regular basis. maybe like a task force between youth and police. just a more concrete policies of actual groups and that we can continue this work. >> i would say that what i was getting from this was everybody wants more engagement but this was a positive message. just sing all the programs they offer and all of the ways to interact with the community, it is different than seeing a lot of pictures of police brutality from other cities. i think that san francisco has the potential to have a positive relationship. >> thank you for coming out tonight. i notice 10:13 but thank you.

when i came here in here tonight i thought it would be a complete a bashing of the police but after tonight i am happy to see the respect a lot of people had for the fishing program, the outdoor program. while there might be some things we could fix, i would like to thank you very much for all of the programs. >> i would also like to echo some of my colleagues recommendations overall, if we can, when i do provide my suggestions, and keep in mind some typo follow up for the police department or for the police commission. in some ways, i know that each

recommendation has the capacity to fulfill it, maybe more immediate and others. if we can give some what of a follow up for our recommendation, that would be great. give this a time line so we can expect it. overall, i would like to believe that we share some commonality on reducing recidivism rates or prevention in general. given that i would like to believe we share that commonality, i believe it is imperative for us to become better communicators, as was said today. i know one concrete way that could benefit to the youth of our community is, like my colleagues said, trading specifically geared toward real- life scenarios with the police.

interact with the youth. also involving the leaders of these organizations so they can go on and continue to be leaders and teach other youth on best examples, instead of doing a flight or fight or to articulate themselves. i know that one of the youth said we want to communicate, our emotions do not let us. and believe it will be helpful, then know your rights pamphlets, which have pointers on how to interact with police. i know that those pamphlets are

-- the former police chief carry them around. i believe hearing of all the capacity the department has now and how creative the canby and how it can continue to distribute those pamphlets for the used to know their rights but to become better communicators with the material. whether that is through school or on the newsletter's or if we could focus or the high concentration of youth is, that would be great. lastly, two, excuse me. it was great that we have so many programs offered, given

that, there is another commonality whereas they want to provide early intervention services. i would like to see the continuing of partnerships and also faith-based organizations that, at times they volunteer or at times they are willing to outreach with the kids. even if it is a designated person at each community organization, where they can, there is a designated person where they can be a liaison to the police department and vice versa whereas they can better coordinate or keep seeing the same youths on the street, these services could be offered to them to reach out to those persons so they could continue that culture shift for the

youth. thank you, again, for bearing with us and hearing all of our recommendations. we appreciate it. we know and we feel and it was articulated in different ways today, regarding whether is -- back indefinitely, be revised. considering on how to partner with these organizations since there are systems in place that believe in our abilities, because of the program, and

certain organizations partnered with. i believe there are many funded programs that definitely sure that commonality. we would like to help out our youth as we do also. thank you. i know that was a worthy response. i am glad we are all at the table at the moment. we're communicating. >> thank you, commissioner ontiveros. >> i want to thank the police department for the presentations they made angela occ. -- and the occ. but especially to the youth commission. i appreciate so much your being here tonight, sitting through this a very long, marathon, four

0.5 hour meeting. listening to all of the wonderful presentations by community members and then, at the end, providing your insights and your thoughtful reflection both from your works and from this evening's presentations. and what you have gleaned from that. i very much look forward to going forward with additional collaboration on the suggestions made. thank you very much and i look forward to working with you in the future. >> anything further? >> i am going to keep it short. thank you for the hard work. he did a ton of the work for this meeting. [applause] also, for the commissioners, make some sort of a response to all of these recommendations.

i will defer to president mazzucco as you how we're going to follow up. >> thank you a lot. wait too long, way too much. a distilled this down to, having been a youth, to me it is about the officer you would like to see verses the officer you often get. i heard a lot about, i always hear from the community, what they would like the officer to be. that is not what they often get. it seems like you are always trying to close that gap. i think that goes beyond programs. semyon people do not go to programs. i think that is the challenge. it was for me as a young person. the officer i'd like to see was

not the one i often got. i think that is the real challenge. that is something you can keep in front of you. knowing also that the officers often train like that. when i became a teacher, i had to -- are was not trained in all of the things because it was not what the students needed. i think that is the real challenge. i think you have taken some little steps tonight. you heard the programs available. for you, that is the gap you want to try to continue to close. knowing the constraints that are fighting against that. thank you for taking the challenge. you have been fighting for the young people. that is great.

how would like to talk with you when this is over about some other things. >> without further ado, i'm going to open this for public comment. public comment is now closed. we need to get the commissioners home. i would like to thank everybody for this meeting. >> wanted to hear our we're going to follow up. >> what we will do, we should talk about it in our next meeting. thank you for your recommendations. this meeting, i need a motion for a line number5. do i have a motion? do i have a second? all in favor, we are adjourn. -- adjourned.

>> thank you very much for that kind of deduction. good morning, everyone. i want to thank john, wade, steve, and the entire chamber for the invitation to address you. i know i am the last speaker, and after that panel i am eager to have to go back to work. sarah, thank you. cady, and george, very appreciative of the dialogue. as you can tell, when you hear about all of that, i could spend hours going through all of the tech companies what they are trying to do.

ultimately, it is about job creation, and i get excited about that. it does keep me getting up very early, murder this of how i get there. if i can create one job every day for somebody here in san francisco, that will satisfy me greatly. guess what? there are hundreds of thousands of jobs at stake. i will continue to make this my mantra because i think it is the right thing to do for a great city. i want to also acknowledge the members of the board of supervisors here today. they were announced earlier. we all work as a team and it has never been about the mayor, him or herself, and i have learned that working in concert with the board that we have clear tones of communication, making sure that we speak more and more in the language that is important for this city. language and policies and ideas

that create investor confidence in this city. that is what i have been talking about more and more. we have got to have a city that is investment-confident, that one -- that one does not have doubt. if it is your family, small business, someone joining another one's business, we have got to have that level of confidence to see things through for you, so your investment is one that is positively welcome, taking care of, and prosperous. that is how we get to the theme of today's breakfast of prosperity and sharing of that prosperity. i want to take a moment to thank my friend john. he has been at the helm of the chamber for the past few years. he has been an important aspect of the work that i have done over the years. as you know, i started at the

human rights commission and then i went to purchasing, which was the most fun i have had. who could not have fun buying a billion dollars in supplies every year? then the former mayor brown gave me the heart to work in public works, engage in conversations with everyone about what was wrong with our streets and making them right. it was in that toughest job that i had that i have a lifelong friends, people who care enough about the city that picking up somebody else's trash is nothing when you can work together and dream about how better the city can become. i want to recognize john because he is one of those few people who i can properly engage in trash talk and still talk about the city in a positive way. thank you, john, for your wonderful service.

[applause] when i came to all of you a year ago, san francisco's on the planet rate was 9.5%. we just heard a fantastic presentation by j.p. morgan and their analyst as to how we come about in making that change. at the time, we faced a $380 million budget deficit, and we were struggling on how to meet the increasing cost of our pension and health-care obligations. remember that discussion about our pension? we have come a long way. it is not even mentioned anymore but it is still prevalent, and so are our health-care obligations. one year later, our city, the supervisors, mayor, elected officials have all come together with the help of great city department leaders that are also here today doing everything we can to make sure that we tackle the pension issues and make sure that our budget is balanced.

more importantly, we put people back to work. that is the most important thing all of us have joined together in doing. in the last 12 months, guess what we have done? we created jobs for an additional 17,300 san franciscans, bringing our unemployment rate down from 9.5% to 7.6%. that is in just one year. thank you for your help on the [applause] at. -- for your help on that. [applause] two weeks ago, we got another piece of positive information, news on the economy. our revenues became $129 million in greater, than projected in the first six months of the fiscal year. that is wonderful data for san

francisco because, guess what? for some years now, it has been deficit, deficit, deficit, no increase, no revenue, and all of you know how wonderfully negative that discussion has always been. now we have some positive light. i stand before you today, just a year in office, in my first year as mayor, to say that the economic recovery is under way, it is a real, and economic policies and strategies we have pursued are working, and they are working well. our city could not do this without the partnerships of many of you who are here today. san francisco is back on track and but we must stay the course. what i mean is, even though our

revenues have surged from the economic growth that our tech companies have provided, a traditional companies that have been here for so many years. by the way, let me do this. i have been known as the attack may year -- tech mayor. how one thing that i have come here with, puget you have always been excited for the city. we come to you. you helped us on a tremendous number of thing last year. i want to thank all the members of the chamber as well. whether it is a wells fargo, a pg&e, recology, the numerous sponsors that continue to come here, you have been part of the life blood as we welcome in the clean technology and biotech. you want to make sure that we

are growing a family steeped in tradition of people that love this city, that love every neighborhood, and who have experienced all the great positive dialogue, but have also been concern about negative dialogue, sharing in every aspect of the city has. i know many of you have joined with me some weeks ago when we celebrated the 50 years of tony bennett and his wonderful song. we have much more to celebrate in the coming years. i hope you all join the chamber in making sure that we share this prosperity. having said that, knowing that our economy is improving, i want to make sure you know i will be at the home with the board, making sure we are not tempted to return to spending habits and short-term choices that got us into trouble in the first place. we have two-year budgets, a

renewed sense of obligation and responsibility, talking about our infrastructure, things that allow our tech companies to be successful. we have to solve some serious transportation issues in the city, and that is why at risk in and i spend hours saturday morning at a technology hackathon. not trying to create a new application but try to solve some traditional problems with our taxis, making sure that someone can get a taxi, rather than waiting in being frustrated, another aspect of our transportation issue that we would try to get solutions to. more than ever, we have to double down on reform, on innovation, an investment. that is why i will continue to announce we are the innovation center for the whole world, right here in san francisco. soon enough, there will be cited

to reflect that in the city. we had to break with some traditional things from announcing that in the most broadway, letting everyone know that this is the center for a lot of things to happen. reebok to keep that innovation strong, keep the dialogue, as the panel has been talking about, keep salesforce growing, twitter growing here, keeping us all engaged as technology helps us to solve many of our problems, and finding solutions that we have not thought about. once and for all, we must treat government and our responsibility as mayors, as families do, find savings where we can, reduce unnecessary spending, and importantly, in best. invest in our people and our infrastructure. as said earlier, i will continue to talk about jobs. i do not care if i'm called the most boring guy that got one thing.

i will repeat. i come here every day to the office asking whether or not i created another job for somebody else. when you learn about the statistics that sf city is sharing with us, if it is jobs for seven siskins, it is worth to get up early for, sacrificing late-night meetings, working on the weekend -- except my golf. [laughter] we are attracting tec, biotech, clean tech. we are supporting local manufacturing. we are going to be making more things. fashion is coming back. technology with passion will be an exciting areas that we can hopefully unleashed soon. i will also tell you this. there are areas that we do not pay attention to that are not only stable, increasing, and

wonderful when you hear this, but did you know -- and i got this from the recent reports from our hospital council recently -- did you know that our health care industry in san francisco generates economic impact of over $15 billion a year? our own health care industry. 99,000 jobs. that is a huge contribution to our economy. i do not want them to be silent any more. our health care needs are important, and we will be getting that cpmc job done very shortly, wade. [applause] with our elected officials and board, we need to continue to reform the peril tax. we have got to incentivize businesses to create those jobs. -- payroll tax. the conversation in the board has been very good because we

have not forgotten those that are not skilled as well as others. we have got to get that employment training center up, we have to invite those who are living in the tenderloin, amid market, south of market, the traditional groups that have struggled, they have identified issues in the past, the digital divide. they were not caught up to the lunch alt -- level of education and technology they needed to be. we have got to help our returning veterans get those skill sets. people who are in the middle of their careers get those skills sets. that is why employment training is so important. we need a stronger training partnership. we also need private and more public investment in our schools. i will be talking a lot about that with the new president of our school board norman yi, carlos, organizations at the

school board. i will be talking about how our schools can participate in this employment training and make sure there are generations of kids who do not lose hope in this city, do not look elsewhere when the best jobs are created right here. all i have to do is do their part. when they do that and complete their job education, that will be there for them. i want to say one thing about our infrastructure, something that i want you to remember as you leave today. i just want to mention something about hetch hetchy. some people out there are suggesting we can tear down that dam and still survive as a city. i want to let you know, as insane as it is, it is, in fact, insane. [applause]

there will be some leaders that approach you, others around the city that suggest tearing down hetch hetchy is a good idea. they will start talking about water sustainability issues. but know this. not only do we have the cleanest water, not only have we spent serious amounts of money upgrading seismically the whole system to deliver that clean water, but it is also one of the strongest clean hydroelectric power sources, it infrastructure, that any city across the country has had. i want to make sure you know that as this public dialogue begins. do not be misled on the discussions by people who will connect something that we want to have, which is sustainable water, but not by tearing down

our dam. finally, i want to end with a discussion on america's cup. yesterday, we made the announcement that pier 30 and 32 are no longer part of it. i think the public discussion and discourse around the investments that we do need to rebuild the piers, including the horrible conditions at 30 and 32, it got away from the focus, which should be on hosting the 34th america's cup, one of the greatest sports event we will see. it will probably be the only international sporting event and all of 2013 in any part of the united states, and it is coming here to san francisco. it will be a blend of technology, with boating, will be viewed by new technologies to introduce us to generations of

new sailors, and using our waterfront and bay in the right way. i spoke to larry ellison directly for a good few moments. we reiterated our excitement about the race. it is on for this year for the smaller boats, next year for the larger ones, and we do expect hundreds of thousands of people to come to our city. we have figured out, through the work of the event authority and host committees, all the different plans we have to use properly our open space, transportation lines, making sure we create positive then use. i want to let you know about the change in investment and topic this course is a very key reminder of how sensitive we have to be to this whole dialogue about investment. it can