Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

Thank you for that. I am looking forward to this retreat. We do have one more meeting before the retreat, right . We can talk about of a little more there. I watched this a news segment on restaurants close and great i dont know if you had a chance to i have noticed a lot of this coverage on Small Businesses closing in the city is pretty onesided. I think they tend to focus on greedy landlords and the scorch of millennials who have changed their habits that are destroying our businesses. I dont think that coverage is fair. I think it might sell ads, but i dont think it is actually fair. I dont think we need to face the role that this building has on our government having the situation for Small Businesses right now. I have been chicken little. Ive been going to a ton of hearings and screaming. Im like little at the end, when the sky is actually falling but nobody believes him. For so many years, Small Business people have been, you know, frustrated and continuous complaining. As i was thinking about it, you know, there is at least five different ways that city hall affects Small Businesses. Right now it is affecting us in ways that are almost impossible to overcome for many businesses. We have fees. We have examples like the outdoor seating fee. If you wanted to have seating in your outdoor space which out of the blue double to 4,500 per year, if you want to have tables and chairs outside of your restaurant. We have taxes, including some very strange taxes. One the city levy calls on secured property. What is on secured property mean . It means anything not secured to the ground. Tables, chairs, sofas that they tax you on which is very strange writing that check every year. For some Business People it doesnt seem to make any sense. Lavishly there is legislation, like we talked about this new compostable products. They are talking about putting up a fee for her to go boxes right now is city hall. All of these things add up. And then there is things that i think affect us, in our department, which is the permitting process and enforcement from different departments. There is a give and take, and there is a social compact we have as businesses. We pay our taxes and our fees and we try to follow the rules. The city provides basic services. I think, you know, right or wrong there is a sense of right now from a lot of Small Businesses that the city is not holding up their end of the bargain. There is cleanliness issues. There is serious Public Safety and Public Health issues. I want this a body to constantly think about what our role is. Especially around enforcement and permitting. Im going through permitting right now for two businesses that i have. It is like entering a soviet era maze of bureaucracy that is so frustrating, and so insane sometimes. The main thing is that a lot of the people we come across, in the departments, either treat us with open disdain or indifference. From a Business Owner standpoint , when you are paying so much and you are doing so much, it is extraordinarily frustrating when youre dealing with permitting or enforcement, and you dont have somebody treating you like a human being. In many ways we are the customer, right . I am actually really proud of this department here. We are the Gold Standard for treating our permit holders like humans and customers. I want us to continue to be the example of how to treat businesses and partners to work with businesses who are in understanding roles, and only in rare occasions, where we do have issues that with businesses that are not behaving the way that they should. They should be the ones who are reserved for our apathy or disdain. I just wanted to point that out. I think things are about to get worse. We had at least ten restaurants in the last two weeks. My guess would be we could take 3050 more net loss restaurants. I would guess before february or march, that would be my guest. A lot of the reason that is happening is because of things that are happening in this building. I just wanted to point that out. I will continue to work on it, and i think we should. Thank you for hearing me out here. Any other comments . All right. Is there any Public Comment on my words . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. We will adjourn this meeting at exactly 6 11 p. M. Thank you. Right before the game starts, if im still on the field, i look around, and i just take a deep breath because it is so exciting and magical, not knowing what the season holds holds is very, very exciting. It was fastpaced, stressful, but the good kind of stressful, high energy. There was a crowd to entertain, it was overwhelming in a good way, and i really, really enjoyed it. I continued working for the grizzlies for the 20122013 season, and out of happenstance, the same job opened up for the San Francisco giants. I applied, not knowing if i would get it, but i would kick myself if i didnt apply. I was so nervous, i never lived anywhere outside of fridays know, andfridays fresno, and i got an interview. And then, i got a second interview, and i got more nervous because know the thought of leaving fresno and my family and friends was scary, but this opportunity was on the other side. But i had to try, and lo and behold, i got the job, and my first day was january 14, 2014. Every game day was a puzzle, and i have to figure out how to put the pieces together. I have two features that are 30 seconds long or a minute and a 30 feature. Its fun to put that altogetl r together and then lay that out in a way that is entertaining for the fans. A lucky seat there and there, and then, some lucky games that include players. And then ill talk to lucille, can you take the shirt gun to the bleachers. I just organize it from top to bottom, and its just fun for me. Something, we dont know how its going to go, and it can be a huge hit, but youve got to try it. Or if it fails, you just wont do it again. Or you tweak it. When that all pans out, you go oh, we did that. We did that as a team. I have a great team. We all gel well together. It keeps the show going. The fans are here to see the teams, but also to be entertained, and thats our job. I have wonderful female role models that i look up to here at the giants, and theyve been great mentors for me, so i aspire to be like them one day. Renelle is the best. Shes all about women in the workforce, shes always in our corner. [applause] i enjoy how progressive the giants are. We have had the longer running until they secure day. Weve been doing lgbt night longer than most teams. I enjoy that i work for an organization who supports that and is all inclusive. That means a lot to me, and i wouldnt have it any other way. I wasnt sure i was going to get this job, but i went for it, and i got it, and my first season, we won a world series even if we hadnt have won or gone all the way, i still would have learned. Ive grown more in the past four years professionally than i think ive grown in my entire adult life, so its been eye opening and a wonderful [roll call] we have a quorum. Wonderful. Before we begin, the general Public Comment, i wanted to welcome a new director to our board. A big welcome to you. You will be coming from a background of grout knowledge inhousing development and the foundation and he comes from he is an urban planning by training with lots of credentials and it will help us in our business of [ off mic ] im excited to be on here and im very excited the growth of Treasure Island and hope to bring my background both in organizing, working in publichealth as well as Real Estate Development and urban planning and to the board. Thank you, ruby. Good. Next item, please. General Public Comment. Do not appear on the general agenda. It will be held during each item on the agenda. Members of the public may address the board for up to three months and 30 seconds remaining and prior to make your comments, state your name and the organization you are representing if any further record. Treasure island museum. Welcome director shiffrin. First of all, id like to invite you, particularly to the saturdays fleet weekend lecture in the big idea series. Its about panam and the clippers and their role in helping win world war ii and the pacific. I am really here peter can what im here for is to get you half as excited as i am about this project that ive been working on. You are probably familiar with the math head which was the naval station Treasure Island weekly newspaper from 1941 until the station closed in 1997. It recorded the life of the island in ways big and small from chances an dances and spors to redevelop the entire island and put housing. This is from 1966, from the mast head and that year also the death of admiral nimith. Week by week, they documented half a century of the life of naval station Treasure Island. So id like to introduce you to second class Carolyn Brown she worked on the staff of the mast head in 1944 and 1945 and when she stepped down, her colleagues gave her a couple of bound volumes of the the 17 month mast head she worked on. And the museum has they were given to the museum two years ago by her daughter. The museum has digitized those issues of the masthead and lets see if this works. And you can go online, members of the public can go online to our website and page through issues the masthead and follow the life of Treasure Island. Im working on putting a search function in this but its just an amazing record of the history of the island and you can go online and browse it at your leisure. The old museum had an almost complete file of mastheads and they are now in the National Archives down in san bruno and its a dream of mine to get the resources to have someone go down there with a scanner and scan the whole half century plus of mastheads and put it up on our website. Ive been through some of those issues and its an amazing, amazing resource. The things you find in there. At least we made a start on it . Thank you for that report. Please come up. Members of the board, my name is travis lund im the executive director of the Treasure Island sailing. I intend to give a full report at the island meeting next month i wanted to address a couple of items with you. Say in general our over all summer programs are up by 12 . We had a banner year this year. Its been precipitation thats. U. S. Sailing was given a gift. I sent a communication about that and im sure yall received it. I wanted to formally invite you inperson to that. Its a 3 milliondollar gift they gave u. S. Saling to expand the sport of saling in terms of diversity and bridge the gap between youth and older students. They put brand new boats and they have done that across the country. I have those formal invitations ill leave with you and thats october 20th from 3 00 to 4 00 and the presentation is from 2 30 to 3 00. We love it if you could make it there. It would be wonderful if you can. The other invitation i would say is that were continuing to do our stem and Sailing Program and its been expanded to a fifth Grade Program which is a fivedaylong program which facilitates 84 trips to Treasure Island Sailing Center throughout the year and thats running monday through friday now somewhere between 9 00 to 2 00 depending on the day and wed love to invite you to come out and witness that if you wanted to step up for a halfhour. Its something wed like to invite you to. Send me an email and well make sure everything is lined up appropriate for you and get on a boat and see it as well. Thank you for participating in our program this summer as well. Thats it. Thank you so much. Thank you, travis. Ill leave these invitations. I know that youve had a great summer and the summer camps were very successful. We know quite a few families who took the summer camps and were appreciative that you offer those classes. Thank you so much. Next, please. Good afternoon, my name is jim hancock im the president of the San Francisco Sailing Science Center not to be confused with the Treasure Island Sailing Center. Id just like to sailing Science Board meeting on sunday and approved and the first exhibit and that is going to go into progress this week. When its completed, it will be displayed at the Treasure Island sailing is the directors will be invited to that as well as other Key Stakeholders on the island. We hope you save your date december 12th on your calender. Thank you. Seeing no others, next item, peter. Item number 3. Report by Treasure Island director. Good morning, directors. This week is plead week and staff have been doing a lot of work trying to complete we are continuing to take our typical precautions with increased sfpd presence barricading off viewing locations and flaggers for potential traffic problems, signage as well as temporary rest rooms and waste reseptic als. This past month, Treasure Island, one Treasure Island completed their fourth Construction Training Program and id like to invite Sherry Williams to come up and say a few words about it. Good afternoon, commissioners. Im Sherry Williams with one Treasure Island and welcome commissioner. We look forward to working with you. So we had our fifth graduation and just for a little background, i know that a lot of you are already familiar was that this Construction Training Program was really for us to provide people that with your support with the development support. This program grew out of a report we did two decades where we looked at what are called nuisance buildings but all the buildings on the island that it would be an opportunity for us to actually create a job Training Program for people who have various employment, low background in employment and so fourth to actually have hands on experience by taking down the buildings. And about two years ago now, weve joined forces with echo bay, with the support of you all and we have a sixweek Training Program where after the six weeks, they actually graduate and become members of the either local 67 or local 2261. 261. They move from graduation to employment and many of them are put into positions on the island taking down these buildings. We anticipate many of them will move to other positions on the island as we go vertical on the ilan. Island. Were really building a workforce of folks who have had few options really in gaining access to goodpaying construction, unionwage jobs and were creating that workforce so that we can make the job set aside that we set aside for the island many decades ago now. We can make it a real achievable goal. And i am happy to say of the 19 people that graduated, we have 17 have already started and had already members of the union and it was an incredible day because the other component here is almost anticipated positive is that we are really part of the Restorative Justice movement in the sensement of the folks that are entering our program are reentry. We have the public defender be our keynote speakers at this graduation and he is very wells patrick ryan who is the owner, the co owner of the echobased services who has been our Key Construction training partner in the private sector. I just wanted to share this is something that we can collectively feel very proud of. We are going to troy to ramp it up so as things go vertical theres a lot more demand for workers so were hoping to have more rounds of training. Its our model and so we just want to be really intentional that were ready for that when it happens. That is going into 2020, were really hoping to have one of these cycles every quarter. So San Francisco gets a share of those jobs that will be created and so train people who feed the skills are so important and you know, theres such a lack of Skilled Labor right now in the Construction Labor force in San Francisco. And in the bay area. So Training Programs that prepare people. If i can, mayor london breed just recently opened the office of equity, the first in the history of San Francisco. Let it be known, the treasure one Treasure Island with the help of Treasure Island development authority, we are the ones that are now implementing equity. I can attest this workforce training is one of the best. Its the must see. I see our jobs here and if you look at those remotely, we have the expertise to develop Treasure Island from a new commissioners from everybody here we have the technical expertise. Its opportunities and making sure that the development of Treasure Island is shared by everyone from the low income, from the disadvantaged and its the highlight of everything we do here. This program, we must not only put our efforts in that, we need to keep going. Theres a shortage in construction. Why are we not having this three or four or five times. The governor on down Every