Heart. We added a car in front of it to show the unification of many things into one. At its core. Kapuso at the upper yard is all of us, its community, its developers, its politicians, its allies of Affordable Housing coming together to form one heart. And we hope you enjoy it as much as we do. Thank you. Now id like to ask Ann Silverberg to step up. Thank you. I am Ann Silverberg. Im ceo for norcal affordable at related and we three are sharing the welcome. So im going to do my part and say welcome to everyone. Thank you so much for coming here today. I know some of you have traveled very far, but it is a Beautiful Day in the city and we are really, really happy that you are here celebrating with us. Youve heard a little of this development. Youll hear so much more over the course of the program here. But this development really is a perfect example. All of what we can do when we all Work Together toward the same end goal, thats what we try to do all the time. But that really, really happened here. As youll hear throughout the program about the partnership between so many critical players, the community, the city, the developers, the, the state, the transit agencies, the funding partners, the architect, the contractor. Everybody worked together. Everyone really brought their a team, their best, best players, really, truly excellent folks coming together and really feeling very passionately about making sure that this got done and got done well. And i think if you kind of take it in, if you go to the ground floor and the retail spaces and the Community Spaces and take in the public art, which is so gorgeous. And i hope you all come this way and look at the mural as well and the connection to transit and the plaza and all of the attention to details and the Beautiful Homes that were created here. I hope you feel as i do that this is not just an ordinary building. This is an extraordinary building. This is really an amazing place to be. And i think it is really the passion, the collaboration, the partnership, everyone coming together to make this happen. And its really the heart and the unity that sam was talking about, that the community, the concept that the Community Created so many years ago, its a continuation through the development process. And we really hope it continues for all of the residents who have decided to make kapuso their home. All right. So today, may we have a number of very, very distinguished guests to help us celebrate this grand opening. Im very, very excited about this all star team here. We have treasurer fiona ma, we have senator scott wiener. We will soon have mayor london breed and supervisor asha safai. We also have Vanessa Rodriguez from wells fargo, janet lee from bart tilly chang from the San Francisco county transport authority. Terrence valin from the Filipino Community center. Juan moya, thank you. Okay, good. I did it. One of our wonderful kapuso residents, unfortunately, secretary Castro Ramirez and director Gustavo Velasquez were not able to make it today, but they send their regrets and we are very, very appreciative of their support. I would like to also say we would not be at this point today without the San FranciscoMayors Office of housing and ed eric shaw, lydia ely, sarah amaral, jennifer collins. The newest addition to the team. Mara blitzer. Robin wang and brendan dwyer. Thank you all very much. Also, the partnership and coordinated efforts with bart janis lee, bevan dufty, abby, abby thorne, lyman, who recently left bart but worked very hard on this project. Carly paine, tim chan, Nicole Franklin and many others. And our wells fargo partners provided an incredible amount of capital. Vanessa rodriguez, terrance cordero, eric limbach, tim mccann, john coe and lorenzo cordova. And i last want to mention our fabulous, fabulous development partner, Mission Housing. I cant say enough about them as a partner or about this partnership when it works well. It really works well. And both partners brought their strengths and supported each other. We worked really, really well all the way through the process, so im very grateful to sam moss, marsha contreas, kevin kitchenham, wade reynolds, julio lara and scott falcone. So thank you very much. And also to the caritas management company. Thank you, sam. Thank you. Thank you. Okay more from me. We have someone whos not here yet, so were changing the program a bit. All right. So i know you all know this already, but developments like this require layers and layers and layers of funding and id like to acknowledge the very critical capital from the California Department of housing and Community Development, as well as the strategic growth council. And we have money through the program as well as the iig program. The Mayors Office of housing and Community Development, wells fargo bank, and our permanent lender, the California CommunityReinvestment Corporation mission. All right. So im going to introduce our first speaker. We are thrilled to have california state treasurer fiona ma with us today as californias 34th state treasurer. She was elected in 2018 with more votes than any other candidate for treasurer in the history of the state of california. Thats amazing. Her office provides funding for schools, roads, recycling and waste management, hospitals, public facilities, crucial Infrastructure Projects , and most importantly, to many of us, housing. And she does all of that to better the lives of california residents. In december of 2020, she approved 47 million of tax credits and 60 million in tax exempt bonds. For this development, please help me welcome treasurer fiona ma. Thank you very much, anne and sam. And to everyone it definitely takes a village and this project is probably one of the hardest ones that have come through my office since i got elected as state treasurer in 2018. I served on the San Francisco board of supervisors representing the sunset district from 2002 to 2006, and some of these projects are still working its way through the system. This was one of the more difficult ones and i just want to let you know that your mayor london breed your supervisor, asha sapphire, were on the phone with me a lot saying, hey, we need more of this. We need more time, we need this, we please wait and, you know, put us back in line. But everything did work out. And over the last four years, we have really focused on new construction for very low and extremely low individuals. And this example is for amis of 30 to 80 of ami for working families, which is sorely needed. And of course, the transit is right here. So this is clearly one of the Transit Oriented Development projects, one of the stars. But it kind of wasnt ranking that high, believe it or not. I mean, we should have given it extra points, but maybe it would have been built faster. But thats how the system works as your state treasurer last year, 3. 7 trillion went through my office. I invest the states excess funds as well as issue all the bonds, even through the pandemic. And we never missed one round here at cid or tcac. We got two rounds of federal 9 federal tax credits, which went to help some of the fire devastated regions and just working together with all of my partners and all of you, we are continuing to see movement in this Affordable Housing crisis. So kudos for this amazing project. Thank you, bill witty. And thank you to our partners at the state and at our transportation levels. As well. So thank you. Thank you, treasurer ma. So id like to introduce our next speaker. We are very, very happy to have with us today mark caswell, Program Manager for the Affordable HousingSustainable Communities Program at the strategic growth council. Mark, there was a there was an illness i think in your stepping in, he promises hes trained in improv. Im so impressed that he is doing this. So thank you very much was a very important part of the Capital Stack for this development provided very important funds for the housing. But also paid for the plaza. If you could see behind us the whole bart plaza was paid for by asic and so its very, very important funding and we appreciate your being here today. Mark. Right. Thank you, anne, and thank you everybody for being here. Mark caswell Program Manager. Affordable housing Sustainable Communities Program, which is in the strategic growth council, which is in the Governors Office of planning and research, and our director, sam assefa, sends his regrets for being unable to attend today, the program really brings makes sure that were funding not only Affordable Housing, but also bringing together other components that will help benefit Community Members and the surrounding community. So not only did we fund 20 million worth of housing funds, but were complementing that with the 9. 5 million investment. Thats to build transportation and other public goods. Were building a bikeway on. Were funding the building of bikeway. The sfmta is building the bikeway on 19th Street Mission avenue, which is actually under construction right now. Theres also pedestrian bulbouts throughout the area to improve pedestrian safety, and we widened sidewalks as well. And then we also have a Great Partnership with bart, with the developers are able to Work Together with bart to purchase three new bart cars to reduce Greenhouse Gases and really help make sure this this program meets its goals and the state is able to reduce Greenhouse Gases while also building more Affordable Housing. So were really combating both the Climate Crisis as well as the Housing Affordability crisis. And this program and this project is such a great example of our Work Together there and our commitments at the state. So i just want to thank everybody for being here. Thank you. Well done. And thank you, mark. Thank you. Um, so our next speaker, vanessa, Vanessa Rodriguez is the managing director and the head of Community Lending and investment at wells fargo bank, one of the top, top lenders and investors in Affordable Housing in the United States. Vanessa manages a team of 170 associates, a nationwide with debt and equity portfolio totaling 24 billion in commitments. Her Team Provides various Financial Solutions to support Community Development needs, including debt and equity for neighborhood revitalize nation through tax credit equity for Affordable Housing and projects like this. She and her team played a key role in financing this development with a construction loan of over 80 million in tax credit equity as well. We are incredibly grateful for the partnership. Thank you. Please help me welcome Vanessa Rodriguez. Thank you, anne. And thank you so much for inviting me to speak today on behalf of wells. Guess i just want to start off with saying that wells believes that everyone should have a quality place to call home Affordable Housing is a top priority of the bank, and over the last five years weve provided about 21 billion of capital, all for the development and rehab of Affordable Housing throughout the us. We have a number of other initiatives around housing that include flexible down payment Financing Options for our homebuyers. Weve. Provided 450 million of flexible capital for Community Development, Financial Institutions and nonprofit Housing Developers nationally. And weve donated over 500 million to help address this housing affordable quality and stability in both Single Family and multifamily rental space. So it is a top priority of the firm and i hope those numbers tell that story. In terms of San Francisco proper, where weve done about 1,000,000,003 of capital through construct finance and tech Equity Investment over the last ten years, since 2012, as well as another 230 million of permanent finance through the gses during that time frame. This represents development and preserves a nation of approximately 3200 units in San Francisco. And these figures do include the 138 million of capital that we provided to kapuso at the upper yard. My colleague terrance schooled me on the term, the terminology here kapuso a tagalog word. So thank you, terrance, for bringing me up to speed. The translation hearts coming together for or of the same heart, which i think is really beautiful. Its a testament to the Larger Community here, you know, coming together, moving together, looking towards a common goal of affordable, quality housing. Were thankful to be a part of it. Were thankful to be part of this collective vision, to take a city owned parking lot and turn it into this high quality, Affordable Housing adjacent to bart and really make a place here, you know, pedestrian friendly, public oriented and this beautiful plaza behind us. So this project hits like a lot of levers for us is affordability, right . Targeting low and moderate income families and individuals, sustainable will be a big priority at wells as well. And we think a critical aspect to providing safe and stable homes for families. So the Energy Efficient designs here are the addition of adjacent to bart and the addition of the plaza where the community can come together for events and everything. I think, hits all the hits, all the buckets for us at and you know, the support from hcd and the city and county of San Francisco for the development and the transportation infrastructure improvements. Its really just a win win. All around. I certainly would be remiss if we didnt acknowledge the great sponsorship here, which in our view is certainly top notch. The related companies is a huge client of ours. The relationship spans 25 plus years. I dont know if you have this count, but i think weve done over 65 projects together nationwide and four projects in San Francisco through 2020 2022. Thats about 335 million. In those three four projects excuse me. And about 580 units here in San Francisco. So and we just recently partnered with them again on the revitalization of the sunnydale community, specifically blocks three a and three b, so were really excited about that one as well. And were delighted to continue the relationship with Mission Housing, one of the Top Community based Affordable Housing developers and operators in San Francisco. This isnt our first project. Weve done a few with them already, creating over 200 Affordable Housing units. So you know, were extremely happy to be here. Were so excited about this project and watching it come to fruition. Thank you to my team for always doing a great job of taking care of the clients in the community as we thank everyone for their partnership and congratulations to everyone. Thank you. Cheers. Either im growing or the mic is a little low. Thank you, vanessa and thank you to wells fargo. Wonderful partners of both. Both of both developers sitting here today. It is important for us to recognize our community. Like we said before, it takes a village. We could not get here and we probably would have never gotten here if it wasnt for community. So it is my honor to really recognize the work that the community and its organizers here in district 11 did for more than a decade. The organizing work of the Communities United for health and justice were super here was really vital. I cant even stress that enough. Vital in ensuring that this piece of land here where were standing and were celebrating now got to this to this place and this far welcome supervisor and today we just want to make sure that we acknowledge them and express that not only was the work done, but also they did it with their heart, just like the name, right, that weve been talking about. Kapuso and their meaning, but also the unity it took all all of them, plus the work that the Community Came together to do. Theyre really inspired not only for us to name this building kapuso, but also be able to be to build this 131 unit developed here that is housing thats going to house so many families. So it is my great honor to basically introduce terrence valin, and he is the founding organizational director of the Filipino Community center here in district 11. He is responsible for their Strategic Planning and resource development. So please help me welcome terrence to the podium and he will share a little bit of his thoughts. To everyone. Its great to be here today. This is kind of surreal to be here. Folks mentioned this is more than a decade of work. This this wouldnt be here. Actually, this work started with the community. And so the fcc started almost 20 years ago. Next year is our 20th anniversary. We were there on the backside of the ocean Avenue Presbyterian Church on san juan avenue. Their neighborhood house. We had meetings there to gather the community, as sam mentioned, Communities United for health and justice. My colleagues here, elaine, marybeth, reyna, ted, oscar, antonio, weve worked together over the years as fcc, the Filipino Community center poder coleman advocates also worked with chinese for affirmative action and Bernal Heights neighborhood center. Over the years, we gathered Community Folks who are not at the planning table. These are young people, you know, children, grandparents, seniors, recent immigrants, nonenglish speakers , the fcc. And so the name is very appropriate. Kapuso because when we were building the fcc 20 years ago, we knew our community is very much connected to the diverse immigrant communities of this neighborhood, in particular, the working class returning immigrant communities. And we know what we need. We know we had a vision for what we wanted, and we also helped to put the resources in place to make sure we can build more Affordable Housing here in San Francisco. So we had meetings at the fcc at balboas high schools green room at the new excelsior work center, and we hope to have meetings here as well moving forward because we still have a lot of work to do to stay connected to the Community Like like the name says kapuso. Sam explained it well. Kapuso in tagalog or filipino connected hearts, the ka is kind of being connected and puso means heart. Dont hear that word very often, but i wanted to share. This is what the its indigenous script. So the ka is like a symbol that has sometimes they talk about the earth and the sky connected by this line here and our communities have always and continue to be need to be connected. The work of the sam mentioned it at the groundbreaking that this is a new standard for Community Collaboration with city, state and other government officials and other developers to make these things happen. We are literally it was legos on a map , a desk map with fernando martin, an asian neighborhood design, and others who are visiting. How do we do this on a triangular space next to the freeway . So these are Community Members who are never at the planning table, who are talking with bart mta bay area air Quality Management district, the Planning Department and others. And we said that we can make this happen. Its possible. And we have this vision and you need to help us to get there so that People PoweredCommunity Planning process that we did in 2011 and then finished and published a report in 2012. Were invited. Rest in peace. Former mayor ed lee to come. And we gave him valentines on february 13th, 2012. So here is our report out. This is what we need and we would love for you at the event called home is where the heart is on that ocean Avenue Presbyterian Church space that we had 100 people gathered. We had hundreds of Community Members out there doing surveys, making sure we knew what we wanted, what we needed, and what the city needed to do to step forward and get this housing for us. So were very happy. 130 units of housing are here. Theres a lot more work we need to do. Some of our community got displaced, but we have we lost some of our Community Members. Theyre still in our hearts. Mayor ed lee tatay Arthur Castro was a Filipino Community member who made every single meeting to make sure that this gets built and other Affordable Housing projects in the neighborhood get built 100 Affordable Housing for the most vulnerable and the lowest income folks. Now, we need to continue to do that. So i hope kapuso remains an institution or proud. Its named in a filipino name connected to the filipino Cultural Heritage district in south of market. But were proud that this is here. Theres a lot more work we need to do to strengthen the filipino and all of the communities of excelsior, district 11. Thank you. Thank you, mayor. Thank you, terry. And now it is my honor to introduce supervisor asha sapphire. Supervisor sapphire became supervisor in San Franciscos district 11, in 2016. And i can absolutely say that he championed this development from day one. In fact, he summoned bill and i into his office on the first day to talk about it. I mean, he invited us. It was great. Supervisor sapphire is proven time and time again that its his passion for Community Based developments like this that really help him fight for high quality, Affordable Housing throughout his district. And as people have repeatedly said today, were excited that he was part of what we hope becomes the stan. Thank you. Mission housing. Thank you, sam. Thank you, marsha. Thank you so much for all the tremendous work that you all have done to get us to this point. I mean, we were sitting in the room over there, balboa high school, started off some contention, but it was just as terry said, it was very Community Driven from the beginning. One of the things i love about representing this part of town and i tell people this and i dare and challenge anyone fun to challenge me on this point. This is the most diverse neighborhood and community in the entire United States. And i can tell you because i have knocked on almost every single door in this community. Thats how i got elected. And thousands and thousands of doors. And you go to one home, african american, you go to the next home, filipino, you go to the next home, latino, you go to the next home. Italian next home, chinese. And it just keeps repeating over and over and over again, sexual orientation, asian age. This is one of the this is the bedrock of San Francisco. The folks that live here are second, third, fourth and fifth generation san franciscans. And so this project today, this development is a manifestation of all of the great things that this community represents. And theres so many people that participated in this to make sure that this was a reality. See, this is the gateway to the oh, my lake view, right . So i want to i want to i want to shout out to lakeview and all the folks that have been here for generations and what that means. Also want to recognize is as as terry said, this is the largest concentration of filipino households and filipinos in the entire city and county of San Francisco. We have the highest number of people aging in place. We are predominantly immigrant. We are predominantly folks, working families. So theres so many Amazing Things about this. I want to call out a few people. I want to thank the mayor. And she came in early, made a commitment to this project. We needed some additional money. Theres always gaps, right. Bill whitty and related. Thank you for all your tremendous work. But the person that really brought it home in the end and i say this with no joke, we would still be in the phase waiting for the money is straight is state treasurer fiona ma because she made the decision to reallocate tax credit dollars that were going to some high speed rail projects that werent being utilized at the time. She made the decision to come in with the additional dollars that closed the final gap. And when youre talking about Affordable Housing financing, its all layers. Its like layers of a cake. You have one group thats doing a grant, and i recognize the mayor and the work that she came in with that money. Then you have private financing, then you have state financing and the icing on the cake and the big piece that we would not have been able to get done with. State treasurer fiona ma. So without her we might still be waiting for those dollars. But i want to thank sam and his team. I want to thank the community. We also want to recognize that this project is unique in the sense that it represents Affordable Housing for different different scales. You have extremely low income, you have moderate, and its an expansion of that definition because we also want to be able to take care of the teachers, the nurses, the firefighters, those that grew up in this community, that are also to being displaced. And we had some uncomfortable conversations, right, sam . But in the end, i think we made the right decision for this community because its representative of this community. So thank you. Thank you for all your tremendous work. Thank you for the community that did all the initial groundwork and laying. And one more thing, and i dont want to miss him without sb 35. I guarantee t you and scott wiener i guarantee you this project would have been appealed. But there was no appeal and because of that work and i think at the time i was the only man on the board that supported that in concept. Oh no, that was sb 50. Sorry. You have so many, but it was all about streamlining and making it and there was some opposition to that too. And so thank you, senator wiener, for increasing the ability for us to put Affordable Housing in this community and increasing the time that we got this done in record time. So thank you, Mission Housing, and thank you for the opportunity to say anything and thank you to all the community that participated in making this a reality. And i have to say it is surreal to be standing here where at one point we had safe parking for those living in their vehicles, and now were sitting in a building thats going to house families that can Stay Grounded in this community. Thank you. Thank you so much, supervisor sapphire, for your words right now, we want to also acknowledge, just like we were talking a little bit about who are we housing here at kapuso. Well we started our lease up already, so we want to recognize also some of our residents have already moved in. So it is my great pleasure today to really introduce someone thats already living here. But i want to share with you a little bit more about who he is so he is not only a father of, you know, of three little ones, but also he is a community volunteer. He has lived in San Francisco for the last 15 years. But most importantly, what really caught my attention was what he did during the pandemic. We all knew the pandemic was a hard time for everyone in must have been for him to. However, he decided that during the pandemic he wanted to use his time as a volunteer, and he also provided some of his savings to be able to share some of the food and boxes that were needed in this community. And he himself was actually taking those boxes and delivering them to families. So isnt that wonderful to see someone that does thats done so much work for his community here . Be able to move in at a building that, you know, is within the community that he was serving. So with that being said, i like to introduce this to you and i, i can say it correctly. I hope im saying it correctly. Juan, your to the to the podium and. So let me just explain Something Real quick. He will be speaking in spanish in spanish, and i will hopefully be doing some translation. So please bear with us. Buenas tardes, ingles. Muy bueno. Good afternoon. Mi nombre is juan moya feliz de estar aqui hoy. My name is juan and i am very happy to be here with you today. La vivienda para nosotros a sido un gran desafio housing has been a tremendous challenge for us. El aqui kapuso knows cambiado la vida totalmente living here at kapuso has changed our life drastically. We. Especial lo. El aqui en kapuso nos ha cambiado la vida totalmente especial. Mente ahorita viene el frio has changed my life tremendously, especially now that the cold weather is arriving. Don de vivir ver calefaction un frio los viejos where we used to live, there was actually no Heating Capacity in his apartment and the coldness really got even through his bones is how he felt. Recupera la salud de mis hijos. He was worried about his familys health. Aqui nos sentimos seguros e mis hijos estan felices en este ambiente accuweather. And now that they live here at kapuso, his family feels safe. And they are happy that they are living in a cozy environment. Quiero darle gracias a dios por vivir aqui en kapuso y tener una Vivienda Digna y saludable para mi familia. First of all, i want to say thank you to god for allowing me to live here in kapuso and have a dignified housing that is safe for my entire family. Agradecer a las personas trabajan aqui ellos siempre tienen una sonrisa conferta el corazon. I want to thank the folks that work here at kapuso. They always have a smile that really comforts my heart. Thank you so i muchas familia siento aqui in San Francisco. There are many families that are not living. They dont have a home in San Francisco. I it kapuso les the welbeck la esperanza a esas familia kapuso brings hope for those families. A Las Comunidades pertenece hemos brings hope to the communities in which they they have grown. Mija genesis un suprema no sufrido en esta vida con no arbol de dolor nunca un hablo de dolore just like my daughter. Genesis states in her poem somos un that has not suffered in life really can talk about pain. Someone that has not experience este pain really they cant really talk about that. It Las Comunidades gracias a todos por estar aqui and communities deserve better. So thank you so much for everyone thats here today. Feliz mas de la espanha dios bendiga kapuso. Happy latin heritage month, which is very appropriate. Well be celebrating today, mayor and hes just basically basically saying blessing to everybody here at kapuso. Thank you. That was that was fantastic. Thank you so much. Um, i have the pleasure of introducing our next speaker elect covid in 2016 and representing district 11 senator scott wiener authored and championed sb 35, a historic bill that allows for simplified and expedited approval process. Heard a little bit about this already from some of the speakers, including supervisor safai. This development, kapuso was heading down a path of conventional entitlements when sb 35 passed. It was made law. We very quickly pivoted and used the legislation to receive land use approvals in a few months, months instead of years. Ordinarily, this would take many , many years. We submitted in july and were cleared in october for the quick entitlements that propelled the project forward, allowing us to Start Construction and eventually open the doors to residents in the time it would typically take to just entitle the project. So we have people literally moving in today. In fact, there was a moving truck out front like literally moving in today in, you know, years ahead of schedule. This would never have been possible without sb 35. We are proud to be one of or perhaps the First Development to use sb 35 in San Francisco. And we will be eternally grateful to senator scott wiener for championing championing this legislation and its extension. Sb 433 sen. Scott wiener has is not just a champion for housing, though he also has authored many other bills centered around transportation, civil rights, criminal justice reform, clean energy, alleviating poverty. It is my true pleasure and honor to welcome senator scott wiener. All right. Thank you. An this is super exciting. It was. It was great. I took bart here today and it was just so great to be able to get off the train and like two minutes later, here i am. And this is exactly what we want to have. Affordable housing, a range of incomes, so all sorts of people from different backgrounds and income levels can live together as a community, right . Buy a bath station. By the way, as an aside , we need to make sure that we save bart and that bart continues to serve the community. So a big project for next year. And so this is this project is ive been hearing about it from, from from supervisor safai and others for, for years now. And this project is really just it makes me smile and i think it should make a lot of people smile. And im you know, i also just want to say that we for a long time we viewed creating more housing as something we get around to it. When we get around to it, not a priority. Take our time. No sense of urgency and by doing that, for many, many, many years here, not just here in San Francisco, but throughout the state, we have driven the car into the ditch. It didnt just randomly happen that rents got as high as they are with so many people have been pushed out of the city, whether by eviction or even more common, just not being able to afford to stay here. It didnt just happen that that we moved away from the old school notion that if you have to move for the million people, go for the million reasons that people have to move, you just find another apartment. Thats how human beings historically have like lived. If you need to find a new home, you find a new home. But in San Francisco, thats not how it works. The number of people over the last 26 years that ive lived here who have said to me, if i lose my apartment and i have to either be homeless or leave San Francisco, that is not normal. That is not healthy, and that is not something we should ever accept in San Francisco. And so the work that we have been doing at the state level and im proud to have authored sb 35, im proud that sb 423 its extending an is on the governors desk. Im proud that this law has entitled about 3000 homes in San Francisco, overwhelmingly below market rate. Im very proud of that. But we have we passed a series of state laws along these lines. And these laws is a basic theme that you set up the rules ahead of time. What the height, what the density is, what the Design Standards are. You set up those rules and then if someone comes forward and says, i want to build to your rules, you give them the permit in months, not years. Thats also known as good government. And so. And we have a lot more work to do. We as i mentioned, we have the extension of sb 35 on the governors desk. But i also just want to say that one of the Biggest Challenges that Affordable Housing nonprofit builders have is getting land and having to compete for land that is often very expensive. And we have another bill on the governors desk, senate bill four, that will open up as much as 170,000 acres of land statewide and only for 100 Affordable Housing and churches, synagogues, mosques, nonprofit colleges. And so we are working very, very hard at the state level. And i want to thank the mayor and the board of supervisors and everyone in the community who works hard locally to actually deliver the projects. This is a partnership, a state, local partnership. One of these days, well get the federal Government Back into the business of housing. And we know what we need to do. And i think we are finally heading down a better path. So congratulations to everyone in the district 11 community who worked so, so hard on this project. This is a very, very good day. Thank you. Excuse me while i. I think. In both directions. Yeah. All right. Thank you. Thank you so much, senator. Thank you so much. I would like to introduce our next speaker since the inception of this project, kapuso and throughout the construction period, our team has worked very closely alongside bart. And i agree we need to save bart. Janice lee was the first elected, was first elected to the bart board of directors in 2018 and reelected in 2022. So she is the bart board president and a huge supporter of this development. We really appreciate the work that bart has done to make all of this possible. And we appreciate janice lee. Where is janice . Oh, there you are. Thank you, janice lee, please welcome. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is janice lee. Im your bart board president. Proudly, actually representing the station right here at balboa park. I know my fellow San Francisco board directors, bev and dufty and lateefah simon. Regret they arent here celebrating with us. But unfortunately, we. We actually have a bart Board Meeting going right now. So they are there for but really is in credible that we are here today. And for me housing will always be personal. When i first ran for the bart board at age 31, i was just another young person who was just scraping by in the city. I didnt know how long i was going to be able to afford living in my district and serving in this role. And even five years later, now, i still worry that im going to get priced out before i get voted out. So i know how urgent it is to build housing in San Francisco that keeps people here, keeps people like me, that keeps families, that keeps us. And keeps our communities here. I especially say this as a queer person, an immigrant from hong kong, but San Francisco is truly an amazing place to live, an amazing city. And we have to make it. We have to stop making it so darn hard to afford to live here and stay here. So to make that happen, we all have to be part of the solution. And thats why i feel a special pride to be standing here alongside such an amazing array of housing leaders in particular, i want to thank our state senator, scott wiener, who i would say drank the Transit Oriented Development koolaid before many of us ever did. And look at the tod bandwagon now. And of course, i also want to thank mayor london breed for always making housing a priority for san franciscans. So thank you. I just have a yeah, lets give it up for pro housing people. So just a couple of things i want to say as bart here. So first, this is when we get it right. This is what happens when we have community making demands. Elected leaders who listen staff are various agencies who go above and beyond to make it all happen alongside a developer and funding partners. But kapuso this should not be rare and bart will continue to be at the table to figure out how we can continue to build housing at a near transit stations with urgency. Im proud that our light and air easements are helping build an additional 30 units of Affordable Housing here. Which gets me to my last point, which is that a project like this makes sure that Everybody Wins by building Affordable Housing right here on a bart station. Were able to pull more funding together for Housing Production and transit improvements. So i do want to shout out the states Affordable Housing and sustainability Sustainable Communities Program just mentioned that this is helping fund some new bart cars. This actually has helped us get to a point where just a couple weeks ago we now have only new bart cars in regular service. Its funding and its actually projects like this that help us get there and that is being coupled with other critical voter approved measures like bart measure rr, prop one, b, and especially prop k, so a special thanks goes out to sfcta. Director tilly chang and board chair Rafael Mandelman for the funding support to make these transit and plaza improvements possible. Building housing here makes balboa park station a vibrant Community Space for everyone having places for the community gathered to have Youth Arts Exchange and poder del pueblo on the ground floor for people you know these spaces for people to enjoy themselves. These are the kind of places that make our community safe. And so when we move out to the plaza for the Ribbon Cutting shortly, please take in the brand new design, the ada accessible path, a new passenger drop off area, and more Community Gathering space is personally my favorite addition is going to be the new real time display. So, you know just how fast you have to run to catch your next train. So thank you, everyone on the bar team. I just want to shout out in particular, Nicole Franklin, tim chan, molly burke, mike wong, giovanni nebty and hongmei. I know we have a whole team of folks here as well. Im honestly just the one who gets to swoop in at the end of all the work and maybe hold some big scissors in a moment and cut some ribbons. But so many of you have been with this project through its years long journey, believed in the project, and always believed we could do more and do better. So thank you. Thank you so much. In the city of San Francisco, there is no greater advocate for Affordable Housing than our mayor. London breed. During her administration. She has prioritized policies and programs to address some of the most crucial issues facing San Francisco include Workforce Development, transportation and, of course, Affordable Housing. Please welcome and help me welcome 45th mayor of the city and county of San Francisco. Mayor london breed. Thank you, marsha. Its so great to be here. Finally at this project which every one has said everything that needed to be said. And so im just the closer to the food. Thank you all so much for being here. And let me just say that housing is finally, finally, finally take taking off in our city. It is taking off of significant proportion because we have courageous leaders like state senator scott wiener, who is putting himself on the line every single day with the kinds of housing policies that honestly should be happening here locally. Housing policies like sb 35 housing policies like sb 432 for three to will be a game changer for San Francisco as it relates to housing. Why is this so important . Well ill give you a perfect example. Projects like park merced was approved even before i was on the board of supervisor powers and is still not moving forward. San francisco has over 50,000 units in the pipeline line to, e not even Broken Ground and its why people are so happy to be here today to celebrate something that would have been delayed, delayed, delayed, especially if it went through our normal processes here in San Francisco. It would have been delayed, but it was not denied. And i am so excited that we have 131 units of housing where families are moving in and are living here and will be able to have a safe and affordable place to call home. This is how we should be doing every project in San Francisco when we have these Great Partnerships with the bart and with the state and other financing from the state. Thank you so much, fiona mar, for being here and the work that you provided in terms of tax credits and other relief, because cause we know that it does take a village, it does take us putting all the resources together to get to this point. We wish we could make this happen here locally without state intervention, but alas, that has not been the case. And so what will be happening in the future here with the Housing Element of 82,000 units that are required for San Francisco to build in the next eight years, and with my housing plan, my hope is that the board of supervisors will stop playing games with housing policies and pass very important legislation that are small steps towards getting us to the right direction with Housing Production, we cant just show up to Ribbon Cuttings and make declarations and claim that these projects are important without out making the hard decision to pass the kinds of policies necessary to get us here. Peoples lives are depending on it. Folks who are struggling on our streets depend on it. People who need housing in this city are depending on it. And im looking forward to doing more than projects like this to deliver for San Francisco. We have the makings to do it. We have the strong support from the state to do it. We have the exciting moment and the momentum and we have extra ordinary, extraordinary Party Leaders like Mission Housing and related who are willing to work with community to deliver what the Community Wants to see in their neighborhood. And i want to take us back to neighborhood preference. Im so proud of the work that i did to get neighborhood preference passed in San Francisco when i served on the board of supervisors making sure that when we build housing, that the people who live in the Community City have right of first refusal to get access to that housing. This is housing ing done right. This is housing of the future for San Francisco. And this is why im so excited to be here to celebrate this extraordinary milestone. And not to mention access to public transport nation in this way where you can just walk, get on the bus, get on bart, get on whatever, and get anywhere in San Francisco building housing, close to transit corridors is also critically important to ensuring the success of housing and transportation and our Networks Overall in our city. So im excited to be here. Im grateful and looking forward to seeing more families move into this project. And im looking forward to seeing San Francisco doing projects like this, uh, on a regular basis with not only the financial resources, but the political will to change the policies, to be courageous and to get things going. The momentum is on our side for housing. Finally, in San Francisco. And this is a great example of that. Thank you all so much. For starting with my five, four, three, two, one. Yeah. [music] San Francisco developing programs specific low to increase the amount of Affordable Housing throughout the city. The Affordable HousingBonus Program provides developers to include more housing for i have low, low, moderate and middle income households. This program does not rely on public subsidies but private developers who include it part of their project. Under california density bonus law. Housing prejudices that include affordable on site may be request a density bonus. It is an increase in the number of Housing Units allowed under zoning laws and based on affordable units being provided. However, the state law does not address all of San Francisco needs does not incentivize middle income housing. Associating the city is proposing an Affordable HousingBonus Program for higher levels of Development Including middle income u firsts providing a stream lined application review and approval process. How does the program work in it applies to mixed use corridors in San Francisco. And offers incentives to developers who provide 30 of affordable in projects. To reach 30 , 12 of the units must be affordable to low income household and 18 per minute nap to middle income households. In exchange developers will will build more and up to additional 2 stories beyond current zoning regulations. 1 huh human affordable will be offered up to 3 additional stories beyond current regulations. Each building will be required conform to guidelines ensuring meets with the character of the area and commercial corridors. This program is an opportunity to double the amount of Affordable Housing and directly address the goals established by twenty 14 hosing element and prospect k paddled by voters last year. Pacificly, prop circumstance established a goal that 33 of all new housing permanent to low and moderate incomes this program will be the first to prosecute void permanent affordable projects that include middle income households. To learn more about the Program Visit my name is kamal lane, and ive lived in San Francisco for 30 lets say 31 years. I lived there a year february 29, 2017, my grandmas birthday. The thing thats cured my home is the Mayors Office. When my number was called, i was excited because my number was number three. To rent a home in San Francisco means that im able to be with my family to support me, me to support them. Then, the opportunity for my daughter to get a good paying job. My favorite thing of my new home in hunters view is the view of the bay bridge, oakland, and a piece of the golden gate. Its peaceful and quiet, and they have a lot of activities for families. They have art class, where you can paint, they have trips, where they take the children. We went to a black art museum, we went to a jazz festival, we went ice skating. Theres a lot they have a lot of activities up here, and thats one thing that i really love about it, i love my bedroom. Its peaceful, its quiet, where i can think, play, and just have my quiet time. I love my bedroom. This is my home because this is where i live. Me and my children, we love in here, we just being with my grand kids and loving somewhere and having somewhere is home. We love being together, and your heart wherever your heart is, that makes it home for you. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to october 11, 2023 meeting of Budget Finance Committee. Im supervisor chan, chair of the committee, joined by mandelman. Today our clerk is brent julipa. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Thank you. Reminder for those in attendance, silence cell phones and Electronic Devices to not interrupt proceedings. The board and committees are convening hybrid meetings that allow in person attendsance and Public Comment while providing Remote Access and Public Comment via telephone. Public comment will be taken on each item on the agenda. Those in person will be allowed to speak first and take those waiting on the telephone line. Those watching remotely and streaming throughout sfgovtv the public call in number is streaming across the screen and you will be hearing discussion and muted. When your item comes up and Public Comment is called, those in person should line up to speak and those on the phone dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. If on the phone please remember to turn down the tv and listening devices is and each speaker is allowed up to 2 minutes to speak. You may submit Public Comment in writing in either of the following ways, email to myself at brent. Julipa s frkts gov. Org. It will be forwarded to the supervisors and also included as part of the official file. You may also send comments via u. S. Postal service to 1 dr. Carlton b goodlett place, room 244, San Francisco california 94102. Items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of october 17. Thank you mr. Clerk. Like to excuse supervisor safai for todays meeting. Do i need to do a roll call . [indiscernible] i can when . Sorry. Go aheadwell go ahead and excuse supervisor ahsha safai without any objection. He is excused. Today well do our items out of order, so lets start withwell leave item 1 for last item so lets go with item 2. Item 2, ordinance amending the business tax regulation code to add provisions to the administer the empty homes tax and make conforming nonsubstantive changes. Members who wish to comment press star 3 to enter the speaker line. A prompt indicates you can raise your hand and when the system indicates you are unmuted you can begin comments. Today we have amanda freed. Thank you chair chan, good morning supervisors. Amanda freed. Im presenting a item for thebecomes effective january 1, 2024. As you may recall, any time a business tax is approved by the voters, our Office Brings administrative provisions before you to align our audit and collections authority filing and payment requirements, penalties and taxpayer confidentialiality. This allows to maintain consistency between all our business tax measures and allows us to retain the ability to change those legislatively if the need arises in the future. The legislation before you allows our office to collect the empty homes tax on annual basis on the last day of april following the calendar eryoofor which the tax is imposed. Each owner of a relevant residential unit would be required to file annual informational returns. This will allow our office to track vacancies in the spaces and take appropriate action. The legislation exempt owners with valid California Home owners exemptions from the requirement to file the empty homes tax. This means that most owners will be required to file and pay by april 30, 2025. This also extends the previously mention ed provisions on audit, penalty and taxpayer confidentiality to empty homes tax. Thank you for your consideration and happy to take questions. Thank you for the presentation. I dont see any name on the roster. Well go to Public Comment on this item. Yes, madam chair. Members of the public who wish to speak and joining in person should line up. For those remotely, press star 3 to enter the speaker line and please continue to wait until the system indicates you are unmuted and you can begin your comments. Seeing no in person speakers in the chamber, madam chair, no speakers in the queue. Thank you. Seeing no more Public Comments, Public Comment is now closed. The fact this is a trailing legislation and rather routine and for administrative provisions, i will move this item to full board with recommendation. Roll call, please. On the motion to forward the ordinance to full board qu positive recommendation, vice chair mandelman, aye. Chan, aye. We have two ayes with member safai excused. Thank you. The motion passes. Thank you. Lets call item number 3. Item 3. Resolution approving amendment no. 1 to the agreement between Mission NeighborhoodHealth Center and the department of Public Health, to provide hiv Health Services, to increase the agreement by 6,624,852 for an amount not to exceed 11,300,310; to extend the term by six years from february 29, 2024, for a total Agreement Term of march 1, 2020, through february 28, 2030; and to authorize dph to enter into modifications of the agreement that do not materially increase the citys obligations or liabilities and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the agreement or this resolution. Members of the public joining remotely and wish to comment, press star tee enter the speaker line. A prompt indicates you raised your hand and when the system states you are unmuted you begin your comments. Good to see mr. Blum here again and this item have the budget and legislative Analyst Report, so lets go with mr. Bill blum. Good morning madam chair is and supervisor mandelman. Sounds this is becoming a bit of regular thing. Yes. So, as per our custom ill give a brief overview and any questions you may have. Im joined remotely by my colleague beth. If the slides could be pulled up, please. There they are. Next slide, please. This is just to show you on the left the distribution of hi v funded services throughout San Francisco and in the middle you see the different funding sources, a, b, c as well as ending the hiv epidemic and general fund getting to zero and again our population is low income and severe need. Next slide, please. Again, how this particular contract or agency fits into our larger set of services, those that are highlighted in red, are the differentthese are federal level of categories for [indiscernible] next slide, please. On the left you can see Mission NeighborhoodHealth Center. Their mission statement. I think ill go off script for a second to say, hiv Health Service partnered with the mission, i have been with hiv Health Service all most 20 years and 7, 8 years before that. They really have been kind of a leader and innovate, standard setter and when we had more complex reporting requirements they have been a great partner to work with and always stepped up. Your bottom left you can see funding more granular breakdown of the services they provide. Next slide, please. On the left you can see for the completed contract year, the number of clients they served and annual amount for the two programs we are talking about. The 1. 1 million is for center of Excellence Program which is a one stop comprehensive hiv care program with medical and wrap around services and then the all most 290 is Outreach Program targeting latino, latina, latinx and primarily day labors. On the right you see breakdown of age. The three pie charts, age, race, ethnicity and gender. I think this is something that calls a story of Mission NeighborhoodHealth Center they always had comprehensive and targeted service, butilates of folks from racial and ethnic identities choose to get their services there. Next slide. That take tuesday takes to the end unless there are questions. We agree with the recommendations and request approval to move forward with the proposed resolution. Good morning supervisor. Nick monard. Item 3 is resolution that approves amendment to the Public Health contract with Mission NeighborhoodHealth Centers. The amendment extends the agreement from february 2024 to february 2030 and on page 19 we show this agreement funds that organization at a cost of 1. 1 million a year, which builds up to not to exceed amount of approximately 11. 3 million. This is entirely funded by ryan white, federal funds. We also discussed performance of this contract on page 18 of our report and we show the units of service delivered was only 58 percent of the contracted units of service and that was driven by both vacancies at the provider and according to Department Patients unwilling to meet in person for the medical and Case Management services to avoid covid exposure. The Performance Review was contract year 2122. But we also note that they generally serve the contracted number of clients, so they did serve close to 325 clients, which is what they are budgeted to do under the agreement. So, we feel comfortable recommending approval of item 3. Thank you. Vice chair mandelman. Thank you chair chan, thank you for the presentation. I like to be added as a cosponsor. Thank you. I want to give mr. Blum a chance to respond to just performance audit and staffing shortage. Sure. So, historically precovid they had a incredible stable for many many years, and with covid, particularly in the behavioral health, Mental HealthCase Management it is very hard to fill positions. In that particular case they gave someone internal promotion and the person accepted another job a few weeks after and it can take a while to make that happen, but overall for the vast years they had very stable and particularly in the leadership, many more then 20 years. In terms of performance, similar thing that i shared with you guys before. If you arethis may be a smart thing for patients who are suppressed. The standard of care is still come in twice a year, particularly with no folks when they get virally suppressed working and not wanting to take time off from work so the standard at the federal level isnt necessarily reflecting what people feel they need and doctors need so the ideal is come in every 6 month, but young and healthy and supressed and medications are working[indiscernible] been living with hiv30 years and sus pressed for 20, i dont think i want to go in the middle of covid and have to go to a lab and risk that. I think both of those kind of extremes have lead to that. We are looking at ways to make that more flexible for supressed people to make it once a year. And, what would that be, the ways to make it more flexible . We would go through a qi process to look at it and we also consult with our federal providers to see. The part a folks look to us and we look to ucsf positive health project. There are reasons good for anyone to go in twice a year for a doctor. We probably all could benefit regardless of the hiv status so it takes time to push for that change and i think particularly for people , many for comorbidities there is different values see people have different opinions and try to build consensus around it. What does qi stand for . Quality assurance. The process to look at service jz outcomes and make sure we are where we want and improve them. Thank you. I definitely agree it islets make sure we explore those ways to be more flexible so folks actually have more Preventative Care in advance and especially seeing that theaccording to the pie chart, it seems largely there is a good percentage of anywhere between 25 and 44, but also a good percentage of 65 year old and older, and it would be great to see them actually have regular care before labs. Thank you so much and with thatthank you. I dont see names on the roster. Just you and me. With that, lets go to Public Comment. Members of the public who wish to speak and joining in person should line up now. For those remotely, press star 3 to enter the speaker line and those in the queue please continue to wait until the system indicates you are unmuted and that is your queue to begin comments. No in person speerks speakers in the chamber and no speakers in the queue. Thank you. Seeing no public, Public Comment is closed. I like to move the item to full board with recommendation and col recall, please. On the motion to forward resolution to full board with positive recommendation. Mandelman, aye. Chair chan, aye. Two ayes with member safai excused. Thank you. Motion passes. Mr. Clerk please call item 4. Item 4 is a resolution authorizing and approve the lease of cityowned Real Property adjacent to alameda boulevard in San Francisco with our planet recycling llc doing business at our planet recycling for 5 year term and annual base rent of approximately 23. 4 thousand. Plus 3 annual increases to base rent; plus one additional option fiveyear extension option to further extend the term of the lease, subject to satisfaction of certain conditions and to be readjusted to thenfair market base rent; effective upon approval of this resolution; finding the proposed transaction is in conformance with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of planning code, section 101. 1; adopting California Environmental quality act ceqa findings; and to authorize the director of property to enter into amendments or modifications to the lease that do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities to the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the lease or this resolution. Members who joined remotely and wish to comment, press star 3 to enter the speaker line. A prompt indicate you raised your hand and when system indicateess you have been unmuted there is your signal to begin your comments. Madam chair. Thank you. We have claudia from real estate. Good morning thank you chair chan and supervisor mandelman. The proposed resolution approves the lease of city land, little more then 4,000 square feet created when alemany boulevard was widened and sidewalk added. The lease is to our planet recycling. One of the few Small Business recycling centers in the city and used for parking and storage. In support of the center adjacent on the caltrans property. Our planet recycling initially started uses the city vacant land under permit and encroachment permit in 2017 for access to caltrans parcel. Cleared debris and trash, removed graffiti, installed a fence with emergency doors, abated weeds and cleared the sidewalk when needed. Our planet recycling had to contain a conditional use authorization finally issued and approved back in july 2023 which is why it took us so long to get here. The lease provides a term of 5 years with one 5 year option to extend. The base rent is 23. 397 with three percent annual adjustment. The tenants is responsible for any and all service and utilities and keeping the outside and sidewalk clear. The lease automatically terminates should encroachment permit or tenant lose the conditional use authorization. I am the owner of our planet recycling here to answer any questions if you have any. Thank you. What you are saying is since the city has a year to year lease since november 2017, and but it sounds like we have been doing quite a bit of improvements including fencing in the area and on the citys no, the city didnt do that. The tenant did. The encroachment permit and city land, there is public works land and city land. It is a very unusual little arch piece of land. No real use accept as a access road to the other adjacent parcel. The tenant was responsible for doing all that. The city hasnt put money in the property what so ever and to get the miner encroachment permit public works demanded they do these items. It sounds like it took a while since 2017 for us to be here and whatcould you elaborate what that resulted in this annual rentbase rent . It did take time. The miner encroachment took a bit. The tenant would like a new entry way from alemany so we were waiting to see if that would be approved or not. When we get the general planning referral, planning informed they need a conditional use and that took a very long time, andlong time for planning to figure if they needed conditional use or not. It is unusual piece of land, unusual use because it is more a accessway, but not for public, for private use. And then the value is a little over 5 a square foot, which is basically a combination of what parking and then just vacant remnant land could get for storage. It is low in the terms of the citys commercial values but not for vacant land that cant be used for anything else and conditional use lowers further in the sense no structures can be put on to the property like you cant have a permanent building and there is limited use of other improvements you could do to the land. I am trying to figure out the location of it. If it is possible, is it possible for the legislative file to add the map of the actual . To the record or . Do the record. That will be helpful. B there is a map in the lease at the way back, but ill separate it out. That will be great. Im trying to read through it and get the [multiple speakers] thank you, i appreciate it. With that, lets go to Public Comment. Thank you. Members of the public who wish to speak on this item number 4 and joining in person, line up now by the windows and for those listening remotely, press star 3 to enter the speaker line and already in the queue, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that is your signal to begin comments. Seeing no in person speakers in the chamber and we have one member of the public listening and in the queue. Mr. Lam, if you can unmute our caller, please. Can you hear me now . Please begin. Great. David pillpel. Good morning. I support the proposed lease. Our planet recycling runs the only recycling center in San Francisco and also has a major piece of mobile bottle and can recycling Pilot Project that sf environment is operating with a grant from the state. I am familiar with the subject property of the lease and have been there more then once. I did want to call out two i believe corrections that should be made on the legislation itself. Page 2, line 7 provides a base rent of 23. 397. 96 per year. The [indiscernible] should read [indiscernible] conform with page 1 line 7 which appears to be correct. I encourage to make the change to the legislation and page 44 the new lease itself which is not yet signed still has Dennis Herrera as City Attorney and i believe that should be david chui. Sorry, thats page 44 of the lease, page 55 of the packet. Those are my comments and again, i support the proposed resolution and lease. Thanks for listening. That completes the queue. Thank you. Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. With that, i am going to let the City Attorney to tell us whether it is necessary for us to make any corrections, but i dont see it right now, but deputy City Attorney ann pierson. Im not able to follow his recommended edits in real time. I encouraged him to provide us with those suggestions in advance, so we have a opportunity to see if they should be considered by the committee. He seems to be questioning calculations or whether some of the numbers are included properly and i would need to confer with the department to see whether there are errors that require corrections or not. Thank you. With that, lets move this item to full board with recommendation and in the event we need to make clerical amendments, im sure we can do that at full board then and would not be substantive and we can move forward with the item at full board. With that, roll call, please. On the motion to forward resolution to full board with positive recommendation, mandelman aye. Chan, aye. We have two ayes with member safai excused. Thank you, motion passes. Mr. Clerk, please call item 5. Item 5 is resolution retroactively authorizing the office of City Attorney to accept and expend a grant in the amount of 200 thousand from the San Francisco foundation to fund engagement, Strategic Planning, and coordination with coalition of public law offices to support the affirmative litigation and enforcement for the period of july 1, 2023 through june 30, 2025. Members of the public who wish to comment press star 3 to enter the speaker line. A prompt indicates you raised your hand and when you are unmuted you can begin your comments. Madam chair. Thank you. We have rebecca here, director of policy and legislative affairs from City Attorney office. Good to see you. Great to see you too. Good morning chair chan and vice chair mandelman. Rebecca from City Attorney office. Here requesting approval to accept extend 200 thousand in Grant Funding from San Francisco foundation. The City Attorney is proposing to if invest funding and work with peer public law offices in california. I like to thank the controller and mayor office for their approval and thank you for consideration of this item. Happy to answer any questions you have. Thank you. It is retroactive but work has not begun yet . Correct. The approval is retroactive because we entered into a Grant Agreement with the funder but not expended funding so that piece isnt retroactive. Could you be more specific . The work has not begun of scope of work in terms of outreach and coordination. Sure. Thank you for the question. We are looking to work more closely with other City Attorneys and county counsels in california to align budget and policy priorities and strengthen our state legislative advocacy efforts so this is a Group Meeting informally over the past couple years. This year we worked together to prioritize requesting state funding for our Worker ProtectionLaw Enforcement work. This is the work we do in partnership with olse and we worked with this group that was one of the priorities and there is 18 million in the state budget for that work so we want to organize more formally and align our work better for the upcoming session. Are there any specific topics in terms of legal topic . Or legal issue i should say . It is is focused on affirmative litigation work right now and that work is mainly consumer and Worker Protection. Thank you. Vice chair mandelman. They think chair chan. As a former deputy City Attorney in another city and long time fan of the work of our City Attorney office i like to be added a cosponsor. Thank you. Thank you. With that, lets go to Public Comment. Members of the public who wish to speak and joining in person should line up now and for those remotely press star 3. Enter the speaker line and if you are already in the queue continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that is your signal to begin comments. Seeing no in person speakers here in the chamber, and madam chair no speakers in the queue. Thank you. Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is now closed. With that, like to move thisvice chair mandelman withed you like to move this . Thank you chair chan. I like to move to full board with positive recommendation. On that motion, to forward to full board with positive recommendation, mandelman, aye. Chan, aye. We have two ayes with member safai excused. Thank you. The motion passes. Mr. Clerk could you please call item 6 and 7 together . Item number 6 and 7 are resolutions approvering amendments to contract with following programs acting by and through the department of children youth and families with board of approval under the charter. Item 6 approves a 4th amendment to contract with the Japanese CommunityYouth Council. Opportunities for all Intermediary Program between the Youth Council and city to increase the grant amount by approximately 3. 4 million for total not to exceed amount of 13 13. 7 million. Item 7 is a approvers a 7th amendment to contract for the ymca urban services truancy assessment and Resource Center program to increase the grant amount by approximately 606 thousand for a total not to exceed amounlt of approximately 4. 4,000 and extend from july 1, 2023 for new term july 1, 2013 to june 30, 2024. Members joining remotely and wish to comment press 3 to enter the speaker line. A prompt indicate you raised your hand and when the system indicates you are unmuted you can begin comments. Madam chair. Thank you. What well do is have mr. Bret connor here from the grants manager [indiscernible] department of children youth and families and please go ahead and present both items then go to the budget legislative Analyst Report. Thank you. Thank you supervisor chan and mandelman. The department of children youth and families has two amendments before the committee today. The first is for the Japanese CommunityYouth Council opportunities for all Intermediary Program. This is the second time the grant is before the committee. The first for may 2022 exceeded the 10 million threshold. This grant supports implement aishz of mayor breeds opportunities for all initiative, which celebrated the 5 anniversary and served more then 1200 youth last year. Opportunities for all provides appropriate workforce opportunities for San Francisco youth age 1124 and particular focus on those young people enter success in the workforce has been a historical challenge. Jcyc provides payroll, work sites, trains staff and youths, support logistics and serve as employer of record. This amendment allows for the department to incorporate a 3 million work order from office of economic and force development. Create new opportunities for paid internship and [indiscernible] administer the growing program. The second Grant Agreement is for the ymca urban service truancy assessment and Resource Center. This amendment is before the board in order to add 11th year to the existing contract thus meeting the threshold for board of supervisor approval. This grant is unusual in our portfolio. Predates the major 2017 rfp the vast majority of the current portfolio came into being. Dates back 5 years earlier to separate rfp. Maintains the grant through series of amendment hads throughout the current funding cycle with plan to close out the award and go out to bid in a new cycle starting in july 2023. However, as with every grant the onset of covid19 delayed planning process for new funding cycle and forced the current cycle to be extended by one year and with all the grants. This amendment adds the extended year to the grant as well as the funds necessary to support the program over the course of the year. Provides reengagement and Case Management to most disconnected students. The Program Offers advocacy linkage referrals to student and families. Provides youth and families with barrier removal support in areas in transportation, housing, basic needs, whatever a student requires in order to regain healthy attendance in school. Host inschool events to enhance School Culture and attendance. Fy2223 served 140 youth which was 1 3 more then projections and 75 percent increase from the prior year. I want to thank the budget and legislative Analyst Office for assistance in preparing these amendments for review today. The department agrees with their recommendations. However i would like to respond to one issue raised in both of the reports, specifically the assertion that dcyf does not require performance monitoring. Both Grant Agreements state grantees shall cooperate in good faith with the city conducted or authorized by the city. Doing business with dcyf guide, a handbook provided to all grantees highlighting requirements, lays on pages 47 and 48 a series of Program Monitoring and Data Collection expectations including daty entry to department systems, youth survey administration and attendance tracking. Doing business also outlines Performance Improvement measures to engage should a grantee found not in compliance. Monitors through Data Collection [indiscernible] also taking proactive steps to improve our Data Collection and performance monitoring in the future and two examples i cite today are reassessment of youth survey, both content and administration. Also expanding measures in the few rfp and funding cycle beginning next july. With regards to youth workforce programming, proud of the partnership with office of economic and Workforce Development who workforce link sf system all youth workforce participants enroll and this gives greater ability to follow Youth Movement through the workforce programs available to them and track positive youth outcomes. In conclusion, i note the services funded through ofa and t a rc are part of 20242029 request for proposal and released and deadline is october 20. We look forward continuing support of the Vital Services in the new cycle following this competitive solicitation. That ends my remarks and happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Good morning. Nick monard. Bl rks a. Item 6 approves the 4 maenth amendment to the Grant Agreement for opportunities for all program. The amendment increases the not to exceed by 3. 4 million, but no change to the term which ends june 2024. We show on page 24 the total projected spending on this agreement is 13. 3 million, which is 400 thousand less then the proposed resolution not to exceed amount and for that reason if you do approve this we are recommending reduction of not to exceed amoubt amount to 13. 3 13. 3 million. I think we discussed in the reportwe had on this agreement very little data was collected on the quality of the program. In terms of how people felt about the program, and other elements of Program Quality that were part of the yearnd monitoring report, but no data provided as part of that year end monitoring report and none of the elements of that data were actually in the Grant Agreement, so thats why we included that statement in our report about not requiring specific performance monitoring. I think more importantly, this only served 36 percent of participants in fiscal year 2122 and 55 percent of budgeted participants in 2223. I dont feel this program is performing wem. I donts feel we have data to know whether it is a High Quality Program and as we discussed last year, this was soul sourced to this organization. That happened before the creation of chapter 21g in the administrative code, which iswhich requires competitive process now for Grant Agreements, but i still think it was a missed opportunity to do a procurement best practice when selecting the vendor. It is all these reasons we consider approval of item 6 a policy matter for the board. Item 7 approves a amendment to the Grant Agreement between dcyf and ymca for truancy Assessment Resource Center program. The amendment extends the agreement by one year through june 2024 and increase not to exceed to 600 thousand. We show on page 28 total projected spending is 5. 4 million. That is below the 10 million threshold for board approval but this is now an 11 Year Agreement, so why it is before you today for your approval. And similarly, we had scanned data on Program Quality. We know that the program budgeted to serve 105 participants in fiscal year 2122. They served about 89, but of those, only 30 percent were in the program for at least 15 hours, which is the kind of how the program is structured and budgeted, which seems very low. And then we didnt get any data from the department on fiscal year 2223 so i cant validate was just asserted by the department representative, because it is new information to me. But i think overall we have a consistent issue here, which we saw last year, which is that the department has low participation in the programs. It cant provide data that show the programs are working, and the budget data changes all the time. It feels to me like a fairly unstable set of programs and so for those reasons we consider item 7 to be a policy matter for the board as well. Thank you. Vice chair mandelman. Thank you madam chair. So, when you sayi was not on Committee Last year, so when you say we saw this last year, would this contract or other contracts or with this particular contract . Im talking about the internships. Sure. It was opportunities for all was at the board last year. There were two other agreements at the board last year. It turned out other agreements that should have come but didnt but exceeded the 10 million threshold which we discovered also last year. The problem i was identifying was that we couldnt get an understanding of how the money was being spent on the Grant Agreements. Im getting that and there was scan data on Program Quality and it waswe had no way to know. Typically when we look at a Grant Agreement, there is something in writing that says, this is what will happen and we will be measured against this, and we will have data to show compliance and the deviation from compliance and we just didnt get a comp rehensive data set so hasnt improved in the past year. Thank you. Im troubled, particularly about the opportunities for all contract, which seems to have less data then the tarc contract even though it is for a significant larger amount of money. I was inclined to think well, we identified the issue and this is bad and should make noise about it, but see if they can clean it up over the next year. Troubled to learn this isnt the first time the issue has come up with this program and we are now in year two of this, things dont seemyear two or three and things seem to not be Getting Better so not sure of the recourse of the committee is. The reason it brought to the board if someone can correct if im mistaken, the fact it came to the board may 2022 was 7 years lapse because it wasnt identified as a Grant Funding that requires board approval, but the fact that the Grant Agreement actually accumulatively well over 10 million and it was actually supposed to come to the board, and it wasnt identified it requires board approval until then, so by the time it came to the board, it wasntagain, it was very similar to what today we are talking about from the budget legislative Analyst Report is that, there are not a lot of data to confirm and validate the Program Effectiveness and performance. It is continuously seems to be the case. So, i think the question that i have is that, dcyf issued a rfp this year in august for this program. If not really with jcyc, but opportunities for all, and that starts in july 2024, so as you are going through this process of new rfp, i think the question i have is that, could you just describe a little bit about the rfp in terms of is this a going to bejust trying to understand howwhat are the learned lessens for the new rfp and will there be anything to be done or conducted differently for the new rfp to make sure that this situation doesnt happen again . Thank you for the question. There are several learnings that we have taken over the course of the last several years. One of them is taken a very strong look at Performance Measures. Also taking a very very hard look at our partnership with our partner departments that actually hold this program. One element just one element why sometimes the program data is difficult to receive is the data comes through another department to us. We are not necessarily getting directly from the grantee, which is bit unusual. We are working with Human Rights Commission in order to gather what specific programmatic activities are. What we will be doing in the new cycle is making sure that we have lock step agreement with our departments and all our partners to make sure that we understand exactly what our expectationstalking specifically about the opportunities for all grant, what the expectations are, how we measure them, how to report them. I am heartened improvement is already being shown in terms of participation rates. We are coming out of a pandemic that was extremely disruptive both to youth and to the workforce environment. We are figuring out what do job placements mean in a city that is so focused now on remote work for example and this program is shift and adapt to accommodate that. Those adaptations will continue and we will be very much on top of how the program responds in the new 5 year cycle. I mean, i also want to say though, like according to the budget and legislative Analyst Report on the page 23, the fact that it is onlyagain, i think verbally has articulated by mr. Monard from bla is that, only 36 percent of participants were served for 2122. At that moment when we approved this in may 2022 we didnt have the nrfgz information and now we do. With that, there is zero percent of participants completed a Work Based Learning experience that last at least one month. So, it is very challenging to see that there were already lapse for the contract agreementfor the Grant Agreement itself for board approval as it was supposed to befor this process, questioning, performance, evaluation in my 2022. Of course, we were in the peak of pandemic and so many levels that we were saying perhaps weit will take us time to catch up. Now it is time, which is a year later from the moment that we last approved this may 2022. And with the result we have now, what trigger that dcyf to say, lets give additional monies to this contract, which is not meeting the performance instead of saying, perhaps it is time to end this . Can you articulate that . Sure. Thank you. First off, i want to make sure to get the record clear. It might be the zero percent figure you are looking at was for summer placements and there was no programming that summer, so it is zero. I think more up to date number specifically on your point in terms of the number of participants completing a program at least one month is 87 percent. What . 87 percent. 87. Again, we are seen in the year since last time before the board improvements on both grants and Performance Measures. Not there yet and everyone acknowledges that but we are already tracking positive Performance Measures and hoping to get more. So, i think back to the vice chair mandelman. Thank you chair chan. Is theit appears and little more concerned about opportunities for all then about the tarc because of the scale and the fact it at least appears in the Truancy Program there is some collection of data and some measures. The numbers seemnorth of 50, the numbers look better then the numbers on the opportunities for all performance. But you are talking about the need to coordinate across department. Why is this running through Human Rights Commission . When mayor breed began this program back in 2018 and the programming hit the ground in 2019, it was originally housed in the Human Rights Commission and continues to be to this day. Our grant with jcyc is administrative grant who is serving as the hr office for this program and does a lot of on the ground work with the sites and youth and training of the youth, but the program itself is a hrc program. Thats the structure for the comingfor the latest rfp . I dont believe there is any conversation about changing the structure of the program, no. I may be wrong, but it sounds like that is part of the problem. I would assume so, right . You have articulate areed it is difficult to collect the information and seems multiple agency. Not just hrc, but oewd. This is for opportunities for all and not just tarc. I want to go back to budget and legislative analyst if thats okay too. I think that this seems premature to determine it for today. I think that it is great to actually have this conversation though. Publicly and be transparent about this. What im hoping for, if okay with you vice chair mandelman for item 6 and 7 to be continued and we just like for you to work with our budget and legislative analyst to provide the data that really help us do two things. I think one is to according to the lessens learned for the new rfp that you have issue, it is to collect some form of data that is reflective based on what you are looking for from the rfp. Only because i think it help us understandalso under the assumption maybe some of these maybe including jcyc will compete for the new rfp and very least we should understandhow what is the disconnect between the existing program and the rfp issue. I think two is for the least, if the grants agreement does not have the data requested or brought into correction by the bla, can we at least collect or try to collect some of that . That is [indiscernible] so, is that possible . Of course, here is had rub. That is the challenge i always have when these contract come before us by the time they come before us is that we are always end up having the city departments telling us they will be disruption to service should we continue, so can you articulate about the timeline . We are a significant portion of the way into the fiscal year. The needs for both these programs are with us presently. I do get concerned about the continuance even if a relatively brief one. The grantee is providing the service would have a similar concern. I did want to get back to two issues that you both raised. One is whether or not particular the opportunities for all program is a success. Its a relatively new program, 5 years old, more then half spent during pandemic. It is very difficult at this time to know wlaut what a good denominator for success is and what we measure success against. A thousand young people placed into workforce opportunities is a lot of young people, and im very cognisant of the fact that is a experience that could have changed a thousand lives in the past year. Whether a thousand dollars is the reasonable upper limita thousand youthwhether 2 or 3 thousand is something we can work on, but it seems to be what the data is showing for now. There is a direct relationship between the amount of funding going into the workforce grant and youth able to be served by that grant. This 3 million is specifically to create more opportunities, so it is a fairly straight forward formula in that sense. The more youth can be served with the more money available to serve them. So much of the program is salaries for their job placements. Im concerned also about how a continuance might effect the Program Planning for Spring Semester at school and the upcoming 2024 summer. I also want to return to the concept of structural issue being a program housed at hrc but administered through dcyf. I dont see evidence there is a structural issue. If there is issue i think it is coordination and that is something we are working hard to improve every day. Then i personally think it is semantic, structural or coordination. Vice chair mandelman. I think a lot of coordination problems are structural in city and county of San Francisco the way we have done so much of the work we do does require levels of coordination. If we coordinated better we could solve this but set up systems that require complicated relationships between Different Actors that may or not make sense. What is troubling to me about this though, the board of supervisors allows the spending of public dollars to do good. Generally good happens from that money. We feel some obligation to be measuring and having some set of standards around the quality of the good and how much good and what was troubling to me as a newcoming to the conversationi have been voting on these at full board but not in Budget Committee talking about it, what is troubling is our analyst is like, i have no waythere is no way to evaluate whether this is good or bad. There are numbers that look not great but you have chosen those as the criteria, who knows how to evaluate that and again, my thinking was, well, this is doing good and maybe we give them another year to figure this out. Accept that if this isnt a new issue, thats also troubling. I think it makes sense as the chair suggested that we have at least conversations. I dont think there is any desire to kill either of these programs. I think we see this board i think sees the value of summer internships, but i think we have to be at least a little rigorous about without overly measuring having some kind of measurement of whether we are doing what we are trying to do. Thank you vice chair mandelman. With that, lets go to Public Comment for these two items. Members of the public who wish to speak on item 6 and 7 and joining in person line up now. Remotely, press star 3 to enter the speaker line. Those in the queue continue to wait until you are unmuted. No in person speakers, mr. Lam, if you can unmute the first caller, please. First and foremost, you have to do a needs assessment. And we should have had in the chambers somebody who is in charge of the program. When it comes to the youth, it is very sensitive situation. Just kicking the can down the street and just making some analysis by the budget analyst who may not know how cumbersome it is to deal with the youth, especially truancy with the pandemic, which my organization has seen a big way the city without getting funding and here you have ymca, you have davis from the Human Rights Commission. Somebody from ymca should be there to state how they conduct the services. The director from human rights should be here to state how they dull out the stipends and so on and so forth. And the taxpayers should know how it benefits the youth and how we can help them, but this is a hodgepodge presentation and you cannot go anywhereyou can not go to a better place because there are lots of loop holes. You can clearly see it, loop holes. What the city does, it takes the money and outsources it. Your time elapsed. Do apologize. Thank you very much. Do apologize cutting you off mr. Decosta but we are timing each speaker at 2 minutes. Just to double checkmadam chair, that completes the queue. Thank you. Public comment is now closed. I think the question is that we do not have a meeting next week, wednesday for the budget and finance committee. I would like to continue these two items and for us to have further discussion, particularly with budget and legislative analyst to identify at least some factors that we can consider for evaluation performance eal evaluation for both. With that, i like to make the motion to continue these two items to the next Budget Finance Committee meeting and mr. Clerk, please help announce the date. Yes, madam chair. The next meeting of this committee is on if 25, madam chair. Thank you. I like to make the item to continue two items to october 25 and roll call, please. On that motion to continue both these items to the october 25 meeting, vice chair mandelman, aye. Chair chan, aye. We have two ayes with member safai excused. Thank you. The motion passes. Mr. Clerk, please call item 8 and 9 together. Item 8 and 9 are resolutions approving modifications to contract and lease with the following item number 8 is a approves modification number 4 to contract with Dignity Health doing business as saint mary medical for management and operation of the sfo Medical Clinic to increase contract of 1. 7 million not to exceed 12. 7 million pursuant to the charter. Item 9, approves modification number 2 of lease between the United States government and the city and county acting by and through its Airport Commission to extend the term by two years from october 1, 2023 for total term of october 1, 2015september 30, 2025 and increase the annual rent of approximately 620 thousand for office occupied by the u. S. Drug enforcement administration. Members joining remotely and wish to comment on these resolutions press star 3 to enter the speaker line. Madam chair. Thank you. Today we have cathy wagoner, chief external Affairs Officer from San Francisco airport, and if you could present both items together and then go to the budget and legislative Analyst Report for both items. Of course. Good morning, cathy wagoner. Modification 4 to airport agreement with Dignity Health doing business as saint mary clinic increase the contract by 1. 7 million to address lower revenue based on fewer then projected patient volumes. There is no change to the Agreement Term, which expires on june 30, 2024. The San Francisco airport Medical Clinic has been a tenant employee contractor and traveling public resource offered at the airport since the 1970. The clinic provides travel medicine, vaccinations, urgent care, Occupational Health and emergency medicine service. The airport current operating agreement with Dignity Health was awarded in 2019 for term of three years with one two year option to extend for amount not to exceed 5. 9 million for the initial three year term. This agreement has been through a series of modifications since 2019 to modify the scope of services to address covid19. The downturn in patient usage with reduced traffic and extend the two Year Agreement through june 2024. The proposed modification 4 adds 1. 7 million to fund the clinic through the expiration on june 30 of 2024. The cost of operating the clinic is funded through the Airport Operating Fund and structured so the airport reimburses Dignity Health for operating costs, minus patient revenues. Most of the clinic utilization is comprised of tenant employees with the most common visit type being drug screening, physical therapy and Workers Compensation appointments. When clinic operating costs exceed patient revenues, that delta is paid for or reimbursed by the airport. The budget analyst has reviewed this agreement and modification number 4 and recommends approval and i will be happy to answer questions after i continue to the next item. The next item is modification to the airport existing lease with the United States of america for space to be used by Drug Enforcement agency to extend the term by two years through september 2025 and increase the total rent from 569. 635 to 620. 611. In 2015, the board of supervisors approved the initial 5 year term for 2612 square feet in terminal 3. In 2020, the board approved modification 1 to extend the term for three years through september 23 and increase the annual rent to 569. 635. Modification number 2 would further extend the term for another two years through september 30, 2025. The airport will receive approximately 1. 24 million in rent over the term of this modification. Again, the budget Analyst Office has reviewed and recommends approval, but im happy to answer questions if you have them. Thank you. Item 8 is resolution that approves an amendment to the airport agreement with Dignity Health to operate an airport clinic. The clinic provides urgent care to people at the airport and acpational health program. Increase the not to exceed by 1. 7 million to 12. 7 million but no change to the term which ends june 2024. Under the agreement the airport essentially reimbursed dignity for operating cost net of patient revenues blus Management Fee of 355 thousand a year. That was reduced by 50 percent for two years during covid. The reason there is increase in the airport contribution is because patient revenue s have gone down relative to what they were anticipated to be due to [indiscernible] Occupational Health programs that the air lines and lower then expected foot traffic at there clinic. Recommend approval of item 8 and then item 9 is a resolution approving second modification to the airport lease with u. S. Drug enforcement agency, which is tenant on airport property. The lease extends this amendment extends to the lease two years october 2023 to september 2025 and increases rent from 570 to 620 thousand a year which is essentially based on the Standard Airport rates and charges averaged over the 2 years. We recommend approval. Thank you. Lets go to Public Comment for these items. Members of the public who wish to speak on items 8 and 9 and joining in person should line up now and for those listening remotely press star 3 enter the speaker line. Please continue to wait until the system indicates you are unmuted and that is your signal to begin your comments. Seeing no in person speakers in the chamber, mr. Lam, if you can unmute our caller, please. David pillpel again. On these two items at the airport, first item 8, i just want to take a brief moment to appreciate dr. [indiscernible] who started the clinic many years ago. He and his wife lorraine a Deputy Director of health years ago were wonderful people, neighbors when i was growing up and great City Employees for many many years and it was through dr. Lawrence efforts primarily that the clinic was established, which at the time was pretty revolutionary and is now more common at airports in this country and around the world and provides Important Services as cathy spoke to a few moments ago. On item 9, the dea lease, i have no particular issue with that other then since it is after september 30, 2023, i might suggest adding the word, retroactive somewhere in the resolution confirming that this is now a retroactive lease going back to extendsorry, lease amendment to extend the lease for two years, but it goes back to september 30 or october 1, so i would just somewhere add the word retroactive. Thanks for listening. Thank you much for your comments. Madam chair, that completes our queue. Thank you. Seeing no more Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. Mrs. Wagoner, maybe i missed itjust wanted to make sure as knowing that noted that saint mary under Dignity Health is going through acquisition with ucsf. Could you just help us understand a little bit about the possibility in this acquisition were to completewere to be completed, what will happen to this contract . It is my understanding that ucsf is in the process of acquiring several Dignity Health sites, including the sfo Medical Clinic. I dont believe that it will be finalized until the First Quarter of 2024. In that case, ucsf would acquirewould assume all obligations under this agreement, so nothing would change with the exception of perhaps a name change. That would be approved by the commission. Understood. In the event that they do actually havei see. Okay. If they were to try to change any contract terms, they would not be able to . No. Because they are legally obligated . In acquiring the site at sfo they assume all responsibility and obligations for the current existing agreement. Understood. Thank you. I appreciate that. With that answer, i like to move these two items to full board with recommendation and roll call, please. On that motion to forward both items to full board with positive recommendation, vice chair mandelman, aye. Chan, aye. We have two ayes with member safai excused. Thank you. Motion passes. Mr. Clerk, please call item number 1 and just also want to acknowledge that board president aaron peskin is in the chamber. Thank you. Item 1 is ordinance amending the salary ordinance for fiscal year 2324 and 2425 to reflect deletion of four positions in fiscal year 2324 and addition of 7. 69 positions in the fiscal year in the Police Department. Members of the public joining remotely and wish to comment press star 3. A prompt indicate you raised your hand. When the system indicates you are unmuted you can begin comments. Madam chair. Thank you mr. Clerk. President peskin. Thank you chair chan. Supervisor mandelman. Thank you for hearing this today for the third time. Let me start by invoking president ial privilege and appointing myself to the vacant seat on this committee and clerk julipa, if you need that in writing i can provide that to you but think i can do it verbally per board rules. I want to start by acknowledging the budget legislative analyst on their updated report that is before you and we call this item out of order to hopefully have the chief here, but he has a crazy schedule this morning. I am pleased to say that we have had a number of fruitful discussions and i have brought to you an amendment drafted by the controller, which i believe reflects a compromise reach between the Police Department and my office wherein, the ordinance would be amended to provide for the ultimate deletion of two positions as opposed to four. One of them in the assistant chief category, and one in the commander category, but allow the incumbents who sit in those seats to stay and leave by attrition, which is set forth in the amendments that i handed out to you and the clerk and have been signed as to form by the City Attorney and the director of human resources, which i believe is step in the right direction. I dont want to put words in the departments mouth and dont want to reiterate the power point and presented at your last meeting on this item on october 4 i pleev it was, but suffice to say that this is to create more q4 Police Officer positions. This amendment would result in the creation of 4 such positions. And of course, the emphasis here also is on trying to retain district captains at the captain level for longer periods of time. With that, ill turn it over to mrs. [indiscernible] from the department. Olivia from the department. Thank you president peskin. Good morning members. Budget chair chan, supervisor mandelman president peskin and members that are Department Heads in the chambers. Good morning. On behalf of chief scott and like to thank you for the amount of meetings and discussions we had around these positions. As president peskin indicated, we settled a compromise i say for the best interest of the city. Really looking at staffing. I dowe do believe that the actual attrition, the amendment specifically around attrition will help us to be able to figure out how to deal with this transition. It is needless to say, we said this in our presentation, those are two large positions that end up carrying a lot of responsibility. Assistant chief and commander in the command staff and so the time allow us to be able to figure out the duties and responsibilities in a responsible way for the organization. Having said that, we do appreciate the exchange of moving forward with additional staffing in exchange for the two command staff positions. Hoping to continue to get support by the board of supervisors and your committee around staffing in general as you all know, staffing is a critical component right now for our policing in the city so hoping to have futher discussion around able to maintain our full organization. Thank you again. We appreciate the patience and the discussion back and forth to get to this point. Thank you. Thank you. I just want to clarify, it means that the department is supportive of the amendment proposed by board president peskin today . We are in agreement. Thank you. With that, i done see name on the roster and like to go to Public Comment. [providing instructions for Public Comment] seeing no in person speakers in the chamber, and mr. Lam, if you can unmute our caller, please. Great. David pillpel again. I continue to support supervisor peskin here, while this is not perfect, it is certainly good and an improvement. This in my opinion addresses span of control and work load at the Police Department. It would be great to have a new Department Organization chart added to the file after the Police Department has a chance to create one to reflect the changes in organization that are contemplated here and finally, i look forward to more conversation on supervisor dorsey s Charter Amendment and civilianation as relates to the Police Department command structure. Thanks for listening. Thank you for your comments. Madam chair, that completes the queue. Thank you. Public comment is now closed. I greatly appreciate the conversation. I do not see this conversation will end here even with this amendment because i think there is a lot of work still ahead of us to do not just what the Police Department in terms of reform, but continuing to see performance and delivery of the services and Public Safety measures. I look forward seeing what we have done during the budget process, which is also a Quarterly Report from the department, and through the controller we willalso look forward seeing that. I believe it is coming up for that Quarterly Report in a few days, so i look forward seeing that and continuing this discussion and with that, what is your will president peskin . I would like to move the amendment that do what i mentioned earlier. Great. With that, roll call on the motion to amend. On that motion offered by temporary member peskin to amend the ordinance as stated, vice chair mandelman, aye. Member peskin, aye. Chair chan, aye. We have three ayes. Thank you. The motion passes. Then i like to make a motion to send the ordinance as amended with recommendation to the full board. With that, a roll call, please. On the motion to forward the ordinance to full board with positive recommendation as amended, vice chair mandelman, aye. Member peskin, aye. Chair chan, aye. We have three ayes. Thank you. The motion passes and with that, do we have any other item before us today . Madam chair, that completes our business. Thank you, and the meeting is adjourned. [meeting adjourned] 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. Youre watching San Francisco rising with chris manners. Special guest is david chu. Hi im chris manners and youre watching San Francisco rising the show thats about restarting rebuilding and re imagining our city. I guess today is david chiu, the City Attorney for the city and county of San Francisco , and hes here today to talk to us about the opioid crisis, reproductive rights and the non citizen Voting Program. Mr chu, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me on happy to talk about whatever you want me to talk about, so can we start by explaining the difference between the City Attorneys office and the district Attorneys Office . I think it could be slightly confused. That is a very common fusion with members of the public so um, if you get arrested in San Francisco by the San FranciscoPolice Department, all criminal matters are dealt with by the San Francisco district attorney. We handle all civil matters on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco. What that means is a number of things. We provide advice and counsel to all actors within City Government from our mayor. Every member of the board of supervisors to the 100 plus departments, commissions boards that represent the city and county of San Francisco. We also defend the city against thousands of lawsuits. So if you slip and fall in front of city hall if theres a bus accident if there is an incident involving the San FranciscoPolice Department, we defend those matters. We also bring lawsuits on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco, where most famous for litigating and obtaining the constitutional right to marry for lgbtq couples have sued gun manufacturers, payday lenders, oil companies, you name it, who are undercutting the rights of san franciscans and the city and county of San Francisco. So now moving on to the opioid crisis. I understand youve had some success in court, um, dealing with manufacturers, distributors and pharmacies. Could you elaborate a little bit on that for us, so the opioid industry and by that i refer to the Legal Industry that prescribes pain pills. Um over years. Uh, deceived americans and resulted in literally thousands upon thousands of deaths and tragedies that we see on our streets every day when it comes to the addictions that folks are experiencing. Many of the addictions really stemmed from what happened over a decade plus period where the prescription pain industry marketed prescription pills in ways that were false. We were one of thousands of jurisdictions around america that brought a lawsuit against the opioid industry. But weve had a particular set of successes that others have not. Ah we initially brought a lawsuit a few years ago against every part of the opioid supply chain, and that included manufacturers, distributors and retailers, including pharmacies over the course of four plus years. A number of these corporate defendants settled with us. Weve as of this moment brought in over 120 million of cash and services. To the city to help address the root causes of what were talking about. But a few months ago, we had a really historic verdict against the pharmacy, walgreens and their role walgreens was responsible for literally over 100 million pills, flooding the streets of San Francisco over a period of years where they flouted federal law that require them to track where theyre pills were going to. They had a what . What we refer to as a phil phil phil. Pharmacy culture where folks would bring in their prescriptions, and the pharmacist would just fill them without checking why someone was coming in multiple times without checking why certain doctors were seen a 100 fold increase in the number of opioid prescriptions that they were prescribing. So we had a historic judgment against walgreens recently, but its been a very intense lawsuit. And we know that will never bring back the lives that we have lost to opioid addictions. But its critical for us that we get the resources that we need. Maybe one other thing ill mention because its often confusion. A large percentage of folks who are addicted to street level drugs say heroin or fentanyl started their addictions. With painkillers, opioid medications that were prescribed through doctors provided through pharmacies and so literally the suffering that were seeing on our streets was caused by the opioid industry over many, many years and has created the significant crisis that we are dealing with right now. Right right now moving on. I understand after the recent Supreme Court ruling, striking down robust as wade that youve put together an organization thats designed to help mm. Provide Free Services to people who are both. Seeking abortions and providing them can you tell us about the organization . Sure so, um, before the Dobbs Decision came down, but after we learned about the leak from the Supreme Court about the draft that suggested the decision would be as bad as it has turned out to be, um, i reached out to leadership from the Bar Association of San Francisco because we knew that if that decision came down there would be tens of thousands of patients around the country as well as providers whose legal situation would be in jeopardy. Women doctors, nurses who could be subjected to lawsuits who could be arrested who could be prosecuted, particularly in red states . 26 states where rights are being rolled back or in the process or have already been rolled back because of the Dobbs Decision. So we put out a call to lawyers all over the bay and frankly, all over the country, and as of this moment there have been over 70 law firms that have answered our call to be part of the Legal Alliance for reproductive rights who have committed to reviewing cases and providing pro bono assistance to patients and providers who are at legal risk. We also are looking at potential cases that these lawyers can bring against various states. In these areas that are looking to deprive women and patients and providers of their of their rights. Um it is a very dark time in america, and im really proud that that barrier attorneys, the Legal Community care have stepped up to answer the call. Its very important thats great. So now the non citizen Voting Program that was passed by voters just for School Boards has faced them Court Challenges recently, but it was in place for the most recent election that weve had. How do you see that situation panning out . In fact, its been in place for now. Five School Board Elections. Um so a little bit of background in our San Francisco schools over one out of three kids. Has a parent who is a non citizen who doesnt have a say in the election of the policy makers that dictate the future of our San Francisco public schools, and so over a number of years, there has been a movement to allow immigrant parents to vote in School Board Elections. Few things ill mention about that is our country has a very long history when it comes to allowing immigrants to vote. From 17 76 for 100 and 50 years until after world war. One immigrants were allowed to vote in most states in our country on the theory that we want to assimilate immigrants in American Democratic values and institutions, and it wasnt until an anti immigrant backlash in world war one that that sort of ended. But in recent years, um cities across america have allowed this to happen. In fact, at this moment, believe there are over a dozen cities that have voted to allow non citizens to vote in a number of context. Now, this is particularly important in our schools just given how challenge our schools are, and given that we know that when we engage more parents in her school system, regardless of their citizenship it helps to lift up our schools for all parents. And so in 2016 the voters of San Francisco past about measure that allowed this to happen. Unfortunately earlier this year, there were conservative organizations that came to San Francisco to bring a lawsuit to try to overturn this , and i should also mention it is obviously the perspective of our office and our city that this is constitutional. Nothing in the constitution prohibits non citizens from voting. And in fact, theres an explicit provision in the constitution that allows chartered cities like San Francisco when it comes to School Board Elections to be able to dictate the time and manner of those elections. And so, uh, we are involved in litigation on this issue. There was an initial ruling that was not good for us that essentially said at the trial court level. We shouldnt allow this. Um we appealed it up to the appellate level. The Appellate Court made an initial decision to allow this past november election to proceed as it has for the last previous four elections. Were going to be in front of that court soon. Stay tuned. Well see what happens. It was good to hear that the city was able to reach a settlement with the center for medicare and Medicaid Services are meant laguna honda could still operate. How did you manage to reach that agreement . It was not an easy conversation. Just a little bit of background. So laguna honda has been an incredibly Important Institution in San Francisco for 150 years, taking care of our most vulnerable patients are frail, very elderly patients, many of whom are at end of life. And a few years ago, there were some issues in that hospital. Some violations of rules that we very much want to make sure dont get violated. There were folks that werent using proper ppe, who are bringing cigarette lighters into the facility, who might have brought some contraband into the facilities. We have zero tolerance for that and have made that very clear. We self reported some of these violations to the federal authorities. And unfortunately from our perspective, they took the very disproportionate step of ordering the closure. The permanent closure of lugano, honda. Problematic on a number of reasons. First and foremost, there are just no Skilled Nursing facility beds not just in california but around the country. After their order came down. We literally were putting 1000 calls a day to Skilled Nursing facilities around california and around the country and could find nowhere to move the 700 patients that we had had in the gonna honda but just as disturbingly as we were forced to start moving some of these patients, a number of them died. Theres a concept in medicine known as transfer trauma. When you move someone who is that frail and unfortunately, folks folks died and we were at a point where we were five weeks away from the deadline for the federal government. That they had provided to us to close the facility. So uh and we have been trying for months to get the federal government to reconsider their action, so i was compelled to bring a lawsuit on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco and very pleased and appreciate that we were able to come to a settlement whereby transfers will be delayed at least until next year. Were going to have at least a year of funding. To keep the facility open, and hopefully we can get back up on our feet and ensure that no future violations occur because this is an institution that has to stay open for the good of these patients. Quite right, quite right. So finally, congratulations on winning an important public Power Service dispute with pg and e. Um why is it important that the citys rights as a local power provider maintained well, so San Francisco has been a local power provider for decades. We are fortunate to have access through our hedge hetchy hydroelectric system to provide electricity to a number of providers, particularly public recipients of that. And unfortunately, pg any has used its monopoly when it comes to private electricity to try to stop that, and to block that, and from our perspective, they violated federal law in adding literally tens of millions of dollars of expenses to San Francisco and institutions that were trying to ensure um, public power infrastructure. Put years of delays on our ability to do this, and so we had to bring a number of appeals in the federal commission. Ah we were successful in those appeals, and there was a decision recently that basically held the pg and e could not use its monopoly to unfairly delay or add tens of millions of dollars of cost. To the city and county of San Francisco, as we are trying to move forward with our vision of public power. Clearly pgd has not been able to serve not just San Francisco but northern california. Well we all know that with the wildfires with its bankruptcies, with all the issues that theyve had, we think there is a different model to move forward on and we are grateful to the court. And providing a ruling that allows us to move forward. Well thank you so much for coming on the show. I really appreciate the time youve given us here today. I appreciate and thanks for your thanks for your questions. Thank you. Well thats it. For this episode, well be back with another one shortly for sf gov t v. Im chris manners. Thanks for shared spaces have transformed San Franciscos streets and sidewalks. Local business communities are more resilient and our Neighborhood Centers are more vibrant and lively. Fire blocks and parking lanes can be for seating and merchandising and other community activities. Were counting on operators of shared spaces to ensure their sites are safe and accessible for all. When pair mets, firefighters and other First Responders arrive at a scene, they need clear visual access to see the building entrances, exits and storefront windows from the street. That means parklets should be transfer in the areas above inches above the sidewalk level. Its best if these areas are totally unobstructed by transparent materials may be okay. You can check with Fire Department staff to make sure your site meets visibility requirements. Emergency response crews and their equipment need to be move easily between streets, sidewalks and buildings, especially when they are using medical gurneys, ladders and other Fire Fighting tools. That means that parklet structures need a three foot wide emergency feet every 20 feet and 3 feet from marked Parking Spaces and emergency access gaps need to be open to the sky, without obstructions, like canopies, roofs, or cables and should always be clear of tables, chairs, planters and other furnishings. Emergency responders need to use ladders to reach windows and roofs to buildings and the ladders need unobstructed overhead clearance and room to be placed at a 72degree angle against the building. Clearances needed around the ladders to move equipment and people safely up and down. So not all parklets can have roofs ask canopies depending on the width of the sidewalk in your area. Please make sure that your electric cables are hung so they are out of the way and indiscernible to the structure, they can be pulled down by firefighters. Cable connections need to be powered from an outdoor reciprocal in the building facade because hard wire connections are much more difficult to disconnect quickly. These updates to the shared Spaces Program will ensure safety and accessibility for everyone, so we can all enjoy these public spaces. More information is available at sf dot gov slash shared spaces. Tel music . 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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 the journey of becoming a firefighter is no easy feat, it requires navigating and overcoming challenges to protect and serve the community. Established in 1866, the San FranciscoFire Department has evolved and grown to represent the community and meet their needs along the way. The division of training is responsible for training all new members entering the department, as well as develop, and provide corchlhensive Fire Suppression and Emergency Medical Service instruction to all members of the department. This video provides a glims into the 130 recruit Academy Class 21 week training program. In preparation to take on one of the most challenging and rewarding professions in the world. To become a firefighter in the San FranciscoFire Department. [whistle] i oknow there is going to be a lot of shoveling and it will not come easy. I know it will not be given to me. Am i going to be able to keep up and do all the physical a pects of what the academy will request of me . On the hand you have been given a opportunity you worked so hard to get to, but on the other hand you dont have the job yet and have so much work you have to do to get in the field so it is double edge sword. I need it but this is just the beginning. [music] we are entrusted with people. Our job is indiscernible we want people to be firefighters. The chief picked the people. Our job is train them. We make sure that we are challenging them, but at the same time supporting them and that is a fine line, because we want to see how these people react. It is imperative for the Training Academy and Training Staff to make sure we are getting the best out of these individuals. I always tell them, we will challenge you, but also going to support you. We are not going to trick you into certain things but we want to make sure we make it difficult and make it so that you are performing at your best when somebody is on their worst day. The process is grueling, however, the reward at the end is what its all about. We have 21 weeks to form this group of 51, and to functioning individuals on a working engine or Truck Company in the city and the challenge there is that when you walk through the door, you should be able to take care of business right away. When i first got on the job and hit the streets and got my first fire, which is 4th alarm fire which they throw a lot of people in the big building, happened in the first 30 minutes of me stepping in the fire house. We hire a vast group of people with different backgrounds and experiences, which is kind of interesting as well, because it makes up our department and we have a kind of hodgepodge of people, but they all get taught the same thing. We have people fromwe have a guy in the class whoofs a social worker. We have a person who was a firefighter, multiple firefighters. San francisco does things different then most Fire Departments but they have upper hand so we try to pair those with some sort of experience with people who dont in study group said. We tell them the first week get in a study group and that is a group for the rest of the academy so you will be the support group for each other. My name is Julian Martin a recruit in the 130 academy for the San FranciscoFire Department. The Fire Department what drew me to it to begin is a concept you are always learning. You are always learning something a92. Now fire or situation is alike. No med call will be the same, and that aspect is something that is always changing is what drew me to it. When i was 19 i enlisted in the United States army and was in college at the time, so i was enrolled simultaneous in the reserve officer Corp Training out of leehigh university. I was indiscernible and Lee High University and completed by bachelors, but commissioned out of Lee High University as a officer in the California National guard. When i graduatesed i immediately went to fort indiscernible missouri to complete training for being a chemical officer which is indiscernible i think my background in chemical hazmat with the army was beneficial and the department as well. High energy,b that is how i categorize julian. High energy and ability. She is very capable. She is one of those people pretty much anything she tries she can do well. She is a musician also. She is a artist. She is the kind of person that push other people to be the best version of themselves, just because she also wants to be the best version of herself. She is a very dedicated individual, and it was a treat but also a challenge because that is the way she is. Very competitive and ambitious. Emilyi am a recruit with the San FranciscoFire Department. I remember how do i become a firefighter in a major city . I typed that into google and a lot of things came up. Getting certification like firefighter 1, emt, paramedic jz these are things i knew nothing about so a lot of research. For me having lived in california and visited the bay area many times i said to myself, i decided the pentacle for me of being a structure firefighter, being a city firefighter which coming to San Francisco. I am originally from new england. I grew up in a Traditional Town in new hampshire. When can i was a kid i never had Fire Fighting on my radar. Never something i thought about doing. When i in college i studied environmental conversation. I always appreciated the outdoors and really cared a lot about protecting the outdoors, so for years after college i worked with kids in the outdoor education, so taking kids on backpacking trips, takes kids on hiking trips, and just helping them develop appreciation for the outdoors. It was basically a opportunity to not have a desk job and for years i was chasing that job that didnt involve sitting at a desk and be outside with people which makes sense it leads me to firefighter. Next thing i knew i was heading up to alaska to be a firefighter. That was the switch and never looked back. Emily is a person that very much someone who cares about other people and will put other people needs before her own. She is extremely caring and thoughtful. I also think she is extremely adventurous as well. I remember when we first met, when we were living in yosemite being in ah of her adventurous side. My name is jenna. Everybody called johnny for short and im a recruit with the 130 academy for San FranciscoFire Department. City girl, born and raised in San Francisco. Literally my entire schooling has been right here in the city of San Francisco, and so thats part of me and part of my identity, and what keeps me so grounded to the city i was raise d in. My brother is a firefighter and he has been a firefighter many years. He is absolutelyhe loves his job and always has tried to bring people along with him. Those he loves and that he thinks would be fit for the job. I told this lady about this service and about this career path back when she was 22 years old after graduating from usf, i tried to put in her ear, i think you would be incredible at this profession and she said ill think about it. That is always something in my ear, but to be honest, my encounter with the Fire Department that kind of sparked that interest and the reason as to why i wanted to become a firefighter, because at the age of 15 i lost my mother to gun violence and it was the Fire Department when they came to my home, it was the reaction of the firefighters that i felt cold. Their reaction to my situation. I didnt feel support. That is just my perspective of the instant it happened, but that is something that stuck with me. I dont want someone like me to go through what i went through because i know how that felt. I took the leap of faith and i said im going to change my career entirely, but now i see for myself just within my recruit class that there is a lot of diversity. It was really comforting to me to see that and know that these are the people who are going to be my first family, because we share a special bond. She was ready. She was hungry, and sheevery drill we did, every practice we did, all the exercising she was doing, she was hungry for it. I couldnt possibly be more proud of her. A real basic Building Block is just like crawl walk run. Our crawling stage is like just putting your gear on. We have our ppe, which is about 20pounds, the packs are 20 pounds. Just those two alone you throw on 40 pounds of weight and by the end of the academy we have your ppe on, go on indiscernible breathe through the bottle, climb up a ladder, crawl through a window, search fwr a victim, bring the victim through the window and extricate through the window. The progression of the testing ramp up pretty quickly. In the 10 week cycle it seems like a long time, but for the recruit you can ask them im telling you it is a rigorous academy and keeps on getting harder. Academy starts at 8 oclock. We do our pt. Whatever it may be, whether it is running in a circuit or amazing raise, and are that lasts anywhere from a hour to hour and 30. From there we go to a class room. We learn about the different chapters, whether it is indiscernible hose appliances, building construction, whatever it may be. That usually takes us to lunch and from there we get separated into skills groups. indiscernible how many victims. Which we have typically about 4 rotations of the different skills we get touches. It is still very early in the process. If you envision each class like a bell curve where most in the middle, if you have a class with really long tails those are harder to train, because you have people at the back end who are really struggling. This class seems to have small tails. I dont see anybody struggling yet. I dont see anybody truly standing out. But again, it is early. We havent done any testing yet. I am learning a lot with fellow class mates. They need me and i need them and the really difficult evolution and training and the first couple days are crucial to understanding like how people react to certain situations because not everybody is the best under pressure. Not everybody is the best tying a knot about there are some that are super fast with hose lines. Finding everybody strong point and emphasize those and use to our advantage is important in the first couple weeks. Something that challenged me probably the most and has been probably the biggest learning curve is really focusing on the ability to let go of something when it doesnt go well in the moment and move to the next thing. That i think has been one of the Biggest Challenges in this academy, because the realty is you make a lot of mistakes every day. You do a lot of things well too, but you make a lot of mistakes and if you hold on to each one of those mistakes it is just going to snow ball into more mistakes and it will lead to more stress and being hard on yourself. I had to learn a lot of different new skill sets. Things i wasnt familiar with like chain saws how to hose lines and so getting the technique because a lot of the job is about the technique. It is not about having the brute strength or anything like that, it is using your body mechanics to your advantage. When my body cools down indiscernible [music] we have the academy set up it gives everybody the opportunity to practice the skill set they need to. San francisco is its own entity. We pride ourselves on the traditional Fire Department in the sense we still use brass fittings, wooden latters, surrounded by three sides of water so all risk Fire Department. You can go downtown busy highrise, out to the coast for surf rescue. We have a mix of everything and we all have to be wellrounded firefighters and that is our entire job to make sure that we are profeshant. As we train our roles will be to evaluate along the way. The role we have is to get them ready for fire house culture. To be a firefighter requires a fair amount of discipline. You have to understand the rules of the game. Understand how to behave, how to appear, how to interact with the public and one of my roles is to make sure the recruits understand that and adhere to the codes of conduct and behavior the department lays out. Okay, today is monday. The monday after my first big week of testing. Two double day testing thursday and friday. We had to do a ems skill, take a written test and 8 different Fire Suppression manipulatives. We got our report card back today and if you cant tell by the way im smiling now, i passed every skill that we had to do. Your girl got zero deficiencies, so i am very proud of myself of being able to pass. You know, our saying is we dont fail people, they fail themselves. We give them all the information they need. We allow them extra hours prior to the start of class and stay late after hours, and we hope they take advant nl if they need help. They vocalize when they dont know something and part is ego. If i want to pass the class i need to ask for help. There is no slowing down. Once the training is moving it isnt stopping for anybody. You are on the training or off. We dont have time to stop. We want them to pass, but they have to have their heart into it. If they think it will be easy that isnt the way it works. I want to speak about what happened on september 22, 2022, which was week 14 i believe. Week 14 or 13. There was a big moment for me, because it was the week that i got injured. I had the ladder not completely fall on me, but it put my body in such a way it basically injured my shoulder. I had a little nerve damage coming from the top of my right shoulder radiating down. From what i remember, the ladder was coming down and a sudden movement it swerveed one way and swerved back and i remember i couldnt feel my right arm. I tried to hold on to the ladder and it just basically just hit me in a certain position, and i fell over, and i remember feeling a combination of so much pain and honesty nothing at all. She had a pretty good scare of a injury, and her determination and just the way she goes about things. She is not very demon struative or outspoken but works hards and puts herinose nose down and just works. [music] so, today is our last day in the academy. I think there is a lot of things going through my mind right now. On one hand, i feel incredibly relieved to be at this point. It has been a long 5 months. It has been great, but it has been really challenging and definitely really tiring, so it feels really relieving to have reached this mileston. We graduated friday and just feels really exciting. You know, speaking for myself, i think im preoccupied worrying about starting work soon, but i think for my family and my partner, im excited for them to be at graduation. This is not just a journey i have been on, but a journey they have been on as well. Especially my partner. She has been immensely supportive of me throughout this process. On the other side of the coin, it is nervewracking we go out in the field and do the job. It is mixed emotions for sure. Super excited. It has been a long long 16 weeks, and at the end i finally get to graduate, get to be a firefighter. Im looking forward to most is taking our time at Treasure Island and bring into effect to help people. So many things that are going on in my mind at the moment because of the fact today is the last day that we are actually on our training grounds on Treasure Island. I cant believe im actually here and i made it these 5 months. Getting in here doing the best i could possibly do, but now it is graduation is just so close. Im just nervous. I created this family within the 130 Academy Class where we have gotten to know each other and gotten to do skills together, but now when i go to my probationary home, now i will get to know those people and learn so many more skills and just get all the hands on experience and you know, create that second family. It has been overwhelming. Just the amount of support that i have received. My family is my core and is my biggest support system and they have been there and have just expressed unconditional love and support every step of the way. [music] good morning 130. I know this is a exciting day for you, and this is just one of the many milestones in your career. I am really proud of the division of training and im proud of you, 130. You took the lead and you worked hard. You worked as a team and thats how we always do it in the San FranciscoFire Department. This is a Proud Department with a proud history. We fight fires like no other Fire Department. We are Community Paramedicine and alternatives to policing. We are firefighter emt, firefighter paramedics, but we are so much more as you are going to find out during your careers. I do solemnly swear, that i will support and defend, the counsitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of california, against all enemies foreign and domestic. Today i graduated from San Francisco 130 recruit class, and i became a San Francisco firefighter. I feel absolutely amazing. I thought about how i feel graduating, but feeling it is crazy. Im so so excited to get started. I will be in station 9 in the bayview. Industrial part of the city and im extremely excited to do everything the truck does. Learn how to raise and lower the aerial. Get to all the different ladders and practice them in real life and apply them to situations that we are seen in the academy, but to see them in real life will be a brand new thing. [applause] going up to the stage to get my badge, i was thinking about how sweaty my hands were. I was trying not to trip, and but in realty i was just thinking about how special the moment it was, and to be honest, it felt like everything stood still for a second, and it was a special time to reflect on the journey. I feel proud of my class mates making to graduation. I feel a lot of love towards my classmates and lot of respect and admuration towards the instructors. It feels good to be at this point after 21 weeks of hard work. I would say i felt an immense amount of pride for what she accomplished. Having been along the ride, before academy, being a part of the journey that lead up to interviews and then academy and getting to this point. I know how much she has overcome and accomplished. So proud. Im so proud of you. [calling out name] to be honest, i am had a ball of emotions just running through me right now. It is like electric energy. To have all the overwhelming support from my family, from my friends, from everybody in the department, and from Oakland Department as well is truly just overwhelming and very emotional at the same time. Hoping ethe whole thing is surreal to me. She pinned the badge on me when she was 15 years old and coming to today and seeing where she is at now, i couldnt possibly be more proud. She has a heart of passion. She has a lot of heart. When i saw him up there, it was just overwhelming. I was like, i will not cry, i will not cry. I tried to hold it back, it just couldnt. The chief says, who will cry first. Who will cry first . Okay. indiscernible im supposed to be tough. Man the last time i like to introduce the newest bravest San Francisco firefighters, 130 [applause] so, im now at station 9 on the truck. In the bayview. Junk yard dog. The day before graduation was to ask questions what we are supposed to do and probationary firefighter instead of recruit. My first day was november 22. It was i was one of the lucky ones. I had my full weekday. I had 4 days after graduation to get my mind right, get ready to go to work. Our instructors complaint us in the dark so we wouldnt know what to expect so when we got here, its how we adapt to a situation, not so muchthis is what will happen. This is what you need to do. I was kind of freaking out before i really havent been in a fire station before, and every Single Member was super welcoming here. I think the most important thing is being yourself. Knowing when to contribute and when to kind of sit back and listen, because there is a wealth of knowledge around you everywhere. Everywhere. I could talk to any person in the station and learn so much. I think i been able to hold on to what people have been telling me a lot more here and learn a lot more in a lot less time. Transitioning from graduation to being a probationary firefighters coming with a lot of changes. You learn the tower and skills and information and once you get thin field you realize how all those people come together in real time, which has been super cool to see how it all unfolds in the field. I have been super lucky. I got placed at station 17 on engine 17 and i have just been super fortunate to have a really great group of folks to work with, who put in a lot of time and energy to help get me up to speed. I say with i first started the academy and was nervous and excited. There is a element of nervousness with being a probationary firefighter because you are trying to keep up and learn as much as you can. I say from the academy till now there is also a lot of confidence building that happened. The first two months what really stuck out to me is just how tight nit the station is and how much people really care about the work that they do and really pushes me i think to be better at the job. Apparently im a probationary firefighter for the San FranciscoFire Department, so the last 5 months i was in the tower in the academy lead me to here of drilling, testing, requiring all the basic skills to become a firefighter. Now im actually actively doing it, but more specifically at the current house im stationed at, which is station 10, i am also the role of emt because we are on a als unit where there is a paramedic so im the paramedic backup providing them whatever they need as their assistant, but when it comes to fires im the one with the nozzle to put out the fire. Me and my main concern is getting through probation because i dont have job security at the moment, because you can be let go any time if you are not meeting the expectations of what it is that they require from you. I want to be good at what im here to do in the position im in now. The call volume i have seen during my watchs are 7 to 10 calls within a day, which is pretty moderate. Im just waiting for my first fire. [laughter] indiscernible step on it and measure at the shoulder. We talk about being a model to other agencies, again we hire very diverse group. Male and female. As long as you meet the standards and are able to take care of the business of the Fire Department and Public Safety and being able to get along with your coworkers and all these stressful environments is key. You are not a individual here. We are made up as a team, so you have to be willing to listen. You have to be willing to learn, and you have to be willing to push yourself all the way to the end and youll be successful here in San Francisco. People ask, you just go to fires andno, we go to everything. Anything and everything 911 is called. It depends on the person and where they are at. We invite everybody to come try if they think they can get here, then by all means, we are a great department. Large department. Busy department, and we have a lot of things to see while working here. Best job in the world to this day. We prep them as best we can. All the experiences and instructors and myself, we again our job is to see themwe want to see them be successful. We want to hear good reports. It is like being a parent. I are want to make sure when they leave we want to hear good things and if we dont want also want to check and make sure, what happened . I want to hear from now the probationary firefighter what happened and how we can best support them, because they are not recruits anymore. They are professional probationary firefighters and just because they left the tower doesnt mean we are done with them. Im more invested in them now now that they are my brother and sister then a recruit because i could be working with them in the field. I found a career i absolutely hundred percent love. It is very rare that you you can find a profession that you can love that much. Im a public servant. I never want to forget the roots of what we do. We serve the citizens of San Francisco. Im serving the citizen of San Francisco now by training new firefighters. By job is best prepare them what they will be going to into the future. In the Community Whether we are driving around, we are on a call, or shopping, the way that the Community Looks at us and looks at me is kind of surreal, because it hasnt fully sunk in. Sometimes i have to reflect and say, you made it here. Be proud of yourself. Be proud of your accomplishments because for me i want to strive and do more and be better. [siren] i would say first of all, we dont just employ firefighters, we employ everybody on the ambulance. Emt and paramedics. Firefighters and ems is a great opportunity. It is really important we have people who look like the community we are serving and thats part of the reason many joined this department to create change from the inside and we have done a lot of that and we will continue to do that. There is a place for you here as a ems, as a paramedic, as a firefighter. You just need to be able to put in the work. This is a big deal being in Public Safety in San Francisco working for the San FranciscoFire Department. It is a commitment. What better place if you want to serve your community then the San FranciscoFire Department . [music] [siren] 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. Shop dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their showing up and dining within the 49 square miles of San Francisco by supporting local Services Within the neighborhood we help San Francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop dine in the 49 San Francisco owes must of the charm to the unique characterization of each corridor has a distinction permanent our neighbors are the economic engine of the city. If we could a afford the lot by these well not to have the kind of store in the future the kids will eat from some restaurants chinatown has phobia one of the best the most unique neighborhood shopping areas of San Francisco. Chinatown is one of the oldest chinatown in the state we need to be able allergies the people and thats the reason chinatown is showing more of the people will the traditional thepg. North beach is i know one of the last little italian community. One of the last neighborhood that hadnt changed a whole lot and San Francisco community so strong and the sense of partnership with businesses as well and i just love north Beach CommunityOld School Italian comfort and love that is what italians are all about we need people to come here and the characteristic of the neighborhood i peace officer prefer it is local character you have to support them. Really notice the port this community we really need to kind of really shop locally and support the communityly live in it is more economic for people to survive here. I came down to Treasure Island to look for a weve got a long ways to go. Ring i just got married and didnt want something on line ive met artists and local Business Owners they need money to go out and shop this is important to short them i think you get better things. Definitely supporting the local community always good is it interesting to find things i never knew existed or see that that way. I think that is really great that San Francisco seize the vails of Small Business and creates the shop dine in the 49 to support businesses make people all the residents and visitors realize had cool things are made and produced in san. music . The Ferry Building one of San Francisco most famous that as many of 15 thousand commuters pass through that each gay. One of the things that one has to keep in mind regarding San Francisco is how young the city we are. And nothing is really happening here before the gold rush. There was a small spanish in the presiding and were couriers and fisherman that will come in to rest and repair their ships but at any given time three hundred people in San Francisco. And then the gold rush happened. By 182948 individuals we are here to start a new life. By 1850 roughly 16 thousand ships in the bay and left town in search of gold leaving their ships behind so they scraped and had the ships in the bay and corinne woods. With sand the way that San Francisco was and when you look at a map of San Francisco have a unique street grid and one of the thing is those streets started off in extremely long piers. But by 1875 they know they needed more so the Ferry Building was built and it was a long affair and the first cars turned around at the Ferry Building and picking up people and goods and then last night the street light cars the trams came to that area also. But by the late 1880s we needed Something Better than the Ferry Building. A bond issue was passed for 600,000. To build a new Ferry Building i would say 800 thousand for a studio apartment in San Francisco they thought that was a grand Ferry Building had a competition to hire an architecture and choose a young aspiring architect and in the long paris and San Francisco had grand plans for this transit station. So he proposed the beautiful new building i wanted it wider, there is none tonight. Than that actually is but the price of concrete quitclaim two how and was not completed and killed. But it opened a greater claim and became fully operational before 1898 and first carriages and horses for the primary mode of transportation but Market Street was built up for serve tram lines and streetcars could go up to the door to embarcadero to hospitals and Mission Street up to nob hill and the fishermans area. And then the earthquake hit in 190 six the Ferry Building collapsed the only thing had to be corrected once the facade of the tower. And 80 percent of the city would not survive the buildings collapsed the streets budges and the trams were running and buildings had to highland during the fire after the actuate tried to stop the mask fire in the city so think of a Dennis Herrera devastation of a cable car they were a mess the streets were torn up and really, really wanted to have a popular sense they were on top of that but two weeks after the earthquake kind of rigged a way getting a streetcar to run not on the cable track ran electrical wires to get the streetcars to run and 2 was pretty controversial tram system wanted electrical cars but the earthquake gave them to chance to show how electrical cars and were going to get on top this. Take 10 years for the city to rebuild. Side ferry use was increasing for a International Exhibition in 1950 and people didnt realize how much of a Community Center the Ferry Building was. It was the center for celebration. The upper level of Ferry Building was a Gathering Place. Also whenever there was a war like the filipino war or World War Two had a parade on Market Street and the Ferry Building would have banners and to give you an idea how central to the citywide that is what page brown wanted to to be a Gathering Place in that Ferry Building hay day the busiest translation place in the world how people got around transit and the city is dependent on that in 1915 of an important year that was the year of our International Exposition 18 million living in San Francisco and that was supposedly to celebrate the open of panama differential but back in business after the earthquake and 22 different ferry boats to alamed and one had the and 80 trips a day a way of life and in 1918 San Francisco was hit hard by the flu pandemic and city had mask mandates and anyone caught without a doubt a mask had a risk ever being arrested and San Francisco was hit hard by the pandemic like other places and rules about masks wearing and what were supposed to be more than two people without our masks on i read was that on the ferry those guys wanted to smoke their pipes and taking off their masks and getting from trouble so two would be hauled away. The way the Ferry Building was originally built the lower level with the Natural Light was used for take it off lunge storage. The second floor was where passengers offloaded and all those people would spill out and central stairway of the building that is interesting point to talk about because such a large building one major stairway and were talking about over 40 thousand people one of the cost measures was not building a pedestrian bridge with the Ferry Building and the embarcadero on Market Street was actually added in and in 1918 but within 20 years to have San Francisco bay the later shipbuilding port in the world and the pacific we need the iron that. As the ferry system was at the peak two bridges to reach San Francisco. And automobiles were a popular item that people wanted to drive themselves around instead of the ferry as a result marin and other roots varnished. The dramatic draw in ferry usage was staggering who was using the ferry that was a novelty rather than a transportation but the ferry line stopped one by one because everyone was getting cars and wanted to drive and cars were a big deal. Take the care ferry and to San Francisco and spend the day or for a saturday drive but really, really changed having the car ferry. When the bay bridge was built had a train that went along the lower level so that was a major stay and end up where our Sales Force Transit Center is now another way of getting into the city little by little the ferry stopped having a purpose. What happened in the 40 and 50s because of this downturn we were trying to find a purpose a number of proposals for a World Trade Center and wanted to build it own the philly in a terrible idea objective never gotten down including one that had too tall towers a trade center in new york but a tower in between that was a part of Ferry Building and completely impractical. After the cars the Tower Administration wanted to keep americans deployed and have the infrastructure for the United States. So they had an intrastate free plan the plan for major freeway systems to go throughout San Francisco. And so the developers came up with the bay bridge and worked their way along embarcadero. The plans were to be very, very efficient for that through town he once the San Francisco saw had Human Services agency happening 200 though people figure out city hall offender that the embarcadero free was dropped and we had the great free to no where. Which cut us off from the Ferry Building and our store line and created in 1989 and gave us the opportunity to tear down the free. And that was the renaissance of Ferry Building. That land was developed for a new Ferry Building and whom new embarcadero how to handle travel and needed a concept for the building didnt want that was when a plan was developed for the liquor store. The San FranciscoFerry Building has many that ups and downs and had a huge hay day dribbled adopt to almost nothing and after the earthquake had a shove of adrenaline to revise the waterfront and it moved around the bay and plans for more so think investment in the future and feel that by making a reliable ferry system once the Ferry Building will be there to surface. We are providing breakfast, lunch, and supper for the kids. Say hi. Hi. Whats your favorite . The carrots. The pizza . Im not going to eat the pizza. You like the pizza . They will eat anything. Yeah, well, okay. Sfusds meal program right now is passing out five days worth of meals for monday through friday. The program came about when the shelter in place order came about for San Francisco. We have a lot of students that depend on School Lunches to meet their daily nutritional requirement. We have families that cant take a hit like that because they have to make three meals instead of one meal. For the lunch, we have turkey sandwiches. Right now, we have spaghetti and meat balls, we have chicken enchiladas, and then, we have cereals and fruits and crackers, and then we have the milk. We heard about the school districts, that they didnt know if they were going to be able to provide it, so weve been successful in going to the stores and providing some things. Theyve been helpful, pointing out making sure everybody is wearing masks, making sure theyre staying distant, and everybody is doing their jobs, so thats a great thing when youre working with many kid does. The feedback has been really good. Everybody seems really appreciative. They do request a little bit more variety, which has been hard, trying to find different types of food, but for the most part, everyone seems appreciative. Growing up, i depended on them, as well, so it reminds me of myself growing up. I have kids at home. I have six kids. Im a mother first, so im just so glad to be here. Its so great to be able to help them in such a way because some families have lost their job, some families dont have access to this food, and were just really glad to be good morning, every one. Is this the morning . Yes. Close enough . Well thank you so much for being here today to celebrate the official launch of landing at lat us store. [applause] my name is robby silver and im the executive director of the downtown sf partnership. Wore the Community Benefit district that serves the financial district and Jackson Square doing everything we can to create a more vibrant downtown to support economic recovery and the growth of San Francisco. Were thrilled to experience todays moment with all of you and if officially welcome to sf ne