Facing unprecedented housing crisis, homelessness crisis, despite our very large city budget. So we would like to see a public bank that would really invest in our local communities, especially most marginalized and vulnerable communities that are underserved by our current Banking System and the city would invest in Affordable Housing. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Thank you, and good afternoon all my relations, my name is Tony Gonzalez and im with the American Indian movement. And im the director of a. I. M. West here in San Francisco. I come here to encourage this discussion on behalf of the international, or intertribal community, i believe most of us are in support of this effort and i would like to also commend former Supervisor John Avalos for having the foresight to having initiate this process in 2011. And also, its rather ironic that north dakota has the public bank and this is where we have seen in the last two years, the Standing Rock people, community and no daple organizing that took place there and from there many of us returned to our communities and began to more enthusiastically begin the divestment process. So i believe this public banking process is very much a part of that. So on behalf of the indian community, i wholeheartedly support this effort. Thank you very much. It is in keeping with the values that San Francisco has been emanating and i think it will be a great model for the rest of the cities and the country across. Thank you very much. Thank you, tony. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is jesse fernandez, im here with support of sf rising, people organizing to demand economic and environmental rights. Im here in support for a public bank that will move us in a direction to achieve Sustainable Community investments. From new development, to acquisition of existing housing stock, time and again our tools and resources are to create and retain Affordable Housing are spread too thin and fall too short of the Affordable Housing goals and commitments we have as a city. A public bank would increase our local control and allow us to support as well our cherished mom and pop businesses, for example, the chicken coop that had to close its doors because they couldnt afford the prohibitive costs of seismic retrofitting or newly designated businesses like besitas bakery which is experiencing unreasonable rent increases. That came to a halt. In the resession it was the same private institutions that were unaccountable and ripped families from their homes. My own family struggled with this. As federal tax reforms are beginning to limit or will limit Affordable Housing, financing in our sanctuary cities targeted for servicing and being committed to our immigrant community, we need a Municipal Bank now to protect and advance our San Francisco values. Thank you. Hi, my name is otto pipinger, i want to remind the board this endorsement represents all 800 of our members, or approaching 800 that we have. Democratic socialists endorses because we believe it ought to be governed democratically as well. I would like to take a moment to address the conflict with San Francisco social issues these banks have addressed and remind you 9. 6 billion in the hands of these banks is a tacit endorsement tantamount to overtly giving millions a year to the private prison industry, the modern face of slavery. To the subject of public banks, however, its essential, the next time the market tanks, the banks that have invested in our businesses provided loans for our homes view our community the same way we do and are willing to hold onto these assets even in the face of liability which a private bank will never do. A bank, as every child understands or believes is a place that keeps your money safe and that ought to be true for san franciscans. Too risky to outright subsidize such as providing lowinterest loans for colleges and businesses that benefit us collectively as well as providing a partner for projects too risky to accept a loan from a predatory lender. The Federal Reserve has a dual mandate to stabilize prices. Bank of america has no mandate other than maximizing profits. The people of San Francisco are entitled to a bank with the same degree of respect that we do. Thank you for your time, i will cede the rest. Thank you, next speerk, please. Speaker, please. Thank you very much and i commend you. As residents of San Francisco, who pay taxes and fines into the citys coffers, we want to know the city officials invest our funds wisely, with a city not only ends highinterest but also where investments contribute to quality of life for all san franciscans. A private bank can do this. Other communities are realizing the best way for Government Funds to work efficiently and responsibly is to deposit them in a public bank. A public bank that will allow us explicit inclusion of a broad range of policy goals and purposes. Purposes such as Public Welfare. Public welfare through equitable Public Investments to overcome the harmful impacts of extractive economies, unlike a commercial bank it stands on the principle that Public Welfare is the priority rather than profit for private shareholders. Public bank will provide credit and Financial Services to local communities underserved by mainstream commercial banks and lenders and by limited Public Investment to undue the historical legacy of wealth disparities and harmful economic environments or social housing and transportation impacts on these communities. Community wealth building. A public bank shall seek to promote generative economy that holds social justice and ecological sustainability. Community socially owned, social owned enterprises, Community Cooperatives [bell] next speaker. Hi, my name is francis collins. Im a member of a. C. E. , i volunteer for the tenants united. I stand for veterans for peace. Ive been a renter since 1970. Im currently on section 8. If my building got sold and a nonprofit would buy out my building, instead of giving money to their shareholders like wells fargo or b. Of a. , they could reinvest in their community. We need a bank that will support marginalized people in San Francisco. People of color, low income families, the homeless, youth, Small Business, immigrants, public money for public good. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next. Thank you, supervisors my name is julian dahl. An organizer with a. C. E. We have been on the front lines of dealing with the banks since about 2010. We had a number of members, quite a few actually in the bayview and excelsior who were forced to fight tooth and nail during the height of the foreclosure crisis to take back their homes and actually came up with make shift Financing Solutions to be able to buy back those homes. Working with socially responsible investors to buy back homes from speculators and put them back in hands of the community and back in the hands of our members. But obviously these solutions were the best we could do, but theyre inadequate. Since around that time, we worked with supervisor avalos at the time to find out if the creation of a public bank would be possible. It was really exciting to hear the results of the b. L. A. Report that showed that finally it could be possible. To have a bank that could create things like Revolving Loan funds, to buy back homes, to buy back buildings where tenants live. And keep people who were most affected by our housing crisis in their homes is something that would be really exciting to our members. Theres lots of reasons to support public bank. Cannabis banking is just one of them. Theres many, many reasons. I hope we could make this happen. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors my name is curtis [inaudible] with [inaudible] public bank sf coalition. I think the main goal for the task force should be to get to a point where you can provide a blueprint to the treasurer and say this is how you create a public bank. Thats the main goal. Anything short of that is a failure. Its not going to be easy but its absolutely doable. I think the task force needs to follow some key principles. Such as factoring externalities and hidden costs. These are some things often never considered with wall street banks. Shortterm losses versus longterm gains and redefining what it means to have an economy, false narrative that you need to put profit over people. Even the narrative you have to put people over profit, i dont think they are mutually exclusive, i think you could have both. I think the question is who gets that profit. Most importantly, i think, for the force is to make sure the public input, that theres a process for public input. This is a public bank. So if you dont have a public input process, it delegitimizes this task force. We need a public bank, we can no longer afford our current relationship with wall street bank, with bank of america, simply put they use our money against us. Its been mentioned sub prime Mortgage Loans displace people. Pipeline, fossil fuel industry literally using our money to fund our own extinction. We are currently in a crisis but the good news is whenever theres a crisis theres a great opportunity. So sf has a great opportunity to send a message to lay the blueprint for the rest of the country on how to actually break up with these big banks. If our federal government cant break up with the big banks, we will have to do it for them. Thank you. Hi. My name is julie. Im a registered nurse. And im with the california nurses association. We are here to support San Francisco public bank. San francisco is a city which prides itself on progressive values such as equality and justice. Yes, San Francisco banks with corporations that fund the exportation of Indigenous People and their land. Banks that fund the destruction of our planet. Banks that fund climate change, which is the biggest threat to human life. Banks that fund weapons manufacturing, big tobacco and have predatory lending practices which specifically target people of color and marginalized communities. Overall corporations and banks put profit over people. We are living in a dangerous time where we have an extreme president and g. O. P. Who is hell bent on further deregulating banks, corporations and wall street for the profit of the few. California, more specifically, San Francisco, can be a leader. And show that we will not tolerate banks and corporations that exploit people and exploit our planet. We want a bank that is diverse, inclusive, and that represents all of its community members. As the saying goes, if you dont have a seat at the table, you are probably on the menu. We want a bank that puts its community first. One that invests in Affordable Housing, education and child care, Public Transit and infrastructure, small and local businesses, and Renewable Energy just for starters. San francisco has great opportunity to be a leader and San Francisco can be a great leader on public banking. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. Thank you for bringing this to the attention of San Francisco. This is a really important issue. And i also want to commend everyone else thats spoken. Because im very proud to be part of this group. Everyone has covered everything i would have covered. So i only have one small thing to talk about, that is my next door neighbor. Ive lived in San Francisco for 40 years. Ive taught in San Francisco public schools. Galileo and [inaudible] for 30 years. Ive seen the city change in ways that are not so pleasant. And one is my next door neighbor stephanie hellman, who is an African American woman, who has a family, has three generations living in her home. Her husband was a custodian for San Francisco. She actually worked at a bank, stephanie. They saved their money and bought a home. And owned their home for 40 years in Bernal Heights. Last year the bank foreclosed on her and forced her and her family out of San Francisco. They had no sympathy for her and her situation, her husband just died. She was suffering from senility. Her family was forced out of the city. We need a public bank that has a heart. And i commend you and all the people speaking in favor of that to make that a reality. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is alan fisher. I retired a couple years ago but for a few decades a fought for financial justice and pushed banks to do more for communities and i think this is a great effort you are undertaking and i will try to be short, partly because im really hungry. [chuckles] also i just want to support all of the other san franciscans here. You cant be Ground Breaking if you allow yourself to be hemmed by whats risky. Seems you need to be focused on doing things that are not happening from commercial banks, or maybe even Credit Unions and really serving the needs of those communities and those people. In particular, whoever leads this needs to be a Community Development banker. Too often in these situations that ive been around, a banker gets hired. And then they do what a banker does and then its the same thing as a bank. So i just think those are things to look out for. And one part of this, i hope, will be Community Development lending. So that you are really answering those problems. Everything else, i think, has been covered so thank you for doing this. Hello supervisors cohen and fewer. Thank you for bringing this up and fighting for this cause. I think this is really important to a lot of people in San Francisco and a lot of people who dont know its important to them yet will soon learn, i think. I think this will be really incredible. Ive heard a lot tonight, or today about questions about marijuana. And how we can potentially use marijuana money in this public bank. And a lot of concerns about the legality and risks of doing so. I think that right now we should focus on just moving forward on a public bank. Not worry about the marijuana element. I think that is going to get cleared up on a federal level. Theres a lot of push on both the right and the left politically to do that right now. If you put the bank in place, it will be there at the time that federal and other legislations come through to our aid. Thank you. Are there any other members of the public that would like to speak on this item . Please lineup. Thank you. Hello, supervisors, thank you so much for putting this hearing on and being champions of the public banking issue right now. Too bad we didnt move forward a little sooner when Matt Gonzalez actually put this forward in 2001, something the city should be pursuing. And then john avalos really put effort into it and fewer and cohen thank you for doing that work as well. I got activated in local politics about an issue with chase bank because i just graduated sf state with my masters degree, i didnt have much money and chase bank started charging me for being poor. So i was thinking about it from a personal level at first. And then i started to do the research into glass stegall and i started to understand that chase bank is responsible for supporting predatory lending and its also responsible for investing in fossil fuels and things that we dont believe in and so do the other big banks. So its so important for us to have an alternative that will give back to the community and it sounds like its really just an issue of getting down to brass tax like you were talking about and the speakers were talking about. Do we do something shortterm with the existing charters of the credit union or commercial banking charter or get in the formation of something entirely new and work at the state level. And theres a lot of issues right now we are having to parse that out because they are statelevel issue thats are hard. But i want to echo what ben becker just said about cannabis being something we should put off to the side when we are focusing on the shortterm and figure out how to move forward with this task force. Im curious, maybe you could respond to this what the process is going to be for the task force and selection and how fast its going to move forward. [bell] thank you. Are there any other members of the public that would like to speak on this item . All right, seeing none. Public comment is closed. Thank you, to the members of the public for voicing your support. Articulating your concerns. And most importantly, kind of raising questions on the direction you would like the task force to go in that you would like the city to be going in. Thats actually very helpful. Supervisor fewer, i think that we have completed this hearing. I dont have any other questions that i would like to raise. I would like to take a motion to file the hearing as heard. Yes. And chair, if i may just add, that i thank you again to our presenters. And i want to also thank my colleague supervisor cohen for her sponsorship and cosponsorship of this hearing and partnership. And thank you to the public for coming out today. And thank you to mr. Brussow because i think you address a lot of the negative comments that we have heard about it being too risky. But quite frankly, hearing today and looking at what these banks invest in, i would say its too risky not to do. So i think we have heard loud and clear from the public also, this is something we directionally want to go in. I want to thank you all for giving us hope and actually strength to go on. And i think it will be an expensive process, but quite frankly, i think after this hearing, i am super excited to do it. So with that, supervisor cohen, you would like for me to make a motion to move this or . Continue it or . I was going to say file it as heard. Supervisor fewer before i gavel down ive been truly inspired by the conversations not only in this chamber but conversations we have had on twitter and facebook and other social media and at events in the public. Its been an incredibly wellreceived idea. Not only here in San Francisco but across the entire country. People are paying attention and people are curious to know what San Francisco is going to do. I know my friend said she is interested in oakland being first. But i think we are going to beat you on this. [laughter] a little friendly competition never hurt anyone, right . Hopefully San Francisco will be the first so its a privilege to continue to move forward. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this discussion. [gavel] [applause] madam clerk, is there any other business before this body . Theres no further business. Supervisor fewer all right, we are adjourned. Thank you. You. Today, i wanted to kickoff and welcome you to the first every family well forum clapping. compromising is carmen chu currently which this of the family forum we put this event dough went to a lot of Community Meetings and were he and she about families worries and troubles aaron planning for the future and ahsha safai for buying a home and college and retirement and for many of the seniors how to passing on their prompts to their kids. The family Forum Benefits throughout San Francisco im supervisor norman yee representing district 7 people are homeowners fritter buyers and they dont thinks the planning. What youll notice if you walk around todays activities multiple languages transactions available for people in the seminars and 101 counseling and the today, we not only have vendors that have come here the seminars where people are lining about important topics was of most unique pieces we have oneonone free counseling for people so important that people understand about taxes and how you transfer your assets to our next generation because we do it wrong as you may know to lose much money. We did if grassroots on the radio and worked with all nonprofit and partners to get the word out we personally went to Community Meeting to tell people about this event well have a whole line of people that will wait to ask skews im thinking about passing on my property or so glad i can speak but i cannot speak english well we created in first every family forum and hope that will bring a lot of people good information to plan for their future three hundred people signed up for 101 counterand we so hope that is a model for success for the future and hope to do more if we learn from this one to be betterthis. Welcome to the february 1, 2018, special meeting of the rules committee. Im chairman safai, and normal yee, and kathryn stefani, and victor, and i would like to thank you sfgov tv for staffing this meeting. Supervisor yee make sure to silence all cell phones and electronics devices, and all documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted on will appear on the february 13th, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Clerk item number one, term ending october 19, 2019, to the eastern neighborhood citizen advisory committee. Supervisor safai thank you. Unless any initial comments from the committee, i dont believe, do we have anyone from supervisor cohens office great. Identify yourself. Thank you, chair safai and members of the committee. Im a legislative aid to supervisor cohen. Requesting the committee confirm the reappointment of irma lewis to seat two, the eastern neighborhood citizens advisory committee. Miss lewis was appointed a few months ago by this body t serve out the remainder of a term and up for reappointment. Miss lewis has been an active member of the dog patch community, working with our office on the cushioning process and in particular, advocating for green spaces. And toes and paws, for more dog friendly infrastructure in a growing neighborhood. Supervisor cohen is grateful to miss lewis for continued involvement and asks for your support in that reappointment. Supervisor safai any questions from Committee Members . Seeing none. So well just, i guess, before we do both at the same time before we do Public Comment . Great. Call up the second person, and who is actually here today, jolene yee. Good afternoon, supervisors, my name is jolene yee, i brought my son and husband along, too, atlas and jeff. I am very excited for the opportunity to serve on the eastern encac. My background, ive been working the last 4 or 5 years advocating for friends of franklin square, its a park at 17th and bryant street, and actually, i had an opportunity to go to one of the encac meetings to advocate, and able to successfully get some funding from them, thats the experience with the committee. Im just very excited for this chance because its something that ive wanted to do is continue my work in Public Policy and also to just represent the voices of young families in the neighborhood. I have two young boys, atlas, who goes to a preschool in the dog patch area, and my other son, paxon, eight, goes to c clarendon, elementary school. And experience of a young Family Member in San Francisco and i would like to advocate for the changes that we would like to see. Any questions . Supervisor safai questions from Committee Members . Supervisor yee. Supervisor yee who is your supervisor, what district are you in . District ten. Supervisor yee have you spoken to supervisor cohen . Yes. Supervisor yee she supporting you . Is there a letter or anything . I can give it to you. Supervisor yee i dont see it in the package. Is it in here . Thats ok, i mean, i trust you, as you said you have a letter. Sorry, i thought they had given all the paperwork. Can i just walk up to you . I have it, i have it. Supervisor yee my fault, i didnt see it. I just showed it to him. Very direct and to the point. They have the documents. And this is from sorry, i thought they forwarded it. Oh, they have this, ok. Is this the original . You can have it, its a copy. Thank you. Sure. Supervisor yee wonderful. And you know, just, i was not picking on you, just more or less, i like to know that you are in a particular district that your District Supervisor would be supportive. So, thats why i asked. Supervisor safai any other questions from Committee Members . I dont have any myself. Thank you for your Public Service on this important committee. We will go ahead and take Public Comments. Any members of the public that wish to come forward and comment on this item, you have two minutes. Clearly state your name. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] supervisor yee ill make a motion to appoint irma lewis to seat two and jolene yee to seat three, and pass it on to committee with positive recommendations for the board and i would like to say thank you for someone that actually has Young Children that want to step up and be part of the community. Supervisor safai yes. Ill second that, being a parent of two small children. Appreciate your commitment, and its really important, a lot of work that has been done over the last decade and a half on the eastern neighborhoods. We are still seeing the impact of that work in many different categories, child care, Affordable Housing, infrastructure improvements. To take that and participate in that commitment is very important. I need to entertain a motion for a fiveminute recess. Thank you. And well can we adopt this . After you adopt the motion. So the motion was first and seconded without objection. Well send it to the full board with full recommendation. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Appreciate the recess, so welcome back. Well go to item number two. Clerk item two, Charter Amendment to amend the charter of the city and county of San Francisco to authorize the Public Utilities commission to issue revenue bond for Power Facilities, twothirds vote of the board of supervisors and scope of the water and clean water utilities. Supervisor safai great. Thank you. So, unless there is any initial comments from the committee, we were going to have, i believe we had sonny angulo, on the way back after the recess. Maybe we can have the folks from the p. C. Come forward and address the committee. I know we made an amendment last night and maybe you can give us an update and when she comes we can have her speak on that as well. Happy to. Barbara hale, assistant general manager for power at the p. U. C. What you have before you is an amendment, ill cut to chase on the amendment. I understand thats what you want me to talk about. And this amendment you can give the public a background. Great, great. Summary and then so this Charter Amendment would allow the Public Utilities commission to issue Revenue Bonds for facilities that are needed to produce and deliver clean energy. Only when the facilities have come before the board of supervisors and received a twothirds vote for approval to be funded through a revenue bond. Supervisor safai i have a question. Right now you all do, you do bonding. We do. Supervisor safai but its not bonding specific to clean energy or energy production. Yes. So, what we currently have authority to use revenue bond financing for are improvements to existing facilities. Most of our facilities, our Power Facilities, at least, are not inside San Francisco, they are upcountry, so the bonds that youve authorized for revenue financing in the past associated with power have been associated with those upcountry facilities. So, what this supervisor safai and amending to expand it. Right, so we can take revenue and spend it on new things clean powerrelated in the authority of the Public Utilities commission. The water and clean water enterprises, water and wastewater folks already have the authority that im requesting, that the p. C. Is requesting for Power Facilities, so its the same approach would be taken with the Power Facilities thats been taken with the water and wastewater facilities in terms of how we would implement that. Revenue bond authority, Oversight Committee and such would apply here as well. Supervisor safai what would be some examples of some facilities needed for the purpose that we are authorizing today . On the power side, things like distribution facilities to serve new customers, it could be, you know, to serve them with our clean power. It could be electric vehicle charging stations, it could be onsite generation, other innovation that we have been seeing in the power market that allows customers we serve to take less grid power. Is it all related to clean energy . No, with the new amendment, the new amendment that was proposed at the last, that was provided to the committee at the last hearing would allow, would amend the charter to clarify the p. C. s authority to issue Revenue Bonds for water and clean water, and to the extent that the purpose is consistent with existing law. So, if there were benefits to water, wastewater or power customers, to invest in a facility, that perhaps was not on City Property or was a nontraditional utility use or utility asset, this authority, this amendment would allow us to revenue bond finance that as well. Supervisor safai essentially the main edit is on page three . Yes. Supervisor safai the back . So already its saying water, the way it stands right now, water and clean water, and then we are saying water, clean water and power. And then you specify some of the uses, but also have enough flexibility related to power. Correct. Supervisor safai ok. Any other questions from Committee Members . Thank you. Supervisor safai seeing none, we will take Public Comment. Any members of the public wish to comment on this item, come forward. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] and can i entertain a motion . Supervisor yee send it with positive recommendation to full board. Supervisor safai without objection clerk you want to do it as a Committee Report . Supervisor safai i believe, there is a deadline which, i think it needs to be on the boards agenda for tuesday, correct . Ok. The item has been agendaized so it can be a Committee Report, and if the board is going to send it on the regular schedule, not the one late, it has to go to report today. Supervisor yee positive recommendation as a Committee Report. Supervisor safai without objection, ordered and approved. Any other orders . That completes the agenda for today. Motion to adjourn. Thank you. San francisco is known worldwide for its atmospheric waterfront where spectacular views are by piers and sight and sounds are xhanl changing we come to the here for exercise relax ball games entertainment, recreation market, exhilaration a wide variety of contributions easily enjoyed look up the bay the waterfront is boosting for activities boosting over 25 visitors every year the port of San Francisco manages 7 may have Million Dollars of waterfront from hyde street and Fishermans Wharf to the cargo terminals and name shoreline the architecture like pier 70 and the Ferry Building is here for the embarcadero and a National Treasure the port also supports 10 different Maritime Industries alongside with the recreational attractions making San Francisco one of the most viable working waterfronts in the world but did you think that our waterfront faces serious challenges if earthquake to damage the seawall and the embarcadero roadway rising seawalls will cause flooding at high tides and Major Repairs to a safe many of the piers the port is at a critically turnl point time to plan for the future of San Franciscos waterfront this year the port is updating its marts plan the Plan Working Group to invite a wide variety of poichdz from the city and bayview and other advisory teams to share their expertise if intense and Maritime Operations the waterfront Land Use Plan has guided the use and development of the lanes for the last 20 years major physical changes take place along the waterfront and now is the time to update the waterfront plan to continue improvements that will keep our waterfront vibrate, public and resilient the Biggest Challenges facing the waterfront are out the site an aging seawall along the embarcadero roadway and seawalls that will rise by 21 hundred to provide and productivity of tides seawall is built over weak soils and mud the next earthquake will cause it to settle several feet without the urgent repairs that will damage the promenade and other things weve been fortunate over the last hundred years less than one foot of seawall over the next hundred years Scientists Say well have 6 feet of seawall rise imagine the pier 30 32 will be floated, the embarcadero will be flooded our Transportation System is fog to be heavy impacts unfortunately, the port didnt have the Financial Resources to repair all the deteriorating piers let alone the adaptations for Sea Level Rise. It is clear that the port cant pay for the seawall reinforcement or deal with the Sea Level Rise on its own needs to raise money to take care of the properties at take care of the maintenance on the properties no way absent anti funding the issues of Sea Level Rise or the schematic conditions of seawall can be development. As studies talk about the seawall challenges the working group is look at the issues please come share our ideas about recreation, pier activities, shoreline habitat, Historic Preservation and transportation issues and viral protection. We know this planning process will not have one question and one answer we need the diversity of the opinions how people feel about San Francisco waterfront and want to hear all the opinions. The challenges call for Big Decisions now is the time to explore now and Creative Ideas to protect and preserve San Francisco waterfront. Now is the time to get involved to help to shape the future of our waterfront. We need the debate please come forward and engage in the process. This is your waterfront and this is your opportunity to get involved be part of solution help San Francisco create the waterfront we want for the future. This is really to dream big and i think about what our waterfront looked like for all san franciscans today and generations to come. Get involved with the planning process that will set the fraction for what is coming at the port. Find for in upgrading dates on the ports website. ship blowing horn in distances shop dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their showing up and dining within the 49 square miles of San Francisco by supporting local Services Within the neighborhood we help San Francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop dine in the 49 San Francisco owes must of the charm to the unique characterization of each corridor has a distinction permanent our neighbors are the economic engine of the city. If we could a afford the lot by these well not to have the kind of store in the future the kids will eat from some restaurants chinatown has phobia one of the best the most unique neighborhood shopping areas of San Francisco. Chinatown is one of the oldest chinatown in the state we need to be able allergies the people and thats the reason chinatown is showing more of the people will the traditional thepg. North beach is i know one of the last little italian community. One of the last neighborhood that hadnt changed a whole lot and San Francisco community so strong and the sense of partnership with businesses as well and i just love north Beach CommunityOld School Italian comfort and love that is what italians are all about we need people to come here and shop here so we can keep this going not only us but, of course, Everything Else in the community i think local businesses the small ones and coffee shops are unique in their own way that is the characteristic of the neighborhood i peace officer prefer it is local character you have to support them. Really notice the port this community we really need to kind of really shop locally and support the communityly live in it is more economic for people to survive here. I came down to Treasure Island to look for a weve got a long ways to go. Ring i just got married and didnt want something on line ive met artists and local Business Owners they need money to go out and shop this is important to short them i think you get better things. Definitely supporting the local community always good is it interesting to find things i never knew existed or see that that way. I think that is really great that San Francisco seize the vails of Small Business and creates the shop dine in the 49 to support businesses make people all the residents and visitors realize had cool things are made and produced in sa not only did the total death on our streets from traffic collisions decrease dramatically in 2017, pedestrian deaths did as well. Since 2013, fewer pedestrians have been killed on our streets. This is really good news. You know, no one wants to see the accidents on the side of the road, no one wants to experience going to a crime scene on the road knowing your loved one has been hit by a car or sadly tragically killed. This is about bringing that number of 20 from 2017 down to zero. We dont want another death on our streets because of human error, because of anything that we can avoid. If we change our behavior, we change our roads and we do a better job here in the city and county of San Francisco. My ask of the public, number one be aware of your surrounding, be aware of the law, be aware of the street signals and crosswalks and try to work within the laws designed to keep you safe. Look at where we were and look at where we are. This vision will be a reality. We all have to remember that all of us, all of us every single day, no matter how you get to work, school, wherever you go, all of us are always pedestrians. This impacts all of us. School starts again on monday, so i hope as you are reporting today you will encourage people to slow down, to be mindful, to recognize that youre going to have more cars on the street on monday. Were going to have more kids on bikes, more kids walking. Please, be slow, be safe and be mindful. I just want to urge everyone at the sound of my voice to make some corrections. If you operate a motor vehicle, think about it, think about the person standing on the corner. Think about how fast youre driving. Think about the stop sign youre about to come to. Just think. And just doing so, youll help someone live another day. I guarantee that. I guarantee that. 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My name is kimmy, and you listen to me every morning on the morning dream team. It is a pleasure to be here. There are events that i do, but theres events that mean a lot to me. Im born and raised in San FranciscoSan Francisco. Im a Bernal Heights baby,