Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

Working on the event and i want to thank mayor breed and the city of San Francisco and her team for partnering with us on this love our city event. So please give a big hand to them [applause] we also couldnt have done it without our partnership with the Public Works Department and larry stringer and darlene prom, fromand i want to thank all of m fork working with us. Raichal gordan as well. Their team has been incredible to work with. We also have, you can see the signs out here today, im going to call off and make sure we recognize the groups as well. Each of our groups cbd. [applause] our tenderloin cbd. Our fisherman warf cbe and our embarcadero and financial district group. And last but not least our soma groups. [applause] we know that you all clean up all youre long and daily around your hotels and businesses. And it really is a 24 7 job. We want to thank you for everything that you are doing. We also want to thank wreckology. They sponsored our tshirts so thank you for working with us. [applause] a special thank you as we look out on the hyatt region see for sponsoring us with breakfast as well. Thank you very much. If that was designed to bring us to Work Together and partner with the city and our mayor has announced in the last, since she took office, an incredible amount of programs, new funding and new resources all to help clean this city and help make this city safer. So i want to thank the mayor from our hospitality and Tourism Industries for making sure shes doing everything that she is doing. Lets give her a big round of applause. [applause] and last but not least our partners at sf travel who have come together to work with us on this event as well. Its my pleasure to introduce our mayor, london breed. Thank you good morning, everybody now, i will troy to be short because i would love for you all to get out there and do what you came here to do and clean up San Francisco let me just start by saying thank you. We know that we have a lot of challenges in San Francisco. We have far too many People Living on our streets. We have far too many challenges with housing and housing affordability. I know our Small Businesses are struggling. The city is finally making the kinds of investments that i hope will make a difference in your everyday lives as you work in this great city. I was born and raised here and i grew up in public housing. You know, my grandmother, when we were kids, she would make us go out and clean up. She would always say clean it up. Ike like mama, why, would want to clean up. You know how kids are. We would should i look, its our responsibility to keep our community clean. Now here, take this bucket and put water and soap and clean up. You know, at the time as a kid you are like i dont want to do this but then, as you get older, its just a part of who you are. I find myself doing it in my community, doing it where i used to work at the African American culture complex and really feeling good about the investment that ive made and also the example that ive set for other young people to be better stewards of San Francisco. So what you all are out there are doing is not just picking up trash and erasing graffiti and painting, you all are stewards for San Francisco. You are taking care of the city. You all are showing how much you love San Francisco and other people when they see you doing what you are doing, theyre less likely to drop that trash on the ground and actually take it to the trash can. It does make a difference. So i want to thank all of you and all the Community Business districts and the people who are out there every single day. I especially want to thank the department of public works and the many thousands of employees because they are out on the streets everyday. Downtown street teams and so many other folks trying to keep San Francisco clean, green and beautiful. I love our city. I know you all love this city. Thank you for showing your love by taking care of San Francisco today for this amazing event. Have a wonderful time out there thank you so much, mayor. Id like to introduce from district 6 our supervisor matt haney who will be working with the groups as well. Please help me welcome supervisor matt haney. Thank you, thank you. How is everybody doing this morning make some noise if you love our city [applause] make noise if you are ready to pick up a broom and do some cleaning today who would have thought we could call this a cold day in San Francisco. Were glad the temperature came down a little bit but its still a Beautiful Day to demonstrate to everyone in our city we care and were going to do some cleaning up. Im the supervisor of district 6 and i want to give a special shout out to the different communities and cbds of district 6. The tenderloin where i live, soma, union square, everyone who is here, we really appreciate how much you do everyday. I see folks here from the hotel. Make some noise if you are representing the hotels in our city. This is a city that is still a worldclass destination. People come here from all over the world. We want to make sure that when they come here, they understand that theyre going to have an incredible experience and theyre going to see clean and safe streets and theyre going to see the people of San Francisco care about our community. Thats what you are demonstrating today. I want to thank mayor breed for the investments shows made in making our streets cleaner. If you look out there, theres things we can do. We need more trash cans on our streets, we need more bathrooms that are open for longer hours, and we need more street cleaning and deep cleaning and so what you are doing today is not just demonstrating to your residents that you care, you are demonstrating to us, the city, that you care and we need to do more as well. Lets get out there today. Im going to be in the tenderloin and pick up a broom and i just want to say thank you all so much. Have fun. Lets love our city. [applause] thank you supervisor haney. Next id like to introduce our partner from sf travel. We have the share and the board of sf travel with us, mr. Peter gamez. [applause] wow good morning, everyone. This is a great day for us. As many of you know im the board chair and this is one of the issues weve all rallied for all year. This is a special day for all of us. Thank you everyone for coming out and joining the hospitality and Tourism Industry to love our city. Together, here today, we are showing the strength of our industry and the collective passion and commitment we share for San Francisco. I want to thank firstly our awesome mayor breed, im also a native San Francisco an and i completely relate to you how we took pride in all of our neighborhoods and the importance of cleaning our streets. Your leadership and commitment for cleaning our streets and keeping us safe and were very thankful. Were proud to partner with the department of public works. The total council of San Francisco and many of our Community Partners to do tour part to keep San Francisco clean, safe, and welcoming to all. Together, we are a gene that gives back to the city we love and we can not be more excited to work side by side to make San Francisco the most wonderful destination in the world. Thank you. Last id like to introduce the director of public works and his team is a group weve been partnering with on this. [applause] all right are we ready to go to work all right let me begin by joining all the speakers here to thank all of you for coming out to help keep our city clean. Love our city everyday, right everyday the Public Works Department and many city agencies do this everyday but i can tell you, your coming out means a lot to us. You are giving us the extra hands and the extra help that it needs to continue to make our city be the destination where people come and enjoy and people clean up and make our city the most beautiful city in the world, right. San francisco ill be really short. Today we have over 45 different sites. Some people are going to be painting poles, weeding, cleaning, some are going to be sweeping. All that is going to make a difference. The number one thing that when you leave here is, when you are out there, please, be safe. Safety is a high priority. Weve been having these events for over 20 years and we have not had a single incident. How do you be safe . All of you in different work teams and every work team has got someone who will be wearing a vest like me who will be showing you what to do. If you see something that you are in doubt of whether its glass or needle or something in your mind is doubtful, just ask that person and they will deal with it appropriately and they will work with you. Other than that, enjoy yourselves. Its a nice day. Again, im very appreciative for everyone coming up. Lets have fun love our city everyday [applause] thank you. Thank you, very much. Before we close out, were going to do a group picture. Stay where you are. No one move. Just stay still for a minute and well take a group photo. This is one place you can always count on to give you what you had before and remind you of what your San Francisco history used to be. We hear that all the time, people bring their kids here and their grandparents brought them here and down the line. Even though people move away, whenever they come back to the city, they make it here. And they tell us that. Youre going to get something made fresh, made by hand and made with quality products and something thats very, very good. The legacy bars and restaurants was something that was begun by San Francisco simply to recognize and draw attention to the establishments. It really provides for San Franciscos unique character. And that morphed into a request that we work with the city to develop a legacy business registration. Im Michael Cirocco and the owner of an area bakery. The bakery started in 191. My grandfather came over from italy and opened it up then. It is a small operation. Its not big. So everything is kind of quality that way. So i see every piece and cut every piece that comes in and out of that oven. Im leslie ciroccomitchell, a fourth generation baker here with my family. So we get up pretty early in the morning. I usually start baking around 5 00. And then you just start doing rounds of dough. Loaves. My mom and sister basically handle the front and then i have my nephew james helps and then my two daughters and my wife come in and we actually do the baking. After that, my mom and my sister stay and sell the product, retail it. You know, i dont really think about it. But then when i sometimes when i go places and i look and see places put up, oh this is our 50th anniversary and everything and weve been over 100 and that is when it kind of hits me. You know, that geez, weve been here a long time. [applause] a lot of people might ask why our legacy business is important. We all have our own stories to tell about our ancestry. Our lineage and ill use one example of tommys joint. Tommys joint is a place that my husband went to as a child and hes a fourth generation san franciscan. Its a place we can still go to today with our children or grandchildren and share the stories of what was San Francisco like back in the 1950s. Im the general manager at tommys joint. People mostly recognize tommys joint for its murals on the outside of the building. Very bright blue. You drive down and see what it is. They know the building. Tommys is a San Francisco hoffa, which is a germanstyle presenting food. We have five different carved meats and we carve it by hand at the station. You prefer it to be carved whether you like your brisket fatty or want it lean. You want your pastrami to be very lean. You can say i want that piece of corn beef and want it cut, you know, very thick and i want it with some sauerkraut. Tell the guys how you want to prepare it and they will do it right in front of you. San franciscos a place thats changing restaurants, except for tommys joint. Tommys joint has been the same since it opened and that is important. San francisco in general that we dont lose a grip of what San Franciscos came from. Tommys is a place that youll always recognize whenever you lock in the door. Youll see the same staff, the same bartender and have the same meal and that is great. Thats important. The service that San Francisco heritage offers to the legacy businesses is to help them with that application process, to make sure that they really recognize about them what it is that makes them so special here in San Francisco. So well help them with that application process if, in fact, the board of supervisors does recognize them as a legacy business, then that does entitle them to certain financial benefits from the city of San Francisco. But i say really, more importantly, it really brings them public recognition that this is a business in San Francisco that has history and that is unique to San Francisco. It started in june of 1953. And we make everything from scratch. Everything. We started a you we started a off with 12 flavors and mango fruits from the philippines and then started trying them one by one and the family had a whole new clientele. The business really boomed after that. I think that the flavors we make reflect the diversity of San Francisco. We were really surprised about the legacy project but we were thrilled to be a part of it. Businesses come and go in the city. Pretty tough for businesss to stay here because it is so expensive and theres so much competition. So for us who have been here all these years and still be popular and to be recognized by the city has been really a huge honor. We got a phone call from a woman who was 91 and she wanted to know if the mitchells still owned it and she was so happy that we were still involved, still the owners. She was our customer in 1953. And she still comes in. But she was just making sure that we were still around and it just makes us feel, you know, very proud that were carrying on our fathers legacy. And that we mean so much to so many people. It provides a perspective. And i think if you only looked at it in the here and now, youre missing the context. For me, legacy businesses, legacy bars and restaurants are really about setting the context for how we come to be where we are today. I just think its part of San Francisco. People like to see familiar stuff. At least i know i do. In the 1950s, you could see a picture of tommys joint and looks exactly the same. We havent change add thing. I remember one lady saying, you know, ive been eating this ice cream since before i was born. And i thought, wow we have, too. When i look at an old neon sign thats working or not working, i feel the Family Business that was in there. Since 2009, citywide, sf shines, has supported businesses and sites like the ones that receive new neon signs. You know, sf shines is doing an amazing job to bring back the lighting and the neon glow of San Francisco. Sf shines is such an amazing program, and i cant think of another program in another city that gives matching gunned funds to store owners, mom and pop owners, and if theyve got a neon sign, theyve really got a great way to advertise their business. This is a continuation of the sf shines program. Focusing other neon signs is relatively new to us. Of the seven neon signs, weve invested about 145,000. A good quality sign costs more, but it lasts infinitily longer. As opposed to lasting five years, a good neon sign will last 15 to 20 years. In San Francisco, the majority of neon signs are for momandpop businesses. In order to be able to restore these signs, i think it gives back to your community. Part of the project has to do with prioritizing certain signs in the neighborhood based on their aesthetics, based on their current signs, and base on the history. In the time that weve been here, weve seen a number of signs restored just on eddy street. There are a number of signs in the tenderloin and many more that are waiting or wanting to be restored. I have worked with randall and al, and weve mapped out every single one of them and rated them as to how much work they would need to get restored. That information is passed onto sf shines, and they are going to rank it. So if they have x budget for a year, they can say all right, were going to pick these five, and theyre putting together clusters, so they build on top of whats already there. A cluster of neon signs is sort of, i guess, like a cluster of grapes. When you see them on a corner or on a block, it lights up the neighborhood and creates an ambient glow. If you havy got two of three of them, youve created an atmosphere thats almost like a movie set. Some of the hotel, weve already invested in to get those neon signs for people to enjoy at night include the elk hotel, jefferson hotel, the verona, not to mention some weve done in chinatown, as well as the citys portal neighborhood. We got the fund to restore it. It took five months, and the biggest challenge was it was completely infested with pigeons. Once we got it clean, it came out beautiful. Neon signs are often equated with film noir, and the noir genre as seen through the hollywood lens basically depicted despair and concentration. You would go downtown and see the most recent Humphrey Bogart film filled with neon in the background. And youd see that on Market Street, and as San Francisco<\/a> and her team for partnering with us on this love our city event. So please give a big hand to them [applause] we also couldnt have done it without our partnership with the Public Works Department<\/a> and larry stringer and darlene prom, fromand i want to thank all of m fork working with us. Raichal gordan as well. Their team has been incredible to work with. We also have, you can see the signs out here today, im going to call off and make sure we recognize the groups as well. Each of our groups cbd. [applause] our tenderloin cbd. Our fisherman warf cbe and our embarcadero and financial district group. And last but not least our soma groups. [applause] we know that you all clean up all youre long and daily around your hotels and businesses. And it really is a 24 7 job. We want to thank you for everything that you are doing. We also want to thank wreckology. They sponsored our tshirts so thank you for working with us. [applause] a special thank you as we look out on the hyatt region see for sponsoring us with breakfast as well. Thank you very much. If that was designed to bring us to Work Together<\/a> and partner with the city and our mayor has announced in the last, since she took office, an incredible amount of programs, new funding and new resources all to help clean this city and help make this city safer. So i want to thank the mayor from our hospitality and Tourism Industries<\/a> for making sure shes doing everything that she is doing. Lets give her a big round of applause. [applause] and last but not least our partners at sf travel who have come together to work with us on this event as well. Its my pleasure to introduce our mayor, london breed. Thank you good morning, everybody now, i will troy to be short because i would love for you all to get out there and do what you came here to do and clean up San Francisco<\/a> let me just start by saying thank you. We know that we have a lot of challenges in San Francisco<\/a>. We have far too many People Living<\/a> on our streets. We have far too many challenges with housing and housing affordability. I know our Small Businesses<\/a> are struggling. The city is finally making the kinds of investments that i hope will make a difference in your everyday lives as you work in this great city. I was born and raised here and i grew up in public housing. You know, my grandmother, when we were kids, she would make us go out and clean up. She would always say clean it up. Ike like mama, why, would want to clean up. You know how kids are. We would should i look, its our responsibility to keep our community clean. Now here, take this bucket and put water and soap and clean up. You know, at the time as a kid you are like i dont want to do this but then, as you get older, its just a part of who you are. I find myself doing it in my community, doing it where i used to work at the African American<\/a> culture complex and really feeling good about the investment that ive made and also the example that ive set for other young people to be better stewards of San Francisco<\/a>. So what you all are out there are doing is not just picking up trash and erasing graffiti and painting, you all are stewards for San Francisco<\/a>. You are taking care of the city. You all are showing how much you love San Francisco<\/a> and other people when they see you doing what you are doing, theyre less likely to drop that trash on the ground and actually take it to the trash can. It does make a difference. So i want to thank all of you and all the Community Business<\/a> districts and the people who are out there every single day. I especially want to thank the department of public works and the many thousands of employees because they are out on the streets everyday. Downtown street teams and so many other folks trying to keep San Francisco<\/a> clean, green and beautiful. I love our city. I know you all love this city. Thank you for showing your love by taking care of San Francisco<\/a> today for this amazing event. Have a wonderful time out there thank you so much, mayor. Id like to introduce from district 6 our supervisor matt haney who will be working with the groups as well. Please help me welcome supervisor matt haney. Thank you, thank you. How is everybody doing this morning make some noise if you love our city [applause] make noise if you are ready to pick up a broom and do some cleaning today who would have thought we could call this a cold day in San Francisco<\/a>. Were glad the temperature came down a little bit but its still a Beautiful Day<\/a> to demonstrate to everyone in our city we care and were going to do some cleaning up. Im the supervisor of district 6 and i want to give a special shout out to the different communities and cbds of district 6. The tenderloin where i live, soma, union square, everyone who is here, we really appreciate how much you do everyday. I see folks here from the hotel. Make some noise if you are representing the hotels in our city. This is a city that is still a worldclass destination. People come here from all over the world. We want to make sure that when they come here, they understand that theyre going to have an incredible experience and theyre going to see clean and safe streets and theyre going to see the people of San Francisco<\/a> care about our community. Thats what you are demonstrating today. I want to thank mayor breed for the investments shows made in making our streets cleaner. If you look out there, theres things we can do. We need more trash cans on our streets, we need more bathrooms that are open for longer hours, and we need more street cleaning and deep cleaning and so what you are doing today is not just demonstrating to your residents that you care, you are demonstrating to us, the city, that you care and we need to do more as well. Lets get out there today. Im going to be in the tenderloin and pick up a broom and i just want to say thank you all so much. Have fun. Lets love our city. [applause] thank you supervisor haney. Next id like to introduce our partner from sf travel. We have the share and the board of sf travel with us, mr. Peter gamez. [applause] wow good morning, everyone. This is a great day for us. As many of you know im the board chair and this is one of the issues weve all rallied for all year. This is a special day for all of us. Thank you everyone for coming out and joining the hospitality and Tourism Industry<\/a> to love our city. Together, here today, we are showing the strength of our industry and the collective passion and commitment we share for San Francisco<\/a>. I want to thank firstly our awesome mayor breed, im also a native San Francisco<\/a> an and i completely relate to you how we took pride in all of our neighborhoods and the importance of cleaning our streets. Your leadership and commitment for cleaning our streets and keeping us safe and were very thankful. Were proud to partner with the department of public works. The total council of San Francisco<\/a> and many of our Community Partners<\/a> to do tour part to keep San Francisco<\/a> clean, safe, and welcoming to all. Together, we are a gene that gives back to the city we love and we can not be more excited to work side by side to make San Francisco<\/a> the most wonderful destination in the world. Thank you. Last id like to introduce the director of public works and his team is a group weve been partnering with on this. [applause] all right are we ready to go to work all right let me begin by joining all the speakers here to thank all of you for coming out to help keep our city clean. Love our city everyday, right everyday the Public Works Department<\/a> and many city agencies do this everyday but i can tell you, your coming out means a lot to us. You are giving us the extra hands and the extra help that it needs to continue to make our city be the destination where people come and enjoy and people clean up and make our city the most beautiful city in the world, right. San francisco ill be really short. Today we have over 45 different sites. Some people are going to be painting poles, weeding, cleaning, some are going to be sweeping. All that is going to make a difference. The number one thing that when you leave here is, when you are out there, please, be safe. Safety is a high priority. Weve been having these events for over 20 years and we have not had a single incident. How do you be safe . All of you in different work teams and every work team has got someone who will be wearing a vest like me who will be showing you what to do. If you see something that you are in doubt of whether its glass or needle or something in your mind is doubtful, just ask that person and they will deal with it appropriately and they will work with you. Other than that, enjoy yourselves. Its a nice day. Again, im very appreciative for everyone coming up. Lets have fun love our city everyday [applause] thank you. Thank you, very much. Before we close out, were going to do a group picture. Stay where you are. No one move. Just stay still for a minute and well take a group photo. This is one place you can always count on to give you what you had before and remind you of what your San Francisco<\/a> history used to be. We hear that all the time, people bring their kids here and their grandparents brought them here and down the line. Even though people move away, whenever they come back to the city, they make it here. And they tell us that. Youre going to get something made fresh, made by hand and made with quality products and something thats very, very good. The legacy bars and restaurants was something that was begun by San Francisco<\/a> simply to recognize and draw attention to the establishments. It really provides for San Francisco<\/a>s unique character. And that morphed into a request that we work with the city to develop a legacy business registration. Im Michael Cirocco<\/a> and the owner of an area bakery. The bakery started in 191. My grandfather came over from italy and opened it up then. It is a small operation. Its not big. So everything is kind of quality that way. So i see every piece and cut every piece that comes in and out of that oven. Im leslie ciroccomitchell, a fourth generation baker here with my family. So we get up pretty early in the morning. I usually start baking around 5 00. And then you just start doing rounds of dough. Loaves. My mom and sister basically handle the front and then i have my nephew james helps and then my two daughters and my wife come in and we actually do the baking. After that, my mom and my sister stay and sell the product, retail it. You know, i dont really think about it. But then when i sometimes when i go places and i look and see places put up, oh this is our 50th anniversary and everything and weve been over 100 and that is when it kind of hits me. You know, that geez, weve been here a long time. [applause] a lot of people might ask why our legacy business is important. We all have our own stories to tell about our ancestry. Our lineage and ill use one example of tommys joint. Tommys joint is a place that my husband went to as a child and hes a fourth generation san franciscan. Its a place we can still go to today with our children or grandchildren and share the stories of what was San Francisco<\/a> like back in the 1950s. Im the general manager at tommys joint. People mostly recognize tommys joint for its murals on the outside of the building. Very bright blue. You drive down and see what it is. They know the building. Tommys is a San Francisco<\/a> hoffa, which is a germanstyle presenting food. We have five different carved meats and we carve it by hand at the station. You prefer it to be carved whether you like your brisket fatty or want it lean. You want your pastrami to be very lean. You can say i want that piece of corn beef and want it cut, you know, very thick and i want it with some sauerkraut. Tell the guys how you want to prepare it and they will do it right in front of you. San franciscos a place thats changing restaurants, except for tommys joint. Tommys joint has been the same since it opened and that is important. San francisco in general that we dont lose a grip of what San Francisco<\/a>s came from. Tommys is a place that youll always recognize whenever you lock in the door. Youll see the same staff, the same bartender and have the same meal and that is great. Thats important. The service that San Francisco<\/a> heritage offers to the legacy businesses is to help them with that application process, to make sure that they really recognize about them what it is that makes them so special here in San Francisco<\/a>. So well help them with that application process if, in fact, the board of supervisors does recognize them as a legacy business, then that does entitle them to certain financial benefits from the city of San Francisco<\/a>. But i say really, more importantly, it really brings them public recognition that this is a business in San Francisco<\/a> that has history and that is unique to San Francisco<\/a>. It started in june of 1953. And we make everything from scratch. Everything. We started a you we started a off with 12 flavors and mango fruits from the philippines and then started trying them one by one and the family had a whole new clientele. The business really boomed after that. I think that the flavors we make reflect the diversity of San Francisco<\/a>. We were really surprised about the legacy project but we were thrilled to be a part of it. Businesses come and go in the city. Pretty tough for businesss to stay here because it is so expensive and theres so much competition. So for us who have been here all these years and still be popular and to be recognized by the city has been really a huge honor. We got a phone call from a woman who was 91 and she wanted to know if the mitchells still owned it and she was so happy that we were still involved, still the owners. She was our customer in 1953. And she still comes in. But she was just making sure that we were still around and it just makes us feel, you know, very proud that were carrying on our fathers legacy. And that we mean so much to so many people. It provides a perspective. And i think if you only looked at it in the here and now, youre missing the context. For me, legacy businesses, legacy bars and restaurants are really about setting the context for how we come to be where we are today. I just think its part of San Francisco<\/a>. People like to see familiar stuff. At least i know i do. In the 1950s, you could see a picture of tommys joint and looks exactly the same. We havent change add thing. I remember one lady saying, you know, ive been eating this ice cream since before i was born. And i thought, wow we have, too. When i look at an old neon sign thats working or not working, i feel the Family Business<\/a> that was in there. Since 2009, citywide, sf shines, has supported businesses and sites like the ones that receive new neon signs. You know, sf shines is doing an amazing job to bring back the lighting and the neon glow of San Francisco<\/a>. Sf shines is such an amazing program, and i cant think of another program in another city that gives matching gunned funds to store owners, mom and pop owners, and if theyve got a neon sign, theyve really got a great way to advertise their business. This is a continuation of the sf shines program. Focusing other neon signs is relatively new to us. Of the seven neon signs, weve invested about 145,000. A good quality sign costs more, but it lasts infinitily longer. As opposed to lasting five years, a good neon sign will last 15 to 20 years. In San Francisco<\/a>, the majority of neon signs are for momandpop businesses. In order to be able to restore these signs, i think it gives back to your community. Part of the project has to do with prioritizing certain signs in the neighborhood based on their aesthetics, based on their current signs, and base on the history. In the time that weve been here, weve seen a number of signs restored just on eddy street. There are a number of signs in the tenderloin and many more that are waiting or wanting to be restored. I have worked with randall and al, and weve mapped out every single one of them and rated them as to how much work they would need to get restored. That information is passed onto sf shines, and they are going to rank it. So if they have x budget for a year, they can say all right, were going to pick these five, and theyre putting together clusters, so they build on top of whats already there. A cluster of neon signs is sort of, i guess, like a cluster of grapes. When you see them on a corner or on a block, it lights up the neighborhood and creates an ambient glow. If you havy got two of three of them, youve created an atmosphere thats almost like a movie set. Some of the hotel, weve already invested in to get those neon signs for people to enjoy at night include the elk hotel, jefferson hotel, the verona, not to mention some weve done in chinatown, as well as the citys portal neighborhood. We got the fund to restore it. It took five months, and the biggest challenge was it was completely infested with pigeons. Once we got it clean, it came out beautiful. Neon signs are often equated with film noir, and the noir genre as seen through the hollywood lens basically depicted despair and concentration. You would go downtown and see the most recent Humphrey Bogart<\/a> film filled with neon in the background. And youd see that on Market Street<\/a>, and as Market Street<\/a> got seedier and seedier and fewer people continued to go down, that was what happened to all the neon strips of light. The film nori might start with the light filled with neon signs, and end with a scene with a single neon sign blinking and missing a few letters. One of my favorite scenes, orson welles is chasing ririt Rita Hayworth<\/a> with neon signs in the background. I think what the office of economic and Workforce Development<\/a> is very excited with is that well be able to see more neon signs in a concentrated way lit up at night for visitors and most especially residents. The first coin laundry, the elm hotel, the Western Hotel<\/a> are ones that we want to focus on in the year ahead. Neon signs are so iconic to certain neighborhoods like the hara, like the nightcap. We want to save as many historic and legacy neon signs in San Francisco<\/a>, and so do they. We bring the expertise, and they bring the means to actually get the job done. People in tenderloin get really excited as they see the signs relit. As youre driving through the tenderloin or the city, it pretty much tells you something exciting is happening here. Knee an was created to make the night more friendly and advertise businesses. Its a great way of supporting and helping local businesses. Theres so many ways to improve Public Safety<\/a>. The standard way is having more eyes on the street, but theres other culturally significant ways to do that, and one those ways is lighting up the streets. But what better way and special way to do that is by having old, historic neon signs lighting up our streets at night and casting away our shadows. When i see things coming back to life, its like remembering how things were. Its remembering the hotel or the market that went to work seven days a week to raise their money or to provide a service, and it just it just it just please stand by for closed captioning. All right, good morning everyone, the meeting will come to order. Thank you. Welcome to the june 7th, 2019, special meeting of the Public Safety<\/a> and Neighborhood Services<\/a> committee. I am supervisor rafael mandelman, chair of the committee. To my right is vice chair stefani and walton. Now, obviously we have some items that have generated significant interest. We have overflow seating in room 263 and were trying to set up in the north lake court. So, everyone should be able to watch this and come in and speak on items that are of interest to them. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, thank you mr. Chair. Make sure you silenced your cell phones. Items acted upon today will appear on the june 18th, supervisors agenda. Thank you, mr. Clerk, please call the first item. A hearing to consider the issuance of the type 21 offsale general beer, wine, and distilled spirits of Liquor License<\/a>. Thank you, is the a. L. U. Here . Maybe we dont have the a. L. U. Here. So, we could i suppose continue this item later in the agenda. If you like to do that, i think the applicant may be here. Well, we should probably hear from the a. L. U. We could hear from the applicant. All right, lets start with the a captain applicant, come on go ahead. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is melanie johns, im outside Alcohol Council<\/a> to the prime now l. L. C. I have kara, she is with the Public Policy<\/a> team at amazon and she will be speaking after me about community engagement. So, first of all i like to start by acknowledging that this p. C. N. Application is a little bit different than most that probably come before you. The goal with this license application is to add delivery to an existing fulfillment warehouse. It is not to open a Grocery Store<\/a> or convenient store, or a similar model that you probably usually see with a type 21 license. The a. B. C. Has certain requirements that establish that a type 21 licensee may obtain a brick and mortar presence. Our goal is delivery. We work with the a. B. C. To establish a set of standard conditions that would meet our goals of providing Delivery Services<\/a> while still meeting the minimum basic requirements for having a retail premises. I understand that the a. L. U. Usually starts off and reads the conditions into the record, so you probably dont have those with you, but i can give a brief summary on what those are. The retail premises at this storefront, again, this is an existing fulfillment warehouse. The retail premises is 150 to 200square foot small retail storefront. Walking into the storefront, you would not see any alcohol on display and instead you would be provided with a tablet, where you could order alcohol. Emotion most of the alcohol will be available for delivery. The hour of operations for the retail premises is limited to 50 of the hours that we exercise delivery privileges, so for this particular store, we work with the local Community Members<\/a> and came up with early hours of operation. The retail storefront will be open from 8 00 a. M. To 4 00 p. M. Daily, while delivery will exist as it already exists at this facility. So the operations here, we would not be adding any additional employees. We do not expect any increase delivery drivers and instead we expect that people that are already ordering for delivery, for grocery delivery from prime now, that they will be able to add beer, wine, and distilled spirits to their orders. This is not prime nows first license location in california. We currently have six existing facilities, so again we work closely with the a. B. C. And local communities in order to establish these licenses. Were currently operating in sacramento, los angeles, sunnyvale, irvine, and san diego with another license to issue shortly in los angeles. There the time that weve been licensed, we have not had a customer walk into any of these storefronts. We have not had any accusations or license violations or condition violations regarding sales to minors or anything of that sort. Prime now has proven to be a good licensee with the alcohol and Beverage Control<\/a> and making sure those retail premises are small and nonintrusive because the focus is on delivery. Ill turn it over to kara to discuss the Community Outreach<\/a> aspect. Thank you melanie. I will try to be brief. I think you have a packed agenda today. Would you pull the mic up to your mouth. Your name again . Sorry, kara rucker. I work with amazon and ive been the point of contact with the neighborhood. I appreciate you taking the time to hear from us today. I wanted to touch on our engagement with the neighborhood. We originally sat down with the group in january and since then, we have been communicating via email daily. We truly appreciate their willingness to work with us and cultivate what will be a mutually beneficial partnership. We highlighted many opportunities to work with the neighbors and we made great progress to the buildings and surrounding areas. There are additional opportunities for the neighborhood beautification. We appreciate your willingness to let us continue these discussions, both with dna and the green benefit district and work oncoming to the board in the coming weeks to pass forward. Thank you, i do not see any comments or questions from my colleagues. We still do not have the a. L. U. Here. Perhaps we will take Public Comment<\/a> on this item. Is there any Public Comment<\/a> on this item . Then come on up and ill tell you about some things about Public Comment<\/a>s. This goes for everybody. Speakers will have 2 minutes. We ask that you state your first and last name and speak directly into the microphone. If you prepared a written statement, you can leave it with the committee clerk. No applause or booing is permitted. Speakers are encourage to avoid repetition of previous statements. Go ahead. Good afternoon, my name is tim, im a Union Representative<\/a> with the united commercial workers located here in San Francisco<\/a>. Were a labor union that represents 4,000 members in the food and drug industry. We are in opposition to the issuance of a Liquor License<\/a> at 888 tennessee street to amazon prime now. They have a history of mistreatment of their workers and they destroy Small Businesses<\/a> around the nation. If a license is granted, it would destroy whatever Small Businesses<\/a> are left and the character and vibrancy of this city. It will also affect the employees that we represent in the food and drug administration. We are against of the Liquor License<\/a>. Thank you. Next speaker. I want to just follow up with what my colleague has said in regards to online ordering. We actually faced issues on certain delivery online establishments where projects are being left on the doorsteps unattended and it is concerning where youre leaving alcohol and anybody can just come by and pick it up. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. There is always a lot of controversy when alcohol is involved. If alcohol is being abused, it is a problem to the addict called an alcoholic. Anyone following rules and regulations pertaining to business and the code of ethics and the business professional code and you have a Liquor License<\/a>, you have a constitutional right to distribute alcohol just like anybody else. We had this problem in the tenderloin where people were objecting to liquor distribution of alcohol in the neighborhood because this is contributing to the delinquency of alcohol abuse, and the stores stopped selling small bottles of alcohol because it was littering the community and exacerbating chin alcoholism. The owner of that store has the constitutional right to sell alcohol to people here. Just like the people here have the constitutional right to sell alcohol. If youre not breaking the rules or constitutional law, you cant be objected. Thank you. Are there any other members of the public that like to speak on this item before i close Public Comment<\/a>s . Seeing none, Public Comment<\/a>s is now closed. We continue to await the a. L. U. What i like to do on this item is continue it later in the meeting, but well take it up before we get to the vaping rela related and nicotine related items. I believe the petitioners council presented the a. L. U. s. I dont have any objection if we move it until later or move forward if it is the will of the chair. I think it would be good for us to give the a. L. U. An opportunity to show. I mean there is a time constraint on this item and i think its important that we act on it at this meeting to ensure our 90 days dont expire. I think just to have completeness, and partly because i do not understand why the a. L. U. Is not here 20 minutes into our meeting when they said they would be here. I think we should hold up for them and wait for them to get here. I dont want to keep folks waiting for a conversation about ecigarettes. Youre fine either way. So, i think we should continue this to later on in the agenda but before items 5 and 6. Is that something we can do . Can we do that without objection . Great. Mr. Clerk, please call the next item. The resolution supporting California State Assembly<\/a> bill number 1076 by phil ting. Great, thank you mr. Clerk. I think we have derek here from supervisor browns office. Good morning supervisors. Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you. I will be brief because i know you have a long meeting ahead of you. 1076 will provide relief to advance the goals of Restorative Justice<\/a> for an estimated 8 million californians which records hamper them from finding jobs or get into college. 80 of landlords and 60 of colleges screen applicants criminal records. 1076 provides relief to several million of californians that have been arrested and never charged or convicted of a crime, but still face the obstacles as those convicted of a crime. What this law will do, it will require the California Department<\/a> of justice to review their criminal justice databases on a weekly bases to recognize people eligible for dismissal or expungement of their records. It will go back to 1973 to find folks eligible for automatic relief. Some eligible for relief are those who completed their probation or county jail sentences and others are those with arrest records that did not result in a conviction. Under 1076, those records will be removed automatically. It does not apply to folks who have been convicted of violent felonies, sexual felonies, or serious felonies. The current law allows folks to petition the court to do this, but only 20 of people do petition the court. Its estimated that many do not do it as an option because they dont know its an option or they lack the resources. As a result, millions of californians find themselves in paper prison for life after they paid their debt to society. The National Institute<\/a> of justice found that having a cm record reduces a persons chances of getting a job offer by 50 . 75 of People Living<\/a> in paper prisoners say it prevents them from getting a job. Under the clearance system, each record system cost the state over 3,500 to process but with this automated system, the cost plummets to just . 04 per record. As a city, we said to the world, we must do better in instituting Restorative Justice<\/a>. Folks who have paid their debts to society or who never owed a debt must be able to access jobs, housing and other opportunities without encountering roadblocks that would be removed if they had the means to do so. I want to thank you for the time to speak on this and i hope you will move this forward with a positive recommendation. Thank you. Doesnt look like we have questions for you so i will open this up to Public Comment<\/a>s. This is a good law and its a derivative of the infractions of jaywalking tickets, open container, infraction laws, tickets are generated for infractions, not a misdemeanor, but infraction. I believe his name is judge hines handed down a court order where all these types of charges are to be dropped in order not to put a burden on the Justice Center<\/a> and the people that are ticketed because theyre economically disadvantaged and have a hard enough time to survive in the first place. Its tough enough to go through the Justice System<\/a> and then convicted and serve your time and paying a debt to society, let alone when you go through the system, youre innocent and when you get out, you still have this in your background and its being held against you. So, its definitely good law and even when its passed, its still going to be difficult in order to get established because the harm thats done to an individual. Its a starting point and i think its an excellent type of law to use, just like the law that was used to get rid of unnecessary tickets and putting a burden on the criminal Justice System<\/a> and issuing out bench warrants for a failure to appear for a jaywalking ticket. You should be concentrating on more serious crimes like felonies and serious misdemeanors so i stipulate and i agree with this. Thank you. Are there any other members of the public that like to speak on this item . Hello, good afternoon. I wasnt going to speak on this but its very timely. Im cochair of the africanamerican council. Were here for the other items coming up. Weve been working with Restorative Justice<\/a> around this country. One of the things we have been working to prohibit the sale of men that and Tobacco Products<\/a> around the country and our proponents say were criminalizing black and brown men. They said this will be an increase in criminal justice, their interactions with police officers. We want cities to be mindful that were moving ahead with a lot of Restorative Justice<\/a>. Im so proud to see that San Francisco<\/a> expunged the record for cannabis arrests. We as the africanamerican Tobacco Control<\/a> leadership council, we do not do our work in a vacuum. We know the issues facing our community and were working on these issues as well. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other members of public that would like to speak on this item. Seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is now closed. Supervisor walton. Thank you chair mandelman. I like to lend my support to the resolution. I was just meeting with someone this morning that was acquitted of a crime and still has to deal with some of the stigma around being arrested and things come up that keep him from employment opportunities, even after acquittal. So this is important so that we can eliminate some of those barriers that keep people from being able to successfully reenter society, particularly for folks who have not committed major crimes and this is just another way of eliminating some of those layers that keep them from getting back into society. So, im definitely in support of this. Great, vice chair stefani. Thank you chair mandelman. I like to thank supervisor brown for bringing this forward and i want to add my name as a co sponsor. The one criminal defense case i took was reducing someones felony to a misdemeanor. I am in full support of this. Great. So, supervisor walton would you like to move to forward the board with a positive recommendation. Yes. And we will take that without objection. Mr. Clerk, can you please call our next item. Item number 3, a public works mutual aid agreement executed among and by various california cities and counties. It requires a city county, or city and county that receives mutual aid that receives mutual aid. Tell us whats going on. Thank you for bringing up this item. Im with San Francisco<\/a> public works government affairs. Im here to seek your recommendation on this residence lug resolution. Can i have the presentation. Thank you. So the public works mutual aid agreement was established in october 1989 as means for them to receive mutual aid quickly following a Natural Disaster<\/a> like an earthquake. 19 counties and 155 cities in california have been party to the agreement. A few things about the agreement, assistance in voluntary and participating agencies are under no obligation to provide or complete their own resources. Requesting resources are to be reimbursed by fema. In order to request mutual age, an emergency proclamation is required. Public works has an Important Role<\/a> to play in the event of a disaster or emergency. All City Employees<\/a> are designated as Disaster Service<\/a> workers. In the event of an emergency, public works will be responsible for clearing debris, assessing damaged buildings and structures. Prompted by the severe fires that have been affecting our state in the past several years, our agencies have been in conversations regarding disaster response. While were not susceptible to the wildfires that affect the states more wooded areas, much of the Planning Centers<\/a> on seismic events and associated damage. In the event of a large earthquake, we would like to request aid from nearby jurisdicti jurisdictions. Public works would also like to be able to lend assistance. Providing assistance to other localities will provide a valuable experience to our employees. Im joined by our Emergency Planning<\/a> manager and we are happy to answer any questions. Doesnt look like we have questions. So, we will take Public Comment<\/a> on this item. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak to us on item number 3 . Seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is now closed. Vice chair stefani, would you like to move this to the full board with positive recommend. So moved. Great, we will take that without objection. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, can you please call our next item. Agenda number 4, a hearing on the coordination of data sharing between Public Safety<\/a> departments as it relates to Crime Prevention<\/a> and investigations. All right, now i understand that supervisor yee suggested we continue this item at a later meeting. Movers choice. Before we deal with that, we will take any Public Comment<\/a> on this item. Seeing none, oh. Even though its been passed to a later date, there should still be some discussion on this because this is related to the juvenile Detention Center<\/a> and by the same response, i want to highlight that juveniles that have been kept in this juvenile Detention Center<\/a>, those jail cells are the type of jail cells that are located in a prison and those adolescents should be kept 23 hours a day, falsely imprisoned like that, youre disturbing their mental abilities of their brain and causing them to have a hostile condition against society by treating them like a convicted fill didnt felon at at juvenile age. I wanted to address that when you put that back on calendar. Thank you, are there any other members of the public that like to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is now closed. I want to thank our clerk for bringing to my attention that president yee asked to have this item continued to june 27th. I will move it until june 27th and we can take that without objection. Great. All right, well that brings us almost to items 5 and 6, but i said that we would take up item 1 and see that the a. L. U. Is still not here. We do have the a. L. U. s report in our agenda packets and so, i think we can move forward with this item. Colleagues . Supervisor walton, thats in your district. I move to not accept the issuance of this license. Great. So we would direct our clerk to prepare a resolution finding that granting this license would not meet public convenience and necessity and supervisor walton has moved approval of that resolution. So it states that it would not be met by the application and you would act affirmatively to recommend that to the board of supervisors . Yes. So thats a move by supervisor walton. We can take that without objection . The motion has been made. The motion has been made and were taking it without objection. Great. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, please call our next item. Agenda item number 5, an ordinance amending the sale and distribution of Tobacco Products<\/a> on city property. Great. Supervisor walton. Thank you so much supervisor mandelman. Item 5, which is 190311, this ordinance amends the health code to prevent the sale of Tobacco Products<\/a>, including Electronic Cigarettes<\/a> on city property, and what we have here is businesses in the city that operate on city property, that are in the business of harming young people for profit and this will ensure this never happens again on city property. Great. Comments . Then we will open this item to Public Comment<\/a>s. Are there any members of the public that would like to speak on this item . This is a real serious problem, the tobacco, the ecigarettes, you have numerous examples of them exploding in peoples faces. This is a combustible. Thats the first thing, an objection i got and theres been proof of this taking place. There is one attorney that only takes these types of cases because of the ecigarettes blowing up in peoples faces. Some of them are exploding in peoples pockets and people are running down the street with their pants on fire because they have ecigarettes. The tip of an ecigarette contains more nicotine, cancer causing materials and the tip of that than a total pack of a cigarette. Is that clear . Youre contaminating the public and its predominately being used by youths and adults that think they can kick the habit of smoking cigarette and more tobacco and nicotine that they were in hell by using regular cigarettes. Youre dumping a cancer causing activity into the Community Just<\/a> like the navy did when they dumped cancer causing materials out at the shipyard that is annihilating people of color, the majority of black people and samoan people, and now there are white people that are catching cancer too. There is no different. 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