Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

It was a pleasure to see buck, and he will be missed. Supervisor haney. I want to share my condolences with buccs family and friends. I i want to thank you for sharing him with the city and with all of us. I am a new supervisor. I would always hear his name out there from other people in the building, and it is clear that what he demonstrated in term of his love for the city, knowledge, passion, had such an impact on everyone who worked here. We could feel that all around us, and i just got a text message and had heard the story before. It was actually buck who had advised chris daily that as the mayor for the day he can make the appointment to the p. U. C. Commission. He was the only one who could make that call. When he did as the staff said they knew he was the real deal. He stated the law matter of factually. He said this is something you can do, and as supervisor safai said that led to many decisions affected countless people in the city. I want to thank you for sharing him with us and to the entire City Attorneys Office and thank you and my condolences. Thank you, colleagues for your kind words. Supervisor peskin. I just want to give members of the family who may want to say a few words. I see his brother mark coming forward. I am mark, bucks brother. I suspect the fine gentleman and his words maybe one of the few times in your memories were you asked a public speaker, please dont stop, keep going. This room because he told me so represented decency, democracy, doing the right thi thing, blemishes and all to him. First, i want to give special thanks to marguerite and paul who went down stairs on Tuesday Morning to help buck. They explained everything was okay, calming him down a little bit, and send him on his way to the hospital. Actually, i screwed that up. Let me start over. Yes, marguerite and paul and john from the Attorneys Office and the sheriffs down stairs who i had spoken to personally were so kind and gentle and supportive with buck and moved him into the office. He would have none of that. He wanted his bike. They convinced him to settle down, which he did. So today i was in bucks office. I hope the person doesnt mind that somebody named molly ward, who was on mcallister. Deedear buck, i write to thank u for yesterdays lunch and fine company. The lemonade was good, too, i would recommend it. We both lived once between 19 and 20th is a coincidence. Perhaps it is why i felt to so comfortable saying hello and making your acacquaintance. Thank you for the continues on making the most out of my legal education. Like you, i already do. I have to think of him watching laurel and hardy, and i will get composed. He laughed so hard he couldnt breathe when he watched them move the piano up the stairway with a piece of 2009. Thank you for the continues on how to make the most out of my legal education. Like you already do, i hope one day to serve San Francisco and lead by example, also, as you do. Virginia once mentioned to me your ocean swimming interest. For you that rocks. Sincerely, molly wood. I am honored to be in this place at this moment. Thank, you mr. President , members of the board, so many staff, especially dennis. Please know that your support and love that our family has received from so many of you and the city and county in general has been overwhelming inspiring, joyful, and it has added to the immense pride we already have. I promise you in the broadest great comfort each and every gesture of kindness, love and support. This building was bucks place of worship, as his daughter has said. All of you were not his extended family. You were not his extended family. You were his family. Thank you very much. Thank you, mark. [applause. ] why dont we close this out, and to the family accept our condolences. Right now i will give you a second we would like to leave the chamber at this point. I will give you a minute to leave and we will continue our meeting in one minute. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, colleagues for allowing this to happen. We are going to go back to our commendations at this point, and supervisor mandelman, would you like to share your commendation. I know it is rough, but we will get through this. Thank you, president yee. Are the home ward bound folks here . Come on up. Today i want to recognize the home ward Bound Program from the department of homelessness and supported housing. Since creation in 2005 the program has helped over 14,000 Homeless Individuals reunite with friends and family. As the city has seen a 17 increase in homelessness over the last two years we need to use every tool we can. For many served leaving the streets in San Francisco to reconnect with loved ones is the best available opportunity for a new beginning. The home ward bound team is small and mighty. Their hard work makes the Program Success possible. There are seven Health Workers and one supervisor they work with homeless to coordinate travel and money for meals and following a minimum of three times during the first month every union fiction to be sure they are in a safe place. I want to thank the home ward bound staff for all of the work you do. I believe isaac is going to say a few words. Good afternoon, board. I am isaac foster. I have been working with home ward bound since the inception with the city. This is an awesome team. We have been trying our best to try to help the Homeless Population that we work with get back home to friends, family or their community. This is a passion that we do, and we work with people who are in trauma daily. We sit there with them and we work with their trauma and work through that trauma to get them to a safe place. From the young lady trying to pay rent with three kids here in San Francisco and just cant reach it and wants to go back to live with her mom in indiana to the distraught young guy who cant make it here and whose uncles offered him a job in texas and get back there to get his footing, those things are important to us. We as the home ward bound team thrive to make those things happen on a daily basis. We are a small team, but we account for a lot. We push that daily, and if i can speak for the rest of the team, we are very proud to stand up here and a chief this, again, thank you so much. Thank you. [applause. ] thank you for your work. Next we would like to have supervisor brown, please share your commendation. Yes, thank you. Today i am commending victor jones, aka creature man. Come on up here, victor. Creature man you are a legend in district five and for decades you have been Outstanding Community led deer and really throughout the city, not only district five. Victor grew up in the western edition and for over 30 years he worked to uplift youth and put an end to violence in the streets. He started n a as a coach. Acting as a mentor for thousands of young men and women. Since then he worked for brothers against guns and the mayor office ipo program. He served as coach for the San Francisco activist league and been a commissioner for the peace hoops program. Today he works as coordinator for San Francisco street violence intervention where he assists at risk youth across the city. Recently, victor stepped up to address recent gun violence and shootings in district five. I want to thank you for addressing this unfortunate violence. It is something that happened and it came up all of a sudden in the district, and for you to be that leader to come out with others on the team and say, no, we have got to stop this violence and we have to Start Talking to the youth was instrumental in really addressing this. Your work is invaluable to the community. I cant imagine Western Addition without you. You have provided a pathway to safety and security. You have created more economic and educational opportunities. You have reduced the violence in the community. Because of you many of our youth are thriving like your son over there. Thank you for your comments to the young people of San Francisco, on behalf of the board of supervisors in the city and county of San Francisco, i commend you. I thank you for giving me this for district 5. It is a long time coming, but it is here. I also am a supervisor in the mission. I have a heart for the mission as well as district 5 and bayview and all over citywide. We are a family. This is my family right here, and even with this i have mentored people here. I thank you, man. It is 30 years in the makings. To be acknowledged is a blessing, and you have put a lot of work in to it. I want to say i love you and i thank you for that. The work still has to be done, and it definitely these people behind me will go the distance in the mile like me. I wanted them to stand up as well and, you know, let them know i love them for having my back. We do what we do. People dont understand that. We put up eyes all over the city. I think with street violence intervention we need to look forward to the future for us, 15, 20 years down the line from now. With the help of the supervisors that can be accomplished. We need this. Our young men and ladies need the love, guidance and support they dont get at home, the meal they dont get at home and the extra talk. I thank you in every way. God bless you. I love you. Thank you. Thank you. Lastly, we have supervisor haney. Please share your accommodation. Thank you, president yee. It is still Filipino American history month. It is the last few days here. I am very proud to present a commendation to two people who are committed to preserving and elevating the Filipino Community in our city. The master mind behind the undiscovered San Francisco creative night market and two of the most hardworking people i know. They produced undiscovered as a collaboration between cultivate labs and make it merry in partnership with the filipino cultural district. The concept is to bring together artists and food vendors to celebrate the filipino culture. If you all havent been, you are missing out. It is one of the most Extraordinary Events in the city in a long time. Des see is a soma resident and entrepreneur. He has 15 years of experience creating, funding, branding unique Business Concepts that span the food, music and technology spaces. He helps people grow businesses he is helping filipinos thrive and grow. His expertise was key and he has used the skills to transform a parking lot to the amazing undiscovered Basketball Court that positively activates not just the parking lot but the alley as well inspiring others to get involved to make the street a better place to live and work. That is still open. He is working on republic sf, retail space and Business Incubator omission street with the goal of a commercial strip of filipino owned businesses by 2020. He is an events enthusiasts and founder of the events. Prior to the founding he spent 10 years doing corporate annan profit events including seven years working for google and google x. Last year he found the entrepreneur summit, annual event for filipino nap entrepreneurs. He amplifies the voices of color through the summit. He continues to build on the work which just finished the Second Annual summit wit with t0 in attendance. Her next project is to head up Event Production for the fillmore jazz festival. The two of you are some of the most consistent presences on making cool stuff happen in the community not just the last few years but for decades in the city. I remember seeing des see when he would have parties and venues. There was always something new happening and always on on the cutting edge. You are continuing that and we are all benefiting in so many ways. The ways you center filipino culture and art and lifting other people is inspiring. It is the Fastest Growing ethnic group in california. South of market is ground zero for the gentrification as new and expensive high rise developments popup. In creating the undiscovered they have played a part to preserve filipino cultural institutions and prevent the further displacements of the residents in soma. More permanent businesses will surely follow reinvigorating the south of market neighborhood with a ruth Cultural Diversity it deserves. We are grateful and happy to honor you two today. Thank you. [applause. ] two years ago when we finished the first season of undiscovered sf, we had five pop ups in five months. It was insane. Over 30,000 people that first season. I had no idea we would be where we are today. After that i put in my moin my tech job because i knew this is where i needed to be. I thank the city of San Francisco. I remember our first conversation and thanks for the city to having faith in two crazy filipinos with big ideas. It is what happens when we invest in big thanking for the communities. Thank you to the team. It is a team sport to make miracles happen every month. Thank you to all of the activists and nonprofits that made it possible for us to be here and for trusting us with representing them with such a very important event for our cultural district. Thank you, supervisors. It is very important we get this now because, as you know, working in Community Development representing people is not easy. When you work in economic development, you are going to be making things that are going to make communities uneasy, and the programs we develop are very innovative and make people feel very uncomfortable. It is ironic you give us this award now. In a few hours we have to go in front of the community and justify andy fend our approach to economic development. It takes many hands and minds and hearts to move this mountain forward. I am hoping this award is going to give the strength and bravery for my team to keep pushing, keep moving. We hit obstacles and we cant make everybody happy, we are doing the right thing because our intentions are real. We are very mindful of the consequences of economic development. I am happy to be a san franciscan, to be part of a sievof aof amovement. We are one of the most wealthy cities in the world. We have people falling through the cracks every day. One of our hopes is to rediscover the value of bringing people up together. I hope we can unlock that solution. [please stand by]. Clerk dedicating funds for permanent Supportive Housing and the acquisition of Supportive Housing and to remove the monetary limit of the funds under the housing fund and modify the ceqa determination and make the appropriate findings. President yee next time, press a button. Supervisor haney im sorry. President yee supervisor, youre automatic. Supervisor haney . Supervisor haney thank you for allowing me to return to this. This legislation has been a number of months in the making. Initially, we introduced this legislation because it was so urgent we introduced it before the nexus study was out and we wanted to start the process. When the nexus study did come out which sort of allows us to justify increasing the fee, we were able to go through a process with the community and ultimately with labor, hearing from businesses and all of you to come up with what is in front of you today. I want to thank the many different organizations who were a part of bringing this legislation forward, advocating it forward. Somcan, Hispanic Labor council, supervisors and cosponsors mar, fewer, walton, ronen, yee, peskin, mandelman, and safai, and i believe brown, as well, so just to have such broad support for this issue of how we make sure that as we grow in a city, were growing in a way so that people who work here are able to live here. Supervisor mar had put out a report through the b. L. A. Which showed over the last ten years, we were building 1. 5 units of housing for every 8. 5 jobs here. And that shouldnt be surprising. Its been a massive displacement of low and middleincome households in our fee. The strain of workers who are living further and further away from their jobs. And i think a bigger question and existential threat to our city of what it means to grow if were not building enough Affordable Housing. The nexus study showed for these Larger Office developments. About a third of the jobs created as a result of those Office Developments are people making under 1 00 a. M. I. Which means they are having a very forward time, almost impossible, to afford housing in San Francisco. So that puts a lot on us as a city to be able to make good on our promises and make good legislation. This will lead to 400 million of increased investment in Affordable Housing in the next eight years along. We will be able to see, i eight years alone. We will be able to see the advantages of that in the next decade alone. We took some feedback from the Small Business commission and from organized labor to be able to get to the place we are today, which is a very strong piece of legislation. It will lead to thousands of units of housing being built that would not be built otherwise, and i think its smart equitiable sense that we need in our city as we continu need in our city as we continue to grow. The major thing is we are updating our fee so projects in the pipeline will pay 52. 20 per square foot, and that will increase to 69. 60. Theres a phasing in. We recognize that for the Pipeline Projects that are not expecting an increase of this size, particularly because most of those projects are in central soma and theyre paying significant fees. We also will be adjusting the rate of the laboratory fee, so well phase it out to 38. 37. In recommendations to the Small Business commission, the smaller projects, so projects between 25,0

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