whiskey . No, no shot of whiskey yet. There is an old tradition of an irish stick, thush shillelag. It was something that a welldressed man had as a walking stick. Then it became sort of a weapon because we only have weapons of love and not of fighting in San Francisco. Then it was a sporting vehicle to use. Now you can buy them with a flask at the top with christi. Whiskey. We thought you would need this. As you know this is march 6th. I always thought the irish day was the 17th, right . Our Irish Americans in San Francisco want to celebrate early. We thought that this irish stick, shillelagh, would be helpful to keep people in order. It is a stick of friendship. We cant shake hands. You are going to shake a stick. Then you are going to walk in the parade aphave your walking stick, and then when you do the irish jig, you will have it. Here is the presentation. applause . Look at this. Shape up. You are ready, right . Just in case, you know, the mayor is always in a good mood. In case she wants to talk about something serious, what you should do is bring this out. 500 best irish jokes and walk in and tell her one of these jokes. I am sure every day you walk in you have one joke after the other, right . Absolutely. You have got your stick, your jokes, now the floor is yours to present all of these wonderful things we have happening and the first of all, is going to be the best, right . Got it. Good morning. Welcome to my favorite day of the year at city hall. Charlotte, it is great to have you here. You have been doing this many years. We are lucky to have you as our hostess. Am i allowed to use this in my conversations with the board of supervisors . Okay. Speaking of the supervisor from the sunset district gordon mar is here today. From the marina, catherine stefani. Thank you both for being here. This is always dangerous. I have been told that i will be in trouble if i dont introduce the commissioner. Angus mccarthy from Building Inspections commission is here. Somewhere in this crowd is from the immigrant rights commission. I dont see her, but i know she is here. Our sheriff could not be here. Under sheriff free man is here somewhere. Our fire chief is here, jeanine nicholson. Golden gate bridge long time member john mow land is here. Former grand marshall of the st. Patricks day parade. Good to have you here, john. The first person i get to bring up is our mayor. We will tell you she is having a difficult time today because she is now no longer grand marshall. Her term as grand marshall has ended. There have been moments when we had a number of long boring meetings in the office. She gets frustrated and tells us stop telling me mayor, i want to be called grand marshall. She pulls out the sash. Here she is for paps th perhe last time. Grand marshall london breed. Mayor breed my merchandising is once a grand marshall always a grand marshall, right, director . That is why i pulled it out today for this special occasion. I want to take this opportunity to also acknowledge the president of the university of San Francisco, paul fitzgerald. Thank you so much for being with us today. Also, just to say charlotte, that is an amazing outfit. Thank you so much for continuing to coordinate all of these incredible events to bring so many communities together. Many of you have known shawn for a long time. I work with him every day. I never hardly see him leave his office. I am glad you convinced him to be the mc today to welcome you all here. The fact you serve whiskey has something to do with it. Today we are celebrating what is just an amazing friendship that continues to exist between the Irish Community and San Francisco. In fact, we know that the legacy of this city has everything to do with our incredible Irish Community, many who i am grated here to San Francisco often running from discrimination in the east coast, and many settled here and started their businesses here, raised families here and created what we are so very proud of. Who has the best water anywhere . San francisco. It is because the dam and the water and power system created here many, many decades ago that we enjoy what is some of the best water anywhere in the world. We also know that many irish men served as mayors of this city. It is time for an irishwoman to step up for a change. We know that the rich history and legacy is why in 1984 then mayor Dianne Feinstein established the sister city relationship between San Francisco and cork, ireland. Thank you for continuing your leadership as one of the cochairs for that sister city relationship. So much history and so many incredible people, and, yes, i have the privilege of serving as the grand marshall. When i committed to being the grand marshall of the parade last year, i committed to showing up to every event, mr. Lions, now that you are the grand marshall, if i as mayor can show up to all of the events and do all of the vo volunteer k required to wear the sash, i want to be sure you are filling my footsteps with pride. Congratulations. We know that you immigrated here to San Francisco, met your wife on geary street, raised four Incredible Church and have a rich history and legacy in San Francisco. Thank you so much for being with us today. Congratulations. We are going to see you at the parade for sure. With that i just want to take this opportunity to recognize our treasurer jose who is here as well. And finally to commemorate this moment, yes, the parade is amazing and all of the dance performances, all of the volunteer activities. This is a time of pride, celebration, a time of coming together, and part of that includes the friendship that continues between San Francisco and ireland, and in particular our sister city committee. I want to ask the Council General of ireland to come forward. Robert has been with us many years. He is incredible. On behalf of the city and county of San Francisco, i would like you to accept the certificate to honor our relationship and friendship for generations to come. Thank you. [applause] lets celebrate in San Francisco. Thank you. I would say happy st. Patricks day. That is the 17th. Happy early st. Patricks day. Thank you, mayor breed. To continue we will begin with a performance led by the amazing principal of saint phillips, marry mckee. We have both the adults and youth choir. Come on up. On your seats some of you may have the lyrics to a song that i would assume none of you need the lyrics to. You will all know this song. Welcome celtic voices. When irish eyes are smiling when irish eyes are smiling, they can steal your heart away when irish eyes are smiling, it is like a morn in spring it is the tilt of irish laughter you can hear the angels sing when irish hearts are happy, all the world seems bright and gay when irish eyes are smiling, they will steal your heart away applause thank you, celtic voices. I cant help myself. The beautiful young woman with the red hair is my goddaughter. Go job. Since they just arrived, San Francisco has a great history of a number of Department Heads of Irish American descent. I would like to recognize mickey callahan, department of human resources, and bill scott from the San FranciscoPolice Department, and his assistant chief mike redman over there. Thank you for being here, gentlemen. It is now my privilege to recognize the Council General of ireland Robert O Driscoll who has a tremendous connection to San Francisco because his son was born in San Francisco. No matthe matter where his cares him, San Francisco will always be his sons home. Thank you very much. I think he is here today. This is his first st. Patricks day event. I am excited. If you see a green ball, that is mine. Distinguished guests, mayor breed, and supervisors and Department Heads and everybody, very happy t to be here today. Looking back for this event wondering what to say. It is 169 years since the first st. Patricks day parade. 170 years since the first mayor got appointed. How in the fliers year of a mayor was there not a st. Patricks day parade . The first mayor was appointed in may 1850. In january it would have been a parade that year, too. I have been reflected on my thoughts about the parade and first parade, and what were they doing . They were celebrating irish heritage. These are people who left under huge duress, typically in famine times and reached the east coast and no overly welcome home. California offered the promise of prosperity and good life for them and their family. They were celebrating they would never go back to ireland but never forget ireland. There is a grave yard from 1854. All of those had the names of people there and names from ireland but what county in ireland is listed. I thought that was in the last days when they were thinking how to be remembered. It wasnt enough to be from ireland. They had to be from cork and dublin. That connection to home was still as strong at the end of life as it was when they left. I am proud of that. I think the other thing they were doing that day, they were looking forward to what they would achieve because they had achieved a lot to get that far but they had a lot of work to do. The theme of this parade this year serving our communities, i think probably reflects the greatest achiev achievement of t community. That is what we do. That is the irish story in the city. The police in the city administration, politics, in the Fire Department, in the schools. Marry mckeever is here, principal of saint phillips, or all of the people who take leading roles. Our community serve. We should celebrate that for the next week over the course of the parade. Particularly they are so reflective of that. They are all some part of the story of service. As grand marshall you reflect the sense of community, that ethos. Look at the story. It is not just service to the community but the Irish American community through youth gaa. When we look back at your legacy, and i said this at the grand marshalls dinner in your honor. What a legacy for our culture to be passed to the next generation. It is very special. You have had a huge role in that. Everyone in the community here wants to celebrate on your special day. Please give him a huge round of applause. I want to thank shawn. I am scared of shawn with asia e shillelagh. Happy st. Patricks day. Thank you, Council General. I dont know if you saw what happened over there while he was speaking. The president of the Residential Builders was yelling that i hadnt introduced him. Shawn over there. Welcome. Glad you are here, shawn. I cant help. We also vointroduce supervisor matt haney. He has a great connection he studied at the university of galway, and he is the supervision or mar is the landlord of the center. He is the landlord of the krb. Supervisor haney on the mission street. We cant have a flag raising without dancing. It is a privilege to introduce the dancers from murphy school. Welcome. [applause]. I just want to introduce one of the dancers. This is mary who just this week received her irish citizenship. Congratulations. Welldone, murphy dancers. Thank you. All events celebrating st. Patricks day we could not do without the United Irish Society. They are doing all of the work. The president is not here today, but i would like to bring up john lynch, the Vice President to address everyone. Come on up, john. I hope i am half as exciting as the last performance. Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to the 169th st. Patricks day season serving our communities. I am the Vice President of the United Irish Society of San Francisco and member of carpenters 22. Thank you to the mayor for hosting us today for hosting us. Welcome to the general of ireland and vice council. Thank you for coming today. I would like to thank the San Francisco irish pipers, murphies school of dance and the Dance Academy and the beautiful sounds of the voices. Thank you for your continued effort working with the mayor in coordinating this event. Thank you to the supervisors for hosting the post reception event, i think. A tremendous amount of work goes into the st. Patricks day season. Thank you to the United Irish Society board and volunteers and sponsors that make this all happen. Thank you. Also, thank you to the city agencies supporting the many events. The San Francisco parks and recreation, San FranciscoFire Department and paramedics, San FranciscoPolice Department, San Francisco sheriffs department, the San Francisco public works, and the San Francisco m. T. A. A round of applause for those agencies. Thank you. I would like to thank and congratulate our 2020 st. Patricks day grand marshall, mr. Con lions. Thank you, con. Also, the families of our honorrary grand marshalls. applause it is a tremendous honor to be selected as the grand marshall, as well as a lot of work. Based on his track record he is up to the task at hand. Thank you, con. The st. Patricks day season consists of visits to friends throughout San Francisco as well as civic events commemorating the contributions of father peter york and kate kennedy. In conclusion, we are not new york, boston, chicago, or atlanta. We are San Francisco, and we put on one heck of a st. Patricks day celebration. Embrace this and go out aptry ty to have some fun. Thank you. At this time i would like to present the certificate of honor to con lions, our grand marshall 2020. [applause] our honorary grand Marshall William bill. Certificate of honor to john cassserly. She said it was a great honor. It absolutely is. Thank you. Certificate of honor to joseph teenrjosephine. Certificate of honor to the family of agnes monaghan. Thank you. It is good to see the valley represented up here. Thank you, john. I see spying over the side of my left corner the former District Attorney susie loftus standing over there. The mayor said she wanted to see a woman irish mayor of San Francisco. We dont have that yet. We do have a woman chair of the Irish Sister City Committee with cork, noreen, thank you for being here. You know charlotte has not been as successful without being diplomatic. You cannot have just the murphy dancers performing without having the wee land dancers. I would like to invite them up to do a little dance for us. [applause] applause thank you very much. One last announcement if you get a chance to drive by city hall tonight, the mayor instructed the building be lit up in green. That is tonight and i believe the mayor is saying green, white and orange. Okay, mayor, whatever you say. Also on st. Patricks day as well. Thank you, mayor breed. I would like to ask the dancers to come up to receive their certificates of honor for coming today to perform for us. Make sure you coun count to fivr 10 minutes. Go over to the office to continue the celebration. Thank you everyone for coming. This is one place you can always count on to give you what you had before and remind you of what your San Francisco history used to be. We hear that all the time, people bring their kids here and their grandparents brought them here and down the line. Even though people move away, whenever they come back to the city, they make it here. And they tell us that. Youre going to get something made fresh, made by hand and made with quality products and something thats very, very good. The legacy bars and restaurants was something that was begun by San Francisco simply to recognize and draw attention to the establishments. It really provides for San Franciscos unique character. And that morphed into a request that we work with the city to develop a legacy business registration. Im Michael Cirocco and the owner of an area bakery. The bakery started in 191. My grandfather came over from italy and opened it up then. It is a small operation. Its not big. So everything is kind of quality that way. So i see every piece and cut every piece that comes in and out of that oven. Im leslie ciroccomitchell, a fourth generation baker here with my family. So we get up pretty early in the morning. I usually start baking around 5 00. And then you just start doing rounds of dough. Loaves. My mom and sister basically handle the front and then i have my nephew james helps and then my two daughters and my wife come in and we actually do the baking. After that, my mom and my sister stay and sell the product, retail it. You know, i dont really think about it. But then when i sometimes when i go places and i look and see places put up, oh this is our 50th anniversary and everything and weve been over 100 and that is when it kind of hits me. You know, that geez, weve been here a long time. [applause] a lot of people might ask why our legacy business is important. We all have our own stories to tell about our ancestry. Our lineage and ill use one example of tommys joint. Tommys joint is a place that my husband went to as a child and hes a fourth generation san franciscan. Its a place we can still go to today with our children or grandchildren and share the stories of what was San Francisco like back in the 1950s. Im the general manager at tommys joint. People mostly recognize tommys joint for its murals on the outside of the building. Very bright blue. You drive down and see what it is. They know the building. Tommys is a San Francisco hoffa, which is a germanstyle presenting food. We have five different carved meats and we carve it by hand at the station. You prefer it to be carved whether you like your brisket fatty or want it lean. You want your pastrami to be very lean. You can say i want that piece of corn beef and want it cut, you know, very thick and i want it with some sauerkraut. Tell the guys how you want to prepare it and they will do it right in front of you. San franciscos a place thats changing restaurants, except for tommys joint. Tommys joint has been the same since it opened and that is important. San francisco in general that we dont lose a grip of what San Franciscos came from. Tommys is a place that youll always recognize whenever you lock in the door. Youll see the same staff, the same bartender and have the same meal and that is great. Thats important. The service that San Francisco heritage offers to the legacy businesses is to help them with that application process, to make sure that they really recognize about them what it is that makes them so special here in San Francisco. So well help them with that application process if, in fact, the board of supervisors does recognize them as a legacy business, then that does entitle them to certain financial benefits from the city of San Francisco. But i say really, more importantly, it really brings them public recognition that this is a business in San Francisco that has history and that is unique to San Francisco. It started in june of 1953. And we make everything from scratch. Everything. We started a you we started a off with 12 flavors and mango fruits from the philippines and then started trying them one by one and the family had a whole new clientele. The business really boomed after that. I think that the flavors we make reflect the diversity of San Francisco. We were really surprised about the legacy project but we were thrilled to be a part of it. Businesses come and go in the city. Pretty tough for businesss to stay here because it is so expensive and theres so much competition. So for us who have been here all these years and still be popular and to be recognized by the city has been really a huge honor. We got a phone call from a woman who was 91 and she wanted to know if the mitchells still owned it and she was so happy that we were still involved, still the owners. She was our customer in 1953. And she still comes in. But she was just making sure that we were still around and it just makes us feel, you know, very proud that were carrying on our fathers legacy. And that we mean so much to so many people. It provides a perspective. And i think if you only looked at it in the here and now, youre missing the context. For me, legacy businesses, legacy bars and restaurants are really about setting the context for how we come to be where we are today. I just think its part of San Francisco. People like to see familiar stuff. At least i know i do. In the 1950s, you could see a picture of tommys joint and looks exactly the same. We havent change add thing. I remember one lady saying, you know, ive been eating this ice cream since before i was born. And i thought, wow we have, too. Roughly five years, i was working as a high school teacher, and i decided to take my students on a surfing field trip. The light bulb went off in my head, and i realized i could do much more for my students taking them surfing than i could as their classroom teacher, and that is when the idea for the city surf project was born. Working with kids in the ocean that arent familiar with this space is really special because youre dealing with a lot of fear and apprehension but at the same time, a lot of excitement. When i first did it, i was, like, really scared, but then, i did it again, and i liked it. Well get a group of kids who have just never been to the beach, are terrified of the idea, who dont like the beach. Its too cold out, and its those kid that are impossible to get back out of the water at the end of the day. Over the last few years, i think weve had at least 40 of our students participate in the city surf project. Surfing helped me with, like, how to swim. Weve start off with about two to four sessions in the pool before actually going out and surfing. Swimming at the pool just helps us with, like, being, like, comfortable in the water and being calm and not being all not being anxious. So when we started the city surf project, one of the things we did was to say hey, this is the way to earn your p. E. Credits. Just getting kids to go try it was one of our initial challenges for the first year or two. But now that weve been doing it three or four years, we have a group of kids thats consistent, and the word has spread, that its super fun, that you learn about the ocean. Starting in the morning, you know, i get the vehicles ready, and then, i get all the gear together, and then, i drive and go get the kids, and we take them to a local beach. We usually go to linda mar, and then occasionally ocean beach. We once did a special trip. We were in capitola last year, and it was really fun. We get in a circle and group stretch, and we talk about specific safety for the day, and then, we go down to the water. Once we go to the beach, i dont want to go home. I cant change my circumstances at home, but i can change the way i approach them. Our program has definitely been a way for our students to find community and build friends. I dont really talk to friends, so i guess when i started doing city surf, i started to, like, get to know people more than i did before, and people that i didnt think id like, like, ended up being my best friends. Its a group sport the way we do it, and with, like, close camaraderie, but everybodys doing it for themselves. Its great, surfing around, finding new people and making new friendships with people throughout surfing. It can be highly developmental for students to have this time where they can learn a lot about themselves while negotiating the waves. I feel significantly, like, calmer. It definitely helps if im, like, feeling really stressed or, like, feeling really anxious about surfing, and i go surfing, and then, i just feel, like, im going to be okay. It gives them resiliency skills and helps them build selfconfidence. And with that, they can use that in other parts of their lives. I went to bring amy family o the beach and tell them what i did. I saw kids open up in the ocean, and i got to see them connect with other students, and i got to see them fail, you know, and get up and get back on the board and experience success, and really enjoy themselves and make a connection to nature at the same time. For some kids that are, like, resistant to, like, being in a Mentorship Program like this, its they want to surf, and then later, theyll find out that theyve, like, made this community connection. I think they provided level playing fields for kids to be themselves in an open environment. For kids to feel like i can go for it and take a chance that i might not have been willing to do on my own is really special. We go on 150 surf outings a year. Thats yearround programming. Weve seen a tremendous amount of youth face their fears through surfing, and that has translated to growth in other facets of their lives. I just think the biggest thing is, like, that they feel like that they have something that is really cool, that theyre engaged in, and that we, like, care about them and how theyre doing, like, in general. What i like best is they really care about me, like, im not alone, and i have a group of people that i can go to, and, also, surfing is fun. Were creating surfers, and were changing the face of surfing. The feeling is definitely akin to being on a roller coaster. Its definitely faster than i think you expect it to be, but its definitely fun. It leaves you feeling really, really positive about what that kids going to go out and do. I think its really magical almost. At least it was for me. It was really exciting when i caught my first wave. I felt like i was, like it was, like, magical, really. When they catch that first wave, and their first lights up, you know their face lights up, you know you have them hooked. I was on top of the world. Its amazing. I felt like i was on top of the world even though i was probably going two miles an hour. It was, like, the scariest thing id ever done, and i think it was when i got hooked on surfing after [ ] homelessness in San Francisco is considered the number 1 issue by most people who live here, and it doesnt just affect Neighbors Without a home, it affects all of us. Is real way to combat that is to Work Together. It will take city departments and nonprofit providers and volunteers and companies and Community Members all coming together. [ ] the product homeless connect Community Day of Service Began about 15 years ago, and we have had 73 of them. What we do is we host and expostyle event, and we were the very force organization to do this but it worked so well that 250 other cities across the globe host their own. Theres over 120 Service Providers at the event today, and they range anywhere from hygiene kits provided by the basics, 5 to prescription glasses and reading glasses, hearing tests, pet sitting, showers, medical services, flu shots, dental care, groceries, so many phenomenal Service Providers, and what makes it so unique is we ask that they provide that Service Today here it is an actual, tangible Service People can leave with it. I am with the hearing and Speech Center of northern california, and we provide a variety of Services Including audiology, counselling, outreach, education, today we actually just do screening to see if someone has hearing loss. To follow updates when they come into the Speech Center and we do a full diagnostic hearing test, and we start the process of taking an impression of their year, deciding on which hearing aid will work best for them. If they have a smart phone, we make sure we get a smart phone that can connect to it, so they can stream phone calls, or use it for any other services that they need. San francisco has phenomenal social services to support people at risk of becoming homeless, are already experience and homelessness, but it is confusing, and there is a lot of waste. Bringing everyone into the same space not only saves an average of 20 hours a week in navigating the system and waiting in line for different areas, it helps them talk, so if you need to sign up for medical, what you need identification, you dont have to go to sacramento or wait in line at a d. M. V. , you go across the hall to the d. M. V. To get your i. D. Today we will probably see around 30 people, and averaging about 20 of this people coming to cs for followup service. For a participant to qualify for services, all they need to do is come to the event. We have a lot of people who are at risk of homelessness but not yet experiencing it, that todays event can ensure they stay house. Many people coming to the event are here to receive one specific need such as signing up for medical or learning about d. M. V. Services, and then of course, most of the people who are tender people experiencing homelessness today. I am the representative for the volunteer central. We are the group that checks and all the volunteers that comment participate each day. On a typical day of service, we have anywhere between 40500 volunteers that we, back in, they get tshirts, nametags, maps, and all the information they need to have a successful event. Our participant escorts are a core part of our group, and they are the ones who help participants flow from the Different Service areas and help them find the Different Services that they needs. One of the ways we work closely with the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing is by working with Homeless Outreach teams. They come here, and these are the people that help you get into navigation centers, help you get into shortterm shelter, and talk about housing1st policies. We also work very closely with the department of Public Health to provide a lot of our services. We have all types of things that volunteers deal do on a day of service. We have folks that help give out lunches in the cafe, we have folks who help with the check in, getting people when they arrive, making sure that they find the services that they need to, we have folks who help in the check out process, to make sure they get their food bag, bag of groceries, together hygiene kit, and whatever they need to. Volunteers, i think of them as the secret sauce that just makes the whole process works smoothly. Participants are encouraged and welcomed to come with their pets. We do have a pet daycare, so if they want to have their pets stay in the daycare area while they navigate the event, they are welcome to do that, will we also understand some people are more comfortable having their pets with them. They can bring them into the event as well. We also typically offer veterinary services, and it can be a real detriment to coming into an event like this. We also have a bag check. You dont have to worry about your belongings getting lost, especially when that is all that you have with you. We get connected with people who knew they had hearing loss, but they didnt know they could get services to help them with their hearing loss picks and we are getting connected with each other to make sure they are getting supported. Our next event will be in march, we dont yet have a date set. We typically sap set it six weeks out. The way to volunteer is to follow our newsletter, follow us on social media, or just visit our website. We always announce it right away, and you can register very easily online. A lot of people see folks experience a homelessness in the city, and they dont know how they can help, and defence like this gives a whole bunch of people a lot of good opportunities to give back and be supported. [ ]. Neighborhood in San Francisco are also diverse and fascist as the people that inhabitable them were in north beach about supervisor peskin will give us a tour and introduce is to what think of i i his favorite district 5 e 3 is in the northwest surrounded by the San Francisco bay the district is the boosting chinatown oar embarcadero financial district Fishermans Wharf exhibit no. North beach Telegraph Hill and part of union square. All of San Francisco districts are remarkable im honored and delighted to represent really whereas with an the most intact district got chinatown, north beach Fishermans Wharf russian hill and knob hill and the northwest waterfront some of the most wealthier and inning e impoverished people in San Francisco obgyn siding it is ethically exists a bunch of tightknit neighborhoods people know he each other by name a wonderful placed physically and socially to be all of the neighborhoods north beach and chinatown the i try to be out in the community as much as and i think, being a the cafe eating at the neighborhood lunch place people come up and talk to you, you never have time alone but really it is fun hi, im one the owners and is ceo of cafe trespassing in north beach many people refer to cafe trees as a the living room of north beach most of the clients are local and living up the hill come and meet with each other just the way the United States been since 1956 opposed by the grandfather a big people person people had people coming since the day we opened. It is of is first place on the west that that exposito 6 years ago but anyone was doing that starbucks exists and it created a really welcoming pot. It is truly a legacy business but more importantly it really at the take care of their community my father from it was formally italy a fisherman and that town very rich in culture and music was a big part of it guitars and sank and combart in the evening that tradition they brought this to the cafe so many characters around here everything has incredible stories by famous folks last week the cafe that paul carr tennessee take care from the Jefferson Starship hung out the cafe are the famous poet Lawrence William getty and jack herb man go hung out. They work worked at a play with the god fathers and photos he had his typewriter i wish i were here back there it theres a lot of moving parts the meeting spot rich in culture and artists and musicians epic people would talk with you as a woman of color who grew up in San Francisco i understand how institutions can have an impact on communities of color. I think having my voice was important. That is where my passion lies when the opportunity to lead an office in such a new space came up. I couldnt turn it down. I was with the District Attorneys office for a little over nine years, if you include the time as an intern as well as volunteer da, all most 13 years. During the time with the das office i had an opportunity to serve the community not only as the assistant District Attorney but as director of community relations. That afforded the opportunity to have impact on the community in an immediate way. It is one thing to work to serve the rights of those without rights, victims. It is really rewarding to work to to further the goals of our office and the commitment we have as City Employees and advocates for people who dont have a voice. I dont know of anyone surprised to see me in this role. Maybe people have an impression what the director of the office of cannabis should be like, what their beliefs should be. I smash all of that. You grew up in the inner city of San Francisco. My career path is not traditional. I dont think a person should limit themselves to reach full potential. I say that to young women and girls. That is important. You want to see leadership that looks diverse because your path is not predetermined. I didnt wake up thinking i was going to be a prosecutor in my life. The city administrator reached out and wanted to have a conversation and gave me interest in the new role. I thought you must not know what i do for a living. It was the opposite. She had foresight in realizing it would be helpful for somebody not only a former prosecutor but interested in shaping criminal Justice Reform for the city would be the right person for the space. I appreciate the foresight of the mayor to be open how we can be leaders in San Francisco. I was able to transition to the policy space. Here i was able to work on legislation, community relations, communication and start to shape the ways our office was going to reform the criminal Justice System. It is fulfilling for me. I could create programs and see those impact peoples lives. I am the change. It took truants youth to meet with Civil Rights Movement leaders who fought to have access to education. Being a young person to understand that helped the young people realize this was an important thing to give up. What we find is that young people who are truanted have a really high homicide rate in our city, which is a sad statistic. We want to change that. Coming from a community we are black and brown. I dont reach out to other people. I dont think they feel the same way. I had the great opportunity to work on Prison Reform issues and criminal Justice Reform issues. We created a program at san quentin where we brought district opportunities t to lifs and talk about how we are all impacted by the criminal Justice System. We brought over 40 elected das to san quentin for the situation. Now we are inviting the Police Department. Our formerly incarcerated group born out of this programming asked for the opportunity to work on a project where we could bring the men in blue on the outside to come speak to the men on blue inside to start the healing dialogue around how the criminal Justice System specifically in San Francisco impacts the community. I was attracted to the role. There was a component of equity that was part of this process. The Equity Community here in San Francisco is a community that i had already worked with. Before i took steps to visit cannabis businesses i thought it was important my team have a chance to go inside and speak to men who ha had been impacted. That conversation needed to happen so we know how we are making an impact with the work that we are doing. The das office as we were leading up to the legalization of marijuana in the state we started having conversations on the policy team what that could look like. The District Attorney was really focused on the right side of history for this. We realized it would be quite a heavy lift for individuals who have been negatively impacted by the war on drugs to expunge the record. It was important to figure out the framework to make it seamless and easy. They put their minds to it after some time and many conversations the data analysts and other policy walk throughs on the team came up with the idea to engage the Tech Community in this process. Code for america helped us developed the rhythm to be used for any jurisdiction across the state that was important to create a solution to be used to assist all jurisdictions dealing with this matter. The office of cannabis is the first office to have a completely digital application process. We worked with the digital team to develop the online application. There are going to be hiccups. We are first to do it. It is one of the most rewarding parts to offer a seamless to offer a seamless approach. That is how they can find solutions to solve many of the community challenges. The best way to respond to prop 64 was to retroactively expunge 9,000 cannabis related records for San Francisco. It feels like justice full circle for my personal experience. In the past i was furthering the war on drugs just as my directive. Really coming from a place of public safety. That was the mandate and understanding. It is nice to see that pass a society we are able to look at some of our laws and say, you know what . We got it wrong. Lets get this right. I had the privilege of being in the existing framework. My predecessor Nicole Elliott did an incredible job bringing together the individuals superpassionate about cannabis. The office was created in july of 2017. I came in early 2018. I have been able to see the Offices Development over time which is nice. It is exciting to be in the space, stickily in thinking about her leadership. Looking for the office it is always we might be before my time when i was working for the board oforboard of supervisors. I learn new things every day it is challenging and rewarding for me. We get the privilege to work in an office tha that is innova. We get to spearhead the robust exprogram. I am excited she came on board to leverage experience as a prosecutor 10 years as we contemplate enforcements but approaching it without replicating the war on drugs. I was hired by cam laharris. I havent seen a District Attorney that looked kind of like me. That could be a path in my life. I might not have considered it. It is important that women and certainly women of color and spaces of leadership really do their part to bring on and mentor as many young people as they can. It is superimportant to take advantage of as many opportunities a as they can when they can intern because the doors are wide open. Plans change and that is okay. The way this was shaped because i took a risk to try something new and explore something and show that i was capable. You are capable, right . It was about leaning in and being at the table to say my voice matters. You find your passion, the sky 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