Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 13, 2024

The e. V. Readiness would cover some of those properties that you mentioned that are in the planning or entitlement or yet to be built phase. So when theyre built, they will be e. V. Ready. That will take care of all New Buildings going forward. The existing multifamily unit dwellings, thats still a challenge. We started with the e. V. Readiness ordinance. Were now working on this initiative for private sector garages. Weve done the same for our municipal garages. So that is a bit of the next frontier. Its something weve been looking at, but its challenging from a infrastructure and cost perspective, but its still something were working on. Because the need for charging as we transition the entire fleet is going to continue to grow. Were on step 2 or 3 here and there is a few more after that. Supervisor peskin i look forward to having those conversations with you and your office going forward. Any questions, supervisor safai . Supervisor safai yes, thank you. First of all, i would like to be added as a cosponsor. I think this is an important piece of legislation. I know that we i dont know if you said this a letter from the building owners and managers appreciating the hard work that was done in support of this piece of legislation. I think its always great when the affected stakeholders have had the opportunity to weigh in and be part of the process. Even if they dont and then in the end come to the conclusion that they are suppor supportive of the legislation as drafted. I just wanted to say that for the record. I know chair peskin and supervisor haney got that letter today. Thats good. Thank you to the department of environment stakeholders and others that were part of that conversation along with the mayor and supervisor peskin and mandelman. The other question i had, the question i had is, in terms of the pricing. Thats one of the things that wasnt discussed today, that encourages or discourages people from using the stations outside of their homes, right . Because some people have solarpowered at their house, or access to different rates based on what has been negotiated as part of a larger package. But has there been thought or conversation put into the pricing to encourage people to utilize these charging stations and parking garages . Sure. So i believe both the prices can vary. I reason i know this, i have an electric car. Right. So for electricity rates, ill start there. There a couple of costs that go into charging your electric car. For rates, i believe pg e and clean power sf have demand Response Rates to take advantage. Youre couraged to when we drafted the ordinance, we wanted to make sure it wasnt one provider, but two providers, e. V. Station charging providers. So not only is the Parking Facility able to compete in the private sector, but also they can make sure that what is installed is going to be Cost Effective for the customers that are coming in to use the Parking Facility. I dont know how much the rates for electricity differ between like e. V. Go or charge point. Do they do have different rates. They do. So my question would be, if the city has gotten into the business of delivering energy i know theyre not a vendor, but has there been conversation about the city having ownership over some of the stations since they have their own rates and structures and that might be a way to keep the cost down and encourage people to utilize the stations. I would mostly defer to my colleagues on that issue, but i do have history and experience. I think through 2013, maybe 2015, charging at cityowned garages was free. It was a Cost Effective way to get things going. I think that has lapsed. But especially with some of the developments that may happen on grid ownership here in the city. That might open up unique opportunities for not only cityowned grid, but cityowned charging stations and rates for the charging stations. But im getting a little farther into the territory i get it. And again, im adding my name. I think this is a good piece of legislation, but sometimes we create policies and then we fall back less on implementation. And if people are not finding that this is Cost Effective, then only people that can afford that additional cost will take advantage of it on that level. And so i just i would like to see more thought put into actually the cost of utilizing it. Because we can expand these to as many garages as possible, but if only people with the extra disposable income that can use it. And they will sit there empty or not utilized. That makes sense, supervisor, im going to take note of that, on the cost for charging. One of the things, when we think about making sure everyone has access. One of the things in the e. V. Road map is the ability to educate and make aware to everyone, even those who dont think they have means, there are rebates and incentives by state agencies and entities for lowincome residents, that can significantly reduce the cost of purchase. Its not exactly the charging up paradigm, but were looking at reducing the cost of purchasing. Supervisor safai the other thing i would say as a person with one of these cars and drives it to the stations. Theyre not always very user friendly. If youre not a member, you have to sit there and call a 1800 number and youre looking for, this is 327 at this address. Theyre like, i cant find it. I dont know how to turn it on. So if youre trying to go into the Shopping Center and youre sitting there an additional 20 minutes. Why do i want to spend 20 minutes trying to get into the charging station when ill just drive it upstairs . So its not necessarily user friendly. I appreciate that youre trying to get two vendors, but i think the conversation in terms of the contract when you do provide it in a cityowned lot and youre signing those contracts, it should also be about usability. I agree. Supervisor safai we should make it more user friendly. Easy if you could just run your credit card, boom, its done fast. But sit there and make a phone call and search for the number, its not really user friendly. I get it. Its new technology. Just beginning. The last few years there has been more of explosion and availability of electric cars, but i dont want to see us pat ourselves on the back because we have 5,000 charging stations but no one is using them. The scenario you just described is what i experienced when i became a new e. V. Owner and i went to charge up. 20minute long conversation. There were several phone conversations. I was in the rush, panicked. I had no electricity in my new e. V. Thats one of the things were trying to address in the e. V. Road map, education and awareness. I think youre exactly right. I know that from personal experience. Supervisor safai one last thing. The only one that i know of in again this is about garages but the only streetcharging spot i know of is next the sfpuc. Is that discussed in this legislation . Thought of . Because another way also to expand peoples opportunity is not just in garages, but you can add parking spots to the conversation. Sure, so its not discussed in the legislation. I know the sfmta is conducting a curbside use assessment and that is going to be due later this year. But that is their jurisdiction. So i defer to them on their study and what theyre looking at for charging on the curb and what else they want to do for the curb and theyre going to report back later after that assessment is done on that topic. Supervisor peskin thank you. I see a number of members of the public. And commissioner here. We will open up for public comment. Please come up. I believe it is good policy. One key thing i want to hammer home is question of equity, which supervisor safai talked on all three points. Equity in terms of cost, in terms of usage and finally, geography, because the map is beneficial to the northeast section of San Francisco. Hopefully, well be able to build out e. V. Infrastructure to support the west side, meaning the Richmond District and sunset or low density. And the cars have created a cardriven culture, so hopefully curbside charging can address this. For bright line itself, weve worked in bayview hunters, so seeing the lack of charging infrastructure there is disheartening in us to try to promote electric vehicles. Hopefully, we can make it accessible for all. Supervisor peskin any other members of the public . Seeing none, well close public comment. And colleagues, we have the aforementioned amendment before us which ive introduced and would make a motion to include. Can we do that without objection . So that objection we will take that amendment. And send the item as amended with recommendation to the full board of supervisors. And that concludes our meeting. We are adjourned. For the first time in nearly two decades fishers have been granted the legal right to sell fish directly to the package right off their boat to the public right off their boats in San Francisco. Its not only helping local fishers to stay afloat but its evoking the spirit of the wharf by resurfacing the traditional methods of selling fish. But how is it regulated . And what does it take for a boat to be transported into a Floating Fish market . Find out as we hop on board on this episode of whats next sf. Were here with the owner and the captain of the vessel pioneer. Its no coincidence that your boat is called the pioneer because its doing just that. Its the first boat in San Francisco to sell fish directly from the boat. How did you establish your boat into such a Floating Fish market . Well, you know, i always thought that it would be nice to be able to provide fresh fish to the locals because most of the fish markets, you would have to do a large amount of volume in order to bring in enough fish to cover the overhead. When you start selling to the public that volume is much less so it makes it hard to make enough money. So being able to do this is really its a big positive thing i think for the entire community. A very positive thing. As a thirdgeneration fisherman joe as his friends call him has been trawling the california waters for sustainably caught seafood since an early age. Since obtaining a permit to sell fish directly to the public he is able to serve fish at an affordable price. Right now were just selling what a lot of the markets like, flat fish and rock fish and what the public likes. So we have been working for many, many years and putting cameras in them. Theres the ability to short fish and we have panels that we open and close so we target the different species of fish by adjusting the net. And then not only that but then the net sort out the sizes which is really important. Joe brings in a lot of fish, around 20,000 pounds per fishing trip to be exact. We had one day one time that we sold almost 18,000 pounds. Its incredible. I know, its hard to imagine. But this wasnt always the case for joe. The markets that we have left in california, theyre few and far between, and they really are restrictive. Theyll let you fish for a couple months and shut you down. A lot of times its rough weather and if you cant make your delivery you will lose your rotation. Thats why theres hardly any boats left in california because of the market challenges. My boat was often sitting over here at the dock for years and i couldnt do anything with it because we had no market. The ability to go catch fish is fine, i had the permits, but you couldnt take them off your boat. That was until the Port Commission of San Francisco rallied behind them and voted unanimously to approve a Pilot Program to allow the fish to be sold directly to consumers right off their boats. The purpose of the program is to allow commercial fishers to sell their fish directly from their boats to the end consumer in a safe and orderly manner for the benefit of the overall Fishing Community at the port of San Francisco. We have limited the program to certain types of fish such as salmon, halibut, tuna and rock fish. Crab is restricted from this program because we did not want to interfere with the existing crab sales on Taylor Street and jefferson street. So this is not meant to favor one aspect of the fishing industry more than another. Its to basically to lift up the whole industry together. And if joe the program has been doing just that. It was almost breathtaking whenever i woke up one morning and i got my federal receiver, my first receivers license in the mail. And that gave me permission to actually take fish off my boat. Once we started to be able to sell, it opened things up a bit. Because now that we have that federal permit and i was able to ppetition the city council and getting permission from San Francisco to actually use the dock and to sell fish here, it was a big turning point. Because we really didnt think or know that wed get such a positive response from the public. And so were getting thousands of people coming down here buying fish every week and so thats pretty cool. They like the fish so much that they take pictures of it when they cook it and they send us all of these pictures and then they ask us, you know, constantly for certain types of fish now. And when they come down here the one thing that they say is that theyre so amazed that the fish is so fresh they could eat a little bit during the week and its still fresh all week in the refrigerator. So thats really cool. The fish is very fresh and the price is super. I dont think that you can get it anywhere in the bay area. I can see it, and i can stir fry it, wow, you can do anything you want. I just can say this is a good place to shop and you have a good experience. This Program Supports the Strategic Plan in terms of engagement, people being connected to the waterfront, and also economic vitality. Because its helping the fishermen to make ends meet. They have no guarantees in their businesses, not like some people, and we want to do everything that we can to help them to have a good and thriving business. How does it feel to be able to sell your fish locally kind of in the traditional way, like your grandfather probably did . When i was a kid and i used to work in my dads fish market, a lot of the markets that we sell to now are second and third and fourth generation markets. So i remember as a kid putting their tags on the boxes of fish that we shipped out of monterey and ship down to l. A. So its kind of cool that were still dealing with the same families. And this is probably about the only way that anyone can really survive in california is to sell your own fish. One of the advantages of this program is the Department People that pull in the fish, they can find out where they caught it and find out more about the fisherman and that adds to their experience. The feedback from the fishers has been very good and the feedback from the customers have very good. And theres a lot of people coming to the wharf now that might not have done so. In fact, theres people that go through the neighboring restaurants that are going to eat fish inside but before they go in they see the action on the dock and they want to kind of look at whats happening on the boat before they go in and they have a meal. So its generated some conversation down at the wharf and thats a good thing. As you can see by the line forming behind me getting ready to buy fish, the Pilot Program has been a huge success. For more information visit sfsport. Com. My name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of San Francisco. I perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. Also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. I have been here at this facility since i moved here in november, and previous to that at the old facility. I was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldnt see people every day. I would miss my personal interactions with the other employees, but that hasnt been the case. This building is very nice. We have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. We have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in San Francisco. We work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. That brings us closer together also. I am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in San Francisco. As an investigator here i investigate all manners of death that come through our jurisdiction. I go to the field Interview Police officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. Additionally i take any property with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. I maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. I am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get. I work with the family to help them through the grieving process. I am ricky moore, a clerk at the San Francisco medical examiners office. I assist the pathology and toxicology and Investigative Team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral establishment. I started at the old facility. The building was old, vintage. We had issues with plumbing and things like that. I had a tiny desk. I feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. I am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. We test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. I oversee all of the lab operations. The forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the Human Performance and the case in the city of San Francisco. We collect evidence at the scene. A woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. That was the only investigative li

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