Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Public Safety And Neighborhood Services 20240713

Area, a lot of new people coming to the area with different sets of values and different culture. There is a lot of struggle between the existing community and the newness coming in. There are some things that we do to try to slow it down so it doesnt completely erase the communities. We try to have developments that is more in tune with the community and more Equitable Development in the area. You need to meet with and gain the support and find out the needs of the neighborhoods. The people on the businesses that came before you. You need to dialogue and show respect. And then figure out how to bring in the new, without displacing the old. [ ] i hope we can reset a lot of the mission that we have lost in the last 20 years. So we will be bringing in a lot of folks into the neighborhoods pick when we do that, there is a demand or, you know, certain types of services that pertain more to the local community and workingclass. Back in the day, we looked at mission street, and now it does not look and feel anything like mission street. This is the last stand of the latino concentrated arts, culture and cuisine and people. We created a cultural district to do our best to conserve that feeling. That is what makes our city so cosmopolitan and diverse and makes us the envy of the world. We have these unique neighborhoods with so much cultural presence and learnings, that we want to preserve. [ ]. The San Francisco carbon fund was started in 2009. Its basically legislation that was passed by the board of supervisors and the Mayors Office for the city of San Francisco. They passed legislation that said okay, 13 of the cost of the city air travel is going to go into a fund and were going to use the money in that fund to do local projects that are going to mitigate and sequester Greenhouse Gas emission. The grants that were giving, theyre anywhere from 15,000 to, say, 80,000 for a two year grant. Im shawn rosenmoss. Im the development of Community Partnerships and carbon fund for the San Francisco department of environment. We have an Advisory Committee that meets once or twice a year to talk about, okay, what are we going to fund . Because we want to look at things like equity and innovative projects. I heard about the carbon fund because i used to work for the department of environment. Im a School Education team. My name is marcus major. Im a Founding Member of Climate Action now. We started in 2011. Our main goal it to remove carbon in the public rightofway on sidewalks to build educational gardens that teach people with climate change. If its a greening grant, 75 of the grant has to go for greening. It has to go for planting trees, it has to go for greening up the pavement, because again, this is about permanent carbon savings. The dinosaur vegetable gardens was chosen because the garden was covered in is afault since 1932. It was the seed funding for this whole project. The whole garden,ible was about 84,000 square feet, and our project, we removed 3,126 square feet of cement. We usually issue a greening rft every other year, and thats for projects that are going to dig up pavement, plant trees, community garden, school garden. We were awarded 43,000 for this project. The produce thats grown here is consumed all right at large by the school community. In this garden were growing all kinds of organic vegetables from lettuce, and artichokes. Well be planting apples and loquats, all kinds of great fruit and veggies. The first project was the dipatch biodiesel producing facility. The reason for that is a lot of people in San Francisco have diesel cars that they were operating on biodiesel, and they were having to go over to berkeley. We kind of the dog batch preferentials in the difference between diesel and biodiesel. One of the gardens i love is the pomeroy rec center. Pomeroy has its roots back to 1952. My name is david, and im the chamber and ceo of the pomeroy rehabilitation and recreation center. We were a center for people with intellectual and development cal disabilities in San Francisco San Francisco. We also have a program for individuals that have acquired brain injury or traumatic brain injury, and we also have one of the larger after School Programs for children with special needs that serves the Public School system. The Sf Carbon Fund for us has been the launching pad for an entire program here at the pomeroy center. We received about 15,000. The money was really designed to help us improve our garden by buying plants and material and also some infrastructure like a drip system for plants. We have wine barrels that we repurposed to collect rain water. We actually had removed over 1,000 square feet of concrete so that we could expand the garden. This is where our participants, they come to learn about gardening. They learn about our work in the greenhouse. We have plants that we actually harvest, and eggs from our chickens that we take up and use in cooking classes so that our participants learn as much as anybody else where food comes from. We have two kitchens here at the pomeroy center. One is more of a commercial kitchen and one is more setup like a home kitchen would be, and in the home kitchen, we do a lot of cooking classes, how to make lasagna, how to comsome eggs, so this grant that we received has tremendous value, not only for our center, for our participants, but the entire community. The thing about climate, climate overlaps with everything, and so when we start looking at how were going to solve climate programs, we solve a lot of other problems, too. This is a radical project, and to be a part of it has been a real honor and a privilege to work with those administrators with the Sf Carbon Fund at the department of environment. San francisco carbon grant to for us, opened the door to a new a new world that we didnt really have before; that the result is this beautiful garden. When you look at the Community Gardens we planted in schools and in neighborhoods, how many thousands of people now have a fabulous place to walk around and feel safe going outside and are growing their own food. Thats a huge impact, and were just going to keep rolling that out and keep rolling that president caen good afternoon. Id to call to order the regular meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Todays date is tuesday, january 14, 2020. Roll call, please. President . Here. Vice president is expected shortly. Commissioner moran . Here. Maxwell here. Paulson is expected in a bit and we do have a quorum. President caen before