commissioner black. >> yes. >> commissioner foley. >> yes. >> commissioner johns. >> yes. >> commissioner pearlman. >> yes. >> commissioner so. >> yes. >> commissioner mat soda. >> yes. >> commissioner president hyland. >> yes. >> so moved, commissioners that passes 7-0. someone is requesting to speak. commissioners, is staff prepared to make the presentation. >> yes. >> do you have a slide presentation? >> yes, i do. >> okay. >> i see a blank screen. >> let me try again. >> clerk: -- in the slide presentation mode? >> good afternoon, commissioners. [inaudible] planning department staff. the item before you today is [inaudible] located at [inaudible] tand the will go [rights movement. the building is further significant as the work of master architect julia morgan. it was the fir at the time of its founding, japanese -- >> advanced multiple political and social causes, including the site for african american civil rights and [inaudible] with dr. martin luther king, jr. and was a central organizer of the 1963 protest on washington used it as a headquarters for planning activities while he was in the bay area. [inaudible] history to the building's [inaudible] in 18954, the society's first convention was held at 1830 sutter. the convention was part of a national network of lgbtq people who, for one weekend in 1954, helped advanced the lgbtq civil rights movement with increased understanding of gender and sexual expression. finally, the building is significant as a work of master architect julia morgan. over the course of her career, morgan designed over 30 buildings across the country for the ywca. [inaudible] the proposed landmaproposed -- associated with underrepresented racial, ethnic, and social groups. the department has received a letter of support from the japantown commission for your support. the department recommends the h.p.c. provide designation of the building as an article 10 landmark. if approved today, the board will forward the report to the board of supervisors, and [inaudible] would like to speak in support of designation. >> clerk: okay. we should go to public comment. members of the public, this is your opportunity to provide public comment by pressing star, three and entering the queue. you will have three minutes. >> this is woody lebonte from san francisco heritage, and it is always a pleasure to testify on behalf of this significant building, significant on so many levels. we enthusiastically ask you to support and initiate the local landmark designation. thank you. >> clerk: okay. miss [inaudible], did you want to submit testimony? you need to press star, three to enter the queue. >> can you hear me? >> clerk: yes. >> great. i am [inaudible] and i am with [inaudible] historic japanese ywca [inaudible] building as a san francisco landmark. we appreciate your effort with this [inaudible] establiin 198 opened a second preschool site, leasing space from the former san francisco ywca, and we've operated there ever since. in 2002, [inaudible] owner and steward of the japanese ywca [inaudible] in purchasing the building, we made a commitment to not only continue to use this building for our children's program but for the japanese american community. we hope the landmark of this building will promote its unique history and significance. the story of the struggle [inaudible] learned from, and celebrated, and their legacy continues in the families of the young women and families that we served who are incredibly important in the operation and preservation of this building. our thanks to [inaudible] we urge you to recommend the japanese ywca building designation as a local landmark to the board of supervisors. it is an important part of the historic fabric of san francisco which deserves to be recognized. thank you. >> clerk: great. thank you, so members of the public, this is last call for public comment. if you wish to speak or submit your testimony, please press star, three. i see one more additional request. >> hello. my name is karen kai, and i am a member of little friend's [inaudible] women's legacy project, and i am also a member of the board of directors of the asian pacific islander americans in historic preservation, a national organization that promotes historic preservation and cultural recognition throughout the nation, and this is really one of the wonderful legacy of not just the people who founded it, but their communities. and i want to thank frances mcmillan and wanda graves did for their work with the japanese community and the african american and the lgbtq community, as well. i want to thank [inaudible] little friends for their conscientious efforts to preserve the building. i trust and am confident that the commission has read the report, and i thank you very much for that, and i look forward to going on the board of supervisors to inform them about this building and the recommendation, which i'm hoping will be passed. i'm pretty sure it will, that this become one of san francisco's article ten landmarks. thank you. >> clerk: okay. final call for public comment. commissioners, i see no additional request to speak. public comment is now closed, and the matter is now before you. >> commissioner black? >> clerk: commissioner black, you're muted. >> as i mentioned last time, for so many reasons, this is such an important building. it's been the home to several groups important to san francisco history, the nikkei, the japanese women's movement, and it's an underrepresented landmark type. this'll be the second japanese landmark associated with japanese san francisco history. the building still maintains a highly level of integrity, and most importantly, it was designed by master architect julia morgan. it is really a sensational building and it is worthy of preservation under an article 10 landmark. >> you know, i agree with commissioner black, and i agree with this going to the board of supes and getting an article 10 -- becoming an article 10 landmark building. >> hear, hear. commissioner johnson? >> so i move we approve this and send it forward to the board of supervisors. >> i second it. >> second. >> clerk: great. seeing no further deliberation from commissioners, there's a motion that has been seconded to approve the landmark designation. on that motion -- [roll call] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously, 6-0, and that will place us on your final item on today's agenda, item 8, the citywide cultural services update. this is an informational presentation. is staff ready to make their presentation? >> yes. can you make susan parks the host, please? she will be presenting. >> clerk: i will make her the presenter. >> great. well, i'll kick us off. good afternoon, fellow historic preservation staff. so the department provided an update in early 2019, on this topic, and since that time, well, a lot has happened. as you know one of those changes is the preservation function in the department is balanced among three physical planners and myself. with that, i am the lead for the cultural resources survey as well as landmarks, supported by my very talents colleagues. as i noted in the annual reporting update from last month, it is anticipated that h.p.c. will be engaged in survey efforts quarterly following this meeting. during those updates, you will be introduced to additional staff who are also working on the survey efforts. today, we really plan to focus on a few key items: development of the historic citywide context statement, a framework of which is provided in your packet, survey advisory groups, including highlighting the next steps for staff, and the anticipated topics for our quarterly report in quarter one of 2021. i will hand it over to susan parks to update you, but first, i'd like to introduce her to the commission. she started as an intern in the summer of 2012 and then as a preservation planner with the department team in 2013. she worked on projects such as sunset surveys, african american, lgbtq, and gave frequent updates to the h.p.c. as the lead of the designation work program. we were able to welcome her back to the department in september 2019, and since returning from leave in may, she has been working solely on the social resources survey project, including historic context statement strategy, methodology, and will be the point person for managing the survey advisory group. i will now hand it off to susan to go through details of our presentation. thank you. >> clerk: you may be muted. >> can you hear me? >> clerk: there you go. yes, we can. >> good afternoon, commissioners. susan parks, planning staff. this is an update on our citywide survey? today, i'm going to take you through the historic complex statement that we've outlined. so starting with why do we need a historic context statement for this project? i've included a couple of quotes from the california department of historic preservation to answer that question, but the key takeaway from this are we're foundation within which we can make decisions related to the treatment and preservation of historic properties, and they determine how broad or narrow our focus should be. the o.h.p. emphasizes that an appropriate and adequate context statement will be we can move forward. they're not intended to be exhaustive academic exercises. they should be easily understood by professionals and nonprofessionals. so that is sort of an outline -- official outline to the entire context that will complete [inaudible] previously and then, the bullet points underneath that represent the themes that we've identified for those subcontexts. you'll see early residential development and earthquake shacks would fall under single-family residential context. and as we complete these documents, we'll bring them to this commission for review. looking forward into our context, we have government planning and fur as the context, public, private, and institutional developments, events that shape the city, and other categories. we do -- we've organized things in this way just to make the most of some of these context statements that we've developed, so anything you see bolded is something that we're either working on or we have worked on as a previous historic context statement. so we have the new deal down there at the bottom left, and that's intended to make the most use of the new deal historic context statement that's been in use for the next few use. it'll serve as a new era of context in the larger citywide historic context. we also have a second section on our cultural district heritage context statement. we do want to point out we've outlined an american indian historic context statement as a priority for us just because we want to recognize that community and give them the opportunity to have this documentation if that's something they decide they want. we also have previously adopted cultural context as per the j.h.f., "let it be" and filipino agenda, we have a a number of context, includie -- latino and filipino agenda, we have a number of contexts, including african american heritage and chinese american heritage, and we're working to rework the haight-ashbury article ten landmark designation into a multiple property nomination for the national register that would of ser -- serve as a counter cull terror context statement for us. and then, we also have a number of in-progress data that we're collecting internally. we have a number of spreadsheets that staff has collected over the years, including women's architects, a women's history project that we had [inaudible] jewish american context statement down the road. we have a subcontext on [inaudible] and then, we have the bulk of this context on architectural styles outlined into subcontexts including early [inaudible], italian styles, the edwardian era in the early 20 century, modern architecture, and as part of that, we're also compiling architects and developers biographi' biographies in order to tell a significant story about those people. so when the items come together, we'll be sharing it with the public. for a citywide survey, we expect that we need to evaluation things through a citywide perspective and a citywide evaluative frameworks. [inaudible] and the identification of potential neighborhood resources, but to fully understand significance and rarity and proliferation of them, we want to look at the styles of the city. we typically think of our neighborhoods in a much smaller way, which we're calling microneighborhoods, and we usually have some sort of ceqa or context survey related to these neighborhoods that we can use for reference -- historical reference and we'll provide in the end. you can see examples are bernal heights or castro where we've done a ceqa review. and how do we assemble all of this information, and how do we collect our findings? we are using a program called arches. you may remember this was presented to you in february of last year. just a high level of review of arches, it's a geospatially enhanced software that we're using. we've been working with the team behind arches to customize updates that should make all of this run smoother in our next pilot. as we survey, we'll be able to geolocate our photos and put building restrictions or anything that we want in the field, and we'll also be able to manage our data that we can input some of the data from the context state, and we'll be able to see that and then do our in-fill selection and also do some post survey research whe that can be traced back to the parcel. we'll be looking at individual resources across the he city, building structures, cultural futures. natural landscapes. we'll be collecting information on dates, landmarks, and architectural styles, and we'll be collect that go on a record called an instance in the arches database. we'll be able to link any related documentation that we come across in the process. we'll come back to you in the next quarter and talk to you a little bit more about our outreach and engagement strategy, but i do want to quickly highlight a few things for you today. we're currently working to set up a core survey advisory group set up with members from h.p.c. and the city family and other experts in the field who are particularly skilled in cultural heritage, planning, or equity related issues. our core side will stay us throughout the length of the survey, and then, our rotating side will be able to rotate in selects members of expertise, something like if they're experts on a particular neighborhood or community his torn or representative of particular neighborhood groups, they'll be rotated in as related topics are discussed. and marselle and i aren't the only ones working on this. we have a number of staff behind us reviewing documents and writing. we have consultants and interns who are working with us on this project. obviously, it is the historic preservation commission that will review our findings. they will review our documents and test our documents and review our frameworks. [inaudible] our own time and our cultural heritage methodology consultants. and then, of course, we have the public whose input is really critical in our research, particularly as we work to uncover sites related to cultural heritage and any assets the public thinks are special to them and unique. that's my portion of the presentation, and i'm going to turn it over to marselle, who can take you through the next steps. >> thank you. if you can progress the slides, that would be great. while waiting for her to move that slide forward -- thank you. so we are still making a lot of forward progress. under the action items are, you know, work that's continuing and [inaudible] now until our next update to you? as far as what we anticipate discussing with you at the next quarterly update, i discussed earlier in the dro are's report about the [inaudible] heritage methodology project that is underway. we will bring something to you at the next quarterly meeting? it's possible that he with may have a kind of final croft of the, you know, recommendations or it just may be a discussion to help guide us to the final product? as far as phasing, we do plan to discuss some modifications to the earlier phasing maps. it will balance our objectives with community sponsored context surveys and larger citywide contexts and their timing as well as balancing racial and social equity goals. for example, in working with the community, our goal is to bring the african american historic context statement forward for adoption. provide to that, we do need to conduct community outreach with the community, and so as part of that, we're hoping to be able to arrange outreach that may celebrate the african american historic context statement and then, you know, focus the phase one of the survey to include bayview and hopefully the western addition, as well, as kind of part of that overall community outreach. part of our work now is that we are preparing to kick off a pilot kind of very defined area of the sunset? you know, because that area has -- it all [inaudible] tracts that are consistent throughout the area, consistent construction base [inaudible], we feel that this will allow for a quick collection by staff and analysis that we can test the arches tools with the collection and database and test our methodology. and we also are in development with our community equity division as well as hopefully an outside consultant on preparing a community outreach and community engagement strategy that will help us not just promote and highlight the work of the survey but also design both passive and active opportunities for the community to provide us feedback. so whether that's community members, individuals submitting photos, documentation, etc., we plan to incorporate that into the website susan mentioned we're creating? but also, a more active posting events, whether that be focus groups or larger community outreach where we can engage with community about what is significant to them. so that is our update for now, we are happy to answer questions, and -- yeah, thanks. >> clerk: great. if that concludes staff presentation, and if there are no immediate questions from the commission, we should go to public comment. members of the public, this is your opportunity to submit your testimony related to this item by pressing star and three to enter the queue. we did receive some interest on this matter, and i do see it. i better this is miss sciutish. >> hi. my name is georgia sciutish, and i live on duncan street in noe valley. i sent in some photos about [inaudible] but i don't know if you got them. i live across from one out by the dolgers, according to the mary brown study, were building in 1927, and it's going to be basically obliterated in a remodel, and this came up to me because i saw in the mary brown it was used to make an art deco home that's just a few doors up from that, an a-rated home, so going back to the balfronts, that was the most common home design of their era. i've seen several in this area be totally remodelled and obliterated, and they're all really interesting buildings. i think they're unique to san francisco -- oh, there it is. so you can see that one. that's 578 elizabeth, the top picture, and that's what it's replaced now. i think that's sad because if you look at the detail, it's from architectural detail, it's from 35, which is a little out of the area that mary brown said it was built in. but that's the replacement, and out of value judgment, i think that's unfortunate. there's another one up in the 700 block of elizabeth, as well. the one this is on, it's really nice. it's on a lot 27 feet wide, which gives a little more opportunity to show the details in these buildings, and the balance. there you go. it's the gray one in the top other photo. you know, i know people like them when they're all together on 39, which was the first area in the mary brown study, or over on park. but on the east side of town, they were the predominant in-fill when these areas were finished being built out, horner's addition in particular. i wrote all of this to -- oh, there's the gray one at the top across the street from me, and it's going to go away. i'm really glad you're going to preserve the art deco one up the street -- or at least it's rated a, and i hope you'll preserve it. but the mary brown study, i hope will be used as you proceed, and look at the battle front, and consider them a unique significant san francisco architectural style. [inaudible] i think it shows it's san francisco, and i guess there are the bells, and thank you very much and good luck and take care and good-bye. >> clerk: okay. members of the public, this is your last opportunity to press star, three to get into the queue. seeing no additional requests to speak, commissioners, public comment is now closed, and the matter is now before you. >> great. thank you, jonas, if i may, i'll go ahead and go first this time. i just want to give a big shoutout to marselle and susan. this has been 25 years probably in the making, so to see this going forward, i am thrilled. i think you guys are doing a great job. the outline is looking good. on our next update, our quarterly update, i would like to see kind of an overall schedule. i know you have one, but if we could see that so we can kind of keep an eye on how we're moving along. and then, we had conversations a year or two ago about the phasing of the actual survey work and the priorities around which neighborhoods are being done when, so i'm not sure how that is being vetted. i know you've given us some updates, but i know it would be good for us to understand that. and then, i had two questions. one specific to the schedule, and that is, as we start assessing individual properties, when in this process will the determination be made as to many category b properties, if they're not going to be -- if we don't know it yet whether they're a, but we know that they're definitely c, when in that process does that determination get made? or do you have a sense? do you want to give that a try? >> sure. [inaudible], planning department staff. we'll have a more detailed schedule for you in the next meeting. it's made up of two components. which is the citywide his cork statement. second part is in the field data collection as well as subsequent data collection -- data collection that's required? so once we have those two components for a particular parcel, whether it's potentially significant individually or in a district, we will then be able to solidify our findings and then start bringing them to the historic preservation commission for review and adoption. one of the things about getting these done as we are facing significant housing and affordability issues, we're trying to understand which properties are historic, obviously, but really, those that are not so that the development pressures can be focused on those category c properties. that's what our pressure cooker issues are, so understanding when that might -- that information may be able to be available is going to be very helpful as we move forward. i do have one other question specific to the presentation. specific to the [inaudible] valley and upper market and castro areas, in the early kind of negotiations in these surveys and context statements, there was some discussion about the irish community that existed before the lgbt community, for example, in the castro, and i didn't see that on anyone's paperwork. is that something we might be looking at or that might come out of that, susan or marselle? [inaudible]. >> it's something that we talked about. it didn't quite make it on the list, but it's been a part of our internal conversations, for sure. i think we need to sort through some of these geographic contexts a little bit more to fully understand how much document we have on this community to learn how much of it is significant historically, but we may have it somewhere. we just need to make sure we fully understand it before we assign ourselves the task of making a new one. >> excellent. it's significant, and i look forward to progressing. >> i echo what commissioner hyland said about the years and years, certainly far exceeding my tenure here at the commission. i had a minor question. i see that the end date was 1989 on all of those categories, and referencing commissioner hyland's question, when do you start and stop? i know 20 years ago was when you said it up -- set it up, 198 wi 1989, but at the far end of completion, how do you keep this up to date to add the next chunks of time, and how often might you do it? is that, like, every decade do you add a decade? i just don't know how that might happen. overall, it's very impressive work, and i know from my work in the city as an architect, you know, having the base information before we started -- before we start a project, you know, will just be an incredible tool to really help out our work going forward, so that's -- this's all. just that question about how do you keep this up to date once it's there? >> i think i'll have to set up a system for how do we update it? we do anticipate there will be things that will run more into the [inaudible] past than others. 1989 was the earthquake and not very far from 1980, which would have been our 45-year mark progressing forward. so we acknowledged 1989, but realizing that certain things may run into the 1990s or 2000s regarding landmarks or civil rights, could run more recent. but for everything else, we will have to figure out a way to update it. >> and one other thing, it's just the -- i believe that the irish were also pretty prominent in the mission, so i think the irish actually -- you can call me johnny o'herlihy, there's some irish in me, but they played a pretty big role in building the city, as they continue to do now, so i think that's a big one in creating our built-in environment, is the irish in the city. thank you so much. >> commissioner matsuda? >> thank you, and welcome back, susan. so good to see you. >> thank you. >> [inaudible] and one question. i think i mentioned this in our discussion about intangible heritage assets, but the city library, the public library, the main branch conducted this survey called shades of california, and that's where normal, every day people, people who don't know anything about preservation, people who don't know anything about community building or advocacy or anything, were allowed to bring photos in to be conned. they could -- scanned. they could have been photos of their families, they could have been photos of their neighborhoods, they could have been photos of their businesses, but that would give you a look at people and places of san francisco that people might not have a lot of knowledge about. los angeles published a book, and it was really great for us to go into kind of the many microneighborhoods that you were talking about because there's really no other way we were able to get that kind of information. and my question is about, you know, the commission -- both the planning commission and the h.p.c. passed a resolution about making racial equity a priority, and i just want to make sure that is a part of this, as well. there are many groups that represent communities of collar that i think need to be recognized and recognized appropriately in these neighborhoods, and i just want to make sure that that land is also incorporated as part of this, but thank you. >> i lo [inaudible]. >> i love that you outreached to the different community subcommittees in our city, and i wanted to bring up part of it [inaudible] that is something that most people, when we talk about chinese at all, it's just about chinatown because it's earned its rightful place. chinatown in san francisco is the trailblazer for what is chinatown. but we can talk about chinese american architecture, which is a different evolution? i'd like you to reach out to the chinese historical association of america. they have well documented different types of architecture and what are the symbol for it? i just love that stuff. you can call me, too, if you like. i also wants to bring up that -- with the cultural lens that commissioner matsuda brought up. there are so much more ethnic groups that makeup san francisco. for example, the filipino americans, they were contributing a lot in the american history. i don't know too much about it, but i know that some of the buildings that were being designated by landmark for either their cultural significance or design itself, i'd like to -- i'm sure that there are many more that we need to kind of make sure that we reach out to -- having all the community -- having all the history heard and voices documented. lastly, a shoutout that we need to go through and identify all the women architects in san francisco, which is sweet. i'm a basit younger than the cutoff line, but i'd like you to not just include women, but also lgbtq architects that are signature. i know being in this field, being a woman is difficult, but i think being lgbtq is also rare, and i think that san francisco is one of the few cities that would embrace their practice and make them feel welcome here. and i would like to see if we have any that have any significant contributions to the city. and i look forward to see the next update, and just great job. i'm really excited, and i'm really happy. this is instrumental, and it's a milestone that i would like to share to my communities of architects and also asian americans. thank you. >> excellent. commissioner black? >> i just want to echo my fellow commissioners. this is such an interesting and exciting process, and as someone who was on the staff end of things for 30 years, you guys should be really proud of what you've done. i know how hard it is to do this, and you're wading through competing objectives and staff changes, and this matter little matter called covid, and funding challenges, so i guess it. it's really hard to do something like that. so congratulations, and i'm really excited about moving forward. >> and commissioner johns? >> well, thank you. i wanted to echo all the wonderful things that my other fellow commissioners have pointed out about this. i did notice, of particular interest to me, what is the san francisco jewish community. i did notice in there that apparently some work is planned with the jewish community in the russian context statement, and i just want to point out that that might not be the most productive line of inquiry since eastern europeans and russian views were really in a very small minority in san francisco until very recently, the 1970s. but there has been an enormous amount of work done on the history of the jewish community in san francisco and, indeed, the entire west and its development, so if there's an opportunity, i could certainly participate in that and introduce part of the staff to an enormous and very, very rich legacy. so you're to be congratulated on this really wonderful report. thank you. >> marselle? thank you. >> hi. if i could just address a few things, that would be really excited. i think that commissioner matsuda noticed the statement of california. just want to let you know that we do have a relationship with the city archivist, so figuring out how to do two things. you know, learn how they were able to look at communities as safely and securely, you know, obtain that information is, you know, one key area we're working with them on. and then, figuring out how to share the information that the department collects with the library as well as utilize their resources is a great point. i also wanted to just note about commissioner so was noting about the chinese historical society? we actually have been working for a few years on a chinese american historic context statement, which we are working with a consultant to do some final work, and we've been working with a community-based author as well as pam wong from the historical society. so they are involved in this product. right now, we're working on just some further expansions to ensure that it is inclusively citywide context. it's focused on chinatown, some on richmond and sunset, and we're ensuring that it does have that citywide element to it, and those are my comments. i think commissioner johns, it would be -- i think we would really appreciate your background on the jewish american stories, so you will likely be communicating with susan probably more on that, so thank you. [please stand by] . >> clerk: great. if that concludes that item, that was just informational, that will conclude your agenda today. while i have your attention, commissioners, just to give you a heads up, i tried to move the legacy business applications from your december 2 hearing date, that there seems to be one that has at least some time sensitivity associated with it, so that first hearing in december will be extremely short, but we will still [inaudible]. >> excellent. well, thank you for trying, and thank you, everyone. i guess we are adjourned, so stay safe, stay well. >> clerk: happy thanksgiving. >> happy holidays, everybody. >> happy holidays. >> we think over 50 thousand permanent residents in san francisco eligible for citizenship by lack information and resources so really the project is not about citizenship but really academy our immigrant community. >> making sure they're a part of what we do in san francisco the san francisco pathway to citizenship initiative a unique part of just between the city and then our 5 local foundations and community safe organizations and it really is an effort to get as many of the legal permanent residents in the san francisco since 2013 we started reaching the san francisco bay area residents and 10 thousand people into through 22 working groups and actually completed 5 thousand applications for citizenship our cause the real low income to moderate income resident in san francisco and the bayview sometimes the workshops are said attend by poem if san mateo and from sacking. >> we think over restraining order thousand legal permanent residents in san francisco that are eligible for citizenship but totally lack information and they don't have trained professionals culturally appropriate with an audience you're working with one time of providing services with pro bono lawyers and trained professionals to find out whether your eligible the first station and go through a purview list of questions to see if they have 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objection over $3 million in income for those but more importantly the city saves money $86 million by reducing the benefit costs. >> thank you. >> i've been here a loventh i already feel like an american citizen not felt it motorbike that needs to happen for good. >> one day - i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, for liberty and justice for all. >> you're welcome. >> (singing). >> (clapping.) >> introduce the san francisco field officer director ribbon that will mirror the oath raise your hand and repeat the oath i hereby declare on oath repeating. >> citizens cry when they become citizenship to study this difficult examine and after two trials they come back i'm an american now we're proud of that purpose of evasion so help me god please help me welcome seven hundred and 50 americans. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> she wants to be part of the country and vote so much puppy. >> you know excited and as i said it is 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combinations of street food and festival food and carnival food i realize that people try to find this you don't want to wait 365 day if you make that brick-and-mortar it is really about making you feel special and feel like a kid again everything we've done to celebrate that. >> so nonprofit monday is a program that straw runs to make sure that no matter is going on with our business giving back is treated just the is that you as paying any other bill in addition to the money we impose their cause to the greater bayview it is a great way for straw to sort of build communicated and to introduce people who might not normally get to be exposed to one nonprofit or another and i know that they do a different nonprofit every most of the year. >> people are mroent surprised the restaurant it giving back i see some people from the nonprofit why been part of nonprofit monday sort of give back to the program as well answer. >> inform people that be regular aprons at straw they get imposed to 10 or 12 nonprofits. >> i love nonprofits great for a local restaurant to give back to community that's so wonderful i wish more restrictive places did that that is really cool. >> it is a 6 of nonprofit that is supporting adults with autism and down syndrome we i do not involved one the wonderful members reached out to straw and saw a headline about, about their nonprofit mondays and she applied for a grant back in january of 2016 and we were notified late in the spring we would be the recipient of straw if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer thems in the month of genuine we were able to organize with straw for the monday and at the end of the month we were the recipient of 10 percent of precedes on mondays the contribution from nonprofit monday from stray went into our post group if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer theming fund with our arts coaching for chinese and classes and we have a really great vibrate arts program. >> we we say thank you to the customers like always but say 0 one more thing just so you know you've made a donation to x nonprofit which does why i think that is a very special thing. >> it is good to know the owner takes responsibility to know your money is going to good cause also. >> it is really nice to have a restaurant that is very community focused they do it all month long for nonprofits not just one day all four mondays. >> we have a wall of thank you letters in the office it seems like you know we were able to gas up the 10 passenger minivan we were innovate expected to do. >> when those people working at the nonprofits their predictive and thank what straw is giving that in and of itself it making an impact with the nonprofit through the consumers that are coming here is just as important it is important for the grill cheese kitchen the more restrictive i learn about what is going on in the community more restrictive people are doing this stuff with 4 thousand restaurant in san francisco we're doing an average of $6,000 a year in donations and multiply that by one thousand that's a >> madam mayor. >> thank you very much. this has been an incredibly tough year. i heard how hard this has been from countless residents. we each have our own struggles. you might be a parent trying to help your kid get through school or worried about a parent in a nursing home. you might be struggling with mental health issues everything you have been going through for the past several

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