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Todays rules americas the first Public Meeting of the board since the sad nows that senator Diane Feinstein passed. Elect in the 1969 Diane Feinstein served on this board from 1970 to 78 when a shocking tragedy aassassinations of the supervisor and harvey milk. She was first woman to serve as board president in San Francisco history and mayor in San Francisco history. The first woman to win dem crediteck nomination for good afternoonor in california history in 1990 the year i met her. She lost this year but i worked for the Political Consulting team 2 years later part of her senate bid and the first women elected to the u. S. Senate in california history. There will be more ponent in the coming days everything this she meant to our city and state and our nation. As an expression condolences i ask we observe a moment of remembrance. Thank you. Mr. Clerk. Board and committee allow in person attorneys and Public Comment and prosecute voiding Remote Access and Public Comment via phone. Those in personal be allowed speak first then those on the phone line. Items will appear on the agenda of october 17 unless otherwise stated. Thank you, mr. Clerk call item one and 2 together. Item 1 a motion approving the treasurer nomination of brenda mc nulty. For term ending september 30 of 27 to the treasurer Oversight Committee. Item 2 is a motion approving aimee brown ending september 30 of 27 to the treasury Oversight Committee. 2 individuals are before us today are serving in the role and renominated by jose cisneros. The requirements for seats is to be a member of the public who has expertise in Public Finance and diverse and bipartisan. I like to invite brenda mc nulty reenemy nayed seat sxefb ask to cope your remarks to 2 minutes and be available for questions if necessary. Welcome to the rules the floor is yours. Good morning. Members of the rules committee. My name is brenda mc nulty. And i appeared before to you seek a second term to serve on this commission. First of all, let me tell you my qualifications. I have a bachelors in economics. And i have a masters of Business Administration degree focus on finance. In addition to that, i like to share that im currently full time retired but over 33 years of experience working in the Financial Services industry. To give you an idea of the types of jobs i had. I had managed cash for i Large Corporation wl grace, does not exist anymore. I worked for the treasurer in financing. I fan a bond portfolio. Managed Foreign Exchange not relevant to this position. I have also had experience in budgeting and understanding the cash modes and of operations. An investment add visoror my experience related to [inaudible]. Next i would like to share with you my understanding of how commissions work in the city this is my second term, prior to my service in the treasure Oversight Committee i served on citizen general obligation bonds. And for 2 terms and one of those terms i was chair. So i have an understanding of the role of citizen commissions. What we add input to city governors. And when we can and cannot do. Confidential in this committee. Our role as public members are the advisory nature. Hose and he his team are managing and doing the daily operations. Last but not least. I would like to remind the members of rules committee that i do have 4 more years of experience in this committee. Which i did not have when i stood before you 4 years ago. I attended every single meeting. In person. Before covid and of course virtually during covid. I in the left 4 years i had gained a different type of experience. Which i hope will give me additional expertise to carry on a second term. Im open to whatever questions you may have for me. I would like now to invite up aimee brown. Thank you. Reenemy nayed for seat 6 and i hope im pronouncing that right. Welcome to rules and the floor is yours. Thank you, good morning. Similar to brenda im up for reappointment this morning. And similar to brenda i have expertise in Financial Services street and 3 yours i want to call out. The first is expertise in Public Finance written in the ordinance and involved with state and local financing for 30 years. And during my career, im proud to say i served financial add sunrisor to the sfpuc for years and other financings. Including the civic Center Superior courthouse and refinancing of the mosconi center. I worked for a major Investment Banking firm for 15 years im most proud of the fact that i was an owner of initial low recognized women owned and San Francisco lbe firm. Employing 710 people locally. My firm caused mow to experience what is a second qualification for somebody on this committee. My firm was subject to month low andanual audits by the sec, na sd and msrb, which was the board for the municipal industry. I served on that Oversight Board for 3 years. I also assisted many clients investing bond proceeds. Which is i major task of the San Francisco treasurers office. And lastly, i have other experience serving boards and Oversight Committees. You can see from my application, it has been wide ranging from Public Finance boards to nonprofits and small corporate boards. San francisco before the treasure over of Sight Committee a member of ref now bond oversight for the puc. I served chair for 5 of 8 years to my term. I worked for local nonprofits when now called the bay eco tearium. The pair institute and aquarium of the bay and island conservancy involved with their financial over site and government. Currently a board member and treasurer for Northern California and the organization as you may know, work with the youth, neighborhood leadership programs. And there are many graduates who are currently working throughout the city. It is a lit of on the side, you mentioned Diane Feinstein before a graduate [inaudible]. We are proud of this. Im interested in the continuing committee the duties much my enters, expertise and experiences and during my semi retirement contributed to the community in which i live. Im ready for questions if you have them. Thank you. I dont see anybody on the roster but i would say i think that the lack of questions i dont think should be interpreted for lack appreciation. And i well qualified both of and you appreciate your willingness to serve in this important role. Mr. Clerk. Open to Public Comment. Yes. Members of the public had wish to speak on these items in person line up to speak. For those remote on the call in line press star 3. For those in the queue continue it wait until you have been unmute exclude that will be your queue to begin. There is nobody in the room for Public Comment and nobody on the phone line for Public Comment. Why Public Comment on this is now closed. And i would like to make a motion to strike reject where appearing in the 2 motions and send 1 and 2 to the full board. With positive rememberedation. Recommendation. Recommend the merit as amendod this matter, voice chair walton. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye chair dorsey. Aye. Motion passes without objection. Thank you, mr. Clerk, unanimous vote. Item one appointment Oversight Committee mc nulty and Oversight Committee aimee brown sent to the full board as amended. Call item 3. Item 3 a hearing to consider appointing a member ending april 27 of 24 to the Sunshine Ordinance Task force. One seat, one applicant. We are hearing one seat, seat 5 it is nominated by the chapter of league of women voters and for the unexpired portion of 2 year term ending april 17 of 24. The log nominated mackeen anderson. We ask appointees and applicants to keep remarks to i couple minutes. Welcome to rules, floor is yours. Thank you very much. And good morning to all of you and thank you for where you are Public Service. I appreciate it. I pretty much said i wanted say about myself and normally brief about myself one thing i want to bring before you is one of the things that got me into working in Public Service and transparency was i had found this during the dwo 000 election i spent, lot of time yelling at my tv and buzz i was anxiety row and i finally got to the point in 2004 i said yelling at my tv does in the do good i need to get up and may be do something about it. That started my johny doing something other an being a citizen this voted i wanted to participate in government. How i wound up here like cascading list of thing this is occurred, i started registering verts. I did work with the log of women voters in informing voters i learned when the processes were in government i like many only knew. Oh. There is more this goes into temperature and i believe and i my belief has been strength emed we need transparency in government allowing ordinary citizens to look at government and say, yes, you are doing had i want you to do or no, you are not doing had i. You to do and have a mechanism to make voices heard. So. Which is how im winding up here. With the nominee for the Sunshine Ordinance Task force. Because i believe it is an important part of government to have transparency. If i can help push that up a hill, i am willing to work to push that boulder up the hell. Thats why im here. Brevity. Im always brief. Thank you very much for considering my application for this position. Great. Thank you very much. I will just say that i am a colleague former colleague of yours and appreciate the many years we work youd may have left you retired a couple years before i left the City Attorneys Office we worked together for a dozen scombroers atest to your commitment to our city. I appreciate your wellingness to continue to serve on this body. One thing i ask about this is something i talked to folks about on the committee is im hopeing in the next couple years we can think about ways that we can work on processing improvement to sunshine. One thing i had seen overnight years is it would be nice if there could be a way what Information Technology could have a process for speeding up report of things. Not gumming up peoples jobs, there are way in this day and age this we might want to think about having a department of technology to handle the questions the responsive e mills. Having it go to the City Attorneys Office. Here is had needs to be redacted improve processes i think would unburdensome folk who is get you know have other jobs. And improve transparency. I welcome opportunity to work on this with you. Okay. Any thoughts. Thank you very much one of the people in the City Attorneys Office who would get the sunshine ordinance requests and fasz them to the departments i believe that with the growth of technology there are ways that we can work with the system to make it more efficient. Will we get the fund to do that . We may want to but if we dont get the funds to do it people will get frustrated they dont understand the 2 things go together. Yes, i agree that there should be ways to able to stream line it. Should be ways to get our decisions from sunshine ordinance. In a data base that people search for. This we can w with departments to make sure we are operating on the same system. Hey. Id love it. Im sure everybody on sunshine would, also. It is good to see that you have that same thought in mind and i look forward to working with you. I look fared to working with you all making sure that thing can happen. I do think when it come to transaarons and sunshine temperature is undeniebl there are costs this are associated with responding to Public Record requests. It is reminiscent about education if you think education is expensive try ignorance if you think transparency is expensive how about a government that is not transparent. I think this this is principle and will something we had invest. I agree. Joy appreciate your support itch dont see anybody with questions. Mr. Clerk. Can we open for Public Comment special thank you. Thank you very much. Members of the public had wish to peek and joining person line up to speak. For those remote on the call in line press star 3 to enter the line. Those in the queue wait until it indicates you have been unmuted that is your queue to begin your commentively dont see anyone in the room for Public Comment and 2 callers on the line for Public Comment. Can we have our first caller . Hi. Im jen. Im calling on behalf the league of women voters of San Francisco to support the appointment of mackeen anderson to the Sunshine Ordinance Task force. Mackeen an active member to many of our log committees for decades serving on board of directors of the log of women voters of San Francisco and california. She has demonstrated commitment to the government transparency, gained familiarity with the sunshine ordinance and the brown act work with the San Francisco sunshine and league of women voters of San Francisco committee during her time as chair. Maxen is known in the community as a defender of democracy and advocate for all san franciscans and the league encourages you to appoint Maxine Anderson to the Sunshine Ordinance Task force. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Great. Good morningful david pilpel. As you heard mackeen anderson a long time activist with the league of women voters of San Francisco and california her passion is evidence i look forward to her serveoth Task Force Im sure she will contribute to the spirited debate and discussion. And i can also assure chair dorsey and the other members and anyone listening the process improvement and changes this you suggested are already in the works and considered. And improving the stature of the task force in the city and with respect to complainants issue respondents and the press in general is a shared goal and one had is very much in the works. I look forward to maxine serving and thanks for listening. Thank you. This completes our list of phone Public Commenters. Thank you, Public Comment on item low is closed. And i will make a motion to recommend Maxine Anderson on seat 5 of the Sunshine Ordinance Task force and send it to the full board can we have a roll call zoom on that motion vice chair walton. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Chair dorsey. Aye. The motion passes without objection. Why great on an ums vote Maxine Anderson recommended seat five on the Sunshine Ordinance Task force and moves to the full board, congratulations. Item 4 . Item 4 an ordinance approving the Surveillance Technology policy for the d. Elections use of social mead why monitor technology. Thank you, this policy has gone luthe roesz of the committee of Information Technology. And i believe coit director Julian Johnson is stand by if there are questions the director john art system here to present. Director arts, welcome to rules. Thank you. Good morning. So. The departments request is to essential low require a program to act as a dash board for social media postings. We could have the twitter, facebook, next door and instagram located in one screen not having to use 4 different programs to do one social postings and can track the response we get from the mead why in one spot instead of 4 different, counts. If we can use this tool we can sync it to on line on our website people can follow what is happening in the department throughout social mead ja and link that to the calendar they request and we can get the information over to our calendar on our website. It is an efficiency tool. I know this gone through surveillance Technology Process it is not us trying to collect information or use it of individual this is interact with the department through social media. And just a dash board so everything is in one base and reduce the number of people that work on social media. I can take any questions on this topic. That is the, off shelf product . Why yea. That is the i was going through it what is the brand name. We dont Vice President it we are waiting to finish this process. The couple out there [inaudible] and other is sprouts. We did downloaded a trial version of sproutos friday i can have an idea of when it could look like prior to the hearing. And it having tiles on the screen with a different accounts. And then you bring a calendar and schedule on the calendar postings happen and which account and you can track postings and schedule them. As far as tracking we are not tracking individuals we are tracking the number of hits and responses. Number of questions or asks to a specific posting we put out there. And this gives a sense, too of what is engaging with the voters and the public. When information is less interesting to them and a topic they are responding or they are guessing questions we get a sense of match topics are important at the moment. Can i ask when the process started . Looking back i think this was around march. This was this is before merchandise there is actual 3 meetings at coit on this. And started i dont remember i dont know the date i think 2022 we started the press the application and have the several meetings at coit and going through the process. It has been a while to get here. Okay. Great. Colleagues, any questions . Thank you. So much. I think it is good. Mr. Clerk open to Public Comment. Yes, members ever public had wish to speak and joining in person lineup to speak at this time. For those remote low on the call in line press star 3 to enter the line. For those in the queue wait until it indicates you have been unmuted that will be your queue to comment. I dont see anybody in the room in line for comment and one caller for Public Comment on this matter. Can we have our first Public Commenter in great. David pilpel itch believe the Election Department request is a reasonable use of technology. Not the type of mass surveillance this others may be concerned b. I encourage to you support this ordinance and use of the social media monitor technology proposed. Thank you. Thank you. That completeings Public Comment on this merit thank you, Public Comment upon is closed. And i like to sends this item to the full board with positive recommendation. A roll call on this motion . On the motion to recommend this matter vice chair walton. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Chair dorsey. Aye. Thank you mr. Clerk on a unanimous vote item 4 Surveillance Technology policy d. Elections use of social media monitor technology moves to the board with positive recommendation. Thank you. Call item 5. Item 5 ordinance amending the code to clarify the contractor may be suspended debarred due to labor laws governing payment of wing and unfir labor practices. Thank you and this is sponsored and authored by supervisor connie chan joining us this morning. Welcome to rules. The floor is yours. Thank you chair dorsey thank you for calendaring this. Colleagues one of San Francisco core values and source of pride is we are a union town. We prioritize our work and legislations and resources. Supporting our workers all cross down. San francisco passed more Worker Protection laws than know g. The first to impelement our own minimum wage. Paid 6 and parental leave laws. We established the countrys first municipal labor enforcement agentment legislation today is intended give us another tool and legislative tool to help us guarantee that we continue this momentum holding emplayers, bad employers account okay and us as the board of supervisors are being good stewards of our dollars this luis to govern and how what the board can do with a bad employer who are contractors with the city. And with existing contractors. What it does is simple. Adds wage theft and unfair labor practices or any violation of lus that governing labor practices to the list of criteria allowing the city to seek suspension or deborrowment of a contractor. They have been tools to disqualify contractors from the city bidding process and has been one that our City Attorneys Office used against contractor especially those convicted of criminal activities or crime. Like fraud. When we have employers found to be intentionally or wellfully violating lus like especially in this case mou with the legislation labor laws like wage theft this. Is trong tool to make sure bad employers are actions not manage we tolerate. Im pleased have the support chinese progressive association. Justice for all team and they are the one that brought the concern to our office. And today that what you see is result of collaborate rigz and discussions to see when else we can do to make to hold bad contractors spending city dollars accountable. I like to thank supervisor walton for cosponsorship and happy to take questions. Thank you. Thank you. Vice chair walton. Thank you, chair dorse and he supervisor chan. I wanted to say for the record how important it is to make sure our workers are protect exclude people po who do business with our city understand we will not to the rit violations of labor law and have yous as a city and it is unfortunate we have employers out there that will try to take advantage of our workers. We cannot allow this in San Francisco. I want it thank supervisor chan for bringing this forward and im proud to be a cosponsor. Thank you. Supervisor safai. Thank you, supervisor chan for bringing this important piece of legislation ford. During the difficult Economic Times we hear more from people workers this wages are being stolen from them. And people are not being paid and mistreatment in the work place and it is important we stand up and ensure that contractors that are violating and the trust of public as well as violating the trust of the people this w for them are accountable and in the doing business with the city of San Francisco. So. Thank you supervisor chan and for your hard work and add mow as a cosponsor. Thank you. Supervisor safai and i wanted to add my expression of appreciation to supervisor chan. And to vice chair walton for their work on this. I will say that you know often i mention my past work you and i are both supervisor chan influenced by time wont spent in verse roles in the City Attorneys Office i was involved in cases that had debarments. Usually for the city i think it is important had your legislation recognizes is it may not be the city directly. This is paying the price but indirectly. I think that it is very important. Especially when one krrz the people who are met often vulnerable to wage, theft and benefit thefts the crimes against workers. Than i are often in vulnerable positions. This is where having the weight of the city and the threat of i debarment, which is you are not able to do business with the city and county of San Francisco anymore this is something that can have an affect i want to be added as a cosponsor. These cases with office and labor in the City Attorneys Office were closest to my heart because and it was a fight for people to understand why this is bad. It was in the high profile or head line grabbing. For a family that is struggling to make ends meat these things matter. I appreciate it. Seeing no one else on the roster mr. Clerk open to Public Comment. Yes, members had wish to speak in person line up to speak. For those remote, press star 3 to enter the queue. Can we have our first in person speaker . Good morning. Im hernandez the political organizer for 10 to 1. We support this ordinance. It is logical to us that contractors that abuse workers or treat them unfair low should risk suspension or debarment. We are can have the that the way this is written will be only used for worse actors. Workers many of them, of course are members that work for many nonprofits appreciate this mechanism and great low thank supervisor chan for her lead everybodiship and thank you for cosponsoring and hopeful low moving this forward. Good morning. Debbie, San Francisco Human Service network. Obviously, we do notment contractors working for the city who are committing violations of our laws. We have had a lot of i will not say concerns but questions how the deborrowment press works and when safe guards to ensure it is in the used in know unjustice manner to pressure employers. We still have several unresolved questions, unfortunately. We hoped it would be conditioned today so we could get more clarification on those questions. Whatever your decision we hope that you will work with us to help us get this clarity and ensure that contractors will not find themselves in the situation like this and make sure in the Human Services westerlied Something Like the threat of debarment lead to cloinlts and threat to viling services that those issues are wed out and we can get the questions answered that we put out. Thank you very much. Public comment is now closed. Thank you. Chair dorsey and just want to articulate, colleagues, i do not want to bring up but there were bad apples like unfortunately contractor walter wong and others this were fund with criminal charges and conviction. It took the city awhile to get to the debarment. And so the debarment press and suspension is agregious and behaviors and in this case there is conversation with the City Attorney that we dont take the process of suspension and debarment lightly. We understand of it this is must be something that has proved to be in the office of labor enforcement, california state luand initial labor luthis is violations of laws in order for us to be able to start with the conversation or trigger the process of suspension and debarment. But we understand the Human Service network concerns and happy to have the conversations and see how we can address them. If necessary, to have language that would do this. Given the fact next week, the Indigenous Peoples day and we will have no rules mittee nor the board hearing, happy to continue that make the motion to move this to full board and allow us to have the next week or 2 to have the conversation and if need be we come become at full board potential amendments if we can figure out a solution. Or that we do a better job to continue the conversation to safe guard in the future. We have been having this conversation during recess as well since the introduction, which is in june and july. It will be on going and you know we will keep working. Thank you. Thank you, vice chair walton. Thank you i like to move that we sends this forward to the full burden with positive recommendation. Thank you, mr. Clerk we will call that motion. On this motion vice chair walton. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Chair dorsey. Aye. Motion aszs without objection. Thank you, on the unanimous vote item 5 administrative code suspension or debar am of contractors violation of labor laws good to the full board with positive recommend agsz. Thank you. Thank you. Am call item 6. Item 6 ordinance establishing the labor and employment code redesignating Worker Protection ordinance and ordinances related it employees of City Condition tractors in the code and the police code and provisions of the now labor and employment code and direct the City Attorney to renumber the prosecute visions added unemployment code and update cross reference throughout the mounl code. Thank you, and this is authored by supervisor safai. Who i believe is here to speak about this. The floor is yours thank you. This is per of my effort to improve working conditions for san franciscans. I worked with City Attorneys Office to draft legislation this helped displaced workers like janitors and security guards. City has an office of labor enforce them ddz does administrate of the City Attorney has a labor team to bing affirmative lit gagdz we updateded the law use all the tools. Back when the ordinance was written and put in the police code only way to enforcement was making difficult for wars to find when than i need and comply with the laws. Although this ordinance makes so substantive changes at this time, it establishes the labor employment code to join the charter and the felony others this make up our municipal code. Division will cover Worker Protection general low for all employees public and private. Like laws like the minimum wage. Paid sick leave. Lactation in the w place. Grocery worker retention. 19 in all. Division two cover those this impact city contractors 9 scomplus most important wage, compification sa, health care and more. As a clerical matter the law strikes low laws that xroired by operational law related covid19. I want to thank the City Attorneys Office. Matt goldberg. Office of labor standards pat mulligan and wing on the code clean up. And with this, colleagues i ask for your support and sends this to the board with positive recommendation on october 17th. Great. Thank you, supervisor safai. And i want to express my appreciation to you for your work on this. I know that code clone and up renumbering is thankless but important work and i think this is good change that i am happy to support. Thanks. No one on the roster mr. Clerk, open to Public Comment. Why numbers of public when wish to poke in person lineup to speak. Members remote, press star 3 to enter the queue. There is nobody in the room for Public Comment at this time and one caller for Public Comment. Can we have that caller, please . Great. Dave youd pilpel. I heard supervisor sa feising complangz and sorry i dont understand the need for this new labor and employment code and wondering if there is another way i understand that the various laws and prosecute visions are scattered throughout and there is an interest in centralizing them. Motive it be possible to create a new chapter in the administrative code and possible low in the police code . To achieve the same intent with the whatever is division one and 2 . Here with respect to employers general low. And city contractors . I am just concerned about adding a new code like i was not krez about the campaign governmental conduct code and the municipal elections code. I think having the code continue to prolive rit is also not a great idea despite making additions and changes to the various laws. Im wonder figure there is another way to achieve this goal short of creating an entirely new code and moving sections of the municipal and existing administrative and please codes. There. So much thats my thought if this is the only or best way to achieve it so be it i wanted to express those occurrence. Thank you very much for listening. Thank you. That was our left caller on Public Comment phone line thank you, Public Comment is closed. And supervisor safai . Thank you, id like to make a motion to send this to the full board with positive recommendation for the hearing on full Board Meeting october 17th. Why grit. Thank you. Mr. Clerk can we have a roll call on that motion vice chair walton. Why aye supervisor safai. Aye. Chair dorsey. Why aye. The motion passes. Thank you. Unanimous vote item 6 administrate ever please code stake the labor and. Am code is sent to the full board with positive recommendation. Mr. Clerk do we have further business . This completes our agenda. Thank you we are adjourned. Shared spaces have transformed San Franciscos adjacent sidewalks, local business communities are more resilient and their Neighborhood Centers are more vibrant and mildly. Sidewalks and parking lanes can be used for outdoor seating, dining, merchandising, and other community activities. Were counting on operators of shared spaces to ensure their sites are safe and accessible for all. People with disabilities enjoy all types of spaces. Please provide at least 8 feet of open uninterrupted sidewalk so everyone can get through. Sidewalk diverter let those who have low vision navigate through dining and other activity areas on the sidewalk. These devices are rectangular planters or boxes that are placed on the sidewalk at the ends of each shared space and need to be at least 12 inches wide and 24 inches long and 30 inches tall. They can be on wheels to make it easy to bring in and out at the start and the end of each day. 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Built between 1958 to 1960, it was located in the bayview Hunters Point where it was home to the San Francisco giants and 49ers. The last event held was a concert in late 2014. It was demolished in 2015. Mlb team the San Francisco giants played at candlestick from 19601999. Fans came to see players such a willie mays and barry bonds, over 38 seasons in the open ballpark. An upper deck expansion was added in the 1970s. There are two world series played at the stick in 1962 and in 198 9. During the 1989 world series against the oakland as they were shook by an earthquake. Candlesticks enclosure had minor damages from the quake but its design saved thousands of lives. Nfl team the San Francisco 49ers played at candlestick from feign 712013. It was home to fivetime super bowl champion teams and hall of fame players by joe montana, jerry rice and steve jones. In 1982, the gamewinning touchdown pass from joe montana to dwight clark was known as the catch. Leading the niners to their first super bowl. The 49ers hosted eight n. F. C. Championship games including the 2001 season that ended with a loss to the new york giants. In 201, the last event held at Candlestick Park was a concert by Paul Mccartney who played with the beatles in 1966, the stadiums first concert. Demolition of the stick began in late 2014 and it was completed in september 2015. The giants had moved to pacific rail park in 2000 while the 49ers moved to santa clara in 2014. With structural claims and numerous name changes, many have passed through and will remember Candlestick Park as home to the legendary athletes and entertainment. These memorable moments will live on in a place called the stick. budget and finance committee october 4, 2023. [gavel] the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the youre unmuted. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the october 4, 2023 of the budget and finance committee. I am supervisor connie chan, chair of the committee and joined by asha safai. Hopefully shortly by vice chair Rafael Mandelman and today joined by Hillary Ronen. I would like to thank sfgtv for blasting this meeting. Do you have any announcements . Thank you madam chair. The board of supervisors and meetings are doing hybrid for attendance and providing access by telephone. Public comment will be taken on each item on the agenda. Those in person will be allowed to speak first and then those on the telephone line. For watching go to the our website and to the number on the screen and you will hear the discussion and in listening mode only. When Public Comment is called those should line up to speak and those on the telephone pressing star three to be added to the speaker line. Theres turn down the tv and devises youre using and each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak and you may submit Public Comments to the clerk of budget and finance committee at our website as cited on the agenda. If you submit Public Comment by email it will be forwarded to the supervisors and part of the following file. You may send written comments to by u. S. Postal service to 1 dr. B goodlett place room 244, San Francisco california. I do usually issue a reminder for those in attendance to silence all phones and all Electronic Devices so not to interrupt the proceedings in the champ wish. As you may order fema and was a release issuing a nation wide alert test today. I do ask everyone in attendance please ready to quietly alert if all the cell phones chime simultaneously and due to the observance of italian herrant today and indigenous day items will be on the agenda of october 17 on the board of supervisors unless otherwise stated. Madam chair. Thank you mr. Clerk. I want to remind item for the budget to have the budget and an left report and Department Presentations followed by the budget and legislative analyst and take questions and then Public Comments. With that mr. Clerk please call item number one. Yes item one is an ordinance amending the administrative code to require the controller to prepare an initial base budget to guide each agency in the preparation have had two year budget. To provide that these base budgets must include anticipated cost and agreements with Nonprofit Organizations to reflect inflation and to adopt the city policy that departments will enter into multiyear grants for a Grant Program exceeds beyond this year and members of the public that wish to comment pressing star three and the system indicates you of unmuted thats the cue to begin your comments . Thank you mr. Clerk. Today we have the legislation sponsor here, supervisor Hillary Ronen and the floor is yours thank you so much chair chan. Today i ask for your support on legislation designed to fix the grab we have every every year during the budget that complicates our budget process and causes stress and inning certainty for the nonprofit contractors. Our nonprofit contractors are the backbone of Many City Services and we rely to address homelessness, addiction and provisions of Mental Health services. Yet we know that many of these organizations struggle to recruit and retain staff to do this very difficult work due to inadequate funding and certainty to cover the year over year cost of doing business. A major contributing factor to the strag wills that are departments issue grants for one year for services and the likelihood the need is ongoing. This leads Service Providers uncertain funding for next year and doesnt allow to engage in adequate Financial Planning and more over causes stress for the critical staff not knowing if they will have a job and when there are multiyear grantses covered there is no increases to coninflation and costs and represents et cetera. This leads the board seemingly every year fighting with the mayor to add the cost of doing business in the citys budget process before the budget is committed to the board and usually during the add back process after the fact. The legislation before you today will address both of these issues. First it will require that when the department knows the service is beyond one year then the Department Issues a multiyear grants to allow organizations to better plan. Additionally this ordinance will require the development to include a cost of doing business increase for each subsequent year of the contract so each provider will know exactly how much they will be paid each year moving forward. We hope this legislation will bring some security and confidence for our nonprofit Service Providers and allow them to better plan finances on a year to year basis and therefore have a better chance of guaranteeing consistent and qualified staffing and services. Additionally i hope this will legislation will make the budget process a lot smoother for everyone. I want to thank the nonprofit and Community Groups advocating for a permanent fis for years and do such work providing service to the most vulnerable. And i want to thank my office who have been working for some time on the legislation and our Controllers Office the entire staff and in particular Ben Rosenfield who ran a working group for quite some time with nonprofits and how to fix a multitude of problems and this was one of the main sort of recommendations to come out that group. I hope to have your support colleagues and i think before if its okay with you chair chan Laura Marshal is here from the Controllers Office to give a slightly more in the weeds detailed presentation how to we will operationalize this legislation. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning supervisors. Thanks for having me. I am from the Controllers Office. I have a few slides to share just to provide a little bit of background and context to the issue. The supervisor gave a great overview. We do have a lot of business with nonprofits every year, and there are some of those grants and contracts that are one year in nature and one year project but a sizable portion of our nonprofit funding is going for services that we intend and expect to continue year over year, and quite a few years ago i dont know how many, 1520 years ago there was a decision by the mayor and the board to centralize Decision Making how to address inflationary costs across the portfolios nonprofit contracts. There was some variability across departments and how they might treat that so the decision was centralized into this what weigh know as the cost of doing business allocation which is typically a percent of general Fund Contract costs determined through the annual budget process. Over the last few years the Controllers Office is doing work this on issues and addressing sustainability and accountability are issue and did analysis how the growth and inflation out of covid was impacting salaries amongst the nonprofits that we fund and how its impacting further services that the clients are receiving. We muched a memo in may between the 22 and targeted the plan and the city would transition away from the annualized process and implement a process where departments would include planned numberses in the budgets for multiyear grants contracts with nonprofits. Some of the reasons why this change is needed most nonprofits are plannings their annual operating budgets during the year and have it done before we ready to tell them how much theyre might be receiving in this this plan to address the inflation that theyre already experiencing. Because there is it typically variance in the amount of the funding year to year its difficult to do contracts and departments have resulted in creating budgeted contracts a million, a million even when there they know there are increases in future years like the union negotiated raises for some of the providers but the variability keeps them the uncertainty of the funding created that need to create flat contracts and that creates the need to have to reopen contracts every year to account for this funding and it could take months and delay the nonprofits to invoice against those costs. The legislation instructs city departments to create multiYear Agreement when is we expect services to continue. This is mostly the case but theres cases where annual agreements are still used so this would change that. It instructs city departments to account for expected changes in costs in subsequent years including inflation. I think were thinking of this holistically and not just inflation but how do departments extent the programs and the costs of those programs to change over the life cycle of that contract . It further instructs the off to establish a practice of accounting for inflation within the citys basis budget so it changes our budgeting citys budgeting practices as well. One of the key benefits of this change is by moving the base budgeting process of accounting for inflation up forward and moving the having departments know the anticipated cost in future years of their contracts the departments, mayor and board can all make informed choices dur your budget process other during the entirety of the budget process about the cost of the services were buying in the community and the impacts of changes you may want to make in the budget. It also pushes departments and nonprofits to plan ahead more for known changes in their program. They may know that programs are growing or shrinking over time or different offerings and may have impacts on costs so it will encourage more negotiation around those cost and services included in those agreements. It will certainly create contracting efficiencies by not requiring contractings be open every year to apply the funding and mayors some of the other basis practices pulling up our thinking how our salary costs are expected to change in future years for example, so these are all the potential benefit this was change. Im happy to answer any questions from the Controllers Office. Thank you so much thank you so much. I wonder if you could just describe how this will be operationalized . So the controller if you can describe the controllers role in each in the budget process in terms of giving the departments the base budget with the cog we included . I may include on our budget expert to help. But each year the division creates a baked budget in the fall. We and the Controllers Office they mostly look at all of the expected changes in costs that we know about and sort of load up departments budgets based on that so if we know our mous are increasing that is incorporated, and then it sort of discussion with the mayor, Budget Analyst Division to identify sort of what the major changes are. They issue budget instructions to departments based on that. We assume through this letsive change that we would include in those budgets instructions details about how we have incorporated inflation into those base budgets for departments so theyre aware of sort of what has been adjusted in their own sort of grant and contracts lines in their budgets, and then its opens to the departments to make choices about their own coming budget year in conversation with the Mayors Office et cetera and sort of what their priorities are with the full cost of the contracts known to them in advance, but the goal of moving this conversation towards the front end. All right. Thank you so much. Thanks for all the work on this. I really appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you supervisor ronen and thank you so much to Laura Marshal. Ms. Rationales presentation today i would like to be added as a cosponser to the legislation. Thank you so much for the work and leadership on this. What i have definitely learned in past year is especially when it comes to security contract that recognizes that they are while some of are new contracts is that we did not really calculate into the cost of inflation particularly for full costs, and that resulted in adjustments to the existing contract, but that is still again a process that if we only have this in place we could actually adjust accordingly, and without having come back to the board or you know and that we can actually have really a honest conversation around the true costs of how do we serve people and how many people we can actually serve, and of course i think look forward to the next step and frankly its not about the true cover of the contract but also the results in the contract as well is what i am hoping once we take care of this the true cost of the contract we can [speakers talking over one another] built effectiveness of those contracts and with that vice chair mandelman. Thank you madam chair. I would like to be added as a cosponser on this. I have done no work on this but appreciate the work of others and would like to associate myself with this. Thank you. And supervisor safai. [off mic]. Thank you. Seeing that with a lot of support of this legislation thank you supervisor ronen. Were going to go to Public Comments on this item. Thank you madam chair, members of the public who wish to speak and join in person should line up along the curtains to my right, your left and for those already in the queue please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted im sorry, pressing star three and continue to wait until the system indicates youre unmuted and the signal to begin your comments. If the first speaker account step up to the lectern and i could start your time. If the first speaker can step up to the lectern. Thank you. Good morning supervisors. Debbie herman from the San Francisco network. I am excited today. This is the most important piece of legislation for the city Nonprofit Partnership in many, many years, and first of all its a historic step in addressing the issue of under funding nonprofit contract and moving towards a more sustainable and reliable system that takes inflationary increases into account at the beginning of the budget process. Secondly, 20 years ago board legislation created the city Nonprofit Contracting Task force to streamline the contracting process, and during that endless process nonprofits asked the city to adopt multiyear contracts as the single most efficient way we could address all kinds of problems and make it easier to do business with the city, address late certifications, predict more predictability and security for staff and we have been told over the years no we cant do that. We cant do that. Well, here we are. We should. We can with your support today we will. I want to thank supervisor ronen for introducing this. We have worked on this for many, many months and thanks the staff and Controllers Office and Laura Marshal. Thank you to the other supervisors on this panel for your cosponsorship and looking forward to getting this passed. Thank you debbie for your comments. Next speaker please. Good morning supervisors. Carl kramer San Francisco living Wage Coalition. We did a study showing that a number of city departments do not track the disbursement of funds budgeted for wage increases to Nonprofit Organizations with which they contract for services to residents. These nonprofits organizations employ thousands of workers including desk clerks and janitorial staff and homeless shelters and summer programs for youth, senior program, homeless support, violence prevention and Mental Health services among many others. Living Wage Coalition researchers sent information requests to city departments for figures on the disbursement of funding for raising the minimum wage rate required by the minimum compensation ordinance and other inflationary costs such as rent, insurance, over head and wage increases for those that higher realities that are covered by the cost of doing business increases. For the fiscal years 201920 through 2122. While departments such as children youth and family, Public Health, first 5 commission and the Human Services agency provided clear records of allocated increases six departments reported they didnt keep records of m co or cod b allocations to nonprofits. These include the office of city administrator, Mayors Office of homelessness and Supportive Housing, the art commission, the human rights commission, the adult probation development and the department of public works. The Public Utilities Commission Says it uses its own funding for Consumer Price indexes for nonprofits but doesnt keep records of the amounts. Without receiving figures we dont have confidence urevidence to confirm these wages reached Nonprofit Organizations. The coalition, the Budget Justice Coalition and [speaking spanish] and women organized to maccabeus not existent [off mic]. Are supporting this legislation. Thank you and i have the study if anyone wants it. Next speaker please. Hello board members. Good morning. David moore San Francisco pretrial diversion project. Thank you supervisor ronen and the supervisors for endosing this legislation. We love this legislation and the need in the resolution which is wonderful from our perspective some of the things that were discussed earlier apply to us across the board. Were still waiting to get paid for contract this is year so we have three month was salaries and things like that that are backed up and wait for the city to pay because the way the contracts operate. Last year if you might remember we had a larger cost of doing business increase and invested in our employees. Were 247, 365 days a year and on the front lines with security and we had the best retention last year because we invested in the work force and this year we are able to give an increase but only 2 so staff are happy but doesnt go against the cost of living in San Francisco. I do believe that well, maybe i should hope this process will maybe mitigate the add backs situation. I think its broken and it would be great if were not going into the end of the budget cycle panicking and asking for more money and we can plan ahead. I think the drive the requests year end when youre up all night and support that piece. There is strict compliance and how we spend the money and if theyre a quarter off we have to redo it and let you know and the money doesnt flow in and were not accountable for it and for the contracts we dont getting to zero to keep the increase and we have a 500,000 contract and its 450 and the money goes back to the zero. And not that we just keep it. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you for your comments. Good morning supervisors. John avalos from the council of Community Housing organizations. We dont receive any funding. Our member organizations 22 of them do. Theyre involved in Community Production work, Supportive Housing work, Behavioral Health care, work force development, many. Services that the city desperately needs to ensure were meeting the publics needs and actually helping to alleviate poverty and the symptoms of run away economy that doesnt serve working people. This legislation is 30 years in the making. I want to really, really appreciate supervisor ronen for being dead set on this and the Controllers Office for doing the work on this legislation. Its no surprise its happening now. Its unfortunate its taken 30 years to actually get Something Like this in place but the pandemic showed us if we want to ensure that our services are doing who they should be doing is protecting the public, extending the reach of Public Health, ensuring people are safe and secure from health care disease or illness or from conditions on the streets that we really need to make investments in nonprofit services, but every year we actually run a scarceit model. We actually work it to balance the budget versus actually ensuring these services are effective so this legislation is really aligning our financial policies with our goals of actually protecting the public. A long time coming. It took the pandemic for it to really become a necessary thing to do and i want to prater the work to make it happen all these years. Thank you so much. Thank you for the your comments. Next speaker please. Good morning. Jan i guess [inaudible] safe and sound in the San Francisco Family Resource Center Alliance support network. Were representing more than 40 Nonprofit Organization and more than 40,000 people in San Francisco. Im here in support of roin rons legislation. We believe this is the year for this legislation. We know its never been more important so thank you. This is an opportunity to invest in the longterm sustainability of families and Family Support organizations in our city. In addition to support the Services Provided by nonprofit workers as mentioned most employees of these organizations live and work in San Francisco. This is an opportunity to support nonprofits services as well as retaining San Francisco families and workers. Thank you so much. Thank you jan i guess for your comments. Next speaker. Yes. Thank you. Good morning. My name is marrow. Im the executive director of the Good Samaritan Resources Center and cochair the alliance and also active member of the Latino Task Force and [inaudible]. I am very appreciative of the work and efforts of supervisor ronen and other supervisors to address these issues. I wanted share some context about what the impact of rising costs are to my organization. This year the medical benefits costed increased over 11 , the general liability up over 14. 5 percent and the inflation costs of 6 percent and continue to have staff turn over because were. Able to pay a full living wage which our staff deserve. Fortunately many went to work for the city and county of San Francisco and we are a feeder as nonprofits have been and you will get great leaders but it hurts our sector when we senate compete and this is the sector and other costs will continue to rise and we know how important our organizations are to the city and thank you for any of the efforts to address this and its real and impacts each and everyday. Thank you. Thank you very much. Seeing no further speakers here in the chamber we have a lot members of the public listening remotely and six in the queue so if you could unmute the first caller please. Hello. Can you hear me . Yes we can. Hello. My name is crystal and the interim coexecutive director at the eviction defense collaborative. Thank you for the opportunity to advocate for the multiyear contracts for safety net nonprofits in San Francisco. Im going to share what the benefits of the multiyear contracts are. I think weve reviewed them but i want to reiterate them. The benefits for nonprofits are too many to list but i will start with stability and planning, multiyear contracts provide Financial Stability to nonprofits. They allow organizations to plan and execute longterm projects with confidence knowing they having for an exurextended period of time. This is especially crucial for nonprofit that work on complex multiyear initiatives or implementing large scale programs like we do. The San Francisco [inaudible] right to Counsel Program and the San Francisco emergency rental assistance program. Multiyear contracts reduce timing lags, administrative burden. They provide program continuity, capacity building. They allows you to engage in Strategic Planning and make longterm staffing plans which ensure the level of job stability to the dedicated staff at the nonprofits across the city who are serving the most vulnerable. They allow to us to engage in relationship building. Provide the opportunity for risk meditation and they also help us demonstrate longterm impact. Thank you again for this opportunity. Thank you much for addressing this committee. Mr. Lamb next speaker please. Good morning. My name is [inaudible] policy manager for chinese for affirmative action and i am calling in support of this item regarding budget and standards for multiyear contracts. Nonprofits like ours provide cruel services that contribute to the ability of Community Members to survive and thrive and this acknowledges the important work that we do considering our Financial Stability and the ability to operate in one of the most expensive cities in the country. Fluctuations of cost of doing business process creates uncertainty for nonprofits but doesnt allow us to thoughtfully approach the service provision. If we know its coming we can be intentional to maximize the dollars by the city to invest in the community and needs for services such as staffing and other expected and unexpected costs. We appreciate the citys recognition of this problem and urge the Committee Support to begin rectifying this important matter. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Mr. Lamb next speaker please. Hi. This is lindy calling in from glide to express our support for this legislation. This is really essential legislation that were so excited to see. Thank you. Can you hear me . Yes. We got you back. Oh im sorry. There was a weird lag. I just wanted to say this is essential legislation that will support nonprofit and city efforts to work towards providing living wages to the front line workers. One of the most valuable characteristics of the front line worker is lived experience that allows them to understand and support clients facing similar barriers. Nonprofits hire staff who were previous staff and recipients. However to move out of homelessness and achieve economic stability we see staff alongside the city working one or two other jobs in order to afford the cost of living in San Francisco and work in this area due to the depressed wages associated with these roles. On behalf of advocating on behalf of the clients we have an equal responsibility to advocate for our staff and this legislation is a huge staff achieving equity for our staff and were grateful to see it on the docket. Thank you very much for your comments. Mr. Lamb next speaker please. Hi. Good morning everyone. Im the executive director at larkin street and cochair of h sn. I want to associate myself with all of the wonderful remarks and deep gratitude to supervisor ronen and santiago and Laura Marshal and Ben Rosenfield and the Controllers Office and all of the support we have received and expect from other members of the committee. We are grateful for this legislation. It is so important. It will go so far to provide stability, work parity and equity, improved services and contracting and all the things, and just grateful that this is happening. Excited and really appreciate everybodys effort and work into this effort. Thank you so much. Thank you for addressing this committee. Mr. Lamb next speaker please. Hello. Thank you supervisors for your time. Im commenting on behalf of San Francisco Housing Corporation and a Community Based developer, Housing Counseling Agency and Resident Service provider in the bayview and fillmore neighborhood. We depend on contracts to provided services to the community and counseling, Resident Services food distributions and Entrepreneurship Training for black owned businesses. Multiyear contracts allow us to plan ahead and assure clients that services will be available next fiscal year. [inaudible] adjusting for inflation will be help information retaining staff. Any group in San Francisco will say hiring and retention is the biggest challenge and many staff cant afford to live in San Francisco and this will be highly beneficial to the staff and the services that we pride to the community. Nonprofits provide Critical Services to San Francisco residents and multiyear contracts will allow for planning and stability Going Forward. Thank you very much supervisor ronen for introducings this ordinance and thank you supervisors for your support. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good morning. Name hope from [inaudible] Family Services and calling to join the chorus of my colleagues thank you to supervisor ronen for being a champion of nonprofits and endorse this badly needed legislation. Thanks. Thank you. Mr. Lamb next speaker please. Hello supervisors. Its harris short with home rise and a suspect and Supportive Housing provider to 2,000 folks in the stay and thank to supervisor ronen for this legislation and under the committee to support it. The way it is now nonprofits like ours live in uncertainty year after year and we cannot rely on the cola increase in our contracts so our labor costs invariably rise and were in a position to scramble to address staffing needs at the last minute and resources to give the service were contracted to do and not fair to anyone and the goals that we share and have nonprofit stability and sustainability. Our hard working employees are on the front lines of the homelessness crisis need the assurance there is planning and thought going into the process and allocatings for the fair pay. It shouldnt be a gamble each year. Our organizations shouldnt be in the place of extending resources and time and not to mention the city staff as well during the budget season negotiating and making the case for the promised and necessary increases. Our time could be much better spent actually providing the services were here to do and another thing that is good its a check on you know what essentially Unfunded Mandates to nonprofits because our expected work load and deliverables dont change but when we dont receive our cola increases so this ordinance will also will become part of the contract negotiations with departments im sorry, the increases will so its a much more fair process so its really a common sense measure and fix the key problems inherent in the budgeting and contracting process and will actually help to boost performance of the nonprofits and having your time is up. So sorry to cut you off. Our time is short and thank you for addressing this committee and giving each speaker two minutes. Do we have anymore speakers . Hello. Yes. We hear you. Please begin. Hello. Good morning. This is steve fields and the executive director of Progress Foundation and cochair of the Human Services network. I jump just want to support the comments made today particularly acknowledging the leadership of supervisor ronen on this. I concur with debbies comments and this is actually maybe the most important piece of legislation in support of nonprofit Services Provided in the city and county. I have been here 40, 50 years and a long time. Its been long overdue and what we need right now to be able to talk about accountability, talk about outcomes, talk about the deliveries of this critical element of our services in San Francisco, so and i also want to make one comment also of the importance. We talked about the salaries and the support for our staff which is essential because theres no Services Without them, but it also supports the response to unanticipated costs that nonprofits face every year, costs of program, rent and services, insurance for our employees. All other things that are included in rolled into the cost of doing Business Concept is critical to helping an Organization Running so we can pay the costs of staying open and finally addressed long under funded element of salary and benefits for our employees, so thank you. Thank you for the cosponsors this morning. Thank you to the board of supervisors. This is the basis on which we can now talk constructively looking at the whole system of care and what we can do to improve services to our clients. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Mr. Lamb do we have anymore speakers . Yes. Good morning. I am natalie. Im the director of Community Engagement on Government Affairs multiservices and a member of the Pacific Islander parity coalition and cochair of the regional Pacific Islander task force. We have over 30 programs providing services in San Francisco and 80 percent of the budget is with the city and county and we totally support this legislation. We are one of the many nonprofits who are the arms and legs of the county into the community. Key features of the legislation support nonprofits to provide continuity of services, wage equity for staff and thousand improved the contracting process. Thank you so much for this legislation. Thanks and thank you much for addressing this committee. And madam chair that completes our queue. Thank you mr. Clerk. Seeing no more Public Comments its closed. [gavel] i would like to make the motion to move this to the full board with recommendation. With that roll call please. To forward this motion to the full board with positive recommendation. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Chair chan. Aye. We have three ayes. Thank you. The motion passes. [gavel]. Thank you supervisor ronen and everyone that came out for Public Comment and with that lets go to item number 11. Im calling things out of order. Give me one second madam chair. Item 11 is an ordinance amending the salary ordinance for fiscal years 202324 and 2425 to reflect the deletion of four positions in fiscal fiscal year 20 2324 and thes addition of the positions as cited in fiscal year 2324 in the Police Department. Members of the public have joined us remotely and wish to comment on this ordinance pressing star three to enter the speaker line and when the system indicates youre unmuted thats the signal to begin your comments. Madam chair. Thank you. Colleagues and to the public this item has been requested for continuance for one more week by the sponsor, president aaron peskin. This is also due to the unexpected event of senator feinstein which our Police Department is now along with our chief is very busy to getting us the city ready for the event and ceremony so its our intent to the next week the budget and finance Committee Meeting which is october 11. With that i would like to open this for Public Comment. Thank you madam chair. Members of the public who wish to speak on the continuance of this item and joining us in person should line up now and for those listening remote lie pressing star three to enter the speaker line. For those in the queue please wait until youre unmuted and the signal to begin your comments. Seeing no in person speakers here in the chamber and madam chair we have no speakers. Thank you. Seeing no Public Comment its closed. [gavel] i would like to move this item to the next weeks budget and finance Committee Meeting. Roll call. On that motion that the ordinance is continued to the october 11 meeting of this committee. Vice chair supervisor mandelman. Aye. Member supervisor safai aye. Chair chan. Aye. We have three ayes. Thank you. The motion passes. Mr. Clerk please call item 2. Yes item 2 is a for the California Department of resources, recycling and recovery funds for the department of environment which it is eligible effective for five years upon approval of this legislation. Members of the public who wish to comment remotely pressing star three and raise your hand and when youre unmuted thats the signal to begin comments. Madam chair. Thank you. We have the policy and Public Affairings coordinator from the San Francisco department of environment. Thank you chair and vice choir and supervisor safai. I am here to speak on this item today. Every year the Environment Department applies for a wide array of recycling grants from the California Department of resources, recycling and recovery funds better known as cal recycle. Cal recycle as part of their standard grants procedure requires all cities and counties to provide a resolution for authorization to apply for grants on behalf of their governing body. Thats i didnt am mere today with this resolution to renew this authorization. The board of supervisors previously passed this resolution grants authorization back in 2018. Im happy to take any questions you may have. Thank you. Where are i think i just have one quick question. Where are all our recycle centers, like physical locations in the city . I think we have one. Correct. One in bayview Hunters Point area. One and are we enjoy involved with organization like bottle bank and going around town like a mobile collection . Yes a we are partnered with the San Francisco bottle bank and 20 active locations spread across the city. Were sustaining to operate and work with opr on expanding that for future use for city residents. Every year that Program Continues to grow. We see more recycled and more funds returned to San Francisco residents so that continues to grow. Thank you. I would like to see if we could get you before it goes to full board next week in the legislative file adding just those quick tidbits that we have one physical location for recycling and were in partnership with bottle banks or any other organizations that we have for recycling location throughout the city so bottle bank is about 20 you said throughout the city, so roughly 21 sites so to speak. Do we have any other additional ones . Not to my knowledge at this time. Theres always conversations of expanding locations with bottle bank but i am happy to provide that supplementary information to the staff . Preparation for the next meeting. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Vice chair mandelman. I would like to added as a cosponsor. Great. With that thank you and lets go to Public Comment. Thank you. Thank you madam chair. Members of the public who wish to speak on this item and joining in person should line up now and those listening remotely pressing star three to enter the speaker line and those in the queue please continue to wait until the system indicates youre unmuted and the signal to begin your comments. Seeing no in person speakers in the chamber and madam chair we have no speakers in the queue. Thank you mr. Clerk. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] thank you and we look forward to seeing that information. I appreciate it. With they would like to mike a motion to full to the full board with recommendation. Roll call please. On that motion to forward this resolution to the full board with positive recommendation. Vice chair mandelman. [off mic]. Supervisor safai. [off mic]. Noted. Adding cosponsership and chair chan. Aye. We have three ayes. Thank you. The motion passes. [gavel]. Thank you so much. Thank you and mr. Clerk please call item number 3. Yes item three is a resolution retroactively authorizationings the department of Public Health to accept and expend a cash gift in the amount of 17,000 from the estate of janet d. Kramer through the Federal Reserve in support of the laguna honda hospital for the period of july 1, 2022 through june 30, 2032. Members of the public have joined us remotely and wish to comment pressing star three to enter the speaker line and when the system indicates you have been unmuted its your signal to begin your comments. Madam chair. Thank you and i know this is a verbal presentation by the chief Financial Officer and is this an online presentation . Please go ahead. Thank you. Can you hear me okay . Yes, please. Okay. Great. Good morning supervisors. Im the chief Financial Officer at laguna honda hospital. Today were seeking your recommendation to the full board to accept and expend a cash gift in the amount of approximately 79,000 from the estate of janet d. Kramer through the Federal Reserve. She was a former employer of the Federal Reserve and named laguna honda hospital as the beneficiary of her planned retirement account. This generous donation will be used to support the laguna honda Hospital Gift fund which funds resident programs such as in house art and music, special meals and events and community outings. Thanks for your consideration and i am happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Could you please on the record state the retroactivity . The reason for the retroactiveit of this donation . Yes. I believe we have greg to go through that the retroactive. Great. Good morning supervisors. Were asking for authorization as we receive notice of the award on february 2, 2021 for [inaudible] project start date as cited. We received the notice award from the office of package administrator at that time which indicated the bequest of the estate. Thank you. I. To point more detail reason for this is the legislative file and on the record but need someone from the dph to explain that. With that thank you and i appreciate it and i dont see anymore on the roster. Mr. Clerk lets go to Public Comment. Yes madam chair. Members of the public who wish to speak on this item and joining us in person should line up now and listening remotely pressing star three to enter the speaker line. Please continue to wait until you of course unmuted and that is your signal to begin your comments. Seeing no in person speakers. Madam chair we have no speakers on the line. Thank you mr. Clerk. With that i would like to move this to full board with recommendation. Just really appreciate someone like janet d. Kramer for supporting laguna honda hospital and those staying in that face right now and this will be tremendously helpful for them and the quality of life there please. Roll call please. For the resolution to the full board recommendation. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Chair chan. Aye. We have three ayes. Thank you and the motion passes. [gavel] and with that lets go to mr. Clerk please call item four, five, six together. Yes madam chair. Items four through six are resolutions authorizing the recreation and Park Department and accept and expend the following grant and authorizing the recreation and park general manager to enter into modifications for the grant for the agreements that do not materially increase the obligations or liabilityings of the city to effectuate the purpose of the grants and resolutions. Item four and five accept and expend inkind grant for project term upon upon approval of the resolution until notice of substantial completion and item four is from the Stern Grove Festival Association valueed up to 300 found for the design and construction of a donor installation. Item 5 is from the San Francisco Parks Alliance and up to 250,000 for the design and construction of maintenance and upgrades to the dahlia dell Hillside Gardens. Item number six is retroactively accept and expend a San Francisco bay Water Quality Improvement Fund grant in the amount of approximately 3. 7 million from the u. S. Environmental Protection Agency for the database shoreline project for a term as cited and to enter into the associated grants agreement. Members of the public have joined us remotely and wish to comment on these resolutions pressing star three to enter the speaker line. A prompt will indicate you have raised your hands and then the signal to begin your comments. Madam chair. Thank you mr. Clerk. I believe for item four and five an online presentation of the recreation and Park Partnership division and number six we have staff here from the grant grand manager and after the presentation it goes to the bla for the report. Thank you. With that lets go online. Thank you supervisors. I apologize for not being in person and thank you for accommodating me on the screen. Im going to move through my items. If you can grant me share screen i would appreciate it. Here we go. Okay. Okay. I hope everyone can see that. Supervisors again i am susan with the Partnerships Division at rec and park and presenting item 4. Here is my opening slide of an image oflet audience partaking in the stern grove festival and looks like it was a hot day. Here is a little about stern grove and there was parses i will of land for the activities and [off mic] [inaudible] and heres an image of the 33 acres of stern grove and the concert meadow which is that red bubble. Seven years later in 1938 the Festival Association was created to organize the summer of [inaudible] designed to educate the public and over the years its done just that. This year was the 85th anniversary of the stern grove festivals as thousands of lovers flocked to the festival to of music and the beauty of the grove and photoys over the years of people enjoying the concert jam packed in the space. In 2003 the Stern Grove Festival Association partnered with the department to deliver 15 million of improvements to stern grove and completed in 2005 at the start of the start of the season and redesigned concert meadow facilities and always improved accessible seating areas, new plantings and [inaudible] enhancements and lights and sound system and new structures and here are some of the pictures of the natural concept plan and photos of the place and now [inaudible] on lawns rather than struggling to sit and down the hill side and musicians can show case the music in a world class venue. The Association Association longs wished to increase the donors of the campaign and install a donor recognition element. Stern grove is proposing alqaeda for the donor installation around 300,000. For this project the association has engaged one of the original architects of the 2005 renovation and in the aerial to show you where the site would be the conmeadows on the left and the clubhouse on the right and the location of this installation. On the grouped you can see the entrances into the concert meadow, the red square is where the proposed location for the installation would be. Its located at one of of the main entrance points. The installation will engage and inspire and awareness of how the park benefits from the stewardship of the supporters and let me move over to the concept plan and a stone along the sidewalk and a bronze stone affixed in the center of the existing memorial at the site that is there right now will be relocated to a new area with consent of the family. We respectfully ask the committee to accept and expend for this element of stern grove. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate the alqaeda from the Stern Grove Festival Association. Also appreciate all the improvements. And know that the recreation and park and sfpuc is doing work with the water pipe burst and i assume that work has been completed . Is there someone from rec and park to answer if the Capital Improvements for the site . Yes. I am beverly with recreation and park and Public Affair and policy. Correct. There are improvements being done but overall in time for the festival this year as well and anticipating opening back up on the hill side and other areas. It will be completed 2023 . Off the top of my head i dont remember the exact time body but i can come to your office and get that. Thank you. I just wanted to understand the repair and timeline. Thank you. Please go to item 5 for presentation. Thank you. Give me one second while i move on to the next one. Here we go. All right. Item number five is a resolution requesting accept and expend for a design and construction for maintenance and upgrades to the dahlia dell Hillside Gardens valued up to 250,000. This show cases some of the variety at the dahlia dell Hillside Gardens that were blooming yesterday and i was there and the official flower in San Francisco and visitors flock there to see the beautiful bloom and cultivated by volunteers with species from all over the world. This is east of the conservatory of flowers in Golden Gate Park and the oval and circled in the objection valand the hill side garden which is the red rectangle on the image so this is for the hill side garden where the red rectangle is. This is what the garden looks like from the street level. The left is the terass garden in bloom and on the right where its in relation to the oval and with the arrow. Dahlia dell Hillside Gardens is bringings it to life but the infrastructure of the garden is in need of repair and maintenance. A few of the photos reflect how it looked yesterday and you can see that the existing terass and retaining structures are dilapidated with rotting wood and the ground below and [inaudible] retaining wall and separated and uneven for gardeners. Its a volunteer group that cultivates and care takes them and theyre planting and cultivating them at the hill side. Through the sponsor and the San Francisco Parks Alliance is recommending alqaeda of approximately 250,000 for repair and maintenance to the comments we conducted outreach and the department was confident with the feedback that we could move forward with this concomment and the San Francisco Park Alliance and the society. This is a look at the plan and all footprint is within the area and the terass and rebar are e placed and removed with three new redwood retainings walls, replacement of the wases and upgrade will stabilize the terasses and improved and iveer access to the beds and irrigation system and a viewing space along the lower terass and allow to see them up close and back drop for to the and ada access to the site. We ask the numbers of the committee to accept the accept and expend resolution for the hill side gardens. Thank you. Thank you for your work on this. We really appreciate it and thank you also i want to recognize beverly from rec and park for assisting all the volunteers to have access to the space and just look forward to seeing more dalia and not just around in the space but in the park as well. With that item 6 presentation. Good morning supervisors, chairperson chan. My name is tony moran and responsible for over sighing applying and over seeing capital grants for the recreation and park division. The legislation for your consideration will allow the doesnt to accept and expend a grant from the u. S. Environmental Protection Agency, San Francisco bay Water Quality Improvement Fund program that will support shoreline improvement. Q weta enhancements and prevent pollutants entering the bay from the basis basis Shoreline Park and authorizing the manager to enter into a Grant Agreement and make the modifications to the agreement that meet the terms of the grant. The actions is retroactive because the grant term started june 1, 2023 however no grant funds of course expended and all Work Associated with this grant will not start until the summer of 2024 at the earliest. India basin Shoreline Park Shoreline Park is phase iii of the initiative which would renovate and remediate the property, develop a new park at the property and enervate Shoreline Park and within basis base and serf the bayview Hunters Point community. Provide new recreation element and waterfront access. It will serve the city at large. The large india basin Shoreline Park was in the 90s and San Francisco airport and took the property, expanded the shire line and added fill and created a park. The current condition of the park is basically ornamental turf, berm business, aging playground struck and basketball courts and as well as a deteriorating shoreline. This grant focuses on improving the shoreline. The other features are selected as part of the larger renovation india basin Shoreline Park project of the this is on the punctuate fly way which is the northsouth pats of travel for migratory birds and adjacent to an essential fish habitat so when you can often see migratory birds foraging in the tidal lands adjacent to the park. The current condition of that shoreline though it is much too steep and created a lot of, region over time, so this grant would allow us to were going to create a living shoreline on were going to create a living shoreline as part of the park. It will allow the existing wetlands and this will be accomplished by regrading the shoreline and planting different plants from the lower part of the shoreline which is the wetland plants which can handle salt water to other plants that can handle some salt water but over time as Sea Level Rise rises it allows the plants to migrate up the shoreline and a buffer against storm surge and another aspect is prevent water pollution. Well construct two bio retention facilities and vegetated areas where stormwater is collected and held for a time and while its held in the retention facilities a lot of the pollutants are sorry, excuse me. Looks like its two minutes early. They are two minutes early. Just press okay. So the water in the retention facilities sorry about that. Thank you. Go ahead. Okay. So these planted areas will capture stormwater and hold it during events and reducing the pollutants entering the bay and they treat pollutants in the planted areas so thats why this project was so popular with the u. S. Epa San Francisco bay Water Quality Improvement Fund and why were selected for fundings. A condition of the grant that we enter into the agreement and there is a copy of the agreement in the clerks file. So other costs are in the grant so we could maximize the costs and the grant doesnt require a amend of the annual salary ordinance. We request your support of this legislation. That concludes my presentation. Thank you. Good morning supervisors. I am from the budget legislative analyst office. Item 6 is a resolution that approves recreation and park to accept and expend 3. Seven mild from a grant from the u. S. Environmental Protection Agency. This grant requires one to one match by the city which is why were reporting on it today. That match will be met by a state source. We show the total cost of the in india basin Shoreline Park of page four of the report and this grant will contribute to fund those Construction Costs that were described by the department. The Department Still identifying approximately 32 million in costs Going Forward. We recommend approval. Thank you. Sorry you said the department is identify additional how much . Sorry. That wasnt clear. The total cost is about 78 million. The department identified 46 million in Funding Sources including this proposed grant so theres still some other Funding Sources that need to be identified to complete the project. Thank you. Vice chair mandelman. Thank you chair chan. These are three great projects. Thank you to the rec park for getting these partnerships and finding the money and good luck finding the rest and i would like to be a cosponser for the rest. Thank you. With that i dont see any other name on the roster. Lets go to Public Comment for all items . Thank you madam chair. All three . Thank you very much. Members of the public that wish to speak on these items and joining in person should line up now and pressing star three remotely to enter the speaker line. If youre in the queue please indicate until the system says youre unmuted and the time to begin your comments. First speaker please. Hi supervisors. Thank you for your time. Im the Community Manager at the san San Francisco Parks Alliance and work with the 90 plus organizations including the Dalia Society of california. Im speaking in support of item 5. We partner with communities and public agencies to create sustain and advocate for public parks and spaces that welcome and belong to everyone. Since 2010 we have partnered with the Parks Alliance and the San Francisco recreation and Park Department to support the damagement and advocacy and greater resources to support the gardener in Golden Gate Park along with the. Partners with the Dalia Society were pleased to between the up to 250,000 for alqaeda for repair and maintenance to the dahlia dell Hillside Gardens in the park and construction and Design Services related to projects including replacement of retaining way, upgrades pathways and ada sale eight and creation of the viewing area. This project builds on previous work we have done with the society to improve the garden and needed improvement for safety as their committed volunteer base ages. Its our pleasure to support this and promoting gardening education in San Francisco and dalia dels long history in San Francisco and for all to experience this special space. Were excited and committed to the repair and maintenance and improvements that we will give enhancement and experience for all v come to visit San Francisco flowers. Thank you. Next speaker please. Hi. Im sara smith and a member of the Dalia Society of california and the other name for it. Were the Oldest Society in california and have been growing dalias in Golden Gate Park for over 100 years. Its the federal flower of San Francisco since 1926, and it is absolutely god markingly beautiful as susans photos showed. Its at the end of the season now and hoping after this rebuild which is so badly needed we will be up and running again for next season, so i just want to thank you for supporting the resolution. And thank you sara for addressing this committee. Seeing no further speakers here in the chamber we have two members of the public listening to this meeting with one in the queue. Mr. Lamb if you could unmute our caller please. Hello. Im the director of operations for stern grove festival and for item four and express our appreciation to the mayor, board board and the recreation and Park Department in getting this resolution pushed forward. Stern grove festival almost 90 years strong has been built by our community including donors and supporters of all levels, private, government and corporations and the 2005 renovation really allowed us to create a world class performing art space. Those donors and performers deserve recognizeination r mission and were glad to [inaudible] towards the recognition in the donor wall and ask for your support for this resolution and i thank you. Thank you for addressing this committee. Madam chair that completes our queue. Thank you. Seeing no more Public Comments its closed. [gavel] colleagues i would like to move all these three items, four, five, six to the full board with recommendation and with that a roll call please. On the motion to forward all three resolutions to the full board with a positive recommendation. Vice chair mandelman. Member supervisor safai. [off mic]. Noted for cosponser. Chair chan. Aye. We have three ayes. Thank you. The motion passes. [gavel]. With that mr. Clerk please call item, seven, eight, nine, 10 together. Yes, 7 10 are resolutions approving the following agreements between the tenant and the city and county acting through by the Airport Commission. Item 6 and seven are lease agreements with special onsale general beer, wine and and item 8 for International Terminal boarding area g wellness concession lease between special onsale general beer, wine and doing business as be relax. Item 9 a move proves the Foreign Currency Exchange services with lenlyn doing business as ice Currency Services usa for a term of four years with two one year options to extend at the sole discretion of the Airport Commission and minimum annual guarantee for of 1 million for the first year and approval of that resolution and item 10 approves modification number two to a airport professionals contract of beumer llc for the baggage handling system in the harvey milk terminal and increase the amount of 17 million and unceded ancestral homeland 38 mild and extend the term for one year and six months as cited for a new term as cited pursuant to the charter and members of the public have joined us remotely pressing star three to enter the speaker line. A prompt indicates that the hand is raised and when youre unmuted thats the signal to begin your comments. Madam chair. Thank you mr. Clerk. I building we have cathy here from external Affairs Officer from sfo. Thank you so much for being here. I know that item 9 and 10 have budget and legislative Analyst Report so lets go through all the items and for item 9 once youre done for presentation go dollar and same for item 10. Understood. I am cathy wagner on behalf of the San Francisco International Airport. I will industries seven and eight together. Both of the items before you are lease terminations with two spa Service Tenants doing business at the airport. Special onsale general beer, wine and is in terminal two and the other is be relax and in two boarding areas. In addition to the significant downturn in passenger traffic during the pandemic interest in spa services at airports has diminished significantly as we have seen a steady return of traffic. Prior to the pandemic xpres spa operated more than 50 operation and more than half are terminated and sales at the remaining lag at 50 of prepandemic levels. Both businesses made requests to terminate their lease early and staff spent time reviews employment recovery links to spa sale activity at simple fo as well as other domestic airports impacted by covid19. We are now recommending allowing the request to terminate in exchange for a termination fee to compensate the airport for potential loss of revenue. Xpres spa will pay the lease termination fee of 145,000 which is the equivalent of one year of their minimum annual guaranteed rent. Be relax will pay the airport the balance of the Security Deposit of 125,000 and approximately 61,000dollar has been deducted for the late opening penalty payment they received. The airport is agreeable to these termination requests and concession staff has advised they are quickly release these spaces with the more viable Business Concept through a competitive solicitation process. There is no budget Analyst Report but i am happy to answer questions if you have them. Just the idea of these type of concessions is really my assumption is focusing on those who may have lay over at the airport and able to attract them to relax and have fa, but from what i understand too though sfo is actually doing better than expected for the projection in the year that we saw was going to be so could you just explain a little bit more about you know what is the gap here . So thats one of the reasons why we did not initially accept the termination request we believed that as traffic returned sales would return to these businesses, and we did spend some time trying to look at why other businesses seem to have been recovering high are than projected rates. It appears that across the country not specific to sfo theres not a willingness or an interest in passengers to engage in those sort of services right now which would solve touching, close proximity. Its just not something that people are taking advantage of even with lay overs or arriving early in International Terminals. Theyre still skittish of sort of Health Concerns around these type of services in airports. Thank you. That makes sense. I appreciate it. Please go ahead with item 9 and 10. Item 9 seeks your approval to award a Foreign Currency Exchange services lease with lenlyn ltd doing business as ice Currency Services. Lenlyn will partner with world be note it is exchange which is a business for a term of four years with two one year options to extend and minimum annual guaranteed of 1 million. Sfo has not offered Service Service since our lease with travel x expired in august 2020. At this point air traffic and International Traffic in particular was at a level that did not support the service. As flights have returned the airport issued a request for bids for Foreign Currency Exchange services and received two proposals with ice proposing the miest percentage rent strutsure beyond the required one mind minimum annual guarantee. The rent will be the greater of a structured percentage rent or minimum annual guarantee of 1 million. Ice currency will operate seven Foreign Exchange facilities in preand post security areas in the airport and two mobile units as well as five atm machines. The Budget Analyst Office reviewed this lease and recommended approval and happy to answer any questions that you have. Thank you. Item 9 is a resolution that approves an airport lease with lenlyn limited doing business as ice Currency Services usa as the tenant renting airport space. We detailed the terms of lease on page eight of the report and show a four year term with two optional extensions and minimum annual guarantee rent to the airport of 1 million plus escalating percentage of sales ranging from 5 15 percent of revenues depending on the level of revenues. Lenlyn was the top skoeer scoring proposer from a solicitation that included one other response and they were selected based on the higher percentage of rent paid to the airport. We recommend approval of item 9. Thank you. I dont see any name on the roster so lets go to item 10. Thank you. Item number 10 seeks your approval for modification number two to a professional Services Contract within the airport beumer Lifecycle Management to maintain the baggage handling system system in the harvey milk terminal one and extend the term by one and a half juneteenth 2025 and increase the amount by 17 million. Harvey milk terminal one has a state of the art individual carrier system for baggage handling provided and installed by Beumer Corporation as a result of the competitive process in 2020 of the system utilizes totes and carriers with tracking for efficient and safe baggage processing. Its the first system of its kind installed in a u. S. Air port of the the construction procurement and installation of the system was the as a result of a competitive process with beumer ranked as the highest proposer. The airport owns the system but they use proprietary seismic soft Story Foundation for the award of the sole source waiver. The original design build contract for the baggage handling system states that the airport will enter into an operation and maintenance contract with the provider for up to five years after the start of system operations. In 2020 the Airport Commission and the board of supervisors approved this contract with one option to extend through june 30, 2020 which is the modification that is before you today. This modification would add 17 million and exercise the option to extend through june 30, 2025. The Budget Analyst Office does recommend a reduction of 3 million due to contract savings in previous years and the airport agrees with that reduction recommendation. Beumer provides operational availability and maintenance of the system 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. They manage all labor, materials and parts need are for all services. The bla notes that the design contract wasnt approved by the board of supervisors and makes some recommendations in that area but i do want to state for the record all requirements of the charter section were met with this contract and again we agree with the budget analyst recommendation to reduce the contract amount by 3 million and would be happy to answer any questions. Thank you. So item 10 this is a resolution that approves a modification to the airports agreement with beumer life cycle llc and extends the term [inaudible] [off mic] and also increases the unceded ancestral. Unseeded amount as cited. So beumer maintains the baggage handling system in harvey milk terminal one. We detailed the budget for the extension on page 14 of our report which shows 7 million in spending in this fiscal year and then rising to 8. 2 Million Dollars in spending in the fiscal year 2425. This increase is due to a planned expansion of the baggage handling system within terminal one. We are recommending approval of this item but i did note with the amendment to the not to exceed amount reduce by 3 million of under spending related to slower airport activity during covid, but i do think this agreement raises some policy issues which is that the agreement in this case is the result of a sole source waiver for two reasons. One because the construction contract that allowed beumers Parent Company to install the baggage handling system included an exclusive five year maintenance for that system and provided for the airport to enter into a separate agreement for maintenance at that time and also theres also proprietary software associated with this system and the useful life of baggage handling system is at least 15 years so i believe that even beyond this extension the airport is going to have to continue to work with this vendor because theyre locked in by the terms of the construction contract and under the charter the board doesnt approve Construction Contracts so you didnt have the opportunity to weigh in on that provision, but i do think this is i think the city should resist this business practice. The airport because i think it locks the city into higher costs and doesnt provide an opportunity for to work with other vendors that can carry out some some cases commodized services so i think that the board could accomplish that through working with the airport and other departments that install infrastructure to perhaps amend chapter 6 of the administrative code and look at proprietary contracts and initiate a charter amendment. It could work with other cities to jointly develop a strategic procurement position that says we are not going to lock ourselves in this way with proprietary software so i think there are options Going Forward and in fact the mta recently came to you for a waiver from the chapter 21 limit on soliciting contracts not greater more than 10 years because they wanted to negotiate for the train control system the installation of infrastructure, and the Maintenance Agreement all in one agreement so theyre going to solicit a 30 Year Agreement for that purpose, and thats not what happened here, and the airport is correct. They followed the rules from what we could tell. I think it just raises the question for us are the rules can the rules be redesigned in a way to meet this challenge . Thank you. I mean i think heres the question too; right . I think i see on the bla report on page 13 talks a little bit about the performance penalties with the issues around performance penalties with the solicitation of the subsystem tracking accuracy standard, and that fortunately seeing that the subcontractors have resolved those issues among themselves and being able to do some of the repairs not repair but i guess corrections so to speak with the system. I think heres the question for airport is that is the beumer system in place in any other airport in the nation . Excuse me. Let me think this through for a minute. My understanding is that beumer operates this system. Were the only airport in the country that has this type of system but i believe i dont know whether they operate other baggage handling systems in airports in other parts of the country. I can certainly find out for you but i know this technology, this system is only operated at sfo right now. Okay. I think its one of those situations that if it works out of course then sfo is uniquely positioned to have the advantage in the sorting luggage and if it doesnt work out sfo is jammed with a technology not panning out and that is essentially what the budget and legislative analyst is saying this is not a standard practice. Its not the most ideal. We want to be sure whatever the the acquire is tested and verified and however we can and that typically comes through a Competitive Bidding process that we could then compare and different type of system and technology so that we are in a position of selecting what is best for the city and with a sole source process then thats much harder to evaluate whether this is something that the city should invest money in. With that said here we are. Were now in partnership with them and i just would like to have a better understanding and i appreciate the willingness to work with the budget analyst to amend this dollar amount but i also look forward to just learning more about the system. Its a very impressive system. I have to say. I looks at the video of the entire system so its complicated. Its definitely not easy to run you know a sorting system of luggage in the size much sfo an International Airport so im knowledge in anyway claim expertise over the system but its impressive from the laypersons perspective viewing the video but i would love as we move forward with this be more mindful what the future holds for a subcontracts and the maintenance of the system itself in the event we may want to get out or obtain Better Technology available what is our what are our options . Chair chan i understand what youre saying and there is an official under official policy at the airport that we strive not to get into sole source options but having that said were the first to raise our hands. We want to be innovative and try things firstand using this Design Build Concept allows the airport a say in how the system is built and so its really a partnership. Its not beumer coming to us aside from the seismic soft story. Saying we should design to the best specifications that are the best and i would like to notice that performance record of beumer with the one little exception issue of the scanning issue that has been corrected the performance objectives are in the 9095 so were really happy with how the system is working and i hear what youre saying and understand the constraint it says puts on the airport and the city. I understand. Thank you. We appreciate that and with that lets go to Public Comment and with the intention that we will be amending item 10 for the not to exceed amount. Yes members of the public who wish to speak on this item and joining in person should line up now and those remotely pressing star three to enter the endoder dropped . On that motion to forward the resolutions and items 7 10, 10 as amended to the full board with positive recommendation. Vice chair mandelman. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Chair chan. Aye. We have three ayes. Thank you. The motion passes. Mr. Clerk any other items before us . That concludes our business. Thank you. Meeting is adjourned. [gavel] my name is Alex Sinclair of willow on the green in San Francisco. We are the only british tea shop on the west coast and focused on high quality luxury goods from the u. K. And we have teas and baked goods. We came up with the name because willow is made with baskets and the parklett, a willow green and that is a picnic in the park. 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Those other big efbarriers i think that is the thing to focus on the most is belong everyone should belong here. [music] wishing we trained women grow in production. And recording arts and so we have everything from girls night classes for middle and high school girls. We have Certification Academy program. That would be women and gender [inaudible] adid you tell us. Progress in the internship frm program where they are working in the studios. They are helping to mentor the youth in the Youth Programs and the job place am component. Most of the time we hire interns instructors in our programs and engineer in our studios here. We have conferences we do all overnight country and we have concerts that we feature bay area women and gender artists. [music] [music] an education forward organization. And so advocacy organization. Dedicated to closing the gender gap and the audio and production industries. Started out of the lead answer, why is there a critical gender gap in this industry that started at city college. Why are there so few in this class i was ashamed i did not have the answer being a feminist. Why have i never thought of this i have been in the industry for decades and why have i accept today of all people. It was out of that and unraffling it. Actually started the infernship last fall and just fell in love with all the things about womens oshg mission because we are diverse and so many aspects of audio i did not know and i feel like eyes opened up and i gained a lot of confidence in myself and other fells and queer people in the industry i felt there was more connection and community. Ironically my time in the industry is all pretty good. I think what happened is i was raised by a father who is an engineer. I was comfortable being strounlded by men all the time in his lab i was used to technology. When i got in industry my mentors were men and i saw i had a unique importance that got mow in the place i could be fluent and navigate something difficult and it was the norm for me. What if it was not woman was createed provide it for everybody. Have this environment you are surrounded by technology and people that are going to support you and get you in this industry in a good way. I have been interested in audio i was never trained in music took piano when i was a kid. I never pursued it because not a lot of women doing that. And my family is not musically inclined. When i want to davis the first time i took a music class there were few females in the class. Like a rodey for my dayed was load you will the mixers and monitors and the giant speakers and gigs and help run out the cables and take things down and set up mics i did all of that growing up and never occurred to mow that that was a field they could at all. And then one i could pursue i didnt nobody else was doing temperature my dad and then i go with him to studios and see the men in the studio. Dj for 5 years now and comments you get like wow you are a girl dj that is crazy. That is wild. And i have great moments where it does not happen. And they treat me like easy. Telling mow what to do they correct mow in ways that make me feel less i sprjs the opposite and i notice hands on like you dont know what you are doing rather than asking me. Not consistent times it happens. It is like when i talk to other females they are like say the same things it is like funny i know that nice men dont experience tht main thing triggers me when i experience different treatment and that happens a lot in the audio world. Industry is changing slowly. There is still that issue making the places that are places belonging for everybody. I dont think so. Having a studio where it is not all run by white men like most studios. The studios are only in the word built and run by women. It has been super normalize thered are opportunity for girls and nonbinary people. You go in school and middle and High Schoolers know that this is a field. This is a thing there are many jobs you can have in this field. Some producing pod casts to setting up live shows. There are so many things you can do wee go in and teach the audio skills and give them equipment. I pads and then teach them how to make music and they get to come in here and will getting the tools to people who dont have t. That is really important to me. Thats why i was like wow. I want to be there for other fell and queer people who dont have the opportunity and also to be a mentor for them to really push them to experiment and not going to break it. Does not matter if it sounds bad that is the point to try it. I think it is the goal to see confidence what they are doing and passionate and asking for hymn and excite body learning and excited about making music and it changed my life to realize im callented in the field i can make music without being trained to it it is amazing to be able to be part of that process and ushering women to the field. We can entirely transform how the Technology Part of what you hear every day. We can put xhg something in womens points of view in this every time. It affects the store and he messaging. Think our best example is how we transformed an entire city. Place that major artists on tour one of the men looks likeip dont get it there are woman every where i go and the person was like you are in San Francisco. You like oh , you are right it is here. Most venues have graduates we are grateful to the city for that reason because than i supported us at the beginning. Following your curiosity and interest and dont let anybody get in the way what is presented to you, go for t. No matter what we are here for a reason. Find what it is. Dont let somebody else tell you what it is. You are the oldsmobile one that have been can know when you are supposed to do. Go do it. The city of San Francisco is invest nothing resources to care for people experiencing a Mental Health or Substance Use crisis on the streets. Is this includes new programs and the expansion of successful pilots worried about you lying on the street here. We can take them to other facilities like Mental Health facilities or shelters or offer resources and connect them to social workers and follow up. We try to provide safety for the public and for them to let them know than i are not in trouble and we are here to offer them many resources and service they may want and takes buildinged the relationships with the public president people we contact with. Takes time and trust. The city street team include Mental Health clinicians, community paramedics, emts, social workers and councillors train in traumatic care u most vagzal interviews. Cultural competence and he deescalation. San francisco 911 when is the emergency . San francisco trained 9 leondis patchers operate inspectly from the Police Department. Through investments and alternatives to law enforcement, the city ruled the police sponses to people experiencing Mental Health emergencies. Now that we have a team that is geared toward Mental Health that helped dispatchers able to assist the public when call nothing for common they dont think needs an ambulance or fire or police they think they need help. I wanted to be that social worker what wents the extra mile and figured out how to navigate the system. Joy feel great when i help someone thats why i got in the work if you are experiencing an emergency or worry body safety on the street call 911. For nonemergencies use 311. You can learn more about the street Response Program at i dont think you need to be an expert to look around and see the increasing frequency of fires throughout california. They are continuing at an everincreasing rate every summer, and as we all know, the drought continues and huge shortages of water right now. I dont think you have to be an expert to see the impact. When people create greenhouse gases, we are doing so by different activities like burning fossil fuels and letting off Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere and we also do this with food waste. When we waste solid food and leave it in the landfill, it puts methane gas into the atmosphere and that accelerates the rate at which we are warming our planet and makes all the effects of Climate Change worse. The good news is there are a lot of things that you can be doing, particularly composting and the added benefit is when the compost is actually applied to the soil, it has the ability to reverse Climate Change by pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil and the t radios. And there is huge amount of science that is breaking right now around that. In the early 90s, San Francisco hired some engineers to analyze the material San Francisco was sending to landfill. They did a Waste Characterization study, and that showed that most of the material San Francisco was sending to landfill could be composted. It was things like food scraps, coffee grounds and egg shells and sticks and leaves from gardening. Together reecology in San Francisco started this Curbside Composting Program and we were the first city in the country to collect food scraps separately from other trash and turn them into compost. It turns out it was one of the best things we ever did. It kept 2. 5 million tons of material out of the landfill, produced a beautiful nutrient rich compost that has gone on to hundreds of farms, orchards and vineyards. So in that way you can manage your food scraps and produce far less methane. That is part of the solution. That gives people hope that were doing something to slow down Climate Change. I have been into organic farming my whole life. When we started planting trees, it was natural to have compost from reecology. Compost is how i work and the soil biology or the microbes feed the plant and our job as regenerative farmers is to feed the microbes with compost and they will feed the plant. It is very much like in business where you say take care of your employees and your employees will take carolinas of your customers. The same thing. Take care of the soil microbes and soil life and that will feed and take care of the plants. They love compost because it is a nutrient rich soil amendment. It is food for the soil. That is photosynthesis. Pulling carbon from the atmosphere. Pushing it back into the soil where it belongs. And the roots exude carbon into the soil. You are helping turn a farm into a carbon sink. It is an international model. Delegations from 135 countries have come to study this program. And it actually helped inspire a new law in california, senate bill 1383. Which requires cities in california to reduce the amount of compostable materials they send to landfills by 75 by 2025. And San Francisco helped inspire this and this is a nationleading policy. Because we have such an immature relationship with nature and the Natural Cycles and the carbon cycles, government does have to step in and protect the commons, which is soil, ocean, foryes, sir, and so forth. Forest, and so fors. We know that our largest corporations are a significant percentage of carbon emission, and that the Corporate Community has significant role to play in reducing carbon emissions. Unfortunately, we have no idea and no requirement that they disclose anything about the carbon footprint, the core operation and sp360 stands for the basic notion that Large Corporations should be transparent about the carbon footprint. It makes all the sense in the world and very common sense but is controversial. Any time you are proposing a policy that is going to make real change and that will change behavior because we know that when corporations have to disclose and be transparent and have that kind of accountability, there is going to be opposition. We have to provide Technical Assistance to comply with the state legislation sb1383 which requires them to have a food donation program. We keep the edible food local. And we are not composting it because we dont want to compost edible food. We want that food to get eaten within San Francisco and feed folks in need. It is very unique in San Francisco we have such a broad and expansive Education Program for the city. But also that we have partners in government and nonprofit that are dedicated to this work. At San Francisco Unified School District, we have a Sustainability Office and educators throughout the Science Department that are building it into the curriculum. Making it easy for teachers to teach about this. We Work Together to build a pipeline for students so that when they are really young in prek, they are just learning about the awe and wonder and beauty of nature and they are connecting to animals and things they would naturally find love and affinity towards. As they get older, concepts that keep them engaged like society and people and economics. California is experiencing many years of drought. Dry periods. That is really hard on farms and is really challenging. Compost helps farms get through these difficult times. How is that . Compost is a natural sponge that attracts and retains water. And so when we put compost around the roots of plants, it holds any moisture there from rainfall or irrigation. It helps farms make that corner and that helps them grow for food. You can grow 30 more food in times of drought in you farm naturally with compost. Farms and cities in california are very hip now to this fact that creating compost, providing compost to farms helps communities survive and get through those dry periods. Here is the thing. Soil health, climate health, human health, one conversation. If we grow our food differently, we can capture all that excess carbon in the atmosphere and store it in unlimited quantities in the soil, that will create Nutrient Dense Foods that will take care of most of our civilized diseases. So its one conversation. People have to understand that they are nature. They cant separate. We started prowling the high plains in the 1870s and by the 1930s, 60 year, we turned it into a dust bowl. That is what ignorance looks like when you dont Pay Attention to nature. Nature bats last. So people have to wake up. Wake up. Compost. It is really easy to get frustrated because we have this belief that you have to be completely sustainable 24 7 in all aspects of your life. It is not about being perfect. It is about making a change here, a change there in your life. Maybe saying, you know what . I dont have to drive to that particular place today. Today i am going to take the bus or im going to walk. It is about having us is stainable in mind. That is it is about having sustainability in mind. That is how we move the dial. You dont have to be perfect all the time. San francisco has been and will continue to be one of the greener cities because there are communities who care about protecting a special ecosystem and habitat. Thinking about the history of the ohlone and the native and Indigenous People who are stewards of this land from that history to now with the ambitious Climate Action plan we just passed and the goals we have, i think we have a dedicated group of people who see the importance of this place. And who put effort into building an infrastructure that actually makes it possible. We have a long history starting with the gold rush and the antiwar activism and that is also part of the Environmental Movement in the 60s and 70s. And of course, earth day in 1970 which is huge. And i feel very privileged to work for the city because we are on such a forefront of environmental issues, and we get calls from all over the world really to get information. How do cities create waste programs like they do in San Francisco. We are looking into the few which you are and we want innovation. We want solutions. Television. music . Were going to show you how to pay for parking with the Smart Phone App the quickest way to pay for parking youll download did app in the apple and Google Play Store and on the app and enter our name and phone number and make sure to verify your account to use the app and net check the overhead signs and type that zone number in the location and then choose how long you want to park for and for the duration and finally confirming this and make the payment that is a combination many parking control officers need and if you need to extend our parking time on the app and select the option and select the time and make the payment. For for whatever reason the connection call 866 to pay by phone and enter our number or press one to register. Emergency our pin the last four digits of our credit card number and number of the minutes you want to park. Alter the end of call will confirm everything if youre a new users call 856 4907275 and the walk you through will walk through it youll enter the zone number and see parking time. And finally there are for refunds. Thats it the information will only be saved for the direct your attention of our parking time and it is by the pay by phone is simple check our other parking zone number and thanks for my name is Alex Sinclair of willow on the green in San Francisco. We are the only british tea shop on the west coast and focused on high quality luxury goods from the u. K. And we have teas and baked goods. We came up with the name because willow is made with baskets and the parklett, a willow green and that is a picnic in the park. I have come up with the idea because i have lived in the neighborhood for a year. Seven years ago we had a tea shop. During covid we needed to have a new flavor and rejuvenate the business. We are between two beautiful businesses. I realized with the shop opening next to the bakery, we had a beautiful tea shop in the area. We started with british teas and want to support local tea makers in the local area. And once you have cheese and biscuits need tea and jam and lemon curd and chocolate and all of these parts basically imported from the u. K. Our most popular products come from wales. Its an extra cheddar and next popular product is a jam made with alpine strawberry. So you get a taste of a nice strawberry. This is about supporting cheese makers and business in the area and womenowned businesses around the world and always want to support the community. We support concerts, we support charities and come to the aid to those in need such as the British Society and the San Francisco society and the if you have never had british cheese, i recommend you come in on weekend. All of our staff are highly knowledgeable of all of our products and we are really passionate about what we do here and gives you a chance to explore our culture and food and our values. I encourage you to come to the inner sunset with a beautiful park to be young and academy of sciences here. Come to the shop. We have beautiful baskets and blankets so you can enjoy this wonderful nature and you can support these wonderful businesses out here. When i shoot chinatown, i shoot the architecture that people not just events, i shoot whats going on in daily life and everything changes. Murals, graffiti, store opening. Store closing. The bakery. I shoot anything and everything in chinatown. I shoot daily life. Im a crazy animal. Im shooting for fun. Thats what i love. Im frank jane. Im a Community Photographer for the last i think about 20 years. I joined the chinese historical society. It was a way i could practice my society and i can give the community memories. Ive been practicing and get to know everybody and everybody knew me pretty much documenting the history i dont just shoot events. Im telling a story in whatever photos that i post on facebook, its just like being there from front to end, i do a good job and i take hundreds and hundreds of photos. And i was specializing in chinese american history. I want to cover whats happening in chinatown. Whats happening in my community. I shoot a lot of government officials. I probably have thousands of photos of mayor lee and all the dignitaries. But they treat me like one of the family members because they see me all the time. They appreciate me. Even the local cops, the firemen, you know, i feel at home. I was born in Chinese Hospital 1954. We grew up dirt poor. Our family was lucky to grew up. When i was in junior high, i had a degree in Hotel Management restaurant. I was working in the Restaurant Business for probably about 15 years. I started when i was 12 years old. When i got married, my wife had an import business. I figured, the Restaurant Business, i got tired of it. I said come work for the family business. I said, okay. Its going to be interesting and so interesting i lasted for 30 years. Im married i have one daughter. Shes a registered nurse. She lives in los angeles now. And two grandsons. We have fun. I got into photography when i was in junior high and high school. Shooting cameras. The black and white days, i was able to process my own film. I wasnt really that good because you know color film and processing was expensive and i kind of left it alone for about 30 years. I was doing product photography for advertising. And kind of got back into it. Everybody said, oh, digital photography, the year 2000. It was a ghost town in chinatown. I figured its time to shoot chinatown store front nobody. Everybody on grand avenue. There was not a soul out Walking Around chinatown. A new asia restaurant, it used to be the biggest restaurant in chinatown. It can hold about a 1,000 people and i had been shooting events there for many years. It turned into a supermarket. And i got in. I shot the supermarket. You know, and its transformation. Even the owner of the restaurant the restaurant, its 50 years old. I said, yeah. It looks awful. History. Because im shooting history. And its impressive because its history because you cant repeat. Its gone its gone. You stick with her, shell teach you everything. Cellphone photography, thats going to be the generation. I think cellphones in the next two, three years, the big cameras are obsolete already. Mirrorless camera is going to take over market and the cellphone is going to be better. But nobodys going to archive it. Nobodys going to keep good history. Everybodys going to take snapshots, but nobodys going to catalog. They dont care. I want to see you. Its not a keepsake. Theres no memories behind it. Everybodys sticking in the cloud. They lose it, who cares. But, you know, i care. Last september of 2020, i had a minor stroke, and my daughter caught it on zoom. I was having a zoom call for my grand kids. And my daughter and my these little kids said, hey, you sound strange. Yeah. I said im not able to speak properly. They said what happened. My wife was taking a nap and my daughter, she called home and said hes having a stroke. Get him to the hospital. Five minutes later, you know, the ambulance came and took me away and i was at i. C. U. For four days. I have hundreds of messages wishing me get well soon. Everybody wished that im okay and back to normal. You know, i was up and kicking two weeks after my hospital stay. It was a wakeup call. I needed to get my life in order and try to organize things especially organize my photos. Probably took two million photos in the last 20 years. I want to donate to an organization thats going to use it. Im just doing it from the heart. I enjoy doing it to give back to the community. Thats the most important. Give back to the community. Its a lot for the community. I was a born hustler. Im too busy to slow down. I love what im doing. I love to be busy. I go nuts when im not doing anything. Im 67 this year. I figured 70 im ready to retire. Im wishing to train a couple for photographers to take over my place. The younger generation, they have a passion, to document the history because its going to be forgotten in ten years, 20 years, maybe i will be forgotten when im gone in a couple years but i want to be remembered for my work and, you know, photographs will be a remembrance. Im frank jane. Im a Community Photographer. This is my story. When youre not looking, franks there. Hell snap that and then hell send me an email or two and theyre always the best. These are all my p 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. Dev missions goal is aiming to train young adults, youth so we can be a wealth and disparity in underserved communities like where we are today. My name is leo sosa. Im the founder and executive director for devmission. Were sitting inside a computer lab where residents come and get support when they give help about how to set up an email account. How to order prescriptions online. Create a resume. We are also now paying attention to provide tech support. We have collaborated with the San Francisco Mayors Office and the department of technology to implement a broad band network for the residents here so they can have Free Internet access. We have partnered with Community Technology networks to provide computer classes to the seniors and the residents. So this computer lab becomes a hub for the community to learn how to use technology, but thats the parents and the adults. We have been able to identify what we call a stem date. The acronym is Science Technology engineering and math. Kids should be exposed no matter what type of background or ethnicity or income status. Thats where we actually create magic. Something that the kids are really excited about is science and so the way that we execute that is through making slime. And as fun as it is, its still a Chemical Reaction and you start to understand that with the materials that you need to make the slime. They love adding their little twists to everything. Its just a place for them to experiment and thats really what we want. I see. Really what the excitement behind that is that youre making something. Logs, legos, sumo box, art, drawing, computers, mine craft, and really its just awaking opportunity. Keeping their attention is like one of the Biggest Challenges that we do have because, you know, theyre kids. They always want to be doing something, be helping with something. So we just let them be themselves. We have our set of rules in place that we have that we want them to follow and live up to. And we also have our set of expectations that we want them to achieve. This is like my first year officially working with kids. And definitely ive had moments where theyre not getting something. They dont really understand it and youre trying to just talk to them in a way that they can make it work teaching them in different ways how they can get the light bulb to go off and ive seen it firsthand and it makes me so happy when it does go off because its like, wow, i helped them understand this concept. I love playing games and i love having fun with my friends playing dodge ball and a lot of things that i like. Its really cool. They dont give you a lot of cheese to put on there, do they . Youve got like a little bit left. We learn programming to make them work. We do computers and programming. At the bottom here, we talk to them and we press these buttons to make it go. And this is to turn it off. And this is to make it control on its own. If you press this twice, it can do any type of tricks. Like you can move it like this and it moves. It actually can go like this. Like, wow, theyre just absorbing everything. So it definitely is a wholehearted moment that i love experiencing. The realities right now, 5. 3 latinos working in tech and about 6. 7 African Americans working in tech. And, of course, those Tech Companies are funders. So i continue to work really hard with them to close that gap and work with the San Francisco Unified School District so juniors and seniors come to our program, so kids come to our stem hub and be exposed to all those things. Its a big challenge. We have a couple of other providers here on site, but weve all just been trying to Work Together and let the kids move around from each department. Some kids are comfortable with their admission, but if they want to jump in with city of dreams or Hunters Point, we just try to collaborate to provide the best opportunity in the community. Devmission has provided services on westbrook. They teach you how to code. How to build their own mini robot to providing access for the youth to partnerships with adobe and sony and google and twitter. And so devmission has definitely brought access for our families to resources that our residents may or may not have been able to access in the past. The San Francisco house and Development Corporation gave us the grant to implement this program. It hasnt been easy, but we have been able to see now some of the Success Stories of some of those kids that have been able to take the opportunity and continue to grow within their education and eventually become a very successful citizen. So the computer lab, theyre doing the backpacks. I dont know if youre going to be able to do the class. You still want to try . Yeah. Go for it. We have a young man by the name of ivan mello. He came here two and a half years ago to be part of our digital arts music lab. Graduating with natural, fruity loops, rhymes. All of our music lyrics are clean. He came as an intern, and now hes running the program. That just tells you, we are only creating opportunities and theres a young man by the name of eduardo ramirez. He tells the barber, whats that flyer . And he says its a program that teaches you computers and art. And i still remember the day he walked in there with a baseball cap, full of tattoos. Nice clean hair cut. I want to learn how to use computers. Graduated from the program and he wanted to work in i. T. Well, eduardo is a dreamer. Right. So trying to find him a job in the Tech Industry was very challenging, but that didnt stop him. Through the effort of the office of economic work force and the grant i reached out to a few folks i know. Post mates decided to bring him on board regardless of his legal status. He ended his internship at post mates and now is at hudacity. That is the power of what technology does for young people that want to become part of the Tech Industry. What weve been doing, its very innovative. Helping kids k12, transitional age youth, families, parents, communities, understand and to be exposed to stem subjects. Imagine if that mission one day can be in every Affordable Housing community. The opportunities that we would create and thats what im trying to do with thistelevisi in 1948 swensens ice cream used to make ice cream in the navy and decided to open up an ice cream shop it it takes time for the parent to put money down and diane one of the managers at zen citizen in arena hills open and serve oldfashioned ice cream. Over 20 years. Yeah. Had my own business i was a firefighter and came in in 1969 her dad had ice cream and left here still the owner but shortly after um, in here became the inc. Maker the manager and lead and branded the store from day to day and in the late 90s was obvious choice he sold it to him and he called us up one night and said im going to sell the Ice Cream Store what you you talking about diane came and looked at the store and something we want to do and had a history of her dad here and growing up here at the Ice Cream Store we decided to take that business on. And have it in the family i didnt want to sell it. To keep it here in San Francisco. And unintelligible . Share worked there and worked with all the people and a lot of customers come in. A round hill in the adjoining areas loved neither ice cream shop in this area and support russia hills and have clean up day and give them free ice cream because that is those are the people that keep us the opportunity to stick around here four so many years next generations have been coming her 20 er thirty or 40 years and we have the ingredients something it sold and, you know, her dad said to treat the customers right and people will keep on coming back and 75 or 74 years, you know, that is quite an accomplishment i think of it as our first 75 years and like to see that, you know, going into the future um, that ice cream shop will be around used to be 4 hundred in the United States and all gone equipment for that one that is the first and last were proud of that were Still Standing and people people are you tell people its been around in 50 years and dont plan on 5 oclock. music . Cofounder. We started in 2008 and with the intent of making the ice cream with grown up flavors and with like and with tons of accessible freshens and so we this is many people will like it and other people will like you my name is alice my husband were the owners of you wont see ice cream in San Francisco and really makes fishing that we are always going together and we we provide the job opportunity for High School Students and i hired them every year and. Fun community hubble in San Francisco is my district i hope we can keep that going for many years. And im alexander the owner of ice cream and in San Francisco and in the outer sunset in since 1955 we have a vast of flavors liar choke oclock but the flavors more than three hundred flavors available and i am the owner of the ice cream. And my aunt used to take us out to eat ice cream all the time and what can i do why not bring this ice cream shop and unintelligible joy a banana split or a great environment for people to come and enjoy. Were the ordinances of the hometown and our new locations in pink valley when i finished law school we should open up a store and, and, and made everybody from scrap the first ice cream shop any ice cream we do our own culture background and a lot of interaction and were fortunate we can get feedback and serve to the king of ending and also all right. Well, thank you all so much for being here. Im San Francisco mayor, london breed. And today im joined by trent rohrer, who is the executive director of Human Service agency. Matt dorsey, a supervisor from district six. And cedric akbar, the cofounder of positive directions, along with a number of other members from project positive direction. Positive direction is one of our really amazing programs. It focuses on abstinence based, provide housing and wraparound support for people who have suffered from Substance Use disorder. Theyve been very effective in helping people get their lives on the right path. And thats why were here today. We are here to focus on getting peoples lives on the right path. Sra