Resulted in significant impacts to the air quality. Many residents lack access to clean air in their homes during the smoke events which is a hazzard to health. They will be in historically under served communities the most vulnerable to impacts so that everyone has access it clean air. We are froud have worked with buffy wiks. Experience the 836 to promote for wild fires and impacts they cause. Governor newsome fined and approved 5 Million Dollars toward the program, 3 million allocated to serve the 9 county region of the bay. In partnership the 3 Million Dollars in funding provided by the California AirResource Board will upgrade the event lagz system. Purs that charge airfillmenters like this guy here. Replacement fitters in smoke events and replace h vac filters with helpa or higher for public buildings. 9 counties asked to coordinate with the cities and Community Based organizations to help identify the cites for Clean Air Centers deployed. The air district asked for input on the potential locations for the cites. We looked to the San Francisco neighborhood efforts to establish cooling centers as a model to work with community on the citing of Clean Air Center in San Francisco. Children are the met vulnerable to the Health Impacts of wildfire smoke. We encourage schools to help protect students and children. Lean air centers in schools issue libraries, community, senior and rec centers. Veteran facilities. Community colleges and wildfire evacuation centers. We hope to have more than 300 Clean Air Centers across the 9 area bay area alone. With increasing impacts of Climate Change on air quality, these Clean Air Centers will be a vietsdz tool to protect health from wildfire smoke. I would like to introduce davina the vice chair of our board and also a board member of the California AirResource Board and from bellmont, join mow in welcoming her. Good morning. The California AirResource Board. And it is the capacity i will speak to you today i really thrilled be here with all of you celebrating the opening we cant say enough of not only the very first Clean Air Center in the bay area. For vulnerable population program. We are proud to lead the Program Partner with air districts including bay area qmd. Now in addition to announcing the opening of the facility we are also unwill veiling the new Clean Air Center logo you see here. It was developed by staff to help the public easily identify Clean Air Centers. Just imagine this Pilot Program will fund a network of clean arab centers and vulnerable communities across the state. And this loco is ment to provide a visual identity. That will make it easier for people to find a safe place during wildfire smoke events. This is an Exciting Program we are taking action to help people breathe easier. And might i add these are communities that bear disproportional and unfair burdens with air pollution impact. We remember in 20202 years ago this month. When a thick layer of wildfire smoke blankets the bay area upon turning the sky orange. Know thanksgiving can occur again we are fortifying our public spaces to protect public health. Now this pilot will be expanded in the years ahead. And california is committed to continuing to fight Climate Change. And address increaseingly intense wildfires for years to come. We are working hard along side state, federal and local partners to future proof california. And in addition to investing enforced management and wildfire resilience it is vital we prepare in any way for smoke events. This is not a future problem this it is todays reality. And response our staff is again working hard to provide tools to help people protect themselves from wildfire smoke. Cars, smoke ready California Campaign is publicly available social media and web campaign. Includes sharable graphics in different language that have actionable steps people can take to protect themselves during a smoke episode in an easy visual format. Now anyone in california can get wildfire alerts and smoke forecasts right on their phone. Thanks to an upgrade to carbs california smoke spotter mobile app. New features personalized alert. Wildfire incident information and air quality information from purple air sense ors. To provide users with near real time smoke conscience. These tools are all part of efforts by carband the governary office to memory and protect california from the impacts of wildfire smoke. We are proud to stand along side the bay area, air Quality Management district. San francisco and the Bay View Hunters Point Community to allowance the lodge of the Vital Program and the addition of another tool to help protect those who need it most. During the wildfire season. We like to thank member buffy wiks for her leadership and all those who med this a reality today. Congratulations j. Let us continue to do rable things together. Our environment and future generations require this of us. I would like to invite my colleague and friend tyrone of the San Francisco department of the environment. Am im delighted be here todays upon event is grounded on 3 principles. One Climate Change is real. 2. The affects of Climate Change are happening right now within our communities especially within communities that are most vulnerable. And 3 we must take action on Climate Change both in mitigating or affect to dampen the affects and to prepare our communities to make sure we are resilient in the face of Climate Change when it come to air quality and extreme heat. High role here is to represent mayor breed. And many city diameters involved in this effort in San Francisco. Starts at the top with our mayor. And starts with our board of supervisors you will hear from next with the district 10 supervisor. Board member and president of the board walton. It started with the many city diameters involve friday d. Emergency management. Libraries as well as our Many Community partners. This is many years in the making involved many people at the table. Upon we are joined by our deputy direct from the libraries we are joined by the city librarian. Both will present us on a tour later o. I will Say Something with the librarian. Libraries are a center of knowledge for our community. A place of res spit where teem people learn and grow. Through the nobodying us on making them a beacon of libraries throughout the nation, these accomplices are a center of safety for our communityip want to thank the city librarian for his role in doing that this does not happen without communities. This has to be Community Driven and lead. In the bay view the department is leading this effort with the Supervisors Office through the bay view program. We have a lot of partners there involved at the table. Parker from the y and many others who you will hear from later on. But this center is not vehicleful unless you have community support. You have Community Buy in because these centers are center this is become not utilized without them at the table. With that, i want to thank everyone for gather here and everyone that put in the hard work in todays announcement. I will pass it on to fellow board member. You will supervisor district 10 as well as president of the board of supervisors walton. [applause]. Du want to Say Something. Good morning issue everybody. Good morning. Welcome to bay view Hunters Point where the sun is always shining and amazing for community to come together. I want to start off one by not upon only thanking the California AirResource Board and the bay area Quality Management and the Community Representatives here we do work to make sure that we have clean air in our community. So i want to thank bay view advocates and the Marie Harrison foundation and danielle with the Neighborhood Empowerment Network and the communities members that are present. Like the director said earlier. If you remembered twenty 18 i remember like it was yesterday we had that orange haze in our skies. We had to shut down schools. People could not go to work the air quality was that horrible and most vulnerable suffered more than others. Having a place where people can go to breathe clean air in community is extremely vital and important. We are excited have the first Clean Air Center in california here in our community in bay view Hunters Point. It is important that we demonstrate the commitment to our communities that have been isolated disenfranchised and most vulnerable to the negative impacts of air quality this. Is a demonstration of folks coming and care to make sure we take that step to get this done. On National Voter registration day i appreciate everyone. I want to thank our director, director lam berg and working with the communities and with leadership to allow for spaces like this to happen in our libraries. Thank you all so much i hope you have a Beautiful Day it is National Voter registration day. Do everything you can to give people to register and exercise their rights. Thank you very much. [applause]. I want to thank all of our speakers so far especially the air District Board of directors who shown out in numbers. You see the support this we get at the air district and im grateful for it. I want to especially thank supervisor walton, as you know he is on our board of directors. And president of board of supervisors. And represent from sdrakt 10 and he always ensures his constituents are at the table watch that i want to introduce his conscientist wentful arian harrison born and raise in the bay rowel Hunters Point. A Community Organizer the utd reach coordinator at United Council and also in the last couple of years established a foundation in her mothers name. She was on the environmental just move inspect bay view Hunters Point, San Francisco and a National Leader temperature is a delight to know there is a foundation in her name and so let he introduce arian the found and executive director. Im arian harrison im the founder of the Community Foundation for social and environmental justice. Can we live. Org. [inaudible] im not polished but i do say hai mean and mean what i say. Im very glad to see this program getting started. I would like to see it dub indicated in district 10 because it is the biggest districts in San Francisco. We have pollution and Chemical Waste and things that are creating body burdens for residents. To have the the places put in place, it is good. We will get it together. Yall with me. Yea. I would like myself to see this program duplicateed go in not just into the space but place like United Council and our schools. Because those are where the vulnerable citizens the kids and the senior center. Those are places that are null nearable that hold the most people and people are not guaranteed to make it here to the safe space we want to make sure our community is protected. I wanted to sends this message. We gotta do everything we possibly can guard the health of our residents im the founder of Marie Foundation inc. A shout out to walton, really, really you know listening to the community. And putting forth the efforts to make sure well have solutions to some of the issues we have been in San Francisco. And San Francisco because it is in the just bay view residence denials having the issue. This is in the a bay view Hunters Point issue. I think we have been able to dismiss the problems happening to too easily it is the people over there. The problems we are having here in our district are things that will affect all of San Francisco. So it is in the just the bay view resident issue it is a San Francisco issue. We are do it first city and profess to be the leaders in the u. S. So we have to move forward and push forward in that effort to actually be when we say we are. Andir hope you were joining mow on this mission to have clean air, water and land. I will leave you this message im trying to do is live. Thank you. So, naconcludes this speaking part. Of the press conference. You are watching San Francisco rising. Hi, you are watching San Francisco rising. Reimagining our city. Hes with us to talk about how our librarys economic recover. Mr. Lambert, welcome to the show. Thank you. Im glad to be here. I know its been difficult to have books going virtual. Have we recovered . Yes, we are on our way. Our staff stepped up big time during the pandemic to respond to the health emergency. Since last may, we have been able to steadily increase in person access to library facilities. Currently we are at 95 of our precovid hours of operation. In the coming weeks we are going to fully restore all of our hours. We have four branches that we are going to bring back to seven day service. They are currently operating at 5 days a week and we are going to go to every tag line and i know all the foot traffic has not returned to San Francisco, but our library is seeing a resurgence coming back. Can we talk about programs after covid . Absolutely, that is part and parcel of our mission. We were doing that work precovid and certainly the library stepped up during the pandemic. We doubled our level of programming for personal finance, Small Business help, jobs and careers. We have a dedicated Small Business center here at the library. There is a wide suite of programs that our librarian led. We have a Financial Planning day coming up in october and we have financial coaches that members of the community can come to the main library and take advantage of their expertise. I understand the mission is in the middle of a renovation. How is that going and are there other Construction Projects in the horizon . Yes, we have Major Projects in the pipeline. The Historic Mission branch library, Carnegie Library over 100 years old and we are investing 25 million to restore that facility. We are going to restore the original entrance on 24th street, the staircase from the lower level up to the grand reading room. We are going to push out on the orange alley side of the library and expand space for teens and children, we are going to create a Robust Community room, a multipurpose space. We are also investing 30 million in the chinatown branch, we are going to upgrade the mechanical systems to the highest level of filtration as we increasingly respond as cooling centers and air Respite Centers and open access to the roof. It has some unique views of chinatown to create the inspiring space it is. I believe you have programs for families that have free and low cost entries for museum and zoos, is that correct . Yes. Its a fabulous resource. Go to our website. With your library cart, patrons, our residents can go to the Public Library and get passes to the museums, all of the incredible cultural institutions that we have in San Francisco all for free with your library card. How are these great Free Services paid for . How is the Library System funded . We are so fortunate in San Francisco. We are funded for by the library fund and those that taxed themselves just for library services. We also get a dedicated portion of the general fund. That together allows us to be one of the most well supported libraries in the nation. We have the third most library outlets per square mile of any municipality. All of our Branch Libraries have professionally trained librarians onsite. Service that we are able to provide, the collection, we are a leading library in our country. That lead know ask about your biggest annual event in the city. How does the event work and whats happening this year . We are excited for this years one city one book. This is our signature annual literature event. We have everybody in the Community Reading the same book. This years title is this is your hustle named after the Pulitzer Prize nominated and pod taste. This is about the population. One nice thing about this selection is that they are both local. We are going to have several weeks of programming, kicking off next month. It will culminate here in the auditorium november 3rd. So our Library Patrons will get to meet the authors, hear from them directly, and one other important aspect about this years selection, we have our own jail and Reentry Services department. Recently the Foundation Awarded the San FranciscoPublic Library 2 million to work with the American Library association to shine a light on our best practices here in San Francisco, and really help our peers in the industry learn how they can replicate the Service Model that we are doing here in San Francisco. Thats great. Well, thank you so much. I really appreciate you coming on the show, mr. Lambert. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you, chris. Thats it for this episode, we will be back shortly. You are watching San Francisco rising. Thanks for watching. Lwv board of education. The League Women Voters were a Nonprofit Organization and if you would like to support our work, please become a member or donate on our website