Gordon mar and were joined by rafael mandelman. I would like michael for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, please silent all cell phones and electronic devices. Items acted upon today will appear on the june 25th board of sup supervisors agenda. Would you read agenda number one. Yes. [reads selection] thank you so much and im very excited to be a co sponsor of this item and supervisor mandelman the author is here. Would you like to say anything . Yes, thank you chair ronen and thank you for accommodating our request to talk about this item today. I know its a busy month for everyone and we thought it would be important to get it done before this years pride. As you are all well aware. Chair ronen who offered the ordinance, communities throughout the city have successfully organized to create our districts, lgbtq and African American districts. This ordinance is due to the result of the neighborhood process that began in 2017 when members of the community expressed to my predecessor sheehy made sure that they protect the neighborhoods cultural identity. Its an honor to represent this district. The castro has been recognized as an enclave for people to find safety and chosen family. An internationally recognize model of aids in the 80s and 90s. We support the castros continued place as the center of the lgbtq movement. The castro is home of anchor businesses. It is host to Impactful Community organizations like the castro country club, the aids foundation, and the sisters of perpetual indulgence. With the passage of prop e last year and the 3 million in dedicated funding, they will support the cultural institutions and people that sustain the neighborhood as the heart of the citys Lgbtq Community. The boundaries of the cultural district were determined by thorough community process, containing the castro and the Lgbtq Community serving institutions, including the lgbtq center and open house and the well home of the will lgbtq center for the arts. I have quite a few thank you. I want to thank the members of the castro lgbtq Cultural District Working Group and community stakeholders, many of whom are here today including terry, jesse, andrea, brad, andrew, alex, jody, and rebecca. I would like to thank the staff at the historical society, as well as gerard and paul for authoring the historical findings in the ordinance. I want to thank brian and julia who worked with the neighborhood in our office to bring this forward, as well as Deputy Attorney john. I want to thank the Preservation Commission and Youth Commission for their strong support for this ordinance. I want to thank my colleagues, chair ronen and supervisor brown for their cosponsor ship. I do have two minor amendments for your consideration, these came out of the historic Preservation Commission and the Youth Commission out of their reviews. They are shown in the drafts before you. The first is on page 14, as a specific entity which most can request assistance in the cultural history, housing and strategy support. And the list of youths that they should engage, part of the Engagement Process to determine the districts strategies and plans given the critical importance of the castro as a safe space for queer youth. Im grateful for this recommendation from our Youth Commission. I of course hope to have your support for this ordinance today in committee. Its also my hope that the ordinance can be passed by the full board of supervisors next week as an auspicious beginning to the neighborhood pride. Fantastic. If none of my other colleagues want to make any opening remarks ill open this up for Public Comment. This item is open for Public Comment. Youll each member of the public will have 2 minutes to speak. If you want to line up to your right, my left, over here to speak, that would be great. Anyone feel free to start us off. Anyone feel free to start off. Good morning supervisors, my name is jesse oliver. For 15 years, i lived in a queer affirming collective house and i chaired the working group, governed the committee for the cultural district. Supervisors in my neighborhood, the voices of those heard are homeowners through the neighborhood associations. Business owners through their castro merchant meeting and large nonprofits that will provided a vow indicate sit staff. Not heard are the cultural users of the neighborhood. Pilgrims from around the city, the bay area and the world who come to the castro because it is the densest and longest standing lgbtq neighborhood in city. Drag queens, seekers of love and Community Come to us despite the fact that their voices are largely unheard. We have the opportunity here to change that. While im here in support and delighted that the rules committee will likely pass this legislation today, im concerned that the great intentions of supervisor ronens legislation may be loss without your leadership in the implementation phase. Supervisors, the Lgbtq Community do need a 100,000 salary position taking up half the cultural district set aside. Instead, we need those funds to go to benefit actual cultural producers and consumers. We need an Advisory Board that consist of those people i mentioned. We need the bulk of the funds to go to a significant new annual grants program of small grants in the 15k or less range to cultural producers who would not otherwise be funded. That would address the retail vacancies, provide housing subsidies, and it could provide a variety of other programs, which i would expand on in more than 2 minutes. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you. Next speaker. Good morning supervisors. Excuse me, my name is andrea and i im the executive director of the castro benefit district. Im here to affirm that the Community Benefit district is wholeheartedly in support of this legislation. Like jesse said, the need, i think the need for small little grants to support cultural initiatives would be really, really important and would help the neighborhood a tremendous amount there. You know, there use to be, before San Francisco became so expensive and people have to work, you know, one job, that is 80 hours a week or two or three jobs, there were a lot of people that had extra time on their hands who would come into the castro and be artists of a variety of different arts, whether it was writing, painting, creative drama, and they were able to do that because they could afford to live in the neighborhood. Now, they had extra time on their hands. Now small grants would help stimulate and revive an Arts Community which would in turn revive our Economic Situation in the neighborhood, and again like jesse said, the castro still remains a mecca for lgbtq visitor from all around the globe. People come to the castro expecting to see this incredibly vibrant Lgbtq Community and often times, its disappointing, theres not the vibrancy they expected. Were looking for this to help that along. Thank you very much. Good morning, my name is david. Ive been a castro ambassador, and recently i become active with the lgbtq market district and this experience impressed upon me the value of having a theme, a cultural sense for a neighborhood and how valuable it is to the people that live there and the people that visit there, particularly to make this place attractive and interesting to the people who visit it from abroad and to local as well, that its giving us a sense of common purpose and common culture has been extremely rewarding and as an ambassador, its great to welcome people to the neighborhood and let them feel this is in fact a cultural neighborhood and has identity. I hope you pass this. Thank you so much, is there any other member of the public that likes to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gav vel] im requesting that this committee amend. Yeah. So if i can make a motion to accept the amendments as proposed verbally by supervisor mandelman. And did we happened those out . Theyre up here. Here they are. Got it. And you described them in detail, so i think thats sufficient. Great. Thank you. Thank you, so if i without objection, that motion passes. Then im happy to make a motion to send this item to the full board with recommendation. Without objection, that motion passes. The motion to recommend as amended has passed. Thats right, do i need to say it again . As amended, to be clear. As amended, thank you. That completes the agenda for today. Thank you, then the meeting is adjourned. Thank you. 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Were joined with peter from construction hell help us there you have it for not a lot of 340e7b in a short time we were able to reduce the risks as you can see secure and even in a big rumble bell not going to come losses thank you for watching well give is one more big push as you can see with shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses, and challenges residents to do their shopping within the 49 square miles of San Francisco. By supporting local services in our neighborhood, we help San Francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. So where will you shop and dine in the 49 . I am the owner of this restaurant. We have been here in north beach over 100 years. [speaking foreign language] [ ] [speaking foreign language] [ ] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [ ] [ ] third thursdays at the commons is a monthly event series to really activate krisk centkrisk civic center, fulton mall, and other locations through social operation. In 2016, an initiative called the civic Center Progress initiative was launched, it was launched by a bunch of city agencies and community partners, so they really had to figure out how to program these places on a more frequent basis. Im with the civic center Community Benefit district, and im Program Manager for the civic center commons. Also, third thursdays will have music. That was really important in the planning of these events. We wanted to have an artist that appeals to a wide range of tastes. Im the venue manager. Good music, good music systems, and real bands with guitar players and drummers. We turned uc center and fulton street into a place where people want to be to meet, to laugh, and its just an amazing place to be. Theres a number of different exhibits. Theres food, wine, cocktails, and the idea, again, is to give people an opportunity to enjoy what really is, you know, one of the great civic faces in america. When you look from the polk street steps, and you look all the way down the plaza, down market street, daniel burns design, this was meant to be this way. Its really special. The city approached us off the grid to provide food and beverages at the event as kind of the core anchor to encourage people who leave a reason to stay. Its really vibrant. Its really great, just people Walking Around having a good time. This formula is great food, interesting music, and then, we wanted to have something a little more, so we partnered with noise pop, and they brought in some really fun games. We have skeeball, we also have roller skating lessons, and weve got a roller skating rink. If youre a passion jail skeeball player like me, and youre deciding whether youre just going to roll the ball up the middle or take a bank shot. Our goal is to come out and have fun with their neighbors, but our goal is to really see in the comments that its a place where people want to hold their own public event. I think this is a perfect example of all these people working together. Everybodys kind of come together to provide this support and services that they can to activate this area. Theres no one agency or organization that really can make this space come alive on its own, and its really through the collective will, not just of the public sector, but both the public and our business partnerships, our nonprofits partnerships, you know, neighborhood activists. I really like it. Its, like, a great way to get people to find out about local things, cuisine, like, its really great. Its a really good environment, really welcoming. Like, were having a great time. We want to inspire other people to do this, just using a part of the plaza, and its also a good way to introduce people if theyre having a large scale event or small scale event, well direct you to the right people at the commons so you can get your event planned. Being a San Francisco based company, it was really important to connect and engage with san franciscans. How great is it to come out from city hall and enjoy great music, and be able to enjoy a comtail, maybe throw a bocci ball or skee ball. I find third thursdays to be really reinrig rat reinriggating for me. Whether youre in the city hall or financial district or anywhere, just come on down on third thursdays and enjoy the music, enjoy an adult beverage, enjoy the skee ball; enjoy an good morning everyone. Welcome to the home of your San Francisco giants. Applausthis is your official we. I am your pa announcer and i am happy to serve as your mc today. We are here to officially kickoff the first class of opportunities for all. [applause. ] now our first jobs and our first paid internships are so important. For me as a graduate of Mills College in oakland. Thank you for that. Oakland is in the house. Mills is in the house. 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