And first of all, thank you all so much for being here. I want to just start by expressing my appreciation to Mary Ellen Carroll for her continued support of manager king and facilitating the various meetings that take place with the Disaster Council. Theres a lot of work that needs to be done in San Francisco to address this. Many of the things that we know could happen that we may be surprised by. In addition to those things that we know are coming and having some consistent meetings with our various city service agencies, Law Enforcement and others who will be responsible when and if anything happens in our city is critical to ensuring the safety of residents of our city. This this conversation and us coming together. I know has been sparked by my push to start to look at the renewing of our alarm system that used to sound. At 12 00 every tuesday, something that, you know, especially those of us who grew up in San Francisco, we would hear consistently and if you heard it outside the scope of that time period, you knew that there was a problem. And the whole point, again, was to test it to ensure that the system was working the way that it should. Unfortunately, with technology and with people who started to invade the system, we were put in jeopardy. Our safety of our city and using this system was put in jeopardy because we unfortunately had people who had access to the system and who could use it for the wrong reasons. Cybersecurity has has been improved. We know its important to San Francisco and the ability to ensure the safety with reliable information is also equally important. We did make at one point the hard decision to scale back, to shut the system down, to avoid problems. But more importantly, this Disaster Council has had numerous discussions about the costs related to investing in this system, to bring it up to a place of modern technology, but more importantly to ensure that when this system is operating, we are protecting it. And we are using the appropriate Cyber Security to ensure that it doesnt get in the hands of the wrong people. So i know mary ellen is going to be talking a little bit about what we plan to do, what it might cost and how we can move forward. But let me also just say San Francisco is a place that, you know, its a major city. So anything could happen, whether that is an earthquake more recently, even though it didnt directly impact us, hurricane ian, we know that there also is the threat of terrorist attacks. We know that there have been various events and other things that have occurred in San Francisco, and we have developed new systems that exist that will allow for people to be made aware whether its our ability to break into the systems, the various communications around the radio and television. But also the alerts that we have on alert that people can sign up so that they can get alerts as well as our ability to break in and get through to peoples cell phone to communicate information using the Fire Department with, you know, the various microphones, megaphones that they carry on their various trucks and rigs. The ability to get information out there using a lot of different modes of technology is something that currently exist in San Francisco. I know that conversation happens around tsunamis and the possibility of tsunamis in San Francisco. I know the conversations around the challenges that existed in Treasure Island with the Drinking Water and other things we have never since this system has been down been enabled to distribute information in to the public to protect Public Safety. But i will say that many of you have heard through the news that i was actually in maui during, you know, the very devastating hurricane and fire that took place. And in fact, the winds were probably more significant than ive ever seen or experienced anywhere. And on top of that, it to have a fire to happen of that mass attitude that swept through the town of lahaina in such a significant way with no alert system, with no sound, when power was down, no internet, no technology, no ability to communicate to anyone what was going on, really renewed my commitment to look into this particular system and the need to bring this system back up to par for the people of San Francisco, because, as i said, we have a number of different communication tools at our disposal. All that we are able to use to address Public Safety in San Francisco in a way to distribute information in. But the question is what happens when we are faced with winds that are so problematic that the power has to be cut when we are faced, faced with challenges that dont allow us to use technology in the same way to distribute information to the public. We need to make sure that we have all levels of redundant Communication Systems in this city to make sure that we are able to get information out to the public. So its time for us to really look at upgrading our system. Im upgrading the work that we need to do together to ensure Public Safety and also i want to take this opportunity to just mention nert the Neighborhood Emergency Response Team and a desire to try and recruit people. There are thousands of people registered for nert, but we have to make sure that they maintain in their certification so that they are up to date on the latest of technology and information so that when our Fire Department, our police officers, our sheriff deputies, our Disaster Service workers and others are not always able to get to everyone in that. People in our various community cities all over San Francisco have the training to be able to help their neighbors and to help us as a city get through this. So i think there are a lot of different layers to our need through this Disaster Council to start to have conversations that allow for both technology, advanced distribution of information, but also so were going to have to go back to some basics because in the event of any situation nation, we as a city, we want to make sure that we dont continue to put off the important infrastructure investments. We need to make for this particular system, because it is necessary for the purposes of getting our city to a place where we can ensure that we have every tool at our disposal to address any disaster and whatever may come our way. So todays meeting for the Disaster Council centers around our system. Our system that look at the possibility of bringing this system back into operation. On what that would entail and what the cost may be be and how we should move forward. And i want to at this time turn it over to Mary Ellen Carroll to provide the details around this. Thank you all so much. Thank you. Mayor breed and i think every disaster, every emergency that we experience or that we see is an opportunity for us to learn. We have in the past decade, cities across the world have increasing faced the consequence associated with our climate change. Storms are more intense. Temperatures are more extreme, and the impacts of wildfires are more destructive and toxic. In january and march of this year, as we all know, we experienced historic storms that flooded our streets, took down our trees, our utility pole poles and tore glass off our buildings. As wildfires across the country have resulted in poor air quality and orange sky. As we all remember from 2020. And that new york and the east coast experienced this year and even this past weekend, as we saw hillary. Hurricane hilary impacts Southern California as it hit the coast as a Tropical Storm, the first Tropical Storm in our state in over 80 years. So our changing climate has signified giant impact on how we prepare for respond to and recover from emergencies as our Emergency Operations center is a critical component of our response, we activate during both planned and unplanned events, and our key responsibilities of the eoc. Of course, are maintaining situational awareness, supporting our Field Operations , providing alert, warning and notification action, coordinating logistics and tracking finance sources and costs of any disaster. Our so just to give an overview, we have as the mayor alluded to, San Francisco has a very robust and integrated Emergency Alert, alert and Warning System. Our city has made considerable investments that im going to just go through pretty quickly here in conventional platforms, Technology Based platforms, and then Community Based networks. So we have traditional and social media. So the those are our conventional platforms. The things that we use every day are television, newspapers, online resources, probably social media is the number one, and radio in San Francisco. We can use kgw to broadcast out emergency information. Radio is super resilient, and it is true that most of us probably have not turned on a radio in a very long time, and thats okay. But you really should have one thats battery operated in your home and thats part of what were getting to, is being prepared for anything and really being prepared for when all of our technology is not available to us. We also have the Emergency Alert system, which sends warning via broadcast cable, satellite. Right. And this is the thing that you see on your tv or you hear on the radio, you know, once a month as testing that system and then we have Message Boards. So those are what we call variable Message Boards that alert public to various emergencies. You see them when youre driving on the highway. They mostly include information about roadwork and traffic, but they can and they have been used to provide emergency information as well. And then finally, we have our outdoor Warning System. And so this is the one well talk more about today. This is the network of over 100 sirens across San Francisco that can broadcast an audible alert with a corresponding message in multiple languages. These sirens were taken offline in two december 20th, 19 due to in order for us to mitigate an immediate and serious cybersecurity risk. And it remains our intention to reactivate that system. We have other tech tech logical methods and the one that we use the most and most people are familiar with probably is alert. Sf this is an alert that we send in multiple languages to the public. Weve sent several today already. We have over 195,000 subscribers for text, which represents 54 of the households in San Francisco. You can sign up for alerts by just texting your zip code to eight, eight, eight, seven, seven, seven, and then we also have telephone alerts, which is like a reverse 911. So those are used and can connect to over 383,000 residential and business landlines. And so thats something that we can do to call people when there is a very urgent message that needs to go out. And we did use that during covid to let people know about stay at home orders and mask mandates. And then the final one is the we alert and thats one that you dont have to sign up for. That comes automatically. Theyre mostly associated with amber alerts. When your phone buzzes very loud or flash flood warnings. We had one last this past winter during the floods. So then finally, i want to talk a little bit about our conventional platforms. So these are like the non we dont need technology for the most part. But our First Responders that are represented here, leadership here on Disaster Council, our police officers, our firefighters, our sheriff deputies, our park rangers, those all play a very Important Role in public alert and warning they can use their lights and sirens as well as their public address and broadcast systems with their vehicles. And that is something that we did use during january 2022, tsunami advisory. Do you want to play that video just as just people can see how that works. And the nami and advisory in effect, stay out of the water, off the beach and away from the coast. Again tsunami advisory in effect, staying out of the water, away from the coast and off the beach. So that is what we did activate that during the tsunami alert. You cant see it in this video, but youll see many surfers still out there not heeding or warning. As a surfer , i understand that its hard to get them out. But and then finally, we have Disaster Service workers and those Disaster Service workers during covid were incredibly instrumental. We deployed hundreds of workers across the city to put up fliers and posters, hang things on doors and knock on doors, literally to get information out. So we are we are adept at to adapting to the needs of what of what the Community Needs to get Important Information out and finally, we have our volunteers and Community Groups. So we have, as the mayor said, volunteer groups like nert and alert. We have an auxiliary Communication Service is a group of folks that do ham Radio Communication for Service Providers like the interfaith council, Neighborhood Empowerment Network and the Latino Task Force and megablock. These are all two organizations that really were born during covid and that continue to be very strong partners with dlm and the city in Emergency Preparedness. So you know, finally, i just you know, and just to say a few more things about that, we have the Neighborhood Community network or nen is very proactive. They work with Community Days and neighborhoods in order so that each neighborhood can kind of cater their plan and their response to the needs of that community. We have a new program , the neighborhood hub and strong block, that allows for more resources in communities. And we are also have a new program, strong building, where were piloting with Alice Griffith apartments that are going to be a model for us to say, how do we do it for . You know, we have so many multi unit buildings and preparing those folks also. So just in summary, we have, as you can see, a very robust Emergency Management program here in the city that includes diverse, overlapping ring and redundant alert and Warning Systems and while we are very confident that our systems are thorough and redundant, we always want to improve. And in particular, were looking to continue our investments in language capacity and community outreach, both things that we learned lessons very important during covid because not everyone receives the message in the right way. We want to make sure that we get the message to people in whatever way is needed so that they receive it and their safety is assured. And so we welcome the discussion that is were about to have on these improvements. And we really wish to partner with anyone who wants to help us expand our alert and warning capacity, whether through people, through financial or systematic resources. So thats the end of my presentation and open it up to our council for discussion. Mary ellen i just wanted to appreciate the thorough overview and maybe get into the discussion as to what our plans are that we discussed around the bringing up of the system, what our plans are, are we going to repair the old are we going to do a new system . Some of the things we talked about and how we can get going with the with the alarms along the beach area and what are some options, options that we should discuss so that we can begin the process of preparing and understand whats possible. Yes, mayor. So we have a approximately 119 sirens throughout the city. We did lose a couple of them in the storm. So part of what we need to do now that it has been four years since the they were operating operating is we need to go in and the plan is what were going to do is replace the technology. So they are all run on what we call. So theyre not cellular but wireless. So they are not dependent on a cellular system. And each of these individual sirens has backup battery. Those are the technology that needs to be absolutely has to be replaced. It. In addition, most people have been here a long time know that depending on where you are in the city, the messaging is clearer or not clear. And we know that in some places of the city you cannot hear, you know, have better, better or worse ability to hear the message and the sirens. So part of what our our first plan is to do is definitely to focus on the coastal side, because we know that tsunami is a very like likely scenario in which we would use these. And add each one. This just to back up the system was built in 1946, just to be clear. So its a very old system. During that time, you know, it was really a military it was like a bomb Warning System that was put into place. Obviously, as weve shown, we have built technology has changed. We have so many redundancies. But but getting back to the lowest common denominator of redundancy, when all of the technology that we are dependent on is not available to us, it makes this kind of solution for alert very important. However, what we need to do is take the newer technology, especially on the sirens and the verbal messaging and ensure that each of those is facing the same way that the height of the siren is in the right place. So we anticipate we have a contract in order to start moving forward with the technology. So the procurement of the technology is not the issue and we will be moving forward. I think we expect in the next six months that this project will be well on its way. The full extent of when this will be complete is harder to predict just because were going to have to assess each one of these and potentially make some changes in order to really make the improvements to the technology. So its a better system than we had when we turned it off in 2019. Thank you. All right. So it sounds like we are at the point of discussion on based on on mary ellens presentation and i know we have a number of our members of the board of supervisors and other elected leaders and Department Heads joining us here today. President peskin, i wanted to know if you had any comments or any remarks or questions for this discussion. Oh thank you, mayor breed. And thank you for convening the Disaster Council. I think youre absolutely right. Lahaina was a teachable moment and we are living with a very constrained capital budget. So i am pleased that there seems to be unanimity in all quarters to find funds to get the outdoor public Warning System back up and running. And i think my colleagues and i are happy to assist in any way if that requires legislative action, were prepared to do so. Thank you. Thats really great to hear. President peskin, we appreciate your leadership on this. All right. Are there any other comments from our elected leaders who are joining us here today . Anything you want to ask or say . Thank you so much for convening today. We really appreciate it. Just really look forward to seeing the implementation and look forward to hopefully have some results and timeline for the siren. You know, besides the funding part, id love to learn more. I think for the west side particularly, i think is to also in addition to the siren, wed love to see sort of the just learning again from the maui fire. Is that wed love to see a mapping of evacuation route. We on the west side for us, we actually do see a tsunami evacuation routes, signage throughout the throughout west side. I just love to see a mapping of it or updated mapping of it and to see that those signage are also updated or upgraded if need be. Knowing that its been a while. So thank you. Thank you. Supervisor and you brought something up. I just wanted to mention when we bring these back on, i think on the west side, many people do consider them the tsunami sirens, right. But they are all over the city. It really should be. We want to make sure that folks understand that when the siren sound, they could be for any event. And part of what were learning from maui is that the sirens were generally used for tsunami to send people away from the water. But in this case, the fire was coming toward the ocean. And so we want to make sure that we educate the public that they, no matter where you are, that the sirens are indicating something, especially if theyre not happening at 12 00 on a tuesday. And thats something that may not be could be any number of things. And so i just wanted to mention that. And to your point on the be happy to share with you the evacuation routes and we can even set up a meeting with fire and police as, as they are kind of lead on helping support evacuation. I just want to add that the supervisor brings up a good point regarding eyeing the various evacuation plans, because i do think that typically during fleet week, we take that as an opportunity to highlight the challenges that could exist in San Francisco and to make the public aware of, you know, Emergency Preparedness. But i do think that every neighborhood could be unique to the specific events. And we need to make sure that we are not only working with the supervisor, but were also working with the community to make sure that they understand stand what this all means and how this could be effectively used in case of an emergency, regardless of what it is. So i do think some more outreach and work around and, you know, educate ing people about what these sirens actually represent and also the various layers of things that could happen. And what things might mean. Look we know anything could happen. So i think, you know, the sirens and making sure that the voice and the clarity of being able to hear and the various languages are being used used is going to be critical to our Communication System along with our our networking systems that we have in existence. But ultimately, i think some more outreach and work that we can do to start to elevate the conversation around Emergency Preparedness preparedness with our various neighborhood organizations, our Community Groups and others could be very helpful to ensuring that, you know, not just when something happens, were reacting to it. But you know, how are we being more proactive with community so that they are also aware of what exists . And can i ask one question . Yeah obviously im very supportive and im glad that we can all agree that this is something that needs to be done. Im just curious if Going Forward will be looking to work with the same contractor weve been working with a little concern on that. Something is two years and then now were looking at five years and were over budget. So are there reasons why and will we plan to work with the same contractor Going Forward . Well, its a its a combination of so the technology we have to purchase through a vendor and the delay is not a contractor issue. It was more a funding issue on our part. So and the cost escalation is, is what it what time does to our projects. I see karla behind you nodding so we the i think the biggest challenge is its a very unique system and we are working very closely with tt to make sure that we have the right people who will be available and be able to hit the ground running to be able to do the installation, the sort of assessment. So its two parts. Theres technology d then theres integration into our system and the integrating part is more a city resource issue that we feel pretty strongly that were going to have a good team to do that. In fact, bringing some people back from retired agent who really know the system and will be able to enter, interested and willing and available to help on the project. Okay. So funding then can expedite the timeline. Yeah. I mean, i think that the we have an existing contract, so i feel pretty confident about getting this started immediately. The issue i think the delay or just the i dont want to say delay, but the challenges in moving it as quickly as possible is going to be what we find when we do the when we do these and especially along the coast. I mean, this is just what happens. Our beautiful coastal coastline is hard on equipment. And so i think that will be the issue more than anything. But we have we have the contract. We have availability on that contract and a new quote. So were were really ready to go on this. Thank you. But mary ellen, this is a motorola product. Yes. And part of what supervisor mentioned in terms of the current contractor, are there other options that we have in our various list of contractors that are possible other than the one that weve been working with . Um i dont have the answer to that right now, but i will well find out. Mayor thats something that we can explore, especially as were taking a look at different technologies and what might come from the assessment, because it might not just be the technology, but other things that might need to me need to be done to repair polls and other things. Yeah and i think that, you know, part of what mary ellen is, is doing is, is taking my direction to move as quickly as possible because because the goal is we want to have this system online. But at the same time, this does give us, you know, we have an opportunity to, you know, take a moment to look at what is what has changed. We cant just neglect the fact that the technology, the advancements with Artificial Intelligence and Everything Else thats out there. We definitely need to look at what other options exist so that we are not creating a new system where that will need to be updated and improved in the next five years. Yeah, i definitely dont want to come back to you in five years for that. So all right. Any other questions or comments for discussion. Did you. Nobody okay. All right. We do have to we do have to open this item for Public Comment. But is there anyone here for Public Comment. It doesnt look like it. All right. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And at this time, without any questions, further discussion or Public Comment, this meeting is adjourned. Thank you all so much for being here. Im connie chan district one supervisor and welcome to the richmond. Im an immigrant and came to San Francisco china town when i was 13 years old with my mom and brother. My first job is at the Community Organizer for Public Safety with San Francisco state. And land in the city hall and became a legislative aid to sophie maxwell. Went through city departments when Kamala Harris was our District Attorney im proud to represent the richmondad district supervisor. [music] we have great neighborhood commercial corridors that need to be protected. The reason why we launched the neighborhood business for supporting the [inaudible] for 15 years special more. We have the Legacy Business Program the business around for 30 years or more and thought, you know, we gotta make sure the next generation contains for generations to come. Am im ruth the owner of hamburger haven we came back on july 11. We were opened in 1968 at that time i believe one of the owners of mestart today went through a guy named andy in the early 70s and my father took it mid 70s. Originally was just a burger joint. Open late nights. Then it changed over the years and became the breakfast staple. We specialize in breakfast, brunch come lunch now. I love this neighborhood. I grew up here. And it feels like home. I walk down the block and recognize people of people say hello. You say hello you talk and joke. Has that familiar environment that is enjoyable and i have not experienced anywhere else. There are many things i would like to see improve ams the things we might see are making sure that our tenants stay housed our Small Business in tact and those are the solutions that will contain to push to make sure that you know our communities can take root, stay and thrive. Im proud of you know, welcoming folks to the richmond. Everyone loch its we got Farmers Market every sunday there. The you see really business at the noaa. Ice cream at toy folks and going to chop for book like green apple. And thats when you like the deal is pizza place haall families love. You will see a lot of great chinese shops that is readily available for everyone. And that is just thein are richmond there is more to do in the richmond. What is love is the theatre. I mean adam and with my wife jamie, own Little Company called cinema sf we operate the balboa theatre. The vocabularying theatre on sacramento and soon the 4 star on clement. Balboa theatre opened in 1926 and servicing this Outer Richmond neighborhood since then. And close on the heels the 4 star opens since 1913. When you come in to a movie theatre, the rest of the world has to be left behind. But you get e mersed in the world that is film makers made for you. That is a special experience to very much we can all think of the movies that we saw in the big screen of with everybody screaming or laughing or crying. It is a shared Human Experience that you get when you go in to places that are gatherings and artist presented to you. A shared experience is the most precious. And the popcorn. [laughter]. At the balboa especially, we stroif to have movies for people of every generation from the pop corn palace movies on the weekend mornings, for families and kids. This is for everybody of all ages. What is great about the richmond is it is a neighborhood of the immigrants. Belongs to immigrants not ap i immigrants you will see that there are also a Huge Population of rush wrans and ukrainian immigrants they stay united you am see that the support they lend to each other as a community. And cinderella bakery is another legacy business. If you go on the website it is known as a russian bakery. The first thing you see their pledge to support the ukrainian community. You will see the unity in the richmond im so proud of our immigrant community in the rich monthed. My dad immigrate friday iran the reason he stayed was because of the restaurant. Has more centamential value it is the reasonable we are in this country. When he had an opportunity to take over the instruct he stayed that is why we are here part of our legacy and San Francisco history and like to keep it going for years to come. Another moment im proud to be supporting the richmond and the only Asian American woman elect in the office and as an immigrant that is not happen nothing 3 decades. You see it is my ability to represent especially the asianamerican community. In my case the chinese speaking elders in our community that really can allow me to communicate with them directly. Im Program Director of adult day centers. I have been here for 7 years i love to help the communities and help and the people with disability. I foal a connection with them. I am anim grant i love helping our community and new immigrants and improvements. If you want nature, richmond is the neighborhood to go we are between ocean beach heights and golden gate park. I love the Outer Richmond. For me this is the single best neighborhood in San Francisco. Everybody knows each other. People have been living here forever. It is young and old. The ocean is really near by. And so there is that out doors ocean vibe to it. There are places to seat Golden Gate Bridge it is amazing. Businesses are all small mom and pop businesses. Houses get passed down generation to generation. It has a small town feel but you know you are in a big city at the same time. Its got a unique flavor i dont see in other neighborhoods j. It is about being inclusive we are inclusive and welcome the communities, anybody should feel welcome and belong here and shop local, eat local. We believe that with that support and that network it come in full circle. It is passing on kinds knows. Thats when richmond is about that we are together at once. Welcome to the richmond. [music] i am iris long. We are a Family Business that started in San Francisco chinatown by my parents who started the business in the mid 1980s. Today we follow the same footsteps of my parents. We source the teas by the harvest season and style of crafting and the specific variety. We specialize in premium tea. Today i still visit many of the farms we work with multigenerational farms that produce premium teas with its own natural flavors. It is very much like grapes for wine. What we do is more specialized, but it is more natural. Growing up in San Francisco i used to come and help my parents after school whether in middle school or high school and throughout college. I went to San Francisco state university. I did stay home and i helped my parents work throughout the summers to learn what it is that makes our community so special. After graduating i worked for an Investment Bank in hong kong for a few years before returning when my dad said he was retiring. He passed away a few years ago. After taking over the business we made this a little more accessible for visitors as well as residents of San Francisco to visit. Many of our teas were traditionally labeled only in chinese for the older generation. Today of our tea drinkkers are quite young. It is easy to look on the website to view all of our products and fun to come in and look at the different varieties. They are able to explore what we source, premium teas from the providence and the delicious flavors. San francisco is a beautiful city to me as well as many of the residents and businesses here in chinatown. It is great for tourists to visit apsee how our community thrived through the years. This retail location is open daily. We have minimal hours because of our small team during covid. We do welcome visitors to come in and browse through our products. Also, visit us online. We have minimal hours. It is nice to set up viewings of these products here. I dont want to be involved in the process after it happens. I want to be there at the front end to help people with something in my mind from a very early age. Our community is the important way to look at things, even now. George floyd was huge. It opened up wounds and a discussion on something festering for a long time. Before rodney king. You can look at all the instances where there are calls for change. I think we are involved in change right now in this moment that is going to be long lasting. It is very challenging. I was the victim of a crime when i was in middle school. Some kids at recess came around at pe class and came to the locker room and tried to steal my watch and physically assaulted me. The officer that helped afterwards went out of his way to check the time to see how i was. That is the kind of work, the kind of perspective i like to have in our Sheriffs Office regardless of circumstance. That influenced me a lot. Some of the storefronts have changed. What is mys is that i still see some things that trigger memories. The barbershop and the shoe store is another one that i remember buying shoestrings and getting my dads old army boots fixed. We would see movies after the first run. My brother and i would go there. It is nice. If you keep walking down sacramento. The nice think about the city it takes you to japan town. That is where my grandparents were brought up. That is the traditional foods or movies. They were able to celebrate the culture in that community. My family also had a drycleaning business. Very hard work. The family grew up with apartments above the business. We have a builtin work force. 19 had 1 as 1941 as soon as that happened the entire community was fixed. Determined to do the job as democracy should with real consideration for the people involved. The decision to take every one of japan niece american o japanese from their homes. My family went to the mountains and experienced winter and summer and springs. They tried to make their home a home. The Community Came together to share. They tried to infuse each home are little things. They created things. I remember my grand mother saying they were very scared. They were worried. They also felt the great sense of pride. Japanese americans. My granduncle joined the 442nd. When the opportunity came when the time that was not right. They were in the campaign in italy. They were there every step of the way. President truman pays tribute. That was the most decorated unit in the history of the United States army. Commitment and loyal to to the country despite that their families were in the camp at that time. They chose to come back to San Francisco even after all of that. My father was a Civil Servant as well and served the state of California Workers compensation attorney and judge and appellate board. My parents influenced me to look at Civil Service s. I applied to police, and Sheriffs Department at the same time. The Sheriffs Department grabbed me first. It was unique. It was not just me in that moment it was everyone. It wasnt me looking at the crowd. It was all of us being together. I was standing there alone. I felt everyone standing next to me. The only way to describe it. It is not about me. It is from my father. My father couldnt be there. He was sick. The first person i saw was him. I still sometimes am surprised by the fact i see my name as the sheriff. I am happy to be in the position i am in to honor their memory doing what i am doing now to help the larger comment. When i say that we want to be especially focused on marginalized communities that have been wronged. Coming from my background and my family experienced what they did. That didnt happen in a vacuum. It was a decision made by the government. Nobody raised their voice. Now, i think we are in a better place as country and community. When we see something wrong we have change agents step up to help the community affected. That is a important thing to continue to do. You talk about change and being a leader in change and not knowing whether you have successes or results. The fact of the matter is by choosing to push for change you have already changed things. Through inspiration for others, take up the matter or whether it is through actual functional change as a result of your voice being heard. I think you have already started on a path to change by choosing that path. In doing that in april of itself creates change. I continue in that type of service for my family. Something i hope to see in my children. I have a pretty good chance with five children one will go into some sort of Civil Service. I hope that happens to continue that legacy. I am paul, sheriff of San Francisco. [ music ] music . I started the o was with a financing and had a Business Partner all ended up wanting to start the business and retire and i did was very important to me so i bought them oust and two weeks later the pandemic h4 one of the moments i thought to myself we have to have the worse business in a lifetime or the best. We created the oasis out of a need basically so other people bars and turning them into a space and when the last place we were performing wasnt used turned those buildings into condos so we decided to have a space. What the pandemic did for us is made us on of that we felt we had to do this immediately and created this. unintelligible . Where we would offer Food Delivery Services with a curbside professionalism live music to bring spectacular to lives we are going through and as well as employ on the caterers and the performers and drivers very for that i think also for everyone to do something. We had ordinary on the roof and life performances and with a restaurant to support the system where we are and even with that had terribly initiative and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt had to pay our rent we decided to have an oldfashioned one we created club hours where you can watch to online and or be on the phone and raised over one quarter of a Million Dollar that of incredible and something that northbound thought we could do. We got ourselves back and made me realize how for that people will show up if i was blown away but also had the courage but the commitment now i cant let anyone down i have to make the space serviceable so while this is a full process business it became much more about a space that was used by the community. And it became less about starting up a business and more about the heart of what were doing. This building used to be a and one of the first one we started working on had we came out what a mural to wrap the building and took a while but able to raise the money and pay 5 artists to make a design around many this to represent what is happening on the side and also important this is who we are this is us putting it out there because satisfies other people we dont realize how much we affect the Community Around there when he i want to put that out there and show up and show ourselves outside of those walls more fabulous. And inspires other people to be more fabulous and everyone want to be more fabulous and less hatred and hostility and that is how we change the september 1st, 2023. The meeting began at 9 32 a. M. Secretary fuller, please call the roll. Good morning. Please respond with hear or present it. Lynn newhouse seagull. Commissioner newhouse. Seagull is absent. Lauren post is here. Chair post is present. Gerald turner. Commissioner turner is absent. Paul wolford present. Commissioner commissioner wolford is present. Fatty zabi present vice chair. Zabi is present with three members present. We do have quorum for the Public Works Commission for members of the public wishing to make comment on an item from outside the hearing room, you would. Dial 415 a6550001 and use theee