Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

Coalition for clean air that led to the inclusion of a provision that would apply to zero emission vehicles where they would be charged at the one and a half rate for a period of five years. We did here at the last hearing that something who wanted to that, we want to point out that we want to adjust the tax right. And we could, if the board board wants to we could ask ben to the language in a simile built 1184 provided for that as well. I hope this meets with your approval and most importantly, with the voters approval come november. I am available to answer any questions and if it pleases the chair, i will open it up to Public Comment. Great. Is this the report that we will have. We do need to speak with mr. Egan. We will tell them there is a negative impact. Look forward to his report. You switch presentation. The only thing i neglected to say is half of the funds would go to the San Francisco m. T. A. For improving bus and rail servants frequency and maintaining and expanding the fleet and facility facilities and improving access which could improve reliability through fixing and replacing rails, overhead wires and associated infrastructure and the remaining half would go to the bicycle facility for motorized traffic. Great. Good afternoon. Eddie in from the Controllers Office. This morning our office also lease an Economic Impact report on this site him and i wont repeat what supervisor peskin has said, but i will cover some of the highlights of our report. Starting on page 5, again, this is a tax that will raise the fare and raise the cost of riding in t. N. C. And related private vehicles in the city. In addition to raising revenue, this will likely have some effect on the citys Transportation System and so we have provided a little bit of context to that. The growth in the city that we were just talking about has also had an impact on transportation. We have seen a growth in number of vehicles in the city. A much greater growth in the decline of average speeds. The m. T. A. Has shown the average evening vehicle speed from 2011 to 2017 as a consequence of traffic congestion. The average travel time to work two jobs in San Francisco has increased by 15 in those six years. If you multiply that through by the wages that people make and the time that they spend, the increased times people spend commuting and we valued that commuting time at half of their wage which is a convention among transportation planners, that is a 3 billiondollar drag on the citys economy that we didnt have three years ago. My colleagues in the City Services are in the Controllers Office that do a city survey every two years. Since 2013, theyve asked people about the transportation behavior and this is a chart that is based on data from that survey showing, by different modes of transportation what percentage of San Francisco residents you some three or more times a week and both in 2013 and in 2013. The only wrinkle in this chart is they didnt ask the question about tn sees in 2013. So this is a 2015 figure for tn see. Since 2015, the number of people who use these more than three times a week has doubled. Since 2013, the percentage of people who use every other transportation mode in the city has declined in those six years. The only growth among transportation use in the city has been tn see sins to that since 2013. As supervisor peskin alluded to, the San Francisco county Transportation Authority has studied these in the city indepth, and last year they released a report that statistically analysed different contributions to the citys rising projections and found that over 50 of the growth in the vehicle hours of delay has been caused by tee and c. We are talking about the impact of laying attacks on the businesses and most of that tax will be passed on to consumers. That will hit patterns of spending in the city, and of course, that revenue will go as supervisor peskin said to the San Francisco m. T. A. And the San Francisco c. T. A. At the same time, there is a second thing going on, which is we are taxing a mode of transportation that is shown to create congestion and using that money to fund modes of transportation that could reduce transportation. There is an economic benefit. Unfortunately, the first of phnom Economic Impact, with the data to analyse, and the second we dont. When i say, as we conclude in the report, that this is a mildly negative Economic Impact. That is a result of placing the tax on the consumers and spending the money at the city. It is a fairly small impact of 25 milliondollar reduction to the g. D. P. , which is less then the tax that is raised. We are not able, because of Data Limitations to estimate how responsive t. N. C. Ridership would be to be an increase in fares, although we expected to decline somewhat. The only kind of caveat that we mentioned in our report is about the proposed tax and it also includes Autonomous Vehicles. At present, there are no Autonomous Vehicles doing rides in San Francisco. The case against the tee and c. Is there currently constituted for causing congestion. The evidence that Autonomous Vehicles will cause congestion is somewhat less clear. They miss they wish to make carefully consider whether they want to discourage Autonomous Vehicles in the future. Im happy to take any questions that supervisors have at this time. Thank you. Seeing no questions, we can take Public Comment. Both of you, you have your values mixed up. I will not let you fall for that first of all, your congestion is not caused by the people who are working and transporting people around the city. Your congestion is being caused by the department of transportation and kel tran. You had two bridges that are located sidebyside. You did not have this problem until kel tran and the department of transportation pertaining to this date destroyed the bay bridge. There is nothing wrong with that bridge. You use dynamite, tnt, and explosives to blow up that bridge. You did not have the congestion and after the last explosion that took place to destroy that bridge, theyre putting the tax on the people that are buying gasoline in order to to prepare our roles and maintain our bridges. They just use dynamite to blow up the bay bridge. And about your taxes, your taxi people and the persons that are writing the fares, you do not want to tax them. You want to tax the executives and management that have millions and trillions of dollars in the backs of the drivers of all of the taxi drivers that is working and moving people around. They are not responsible for the congestion. You have a tendency of blaming people who dont have a damn thing to do with the problem and tax them. You need to tax executives whos getting these multibilliondollar bonuses and by the same response the taxi drivers get to sleep in their cars, wait at a location for hours and then turn around and they wont have a place to live, and then they come back to the location [indiscernible] thank you. Thank you, mr. Wright. All right, that is enough. Are there any other members of the public would like to speak on the this item before Public Comment is closed . Not right now, thank you, mr. Wright. Public comment is now closed. All right. Thank you, supervisor peskin. Did you have any final remarks . I do not but i think supervisor mar may. I would like to be added as a cosponsor. Thank you for all of your work on this. Thank you for clearing the way so that we have a relatively clean ballot. I also failed to acknowledge been rosenfield who was remarkably helpful, so i would like to thank the controller as well and then in one last remark relative to zero emission vehicles, mare breed and i have teamed up and supervisor mandelman and i have cosponsored an effort to require electric charging stations not only in city garages and parking lots, but in private ones. I think that will go a long way to in scenting this use in San Francisco. That was on an unrelated note. We dont have any speakers for today from the coalition for clean air, but this is fundamentally a congestion mitigation tax and that is the rest of it. With that, i would be delighted to send this to the full board with recommendation. That is a motion. We will take it without objection. Thank you do we have any more items before us . There are no other items. We are adjourned. Thank you. Working for the city and county of San Francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city thats on the forefront of economic growth, the arts, and social change. Our city has always been on the edge of progress and innovation. After all, were at the meeting of land and sea. Our city is famous for its iconic scenery, historic designs, and world class style. Its the birthplace of blue jeans, and where the rock holds court over the largest natural harbor on the west coast. The citys Information Technology professionals work on revolutionary projects, like providing free wifi to residents and visitors, developing new programs to keep sfo humming, and ensuring Patient Safety at San Francisco general. 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It is a little bit of italy that is happening around you can walk around and enjoy shopping with gelato in your hand. This is the move we are happy to provide to the people. I always love union street because its not like another commercial street where you have big chains. Here you have the neighbors. There is a lot of stories and the neighborhoods are essential. People have they enjoy having their daily or weekly gelato. I love this street itself. We created a move of an area where we will be visiting. We want to make sure that the area has the gelato that you like. What we give back as a shop owner is creating an ambient lifestyle. If you do it in your area and if you like it, then you can do it on the streets you like. The hon. London breed almost. Good morning, everyone. Im london breed, mayor of San Francisco, and im so excited to be here today with so many amazing people to talk about something thats so important. Just this past week, we had a big event celebrating a 600 million Affordable Housing bond that will go on the ballot this november. [applause] the hon. London breed and i want to thank the board of supervisors for passing that unanimously, and i want to say that theres something in there for everyone, for our lowincome families and seniors, to our middleincome residents, to our teachers. We know that Housing Affordability is critical to the success of our city, and im grateful to the board of supervisors for passing that ballot measure, and i am hopeful with fingers crossed that the voters will support that, and we are putting forward that housing bond without raising property taxes again, so i just want to say that over and over and over again. [applause] the hon. London breed so today, we have another opportunity. Today, we are signing the legislation to put a 628 million bond on the ballot to help with our emergency facilities all over San Francisco, and we are also doing that without raising property taxes. [applause] the hon. London breed the goal is to put this on the march ballot, and so were going to have to work hard to get voters to approve this one, as well. I just want to start by that i thinking naomi kelly, and the work of the Capital Planning committee. Because of the work of the Capital Planning committee over the years, weve been able to have a very wellthoughtout plan for investing dollars in facilities that the city owns, especially our Public Safety facilities. And in 2010 and in 2014, voters passed these bonds without raising property taxes but with almost 80 of the vote to support rehabilitating facilities all over San Francisco. And just this year, i was really excited about cutting the ribbon on station 5, which is my home station, where i used to get my toys as a firefighter. Our firefighters and our police officers, fixing our buildings and making sure that they can sustain an earthquake is so critical to protecting the lives of our citizens. In fact we are all reminded from last week, the major earthquake that happened in Southern California and the devastating impact it had on that community, we are reminded that we have to be prepared. Its not about if, its about when a disaster strikes. So what are we going to do to make sure that our Public Safety personnel can focus on the work that they need to do to save lives and not necessarily the challenge that exist with the buildings that house them and what could happen to people that we need to shelter in a disaster. Kezar pavilion is not seismically safe. It is one of the facilities that could qualify for additional revenues so that if necessary, we can use that as a shelter facility in case a disaster hits. We have to be thinking ahead in not only repairing the buildings that we know need to be repaired, like park station, which is currently undergoing some renovations like police and fire stations and Public Safety buildings, and 911 buildings where we send our dispatchers, all of these places matter, so when a disaster hits, their only focus is on saving lives of the citizens of San Francisco and not worrying about the condition of their buildings and whether or not theyre in a bad place themselves. So today, we are announcing a 628 million Public Safety beyond for earthquake safety and Emergency Response for the march ballot, as i said. And i am just so excited and so proud of the work that we did collaborating with the board, collaborating with the Capital Planning committee to do this in such an incredibly responsible way. And i just want to thank all of you for being here, joining us, because this is exciting for the future of San Francisco. We know that there are challenges in our city, and we have to make the right kind of investments, not only the issues that we face today but for the issues well face tomorrow. This is just taking one step further to doing just that, and so im really excited to be here with so many incredible people, including the supervisor who represents district 5 [applause] the hon. London breed many of you all know vallie brown. Shes been a Community Advocate in this district for so many years. Not only does she spend time cleaning it up, i mean, personally, literally in the morning, picking up track with her own picker, but she also spends a lot of time fighting for resources in this community. Whether its our Public Safety locations or our community locations, shes been a real advocate, and some of you know the work that was done here, also, the track that was repurposed. And commissioner buell, what was the location over here by the triangle . What is that called . Yeah, with public and private dollars, were transforming this area. And when i served as supervisor, the person who was really actively engaged in working with the community and helping to bring together public and private resources to get these projects done for this community was no other than your current supervisor for district 5, vallie brown. [applause] supervisor brown thank you, mayor breed. Im really happy to be standing here today and to be talking about this. Just a few months ago, we were at fire station 5, brandnew opened. Not only is it absolutely stateoftheart and beautiful, but it is going to be a hub if anything happens in this city. And when i think about we have so many other stations and buildings that we need to have this kind of bond money to be able to fix them up so if we do have earthquakes, if we have things that happen in this city, that were prepared. When we look at i know that mayor breed was talking about kezar and other places, but when we have a major earthquake, and if we think about the earthquake that just happened in Southern California, and how strong it was, but it was in the desert. But think about what if it was here, and what it could have done to our city. I think about that every day, and what i would do if my place was flattened in the city. I probably would be camping in the park unless i had someplace to go that was safe, right . I would. I know the notent rule, but i think they have a cot there for me. I asked them, can you put a cot . So i just feel that its so important that not only is this city ready for anything that could happen, unfortunately and we know it will someday, but we have to be ready individually. We have a responsibility. I actually just went to a fire in my district a few weeks ago. Everybody ran out of the building. There were, like, 12 people. The things they forgot when they ran out they forgot their i. D. , they forgot their medicine, all of those things, and it keeps going into my mind, am i ready . Am i ready for an earthquake . Am i ready for a fire or anything any other kind of emergency . So i went home, and i remembered an emergency kit that i had put together probably 12, 15 years ago, when i did nert, and nert was first starting. My water was expired, the batteries expired, the food expired. Im like, im not ready, and i didnt have the emergency little pack that youre supposed to have by your door to grab and run if something happens. I wasnt ready, and i think about that because i think about what about my neighbor thats elderly, and she has a hard time getting down the stairs . We should be going out, talking to our neighbors. We should be going out, training with nert. Please sign up. If youre not a member, its kind of fun. We need to start thinking about our neighbors and what we can do individually. Are you signed up for the alert, emergency alert, everyone on your phone . Your neighbor . This is the kind of thing that we need to do because it really takes us as an individual and our neighbors to really protect each other if this happens. And believe me if we have an earthquake, im heading down to cafe revelry, and if his coffee machine is working because these are the places were going to have to go to see, are they left behind . Do they need help . I say that because i appreciate all the work in this city that everyone does. Our police chief, fire chief, naomi kelly, and especially our mayor to say we need to look at this, we need to do this now, and being so creative for doing this. I want to thank everyone for coming to district 5. Its nice and foggy here, but cool you down a little bit before you go back to your job. So thank you, everyone. And the next speaker are you going to bring him up . All right. Thank you. [applause] the hon. London breed thank you, supervisor brown. And just a reminder, anyone can go to sf72. Org if you want to get prepared for any emergency situation in San Francisco. A lot of great information from emergency management. Sf72. Org. Now i want to introduce someone whos ae be whos been a 25year veteran of the San Francisco Fire Department and has a very thorough knowledge of how to deal with emergency situations and is why she is currently serving as the chief of the department. Please welcome jeanine nicholson. Good morning, everyone. I love our San Francisco summer weather. Speaking of nert, as supervisor brown just mentioned, i want to recognize, we do have some nert volunteers right here, and nert is going to be critical in the event [applaus [applause] in the event in the event of a disaster. We know its not if, its when. I want to recognize mohamed nuru. Hes been a great ally for us and working with us. In the event of a disaster, our Fire Department needs to respond immediately. Our firefighters and e. M. S. Workers work 247, 365, and we need to be able to respond immediately. And this bill will provide the funding that we need to invest in our Public Safety infrastructure so we can continue to bring the city and the citizens the best service that we possibly can, but especially during a disaster. So thank you all for being here today. Good day. [applause] the hon. London breed all right. Our last speaker for this program before we finally sign this legislation is the chief of the police department, bill scott. [applaus [applause] thank you, mayor. Ill be brief. I just want to reiterate what the mayor said. We have 13 San Francisco Police Departments and 14 other buildings. Many of our stations are over 25 years old. These stations, from the day that the doors open, they are open 247. They have always been in use, and many of them are in need of seismic improvements, significant seismic improvements. And we dont want in the time of an emergency, we dont want to have to worry about whether or not the station is going to be standing, even though we plan for that if it happens. Thats the last thing we want to worry about, so i, too, want to thank you all for being here. The vision of the mayor, city administrator kelly, and the vision of our city for looking forward so our city has the proper infrastructure to respond properly, so thank you for the leadership, and thank you, mayor. The hon. London breed thank you. And again, i want to thank all of you for being here. Again, this is only the beginning. The real work beginning when we have to begins when we have to campaign to get this ballot measure passed. We have been successful in 2010 and 2014 in getting almost 80 of the support of the voters for a previous eser bond, and i want to make sure that we top that, so im going to need your help. Its incredibly important that we shrine a light on the measure that will be going on the march 2020 ballot for voters to support. I appreciate you all being here, and also dont forget to vote for the housing bond on the ballot this november. All right. Lets get this signed. [applause] the hon. London breed 7, 11, 19, done. [applause] hi, in San Francisco were doing a special series called stay safe, about staying in your home after an earthquake. And today were going to be talking about the Neighborhood Support Center to help people find new resources when they stay in their home. Were here at the urban center in San Francisco with sarah karlewski, Deputy Director of spur. Were talking about the shelter, a safe place to stay, exhibition at their center. And part of being able to shelter in place in your home is to be able to find a place nearby where you can get the services that you might not have in your home. And thats what this little Neighborhood Support Center is for. Thats right. What are some of the services that might be provided in a Neighborhood Center like this . Yeah. So, we think of the Neighborhood Support Centers as really being homes away from home. So, after a major earthquake there is going to be a lot of confusion. People are going to need to try to meet up with other people. Theyre going to need a lot of information. So, a lot of what the Neighborhood Support Center is going to provide is that information. Basically were going to be like a hub where people can come to get services, help, information, et cetera. What you see here on this table are a whole variety of did you ever rent things from tools, some walkitalkies. This helps people know what is going on in their neighborhood. Over here you have a whole variety of water and canned goods. Were really hoping that people will stock up for themselves at least for the first 72 hours if not more. I know that i have a ton of canned food and other sorts of things such as water within my own home. And everybody should, but theres going to come a time where people are going to end up running out and needing more. So, thats what weve got right here. So, this Neighborhood Support Center, this doesnt look to be a major city sponsored fully stocked space. It can be a small commercial space, even somebodys garage as long as they have the information, a guide of information, who to call for what, communications equipment, some power, have a generator. Thats right. Thinking of lights and charge your cell phones and so on. And probably be operated by volunteers. Volunteers, maybe members of nert could help out, people who live in the neighborhood that have some building skill could be helpful. So, if there is a Structural Engineer living nearby or even an architect, they could really help people kind of understand what has happened to their homes and what sort of repairs might be needed. Here we are with some of the things that you might find in a Neighborhood Support Center. One thing we learned from hurricane katrina, people really rely on their portable electronics and their phone. We say heres a charging station tied up to the generation. The essential coffeepot. Yes. Maybe a computer, you can check your email with. Yes. We have our charging station here. And then over here you can see weve got a whole variety of things, including the allimportant different tags. So, lawrence, do you want to talk a little about the tags . Sure. People want to know what do these tags mean. Is my building safe or unsafe. These are the city owe initial tags. Staying in your home doesnt require that you get a tag. It just means that you use common sense and maybe get help from people who might be around who can help you evaluate whether its a safe place to stay. You might want to know because regular City Services are disrupted, you might want to know when trash pick up is, if you need to get clean water, et cetera. Also in the Neighborhood Support Center, that kind of information would be available and weve got a little of that up here. Trash pick up resumes regular schedule on wednesday. Thats right. Please mark your human waste. Thats right. So, this is kind of an information center, communication center, also a center that hopefully will show people how to relate to their neighboring communities, what else is happening citywide. And, of course, this is sort of the ubiquitous form of communication. My cat is missing, call me. Exactly, because a lot of times, even if you do have a cell phone, and people do if youre really trying to save some of your Precious Energy minutes, et cetera, or its not working as well as it normally does, it is helpful to have a message board that you can get information to other people. And, so, thats what were showing here. You can see people are going to be looking for their pets. Theyre going to be looking for rides. People are going to need to be sharing resources a much as they possibly can. Another thing that you can see here is theyre going to need to be fair tools and some of the things that people are going to need in order to be able to stay safer within their homes. So, were just showing sort of a gesture to that with all these different tools here. But then also tarps, people are going to need to cover their windows if their windows are cracked, if their roofs are broken. So, ideally, the city would be able to know where all these Neighborhood Centers are and help deliver some of these supplies. They could come from a neighbor, maybe not. Thank you so much for allowing us to come in and share this wonderful exhibit. And thank you for streets. speaking foreign language. i wanted to wish you a best wishes and congratulations the community has shifted a lot of when i was growing up in the 60s and 50s a good portion of chicanoamerican chineseamerican lived in north beach a nob hill community. As part the immigrant family is some of the Recreation Centers are making people have the ability to get together and meet 0 other people if communities in the 60s a 70s and 80s and 90s saw a move to the richmond the sunset district and more recently out to the excelsior the Avenue Community as well as the ensuring u bayview so chinese Family Living all over the city and when he grape it was in this area. Were united. And growing up in the area that was a big part of the my leave you know playing basketball and mycy took band lessons and grew up. speaking foreign language. allergies welcome to the Community Fair it kicks off three weeks of celebrations for the year and lets keep everybody safe and celebrate the biggest parade outside of china on february 11th go best wishes and congratulations and 3, 2, 1 happy enough is enough. I grew up volley ball education and in media professional contrary as an educator he work with all skids whether or not caucasian hispanic and i africanamerican cumber a lot of arrest binge kids my philosophy to work with all kids but being here and griping in the Chinese Community being a chineseamerican is important going to American School during the day but went to Chinese School that is community is important working with all the kids and having them exposed to all culture it is important to me. It is a mask evening. Id like to thank you a you all to celebrate an installation of the days here in the asian art museum. One time has become so many things in the past two centuries because of the different did i licks the immigration officer didnt understand it became no standard Chinese Marine or cantonese sproupgs it became so many different sounds this is convenient for the immigration officer this okay your family name so this tells the generations of immigrants where they come from and also many stories behind it too. And what a better way to celebrate the enough is enough nuru with the light nothing is more important at an the hope the energy we. speaking foreign language. relative to the Current Administration it is, it is touching very worrisome for our immigrant frames you know and some of the stability in the country and i know how this new president is doing you know immigration as well as immigrants fireworks later than you think new year the largest holiday no asia and china those of us when my grandparents came over in the 19 hundreds and celebrated in the United States chinese nuru is traditional with a lot of meani meaning. Good afternoon my name is carmen chu assessorrecorder i want to wish everything a happy new year thank you for joining us i want to say. speaking foreign language. speaking foreign language. im proud to be a native san franciscan i grew up in the chinatown, north Beach Community Port Commission important to come back and work with those that live in the community that i grew up in and that that very, very important to give back to continue to work with the community and hope e help those who may not be as capable in under serving come back and give look at that beautiful jellyfish. The way to speak to students and motivate them to take action, to save the planet, they do, they care and my job is to speak to them in a way that they can understand that touches their heart and makes them feel powerful with simple actions to take every day. I was born and raised in the desert of palm springs, california. My dad was the rabbi in the community there. What i got from watching my father on stage talking to the community was learning how to be in the public. And learning how to do public speaking and i remember the first time i got up to give my first school assembly, i felt my dad over my shoulder saying pause for drama, deliver your words. When i was a kid, i wanted to be a teacher. And then when i got into high school, i decided i wanted to get into advertising and do graphic art and taglines and stuff like that. By the time i was in college, i decided i wanted to be a decorator. But as i did more work, i realized working my way up meant a lot of physical labor. I only had so much energy to work with for the rest of my life and i could use that energy towards making a lot of money, helping someone else make a lot of money or doing something meaningful. I found the nonprofit working to save the rainforest was looking for volunteers. I went, volunteered and my life changed. Suddenly everything i was doing had meaning. Stuffing envelopes had meaning, faxing out requests had meaning. I eventually moved up to San Francisco to work out of the office here, given a lot of assembly through Los Angeles County and then came up here and doing assemblies to kids about rainforest. One of my jobs was to teach about recycle, teaching students to reduce, reuse, recycle and compost, im teaching them they have the power, and that motivates them. It was satisfying for me to work with for the department of environment to create a message that gets to the heart of the issue. The San Francisco department of environment is the only agency that has a full time educational team, we go into the schools to help teach children how to protect nature and the environment. We realized we needed animal mascot to spark excitement with the students. The city during the gold rush days, the phoenix became part of the city feel and i love the symbolism of the phoenix, about transformation and the message that the theme of the phoenix provides, we all have the power to transform our world for the better. We have to provide teachers with curriculum online, our curriculum is in two different languages and whether its lesson plans or student fact sheets, teachers can use them and weve had great feedback. We have helped public and private schools in San Francisco increase their waste use and students are working hard to sort waste at the end of the lunch and understand the power of reusing, reducing, recycling and composting. Great job. Ive been with the department for 15 years and an environmental educator for more than 23 years and im grateful for the work that i get to do, especially on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco. I try to use my voice as intentionally as possible to suppo support, i think of my grandmother who had a positive attitude and looked at things positively. Try to do that as well in my work and with my words to be an uplifting force for myself and others. Think of entering the job force as a treasure hunt. You can only go to your next clue and more will be revealed. Follow your instincts, listen to your gut, follow your heart, do what makes you happy and pragmatic and see where it takes you and get to the next place. Trust if you want to do good in this world, that better. San Francisco Department of environment is a place where climate hits the street. We know that we dont have all the answers. We need to support our local champions, our local community to find Creative Solutions and innovations that help us get to zero waste. Zero waste is sending nothing to landfill or incineration, using reuse and recovery and prevention as ways to achieve zero waste. The Grant Program is a Grant Program specifically for nonprofits in San Francisco to divert material from landfill. Its important to find the San Francisco Produce Market because theres a lot of edible food that can be diverted and they need positions to capture that food and focus on food recovery. San francisco Produce Market is a resource that connects farmers and their produce with businesses in the bay area. I think its a basic human right to have access to healthy foods, and all of this food here is available. Its a matter of creating the infrastructure, creating jobs, and the system whereby none of this goes to waste. Since the beginning of our program in july 2016 to date, weve donated over 1 Million Pounds of produce to our community partners, and thats resulted in over 900,000 meals to people in our community, which were very proud of. Carolyn at the San Francisco Produce Market texts with old produce thats available. The produce is always excellent. We get things like broccoli, brussels sprouts, bell peppers. Everything that we use is nice and fresh, so when our clients get it, they really enjoy it, and its important to me to feel good about what i do, and working in programs such as this really provides that for me. Its helping people. Thats what its really about, and i really enjoy that. The work at the Produce Market for me representing the intersection between environment and community, and when we are working at that intersection, when we are using our resources and our passion and our energy to heal the planet and feed the people, nothing gets better tha just about expensive eat but food for everyone and theres organizations in the city that are doing really good work making sure that healthy food it assessable to everyone. More and more as follows are are becoming interested in upper arlthd they want to joy the open green pace sea know where their food it coming from well look at 3 programs talking ushering agricultural and garden to new heights. So what exactly it, your honor agricultural it the growing food or flowers within city limits traditionally weve been referring to communities gardener that is a raised bed over and over upper argument has a more a farming way of farming. So tell me 0 whats growing in this garden. A really at all plant. In the one of the rare places, you know, people have access to green space 24 is one of the places to grow things like the purple floor. It is sort of recognizing that the more diversity in given space the better not to just have one thing by everything supported each another it provides the community with an opportunity to get their hands dirty and reach 0 out and congressmen with the community in ways they might have not otherwise to engage with one other. Now the dpw urban Planning Program so see how the garden community. So i grew up on a farm in air force base we picked the foods open the trees and share with other families and as i drive around San Francisco i see any trees with apples or mrumdz and lemon trees i can see the food going to waste and brought that idea back to the Department Many of the trees where the fruit would go to waste we origin or crop and pick other fruits and delivery this to food banks or shelters to people who need them. Im here with nang wong hello nang. Hello. I need to understand house this gleaning work. We come and harvest like for example, well come over here this is the lemon and plug it like this. laughter . Made that good, good and ease. The trick is how not to hurt the branches. Like the thing. Im so excited about this. The people are so passionate about where the food goes to the private Property Owners give us the food theyre happy that no of a t is going to waste oh. Thank you. Thank you. Again job aura natural laughter . From backyards to back lots lets take a look at the food and Community Bonding at the free farm. My idea was to start growing food and giving it away. And getting my neighbors to who had space and having a kind of event that brings people together not to run our food program this time around but to share the wealth of the abundance of our welfare. We we