Afternoon. Were here today for a virtual town hall regarding an officer involved shooting that occurred on wednesday, july 26, 2023, in the intersection of catalina street and fairfax avenue. Before proceeding, id like to announce to our viewing and listening audience that this town hall is being translated into spanish, cantonese and american sign language. Asl for members of our community who speak those languages without suggesting a premature judgment on the appropriateness of the force used in this particular incident. Todays presentation will include details from an officer involved shooting incident that ended tragically claiming the life of 41 year old ryan bluford. Id like to express my deepest condolences to mr. Bluford surviving family members for the tragedy theyve experienced in the San Francisco Police Department. We recognize that our sworn duty as Law Enforcement officers imposes no more solemn obligation on us than to honor and respect the sanctity of human life. We al
Meeting is limited to three minutes per speaker. An alarm will sound once time has finished and speakers are requested but not required to state their names. Sf gov tv please show the office of Small Business slide. Today. Today we will today we will begin with a reminder that the Small Business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions and concerns about policies that affect the Economic Vitality of Small Businesses in San Francisco. Before item one is called, id like to start by thanking Media Services and sf gov tv for helping to run this meeting. Please call item one. Item one roll call commissioner benitez is present. Uh, commissioner dickerson is absent. Commissioner herbert is absent. President huey here. Commissioner ortiz cartagena here. And Vice President sessions present. President you have a quorum. The San Francisco Small Business commission and office of Small Business staff acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush O
Establishes in glenn park was something of an institution. It still is, the grand canyon did i not say that right . I think its the grand canyon. The canyon market. Which i loved going in there and talking to the people because many of the people that work for you and still work there, you know, they handle food and the community with such love and care. And that is a special thing to have especially in a big major city like San Francisco. But more importantly, this body the mta, its important that we have people who are on boards and commissions that have an understanding of what it feels like to run a Small Business in sphrbltion. That understands what it feels like when decisions get made and Small Businesses prosper because of those decisions. Its important that when those decisions get made that you have a voice of understanding, offer reason of experience as a Small Business owner at the forefront of the decisions whether its to move from where it was, where its to tear up the st
I love the city and department and i love being of service. I vow to work hard to work hard to carry out the vision of the San Francisco Fire Department and to move us forward in a positive way. If i were to give a little advice to women and queer kids, find people to support you. Keep putting one foot in front of the other and keep trying. You never know what door is going to open next. You really dont. [cheers and happy Second Annual transgender History Month. [applause]. It is an absolutely pleasure to be here with you all. And welcome this very special moment here in San Francisco. I have the great honor to be your mc for this ocean im jupiter per asa. An occasion that is personal to me and close to my heart. For some context why that is, back in 2021 i wrote the initial draft proclamation that designating august as transgender History Month. I was inspired by the cafeteria riots on an august 9 in 1966. We dont know exactly what day it happened but we do know that it happened in au
Successful road, and we are very proud to stand here with the army corp of engineers. The question we had in 2018 when the leadership actually right behind me came together was, how do we protect this waterfront . We have big areas of the city that the sea wall protects from flood, big public systems, regional systems like bart that has serious risk of flood from Sea Level Rise and so the question came, how do we protect it . We put together a bond that went to the voters and in 2018 to say, we have risk, we have trouble, help us. The leadership behind me made that bond happen. With that bond, we began to work and advocate that same year, we amazingly got a new start from the army corp of engine and say said we will study this problem, well figure how to fix it and if we find federal interest well build with you to build the project and today we are celebrating the draft plan that has come out of that process. It involves 6 years of work, very deep analysis and investigation. This is n