Proud that our Chinese Community has contributed so much of the city. Chinese helped build San Francisco. And my community will continue to play an Important Role in this future. Fundamental to my culture is a respect for history and tradition. While embracing change. Three years ago, i founded my own company. My work touches on historical site contact and exterior treatments. Since im familiar with the issues at hand, i offer decline solutions that meet the requirements and with my clients approval meet designs that appropriate. So far my projects dont need to apply for certificate of appropriate or of any other exemption from h. P. C. Back in 2017, i was appointed by the mayor to serve on the Arts Commission. My duties are to review the buildings. To allocate funding, fiscal funding and serve as the liaison. I appreciate and have indepth understanding of the complexity involved to get a building built purposefully. I frequently review Civic Projects an urban master plan with historical landmarks, as it relates to history of the artwork and the architectural elements, including how to appropriately restore them, so they are resilient to natural hazards. Through my work with the Arts Commission, i have been working with local communities to create Cultural Heritage work. I work with tndc and other projects to ensure the work complies with the transgender cultural district. I work with project sponsors to enjoy to ensure that the design of the eagle plaza met multiple City Department requirements and was consistent with the lgbtq district. I led the multiple Design Review process for having the plaza redesigned, with multiple holders, including the city, the c. B. D. And the residents, as well to ensure compatibility with the significant and landmark buildings at the plaza. This work may not be about our architecture and buildings. But it is critical to ensure the Cultural Heritage of San Franciscos communities are recognized going forward. The Cultural Heritage work is incredibly important to me. And another way of which i have found to make Historic Buildings and neighborhoods reflect the community that we lived in and around them. So through my work in San Francisco, as an architect and a commissioner, i have found my calling to serve our beloved city and represent the women and minorities voices that are often excluded in art, architecture and preservation. When youre trained as a technical architect, as i am, you are trained to work in applying your skills to any and all technical guidelines, including Historic Preservation. And the secretary of interiors standards. I hope that i have demonstrated not only my technical qualifications, but that i will bring compassion, advocacy, Community Representation to the Historic Press advise commission. And thank you for your time. I would be honored to serve on this commission. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. Is there any questions . A couple questions. First, i just want to thank you for all of your amazing work with the city and with the Arts Commission so far. Im a big fan of yours. And really know that you have provided invaluable, sort of incredible insight work to the Arts Commission. You know, whenever youre considered for everything, its exciting for me. I just wanted to ask you specifically a little bit more about your experience in Historic Preservation, just because its such a highly technical field, which, of course, youre capable of. But were looking for someone especially for the seat, who has had tremendous experience in Historical Preservation. Because we are a city a historic city that has incredible landmarks that we have to often fight to preserve. So have you ever been or related with the Historic Preservation commission or been before it or talked to anyone there or testified before the commission . Have you any interaction with the commission at all directly . Directly i dont have to go in front to testify on the cases. For San Francisco what i am always able to do is to just knowing what we have to work with. We look context and i was able to convince my client because its a complex solution. Its schedule, time and money and also the ability and the willingness to be patient, right. So a lot of my clients theyre smaller project sponsors. So usually we take an alternative interpretation approach to just to do the right thing and without needing to actually testify and deviate away from what we have to do for the project. Supervisor ronen yeah. In addition to, you know, the Research Work that you had done for the adobe project, and the work the amazing work for the cultural districts, which as you know, i was the sponsor of the legislation. So i can not tell you how important that so to me and how much i appreciate that work. In terms of sort of the Technical Work around Historic Preservation, can you describe any other circumstances or in addition to that circumstance, exactly how youve interacted with our city and with the Historic Preservation commission and advocating for the preservation of either a building or a community. Okay. Well, i can speak for that as a parent of my daughters school. Actually, in fact, today is her golden birthday. She turned 9 on september 9th. So i am heavily involved with my daughters school. When we had to renovate the building, which is deemed to be the contributing building, resources to the neighboring st. Josephs church. Supervisor ronen uhhuh. And i am, as part of the contributing member to my daughters school, i am on the master planning committee, which is representing the owner in charge of actually getting this rectory restore and rehabilitated and turned into kindergarten and also elementary school. And these are two different occupants and it has different requirements. And also guiding the Consulting Engineers and architects and what hurdles we need to go through in making a sound decision at the right time. We interpret together of how we treat the entrances, the gate that is opening up to howard street. Historically it swings out and it doesnt meet our current sidewalk encroachment requirements. So we have to come up with an understanding of redesigning the gate. And get it through the determinations of acknowledging that if we swing out, then were encroaching and we cant meet the building and sidewalk code, and then we come up with a new gate design, that ends up being approved. And also some part of the supervisor ronen that was approved through the h. P. C. . Yes. Then it was also im acting as a client. We have a school in this case, its a School Architect. So we have basically architect can do a bit of everything. So we have the School Architect that we hired, that designed our entire school, just to interface with the Planning Department and partially the Historic Preservation commission. As a client, we agree with how to interpret the design, and the budget we need and then the time we meet we can pay for this and we can have the school open for the next school year. And thats the overall picture of things. And then we have the primary architect of record for this project to move forward, to get this approval. Similar, too, we identified the design features and determine the corner of the exterior of the school rectory building is a characterdesigning feature for the schools. So we agreed to come up with a i was helping them to kind of pick out what kind of coloring and that will meet what was there before. But also could sustain the future weathering of our city. Its getting really technical in this kind of thing. Im on the owner capacity to approve what we can move forward to get the project supervisor ronen thank you very much. I hope you answered your question. Supervisor ronen yes. Yes. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you for your time. Supervisor ronen ill now open this item up for Public Comment. If anyone would like to speak, please go ahead and make a line behind mr. Wright over here. Mr. Wright, if you want to start us off. Both are good candidates. A lot of people always talk about how the nationalities got a lot to do with the history of San Francisco and building San Francisco. Well, i got news for you. The original nationality, skin color people, thats got the most to do with building, not only San Francisco, but the overall United States of america is black people. And while doing so, we were slighted. In fact, the white house was built on the backs of blacks, understand me. 98 of the labor that was built and put together to build the white house was built by black people. Black slaves. You got that. Under slave conditions. Under no housing conditions. Under no payment of conditions. Aint nobody got nothing more to do with the building of not only the United States of america, but every god damn San Francisco too, the black people. Is that clear. After all of those black people finished building the resident of the president s of all of the United States of americas administration, after all of those blacks skin color slaves finished building that place, you had the audacity to call it the white house. It should be called the black house. Understand me. Im tired of watching other nationalities come up here and act like they got over 90 to do with the building of the United States of america. Everybody has contributed. But nobody has contributed more than black people. [bell ringing] as far as historical sites is concerned, you talk about renovation. When the truth of the matter is, you do a lot of gentrification and renovation. And you water down and use the word gentrification, when the truth of the matter is its discriminated based on geographical location. You only do it in areas thats predominantly black. We used to be 18, 19 in the field more. And 44 of the bay view. [bell ringing] [microphone turned off] supervisor ronen mr. Wright mr. Wright, those are the applicants for the commission. Every public speaker has two minutes. Next speaker, please. Other people come up and talk. You let them keep talking when the alarm goes off. You even discriminate in here. You do it right in front of my face. Good morning, members of the committee. Mike bueller, president and c. E. O. Of San Francisco heritage. As a leading preservation organize in the city, heritage shared this citys commitment to ensuring all candidates for the Historic PreservationCommission Meet the minimum object qualifications set forth in the city charter. Indeed, ten years ago, we helped craft the minimum qualifications mandated by the charter. As part of this responsibility, heritage has thoroughly revealed the qualifications of both candidates, including in opinion person meeting with heritage staff and board members. Mr. Foley has been nominated for seat 5 of the h. P. C. , which as stated in the charter, is reserved for a professional in the field such as law, land use, Committee Planning with specialized training and or experience in Historic Preservation. Mr. Foleys reallife experience in getting projects done in San Francisco, often in partnership with nonprofits, will provide a valuable perspective on the commission and we work loader to working with him as a member of the h. P. C. Were happy to endorse his candidacy. By comparison, miss south has been nominated for seat 2 of the commission. It should be emphasized the minimum qualifications are much more narrow, specific, and rigorous than the requirements for seat 5. Seat 2 is one of two seats on the commission reserved to historic architects. As stated in the charter, these seats must be filled by, quote, licensed architects, secretary of the interior, professional educational standards for architecture. We certainly recognized her professional accomplishment and her outstanding commitments as a member of the art commission. However, based on our meeting, heritage does not believe that her qualifications in the field of historic architecture meet the objective requirements for seat 2. For this reason and this reason alone, were unable to endorse her candidacy for seat on the preservation commission. [bell ringing] supervisor ronen thank you. Next speaker. Rudy. Im born and raised in San Francisco. Executive director of a Violence Prevention Organization here in San Francisco. That will be serving the city and county for 25 years. Im here in full support of my brother chris foley. Hes been so instrumental in the community. I just want to speak on his character, this gentleman right here is not only a good father, he loves his city, he loves his community. He has demonstrated through his actions what he has done. I have met him in 2009. For the last ten years, i put a ring on his finger and told him he needed to make a commitment to the community, which hes been loyal, hes been committed and he has done everything that he said that hes going to do. Inin addition, hes within workg with the communitybased organization to make sure they stabilize their centers. This man right here helped fix the church in the neighborhood where i was born and raised, on 10th and hollow. In 89, it got, you know, messed up. But here comes chris foley. He mixed it up really nice. Now people attend there. And, you know, its a nice location. In addition to helping us stabilizing our building, we have served over 200 kids this summer and everything that we have done for them has been free. And so youre not going to say this man right here has a very strong character and his integrity is very powerful and i just hope you guys, man, put him in place for this chair. Thank you. Supervisor ronen thank you very much. Next speaker. Good morning, supervisors. Thank you for having me here. And supervisor ronen, i want to thank you for all of the work you have done in the community. And we are facebook friends. Im maria jenson and im the creative and executive director of sow mar cultural center. And previously on the external relations team. Commissioner sow has played a significant role in running the Design Community and Community Investments committee and street artists committee, utilizing her professional expertise as a licensed architect. And she offers solutions to committees with respects to all cultures and heritages. Its important to underscore her commitment to the community, as much as we are underscoring her very capable Technical Skills. Shes dedicated, competent and an awardwinning architect. Shes able to strategize with ns, lawyers, Community Leaders, contractors and, et cetera. We has vast experience in working with and reviewing architecture in the Cultural Heritage districts. Shes also very handson and solution driven. As the lee she works and collaborates with staff and Community Leaders to streamline the process of bringing more Affordable Housing to our underserved and formerly homeless communities she performs critical work to keep the cultural neighborhoods thriving and artists from being displaced. [bell ringing] she is also fun and joyful to work with. We forget the importance and need to not only work with knowledgeable and skilled people, but the importance of working with people who are generous, kind, and also empathetic. Thank you very much. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. Next speaker. Good morning, supervisors. My name is preston turner. On behalf of the reverend dr. Amos brown and the third baptist church, i stand here as the chairman of the trustee board in full support. We endorse chris foley. You heard the story, reverend brown reached out, found out who redeveloped and restored that st. Josephs church. Weve been in communication with him for the last year. We can say that hes very honorable, more than qualified and we fully, fully endorse him. We can also say that just before the bagging of mayor ed lee, one of the main things that he did was made third baptist a historical landmark. We appreciate that. And because of that, chris is planning on helping to restore third baptist to its luster, as it should be. And we thank him for that. Also as im here today, i would also say that reverend brown would also like to endorse lydia sow as well. Thank you so much. Hello, my name is sarah white. Im associate director of housing development, with t. N. D. C. Im here to support lydia sows nomination. Tndcs mission we provide tenant and community services, Community Organizing and property management. We currently own and operate about 43 buildings across San Francisco. And ive come to know lydia through her work on the Art