Way to look at things, even now. George floyd was huge. It opened up wounds and a discussion on something festering for a long time. Before rodney king. You can look at all the instances where there are calls for change. I think we are involved in change right now in this moment that is going to be long lasting. It is very challenging. I was the victim of a crime when i was in middle school. Some kids at recess came around at pe class and came to the locker room and tried to steal my watch and physically assaulted me. The officer that helped afterwards went out of his way to check the time to see how i was. That is the kind of work, the kind of perspective i like to have in our Sheriffs Office regardless of circumstance. That influenced me a lot. Some of the storefronts have changed. What is mys is that i still see some things that trigger memories. The barbershop and the shoe store is another one that i remember buying shoestrings and getting my dads old army boots fixed. We would see movies after the first run. My brother and i would go there. It is nice. If you keep walking down sacramento. The nice think about the city it takes you to japan town. That is where my grandparents were brought up. That is the traditional foods or movies. They were able to celebrate the culture in that community. My family also had a drycleaning business. Very hard work. The family grew up with apartments above the business. We have a builtin work force. 19 had 1 as 1941 as soon as that happened the entire community was fixed. Determined to do the job as democracy should with real consideration for the people involved. The decision to take every one of japan niece american o japanese from their homes. My family went to the mountains and experienced winter and summer and springs. They tried to make their home a home. The Community Came together to share. They tried to infuse each home are little things. They created things. I remember my grand mother saying they were very scared. They were worried. They also felt the great sense of pride. Japanese americans. My granduncle joined the 442nd. When the opportunity came when the time that was not right. They were in the campaign in italy. They were there every step of the way. President truman pays tribute. That was the most decorated unit in the history of the United States army. Commitment and loyal to to the country despite that their families were in the camp at that time. They chose to come back to San Francisco even after all of that. My father was a Civil Servant as well and served the state of California Workers compensation attorney and judge and appellate board. My parents influenced me to look at Civil Service s. I applied to police, and Sheriffs Department at the same time. The Sheriffs Department grabbed me first. It was unique. It was not just me in that moment it was everyone. It wasnt me looking at the crowd. It was all of us being together. I was standing there alone. I felt everyone standing next to me. The only way to describe it. It is not about me. It is from my father. My father couldnt be there. He was sick. The first person i saw was him. I still sometimes am surprised by the fact i see my name as the sheriff. I am happy to be in the position i am in to honor their memory doing what i am doing now to help the larger comment. When i say that we want to be especially focused on marginalized communities that have been wronged. Coming from my background and my family experienced what they did. That didnt happen in a vacuum. It was a decision made by the government. Nobody raised their voice. Now, i think we are in a better place as country and community. When we see something wrong we have change agents step up to help the community affected. That is a important thing to continue to do. You talk about change and being a leader in change and not knowing whether you have successes or results. The fact of the matter is by choosing to push for change you have already changed things. Through inspiration for others, take up the matter or whether it is through actual functional change as a result of your voice being heard. I think you have already started on a path to change by choosing that path. In doing that in april of itself creates change. I continue in that type of service for my family. Something i hope to see in my children. I have a pretty good chance with five children one will go into some sort of Civil Service. I hope that happens to continue that legacy. I am paul, sheriff of San Francisco. [ music ] hi, sandy, how are you . Hi, fine, thank you. How are you . Good. I want to ask you what inspired you to be a paramedic . Thats a good question. You know, i wanted to go into med school and after i found out how much time it took and all of that, i decided that that was going to be a little too much schooling, but i still wanted to figure out a way that i could provide medical care and doing that as an emt as well as a paramedic was a way to do that. Can you give me a break down of a typical day for you . I come to work and sit at my desk and then i respond to emails and try to figure out what are some of the issues we need to address. Can we hire more people. What kinds of policies we want to try to create that will help us do our job as ems. What does it take to be a female paramedic . You know, it takes quite a bit of schooling, but also required somebody whos empathetic. It can be a very stressful job and so we want people to be able to hand that on a daytoday basis. So whats your greatest satisfaction in your job . Trying to make sure that the work that we provide and the services that we provide to the community is the best that we can in ems so that when we go out to see you if you call us for an emergency, that well be able to treat you in the best way possible and that you get the care as quickly and as effectively as possible. Why is it important for young girls, women of color to see women in these roles . I think it really is important for us to be able to get into these roles because we are effective, we are able to reach out to the community. We are able to do the job in a very effective manner and to be able to relate to the community and be able to do that is one of the best things that we can do. And people of color and as women of color, you know, we are in a great position to be able to do that. When i shoot chinatown, i shoot the architecture that people not just events, i shoot whats going on in daily life and everything changes. Murals, graffiti, store opening. Store closing. The bakery. I shoot anything and everything in chinatown. I shoot daily life. Im a crazy animal. Im shooting for fun. Thats what i love. Im frank jane. Im a Community Photographer for the last i think about 20 years. I joined the chinese historical society. It was a way i could practice my society and i can give the community memories. Ive been practicing and get to know everybody and everybody knew me pretty much documenting the history i dont just shoot events. Im telling a story in whatever photos that i post on facebook, its just like being there from front to end, i do a good job and i take hundreds and hundreds of photos. And i was specializing in chinese american history. I want to cover whats happening in chinatown. Whats happening in my community. I shoot a lot of government officials. I probably have thousands of photos of mayor lee and all the dignitaries. But they treat me like one of the family members because they see me all the time. They appreciate me. Even the local cops, the firemen, you know, i feel at home. I was born in Chinese Hospital 1954. We grew up dirt poor. Our family was lucky to grew up. When i was in junior high, i had a degree in Hotel Management restaurant. I was working in the Restaurant Business for probably about 15 years. I started when i was 12 years old. When i got married, my wife had an import business. I figured, the Restaurant Business, i got tired of it. I said come work for the family business. I said, okay. Its going to be interesting and so interesting i lasted for 30 years. Im married i have one daughter. Shes a registered nurse. She lives in los angeles now. And two grandsons. We have fun. I got into photography when i was in junior high and high school. Shooting cameras. The black and white days, i was able to process my own film. I wasnt really that good because you know color film and processing was expensive and i kind of left it alone for about 30 years. I was doing product photography for advertising. And kind of got back into it. Everybody said, oh, digital photography, the year 2000. It was a ghost town in chinatown. I figured its time to shoot chinatown store front nobody. Everybody on grand avenue. There was not a soul out Walking Around chinatown. A new asia restaurant, it used to be the biggest restaurant in chinatown. It can hold about a 1,000 people and i had been shooting events there for many years. It turned into a supermarket. And i got in. I shot the supermarket. You know, and its transformation. Even the owner of the restaurant the restaurant, its 50 years old. I said, yeah. It looks awful. History. Because im shooting history. And its impressive because its history because you cant repeat. Its gone its gone. You stick with her, shell teach you everything. Cellphone photography, thats going to be the generation. I think cellphones in the next two, three years, the big cameras are obsolete already. Mirrorless camera is going to take over market and the cellphone is going to be better. But nobodys going to archive it. Nobodys going to keep good history. Everybodys going to take snapshots, but nobodys going to catalog. They dont care. I want to see you. Its not a keepsake. Theres no memories behind it. Everybodys sticking in the cloud. They lose it, who cares. But, you know, i care. Last september of 2020, i had a minor stroke, and my daughter caught it on zoom. I was having a zoom call for my grand kids. And my daughter and my these little kids said, hey, you sound strange. Yeah. I said im not able to speak properly. They said what happened. My wife was taking a nap and my daughter, she called home and said hes having a stroke. Get him to the hospital. Five minutes later, you know, the ambulance came and took me away and i was at i. C. U. For four days. I have hundreds of messages wishing me get well soon. Everybody wished that im okay and back to normal. You know, i was up and kicking two weeks after my hospital stay. It was a wakeup call. I needed to get my life in order and try to organize things especially organize my photos. Probably took two million photos in the last 20 years. I want to donate to an organization thats going to use it. Im just doing it from the heart. I enjoy doing it to give back to the community. Thats the most important. Give back to the community. Its a lot for the community. I was a born hustler. Im too busy to slow down. I love what im doing. I love to be busy. I go nuts when im not doing anything. Im 67 this year. I figured 70 im ready to retire. Im wishing to train a couple for photographers to take over my place. The younger generation, they have a passion, to document the history because its going to be forgotten in ten years, 20 years, maybe i will be forgotten when im gone in a couple years but i want to be remembered for my work and, you know, photographs will be a remembrance. Im frank jane. Im a Community Photographer. This is my story. When youre not looking, franks there. Hell snap that and then hell send me an email or two and theyre always the best. These are all my p my name is holly doudiet. H2 firefighter with the San Franciscowired. What inspired me to be a firefighter was in 2008 i graduated college. The recession had happened so there werent any jobs. I was having troublefinding a job. And i was kind of looking around. My dad was a firefighter and i thought what a great career he had. So i asked my dad, never thinking about it at first before. I said dad, what you think about me being afirefighter and he goes yeah, thatwould be a good idea. I took some classes, i ended up loving it. I grew up and actually and i think it was a good fit for me because its a physical job and its enjoyable. You never know whatyoure going to get and its a team effort. I first realized i was part of the Lgbt Community in sixth grade. I looked on the other side of the classroom and i sawthis girl i thought was really attractive and i thought i want to be her boyfriend. Though my experiences in the city growing up in the city and countyof San Francisco were always verypositive. I came out in high school. I actually ended up being prom king my senior year in high school and a lot of peoplewere very supportive. Myparents were very supportive. They just let me do my thing and my dad knew of a lot of lesbian women in the fire departmentthe time because he was a San Francisco firefighter. For me its very important to be part of a community and organization and an agency that supports my lgbtq status because if youre not yourself, how can you perform to the best of your abilities . Youre always holding back in some way whether its your personality or your abilities or your overall skills and with agency that supports me being a lesbian i can truly be myself. I can be happy. I can be social with other people. It makes me want to work as a team and we all work Better Together when we are happier and we can be ourselves. [music] San Francisco government television. Pleeghting of the commission on Community Investment and infrastructure for tuesday august 2nd, 2022. I window like too welcome the members of the public who are streaming or listening to us live as well as the staff or quests participating in foads meeting. Following guidelines by the local he ficials. The members of this commission are meeting remotely to ensure the safety of everybody including members of the public. Madam secretary, please call the first item. Thank you, the first order of business is item 1, roll call. Commission members, please respond when i call your name. Commissioner a brackett is absent. Ludlum is absent. Commi