void -- to provide security. if you have any questions, you can look at the port website and the trade packages. contacts and phone numbers and names are on there. [applause] >> my name is rhonda simmons from the office of work force development. i think i'm last because my office provides services to every department up here. we work with all of them on all these contracts to try to ensure folks are getting jobs. we administer four different policies, if you will, the most recent being the local mandatory hire. i see some folks that helped get that passed. probably the largest project that is going to have the largest hire is the cruise ship terminal, d.p.w. we learninged the first source

policy, which is good faith, and a number of the projects that were already in the cue before march 25th, 2011, are still subjected to first source, which is good faith. we also work with a lot of the contracts to ensure residents are getting in on these projects and getting in the unions. the unions are a big partner. contractors are a partner. all of the agencies up here are a partner. i see a number of community-based organization that is we work with. w.c.b., brothers for change, hunter's point families, a number of agencies in chinatown to try to get folks ready for the jobs. the one project we didn't talk about is america's cup, which is another big event/ development project. i would say it has different phases, and and working with

contractors and others to ensure folks are getting the opportunities for that, which starts actually in 2012. it is sort of the first phase of america's cup. the big event is 2013. our role will be to make sure that youth get opportunities on those projects and at the event itself. i think we have information somewhere here in the back around the various programs that we provide. outside of the construction, we try to help with the in-use side of these construction jobs . in addition, professional service tied, i have worked with a number of contractors to help them try to comply with professional service goals, too. so if you have any questions, i will be here along with the rest of the panelists.

thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon. i am a compliance officer at the human rights commission. i will be filling in for the director as we moderate for the question and answer portion of this town hall meeting. before we start the question and answer portion, former commissioner of the southeast sector community center has an announcement to make. >> good afternoon and thank you very much for being here.

i would like to bring to everyone's attention concerning the rumors that has been going around in this community concerning the closure of this community college as well as the plan place across the street. i call it my -- the nursery. i would like to say that yesterday there was a meeting at my home with representatives from p.u.c. as well as from the community college, and it was decided at that time that there will be no removal of anyone from this college at all, nor from the nursery. i would like to say that i am saying that because i am -- i am the ambassador to p.u.c.,

and they wanted me to make sure that you have this announcement. everything will be the same. so thank you all very much. let people know that the college is not closing and that nursery -- and i called it my nursery yesterday. at my age, i do get short of memory, and so you have to excuse me. but we still are in business. thank you very much. [applause] >> let's start our question and answers. we have a number of speakers that have already signed up. the first speaker is mr. marvin robinson. >> good afternoon. i would like to welcome everybody to the neighborhood.

is that better? first of all, i would like to welcome supervisor cohen and the panel to the neighborhood. first of all, i think that dissemination of information is very important. if you look at the audience here, you can see that the information did not get out to the community. i found out about it by word of mouth. some folks found out about it through e-mail. but every single candidate that is running for mayor of this city is passing out flyers in the street right now. if there is a summit in the hunter's poith community about job opportunities, we have to do a better job of disseminating the information. secondly, i would like to see that the federal government and most of these agencies that are up here receive federal assistance from the federal government. under title vi, that means if

even agency receives money, they are compliant. with the title vi french from the federal, state and count, they must given preference to the very low and low income applicants. i would like to present later on what that means in terms of the very low applicants applying for jobs in these agencies. also under the mechanism of twilight vi, any agency receiving these federal dollars, the entire agency has to comply to title vi. there is non-compliance here. as we move on, that means the recipients, meaning the human rights commission and all of these entities sitting at the

table must give preference to the low and very low income applicants, as well as contractors. i didn't write this. i'm just reading it from the law. so if there is a contract, you must also look at the low and very low income. my position here is that we have been fooled out here in the bayview hunter's point community for 40-something years. every time a city agency or the city government wants to ramrod through the community, they come with jobs. there is no question we need opportunities for employment. i don't think anyone in this room would deny the fact that employment is needed. most of the jobs you are making reference to are contractual jobs or construction jobs that last four, five or six months. you cannot qualify for any of

the new housing they are building in this community with a part-time job. you have to have genuine employment, show two years tax reports that you reported to the internal revenue for services. i am not saying no minorities in this neighborhood has gotten any opportunity. but preference, i didn't establish that word. the same thing with the housing. those that live on navy, the new ridge, a lot of people didn't get back to the new. so they had to move to palo alto, richmond and other players outside of san francisco. so we have a chance to revitalize san francisco and this area particularly, and we need to make sure that those agencies sitting at this table is in compliance with chapter 10 and article vi that gives us the opportunity to have

preference and the contract on all the jobs coming forth. thank you very much. >> i have been reminded to ask that the remarks be kept to two minutes, for the person to ask a question or make a statement. the next person is diane wesley smith. >> thank you. thank you, everyone, for coming out to our community. i am heartbroken as a native of bayview hunter's point, i don't see a little bit of my people here who are in so much need. they are out passing out flyers because they need $25 or $30. supercohen, thank you very much for putting together this summit. i am here to echo the

sentiments of mr. robinson. i am a community real estate broker, and it has been very hard. i came into realize so that my people could get employment. when i say people, those of us who grew up here. we have 4800 third street. no one can qualify to move in it because they have not had a genuine job. i have been to many of these summits. i attended the workshop. you know what? i couldn't get anything out of it. i called everybody. i couldn't get a thing. you know why? i wasn't connected. i don't know certain people. i say that to go on the record. we have to be fair and transparent. clicking and giving jobs to people because they know someone -- no, i don't play ball. however, i stand here as a person on behalf of others. i have my home and my business, but i'm never ok until my people are going to be ok, and

that is the residents of this district. let's do this right so we don't have to stop everything and start over again. this is great,, but when it comes down to job, a lot of kids can't pass the drug test and can't do that. there has to be training, and it needs to be thought out and planned. we have the employees here, but we have to help them get ready. i am going to surrender my time to tony. >> your glassed. i am passionate. my people are starving to death, and they are moving out. >> mr. tony camera dash carpenter? >> i welcome everybody to our community. i am a lifetime resident. i was born in hunter's point in

1945. i think that it is important for us to understand what economic development is all about us because it develops our community. not only did it develop our community, it developed our city during the time i have lived here. the redevelopment process, i thought, when it came to hunter's point, it was to benefit the residents. but over the years i learned different. it wasn't a plan for the residents. it was a plan for the city of san francisco to upgrade, and modernize our neighborhood. but in the course of upgrading, they failed to give us an opportunity to upgrade economically. when i was listening to what they were saying about the housing authority, and they mentioned a preference for 25% hunter's point residents.

when they were rebuilding the development area and remoleding -- remodeling, i stood up for the residents of west point. you can't divide a community along project lines. now i find that is being done. it saddens me, because what we are doing is we are being divided against one another. what hurts me is that i come from the projects. i had an opportunity to upgrade my economic standards. i had the opportunity to learn a trade and to start a business. but what happened was we are constantly discriminated against. we have a contracting company. it has been listed for 27 years. we worked on the new homes in hunter's point. we participated in building a new shopping

>> but lately, we can't even get an opportunity in our own community. we need positive role models from hunters point. the hunters point businesses working in hunters point. our people look up to us. and they pattern themselves after -- by suppressing our opportunities, we are not visible in our own community. that is sad. [applause] i have seen african americans, the numbers, a decrease in san francisco. we call it gentrification. if you build something and you don't give us the opportunity to upgrade our economic standards -- i don't think it should be about hunters point. it is a part of san francisco.

whatever opportunity anybody gets in san francisco, the residence of hunter's point deserves the same opportunity and that is not happening. [applause] if you wish for it to happen, you have got to be in touch with us. we are hunters point. any so-called representative that stands ouup doesn't necessarily mean they are representatives. those of us from hunters point recognize one another. miss espinola jackson. i grew up with her children. mr. robertson. all of our families grew up together. when they close the shipyard down, they became

[unintelligible] in this neighborhood, financially, it sunk to where it is today. we have not had the opportunity for genuine employment. we have people out of work. what ever is going to take for the peoples to still live in the region for the people to still live in the projects -- what ever is going to take for the people to still live in the projects, we need to show them how to upgrade economic standards. how to get them to the unions, become contractors and business people. our community can only be represented by non-profit corporations. it only needs to be represented by business people that knows what the issues actually are.

we have to speak to being told about something that is not going to happen without giving us anything in writing. [applause] >> [inaudible] >> mr. alonzo? >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you for your attendance, representatives and offices in thsan francisco.

i was born and raised in bayview hunters point. as a family, we have bred and bled and sweated to gather -- together. october the 9th, i turned 63 years old, but i was born and raised here before i came to hunters point from the south to escape harsh conditions against african americans to come to california to find a better way for his family. there are a few questions of like to put, what is the policy for a contract in to minority contractors? what type of representation on

the selection and awards committee for jobs and contracts for these projects? what type of hardship policy is in place to ensure employment of our troubled youth and adults in the community. someone spoke to the issue of employment. but we need something in place that will be a support system for the huge and troubled adults -- youth and troubled adults. we are on the path for returning back to society as a responsible member of society. the fourth question will be to the housing authority. this has to do with affordable housing. it is under the title, section

333, i believe that you were given this by mr. robertson. our explanation of the attachment of documents, i want to know from the redevelopment agency and from the housing authority, what percentages are being rebuilt that are affordable to the extremely low, very low and moderate-income housing. the law requires that 100% is supposed to be returned. not 25% or 70% or 85%.

all of those units of there were projects. i have not seen if documented -- it documented that only a certain percentage of those units will be for the extremely low and very low. the law requires that 100% goes back to the employment of those individuals. for the redevelopment reports in the fiscal year '09-'10, required for the documentation. that is reported. we want to know how these projects have been developing and executed with taxpayers' dollars and about holding to compliance with the law and regulation of policy. i think you received this

document. at your earliest convenience, we would like to talk with you concerning some very severe issues going on in this community. for the redevelopment and the housing authority. until then, if anyone knows about western editions, it is circulated. they did not make it in the but -- nip it in the bud, the housing for affordable low- income families are not at that stage that the law requires. i am not making something up of the top of my head, this is documented proof. and the the law of the state of california means declaration of public policy. if we are going to move forward

with the development in this community, we want to do it by the book. [applause] >> we had a couple questions that he had asked. with regards to the housing authority, dominica? >> so the -- first, the housing authority has 20% -- i'm sorry. the housing authority has 20% contracting requirement. 20% will be awarded to minority business enterprises. that is the rule of the housing authority goes by. as far as the last question that

you asked, the housing authority's unit serving low- income residents. those that we build, operate, and maintain serve those populations. in addition to that, we are rebuilding at hunter view, and the standard we are using is a one-for-one replacement. if we demolish a unit that is serving in low-income households, we are replacing it with a unit that is serving a low-income households. currently there are about 267 units there. they are operated on by the housing authority. there will be more than 267 units built, but there will be

267 units that will be public housing replacement units. if it is something from the agency, i can't speak to it because i probably haven't seen it. and it might be that the agency has units and their including in the portfolio that are not specifically for extremely low income populations. but all of the units of the housing authority is serving the income base. they are not market rate units. the development requires a one- for-one replacement. >> i just want to quickly answe r -- yes, i met with mr. robinson and i have agreed to meet with him on a monthly basis. i will honor that commitment.

i am in possession of the document you're quoting from. >> miss espinola jackson? one last thing. two minutes. >> everybody knows i am long winded. let me say this. what was raised to you was a section 3 of the guidelines the people that live in public housing get the job first, that is not happening in san francisco. that is all that is being said. it was stated earlier by the speaker. no one is in compliance when it comes to the residents of san francisco. the work force, i would like to know who is monitoring. i know that we started with

human rights and we had some good work and going on at that time. but who is doing the monitoring? ha who is complying? also the statistics, how are you receiving those statistics? you have no one in the field to make sure that the contracts are complying with labor compliance officers. that is a very big concern and i think i have 20 seconds left. i am used to talking fast before -- because i go before the board of supervisors. i would like you to understand what the community is saying. we would like a change along with the supervisors. you need to know everything that is going on in the community and not everybody coming to you speaks for bayview hunters point. we will give you truth. what you have been receiving on not truth -- are not truths.

they would receive truth because we have been here since 1943. i know my community. [applause] >> rhonda, you probably know the statistics when it comes to hunters view. >> let me talk about compliance in general. every time i come down here, it is about compliance. israel, it is part of the history here -- israelit is reat is part of the history here. in terms of compliance, we have a lot of compliance year. -- here.