received. if you are hearing this for the first time and have not had the opportunity to sit down and understand how the partnership is working, all of the details are being worked out as we speak. but we wanted to have the opportunity to share with you our vision and what we are trying to do to address some of the systemic problems. we want to talk about the programs and why we are excited about funding. i will ask connie to come up. >> connie ford, vice president of san francisco labor counsel, one of the partners. i just want to supplement a little bit about what the reverend said. we have been meeting night and day since we receive the money, which was in december of last

year, six months, to try to figure out strategically where this money could be spent and how it could be spent the most effectively. supervisor cohen: for the record, could you state the amount of money received? >> the first pot of money we have received from our community benefit agreement is half a million dollars, $500,000 -- $500 thousand. there are some problems structurally with a lawsuit, etc.. if the lawsuit is resolved and the project goes forward, we will be getting the $8.50 million to continue the work, plus another $27 million we will get for affordable housing. those are the components of the community benefit agreement. targeting the half a million

dollars, we decided strategically to target youth, youth in district 10 who needed the services right now, as fast as possible. the really exciting part of this project to me is that with this little bit of money we combined it to enhance the already existing programs the city has, and made them better and more specific to district 10. the ninth grader -- we have heard about the a to g program. we wanted it to be successful. so we added the things that ycd is built around, the stipend, the extra tutoring, the bus passes, all of those things. plus we will take an evaluative approach. we are monitoring the program as it goes up. we are going to evaluate it.

we are going to have a post- program evaluation and then see what we could have done better, what we did right, what we did not do right, to hopefully carry it on. there is another component that needs to be mentioned. for those youth who are successful and complete this, in the fall, as they go back to school and take other hard classes the commissioners were talking about, we will have another encouragement by giving them a 10 to 15 our job after school, paying minimum-wage, as they go to the fall semester to encourage them to move forward. 100 youths in district 10 have that. that is one thing. the other part is the critical element of trying to help the 18 to 25 year old.

we heard there were only going to be 50 youth in district 10 that were going to be served. with our funds, we can add another 60 youth. those applications are out now. they are due tomorrow. we are going to be selecting the people next week pretty randomly, throwing them in a pot and picking the names. we are sure we are going to get a couple of hundred applicants. we are going to do it randomly at this point. it will provide case management and critical analysis at the end. we will see what works and what does not so that hopefully these programs can continue because the money will be controlled by the implementation committee. we want it to be a successful, strategic, analytical, and structurally-sound program that will make a difference to people. that is what we are doing.

we are very excited. supervisor cohen: before we go, a question for you. commissioner maufas: thank you, ms. ford. i understand you have the implementation committee. are you working with the transitional-age youth? this was a task force. i think it has melted back into dcyf. are you working with them? >> we are working with them. commissioner maufas: you will have to come to the podium and state your name for the record. >> jacob moody, executive director, bayview hunters point foundation. as part of the 8010 group, i have a liaison with that group. it is separate from the steering committee, but we have a conversation going on.

commissioner maufas: thank you. that is what i was looking for. that is good to know. thank you. >> good afternoon. supervisor cohen: you have to move the microphone closer to your mouth or speak up. thank you. >> i am kind of excited right now. i am a resident of district 10. i also happen to be a youth member of ace. to be honest, i have been working with john eller. he is a head member of ace.

we have been talking about this program taking place being geared toward young adults, first 16 to 21, then 18 to 25. i happen to be in that category. more or less, i have been dealing with a lot of letdowns due to the fact of being a youth in san francisco. every summer, there is always a random program that pops up. you always get these promises. you get your hopes up and everything, and you get let down. being a part of this and seeing it take place, i am more or less really excited. it is a good opportunity. at the end of this, i expect to be part of it next year and have a major input within this, making decisions.

it is good. it is taking a fresh step of fixing programs. hopefully next year, and the summers after that, somebody my age will have a chance of making a difference in district 10. commissioner maufas: is it keith? and i think you very much for presenting. -- thank you very much for presenting. thank you for sharing that you were looking through the summer for employment and found employment through this but also participated in helping make it come about. you can speak first him to -- firsthand to what the program needs. i am sure you have many friends who have needs as well. that is something i experienced. my daughter is around that age.

i hear from people beyond the age of 18 and there are not a plethora of programs of summer employment for young people who have not finished college, who are still in school, who are trying to live on their round or with friends, or are still with family, and being a contributor. i hope this program can figure out how to nuance itself, after you do the evaluation and see how it runs, on how to incorporate young people who you may not know are undocumented. they may be your friends, but that is something in your background that exists. you may know many folks. if that goes on, and i will be certain that many of you will have a way to reach me -- i am curious. have you inc. a way to include

formerly incarcerated young people so that they can anticipate and five a pathway to take care of themselves in san francisco? i hear from folks going through this transitional age that san francisco is not a place to make a home because it is too difficult to live here. it is too difficult for somebody between the age of 18 and 25 and sustain yourself in san francisco -- the housing, the work, and try to go to school as well, to do anything you can to further yourself in san francisco. it is tough going for folks that age. i am curious to know how it goes and the outcomes after this summer, the reception. how many folks did you have to turn away? i am curious about this.

you may have received hundreds of applications and can only take so many. i am curious of how many you had to turn away and how many said they would come back next summer. i understand it is 50. you can take this summer 60. while your capacity before next summer? especially if you are trying to enhance our augment different programs in the city. i am very curious. i will definitely keep my finger on the pulse because i want to know, as a pass on messages, that here is an avenue for a young person to go to to find employment, but also if you can sit as you develop your program for other use to participate fully. thank you, keith.

>> just real quickly, criminal activity or criminal path is one of the categories we are targeting. that is a component we are very interested in. we would be happy to come back after we evaluate things and let you know what the result is, we have learned and how to do it better. the other thing is that the applications are due tomorrow. we have been working hard to pull it all together. tomorrow is the day the applications are due. supervisor cohen: thank you. are you part of the presenting team? i would open it up for public comment, but i did not know if this was -- people can speak.

i am not running him of his moment. >> i just wanted to say about the commissioner's. . a lot of the things are hypothetical. we will have that data analysis. i wanted to say something about recidivism and how we are addressing that with the data we will obtain from this pilot program. we would come back and feed you the numbers and information of what works and did not work and see how we can tweak things. we are looking for partnerships outside of the scope of service providers and to be in a situation where we can serve more than the 60 of the 65. we are in agreement. i am grateful we have this opportunity to serve that particular district. supervisor cohen: thank you. >> madam chair, board of

supervisors, and trustees from the board of education, i am a member of the chc. the doctor wanted to send her best to all of you. we are excited. we finally got this thing going. we have had it 2.5 years. we have finally kicked off the pilot. we are trying to -- i know you are the supervisor in that district. we are reaching out to visitation valley, public housing, the horseshoe around west point,, and we even went as far as down by the old boys' club and the new boys club. other christopher was there to distribute applications. we are hoping we get the pool of kids that never get touched by other people to get an opportunity, so they can get involved, get some work

experience, get themselves out of trouble, and be ready for the fall semester. we definitely appreciate your support in bringing this to everyone's attention. it has been our little thing out in the neighborhood. it is definitely something that is going to benefit all of district 10. hopefully this will carry on. i know there was a conversation about more money if everything else goes well. we are hoping that goes well. we definitely look forward to your response -- to your support. if there is anything i can respond to it -- commissioner maufas: i want to ask for verification. this is a different program but comes from the same pilot money. this is employment. they will get paid every two weeks? >> is the same structure system as the current program.

this is an extension, an add-on. we are hoping we capture a lot of the kids, a lot of the youth, that do not normally flow into the line. not belonging to a click, not association by affiliation. we'd know these are some of the kids who need this service. commissioner maufas: i appreciate you acknowledging that. a lot of times there are youth that know the system and how to navigate it. they get in quickly every time. that you are going to locate those young people who may be do not know the system and help them, i appreciate that. >> i appreciate your thoughts on that. we are looking at diversity. the kill is not all african- american, all agent -- the hill

is not all african-american, not all asian. we are hoping to touch all of them. as we do we development, we need to touch those people. that is why i took it on myself to make sure that application was distributed at the housing authority office on the hill, and went to the horseshoe where west point is. there is a lot of construction going on. i had to go back and look at some of the people there. we got the application. we are hoping to get it back. we hope that some of these youth do get selected so they can tell the other kids there is hope. just hang in there. commissioner maufas: where are they turning in the applications? they are due tomorrow, yes? >> they are. because of the time frame, we are going to try to work on

monday morning if they are not in by tomorrow. those applications are a little complicated. you have a parent's signature, verification of income, and other things. i want to make sure they have everything to make a solid decision. commissioner maufas: i did not want to cut you off. the applications -- an individual gets everything done. they get all the things necessary. they are going to turn it into what address? >> i can turn it into ycd, visitation valley. commissioner maufas: all the places listed before. they can turn them in by 4:00? >> 4:00. and i left my card. i will come up and get it. commissioner maufas: very

generous. thank you. supervisor cohen: colleagues, are there any other comments or questions? if not, i will open the floor for public comment. seeing none, i would like to invite anyone, a member of the public who would like to comment on item two. seeing no public comment, madam court, could you call the next item? >> this is it. thank you. i want to thank everyone for coming out and contributed to a spirited conversation. thank you for your work at sfgtv. supervisor cohen: this session is closed.

>> good morning and welcome to the dedication of westbrook plaza. this is an unusually beautiful day for which i'm sure we are all very grateful. i am the interim president of mercy housing. this event, which celebrates the creation of 49 units of affordable housing and the state of an art community health care center is the result of a strong partnership between mercy housing and the south of market health center. more than 12 years have worked -- of work. the dedication and commitment of numerous, talented, hard-working people. participation of a lot of public and private partners and a lot of money. it does not take just a village to create a community facility such as this. it takes an entire metropolis.

we will take the opportunity today to thank many of the people and institutions who have contributed to this stunning facility and because there are so many to thank, i will be brief now so that we can move the program along. at this time, i am particularly pleased to enter is the director -- the executive director of the south of market health center, an extraordinary community leader, fabulous partner, and a great person to share the podium with. [applause] >> thank you. i really appreciate everyone being here today. let me first of all give you a little history. some of you may know mrs. westbrook and some of you may not know mrs. west work. but she is a dynamic leader in san francisco. her history is outstanding. it is so outstanding that we did

not hesitate in naming this the westbrook plaza. she has done a lot for health services, not only in san francisco, but throughout the nation, and she has done a lot for housing. she served on a lot of commissions in san francisco. so because she has spent her whole life looking out for those who we sometimes must reach out to give a helping hand, she always did that and made sure and reminded all the politicians, all the directors and exactly what our responsibility is in taking care of the needy. with that philosophy, that is the reason i came to this organization. and because of her, that is why we push -- we really started

this project almost 20 years ago. i came in 1990 to this organization and in 1991, the board and this community wanted a new medical facility. so out of that, it took years. how many mayors? one, two, three, maybe four. it was four. and it was under willie brown who put the first amount of money in the redevelopment budget to deal with side acquisition or at least to look for sites. it was not enough to buy the site, but at least we were looking for it. so we found this site. i appreciate everyone being here. this beautiful two buildings out of half an acre of land. it is amazing what can be done in san francisco with creativity. i want to thank everyone,

including all the people here that have been involved. there have been so many. i could never named everyone, and i appreciate that. i would like to invite our first speaker up. it is our mayor, mayor edwin lee. it is nice to have a mayor that comes out to the community. this is a community facility for residents of san francisco, and being the mayor of san francisco, i'm sure his heart is as big as mine in terms of what this means to the residents of san francisco, so i want to introduce the mayor to everyone. [applause] >> thank you very much. i want to also continue the very important attribute that we

have for eloise westbrook. when i was just a young workers never trying to cause trouble in the city on behalf of low-income residents, i have already heard of ms. westbrook. she was already helping lead the effort to improve housing conditions for all of our public housing tenants. my today, it is just really appropriate to make sure that our city honors mr. westbrook, her family, who is here today, i know. thank you very much for being here. this is very appropriate that this new project be in the name and westbrook loss of the another great place for people to understand and know about the history of the city. i am so happy to be part of this great city when it names and after people in the community who have done great work. i recognize that, and i know

doris, our supervisor, was there as well. she recognizes that. thank you very much for being here, too. i want to also continue to congratulate mercy housing. the south of market health center, for working so collaborative we with our redevelopment agency. this $47 million project -- over 1/3 of it is the contribution of our redevelopment agency. thank you, redevelopment, for putting this together. [applause] it just shows again not only the fantastic collaboration with very reputable housing builders like mercy housing and they're wonderful financial participants -- i know wells fargo is here and u.s. bank and others, who are just a key to so much of our great housing we're doing -- but we are also combining it with some fantastic health provisions, which i know miss westbrook would be extremely

crowded here. that combination coming together in the middle of our city and once again exemplifying how redevelopment works in our city and how it becomes yet another example for the rest of this state to understand the role of redevelopment. [applause] wonderful contribution. with that contribution, you can make a successful project but also fulfil such an important objective of this city, affordable housing with the support that the tenants and residents here will need. again, i want to thank all of the collaboration that this represents. the communication to the rest of the state that even in the hardest of economic times, when we pull the right entities together, when they are focused, and we rebuild community around the objectives we have, we have the winning combination, and we

have a redevelopment agency and mercy housing and south of market health center to prove it. i want the governor to even come here to see what we have done. i want all the other officials to come, to recognize how we do it here in san francisco and how we can do it elsewhere throughout the state if we have a focused and do not give up on the old promises that this city has always made, that we will take care of the most needy and do it the right way, we will do it together. thank you very much for this wonderful opportunity. >> well said. well presented. also in this project, not only in terms of the redevelopment agency, mercy housing, all the bankers south of market and all of our founders -- and we had a

lot of people do in private donations for this project -- we also reached out to washington, d.c. to bring some of our money back to our community. it is a nice feeling when that happens. so both of our representatives have significant involvement in the success of this project. i would like to bring to the podium represented nicole rivera from nancy pelosi's office -- representative nicole rivera. she called me and said she may year by -- she may be here by the time was that the program. ok, well, we will go on to our renowned senator, who also had a significant contribution. i appreciate what they have done in terms of making sure that money that we pay taxes comes money that we pay taxes comes back to san francisco in some