We recovered . Yes, we are on our way. Our staff stepped up big time during the pandemic to respond to the health emergency. Since last may, we have been able to steadily increase in person access to library facilities. Currently we are at 95 of our precovid hours of operation. In the coming weeks we are going to fully restore all of our hours. We have four branches that we are going to bring back to seven day service. They are currently operating at 5 days a week and we are going to go to every tag line and i know all the foot traffic has not returned to San Francisco, but our library is seeing a resurgence coming back. Can we talk about programs after covid . Absolutely, that is part and parcel of our mission. We were doing that work precovid and certainly the library stepped up during the pandemic. We doubled our level of programming for personal finance, Small Business help, jobs and careers. We have a dedicated Small Business center here at the library. There is a wide suite of pr
Of first 5 of california, jacky wong. Thank you so much for joining us. [applause] she wanted a piece of the action too, so she came all the way down from sacramento, because im really proud of everything we have been doing in San Francisco. It goes back to 2018 when the voters of San Francisco passed proposition c to invest more resources into Early Childhood education and i want to acknowledge someone who isnt here but a leader in the effort and thats former supervisor norman yee, who did a really great job of focusing on child care and making sure we have support and resources. As a result, San Francisco has been able to do some transformative work and im really proud of it. We knew that there was a need to recruit and retain Early Childhooded educators and we have been able to provide increase in salaries with subsidies that lead to over 1600 early educators receiving raises of 12 thousand, which helps us with not only recruitment, it helps with retention. We have been able to doub
And that brings us to the end of our agenda and the beginning of our summer break. Madam clerk could you read the memoryium. Meeting adjourn in the memory the following loved individuals on behalf of supervisor safai, for the late wilin dallason gardener. Behalf of entires preston and entires supervisor peskin the late chest are hartmachine. On behalf of supervisor supervisor peskin the late joyce ma nalo. William hardin. Charlie morestelar and toney bennett. We are adjourned. I am supervisor melgar. I am the supervisor for district 7. [music] i am a immigrant to San Francisco. My family came when i was 12 from el salvador during the civil war. This place gave us security, safety and an opportunity to thrive, so i love the city deeply, and as a mother of three kids who have grown up as city kids, im grateful for everything the city has to offer for people like me and families. I have been politically involved my whole life, either in government or a non profit worker and i care about t
Check. Whats up yall . How you doing . I was going on the stage but want to be closer to you. We heard the bio. I decided to wear my warriors shirt. Especially because we are here, but look, on the back yall, look on the back. Yeah, i had a opportunity to come here a couple months ago. I won the impact warriors award and really i had everything to do with being on the trajectory you are on right now. Starting as a young person working for a mayors program, identifying my passion as a activist and continuing that work now into adult hood, i do that as a artist, i do it as a activist and musician and will hear that in the music now. Sound man, run that first track called queen of everything, because i do everything, yall. We going to do, we are going to have a good time and wake you up. I havent had my coffee, but we are going to have fun. Is that cool . Alright. It is a head nod track. Im not the average bay area rap girl. I like the old school boom box. You all feeling that . Are you f
Afternoon. Were here today for a virtual town hall regarding an officer involved shooting that occurred on wednesday, july 26, 2023, in the intersection of catalina street and fairfax avenue. Before proceeding, id like to announce to our viewing and listening audience that this town hall is being translated into spanish, cantonese and american sign language. Asl for members of our community who speak those languages without suggesting a premature judgment on the appropriateness of the force used in this particular incident. Todays presentation will include details from an officer involved shooting incident that ended tragically claiming the life of 41 year old ryan bluford. Id like to express my deepest condolences to mr. Bluford surviving family members for the tragedy theyve experienced in the San Francisco Police Department. We recognize that our sworn duty as Law Enforcement officers imposes no more solemn obligation on us than to honor and respect the sanctity of human life. We al