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Constructed at that site. So this is causing bay mud that underlies island to consolidate over time and we can monitor that and as that consolidation primarily consolidation is complete, then this soil will be removed to the intended finished Floor Elevation of the new structures. [ music ] in the 1989 loma earthquake, the ground level of this island dropped by four inches. Pretty much uniform across the island. Loose sand material used to build the island, whether it gets hit by a seismic forces, the sand moves and consolidated. One of the processes to further stabilize the loose granular ground, a dynamic rate is used to densify the soil by High Frequency mechanical vibrations. The rig in the background has four hpiles that goes down through the upper 50 feet of sandy material and as they vibrate, they vibrate causing that san material to consolidate and settle so as we do that process, we observe about 18 inches in settlement so the ground level around that equipment will drop by 18 inches, so this causes that same type of event to happen through mechanical means rather than through a seismic event. The dynamic vibrant compaction rate vibrates the soil every four square meters and moved along to the next section. To further assure stability, tamping is followed around the site, compassion takes approximately three to four months to complete 12 acres. Once the compassion and tapping is done, its settled ask using laser alignments to assure a Level Service to build on. I think that every city when they have the opportunity to do something that is as large as Treasure Island because Treasure Island is five Hundred Acres and it depends on their needs at that time and in 2011 to now, the most important are thing for the city is housing. Theres two aspects to that master plan. One, was the new district for San Francisco. 8,000 units of housing, which is all levels of stability. The other indiscernible is 300 acres of open space and parks. And actually, its the largest addition to the park system in San Francisco since indiscernible 300 acres and this is a tremendous gift to the public, both the housing, which we desperately need in San Francisco as well as an open space and park system which really is going to be worm class and it will attract people in San Francisco but attract people locally as well as internationally. Cmg architecture was brought to the project once they award the agreement between the city of San Francisco and the United States navy. Cmg has earned National Recognition and numerous awards for merits and design, social impact and environmental stewardship. We were a part of the project in the beginning when the developer initially was awarded the exclusive negotiation agreement or the ena with the city and they partnered with the planning and Architecture Group and we joined that team to work with the developer around the city and community to come up with a plan for Treasure Island. So theres quite a lot of open space in the master plan and theres a couple of reasons for that thats pragmatic. One is that the amount of area that could be converted for private use on Treasure Island was very limited, actually it wasnt allowed at all because Treasure Island was previously public open waters and protected by the tidal and trust act to be redevelop for public use. But there was a land swap that was allowed and approved by the governor of california, governor schwarzenegger to be put on a public trust for a one to one swap to be taken out of the trust to be developed for private use such as residential and that amount of land was 89 acres which leaves a bunch more space that cant have housing on it and the question was, what to do with all of that space . There could be other public uses that allowed such as Conference Centers or museums or universities or things of that nature but what made the most sense for this location was to have more parks in a really robust parks and open space plan and thats what led us to the plan we have now. Planting strategies for Treasure Island and buena island are to maximize habitat value in the park areas wherever appropriate and where we can to create comfortable at the pedestrian scale. There are these diagonal lines that go across the plan that youll see. Those are wind row trees like you see in agricultural landscapes where they are tall tree thats buffer the winds to create a more calm areas down at the pedestrian scale. So of course, we do have some areas where we have play fields and surfaces where kids need to run around on and those will be either lawns or like you see in norm at sports field. Related to where the housing is on the island and its convenience to the walk to the transit hub, i mentioned were trying to create highquality pedestrian and the innovations of Treasure Island is called the shared public way and its a road that runs down the middle of the neighborhoods. Its a curbless street, cars are allowed to drive on it but pedestrian can walk down the middle of the street and the cars are to yield the rightofway for pedestrian and its intended for streets where theres a low traffic volumes and the traffic speeds are low so while car was allowed, theres not a lot of reasons for cars to go on that street but its to create a social street thats much more pedestrianfriendly and prioritizes pedestrians and bikes. One of the interesting things is working with all architects that have been designing buildings in the first phase to encourage them, to create architecture that welcomes people to sit on it. Its wlm like sticking its toe out and asking someone to sit on its toe so buildings integrate public seating and places for people to hang out at their base, which is really, the opposite of what you see often times in this city where theres defensive architecture thats trying to keep people off it. This is architecture thats trying to invite people to come and inhabit it at its base. Incorporated in the Landscape Architect of Treasure Island are wetlands, which are designed to factor in coastal Erosion Control from incoming Sea Level Rise and natural animal habitation and stormwater runoff treatment. Theres different kinds ever wetlands planned for Treasure Island and they have different purposes. They are stormwater wetlands thats treating the runoff from the island and filtering that water before its released to the bay to improve the Water Quality in the bay and the ocean and the first phase of the large wetland infrastructure is built on buena island to treat the storm water from buena island. We might see that when we go out there. There are tidal wetlands plan for the northern side of the island where the Sea Level Rise adaptation and flood protect for future Sea Level Rise is held back away from the edge of the island to allow Sea Level Rise to come onto the island to create future tidal wetland which is helpful for the bay in the future as we see sea level wise flood out existing wetlands and there are some natural vernal pool in the wetland thats captured rainwater and capturing certain habitat so theres three purposes of the wetland primarily around Water Filtration and habitat creation. Consumable sustainability was incorporated in the redesigning of Treasure Island. Innovative urban farming is included in the plans to foster economic viability, conservation of water, and to promote ecological sustainability. The urban farm is 20 island. And its a commercial farm to produce food. Its not community where the volunteers and neighbors grow their own, its commercially run to maximize the Food Production and that food will be distributed on the island. And interestingly, the urban farm is tied into the on island Wastewater Treatment plan which creates recycle use for water on the island so water used to grow the island will be a sustainable force and were trying to close the loop of water, food, and create a new model for sustainability. Part of the design for sustainable landscape was incorporate natural form water garden filtering systems, the first of three natural stormwater gardens is here on buena island. And a total of ten will be on Treasure Island. Water from storms, street runoffs from neighborhoods has the possibility to collect toxic materials as it makes its way back into the surrounding bay. This garden has been a model for future, natural filtering systems through out the bay area. Whenever a storm comes through, all of the water, you know, it lands on the streets, it lands on the top of the buildings, and at times it often collects a lot of heavy metals and greases and it needs to be cleaned and before sent back into the back. It goes into the pipes and stormwater drainage and put into our stormwater basin and then all of the plants and soil youre seeing in there, they are acting as a filter for all those oils and heavy metals and greases and all things thats coming off the roadways, coming off the development and so its treated here in the storm water basin and then its sent out into the bay as a clearer product and cleaner water which increases our Water Quality here and throughout the bay area. So the structure in the center of each basin is what we call the for bay. Thats the point at which the stormwater exits out of the storm drainage system and into the stormwater basin itself. So the for bay is shaped as almost a gate to kind of push all water out through the pipes, all of those rocks help to disburse it before its sent into the stormwater basin itself. The storm water basin was designed to fill up to the height of the berm of the side youre seeing here. So this is juncus and these are wellknown fresh water grasses found in any place around the bay area that you find standing water or in a drainage channel, youre going to find a lot of these junket species. This is a leave a lifter in the bio treatment. It soaks up a lot of water, to soak up the contaminants and heavy metals, so its kind of our backbone species. This one is called douglas siana and the common name is mug war. Its a beautiful plant but doing the heavy lift and pulling, those contaminants out of the storm water and pulling oil to help treat the water before its sent back into the system and back into the bay. This plant is known as salvia or hummingbird sage. It has a lot of habitat value in that its a strong pollinator plant. Obviously, you can see the pink and purple flowers which come up in the springtime and attracts a lot of hummingbirds, a lot of bees which help to pollinate the other species within the garden and throughout the rest of the island and all of those native plants. All of these plants are designed to be able to take a heavily inundation of water over a several day per like standing water for a long time. All of the plants can withstand that and honestly, thrive in that condition. So all of these were selected based on the ecological and habitat value but also their treatment and functional value for stormwater. This is super tiny. Its very much a big part of our design and master plan for the development of the island. It was a navy base and a lot of navy housing on this island specifically for around 80 years and during that time, a lot of innovative species were introduced on the island, eucalyptus, a lot of different european and algerians plants were on the island. We wanted to bring in the native eye college here on the island before the navy started to redevelop it and introduce some of those Invasive Species so the species youre seeing in this stormwater garden in the basin and the upland area was a part of those types of ecology s thats trying to be returned to this side of the island but different other spaces through out the islands development. So whenever we started this process, we identified a number of species of native plants that seem applicable to the ecology that were trying to grow. Theres 45 species, so a theres 15 species so they are hard to find in the nursery trade so we needed to grow it ourselves to achieve the biodiversity thats in the design here. As a part that have process, we brought on a Nonprofit Group called ledge, leg which is literacy for environmental justice. They grew those plants and put together the plant palates you see. Most of landscape was inundated with Invasive Plant species eradicating species and having the plan on buena island and Treasure Island. Literacy for environmental justice, a Community Volunteer Educational Program involved with restoring local habitats and preserving San Franciscos unique bio tie varsity, teamed up with the Redevelopment Group to grow the 50,000 native plants to to repopulate Treasure Island. The city of San Francisco set up meetings between leg and they came in with high expertise and urban design, and architecture, and Green Infrastructure, but they really hadnt worked with flytive plants worked with native plants at scale and they were also kind of scratching their heads, like how are we going to grow 50,000 native plants from remnant native plant populations. It was a unique partnership of figuring out what plants can grow, what plants will function in stormwater gardens. Not all native plants are ascetically pleasing to Landscape Architect, so we kind of worked around what plants are going to be pleasant for people, what plants are going to provide habitat, what plants are going to actually be able to sequester carbon, deal with erosion, preserve the island biodiversity as well as be able to manage all of these stormwater treatment on the island. Theres about 33 naturally occurring native plant species that survived the last one hundred years on yorba buena island. We were able to go in and get the seed and salvage plants in some cases, some of the Development Work that occurred was actually going to destroy native Plant Habitat and we went in before the bulldozers and before the roads were build and the new water tanks were installed and dig them up, divide them, hold them, of the 50,000 plants we grew 40,000 of them inhouse and the other ten, we had to rely on our partners to do it. With the 50,000 plants we did, we did 100 species and 95 of them are from the county of San Francisco. About the other five are from the state of california. But the other 95 species really are the native plants that have been here for thousands of years. We used Collection Sites such as angel island, the presidio had genetics for the projects in San Francisco. We used remnant Plant Habitats at Hunters Point and we used a lot of genetics from san bruno mountain. Just to collect and process all of the genetics was a twoyear process. And then it was about a two or three year process to grow all the species. This is the infamous its a low, growing sprawling native herb and its in the mint family and im rubbing my hands on this and its extremely aromatic. It feels like a flush of peppermint just came across my face. Its edible. You can make tea out of it. Its a great digestive plant for settling your stomach. It has been cool to introduce yerba buena to yerba buena. This plant is called dutchmans pipe. When in bloom, the flower looks like a dutchmans pipe. And another thing thats unique about this plant is, its the whole specific plant for the pipeline swallow tail butterfly. So some butterflies are able to adapt to other species and can use larva and food from different species. In the county of San Francisco, theres only about three or four healthy populations of this plant. These particular plants were going to be destroyed because of the Green Infrastructure project needed to put pipes in and needed to demolish all water tanks and build new water tanks for the island, so we were able to go in, dig them up, cultivate them, extrapolate dozens of plants into hund hundreds of plants and restore it through the restoration process. One day one of my nursery managers was down here and she found the pipeline butterfly have flown over from Yerba Buena Island and came to our nursery on Treasure Island and was breeding on this plant. And successfully did its life cycle inside of our nursery. So, it . How that butterfly knows its out there and find it, this is one of those unique things that we cant explain why butterflies can find this species but if we grow it and put it in the right location, they will return. So the plants were looking at here is faranosa known as just dedlia or live forever. The construction is it work happen nothing that area, its likely to be destroyed. A unique thing about this plant and the unique succulents we have in california and the live forever plant can live to be 150 years old. Recently, the state of california just did special legislation to protect this plant. I think in its intact population on the island, theres less than 50 of them, so to be able to grow several hundred of them and have them be a part of the plant palate of the stormwater gardens that was installed recently is an increase of biodiversity and a step forward towards protecting the natural legacy of the island. I moved to Treasure Island in 1999. I believe i was one of the first residents on the island. I have seen how the island has been destroyed and reconstruct since its beginning to restore the island to its native form is extremely important to me because that will help all the animals come back to the island and make this place even a better place to live. I want to be here because these are people i know, so that was my first thing is just, like, i wanted to come here to help out and be with indiscernible and to actually put my hands in dirt. I feel like we as people dont work in army we dont see the benefits of plants, like, but i just learned about a plant that if you rub it enough, it turns into soap. Thats cool. And we need those things. We need to know about those things. One really unique thing about this project is the scale. To use 50,000 native plants over 7 acres is a scale we have never seen. It really is trailblazing when we think about the 350 or 400 acres of open space that is planned for Treasure Island, it sets the stage for what is possible. Theres a way to use naturebased solutions at scale to meet the needs of climate change, Sea Level Rise, the crisis of local extinction and create natural environment. The first phase of the project sets a stage for what is possible and i just feel really blessed to have been a part of it. One of the main focus on triangle is keeping vehicle traffic to a minimum. For residents and visitors, Public Transportation is highly encouraged and will be the center point of keeping the island pedestrianfriendly, retaining an open space sent and providing an eco system that reducing carbon emission we need the transit to be successful because if we had 8,000 homes here and everybody was trying to use their car to access the bay bridge every month, it will overwhelm the system. New on and offramp are being constructed but all over the focus of the development is to be very transit oriented. Triangle itself is very flat and very bikeable and walkable as a result and so theres a focus on using both bus and Ferry Service to get from the island to San Francisco in the east bay. There will be a number of transit demand management tools that will be employed of the two new ramps to and from the to the island and allowing a limited number of cars to access the bridge and there will be a management toll to encourage the use of transit. All the market rate housing on the island, the price for residential unit whether thats a rental apartment or a for sale condo, the price of the unit is decoupled from the price of the parking spot. So people can buy a condominium without paying for a parking spot. They choose to have a parking spot, they would pay an additional price. Market rate residents are required to purchase take transit pass each month through their hoa fees or through their rent so the residents will begin the decision of driving or taking transit with a transit pass in hand each month. That transit pass will function as a muni fast pass allowing people to take muni and transfer within the muni network and function as an ac transit allowing people to take ac transit to the east bay and transfer within the ac Transit System and it will also provide unlimited access to the Treasure Island ferry. Treasure island is going to take decades to be fully build out. Its going to take some time for it to reach the envelope that was passed by the board of supervisors and maybe there will be changes to it as well. We dont know what is going to happen in 50 years but im confident by the fact that the plan that was adopted was fully, fully thinking even for its time and the building the island to a way its sustainable, it addresses Sea Level Rise, but also gives the public the open space and parts that are so necessary to fill Treasure Island. Theres economic, certainly, challenges and whether were going to be able to build out all of what was desired in the master plan, it will time will tell, but i think that the last ten years, weve been coming to this point. We are seeing incredible progress and the infrastructure is being finished by the island. Market rate housing is being finished. Affordable housing is being finished. And so, we feel within the next five years, substantial part of what we had envisioned is going to come to fruition. Good morning, every one. Hello. Thank you so much for coming to todays press conference mayor, conference and our lunar year the year of the dragon. San francisco has a special place in history, in december of 1992, San Francisco watched the city where the historic unveiling of the firstever Lunar New Year took place in this entire country. And since 11992, we have Many National first days and national ceremonies. But whether we get the first day or not, we always have an unveiling as part of our Lunar New Year celebration. Its very excited. Last week i was very comfort to join seattle to join the postal state for the unveiling of the lunar new stamp. It was attended by 300 people by eduardo who is the president of the retail of the Postal Service. Vod me and the public that Lunar New Year is the most Successful Program in the commemorative stamps. We are very happy to keep up with the tra kissing. Tradition. Today were gathered today, although the stamp is already out there, but its our tradition in our city to unveil the stamp for every one in the San Francisco bay area. So without further ado, i would like to introduce our mayor, maryland on our mayor, london breed who has unveiled a lot of stapp p. Mayor breed hello welcome and welcome to unveil this stamp. Its an exciting time filled with so much joy and excitement, especially after coming out of this global pandemic. It has been very difficult and for whatever reason, i feel like even though, we have the worse of it behind us, this is the one of the first years that i feel like people are actually coming out and coming together differently than they ever have before to celebrate Lunar New Year. I was at events in china town, in the richmond and in the bay point where they were celebrating Lunar New Year in a joint celebration together. And its been great to see and these places have been packed with people. So the excitement is in the air and i could not be more excited and proud to be here today to celebrate a time honor tradition for the past 30 years here in San Francisco, thanks to the leadership of cludine chang and the organization that has been doing a lot of work during the month of may and Lunar New Year to bring communities together. Thank you for all your amazing work. We have a number of other special guest from across the api spectrum from japan town to tenderloin, to the various groups who will have activities and events all over San Francisco including our city liberian, Michael Lambert which will be a number of great events so make sure you check out the San Francisco Library System and look at all the activities and events and things that are going on in our libraries and in our park. Its going to be a good time in San Francisco. And lion dance, mean, man these folks know how to put on a performance. Right now this is a relaxing moment, even though it takes a lot of strength to hold this dragon up, theyre going to be performing all over the city and doing all the exciting things that they do. And clearly theyre a lot younger than the rest us, because they have the energy and strength to do it. Were joined by a couple of people, and i want to again recognize clawdene more being here and post master, im so happy to get hor land, hes behind the most exciting parade, the Lunar New Year parade that will be happening in San Francisco on february 24. Book up all the hotel rooms and come to eat and enjoy china town and all during the month of may. There is something for every one. So were excited to have you here, as well as our City Attorney and thank you to our Police Commissioner larry yee representativing chinese consolidated benevolent association. So were happy to kickoff the year of the dragon which represents, strength, courage, and it represents progress. And i must say that this city has made significant progress. We know that this pandemic is not complete xlaoe behind us, but during the piem we experienced challenges in our api community with a rise of api hate and making an effort in our program, ambassadors protecting our communities, coming together to do what is necessary to keep people safe with our police officers, as a result since 2021, we have seen a 90 decline in api hate crimes in the city of San Francisco thanks to the work who are here today. [applause] because we want people to come out to all the neighborhoods of San Francisco, our seniors and our grandmas who we love so much, they have to feel safe in the city and the work that were doing together is ensuring that, especially during the Lunar New Year. Were cleaning up the streets even more. Were puting out all the various activities and food and fun and festivities, youre going to see smiles all over the city and county of San Francisco because of everything that we have done and well continue to do to ensure the success of Lunar New Year of San Francisco and the unveiling of this stamp really kicks it off to full gear. Thank you all for being here. With that, i would like to introduce our City Attorney, david chu. [applause] thank you, madam mayor for your leadership and for being our chief cheerleader when it comes to the Lunar New Year. Let me start to the api federation, andclaudiaeven year after yae, you work. And we celebrate Lunar New Year the right way with the postal. And the line dance meet troop the access or and i were talking how we would like to dawn those polls poles, but well be doing some arm curls with our law books to be ready, is that right, walkine . When i was little, i collected stamps but when i was growing up, there were not stamped that reflected our culture, our api heritage, our inclusive diverse beautiful culture that is the Asian Pacific community here in the United States. And when i think about how different it has been over the years that generations of kids get to be reflected in something as common as the stamps that we put in the letters. My son who is p, is slightly obsessed with stamps because of course hes my son. And for me to share the year of the dragon stamps is going to be excited to him, but it means that just as i learned about black history and womens history and other aspects of American History from the stamps that i observed in the 70s and 80s, he will learn that and more. I want to thank the post master and the leadership of the Postal Service for uplifting who we are as americans, uplift who we are as Asian Pacific americans and uplift who we are as san franciscans. With that, thank you so much and do i bring you back claudiadine or madam mayor . Come on back madam mayor. Mayor breed thank you so much for your leadership. And i want to recognize some of the leaders here, nelson lum is with us as well as steven lee our port commissioner and night life champion, lions deny will be packed all throughout Lunar New Year. Grace herothi thank you from jam an town, ron lee, good to see you, i saw the hawaiian shirt is always good for any occasion. Elvin louie and al perez, thank you for being with us commissioner perez and so many of our wonderful leaders as well as our commissioner a raoen lee rylee, we appreciate what you do on boards and commissioners and activities all around the city. And with that, i want to introduce the post master, i was going to say post master general but just post master from the United States Postal Service to help introduce and talk about this stamp douglas smith. Good morning, every one. Thank you mayor breed for the kind words, claudine, i dont think there is any place in this country that represents what we provide with the stamp and in this city, although we were not first, i think were always going to be the most important so thank you for the words. Its an honor to be here as we celebrate the year of the dragon. I would like to thank the speakers for your support. As a post master of San Francisco, im proud to recognize this meaningful stamp that is val owed by those who celebrate the Lunar New Year as well. Its a time when families get together as you have done today to celebrate the celebrating of our stamp. As one of americas oldest public institutions, the Postal Service is proud to celebrate through our commemorative stamp program. Likewise, im proud to say that the workforce is one of the most diverse in america. Sxl thats appropriate since we serve the most diverse customers on the face of the earth. Ours is a world culture, which is why its so important that our stamps reflect the rich multi cultural traditions. For more than three decades, they celebrate the Lunar New Year. In fact the Lunar New Year are the collection right side the most exciting releases the Postal Service has had. Thats no surprise that more than 1. 5 billion mark the event. The success of the series is a wonderful reminder to bring friends and family together in the spirit of celebration, a tradition of course is what Lunar New Year is all about. This years stamp showcases the only mythical creature in the chinese zodiac, dragons are considered by many to be welcome harolded of hope for the future. Its also been said that people mourn during the Lunar New Year tend to have the features. Enterprising, wise and powerful, are the traits. Im proud to say that i was born in the year of the dragon in 1964. I hope you know that we have quality, wisdom in our judgment and good luck and good fortune. The stamp, the 5th in the Lunar New Year series, created by camille chu, sevensers the beautifully adorn mask used in Lunar New Year parades, on the long tradition of paper cut folk art cuts created during this yaefrment the mask was constructed out of hand painted paper and and used flowers and tassle. Gold and red, gold representing prosperity and red good fortune. You can purchase this stamp in our places, and from the convenience of your home at u. S. Ps. Com. As you add the stamp to your collection, or use it to mail your Lunar New Year greetings, its our hope that the year of the dragon brings peace, and comfort to you and your families. Thank you again for the opportunity to be with you today and i would now like to ask mayor breed and our participants to come up and help me unveil the 2024, year of the dragon forever stamp. [applause] mayor breed all right, join us in the count, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 [cheers and applause] thank you, everybody. Hello. Making to may grandkids a program all about pop ups, artists, non profits Small Business in into vacant downtown throughout the area for a three to 6 months engagement. I think San Francisco is really bright and i wanted to be a part of it revitalization. Im hillary, the owner of [indiscernible] pizza. Vacant and vibrant got into safe downtown we never could have gotten into prepandemic. We thought about opening downtown but couldnt afford it and a landlord [indiscernible] this was a awesome opportunity for us to get our foot in here. The agency is the marriage between a conventional art gallery and fine art agency. Im Victor Gonzalez the founder of gcs agency. Thes program is especially important for Small Business because it extended huge life line of resources, but also expertise from the people that have gathered around the vacant to vibrant program. It is allowed Small Businesses to pop up in spaces that have previously been fully unaccessible or just out of budget. Vacant to vibrant was funded by a grant from the office of Economic Workforce Development that was part of the mayors economic recovery budget last year so we funded our non Profit Partners new deal who managed the process getting folks into these spaces. [indiscernible] have been tireless for all of us down here and it has been incredible. Certainly never seen the kind of assistance from the city that vacant to vibrant has given us, for sure. Vacant to ibvooerant is a Important Program because it just has the opportunity to build excitement what downtown could be. It is change the narrative talking about ground floor vacancy and Office Vacancy to talking about the Amazing Network of small scale entrepreneur, [indiscernible] this is a huge opportunity that is really happy about because it has given me space to showcase all the work i have been doing over the past few years, to have a space i can call my own for a extended period of time has been, i mean, it is incredible. Big reason why i do this is specific to empower artist. There are a lot of people in San Francisco that have really great ideas that have the work ethics, they just dont have those opportunities presented, so this has been huge lifeline i think for entrepreneurs and Small Businesses. This was a Great Program for us. It has [indiscernible] opening the site. We benefited from it and i think because there is diverse and different [indiscernible] able to be down here that everybody kind of benefits from it. The vibrant south of market neighborhood in San Francisco is deep lee rooted filipino if fluences to shape the cultural identity. Soma pilipinas known for [indiscernible] night life and art scenes is home to growing Filipino Community that thrived for generations. Soma pilipinas is a community, the village that has been over a hundred years in the making. This is home to many generations of filipino from the turn of the century, to the present. Continues to be a Gateway Community for a lot of filipinos just arriving from the philippines. One of sth most prominent scines is filipino owned businesses become staples in the neighborhood. Restaurants like manila bowl and jp restaurant offer [indiscernible] we call it [indiscernible] this is my passion. Everybodys who came right now. We feel good right here. Community is like a family. The eatery serve mouth watering dishes and provide a sense of home to the Filipino Community, preserving traditions passed down generation. A filipino restaurant utilizing california ingredients we honor traditional family recipe [indiscernible] we shop in the market 2 to 3 times a week. We make the filipino cuisine proud in San Francisco. Along with the culinary deliteds, soma philippine ow is home to San Francisco top mix aulgists. Filipino artistry is a facet of soma pilipinas rich tapestry. The filipino Cultural Heritage district transformed public spaces into canvases that depict the stories and experiences of filipino americans. Parlt part of the work we do is support filipino artists to work with community to really create and develop Community Based art. This is murals and designs that really reflect the rich history, the culture and the struggles and triumps of the Filipino Community. The presence of the Filipino Cultural Center which offer workshops, language classes and Community Resources is a testament to the Community Efforts to preserve and promote the heritage. Features the [indiscernible] philippines which is a Indigenous Community weaving textiles and tapestry for hundreds of years so proud to feech were modern ones and very antique ones and showcase fashion from the community and we are inviting everybody to come experience that with us. The center not only caters to the Filipino Community, but welcome all who wish to learn about and embrace this culture. We want to develop a cultural district where you have the young generation learn their history, language and culture and where you have also the seniors be part of the cultural and share their stories and their traditions, and continue to grow young in the neighborhood. The intersection of technology and culture in this part of San Francisco provides a unique back drop for a Thriving Community embracing the past while looking to the future. The filipino influence ingrained in soma serves as remindser of the power of Cultural Diversity and importance of celebrating in our ever changing world. I am iris long. We are a Family Business that started in San Francisco chinatown by my parents who started the business in the mid 1980s. Today we follow the same footsteps of my parents. We source the teas by the harvest season and style of crafting and the specific variety. We specialize in premium tea. Today i still visit many of the farms we work with multigenerational farms that produce premium teas with its own natural flavors. It is very much like grapes for wine. What we do is more specialized, but it is more natural. Growing up in San Francisco i used to come and help my parents after school whether in middle school or high school and throughout college. I went to San Francisco state university. I did stay home and i helped my parents work throughout the summers to learn what it is that makes our community so special. After graduating i worked for an Investment Bank in hong kong for a few years before returning when my dad said he was retiring. He passed away a few years ago. After taking over the business we made this a little more accessible for visitors as well as residents of San Francisco to visit. Many of our teas were traditionally labeled only in chinese for the older generation. Today of our tea drinkkers are quite young. It is easy to look on the website to view all of our products and fun to come in and look at the different varieties. They are able to explore what we source, premium teas from the providence and the delicious flavors. San francisco is a beautiful city to me as well as many of the residents and businesses here in chinatown. It is great for tourists to visit apsee how our community thrived through the years. This retail location is open daily. We have minimal hours because of our small team during covid. We do welcome visitors to come in and browse through our products. Also, visit us online. We have minimal hours. It is nice to set up viewings of these products here. Vice chair for live. Were ready to begin. Good morning folks. Welcome to the february ninth, 2024 regular meeting of the San Francisco ethics commission. Todays meeting is live cablecast on sf gov tv two and live streamed online line at sf govtv. Forward slash ethics live. For Public Comment, members of the public may attend in person or may participate by phone or on the webex platform, as explained in our agenda document. Clerk can you explain how remote Public Comment will work . Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Each member of the public will be allowed three minutes to speak for those attending in person. Opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period will be made available here in room 400, city