Hundreds of volunteers pitched in during our last Community Clean Team event of
2017, which took place in the Mission Bernal Heights and the Portal neighborhoods.
In celebration of World Toilet Day we rolled out our newest Pit Stop Public
Toilet model which was designed in the style of the Painted Lady Victorian.
The much-anticipated second Street improvement project broke ground this
week, which when completed will improve safety and access for pedestrians,
bicyclists and transit as well as drivers.
Have you noticed iconic snowflakes lit along Market Street? The holidays are
just around the corner. In preparation for the season, we came together with the
mayor and the police chief to announce our efforts to ensure that residents and
visitors have a safe and clean experience during the busy holiday shopping season
in the downtown and neighborhood commercial corridors.
Hi, I'm Mohammed Nuru, the Director of Public Works City & County of San Francisco we're doing a
show for Public Works TV and my guest today is Lena Miller from the Hunters
Point Family. Welcome Lena.
Thank you Mohammed.
You run an organization that actually empowers people to be stewards of the
land and cause people to give jobs and really tries to change people's lives.
Tell us a little bit about your organization and maybe a little bit more
about kind of what you've been doing with Public Works lately.
Well I founded the
Hunters Point family when I was 23 and basically it was in anticipation of
having my first child and if I wanted a better community for my children then we
would have to begin to create that. We employ people who with the re-entry
population former lifers, that means people who had life sentences, to monitor
the toilets and that means to make sure that they keep them safe, that they keep
them clean. And the thing that this particular population does, is they have
over time developed in prison an exquisite sense of emotional
intelligence, so they are able to so easily and smoothly just make sure that
people can come in and out, that things are safe to defuse and deescalate any
kind of situations they get tense and really give people a sense of safety,
which I think really transforms their perceptions of themselves and in
society and other people's perceptions of them. So it really helps stabilize
this population as they come home and like I said really be an asset to the community.
I think one of the things that we are most proud of is that these
individuals are able to get work and able
to do something positive which I think there is a direct relationship with
crime or you know neighborhoods feeling safe because a lot of these
individuals, frankly if they want didn't have a job or they didn't have something
to do that they could earn money then people need to take care of their
families and people do sometimes resort to other types of situations that are
not necessary productive or helpful to the community.
You're absolutely right. Well there's an old
saying, "If people knew better, they would be better," and what I believe is that
this program gives people an opportunity to do better. It creates a life for a lot.
A lot of our employees have been in prison for 20 or 30 years and holding on
to little tiny glimmers of hope and when they get out to have this job for people
to look up to them in society, to feel like they're an important part of the
City family and giving back to the community on so many levels, it validates
that there is hope, that there is a life, that there is a place for them in
society and it helps them to to hone all that motivation and moving to the next
step in that drive to move up to continue to to better themselves and at
the same time society. So yes absolutely.
So I just want to say
thank you for all the leadership that you bring to the Bayview-Hunters Point
community. I think our partnership where changing people's lives but also giving
our communities better places to serve them or better places for people to use
a bathroom or a clean street or a nice park, as all being part of the
partnership that we have and just on behalf of Public Works just thank you
for everything that you do
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