Theres my grandma. Well come. Welcome to San FranciscoJames R Herman cruz terminal at pier 27. The first stop for all most 300 thousand people who come here every year from around the world to our beautiful city. I want to tell you about another jewel of the San Francisco port that just celebrated 125 years. The San FranciscoFerry Building. [applause] in the 19th century, commuters and visitors traveled by train or ferry or both. A Ferry Terminal on the waterfront downtown was a practical necessity. It was the sfo of its day. Grand central station. But as we so often do, San Francisco built a practical space a world class beauty, with a 245 foot clock tower along arched arcade, and a interior worthy of a renaissance cathedral. At the foot of Market Street, a beautiful bridge from water to land, the Ferry Building announced to every commuter, every traveller, this is San Francisco. You have arrived. Until that is, [applause] until that is, in the late 1930s when two new bridges the bay and golden gate and rise of the automobile made the Ferry Building seem outdated and unwanted. Soon the grand interior converted to drab cuneals cubicles and in a act of urban planning catastrophes only the 1950 could respond, a doubledecker slicing it from the city it served. For decades, this great landmark was isolated. Nearly forgotten, a crumbling shell of its former glory. No one went there. No one bet on its future. Its time had passed, but then the freeway came down and the city created a new walkable grand embarcadero with the giants on one end and the restored Ferry Building at the center with patience, smart planning, investment and time. San francisco turned a discarded transit hub back into a global icon. A famous city most famous landmark as herb cane called it. Today the Ferry Building hosts shops restaurant, artists and torests and locals and just a few month ago during apec hosted leaders from around the world. This one building at the heart of downtown says a lot about our downtown and about our city. First, beautiful places, world class desirable places are never forgotten for long. Second, our local government with the right vision and right investment and right support can spark monumental turnarounds. Third, and most important, never ever bet against San Francisco. [applause] we never stay down for long. We have faced incredible challenges in the fast 5 years, two unparalleled health crisis. One in the form of covid, the other in the form of fentanyl and National Reckoning on policing and sublic safety and some people inside and out of San Francisco feel these challenges have overwhelmed us. I dont begrudge people frustrations. I dont dispute these have been a tough 5 years, but rather then destroying our city, the storms revealed our strengths, our spirit and service to each other. I believe past is a precursor to our rise. This is a year of the dragon and we will soar again. [applause] we all know the story. Shortly after i took office, we began to hear thisquiting reports of the new and deadly virus. Soon enough, covid19 would up end the world. San francisco declared a emergency february 2020 and then with our partners around the bay, issued the first shutdown or order in the country. My administration then marshaled department of emergency management, Public Health and staff throughout City Government to mobilize and turn our Convention Center into a global commandcovid command center. We cut through the bureaucratic red tape to set up testing sites, Community Hubs and vaccination sites around the city. City workers fanned out to tend to our most vulnerable residents and as Nursing Homes across the country saw ballooning death rates, we protected our seniors at laguna honda and elsewhere. [applause] we were one of the first cities in the country to reach an 80 percent vaccination rate and as deaths climeed across the u. S. And the world, San Francisco saw the lowest death rate of any large city in the country. [applause] people want to say our civic government is dysfunctional. We cant collaborate, we cant get hard things done. Tell that to the thousands of san franciscans alive today because of what we did. [applause] our city faced a storm unlike anything we have seen in a hundred years. Is anybody here a hundred years old . You didnt see it either. [laughter] through hard work, collaboration, ingenuity and simple decency of people we orchestrated the most successful response in the country and as covid wane and vaccinations froze we entered the second phase of my tenure, recovery. The pandemic lead to a massive shift how our economy functions all most overnight. Work from home, exposed to weakness in economies and big cities, especially tech forward San Francisco, we were too dependent on fields that can work from home. Our downtown had never been designed as a neighborhood with many homes and round the clock residents. Downtown was office and office was hit hard. Simultaneously the pandemic constrained our efforts to house the homeless. Then the murder of george floyd and ensuing National Reckoning devastated Police Recruitment and staffing here in San Francisco and around the country. Even as they brought to light the systemic racism that many of us have known for far too long, the department of justice has called the Police Staffing shortage a national crisis. These are national challenges, exacerbated by local conditions. What did we do . We didnt throw up our hands we got to work, on Public Safety. We divertsed non emergency, 911 calls to free up officers while providing better overall responses for those struggling on our streets. I appointed a former hate crime prosecutor as our new District Attorney and Brooke Jenkins began prosecuting crime. [applause] we used bate cars and plain clothe officers to disrupt auto break ins. We coordinated every Public Safety agency you can name. Local, state and federal. Shareal miyamoto conducted deputies to conduct warrant sweeps. I appealed to Governor Newsom and he sent the california highway parole. Delivered the u. S. Attorney and Drug Enforcement agency to interrupt the sale and trafficking of fentanyl. [applause] and all of these efforts have paid off. We doubled the number of drug arrests in 2023. Retail theft and car breakens plummeted. The arrest was 25 points higher then the national average. Our crime rate is the lowest its been in 10 years. [applause] not including 2020 when we had to shut the city down. Yes, these figures are accurate. They coincide with the arrival of the chp national guard, u. S. Attorney office, da jenkins increased in prosecutions. I do recognize that some people dont feel the lower crime rate yet, and if you are someone you know is a victim of a crime, all the stats mean nothing. I understand that and i hear your concerns and thats exactly why we are not letting up. We will roll out 400 automated license plate readers at a hundred intersections across the city this month. [applause] thanks to the voters approving proposition e on tuesday. [applause] we will be installing new Public Safety cameras in high crime areas, deploying drones and changing Police Department rules so our sworn officers are out in the field and not behind a desk. [applause] and yes, we are adding more Police Officers thanks to our effort San Francisco is now the best paid major city in the region for starting Police Officers. Retention is improving. Officers are transferring here. We have the most Police Academy applicant in more then 5 years and the next Academy Class will be the largest since before the pandemic with 50 cadets. [applause] with all that, we will add 200 more officers in the next year and get to full Police Staffing in three years. [applause] at the same time, we are not sacrificing our reform work. The San FranciscoPolice Department is on track to reach the 272 department of justice reforms by april of this year. [applause] thank you to those who lead these efforts including our police chief, bill scott. [applause] of course, we cant talk about Public Safety without talking about the other health crisis. This is a national tragedy, fentanyl is impacting our city both large and small, urban and rule. It is awful and heartbreaking and while im stepping up enforcementf oour laws because that is what our residents deserve and what pour city means, i remain absolutely committed to saving lives. Our approach [applause] our approach is about accountability, resources and new pathways. This means arresting and prosecuting dealers, and when necessary arresting users who are a danger to themselves. It means expanding existing Treatment Options and creating new ones like abstinence based treatment solution. [applause] yes, Offering Service is critical, but frankly we must compel some people into treatment. We will have a additional tool thanks to the voters who helped pass proposition f tuesday. [applause] and i directed the Human Service agency to create a action plan for prop f implementation. If we can provide cash assistance to more then 5 thousand people can screen recipients for Substance Use disorder and get them into treatment. [applause] and we have the services they need. Including 15 free clinics across San Francisco that can administer bupomor 15 day one. We are delivering the goal adding 400 new treatment beds and if Governor Newsom prop 1 passes we have a real opportunity to add hundreds more. We are not waiting, we are doing the work with supervisor mandelman so when the state opens the pipeline for new beds, San Francisco is ready and first in line. [applause] that brings me to homelessness, which also remains a key focus of our recovery. Now, since ifen polk been mayor, we helped over 15 thousand individuals exit homelessness. We are the only county in the bay area to see unsheltered homelessness go down in the last point in time count. We did it by increasing shelter capacity by 66 percent and increasing housing for formally Homeless People by over 50 percent. My office of invasion funded by bloomburg philanthropy is appointed new accountability tools to track data, outcomes and hold non profits we fund accountable. [applause] our encampment teams are bringing people indoors and bringing down the tents, despite attempts by the court and by some advocates to obstruct or efforts with City Attorney david chui we fought hard and helped more then 1500 people into shelter from encampment just over the past 6 months. [applause] the number of tents on our streets are down by 37 percent this past 6 months. At the lowest levels it has been since 2018. The other day a gentleman asked me, how can we help so many Homeless People and still have thousands more . Well, we know people fall into homelessness for many reasons and we have programs preventing homelessness for san franciscans every single day. But we also know we keep housing people and people do keep coming here. The advocates and some elected officials want you to believe San Francisco isnt a destination. They want you to believe people dont come here for drugs or other reasons. We all know thats not true. Of those arrested for public drug use in the tenderloin and south of market over the last year, over half were not San Francisco residents. Half. I had enough of it and clearly the voters had enough too. We are not letting up. [applause] we are continuing to add new housing, new shelter. We are setting a new goal of a thousand people a year for homeward bound program. The program that provides unhoused people a ticket back to their home cities. [applause] and we have a new tool for those struggling with Mental Illness and addiction. For decades, state laws have prevented us compelling people into treatment, even if their families are begging us to do so. The people truly suffering you see walking in and out of traffic or screaming at nothing in particular, the people who so desperately need help. I fought to change the state conservatorship laws for years and we finally succeeded. [applause] now we are implementing the changes faster then any county in the state. So far this year yee increased the number of people submitted for conservatorship by 170 percent compared to last year. That is how we make change. That is how we save lives. And of course, there is the pandemic related issues felt most acutely in San Francisco. Our downtown recovery. I have always believed we need to start with a question and if not, how do we make downtown what it was, but rather, what do we want our downtown of the future to be . In 2022, 2023 we worked with trade groups, business owners, builders, neighbors and city departments to create the road map to downtown San Francisco future. A comprehensive plan for a dynamic resilient downtown with resident night life and businesses. A neighborhood that keeps going around the clock, downtown 24 7. [laughter] the first year focused on stabilization, filling our empty store fronts, creating attraction and night life activity and delivering tax incentives. We recruit new businesses and continue to see new leases signed lead by ai which alone is projected to add 12 million square feet of office space by 2030. And it wont be ai alone. This is one of the most beautiful urban environments in the world with a unrivaled pool of talent and builders and dreamers and largest collection of deployable capital in the country, but downtown cant just be about jobs, it cant just be the 9 to 5 financial district. We also need more people to live and study there. So, our new initiative, 30 by 30, 30 thousand more residents and students downtown by 2030. [applause] to do that, we first need to create more housing downtown. We already passed the few local laws to reduce fees to Office Conversion. Our first Office Conversion is happening now. 32 new homes at the warfield building that would not be happening if we hadnt stepped in, and more are coming. [applause] now, we are working on state laws to change state laws with senator scott wiener to spur production and speed up Housing Production downtown. That is housing, but 30 by 30 is also about bringing students down down, and a lot of them. We are working with thought leaders, business folks and educational institutions to make downtown a hub, a center of excellence. We invited the university of california and historically black call jss and universities to join us and some are coming as early as this summer [applause] we are working with other universities and existing anchors, uc law, usf and San Francisco state university. Imagine, student professors researchers and employees working from dorm room to classroom to start up from the Ferry Building to city hall. Cross pollinating ideas, cross pollinating companies. We will lead in ai, climate tech, bio tech and things we havent imagined yet are. Housing students, invasion, that is our future. Tearing out the bike lanes on Market Street going backwards will not move us forward and it wont magically revive downtown. [applause] but 30 thousand more People Living and going to school down there will. Downtown has always been the economic engine that funds the services we care about, and it is post pandemic difficulties are the driving reason for the deficit we now face. We no laupger have the luxury to penalize. We need to incentivize. So let me make two things clear, number one, the board of supervisors and i will close this deficit and we will not weaken our Public Safety to do so. [applause] number two, i have a clear vision for downtown future and my administration will make it happen. [applause] our vision is a vibrant mixed use neighborhood with transit, bar s, restaurants, venues, where people live, work, study, and play. We are through the valley of covid. We endered the slings and arrows of recovery, and now we rise to our next chapter on housing. We are changing our reputation. As a city of no to a city of yes. Yes. [applause] yes to reducing fees, yes to eliminating barriers and yes to any idea that overcomes obinstruction and builds the new homes we so desperately need. There is one housing no i will commit to, any piece of antihousing legislation that comes across my desk i will veto. [applause] every single one. We have a state mandate, so lets build our projects like the power station where we broke ground last year and Treasure Island just this week we relaunched a new phase of housing. Lets work with our land use chair, supervisor melgar to keep advancing prohousing laws through the board. And lets [applause] and lets bring 30 thousand residents and students to the downtown. If we do that, more people and more neighborhoods will be able to afford to live here. More housing means more opportunity. And San Francisco will remain the city of yes for our children and their children and its not just a vision, our work is actually delivering change. Crime is at record lows. San francisco is a ai capital of the world. The birthplace of the next economic boom. The la times reports in 2022, San Francisco companies raised 5 times as much funding as the companies in florida and texas combined. [applause] that is what they do to us. Our Small Business reforms like first year free championing by supervisor ronan are filling empty storefronts across the city. [applause] we are a National Leader in early child care and education. Doubling the number of kids getting care and subsidies in 2018. [applause] and paying our educators a real wage that recognizes them for the work that they do. [applause] we just hosted leaders from around the world for apec, the biggest global stage for San Francisco since the signing of the United Nation charter in 1945. [applause] our parks are the best in the world and we massively expanded outdoor public areas from jfk drive to india basin coming to the southern waterfront. [applause] muni is leading the bay area transit recovery, who would have thought, willie brown . Carrying more riders then all of the other Regional Transit operators combined. We are on pace to hit our goal of zero Green House Gas emission by 2040. We are launching a wnba franchise hosting [applause] hosting the nba all star game, the super ball and fifa world cup [applause] and i envision a San Francisco of walkable, safe, thriving neighborhoods with Great Schools that teach algebra and a strong economy. [applause] where people get the help they need and where everyone is welcomed. I want to thank the voters for supporting this vision on tuesday. By backing these various propositions and the strong rejection of proposition b. [applause] thank you supervisors engardio and matt dorsey on algebra and Police Staffing and conulateulations on scott wiener, matt haeny and [indiscernible] as well as all the new comers come bravely step forward to run for county committee. [applause] and let me Say Something to those in the press claiming tuesday election means San Francisco is not a progressive city anymore. Building homes and adding treatment beds is progressive. [applause] wanting good Public Education and Effective Police force valuing the saturday safety of seniors from chinatown to bayview, immigrant and working families in the tenderloin, is progressive. [applause] we are a progressive diverse city living together celebrating each other. Lgbtq, aapi, black, latino, palestinian and jewish. [applause] that is not changed and that will not change. So, i dont know about you but im tired of the negativity. Im tired of the people who talk about San Francisco as if our troubles are inevitable and our success a flukement our successes are not a fluke, and they are not fleeing. They are the products of years of hard work, collaboration, investment, creativity, perseverance. They are the output of thousands of people in government and out who believe in service, not cynicism. [applause] i want to Say Something to those inside San Francisco and out, who traffic in negativity. To sell ads to advance right wing causes to tear others down or to simply stroke fear for their political convenience. I want to say this on behalf of the real people who you have been disparaging, on behalf of the nurses, the gardeners, janitors, counselors, commissioners, engineers, emergency workers, teachers, the transit operators who dedicate themselves to this city. [applause] on behalfon behalf of our firefighters, 911 dispatchers, the Sheriff Deputies and Police Officer who do lifesaving work under difficult circumstances. On behalf of the Small Business owners thrks bartendser, the artists. On behalf of the women. On behalf [applause] on behalf of the women here who let women everywhere know that we trust them to make their own decisions and offer them a safe haven when they do so. [applause] on behalf of the housing advocate said who started a movement here that has taken root all over the country. [applause] on behalf of the transgender activists and their families chosen or otherwise who made San Francisco and outpost of hope. [applause] on behalf of the city i called home my entire life, which im proud to serve every single day, i offer these words from our 26 president of the united states, teddy roosevelt. You exceez me for updateing the pronouns. [laughter] it is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong woman stumbles, or where the doer of deeds, could have done them better, the credit belongs to the woman who is actually in the arena. [applause] who strives valantly. Who sends herself in a worthy cause. To those outside the arena watching from the sidelines, who offer only criticism, i have a message for you. San francisco is not wearing the shackles of your negativity any longer. [applause] ill say it again, San Francisco is not wearing the shackles of your negativity any longer [applause] to the Public Servants who have been here during the citys most difficult time, doing the work all along, thank you. Thank you for your service. We will continue to move our city forward to be the city of yes. No longer will we allow others to define us, because we know who we are. We are a city on the rise. We are a dragon taking flight. Now, lets soar San Francisco lets soar thank you. [applause] you are watching San Francisco rising with chris manner. Todays special guest is carla short. Hi, im chris manner and you are watching San Francisco rising the show about restarting rebuilding and reimagining the city. Our guest is carla short the intric director of public works and here to talk about the storms we had and much more. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. Great to have you. Lets start by talking about the storms that started beginning of the year. There fsh a lot of clean up recovery and remediation. Can you talk about what your team did . Sure. The 17 inches of rain we got starting on new years eve through the first 2 and a half weeks of january made it one of the wettest periods in recorded history for San Francisco, so as you imagine we had a lot of work to do. We gave out more then 31 thousand sand bags, we were operating all most non stop from new years eve to San Francisco residents and businesses out of our operation yard and frequently working thin rain so it was a beautiful dance to watch. We had a corio graphed where people drive in the stop and load with san dags and get on it way so thats was the most visible thij weez had to do. Responded to all most a thousand calls for localized flooding for the corner of the street with catch basin. Our team trying to address that. We clear and pick up anything to block and it hopefully get the flooding to go down. If we are able to respond we call in the San Francisco pub utility system and are responsible for the sewer system under so they bring ing vack trucks that vacuum out debris inside the catch basin. We also dealt with lots and lots of calls about trees and tree limbs down. I think we actually faired better then some other places in terms of loss of full trees. We did have whole tree failures and that is not that uncumin with super satch waited soil conditions. We had over 950 calls about trees or tree limbs down. A lot of calls were about loss of a limb and we could save the tree. We are still assessing the data to figure how many were full tree failures versus limb failure. Also had Land Movement too. The great highway comes to mind. What is your approach to managing rock mud and land slides . That is a great question. We had 28 different slides over the course of that period. It is kind of a interesting process, so the first step is we have our geotechnical or Structural Engineers take a look to see is the hillside safe, do we need to stabilize it in some way or just need to do some cleanup . Once they made their assessment they will recommend the next steps. Often times to protect Public Safety we will place k rails the giant concrete rails at the base omthe slide area to make sure that any debris doesnt get on the edroway and bring ing the heavy equipment to scoop up on the ground and move off the roadway and try to open the roadway. Some cases, we will actually inject some rocks or other stabilizing forces either into the slide area or sometimes below the roadway. Right now there is nothing thats unstable out there but be are keeping a close eye on the areas including the gray highway area. Right, right. Well, so talking about the storms in the city response, brings us to Southeast Community scepter when there is rain remediation projects going on. Can you talk about the inconstruction project kblrks that is a favorite project. A Beautiful New Community facility. We were involved in pretty much every aspect of developing that project for the public utility commission. They were a client. We Design Project management and Construction Management and the Landscape Design for that project. And one thing that we included was storm Water Management throughout the entire project site. So, that project encapturealize the rain water that lands on the roof and flows into the landscape where we have rain gardens so intent is slow the water down to and give areas to collect to percolate into the ground rather then the sewer system. When we have sewers that are overloaded, because our rain water mixes with the sewer treatment storm sewer system, we actually can end up dist charging into the bay which we dont want to do. Anything we can do to just prevent those combined sewers from overpm loaded is a good thing and in this case allows the water to collect onsite and percolate to the ground which is the best way to manage the storm water and it is beautiful and provides habitat. I encourage everybody to see it. It is special place. Thats great. There was recently news about how city indiscernible powered by steam, which is super unusual i think. I understand public works ablgtually does the maintenance on the system. Can you just talk about that a bit . Sure. That is a unusual situation. That steam loop was actually built when the city was recovering from the 1906 earthquake. It only provides to steam about 4 buildings in civic center but that is how we keep buildings like city hall warm. The steam goes into the radiators and provides the heat. It is a old system and if you see steam billowing out of the man holes or other spaces, that is indication of a leak actually. We spend a lot of time trying to fix the leaks because its a old system. It is managed by the Real Estate Department and at one point they were looking trying to replace the whole thing but think that is a massive undertaking so now they focus on making as needed repair said. We did a big repair on growth street where we spent a month and a half working on the known leaks s in the area. It is a very tight spot and have to use blow torches to seal up the leak so a intense operation and seeing more leaks on polk street so we will be out there once it warms up to fix the leaks. Excellent. Lets discuss what is the reunifiquation of public works. There fsh a proposal or plan to split off the division, called the street and sanitation. Now that has been shelved and public works is going to just retain being a single entity. Can you talk through the process . Sure. Yeah. The original proposal was a ballot measure voted on to split the department into 2. It basically create the department of sanitation and streets that was really going to incompass all our operation divisions so it was a street cleaning department but encompass everything we refer to as operations. When we worked preparing for that split with the city administrator office, we found there were actually 91 what we call touch points between the operations work and our engineering and architecture side, so we really felt like it could be very difficult to split into two departments. We have so many areas of overlap. There was a new ballot measure last november to reunit the department. Technically we split october one and did split in some ways. We did put on hold some of the behind the scenes things like rebranding all the vehicle jz giving everyone a new email address in the sanitation and streets department, but on january 1 of 2023 we came back together so we are reunited i want sing the peaches and purb song and think it is a good thing for the 91 areas of overlap. We making 2c3w50d use of the research. Preparing for the split. Looking at all the touch points and trying to strengthen the department so we are more streamlined and efficient. One of the most important component from the original ballot measure is commission oversight. We retained two commissions, the Public Works Commission which oversee the Overall Department and approve the budget and contracts. And sanitation and Street Commission and their mandate focus on policy and deliverable for street cleaning and basically the operation division. Reporting to them regularly how we are doing, we think will help make sure we are as efficient and effective as we can be as a department. That sounds great. Thank you so much for coming and talking to me today and appreciate the time you have given. Thank you so much for having me. It was a pleasure. That is it for this episode. You are watching San Francisco rising. One more statement. We are the one. That is our first single that we made. That is our opinion. I cant argue with you. You are responsible please do not know his exact. [ ] [ ] [ ] i had a break when i was on a major label for my musical career. I took a seven year break. And then i came back. I worked in the library for a long time. When i started working the San Francisco history centre, i noticed they had the hippie collection. I thought, if they have a hippie collection, they really need to have a punk collection as well. So i talked to the city archivist who is my boss. She was very interested. One of the things that i wanted to get to the library was the avengers collection. This is definitely a valuable poster. Because it is petty bone. It has that weird look because it was framed. It had something acid on it and something not acid framing it. We had to bring all of this stuff that had been piling up in my life here and make sure that the important parts of it got archived. It wasnt a big stretch for them to start collecting in the area of punk. We have a lot of great photos and flyers from that area and that. That i could donate myself. From theyre, i decided, you know, why not pursue other people and other bands and get them to donate as well . The historic moments in San Francisco, punk history, is the sex pistols concert which was at winterland. [ ] it brought all of the punks on the web west coast to San Francisco to see this show. The sex pistols played the east coast and then they play texas and a few places in the south and then they came directly to San Francisco. They skipped l. A. And they skipped most of the media centres. San francisco was really the biggest show for them pick it was their biggest show ever. Their tour manager was interested in managing the adventures, my band. We were asked to open to support the pistols way to that show. And the nuns were also asked to open the show. It was certainly the biggest crowd that we had ever played to. It was kind of terrifying but it did bring people all the way from vancouver, tee seattle, portland, san diego, all up and down the coast, and l. A. , obviously. To San Francisco to see this show. There are a lot of people who say that after they saw this show they thought they would start their own band. It was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. It was also, the pistols last show. In a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. The city of San Francisco didnt necessarily support punk rock. [ ] last, but certainly not least is a jello be opera. They are the punk rock candidate of the lead singer called the dead kennedys. If we are blaming anybody in San Francisco, we will just blame the dead kennedys. There you go. We had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the city was thought that he thought was obscene that had been put up. The city of San Francisco has come around to embrace its musicians. When they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in all kinds of local musicians and i got to perform at that. That was, at in a way, and appreciation from the city of San Francisco for the musical legends. I feel like a lot of people in San Francisco dont realize what resources there are at the library. We had a film series, the s. F. Punk film series that i put together. It was nearly sold out every single night. People were so appreciative that someone was bringing this for them. It is free. Everything in the library is free. It it is also a Film Producer who has a film coming out. Maybe in 2018 about crime. What is the title of it . It is called San Francisco first and only rock n roll movie. Crime, 1978. [laughter] when i first went to the Art Institute before the adventures were formed in 77, i was going to be a painter. I did not know i would turn into a punk singer. I got back into painting and i mostly do portraiture and figurative painting. One of the things about this job here is i discovered some great resources for images for my painting. I was looking through these mug shot books that we have here that are from the 1920s. I did a whole series of a mug shot paintings from those books. They are in the San Francisco history centres s. F. Police department records. There are so many Different Things that the library provides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot of people are like, oh, i dont have a library card. Ive never been there. They need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. The people who are hiding stuff in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuff from their grandparents, if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the public in the future. Shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of San Francisco. We help San Francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. So where will you shop and dine in the 49 . Im one of three owners here in San Francisco and we provide mostly live Music Entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and its not a big menu, but we did it with love. Like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. For latinos, it brings Families Together and if we can bring that family to your business, youre gold. Tonight we have russelling for e community. We have a tenperson limb elimination match. We have a fullsize ring with barside food and drink. We ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. Were hope og get families to join us. Weve done a drag queen bingo and were trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying Different Things. This is a great part of town and theres a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. Theres a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hang out at. We have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. Some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and its exciting. We even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. Its in the San FranciscoGarden District and four beautiful murals. Its important to shop local because its kind of like a circle of life, if you will. We hire local people. Local people spend their money at our businesses and those local people will spend their money as well. I hope people shop locally. [ ] [ ] the San Francisco music hall of fame is a living breathing world thats all encompassing about music. [music playing] it tries to do everything to create a music theme. Music themes dont really exist anymore. It is 7, the tour is two floors, inaudible so, each one of these frames that you see here, you canyou are and look into the story of that act, band, entertainment and their contributions to music. Affordability is what we are all about. Creative support. We are dedicated to the working musician. We are also dedicated to breaking some big big acts. We like to make the stories around here. Ultimately legends. Hello and welcome to the tuesday, march 5, 2024 meeting of the San FranciscoEntertainment Commission im commissioner bleiman the president well start with announcements. Wield like