Transcripts For SFGTV Mayors 20240704

Hard to pick the best awards for the circumstances. Today hear a couple great things our offices have done so able to find good things and recognize our people for. Happy to be here today. Lastour first ceremony was room 201 and we stuffed in there and had a great time and recognized officers and families but grateful to make it formal and thank you mayor breed. Alright. Round of applause for mayor breed, please. [applause] so, before i call the mayor up, i just like to recognize many people in the room today and many of our sponsors. Chief scott unfortunately couldnt be here. We were all planning to come together. We had a incident in the city the chief had to respond to so ill fill in for him and his remarks. I like to recognize the president of board of supervisors aaron peskin. [applause] thank you. Supervisor rafael mandelman. [applause] our San Francisco Police Commissioners walker, benedicto, yee and burn. Thank you commissioners for being here. [applause] our sheriff for paul mimamoto. See this is what we put together, a nice backdop so identify have something to take a photo with. I like to recognize members of command staff and professional staff here today. Very grateful for all the support. Tenderloin station, i see plain clothe officers and i know that take you off the street, put you right back on as soon as we can, because you is a lot of work to do out there, but we are grateful you are here to support your fellow officers and thank you to aaron pera from Community Engagement to put this event togethers. I also like to thank the sponsors, without the sponsors it would be very challenging to make this happen. Bxp, specifically bobpieceer, rob dale, steve cullven, retired chief sur. It was chief surthat pushed all this to get this going again. And retired deputy chief john loftus. The hiat reej agency, hearse corporation, San Francisco Police Officer association, and jp morgan chase. I like to thank prologueus,boma, hotel council, alex bastion, union square alliance, melissa rodriguez, the neighbors for better San Francisco, the San Francisco counsf of district merchants, thank you for being here today and ground floor, alex turk thank you for being here and all friends and supporters, that you can so much for making today a possible. With that, i like to call up mayor breed for a few words. [applause] good evening everyone and thank you all so much for joining us here today. Let me start by thanking the members who are being honored from the San Francisco Police Department for continuing to put your lives on the line to serve and protect the people of this city, despite the challenges that knroe i know we all know Law Enforcement continues to face. Thank you to family members and friends and those joining us here as well to support these extraordinary officers who are being honored. Your support is extremely important. Your prayers are always welcome because we need to make sure they continue to be safe as they go about the work of the people of the city and county of San Francisco. Thank you to our elected leaders and our sponsors and our supporters, our commissioners and so many people who serve in the capacity to insure that when we are doing the work of the people of San Francisco, that we are reminded about the people who are actually out on the streets doing the work on our behalf. The city has been experiencing a lot of challenges, and as i said, Law Enforcement has not always been treated like they should. In some cases by the leaders of the city, including myself. And bringing this event back has been an opportunity to really make sure that we are not just pointing the finger, making policy decisions and not having discussion and talk with the men and women of the department. I had an opportunity to visit many of the police stations throughout San Francisco, and have really hard conversations with the people who are doing the work, because often times as policy makers, as leaders, we are making decisions about policies, we are making decisions about investment, yet we have no idea what it feels like to actually roll up our sleeves and put ourselves on the line the way the people we are honoring here today do every single day. This is a way to just really highlight some of that work, because we hear enough about the complaints. We hear enough about the people who are trying to put our city down and in particular, put this department down. This is an opportunity to elevate this department, and elevate the work that you do and the hard choices that you have to make in the split seconds that you have to make them. We know that it is complicated. We know that people may not all understand, but we know that you also love this work and you love what you do and you enjoy being out there making sure that youre able to make these decisions to save lives. We appreciate it and today as you hear about some of the stories, some of the stories offrom a different perspective. You hear about car breakins in San Francisco, but what you dont always hear about, is the fact our officers are on the ground making those arrests and recovering property. Going out of their way sometimes to make sure that someone whos suit case was stolen, they are looking for information and they are delivering their suitcase personally so their trip isnt completely ruined. What you dont hear about, is when people are asking for help and making the calls and they are the ones that are showing up, and i know that it is hard, i know it has been challenging, but today really is about making sure that your stories are told. Making sure that the people in this room, some of your families and friends and leaders, that we all know and understand and value it, but also members of the public. Because i will say that we hear about the stories. We see that on social media. Whats happening and the complaints, but you dont always see the arrests and the work and some of the things that occur and that happen after the fact. Because we dont just walk away after a crime is committed. Thats when a lot of the real work begins. The investigations that happen. The search warrants that occur. Putting together the evidence necessary to make sure that perpetrators of crime in this city are really brought to justice and all that work takes place because of the men and women of the San Francisco Police Department. So, i want to thank you all so much for being here today to celebrate. We were at the last officer of the month event in a very small Conference Room in my office, and i thought, this is a important celebration and it is only appropriate that its celebrated in a important venue like city hall in this magnitude to recognize how important each and every one of you are to serving and protecting the city and county of San Francisco. Thank you all so much for your service and congratulations. [applause] okay, thank you very much mayor breed and all your support. I like to call up the president of the board supervisors to represent the board of supervisors, president aaron peskin. Thank you assistant chief lazar, on behalf of myself and the ten members of legislative branch of government and my colleague, rafael mandelman, let me add to the mayors words to say that, we see you, we appreciate you, we thank you, and as district supervisors we actually as acting captain mureno knows, we hear the stories up close and personal and we actually know the rank and file. I know indiscernible i know gary and we see them every day interacting in the community. Many years ago, there was a controversy at city hall where one of my colleagues who was post certified by the way, said, that we needed to mandate community policing. I was a new supervisor. This was about 20years ago. I said what is community policing, explain this to me. When he explained it to me, i realized that is exactly what i had at company a. Police who knew the names of shop keepers. Police who knew the stories of what was happening with a individual who was on the street. Police who went above and beyond the call of duty and dug into their pockets to make things right on the streets of San Francisco. That is what i experienced and like mayor breed, i have to say, we havent said thank you enough. I think we all live in our worlds and if there is one thing i have gotten out of the covid experience is that we just have to say thank you and acknowledge all of our city workers more often, particularly the city workers who have the toughest jobs who see the toughest things. I will say, because i dont want to steal my acting captain from company as thunder that gary dexter, the two of you went so far above and beyond the call of duty in saving the Young Persons life, and aphending the individual who perpetrated those crimes. It just sends shivers down my spine. I cannot thank you you two enough, as well as your colleagues from tenderloin, southern and northern stations for similar deeds. Thank you. [applause] okay, thank you president peskin. Before i begin pmy remarks i want to echo something that mayor breed said and really just thanking the families for being here and for supporting us. Today is about you as well and your loved ones receiving the recognition but you are as well, because without you there is no way we can do this work day in and out so grateful you are here today. I got to meet families and look forward meeting everyone after so thank you. Today we are acknowledging San Francisco Police Officers who went above the call of duty showing bravery, professionalism and compassion in the work for the first 3 months of 2023. The officers work around the clock and prepared to respond to emergency jz crimes in progress throughout the city. These officers show dedication and commitment to the people of San Francisco and the members of the sfpd. Their tenacity, diligence, propossessionalism were on display for incident responded to as a primary unit or backup to assist fellow officers. I want to thank perry and dexter who rendered aid to a stabbing victim on stockton and sutter streets. Stopped the uncontrolled bleeding which may have saved the victims life and the victim was a student from galileo high school. I want to thank officer indiscernible working robbery and burglary enforcement in San Francisco on april 21. The officers assisting a visiting youth base ball team after their van was burglarized. The officers helped recover the team stolen property and arrest the suspect. The coach was so impressed by these officers he wrote a letter saying we have never seen Police Officers like them and youll hear more from acting captain merino about the letter. I want to thank oser chilly. He goes by chilly, he isnt here today. And officer victor from tenderloin station who on june 22, respaubded to a Fatal Shooting in holiday plaza. Both officers or officer chilly administered cpr to the victim and later located video footage orphthe incident. Officer indiscernible located suspect and weapon minutes after the call. These are exciting cases youll hear about and at this time, i like to call up acting captain mark marina to offer up two of the awards. Mark, if you can come on up, please. Good afternoon everybody. My name is mark merino, the acting captain at Central Station. I want to apologize because when i typed this out, size 14 font looked like a appropriate font. Not sure it is with the lighting here. Thank you chief. The first award i want to present are two members from Central Station where i work. Very proud of these two individuals. First dexter sang and gary [applause] i want to read what happened and why they were chosen for this award. March 13 this year 4 30 at sutter and stockton was there was a attempted homicide that took place on board omuni bus. Dispatch broadcast the stabbing occurred in stockton and sutter. Suspects pointed out by witnesses. They were able to detain without incident. The suspect two companions fled but before they were detained as well a short time later by other officers. Meanwhile central Patrol Officer gary and dexter responded to the area to assist. They were advised by witnesses in the area that a stabbing incident occurred onboard a muni bus. They boarded the bus, which parked on stockton street and found the victim on his knee in a pool of blood with lacerations to neck area. Officer sang and indiscernible removed the upper garment performing life saving measures to stop the bleeding. Transportded to San Francisco general hment and the actions by the offices saved his life. Numerous officers assigned assisted in the complex investigation which included the stabbing weapon, conducting multiple interview jz obtaining Video Surveillance from numerous sources. The suspect was booked. Attempted homicide. I like to congratulate for their fine work officer gary and dexter sang. [applause] [applause] okay, im privileged to also give out the next award. There is a incident occurred in Central Station and like to call from southern station officer hector and northern station, officer david [applause] ill read this as well. This occurred in the Central District april 21, 2023, north and mason, burglary arrest. Working the robbery and burglary enforcement operation downtown San Francisco. Outside the normal assigned area of responsibility. During the assignment he assisted in the arrest of auto burgry suspect responsible for multiple burglaries that day. They located unoccupied van with damaged window. Minutes later contacted by kyle crandal a base ball coach. Mr. Crandle confirmed the van was theirs and had been broken into. A important bag containing critical med caution was missing. Immediately sought to recover the medication by calling the officers transporting several bags of evidence recovered from the suspect veem vehicle. The partner was able to locate the bag and at request of officers turned around and returned the medication to the scene and returned to the coach. Medical emergency averted. Crandle was so imprez 79d chief scott, High School Teacher and base ball coach for the base ball team in rochester new york. A Inner City School and our Varsity Baseball Team is in San Francisco. We dropped player and coaches off as Fishermans Warf and parked the van on the street. Parked less then 40 minutes. When we returned we were greeted by two offices who asked if the plan belonged to me. Victims of smash and grab. Officers identified themselves as San Francisco Police Department in civilian clothes. They were on detailed in unmarked car for smash and grabs and saw the van being burglarized. They arrested three individuals. We found not only did they stold one bag but a bag of player just diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Insulin and medical equipment in the bag. As the head coach i had a range of emotions and shared this was going to ruin our night. The officers saw our team and responded with, we will not let this ruin your night. They immediately asked for the victims to describe his bag then called the partner transported in the 7 or 8 other bags. The partner identified the bag, the officers asked the partner to turn around and bring the bag to the scene. Officers advised how to clean up the mess and secure the window. Helped locate a broom, cardboard and duct tape and filled out a police report. Within 20minutes the players recovered all items, the window secure and on our way to the giant game. We got to the game on time. The players oen the team commented in the van, we have never seen Police Officers like them. They made such a positive impression on the players. In a day and age with so Much Negative attention towards the police, i want to share your officers exalismifyed what police work should be about. Your offices should be very proud of the impact they made. With gratitude, coach kyle crandle. [applause] [applause] i like to acknowledge captain luke martin and acting captain sylvia lang. Luke martin from southern and sylvia lang from northern. Last i like to invite up for our last presentation is acting captain matt mason from tenderloin station. [applause] lieutenant mason, tenderloin station. It is my honor to introduce officer victor custudio star 1547, officer chilly is on vacation and also will be honored today. On 6222023, approximately 2440 hours, tenderloin station officers respond to call of shooting and homicide at holiday plaza. Upon arrival, officer chilly, as he gave permission to call him, because i dont want to bircher his name. Chilly initiated first aid. Used a chest seal and cpr to help work on the victim. Maintained life saving efforts until the victim transported to sfgh. After ambulance departed beganwitnesses located video footage orphthe incident. In the video chilly discovered a image of the suspect. Direction of travel he relayed to the officers. Officer custudio one of the top plain clothe officers under indiscernible had to go off script there, located a potential suspect. Entering a taxi cab at 8 and mission. Custeedio was in plain clothes, maintained visual of the suspect, indiscernible team members to the area, met with Sergeant Jones and developed a plan. Once the plan was developed, resulted in them arresting the suspect and taking into custody safely, the suspect and officers. Eracying officer located the gun used in the crime inside the taxi cab where the suspect had been seated. The suspect was positively identified by witnesses. Booked in Homicide Investigation ensued. The officers learned the victim did not survive his injuries and passed away. This is a textbook example of Outstanding Police work. The officers involved in the incident utilized all the principles of San Francisco Police Department, rendering aid to the victim. Responding to a crime, running to the fight as we like to say, not shying away, going to a homicide suspect with a firearm in a area freak wbted by tourist in holiday plaza. Conducted a thorough investigation, identified on the suspect with minutes that danger criminal was placed into custody and booked in jail. These officers are deserving of the award for their teamwork and taking this Violent Offender off the streets. [applause] [applause] okay, mayor breed reminded me about the best part for last. Not only todays awardees get it meet the mayor and elected officials and get recognized and get a beautiful plaque and a lot of thank you and photos, but alsothey also get Gift Certificate presented by the San Francisco Police Departmentfor the San Francisco Police Department cop of the month, they get a complementary onenight stay in a Beautiful Hotel here in San Francisco, the h hight regency. Congratulations on your awards, your accomplishments and more importantly for your fantastic careers. Congratulations. [applause] okay. And 500 cash, thank you very much actingyes, thank you very much. Mayor breed, ill do better next time on all the gifts, but thank you for the reminder. She helped me on that. At this timebefore we conclude, if we can have the entire group of photo with mayor breed, elected officials and others and then when we are done there, please enjoy the complementary food and beverages in the back. Thank you again for attending today. Congratulations. Thank you to the families. Have a great afternoon. [applause] my name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of San Francisco. I perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. Also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. I have been here at this facility since i moved here in november, and previous to that at the old facility. I was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldnt see people every day. I would miss my personal interactions with the other employees, but that hasnt been the case. This building is very nice. We have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. We have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in San Francisco. We work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. That brings us closer together also. I am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in San Francisco. As an investigator here i investigate all manners of death that come through our jurisdiction. I go to the field interview Police Officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. Additionally i take any property with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. I maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. I am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get. I work with the family to help them through the grieving process. I am ricky moore, a clerk at the San Francisco medical examiners office. I assist the pathology and toxicology and Investigative Team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral establishment. I started at the old facility. The building was old, vintage. We had issues with plumbing and things like that. I had a tiny desk. I feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. I am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. We test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. I oversee all of the lab operations. The forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the Human Performance and the case in the city of San Francisco. We collect evidence at the scene. A woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. That was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. It is nice to get the feedback. We do a lot of work and you dont hear the result. Once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. You can bring justice to what happened. We are able to take what we due to the next level. Many of our counterparts in other states, cities or countries dont have the resources and dont have the beautiful building and the equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. Sometimes we go to court. Whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. We do whatever we can to get our job done. When we think that a case has a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. Unexpected findings are fun. I have a prior background in Law Enforcement. I was a Police Officer for 8 years. I handled homicides and suicides. I had been around Death Investigation type scenes. As a Police Officer we only handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective division. I am intrigued with those types of calls. I wondered why someone died. I have an extremely supportive family. Older children say, mom, how was your day. I can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day. Without that it would be really hard to deal with the negative components of this job. Being i am a native of San Francisco and grew up in the community. I come across that a lot where i may know a loved one coming from the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. There are a lot of cases where i may feel affected by it. If from is a child involved or things like that. I try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. When i tell people i work at the medical examiners office. What do you do . The autopsy . I deal with the enough and with the administrative and the families. Most of the time work here is very enjoyable. After i started working with dead people, i had just gotten married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. I thought there was somebody dead . My bed. I rolled over and poked the body. Sure enough, it was my husband who grumbled and went back to sleep. This job does have lingering effects. In terms of why did you want to go into this . I loved science growing up but i didnt want to be a doctor and didnt want to be a pharmacist. The more i learned about forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination between Applied Science and criminal justice. If you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. Being a woman we just need to go for it and dont let anyone fail you, you cant be. With regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations. Lets face it, we arent hollywood, we are real world. Yes we collect evidence. We want to preserve that. We are not scanning fingerprints in the field like a Hollywood Television show. Families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. Somebody has to do my job. If i can make a situation that is really negative for someone more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for the city of San Francisco. San francisco this is an exhibition across departments highlighting different artworks from our collection. Gender is an important part of the dialogue. In many ways, this exhibition is contemporary. All of this artwork is from the 9th century and spans all the way to the 21st century. The exhibition is organized into seven different groupings or themes such as activities, symbolism, transformation and others. Its not by culture or time period, but different affinities between the artwork. Activities, for example, looks at the role of gender and how certain activities are placed as feminine or masculine. We have a print by uharo that looks at different activities that derisionly performed by men. Its looking at the theme of music. We have three women playing traditional japanese instruments that would otherwise be played by men at that time. We have pairings so that is looking within the context of gender in relationships. Also with how people are questioning the whole idea of pairing in the first place. We have three from three different cultures, tibet, china and japan. This is sell vanity stot relevar has been fluid in different time periods in cultures. Sometimes being female in china but often male and evoking features associated with gender binaries and sometimes in between. Its a lovely way of tying all the themes together in this collection. Gender and sexuality, speaking from my culture specifically, is something at that hasnt been recently widely discussed. This exhibition shows that its gender and sexuality are actually have been considered and complicated by dialogue through the work of artists and thinking specifically, a sculpture we have of the hindu deities because its half pee male and half male. It turns into a different theme in a way and is a beautiful representation of how gender hasnt been seen as one thing or a binary. We see that it isnt a modest concept. In a way, i feel we have a lot of historical references and touch points throughout all the ages and in asian cultures. I believe San Francisco has close to 40 asian. Its a huge representation here in the bay area. Its important that we awk abouk about this and open up the discussion around gender. What weve learned from organizing this exhibition at the museum is that gender has been something that has come up in all of these cultures through all the time periods as something that is important and relevant. Especially here in the San Francisco bay area we feel that its relevant to the conversations that people are having today. We hope that people can carry that outside of the museum into their daily lives. music . Ves. The Ferry Building one of San Francisco most famous that as many of 15 thousand commuters pass through that each gay. One of the things that one has to keep in mind regarding San Francisco is how young the city we are. And nothing is really happening here before the gold rush. There was a small spanish in the presiding and were couriers and fisherman that will come in to rest and repair their ships but at any given time three hundred people in San Francisco. And then the gold rush happened. By 182948 individuals we are here to start a new life. By 1850 roughly 16 thousand ships in the bay and left town in search of gold leaving their ships behind so they scraped and had the ships in the bay and corinne woods. With sand the way that San Francisco was and when you look at a map of San Francisco have a unique street grid and one of the thing is those streets started off in extremely long piers. But by 1875 they know they needed more so the Ferry Building was built and it was a long affair and the first cars turned around at the Ferry Building and picking up people and goods and then last night the street light cars the trams came to that area also. But by the late 1880s we needed Something Better than the Ferry Building. A bond issue was passed for 600,000. To build a new Ferry Building i would say 800 thousand for a studio apartment in San Francisco they thought that was a grand Ferry Building had a competition to hire an architecture and choose a young aspiring architect and in the long paris and San Francisco had grand plans for this transit station. So he proposed the beautiful new building i wanted it wider, there is none tonight. Than that actually is but the price of concrete quitclaim two how and was not completed and killed. But it opened a greater claim and became fully operational before 1898 and first carriages and horses for the primary mode of transportation but Market Street was built up for serve tram lines and streetcars could go up to the door to embarcadero to hospitals and Mission Street up to nob hill and the fishermans area. And then the earthquake hit in 190 six the Ferry Building collapsed the only thing had to be corrected once the facade of the tower. And 80 percent of the city would not survive the buildings collapsed the streets budges and the trams were running and buildings had to highland during the fire after the actuate tried to stop the mask fire in the city so think of a Dennis Herrera devastation of a cable car they were a mess the streets were torn up and really, really wanted to have a popular sense they were on top of that but two weeks after the earthquake kind of rigged a way getting a streetcar to run not on the cable track ran electrical wires to get the streetcars to run and 2 was pretty controversial tram system wanted electrical cars but the earthquake gave them to chance to show how electrical cars and were going to get on top this. Take 10 years for the city to rebuild. Side ferry use was increasing for a International Exhibition in 1950 and people didnt realize how much of a Community Center the Ferry Building was. It was the center for celebration. The upper level of Ferry Building was a Gathering Place. Also whenever there was a war like the filipino war or World War Two had a parade on Market Street and the Ferry Building would have banners and to give you an idea how central to the citywide that is what page brown wanted to to be a Gathering Place in that Ferry Building hay day the busiest translation place in the world how people got around transit and the city is dependent on that in 1915 of an important year that was the year of our International Exposition 18 million living in San Francisco and that was supposedly to celebrate the open of panama differential but back in business after the earthquake and 22 different ferry boats to alamed and one had the and 80 trips a day a way of life and in 1918 San Francisco was hit hard by the flu pandemic and city had mask mandates and anyone caught without a doubt a mask had a risk ever being arrested and San Francisco was hit hard by the pandemic like other places and rules about masks wearing and what were supposed to be more than two people without our masks on i read was that on the ferry those guys wanted to smoke their pipes and taking off their masks and getting from trouble so two would be hauled away. The way the Ferry Building was originally built the lower level with the Natural Light was used for take it off lunge storage. The second floor was where passengers offloaded and all those people would spill out and central stairway of the building that is interesting point to talk about because such a large building one major stairway and were talking about over 40 thousand people one of the cost measures was not building a pedestrian bridge with the Ferry Building and the embarcadero on Market Street was actually added in and in 1918 but within 20 years to have San Francisco bay the later shipbuilding port in the world and the pacific we need the iron that. As the ferry system was at the peak two bridges to reach San Francisco. And automobiles were a popular item that people wanted to drive themselves around instead of the ferry as a result marin and other roots varnished. The dramatic draw in ferry usage was staggering who was using the ferry that was a novelty rather than a transportation but the ferry line stopped one by one because everyone was getting cars and wanted to drive and cars were a big deal. Take the care ferry and to San Francisco and spend the day or for a saturday drive but really, really changed having the car ferry. When the bay bridge was built had a train that went along the lower level so that was a major stay and end up where our Sales Force Transit Center is now another way of getting into the city little by little the ferry stopped having a purpose. What happened in the 40 and 50s because of this downturn we were trying to find a purpose a number of proposals for a World Trade Center and wanted to build it own the philly in a terrible idea objective never gotten down including one that had too tall towers a trade center in new york but a tower in between that was a part of Ferry Building and completely impractical. After the cars the Tower Administration wanted to keep americans deployed and have the infrastructure for the united states. So they had an intrastate free plan the plan for major freeway systems to go throughout San Francisco. And so the developers came up with the bay bridge and worked their way along embarcadero. The plans were to be very, very efficient for that through town he once the San Francisco saw had Human Services agency happening 200 though people figure out city hall offender that the embarcadero free was dropped and we had the great free to no where. Which cut us off from the Ferry Building and our store line and created in 1989 and gave us the opportunity to tear down the free. And that was the renaissance of Ferry Building. That land was developed for a new Ferry Building and whom new embarcadero how to handle travel and needed a concept for the building didnt want that was when a plan was developed for the liquor store. The San Francisco Ferry Building has many that ups and downs and had a huge hay day dribbled adopt to almost nothing and after the earthquake had a shove of adrenaline to revise the waterfront and it moved around the bay and plans for more so think investment in the future and feel that by making a reliable ferry system once the Ferry Building will be there to surface. Okay, good afternoon and welcome to the San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission Hearing for wednesday august 16, 2023. To enable Public Participation s fgtv is broadcasting. Each speaker is allowed to speak up to 3 minutes. When your allotted time is reached, with i will take the next up for comment. For those persons participating via webex, the password is