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SFGTV Mayors Press Availability June 22, 2024

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Thank you everybody for coming to our launching of the keep chinatown Clean Program im rita executive director with chinese Newcomer Services were very thankful to be funded by the city we want to thank you, mayor ed lee, supervisor christensen the board of supervisors, and office of Economic Workforce Development im sorry oewd office of victim of crime workforce and development is he the department of public works for helping us keep chinatown clean last year, weve been sweeping and power wash the streets in chinatown and this year because of the water cut back we wont be Power Washing but well be sweeping twice a week one the benefits of the program were able to over jobs to some of our newer immigrants that have not job skills and english for some of them their first job in the u. S. A Training Opportunity for everyone this year were asking everyone to step up this is merchant and pedestrians, children, parents everyone who walks along the streets of chinatown can help were providing 2 hundred free garbage cans that people have a place to toss their garbage after they have the paper or finish their drinks some placed to throw it so for the merchants on the street were going to provide garbage cans so they can walk along chinatown and joy enjoy taylor walk and have a place to toss their endanger instead of waiting one or two blocks in addition, were working with 20 volunteer merchant to help to prove their business to help to get ready for the opening of the street. I. Do solemnly swear. Subway it might be helping them get on yelping or putting the signage of wifi or better memos for people that dont speak everyone understand the memo we want the chinatown to be a welcoming place i i dont want to go on too long we have special guests we have honored the mayor mayor ed lee who has done so so much for our city ill let the mayor come and speak and share his ideas thank you very much. clapping. thank you good morning, everyone. Welcome. speaking foreign language. waiverly plays i want to say thank you to rita and the suppressors and the movement of keeping chinatown clean when i first maintained Julie Christensen i knew sheriffs going to be a good supervisor she would lets sit down and talk about the budget thats what the supervisors do they meet with the mayor the budget represented what we want to do a city for each and in this district 3 in the community i know at the heart of supervisor christensens work she want to make sure theres a Robust Resources to side everything we need to do to keep this area and the district lively, robust and support our Small Businesses, our families associations time to have a great chinatown and she made sure because of the central subway and the construction of the Water Systems and the utility systems were going to be very kind of disruptive to chinatown at the very dense populated area i know the merchant have been speaking to her theyve express the same thing to the director of the office of Economic Workforce Development todd and working together particularly with supervisor christensen leadership we identified a number of things we can do but it began with someone everybody in this neighborhood thomas a. Swifts electric rifle taxes bride in the cleanliness of our town with all the dust and breaking up of the road we want to make sure the residents in the Small Businesses receive the benefit of a clean neighborhood and so how does that work we go to our communities based organizations the smart thing about this and the smart thing the supervisor did was to make sure the chinese newcomers led the way not only are reclean power up but hiring residents from this location to do that job when you hire the people to do the job theres a deeper respect not only the streets major corridors that probably have more dust because of the contradiction but each and every historic alleyway calling names all those alleys that i know are famous to the geography and the typography of chinatown were not just residents live and work and the businesses are there but thousand of visitors everyday want to camp come and see the alleyways and see where the future cookie sheriffs deputies shops and the small restaurants and teahouses ross the unique parts of chinatown has to offer as part of the Extraordinary Center it is that is also where hundred if not thousands of people live i know the residents and the seniors appreciate this cleanliness it is to signal what supervisor christensen and i are going on a citywide basis but begins in chinatown getting everybody together lets respect our community and make sure we do that with the talent that is here i know the members of the chinatown Clean Campaign many of them live and participate in an alive way hats off to the to supervisor christensen to make sure that as a priority in here approach to the budget in district 3 and always thinking about the residents of chp and all the district and areas in district 3 but at the same time the Newcomer Service for the incredible work to help your gun points be a full pledge citizenship offering that traditional classes and help people and hold their hands to make sure they understand what to be a fulfill fledge residents thats thats the real story about immigration people want to have paths to citizenship the negativity on the National News the immigrants that come to chp we assist them documented a documented to make sure theyre good participants this this is how we keep our chinatown robust and vibrant thank you to everybody that is here today lets go to work ive got my jacket off well work with our businesses and associations to do so and this is really how the strength of chinatown continues to be thriving our government working together with the businesses and our nonprofits to benefit the residents of this district thank you very much. speaking foreign language. everybody thank you clapping. thank you very much mayor ed lee for carrying out the visioning visions for a better chinatown next our supervisor Julie Christensen in the first three weeks on the job she was out there meeting the merchant to find out to how to improve and help out the merchant no chinatown i know every day shes helpings helping us in our communities thank you so much supervisor christensen clapping. so im just looking around isnt it beautiful the flags are flawing weaverly alley is clean it smells good we want it to be like this amendment so im very, very glad for all this attention as a commitment and supervisor ive been spending a lot of time talking to people knock on over 2 thousand doors in the last couple medias and spending time in chinatown in the buildings and sros and talking to Business Leaders the one thing it always comes up i wish chinatown was cleaner everybody mentioned that the pea mayor is here and oewd and public works to flower the fact we understand this is important it is important to the people that live in chinatown it is important to people like me that live nearby to shop and work and important to the visitors that help to keep our economy strong we know that is an important goal for chinatown im very grateful to the mayor for helping me with the funding to help keep chinatown clean we have extra money going to public works for additional street cleaning and steam cleaning i found guys out on saturday and sent them to a particular spot for more cleaning im grateful to rita and the folks at the chinese newcomer for spearheading this program in their great steward and im grateful for the success in getting from programming going and misrepresenting i see the folks as another partner to keep things clean so i think ive been in office maybe 2 weeks when i was traveling with the reporter florpt of one of the things and a big pizza box on the street i picked up when i see trash on the street the reporter is taking my picture offer it it okay for inform periphery to pick up trash on the sidewalk the truth is yes none of us are too important or too much in a hurry to not do our parting the other things about chinese newcomers we have the city that is going a lot public works picks up 7 tons of trash everyday in our city streets 7 tons public works is working with hard and the mayor and i have gotten extra money for extra cleaning by public works in chinatown and individuals needs to do their part Property Owners need to keep their sidewalk in front of their business and residence criterion so Everybody Needs to pitch in i see Business Owners out with their broom and dust palace out thank you. We as citizens do our part but the chinese newcomers fills in the gaps between the programs and helps to provide he special attention so were grateful for their everyone, Everyone Needs to pick up one piece of trash a day and weave will i alley will look like this amendment thank you for your attention everybody. clapping. thank you so much supervisor christensen and the mayor in making sure we have a Great Community next well to invite todd from the office of Economic Workforce Development their overseeing the program. Thank you rita so much the mission of the office of Economic Workforce Development is to support San Franciscos trying cholesterol corridors and neighborhoods and Small Businesses and hope help to train and prepare the residents for good jobs through the mares job and supervisor christensen oewd is proud we have hundred amend 35,000 to fund the new experience o commerce im assessing it obviously helps to keep chinatown clean for residents and visitors and shoppers as well as the city to enjoy and second it provides Job Opportunities for chinatown residents good job training and Work Experience to prepare them for the workforce in San Francisco but it is a part of i think an important Broader Initiative through the mares leadership and the Mayors Office initiative this excludes direct outreach to San Francisco and chinese merchant francis from the office of Economic Workforce Development speaks mandarin and cantonese is reaching out to more than 9 hundred businesses every quarter visiting and connecting them to resources an important parts there the mayor and prioritization were reaching out to merchant and providing the assistance they need, and, secondly, providing direct assistance to help businesses be stronger investing in Important Programs like helping businesses compile with the americans with disabilities act over a hundred businesses through the mayors leadership and the supervisors Advocacy Program and investing in storefront and on powell and brooding and on stockton and finally focused on helping to drive new traffic newspaper visitors and shoppers to chinatown later actually in october a new program were partnering with c y c is focused on halloween and helping to celebrate halloween here in chinatown another important one im proud the second year were doing the shop chinatown campaign to help local merchants and bring more people to chinatown those are important initiatives that speaks to the marries direction to our office that we need to continue to invest in our neighbors and Small Businesses one final point i want acknowledge and thank to rita on partnering in that Important Program it thank you very much. Chp. Thank you todd and oewd next up we have from the dpw department of public works that helped to clean out streets is stephen is he here. Oh, great, thank you. Im here to work how about the rest of you laura thank you very much mayor ed lee and rita and it takes us altogether lets get to work and pick up the trash thank you. Wait do you want to talk about our 311 program oh, great. This is partial i didnt you probably see here around chinatown and giving violations in none Pay Attention this is how peach i didnt informed dpw about the violation and help them to correct their situations. Hello firstly i dont just give citations we is a whole team to make sure that people know of the codes if tare innovate aware thats when we inform them after several warns we give a citation were not just a citation office there are many ways to report things i see and we do ask people if at the see something to report it firstly the city codes as an this is available on our website but 311, 311 is a free service if you have a smart phone you can download the app for the retirees i can show you later if you speak any kind of language tagalog or whatever if you call 311 and request for the specific language that youd like they can accommodate you if you like to download the app it is free and they are different types of indications if there is a pole toppled over you can take a picture and report it to 311. Can you list the things the kinds of things they can report. It is not yes there are categories they can list types of things that you can report if it isnt there, there is a way to do it as well. The stoplights out. Dimpling a you and street lights out an address not sufficient service broken curbs and situations thank you, mayor. Potholes. Lights that are not working any frovrment anything if if is not in the category theres a way to report it as well. They can download as sf 311. Sf 311 is the app name, again it is free it is blue that yeah has the Golden Gate Bridge it is Golden Gate Bridge and says official at the bottom that is good. Really good. Yeah. A great app. Okay. Thank you so much peach i didnt if i have trouble or not the 311 app go to chinese newcomers facebook and download it we also have for the retirees all the brochures we have passed out to merchants to teach them about the codes and how to compile were thankful to dpw to helping to keep chinatown criterion we all have to help expelling does a good clean up and have someone dump a how long bag of trash at pigeons attack it, it is no use we want everybody to help this year thank you and we have a message from one of our merchants mr. Alumni from the boiling trim hes going to be one of the volunteers to help improve his business and get ready for the opening of the central subway mr. Alumni. speaking foreign language. clapping. so thank you, mr. Alumni he actually haves wifi if his restaurants noticing nobody know see about it it smaller than the business cards well help everybody to get the word out to hang out in a place to rest and going to have jenny our ambassador say a couple of words we cant have all our street cleaners come up shell say a few wor few words. speaking foreign language. clapping. thank you so much and jenny thanks to our mayor ed lee and supervisor christensen for all the work just a couple of words from our president of the board

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