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The most firstclass shopping experiences in the entire United States. If all of a sudden jean people were used to having at least 16 valet and now down to zero, and its this automated system, you reduced something that was part of a firstclass jewel to something it sounds like people hate it. To me this is a major flaw of the sfmta and the direction of where were going in our parking system. And i havent gotten a clear answer from you on how many more reductions therell be. I want to say this for the report as we have offline conversations would you be willing and i could is the sfmta to having a moratorium on more reductions of staff until we can get a real understanding of how this is impacting the Customer Experience because you werent even aware today that over 301 buildings the flood building, just one building, signed a petition to say theyre absolutely outraged you took away the valet system and thats just one building. I understand you made a decision to invest 32 million. But i have to tell you, my wife parks in an operated valet system and i can tell you right now, if there were not people in that garage i would not my wife parking in that garage. The first thing id say to her is be conscious of where you park. You heard people here today say they parked at the civic center and no longer want to. Were reducing a service on the backs of working people. It makes no sense to me. Are you guys committed to putting a stop to this and engaging with the people that represent this workforce . Because i know you say you dont directly engage in the collective bargaining but the Decision Making has been handed down to companies to give them the authority to make these staffing decisions. We want to make not just a world class shopping and parking destination and i feel we want to be that way. Id like to invite mr. Gleeson back to respond. Were talking about staffing and is there a clear idea how many more cuts will happen . Is there in your opinion 16 valets in one garage and they said a certain amount but the numbers keep getting bigger. Whats your experience in the number of cuts that have happened . Theyre coming without notice to us, first of all. And we found no pushback from laz and emco. They seem to be coming from decisions made at the sfmta and when we sit with them in a couple rounds the fast few months we asked whats the next batch of cuts to expect and we get no concrete answer. As i sit here it makes no sense to me everyones enjoying and participating in and you remove that service and people are paying customers for that service. Whats been your experience talking to the front line people and staff involved in going valet . Have may been netnet . Are they getting laid off . This is disruptive to their families because theyre expecting a normal routine of shift and routine of days off to participate with their family on a regular basis but probably more important and this is absolutely the fact about whats going on in the parking industry, at least in for instance, as theres layoffs some high srnt seniority workers and they bounce around through the entire infrastructure of parking in San Francisco. We represent workers at over 300 garages and private sector all the merk office buildings, all the nearly all the class a hotels. When theres a layoff anywhere it has a Ripple Effect nearly the almost 1300, 1400 workers in this industry throughout the city. Its a direct effect. It affects the expectations the workers can have around the rest of their live, Educational Opportunities with their family and other things like that. Commissioner as the sfmta been a willing partner to have the conversation and how long has this been going on with the sfmta . Weve been concentrating on this the last year. Theyve been a willing partner. They were polite conversations. Commissioner not just facilitating a conversation for lip service. My perspective is theres not been any. Commissioner youve been in conversations for a year and in that time have there continued to be cuts . We had a conversation and then heard about new cuts and thats our recollection within the last 90 days. Thats where we find ourselves. Its been very frustrating. Commissioner i guess i can go on and on. Thank you mr. Gleeson. Im happy to continue this item to the call of the clair. And if its not a conflict im happy to lend assistance in getting this figured out for the time being. With that theres a motion to continue the item to the call of the chair and we will take that without objection. Thank you for your testimony. Im sorry that it got to the point where it to come here. Commissioner with that would you call item 4shgs, 4, our lat item. Clerk by order nan to streamline Small Business permitting by among other things amending the health code to align regulation of restaurant enclosures for Outdoor Food Service and restroom requirements with state standards amending the planning code to clarify that with type 23 Liquor License may be used in conjunction with bar or restaurants use. Commissioner i want to continue this for one week and thank you supervisor safai. Any members of the public that would like to comments on item 4. Seeing none its closed. Ill move this to be one week to be the first item on our meeting of june 24 which meeting will be held on the 4th floor because its going to be all day budget Public Comment on that day so without objection well continue item 4 one week. Clerk mr. Chair. Commissioner of course. Im sorry. I did not realize that. Please come forward. Take your time. Thank you, supervisor peskin. This legislation seeks to standardize neighborhood Business Districts and some would benefit from that. Neighborhood commercial districts wont. We have ncd regulations tailored so each neighborhood. Dont throw out our hard work. Its a mixture of homes, apartments and businesses. And we researched the legislation and the proposed changes in the Haight Ashbury and we heard on what changing the Liquor License hours could mean by allowing backyard businesses open to 10 00 p. M. Or 4 00 a. M. Would impact residences would live close to them and mixing Live Entertainment and games to backyards could be bad for working people. Ive been in the arcade in certain areas and never seen anything so noisy. The legislation may be trying to solve a problem of vacancies and businesses but this is not the way to go at it. Each neighborhood has unique needs and please hold neighborhood meetings to test support before thinking about changing even one of these. Thank you. Commissioner thank you for your testimony and well take this up next week. Are there any other members of the public who would like to testify on this item . Seeing none, we will continue this to our meeting of june 24 as item number 1 and we are adjourned. Better. San Francisco Department of environment is a place where climate hits the street. We know that we dont have all the answers. We need to support our local champions, our local community to find Creative Solutions and innovations that help us get to zero waste. Zero waste is sending nothing to landfill or incineration, using reuse and recovery and prevention as ways to achieve zero waste. The Grant Program is a Grant Program specifically for nonprofits in San Francisco to divert material from landfill. Its important to find the San Francisco Produce Market because theres a lot of edible food that can be diverted and they need positions to capture that food and focus on food recovery. San francisco Produce Market is a resource that connects farmers and their produce with businesses in the bay area. I think its a basic human right to have access to healthy foods, and all of this food here is available. Its a matter of creating the infrastructure, creating jobs, and the system whereby none of this goes to waste. Since the beginning of our program in july 2016 to date, weve donated over 1 Million Pounds of produce to our community partners, and thats resulted in over 900,000 meals to people in our community, which were very proud of. Carolyn at the San Francisco Produce Market texts with old produce thats available. The produce is always excellent. We get things like broccoli, brussels sprouts, bell peppers. Everything that we use is nice and fresh, so when our clients get it, they really enjoy it, and its important to me to feel good about what i do, and working in programs such as this really provides that for me. Its helping people. Thats what its really about, and i really enjoy that. The work at the Produce Market for me representing the intersection between environment and community, and when we are working at that intersection, when we are using our resources and our passion and our energy to heal the planet and feed the 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 Francisco Garden 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. [ ] the renovation of balboa park, the oldest in the city of San Francisco, and now it is the newest part in the city of San Francisco. Through our partnership, and because of Public Investment from the two thousand eight fund, we are celebrating a renewal and an awakening of this park. We have it safer, happier, more joyous. 3, 2, 1, [laughter] [applause] it is a great resource for families, to have fun in the city, recreation. This is an amazing park. We have not revitalized it without public and private investment. The critical piece of the process of this renovation was that it was all about the community. We reached out to everyone in this community. We love this park dearly and they all had thoughts and ideas and they wanted to bring their own creativity and their personality to bear on the design. What you see is what the community wanted. These ideas all came from the residents of this community. As a result, there is a sense of ownership, pride and responsibility that goes along with what is going to be an exciting park. [ ] i am the supervisor of district one. I am sandra lee fewer. [ ] i moved to the Richmond District in 1950 mine. I was two years old. I moved from chinatown and we were one of the first asian families to move out here. [ ] when my mother decided to buy that house, nobody knew where it was. It seems so far away. For a long time, we were the only chinese family there but we started to see the areas of growth to serve a larger chinese population. The stress was storage of the birthplace of that. My father would have to go to chinatown for dim sum and i remember one day he came home and said, there is one here now. It just started to grow very organically. It is the same thing with the russian population, which is another very large ethnic group in the Richmond District. As russia started to move in, we saw more russian stores. So parts of the richmond is very concentrated with the Russian Community and immigrant Russian Community, and also a chinese immigrant community. [ ] i think as living here in the richmond, we really appreciate the fact that we are surrounded three natural barriers. They are beautiful barriers. The presidio which gives us so many trails to walk through, ocean beach, for families to just go to the beach and be in the Pacific Ocean. We also also have a National Park service. We boarded the Golden Gate National Recreation Area so there is a lot of activity to do in the summer time you see people with bonfires. But really families enjoying the beach and the Pacific Ocean during the rest of the time of year. [ ] and Golden Gate Park where we have so many of our treasures here. We have the tea garden, the museum and the academy of sciences. Not to mention the wonderful playgrounds that we have here in richmond. This is why i say the richmond is a great place for families. The theatre is a treasure in our neighborhood. It has been around for a very long time. Is one of our two neighborhood theatres that we have here. I moved here when i was 1959 when i was two years old. We would always go here. I love these neighborhood theatres. It is one of the places that has not only a landmark in the Richmond District, but also in San Francisco. Small theatres showing one or two films. A unique they are unique also to the neighborhood and San Francisco. Where we are today is the heart of the Richmond District. With what is unique is that it is also Small Businesses. There is a different retail here it is mom and pop opening up businesses. And providing for the neighborhood. This is what we love about the streets. The cora door starts on clement street and goes all the way down to the end of clement where you will see Small Businesses even towards 32nd. At the core of it is right here between here and 20 tenth avenue. When we see this variety of stores offered here, it is very unique then of the any other part of San Francisco. There is traditional irish music which you dont get hardly anywhere in San Francisco. Some places have this long legacy of serving ice cream and being a hangout for families to have a sunday afternoon ice cream. And then also, we see grocery stores. And also these restaurants that are just new here, but also thriving. [ ] we are seeing restaurants being switched over by hand, new owners, but what we are seeing is a vibrancy of clement street still being recaptured within new businesses that are coming in. That is a really great thing to see. I dont know when i started to shop here, but it was probably a very, very long time ago. I like to cook a lot but i like to cook chinese food. The market is the place i like to come to once a year. Once i like about the market as it is very affordable. It has Fresh Produce and fresh meat. Also, seafood. But they also offer a large selection of condiments and sauces and noodles. A variety of rice that they have is tremendous. I dont thank you can find a variety like that anywhere else. Hi. I am kevin wong. I am the manager. In 1989 we move from chinatown to Richmond District. We have opened for a bit, over 29 years. We carry products from thailand, japan, indonesia, vietnam, singapore and india. We try to keep Everything Fresh daily. So a customer can get the best out a bit. Normally during crab season in november, this is the first place i hit. Because they have really just really fresh crab. This is something my family really likes for me to make. Also, from my traditional chinese food, i love to make a kale soup. They cut it to the size they really want. I am probably here once a week. Im very familiar with the aisles and they know everyone who is a cashier cashier here i know when people come into a market such as this, it looks like an asian supermarkets, which it is and sometimes it can be intimidating. We dont speak the language and many of the labels are in chinese, you may not know what to buy or if it is the proper ingredients for the recipe are trying to make. I do see a lot of people here with a recipe card or sometimes with a magazine and they are looking for specific items. The staff here is very helpful. I speak very little chinese here myself. Thinks that im not sure about, i asked the clerk his and i say is this what i need . Is this what i should be making . And they actually r