Transcripts For SFGTV Transportation Authority Full Board 12

Language barrier but luckily value we have members bilingual so dogging u doug step forward and the sentiment and support we have to i really appreciate our alm us and your continued to calls to see how he was doing supplement for acknowledging the great work of our great men and women in uniform. Thank you. Can i ask paramedic firefighter. I prepared a speech perhaps one minute and 30 seconds we are that on scene at a school with a skroud of chaplain around a boy on the sidewalk first all we thought not a considered but the crowd expected to go straight to the kidney but a quick second to grab any gear and then to assess the patient my worse fears it was a young boy no color to the face i lifted up the shirt no broebt and called and got ambulance here and station 28 captain gave me a shirt to give to derrick a miracle to see him setting up in bed, of course, for a 13yearold boy he looked like he was ready to get out of this and go home with a smile on his face when i give him the tshirt im happy to know that derrick will be okay and all the classmates and in the chain of survival in is this situation the training paid off you nathan do that thank you for keeping us current with the training and much credit to doug the senior medic that jumbled the call to provide life support starting an scene and continuing to the hospital Pacific Carla assistant apple scene and john and my crews on engine 28 sfpd for a exceptional job and code 3 Police Escort and also crowd control and the expertise of the staff at California Medical Center and the Cardiology Center thank you. Thank you. clapping. good afternoon supervisor president london breed and members of the board supervisor peskin thank you so much on behalf the chief chaplin were honored to be here as you mentioned supervisor you were on the scene probably before a lot of first responders. But as mentioned nothing short of a miracle ive been a Police Officer for 25 years and it is still rough to see those types of situations a young boy you think will not make that based on what you see but the sfwrept that are the home share roses and ive said this before the best Fire Department in this country in to the 9 world and see by today how well, we Work Together for Public Safety to make sure that you were protected and your folks were protected worthwhile you did the work and the School Officer stumbled across derrick and the chief rode in the ambulance all the officers were involved. Thank you for your Good Partnership and thankful for derrick as well thank you. Thank you. clapping. thank you to each and every single one of you and congratulations we appreciate your service and with that, i want to call up supervisor cowen for our next accommodation we have after supervisor cowen 3 additional accommodations so in the interest of time can we please move it along. Planning department. Thank you supervisor cowen. Is that a challenge. Ladies and gentlemen, im excited to introduce to some of you and present to you the hot team how many of you guys know about the Homeless Outreach team a shout out to the Homeless Team. clapping. absolutely that is a team of folks making that happen so colleagues today im honoring a group of our city family that deserves very, very special recognition theyre the San Francisco Homeless Outreach team as long as sf hot joined by the entire hot team family today that excludes the b. And street medication and Shelter Health come forward right around this podium and microphone now the Outreach Team provides Case Management and services as well as housing the Homeless People on the streets now thirty to through Outreach Medical Services engagement advocacy theyre dedicated to transitioning individual into a Stable Living and Health Care Environment with access to services that promote great health and housing retention and reduce the vulnerability and the utilization of Emergency Services this team before you this team before you is dedicated and devoted. They worked twentyfour hours a day 7 days a week to executive e connect did Homeless Population to services and really do work when really do the work that most of us cant imagine so the sf hot team has expertise in stability including mentally ill and flat outburst hopelessness those are the ambassadors of hope we want to say thank you and recognize overview for your service and i want to bring up mr. Jim wagner the director the Homeless Team just to say a few words jim. clapping. mr. Wagner before you speak i want to acknowledge supervisor avalos to see a few words about the hot team. I want to say as someone whos twhoz district has been ground zero on the homelessness ive had the honor and pleasure with working with so many of you especially in the last few months ive gone with some of you talking with people in the encampments ive seen first hand the amazing work that you do the way in which you deal with very complicated issues and the way you respect the dignity and humility r humanity and on behalf of the district i represent thank you, thank you god bless you youre doing gods work. Thank you supervisor avalos. Thank you and i used to say driving a muni vehicle is probably the toughest job in the city your presence remind me no thats not the case a lot of tough jobs probably one of the things when people call hot to come out they want people to disappear thats kind of what often the calls are they dont want the side the b. Versus sleeping on the ground people call with some domination but recording to the Human Dignity and why people can find a place to live and often you get turned down with the offers you provide people or dont know what to do in terms of options for a person i want to say thank you for the work you do one of the most challenging things to do im not a social working but do a lot of Community Work i think one of the most challenging work with the social work you, you thank you very much for the services you provide for all san franciscans and were blessed to have you. Thank you supervisor avalos supervisor mar. clapping. thank you to all of you when i rind along with the hot team through the richard district there part of Golden Gate Park or the greenbelt he guess what struck me, you know the peoples names and background their needs you human in his and not demonize them through ballot issues when with marin hooker pass away fwra thanksgiving i know a number of you knew him and sensitive to him, i hope that feeling of compassion and empathy pass Throat Department thank you for an amazing feeling for the poach that dont have homes over their hazmat head and all the work i you do not only in the richmond. Mr. Wagner you have the floor. Thank you. I wanted to start by thanking the San Francisco board of supervisors for this wonderful honor a special thank you to supervisor cowen thank you for initially this and also for the nice reception beforehand i want to take this moment to especially thank my team just wonderful Homeless Outreach team you see before us. You guys work in the most challenging environments of San Francisco and you work with the most underprivileged and disfachd human beings in the city with dignity and respect and most of all you do that with compassionate ill be honored to be your director. Thank you. Again. clapping. next id like to invite jeff our director supervisors and supervisor cowen thank you very much for honoring this Wonderful Group of people we really appreciate our recognition of the hard work done by employees and members of the hot team you know there is overtime we read in the news about the new departments and the new Department Director and the sdpugs of hoeflsz rarely about the men and women are everyday working in our Community Working with the very challenged population that has a highlevel of needs who are often been going ignored by people that build a shell around themselves and feel theyre less than or not part of this community those wonderful folks their jobs to reach out the individuals to let them know their cared for and about im show honored to be able to work with those individual and grateful for you to recognize their fine work thank you very much. Thank you for the great work you do. clapping. so jim on behalf of the whole hot team ill present the certificate of honor in recognition of the dedication to serving our citys Homeless Population in honor of every single one of you your selfless dedication building bridges out of homelessness we thank you. clapping. okay. Mr. Wagner thank you, again. And your entire team you do so much for this city and appreciate our services congratulations again. clapping. okay with that, well go to our next accommodation supervisor kim if youre not ready ill move to the next okay supervisor kim is not ready supervisor campos. Thank you madam president i believe that the folks are trying to get into the chamber. Okay. If. So supervisor mar also has accommodation. Thank you if yes. Are you ready supervisor mar. Yes. Colleagues today, were honoring shape up sf for over 10 years advancing Public Health department and can mary ann and christine and robert 0 please come forward. These incredible leaders from shape up sf haves collectively steadier our city towards the most progressive and Public Health Department Policies in the country found temple years ago over 10 years ago in 2006 shape sfta sf has respond to confront disease from the low Income Community and people of color shape sf has quoted to shack that up i call it disruptive of the they call it shaking it up to support people in the communities that ethnic healthy early theyve had a huge impact on me personally i used to drink sodas writing like crazy but knowing them and how they live and their advocacy has changing me and my family as well i want to also say when i first met them i knew little and learned so many but is to have to learn and thank you to them changing my familys eating and knowledge i know well live horizon because of shape up has adapted the strategy like partnering with the local neighborhoods especially the most impacted neighborhoods to create a city where choices have become the norm i think Internal Revenue Initiative Strategies their dominant building a wellness in San Francisco community i also want to acknowledge that one of their key successes has been expanding access to healthier and affordable foods for the sale of retail outlets in low income communities with healthy sf our Health Corner store 9 stores were redesigned to include Fresh Produce and hearther drinks and the selling of juxtaposing food and theyve ruled in an average of the 11 thousand pieces of produce were hoping to expand 24 beyond a doubt the bayview and Hunters Point to other neighborhoods since their launch weve increased by 5 hundred percent the number of physical education 59 increase 2, 3, 4 biking in schools thanks to 9 welcome ymca and increase in walking to school with your safe routines to school and the rock and roll partners in the commission thank you to the Steering Committee for serving for the justice advocates and for educating me and many of us on the breath and depth of their work and knowledge of their systems stwhafr been working behind the sceneries media office has helped with their leadership in making a lot of the changes on a citywide level to receive this accommodation chief executive officer jeff in the ymca from the y from San Francisco Health Improvement partnership and former cochairs i want to acknowledge christine and mary ann and on the staff from shape up sf and here the Steering Committee and our former Committee Member with the supervisor cowens with the American Heart Association and from the center of vinyl population from ucsf amazing, amazing work and others calling names of the Public Health department and youre Vision Zero Committee they are the champions of healthy San Francisco i want to allow us to have a few minutes to have them as a a few words open on behalf of shape up sf and supervisor mar the modest i didnt youve approached our accommodation is note worth of who you are as a leader in the city on the retirement from this body we mourn that we also know this this body is in the greatest hands in terms of leadership to allow any single supervisor would be a mistake overview of you had carried the banner for Public Health department and an active partnership as leader of our city is noteworthy i think that is important that within the framework of our Public Health department and how selfpartnership the 3 pilars of safety and assess of Healthy Eating and testify living are working in a coalition way in order to make San Francisco the healthiest place in the United States San Francisco is blessed by coalitions and the coalitions that really work for public interesting interests that address the social justice are the ones that that survive we know were in challenging times but know that San Francisco, california sewer mount those challenges if we learn how to build bridges and find effective ways to make San Francisco healthy i mean, ill yield the mike to my cosponsors. Supervisor mar and entire board we are very thankful and grateful to be able to partner with you all to provide better access to particularly those communities that stricken to assess food period but ultimately struggle to have food regularly so the partnership to provider access to healthy food is important to the bayview and the tenderloin communities we look forward to more of that work across San Francisco and thankful for the opportunity to increase the access to public Drinking Water in public stations that be installed and partnering with you to do more of that so folks can have seals to clean Drinking Water that are more and more important we all know that water is a life and scarce and much more scarce we looked forward to partnering with you assess for free Drinking Water thank you for your partnership and your support of this work to make the healthy and easy it choice in San Francisco thank you. clapping. good afternoon. Im the former cochair but for the shape up San Francisco my comments will address the soda tax we are extremely extremely grateful for your support in insuring this Tax Initiative that affected our communities for the longest we truly appreciate the concern youve deemed in this area because a mexicanamerican ass are the communities of polar that have been targeted by the soda 12ri without our support. Our concern and your advocacy we wouldnt have what we have now and he thank you, my family thanks you and thank you so very much we look forward to your continued support to insure that our communities are healthy once again and happy holidays to all of you thank you. clapping. yes, we know your fit supervisor mar. laughter . Thank you, again for your work and congratulations with that, supervisor campos our final accommodation of today. Thank you very much madam chair and it is an honor for me to call upon a groheroesm proud to say im the son of a im proud im honoring an Incredible Group of janitors that are part of a pretty Challenging Campaign to Sexual Harassment and enough is enough women janitors who are alone at night who are risking of assault and women that are undocumented and live and work in the shadows and women who work in isolation unfortunately are threatened in their job place everyday and every night as tarts for assault and harassment i know from my own experience seeing my mom and the job speaking out as an undocumented janitor not an easy thing to do. And this year these women those janitors broke the silence had the courageous speaking that is not discussed and i can tell you industry you have a lot of latino men and women that a lot of last but not least women speaking out is not something that youre supposed to do and the women