Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

The consent calendar please. Do you want to call for Public Comment on item eight . Any Public Comments on our comments . Thank you. Next item, please. Item nine is consent calendar. All items listed are considered to be retained by the San Francisco Public Utilities commission and acted upon by a single vote of the commission. No separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission or public rate ques quests. The matter will be removed from the calendar and considered a separate item. Commissioners, would you like any item removed . All foz, i dont. Okay. General public, any item remov removed . May i have a motion . All of those in favor . The motion carries. Next item. Item ten write approve modifications of the San Francisco San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Grant program and authorize a general manager to approve future modifications to the Grant Program. Commissioners, steve ritchie, this is an item to make some minor changes to the Grant Program rules. The first of which is to change the name of the program to the onsite water reuse program. Secondly is to expand existing requirements for brewery process Water Treatment systems. This is a new area of water reuse that we are getting into now. We have to make some tweaks there. There will be some minor editorial changes here. And the most important, item four, authorize the general manager consultation for the City Attorney to approve future modifications to the program that do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities to the city. We would recommend approval of the item. Any questions . Certainly going through the drought experience, everybody became more and more interested in opportunities for reuse. In the brewing industry we have had conversations with more than one where they have processed water to be used. Things like that. That is a significant source of water. They wanted to see what they could do in terms of becoming greener. We have talked with them about the ability to take processed water, not domestic wastewater. Treating that, in some ways, so they could actually reuse it in the process. Making beer out of it basically. Because, you know, some of the brewers are our customers in terms of water supply and wastewater because of the strength of the wastewater. Anything we can do cuts costs for them and gives them the potential to use that. They reprocess, its a way of reprocessing water that they use so it goes back into their system . Yes. It is all self within the brewery. Nobody is doing it yet. But we are in conversation. There are proposals that are moving around out there. At some point will it be something thats a part of something they do for business . Yeah, i think the longterm is to be part of the industry. Its just in its initial stages right now. Thank you. Bawsca you have a question, as well. I dont mind delegating a party for the general manager for a it didnt say anything about material costs and whether that would be required to come back, or if that would be delegated to the general manager as well . That would require to come back in terms of the obligations or liabilities. If we were taking on new obligations increase in the Grant Program, or liability issues that we were starting to face we would have to bring that to the commission. Okay. I would like to move the item. Second. Any questions from the public . Seeing none. All of those in favor . The motion carries. Thank you. Next item, please. Item 11. Ill adopt revised section g, Cross Connection control of the San Francisco Public Utilities commissions rules and regulations governing Water Service to customers and fomenting article 12 a of the San Francisco health code. Again steve ritchie. This is a lesson sexy, but very important of our business as Cross Connection control to make sure there nothing that affects the quality of the water supply a potential Public Health. This is modification of our rules and regulations to clarify rules for inspection requirements for new water surfaces to make sure that proper Cross Connection control is implement it there. Also Food Development of emergency Cross Connection response plan. Standard plan system means it is not a dual plum system, you can have Cross Connections in those trade we wanted to make sure that that was covered. People actually would accidentally cross connect between the water and wastewater system. That is something that can happen. That is why you have basically experts who work in the field to make sure they dont do that. And then a variance process is being added so if there is some reason that somebody would need a variance from the rules that that could be granted by the general manager. Again, only a Public Health is connected. This is a central part of our program. Would you explain Cross Connection to a second . Cross connection is where there is either an intentional, or accidental connection between a water supply, and some nonpolitical water or even wastewater. When you open up a wall, or you open up the ground there is all kinds of plumbing there. The potential to ms. Connect them, so that you are introducing not Drinking Water into the Drinking Water system always exists. We have careful rules to make sure that that does not happen. Thank you. Any other questions or comments . I would like to move the item. Second. General public, and any comments or questions . All of those in favor . Opposed . The motion carries. Next item. Item 12, approve two Resource Adequacy contracts for cleanpowersf executed by the general manager, between the San Francisco Public Utilities commission on Pacific Gas Electric company with a term of three years and total 26. 1 million. Approve the sale of r. A. Products to Pacific Gas Electric company and Southern California edison in an amount not to exceed 3. 5 million and authorize the general manager to seek retroactive approval from the board of supervisors for the r. A. Contract. Barbara hale, assistant general manager for power. The contract in front of you allow us to work towards compliance with the state of californias Resource Adequacy reliability requirements. These are standard Term Contracts utilizing standard contract form that the industry has accepted that has been approved by the board of supervisors. Happy to answer any questions you may have. Any questions . I move for approval. Thank you. General public, any questions . All of those in favor . Opposed . The motion carries. Next item. Item 13, approve form of Second Amendment to revolving credit and term loan and restated fee letter with state street bank and Trust Company to increase the Principal Amount by 100 million and extern extended the term by four years. May i have slides please . Hello again, richard morales, manager of sfpuc. Supporting the interim Funding Program of the wastewater enterprise. Real quickly, in terms of the background, the wastewater went from a Funding Program which is authorized in the amount of seven and 50 million over seven series. Supported by several high bank facilities. Primarily is for the issuance of commercial papers. The interim Funding Program primarily through the issuance of commercial paper provides lowcost interim funding of the wastewater capital program, which in todays market cost approximately 2 all in. Two of the interim programs, which you saw in the prior site, the 100 million state street Bank Facility, and the 100 milliondollar barclay Bank Facility expire later this month. With todays action, he would be approving a 200 million amended facility with state street bank with one extending its existing 100 million facility and replaces their 100 milliondollar berkeley facility. This transaction was included in the Capital Financing plan that was just presented to you earlier today. State street was selected after a competitive rfp procurement process with six a bank. Their proposal represented the lowest cost responsive proposal. The key terms or for your time and an annual fee of 0. 32 or six on a 40 per year over the fouryear term. An option to extend for an additional year, one additional year as long as the fee doesnt exceed 800,000. The bank was selected because of its strong ratings and credit this is my favorite part of my job, i would like to report that state street proposal is there fee is lower than the fees before it and berkeley has been charging for the facilities that are about to expire. By approving this facility we will be saving ratepayers about 100,000 annually or 400,000 over the term of the agreement. Today we are asking you to approve the agreement as shown on the side. I will not to read them. State street bank not to exceed 200 to Million Dollars for the wastewater capital program. 200 million for the wastewater capital program. Sets forth the disclosure question and answers that we now routinely present to the commission in order to fulfill the commissions disclosure obligations when it appears that transaction of this nature. In the interest of time, i will not go through each of these unless you want me to. Again, happy to answer questio questions. I would like him to go through some of them. Its a fast. Okay. Anyone in particular . Went on a pick some of the key ones. Why dont i pick some of the key ones . Obviously i talked about the competitive solicitation process. Once the facility is in place we will post publicly on this website which is a public website Offering Memorandum that describes and discloses the condition of the wastewater enterprise, and the puc and the bank because its very important. In terms of payment, obligatio obligations, they are obligated to pay commercial paper investors when payment is due. If for some reason we cannot, the bank then steps in to make payment. We then have to reimburse the bank later on. In terms of repayment source, repayment is for the net revenues of the wastewater enterprise. The next slide. How much a debt with the wastewater having closing . We are not adding any new debt we are just replacing the new facility. No addition of any new debt here. How will this emphasis this facility impact rates . Since i rates are estimated to go down by approximately. 02 per month for the average wastewater sewer bill. That is because it is a lower cost facility. What is the impact on the p. U. C. s credit rating, specifically the wastewater rating . The rating agencies did read this and our ratings were affirmed. Thank you. Any other questions . When are you going to execute this . On the 15th, next week. Tuesday. The berkeley facility is expiring on the 16th. I see. Okay. Any questions . I guess so. We have something in place of the rate wont change before that time . We have to replace the expiring facilities because we have an authorized program of 750 million. 200 million of which is expired. If we do not replace them i understand that. The state bank will be in place, i mean, we have something that keeps the rates the way they a are . What they propose to us, yes. Good. All right. Any other questions . Any Public Comment . May have a motion . Moved. Second. All of those in favor . Opposed . The motion carries. Thank you. Next item. Item 14, award a Green Infrastructure grant to the San Francisco Unified School District to design and if the project proceeds, constructive Stormwater Management features at Bessie Carmichael middle school located at 824 harrison street in San Francisco, authorized the general manager to execute a with sfusd with a duration of 20 years and in the amount up to 128,000. Do we have anybody presenti presenting . Thank you. This item talks about two elements, one is the design and the other is construction. It spoke explicitly to the design money being available presently. Is the construction money available presently . Yes, it is. That is already appropriated and ready to go . Yes. The issue there is ceqa has not been created for the project. All you can improve is disbursement of funding for design and this will actually need to come back to commission again. Wanted to make sure we werent inadvertently obligating funds that had not been appropriated yet . The answer to that is no. Thank you. Other questions . I move for approval. Second. To the public, any comments . Seeing none. All of those in favor . Opposed . Motion carries. Next item. Item 15, approve modifications to project number Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant r cwwsipse02. Control plant new headworks facility, to remove scope associated with conversion conversion of Bruce A Flynn pump station to an all weather pump station. We are asking for approval for the scope of the headworks facility, because we changed the scope we had to go back for environmental review. We got approval for adding on a new lift station at the headworks facility. We are deleting a tie into the existing pump station. We would need your approval before our contractor can advertise. When you say lift station, what does that mean . It just means that originally the design was bruce flynn is considered a wet weather pump station that was only used one wet weather. The original design was going to convert it so that we could use it for dry weather as well. But then we found there were a lot of problems with that. So, we are going to use build a new station that basically brings the flows into the headworks facility. The dry weather and flows. The pumps will be than they are at bruce flynn. What is left . It basically brings it down the sewer, and the Collection System and pumps it higher up into the headworks. Yeah, so the term lift is to lift from one elevation up to another. Instead of a pump station, they call it a lift station. It is essentially still a pump station. It is pumping from lower down and higher up into our headworks. Also, dry weather, during dry season we have a very small flow. System wise its about 70 million gallons per day, others it is 500 million gallons per day. Wet weather it is really important that these facilities come online because we have so much volume. In dry weather it is all yearround. Right. We were having problems using the wet weather pumps to pump such a small flow. We ended up going to a separate pump station. Thank you. Do we have a motion . I will second. Any Public Comment . All of those in favor . Opposed . The motion carries. The last item, please . Item 16. Authorized the general manager to execute a memorandum of understanding with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency as part of the sfmtas Improvement Project for a total estimated cost to the p. U. C. Of 11,843,747. This action constitutes the approval action for the project for the purpose of ceqa. This item is to basically work out the agreement with mta, howard fong talked earlier about these joint projects we have with 15 or public works. In this case sfmta is replacing tracks. This first segment that we worked out to replace water mains and sewer, we are basically taking the sewer from under the tracks, and putting two sewer pipes outside of the track area. This just works out, how we are going to Work Together with mta taking the lead on construction. We have talked about the difficulty on some of these Large Multi Agency projects and how to keep them on schedule. Has not taught us anything as we put together this m. O. U. . It has. We actually went ahead of m. T. A. And we advertised our own construction project to replace sewer and water ahead of m. T. A. In this case, because they are taking out the tracks, we could not go of them. What we have learned is that we really need to do partnering, even within our internal city family. Normally we have partnering with the contractor. We have instituted partnering within the city departments to work out and iron out details of how we were together and if we have issues. Those are facilitated partnering sessions. Im trying what does that partnering look like . Basically team, the project team that is going be working on the project and identifying or being clear about roles and responsibilities and approval process for change orders, and just how to handle the disagreements that we may have and trying to keep on schedule so that we dont delay. Harlan knows as well. The general manager, kelly, participates in the van ness partnering sessions. He attends a monthly, at the director and general manager level. I think that is what has helped put van ness back on track. Well. [laughter] you know, i was a City Engineer for eight years. I mean, trying to put it, you know, so that we can dig wants and coordinate our work. That is something that we, you know, was trying to do. The challenges that m. T. A. , and may be public works, we want to make sure that we have, you know, experienced, skilled people that can actually, you know, really hold a contractor, you know, responsible for delivering these projects on time. Mohammed, who is at public works, and at the time, myself, we set up a structure to put someone in charge, because it was a structure they had before they had multiple people in charge, of the whole project, and then as we talk about sewer, they would have to come to us. If they talk about, you know, water, they would come to us, then if its any street work it would go to public works. There were so many, you know, cooks in the kitchen. What we did, i talked to mohammed is that we should have one person representing the city and report to our directors, we should have the contractor have one person that is responsible for making decisions. Since we got that structure in place we are making a lot of headway, before venice, for every day works, it was a two i was like how can that happen. You work a day, and your two days behind schedule for that day. We started getting involved, and now we are actually making progress for one day work. It is one day less off the schedules the way it is supposed to be. Right now we are working in front of city hall. I told them, you better make sure that you are in and out, especially if you are taking the parking where all of the, you know, supervisors you dont want to mess around with that. And then we helped higher construction manager, lance jackson, to actually run the citys team. I think he has been a great addition. So what we are trying to do is have that model on other projects so we can coordinate our work and make sure that the directors are involved so that, you know, there is so many agencies in the city that you are trying to coordinate. Is not reflected in the m. O. U. . The m. O. U. Does not talk about the partnering. We made out a standard practice. You know harlan talked about van ness and some of the specifics. The other issue i would like to bring up is that m. T. A. Doesnt have as much experience doing these Large Capital projects. They are relying more heavily now on public works during the construction phase. Okay. Thank you. How many years behind is van ness . Two years. Two years before going on three, i think its in a much better place than it was. Any other questions or comments . To the public, any comments . May have a motion . Second. All of those in favor . The motion carries. So, madam secretary, could you read the items for closed session . Yes. Item 19 is anticipated litigation as plaintiff or defendant. Item 20 is existing litigation, pacific bell versus the city and county of San Francisco. Twentyone existing litigation between joan frost and city and county of San Francisco. [reading notes] twentyfour existing litigation city and county of San Francisco versus Pacific Gas Electric. Is there any Public Comment on the items for closed session . May have a motion on whether to assert . Move to assert. Second. All of those in favor . The motion carries. We have reconvened from closed session. They announcement following close session is the following. Item 20 is settled. Item 21 settled. And items 2224 no action. May i have a motion regarding whether to disclose . Moved not to disclose. All of those in favor . The motion carries. Any new business to be heard . I would like to make a suggestion that the commission, and the entire body of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission sent flowers to francesca, in memory of her brother. Any further business . Seeing none. The meeting is adjourned at 5 09. Hi, im frank jorge golden go up a utility supervisor for the Distribution System i offer seizing see the personnel that install water maidens and water Carbon Monoxides ive personal proud to work with city and distribution place whether a fire or main break those folks come on scene and get the job done 3450r7b9 what time theyre here to take care of each other and make it so a safe and secure way i was encouraged to learn to deal with the services and breaks and i wanted to move into understanding how to do main connections one the great things that the sfpuc to move to different sections in if youre tdr in learning a different job you have the ability to move up i courage anyone to step out of their comfortable zone and work on a system as large as a our water system we started from one end and keep on going its a fascinating job and im going to stay here because ill never learn everything to learn about i came to the San Francisco Public Utilities commission as a San Francisco fellow. As a sf fellow i was in Financial Planning where i had the joy of working for a me. Part of the Financial Planning that sets rates. Amy is just incredibly kind. One of the most generous and goodhearted people i have ever met. Having her assume pe as as supes very helpful. This was my first job out of college. Amy supported me every step of the way. I felt like i can do this. I have a staff i manage. We have a complement that joins us once a year to help us. They give them the chance to learn financial matters. Amy would it is for an hour or hour and a half going through these complicated financial things with you, patient. I find my strength in sitting down and walking through the project, how can i help you . They appreciate that. It means that you are giving time to them. I hope or interns will be the new leaders. Amy made should be we were well trained. She gave me mangoes. I went home and ate them. The next day i said i like these. Two days later there was a crate, 3 36 manning 36 mangoes. She embodies Public Service in everything she does and the way she does her work. It was great having her as a supervisor. She is not in it forehead lines or awards. That is making me glad she is getting an award. The huge ilty, dedication and integrity and wisdom she brought, that is Public Service. My name is amy. I retired earlier this year. Before that i was the rates administrator. [applause]. And so many Incredible Community leaders and friends who have gathered here today to support the signing of what i believe is important legislation that will hopefully make the changes in the city that are necessary to address what we know our inequalities and services, resources in general, and we know, as a city we have work to do. In fact, we can take this conversation back to two years ago. Starting with the unfinished agenda under the San Francisco redevelopment agency, recommendations back then of what should be done with the disparities that exist in the Africanamerican Community. Later on down the line, when gavin newsom served as mayor, he agreed to work with us and create a task force which produced a report that really highlighted the challenges that continue to persist in the Africanamerican Community despite changes, despite investments, the same problems that we are talking about today, were problems that were highlighted, yet there werent significant changes made. In growing up in San Francisco, i cant help but wonder, where did we go wrong . What worried the mistakes that we made, and how are we going to push forward the kinds of policies necessary to fix it . One such policy im really proud of that i helped to produce when i was on the board of supervisors, people try to fight is on it, people told us it couldnt be done, but thanks to our late mayor ed lee, former supervisor melia cone, we were able to finally get neighborhood preference legislation passed. [cheers and applause] let me give you an example of what a difference that makes. We know the challenges that exist with access to Affordable Housing. Time and time again we get asked if to support Affordable Housing in our community. But when the time comes to move into that housing, the people who grew up there, the folks so crowded up in their houses and living with their mamas and grand moments could not get access to those units. The first project where we were able to use neighborhood preference was the willie b. Kennedy apartment. Because of our efforts, 40 of the 98 units was the people who lived in the Community Community first. In fact, roughly 23 of those residents were africanamericans from that community. [applause] we understand that it may seem like a small number, but in comparison to the number of africanamericans who would get access to Affordable Housing, it is a big deal that we were able to accomplish this, but we know that there is so much more work to be done because when you look at the disparities that exist in San Francisco, sadly the numbers are clear. High school dropouts, disproportionally africanamericans are in the higher numbers of dropouts and suspensions, but less than 6 of the population. You look at the homeless population, you look at the challenges with mental health, disproportionately africanamericans are impacted by that. You look at access to housing and a number of other issues. The list goes on and on. I get that we are looking at an office of Racial Equity for the purposes of dealing with challenges that exist with minority communities, but lets face the facts. Sadly, time and time again, we have seen, on many occasions, the africanamerican communities lose time and time and time again. We cant just keep talking about these statistics and saying that we care about what happens to this community, and then also criticize me when i deliberately put money and resources into supporting and targeting this community so that we can really provide the change that we need. We need action. We need consistency. We need a change like never before. The office of Racial Equity is really about making that investment. It is about saying that we are tired of the reports, we are tired of the promises, and we need to start putting our money where our mouth is. On this issue and so many other issues. So i just want to take this opportunity to thank again supervisor sandy fewer and supervisor vallie brown for their courage. [cheers and applause] for their courage. For being leaders. For being unrelenting. For consistently talking about this, talking about the need to make real change. The Africanamerican Community may be less than 6 of the population of this city, but guess what . We are still here. We still matter. And it is time we come together and make real change. [applause] it is time we come together and hold one another accountable, but also lift one another up. Here is the opportunity to work with an office to provide that change. I went over my time, but i am excited about this. It is why we put money in the budget to make sure positions are funded. Nobody debated whether or not it should be, and now it is time we continue to work with this office so that policy is brought forward, so that more investments are brought forward, and so that everyone in this city, and all city departments understand that when i say we are going to look at everything through a lens of equity and make the kinds of deliberate changes and investments to address what we know has been a problem, then thats exactly what we are going to do. [applause] at this time, i would like to welcome up to provide remarks, supervisor sandra lee fewer. [applause] thank you, mayor breed. Im so proud to stand here today with the mayor and supervisor brown, and also my colleague and all of you as we sign this legislation to create an office of actual Racial Equity into law. Im a fourth generation San Francisco and san franciscan and chineseamerican. I remember growing up in a San Francisco where there was more opportunity for everyone. I remember when we had an africanamerican population of over 15 here in San Francisco. I remember the time when we had nader neighborhoods with Small Businesses that were owned by africanamericans. This is a very important moments today because, quite frankly, this is one of the reasons, the main reason that i ran for supervisor. I think that [applause] it is so delightful and refreshing that we have a mayor that actually impress it embraces this. We need an interruption and we need to interrupt what is happening and how can we get back to the San Francisco values that we are all so proud of and we all love. When you come to San Francisco, you expect to see diversity. When you come to San Francisco, the selfproclaimed, most progressive city in the united states, you expect to see people of color thriving here and yet we are not seeing that. I would like to take a moment of appreciation to really think my legislative aide for doing this work. [cheers and applause] and also district five legislative aide. [applause] and from the Human Rights Commission thank you. This is the hard work of determined women that we will write this and we will write it good. Historic race discrimination has manifested as exclusionary and destructive policies like creating obstacles for chinese residents from owning businesses the racial segregation to neighborhoods, and the internment of japanese americans and the destruction of historically black neighborhoods in the name of urban rule. Now racial it is not disclosure neri policy, but rather in the inaction of government to address and protect these past harms done. It is more insidious, and more harder to address. We see now incredible Racial Disparities in so many areas of life but also let specific islanders we see these disparities showing up in employment, our schools, housing , and the Healthcare System and more. These disparities prevent people from color in our city from leading lives that are happy, healthy, and economically secure today, we are taking a stand in San Francisco to say we will not stand for systemic racism. This legislation is a critical step in acknowledging the history and the Current Conditions of communities of color and making strong and concrete commitments to address those conditions. Thank you, supervisor fewer. At this time, the coauthor of the legislation, supervisor vallie brown. [applause] thank you, mayor breed for your support and your kind words i want to thank supervisor fewer intimate director davis for your fierce advocacy and hard work on this, but i also really want to appreciate the people behind us. A lot of times we push them in front that have really got into the weeds to work on this. Might aid, thank you my aid, thank you. I know supervisor fewer already thank you, but i have to thank you, too. You have to have a doublethink here. District 18, chelsea, and then Human Rights Commission, i want to thank brittany, raise your hand, brittany. Thank you. Everybody wants to know who she is. And other than the other h. R. C. Stuff that worked really hard on this. They really went deep and really drafted some amazing legislation for us to move forward. I really want to thank all of you for joining us here today for this historic signing of this office of Racial Equity. This office where we will work we will build and work on the legacy of the Human Rights Commission, and it is a powerful tool to break down years and years of structural and institutional racism. Our work has just begun, though, but we cant do this alone, and thats why we are all here today we need the support of each of you to repair past harms and work towards a brighter future. Its all about time, its all about time. I am so proud to stand on this land that we are here on and organize on behalf of the board. When i think about the native American Community in this city, the highest population of women that are murdered are american indians. Think about that. When they say we are 1 , why . This is something that i know we will dive deep into because these are things that matter to our community, matter to the city, matter to the elected officials, and as the years when i was a legislative aide, we used to do policy, we used to do funding, thinking we were really going to help a community, but we didnt know if it would work or not. For me, this office of Racial Equity will work with the community and bring things to us this is isnt that what we want . Dont we want the community to bring the policy, bring the funding suggestions to us . They have to come from the community, not from us telling you what you need. I am just really proud to stand here today and be part of this. Lastly, i want to make an important distinction. Equality means treating everyone the same. Equity means ensuring everyone has what they need to be successful. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you supervisor brown. Now a few words from the director of the Human Rights Commission in San Francisco, cheryl davis. [cheers and applause] this is quite an emotional day for a lot of different reasons. I want to first recognize the commissioners that are here. They are here from the Human Rights Commission. This work, i was just telling someone, it is actually just the perfect storm in terms of how it came out. I remember when mayor breed was president of the board. We had a conversation with james bell from the Burns Institute in oakland about the needs of doing something around Racial Equity. She was committed then and we were really try to figure out what it is that we wanted to do. What did we need to do, how did we work to build allies to move this forward. When supervisor fewer came into office, one of the first thing she said to me is we need to do something around Racial Equity in the city and she specifically said, i want to know what we can do to do better by africanamericans and black people in San Francisco. That was unusual, right . This idea that somebody who wasnt black was interested in doing right by black people was new for me. And then supervisor brown, they developed an Equity Program with the office of economic and Workforce Development for africanamericans in the western addition, fillmore, to help them develop the way to have access to city help. Put money for them to get paid to tell us what to do. When we talk about being committed to the work, i really have a little tolerance for people who just like to talk and i would like to say these three women have been committed to the idea and notion of Racial Equity and getting to the people who have been most harmed by the disparities and putting their money and their mouth where the work needs to be done. [applause] and i say it is a perfect storm because when i look around and i think about Felicia Jones and dante and the folks who have been pushing on the inside to say that we need to make change, michelle and cheryl, the folks that have challenged us, but at the same time, i think about ruth and their work in the mission. And the work that is being done. This idea that we want to transform city hall is not about transforming the work that happens in this building, it is about understanding how the work that happens in this building impacts everybody outside. [applause] so they wont. I am so full right now because i know that there is not just the accountability and the demand to make this happening from happen from communities, but these three women, coupled with the men over here from the board of supervisors, they will make it happen. Nobody here is afraid to be told that it is being done wrong and that we need to redo it. If you want it to work right, you all need to make sure that we are held accountable. I am excited about what is to come and being held accountable and moving this thing forward, and as mayor breed said, bringing the change that we have been waiting for for 50, 60, 70, 100 years. Thank you for being here today. [applause] thank you. As i said to all of you before, as someone who was born and raised here, im so honored to be the mayor and i still cant believe what an Incredible Opportunity this is, but i cant also help but think about the need to make sure that even though there were mistakes that were made in the past, that change the dynamics of our city, in the past, we have an opportunity to make things better in the future. We have an opportunity not to repeat the mistakes of the past and no, i cant turn turn back the hands of time, but what i can do is make sure that the policies and the investments and the decisions that we make now have a better impact on future generations to come. Today is an opportunity to do just that. Ladies and gentlemen, lets get this legislation signed. [cheers and applause] are we ready . [applause] once i got the hang of it a little bit, you know, like the first time, i never left the court. I just fell in love with it and any opportunity i had to get out there, you know, they didnt have to ask twice. You can always find me on the court. [ ] we have been able to participate in 12 athletics wheelchairs. They provide what is an expensive tool to facilitate basketball specifically. Behind me are the amazing golden state road warriors, which are one of the most competitive adaptive basketball teams in the state led by its captain, chuck hill, who was a National Paralympic and, and is now an assistant coach on the national big team. It is great to have this opportunity here in San Francisco. We are the main hub of the bay area, which, you know, we should definitely have resources here. Now that that is happening, you know, i im looking forward to that growing and spreading and helping spread the word that needs that these people are here for everyone. I think it is important for people with disabilities, as well as ablebodied, to be able to see and to try different sports, and to appreciate trying different things. People can come and check out this chairs and use them. But then also friday evening, from 6 00 p. M. Until 8 00 p. M. , it will be wheelchair basketball we will make sure it is available, and that way people can no that people will be coming to play at the same time. We offer a wide variety of adaptive and inclusion programming, but this is the first time we have had our own equipment. [ ]