Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

Joined me as we cut the ribbon with mayor breed, but essentially designed to work with wonderful programs like Young Community developers and the lead agency out there in the intercity youth to attach and refer people to the opportunities, many of those actually in the Construction Industry and we have many of our brother exposbrothers and sistee carpenters unions and they have been a phenomenal partner in putting people to work in an industry and giving many people their first opportunity for longterm employment. So today after that, last year, many of you supported our citygrow program, which was designed to help expand apprenticeship into a new industry in the cannabis industry. And we authored that with the support of the unanimous support of this board as a way to work with preapprenticeship pathways to state. Approved apprenticeshp program and iowu workers and so we now are looking forward to working with employers and getting graduates of this apprenticeship connected. Bases on the successful city bill i referenced, that work, were looking forward to our first citygrow class being put to work. So today, im asking the City Attorney, in partnership with supervisor walton, to draft an ordinance to call our San Francisco apprenticeship ordinance to approve the workforce goals and local hiring goals beyond construction. I know supervisor walton has talked in the past about working to do a local hire in the Tech Industry and i know that mayor breed announced this week, i think yesterday, working on Apprenticeship Training work and this is to act as a complement to that but this is beyond the Construction Industry. Were looking to create partnerships with city departments, in particular the office of workforce and Economic Development and department of human resources, to work with community and labor partners in other areas, in training partnerships and working with employers to develop state certified pre apprenticeship pathways and meeting goals of state approved a tiesships. Weve been looking to people in new areas, hospitality, healthcare, commercial, driving, theater, all of these areas that have the potential for expansion and to work in partnership with organized labor. So i want the city, not only to promote apprenticeship as a workforce tool but to lead to lifelong change. So i ask the City Attorney to work with us on that and we will get started. Thank you. Supervisor. To the members, the president has asked we cut away from the introduction of new business to go to 2 30 commendations. Mr. President , there are three. Supervisor safyaye, memdleman and hainey. Please share your commendation. This is what emexemplifies of being a true San Franciscoan and we honour a true leader. Its sad because were losing that person but were happy and super happy for his next faz phe in his life, captain jack hart, transitioning as an instructor in the Police Academy. Our community and the desire district has had such a fortune to have captain hart as a captain. He touches on district 8, district 9, district 10 and parts of district 7 and he has one of the Largest Police districts in the city and has lead that with tremendous, tremendous appplaumb. No hour of the day hes not informing me of what is happening and all of us of what is happening in our district. His grandfather charles joined the Police Department after the first San Francisco earthquake. And sad to say, alemany boulevard is still the site of many, many fatalities and reckless driving and captain hart, before he transitioned out, was working with our office and we now have a plan. Captain hart honors his legacy and wars the star as his great grandfather. He joined the force after attending law school. He served in pa to troll patrols and as an attorney with the departments legal division. He has taught constitutional law, criminal law, criminal procedure and leadership courses to more than 50 Police Recruit classes, more than 50. As a sergeant, captain hart lead a street Crime Enforcement Team in the bayview district. As a lieutenant, he was the officer in charge of the candl Candlestick Park and lead 70,000 people. As a captain to the unit, he supervised the marine unit and lead the response to the 2017 north bay firearm storm at the Department Operation center. Captain hart is a Master Instructor in blue courage, a course taught throughout the nation. As police captain, he is always available, as ive said, to the public and ever present at Community Meetings, always lead with compassion, demonstrating the best of what Community Policing can be and, in fact, i dont think ive seen him get angry once in the two and a half years. He almost got angry at me one day but the closest it got, he tightened his lips saying next time if you can call me ten minutes earlier, that would be preciatated. Appreciated. [ laughter ] captain hart, its my profound honor to have you as my captain and many are here to honor you and on behalf of myself and colleagues, i want to present you with this commendation. I know some my colleagues want to say a few words but in recognition of the outstanding work in the Ingleside Police station and myself all my colleagues extend the highest commendation to you, captain hart. Our community was profounded impacted by your compassion, dedication and the empathy youve shown in the short time youve been there but it seems like a longer amount of time than two years. You will be extremely miss. We wish you the best of luck in your new role. I think our colleagues will say a few words. Let me have the other i will have the other supervisor speak first while theyre holding their kids. Sorry about that. Supervisor ronan. Thank you, president yi. Oh, captain hart, this is so bittersweet. I have to say i knew this call was coming eventually, because you are such a talent that i had no doubt that the chief wants you to serve in many different ways and if we could, you know, duplicate you, we all would. Because they just dont make them like you everyday. The care that you gave, youre just a model captain and officer and the fact that youre going to be teaching new officers that come in and be the first example and its bittersweet but i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Youre an extraordinary leader and you and your beautiful family, were so grateful to everything youve given to sanfrancisco. Thank you. Captain heart, i wont say its been a joy working with you because most of the time were talking to each other, something has gone wrong but i want to thank you for your tremendous service. You are a treasure and it is great to have you in the San Francisco Police Department. Although, im definitely going to miss you at ingleside. Although, we keep you in the district at the Police Academy and i expect well work together, maybe on more pleasant things, actually. Supervisor walton. Thank you, president yi. I want to say captain hart, congratulations and thank you for all of your work. I know weve only had the short part of most of this year, but just to see how responsive you are, particularly having to deal with several different supervisors. You know, you dont make excuses, we call you in. There are hard decisions to be made and you actually make it happen. One major example is being able to get us bilingual Police Officers at two different sites and visitation rallies to work with our constituents and being able to respond to that and making it happen, versus trying to give several excuses as to why its not possible, what the budget looks like, et cetera and you just made it happen. So your commitment to community and dedication to community is not unnoticed and i appreciate all of your hard work. Thank you, supervisor. Thank you. So before you speak, im sorry, you have to your arms got tired. [ laughter ] he always seems to get the last word. I also want to congratulate you in your next opportunity and youre one of those captains that the community really admires and appreciates because you go to so Many Community meetings. Every time im at a Community Meeting concerning safety or some issues with the Police Department, youre always there. So i really appreciate it and i really appreciate, also, when we talked about those property crime issues that we were having throughout San Francisco and that you and the captain over at taravel stepped up and lets try in our station to have, basically, your district or your station unit and im hoping your predecessor, captain mcfaddee effort you made. So now captain hart, its your turn. Thank you so much. I just wanted to thank all of you for taking time out of your hard day to acknowledge a Civil Servant like myself, but really, the credit is to be shared with a lot of people in this room, including the people that spoke up and big advocates wanting enhanced Public Safety and to collaborate on so many issues was great. So thank you to so many people over there in that corner. I want to acknowledge my mother, too. , for all of her love and support. I was a little pal cadet at 16 years old is came home after a shift at the tenderloin and said, look, mom, they like me. They bought a bulletproof vest and she took a gulp and continued to support me. It was her grandfather who was killed in the line of duty in 1931. He was hit and killed by a politicallyconnected person and it was in the middle of the depression. They were told you either take a couple hundred bucks it was 5 04 p. M. And he wasnt on duty. You can take this payoff or get nothing. My grandmother literally to the day she died cursed the city and the Police Department because she was 16 years old and wore her sweet 16 dress to her fathers funeral and just the way that her family was treated at the time and i was able when i told her, i was able to get her fathers star number, 586, she was appreciative and it reminds me of the gratitude in Public Safety and San Francisco, like the people on the board like you to create an enriched environment for us to be able to meet all of the needs and the demands of policing. Also i would like to thank, obviously, my wife, anonda, who has been tireless in support. Shes a criminal defense lawyer and we met over a pitchs motion. She was seeking Police Officers personnel files. She won. [ laughter ] but i think ive won in the longterm, as we continue to challenge each other intellectually and emotionally in discussing how the world works and what justice looks like and a special thanks to her love and support and her mother who is on the board at san quentin, who continues to challenge my thinking and what humanity looks like and how we can make the world more safe and just. I would like to thank my mentor, im nila. He told a story in 1978 how he had a chance meeting with a neuro scientist, saying a Police Officer who has all of the brain connections of a prisoner of war and that a prisoner of war is in this lockedup environment who doesnt have the warm, loving embrace and they dont sleep well or eat right and that the neuroscientist looked at him in 1978 and says if you love your life and your family, youll quit policing immediately. And then, i have family members in policing, tell me theres good news. The neuroscientist perked right up and said, well, there is something called an enriched environment, when the prisoner of war goes home, surrounding by the loving embrace of family and friends drinking a cold beer, flipping burgers on a beautiful sunday sunny afternoon, your brain has an ability to regenerate itself. This idea of neuro plasticity, that the prisoner of war becomes whole because the toxic environment is now over. So long in policing, we find our only ability to create a rich environment is when we leave this profession. We cant wait for retirement to create this enriched environment. When i heard that story, i said, what if we could create an enriched environment now, within our own walls of the profession, amongst neighbors and Community Members, that perhaps there is a way to overcome this cultural ptsd that we have based on legacy and generations of strife and turmoil and ive taken that to heart, to try to create an enriched environment for Police Officers so that they go out to certainly all neighborhoods in a more just way. I appreciate all of your support to create a more just world as we go along. Im super sad to leave ingleside. I would like to thank assistant chief redman for transferring me. [ laughter ] no, i would like to thank him for giving me this for the two years. But we have a chance at the Police Academy to impact the next 50 to 75 years of the Police Department and so i look forward to, hopefully, amplifying any of the good that youve seen in the ingleside, to amplify that across the department and entire organization. So im grateful for all of you and thank you so much. [cheers and applause] can i have my rebuttal . [ laughter ] so supervisor safaye, thank you and supervisors for your kind words. Obviously, these are tough decisions we make. I know the community is not happy and i grew up in the ingleside myself so even my father is calling me about this transfer. But if you hear jack talk, you see why we want him at the Police Academy and hes going to bring his heart and mind to all of the new recruits, but also in our advanced Officers Training to the officers that are currently employed, hes bringing his work ethic to the academy and were excited for that assignment. And obviously, like he mentioned, his family. So none of us get to the ranks we are without the support of our families. I know he worked 24 7 with the supervisors. Its not an easy job but he has a lot of tasks to accomplish at the academy and were excited. So congratulations to jack. I think this ive worked with jack in every rank in this Police Department. He is not going to stop at this rank. Hes one of the foremost leaders in in department and look forward to rest of his career to see what he accomplishes. So congratulations to jack. [cheers and applause] next, i would like invite our supervisor from district 8, supervisor mamdleman to please offer your commendation. Thank you. Eric guther, come on up. So today, colleagues, i would like for us to recognise and honour eric gutherts. He has served as the principal of mission high. In june, he left to start a new mission for the districts Transformative Mission where he supports leadership for principals and assistant principals. I did not allow his accomplishments during his tenure there to slip by unacknowledged in this chamber. After earning his bachelors degree in English Literature and a masters in education from university of california at los angelos, eric began his teaching career more than 30 years ago as an eighth grade english teacher in east los angelos. He then returned to his native bay area created and directed the bill Wilson School in l. A. , a school for homeless and run away teaches in the l. A. Area. Nearly 20 years ago, he began teaching english where he would serve as the English Department chair and the reform facilitators and principal before becoming principal. Eric has earned an impressive list of honours and awards, completing the stamfords program and was a recipient of the dreamcatcher award for the arts education. In 2014, eric received the principal of the year award and in 2015, he was awarded the Association Region 5 principal of the year. And in 2016, edg eric received e aimhigh award and was in the missions high and the teachers who made a triumph and receive the meredith inspiration award and named one of peers resources 40 changemakers for 40 years. So a lot of awards. [ laughter ] and a lot of great work. Erics mentor and predecessor who was mission highs principal from 2001 to 2008, described erics legacy at merc mission as transformative. When kevin left his post to accept a new position in the school district, central office, he was reluctant to leave mission in the middle of Ongoing Professional Development work he had been leading on antiracist teaching. I know he will be greatly missed. Eric, thank you for all youve done to transform the lives of Mission Students and families and i would want to invite you to say a few words. He is fabulous. Hes amazing and its a school thats been transformed and also teachers have the ability to be selfreflective and he allows that space to be selfreflective with each other and also, i have to say, eric, i went to a lot, a lot of high schools and spoke to a lot of High School Students and i had not heard one complaint from a student. I hear it from all of these other high schools, but the students at Mission High School, i did not hear one complaint and they loved their experience at Young Community<\/a> developers and the lead agency out there in the intercity youth to attach and refer people to the opportunities, many of those actually in the Construction Industry<\/a> and we have many of our brother exposbrothers and sistee carpenters unions and they have been a phenomenal partner in putting people to work in an industry and giving many people their first opportunity for longterm employment. So today after that, last year, many of you supported our citygrow program, which was designed to help expand apprenticeship into a new industry in the cannabis industry. And we authored that with the support of the unanimous support of this board as a way to work with preapprenticeship pathways to state. Approved apprenticeshp program and iowu workers and so we now are looking forward to working with employers and getting graduates of this apprenticeship connected. Bases on the successful city bill i referenced, that work, were looking forward to our first citygrow class being put to work. So today, im asking the City Attorney<\/a>, in partnership with supervisor walton, to draft an ordinance to call our San Francisco<\/a> apprenticeship ordinance to approve the workforce goals and local hiring goals beyond construction. I know supervisor walton has talked in the past about working to do a local hire in the Tech Industry<\/a> and i know that mayor breed announced this week, i think yesterday, working on Apprenticeship Training<\/a> work and this is to act as a complement to that but this is beyond the Construction Industry<\/a>. Were looking to create partnerships with city departments, in particular the office of workforce and Economic Development<\/a> and department of human resources, to work with community and labor partners in other areas, in training partnerships and working with employers to develop state certified pre apprenticeship pathways and meeting goals of state approved a tiesships. Weve been looking to people in new areas, hospitality, healthcare, commercial, driving, theater, all of these areas that have the potential for expansion and to work in partnership with organized labor. So i want the city, not only to promote apprenticeship as a workforce tool but to lead to lifelong change. So i ask the City Attorney<\/a> to work with us on that and we will get started. Thank you. Supervisor. To the members, the president has asked we cut away from the introduction of new business to go to 2 30 commendations. Mr. President , there are three. Supervisor safyaye, memdleman and hainey. Please share your commendation. This is what emexemplifies of being a true San Francisco<\/a>an and we honour a true leader. Its sad because were losing that person but were happy and super happy for his next faz phe in his life, captain jack hart, transitioning as an instructor in the Police Academy<\/a>. Our community and the desire district has had such a fortune to have captain hart as a captain. He touches on district 8, district 9, district 10 and parts of district 7 and he has one of the Largest Police<\/a> districts in the city and has lead that with tremendous, tremendous appplaumb. No hour of the day hes not informing me of what is happening and all of us of what is happening in our district. His grandfather charles joined the Police Department<\/a> after the first San Francisco<\/a> earthquake. And sad to say, alemany boulevard is still the site of many, many fatalities and reckless driving and captain hart, before he transitioned out, was working with our office and we now have a plan. Captain hart honors his legacy and wars the star as his great grandfather. He joined the force after attending law school. He served in pa to troll patrols and as an attorney with the departments legal division. He has taught constitutional law, criminal law, criminal procedure and leadership courses to more than 50 Police Recruit<\/a> classes, more than 50. As a sergeant, captain hart lead a street Crime Enforcement Team<\/a> in the bayview district. As a lieutenant, he was the officer in charge of the candl Candlestick Park<\/a> and lead 70,000 people. As a captain to the unit, he supervised the marine unit and lead the response to the 2017 north bay firearm storm at the Department Operation<\/a> center. Captain hart is a Master Instructor<\/a> in blue courage, a course taught throughout the nation. As police captain, he is always available, as ive said, to the public and ever present at Community Meeting<\/a>s, always lead with compassion, demonstrating the best of what Community Policing<\/a> can be and, in fact, i dont think ive seen him get angry once in the two and a half years. He almost got angry at me one day but the closest it got, he tightened his lips saying next time if you can call me ten minutes earlier, that would be preciatated. Appreciated. [ laughter ] captain hart, its my profound honor to have you as my captain and many are here to honor you and on behalf of myself and colleagues, i want to present you with this commendation. I know some my colleagues want to say a few words but in recognition of the outstanding work in the Ingleside Police<\/a> station and myself all my colleagues extend the highest commendation to you, captain hart. Our community was profounded impacted by your compassion, dedication and the empathy youve shown in the short time youve been there but it seems like a longer amount of time than two years. You will be extremely miss. We wish you the best of luck in your new role. I think our colleagues will say a few words. Let me have the other i will have the other supervisor speak first while theyre holding their kids. Sorry about that. Supervisor ronan. Thank you, president yi. Oh, captain hart, this is so bittersweet. I have to say i knew this call was coming eventually, because you are such a talent that i had no doubt that the chief wants you to serve in many different ways and if we could, you know, duplicate you, we all would. Because they just dont make them like you everyday. The care that you gave, youre just a model captain and officer and the fact that youre going to be teaching new officers that come in and be the first example and its bittersweet but i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Youre an extraordinary leader and you and your beautiful family, were so grateful to everything youve given to sanfrancisco. Thank you. Captain heart, i wont say its been a joy working with you because most of the time were talking to each other, something has gone wrong but i want to thank you for your tremendous service. You are a treasure and it is great to have you in the San Francisco<\/a> Police Department<\/a>. Although, im definitely going to miss you at ingleside. Although, we keep you in the district at the Police Academy<\/a> and i expect well work together, maybe on more pleasant things, actually. Supervisor walton. Thank you, president yi. I want to say captain hart, congratulations and thank you for all of your work. I know weve only had the short part of most of this year, but just to see how responsive you are, particularly having to deal with several different supervisors. You know, you dont make excuses, we call you in. There are hard decisions to be made and you actually make it happen. One major example is being able to get us bilingual Police Officers<\/a> at two different sites and visitation rallies to work with our constituents and being able to respond to that and making it happen, versus trying to give several excuses as to why its not possible, what the budget looks like, et cetera and you just made it happen. So your commitment to community and dedication to community is not unnoticed and i appreciate all of your hard work. Thank you, supervisor. Thank you. So before you speak, im sorry, you have to your arms got tired. [ laughter ] he always seems to get the last word. I also want to congratulate you in your next opportunity and youre one of those captains that the community really admires and appreciates because you go to so Many Community<\/a> meetings. Every time im at a Community Meeting<\/a> concerning safety or some issues with the Police Department<\/a>, youre always there. So i really appreciate it and i really appreciate, also, when we talked about those property crime issues that we were having throughout San Francisco<\/a> and that you and the captain over at taravel stepped up and lets try in our station to have, basically, your district or your station unit and im hoping your predecessor, captain mcfaddee effort you made. So now captain hart, its your turn. Thank you so much. I just wanted to thank all of you for taking time out of your hard day to acknowledge a Civil Servant<\/a> like myself, but really, the credit is to be shared with a lot of people in this room, including the people that spoke up and big advocates wanting enhanced Public Safety<\/a> and to collaborate on so many issues was great. So thank you to so many people over there in that corner. I want to acknowledge my mother, too. , for all of her love and support. I was a little pal cadet at 16 years old is came home after a shift at the tenderloin and said, look, mom, they like me. They bought a bulletproof vest and she took a gulp and continued to support me. It was her grandfather who was killed in the line of duty in 1931. He was hit and killed by a politicallyconnected person and it was in the middle of the depression. They were told you either take a couple hundred bucks it was 5 04 p. M. And he wasnt on duty. You can take this payoff or get nothing. My grandmother literally to the day she died cursed the city and the Police Department<\/a> because she was 16 years old and wore her sweet 16 dress to her fathers funeral and just the way that her family was treated at the time and i was able when i told her, i was able to get her fathers star number, 586, she was appreciative and it reminds me of the gratitude in Public Safety<\/a> and San Francisco<\/a>, like the people on the board like you to create an enriched environment for us to be able to meet all of the needs and the demands of policing. Also i would like to thank, obviously, my wife, anonda, who has been tireless in support. Shes a criminal defense lawyer and we met over a pitchs motion. She was seeking Police Officers<\/a> personnel files. She won. [ laughter ] but i think ive won in the longterm, as we continue to challenge each other intellectually and emotionally in discussing how the world works and what justice looks like and a special thanks to her love and support and her mother who is on the board at san quentin, who continues to challenge my thinking and what humanity looks like and how we can make the world more safe and just. I would like to thank my mentor, im nila. He told a story in 1978 how he had a chance meeting with a neuro scientist, saying a Police Officer<\/a> who has all of the brain connections of a prisoner of war and that a prisoner of war is in this lockedup environment who doesnt have the warm, loving embrace and they dont sleep well or eat right and that the neuroscientist looked at him in 1978 and says if you love your life and your family, youll quit policing immediately. And then, i have family members in policing, tell me theres good news. The neuroscientist perked right up and said, well, there is something called an enriched environment, when the prisoner of war goes home, surrounding by the loving embrace of family and friends drinking a cold beer, flipping burgers on a beautiful sunday sunny afternoon, your brain has an ability to regenerate itself. This idea of neuro plasticity, that the prisoner of war becomes whole because the toxic environment is now over. So long in policing, we find our only ability to create a rich environment is when we leave this profession. We cant wait for retirement to create this enriched environment. When i heard that story, i said, what if we could create an enriched environment now, within our own walls of the profession, amongst neighbors and Community Members<\/a>, that perhaps there is a way to overcome this cultural ptsd that we have based on legacy and generations of strife and turmoil and ive taken that to heart, to try to create an enriched environment for Police Officers<\/a> so that they go out to certainly all neighborhoods in a more just way. I appreciate all of your support to create a more just world as we go along. Im super sad to leave ingleside. I would like to thank assistant chief redman for transferring me. [ laughter ] no, i would like to thank him for giving me this for the two years. But we have a chance at the Police Academy<\/a> to impact the next 50 to 75 years of the Police Department<\/a> and so i look forward to, hopefully, amplifying any of the good that youve seen in the ingleside, to amplify that across the department and entire organization. So im grateful for all of you and thank you so much. [cheers and applause] can i have my rebuttal . [ laughter ] so supervisor safaye, thank you and supervisors for your kind words. Obviously, these are tough decisions we make. I know the community is not happy and i grew up in the ingleside myself so even my father is calling me about this transfer. But if you hear jack talk, you see why we want him at the Police Academy<\/a> and hes going to bring his heart and mind to all of the new recruits, but also in our advanced Officers Training<\/a> to the officers that are currently employed, hes bringing his work ethic to the academy and were excited for that assignment. And obviously, like he mentioned, his family. So none of us get to the ranks we are without the support of our families. I know he worked 24 7 with the supervisors. Its not an easy job but he has a lot of tasks to accomplish at the academy and were excited. So congratulations to jack. I think this ive worked with jack in every rank in this Police Department<\/a>. He is not going to stop at this rank. Hes one of the foremost leaders in in department and look forward to rest of his career to see what he accomplishes. So congratulations to jack. [cheers and applause] next, i would like invite our supervisor from district 8, supervisor mamdleman to please offer your commendation. Thank you. Eric guther, come on up. So today, colleagues, i would like for us to recognise and honour eric gutherts. He has served as the principal of mission high. In june, he left to start a new mission for the districts Transformative Mission<\/a> where he supports leadership for principals and assistant principals. I did not allow his accomplishments during his tenure there to slip by unacknowledged in this chamber. After earning his bachelors degree in English Literature<\/a> and a masters in education from university of california at los angelos, eric began his teaching career more than 30 years ago as an eighth grade english teacher in east los angelos. He then returned to his native bay area created and directed the bill Wilson School<\/a> in l. A. , a school for homeless and run away teaches in the l. A. Area. Nearly 20 years ago, he began teaching english where he would serve as the English Department<\/a> chair and the reform facilitators and principal before becoming principal. Eric has earned an impressive list of honours and awards, completing the stamfords program and was a recipient of the dreamcatcher award for the arts education. In 2014, eric received the principal of the year award and in 2015, he was awarded the Association Region<\/a> 5 principal of the year. And in 2016, edg eric received e aimhigh award and was in the missions high and the teachers who made a triumph and receive the meredith inspiration award and named one of peers resources 40 changemakers for 40 years. So a lot of awards. [ laughter ] and a lot of great work. Erics mentor and predecessor who was mission highs principal from 2001 to 2008, described erics legacy at merc mission as transformative. When kevin left his post to accept a new position in the school district, central office, he was reluctant to leave mission in the middle of Ongoing Professional Development<\/a> work he had been leading on antiracist teaching. I know he will be greatly missed. Eric, thank you for all youve done to transform the lives of Mission Students<\/a> and families and i would want to invite you to say a few words. He is fabulous. Hes amazing and its a school thats been transformed and also teachers have the ability to be selfreflective and he allows that space to be selfreflective with each other and also, i have to say, eric, i went to a lot, a lot of high schools and spoke to a lot of High School Students<\/a> and i had not heard one complaint from a student. I hear it from all of these other high schools, but the students at Mission High School<\/a>, i did not hear one complaint and they loved their experience at Mission High School<\/a> and i want to thank you, thank you, for your service and all of the thousands and thousands and thousands of students that you have an impact on and thanks so much. Supervisor ronan . I wanted to echo that you are such an extraordinary person and your dedication not just to your students and the success of the faculty and the staff and the community at mission high, but your strong, insistent, racial Economic Justice<\/a> is something that is unique. Its important and very few people do it with the passion and the energy and brilliance that you do. I cant echo my colleagues enough to say thank you for all of your work. Youre someone we all admire so much and cant appreciate you enough. Supervisor walton. Thank you, president yi. Eric, just as a friend and someone who worked with you in several capacities, i wish principals like you could stay forever. The environment that you create for our young people, the environment that you create for our teachers and the environment you create with the school as a part of community is something that is very special and so, of course, youre going to be missed by the district. Youll be missed by the students at mission, but i just want to thank you for your service and i want to thank you for being able to work so closely with community and develop young people to send so many young people to our uc schools. That is a major, major accomplishment and i want to thank you for setting up the environment for learning an enrichment so our students can be successful in that endeavor. Supervisor hainey. Thank you. Er irritatioric, you know we alo much respect. I came and spent a lot of time with you and watched you in action and being a principal in a high school is one of the toughest jobs there could be. But you made it look easy. I mean, i would watch you and the way you would interact with folks and listen to people and value their voices, i was inspired just in terms of how a leader looks, not just how a principal but how a leader in general really lives what their values are and acts on what they say they are. So i just want to thank you and for you and mr. Truett, principal truett, how much youve done that make that an extraordinary school. Whereas supervisor furer said, everybody wants to be there, students want to be there and thank you so much and i know you will continue to serve our kids and families in the city. So i was on the school board when you became the principal and when principal truett was leavleaving to go to another position, who are we going to get to fill his big old shoes, you know, literally. [ laughter ] and when your name came up and with your background and peer resources, i said, i think well be ok. And what, i dont know how many years its been eight, nine years or something, that youve been the principal and youve completely filled his shoes and more and now, as you leave, i want to say the same thing, oh, my god, who will fill erics shoes. So congratulations anyway to moving on and the floor is yours. Thank you. Im a little overwhelmed, to be quite honest. So thank you supervisor mamdleman, and thank you to all of the supervisors. I know so many of yo many of yoe working with all of you and im deeply humbled by this honor today. I was at mission for 18 years and probably the most difficult decision ive ever had to make, even more difficult than having a second child, for example, or a first child. [ laughter ] and i really did grapple with it. But i have loved every moment of my time at mission. I want to thank very much the district, particularly folks that are here today, my friend brian fox i see back there and the superintendent and the entire district office. I cannot thank enough, concer kn truett, who has been there for me through thick and thin. He said do you want to be principal and i said heck, no and you could put another word if for heck and i couldnt imagine taking mr. Truetts place and being there. Hes done such a fabulous job. And i said, if you say i have to do it, i have to do and its been the greatest honor of my life for certain. I have to thank all of the teachers, the faculty and you asked about the new shoes. So miss mccambey has taken over and shes been there many, many years and mission is in great hand. The antiracist teaching work, the social justice work will continue, will only deepen and get stronger and i couldnt be prouder of that. I also just have to say personally, as a child, my grandmother went to girls high school, which is the First High School<\/a> for young women in San Francisco<\/a>. My father, he went to sherman and marina and lowell and he went to schools in the city, as well. I was born in the city and it has been such an honor for me to be there and to be ail to d ablo the antiracist work but i do it on a personal level. Speaking of my family, my daughter was a tiny baby when i moved to mission and she literally took her first steps there and graduated from mission. Shes now studies creative writing and literature and feminist studies and said she couldnt have done it she said, i couldnt have done it without a Mission High School<\/a> education. So what else can i say . It was time to move on but i love it deeply and i am humbled and incredibly grateful for this honor today, thank you. applause . That brings us to our last commendation by supervisor hainey. Thank you supervisor stephanie for declaring november veterans month or veterans awareness month. Yesterday was a day we were recognising the service of so many people to our country and also looking critically at some of the ways in which our veterans are often failed when they return home. And recommitting to be able to honor them and support them and celebrate them appropriately. With that, i have the privilege today to honor del seymour, one of our cities and one of my districts most wellknown and accomplished Community Leaders<\/a> and also a veteran. Mr. Seymour served in the United States<\/a> army, 82n 82nd airborne from june of 1967 to may of 1969. He was ranked as a specialist, five at the time of discharge, having received several soldier of the months awards and served during the washington riots of 1968 and a dustmethod in the com bode ycambodia region. Hes run the gamut from living on the streets, workings a taxi driver and becoming the advocate and leader we know him as today. Over the last decade, he has worked closely with organizations like glide memorial church, st. Anthonys and using his Life Experience<\/a> to help inform and guide the service providers, many whom service veterans. Dale has served as the cochair of the local homeless coordinating board and has an appointed position with the sanfrancisco tl hip board. Dels deep love for the tenderloin is evidence to all that know him or have heard him speak. I heard him give a sermon at glide. He educated people and to set the record straight on an often ignored part of our city. It highlights the tenderloins rich Cultural Heritage<\/a> and supports longtime residents and relative newcomers. In 2015, del cofounded tenderloin to perform the outstanding quality he saw in his neighborhood. A startup workforce, trains exprepares and places Community Members<\/a> into Community Jobs<\/a> and at the midmarket Tech Companies<\/a> and businesses. Given the tremendous amount of work that del has done for the tenderloin, its no wonder that many know him as the mayor of tenderloin and this tight has beetitle hasbeen well earned. Its a rare day i walk around the tenderloin and dont see you. Youre always there as someone who is bringing people together and acknowledging and respecting and valuing everyones experience in our community, whos trying to get people to see each other and connect with each other and understand each other better. And youve you, to me, represent the best of San Francisco<\/a> is and the neighborhood i live and andi know its something from your own experience as a veteran and in service and taking that experience, the good and the bad, the hard parts, the trauma, the suffering and also the commitment that came with that and bringing it in the way that you have to our community. So im really excited and grateful to be able to honour you today and also the many other veterans in our community. Thank you. Thank you. Ive been all around the world, arrived in the tenderloin 35 years ago, got out of my car and i thought they were shooting a movie. Point by 8 00 that night, i was in that movie. I went on to star in that movie for 18 years, life in the tenderloin. As a medic, a combat medic, i wasnt required to fight, didnt fight, my fight started when i got to the tenderloin. 18 years, i fought my addiction, most of the time. I fought my dignity, lost most of the time. I fought for my selfeesteem and lost most of the time and went on and on and on and i was able to get my military development and put my life on the right track. When you talk about del seymour, thats just a force. Hes my crew and thats where del seymour is. Im just the leader, or one of the members of a force that we tried to do. Some of the supervisors have been here for awhile, like supervisor peskin, and youll remember me coming here yelling and screaming years ago about Workforce Development<\/a> and it didnt work. And i decided to go to work on it, because my idea of the way to manage homelessness is a paycollectpaycheck, not a wellfk but a paycheck, thats quality we havent had in the tenderloin for a long time and i want to thank the board here for that support of a lot of the things that i do in the tenderloin, special thanks to supervisor hainey. Hes like a oneman show that does everything when he was running for supervisor he was a friend i mean, i knew him as a friend before he decided to run. When he decided to run, i was thinking, will this be another politician that will promise a thousand things to do nothing . He promised a thousand things and hes done 999. And so its a pleasure to work with someone like him. And i work with a lot of other members on this board and i will continue to work on this board and i want to say this is an honor. In the last three yearses, i received an accommodation at the state capitol, the u. S. Capitol and at the white house and this is important to me. I have a space on my wall because this is from my folks, my family and my city and they know all about everything. So thank you so much for this opportunity, sir. [cheers and applause] so thank you. That includes our special commendations for today and well go to our special order, 3 00 p. M. Special order. Since we have three appeals before us relate red t to the pg departments Environmental Impact<\/a> report, a conditional use authorization and a public works tentative map approval on the same project at 333 california street, please call items 2233 together. Ok. Items 2225 comprise the public hearing of persons interested in the certification of a final Environmental Impact<\/a> report for the proposed mixed use project and project varient at 3333 california street. Item 23 is the motion to affirm the departments certification of the feir, item 24 is the motion to conditionally reverse the departments certification and item 25 is the motion to direct preparation of the findings. Items 2629 is the hearing of persons interested in the certification of a conditional use authorization for the planned development for the proposed project at 3333 california street. And items 27 is the motion to approve the decision of the Planning Commission<\/a> to approve the conditional use authorization and item 28, conditionally approves the apartment approval of that conditional use and item 29 is the motion to direct the preparation of findings. Items 3033 compromise the hearings of persons interested in public works approving a tentative map for a 15 lot vertical subdivision and six 75 residential and newused projects at 3333 california street and item 31 is the motion to approve the public works decision, approving the tentative map and and item 32 to conditionally disapprove public works decision and item 33 is the motion to direct the preparation of findings. So again, colleagues, we have before us three appeals for the project at 3333 california street in district two. And we will hear all three appeals together. After the hearing, the board will vote on the planning departments final Environmental Impact<\/a> reports certification and it takes six votes to either affirm or reverse the Planning Commission<\/a>s determination. If the environmental determination is rejected, the conditional use authorization becomes moot. No other approval actions can take place and we will table those items. If the environmental determination is upheld, we will then vote on the conditional use authorization and then the tentative map determination. It requires eight votes to overturn the planning departments conditional use authorization or impose additional conditions. For this combined hearing, we will be considering whether to approve the Planning Commission<\/a>s certification of the final Environmental Impact<\/a> report for 3333 california street. Then the Planning Commission<\/a>s conditional use authorization and then lastly, the public works determination of the tentative map. Since we are combining appeals, we revise our normal hearing procedures to provide speakers with a bit more time. So without objection, we will proceed as follows. Up to 15 minutes for a presentation by the appellants or appellants recipient an repe and i will ask speakers in support of the appeal to come up and speak for two minutes, if they want. Then after that, there will be up to 15 minutes for a presentation from the city departments. And then after that, up to 15 minutes for the project sponsor or the representative to present. Then i will ask speakers in opposition of the appeal, in order in support of the project, and give them two minutes per speaker and finally, up to five minutes for rebuttal by the appellants or appellants representative. So from the public, that want to make comments, please Pay Attention<\/a> to when youll be coming up and i wont be asking if you miss that turn, then well going to have to skip that. So please note that you are here to speak at 3333 california, now would be the time, not the general public later in the meeting. Colleagues, any objections to proceeding this way . Seeing no objections, the public hearing is now open. Supervisor stephanie, would you have any opening remarks that you would like to share . Thank you, president yi. I want to thank you for explaining the appeals from us and laying out the process. I will reserve my comments until after the presentation ands will have questions on all three of these appeals, but out of respect to all of those who are here for Public Comment<\/a>, i plan to reserve my questions until after Public Comment<\/a> is finished, unless, of course, i need to clarify something. Thank you. Thank you. Seeing no more names on the roster from my colleagues, i will now ask the appellant to come forward and to present their case. You have up to 15 minutes. President yi, before that starts, i conferred with counsel. So i want to let everybody know that because of the horrifically violent incident in chinatown, the mayor and i are doing a gathering in chinatown and so ive been and so i have to leave for that. I was completely prepared to come back, but ive been advised if i am not from the for a not a portion of the hearing, i should not be there for voting. So through the president to deputy city givener, in i can come back, but i wont be back for an hour. John giveneringner, if every supervisor who votes at the end of these hearings must be present for the full hearing or have watched the full hearing, that the board votes today and you miss a portion of the hearing, you cannot participate in the vote. If the board completes the hearing today and continues the items and votes next week and you watch the tape of the hearing over the course of the next week, then you could vote on the motions next week. Whatever the boards will is. Thank you. Why. There to site can be redeveloped with 744 Housing Units<\/a> while preserving the significant features rather than destroying them. But the eir presented an inaccurate and inadequate analysis. Our association was the first to support the increase to 744 Housing Units<\/a>, but it has opposed the new retail uses as unnecessary because the site is directly adjacent to laurel village. The firesmans front office is designed with a landscape that is integrated with building forums to create a seamless connection between indoor and outdoor spaces, a kind of green surround. Its listed on the california register of historical resources, which identifies the resources that deserve to be protected. And the landscaping was designed by the famous firm of williams with a terrace of the city, trees and beautiful shrubs and brick aligning with the window frames. We make the terrace Public Open Space<\/a> that could be used for picnics and its the first thing the developer would tear down. And the site was designed with 110 varieties of trees, plants and ground cover to give it a parklike aspect and its believbeloved by the community. Theres 195 trees on site of 48 different species. The lawns and terrace banks along laurel are historically significant with views of the city and Golden Gate Bridge<\/a> and have been used by the public for years. Although its prior owner had a 2011 survey, stating that it was eligible for listing as a historic resource, they concealed the historic significance from us until the eir scoping process began in september of 2017. By this time, the developer had designed the project without regard to the historic guidelines. When i last met with the developer, i said, you concealed this historic significance from us, but now weve got the site listed and the historic readaptation rules apply. They said forget the rules, do you like it. I said, yes, i thought that the seamless connection between the indoor spaces and landscaping was a brilliant idea. But they stated you wont resign this project. However, this process has run afoul of state sequa law but they admit the proposed project would cause a significant adverse change in the significance of the resource. Under sequa, use of the historic prescribed guidelines is the method of mitigating effects on a resource. Thats what theyre designed for but they were lawfully omitted from the mitigation section of the eri. Ir. These are called the secretary standards including specific guidelines that explain how adverse impacts on the resources can be mitigated. For example, a onestory addition on a multistory is acceptable. The eir is defective because it failed to describe mitigation measures that would reduce or avoid the proposed project exhibit impact on the resource through the use of these guidelines. Both mitigation measures and alternatives are required to be discussed in an eir and theyre both different things. And the eir only considered photographing and documenting the resource that would be destroyed, but this was insufficient to mitigate the effect. The emission of mitigation measures was prejudicial because it deprived the Decision Maker<\/a> and the public of the full collection of Design Guidelines<\/a> that could be used to mitigate the impacts by selecting some or all of the measures in the standards and guidelines to attaalter the design. This is evaluated as a fixed site plan and the alternative in the eir all have flaws and they do not present a full collection of the historic Design Guidelines<\/a>. The city acknowledges that alternatives are more limited and refers to them as a package. Based on these omissions, the findings that were feasible, changes incorporated into the project to reduce significant effects and all significant effects have been substantially lessened are false and not supported by substantial evidence. The eir also inadequate analyzed alternatives to the project. After the Comment Period<\/a> ended on the draft eir, the project dropped the fiveunit proposal and only included the 744 unit change to that being the project. However, the draft failed to analyze any alternative with approximately 744 units or anything close to that. The eir only presented alternatives witha 558, 629 and fewer residential units. The eir erroneously complained that two Community Alternative<\/a>s, one of which is a 744unit, which im showing you here, were substantially similar to those discussed in the eir, but theyre not because there was nothing there 744 units, evaluatedded ievalevaluated in. About 5,000 square feet of office space in the Main Building<\/a> and built New Buildings<\/a> along california street including familysized fourstory flats. And it would involve less excavation of green space on laurel hill and be built in approximately four years rather than the 7 to 15 years that the developer would take. And giving the developer 15 years to build does not address the citys current housing crisis and will have no effect on reducing the price of housing if new housing is phased in over 15 years. The Community Alternative<\/a> has much detail as the alternatives presented in the eir and sequa does not require an alternative to contain architectural drawings. They are assuming it would be larger than the Developers Unit<\/a> sizes and have double corridors, excessive space and other things that they didnt have. So they would fit with two and threeusthreebedroom units andt use bigger units. Much adieu is made about the pathway the developer wants to cut through the middle of the Main Building<\/a>, which is being used as an inadequate and ambiguous basis for rejecting alternatives. And city staff did not request that the developer cut a 40foot wide hole in the middle and requested a northsouth pathway or portal that could meander through the site and did not need to be a straight axial pathway. The eir doesnt disclose it. The eir doesnt disclose it. Add one level edition to the Main Building<\/a> asper mighted by the historic Design Guidelines<\/a>. The city, erroneous claims this would be similar to office alternative of d but d is office and ours is residential. So theyre not similar. And the e. I. R. Lacked a stable project description. The project shifted two months before the Planning Commission<\/a> hearing to be 744 residential units. And, this changed the entire climate in which alternatives would have been evaluated if we had known this from the beginning. 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