Am thrilled absolutely thrilled. Good evening my name is tony b i coowner the lone star saloon on harrison street. 135 harrison street and south of market. Ive spoken at great length through this process about our founding and history and past but now id like to speak about the lone star today because i believe that the Legacy Business Program isnt just about San Francisco of the past. Its very much about the San Francisco today. And what we want this great city to look like in the future. The lone star is a small neighborhood bar with a rich story past. We have a small group of loyal employees. One of my employees, bruce is been behind the bar for 15 years. Some very loyal regular customers who actually surprised me by showing up here today. Awesome. Its all on behalf of them i stand here today to speak about the Legacy Business Program. We share our lives at the lone spirit we hunt together for birthdays as alterations could be thanks giving dinner together. We host weddings and we host memorial services. We come together to mourn our friends and customers are passed through the years. We hold fundraisers for causes important to our friends and neighbors. Sometimes, we just sit and drink beer and pass baton. I also often say you can travel the world at the barstool at the loans do we host visitors all over the world every day. We are a beacon and we offer the sense of community of prolonging the compassion and acceptance that San Francisco has beenhas long been known for and of those qualities that brought a lot of us here to the city to begin with. At the lone start you could catch a glimpse of the past and you can spend time in the city that does not exist anymore. But at the end of the day we are a business not a museum. We pay our rent. We pay our employees and our taxes and we give back to the community. We are a vibrant, viable Small Business but businesses like mine are often not given a chance to compete in the new San Francisco. That is what makes the Legacy Business Program so important. In the past few years weve seen some close calls in my neighborhood the equal the start they both came close to being lost forever because of skyrocketing rents. The lone starr is currently in negotiations for a new lease. The funds provided by the Legacy Business Program could not come at a better time. The money is nice and helpful but its the recognition that appeal to me the most. To be told we see you, we hear you and you are important. That is what being a legacy business means to me. So, thank you for considering the lone star for legacy business status and i also want to thank supervisor campos for writing the legislation and jane kim for nominating us in being a champion of Small Businesses and her aide Barbara Lopez for helping me to negotiate my way through city hall and to be standing here today. So, thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you very much. [applause] next presentation, gilmans kitchens and baths. I knew my glasses to read my notes. Even then i can view my own writing. My name is Larry Lowenthal and my son Justin Lowenthal and am the owner of humans kitchens and baths for 33 years. The business has been around since 1954. I cant write all the great things all these people have said. Its just fantastic it makes me feel good. So, thank you to everybody here. The building i been in the last 25 years was sold last year. Resulting in about 50 rent increase. When we read about the Legacy Program we were excited because wow, theyre trying to force us out of San Francisco. Mc san franciscans voted for it the supervisors who brought it up, and everybody was work for it, it really made me feel good because i been in San Francisco for quite a few years. It also resulted in the building sold they huge property tax increase is of the funds provided by the Legacy Program are going to help out and help me stay in San Francisco. Its really what i wanted to do good i was looking elsewhere but i really wanted to stay here. I was born and raised in San Francisco. I really want to thank everybody involved a special especially supervisor campos wrote the legislation and nominated us. We are the only brickandmortar business and San Francisco. People can come in and get doors and screens custommade and thats how we started weve added kitchens and Bathroom Remodeling good over 45 of our business comes from just around our store. Potrero hill. We are committed to keeping this format. We have a couple other stores and other cities but the screens and keeping it in San Francisco because is how we started. We really appreciate it. My son justin is going to take over and thank you very much again. Thank you. Good evening. Im a presentation for you to see. A couple points and give emphasis to what my dad was telling you already. Thank you, dad. So i want to tell you but about the business to continue to get humans kitchens and baths and screens. A brief history. Originally opened in 1954 as a hardware store. Dick gilman at the same honor in the 70s transition his Business Model to become a screen window and screen door business which we continue today. Then in 1983 my dad took over and purchased the business from dick gilman and maintain the screen business but also brought in his expertise in remodeling field and started sewing cabinets and we just evolves over 30 years to start offering Contracting Services all kinds of different things. So, i just want to show this evolution over the last 60 years. Some things have changed over these. You said you are interested in the managed. These are business cards from maybe 30 years. Yes, about 30 years. A couple main changes but we still maintain very similar features. The old building this is not what we moved into. This is not sure exactly sure how old this picture is, but its and 7080 your range. It was a paint store. Our old building. This is where we are at today. Got a fresh coat of paint finally to bring to bring some more like to bayshore boulevard. So what makes it so special spirit makes humans so special and why would the Community Want to support the company . We are family owned business. Employees become part of this community. Because were the Small Business well for personal touch that bigbox stores like lowes and home depot cannot match. Our stateoftheart showrooms stay tuned to the spirit of modernization in this rapidly changing culture. We evolved and were staying relevant and were stained with culture did well define it and change it we stay relevant. We create beauty of places where people spend their most intimate and define management with eight work, relax and cleanse. Well said. Gilman staff and service have received numerous awards and recognitions for excellent design quality Exceptional Customer Service and astute business practices. We are vital part of this Community Networking and support hundreds of local businesses. We stay true to our roots. 50 years later. Awesome. Thank you very much. [applause] im glad that was his last five. Nicely done, thank goodness up next presentation, Community Boards. If you have a powerpoint, and you can just ask in the microphone these show the powerpoint does sfgov tv actually controls the. View signal to me i can do it there it is. Thank you. Good evening commission. My name is camilla laird, president of the board of directors that Community Boards. Manage boards as a nonprofit celebrating four years this year from 19762016 and we offer conflict resolution services. Weve operate in San Francisco for the last 40 years. Began in meditation valley and outside all the neighborhoods in San Francisco. Community boards is the oldest and longest running public conflict Resolution Center in the united states. To date over the last 40 years, weve assisted over 52,000 san franciscan stores all conflicts peacefully and respectfully. Weve trained over 18,000 san franciscans a volunteer conflict mediators and youll hear from donald one of our trainers but weve mediated over 9700 disputes in San Francisco for residents, nonprofits, and Small Business. So, we offer affordable and accessible conflict resolution services. Rks opening fee is only 40 dont turn anyway for lack of funds to ever truly very low cost of Mediation Services for anybody who resides in San Francisco. Our mission at Community Boards is to empower communities and individuals with a strong skills and resources needed to express resolve conflicts peacefully and appropriately further culture and environment. So Community Boards in action, what does that look like . Citywide intermediate Program Assists over 1800 san franciscan residents. We handle mediations in a few different areas. One is quality of life and that includes noise complaints, parking complaints, issue around pets, trees, views, trash things like that anything inside your own home were doing with your neighbors were cohousing situation and then relationships. Were often helping people in family relationships, who made relationships neighbor relationships coworkers etc. We also handle mediations that you with context and that could be landlordtenant contracts customervendor contracts, small claims, and more. So, in general, Community Boards offers Mediation Services that help reduce anxiety and stress for residents. We find this program really helps the Overall Mental Health and physical health are San Francisco residents specifically, those people might be able to resolve their disputes in other ways that might cost more money. We are really helping low income residents primarily. Now donald will come up and speak about our traditions and services. Good evening again. Thank you so much for inviting us to be here tonight. Im so delighted to be able to speak on behalf of Community Boards. I got a chocolate about Community Boards as a living legacy. Our tradition and services have to do with making sure that anyone that would like to resolve or come to agreement related to a conflict has the opportunity to be able to do that. We offer services in spanish mandarin and cantonese as well as english. Sure you realize this but maybe some of you dont get San Francisco is incredibly Diverse Community right . I was supposed to be a joke. It is. We take that into account and in doing so we make sure our services are culturally appropriate for the participants. We have a mediator poll of over 450 mediators ranging the full range of diverse city in terms of core identities and cultures and communities equally represented. Across the board. This is also a Proactive Community doping prosecute when we look at peace building we think hes building as every decision that we make every day that we are either making a choice to build peace where we are making a choice towards violence. In that respect, these services can actually save lives that firefighters run towards the pipe. Our mighty gators run into the heat of the heard the anger the conflict and the difficulty and we help participants find choices, nonviolent choices to be able to live in safe communities that Work Together with one another i the distinct pleasure of speaking to the founder of Community Boards back in december of 2011. He passed away the following month so i talked to him in december and he passed away in january. That was my one and only conversation with him was so powerful. He said, that his vision was for one day there to be no need to have an organization like Community Boards. Look around your we are not at that day. We have notthis much work to do and this is not done to lose an Incredible Service like with Community Boards is able to do. Thank you so much. We appreciate your consideration. Thank you so much. Awesome. Thank you. [applause] number nine thank you. The last presentation is matter rainy Creative Design and metal work. Great to come before this commission again. Creative design, our doors were open in the fall of 1940. We are in our 68 continuous year of operation. My father opened it in upper grant avenue and we been in upper grant avenue ever since. We now stand three generations. We do custom metal work which includes everything from wedding rings to sculpture. My father who opened the store celebrated as one of the messengers of modernism. Along with out sander calder, sam cramer, and other luminaries out of the midcentury modernist or not. Currently we stand three generations my daughter works with me. Lucky enough now to go from father to son to daughter. She is actually started a School Called metalworks sf back in 2014. Last couple of months we had over 30 High School Students come in and make rings and use tools that have been taken out of a lot of our high schools. And have that experience in college at school to college prep. If you want to take the program into the Public Schools and start bringing some Public School kids in. The legacy status for our business will allow us to do that kind of thing. In terms of other Community Contributions, my father and mother along with a handful of other artists and merchants and residents organizations like the newly formed Telegraph Hill dwellers, back in 1954 had this crazy idea that they should take over a street get rid of all the cars got blocked it off, and put heart into the street with artist. They succeeded in doing it. It became the upper grant ave. , street fair which is a progenerator of any streetscape event in the united states. There were many pavilion art fairs and festivals. There were many park festivals. But there never had been a street fair. The real secret San Francisco generated that on upper grant avenue. Currently, we actually combined witheyes on the facade in front of bernal library. I hope you all got a chance to go past that beautiful installation. We did a public art installation a few years ago. We also worked with youth with c from environment full justice, their marquee at haran had part. Out in hunters point. Those are a few of the activities weve done in terms of our community. There is a Powerpoint Presentation with some amazing pictures of our work and Community Contributions we have made that will be up on the Small BusinessCommission Website probably tomorrow. Next week. Its too long to present here today because its 8 min. Its a beautiful and i incurred you to go and see it. I would like to leave you with the words from this very commission. That honor my business, thank you, back in 2009. In parts, invented the groundbreaking artistic vision of this family now in its Third Generation of family artists is a landmark Small Business for both north beach and San Francisco. Among their many gifts to the vitality of art scene the family founded along with a small group of shop orders and orders the upper grant ave. , street fair which is the very first fine arts and crafts open street fair in the united states. City and county of San Francisco art lovers and craftspeople throughout the world look forward to many more generations of the family continuing their unique contribution to the art world and the character of our city. We look forward to doing that with your help again today. Thank you. Thank you very much. [applause] commissioners, any comments before we open up to Public Comment . It seems odd but nowhere to take Public Comment. Any members of the public like to comment on this item . Come up to theline up on the side if youre going to do so good evening commissioners. Im here today representing david campos in district 9 office. We are just very excited at tonight to be witnessing this vital next up in the implementation process of the legacy business registry. These legislations authored by supervisor david campos and unanimously passed at the board of supervisors and reaffirmed by voters passing proposition j with a 60 approval rate. Tonight we have the opportunity to honor and support a strong group of forprofit and nonprofit businesses by granting him legacy business status in San Francisco. So, thank you commissioners for your effort in protecting that adverse legacy of our city and thank you so much to all the applicants who are here. Thank you very much. [applause] we have speaker card so called in order of the speaker cards. Also, please remember Public Comment is limited to 3 min. 2 min. , sorry. Youll hear that same gong at 30 seconds we dont mean to be rude but we will yank your microphone at 2 min. If any was like to spell out a speaker card or on the side of the microphone and this will help us state your name correctly for the record. I guess its actually dropped the microphone these days. I want to tell you this is the best Commission Hearing ive ever been to. Its the first time ill ever leave city hall feeling really good. [laughing] i can to support Mickey Cooper 42 jacks. She meets all the criteria 115 . Shes offered her space to myself and my friend to start a nonprofit poetry event there where we work with everyone in the neighborhood two, express themselves good is the last saturday of every month. She has been a support to me. I come in there i need someone to speak to she is there to give me direction and i didnt expect to come here and be for everybody here. I didnt know what i was coming to buteyes im also very close to relations. They did a mural for me in front of my space that i dont take too much time. I just want to celebrate mickeys legacy Business Registration and i hope that i actually hope she and everybody gets their okay [calling Public Comment cards] thank you to all the legacy candidates. I grew up in the south bay and lived in San Francisco for decades that into almost every single one of the businesses and theyre all amazement i am blown away and honored to be part of this moment in time for San Francisco history. Im here on behalf of Community Boards, where i worked as a staff member and now Vice President of the board of directors for Community Boards. I partaken of their training and also was a volunteer Neighborhood Court adjudicator through the das office also trained by Community Boards. Ive also worked on criminal Justice Reform and Consumer Protection as a litigator. I am blown away by what Community Boards offers to the diversity in our city and the availability learning how to communicate face to face, to be seen, to be heard, and to be empowered to resolve much as the conflicts they bring to mediation but any issue arises thereafter in their life because they been empowered with tools to communicate. That is a art form that is often lost in our Digital Technology world when people cross the street on their cell phones they look at you and give you a dirty look when you must hit them in your card because theyve ran the red i call that [inaudible] and that happens all over the place. The mediation we learn to understand one another. Ive seen Community Boards bring together people from all sorts of racist, social economic areas, gender, the whole kit and caboodle and people resolve their conflicts and they do it themselves. So, we talk about people talking to each other, being seen and been heard. We hope that Community Boards can continue on in this measure is whether one of the only organizations that allows this for our San Francisco residents. Thank you so much. Thank you. [applause] next speaker im also speaking in favor of Community Boards. I want to thank the staff and Board Members and other nominees. I agree with a previous speaker. This is the best city hall here. You dont usually hear that and Public Comment. Consider yourself lucky at Charlie Spiegel next open my 30th year living in San Francisco which practically makes me to start. Professionally i mediate divorces outside of court and when thats not enough challenged aires and 19yearold daughter in San Francisco now going to college. Yes. I want to justify can only say one thing it five time for that i wanted to about one mediation i did as a volunteer which was a neighbor dispute the people above, people below renters in a building. The people above were a family the people below were family with children in strollers in the lobby of the building. People above were gay male couple with shall we say later hours that they invited friends over and made noise and have fun. This was a dispute they came to the panel of three volunteer mediators. Im going openly gay man. All these people call this their home. And we started to refer to both the family with children and the family of gay men without children as families we were not getting and there. We started to respect people with those words, the situation changed and they made an agreement to stop calling the police and to try to coexist it thats the kind of thing that Community Boards has done. In education Community Boards at the assistant attorney general for Community Policing and Community Engagement speak in front of 200 people in between ferguson and the next dreadful matter. Thats the kind of thing Community Boards does good i want to thank you for your time and great city hall hearing. Awesome. Thank you very much. [applause] [calling Public Comment cards] thanks for the opportunity to appear on behalf of Community Boards. I am a fourthgeneration san franciscan. Born and raised lived here all my life. So i think i know a little bit about the city. I have been fairly recently connected with Community Boards could ive taken their Behavior Training and serve as a mediator and observed the organization and it occurred to me what is a Community Boards represents or has that reflects the dna of San Francisco . The real heart and soul of the city . I thought about 34 concepts, 34 qualities that Community Boards has that seems to me just so central and so fundamental to the San Francisco. One of those, for example, his creativity and innovation. We all treasure that about this city is to create a place as we heard tonight from so many other people. Its an innovative place and thats exactly what Community Boards as a creative and innovative organization. Youve heard about that. Of course, San Francisco is a Diverse Society we know that a Diverse Community and Community Boards itself is the same. So we are part of that is as a part of that dna. San francisco is futuristic. We pride ourselves on looking towards the future and thats exactly what Community Boards is like as well. Finally, San Francisco we pride ourselves on the open and welcoming and friendly and youve heard about committed to boards being the same. So, i hope that you will support us as being part of San Francisco as with so many of the organizations that youve heard. Thank you. Thank you. [applause] [calling Public Comment cards] im here is where my wife at to jacks. Vicki cooper good i just want to say thank you all for recognizing these businesses, all of them, because what you are doing is you are providing affirmation of peoples hopes, dreams, livelihoods, family, i mean people been in business for over 20 years were talking 30 years here. Thats family. You have employees that have been in these businesses for long period of time. That is family. What youre doing is you are promoting family here and i just want to say that im not from vinton i am from oakland wouldve been in the data area mike i got married to this wonderful woman and moved to San Francisco but when i first moved out here the bridge is a long way to travel when you broken oakland could you dont go back and forth right when i came out here and started talking to people or when i go back to oakland and talked to people i met in college, i mentioned to jacks good i never heard of two jacks in oakland but everybody else knew what to jacks was. Their restaurant or businesses in oakland people not heard about to jacks is one of those businesses that everybody has heard of were somebody assertive. You go over to the bay area as well as businesses and i truly makes it a legacy of the family that is created, the employees that are there for the children that have grown up with two jacks and the things they do to support the community it would talk about community theres a lot of things you dont see behind the scenes. They support the neighborhood. They support the individuals in those neighborhoods because i didnt know when nothing one off it was 30 seconds. I see it now. [laughing] they truly support the community. Its not just a business. Its family. The neighborhood is family the employees are a family. We are a family. We appreciate that. Thanks. Awesome. Thank you. [applause] [calling Public Comment cards] good evening commissioners and applicants that are here for this. I just want to say that, and behalf of the lone star saloon. When i first came here in 2003 alone start created a safe space for me to come out and be myself. I was playing College Rugby could i do not have that opportunity to come out to my teammates but i found a family with the lone star saloon. As you can see, we have some of the most diverse lgbt representation within the community we have enriched by doing a lot of fun raisers for the Emergency Fund in Breast CancerEmergency Fund throughout the years there. Its just become a special place an environment for me. As you can see, what happens in orlando and were still discriminated against for being lgbt and even during the aids epidemic, a lot of individuals went to the lone star when i lost friends and even to this day, when people lose friends, we all come as a community there. We grieve so, thank you so much for your time. Thank you very much. [applause] do we have anyone else would like to make Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. So i want to thank all of the nominees for making this the most entertaining and inspiring Small BusinessCommission Meeting ever. I have not been to all them. Im going to say that. [applause]. Im absolutely thrilled to see some fantastic businesses and organizations i know quite well already. Im also thrilled to meet some wonderful businesses and organizations im only just now learning about i look forward to learning more about your organizations. So thank you all very much. I appreciate everyone coming out tonight. Again, i know its a track to get here but hopefully you enjoyed yourselves as well. Commissioners, any comments . Commissioner dooley spew i just want to say what a pleasure it is to be here tonight to see legacy business rolling out and first group of you guys that just shows what amazing diversity of businesses we have here. You guys are the ones that are really the heart and soul of San Francisco. I know how hard it is to maintain Small Businesses in this town. Theres a lot going against you and i just want to say for our commission, we are here to do whatever we can to make sure businesses like your own into work and thrive. [applause] commissioner ortizcartegena i come into i agree with everybody. This is been the best Commission Hearing abbot. Ive got to take a tour without leaving the seat of all the different businesses in different neighborhoods. I want to take the time to illustrate the collective group of people that came to present in businesses came to present because this is who we advocate for. We will not be pushed out. This is what makes San Francisco attractive. This legislation is here to preserve you and thank you for taking the time. We will not go we will not fade we will not leave San Francisco quietly. Thank you. [applause] this is an action im sure we vote these businesses meet, fully the eligible criteria as legacy business. I propose that we vote that all my businesses meet fully these criteria. Second . Second. Just a matter of technicality because unlike this is the first time where within the item like this where we of draft resolution so we do need to have you specifically adopt the resolution as drafted and i think i can read into the record yes. So, one at the time . No. You read the last i recommend approval of vote resolution 22 jacks makes play seafood to twinkle dessert cafe, 12 Adler Museum Cafe eyes muralist Association Pacific cafe, lone star saloon humans kitchens and baths, Community Boards and Creative Design and metalworks. So that the motion is to have these businesses recognized as legacy businesses in the city and county of San Francisco and part of the register. We just need to make one last edit to that. Also acknowledge changing the nomination for toy boat from supervisor breed to supervisor mar. Okay. You have a motion chart read the motion back . No. Ill defer to the director whether thats necessary not. Necessary . Note . I dont think. To a second for the motions. Yes i second all those in favor say, aye [chorus of ayes]. No one is oppose. You are all approved. [applause] we will have a photograph. We are still live so mind your manners. One more were not take an official break were just have a photograph and move on with our business. Down motion passes 60, one absent great. If we could get the now the legacy business registry this photograph is for the website. So straighten out your color. Will take two photographs of the actual owners of the businesses and then one with the owners and the commission. So, owners of first. [pause for photograph] [pause for photograph. ] [applause] we are going to continue the meeting. Okay, we need to i guess to our business here so we can go out to dinner at some of your great restaurants. Commissioners, that to your seats. Julie make sure the documents go into the record . I will turn these over to the Commission Secretary for the record. All right. So, so we can continue conversations outside. Sorry to rush you out but we need to continue on with the meeting. If you could keep your conversations down. Moving to item 6, six items six, please item number six approval of regular Meeting Minutes. Action item. One item to amend. We do mission i like to start including the motion to adjourn and the details surrounding that. In each of the Meeting Minutes. Ive not been doing that but i would like to do that so im going to amend that and the minutes before you today. Sounds reasonable ocean . Not yet we need Public Comment. Commissioners any comments on this item . No. Any Public Comment on item number six . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Do we have a motion . Moved and seconded. Commissioners, all those in favor say, aye [chorus of ayes] that motion passes unanimously, 601 absent. Item number seven. General Public Comment. Any members of the public live like to oppose any matters within our jurisdiction . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. All right item number eight, directors report. Commissioners, my directors report is going to be very brief tonight but just want to let you know that we do have a number of ballot measures moving forward onto the ballot by the mayor i mean, by the mayor and board of supervisors. Just want to remind you moving into election season be mindful of that. That there is one particular ballot measure that was move forward by the board of supervisors as a Charter Initiative to create a commission to oversee the Mayors Office of housing and the office of economic and workforce development. So, that does have some overlay with us, some overlay with us since the commission, since the office of Small Business under the broader budget of oewd. I will be able to speak to it in a very sort of factual manner moving forward, but not as a qualitative measure. If you have questions, email me and ill be happy to provide you with information. The second thing i want to just note, i really want to thank alex fong whos been here but hes done an amazing job and really helping us pull together our legislative work and research and really help us with the minutes and im feeling very extraordinarily fortunate for his choice to do is eight internship and really made a difference for us. Then, as we move forward with the legacy business registry we are obligated to provide for you and the public the packets and the applications and as you can see, this is verythis is a lot of maturity we do not need to make sure we are printed copies for the public should they walk in and not have had an opportunity to review it online. So come i figure 1 point commissioner ortizcartegena, you sort of suggested im asked to we get ipads. So, i would like to have a conversation with each of you because as we haveif for able to get the ipads, then you would be able to have access to these documents and to the applications to review on the ipad, but we wont have to print out so much material. So, just the request give it some thought and will have some discussion am sorry theres the proposition that can commissioners without ipads of your yes. I would expect the commissioners to have reviewed it on their own because is distributed in advance. Yes but we do need to have it as part of your pocket because its part of the agenda it was a paper at the very least yes. Thats a legal requirement that we have it in our documentation . Its to ensure if theres anything that you need to reference and review, you have it at your disposal. I think theres a single ipad that would be fine. Again, i want to stress that this requires our preparation in advance. So we are prepared to make a determination when we arrived, not that we are making our evaluation based on presentations that we see here. Okay . So i think we had a single ipad if we need to refer to something we can pass it amongst ourselves or see it that would be fine but i do think its necessary to all of us to have ipads president , for me im not much does a new book cost a viewing device. Im sorry but i am with you. I dont need the paper reference. So other commissions and meet board meetings we all have tablets. They cost 50 now or something . Okay. I just want to bring it to your attention that something will be looking into. I just want make sure you have all the documents in case you want to refer to it. Of course, we absolutely are obligated to make sure that you do have any Staff Reports and resolutions. Okay with that im just going to conclude my report and give it more extensive report at the next meeting. Okay. Any questions for me . Commissioners, any questions . I read the Meeting Minutes. Talk about the survey for the, what is it the super bowl l. The survey. What is the status now . The status of that is im sorry, we are delayed in getting the survey out and the students were done with the minutes will then issue the survey. Okay. Any other questions commissioner . Sorry my thing is not working again. I dont know the proper format but i want to fall upon request made from a public hearing last meeting. Oh yes, we were able to provide the request with a copy of the minutes. Okay. Thank you. Are we up to date with our Meeting Minutes . We are workingwe are meeting our schedule be committed to you. Bywe still have 2015 Meeting Minutes that still need to be completed. I will provide actually all have for sin you what Meeting Minutes we have completed and provide you with an updated list what still to be done. I have a question. The different presentations we are offering and a lot of people came to me and said was a wonderful idea. I we going to continue wheres that going to be something that we and act include in our agenda in the future . Which presentations. On taxes guiding businesses. So are we going to be fitting periodically presentations, i thought it would be a good idea to consider that in the coming order lets consider maybe we can consider and bring to the meeting next time some proposals for some informational sessions. Yes. Great idea. Thank you. Any other comments on the directors report . All right. Will open us up to Public Comment. Any member so the public want to comment on directors report, item number eight . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I think we can move onto item number nine item number nine, commissioners reports. I dont have anything to report myself. Any other commissioners . Okay. Do we have any members of the public that would like to comment on item number nine, commissioners reports . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. On item number nine item number 10, please item number 10, new business commissioners, any new items to suggest . No. Any members of the public like to comment on new business . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Now if we could show our slide. Sfgov tv as is our new tradition, we begin and end each meeting with a reminder that the office of Small Business is the only place to start your new business and San Francisco the best place to get answers about doing business in San Francisco. The office of Small Business should be your first that we have a question about what to do next. So if you need assistance with Small Business matters start here at the office of Small Business. Thank you. Our last item is number 11, a german motion . Moved and seconded. All those in favor say, aye [chorus of ayes] the meeting is adjourned at 7 25 pm. Awesome. [gavel] [adjournment] undertaken. All right. Well good morning and welcome future for thank you very much for being here im sure vince one of 5 public works compared angle officer with the labors local 261 and im a special assistant to oscar de la torre wire here celebrating i did signing of a historic agreement it is a project Labor Agreement that covers the Sewer System Improvement Program so thank you. clapping. well have a few speakers but a Quick Program for more than a hundred years the city of San Francisco as protected the Public Health but operating a combined sewer system it collects and cleans sewage sewage and street run off before returning to the bay and ocean over high strourld the southeast supplant that is the heart of citys system this planted and others parts are ending the years of their useful lives this is a multi billion dollars citywide investment building a seismically resident system one of the later projects undertaken by a city agency that agreement within the sf puc and labor unions will help us make sure those projects are delivered on time and on budget project deliver agreements with not uncommon for large projects what exists us the unique nature of that agreement and that about allow to focus economic benefits on community and workers that need it most and will help us cultivate and train the future workforce in the city and county and insures that yes. clapping. my bad; right . It insures the contractors pate prevailing wage and finally it insures a steady supply of skilled Union Workers for the projects jobs are training and prevailing wages and benefits thats why were excited to be here today, this is a historic event is possible through the agencies partnering with the building and construction counsel i shout out to the secretary treasurer clapping. also to larry who is in conference couldnt be here for his leadership and commitment to all the folks and harlan kelly our general manager i consider to the brilliant. clapping. and the great staff of the sfpuc. clapping. finally to the labors transitioned are the carpenters and plumps and the sheet Metal Workers and the engineers and the teamsters and the labors and get my drift of men and women of the building and construction trades thank you all for being here clapping. it is my great pleasure to introduce our first speaker a man that is dedicated his entire career to benefit the workers families 4e78 e helping us with the Community Workforce and show the pathway to create opportunities were not just jobs but access with health care and Retirement Security hes our 43rd mayor please welcome mayor ed lee. clapping. vince thank you very much im striving to be your brilliant mayor laughter vince thank you for your leadership and labors my own, of course, working with the buildings and trades cant have a greater partnering let me say it welcome to alex Southeast CommunityFacility Center in our bayview. clapping. how are things going all right. All right. Youre still in shape keeping healthy im happy to be here on every occasion to be in the community were talking about good paying jobs and families and careers working with the labor unions but i want to say alex name i think hed be happy to be here if you knew him about workforce training and part of puc family and part of everybodys family and came from the Bayview Community making the connections with weve been asked for many decades we see those plant in our community can we be a part of a better environment and get the good jobs for dwaerngz promised and yet really hard to fulfill were here to do that before i talk about this particular p l a and sign the documents we have i want to say this week were on a roles last night and for the last 48 hours we have been helping another group of workforce men and women thats our be janitors. clapping. as of last night they averted a strike because they were serious about it because they have to be serious because the wages and benefits as all labor unions are because theyre on is lower end of wage aribnb careers they need to do everything to help their names our staff assist and reached a tentative agreement we have to go and do the ratification everybody abroad were happy to see the managers of the buildings and the labor unions and the membership avert a strike and thats in a way why were here today because awhile weve diverted a strike and something for the janitors the ultimate reason were here is about labor peace it mroo project is what i think our brilliant Department Head harlan kelly said this is the expression of a pipeline a pipeline that the labor unions know about when they form unions this was the feeder into all the great jobs we have and people working really hard to make those labor union pipelines for directly beneficial i have educators people in education with the city college or Public Education you have people unrunning for officer in the school board i hope youll have people on the school board trying to tell our kids heres his or her how to be successful and build careers work in the Education System and make those connections with our nonprofits communitybased organizations theyre doing a lot of training getting ready for the jobs the pipeline that our workforce confirmations Development Workforce hopes to work with our labor organizations and enforcement people are making sure that everyone knows those are our pipelines pipelines is more than pipes it is the extra and how to get both that infrastructure if you know me i think the trades know me as the infrastructure man, im all g about infrastructure selling it to residents through bonds weve been successful with the General Hospital or the water system were able to do or the Emergency Water system were in the middle of completing we want to make sure this water system infrastructure works for everyone not just the system and not just the handling of the water and the cleans water by the wastewater as well and mr. Kelly reminded me take a drink and said thank you for drinking the watering no, no its clean water but clean enough for all of us to be respect of we want the water that everybody is drinking in the city whether the living in our Public Housing or living in the highest unaffordable unit in the city they have to have clean water and the warriors eastern will have water and itself lucky museum every infrastructure in our city will be touched with this infrastructure were building a 7 billion investment 7 billion clapping. of rate payers and residents and communities particularly the bayview will all be proud because what we are talking about today is a project Labor Agreement that isnt just about our unions it is with our unions creating the Apprenticeship Program and now because of special leadership that people have over the years working with us on local hiring the preapprenticeship communitybased organizations getting people ready for jobs who were not ready if you took them off their jobs now wouldnt succeed a apprenticeship and the Union Hiring Hall and the agreements we reach this is the pipeline that were talking about that will reach our residents or rate payers for all the jobs and what makes our city successful with our bond and ratepayer programs what the infrastructure programs were not just talking about bridges and revise but Water Systems that the rest of the country are talking about we are doing it and doing it the right way thank you to everyone in the entire spectrum of this building of pipeline from our trade Union Leaders to their activation working with the brvrtsdz, to our workforce ready folks to the people that are in the communitybased organizations saying we have hope for you if you learn those skills while your young those skills will help you get into good fatiguing jobs that are whether carpenters or all the disciplines, transitioned all the other disciplines that help us focus on the infrastructure of our city so on a role no labor and peace pa p is what it takes and several billions of of construction with the airport and the revising our terminal and the port working on the piers and get publicprivate partnerships that will again respect our labor pipelines to make sure we are fitting in the local residents we are and already not even the major contracts that coming up apprentice hours on the water system 77 percent San Francisco residents how about that. clapping. and just didnt happen by itself it takes dedication of everybody in this yard working together collaboratively together making sure were not working in silos but making sure we talk and think about not only the labor peace both who it is were trying to get jobs for and be a part of this Labor Movement im very proud of the city very special time to the be the mayor of the San Francisco sure challenges and Housing Affordability and homelessness need for more Affordable Housing are all there to tackle we can never make any significant really improvements in all those areas without labor working with us, without our collaboration with community this is all works together really well, were building a pipeline and the other thing i want to say is this this program particularly are harry lanes leadership is a direct contribution to reducing violence in our communities direct contribution clapping. wet have our kids really touched and involved themselves in the hopefully jobs in the skill setsdz in the preApprenticeship Programs and getting them out of the isolated things we know contribute to less than peaceful resolution of peoples problems i know i see offstreet parking here thank you youve been a big champion as a former supervisor of this district and know full well, we have the conversations how to make sure those pipelines are created but all the Community Activists that have been here for years were fulfilling old promises not creating new ones that water system when we were doing it and the creation of pipeline is a promise weve always said to be there were now making it work for the right folks thanks to everybody that is here and dedicating their time in doing this and making sure were doing the right thing and keep the collaboration going it will be to everybodys benefit that our unions have a lot good Talent Resources that will feed into their pipeline that will feed into the major, Major Projects in the city and ill keep on doing any work building more Affordable Housing and getting people off the streets, keeping the city economically strong to have good partners in private sectors and a Public Sector to keep the jobs going congratulations vince for your leadership. Thank you everybody for being here clapping. thank you, mayor ed lee for helping you guess in the Career Pathway and shout out to the Northern California carpenters for being here clapping. thanking you for helping me understand the finer points and commissioner Shamann Walton thank you for all your hard work. And it is a special treat after school maxwell thank you for being here and all you do appreciate it. Our next speaker a mentor of anything like that helping me understand more about the ropes and expand any scope understand how it is we can add value not only to 9 Community Workforce but to san franciscans in general im proud to stand with them im proud to have an opportunity to learn from him he sees the good orchestra that the water system improvement and obviously clean power and now with the general manager launching this great Sewer System Improvement Program harlan kelly clapping. thank you vince the amazing Vince Courtney thank you very much laughter got to give each others names i know thats how that works first of all, i want to thank the mayor for those of you who dont know the mayor and i go back when he was the director of public works and we knew we had to make sure that the Community Participant in the building of that when i came to the puc those were the traits i carried forward and coming to the puc i came to run or construct the waters System Improvement Program a 4. 6 billion program i know that has an engineer 70 percent of the cost is new construction i knew i had to make sure that we had harmony out in the fold and make sure we have quality contractor and employ people in the community so we reached out to the building trade and the unions and got the deal of 4. 6 billion and the System Program is a model of how Successful Programs could be rolled out and what is really amazing about the mroo is that in times hiring local people they stepped up we had a lot of specialized projects and how to get the Community People to participate we went to the union they came up with a Training Program with people in the community to participate in the training and worked with the contractor to put them on projects thats the model in the community i want to applaud the union for coming abroad clapping. and not only that theyre working to help Small Businesses get on board and role them of course, like them to be union but it is a great opportunity also want to thank my staff where is tommy . Tommy the one that has the 7 billion im sure he got chance lying around and so tommy has the money and karen is spending it and where is ma suicidal making sure our Union Community and contractors are 2, 3, 4 alignment and todd wheres todd theres todd hes a big part of getting this together so heres a great opportunity and great to see folks who ive been working with i remember offstreet parking we went to florida and i played i got the mike shamann he wants to know when the program is rolling out i like being a member of the community i cant get any hair cut or play basketball when are you going to do this im proud today, were signing the project Labor Agreement i know this is how we embrace the community and have them participate in building this awesome facility we plan to build thank you, everybody for coming today and look forward to signing the contract clapping. can i get Robert Harrison and megan please come up to the front. clapping. so ill tell you ive learned a lot from a lot of the people in this room right now but learned pro bono more from the workers we represent i know that john you know what its all about and charley and anthony the union labors guys know you in fact on the work and forgot to focus on the people we do a good job in focusing on the needs of folks all over the place proud of the work weve done and harlan ann and the mayor to make sure we connect folks to those Career Pathway and connection them to sold careers again in the just jobs but solid careers in the industry and would San Francisco for tomorrow mayor ed lee deserves credit for being the workforce hero and not forget what the workforce can teach us so, please robert. clapping. first of all, how is everybody do thank the mayor first and foremost for the programs what am i speaking about oh. First of all, i have im a resident of San Francisco i have been for 35 years and i have been trying to find a way to get ahead you know with the jobs i was landing im saying not enough inform support my family and not enough to do anything ive been hearing about w c, d, and city build i took it upon myself to get into the program you know and to see in any could you know obtain some work i went through y c, d, and did a 12 week program at the w cd and the service i objected at w cd was enough to get into the construction field and further i want to you know thank 4ru67 and Western Water for giving me the opportunity to show any skills pretty much and im approval of the draft minutes right now you know what im saying my whole thing was like going through the program so, so other guys like in any community could you know one day theyre saying like they never get the opportunity to get a job or to get a better job so as people start seeing me going introduce the class they saw how serious that changed a lot of things like hanging out and hanging with the you know guys i used to hang with and have to say w cd gave me the steps you know what im saying the real you know what im saying the strength to know that i could you know go through these with the certifies with the certifies i objected and saying that to say i have been like a kind of like a role model like a lot of people that see me and like knowing how i used to be and used to do and like go through city build and w cd also and saying that to say man, im drifting. Okay but my overall thing is that the program is working you know i mean because of myself you know i dont know about a lot of people i got a lot of people that friends that went through the program not just me and seeing what i went through i gave them and pushed them through the same thing i went through like for instance, i got a nephew that also went through city build and got you know a couple of nieces theyve seen any check saying laughter clapping. they seen one of my checks and saying wow. laughter like how did you get all of that on one check you know so i was explaining through them in the course i went through as far as like city build i mean w cd that was my whole thing to say to walk them through steps they can you know what im saying get what i have and basically got two niece it is trying to follow any lead and nephew that is working also you know and what else do i say laughter clapping. so i know that ramon and shall shamann knows this is what success looks like thank you very much brother. clapping. hello my name is megan im super excited i live in bayview on top of the hill and cant tell you hoechlts the sewer has backward on any street and; right . So im here because im an african engineer and got to be an operating engineer thank you. clapping. and is i got through through city build and this was a great experience and my friend didnt make it past orientation helped me get in it is crazy shes not in i am but happy to be in and happy to be here and anyone that wants to join should give the operators what else lets see well thats it i guess thank you all for coming i had more clapping. short and sweet. Thank you sister for being here. clapping. so i saw martin brand earlier hi marty for joining us martin understand really, really well, how difficult sometimes to represent multiple interests we do it all the time in marketing martin showed me an awful lot of of ropes what is a skilled trade the collective bargaining trade our next speaker is one of the highlevel skilled new yorkers a lot like kevin hughs with the ibw is level of sophistication and Strategic Thinking you know there are a lot of competing interests and have to your your sighed of the table to Barbara Garcia like the bargaining with our own folks you have to ratify and bargaining with the other side of the table one of the things organized labor in San Francisco was very, very lucky to have that extremely well is my brother and the secretary treasurer of the San FranciscoBuilding Council mike. clapping. there just about the right height oath of the the folks in labor i will actually reiterate one guy behind closed doors ma sew and he had manning that is hiding back there the two behind the scenes guys as much as vince says i maybe a skilled bargainer nonetheless thats not possible without a willing participant on the other side that are willing to arithmetic the difficult details of an agreement such as we came to early on for the water System Program and to the estimation to the sewer System Program i want to tell you that sewer systems get a bad wrap but behind us there no great city and there are none of the long time highrises thank you, mayor ed lee were happy to billed and without what is behind us none of the charming and comfortable neighborhoods that whos residents defend them vigorously and without what is behind us that ferry time of ideas the cost of bring people together does not and cant occur it is an essential item in San Francisco the sewer system it is recommended behind us well upgrade and when i was young this plant had been established and it was a new thing and doing what it could but not what it should and it was a dirtier thing and the ocean was dirtier and when the system were about to put in place it will be better the ocean and the bay well have cleaner water and better finish for the folks to catch and better water to bath and swim and we will have a wonderful environment for the cyber bay area and country clapping. but the theme for this event has been the entry for a apprenticeship when i broke in i was as iron worker they came from this part of town as the first job were here on this plant those were tough jobs and stuck with them and at the time all guys theyre retired which means they had good careers and these careers began here thats what we intended to do with the mroo extension were proud of a great job with the puc and with the communitybased organizations around the bay area and with city build a after school maxwell helped done a great job from bringing people from privileged areas including here those folks are launched on these keys and include other projects and other far beyond the city and far beyond the region and be proud to talk about those later and proud to talk about how they worked on the sewer system of San Francisco its a great job and great career and an essential piece that makes San Francisco the great city it is thank you. clapping. back down a couple of inches. laughter . So, please join me in giving a a round of applause mayor ed lee and harlan kelly and the Community Workers and at this time, id like to invite the mayor and harlan kelly up to the table to execute this special agreement i want to learn more about it. Social networking and email. I want to know how to use it. Divisional divide is a divide between those with access to use Digital Tools and those who dont. With young people, having computers and i just dont know. Theyre doing it fast. So, i want to know. Not knowing how to navigate the internet or at a loss of what to do. We dont have a computer. Were a nonprofit that unites organizations and volunteers to transform lies through literacy. Our big problem right now is the broadband opportunity program. A federally funded project through the department of aging. So, were working in 26 locations. Our volunteers are trained to be tutors and trainers, offering everything from basic classes all the way to genealogy and job search. To me computers, knowing how to use it. I think its really important to everybody and possibly especially seniors to get enough of these skills to stay in touch. Its been fun. With seniors, to get them out of their homes. So they can connect with their family members. Or their family members. [speaking in spanish]. So, what we focus on is transferring skills from volunteer to learner to help them get onto facebook, find housing in crisis, be able to connect with friends and family. I decided to teach what i learn and it made me want to give back. I discovered that seniors do a lot of review. I am a beginner, so, little by little i learn. I learn a lot now. If you get the basics, you can learn it. Its simple. Its easy. Once you know it. And thats what i want to learn, how to make my life easier and more knowledgeable with the computer. So, what we need right now are more people who speak languages other than english or in addition to english who can give their time during the day and who care deeply ideally about helping to close the divide. Its a humbling experience. Its something simple to ask in our daily life, but to someone that doesnt know and to help somebody gain that experience in any way is awesome. [speaking in spanish]. No matter how tired or cranky or whatever i might feel, when i walk into this place i always walk out feeling great. If you feel comfortable using computers and you have patience, we want you on our team. Would you show me how to type . [speaking in spanish]. Will you help me learn mor week. The San Francisco. The reporter has many opportunities to get out and placing play a 4 thousand acres of play rec and park has a place win the high sincerely the place to remove user from the upper life and transform into one of mother nachdz place go into the rec and park camp mather located one hundred and 80 square miles from the bay bridge past the oakland bridge and on and on camp mather the city owned Sierra Nevada camping facility is outings outside the gate of Yosemite Park it dates back before the area became is a popular vacation it i sites it was home to indians who made the camp where the coral now stands up and artifacts are found sometimes arrest this was the tree that the native people calm for the ac accordions that had a high food value the acorns were fatally off the trees in september but they would come up prosecute the foothills and were recipe the same as the people that came to camp camp is celebrating its 90th year and the indians were up here for 4 thousand we see every day of them in the grinding rocks around the camp we have about 15 grinding sites in came so it was a major summer report area for the 92 hawks. Through there are signs that prosperity were in the area it was not until the early part of the century with the 76 began the construction of damn in helpfully a say mill was billed open the left hand of the math for the construction by which lake was used to float logs needed for the project at the same time the Yosemite Park and company used the other side of the camp to house tourists interesting in seeing the National Park and the constructions of damn when the u son damn was completed many of the facilities were not needed then the city of San Francisco donated the property it was named camp mather the first director it was named after him Tuesday Morning away amongst the pine the giant sequoia is the giants inventories first name if our title is camp means theres going to be dirt and bugs and so long as you can get past that part this place it pretty awesome i see i see. With a little taste of freedom from the city life you can soak up the country life with swimming and volley ball and swimming and horseback riding there you go buddy. We do offer and really good amount of programming and give a sample p of San Francisco rec and Park Department has to offer hopefully weve been here 90 years my camp name is falcon im a recession he leader ive been leading the bill clinton and anarchy and have had sometimes arts and crafts a lot of our guests have been coming for many years and have almost glutin up, up here he activity or Children Activity or parent activity here at camp mather you are experiencing as a family without having to get into a car and drive somewhere fill your day with with what can to back fun at the majestic life the essence of camp mather one thing a thats been interesting i think as it evolves theres no representation here oh, theres no representation so all the adults are engine i you know disconnected so theres more connection the adults and parents are really friendly but i think in our modern culture i you know everyones is used to be on their phones and people are eager to engagement and talk they dont have their social media so here they are at camp mather how are i doing. How are you doing it has over one hundred hundred cabins those rustic structures gives camp mather the old atmosphere that enhances the total wilderness experience and old woolen dressers and poaches and rug i do lay out people want to decorate the front of thaifr their cabins and front poefrnz their living room is outside in this awesome environment theyre not inviting their guests inside where the berms are people get creative with the latinamerican and the bull frogs start the trees grow and camp mather is seen in a different light were approaching dinner time in the construction of the hetch hetchy damn the Yosemite Park built Jackson Diane hauling hall to serve the guests it does was it dbe does best service s serve the food. Im the executive chef i served over 15 hundred meals a day for the camp mather folks breakfasts are pancakes and french toast and skranld eggs and hash browns our meal formulate is we have roost lion its reflecting of the audience we have people love our meals and love the idea they can pick up a meal and do worry about doing the dishes can have a great time at camp mather after camp people indulge themselves everyone racks go in a place thats crisis that i air after the crackinging of a campfire a campfire. The evening is kept up with a tenant show a longed tradition it features music i tried this trick and this talent show is famous for traditional things but we have new things the first 7, 8, 9 being on stage and being embarrassed and doing random things unlike my anothers twinkling stars are an unforcible memory admission to camp mather is through a lottery it includes meals and camp programs remember all applicant registration on line into a lottery and have a rec and Park Department family account to register registration typically begins the first week of january and ends the first week in february this hey sierra oasis is a great place to enjoy lifeiest outside of the hustle and bustle and kickback and enjoy and a half everything is so huge and beautiful. The children grew up her playing around and riding their bites e bicycles its a great place to let the children see whats outside of the city common experience is a this unique camp when you get lost in the high sierra Wilderness Camp mather is waiting and we look forward to City Managers Office you here soon issue. Homeless in San Francisco is a challenging issue that effects owner in the city in many different was as of the 2014 Homeless Census over 64 homeless in individual in the city to try to address the issue weve got a program for chronic homeless welcome to the Navigation Center. This Pilot Project is for People Living on the street what makes it different the Navigation Center is able to accommodate homeless encampments lowell u allowing people to keep their pets and bring their personal bloonlz. The full realization that people dont want to be homeless not refuse services but from the services dont meet them and not relevant theyre not going to be successful if you look at the budget losses weve got a community sacrifice important people to get food and laundry were standing next to the bathrooms it is designed to be a dynamic and brief residential experience where right of on this site city staff to connect you to homeless places to return to family dine is up for medical and all those things that are complicated for people. The other exciting thing city agencies come on site and provided the services for folks this is existed to see when the goal of streamlining a a whole processes of getting people on go gentle assistance into housing as much as possible. Way totally different you can come and agree as please and get Laundry Services and showers any time of the day and night its twentyfour hours a day whatever and twhefr its not like any other she recalls. They come and help people for what it is theyre required the issues they need and reach out and do what we can to say okay how can we accommodate you to get you set up and straight never in my mind imagined a program like this this place it different and a a lot a lot that better it works. The navigation is center is a collaboration of partnerships too city departments one is the Homeless Outreach team managed by the San Francisco distributing i look forward to the Navigation Center well have our agents go out and help and say dont go anymore over and over send our dayshift out theyve meet the population and hang out and hang in the encampment and transport people and be with them and make immediate impacts with me and my staff. Bringing our wloongz whatever you go presents a problem this place their help with the storage i dont have to worry about it staying here you know youre getting things done they need to get things down done to get off the street avenue of the hope alsoness is gone. They help you if youre hungry go eat if e you need to go places go. Theyre 4th district it awe auto. It was funded through a unanimous donation and of may 2015 an additional 3 million to help to continue the Program Beyond 18 months. You see people coming out theyre ready to being so the future homes you know how variable the Navigation Center is my message for the constituents yes something can be done do break chronic homelessness it is being done. This is a community that sets an example but i how to pick an area that was funky theyve seen were trying to do is help their neighbors theyve seen getting sicker and more frail and broken down on the streets and welcomed us thats a powerful Statement People are exist and president in theyre becoming to see the movement for folks and people on the streets are only survival modes where is there next meal and their itch more carefree. The staff here is interpretation the first day i have a appointment and everything was made all you do is go through them this makes a huge difference. To get settled in a helping hand, to get on my feet, take care of the issues i have and get out of bed and help. Even though the Navigation Center has been up in march 2014 the program is creating successful outreach for its clients. A month ago they came to me and asked me to go into a new program i moved into here and now 3 months later i have my own place it is mine i lock my door dont worry about my stuff it feels human again because we have a great waste water system here in San Francisco, we do about 80 million gallons of waste water here in San Francisco, which means we basically fill up 120 olympic sized swimming pools each and every day here in the city. We protect Public Health and safety and environment because we are discharging into the bay and into the ocean. This is essentially the first treatment here at our waste Water Treatment facility. What we do is slow down the water so that things either settle to the bottom or float to the top. You see we have a nice selection of things floating around there, things from bubble gum wrappers, toilet paper, whatever you dump down the toilet, whatever gets into our storm drains, thats what gets into our waste Water Treatment and we have to clean. See these chains here, this keeps scum from building up. On this end in the liquid end basically were just trying to produce a good water product that doesnt negatively impact the receiving water so that we have recreation and no bad impact on fish and aquatic life. Solids is whats happening. By sludge, what exactly do you mean . Is that the actual technical term . Its a technical term and its used in a lot of different ways, but this is organic sewage sludge. Basically what it is is, oh, maybe things that come out of your garbage disposal, things that are fecal in nature. Its sludge left in the water after the primary treatment, then we blend those two over and send them over to digestion. This building is built to replace tanks here that were so odoriferous they would curl your hair. We built this as an interim process. Is there a coagulant introduced somewhere in the middle of this . This coagulant brings solids together and lets the water run through. That gives us more time in the digestion process, more time to reduce the amount of solids. These are the biggest ones in the world, like we always like to do in San Francisco. They are 4 meter, theres none like it in the world. Really . Wow. Three meters, usually. We got the biggest, if not the best. So here we are. Look at that baby hum. River of sludge. One of the things is we use bacteria thats common in our own guts to create this reduction. Its like an extra digestion. One of the things we have to do to facilitate that is heat that sludge up and keep it at the temperature our body likes, 98. 6 degrees. So what we have here is the Heat Exchanger for digester no. 6. These clog up with debris and were coming in to next wet weather season so we always come through here, clean them out, make sure that we get maximum Heat Exchange during the colder wet weather. Sludge season. Rubber glove. Right here. Rubber glove, excellent. All right, guys. Thank you. Good luck. This is the full on hazmat. Residual liquid. Were taking it time to let it drain. We dont want to get sludge on it necessarily. Take your time. Stand on the side of it. Should we let it release for a while . Let it release. Is that the technical term . This is the most important bolt on the whole thing. This is the locking bolt. It locks this thing right in place. So now. Take your hammer and what we want to do, we get rag build up right in here. The hot water recirculates right in here, the sludge recirculates in here. The sludge sometimes has rags in it. All we want to do is go around the clean the rags. Let me show you how. Take the slide hammer, go all the way through the back, go around. Got you. During the real rainy season, how does that change the way dealing with this job . Is it a lot more stuff in there . What we do, charles, we do this quarterly. Every four months we go around and clean all the Heat Exchangers so we dont have a large build up. Go around . Yeah. sound of hammering . What im trying to do, charles, is always pull it out on the low stroke. Right. So you are not, like, flying out. Now talk about clean up. Then where does this stuff get deposited . Were going to dump it in a debris box and it will go back to the plant. If you think back, the romans came up with a system of plumbing that allowed us it use water to transport waste away from the hub of civilization, which enabled cities to grow. You have a large bowl, a drive motor and another motor with a planetary gearbox with differential pressure inside there. The large mass up there spinning separating the solids from the liquid. We have to prevent about once a month, we go in there grease those, change the oil, check the vibration levels. The operators can tell just by the hum of that machine that its a harmonic noise emitted that its out of balance and the machine needs to be cleaned. It will start vibrating and we have vibration analysis machines that will come over here and check the levels. So its kind of an ongoing thing that you have to stay on top of on a daily basis. Handled properly, you take organic residuals, as we call them, that are leftovers of our society and turn them back into some energy. And we have another ability to take that sludge and get a nutrient value for crops there. We actually are running a kind of composting Energy Recovery system. Well, this is a dirty job. We try to do it safely and we try to do it without imposing too much on the public. People want to flush their toilets and have things go away and not be bothersome again. We do a lot to try to accomplish that. Id like to invite you to come back any time you want. Once you got this in your blood, you are not going to be able to stay away. The raging waters are fun and when we do digester cleaning i really hope you can come back. Thats quite a sight. Yeah, that sounds interesting. I really appreciate you coming by and it was a hi. Welcome to San Francisco. Stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. Lets look at common earthquake myths. We are here at the urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco. We have 3 guest today. We have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. I want to talk about urban myths. What do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance . Hes sleeping during those earthquakes . Have you noticed him take any special . No. He sleeps right through them. There is no truth that im aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. You hear the myth all the time. Suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something i hear they are aware of small vibrations. But yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. Today is a spectacular day in San Francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. Is this earthquake weather . No. Not that i have heard of. No such thing. There is no such thing. We are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. There is no relationship. I have heard its hot or cold weather or rain. Im not sure which is the myth. How about time of day . Yes. It happens when its least convenient. When it happens people say we were lucky and when they dont. Its terrible timing. Its never a good time for an earthquake. But we are going to have one. How about the ground swallowing people into the ground . Like the earth that collapsed . Its not like the tv shows. The earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but its not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. Its not going anywhere. We are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. Southern california is moving north. Its coming up from the south to the north. You would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. Maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. For better or worse. Yes. This is a tough question. Those other ones werent tough. This is a really easy challenge. Are the smaller ones less stress . Yes. The amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. I think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4. 7. So small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future . Not anyway that you can count on. I have heard that buildings in San Francisco are on rollers and isolated . Its not true. Its a conventional Foundation Like almost all the circumstances buildings in San Francisco. The transamerica was built way before. Its a pretty conventional foundation design. I have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. Is there anything of value to that . Yes, if you are in your room. You should drop, cover and hold onto something. If you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. If you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, its not a bad place to be. The reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. You are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. You are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. You want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. Where can i buy a Richter Scale . Mr. Richter is selling it. We are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. They are not available. Its a rather complex. In fact we dont even use the Richter Scale anymore. We use a moment magnitude. The Richter Scale was early technology. Probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. Is that true . Loma prieta was different. The ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. So anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. We are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to San Francisco and a fault totally independent. Much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. So people who were here in 89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isnt really the threshold of damage. When you triple it you cross that line. Its much more damage in earthquake. I want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for. 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My faiv rlt part of the committee has been that we have played a opportunity for many Small Businesses. [inaudible] Women Owned Business to come in and [inaudible] sfpuc. It is a great opportunity because some are so small they have been able to grow their companies and move up and bid other projects with the sfpuc. Everyone i was talking about with any contractor [inaudible] and super markets and things like that and i realize the transition was on the sfpuc. He got that first job and knows about the paperwork qu schedule and still works on this type of job, but he works with general contractors that also did other things. Pretty soon it is like he did that one and that one. It completely changed his business. My name is nancy [inaudible] the Office Manager and bid coordinator for [inaudible] construction. Worked on 10 plus puc, lbe contracts. 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