Transcripts For SFGTV BOS 20240703

Please stand by for the San Francisco budget and finance Committee Meeting of april 3, 2024. Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to april 3, 2024 Budget Finance Committee. Im supervisor chan joined by vice chair mandelman and supervisor melgar. Our clerk is brent julipa. I like to thank Kalina Mendoza from sfgovtv. Please silence cell phones and electronic devices. Should you have documents to be included as part of the file they should be submitted to myself the clerk. Public comment will be taken on each item. When your item comes up please line up to the west side of the chamber and while not necessarily to provide Public Comment we invite you to fill out a comment card. You may submit Public Comment in writing in either of the following ways, email to myself, the Budget Finance Committee clerk at brent. Julipa sfgov. Org. If you submit Public Comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the official file. You may send comment via u. S. Postal serving 1 dr. Carlton b goodlett place, room 244, San Francisco california 94102. Madam chair, due to the legislative spring recess items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of april 16 unless otherwise stated. Madam chair. Thank you mr. Clerk. Just want to remind the public and everyone that for again today item 4 and item 7 are the ones with the budget and legislative Analyst Report so for those item will go to the department presentation, the budget legislative Analyst Report, then go to questions and then Public Comment. With that though, apologies, i would like to call items out of order a little today. Mr. Clerk, could you call item number 5 . Item 5, resolution exempting from the Competitive Bidding policy set forth in administrative code, section 2. 61, the potential lease on a portion of the east end of sea wall lot swl 301, with skystar wheel, llc, for the continued operation of an observation wheel; and adopting environmental findings under the California Environmental quality act. Madam chair. Thank you. Colleagues, sf port is requesting a continuance to the call of chair and so i would like to continue this item, but before we do, seeing no name on the roster, we do not have comments from this committee, lets go to Public Comment on this item. Yes, we invite members of the public who joined today who wish to speak to line up along the windows to your right, my left and please come forward and all speakers have two minutes to speak. Madam chair, we have no speakers. Thank you. Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is close said. I like to make a motion to continue the item to call of chair and a roll call, please. Motion to continue, mandelman, aye. Melgar, aye. Chan, aye. We have three ayes. Thank you, motion passes. Lets go back to order of the agenda and mr. Clerk, please call item number 1. Item 1, resolution approving the Second Amendment to the agreement between the San Francisco Public Utilities commission sfpuc and Santa Clara Valley Water District district for longterm operation and maintenance of the intertie facility located in milpitas pursuant to charter, section 9. 118, to redesignate the district as the operation and maintenance o m party of the intertie facility from july 1, 2024, through june 30, 2029, with the sfpuc and the District Meeting and conferring before the end of the fiveyear period to determine, by mutual written agreement, which of them shall be the o m party beyond june 30, 2029. Madam chair. Thank you. Today we have San Francisco Public Utilities commission here. Yes. Good morning chair chan, supervisor mandelman and supervisor melgar. Angela chung, the water supply Treatment Division manager for the sfpuc. The item today approves the Second Amendment to an agreement between the San Francisco Public Utility Commission and Santa Clara Valley water dist rict. [indiscernible] serves as a connection of the two water supply systems. Can supply up to 40 million gallon a day of water in any direction in a emergency or critical work when one system needs supplemental water. The original operation and maintenance approved by the board of supervisors in 2000, allowed either of us to operate a facility and put the maintenance of the facility on the puc. In practice the district has been the sole operator because the operation could impact the system unless the district is the one operating it. There was a 5 year period in the last 24 years from 2009 to 2013 the district serve as the o m party in the thick of implementing the water system improvement program. This was established through the First Amendment to the o m agreement. Approve bide d by the board of supervisor in 2009. In 2014 responsibility for the maintenance came back to the sfpuc making us the o m party the last 10 years. The Second Amendment before you today, once again designate the district for [indiscernible] two main reasons for this change, one is even though [indiscernible] our staff are finding themselves with more work then before because systems need to be operated and maintained. The second reason is that, it is more efficient for the district staff to work on the innertide because they are located near the facility while staff needs to travel from millbrae or [indiscernible] we agree that we would jointly review the destination in 2029 and then no more frequently then once every 5 years and we included the provision. This amendment will have little to noficial impact on the sfpuu c. Funds are shared equally between the parties and funds will continue to be available from current and future appropriation from the water enterprise operating budget. Our share of the o m cost is 50 to 60 thousand a year. Thank you for considering the item. Im available if you have any questions. Thank you. Through trial and error over time, back and forth, rotation of responsibility and maintenance with the district and us is where we landed now. Thats where we landed, because it is more efficient for them to operate innertide. Location wise, that makes sense, especially for staffing. Thank you. I dont have any other questions and lets go to Public Comment on this item. We invite members who joined us today and wish to address the Committee Regarding item 1, now is your opportunity. Madam chair, we have no speakers. Thank you. Public comment is closed. I like to move the item to full board with recommendation and roll call, please. Mandelman, aye. Melgar, aye. Chan, aye. We have three ayes. Thank you am motion passes. And then mr. Clerk, please call item number 2. And 3 together. Very well. Items 2 and 3 are resolutions retroactive authorizing the department of Public Health to accept and expened grabts in the following imounts. Item 2 in the amount of 910 thousand from the San Francisco General Hospital foundation for participation in a program transform mental and Behavioral Health for the period of september 30, 2023 through september 29, 2028. Item 3, is in the amount of approximately 2. 9 million from the California Department of justice for participation in the program entitled, tobacco grants award notification fiscal year 2023 to 24 for the period of january 1, 2024 through june 30, 2026. Madam chair. Thank you. Today we have San Francisco General Hospital here. Thank you. My name is angelica, the chief administrative officer. I am presenting on the Grant Program to support our work around Behavioral Health. I want to thank you for considering the legislation and thank you supervisor mandelman for cosponsor. San francisco General Hospital is providing funds to support transforming Mental Behavioral Health program. The Funding Amount is a little over 909 thousand and awarded in september 2023 for one year. The Hospital Foundation launched the fund in 2019 to develop innovative treatments, reinvent outdated approached and improve Mental Health of patients at our hospital. This is done through care coordination and wrap around service for patients at Behavioral Health diagnosis. The grant will pay for optimizing our care coordination module. Patient navigators and hygiene kits and track phones discharged from the ed or our hospital. We received notice of award from the foundation october 30, 2023 starting november 1, 2023. The start date was predetermined by the granter. Dph put together the expand and expand packet and forwarded to controller office. After discusing project taerm details approvaled the accept and expend and forward to mayor office december 11. For introduction on january 23. As such we humbly request retroactive authorization for this item. Thank you for your time and im available for any questions. Thank you. Lets go to item number 3, presentation from the department of Public Health. Good morning. Im jen, the assistant director of the environMental Health branch in dph here to talk to you about the department of Justice Youth Tobacco Sales prevention grant. I first want to acknowledge Senior Inspector Jeanine Young for her work in really spearheading this grant since 2018, and her commitment to prevent unpermitted youth sales of tobacco in San Francisco. The grant is coming from the California Department of justice. It is a revolving grant. This is our fourth cycle. The goal is to prevent youth access to flavored tobacco and nicotine products. We partner with community, we fund pd, City Attorney and then we have a close relationship with the tobacco retailers to prevent sales to miner and flavored tobacco. The amount is around 2. 8 million and a two year grant with the cycle starting this year in january. So, the grant obviously being so large funds a lot of different activities. It supports our staffing, which will go out and support local retailers around enforcement education when we get sales to miners, we fund the police to do decoy operations for sales to miner, as well as Police Officers to do sales for flavored tobacco, e cigarettes and unpermitted facilities and then the City Attorney is also involved with online sales of flavored tobacco, and handle some of our litigation when we have operators. It also funds many of the dph staff. Senior inspectors, technicians, a manager, portion of a manager and clerk and it also funds two trainee positions, which is really vital for our Training Program to become registered environMental Health specialists. The goal of the Tobacco Prevention Program is really to strengthen the support of the team to be able to go out and do enforcement and education proactively as well. We also need to support for online illegal sales and then strengthen the prevention of the sales to miner. Data is a huge part of dph and making sure that we are using data driven evaluation to determine hot spots in San Francisco, as well as making sure that we are equitably enforcing throughout San Francisco and not just targeting certain areas. So, we are seeking retroactive authorization for this item. There was a couple key things in play. We received notice of the grant award until october 2023 with start date of january 23. There was some budget amendments that needed to happen, so back and forth with doj and our team created a final budget in december 8, which then we proceeding with the city fiscal approval process. So, we are respectfully requesting retroactive approval for this item. Thank you. Supervisor melgar. Thank you chair chan. I like to be added as a cosponsor to the item. I did have a question for something you just said, which kind of rattled me a little bit. You said you know, you were data driven and thats you know, what we expect from folks like you, but then you said that you want to make sure that these rules are enforced throughout the city, but i know that the Tobacco Industry targets specific groups of young people, mostly latino, chinese, black youth of color, so what do you mean by that . So, when the grant first started in 2018, we used data assessment to see where the Police Department was doing sales to miner decoy operations and it seemed there was no data tracking, so some of the neighborhoods were getting repeat sales to miner operations, instead of kind of going from neighborhood to neighborhood and targeting areas. Now, the most dense portions of tobacco retailers are in the northeast sector of the city, so we are doing percentages, but many of the underserved communities, maybe in the bipoc population, low income status, they might not have been getting the same percentage of decoys as other neighborhoods, so it was really important to address those populations and insure they are getting the same protection. Thank you. Vice chair mandelman. Thanks for your work. I like to be added as a cosponsor. Thank you. With that, lets go tothank you so much for the presentation and lets go to Public Comment for both item 2 and 3 together. If there are any members of the public who joined today who wish to address the Committee Regarding the items 2 and 3, now is your opportunity. Madam chair, we have no speakers. Thank you. Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is now closed. Colleagues, i like to move item 2 and 3 together to full board with recommendation. Roll call, please. On that motion to forward both resolutions to full board with positive recommendation, vice chair mandelman, aye. Member melgar, aye. Chair chan, aye. We have 3 ayesism thank you. Motion passes. Please call item 4. Item 4, resolution authorizing the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to expend Soma Community Stabilization Fund dollars in the amount of up to 890,000 to address various impacts of destabilization on residents and businesses in soma from july 1, 2024, through june 30, 2025. Madam chair. Thank you. We have the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development cultural dist rict manager here. Good morning supervisors. Grace lee, the cultural district and soma fund manager for mayor office of housing and Community Development. Here to present the expend resolution authorizing the department to award 8 grants totaling 890 thousand from the soma Stabilization Fund to Community Based organizations serving the soma neighborhood. On january 27, 2023, our department mohcd issued rfp to apply for funding from the Soma Community Stabilization Fund for services in housing, Small Business support, youth and Family Support and Community Action grants. Eight organizations submitted proposems and all determined to be responsive. The Community Advisory Committee Recommended 2324 efiscal year funding for all projects on april 7, 2023 and based on year to date outcomes and Ongoing Community needs, the cac recommended additional year of funding at the same level for all eight projects on february 15, 2024. The grantees are noub noub Housing Program, cultivate labs, Filipino Education Center [indiscernible] here to ask for board approval to expend the 890 thousand from the soma Stabilization Fund to the organizations to continue their work. And happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Morning supervisors. Nick monard from bla. Resolution that approves the mayor office of housing to spend 890 thousand from the Soma Community Stabilization Fund. Detailed the projects and beneficiary organizations on page 4 of our report. These Funding Amounts are for next fiscal year. According to the mayor office they are continuation of the Funding Amount for this fiscal year recommended by the Community Advisory committee. We recommend approval of item 4. Thank you. I dont see any names on the roster and iwe have been going on figuring out distribution of this fund for quite some time and ongoing basis and got to see some of these funds are going to the soma neighborhood that really need the support and with that, lets go to Public Comment on this item. Yes, if there are any members of the public who wish to address the Committee Regarding item 4, now is your opportunity to approach the lectern. Madam chair, we have no speakers. Thank you. With that, seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is now closed, and colleagues i like to move this item to full board with recommendation and the roll call, please. On that motion to forward this resolution to full board with positive recommendation, vice chair mandelman, aye. Member melgar, aye. Chair chan, aye. We have three ayes. Thank you and motion passes. Mr. Clerk, please call item number 6. Item number 6, resolution retroactively authorizing the recreation and Park Department to accept and expend a 2,000,000 grant from the Governors Office of business and Economic Development for the Union Square Park revitalization for the period of january 1, 2024, through december 31, 2026; to enter into a grant contract with the Governors Office of business and Economic Development; and to authorize the general manager of the recreation and Park Department to enter into any modifications and amendments to the grant contract that do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities of the city. Madam chair. Thank you. And we have rec and park here. Yes, good morning supervisors. My name is neal patel pwith the rec and Park Department and happy to bring this item today for your consideration. Today we are asking a retroactive authorization to the recreation and Park Department to accept and expend 2 million grant from the california Governors Office of business and Economic Development or go biz and also to enter into the associated grant contract. As a note, these items were unanimously approved at our march recreation and Park Commission meeting. Just to give a overview of the space and are grant, this is union square and we have a couple different cafe spaces above ground. It is a collection of buildings we call the cafes including cafe spaces and storage. And there are a lot of challenges. These spaces were built decades ago and the number one concern we have with all our tenants is there is no ability to prepare fresh food on site. A Commissary Kitchen somewhere else in the city is required. We had a lot of equipment reaching end of life and failing many cases beyond repair, so this grant would really help us to bring the cafe spaces up and modernized. Again, the priority is to build the capability to cook onsite with the appropriate Fire Suppression and ventilation systems. California senate bill 104 appropriated 2 million to the department in june, this is retroactive grant that would end december 31, 2026. And what wethe grant includes money to scope out the project but looking to revitalize the kitchen area, Design Construction and some equipment and the possible improvement include cooking hoods, ventilation, building facade and lighting enhancement. Oewd will administer a small portion of this grant for equipment and support activation of the cafes in Union Square Plaza thank you. Is this grant for complexes east and west . Yes, that is correct. Are they currently occupied . We have a tenant we signed a lease last year. Which one is it . It is called the Greater Organization, or Tyler Florence is the main entity behind the operation. Thank you. Is it occupying both complexes or the west or east . The lease is for both cafe spaces. Currently the east cafe is undergoing repairs so not operation right now. The cooking display case is inoperable as well as the [indiscernible] connects to downstairs. Can you help me understand and clarify, did Tyler Florence and company receive 500 thousand grant from oewd already in order for them to open one of the complex . I have a colleague from oewd if you have specific questions, but yes there was a grant to that Tyler Florence for activation during their initial start up. Great. Could you help me understand if there is someone here from oewd i love to help me understand what was the 500 thousand forit is all 2 million goes to Capital Improvement is my serkd part of the question. The first part, what is 500 thousand for . Absolutely. Hi, chair chan, supervisors. I will let neal come back to the question about the capital work under the state grant but that is correct, there was a grant issued from oewd in october of last year through the Union Square Foundation to the Greater Organization in order to do activation in the two spaces earlier and with more robust level of service then they were originally inteneding under their lease, so we learned of their lease selection from rpd. We want ed to know more about what they were planning to do. They had a extremely minimal level of service they were planning to roll out with, and we discussed what would it take to do something more robust to start sooner so they can start in time for apec and Holiday Season which is huge for union square so that resulted in a Grant Agreement for 444 thousand that went from the beginning of november opened november 6 through january. What was the money is in that was for them to enhance what they are able to dine the facilities that have no onsite cooking. Some of it was for a lot of design work, complete refresh of the space. The cafe space on the palace side. They redid it, repainted it, they fixed the cases so total refresh there. It was for marketing work. It was for some av equipment, some other technical equipment in the space, tables and chairs, umbrellas, things like that. Some equipment, durable equipment that reverts back to the city under the rec park lease as well, like cooking equipment but that isnt Capital Equipment fixed into the building, that is refrigeration and ovens so they can start to prepare the food and have it going by november. The marketing materials, what is that . That was for them to promote the opening tothey did that via social media, via traditional media. They reported back to us what were the media stories you got . This is the standard stuff that require any of our economic recovery activation grants. We want our grantees to be promoting the activation so it achieves the purpose of bringing people to that location. Right. And it is about 499 thousand . 444. 444. Is it possible to see just how the 444 was spent . Yeah. Like a line item help us understand how the 440 thousand was spent, only becausehere it says not just the 2 million that is accept and expend grant from the state, here again it says, oewd administer a small portion of the grant for equipment to support activation of cafes in plaza. It is inclusive of 440 thousand spent or are you going to spend more beyond the 440 thousand spent . That is totally separate so shifting for the state grant for the capital work. There is a little left over not needed for capital work. It is flagged in there so there is potentially an opportunity for us to do more activation funding so they could continue to operate and expand the operation more quickly then when the capital work will be done but that will be finalized once the budget is finalized by rec park. Great. What you are saying if i understand is this small portion of the grant is really coming from you administer within this 2 million . Yes, it is what is left over in the state grant not needed for the capital work. Understood. You dont know, it depends what you spend on capital and if there is any left over that is the purpose of the remaining grant dollars . Correct. Thank you. I think i will go back to quicklywhen do you expect us toso, when do you expect this renovation to begin and end and be completed . Here it says the grant term is three year total but we are moving as quickly as possible. As soon as we get money in hand we can move with planning and design and schedule capital construction. This year. Yes. Thank you. Ideally this year to begin construction or complete the construction . Both, unless theres something that would take longer then a year, but the goal is begin and end this year. How long do you anticipate the construction be . It is hard to tell now because we havent fully scoped out the project. We vooa long wish list including ovens and ventilation associated with that, so it is little bit difficult to estimate now, but i think it could be finished within a year. I certainly hope to see it sooner. I want to say. I think we all do. Given the fact that we would love to be the attraction to bring back tourism activities to downtown. I think the winter was fairly successful and ijust love to see it continue. I think the winter wonderland, that was a good activation for union square, love to see that before holidays comes again for that space and you can complete some of these work. I look forward seeing and learning more about the scope as well. Thank you. I dont see any name on the roster. Lets go to Public Comment on this item. Yes, we invite members of the public who wish to address the Committee Regarding item 6, now is your opportunity to address the committee. Madam chair, i see no speakers. Thank you. Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is now closed. Vice chair mandelman. Thank you chair chan. I like to be added as a cosponsor. Thank you. With that, i like to send to full board with recommendation and roll call, please. On the motion to forward resolution to full board with positive recommendation, vice chair mandelman, aye. Melgar, aye. Chair chan, aye. We have three ayes. Thank you and motion passes. And mr. Clerk, please call item number 7. Item number 7, resolution approving amendment no. 4 to the International Terminal duty free and luxury store lease no. 170303 between dfs group, l. P. And the city and county of San Francisco, acting by and through its airport commission, which continues the temporary reduced percentage rent structure, but increases the percentage amount to 36 of gross revenues, commencing with lease year 5 2024 and continuing through lease year 7 2026 , and establishing a temporarily reduced minimum annual guarantee of 30,000,000 for lease year 5, adjusting annually in accordance with the lease through lease year 7, with the original base rent structure recommencing in lease year 8 2027 , with each such rent accommodation being conditioned upon tenants timely completion of the construction of its remaining facilities in harvey milk terminal 1 no later than december 31, 2024, with no change to the 14year term, to be effective upon approval of this resolution. Madam chair. Thank you. We have San Francisco airport here just to be clear, not the San Francisco bay airport . Not the San Francisco bay, no, thank you. Thank you supervisor. The airport is seeking approval for the 4th amendment to International Terminal duty free and luxury store lease between airport and dff group to extend the temporary modified percentageerant structure the board originally approved june 2020. This extends through december 31, 2026, increase the percentage rent to 36 percent of gross revenues and establish temporary reduced minimal annual guarantee of 30 million. The lease was awarded in 2017 and includes 17 location. Group comprise 75 percent ownership and have 5 small disadvantage Business Owners four local comprising 25 percent ownership. Because of the covid19 pandemic on passenger traffic, approved a rent structure of 33 percent of sales in 2020 through december 31, 2023. Due to the pandemic lingering effect the recovery of International Passenger traffichelp preserve Economic Feasibility and operation duty free offerings to travellers which account for more revenue for the airport then all retail leases combined. Under the temporary rent structure, the airport anticipates receiving 126. 7 million over the three year period. The budget analyst reviewed and recommends approval and i did want to clarify, the amendment does not need retroactive approval it lf is, but the lease applies starting january 1, 2024. Thank you and happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Item 7 is a resolution that approves a Fourth Amendment to concession lease between the airport and dfs group. The amendment accomplishes two things. It reduces the annual minimal guaranteed rent and tiered percentage rent starting january 1 this year, so those actions would be retroactive and for the next 3 years, mag is reduced from 42 to 30 million and tiered percentage rent from 45. 8 percent at the top to a flat 36 percent. We detailed the changes on page 9 of our report. Based on Financial Data provided by the airport, we estimate that the given the level of sales at dfs property and the airport, this will result in approximately 10 million rent relief to that concession air over the next 3 years. That has a general fund impact of 1 and 1 and a half million a year, because the general fund gets a transfer of 15 percent of the airport concession revenues and so, as a policy consideration, we kind of considered the total losses incurred by this concession air, which amount to 74 million. This rent relief plus the previous rent relief provided approve bide the board amounts to about 73 percent of those losses that have already been incurred. The airport doesnt have a standard policy how to share losses with the tenants, so this is a kind of to be generous one off. But given the size of the lease, it is 46 thousand square feet, we believe that approving these changes, it does impact the general fund, increase the likelihood the tenant will remain in place and doesnt fully make them whole. Finally, they are continuing to project losses going forward, so it is sharing these losses with the airport. We recommend approval of item 7. Thank you. Justi make the correlation between luxury shopping to sort of what we are seeing in downtown as well. Luxury shopping is a trend for consumer. It is just are not there right now. At least not in San Francisco and i think theres sign of slowing down. What is airports longterm strategy, especially now both the airport and that concur by bla that there seems to be a continuing projection of loss in revenue . What is the airport strategy for the longterm in these spaces . In addition to the downturn in luxury shopping, we experienced severe drop in the china traffic from the republic of china. At the high point 553 weekly flights and now at 5 so that is a strategy to bump our traffic from china and further diversify the offerings. Dfs started at 12 shops andthey went into 17, not because we expanded the footprint, but they became smaller more detailed concessions and so there is different opportunities that we see we can do. I do know there is a delegation to china happening this year the airport is a part of and hoping to boost International Traffic as well so several strategies in that mind and that is quhie this is a temporary 3 year program before it goes back to the full in 2027. Yeah, i also not sureim not sure, but 3 years will give us more sense certainly. Im also just not sure if the luxury shopping trend among chinese tourism will return or asia tourism will return as well and just kind of seeing a global trend of not seeing that coming back any time soon, but okay. Thank you. Supervisor melgar. Thank you, chair chan. I had similar line of questioning, but with a little bit of a different angle. I will vote to approve this, i think it makes sense. We want to sort of share the risks and opportunities, but also, you know, in looking at how our travel patterns have changed during the pandemic, our number 1 country of origin of tourists Foreign Tourists is actually mexico, not china and yes they spend yes because it is closer. I am wondering what we are doing to grow what we had, rather then to try to go back to what we lost, because that may or may not happen and it seems as we are reinventing ourselves, which is we are good at in San Francisco, that is what we do, what is the strategy . It occurs to me we have 27 sister cities in San Francisco, not a single one in latin america and not one with the largest partner which is mexico and wonder sometimes whether it is not preconceived bias or notions who mexicans are and what the mexican economy, which bugs me, but i wonder what is the strategy on that . That is a great point and something we have a very strong connection with our sister city committees to make sure that we are addressing all of our International Traffic and their needs of their passengers. That is my point, we dont have a sister city anywhere in latin america, even though mexicoit isnt just San Francisco largest country of origin of foreign travellers but as a country, our largest trading partner is mexico. Right. I just meant that we have a great connection with oewd and can bring this up. I did not actually personally know that. In terms of the broader strategy, dfs has in the past been our largest accruing lease out of all our retail locations, and food and wine, we are always looking at is a strategy that expands beyond just luxury. For instance, we just found out this morning food and wine magazine named sfo one of the top 10 airports in the world for food and wine, so we are one of three in the United States out of 10 global destinations. It is always a combination of luxury, which has always been the biggest money makers for airports but to your point and supervisor chans point we have to keep thinking about different opportunities and not rely on old models so it is a great point you bring up and happy to bring back to the staff. I manage the plote call in International Marketing teams to talking what we can do to not just satisfy a specific economy interest in luxury items but beyond as well. I will sign up to help in any way i can. Let me add that, there is i think a large market in luxury goods in mexico as well. It may or may not be the same as the chinese market. All i say is i think if we have something that is working, it seems to me it makes sense to have a strategy to expand that, so thank you. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Heres also i want to add to that about just beyond the luxury shopping trends and i think what i also was trying to get at is that, at some point you knowand i think when mayor ed lee was here, i think there was a very direct instruction for sfo or wanting to forge a partnership thinking about sfo vendors and to be San Francisco made and uniquely San Francisco. I think there are shops like green apple and others that unique to San Francisco and i think if iim not trying to put words in supervisor melgars mouth but to some extent it is also to broaden the Consumer Trend not just about luxury or just about the chinese consumers, but to really think about a mix of diversity and to bring in those options that are like the countries bordering us like mexico and some other countries that you know have different flavor and cultures and that i think at some point, because we are so reliant to those relationship and not saying we should abandon the relationships, i think we should continue to see how to increase direct flights to asia, but i think from this lessen is learn to say, hey, now that we have this opportunity is to diversify our options, diversify options for tourism and diversify the Shopping Experience when it comes to duty free in sfo. That is kind of along the thinking that im trying to land, but i didnt. No, i think both of your points are very well taken and well definitely pursue that. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. With that, going to Public Comment and on this item. Yes, we are opening Public Comment on item 7. If there is anybody who wish to address the Committee Regarding item 7 now is your opportunity. Madam chair, i see no speakers. Thank you, Public Comment is now closed. It is painful for us to do this, but well sendi like to make a motion to send this item to full board with recommendation and roll call, please. On that motion to forward to the full board with positive recommendation, vice chair mandelman, aye. Member melgar, aye. Chair chan, aye. We have three ayes. Thank you, motion passes. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, do we have any other business or items before us today . Madam chair, that concludes our business. Thank you and just wantsed to make clear thiafternoon the budget and Appropriation Committee is canceled and next week we have the legislative break and will return april 16, and with that, the meeting is adjourned. [meeting adjourned] you are watching San Francisco rising with chris manor. Todays special guest is Sarah Phillips. Hi, im chris manors and you are watching San Francisco rising the show about restarting rebuilding and eare imagineing the city. The guest today is Sarah Phillips the executive director of economic workforce development. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. Lets talk about the city economic plan and specifically the citys road map to San Francisco future. Can you give a brief overview and update on progress . Absolute e. In february 2023 mayor breed released the roadmap comprised to 9 strategies to move the city forward understanding there was structural and lang lasting changing by the covid impact. 134 were shorter term impacts how people using transit downtown and coming out and are using Small Businesses, some of them remember longterm structural impacts. The way we work. How often we are in an office and how much office Space Companies who had headquartered in San Francisco need. Some of those were structural impacts how we stop. There has been a longterm change as Online Shopping takes up a greater share how we performs and covid19 took a shift that would probably take 10 to 15 years happen and collapse what happened ofern the timeframe to 2 years so saw structural impacts how people shop. We have seen a lot of progress rchlt we are 9 months in and significant things we have seen is efforts creating permitinant services and homes for people experiencing homelessness is dramatic. We increased the number of shelter beds dramatically and takeup of the beds dramatically, and there is more work to do. On the safety side there are exciting things that happened. We increased our police pay among the highest in the bay area which is a important thing for recruitment. Police recruitment across the country is down so recruiting the best we can means we need to give a high pay set. August the highsh return in graduates. We see 75 decrease in retail theft and 50 percent reduction in car break ins which is quality of life crime San Francisco experienced so there is real progresses we are seeing on clean and safe sides. One thing important in the mayor roadmap we are not trying to get back to 2020 vision. I think covid showed having a downtown with people sitting at offices isnt the best downtown it can be. I think it is a opportunity to bring 24 hour life use downtown. Music and concerts is a great way to bring people to a specific location. Golden gate park we had lots of events in plazas throughout the city. Can you talk about those and if there is Upcoming Events too . I think you touched on something key to the mayor road map. For San Francisco and particularly San Francisco downtown to move forward and be successful as a Great American city, it is about bringing people together because they want to be together not because they center to be together and music is a strong part that. The planet concert sear ries coming up and happening throughout the city not just Golden Gate Park but downtown locations are a great example. There are smaller examples as well. The landing atis a new plaza we constructed in the mayor roadmap where two streets come together akwraisant to a couple restaurants closed to cars in daytime, chairs and seating and throughout the week they have lunch time and evening music to bring people together after work. They participate in that. Something we are working on setting up for next year which is really exciting is our sf live program and that will bring a full 2024 Concert Series where we match local venues bringing their work and partnership to useian square, Music Center Plaza and embark cadero. We will be able to announce Concert Series through the sf you mentioned vacant to vibrant, that program has a lot of attention lately. Can you talk generally what exactly that program is . Yeah. So, we opened a program where we put out a call for landlords willing to offer groundfloor space for free for 3 to 6 month jz Small Business or storefront operators who had a proposal what they would do for 3 to 6 months. It is pilot. We had a incredible amount of interest. We hadim forgetting the number of landlords, but more then we expected because we are in a place where commercial real estate understands they need to come to the table to help make our groundfloor lively and resulting in a transition where the groundfloor is seen less as a money making operation, but more as a leader to lease upper floors. If you have a active ground floor yields better on the other 80 percent of the building you are trying to lease. That was great, a lot of cooperation scr over 700 Small Business or operators responded to that call. It is pop up. There is no intention this would result in forever Small Businesses, but there is certainly a hope and i think what we are hearing, i dont have the final data, but there are 17 activators in 9 different spaces, some are colocated, which is why the difference, and out of those 9 spaces that are being leased for free, now 7 of them are in discussions for longterm leases so the spaces continue. It is the program. We are hopeful to have a second and third traunch and hoping to pilot in other neighborhoods with other partners. It is not an inexpensive program because there is a lot of capital that goes into popping up for short amount of time but what we are seen is they visit the businesses, the businesses are successful and San Francisco want to support this activation so hopeful to expand it. Thats great. Can you talk a bit about why piloting programs and testing things is so important . Absolutely. You know, i would say not only the important generally but important in San Francisco specifically. The benefit of pilot programs in the reasons they are really important here is, it allows us to try something and say, there may be consequence but lets understand those in real time rather then waiting to start a strategy while we think about them on paper and if they are too great we can modify the program as we go. Mta has absorbed the strategy whether a bike lane or other to figure how best to use the street . Is this working . Is it working for bikes and cars and buses . Maybe not, lets switch it around and pilots have been important to oewd to our office particularly because we tend to have the ability and the mayors support through the budget process to pilot things through request for proposals or rfp process where we can put out a small amount of funding, try activation and small public plaza, see if it works and i think the benefit there is, if it doesnt work we tried it and had the benefit of seeing real time and when it does work, we are able to uplift that and move into a permanent strategy and that is where our agency turns over something we piloted to another agency because it is part of the city operating procedure. Pilots also give people hope. When we have the shortterm whether it is physical public plaza or activation that shows change is possible and allows them to vote for what they like. Lastly, in lith light of the current ai boom, do you think there is a way to leverage those new changes to take a bunch of San Franciscos status as a tech hub . I do, i think they Work Together. San francisco right now has a strong vacancy problem in our office space. And there is a backstory to that. Our zoning downtown has not prevented other uses, in terms of permitting uses of the multistory building has been open including allowing residential but we put other barriers, cost and code barriers et cetera and what happened also during the height of our preevious boom is that, the amount that Tech Companies were willing to pay for office space bid everything out so wewithout intentionally zoning a single use downtown, we de facto became a single use downtown and thereat is the opportunity you are pointing out. Now because downtown was so convertible from work from home, particularly as tech based downtown was and how much Companies Put at the market in the Office Spaces we are seeing high vacancy now, all most 30 percent so there is lot of square feet but that presents a lot of opportunity. We have the ability to absorb expansion of the Tech Industry we are so strong at. We have seen over 800 thousand square feet of ai space leased just in 2023 alone and there is still more demand out in the market, more ai Companies Looking for space so that is a growth spot absorbing some of the vac ancy. The opportunity too is prices for downtown lease s have also dropped and that opens up a breath of opportunity to a breath of companies that were priced out in 2018, 2019, 2020. San francisco has always been great at starting companies and allowing them to grow here. When our prices are too high it prevents that growth so now we are a super Fertile Ground for more start ups and invasion on the smaller end of the sector because they can come and enter our market and we have the space to offer. To talk about San Franciscos assets and the leveraging that, we sit at the epicenter of really Great University and educational institutions. We are between uc berkeley and stanford. The graduates produced just from those institutions alone stay in the bay area and want to rise up and work here, provide a real opportunity for the start ups to build their companies and companies to grow here so we confident we will absorb a certain amount of office space with ai tech. With that, we are interested in increasing our Human Capital growing graduates. Downtown university is something the mayor is open to pursuing and we are in conversations with uc berkeley we love to have as a partner in our downtown and then residential conversions are a great partner to that. As we build back the office space, people will want to live downtown again and we have a number buildings that can be converted to residential. The costs are high. Mayor breed and her partners on the board made significant changes to reduce the costs. We waived fees for change of uses in the downtown area. There are code changes that will make the conversions easier. There is a ballot measure on the march ballot that will attempt to reduce costs for those as well. It is ongoing process and none of those changes we talked about absent ai growth downtown, but institutional growth downtown, arts growth downtown and residential conversions downtown are longterm changes so one thing i want to say recollect i do think there is a opportunity per your question, but we also need to be patient because what we are talking about is is a real shift to the makeup of the downtown since from the growth it has been starting at since the turn of the century so that isnt a 2 year change, that is a 10 year change and we center to watch as it goes. Thank you so much. I really appreciate you spending the time here today and your Creative Vision and positivity, so thank you so much. Thanks so much for having me and hope you all downtown and shop. That is it for this episode. For sfgovtv im chris manors, thanks i dont think you need to be an expert to look around and see the increasing frequency of fires throughout california. They are continuing at an everincreasing rate every summer, and as we all know, the drought continues and huge shortages of water right now. I dont think you have to be an expert to see the impact. When people create greenhouse gases, we are doing so by different activities like burning fossil fuels and letting off Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere and we also do this with food waste. When we waste solid food and leave it in the landfill, it puts methane gas into the atmosphere and that accelerates the rate at which we are warming our planet and makes all the effects of Climate Change worse. The good news is there are a lot of things that you can be doing, particularly composting and the added benefit is when the compost is actually applied to the soil, it has the ability to reverse Climate Change by pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil and the t radios. And there is huge amount of science that is breaking right now around that. In the early 90s, San Francisco hired some engineers to analyze the material San Francisco was sending to landfill. They did a Waste Characterization study, and that showed that most of the material San Francisco was sending to landfill could be composted. It was things like food scraps, coffee grounds and egg shells and sticks and leaves from gardening. Together reecology in San Francisco started this Curbside Composting Program and we were the first city in the country to collect food scraps separately from other trash and turn them into compost. It turns out it was one of the best things we ever did. It kept 2. 5 million tons of material out of the landfill, produced a beautiful nutrient rich compost that has gone on to hundreds of farms, orchards and vineyards. So in that way you can manage your food scraps and produce far less methane. That is part of the solution. That gives people hope that were doing something to slow down Climate Change. I have been into organic farming my whole life. When we started planting trees, it was natural to have compost from reecology. Compost is how i work and the soil biology or the microbes feed the plant and our job as regenerative farmers is to feed the microbes with compost and they will feed the plant. It is very much like in business where you say take care of your employees and your employees will take carolinas of your customers. The same thing. Take care of the soil microbes and soil life and that will feed and take care of the plants. They love compost because it is a nutrient rich soil amendment. It is food for the soil. That is photosynthesis. Pulling carbon from the atmosphere. Pushing it back into the soil where it belongs. And the roots exude carbon into the soil. You are helping turn a farm into a carbon sink. It is an international model. Delegations from 135 countries have come to study this program. And it actually helped inspire a new law in california, senate bill 1383. Which requires cities in california to reduce the amount of compostable materials they send to landfills by 75 by 2025. And San Francisco helped inspire this and this is a nationleading policy. Because we have such an immature relationship with nature and the Natural Cycles and the carbon cycles, government does have to step in and protect the commons, which is soil, ocean, foryes, sir, and so forth. Forest, and so fors. We know that our largest corporations are a significant percentage of carbon emission, and that the Corporate Community has significant role to play in reducing carbon emissions. Unfortunately, we have no idea and no requirement that they disclose anything about the carbon footprint, the core operation and sp360 stands for the basic notion that large corporations should be transparent about the carbon footprint. It makes all the sense in the world and very common sense but is controversial. Any time you are proposing a policy that is going to make real change and that will change behavior because we know that when corporations have to disclose and be transparent and have that kind of accountability, there is going to be opposition. We have to provide Technical Assistance to comply with the state legislation sb1383 which requires them to have a food donation program. We keep the edible food local. And we are not composting it because we dont want to compost edible food. We want that food to get eaten within San Francisco and feed folks in need. It is very unique in San Francisco we have such a broad and expansive Education Program for the city. But also that we have partners in government and nonprofit that are dedicated to this work. At San Francisco unified school district, we have a Sustainability Office and educators throughout the Science Department that are building it into the curriculum. Making it easy for teachers to teach about this. We Work Together to build a pipeline for students so that when they are really young in prek, they are just learning about the awe and wonder and beauty of nature and they are connecting to animals and things they would naturally find love and affinity towards. As they get older, concepts that keep them engaged like society and people and economics. California is experiencing many years of drought. Dry periods. That is really hard on farms and is really challenging. Compost helps farms get through these difficult times. How is that . Compost is a natural sponge that attracts and retains water. And so when we put compost around the roots of plants, it holds any moisture there from rainfall or irrigation. It helps farms make that corner and that helps them grow for food. You can grow 30 more food in times of drought in you farm naturally with compost. Farms and cities in california are very hip now to this fact that creating compost, providing compost to farms helps communities survive and get through those dry periods. Here is the thing. Soil health, climate health, human health, one conversation. If we grow our food differently, we can capture all that excess carbon in the atmosphere and store it in unlimited quantities in the soil, that will create Nutrient Dense Foods that will take care of most of our civilized diseases. So its one conversation. People have to understand that they are nature. They cant separate. We started prowling the high plains in the 1870s and by the 1930s, 60 year, we turned it into a dust bowl. That is what ignorance looks like when you dont Pay Attention to nature. Nature bats last. So people have to wake up. Wake up. Compost. It is really easy to get frustrated because we have this belief that you have to be completely sustainable 24 7 in all aspects of your life. It is not about being perfect. It is about making a change here, a change there in your life. Maybe saying, you know what . I dont have to drive to that particular place today. Today i am going to take the bus or im going to walk. It is about having us is stainable in mind. That is it is about having sustainability in mind. That is how we move the dial. You dont have to be perfect all the time. San francisco has been and will continue to be one of the greener cities because there are communities who care about protecting a special ecosystem and habitat. Thinking about the history of the ohlone and the native and Indigenous People who are stewards of this land from that history to now with the ambitious Climate Action plan we just passed and the goals we have, i think we have a dedicated group of people who see the importance of this place. And who put effort into building an infrastructure that actually makes it possible. We have a long history starting with the gold rush and the antiwar activism and that is also part of the Environmental Movement in the 60s and 70s. And of course, earth day in 1970 which is huge. And i feel very privileged to work for the city because we are on such a forefront of environmental issues, and we get calls from all over the world really to get information. How do cities create waste programs like they do in San Francisco. We are looking into the few which you are and we want innovation. We want solutions. Who doesnt love cable cars . Charging emissions and were free which were proud of you know, its not much free left in the world anymore so we managed to do that through donations and through our gift shops. You got a real look and real appreciation of what early transit systems are like. This was the transit of the day from about 1875 to about 1893 or later, you know. Cable car museum is free, come on in. Take a day. Come down. Rediscover the city. You can spend as time you want and you dont have to make reservations and its important to be free because we want them to develop a love for cable cars so they do continue to support whether they live here or other places and people come in and say, yes, i have passed by and heard of this and never come in and they always enjoy themselves. People love cable cars and theres none left in the world so if you want to ride a cable car, youve got to come to San Francisco. That what makes the city. Without the cable cars, you lose part of that, you know, because people who come here and they love it and they love the history ask they can ride a cable car that has been running since 1888 or 1889. Wow thats something. Cant do that with other historical museums. Rarely, have i run into anybody from outside who didnt come in and didnt feel better from knowing something about the city. Its a true experience youll remember. I hope they walk away with a greater appreciation for the history, with the mechanics with people are fascinated by the winding machine and i hope the appreciation, which is a part of our mission and these young kids will appreciate cable cars and the ones who live here and other places, they can make sure there will always be cable cars in San Francisco because once they are gone, they are gone. Its the heartbeat of San Francisco that founded the cable and the slot and without the cable cars, yeah, we would lose something in San Francisco. We would lose part of its heart and soul. It wouldnt be San Francisco without cable cars. [bell ringing] after my fire in my apartment and losing everything, the red cross gave us a list of agencies in the city to reach out to and i signed up for the belowmarket rate program. I got my certificate and started applying and won the housing lottery. [ ] the current Lottery Program began in 2016. But there have been lot rows that have happened for Affordable Housing in the city for much longer than that. It was there was no standard practice. For nonprofit organizations that were providing Affordable Housing with low in the city, they all did their lotteries on their own. Private developers that include in their buildings affordable units, those are the city weve been monitoring for some time since 1992. We did it with Something Like this. Where people were given circus tickets. We game into 291st century in 2016 and started doing electronic lotteries. At the same time, we started electronic applications systems. Called dalia. The lottery is completely free. You can apply two ways. You can submit a paper application, which you can download from the listing itself. If you apply online, it will take five minutes. You can make it easier creating an account. To get to dalia, you log on to housing. Sfgov. Org. I have lived in San Francisco for almost 42 years. I was born here in the hayes valley. I applied for the San Francisco Affordable Housing lottery three times. Since 2016, weve had about 265 electronic lotteries and almost 2,000 people have got their home through the lottery system. If you go into the listing, you can actually just press lottery results and you put in your lottery number and it will tell you exactly how you ranked. For some people, signing up for it was going to be a challenge. There is a Digital Divide here and especially when you are trying to help low and very low income people. So we began providing digital assistance for folks to go in and get help. Along with the income and the residency requirements, we also required someone who is trying to buy the home to be a first time home buyer and theres also an educational component that consists of an orientation that they need to attend, a firsttime home buyer workshop and a oneonone counseling session with the housing councilor. Sometimes we have to go through 10 applicants before they shouldnt be discouraged if they have a low lottery number. They still might get a value for an available, Affordable Housing unit. We have a variety of Lottery Programs. The four that you will most often see are what we call c. O. P. , the certificate of Preference Program, the dthp which is the displaced penance Housing Preference program. The neighborhood resident Housing Program and the live worth preference. I moved in my new home february 25th and 2019. The neighborhood Preference Program really helped me achieve that goal and that dream was with eventually wind up staying in San Francisco. The next steps, after finding out how well you did in the lottery and especially if you ranked really well you will be contacted by the leasing agent. You have to submit those document and income and asset qualify and you have to pass the credit and rental screening and the background and when you qualify for the unit, you can chose the unit and hopefully sign that lease. All city sponsored Affordable Housing comes through the system and has an electronic lottery. Every week theres a listing on dalia. Something that people can apply for. Its a bit hard to predict how long it will take for someone to be able to move into a unit. Lets say the lottery has happened. Several factors go into that and mainly how many units are in the project, right. And how well you ranked and what preference bucket you were in. This particular building was brand new and really this is the one that i wanted out of everything i applied for. In my mind, i was like how am i going to win this . I did and when you get that notice that you won, its like at first, its surreal and you dont believe it and it sinks in, yeah, it happened. Some of our buildings are pretty spectacular. They have key less entry now. They have a court yard where they play movies during the weekends, they have another master kitchen and space where people can throw parties. Mayor breed has a plan for over 10,000 new units between now and 2025. We will Start Construction on about 2,000 new units just in 2020. We also have a very big portfolio like over 25,000 units across the city. And life happens to people. People move. So we have a very large number of rerentals and resales of units every year. Best thing about working for the Affordable Housing program is that we know that were making a difference and we actually see that difference on a daytoday basis. Being back in the neighborhood i grew up in, its a wonderful experience. Its a long process to get through. Well worth it when you get to the other side. I could not be happier. [ ] [music] art withelders exhibiting senior art work across the bay for 30 years as part of our traveling exhibits program. For this exhibits we partnered with the San Francisco Arts Commission galleries and excited show case the array of artist in historic San Francisco city hall. [inaudible]. Call me temperature is unique when we get to do we, meaning myself and the 20 other professional instructors we are working with elders we create longterm reps i cant think of another situation academically where we learn about each other. And the art part i believe is a launching pad for the Relationship Building see myself well. And if i dont try when my mom again. She may beat the hell out of mow if i dont try seniors, the population encounters the problem of loneliness and isolation even in a Residential Community there hen a loss of a spouse. Leaving their original home. May be not driving anymore and so for us to be ail to bring the classes and art to those people where hay are and we work with people in all walks of life and circumstances but want to finds the people that are isolated and you know bring the warmth there as much as art skill its personal connection. Men their family cant be well for them. I can be their fell and feel it. I dont have nobody. People say, hi, hi. Hello but i dont know who they are. But i come here like on a wednesday, thursday and friday. And i enjoy. We do annual surveys asking students what our program does for them. 90 plus say they feel less alone, they feel more engaged. They feel more socially connected the things you hope for in general as we age. Right . And see when i do this. I am very quiet. I dont have anybody here talking to me or telling me something because im concentrating on had im doing and im not talking to them. Not just one, many students were saying the program had absolutely transformational for them. In said it had saved their lives. I think it is person to support the program. Because i think ida elder communities dont get a lot of space in disability. We want to support this program that is doing incredible work and giving disability and making this program what supports the art and health in different way bunkham art as a way of expression. A way of like socializing and giving artists the opportunity also to make art for the first time, sometimes and we are excited that we can support this stories and honor their stories through art. We hope the people will feel inspired by the variety and the quality of the creative expressions here and that viewers come, way with a greater appreciation of the richness what elders have to share with us. [music] when i shoot chinatown, i shoot the architecture that people not just events, i shoot whats going on in daily life and everything changes. Murals, graffiti, store opening. Store closing. The bakery. I shoot anything and everything in chinatown. I shoot daily life. Im a crazy animal. Im shooting for fun. Thats what i love. Im frank jane. Im a Community Photographer for the last i think about 20 years. I joined the chinese historical society. It was a way i could practice my society and i can give the community memories. Ive been practicing and get to know everybody and everybody knew me pretty much documenting the history i dont just shoot events. Im telling a story in whatever photos that i post on facebook, its just like being there from front to end, i do a good job and i take hundreds and hundreds of photos. And i was specializing in chinese american history. I want to cover whats happening in chinatown. Whats happening in my community. I shoot a lot of government officials. I probably have thousands of photos of mayor lee and all the dignitaries. But they treat me like one of the family members because they see me all the time. They appreciate me. Even the local cops, the firemen, you know, i feel at home. I was born in Chinese Hospital 1954. We grew up dirt poor. Our family was lucky to grew up. When i was in junior high, i had a degree in Hotel Management restaurant. I was working in the Restaurant Business for probably about 15 years. I started when i was 12 years old. When i got married, my wife had an import business. I figured, the Restaurant Business, i got tired of it. I said come work for the family business. I said, okay. Its going to be interesting and so interesting i lasted for 30 years. Im married i have one daughter. Shes a registered nurse. She lives in los angeles now. And two grandsons. We have fun. I got into photography when i was in junior high and high school. Shooting cameras. The black and white days, i was able to process my own film. I wasnt really that good because you know color film and processing was expensive and i kind of left it alone for about 30 years. I was doing product photography for advertising. And kind of got back into it. Everybody said, oh, digital photography, the year 2000. It was a ghost town in chinatown. I figured its time to shoot chinatown store front nobody. Everybody on grand avenue. There was not a soul out Walking Around chinatown. A new asia restaurant, it used to be the biggest restaurant in chinatown. It can hold about a 1,000 people and i had been shooting events there for many years. It turned into a supermarket. And i got in. I shot the supermarket. You know, and its transformation. Even the owner of the restaurant the restaurant, its 50 years old. I said, yeah. It looks awful. History. Because im shooting history. And its impressive because its history because you cant repeat. Its gone its gone. You stick with her, shell teach you everything. Cellphone photography, thats going to be the generation. I think cellphones in the next two, three years, the big cameras are obsolete already. Mirrorless camera is going to take over market and the cellphone is going to be better. But nobodys going to archive it. Nobodys going to keep good history. Everybodys going to take snapshots, but nobodys going to catalog. They dont care. I want to see you. Its not a keepsake. Theres no memories behind it. Everybodys sticking in the cloud. They lose it, who cares. But, you know, i care. Last september of 2020, i had a minor stroke, and my daughter caught it on zoom. I was having a zoom call for my grand kids. And my daughter and my these little kids said, hey, you sound strange. Yeah. I said im not able to speak properly. They said what happened. My wife was taking a nap and my daughter, she called home and said hes having a stroke. Get him to the hospital. Five minutes later, you know, the ambulance came and took me away and i was at i. C. U. For four days. I have hundreds of messages wishing me get well soon. Everybody wished that im okay and back to normal. You know, i was up and kicking two weeks after my hospital stay. It was a wakeup call. I needed to get my life in order and try to organize things especially organize my photos. Probably took two million photos in the last 20 years. I want to donate to an organization thats going to use it. Im just doing it from the heart. I enjoy doing it to give back to the community. Thats the most important. Give back to the community. Its a lot for the community. I was a born hustler. Im too busy to slow down. I love what im doing. I love to be busy. I go nuts when im not doing anything. Im 67 this year. I figured 70 im ready to retire. Im wishing to train a couple for photographers to take over my place. The younger generation, they have a passion, to document the history because its going to be forgotten in ten years, 20 years, maybe i will be forgotten when im gone in a couple years but i want to be remembered for my work and, you know, photographs will be a remembrance. Im frank jane. Im a Community Photographer. This is my story. When youre not looking, franks there. Hell snap that and then hell send me an email or two and theyre always the best. These are all my p p p p p clapping. the airport it where i know to mind visions of traffic romance and excitement and gourmet can you limousine were at San Francisco inspirational airport to discover the awardwinning concession that conspiracies us around the world. Sfo serves are more 40 million travelers a year and a lot of the them are hungry theres many restaurant and nearly all are restaurant and cafe thats right even the airport is a diane designation. So tell me a little bit the food program at sfo and what makes this so special well, we have a we have food and Beverage Program at sfo we trivia important the sustainable organic produce and our objective to be a nonterminal and bring in the best food of San Francisco for our passengers. I like this its is inaudible i thank my parents for bringing me here. This the definitely better than the la airport one thousand times better than. I have a double knees burger with bacon. I realize im on a diet but im hoping this will be good. It total is San Francisco experience because theres so many people and nationalities in this town to come to the airport especially everyone what have what they wanted. Are repioneering or is this a model. Were definitely pioneers and in airport commemoration at least nationally if not intvrl we have many folks asking our our process and how we select our great operators. The food option in San Francisco airport are phenomenal thats if it a lot of the airports yeah. You dont have the choice. Some airports are all about food this is not many and this particular airport are amazing especially at the tirnl indicating and corey is my favorite i come one or two hours before my flight this is the life. We definitely try to use as many local grirnts as we can we use the goat cheese and we also use local vendors we use greenly produce they summarize the local soured products and the last one had 97 percent open that. Wow. Have you taken up anything unique or odd here. Ive picked up a few things in napa valley i love checking chocolates theres a lot of types of chocolate and caramel corn. Now this is a given right there. Im curious about the customer externals and how people are richmond to this collection of cities youve put together not only of San Francisco food in San Francisco but food across the bay area. This type of market with the local savors the highend products is great. I know people cant believe theyre in an airport i really joy people picking up things for their friends and family and wait i dont have to be shopping now we want people take the opportunity at our location. How long has this been operating in San Francisco and the late 18 hours it is one of the best places to get it coffee. We have intrrnl consumers that know of this original outlet here and come here for the coffee. So lets talk sandwiches. Uhhuh. Can you tell me how you came about naming our sandwiches from the katrero hills or 27 years i thought okay neighborhood and how do you keep it fresh you can answer that mia anyway you want. Our broadened is were going not irving preserves or packaged goods we take the time to incubate our jogger art if scratch people appreciate our work here. So you feel like out of captured the airport atmosphere. This is its own the city the Airline Crews and the bag handlers and the frequent travels travelers and weve established relationships it feels good. When i get lunch or come to eat the food i feel like im not city. I was kind of under the assumption you want to be done with our gifts you are down one time not true we have a lot of regulars we didnt think wed find that here at the airport. People come in at least one a week for that the food and service and the atmosphere. The food is great in San Francisco its a coffee and i took an e calorie home every couple of weeks. Im impressed i might come here on my own without a trip, you know, we have kids we could get a babysitter and have diner at the airport. This is a little bit of things for everybody theres plenty of restaurant to grab something and go otherwise in you want to sit you can enjoy the experience of local food. Tell me about the future food. Were hoping to bring newer concepts out in San Francisco and what our passengers want. I look forward to see what your cooking up laughter today weve shown you the only restaurant in San Francisco from the comfortableing old stand but you dont have to be hungry sfo has changed what it is like to eat another an airport check out our oblige at tumbler dating. Com [music] so, can you tell us what it was like for you during your First Encounter with the San Francisco Fire Department . Yep. It was super cool i got to learn about the dry standing pipe correction. It is actually called, dry sand piper just stand pipe. Tomato. You know. Yea. So, what is coming up next for what is that for . Oh , firefighter backsterinvited mow to a fire station to see the cool stuff firefighters use to put out fires. You have seen the had doors open like a space ship from out of nowhere. I close my eye its is like im there right now wow whoa. Watch out, man. What is that for . What is this . These are fire engines they might look alike they are both red. White top and red lights on top. This is a new 2021 fire engine and this is an older 2014 fire engine. If you cant tell, this one is shorter and narrower than our older fire engines. They have cool things like recessed lights. Roll up doors. 360 degree cam ares and more that is important as the city is moving toward slower and safer streets adding parklets and bulb outs and bike lanes we need to decrease our footprint to keep us and the Community Safer on emergency scenes. Whats back there . When is not guilty fire engine. Great question. I want to see, sure. Lets go back and look at the equipment and the fire pump on the fire engine. This is a fire pump. It is cool all the colors and all that. This fire pump and this engine holds 500 gallons of water that is a lot. A lot of water. It is push out 1500 gallons a minute of water. We can lose our 500 gammons quickly. Why we use hoses like this to connect to a fire hydrant and that gives us unlimited amount of water to help put a fire out temperature is important we have enough fire engine in San Francisco to put fires out. So we can reduce the injuries and minimize loss of life and minimize property damage. [music] mr. Will. Mr. Will. Will oh. Daydreaming. Thanks, everybody for watching bye [music] good morning everybody [applause] good morning. [applause] and welcome. [applause] theres my grandma. Well