Transcripts For SFGTV Mayors Disability Council 61716 20160621

Its an embarrassment to be a witness of what the police does and is allowed to do on the streets of San Francisco, going around and killing people. The police are here to the job of the police is to help, to assist, and it prevent the killing of people, but instead what we see happening is that they are going around the streets killing people as if they were animals. Its very saddening for parents, for mothers and fathers to hear that their loved ones have been assassinated on the street by the Police Department. If there are indeed changes happening for the better, there are improvements happening, reforms happening, we should be able to see them . We should be cognizant of them and be able to see them on the streets, but we dont see them at all. This cannot and should not stay as it is. We need to actually see the reforms that you all talk about on the street. We need to see them here and we need to see them on the streets. So thank you very much and in ending, i would like to thank all of the people who are here with us from community. And i would like to thank you supervisors, for being here. Thank you. [ applause ] hello. My name is trey obega and im a member of casa and im a 12th grader at the college prep. Im here in solidarity with the organizations fighting for a city budget for humanity and not brutality. We care about the working families as the city becomes more gentrified and as sfpd is not held accountable for its actions as a youth, im here today because i know what its like to be racially profiled by the sfpd. Officers are immediately acknowledged for doing something good in the community, but they withhold information from the generality public to mask wrong doings. For example, in the alex nieto case, the community waited six months for an autopsy report and nine months to hear the names of the officers involved in the killing. Nietos killing could be have been avoided if we implemented the preforms with this resolution. Were here to ask that you support the reform and resolutions proposed by john avalos, so Community Input can be used to increase tranceparency and accountability of sfpd and we also echo the demands of Community Partners in prioritizing funds that will help working families of color stay in San Francisco. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. [ applause ]. Hello. My name is sophia, im a student at ica high school in the 10th grade and i am also a member of casa and im here with others fighting for the budget that prioritized humanity and not brutality. As a youth, im here because sfpd has killed innocent people and were here united because we care about the city and poor workingclass families as the city becomes more gentrified. The sfpd is killing our people, but not receiving any consequence. Its ridiculous. They are taking most of our tax money and all of the Community Wants is to seek change in the police standards. The police should not be killing innocent people, but instead they should use minimal force and deescalate situations. We want the board of supervisors to support the communityled reforms on Police Accountability, and withheld sfpd budget until they are implemented. Innocent people mostly black and brown are being killed with unnecessary amounts of bullets, shot at them, we will not give our money to those who are killing our community. The people if the police is supposed to support and protect the community, to support supervisor avalos to increase accountability and transparency of sfpd and echo the demands of Community Partners to prioritize funding to help families in San Francisco. Thank you. [ applause ]. My name is jose and i live in bayview and here in solid [kwraeurlt ] with all of the organizations here today fighting for our city budget that prioritizes humanity and not brutality. Im here because i know that we were here to protest because sfpd have made mistakes and people have died because of the Police Department. We unite because we care about we care about your city. We care about the quality of life of poor people. As sfpd is not held accountable for its action. I dont feel safe around sfpd because of all of the racial profiling, racist of scandals with holds the Police Department budget until reforms are implemented. You should listen because erving wants change, everybody wants to have a Better Future. We ask for a change, but my future is still atrisk and i dont feel safe around police. Were here to ask that you support the reforms and resolution proposed by john avalos. So Community Inputs can be used to increase transparency and accountability of sfpd. We also echo the demands of Community Partners in prioritizing funds that will help working families of color stay in San Francisco. Thank you. [ applause ] good afternoon. I just wanted to start off by saying its ridiculous that we all have to come here to talk about the budget. My name is guillermo, 16 years old and i attend Downtown High school in the 12th grade. I live in bayview and im a member of casa housta and here in solidarity with all of the organizations here today fighting for a city budget that prioritizes humanity and not brutality. Im also here to make a change and fight for my community. Im here because im angry that cops get away with murder. Were here united because we care about our city and care about the quality of life for poor people and working families as the city becomes more gentrified. As sfpd is not held accountable for its actions. The cops hurt and kill people with impunity and also i dont feel safe because of the racialprofiling, racism text scandaling and murders of our people. The law protects officers. We want the beforeds board of supervisors to support this and withhold funding until they are implemented. As the youth we are the future and we want sfpd to change. Here here were here to ask that you support the resolutions proposed by john avalos. So Community Input can be used to increase transparency and accountability of sfpd and echo the Community Partners in prioritizing funds that will help working families of color stay in San Francisco. Thank you. [ applause ] hello. My name im 15 and attend Lowell High School in the 10th grade. I live in the mission and member of casa housta and here in solidarity with the organization for a city budget that prioritizes humanity and not brutality. Were here united because we care about our city and care about quality of life for poor and working families, as the city becomes more gentrified and as sfpd is not held accountability for their actions. We cant trust the police when a man is shot 59 times and its not considered Excessive Force. His life did not need to be taken. The deescalation techniques were asking for could have prevented his death. We want the board of supervisors to support reform on accountability and withhold funding until implemented. Community is asking for Police Accountability and reforms. We want minimal use of force and most definitely want to preserve life. Were here to ask that you support the reform and resolutions proposed by john avalos, so Community Input can be used to increase transparency and accountability of sfpd. We also echo the demands of Community Partners and prioritizing funds that will help working families of color stay in San Francisco. Thank you. [ applause ] my name is daphne and i live in Outer Mission and member of casa housta and im here in salad [kwraeurlt ] solidarity as the city becomes more gentrified. Something that sfpd is not held accountability for actions. I dont feel safe around sfpd which is strange because they are here to protect and preserve. We want the board of supervisors to support communityled reforms on Police Accountability and withhold sfpd budget until they are implemented. Sfpd should practice deescalation techniques and minimal use of forcing and no need for them to immediately use their gun and say i fear for my safety. Its a [ bleep ] argument and the murder could have been avoid. Although the argument is legit in some cases, deescalation should always be the first step which dealing with the situation. The board of supervisors should listen to Community Members, have Police Accountability because were the most impacted by them and fear them because we never know how they will react to us. We have no confidence in the Police Department if there are no consequences. Were here too ask that you support the reforms and resolutions proposed by john avalos, to Community Input can be used to increase transparency and accountability for sfpd. Wee we also echo the demands of prioritizing funds to help working families of color stay in sf. [ applause ]. Hello, im 16 years old and attend Balboa High School in the 11th grade. I live in vernal heights neighborhood, where alex nieto was killed. Im a member of casa housta and here with organizations in solidarity fighting for a budget that prioritizes humanity and not brutality and sfpd has to be held accountable. Were here united because we care about our city and the quality of life for poor people and working families as the city becomes more gentrified and the Police Department is not held accountability for their actions. If they are not, it means that they are going to continue to harass people. Community members have been racially profiled and physically hurt and even murdered. I believe an Early Intervention system could help in the city. We want the board of supervisors to support communityled reforms on Police Accountability, withhold sfpd budget until they are implemented. The board of supervisors should listen to us because the community interacts more with sfpd and we are the ones who are observing a different behavior than how they are supposed to act. They are supposed to protect and serve and some do, but there needs to be consequences for the officers that dont protect and serve and preserve life. Thank you [ applause ] my name is im reading a statement on behalf of the three recently graduated masters in Public Health students at sf state in support of john avalos resolution. We conducted and explored what measures might effectively address this Public Health problem . The Public Health literature is beginning to reflect what communities in sf and particularly communities of color already know Police Violence has deepened and has Lasting Health impacts. While death and injury are the most visible and extreme, the trauma of experiencing or witnessing violence can lead to impacts to the individuals and their families and broader community. The threat of violence and unjustfied stops and searches can increase chronic diseases. Its clear that the violent polices is a Health Hazard to the individuals and communitis and impacts are distributed unequally. Furthermore, the Data Available to understand the accident and impact of this problem is often incomplete or unavailable from sources to cause us to rely on the uk guardian. Supervisor avalos proposality takes us in the right direction of accountability and as Public Health practitioners we wholeheartedly support his proposal this proposal is a result of community consolation and organizing. [ inaudible ] good afternoon. My name is juana teresa, bayview resident and with the justice for alex nieto and casa housta just cause and here in solidarity with the Budget Coalition, and just to call out that our supervisors have left while our youth people are speaking to advocate for their communities. As complete disrespect, i wanted to call that out for those not paying attention. Im here to support the resolution written by john avalos to preserve 200 million of sfpds budget because our tax dollars are misused to sustain the most heavily funded Police Department in the entire bay area that has shown to be racist, corrupt and violence towards people of color to gentrify our community. Our community cannot trust the department that has continued to demonstrate its rotten to the core and believe that the resolution that has been working with Community Members speaks to the need for transparency and accountability to cause the loopholes, such as making it mandatory for minimum use of force and alternatives of deescalation and making sure if the police force are First Responders and quarterly reports to make sure that we have Public Knowledge of the arrests and use of force including demographics and other data. We know how this game works and behind closed doors the poa, and to remind you that you work for us and not the poa. So your goal is to look to the best interest of the people of San Francisco. Many of you approved 35 million to expand sfpds budget for last year [ inaudible ] thank you. Next speaker, please. Im an artist and educator and one of the few africanamerican citizens still left in San Francisco, one of the few that was born here. I first want to acknowledge the courage and strength of these young people behind me and if you supervisors could show one ounce of that courage and do the right thing and support mr. Avalos proposal. I have been in situations unfortunately that i had knives and guns pulled on me. I didnt resort to violence, but i was able to talk myself out of situations. If the Police Department cant do that, what confidence are we supposed to have in them . The message that they are sending is that their lives are more important hang it than ours and they have the authority to shoottokill. You have a homeless person on the floor and young man shot in the back, is that supposed to make us feel safe . If armed police was a deterrent to crime, there would be no crime and you continue to go against any research that shows educational and economic opportunitis are stronger deterrents to crimes than policing us. I work in Public School and they are grossly underfunded and most of the trouble students that i deal with, black males, who know for sure they are headed to the Prison Industrial Complex because of the policies you support on a daily basis. You have an opportunity to partially correct a tragic misstep and withhold our own tax dollars from our Armed Paramilitary force that is shooting us down . Do you have the ability to stand up to the Police Officers association that has been calling you out . Do you have the courage . The dignity to do the right thing . [ inaudible ] [ applause ] good afternoon everybody, my name is mary clear, im 19yearold and i was born and raised in the tenderloin and 6th street in soma and im representing ohanas and i would really appreciate some eye contact and just make it look like you are interested in what i have to say, because important to all of us. And two things, one youth services. There arent enough programs and we need to prioritize funding towards these services. Two, Affordable Housing. I have lived in studio apartments my whole life with five other people, because it was the only way for my family to get by and since i was born, almost 4,000 families have been evicted by ellis act. These have some of the things that we should be prioritizing. Thank you. [ applause ] whose budget . Our budget whose budget . Our budget whose city . Our city whose budget . Our budget whose budget . Our budget [ applause ]. Thank you very much for being here. Good afternoon. First i want to thank the youth for coming out and standing up for justice and i want to thank supervisor avalos for having the courage to bring the resolution before people. My name is adrian and im a resident of San Francisco, and also, a member of san franciscans for Police Accountability. I am speaking today in support of supervisor avalos resolution regarding holding 200 million in reserve from the San Francisco Police Departments budget. Until there is a accountability of this department, with the San Francisco Police Departments history of killing and harassing people in black and brown communities. The transferring of Police Officers who have committed crimes in our communities. For example, officer morris who was transfered from the mission station to the bayview and the accepting of officer cabilo, who killed a 14yearold boy in south San Francisco and is now employed as part of the Mission Police station. These actions show a lack of accountability of the San Francisco Police Department. And has only widened the gap between our communities and the police. By supporting supervisor avalos resolution, you been holding the San Francisco Police Department accountable, and showing our communities that you are listening to our needs and demands. So i hope that you will vote in favor of this. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is glide. Echoing the earlier speaker, is there a quorum or some sort of minimum amount of people that are supposed to be in the committee listening . Were supposed to have three what is that . Three . Three out of five. Whatever. Im here to speak on johns resolution. Thank you, john. Regarding the sfpd budget, a budget that is also bloated. And ineffective in serving and protecting the black, brown, and poor segments of our city. Cops are getting away with murder, as you know, we protested and spoke to you, the sups and commission and the alex nieto trial and things are moving slowly as molasses. You need to take the time to deal with someone who is in distress and adopt a team of compassionate people and monitor the cops behavior, amongst other things. Then can you can release the 200 million portion of that. We got rid of chief suhr. It was good, but symbolic and maybe the rare indictment of a cop here and there would be the only way to turn the tide. Viva alex, mario and jessica and the killings must stop. Thank you. [ applause ]. My name is kevin and im speaking on behalf of the National Lawyers gilds an attorney on their board. First i would like to mention i find it very disrespectful that a majority of the board has left while the youth came to speak. Their Voice Matters the most and i believe their message must be spread and you must tell them what you have heard. Supervisor john avalos Community Members and groups and activists have come together calling on reform of the San Francisco Police Department. Many groups. Some of these that were adversely affected by Unlawful Police killings. Their family members and the justice and love for alex nieto coalition, the justice for carr lopez coalition. They represent and put in hard effort to put this together and we have reviewed and drafted it as attorneys, and vet that this is what needs to be done. There are many issues that we urge you to read and carefully consider, so that you will support it. This general order requiring deescalation and minimal use of force makes it so police cant do whatever they want. Not just reasonable force, but minimal force must be used. The model to respond appropriately to the crisis so we can prevent situations that have happened tragically in this recent history. The eas requires training that will also prevent and also costsaving measures. It would prevent anything such as an oakland Police Department and their ongoing costs that they are incurring. Furthermore, i just want to create i just want to announce make clear what is true these people that have been killed recently, jessica williams, alex nieto and luis gongora [ inaudible ] [ applause ] thank you, next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is fred mall hein and im here because as a 43year resident of San Francisco, i have never seen homelesslevels at nearly this high. I support the budget justice coalition, and as you make budget decisions, i urge you to fund the Human Resources programs that lead to Homeless Housing exits, provides our residents with mental illness, the support that they deserve, provide homeless Employment Services, help the children of homeless families gets the education that they need and help our seniors and lowincome seniors in their homes. Please do not spend resources that criminalize the homeless for more case managers to send them out of town or supply the police with tasers. I know your days are busy, but if you need further convincing how you should vote, i encourage you to take a lunchtime walk heading downtown. There are many reasons for prioritizing funding for the homeless and here are five. Homelessness affects the quality of life for all san franciscans. We are in this together. Limited access to bathrooms leaves no alternatives. Human waste on our streets is hazardous to your health. Everyone needs decent shelter, and a safe place to make their lives productive. Homelessness is bad for San Franciscos tourism, Convention Industry and undermine ours pride that San Francisco is everyones favorite city. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. Im the associate director at Episcopal Community services and we thank you for what you are doing and what you are going to be doing over the next couple of days to support the health of vulnerable san franciscans. You know, folks who are homeless, recent csf study shows that 25yearsold older in every aspect of health and chronological age and more impactful thing we can do is prevent homelessness and urge your support of hespa and Budget Coalition short term rental subsidy and evictiondefense programs to prevent homeless. Our work is to see that they are rehoused quickly and impactful way of ensuring that is supporting Employment Program and others talked about the homeless partnerships and across those programs, homeless clients who come in 45 are permanently housed at exit. So that is a good investment in shortterm homelessness for san franciscans, as well as longer term rental subsidies. So that folks can afford marketrate housing. The reason why the Employment Programs are asking for a secondyear of funding while the mayor as generously given the firstyear funding because in a twoyear budget were scaling down and closing our program instead of building it up. Finally 80 of the tenants in our housingfirst programs, in our sro tenants, sro buildings are food insecure. So we support the asks of the Budget Coalition and the Food Security task force to ensure that we dont take two steps forward with medical coverage for everyone, for permanent housing finally and a stepback wards when residents cant afford [ inaudible ]. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. [ applause ] in personal development socialization, dignity, structure, financial independence, a dream for a Better Future, employment is so much more than just a job. For Homeless People or nonhomeless, although if you are homeless, the barriers are countless and the barriers to getting housing and keeping housings is countless. Im part. Homeless employment collaborative and service coalition. We are nine agencies. The only nine agencies in the community that provide training and Employment Services for unhoused neighbors. We are here to thank mayor ed lee for back funding one year and asking for funding for fiscal year 1718 and beyond. Each program is tailored to meet the needs of jobseekers and our problems help with adult education, trainings, job leads and hiring fairs. We assist in creating resumes and online profiles and performing mock reviews, et cetera. Most importantly their selfesteem. All of these things are essential for finding and keeping a job and all of these things are essential for finding and keeping Homeless Housing. The last of a the loss of a job is leading cause of homelessness and it acts as homeless prevention. Collectively we exceed our hud goals for the folks we serve and double huds goal for us of our folks who find permanent housing by the end of our program. All of our programs leverage around funding as well. Were not asking you to fund our budgets entirely. Were asking for less than 1. 4 Million Dollars across the nine agencies, which is [ inaudible ] [ applause ] thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Members of the board of supervisors, my name is laurisa and im the executive director of the Center American resource center. I would like to say that were in full support of supervisor avalos initiative and we are stewards of public dollars, of taxpayer dollars. We have annual fiscal reviews, Program Reviews and if a nonprofit does not deliver on its promise, the funding is cut. The Police Department should be held to even a higher standard. They carry weapons, and they must also show that they are making an impact in our community. They are job is to protect people of the city and please withhold their funding. Im here to speak on deferred action for childhood arrivals and i delivered a packet for you reporting on the status of these family and to highlight while San Francisco has lived up to the promise of voting in favor of did due process for all and responding with emergency or supplemental funds for legal representation, we have seen after 18 months that these familis are falling into crisis. Many of them are becoming homeless. Many of them are nonenglish speakers, but also many have low literacy rates and need navigation help for supportive systems. [ applause ]. Thank you, next speaker. Hello. My name is Julia Antonio and here with the coalition with support of the Budget Coalition ask and hespa ask and i want to speak around our housing ask. I was formerly homeless at 15 yearsold and i was not housed until i was 20. What i went through from 1520, i suffered through Domestic Violence for three years and i was a drug addict. And you know, i felt ashamed. Nobody really know, unless they are watching this right now probably knows. A word i heard today that i thought was very important is stability. For these kids we need to make sure their lives are stable. I dont want to see another kid go through what i went through, five high schools in two years until i dropped out at age 16. Stability is so important. I mean, think about growing up and you are sitting at the table doing homework with your mom or your dad, or you take the same path to School Every Day and you walk to school. You shower in the same bathroom every day by yourself and you dont have to wait in line or wait 510 minutes. You know where your food is coming from. You know you wont be hungry at night and all of this is extremely important for children as we all know. My daughter was delays in developmental skills from not being able to crawl on the floor, because the house we were renting was so infested with roaches. We just need the stability and lets do it for the kids, please, please. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, jane and mark and john. Just want to say thanks everybody for coming and holding im a longterm mission resident 15th and shotwell, amidst a myriad of tent encampments and Vice President of the San Francisco land trust. I just want to say that the support for the legislation that you are proposing, this is all systemic issues as we have seen. As people are displaced, its just a slippery slope. And then they are on the streets and living in a tent and who knows what could happen from there . I also want to say that i hope you vote for the first right of refusal that potentially is coming up and also to increase support for the small Site Acquisition Fund . Again its all systemic Police Violence. Police are not equipped to deal with the Mental Health issues and not there to solve homelessness, but to protect people from crime. People who are there dont want to be committing crime because they are so desperate. So i hope you do the right thing, right of first refusal and the acquisition funds and withholding funds from sfpd. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. Good afternoon, board. My name is daniel, a native borne san franciscan and still able to live and work here in the city. Im here to ask to you increase the budget for small Site Acquisition Fund and first right of refusal for those buildings that are being sold that is creating drought of communities for people of color and homeless. My father had to move our family around the bay multiple time because of his wages not able to keep up with the cost of housing in San Francisco. Help keep families in San Francisco. Im here to support supervisor avalos resolution and overpolicing and instability of housing of people are color are deeply connected. It has the largest impact on quality of life. How to determine a quality of life and future for themselves . And then add to that the Excessive Force and terror from overpolicing that we urge you to enforce accountability through this resolution. I urge you again to make the choices that support the longevity of families of color by increasing the small sites acquisition funds, implement the right of first refusal for tenants in buildings being told and Supervisor John Avalos resolution. Families of color deserve as much support and attention as investors with money. Thank you. please standby for change of captioner if flirt down to the officers on the street and also this communities demand for Crisis Intervention Team that wills has oversight weve learned that the officer that shot louis already had crisis intervention training so we need further oversight sight and until those conditions are met the money should be wreld those general orders are part of training in other jurisdictions in other departments in the region and these are not already being thank you, maam. Next speaker, please. clapping. . Good afternoon, supervisors im current employed that that hypocrite house in support of the ask and the employment and Training Services in the homeless Employment Service coalition i believe this investment will impact the issues of business even though homelessness is the number one issue in the city of San Francisco the budget allocates less than two percent but shifting to invest instead of criminalizing the homeless will help the homelessness folks actually help homelessness folks opportunities to find housing and employment these chances will impact post office oh, lost any focus all right. I urge you to support this proposal and the preservation of Training Services the agencies that homeless Employment Services coalition thank you clapping. thank you. Next speaker. Hi my name is sarah grosz man here from the homeless Employment Coalition first of all, thank the mayor for the funding from year one im here for year two employments are a pathway to housing tickets. For our residents please requester this as a piece of the solution for homelessness most of us would loss our housing without a job a personal that lives in a shelter what did you do housing and a history of abuse and sexual abuse and hospitalizations those is an example of the underserved underrepresented population that we serve are we offer paid training and education and preemployment and job placement and Retention Services for people to get and keep jobs a strong interest in the program example up to 15 people come to my orientation thats my program alone other organizations in the collaborative we offer training for people with disabilities in hayes valley ive seen people without support getting training with theyre first paycheck i run a Janitorial Program on Treasure Island and seen planter get certification that led them to fulltime employment and come off of ssi and others benefits and people move into pardon me housing we need our support for the positive programs for homeless san franciscans thank you, thank you clapping. thank you. Next speaker. Hello and good afternoon. Im wendy work for hospitality house and come here to support the proposal and the homeless Employment Services coalition i am one of the folks formerly incarcerated and homeless now im in a bmr i use the charter to move into my blaefrts and use hypocrite house for Employment Services and use mission hiring if i didnt have those services i think thank the mayor for helping with the first floor but the second year what will happen 20 million for criminal lou gehrigs disease homeless folks i can be homelessness on the streets or formally incarcerated as well but here i am am speaking for the homeless and incarcerated thank you. clapping. thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon jordan and davis im a proud member of the volunteering collaborative here to support of accident transgender and the coalition as well as the al last proposal im a formerly homelessness transwoman and on my way to get surgery but as great as the Sewer Program ill put other another wait list support of full funding for the program and giving more incentive for providers to participate and get surgery when one needs not to be housed but is restrooms and many of the sros do have a a disability rights activists we need normal listing subsidize with private bathrooms working elevators and ground floor and nonhotels with busted elevators by randy shaw and please i say we should starve their budget in half and get rid of the Police Preservation and housing pertinence crime and tents centers as lobster pride month we let me say no criminal no ferry and no pride in gentrification and no criminal in deportation are killing queers and transgenders please support a better budget and the supervisor avalos proposition thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. clapping. hi good afternoon, supervisors jakes i didnt executive director of hospitality im here in support of hespa and the policing of the community with the real solution and not criminalization and we know that homelessness is one of the top issues no San Francisco o San Francisco people are facing evictions Homeless People are little chance of understanding housing that is affordable and 6 hundred and 25 units are in the pipeline in the next 6 years shelters are struggling to meet the needs of folks and right now i chaekd e checks did waiting list for shelters 8 hundred plus for adults theyre on the street lights with no more than to go facing criminalization and is deterioration of their houses fortunately hespa has a solution before you we acknowledge and thank you, mayor ed lee for providing the funds and for subsidies and Employment Services and shelters we ask you to round out the budget with additional solution those are real ways to move people into housing and help are employment and gain stieblt i want to call out the funding for the Services Coalition over the past 3 years in coalition has served 2 thousand individuals 46 percentage have ended their homelessness and 60 percent objected employment or improved in their education this is above hud funding and do hud beneficiary for this group of folks were proud of our successes if we dont get those well ramp down the programs please help us. Thank you. Next speaker. clapping. good afternoon, everyone. Im scott with the liveable streets i want to thank you all for your auspicious and attention through those important comments im here today to ask for your support for this request sunday streets exist in most San Francisco neighborhoods many have of you are champions the city it descender and descender and to support Small Businesses and provide temporary open space and recreational opportunities we work hard to keep it a community and not a Corporate Program that provides space for all people our staff is 3. 5 gets dozens of requests if neighborhood groups to bring assessable place streets and neighborhood block parties to our Community Sunday streets will remain free to the communities that means we cant guarantee programming especially in the neighborhoods that need it the most we cant reach the people with that benefit that meets with the were bailey hanging on with no capacity for funding a or to respond to the requests or reach beyond the routes so sunday streets it the opportunity to grow and support of local Small Businesses and a Community Space to come together to have fun i ask you to support sunday streets request for add back support this year thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Members of the board of supervisors my name is lauren im the Public Housing advocate at human rights the only one im here to ask you to support the hespa ask today right now Public Housing is in the biggest transmission through the rad program we have an opportunity to set a National Standard in the way you fund housing advocates including the attorneys that provide the Vital Services to keep the Housing Resident housing the last time the Public Housing experiences in change was massive displacement of latino and africanamerican and asianamerican and people notice theyll notice now if the transition didnt go well the people that make the mistake and correct the errors and the attorneys at their legal add with the advocacy collaborative that keep the eviction at bay to check the eviction this is oftentimes unlawful in complete and not served correctly or based on a number that is incorrect as the reconciliation results come out with the new Program Large systemic errors people dont owe any debt at all and not find out without an advocate please support us thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Im across the city from bishop of Veterans Center id like to urge you to support hespa as well as the Budget Coalition and could you id like to raise 3 items from the Budget Coalition that is one to support filipinos this is a historic opportunity that its been needed since redevelopment come into the yerba buena it needs corporation ill urge to support that and to also the filipino tenants Rights Advocacy outreach advocacy a lot of filipinos in the city i dont know if you know that are being forced out of situations illegally harassed out of their housing and dont know their basic tenant rights and i urge to support those important families that provide your basic services throughout the city they really need help and third most importantly i think bishop is to really support of pilot programs Citywide Coalition to look at other bmr prop c proposal the prop c passed that was a great thing that requires that writing to to 33 percent of medium and big projects will be providing Affordable Housing bmr the problem of bmr program has descriptions discretionary it is discriminatory towards people that dont speak english or disabilities or Mental Health exact and evicted without a process even though they won the lottery and qualified we need advocacy grounds to look at himself. Thank you. Next speaker. Thank you if i can get something on the projector. Sfgov can we do the projector thank you. If you can look at it does ways this is a chinese inaudible thats good basically my name is Brown Davis Lee ive spoken before about ideas but what is really upsetting me oh, you turned it off now anyway what is upsetting me about how you can defund the very people that protect you when their knowledge on the street it is a hard issue for people to understand okay now ive been involved with a lot of issues with the San Francisco Police Department have to do whenever they show up and a situation that is very dangerous now sometimes there might be someone that side something wrong when im on the street what i see are a bunch of hoods the ones that be doing all the break into cars and aau dicks out about that dont give a darn about anything but their next hit ive been there and done 3 when you define the people that are primary care the real Homeless People that needs protection you better get it right the San Francisco Police Department and the San Francisco Fire Department the Homeland Security are out there risking their lives for you to be safe and every other person that is in this city so you make sure whenever you do that you do it right isle i dont know if it you understand i was in the navy he protected the country with real bullets you took away those bullets this country falls have a nice day. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors my name is teresa i represent the t l. B. Historic conservational society in the castro and downtown a large selection of lgbtq historical materials that we have in the country one of the largest this year weve got flat wellness in the mayors budget i appreciate that weve had a lot of support from the city over the past few years i want to call out supervisor wiener and supervisor kim for your support i really appreciate your think looking at the possibilities of flowering the fufrndz this year this last week i know that all of you have shared my grief and concern about what is happened in our community i stand with our brothers and sisters who lost their lives in orlando and searched my heart to think about what more to help to prevent tragedies what 2 boils down to ill privileged to be in a position to make a difference the greatest difference is through education surl 5 thousand people coming into the small museum in the castro every year and a small San Francisco state of storefront we contact accurately represent that comprise the lgbtq communities we can do much more a space would barely be adequate in our a kinds of im excited to build a new museum to rival the class museums so beyond the money im looking for leadership and hope to have support from the board of supervisors as we go forward with this project thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is shannon im with ace and im a long time resident of the Mission District and from what ive objected living there the mission is on fire i support funding for small site acquisitions and im asking the supervisors to support any policy that sports the right of first right of refusal of tenants we need protections the seniors, the disabled the brown and black people the lowerincome people need protection our housing our rent control is disappearing everyday it is involuntary frightening what is happening right now San Francisco is known as the city with the heart and we see the sculptures around the city i think we need to replace them with dollar signs lets bring the hearts back to San Francisco lets bring humility back i support supervisor avalos policy change or funding change wruld the fund thank you for being here and listening and im glad to see that none of you are asleep yet. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello thank you for being here im also with ace of california for Community Empowerment a teacher at laparobeggar my partner is taught at sheraton for 9 years were to educators that face displacement because of the housing credit crisis we should purchase the singlefamily were renting and the landlords have contract cancer and agreed and committed to sell the house 2 had had thousand lower than the market in the area but even with two he teacher salaries we cant afford the amount hes asking for because of this and renter or rented is high in the city were considering leaving the city were asking the city to provide the gap funding for educators that my partner eye need you work at laparobeggar High School One of the highest graduation in Public School with open enrollment for the past 5 years School Quality ill wish you provide gap funding for assistance in the city thank you, thank you, thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is julie i dont think an organizer with the Community Group ace we current have organized groups in bayview, district 10 and district 11 and also in the mission berry no ear this is been a 6 month battle to get the city and the Mayors Office to properly fund inside displacement strategies to we went in october our Bayview Group went to city hall outside of the Mayors Office asking for Real Investment and inside displacement and met with locked doors we in december we made another public call we repeatedly asked for down payment against displacement really investment in stopping displacement wear really calling for Solutions Like more investment in buying upland away from the speculative market and more funding for the small site acquisition and a great voice for the communities to stop displacement and instead were seeing the opposite to we need funding for homeowners that need help staying in their homes and need funding for tenants like jimbo bob that want to buy the homes they live and funding for tenants that want to collectively take control of the building so before speculators can buy them up i urge you, we need real solution and we need tenants and homeowners to have a greater voice in the city than the Tech Companies and the real estate destroy thank you. Thank you. clapping. next speaker. Hello my name is bill im a San Francisco native i shouldnt be up here i should sell any house and get out the thought city im not going to im border and leave my house to my children im a graduate of Mission High School i see these young kids i dont think theyll be here in 50 years i graduated in 1952 it is sad to see what is happening in the city i was a truckdriver and teacher ive seen the fires that along the contextual and the freeway come down and highrises and people cant live in them not the people i know that is sad to say what is happening in this city im urging you to get some money to keep the people here keep the Young Students that i see are 16 and 17yearolds to stay here and you know, i just love this city its got a lot of history i worked for the Mission High School amount this young lady 16 or 17 years old skenl in i know could look up her grandfather he was a state of mine make some money store the people in the city thank you. Thank you in depth. Thank you my name is andrew with the San Francisco Arts Festival it is successfully concluded with the supportive of board of supervisors at the mason city center i want to give you the new details what happens over one hundred performances from 40 Different Companies in the bayview and 5 thousand people came to see the shows 48 percent from San Francisco and 44 from the bayview and 3 from the rest of the ear and from the california and from 19 other states and washington, d. C. Come to visit the festival and from 6 Different Countries they spent we estimate 377,000 which is 17 times the citys investment given munld by two, that resulted in this in one . 387 million that was spent in the city for the program we are going to be back in fort mason next year and the program where people can see 7 or 8 shows over the course the weekend so this has to been taken an interest what were trying to do is create knowing the opportunities will happen outside the bayview we tried to create a marketplace with the festival a place where the artists can get 09 artist opportunities thank you very much any is there any Public Comment on item one and two anyone else. Good afternoon, supervisors my name is kelly im a human rights orientation with the coalition on homelessness im here to support the budget as asked and in an aspect to direct your attention that were dealing with the housing and Health Crisis and a status quo to approach that with Law Enforcement this is perpetually the issue the budget legislation and also stated the Police Officers are the only staff dispatched to respond even though Police Officers are not trained to look at the individuals or to direct them directly connect them with social services the current use of Police Resources to respond to the quality of life with the homelessness will continue to generate the high costs an jennifer eloquently put it the city spending 20 want 6 million i criminal listings people on the streets better spent on housing the city is pissing in the wind ive spend a lot of time doing outreach in the encampments there is a stigma with people experiencing homelessness is their democrat in his to be honest there are people are forced to live on the streets this is dominate narrative this population absolutely does want housing a pith large groups choose to be homeless the truth the as of today 8 hundred and 39 people on the wait list for the adult shelter we need the budget necessary to do so it is moral thank you. Good afternoon. Deb San Francisco Human Services network im here in support of coalition and the nonprofit segment and many programs first i want to ask to you in fact on the sustainability of our segment to front line the services in the city and the residents rely we appreciate the mayors project nondisplacement program but the budget fails to look at the mandate a history of leadership of increasing wage and benefit policies that are good but fail to include the fund when funding Nonprofit Services so we cant raise our prices those erode our funds so we ask you to adopt a principle to when adopting the mandate and ask you to feed the families for nonprofit for the contracts and general fund and Nongeneral Fund and the Childcare Provider and after the controllers report were asking for 200 and 25,000 in the year and 6 hundred thousand next year i want to say this years theme is a hashtag for San Francisco our city is changing with unprecedented wealth but using what makes our city strong compassionate and unique we have people driven out in the middleincome and in the diversity our people are the priorities we ask that you find the funding to fund those informed Shelter Health care necessity and give people the opportunity to succeed in a city we love and live thank you is there any Public Comment on items 1 or 2 thanks everyone Public Comment is closed. 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Good morning, Everyone Welcome to the welcome to did peoples palace i want to welcome someone that served the governor and the Council Executive of king couldnt my friend gasping lock is here thank you very much. clapping. first, i want to acknowledge that our city is going into the pride month with a heavy heart were all shockedcy the tragic shootings in orlando and our thoughts remain with the that is my understanding and frames by this senseless act that violation against how or our Lgbt Community we stand in solidarity with them although the recent event cause us to pause gives us a renewed sense ever purchase for uniting with unity towards a Better Future for the entire community during the pride celebration well be having a heightened security for you with our Police Department and other Public Safety agencies i encourage everyone to Say Something if you see something happen this is how we work with our community to make sure that everyone is safe in our city has a proud history of inclusiveness and leading the fight against hiv and ada weve congresswoman come a long way since the dark days of aids countrys were getting closer to this because of the people in the room weve got closer to zero thank you to europe of you for all our participation your input, your gowns and leadership clapping. yeah. As you may know San Franciscos aiming become the first city to get to zero this means zero new hiv enacts and zero death from hiv and zero stigma and discriminates were on the right track last year fewer than 200 infections well going get closer and closer advertised go we can do better ill consist we focus on preservation getting people the care immediately slopt and making sure theyre in treatment and have many, many strength to build only one of the strengths ive that and always say that a Strong Community participation we owe much of our second, second to the practices of that diverse is community to tell the truth and listening to the community and collaborating for progress this is the only way to get to zero we want to commend permanent thank all the members of the hiv Planning Council for their hard work and their continued work say commitment in the future your participation in the two predecessor counsels that have shaped noble how our city cares forces those living with hiv and aid but presenting new infections thats a long road for the merging of the Councils Together thank you director garys and the Public Health department on this front is it so exist as one of the first of its kind in the nation the council will take on a unit front on accident fight against ada hiv thank you clapping. your work will allow San Francisco to better coordinate and strengthen our history infrastructure to do planning for the continuum from preservation to wrap around services in council can help us going get to zero and end sdriems we know i think we can make an impact about the discussion that or on blood thats the real stigma in our in addition, we have prioritized fidget against hiv and aids my budget has back filled because of our supervisors hero today supervisor wiener and, of course, supervisor campos and others we had to backfill the unfortunate back cuts from the federal government since nevada no matter what the challenge we did it. clapping. and we remain committed to providing comprehensive care and focus on care on the preservation side kept is a preservation strategy San Francisco started in 2010 our prep Income Tax Program connects people to the resources and there are new now 6 thousand people on the prep in San Francisco and id like to thank supervisor wiener for his leadership in making prep widely available and informed. clapping. so today in addition to swearing in our 0 Planning Council we want to narrow were launching the new Prep Campaign for an uptick of prevention of history let me innovative bearing and supervisor wiener 0 say a few few words about prep. clapping. thank you mr. Mayor im very proud to serve for mayor ed lee hes had every time the budget the first question what are redoing around the hiv dollars so take note of his leadership. clapping. and strong support but i want to make sure we acknowledge the charitable incidents against. Latino and Lgbt Community especially the that concludes my report. Renals and the other communities well hear more and more community the resolve and the currently youve seen from latino and latino Lgbt Community is incredible and im so proud of resolve and the responses and you think many times government loaders and other leaders we forgot the strength of people of color the fortitude we have as native and immigrant community so it is this strength we should count on and look to when they are thinking about our services new opportunity and medications like preparing that can survive ive been arena long enough to watch the urban pounceable names and new names of medications and many campaigns for hiv and aids that have satisfied so many lives in the past as for those new sxiefk games what is important at times what is more important how we tried treat our community of color and respect them and this honor will get us to zero transition and death and stigma i want to acknowledge all our dpw employees that do the work for us i cant do this alone i want to acknowledge folks can you stand for a second. clapping. we have researchers standing, department of Human Resources standing and activists standing theyve been the construction of our department but today, i want to honor our leaders on the hiv Planning Council it has seen me come to those meetings midmarket some days we disagree but many times agree but your role is announced by federal, state, and local government and im proud you have found a way to come together i ask is that mayor four or five years ago is it takes time to come together im proud of you so i want to thank you, very much. Thank you. clapping. im also proud today to announce that starting today, well see a new Prep Campaign that will celebrate prep as a way to reduce the risk of hiv by more than 90 terrace to working closely to make sure we eliminate contribution and remember the stigma is the code word for description and homophobia so thank you, thank you and thank you. clapping. help us get to zero thank you so much thank you. clapping. thank you barbara for really those moving words about orlando i think for a lot of us we woke up and saw those headlines it was like just an absolute punch to the gut to i think we can all remember for those who dont go out as much what it means to be in a gay bar or number those are our community sacrifices and ways that it is not outside of Lgbt Community for generations of our Community Members those are at times the only places where you can guess and be who you are and build community and in fact as were hearing from the extraordinarily hearing stories about the people that were killed in the club and their family members not knowing they were lgbt our lgbt night life no ones in 2016 to play that Community Building and Community Strengthening role and have that scared space stloiltd this go unbelievably horrible massacre is a violation i cant articulate and i think that we owe it to the people that were killed and the people injured to the family families the influence that we should continue to fight to end violation or violence with what is happening every single day and commit to that in terms of the matter at hand i want to thank the mayor for his continued support of the People Living with history and people at risked for the advisory we took office the same month we were hit with the First Federal ryan white and the mayor didnt blink my colleagues didnt bring we continued year after year to really backfill the failure of the federal government clapping. and you know, i came of age as a gay man in 1987 when we were living in the era of fear an association of death and sickness with sex when we didnt no effective treatment the terror of getting tested to wait two weeks will i be positive or dead in a few months and going through that and generations of lgbt people you know having that trauma and the progress weve made over the years is incredible and this cause of San Francisco the because of our communitybased organizations our Community Advocates this city as time and g time again set the standards created the template and nooshd and the rest of the country and world has followed we need to continue to do that and we are continuing to do that with our getting to zero effort ive been proud to work with the department on the getting to zero and again, a template that others replicate and those infections to make sure that People Living with the advisor are healthy and eliminating them and ii know well be successful about a year and a half ago in december of 2014 i announced that i am on preparing that was it was a little bit scary i want to thank the San Francisco aids foundation and uflg for helping me through that process it was a positive response i think that people fundamentally get it we have a tool that so dramatically reduces the risk of infection we need to promote and invest and make sure that people can assess no matter how wealthy i didnt or poor and should have insurance access to powerful prevention tool one our consultant communities are are voices including loud voices that are trying stigma its prep and we have to continue to push back and make sure that the word is out there this matters and will safe lives thank you to everyone and lets keep on fighting to i understand hiv infections. clapping. thank you, supervisor and let me say again, all of you who are im about the to swear in letting me give a personal thank you this is not easy work i know that when our faced with the need to change peoples behavior when our faced with discriminates with stigma when our trying to get informed about the facts it is not easy to do all of that in the faced of things that are going on that sometimes we dont have control over i want to first thank everyone that is stepping up to be on the hiv council without you, we couldnt find a way to get to zero on infections and prevent this deadly disease from increasing the disaster reduce effect please theyre your jobs seriously and also live proudly talk to people continue giving them the encouragement that they need to have in order to do the right thing to save their own lives or their friends or families lives with that, if i can ask all the members of hiv Planning Council to please stand up and raise your hand and yell your names out i repeated. repeated. foreign and domestic. repeated. and that i will bear true faith and allegiance. And to the constitution of the state of california. repeated. that i take this oath freely. repeated. repeated. repeated. repeated. repeated. repeated. repeated. repeated. repeated. that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties. repeated. and during such time as i hold office of as he member of the hiv Planning Council repeated for the city and county of San Francisco members thank you very much thank you congratulations clapping. all right. We get do go to woto go to work 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 clapping. i think we have more companies anywhere in the United States its at the amazing statement were not trying to be flashy or shocking just trying to create something new and original were one of the things about the conduct our you enter and turn your your back and just so the orchestra. The most contrary composer of this time if you accountability his music you would think hes a camera come important he become ill and it was crazy he at the end of his life and pushed the boundary to think were not acceptable at this point for sure it had a great influence he was a great influence on the harmonic language on the contemporary up to now. I thought it would be interesting because they have e he was contemporary we use him on this and his life was you kill our wife you get poisons all those things are Great Stories for on opera. I was leaving behind a little bit which those collaborative dancers i was really trying to focus on opera. A friend of mine said well, what would you really want to do i said opera what is it not opera parallel. Why isnt it are that i have the support now we can do that. I realized that was something that wasnt being done in San Francisco no other organization was doing this as opposed to contemporary we are very blessed in San Francisco to have organizations well, i thought that was going to be our speciality you create a conceptual idea for setting the opera and you spear ahead and work with the other sdierndz to create an overview vision thats the final product felt opera. I was very inspired to work with him because the way he looked at the key is the way i looked at sports looking at the daily. So much our mandate is to try to enter disis particular work theres great dancers and theatre actresses and choirs weve worked with and great video artists is a great place to collect and collaborate. I had a model they have a professionally music yes, maam assemble and as a student i benefited from being around this professional on and on soccer ball and as a conductor id be able to work with them and its helped my growth i had a dream of having a professional residential on and on soccer ball to be an imperial it operates as a laboratory we germ a national the ideas technically and work with activity artists and designers and video all over the on any given project to further the way we tell stories to improve our ability to tell stories on stage. Thats part of the opera lab i was to investigate that aspect of renaissance and new work so thats why this piece it is important it was a renaissance composer. There were young people that are not interested in seeing traditional opera and like the quality and its different it has a story telling quality every little detail is integrated and helps to capture the imagination and thats part of the opera how we can use those colors into the language of today. So one of the great things of the stories of opera and story combined with opera music it allows people to let go and be entertained and enjoy the music instead of putting on headphones. Thats what is great about art sometimes everyone loves it because you have to, you know, really great you have to have both some people dont like it and some people do were concerned about that. Its about thirty something out there thats risky. You know, disliked by someone torn apart and thats the whole point of what were drying to do you never take this for granted you make sure it is the best if you can. Good morning great to see all those yellow shirts out there today my name is miami the director of Planning Department staff and my great honor to be preparing this today and presenting liz for for those of you who dont know who liz is liz is a living Innovation Zone which this is the second of several that will be installed in the city were grateful for the administration and many, Many Department who have had a part in making this happen before i make comments let me introduce the mayor the mayor is a huge supporter and asked us to be experimental how relook at our public spaces in the city to make sure in their engaging to everyone and play with ideas how to engage hope o people in the city and make them lively and safe it is my great pleasure to introduce mayor ed lee. clapping. thank you miami our director of planning good morning, everyone. Good morning. Welcome to liz our notation zone before i say anything let me express our citys condolences and just really the heroic event that happened in orlando remind us we need to continue to work on how diversity and even though people in oornld the Lgbtq Community is suffering tremendously i know we feel a lot here in San Francisco we have a very strong Lgbtq Community in our city i want to again express our citys sorry so far what happened and also the need to ready do something about it in terms of pretending those weapons from peoples hand but most importantly to celebrate the diversity in our city and i know that were on the verbiage of celebrating our provide in fact . Pride month everybody yeah. clapping. this is what we need to do we want to do but need to do it also for the people of orlando whether in North Carolina are mississippi or orlando or in San Francisco we work and represent everyone in our community who we want to make sure they live full lives in our city and be safe at the same time speaking about safety thats part of the event today it is activating our United Nations plaza but doing it in a way that celebrates a lot of thing that have gone on in our tenderloin and settlement for a number of years weve sought to revisit our my mind and the Strand Theatre just this year we opened up the Tenderloin Museum thank you randy for being here today, were just finishing touches and opening of valencia we have downtown streets. clapping. here they are with us a great revitalization organization there helping us to keep everything clean and doing the work to keeps everyone safe thats part of entire revitalization everyone is working in a lot of partnerships whether it is a Community Benefits district and reflective of the corps that have moved in to the my mind and having them participate and volunteer work and support with the Community Benefits agreement the Merchants Association along Market Street are the investment over 5 thousand 5 hundred new housing unit in the longest corridor not great lessons we see a lot of did construction, in fact, when i was walking down here i thought those echo tuned were another sign of construction all of that in collaboration with a you are office of Economic Workforce Development, our shrdz that were doing today how fix it teams and sandy at dpw are here. clapping. plaza when you say plazas you mean reply theyre here they got a big victory on tuesday with the dedicated fund for the park in fact, were putting temple Million Dollars 0 into the children playground up 9 block thats going 101 to be an existing investment. clapping. all of this means many, many more combrupz u group the Government Agencies the nonprofits the Community Organizations the people probation officer who are serving food address providing services were all accounting or working together to make sure were collaboratively but also bringing and lifting everyone else up not to isolate people and have them on thanking their own but notify them into all the services we have and certainly reducing people that need a reason to many live on the streets and activating our open spaces and plaza for everyone that is the most important theme coming today know that our Planning Department and working with all of the different agencies really are concerned about the use of our public realms theyre not isolated places for people that just stick around are hang around but activated and belonging to everyone and people should not feel you think safe in all the Public Places everyone should be welcomed as long as their invite everyone to be participating and working not only our Police Department is working with us but working with the bart controls and work with our ambassador programs, theyre now will be working with the stewards that are making sure that our installations in this entire plaza are kept clean and useful for everyone how many people have tried to swing yet anyone all right. Got to get young and noovlt well, that Innovation Zone is part of privatepublic segment for everyone on the entire stretch of Market Street our Fire Department address a is out there if you have an idea whether playing the piano or having an echo tube or other sounds like probation officers that people and children were having a museum to walk to and having people guide everyone to where decree want to go and see this exciting civic center our you understand plaza this is a place for everyone this is why we put in over 200 million in our whole Street Civic Center rather than to make sure that by the keep our streets not only clean and staff by inviting and useable by everyone this is a city that is for everyone and want to make sure our open spaces 19 are used and welcomed by everyone and well continue doing everything we can in partnerships with everyone whether your representing people that are living in the lowest sros in the tenderloin or the modern housing that is built or in the low income and middleincome housing were starting to there or Artist Spaces were trying to make sure that we have that has part of the our development all the time and rehab agreement all of this the United Nations plaza is excited thank you to all the partners that have with us that continue to work with i see our cd and activist who are here as well and the food trucks are here so you dont go hungry when our playing and working at the same time this is our space of interaction the center and heart of the city i want to make sure it is safe and cleaning around the area of fulsome up to city hall the whether it is all the sides of market or on hyde street all of that area needs a good touch up and more eyes and making sure that everyone is safe especially the kids and children i want more o more people to get into the Tenderloin Museum and 826 van Ness Technology center at the main library for all the youth i just bumped into the larger than hes on his way to another meeting his existed our new Asian Art Museum more hours telethon before and making more money guess what people are coming to all those events well do more of those kicks off zones to activate and invite more people so thank you all for joining us it is another i think reflection of how all of our agencies want to Work Together to create an atmosphere of not just safety and public realms that work for us but just ideas of how to notch with each other wear sitting down and having lunch well talk about the next notation idea to keep this city growing it is ultimately going to be how very share with each other and use the diversity to keep the strength of our city and by the end of the month well have a green pride parade and pride celebration oriental all right. Thank you all for being here. clapping. thank you, mr. Mayor appreciate our comments my great pleasure to introduce supervisor jane kim supervisor kim has been a great insert of activating our public spaces we appreciate her being hero today supervisor kim. clapping. thank you john rahaim about exactly a year ago that the mayor and i were at the Ribbon Cutting for the event across the street that symptoms the reinvestment so many entities into this neighborhood here in the un plaza at the injunction of many of our neighborhoods the tenderloin, middleincome and south beach and hayes valley and actually interesting for the city a site of multiple jurisdiction i see the draept department of real estate and rec and park and public works are here that a have ownership over the site and open space is incredibly important for our neighborhoods i talk about this often the district i represent the few it and small i did parks of any district were one of the faster and the densest and as you may know one filed with families in the tenderloin neighborhood a growing senior population other activation of faces like the United Nations plaza continue to build our community here in the neighborhood and bring together a very diverse Cross Section of what makes this city San Francisco selfinterest and so so i want to acknowledge the many emptied that are engaged in making this neighborhood safer and healthier we have many of the private sectors comboitsz twitter i think to create says to technology no our neighborhood and the mayor mentioned valencia and one of the most problematic former liquor store sites in the neighborhood and as we talk about public works we have the nonprofit likes the downtown street team that continues to do more work thank you. clapping. for making our neighborhood healthier i love seeing you when i walk to city hall from my home there is so much to be proud of working with the exploratorium and the Planning Department staff it is as challenge to figure out how to open our spaces to the public so that all member of our community feel comfortable light and air and ownership our open space public space i love the zone created a pilot they will fouthsd ways to have diverse parts of our city come together and feel comfortable ownership our public space and really creating things for our city i do want to thank the Planning Department on activating our public space and funds and in a fun way but acknowledging so many people worked to make this neighborhood a reality thank you. clapping. thank you supervisor. Thank you again for being here this is who was involved in making this happen i think we all know this is one of the most important spades that was created many years ago and the goal here to try to recognize the importance of this space to recognize that it needs to be welcoming to everyone and frankly have fun so the idea of a living notation zone a temporary installation that people, interact with the space and be safe and be interact were 35e7 e people many may not be like them this is a great testament a great series of partnerships that made is this possible and frankly we learn more anyhow or how to activate public space and move forward an educational process at the same time this is not possible without a series oath very important partnerships first, i want to thank the exploratorium that actually constructed this incredible installation today, i know that period of time from the amount will be here they are a fantastic partner in all the work and unbelievably, and, secondly, i want to thank the Hunters Point family involved in helping us maintain 24 that is a thank you for your work and maintaining this space and, of course, the downtown street team thank you very much for being here. clapping. helping the spaces active it takes a family to pull those things off thank you for being part find our family i want to thank my clarifications the other Department Heads ill recognition each of them before i do i want to take a moment to recognize the passing of Carla Johnson the director of the Mayors Office on disability she was a tireless advocate for the people and her office was involved make sure that the disabled can interact search warrant us and i want to take a moment to recognize carr la and her fingertip are all over this we thank her so much for that all of that. clapping. so let me take a moment if i could to recognize a lot of people some of many are standing behind me oil shortly introduce steve from the exploratorium but i do you may give maybe i should put my glasses on first of all, the unplaza stakeholder with the General Services administration, the art constitute faefrmz thank you so much. The downtown streets team ive mentioned the civic Center Initiative john updyke weve started in the Planning Department creating a partnership with the entities to create a plan for not plaza with our partners with the receptionist so this project will be an important learning tool moving forward with that plan i want to take a motel moment to recollection Phil Ginsburg from the rec and Park Department. clapping. the department of public works had a major role Mohammed Nuru couldnt be here but simon from the public works is here thank you very much simon and naomi kelly from the city offices and todd from the office of Economic Workforce Development. clapping. sandy who i think youve heard here the mayors no fix it team director. clapping. and finally bearing if the department of Public Health as you can see this is an important effort for all of us and a major way to collaborate and learning and moving forward and activating our public victimized so finally lemon introduce steve from the tomorrow and a wonderful collaborate our on this process steve. Hello, everybody hemming try to adjust this. There we go. Okay hi, im steve im the project director if a the x turn studio for public spaces yeah clapping. i work for a team 3 designed and built this installation worked with many people and partners and shops and facilities within San Francisco to make that happen our amazing partners id like to thank john rahaim and the Planning Department for bringing us into the living zone process and they were i think structural in making this happen we built the first phase along Market Street in midmarket and you might have seen it it is to see 0 kre9s listings vessels that stand in each vessel and talk to each other over 50 feet when we first starting work on that we noticed people were psa through not geographical with each and everyone and the world around them this is a nonexploratorium behavior we hope to change that we constructed the listing vessels and noticed new behaviors we noticed people getting up to help to explain the exhibit and people stopping and looking around when unfamiliar solicitation came into their head and stopped to figure out what of the going on we noticed a group of tourist lined up in one dish waiting to talk to a lady smoke a cigarette in another dish we were existed about those types of behaviors par our studio director couldnt be here he likes to call those wrecking balls for a social normal were excited about bringing the exploratorium into public spaces for free and bam a civic partner so clapping. so about a year ago we started talking with the Planning Department to look at un plaza and we realized this space is tackling a set of issues compared to middleincome like the you understand this plaza it is nexus for a Difference Community the tenderloin has the highest tration of children if San Francisco 70 with 35 hundred children living within a few square miles the neighborhood has some of the hoist rent coupled with at t the highest contraption of protecting housing those are spretd groups in the milking with each well to change that it requires a Community Effort and luckily a dedicated group of organizations that are already working to change un plaza id like to give a few thought just. Shout out for making this project a reality first of all, San Francisco planning for bringing us into the Living Zone Program and providing grant and health and navigating accident primarily process and the rec and Park Department for groont us the permits to work on the land. clapping. the office of Economic Workforce Development for providing extra fund for lighting the plaza. clapping. the department of public works for keeping the place looking great and for helping us install the electrical we worked with the electricians. clapping. the the Mayors Office of civic notation for getting this off the ground in program started. clapping. and the Mayors Office on disability for reviewing the drawings and making this assessable for everyone. clapping. the San Francisco Police Department for keeping this neighborhood safe. clapping. and the downtown streets team who petroleum tons of trash and needles every morning. clapping. the Community Ambassadors program for coping this place friendly. clapping. and the heart of city the Farmers Market and the gift gallery to bring people into space everyday. clapping. theres a group called curing without worry they serve up informed and off the grid for organizing the trucks and the plaza last but not least id like to thank Hunters Point family for helping maintain this exhibition and keep it safe and going forward. clapping. so un plaza is successful during dos events how do we bring overseeing diverse consultant together especially times between the event we took inspiration from the exploratorium exhibit to connect people are experiences those massive aluminum chimneys behind me are turn down to resonate when played together they sound or sound role good if you look at over there the 3 giant echo townhouses their an k3 turn farther 3 of them are open on both ended they encourage people to play inside of the echo area the exhibit over there is called ticktock like giant metronomes you can make richldz as our parking garages through the pates space and behind you a pit of gravel and it tests our ability to walk across a graveled path creating air for the bystanders i want to point out those exhibit might look finished it is a prototype and there in lies the important impact not a two year installation but a long term excerpt how to plan a envision and city it is the envision for a participatory public space a general active place where new ideas and dialogue can to that we want people to make the city through acts of curiosity and hope you enjoy the comments now lets go and experiment together. clapping. auto yeah . Thank you, steve and the x turn a couple more people to thank and play with the stuff thanks to the Community Grant for the arts that actually granted a big grant to make that happen thank you so much for those organizations and, of course, last but not least i need to thank my own staff paul and kathy who are here together over here. clapping. really heavily involved additional across the city with the Mayors Office of notation thank you and for all the groupies on the public space you know this name neil standing behind me passion for this work is unmatched clapping. neil is constantly pushing me to do more budgeted budget more and more the result we have a other than use it is steroid thank you all and have a great day and joy the exhibit and stay more involved. clapping. all right. Are all right. Are redoing a count down all right. Are redoing a count down tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Heat waves. Massive heat waves. Tick. Severe droughts. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. 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