I appreciate it. Thank you. Now our second item. Clerk, please call the next item number two is a hearing on Police Staffing levels, the Police Departments recruitment strategy and process, attrition and retention of officers, progress towards civilian isaiah and of appropriate positions and details regarding the demographics of the department including age, race, gender, sexual orientation, disability and others. This is president yees item so i will recess this for five minununununununununununununununu 7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe Neighbors Park Fund which was on the ballot four years ago and look at how that Public Investment has transformed our neighborhood. The playground is unique in that it serves a number of age groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the childrens play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were a lot of people that came to the table that had their wish list and we did our best to make sure that we kind of divided up spaces and made sure that we kept the old features of the playground but we were able to enhance all of those features. The playground and the soccer field and the tennis fields and it is such a key part of this neighborhood. We want kids to be here. We want families to be here and we want people to have athletic opportunities. We are given a real responsibility to insure that the publics money is used appropriately and that something really special comes of these projects. We generally have about an opportunity every 50 years to redo these spaces. And it is really, really rewarding to see children and families benefit, you know, from the change of culture, at each one of these properties and as a result of, what you see behind us, more kids are playing on our soccer fields than ever before. We have more girls playing sports than we have ever had before. [ applause ] fp and we are sending a strong message that San Francisco families are welcome and we want you to stay. This park is open. About two years ago now i had my first child. And i thought when i come back, you know, im going to get back in the swing of things and ill find a spot. And it wasnt really that way when i got back to work. Thats what really got me to think about the challenges that new mothers face when they come back to work. When it comes to innovative ideas and policies, San Francisco is known to pave the way, fighting for social justice or advocating for the environment, our city serves as the example and leader many times over. And this year, it leads the nation again, but for a new reason. Being the most supportive city of nursing mothers in the work place. I was inspired to work on legislation to help moms return to work, one of my legislative aids had a baby while working in the office and when she returned we had luckily just converted a bathroom at city hall into a lactation room. She was pumping a couple times a day and had it not been for the room around the hallway, i dont know if she could have continued to provide breast milk for her baby. Not all returning mothers have the same access, even though theres existing state laws on the issues. These moms usually work in low paying jobs and returning to work sooner and they dont feel wellsupported at work. We started out by having legislation to mandate that all city offices and departments have accommodations for mothers to return to work and lactate. But this year we passed legislation for private companies to have lactation policies for all new moms returning to work. With the newcome accommodations, moms should have those to return back to work. What are legislation . We wanted to make it applicable to all, we created a set of standards that can be achievable by everyone. Do you have a few minutes today to give us a quick tour. I would love to. Lets go. This is such an inviting space. What makes this a lactation room . As legislation requires it has the minimum standards, a seat, a surface to place your breast on, a clean space that doesnt have toxic chemicals or storage or anything like that. And we have electricity, we have plenty of outlets for pumps, for fridge. The things that make it a little extra, the fridge is in the room. And the sink is in the room. Our legislation does require a fridge and sink nearby but its all right in here. You can wash your pump and put your milk away and you dont have to put it in a fridge that you share with coworkers. The new standards will be applied to all businesses and places of employment in San Francisco. But are they achievable for the smaller employers in the city . I think Small Businesses rightfully have some concerns about providing lactation accommodations for employees, however we left a lot of leeway in the legislation to account for Small Businesses that may have small footprints. For example, we dont mandate that you have a lactation room, but rather lactation space. In city hall we have a lactation pod here open to the public. So the more we can change, especially in government offices, the more we can support women. I think for the work place to really offer support and encouragement for pumping and Breast Feeding mothers is necessary. What is most important about the legislation is that number one, we require that an employer have a lactation policy in place and then have a conversation with a new hire as well as an employee who requests parental leave. Otherwise a lot of times moms dont feel comfortable asking their boss for lactation accommodations. Really its hard to go back to the office after you have become a mom, youre leaving your heart outside of your body. When you can provide your child food from your body and know youre connecting with them in that way, i know it means a lot to a mommy motionlely and physically to be able to do that. And businesses and employers can just provide a space. If they dont have a room, they can provide a small space that is private and free from intrusion to help moms pump and that will attract moms to working in San Francisco. If you want more information visit sfdph. Org breastfeedingatwork. Welcome everyone. [applause. ] we are pleased this afternoon to get started on this big project in front of us. We are going to be having some seismic upgrades, a new elevator, we have a two Story Building wit out an elevator. We will have that for patients and staff. We are happy to have the mayor, supervisor, director of health, director of primary care, finance guy. You cant do things without the finance. We are happy he is here. Our Patient Advisory committee is here. Of course, several members of maxine halls family are with us today. This work honors who she was in this community, a leader and we want to keep that work going caring for the people in the community. We are excited about the project and i want to welcome mayor breed, who grew up in this neighborhood. Please join us. [applause. ] mayor breed thank you. First of all, hello, hello. This is somebody taped the microphone. I am going to hold it like this to make sure everybody can hear me. You grew up in the neighborhood. In fact i spent a lot of time at Ben Franklin Middle School where that is when i was a handful. I turned out okay. All is good. Just remember when any of you are working with the young kids that are a handful, you never know what is going to happen. It could be someone who just really surprises you and becomes all you ever dreamed they could be. That is the spirit of today and the spirit of maxine hall. I am excited to be here. We have Incredible Community treasures that are forgotten. The work we have to do to make sure this clinical was prioritized in the 2016 bond to help address disparities in communities around clinics and healthcare and support was a lot of work. To arrive at this occasion, and i can think about, you know, so many amazing leaders in the community who photo help take care of our kids, seniors to provide resources and services, and maxine hall represented that. That was the work she did her entire life for this community. Why it is be fitting her legacy carries on through the Health Clinic supporting those vulnerable in the community. We want to know why it is called maxine hall in the first place but more important the lady behind what made it is a community. Thank you again. Yes, this is happening. This is happening no more moving up the stairs real slow, no more helping to carry people who cant walk up the stairs. We are finally going to get an elevator in this place. Let me tell you. An elevator may not sound like much to some people. When you dont have one and dont have one that works right like we did at the Cultural Center before we redid the elevator when people got stuck in there. An elevator is everything. Today we break ground on really what will be an incredible facility. Thinking about the needs of the patients that this clinic supports, thinking about the fact that, yes, there are people that have challenges with Behavioral Health and need a safe place to go to in the community with people who they trust that they could talk to. I see a lot of the staff on the sidelines of people who work to keep this place running every single day. Thank you so much for your dedication to the community, for your compassion and work and your patience as we provide the Important Services that our city needs. We also need to have the important conversations around getting rid of the stigma attached to seeking out help for those who are mentally ill. People suffering with depression and sometimes dementia and not sure what to do, and making sure we have places family members can access to get people help and support and treatment they need. This has been an amazing facility, and people here have made do with what they have, but now it is time to get something better. Better exam rooms to meet the needs of the patients, nicer bathrooms with new fixtures and water that works. Making sure the Little Things and how people feel about walking in the facility changes because it is going to be a new facility, but it is important people understand this is about the people that access this facility every day, whether they work here or they use the facility for various things or they come by to pick up healthy fruits and vegetables and the great things and programs that maxine hall has offered for so many years. Protecting and supporting this Vital Community resource is critical to the success of the future of the city. I am happy to be here today. All is not lost, when this facility closes to be done on time and on budget, we have a temporary location near the Community Center. We will make sure that folks in this Community Know that is the case. Just because a facility is shut down doesnt mean the business cant continue. The business of the people in serving this community has to continue. I want to thank the staff for their flexibility and the community for their patience. I want to introduce your supervisor brown who worked as ad for me when we were fighting for the fight that places in our community especially maxine hall need priority and in city bureaucracy years from 2016 2016 passing the bond and preparing and getting the project ready to 2019 breaking ground, not bad in city bureaucracy years. [applause. ] ladies and gentlemen, your supervisor vallie brown. Commissioner brown thank you for coming. I want to thank a few people. Department of Public Health, thank you for pushing to make sure this happened in a way that cares about the community. I want to thank the San Francisco health network, department of public works. I recorded when you said, yes, maam, we will have that done. I will keep playing the recording to you. Mayors office of disability. Reverend brown and the naacp was very instrumental and the Community Center and of course our mayor london breed. [applause. ] you know, when i first started really getting involved in the neighborhood, it was over 20 years ago as a neighborhood activist. I remember someone telling me the story, and this is maybe 12, 13 years ago. About maxine hall. They said you need to know this story if you are going to be an activist. When i heard the story and the kind of woman she was and the kind of fighter for the community. It gave me that kind of passion to do more. When i found out her tragic how she tragically died and how the community said we are never going to forget her and making sure that she was never forgotten in the work she did. She was vessel less. Im sure her family will have stories to tell you about how selfless she was. She was a Community Organizer and activist. For me that gave me a path forward of how i should push forward, how i should never take no for an answer. It also is personal for me. With the center opening, you grew up in utah. Half nativeamerican, on and off reservations my whole life growing up. We never had healthcare, ever. If i ripped open my knee i went to the vet to get it sewed up because it was cheaper. When i was 14 and my mother turned 40 she passed away with undiagnosed diabetes. She had no idea. I think if we had a maxine hall is along the path of our journey she could have gotten a checkup. She never got a check up. She could have had that checkup and that she would have probably, you know, lived on. Her life was cut short at 40 years old. When i think about healthcare and i think about healthcare for all and justice, i feel that this is something that i fight for every day because it is personal to me. I want to thank doctor james for all of the work you do because i know it is not easy. [applause. ] and your amazing staff. I have a quick story. When we were looking for a space to spring some trailers so maxine hall would not close down, there was one area we were looking at. I wont tell you where. We got a huge push back from the community. I said why . This is amazing. We got a push back. They didnt want it. I worked with mayor breed and we said lets take it right in the community of maxine hall . We went to the ellie hill hutch Community Around there and i have to tell you everyone was excited and said, yes, bring the trailers here so services will continue. I want to thank the community for being open when we need those kind of direction to make sure that everyone gets service. Thank you everyone for coming on this lovely day. [applause. ] we want the teens coming over, especially rowdy ones. Bring them along. We want to acknowledge james. We learned a lot from him. Roland pickens who helped us as well. [applause. ] i want to welcome grant colfax to the stage. Doctor colfax was a resident at maxine hall. I want to say one of our loungest serving staff member is tanya thompson. She has been here for 30 years. She started at the age of four. laughter . She was one of the people who welcomed doctor colfax when he came as a resident. She had him seeing patients from the getgo. Thank you for being here. Good afternoon, thank you for being here for this exciting day. Mayor breed i would like to thank you and your leadership for making this help, supervisor brown thank you, muhammad you are crucial. I want to thank Roland Pickens and the team and staff at the clinic who do the work every day. I came back a couple weeks ago. I was here as a resident in 19 1994. The remarkable dedication that everybody has to the community and, most importantly, to the patients that get the care they need. The work around integrating Mental Health with physical healthcare, the fact there is a methadone clinic add join add joining this clinic. I think tha that is the legacy f maxine hall and this click. Now we will turn the the clinic hasnt changed in terms of the physical piece. Where you get care and what it looks like. Healthy environments, positive spaces improve Mental Health. Help peak struggling with substance abuse. Decreased stress. I am excited to see what we can do here in 14 months on time and budget. Lets get going. Thank you. applause . I think we have the director who is going to say a few words. Thank you to the health department. We have developed a very great longstanding partnership. We have delivered many projects together. Of course, the biggest one we have projects in the southeast, south center coming up, renovations. We are excited on this project. We are doing pretty much everything. The project management, construction management, architecture is all going to be done by the public works staff. We are excited to work on that. The funding as you heard the mayor say came from the 2016 Public Health and safety bond, which is very important. I want to thank the voters for making that funding available to us. I think some of the key elements you heard about having an elevator makes a huge difference. We will get a new elevator and make the building seismically safe. In the event of an earthquake or disaster the building will be operational for 72 hours or more. New consultation rooms when people come to use the facility, larger exam rooms, everything with the funding we are excited about. I would like to thank our project team and all of the staff from public works for working so hard to get us here and the contractors working on. The engineers are going to make sure we deliver the project in the 14 months. That would be winter of 2020. I am excited and i hope it gets done on time and on budget. Thank you very much. [applause. ] we want to hear from one of our patients. Our patient advisers are a group of people who bring wisdom to us. We are grateful for their work. We want to hear from them. This is a pamphlet for patients to best access their care. It was thoughtfully done. We give this to all patients. Thank you for being our patient today. Thank you, doctor james. I have been a patient here good years. I receive the best care. I have been to a number of other clinics. This is above all of them by far. I work with the central city which may or bleed knows about. I have been there for about 10 years, i am a housing peer counselor. I am also on the gourd for t