>> good morning. welcome to the may 8, 2024 meeting of budget and finance. i'm connie chan, chair of the committee joined by vice chair mandelman and supervisor melgar. our clerk is brent jalipa i would like to thank kaleena mendoza for broadcasting the meeting. >> a reminder those in attendance to make sure to silent all electronic device prevent interpretations. should you have documents to be included submitted to myself the clerk. public comment will be taken on each item. when your item come up and

public comment is called lineup to the west side to your right my left. and while not necessary to provide comment we invite to you fill out a comment card and leave them by the doors if you wish to be recorded for the minutes. you may submit comment in writing e mail them to myself the clerk at brent. jalipa sfgov.org. if you submit comment via e mail tell be forwarded and included part of the fortunately file. you may also send written comments u.s. postal service to 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place room 244, san francisco, california 94102. items acted upon today will appear on the board of proirz's agenda of may 14th unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. and before we call item one i

want to reminds everyone that for those item this is have budget and legislate itch analyst report we would like to have the city department presentation and go with the bla report and then questions and public comment. and with that, call item one? >> item 1. is a resolution approving the second amendment with hamilton family and it is department of homelessness and supportive housing for family respectid rehousing services through the housing solution's program extending the term by 72 months. a total increasing the contract amount by 12.3 million for i total amount 21.9 million and authorizing any amendments or other modifications to the agreement. do not increase the obligations or lgbts or decrease the benefits to the city.

and necessary for the purposes of the agreement. madam chair. >> >> we are supportive housing here. >> i'm dylan snied wert department of homelessness and supportive housing. and wonderful we have slides up. i have buffer a resolution authorize hsh to enter in the second amendment to an upon grant agreement with hamilton families to continue the housing solution rapid rehousing program and a reminder rapid rehousing is a time limited rental that decreases as the tenant stabilizes and finds housing outside the system. the items that have been before you the last few weeks rapid rehousing tenants live in private market and access supportive service including case management and housing retention service.

this amendment was heard and, proved by the homelessness oversight commission on april 4 of 24 and today i want to thank cloaks from hamilton families for joining me here. the resolution would approve the second amendment extending the term by 6 years from june 2024 through 2030 and increase the not to exceed amount by 12 opinion 3 amount for a total of 21.9 million. and a bit about our rapid rehousing portfolio. hsh has over 1700 slots of respectid rehouse nothing our portfolio. 900 serve families. through this agreement provides rehousing for 35 families and services including housing location and cordination. landlord liaison, subsidy administration and housing

focused case management. in year 23 hamilton served 66 house holds. 61% women and 27% black and through the housing solutions rapid rehousing program hamilton budgeted serve 75 familiesanualy. there are 35 the subsidies through this agreement. the remaining it a separate agreement fund through hud funding. the agreement buffer today funds case management and support for about this agreements begin federal funding is restricted rental assistance. happy to take questions. >> thank you. >> good morning, nick from the bla. item one a resolution approved

an amendment to the hsh grant with hamilton families extend its through june 2030 and not to exceed increase. we detailed the budget on page 4 of our report. eighty-four % is funded by the general fundful 9% by hud. emergency solutions grant funding and 6% by prop c. we reviewed the performance of the grant and noted that the program is performing within the requirements of the contract accept this there has been significant under pending on the guarantee in the past several years. that totalled over 940 thousand dollars the past 3 fiscal years. this year this grant will be under fund by 2 and 500 thousand dollars. that's less than the under spending of prior years and

recommend approval of item one. >> thank you. thank you. i do have just a quick questions about the federal grants subsidies. roughly how much for the federal grant subsidies? >> for the agreement i would have to look that up i'm happy to thenned over for the total grant agreement. >> that would be great. help me understand in proportion with in the city funding. establishing, helping 75 families, which is great per year. i appreciate it and continue the support. but in rit i don't how much will that type of this time service the city on going in prosecute portion to the federal guarantee for subsidies and that gives us an understanding if we were to ever scale up would this mean allow the city to scale up for

rental subsidies to that we could respect from the federal government? absolutely. i don't have the total in front of me i can get this for you. i will say that the estimate annual cost for family is about 40 thousand dollars a year, which is in line with other rapid rehousing subsidies. to your question, because we are funding restrictions with federal funding that do emphasize the rental assistance instead of support services if we were to ramp up more slots of subsidies we would look at adding additional case management and support services to the city funds to support an expansion. >> yea. that's what i'm saying. you know in the ratio of if we were to invest 2 million dollars. in the case management for 75 families per year and how much of the federal rental subsidies the families could receive if it

is 40 thousand dollars per year that is substate your name. that is great. i think this if we were to scale up and that our investments that means that help support families to be able to receive federal rental subsidies in the longhaul. >> i appreciate that work. talk from the department's perspect you have about under spend when that has been going on there? >> absolutely. throughout chair i think as you heard from the bla we have been making press on spending down the contract there is projected under spends nothing general fund this is large low due to in early of 23 and fiscal 23/24, we had a learning influx come online of other permanent supportive housing options for families including 200 units at city gardens the large expansion of flexible housing, et cetera.

we were able to transition 19 to 20 families enrolled and that need longer term subsidies in the options. >> at the beginning of the year we had a gap in subsidies as we were w to enroll more families in this program. so again we are catching up on this spending and i assume that the program is enrolled we see that continue to be spent down in future years. >> all right. thank you. i think this is important and i would like to be add as a cosponsor. >> thank you. supervisor melgar. thank you very much. i was wondering if you could talk about the continuum of housing. you know families who are homeless or housing insecure. come from different points of

the event rows in the system. and wondering what collaboration you ramp out your week up your capacity, what collaboration do we have with those different points? i am thinking about the san francisco unified school district, we have the shelter but we have 2 thousand kids who are housing insecure or homeless. sloping on auntie's couch that has a profound impact on academic achievement. how we are thinking about the different ways andent row point and making sure that you know families are successful and don't fall further down rather than progress up in this housing market families tends to do. and like to be added as a cosponsor. thank you. why wonderful. thank you very much.

one thing that is important about the respectid rehouse is it provides another level of options and opportunity for families. for those family nas may be not stablely housed but inside shelter is in the the right option but this program that is for the time limited subsidy with workforce development and help that family stabilize and move to independent living is the goal. this played an important per in our per foal i don't of family options for families. with sfusd we can work close low with them to make sure they know how to refer families in the programs and how to have them be assessed for whatever appropriate housing option might be available for them. thank you. let's go to public comment. we invite public who have joined

us who wish to speak on item one now is your opportunity to address the committee. i will start your time. >> thank you for giving us the opportunity will i'm frank delacampo the real estate manager for hamilton families. and so i over seat team the intake team and staff that do work on the front end of the client's journey through our program. i wanted share a success store and paint a narrative of the out come we find through our program at hamilton families. so, one common things we find. our department works with the case management team. and so as we on the front end a rapid process of getting families houses quickly as possible. one family that sticks out this past year was the family that

came in single parent, 3 small children. and came in to our program with quite a bit of distrust of the system in general they encountered in the past. through the work with our program and case managers on hand with the workforce development team in house we noticed such a steady increase in terms of stability and long-term sustain ability and their ability to get back on a good footing secure childcare for children and gone back to training opportunity for finding employment and about 2-3 months ago case manager reported this one example, which is one of dozens and you know -- a lot of families that come through was able to secure full time. am. we are on the right path in terms of planning. because our program is short term and understand that the goal is within the 2 years in

the program what we get them to transition off of our program and stay housed and prevent them from coming become to the system. that is one of men stories our team works through and the partnerships of the landlords we work with. why thank you. >> thank you. if we have members of the public who wish to address the committee? that completes the queue >> public comment is closed. and with this i like to move this item to full board with recommendation and i roll call y. on this motion to forward this to the full board with positive recommendation. vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> member melgar. >> aye >> chair chan. aye. >> thank you. the motion passes. call item 2. >> item 2 a resolution approving the second amendment with conard hills and spicht housing for supportive service, property management and stewardship at

mcallister hotel. extending the grant term for a total term of january first through june of 26. increasing the agreement amount by 4.5 million a total not to exceed 12.8 million of and authorizing hsh to enter in any amendments or other modifications to the agreement. >> madam chair >> thank you. and with this we have d. homelessness and supportive housing here >> good morning. again. dylan schneider with department of homelessness and supportive husbanding. i'm back before with you a resolution authorize hsh to enter in the second amendment with conard house to provide support service, property management and lease stewardship for permanent supportive housing at the mc calfster hotel this

was heard by the homelessness oversight commission on april 4, 2024. and i'm joined today by my colleagues from conard house. i wanted take a brief moment before going in details thank mr. americanard and their work and for the work on the high volume of items we had coming in and we appreciate your partnershipful thank you. >> okay. this resolution approve the second am amendment extend the term of the agreement by 24 months through june 30 of 2026 and add about for you.5 million for a total not to exceed of 13 million. >> again, with the hsh entire portfolio of permanent spicht housing we have over 9, 800 units of site based supportive housing. which is per of over all

portfolio of over 13,000 housing slots. conard house provide property management. support services and stewardship at the hotel since 2004 the mc calster holing served 84 formerly homeless adulted in 22 similar celebrity 23 the house served 90 households. 41% of which were over the age of 55. 20% were lbgtq+ and 26% were black. showing the drafks of matching the need on the streets and homelessness across the city. with that happy to take questions on this, thank you. item 2 a resolution approving an amendment to the department of homelessness and spicht housing agreement with conard house this extends the agreement by 2 years through june of 26 and increases not to exceed amount 12.8

million dollars. this grant funds an 80 unit sro hotel on mc calster street. we detailed budget on pages 8 and 9 of the report and evaluated the performance of the grant relative to the requirements in the contract and found conard house is meeting the requirements. this is learning low funded by care not cash funds and recommend approval of item 2. >> vice chair mandelman? >> thank you, madam chair. >> talk about the -- 50% satisfaction with services how does that rank relative to other tshgs psh buildings >> it is low compared to other psh buildings. when i will say is there was also a low rate of response to that tenant satisfaction survey

in 22/23 due to the reserved fire and impacted office space and community space. since getting the results conard house taken steps to both address making sure more tenants are filling out that survey and addressing the issues that were raised dissatisfaction to tenants >> what were the issues? some were related to safety and security at the site that had been impacted by the fire. including like a fence on the roof. security cameras, et cetera. conard house applied for one time capitol improve am fund in thes 23 bash and hsh awarded over 100 thousand dollars this year that is under contract to address some of those issues. the other thing conard house is doing is they have month low community meetings with attentives at mc calster hotel. they will be setting up month low committee meetings with tenabilities to understand

issues of dissatisfaction and address those as they arise rather than waiting for the surveys. >> and then this is i basic question. this is a cash hotel. not a -- what is relationship with coordinated entry and care not cash? >> care not cash is the one of the major funding source for this hotel. coordinatedents rew would manage the referrals in the hotel as it is permanent supportive housing. >> how does that. two different d.s hsa managing care not cash program and obligated to provide housing for people who are going on cap and don't housing or shelter going

on cap and don't have it. how does that relate to coordinated entry that seems like a different scheme. >> through the chair. i apologize you are correct we have additional cap placements that are happening i believe they do go through an eligibility assessment. i need to check with the team to understand how this works at this site. i would be interested general low in knowing. i want to i'm interested in the relationship with the two priorities. care not cash and management of coordinated entries may be we can follow up off line >> of i'm happy to. we have good niche policy protocol do we have a sense how they are america up by that

standard? >> through the chair, we have good neighbor policy in all of our agreements not something i have looked at a have not on my end received concerns from naeshs around mc calster hotel. >> nothing we standardly. in the list of things we check on for it is not a thing part of it now? correct. >> i will say we have colleagues from conard house i'm happy to invite them to speak about conscience around the holing or good neighbor questioning. >> yes. i'm sandra daves i worked if everfor the associate directoror for supportive housing with hsa and worked around mc calster

since 2004 and worked hard to develop good reps with neighbors including uc hastings and developing a rep with the cfo there. we work diligently with the restaurant in our building. we >> and they would say you are a good neighbor? >> i'm sorry >> they would say you are a good neighbor. >> i would hope so. i think we try to meet their need its is difficult to be a restaurant and an sro. but i have not had any complaints. we have not had complaints from any neighbors: >> do you have a sense how coordinatedent row relates to care not cash placements in the building. >> so, i do. so, we work closely with the team called housing access team. who also works with they get

referrals from coordinatedents row and the housing access team sends the referrals. we had -- a 20 year relationship with the housing access team. and they are the 1 who is managed all those referrals this come to our site we do a pretty good job of handling that our vacancy rates are very low >> i'm not concern about that, i think in the -- care not cash seems like a basic you get you have this benefit you are entitleed this thing we gotta find you a thing and now go in this hotel. coordinatedent row looking not the benefit as the like you are in need your level of need based on a set of things we are looking at. have -- has coordinated entry's sort of being brought in this

framework how you are receiving residents, do you feel it impacted the population in your building? >> i have to honestly say the acutity level has increased and a huge impact on the satisfaction levels we are see negligent surveys. so, i -- there are a lot of sicker people. >> there are a lot of people with more people with mental health and substance use challenges than we ever experienced and behavioral challenges as a result. that you know have impacted things like our elevator service from vanld limp or fires. we had a fire in 2022. cause 100 thousand dollars over. worth of damage. really -- made it difficult for residents to you know live in a

building is full of -- remediation -- blowers and -- all of the stuff that come with a water damaged building. >> and -- has there been comment increase in resources from the city as we sends you a more challenging and population of residents. if we change how weendz you residentses and the way we change is make them meatier and the building hearder to manage, has there been a conversation about that with the city and is the city providing additional resources to help manage a population with greater need sns >> i would say and thank our hsh partners for introducing the

facts team like i apologize i can't remember the acronym. nurse this come out pharmaceutical who come out and do bedside prescriptions for folks who have substance use disorders. they have amped up their training so we had a series of oppressed trainings that helped us provide information on how to work with folks with substance use disorders and engage people on that level. and most recently a training that talked about with corporation of supportive housing that talked about the first year of house when somebody come in and -- you know what needs to be done put in place to help with stabilization. i would thank them for that.

>> and the executive director. nice to see everybody. thank you, sand ramp i add-on i think the [inaudible] increases i think helped and also the setting of 30% of minimum of people's mack income going to rent. i will say the mc calster was initiated with a budget deficit years ago. i think there is need for an aadditional staff and we near conversation with hsh during a difficult budget time to see if we increase funds to the contract moving forward n. meantime there has been a partnership on one time only funds to address the urgent needs. thank you. >> thank you.

may i clarify on the referrals you heard from conard colleagues but confirming that 84ed nayed entry does determine and upon ensure this folks are eligible that are on cap hsh housing access team makes the referrals to the hotel. and will i'm calling a friends here upon wanted correct the record in terms of tenant satisfaction surveys 50% respondsed the survey. of those 50% 84 were satisfied. it was still below when we aim for which is 90% of satisfaction but of the 50% the satisfaction rate was fairly high. >> all right. i have been exploring this with contracts coming before us. i do think that having gone through this massive expansion and psh it is important tong

about how it is work negligent challenge this is we are asking the providers to manage. it looks like we are going in a period we will not have much money to do new psh with exceptions. and may be a good thing in giving us an opportunity to look at the existing stock of psh and how to invest resource. we do have quite a baptist built up unspent mental health dollars from prop c this may be changing. seems like providing additional resources if we use the buildings for severe mental illnesses and addiction i think that would be an interesting thing. i know you are already doing it.

with that let's go to public upon comment on this item >> yes. members have joined us today wishing it address the committee on item 2 now is your opportunity. i would like to share a few success stories why this program is a critical part of the supportive housing portfolio. our success has been meetings client needs transferring residentses to independent housing or meets health challenges. this fiscal year alone our supportive service staff and hsh has transferred 13 residents. folk who is are unable to maintain housing due to complex medical needs or physical needs, avoid averification or poor

health out come. this means more folks without housing or shelter can find homes. most residents move for health reasons we had many who do to the housing ladder rented studio apartments after move nothing one studio apartment a grateful resident stated upon he was grateful to supportive service. and stated, i feel like a regular person. despite the moves and therefore vacancies our property management worked quickly to over turn units and staff processed new move in is ensure low vacancy rates and high unit.

public comment is closed vice chair mandelman. i want to thank the public commenter. and i think it is encourage to here this people who are no longer promote for psh you are w to get them in other units. so, thank you. >> i'd like to coresponse this. >> thank you. i would like to move this item to full board with recommendation and a roll call, >> on that motion to forward this to a full board with positive recommendation vice chair mandelman. >> aye >> member melgar. >> aye. >> chair chan. >> aye. >> the motion passes. >> call item 3. >> item 3 a hear to consider the release of reserve fundses to the san francisco puc commission placed on the budget and finance reserve ordinance 4-13 in the

amount of approximately 2.4 million to fund the transition line 78 upgrades project. madam chair >> and today we have our puc commission here. >> thank you. why good morning, chair chan shalling supervisor melgar and mandelman i'm with the puc i'm division manager for hetch hetchy water in moccasin, california. thank you, chair chan for scheduling this hearing on the release on budget finance committee reserve for the transmission line 78 upgrade project. in january 2013, the board of supervisors approved ordinance 4-13 that authorize said the puc to enter in mitigation agreements for projects to impact the puc power assets and required future funds in xhesz excess of within00 thousand

dollars for mitigation agreement on budget and finance committee reserve. just to be clear, these are not city general funds or rate payor funds they are mitigation payments we are receiving from other renewable energy developers for impacts in our system. >> the sfpuc identified 3 cost totalling 20 active generational projects that would affect the puc's transmission line 7 and 8. lines extend from approximately 12. 6 miles from warny bill substation near oakdale to modesto. the puc is using the mitigation funds for the transmission line 7 and 8 upgrade.

construction began this 2022 and scheduled to be complait pleaed by june 20 tor. contract close out by december 31, 2024. a portion of project costs funded by the hetch hetchy water

and power capitol program. in past years the puc requested and the budget and finance committee approved refunding release for the transmission line 78 project totalling 28.4 million. total project expend tours year to date are 31.9 million. with pengsdz tours funds bide hetch hetchy program 3.55 million. puc appropriated 16 million in capitol program bond funding for this project. as mitigation funding becomes available, it is reimbursed and used for the capitol program funds. since the left time we reported to the budget and finance committee in may 2023, the estimated project cost decreases

1.9 million. and 88%. as now developers add generations to the grid the puc will continue to evaluate the affects on our facilities. we will continue to execute and collect funding for mitigation agreement and up grid the assets as necessary to ensure over all reliability of both the assets and the electric grid. hetch hetchy water and power request the release of 2.4 million in reserves and accrued interest for transmission line 78 project. thank you i'm happy to answer questions. >> item 3 is a request of to release reserve funds of 2.4 million dollars. these are -- mitigation payments and accrued interestoed to the

puc as infrastructure power infrastructure owners connect to the electric grid. regulations require they pay existing ordinance of that infrastructure near by. to pay for mitigation upgrade. so that the grid remains stable. this funding will be used to upgrade 2 transmission lines in the valley for on going project this will be scheduled be come least in june of 24. we detailed the budget on page 13 and recommend approval of this request. >> thank you. congratulations. i think a job well done i know it is final congratulations due by the end of the year and impressive you have a contingency budget saving that is impressive and congratulations like 80% done.

with that we will go to public comment and thank you for all your work. >> thank you >> we are opening public comment if there are members in the chamber wish to address regarding item 3. we have no peeshgs >> public comment is now closed. i would like to have this item heard and filed. and release funds a roll call. >> and on this motion, that committee approved release of 2.4 million in reserves not puc and the hearing heard and files mandelman. >> aye. >> member melgar >> aye >> chair chan. >> aye. >> the motion passes. item 4. airport commission to a grant

therein million and additional amounts up to 15% of the african-american grant for i period of october first of 23 through september 30, 28 that may be offered from the federal aviation administration for the implementation of the h vac improves.the federal aviation administration for the implementation of the h vac improves.offered from the feder aviation administration for the implementation of the h vac improves. thank you we have sfo >> good morning with sfo the airports seek approval to accept and except 31 million in federal guarantee from thes federal aviation airport terminal program. the atp is part of the prushth investment and j.w.'s act of 2021. included 5 billion to address the aging product of the airports. sfo applied for funds for h vac improvements for the

international terminal project will repair the h vac system and new filtration units and volatile organic compound senseors improve fire life safety compliance and maintenance costs and resilience. a requirement for receiving funds the airport will provide matching funds of 20 percent of grant eligible project costs totalling 7.75 million. the bla recommended approval of the resolution and i'm happy to answer questions. >> item 4 a residence lougs approves the airport to receive 31 million dollars in grant funds from this faa terminal program. this funding will be applied h vac improvement project the budget we detail on page 16 of our report. total costs is 52.5 million dollars. this grant providing about over

half the funds. remaining will be by airport revenue bonds match the 20%. >> and i don't any other questions let's go to public comment >> in dam chair we are opening public comment for the item 4 >> public comment is closed i would like to recommend to full board with recommendation. supervisor mandelman. >> aye yoochl member melgar >> aye. >> chair chan. aye >> next two items 5 and 6 together. >> item 5 and 6.

five is a resolution approving modification number 4 of the bay hanger lose with american airlines and city through the airport commission extend the term by 2 years special extend the rent. and execution of modification number 4 by city and item 6, a resolution approving modification number 3 of the hang are lease with united airlines and the city and county. to extend the term by 2 years and rent to 5.5 million to commence on the effective date of the lease term. after approval of the board and execution and modification 3. madam chair. >> thank you. >> good morning. sfo the items before you today seek approval to modify leases with american and united airlines to extend the leases

annual rent for american can maintain the rent for united the super bay hang are leased by united on the west and american on the east am aircraft maintenance, employee parking and equip storage. modification number 4 increase american's rent 4% to toll 7.24 million a year in line with the fair market appraisal by the city's real estate department. proposed modification number 3 main taint rent for united at 5 million dollars alternate fair market was 2% lower. pursuant to the lose the annual rent for any roar in the lower than the preceding year. extends both leases for 2 years. the first month after full city approvals. both lease are on month to month hold over the airport focused on

executing the lose and use agreement and need time to execute the super bay modifications. the total rent is 26 million overnight new terms of the loses. the bla has approval and i'm happy to answer questions with my colleague from the aviation management. >> thank you. items 5 and 6 are 2 resolutions approve modifications to existing leases. between the airport and american airlines. united airlines lease is 4 hang are space outside the terminal used by the airlines to maintain their planes. and we detailed the incoming revenue on page 21 of the report and recommend approval of the items. >> thank you. >> thank you, we don't have questions at the moment and let's go to public comment on the two items.

>> members of the public joining us wish to address the committee regarding the items 5 and 6 now is your opportunity. we have no speakers. >> public comment is now closed. >> welcome all the students coming in the chamber. which school are you? welcome! and with that we closed public comment. and we will colleagues i like to move two items. to full board with recommendation. and i roll call, >> on this motion to forward both resolutions in items five and 6 to the full board with positive recommendation vice chair mandelman. >> aye >> member melgar. >> aye >> chair chan >> aye. >> the motion passes. welcome to the budget and finance committee this is where the committee and the

supervisors discuss about city's budget and so with that mr. clerk call the next item. >> item 7, a resolution retroactively office of cannabis extend a grant in amount of 2 million from april second of 24 through october 31, 25 from the govern or's office of economic development for the grant program for local jurisdictions. authorizing the office cannabis to execute the agreement with the goner's office of business and economic development and the amendments are subsequent on behalf of the city and indem nifighting the governoror's office of business for liability arising out of the performance of the contract. madam chair >> thank you we have the office of cannabis here. >> good morning. in dam chair and supervisors. i'm associate director, office of cannabis i'm join boyd my

colleagues deputy director jeremy schwartz and assistant [inaudible]. today presenting for your approval an accept and extend resolution in the amount of 2 million dollars from governor office of business and economic development. for the local equity grants program. thank you for your consideration. the grant term from april 2 of 24 through october 31 of 25. the purpose is to advance economic justice near communities impacted by cannabis prohibition q with costs of cannabis businesses office of cannabis neither received grant or extended them pursuant to the award. the economic of development >> to date office of can combis

dispursed 11 million indirect guarantees to 60 businesses result in the 52 equity business permits. equalization rates prior continue exceed 95%. survey result cohort indicated funds reaching ethnic community demonstrate instead chart. expense categories extend over time. there are 13 total categories. prior grant programs dem strited the improvements the preponder lawyer categories of expenses. current social grant program cycle is through a cohort of grantees. eligibility criteria with public input and recommendations from the cannabis committee. each is eligible for [inaudible]. office of cannabis grant is flexible and allows reimburse am of expense or advance am of

grant funds happy to address questions or occurrence. thank you. vice chair mandelman. joy would like to be added as a coresponse. >> thank you. eventual low not today but i think we will circle back closer to the day we look forward to look at the economic report. as currently we do have a moratorium on new permits. i think it is coming up in 2025. so in a few months we appreciate that and with this go to public comment. >> member of public who want to comment on item 7 now is your time to prop j. we have no speakers. >> public comment is closed. and with that clothe i like to move this to full board with

recommendation and the roll call. >> on this motion to forward to the board with positive recommendation vice chair machine man. >> aye >> melgar. >> aye >> chan. >> aye. >> thank you the motion passes. call item 8. >> item 8 a resolution authorizing the office contract administration to enter in a fifth amendment agreement between the city and county and sunset company doing business recology. golden gate dispole and recycling dba recology golden gate and recology san francisco for refuse collection service at city facilities increase the contract i'm amount for a total not to exceed of 43.8 million. and extending the duration 4 months july first of 24-december first 2020. we have office of contract

administration here. >> good morning. chair chan and supervisor melgar and mandelman. thank you for having me i'm [inaudible] procurement manager with office of contract administration. i'm here to present the fifth amendment to the city contract for refuse collection services with recology. as you may be aware the city held a contract for refuse collection service for city facilities through contract administration since 2004. the last long-term contract approve in the 2014 for 6 years. oca brought a contract and no action was taken. a contract covering december 2020 through november 2021.

the original contract nt e an initial 5.6 million dollars and one year duration. it was amendmented to 9.9 million and came back for an extension in november of 2021. the board did approve to extend it to june 30 of 22 and a new not to exceed amount of 15.6 million dollars. during this time the city attorney's office advised that the city refuse ordinance did in the present the city from competitively procuring service. to allow time for you to slitis city services and enter in a new contract the board approved in june of 22 to increase the not to exceed amount to 39. 6 million dollars and extend the contract to june first of 2024. oca did amend it again in june

of 23 to adjust the rates authorized by the board at the june approval. the amendment to the current contract to ensure continuity of service the city negotiates and executes a new contract. request is for a 4 mont extension to october 31, 2024. and to increase the contract not to exceed amount by 4.2 million dollars for a new nt e of 43 million dollars. no changes to the scope. or to the rates. recology agreed to hold the rates and did in the increase while we negotiate the new contracts. the projected expend tours you will see how we got to 43.8 million dollars. we used the amounts and average of the month low spend it project through october 31.

i like to mention we have requested a 20% contingency instead of the 15% to ensure we have sufficient funds to cover through end of october. we are being extra call your attention. i like to mention that the bla has agreed. for the solicitation of the new contract, i like to go throughout time line of the new solicitation process. in john of twoot city issued a new solicitation for new city refuse service. now contract. two firm submitted proposals. one by recology in jan of 23 notice of intent to award to allied waste service. in february of 23, the ceqa process and official 24 the planning department concluded

the ceqa process and issued an addendum once completed ocait someday the new contract with allied to the board for approval. as you recall in march of 24, allied waste with drew proposal following the board of supervisor's budget and finance committee. unless we commence for extension of the current contract. which is why we are here today for this propose the amendments >> next steps. step one amend the contract with recology. proposed fifth amendment. step 2 to commence negotiationos new contracts start this month. step 3 we conclude the negotiations and finalize the new contracts no later than august 2024. and it is possible this we may

complete the negotiation sooner but as you know the board be on recess in august. so we plan on submiting august to the board. but don't anticipate having the contract heard until october of 2024. thank you. i'm happy to answer questions you may have. item 8 approve an ma'am to the agreement with recology this is for recology's collection of city refuse from city facilities. this metropolitan is a short extension through october of 24. and it increases in spending by 4.2 million dollars. we detail on page 25 we think that is reasonable. while oca negotiates with recology on a longer term contract we recommend approval of item 8

>> thank you. we want to really thank oca the office contract administration for the heard work you have done for the request for proposal. you know through that process. with recology special allied submitting their principle and as a result to regrettable this alli was through. but here we are. and i appreciate the on going effort and i appreciated it is not an easy task. thank you. >> and with that go to public comment on this item. >> members of public who wish to address regarding item 8 now is your opportunity to approach the lect urn. >> we have no speakers >> public comment is closed. and colleagues i would like to move this item to full board where wouldation and a roll call >> on that motion to forward this resolution to the full board with positive recommendation vice chair machine man. >> aye joovm machine melgar.

>> aye >> chair chan. >> aye >> >> thank you the motion passes. please, call item 9 and 10 together. >> item 9 and 10 are resolutions designating the follow are advertising for the city for fiscal year 24-25. item 9 clinton reilly dba the san francisco examiner the official newspaper of san francisco. item 10 the follow to be the out reach community neighbor based weekly periodicals. and provide out reach advertising for neighborhoods. bay area reporter and transgender community for the bayview, mission, bernal heights neighborhoods. for the mission excelsior and potrero. hen row society journal for the noe valley voice for noe valley and diamond heights.

potrero view for potrero, dog patch mission bay and eastern south of market neighborhoods. san francisco bay times for the castro. noe valley and dubose neighborhoods. san francisco examine are for the sunset and pacific heights, mission, haight and richmond. financial district. tenderloin, eureka valley. russian hill and forest hill and marina neighborhoods. daily for the china town other richmond and sunset portola valley. excelsior tenderloin. small business exchange for the entire city. nguyen newspaper the out reach nieshgd everneighborhood monthly periodical for the china town, sunset, richmond port tolla, tenderloin out mission and the out reach community based periodical for the chien he's community world journal for bayview, china town, mission. south of market.

tenderloin and western neighborhoodses. and madam chair? >> thank you and with this we have office of contract add registration here. i'm a manager with oca and here to do a presentation for the official newspaper and out reach periodicals. >> oca provide recommendation for thes designation award of the out reach advertising newspapers. note this we will present first on the official newspaper and out reach periodicals. >> to start in 1994 voters passed prop j mandating the board to designate each fiscal the official neighbor and out reach for publiccasion of official city notices. code sections 2.80 through 81-4 govern the requirements for selecting the periodicals

pursuant to the code. oca issues for selection of the official newspapers and out reach periodicals. the solicitations based on code man datd evaluation requirements. upon commraigz mreegz oca makes recommendations and award to the board. the board by resolution designates the official newspaper and authorizes award. designates the official newspaper and authorizes award.. the board by resolution designates the official newspaper and authorizes award. commune based out reach and neighborhood based out reach periodicals. upon receiving and revowing the proposals oca makes recommendation for, ward to the board who by resolution

designates an official nooirp nature and the nieshgd based out reach for nafiscal year. historically the city used a competitive clearing house for the central point of contact with the city and publications through which advertisements are placed. the clearing house receives and coordinates the placement through the selected publications time low processes, payments to each and then bill city on their behalf. this ensures publications mall ones are paid timely fortunately and reduceings burden on city staff inform 24-25 and consistent with the practice described boom each awardee add as a subcontractor with the city. rather than signing an agreement with the city. this will reduce burden on oca as well as publications almost

all of whom are small operations with little capacity to enter in and manage a direct contract with the city. the daily official newspaper is required to be print in the san francisco on 3-more day in i week. they are also required have i circulation of 50,000 copies per calendar week. communities are defined as the les bia, gay, bisexual. african-american, hispanic and the chinese community. the board of supervisors may determine different communities from time to time. community based periodicals are also required to be print in the san francisco on one or more days a week with a primary circulation in the out reach community proposed. >> neighborhood based periodicals are required to be printed on one or more days per mont with primary in the neighborhoods proposed. note that neighborhood is not

defined in the code. the codes prittive as to the evaluation methodology. criteria and scoring system i will not go in detail but i point this out to note that must facility requirements and evaluating and making recommendations for designation and award. i will summarize the solicitations and recommendations made by the office of contract administration in regards to the official and out reach publications should be noted oca can make recommendations based on proposals as directed by the san francisco code section 2. 80 through 1 the board has the option to authorize other month low based neighborhood oust reach periodicals that may have been deemed unresponsive to ensure addicate out reach. the solicitation for advertising for the city and county of san francisco had 2 proposals the

san francisco examiner and the chronicle. chronicle was unable to meet questions of law a recollections for the code they don't print locally in san francisco. therefore it is recommended this the san francisco knap inner the sole responsibility awarded for the official advertising newspaper for you city and county of san francisco. >> out reach advertising was posted february 20. with prepole conference schedule for february 27. the proposals were due march 15ful our teach conducted out reach via e mail to potential bidders asking them to submit bids in tonight we received 18 proposals for community and out reach neighborhood out reach periodicals. 13 oust 18 were deemed responsive and met all qualifications. oca makes recommendations based on highest proposer who met all

requirements as set feather in the codes 2.80 through 81. the week low community based out reach received 5 bisd the same as last year. one was the lbgtq+ community. and the bay area reporter and oca recommends the redeemed responsive bidder for this community. the chinese community received 2 bids one was nguyen newspaper. oca recommends award they ranked first and the world junior cannot they were ranked second for this community. hispanic community per transfer cannot than i did in the meet minimum qualifications and nonresponsive. all san francisco communities the san francisco chronicle applied for this one this year. cannot recommend this periodical did not meet qualifications and

nonresponsive. monthly out reach based neighborhoods. they received we received 13 bisd up 7 bids from left year. the first is the castro noe valley dubose received two the first was san francisco bay times. oca recommends, ward they ranked first for the neighborhoods. the second was the bay area reporter. oca cannot they ranked second for the neighborhoods. >> bayview hunter's point. mission and bernal heights. bid for this oca recommended than i were responsive bidder for these neighborhoodses. bayview hunter's point and visitation valley henry society journal. recommends, ward they deemed to be only responsive bidder for these neighborhoods. bayview hunter's point. china townful mission, south of market.

tenderloin, visitation and western edition the world journal recommends award they deemed the only responsive bidder for these neighborhoods. noe valley, diamond heights noe valley voice recommends, ward they were deemed the only responsive bidder for these neighborhoodses. potrero hill. dog patch, mission bay and east so manyasm per contrary view recommends they were the only responsive bidder for these neighborhoodses. sunset, presidio heights, excelsior, pacific heights, mission, haight, richmond, financial district, tenderloin, eureka valley, russian, forest hill. soma, marina and north beach the san francisco examiner bid and recommends award they were the only responsive bidder. chaina town, richmond, sunset.

portola valley, excelsior. outer mission. tenderloin, ocean view. engle side and merced todd daily recommends award they were only responsive bid are. china town. sunset. richmond. visitation valley portola, tenderloin and outer mission. nguyen newspaper. oca recommended only spnszive bidder for these neighborhoods. mission, excellsoror potrero hill. recommends, ward they were deemed the only responsive bidder for these neighborhoodses. all san francisco neighborhoods the small business exchange and san francisco chronicle both applied recommends, ward to small business exchange they ranked first for these neighborhoods. oca cannot recommend the san francisco chronicle they ranked second. in year's past the boards

selected other periodicals to supplement the unrepresentatived neighborhoods this is concludes my presentation and i'm available for questions >> thank you. supervisor melgar. >> thank you. so much. so, thank you for the over view of the process. no questions about that nor concerns. my questions were about the basic criteria. for periodicals. and you know printing. in san francisco. dm you know i think things should be produced in san francisco but i would say i hope people don't get mad at me folks, you know under an age don't read printed newspaper anymore. and a lot of folks now get most of their news on line. and in fact the social media of

a lot of local publications are what sort of informs people's feed and i am wondering is that a separate contract that we have on social media. i know this many departments use social mode why a bit. is this attached how we thinking. can you talk us through that? sorry i'm not knowledgeable about this. >> that's fine. last year my first year doing the contracts. so a new set of vibes. we had the assistant director assisted this year as well. new eyes for her. we locked that the and get a lot of questions about the digital form it is specific and requires print nothing san francisco for the official and the out reach community periodical. we don't havely way.

that was a prospect j in 1994. that was voter initiated. so a let changed since then. obviously. we do get a lot of questions and are exploring and terrible low dig at that time depending on the board. we like us to do for the neighborhood. we have the flexibility to direct oca to do digital solicitation for the neighborhoodses. we don't have the flexibility for the community or the official newspapers. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. with that, keep am go to i don't have more questions i appreciate this year's process. and the end result and with this i don't see other name on the roster, we gallon to public

comment on these 2 items >> we invite public joining us today who wish to speak on items 9 and 10. now is your opportunity. >> am i in the right spot. >> hi, i'm [inaudible] from california common cause i wanted to take this opportunity to speak to the importance of the city's dollars for small businesses and nonprofits prit nothing san francisco i'm speaking part of the bay area independent community media coalition locally owned publications push for media policy solutions to sustain the city and ensure communication and information on city programs are accessible to all. we have appreciated the conversation today. the legal notice system a part of the advertising program for a time. and we are not take issue with

official advertising. will being reds lugzs today. butch to encourage the city to think expanseively when we think about -- promoting the city's programs and services through discretionary advertising budget with the rise of ai and information. san francisco community and ethnic elements are more important now than ever to city's democracy many ethnic and low mead why outlets are left out of city advertising opportunities. and in attorney many community members are not being reached. there has been a bl, report this shows this and we as an organization and common cause did research around this. local news is the public good to a healthy inclusive and multiracial democracy. san francisco local publishers

are ino have aing, improve ams to the city taegz process ensure that marginalized community are getting information out roach from the city. our research show this is now because of where the city puts the dollars critical information about city programs is in the being reached. we can fix that. thank you. >> thank you. monopoly dam chair this completes our queue >> thank you. supervisor melgar. >> sorry. let mow close public comment. no more public comment and it is closed. >> thank you. i wanted to thank her for her comment and is think it is worth thinking through what we advertise begin new technologies and not with standing something voters passed in the early noinlt's. i think this in order to reach

the communities we want to roach we should revisit the way we do it. i also.ed take a moment to welcome the students from sacred heart cathedral. go fighting irish. thank you for being here. >> all right. >> thank you and then with this i will like to move these two items on the agenda. to full board with recommend sxagz a roll call. >> on this motion to forward both resolutions 9 and 10 to the full board with positive recommendation vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> member melgar. >> aye. >> chair chan. >> aye. we have throw aye's >> motion passes. >> with that mr. clerk do we have other items before us today >> that concludes business. >> thank you and our budget and appropriation committee will be schedule for today at 1:30 p.m.

the meeting is adjourned. clear clear . >> neighborhood in san francisco are also diverse and fascist as the people that inhabitable them we're in north beach about supervisor peskin will give us a tour and introduce is to what

think of i i his favorite district 5 e 3 is in the northwest surrounded by the san francisco bay the district is the boosting chinatown oar embarcadero financial district fisherman's wharf exhibit no. north beach telegraph hill and part of union square. >> all of san francisco districts are remarkable i'm honored and delighted to represent really whereas with an the most intact district got chinatown, north beach fisherman's wharf russian hill and knob hill and the northwest waterfront some of the most wealthier and inning e impoverished people in san francisco obgyn siding it is

ethically exists a bunch of tight-knit neighborhoods people know he each other by name a wonderful placed physically and socially to be all of the neighborhoods north beach and chinatown the i try to be out in the community as much as and i think, being a the cafe eating at the neighborhood lunch place people come up and talk to you, you never have time alone but really it is fun hi, i'm one the owners and is ceo of cafe trespassing in north beach many people refer to cafe trees as a the living room of north beach most of the clients are local and living up the hill come and meet with each other just the way the united states been since 1956 opposed by the

grandfather a big people person people had people coming since the day we opened. >> it is of is first place on the west that that exposito 6 years ago but anyone was doing that starbuck's exists and it created a really welcoming pot. it is truly a legacy business but more importantly it really at the take care of their community my father from it was formally italy a fisherman and that town very rich in culture and music was a big part of it guitars and sank and combart in the evening that tradition they brought this to the cafe so many characters around here everything has incredible stories by famous folks last week the cafe that paul carr tennessee take care

from the jefferson starship hung out the cafe are the famous poet lawrence william getty and jack herb man go hung out. >> they work worked at a play with the god fathers and photos he had his typewriter i wish i were here back there it there's a lot of moving parts the meeting spot rich in culture and artists and musicians epic people would talk with you and you'd.

>> (music). >> the ferry building one of san francisco most famous that as many of 15 thousand commuters

pass through that each gay. >> one of the things that one has to keep in mind regarding san francisco is how young the city we are. and nothing is really happening here before the gold rush. there was a small spanish in the presiding and were couriers and fisherman that will come in to rest and repair their ships but at any given time three hundred people in san francisco. and then the gold rush happened. by 182948 individuals we are here to start a new life. >> by 1850 roughly 16 thousand

ships in the bay and left town in search of gold leaving their ships behind so they scraped and had the ships in the bay and corinne woods. with sand the way that san francisco was and when you look at a map of san francisco have a unique street grid and one of the thing is those streets started off in extremely long piers. but by 1875 they know they needed more so the ferry building was built and it was a long affair and the first cars turned around at the ferry building and picking up people and goods and then last night the street light cars the trams came to that area also.

but by the late 1880s we needed something better than the ferry building. a bond issue was passed for $600,000. to build a new ferry building i would say 800 thousand for a studio apartment in san francisco they thought that was a grand ferry building had a competition to hire an architecture and choose a young aspiring architect and in the long paris and san francisco had grand plans for this transit station. so he proposed the beautiful new building i wanted it wider, there is none tonight. than that actually is but the price of concrete quitclaim two how and was not completed and killed. but it opened a greater

claim and became fully operational before 1898 and first carriages and horses for the primary mode of transportation but market street was built up for serve tram lines and streetcars could go up to the door to embarcadero to hospitals and mission street up to nob hill and the fisherman's area. and then the earthquake hit in 190 six the ferry building collapsed the only thing had to be corrected once the facade of the tower. and 80 percent of the city would not survive the buildings collapsed the streets budges and the trams

were running and buildings had to highland during the fire after the actuate tried to stop the mask fire in the city so think of a dennis herrera devastation of a cable car they were a mess the streets were torn up and really, really wanted to have a popular sense they were on top of that but two weeks after the earthquake kind of rigged a way getting a streetcar to run not on the cable track ran electrical wires to get the streetcars to run and 2 was pretty controversial tram system wanted electrical cars but the earthquake gave them to chance to show how electrical

cars and we're going to get on top this. >> take 10 years for the city to rebuild. side ferry use was increasing for a international exhibition in 1950 and people didn't realize how much of a community center the ferry building was. it was the center for celebration. the upper level of ferry building was a gathering place. also whenever there was a war like the filipino war or world war two had a parade on market street and the ferry building would have banners and to give you an idea how central to the citywide that is what page brown wanted to to be a gathering place in

that ferry building hay day the busiest translation place in the world how people got around transit and the city is dependent on that in 1915 of an important year that was the year of our international exposition 18 million living in san francisco and that was supposedly to celebrate the open of panama differential but back in business after the earthquake and 22 different ferry boats to alamed and one had the and 80 trips a day a way of life and in 1918 san francisco was hit hard by the flu pandemic and city had mask mandates and anyone caught without a doubt a mask had a risk ever being arrested and san

francisco was hit hard by the pandemic like other places and rules about masks wearing and what we're supposed to be more than two people without our masks on i read was that on the ferry those guys wanted to smoke their pipes and taking off their masks and getting from trouble so two would be hauled away. >> the way the ferry building was originally built the lower level with the natural light was used for take it off lunge storage. the second floor was where passengers offloaded and all those people would spill out and central stairway of the building that is interesting point to talk about because such

a large building one major stairway and we're talking about over 40 thousand people one of the cost measures was not building a pedestrian bridge with the ferry building and the embarcadero on market street was actually added in and in 1918 but within 20 years to have san francisco bay the later shipbuilding port in the world and the pacific we need the iron that. as the ferry system was at the peak two bridges to reach san francisco. and automobiles were a popular item that people wanted to drive themselves around instead of the ferry as a result marin and other roots

varnished. the dramatic draw in ferry usage was staggering who was using the ferry that was a novelty rather than a transportation but the ferry line stopped one by one because everyone was getting cars and wanted to drive and cars were a big deal. take the care ferry and to san francisco and spend the day or for a saturday drive but really, really changed having the car ferry. >> when the bay bridge was built had a train that went along the lower level so that was a major stay and end up where our sales force transit center is now another way of getting into the city little by little the ferry stopped having a purpose.

>> what happened in the 40 and 50's because of this downturn we were trying to find a purpose a number of proposals for a world trade center and wanted to build it own the philly in a terrible idea objective never gotten down including one that had too tall towers a trade center in new york but a tower in between that was a part of ferry building and completely impractical. after the cars the tower administration wanted to keep americans deployed and have the infrastructure for the united states. so they had an intrastate free plan the plan

for major freeway systems to go throughout san francisco. and so the developers came up with the bay bridge and worked their way along embarcadero. the plans were to be very, very efficient for that through town he once the san francisco saw had human services agency happening 200 though people figure out city hall offender that the embarcadero free was dropped and we had the great free to no where. which cut us off from the ferry building and our store line and created in 1989 and gave us the opportunity to tear down the free. and that was the renaissance of ferry building.

>> that land was developed for a new ferry building and whom new embarcadero how to handle travel and needed a concept for the building didn't want- that was when a plan was developed for the liquor store. >> the san francisco ferry building has many that ups and downs and had a huge hay day dribbled adopt to almost nothing and after the earthquake had a shove of adrenaline to revise the waterfront and it moved around the bay and plans for more so think investment in the future and feel that by making a

reliable ferry system once the ferry building will be there to surface. >> (music).

>> i started the o was with a financing and had a business partner all ended up wanting to start the business and retire and i did was very important to me so i bought them oust and two

weeks later the pandemic h-4 one of the moments i thought to myself we have to have the worse business in a lifetime or the best. >> we created the oasis out of a need basically so other people bars and turning them into a space and when the last place we were performing wasn't used turned those buildings into condos so we decided to have a space. >> what the pandemic did for us is made us on of that we felt

we had to do this immediately and created this. >> (unintelligible). >> where we would offer food delivery services with a curbside professionalism live music to bring spectacular to lives we are going through and as well as employ on the caterers and the performers and drivers very for that i think also for everyone to do something. we had ordinary on the roof and life performances and with a restaurant to support the system where we are and even with that had terribly initiative and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt had to pay our rent we decided to have an old-fashioned one we

created club hours where you can watch to online and or be on the phone and raised over one quarter of a million dollar that of incredible and something that northbound thought we could do. >> we got ourselves back and made me realize how for that people will show up if i was blown away but also had the courage but the commitment now i can't let anyone down i have to make the space serviceable so while this is a full process business it became much more about a space that was used by the community. and it became less about starting up a

business and more about the heart of what we're doing. this building used to be a- and one of the first one we started working on had we came out what a mural to wrap the building and took a while but able to raise the money and pay 5 artists to make a design around many this to represent what is happening on the side and also important this is who we are this is us putting it out there because satisfies other people we don't realize how much we affect the community around there when he i want to put that out there and show up and show ourselves outside of those walls more fabulous. and inspires other people to be more fabulous and everyone want to be more

fabulous and less hatred and hostility and that is how we change the

>> i don't think you need to be an expert to look around and see the increasing frequency of fires throughout california. they are continuing at an ever-increasing rate every summer, and as we all know, the drought continues and huge shortages of water right now. i don't think you have to be an expert to see the impact. when people create greenhouse gases, we are doing so by different activities like burning fossil fuels and letting off carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and we also do this with food waste. when we waste solid food and leave it in the landfill, it puts methane gas into the

atmosphere and that accelerates the rate at which we are warming our planet and makes all the effects of climate change worse. the good news is there are a lot of things that you can be doing, particularly composting and the added benefit is when the compost is actually applied to the soil, it has the ability to reverse climate change by pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil and the t radios. and there is huge amount of science that is breaking right now around that. >> in the early 90s, san francisco hired some engineers to analyze the material san francisco was sending to landfill. they did a waste characterization study, and that showed that most of the material san francisco was sending to landfill could be composted. it was things like food scraps, coffee grounds and egg shells

and sticks and leaves from gardening. together re-ecology in san francisco started this curbside composting program and we were the first city in the country to collect food scraps separately from other trash and turn them into compost. it turns out it was one of the best things we ever did. it kept 2.5 million tons of material out of the landfill, produced a beautiful nutrient rich compost that has gone on to hundreds of farms, orchards and vineyards. so in that way you can manage your food scraps and produce far less methane. that is part of the solution. that gives people hope that we're doing something to slow down climate change. >> i have been into organic farming my whole life. when we started planting trees, it was natural to have compost from re-ecology. compost is how i work and the

soil biology or the microbes feed the plant and our job as regenerative farmers is to feed the microbes with compost and they will feed the plant. it is very much like in business where you say take care of your employees and your employees will take carolinas of your customers. the same thing. take care of the soil microbes and soil life and that will feed and take care of the plants. >> they love compost because it is a nutrient rich soil amendment. it is food for the soil. that is photosynthesis. pulling carbon from the atmosphere. pushing it back into the soil where it belongs. and the roots exude carbon into the soil. you are helping turn a farm into a carbon sink. it is an international model. delegations from 135 countries have come to study this program. and it actually helped inspire a new law in california, senate bill 1383. which requires cities in california to reduce the amount

of compostable materials they send to landfills by 75% by 2025. and san francisco helped inspire this and this is a nation-leading policy. >> because we have such an immature relationship with nature and the natural cycles and the carbon cycles, government does have to step in and protect the commons, which is soil, ocean, foryes, sir, and so forth. -- forest, and so fors. we know that our largest corporations are a significant percentage of carbon emission, and that the corporate community has significant role to play in reducing carbon emissions. unfortunately, we have no idea and no requirement that they disclose anything about the carbon footprint, the core operation and sp360 stands for the basic notion that large corporations should be transparent about the carbon footprint. it makes all the sense in the

world and very common sense but is controversial. any time you are proposing a policy that is going to make real change and that will change behavior because we know that when corporations have to disclose and be transparent and have that kind of accountability, there is going to be opposition. >> we have to provide technical assistance to comply with the state legislation sb1383 which requires them to have a food donation program. we keep the edible food local. and we are not composting it because we don't want to compost edible food. we want that food to get eaten within san francisco and feed folks in need. it is very unique in san francisco we have such a broad and expansive education program for the city. but also that we have partners in government and nonprofit that are dedicated to this work.

at san francisco unified school district, we have a sustainability office and educators throughout the science department that are building it into the curriculum. making it easy for teachers to teach about this. we work together to build a pipeline for students so that when they are really young in pre-k, they are just learning about the awe and wonder and beauty of nature and they are connecting to animals and things they would naturally find love and affinity towards. as they get older, concepts that keep them engaged like society and people and economics. >> california is experiencing many years of drought. dry periods. that is really hard on farms and is really challenging. compost helps farms get through these difficult times. how is that? compost is a natural sponge that attracts and retains water. and so when we put compost around the roots of plants, it holds any moisture there from rainfall or irrigation.

it helps farms make that corner and that helps them grow for food. you can grow 30% more food in times of drought in you farm naturally with compost. farms and cities in california are very hip now to this fact that creating compost, providing compost to farms helps communities survive and get through those dry periods. >> here is the thing. soil health, climate health, human health, one conversation. if we grow our food differently, we can capture all that excess carbon in the atmosphere and store it in unlimited quantities in the soil, that will create nutrient dense foods that will take care of most of our civilized diseases. so it's one conversation. people have to understand that they are nature. they can't separate. we started prowling the high plains in the 1870s and by the 1930s, 60 year, we turned it into a dust bowl.

that is what ignorance looks like when you don't pay attention to nature. nature bats last. so people have to wake up. wake up. compost. >> it is really easy to get frustrated because we have this belief that you have to be completely sustainable 24/7 in all aspects of your life. it is not about being perfect. it is about making a change here, a change there in your life. maybe saying, you know what? i don't have to drive to that particular place today. today i am going to take the bus or i'm going to walk. it is about having us is stainable in mind. that is -- it is about having sustainability in mind. that is how we move the dial. you don't have to be perfect all the time. >> san francisco has been and will continue to be one of the greener cities because there are communities who care about protecting a special ecosystem and habitat. thinking about the history of the ohlone and the native and

indigenous people who are stewards of this land from that history to now with the ambitious climate action plan we just passed and the goals we have, i think we have a dedicated group of people who see the importance of this place. and who put effort into building an infrastructure that actually makes it possible. >> we have a long history starting with the gold rush and the anti-war activism and that is also part of the environmental movement in the 60s and 70s. and of course, earth day in 1970 which is huge. and i feel very privileged to work for the city because we are on such a forefront of environmental issues, and we get calls from all over the world really to get information. how do cities create waste programs like they do in san francisco. we are looking into the few which you are and we want innovation. we want solutions.

>> i think a lot of times we get in adult lives we are afraid to follow our passions and think life can't be that easy. but i truly do believe i followed my heart this time in my journal in city government i did not know that is where my passion lied. i kept following it and ltd. to great opportunity to serve the city. [music]

>> i'm katy tang the executive director of the office of small business. >> small business contributes to san francisco's economy. they provide the bulk of employment in the city and employing a million people in san francisco. and roughly 90% of the businesses are defined as small businesses. so, they contribute to the economy but also just the quality of life. small businesses are more then and there a place of transaction it is a community center. a play where people gather. know each other and form memories about the city. >> at the office of mall business i run a team this helps report all mall businesses in san francisco whether they are looking to stfrt a new business or expand or perhaps they are feeling with issues. our office is here as a point of

information for anyone with a business that has 100 or nower employees. >> i was growing up i had many ideas of when i wanted to do. i wanted to being an olympic swimmer. and i wanted to men be an architect, you name it i had many ideas for what i wanted do when i grew up. and i never anticipated entering in politics. this opportunity came along wh started working for former supervisor carmen chu and she became the district 4 sunset district supervisor. that was my firstent row in politics and government in a different level. and so when i was finishing up my time working for legislative aid i thought, i will go off and do something else. may be explore opportunity

outside of city government what was then approached by this opportunity to also serve as a district 4 supervisor. if not the traditional route that many people think of when you enter in politics. a lot know that is manage than i want to do and run for office. that was not part of my culture and upbringing with manage my parents were wondering why i wanted to go in that role this legislation and important because so many women when have it return to work after having a child feel embarrassed or don't feel comfortable asking their supervisor for will any lactation accommodations. i saw it as an opportunity you could use the position where you have tools creating legislation and pass laws and where people listen to to you help the community and pass cause catharsis important to the city and individuals. my family immigrated to the

united states from taiwan. and they came here in pronl probably late 20's almost 30. and so, they came also in the knowing english limp barely read or write but had to quickly understand english to i can't haveigate services and find a job in america. i grew up in the san francisco sunset district i spent most of my childed hoo up until i went off to college. so when i started working in city government, i think i had mixed reactions about my involvement working government because for some of our parents generation, there is i bit of distrust in government. i think there are questions about why i was entering in this field of work. i think you know when i went in city government i thought about my parents like so many other

who is have to navigate city services and resources english first language and help the individuals both navigate, intercept that is on an application approximate signage. it is fulfilling to mow to help people like my parent and feel like government is there to support them and not to harm them. my parents are happy that i retired early from politics and being a district 4 supervisor i could have continued on for a couple more years approximate decided to leave early. i think that over all they were able to see some of my work appear in the chinese newspaper. through that they were able to see i was able to help communities in a tangible way. >> the member of the board of supervisors. >> transportation authority. for the city and county of san francisco. congratulations. >> i think about one importance when i was worn in as district 4

supervisor. years ago, and someone actually came up to me during the swear nothing ceremony and said, wow, i'm traveling here from canada, and i just i could not believe i saw an asian female worn in in this role a leadership role this meant so much that someone would say that and felt they were inspired by the scene. so -- i hope that as more people see people that look like them and more women coming in positions of leadership than i feel they can doing the same. person this inpyred me is carmen chu who is our city add administrator but also was district 4 supervisor when i worked with her as a legislative aid. at this point, i too, was skeptical of going in politics. i saw someone who had herself never seen herself in politics.

got thrown into it and put her heart and soul and dedication to serve people. and it gave me the confidence to pursue that same job and i honestly would not have either chosen or accepted or considered serving on the board of supervisors were not for carmen. >> if you want to make your business accessible. >> in my role in city government where i have seen the most challenge is people who don't know you and you are here to serve and help them that they classify you as our city government and here to hurt you. so, people will talk to you and -- and just you know treat you disrespectfully. and sometimes i noticed that they might do more to me as a female compared to my male colleagues. but you know i try to be empathetic. one of the most significant barriers to female empowerment

we feel like we have to be 100% meeting all of the qualifications before we think that we are qualified to do a job. if we look at a job description or an opportunity to come your way well is self doubt about whether you can fulfill the obligations of that role. i think that the confidence is huge and sometimes i think we make up for it by trying to gain more experience. more and more and more in whatever we can put under our belts we'll feel better. that may not be the case. we might be qualified with when we have already accomplished. i started rock climbing indoors a couple years ago as an activity to try to spends time with my husband and also to try something new and i finds that rock climbing there are so many

parallels to life. you know when i'm on the wall i'm concentrating and trying to make it to the next piece without falling. there are daying you think i'm not making progress. you come back and wow, i hit another level. and so i feel like in our daily lives and w we think we are not making enough of i change in the city. and sometimes we have to take out time to reflect every day as long as you try and give it your all and you look back you will have made a significant contribution there is no limit to where you go in terms of rock climbing. i want to reminds myself of that in terms of daily life. >> follow what it is you are interested in, what makes you feel excited about wake up every day. you never know and be open to

all the possibilities and opportunity. [music] 5 o'clock. >> (music). >> co-founder. we started in 2008 and with the intent of making the ice cream with grown up flavors and with like and with tons of accessible freshens and so we this is - many people will like it and other people will like you my name is alice my husband we're the owners of you won't see ice cream in san francisco and really makes

fishing that we are always going together and we - we provide the job opportunity for high school students and i hired them every year and . >> fun community hubble in san francisco is my district i hope we can keep that going for many years. >> and i'm alexander the owner of ice cream and in san francisco and in the outer sunset in since 1955 we have a vast of flavors liar choke o'clock but the flavors more than three hundred flavors available and i am the owner of the ice cream. and my aunt used to take us out to eat ice cream

all the time and what can i do why not bring this ice cream shop and (unintelligible) joy a banana split or a great environment for people to come and enjoy. >> we're the ordinances of the hometown and our new locations in pink valley when i finished law school we should open up a store and, and, and made everybody from scrap the first ice cream shop any ice cream we do our own culture background and a lot of interaction and we're fortunate we can get feedback and serve to the king of ending and also

>> who doesn't love cable cars? charging emissions and we're free which we're proud of you know, it's not much free left in the world anymore so we managed to do that through donations and through our gift shops. you got a real look and real appreciation of what early transit systems are like. this was the transit of the day from about 1875 to about 1893 or later, you know. cable car museum is free, come on in. take a day. come down. rediscover the city. you can spend as time you want and you don't have to make reservations and it's important to be free because we want them to develop a love for cable cars so they do continue to support whether they live here or other places and

people come in and say, yes, i have passed by and heard of this and never come in and they always enjoy themselves. people love cable cars and there's none left in the world so if you want to ride a cable car, you've got to come to san francisco. that what makes the city. without the cable cars, you lose part of that, you know, because people who come here and they love it and they love the history ask they can ride a cable car that has been running since 1888 or 1889. wow! that's something. can't do that with other historical museums. rarely, have i run into anybody from outside who didn't come in and didn't feel better from knowing something about the city. it's a true experience you'll remember. i hope they walk away with a greater appreciation for the history, with the mechanics with people are fascinated by the winding machine and i hope the appreciation, which is a part of our mission and these young kids will appreciate cable cars and the ones who live here and other

places, they can make sure there will always be cable cars in san francisco because once they are gone, they are gone. it's the heartbeat of san francisco that founded the cable and the slot and without the cable cars, yeah, we would lose something in san francisco. we would lose part of its heart and soul. it wouldn't be san francisco without cable cars. [bell ringing] >> in 201,755.7 million passengers traveled through san francisco international airport. we have on average 150,000 people traveling through the airport every day. flying can be stressful so we have introduced therapy dogs to make flying more enjoyable.

the wag brigade is a partnership between the airport and the san francisco therapy animal assistant program to bring therapy animals into the airport, into the terminals to make passenger travel more enjoyable. i amgen fer casarian and i work here at san francisco international airport. the idea for therapy dogs got started the day after 9/11. an employee brought his therapy dog to work after 9/11 and he was able to see how his dog was able to relieve passenger's jitter. when we first launched the program back in 2013, our main goal was to destress our passengers however what we quickly found is that our animals were helping us find a way to connect with our pang. passengers. we find there are a lot of people traveling through the

airport who are missing their pets and who are on their road a lot and can't have pets and we have come in contact with a lot of people recently who have lost pet. >> i love the wag brigade. >> one of my favorite parts is walking into the terminals and seeing everybody look up from their device, today everybody is interacting on their cell phone or laptop and we can walk into the terminal with a dog or a pig and people start to interact with each other again and it's on a different level. more of an emotional level. >> i just got off an 11.5 hour flight and nice to have this distraction in the middle of it. >> we look for wag brigade

handlers who are comfortable in stressful situations. >> i like coming to airport it's a lot of fun and the people you talk to are generally people who are missing their dogs. >> they are required to compete a certification process. and they are also required to complete a k9 good citizen test and we look for animals who have experienced working with other organizations such as hospitals and pediatric units and we want to be sure that the animals we are bringing into the airport are good with children and also good with some of our senior travelers. i think toby really likes meeting kids. that is his favorite thing. he likes to have them pet him and come up to him and he really loves the kids. >> our wag brigade animals can

be spotted wearing custom vets and they have custom patches. >> there is never a day that repeats itself and there is never and encounter that repeats itself. we get to do maximum good in a small stretch of time and i have met amazing people who have been thrilled to have the interaction. >> the dogs are here seven days a week, we have 20 dogs and they each come for a two hour shift. >> there is a lot of stress when people have traveling so to from these animals around to ease the stress and help people relax a little bit. i think it's great. >> one of our dogs has special need and that is tristine.

he wears a wheel around. >> he has special shoes and a harness and we get it together in the parking lot and then we get on the air train. he loves it. little kids love him because he is a little lower to the ground so easy to reach and he has this big furry head they get to pet and he loves that. >> he doesn't seem to mind at all. probably one of the happiest dogs in the world. >> many people are nervous when they travel but seeing the dogs is just a wonderful relief. >> what i absolutely love most about it is the look on people's faces, so whenever they are stressed and flying is stressful these days you get these wonderful smile. >> i am the mom of lilo the pig and she is san francisco's first therapy pig. >> lilo joined the wag brigade

as our first pig. >> wag brigade invited us to join the program here and we have done it about a year-and-a-half ago. our visits last 1.5 to 2 hours and it does take a little bit longer to get out of the terminal because we still get a lot of attention and a lot of people that want to interact with lilo. >> i feel honored to be part of the wag brigade. it's very special to meet so many people and make so many feel happy and people that work here. it's been a great experience for me and a great experience for to

toby. >> it's been an extremely successful program, so the next time you are here, stop by and say hi. you're watching san francisco rising. today's special guest is monique gray. >> hi. i'm chris mannis and you're watching san francisco rising. the our guest today is marquise gray. he runs out of the office of the mayor in the city and county of san francisco. and he's with us today to talk

about the recent progress of the sunnidale hope sf housing project. welcome to the show. >> good morning. thank you for having me today. >> let's start by talking about the existing residents of sunnydale and their history. >> so sunnydale was built in the 1940s for a workers. it's the largest public housing community west of the mississippi. it's about 50 acres. pretty huge. about 760 single story units one to four bedrooms. >> i understand it's an ambitious rethinking of the residences. can you briefly describe the scope of the program and hope sf's involvement? >> yeah. the work of hope sf is this idea of more than housing. that acknowledging that our public housing community, the

levels of violence and poverty that are in these communities are not by accident. you know, it's our opportunity to address a system issue, you know, that people need more than housing. they need health services. resources. economic investment opportunities, jobs and things of that nature. and so hope sf strives to work with our city systems to better serve our public housing communities. >> so recently, mayor breed and speaker pelosi toured the site to both put focus on a national housing initiative and also to highlight the completion of the first new building. how many units does it contain and when will people start moving in? >> yeah. it was an amazing event. honored to have the secretary here with us as well in our community. it's 167 units. it's about 75% going back to the original families that currently live on site. so the replacement. so i did forget to mention i

want to say real quick, the beauty of hope sf is housing development, new development without displacements or anti-displacement initiatives. so, for example, the building is 167 units. 75% of those units going to families that have lived there in the community for generationings and the other 25% are tax credit units adding to the affordable housing stock here in san francisco and those units are up and running now. they're leasing them as we speak. people are picking their units each week until they're filled up. >> so was this particular building put on a new plot of land or did people have to move out so it could be constructed? >> that's a good question. our first building was vacant which you may have saw across the street from this building and then this plot of land is the way we kind of do it, we do it in phases. once one goes in, we're able to move families into the new unit

and where they previously were occupying, able to demolish old buildings to build the new. so this area had some older units that were demolished. >> it's impressive that construction has been able to continue during the covid-19 pandemic. can you talk about some of the challenges that needed to be overcome and how the community has managed during the crisis? >> that's a great question. you know, in san francisco, if i understand it correctly, i could be wrong, i believe housing was an essential service. the mayor made a strong commitment early on in the pandemic that we would continue to build housing as housing has been a critical issue in our city. so the housing part hasn't impacted us too much. 67 units have been going on its current time line. the bigger challenge for us was

showing the families in our communities, low income families had the resources we need to survive the pandemic. many of our families didn't have the luxury of working from home, working in the zone and things of that nature. making sure they had access to covid testing and things of that nature. so i want to give a big shout out to our resident leaders, our service providers across all four sites. for those that don't know, hope sf is four sites. sunnydale is one of the four sites. and so across those four sites, the most critical thing was making sure folks in these neighborhoods which have historically have been disconnected from resources have the things that they need to remain healthy, to, you know, survive the pandemic as we all had to survive the pandemic and we did pretty well. we were able to bring back scenes and covid testing on

site. food distribution was happening all throughout the week. wellness services and things of that nature were all happening on site thanks to our resident leaders and our service providers across the sites. >> so, finally, when could we expect the next set of residents to be ready? despite -- i guess we just said covid doesn't have an impact on the schedule. when will the next residences be ready? >> yeah. things are rolling. we have block a3 and block b3 to the building we were referring to earlier. and things are on pace. things are going really well. so we're looking at starting construction spring of 2022 and that will be 170 units and the goal is to have that lease up around 2024. >> well, thank you so much. i really appreciate you coming on the show, mr. gray. thank you for giving us the time today. >> thank you, chris, and i

really appreciate your time as well. >> and that's it with this episode. you've been watching san francisco rising for sfgov tv i'm chris manners. thanks so much for watching. >> good morning everyone! and welcome to china basin park. [applause] my name is jack bear and for the last 30 years i had the honor of working for the san francisco giants and for a great many of those years, i had the distinct pleasure working with many of you on all of this. we are still putting a few finishing touches on the rk