are two-plus times greater than the san francisco unemployment rates. this is serious stuff. that's why we are here to underscore, not only our desire to keep fighting for the extension. we're not giving up. we're doing everything in our power to get congress to do the right thing. and it's not a lot of money. it's $2.5 billion. now they're talking about $1.5 billion. we'll take it. of that, only $55 million has supported the 5,000 folks we've employed. a lot of folks criticizing the stimulus. i don't know that anyone can criticize the job creation. it's greater than any program in the stimulus. there's simply not another stimulus program, not one. no one can point out. i've challenged folks for a year and a half. there's not one stimulus program that creates more direct jobs

than this. and for a lot of folks, it's less money than what they received on unemployment. if you want to help small businesses, you want to help the private sector and you actually believe the stimulus is as important as i do, this is a no-brainer. but it's getting caught up in the politics of d.c. so here we are, recognizing not reality. may not happen. we've gotten creative. trent and his team are creative as it gets. we say, what do we do with 4,000 families that may lose their jobs? how do we incentivize them to keep people employed? and so we spent the last couple months in a parallel strategy fighting for extension and trying to come up with a creative solution, where we believe we can employ roughly 1,740 folks by investing about $9 million of local money differently. i think the best approach is not job training in an environment

like this, but a job itself. so we have a lot of job training money. we're going to start redirecting some of that money to actual jobs. and we are going to move some money around, trying to explain how all that happens, that can help support these families. which is as good as we can figure out at this stage to do, which is pretty impressive, but it requires a lot of ingenuity. it's going to require potentially the board of supervisors to support moving a few dollars around. i think it's a good solution under the circumstances. i want to just again thank scott and others that helped us design this. it's not perfect, but it's, i think, appropriate and prudent and could be very, very beneficial.

and i want to, again, just acknowledge trent and his team for their effort, their leadership, their creativity, their hard work, and the budget team, greg and others, for getting us to this point of announcement, and then to get the support we need at the board. >> thank you, mr. mayor. i'm trent, the director of the human services agency. clearly, when you're looking at a federal stimulus program -- the mayor said $55 million, we're probably going to be close to $60 million by the end of the mom. we can't replicate that with local dollars, but we wanted to mitigate the job losses, particularly for placements in the public sector positions as well as individuals who are in a non-profit, more structured transitional program. we know that those individuals will be losing their jobs at the end of the month, because we simply can't sustain their wages. we've come up with a $9 million proposal that's targeted to those individuals who are now in the public sector. and we are going to be providing

a $2,500 flat subsidy to private employers who pick up these individuals who will be losing their jobs on the 30th. all of these folks have gone through pretty intensive training while they're in their placements, and also transitional training. resume improvement, job interviewing skills, job search. we know a lot of those folks will find jobs on their own, but ç more will not. so this program is first and foremost targeted to them. it will be a $2,500 flat subsidy to employers. to incentivize retention in the private sector of folks who are currently placed there, in order to be eligible for the $2,500 subsidy, employers have to keep their jobs and employees who they currently have. many employers have one or two folks placed there. their subsidy will end at the end of september. the vast majority of them, 82% of them, have said that these

employees have improved efficiencies of their business. 72% said they related in increased sales. we anticipate that many of those individuals will stay on absent the subsidy. to incentivize that, we said that -- the guidelines will be to get this additional $2,500 for the new candidate, you will have to keep your existing employees and pay them out of your payroll. we've also created new opportunities with the new slots, targeted to families on the city's welfare to work program. we hope to place them for the first time in subsidized jobs. how are we funding this? well, one of the lessons that we've learned at the human services agency around the efficacy of employment training programs is that subsidized employment works. that we have placed, again, over 4,100 people, over 85% of whom have succeeded.

they have job skills, they want to work. they just don't have the opportunity. we're looking at reorienting a rt of what we do internally, using the money that we currently have to sustain a lot of this $9 million. we're exploring with the mayor's budget office options for additional general funds. if you look at the investment of $9 million and what that will buy us, it will buy us 1,700 job placements, which is a pretty good run on our investment. at the same time, we'll be helping 25 families that are eligible. back to public assistance if we worked long enough. we'll also be serving non-custodial parents, the extent that they're participating in the program, dads who aren't living at home, but are eligible to be served.

it was designed internally but with a lot of input from the private sector. scott helped us bounce some ideas off him and some of his colleagues in the small business community. and throughout the program. i can't thank scott enough for his feedback and being a soundingboard, not only for internal program operations, but also really on program design and what small businesses look for in terms of supporting wages and hiring individuals. so i'll turn over to scott for a few comments and be happy to answer some questions. >> i'm scott, i'm the president of small business california. i also own a small business in san francisco. i have about 29 employees. disappointed in the federal government for not continuing this program. it's been an obvious success, in my mind. one of the things that's been a little frustrating in trying to extend this is when we started a

couple of weeks ago or so, the lack of knowledge of people who are benefiting in their state, to understand what was going on. so you had a big education factor. and then, of course, we had the problems with the republicans and the just say no. so we're going to continue to fight to get this extended. but i do want to applaud the mayor for looking at other options to help small businesses and businesses in general. i've owned my company since 1977. and i can honestly say that this ever had. every dollar counts. and just to clarify, you've heard the debate about small business and the tax cuts. i want to make it very clear that i'm not one of those small businesses that's making over $250,000. so every dollar counts. so this $2,500 clearly isn't going to cover the salary, but

i'm able to keep my employee -- very honestly, would have kept the employee anyhow, because she was such a good employee that when you get somebody good, you don't want to let them go. but as i said, every thrar counts and this will help my bisms and again, thank you, mr. mayor, and thank you, trent. >> so that's the idea. most of this we can do internally, and there's a small portion that will be working with the board to get us to that $9 million mark. i think we have the authority, the executive authority to address about seven million of the nine million. so we'll move forward expeditiously. we'll be prepared for october 1 and we'll continue to fight in congress and hope and expect that they do the right thing to support this very successful stimulus program that does exactly what everyone of all ideological stripes hope to do, and that is bring private sector jobs in an economy that

desperately needs those private sector jobs. any questions on this? >> is there any way that saving these jobs -- i can almost hear the board of supervisors now, and the unions perhaps saying, ok, you've laid off all these city workers. how are you going to use city general fund money? >> yeah, the reality at the end of the day, there weren't that many people -- don't get me wrong. you'll find, i'm sure you'll check someone we did lay off can say how can the mayor say this? but at the end of the day, a rt of myth versus reality about a lot of people that were quote unquote laid off. a lot of that was done through attrition savings. a lot of that was done by moving people around, and being creative. but the bottom line is private sectors the engine of our economic growth.

small business are the net job creators. if you want to grow your budget, grow the economy. if you want to have the resources to invest in people and programs and place, grow the private sector economy. that's the spirit of this. and the spirit that labor has supported. i mean, this has not been at odds with public employee unions. they've been quite solicitous and helpful and very supportive of our efforts. so i don't see that as a particular conflict. and i should also note that we've reduced our welfare roles in this city with this program 20%. in this economic climate. and that's a win for everyone. that actually offsets the burden on the general fund. that means we have more money to invest in other parts of our system, and i know trent wants to add to that. >> when we designed the public sector track, the trainee track.

what we've seen is even the constraints on the general fund and hiring constraints, departments are still hiring some folks and filling some vacancies. the public service trainees program is work exactly as we'd hoped. they're scoring well and they're getting hired. the human services agency has hired a number of folks right out of the public service training program to do case work and eligibility work. that's really sort of the design of that. in terms of the welfare roles, the mayor is right. about a 350% increase when you compare the prior year in terms of numbers of families leaving welfare. in san francisco, about 5,000 people are on it. that does represent about 20% of our case load. of course, we have new families coming on daily and weekly, but through this local program, we hope that many of those families will qualify.

>> one other question about the specifics of how the program works. is there any amount of time written into this that the employers have to guarantee that they will keep those jobs and workers on the payroll in order to get the 2,500? >> i'm looking at my staff. tony, the timeline to get this $2,500 subsidy? >> it's a reimbursement of wages, so the employee will have to pay at least $2,500 worth of wages to get that back. >> so the direct answer is, depending on the wage and the hours worked, that's how long the subsidy would go. >> you don't want to cut $9 million and find out that two months down the road -- >> what we've learned, though, barbara, is that these employees have added value to companies, and it's an incentive to hire from this pool of candidates who we have prescreened and who we

refer to interviews, to get in that job and to succeed and to contribute positively to the company. and we hope that after the $2,500 subsidy is up, that they keep that. that's what we're learning already on the current program. >> you understand how difficult it is to get an employee, to turn the employee. >> yes, a good employee is like gold. it's probably one of the biggest challenges with a small business is finding good employees and keeping them. but the other aspect -- you hear about increasing sales and those types of things. but the biggest benefit for me is when i brought this employee on, i took some pressure off my other staff and improved employee morale within any company. that's gone a long way in my agency. >> -- without the $2,500

incentive. if a good worker -- i would agree with you. >> bash remark let me clarify. the $2,500 is for new hires. it's not to keep existing employees on. it's for new -- >> [inaudible] >> they do. but on their own dime. the $2,500 federal, state, and city money is going for new hires. >> to is -- so the assumption is they wouldn't hire a new person unless they intended to keep that person for a while. >> is there a job training program in there? >> no. >> to support this program not only for wages, we also have staff. we have placement staff. we have business account reps to recruit private business. we have caseworkers. those are all part of the $9 million. it's not just for subsidy. and so what we're doing is

reorienting them away from what they were doing before. >> so once again, we're hoping that half the employees will stay employed and the other half, the loser employment, will create this incentive and try to keep as many of them on as possibly can until roughly 1,740. again, patching things together and creating ways if a difficult climate. the best solution is to extend this for another year, increase the number of people getting the job subsidies. lower the unemployment rate, generate some sales tack, payroll tax, have more consumer spending, which drives more demand, which drives the economy and reduces unemployment further. but that would just be an actual application of reality versus an academic discussion about what's wrong with each party and whether or not the stimulus was good or bad, which is utterly irrelevant to the realities across the country. it's beyond frustrating. i think we've got three or four

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