Fewer, mat haney, and aaron peskin for your support. We who represent t secondly, im introducing an ordinance requiring the Planning Department to prepare an annual jobs housing fit report that analyzes the alignment or misalignment between job growth and housing level by affordable level in our city. This is a new analytical tool that will help us better manage growth in our city. According to the b. L. A. Report i commissioned on jobs housing fit, our Housing Production is out of alignment for job growth for low and moderate income workers, and we are failing miserably at meeting the housing requirements for low and middle class income households. Planning commissioners have been asking for this data for years, and we need jobs housing fit data every time the Planning Commission and the board of supervisors consider a Major Development projector area plan. Jobs housing fit data will allow us to make better Economic Policy and land use decisions. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen thank you. Sorry. Colleagues, today, im introducing a resolution urging the state of california to rescind or amend new department of Health Care Service medical policy regarding feeforservice covering medical prescriptions. A new drug policy now reimburses pharmacies at a much lower rate than what they pay for the specialty drugs that treat complicated conditions, including psychiatric conditions, hiv and hepatitis. Honest and hard working pharmacies are being completely bankrupted by these changes. It has become financially infeasible for their to continue providing services to vulnerable patient populations who depend on them to access life saving medications and care. According to the california pharmacists association, a pharmacist providing a medical patient with a certain skrits i cant drug will loose 533. 38 per patient per year. A pharmacist providing another drug will lose over 600 per year. It is also demanding that pharmacies payback the higher reimbursement rates that they received over the twoyear period. They policies are mis these policies are misguiding, theyre wrong, and they make it more difficult for patients to access the help they desperately need. These are patients who are living with hiv and aids, who are dealing with Mental Health on the streets, and they need our help. Colleagues, through this resolution, we will urge the governor of california and the state department of Health Care Services to rescind or amend this damaging policy on fee r feeforservice pharmacy benefits. And i want to thank supervisors mandelman, haney, and brown for cosponsoring this resolution. Secondly, colleagues, i wanted to talk about a request that i made to the City Attorneys Office to draft legislation addressing, you know, a small response to our air quality emergency. I should have talked to our bay area air Quality Management district appointees before, as well, but i will ask supervisors mar and walton to update you about this. It kind of came together at the last month. A year ago, San Francisco suffered the worst air quality ever. So far, this year hasnt been as bad as last year for us, but the fires are still raging. My heart goes out to the neighbors in the north and the east, and im proud that San Francisco has stepped up to provide aid that president yee just spoke about. And as we wait for our heroic firefighters to get control of the situation and youre like me, youre obsessively checking now air. Gov, to see if youll see more healthy conditions, we unfortunately have to recognize that this is going to be our new normal and we have to get ready. The report by the department of Emergency Management task force assembled over last years wildfire hasnt yet been shared publicly, but the advance preview disclosed that medical professionals have found and this is what weve heard that masks and even the n95 ones that so many people are using, to not only be inadequate, but potentially dangerous, especially for children, and misleading for adults that more likely than not are using them incorrectly. Instead, theyre advising people that the best option is to stay indoors with the windows and doors closed, and preferably in a room with a hepa filter. But the reality is for many families, this advice will not work. We cannot close schools for every single bad air day. Many families and seniors cannot afford to purchase individual air purefiers. While we propose more longrange solutions and improve ventilation systems more over time, we should not wait to implement strategies. We must find ways to slow and reverse Climate Change impacts. Lets make sure that we are taking proactive actions to keep children and seniors as safe as we can. Ive asked the board of supervisors to provide legislation to buy and provide portable hepa filters for all schools in San Francisco and for all Senior Centers. They are easy to use, they will minimize the Health Impacts affecting children and seniors. Additionally because weve learned that heat is of greater danger to children and seniors, we will learn the feasibility of installing air conditioning in Senior Centers. Additionally, im requesting the budget and legislative analysts to provide the costs of air conditioning and particular ventilation in shelters and city centers so we can determine the best ways to keep our unhoused neighbors safe. We must continue to look for long range solutions, but this is a practical, feasible and quickly implementable step that we can take to be ready for the next emergency. Unfortunately, as we know, our School District is struggling to even pay their teachers a living wage, so getting these filters in every single classroom is not something that the School District can afford. Thats where im asking us as a city to step up and pay for these air filters in every single Public School classroom. What we also learned from the Health Center is if we create cooling centers at places that people dont regularly go to, they wont use them. So its incredibly expensive, and people wont use them. Whereas we know that kids are spending close to seven hours a day in every single classroom throughout San Francisco, and we know that seniors use Senior Centers on a daily basis. Thats such an easy way to provide them clean air for the seven to eight hours theyre there. Its a Harm Reduction strategy, and we should use it. And the rest, i will submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor. Supervisor safai. Thank you. Supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, ilast week, during or Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee, we heard from the San FranciscoPolice Department to hire civilian staff in order to employ more officers to important duties. Last year we budgeted 25 duties for police civilianization with the expectation they would be hired by april 2019. During last weeks hearing, we learned of the 25 positions, only 13 were filled. The others were held up in the lengthy hiring and classification process. I know that the Police Department is not the only department to face these kinds of issues. Between now and the hearing, i will be working with all our First Responder departments including police, fire, the department of Emergency Management, and the department of Public Health to understand which positions most urgently need to be filled because of the Public Health and safety position they provide. I want to learn what obstacles the Department Face in doing so. As a former department head, i know that we have many rules that we need to follow when it comes to hiring, but i also know that positions that relate to Public Safety and health need to be filled as expeditiously as possible. Performance standards arent met when critical positions arent filled and the public expectations arent being met. The residents of this city can feel it when they leave these positions open too long. We all need to feel the same sense of urgency around these positions as our constituents feel. Specifically, i want to know how long it takes to create a new classification for these positions, and what restrictions or obstacles that are in place that prevent hiring in these positions. I want to compare our position to other cities and to understand how we can improve. The purpose of this hearing will be to try and find ways to prioritize those positions we know are necessary to ensure the Public Health and safety of our city. Id like to thank president yee and supervisor mandelman for cosponsoring this hearing with me. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor. Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor. And mr. President , that concludes the introduction of new business. President yee thank you, madam clerk, before we move to the next item, could i have a motion to excuse supervisor brown . Made by supervisor ronen and seconded by supervisor peskin . Without any objection, then, she is excused. Madam clerk, lets go to Public Comment. Clerk its now time for the public to address the entire board of supervisors. Youll each have up to two minutes. You can comment on the minutes, you can comment on the item, item 34 on the adoption without reference to committee, and other items that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board but that are not scheduled on todays agenda. If youll direct your remarks to the board as a whole and not to individual members. If you would like to display a document on the overhead projector, just place the document under the projector and remove it when youd like to resume life coverage live coverage of the meeting. President yee okay. Lets get started. Hi. Im a second year pharmacy student at university of california San Francisco and i wanted to thank supervisor ronen for the resolution that she had addressed regarding reimburse policies . A lot of pharmacies are suffering right now and losing a lot of money to provide essential drugs . In addition, theres a lot of loopholes that we must go through to provide patients with the correct drugs, especially with medical . Many patients that ive seen have to get prior authorizations every year or twice a year where they must go sometimes about four to six weeks without getting their drugs due to waiting for the insurance to approve it . And these insurance and drug manufacturers make billions of dollars on these drugs but pharmacies who help medicare patients cant stay open, okay . Thank you. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My names kathrin. Im also a secondyear pharmacy stu student. Since im at ucsf, one of our mission values is to care and heel for our patients heal for our patients and its difficult to do this when the pharmacies are not equipped to payback, like, for these medications, and its hard for them to provide these medications to vulnerable populations such as people with hiv and Mental Illness, so thank you for that. President yee thank you very much. Next speaker. Hello. My name is marina gabriel. Im a transgender. I wa transgender woman living here in San Francisco. I want to thank all of you. We have a real crisis in hate crimes against sex and gender minorities in the state of california and within the city and county. Reported hate crimes are up 30 in the state of california from 2018. Thats a significant and dangerous increase that targets vulnerable communities like the lgbtqia community. I am forming a nascent coalition, and we would like to advance legislation to have an ordinance passed that will protect women as well as Migrant Workers from human trafficking, hate speech, intimidation, harassment and provocation under city and county law. I would ask the board of supervisors to consider individually per office and district whether or not they would be willing to sponsor such a bill, which is under development. Again, my name is emma gabriel. I will return next time with representatives from the coalition, and i want to thank you very much. President yee thank you. Next speaker . Linda chapman from nob hill. The subject that i need to address to you is the special victims of the Police Department whose only function seems to be to create special victims. But first, with respect, i want to say when ive tried in the past six months to contact supervisors offices, whether its my own or sponsors for the shortterm rental thing, im astonished. It used to be possible to communicate with supervisors. All i hear is send us an email, which when i it reminds me of when women would talk about their first date, and the guy would say ill call you, you know . Thats the impression i get, and it certainly has been happening elsewhere. All right. So ill have to come back to talk to you about this, but the Police Commission actually gave directions to the police chief and his others there to do something, to respond, to reopen the investigation of the jewish home where a danger to life is occurring. I bring this to you now because of your interest in laguna honda because it is a worse situation there. The people at jewish home are equally helpless, equally unable to complain, but i was there for physical therapy, and the nurse was so compulsive that it didnt even occur to her that she should be concerned about the stranger. So i will be back to talk with you because the police has done less than nothing. The d. A. S office is trying to figure out what to do because they couldnt get a Police Investigation railroaeport. All in all, this is a danger president yee thank you. Next speaker . My name is my name is sarah greenwald, and i am a San Francisco resident representing the San Francisco emergency climate coalition. We urged the inclusion in the 2020 reach code of a requirement that all new construction be electric ready. Thank you. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. How does it feel when the Mayors Office does not help with the Mental Illness in pushing forward to building hospitals . How does it feel when you dont get support for something that youre doing thats right that really is the basis of what were all about . We come in here over and over, and its amazing, the similitude between us. We are all fighting for the same thing, but the people of San Francisco just dont see enough action. We do not want to talk with the sfmta because they are the ones that have got us in this mess, and we did turn down an appointment with kay turand this week, which we are meeting with her next friday. We dont want crumbs. We want what we deserve. I paid almost 10,000 in interest last year. Not only did i pay enough money, but i would have come up for my free medallion by now. We are not asking for the world, guys. I personally do not want to deal with sfmta. Theyre the ones that are getting us in this mess. I wish you guys would look from the outside and feel our pain, and ill switch it up. Lets not settle banks, lets settle the people of San Francisco that are picking this up. We might not be here to bail out San Francisco and pick up people if you guys do not support us now. We cannot wait. What happens if all the tech falls apart and the market drops . Then you guys are going to want cabs, then youre going to want us to pick up you guys . President yee thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Ive been driving a taxi for almost 30 years. My question is i purchased the medallion for almost 250,000. Am i allowed to run it and operate it by myself without the Company Affiliation . I barely make enough money for myself. I pay my bills, and i do not take any profit, and the companies every month are taking 700, 800, 900 profit. I beg you, buy back. If you cannot buy back, at least give us an option to operate without the company so we can serve the people of San Francisco like we were before. Can you do that . I am requesting you all, and we are keep coming back and forth. I know its a long road to purchase the medallions back, but as long, you are not coming to any specific program to buy back, at least you should give us the relief to take these Cab Companies from our back. In april, a Yellow Cab Company kicks me out. So where should i go if there is no other cab company is willing to accept me . We want to save that 700 or 800 for our own family. Why should we give it to somebody else . And the same thing is happening with the insurance. The sfmta is playing very tricky and very fine stuff president yee thank you. Next speaker . Good afternoon. Yesterday, someone from sfmta called me and told me that i had no color scheme. I was stunned. I said yellow cab, and they told me, im not affiliated with yellow cab. We paid color scheme. It includes insurance money. Theyre supposed to provide us insurance. If not, its a violation. Its not my fault. Sfmta said someone called them yesterday and said you are no longer affiliated with yellow cab and no one notified me from yellow cab notified me until friday. Yesterday, someone gave me one day short notice to change color scheme. Unbelievable. I did my paperwork yesterday at 3 00 p. M. And [inaudible] i am paying payments and for me to allow me to drive my own taxi cab. It cost me 1700 to change paint and color scheme to go to the other company to upgrade my taxi cab. I am trying to pay my medallion payments every month. [inaudible] sfmta had developed the conen us consensus with uber and lyft and never developed a consensus with us. We paid money for medallions. President yee thank you. Clerk speakers time is concluded. [inaudible] president yee thank you. [inaudible] president yee next speaker. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. I was born and raised in San Francisco, former veteran, and im talking to the support of this resolution for november as veterans month. I think its time that we honehonor our vets. I think its time we nominate november as veterans month. I didnt this was, like, mast minute. I didnt know this resolution was on. I would have packed the whole house with veterans if i can, but im in support, and please pass that resolution for november as veterans month. Thank you. President yee next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im george cicada, president of the veterans commission, im here to ask for your support and consideration declaring november veterans month. Most of the issues that you deal with on a daily basis impact the citizenry of San Francisco, but they have an increased impact on our veterans in the city. When we think about vets, we think about the problems that exist, and rightly so. 80 of the vets leave the military without a job, 83 make less than 60,000 a year. 50 have mental or physical issues that theyre not seeking health for. 50 of 911 vets have ptsd. 60 have depression. In addition, we have a Large Population of veterans in San Francisco that have not only sacrificed to protect our country and our city and our way of life and have not only sacrificed so much, but theyre a significant portion of the silent majority of the community. There are 27,000 veterans in San Francisco. Their family, friends, and coworkers bring that number up to over 100,000. Two thirds of these veterans feel the public doesnt understand the sacrifice they made and 80 feel the public doesnt understand the problems that they face. So we ask for your support of veterans being our neighbors, the services that are available to these veterans, and greater awareness that the city is there to help fill the gap for the services that our federal government either cant or wont provide. Thank you. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Steve martin pinto, veteran affairs commissioner. Im also a 16year member of the marine corps. I am a veteran of iraq and afghanistan. Also native san franciscan. Born and raised here, and i work for Fire Department chinatown. Speaking for my job, the Fire Department, veterans represent about 7 of the Fire Department workforce, and many of them are still reservists who in actuality balance two careers. Their Fire Department career and the service career. Were a diverse Cross Section of society, we represent all races, religions, genders, and we serve because of love of our country, our community, and our city. After service, many of us return to our hometowns a little bit more confident, a little bit more reserved. But some of them never have. One of them was as young as 19. Ill never forget him. I hope you create a resolution to create a veterans month because of the ultimate sacrifice these veterans have made to enjoy life in our united states. Theres a lot of different right now, but i hope we look past that and realize that we have the freedom to disagree and debate because of the freedoms that veterans have afforded us. Im here to speak on behalf of line item 34. I was asked to speak on behalf of mr. Christopher sparling, on behalf of end power. End power is a nonprofit under the department of labor. Its an apprenticeship that serves veterans and Young Americans through check training and job placement. Im giving, i guess, a brief view of my background and what the empower, which is the nonprofit has done for me. Im a navy disabled vet. I got discharged from the navy. I went home to georgia, and i got my associates and bachelors in i. T. I moved here to the bay area, kind of expecting the doors to be open, but that wasnt the case. I learned at empower i was actually at the homeless shelter in san jose. A friend told me about empower. Maybe a month after me putting in applications, opportunities started raining in from Lockheed Martin and general dynamics. Im now employed at general dynamics, and if you can push it through empower, greater all the way. I hope you look out for the veteran. Thank you. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Tom gilberti. Last week, chief scott was in the chamber. One of the main reasons why chief scott is chief scott is because Public Comment during those meetings, you get more reforms if you hire somebody outside the department. To tony chaplain, i remember him saying after 25 years, he would love to leave his mark on the department. Three months ago, i said trump would morally and economically bankrupt our country on the moral charges. Lets ask the kurds what they think of him. 3. 5 years ago, i mentioned something about piranhas devouring their prey in reference to the Taxi Companies being devoured by uber and lyft. The Taxi Companies were basically hanging out at alamo, and they were looking for some help. I would love to challenge mayor breed to settle this score. Make it right for the taxis and the taxi drivers. I challenge her to come through and be more than what was before. Republicans do whatever they have to take to win. North carolina, south carolina, georgia. Right here in San Francisco, we got disruption in the Mayors Office. I dont know if you can see this. Its pretty black. Where do they pick up and decide whos going to be our incumbent before an election starts . Its unhealthily fy for democr. We have it here at home. President yee thank you. Any other speakers . Seeing none, then Public Comment is now closed. Come on up quickly, please. This will be the last speaker. My names chris mcdonald. Im a retired military veteran from the army. Im here to support the veteran resolution for the november as being the month for veterans. I just wanted to add, in addition, theres many veterans that are out there in San Francisco that are opening up businesses, bringing economy in and stuff like that to support. I had the percentages written down before i came. Its a small portion, but its growing to help out San Francisco, as well, and i just wanted to add that to my fellow colleagues as a commissioner of the Veterans Affairs for the city and county of San Francisco. Thank you. President yee thank you. Okay. That concludes our Public Comment for now. [gavel]. President yee so madam clerk, lets go to what many of the speakers were talking about, item 34. Clerk item 34 was introduced without adoption to reference to committee. Alternatively, a supervisor may require it to go to committee. It is a resolution to recognize every november as veterans month in the city and urging all citizens to recognize veterans in their community with acts of kindness. President yee supervisor ste stefani . Supervisor stefani id like to sever this well, without taking a vote, id like to speak on it, but i see that supervisor mar is on the roster, as well. Ill go ahead. First of all, i want to thank all the veterans that came out and spoke at Public Comment, and thank you, of course, for your service to our country. And i want to ask my colleagues for your support in recognizing november as veterans month. Being the daughter of a viet nam veteran, im absolutely honored to bring this resolution before you today. Before we begin, i have a minor amendment to reflect the most accurate date. The change is reflected on page 1, line eight, and it just reflects there are about 25,000 veterans living in the city and county of San Francisco. During the month, we honor every man and woman who have worn the uniform. As we know, serving in the military is not easy. It requires sacrifice, courage, and commitment. It requires men and women going to the distant lands to as the Korean War Memorial says going to Foreign Countries and defending people that weve never met. I have a special place in hi my heart for veterans. When i was sworn in as supervisor, i told the story of him being sworn in the military and going to a foreign country. His experience is the reason so many veterans experience men ha Mental Health and homelessness. We owe them more than just gratitude, we owe them an opportunity to thrive. Its why im so honored to have organizations in the city like swords to plow shares that provide assistance to veterans. The spirit of the Mission Statement should underpin the policies adopted by the city and county of San Francisco on veterans day, during the month of november, and all yearlong. I visited swords to plow shares earlier this year and saw the dramatic difference their services provide, and its in my district. More importantly, i saw how important it is for veterans to be given the tools to create an opportunity and a community for themselves. We remember that honoring those who have served isnt just about what we say here today, its about how we honor our veterans every day of the year. Its about remaining committed to supporting them and their families in every way that we possibly can. Its about serving them as well as theyve served and continue to serve our nation. Thank you, colleagues. I urge your support. President yee supervisor mar . Supervisor mar thank you, president yee. I also wanted to thank the veterans that spoke during Public Comment for your service to our country and and also for your service to our city. I know that many of you are being ati acti active leaders, not just with the Veterans Affairs commission, but with other organizations like jrotc. I want to thank supervisor stefani for putting this forward. I would like to be added as a cosponsor. Thank you. Clerk thank you. President yee so supervisor stefani, do you have amendments . Supervisor stefani thank you, president yee. I do. So i would ask for id like to move the amendments. So on page 1, line eight, its only changing a number from over 60,000 to approximately 25,000, and everyone should have a copy of that. President yee all righty. Thank you. Is there a second . Seconded by supervisor walton. Without any objection, then, the amendments pass. [gavel]. President yee motion so colleagues, can we take this do we need to do roll call vote . Clerk roll call, mr. President. President yee okay. Roll call vote. Clerk on item 34 [roll call] clerk there are ten ayes. President yee okay. Then this resolution is adopted as amended unanimously. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, can you go to imperative item agenda . Clerk yes. Offered by president yee, we have a motion concurring in the october 29 by mayor london n. Breed declaring a local emergency and in the emergence of the actions taken to meet an emergency in the kinkaid fire and the city shelter evacuees of the kinkaid fire. President yee colleagues, lets take the sunshine ordinance finding first. Is there a motion that finds that this resolution imperative as to threaten serious injury to the Public Interest and thus making the standards of the sunshine ordinance. There a motion . Made by supervisor peskin, seconded by supervisor safai. Without objection, this is accepted. [gavel]. President yee now with regard to the brown act, the need to take action came after the agenda was posted and thus, the motion meets the standard of the brown act. Supervisor peskin so moved. President yee motion by supervisor peskin, and seconded by supervisor safai. Now on the imperative motion itself, a roll call vote, madam clerk. Clerk Public Comment, mr. President. President yee is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. [gave [gavel]. President yee roll call, please. Clerk on the imperative item [roll call] clerk there are ten ayes. President yee okay. So the motion is approved. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, please read the memoriams. Clerk on behalf of the entire board, mr. President , you should make a motion. Supervisor peskin so moved. President yee okay. Moved and seconded, no objection. [gavel]. President yee colleagues, that brings us to the end of our agenda. Madam clerk, is there any further business before us today . Clerk that concludes our business for today. President yee thank you. We are adjourned. In this San Francisco office, there are about 1400 employees. And theyre working in roughly 400,000 square feet. We were especially pleased that cleanpowersf offers the super green 100 clean energy, not only for commercial entities like ours, but also for residents of the city of San Francisco. We were pleased with the package of services they offered and were now encouraging our employees who have residence in San Francisco to sign on as well. We didnt have any interruption of service or any problems with the switch over to cleanpowersf. This clean power opportunity reflects that. I would encourage any Large Business in San Francisco to seriously consider converting and upgrading to the cleanpowersf service. Its good for the environment, its good for business and its shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of San Francisco. We help San Francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. So where will you shop and dine in the 49 . Im one of three owners here in San Francisco and we provide mostly live Music Entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and its not a big menu, but we did it with love. Like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. For latinos, it brings Families Together and if we can bring that family to your business, youre gold. Tonight we have russelling for e community. We have a tenperson limb elimination match. We have a fullsize ring with barside food and drink. We ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. Were hope og get families to join us. Weve done a drag queen bingo and were trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. This is a great part of town and theres a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. Theres a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hanhang out at. We have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. Some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and its exciting. We even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. Its in the San FranciscoGarden District and four beautiful muellermixer ura alsomurals. Its important to shop local because its kind of like a circle of life, if you will. We hire local people. Local people spend their money at our businesses and those local mean that wor people willr money as well. I hope people shop locally. [ ] tenderloin is unique neighborhood where geographically place in downtown San Francisco and on every Street Corner have liquor store in the corner it stores pretty much every single block has a liquor store but there are impoverishes Grocery Stores im the cocoordinated of the Healthy Corner store collaboration close to 35 hundred residents 4 thousand are children the medium is about 23,000 a year so a low Income Neighborhood many new immigrants and many people on fixed incomes residents have it travel outside of their neighborhood to assess fruits and vegetables it can be come senator for seniors and hard to travel get on a bus to get an apple or a pear or like tomatoes to fit into their meals my my name is ryan the cocoordinate for the tenderloin healthy store he coalition we work in the neighborhood trying to support Small Businesses and improving access to healthy produce in the tenderloin that is one of the most neighborhoods that didnt have access to a full Service Grocery store and we california together out of the meeting held in 2012 through the Major Development center the survey with the corners stores many stores do have access and some are bad quality and an overwhelming support from Community Members wanting to utilities the service spas we decided to work with the Small Businesses as their role within the community and bringing more Fresh Produce produce cerebrothe neighborhood their compassionate about creating a healthy environment when we get into the work they rise up to leadership. The Different Stores and assessment and trying to get them to understand the value of having Healthy Foods at a reasonable price you can offer people fruits and vegetables and healthy produce they cant afford it not going to be able to allow it so thats why i want to get involved and we just make sure that there are alternatives to people can come into a store and not just see cookies and candies and potting chips and that kind of thing hi, im cindy the director of the a preif you believe program it is so important about Healthy Retail in the low Income Community is how it brings that health and hope to the communities i worked in the tenderloin for 20 years the difference you walk out the door and there is a bright new list of fresh fruits and vegetables some place you know is safe and welcoming it makes. Huge difference to the whole environment of the community what so important about retail environments in those neighborhoods it that sense of dignity and Community Safe way. This is why it is important for the neighborhood we have families that needs healthy have a lot of families that live up here most of them fruits and vegetables so thats good as far been doing good. Now that i had this this is really great for me, i, go and get fresh fruits and vegetables it is healthy being a diabetic youre not supposed to get carbons but getting extra food a all carbons not eating a lot of vegetables was bringing up my whether or not pressure once i got on the program everybody o everything i lost weight and my Blood Pressure came down helped in so many different ways the most important piece to me when we start seeing the Business Owners engagement and their participation in the program but how proud to speak that is the most moving piece of this program yes economic and social benefits and so forth but the personal pride Business Owners talk about in the program is interesting and regarding starting to understand how theyre part of the larger fabric of the community and this is just not the corner store they have influence over their community. It is an owner of this in the department of interior i see the great impact usually that is like people having especially with a small family think liquor store sells alcohol traditional alcohol but when they see this their vision is changed it is a small Grocery Store for them so they more options not just beer and wine but Healthy Options good for the business and good for the community i wish to have more. Good morning, and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority for our meeting today, tuesday, october 22, 2019. Our clerk is