Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

The process, which means that we need people who really meant what they want to do to be in that committee. The civil grand jury members are volunteering 500 hours per year. Nonpaid. You, the board of supervisors in here are paid. Please, take some time to read the recommendation, work with Department Heads to do the work. Started from the effectiveness from the information, website, safety working with the police and the San Francisco m. T. A. We talk about recommendation, and we also know that there is no accountability. Whether people do it or not the civic grand jury members the former or current one will not be able to come in after you or the board of supervisors and Department Heads to implement what we recommend. So we are asking you since you are paid and elected and you wanted to do the best to prevent death and safety for people in San Francisco, i urge you to follow the recommendation and findings. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. Thank you very much for having me, supervisors. I am the vice chair of the Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee. I think that this body is wonderful. I am happy you wrote a report. I am happy you got it out. We just passed the 2018 report last week on the committee, and i hope that you will accept most of the recommendations, just that last one is not really a very good one. I cant speak to reports prior to 2018, but i can say that in 2018 it was a rebuilding year for the committee, adding and replacing memberships with passionate pedestrians embedded in their communities. This year we are trying to streamline the process of apappointments through connections with the board of supervisors. There have been 22 fatalities from collisions this year. Let that sink in. 14 were pedestrians according to the last traffic report. This is higher than any number in recent memory. I want to point out we are volunteer. It is completely volunteer. We have one person who is from the m. T. A. I hope that this information if you want to speak to Committee Members contact myself or the manager and you have my contact information. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Once again, thank you to the civil grand jury members to focus on such an important issue. As stated a number of times, Pedestrian Safety and stronger regulation of sort of new Mobility Options that are emerging here in our city are issues that are of high priority to the board, the m. T. A. , the mayor and our entire city government. This is such an important issue and also a very timely that the report came out highlighting this issue, given the surge in tragic fatalities on our streets this year, and that we are all grappling with and the fact that we are m. T. A. Is preparing to greatly expand the Pilot Program for escooters and it is going to expand to other neighborhoods that it hadnt been present in, including the sun set district. I am in full agreement with your findings and recommendations and the urgency for us to address these issues. Supervisor brown. Commissioner brown thank you. I want to thank you on this because it is something we need to focus on. District 5 alone i have had five pedestrian deaths. I dont remember it ever that high. With all of the cars on the road that we have, the ride shares, you know, it just seems that people are agitated when they drive, and we have seen a lot of that when people make left hand turns. They are trying to get through fourlane highways, they are trying to get through the two lanes of traffic coming at them, and a lot of times they are not focusing on the pedestrians walking on the other side of the street. We need to address a lot of these things. One thing i want to clarify, though, president yee had introduced an ordinance to extend the Pedestrian Safety committee for a year and a lot of us signed to that. Sf walk is committed t to workig with us over the course of the next year to determine the best path forward because i feel it is so important to have that kind of input moving forward, especially with vision zero, what we are doing. We need community input. When we go out to these communities and i see this in my district and we look at taking Parking Spaces away for daylighting. A lot of times we have push back. We need to educate the community why we are doing this. When you talk about taking a parking space away at an intersection and explain because actually spending 200,000 for a bulb out is so important, i think they start to understand. I feel like with that Community Engagement and having the public Pedestrian Safety committee there to help us with that kind of language and outreach and engagement and how we should be doing it is really important. I want to thank everyone for participating. This is alive and death situation. Chair mar thank you, supervisor brown. In terms of action on this, we have a resolution with the board responses. There was just one finding and one recommendation in the civil grand jury report that the board is required to respond to. I shared draft language for the resolution for the response with supervisor brown, i want to read it for the record. First regarding finding number 7, that the board of supervisors reports to the pr presiding jude that they disagree with finding 7. Annual reports were prepared by the Pedestrian Safety and Advisory Committee for 2012, 13, 2014 and 2018 as the vice chair reported. Regarding recommendation number two, the language is in the draft. That the board of supervisors reports recommendation r2 will not be implemented because the recommendation is unreasonable in light of the Pedestrian Safety Committee Progress over the last year in addressing quorum issues, state of emergency for Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee and they are the seoul advice the sole Advisory Committee on in. They will extend for an additional year during which time the committee is advised to review and remember changes to improve the efficiency going forward. I would like to move that we adopt the amendment. We recommend the resolution to the full board and file this hearing. Can we tap that without objection . Thank you. Thanks again everyone for all of your work on this report and this issue. Mr. Clerk, please call item number 8 to 22 foreclosed session. Clerk agenda items 8 through 22 are authorizing settlements of lawsuits against the city of San Francisco, lawsuits and claims, excuse me. Chair mar for the closed session are there any members of the public who wish to testify on items 8 to 22 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Do we have a motion to convene in closed session . Thank you. We are now in we are now back in open session for government audit and oversight. The committee acted to recommend agenda items 8 through 22 to the board of supervisors with consideration with provision 9 and 10 will be Committee Reports on september 24th. Do i have a motion not to disclose proceedings from the closed session . So moved. Any further business . From is no further business. We are adjourned. Usf donates 100120 pounds of food a night. For the four semesters we have been running here, usf has donated about 18,000 pounds of food to the Food Recovery Network. Im maggie. Im nick. Were coechairs of the national led organization. What food recovery does is recover and redistribute food that would go wasted and redistributing to people in the community. The moment that i became really engaged in the cause of fighting food waste was when i had just taken the food from the usf cafeteria and i saw four pans full size full of food perfectly fine to be eaten and made the day before and that would have gone into the trash that night if we didnt recover it the next day. I want to fight food waste because it hurts the economy, its one of the largest emitters of Greenhouse Gases in the world. If it was a nation, it would be the Third Largest nation behind china and the United States. America wastes about 40 of the food we create every year, 160 billion worth and thats made up in the higher cost of food for consumers. No matter where you view the line, you should be engaged with the issue of food waste. Access edible food that we have throughout our Lunch Program in our center, i go ahead and collect it and ill cool it down and every night i prep it up and the next day ill heat it and ready for delivery. Its really natural for me, i love it, im passionate about it and its just been great. I believe its such a blessing to have the opportunity to actually feed people every day. No food should go wasted. Theres someone who wants to eat, we have food, its definitely hand in hand and it shouldnt be looked at as work or a task, were feeding people and it really means so much to me. I come to work and theyre like nora do you want this, do you want that . And its so great and everyone is truly involved. Every day, every night after every period of food, breakfast, lunch, dinner, i mean, people just throw it away. They dont even think twice about it and i think as a whole, as a community, as any community, if people just put a little effort, we could really help each other out. Thats how it should be. Thats what food is about basically. An organization that meets is the San Francisco knight ministry we work with tuesday and thursdays. By the power of your name i have faith to move mountains because i believe in jesus. I believe its helpful to offer food to people because as you know, theres so much homelessness in San Francisco and california and the United States. I really believe that food is important as well as our faith. The San Francisco knight ministry has been around for 54 years. The core of the ministry, a group of ordain ministers, we go out in the middle of the night every single night of the year, so for 54 years we have never missed a night. I know its difficult to believe maybe in the United States but a lot of our people will say this is the first meal theyve had in two days. I really believe it is a time between life or death because i mean, we could be here and have church, but, you know, i dont know how much we could feed or how many we could feed and this way over 100 people get fed every single thursday out here. Its not solely the food, i tell you, believe me. Theyre extremely grateful. Its super awesome how welcoming they are. After one or two times theyre like i recognize you. How are you doing, how is school . I have never been in the city, its overwhelming. You get to know people and through the music and the food, you get to know people. We never know what impact were going to have on folks. If you just practice love and kindness, its a labor of love and thats what the Food Recovery Network is and this is a huge i believe they salvage our mission. To me the most important part is its about food waste and feeding people. The Food Recovery Network National Slogan is finding ways to feed people. Its property to bring the scientific and Human Element scientific and Human Element into the situation. Working for the city and county of San Francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city thats on the forefront of economic growth, the arts, and social change. Our city has always been on the edge of progress and innovation. 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So good morning and welcome. Im jack gardner and president of the John Stewart Company. On behalf of our related partners in california, San Francisco housing corporation, and ridgepoint nonprofit housing corporation, its my great pleasure to welcome you to the grand reopening of Hunters Point west and westbrook. Give it up. [ applause ]. Hunters point eastwest in westbrook are two of the citys rental assistance demonstration projects. The Overall Program consisted of transferring 29 of the Housing Authority profits to local nonprofit and private housing organizations for recapitalization, renovation, and private management. More detailed information is available if youre interested. This mammoth Citywide Program which included almost 3500 units of Affordable Housing throughout San Francisco required the collaboration of a host of public agencies, developers, consultants, contractors, funders, and, most importantly, the residents of Hunters Point eastwest and westbrook themselves. The program demonstrates the citys commitment to leaving none of its residents behind and we are very proud to have been part of it. None of this would have been possible without the vision and leadership of our local elected and appointed officials, many of whom are here today and well do some shoutouts a little bit later. Thank you for celebrating with us. Lets get started. It gives me special pleasure to introduce our first speaker. Ill tease you a little bit here, see if you can think about who that would be. Shes a native san franciscan. A former Redevelopment Agency and Fire Department commissioner. Former executive director of the africanamerican art and culture complex in the western addition. President of the board of supervisors. You might be getting it. Presently our current and future mayor. So a steadfast champion of Affordable Housing, community empowerment, and the creation of a more just and equitable San Francisco for all. Great pleasure to bring to the stage our very own mayor london breed. Mayor. [ cheering and applause ]. Mayor breed thank you. Hello, everyone. I am really excited to be here today because this is a long time coming. When we first set out on a path to just reenvision Public Housing throughout San Francisco, it wasnt easy. I remember when i first became a member of the board of supervisors and i went to our mayor ed lee and talked about our priorities, i made it clear that Public Housing was my number one priority. He supported those efforts. In fact, i grew up in plaza east in the western edition, where i lived in Public Housing for over 20 years of my life. Those conditions were very challenging. It wasnt just sadly the poverty and the violence that existed in my neighborhood. It was also the actual physical conditions of where i lived. The mold, the bathroom that basically had a number of challenges. We never even had a shower in the Public Housing unit that i lived in. The roaches, the lack of support that we got from our facilities crew to actually make the kinds of repairs where we could live in a place that was safe and live in a place that was the way that it should be for any resident of this amazing city. It was important to me that we made a change in San Francisco because the same conditions that i lived in are, sadly, some of the same conditions that still exist in Public Housing today. So we set down this course to try and make changes. No, we didnt have the resources completely to basically start all over from scratch, but we did have an opportunity through the r. A. D. Program, the rental assistance demonstration program, to really make investments now so that we can change the conditions of where people live now. That was so important. There were people who were concerned, including the residents who were skeptica