this effort. supervisor avalos: i remember reading in the workforce plan that the penalties were applied for not meeting the steps of verse is not meeting the goal. is that different now? >> no, it is not different could you are correct. it is for not going through all the different steps and requirements that the contractor is required to make. yes, you are correct. supervisor avalos: you could actually go through the steps but not hit the goal. in that case, if you go through these steps and do not hit the goal, there would not be a bounty. is that correct? >> i would say that i think it is unlikely that the contractors will go through these steps and not meet the goals. the america's cup workforce development of small business inclusion plan presents a clear

path to ensuring the san francisco workers, including workers from economically disadvantaged communities and its small local businesses, will have access to the opportunities generated by the america's cup. this is a solid, outcome-driven plan with transparency and accountability built into its structure. and this basically concludes my presentation. i would like to say, in moving forward, the event authority is committed to continuing to engage with community and local businesses to seek ways to maximize the jobs and local business participation. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you very much. supervisor avalos: thank you for your presentation. i really appreciate the movement that has happened over the past few days. i still believe there can be more movement. i think that we have a history of providing steps for small

businesses and contractors to go through to meet our lbe and our local hire goals, and in the past, under the first source for local hiring, those steps were done but we did not necessarily achieve the goal that we wanted to achieve. it was 50%. much lower than that. so our history is that those steps, even if they are requirements, they do not necessarily yield that outcome and we want to see. we will hear from people in the public who probably want to pressure more, and i probably want to push with them to see where else we can get to. i think this can be a great model if we have a requirement on the outcomes and not on the steps. we could actually have an event that will have the kind that the benefit that we had expected to come when this first came to us in 2010. supervisor chu: thank you.

>> regina, director of the office of small business. starting in september 27, 2011, we kicked off the small business outreach, because we heard from the small business community, their interest in wanting to make sure that they had the opportunity to participate in the economic benefits of the america's cup being here. so we work with the event authority to introduce them to the business organizations. our office, the commission, the human rights commission, we're really dedicated to ensuring that the event authority does meet its goals, and we will be monitoring that as well. i am very appreciative of the work they're doing in terms of engaging and simplifying the ability for businesses to be able to engage and get information on business

opportunities. the other thing that i also wanted to make sure that you are aware of, when we did our presentations, we also led businesses know that there is going to be business-to-business opportunities that they are going to be able to partake in in regards to the america's cup being here, not just being able to engage in business with the event authority. and understanding your commitment and desire for san franciscans to be hired, our presentations also conducted a presentation with the office of workforce development, asking for businesses -- since the city is bringing this economic opportunity to you, to also make a commitment to hire local san franciscans and to work with our workforce development department should they be expanding their work force as a result of america's cup. so i just wanted to let you know

that that is a dual commitment and message coming from both our office in the event authority as well. supervisor avalos: thank you for your presentation. we can go into public comment. then we will probably have a few questions. i am hoping that we can get to where we want to get to. and i think we have a lot of resources in the city. the city is putting forward a lot of resources to be able to develop our pipeline of workers. we have community and labor partners that can make this happen but i am hoping that we can be successful in that. supervisor chu: let me acknowledge supervisor kim. supervisor kim: thank you. i had a quick question. there has been some confusion i have been trying to figure out in terms of our use of ifd

revenue for america's cup and the impact of that in terms of making this a public project. i know that the state did allow us to include pier 27 to the infrastructure financing district, and you can use past instruments to help us with the america's cup village in with the cruise terminal. is that the case? are any of those dollars going to phase one, the america's cup village? >> actually, due to the timing of setting up the district, those dollars will not flow until after this initial phase of construction potentially, if approved, they will be used to reimburse some of those costs. supervisor kim: to potentially reverse some of those costs. with that qualified as a public project then? >> i think that is a legal question that i probably cannot answer. supervisor kim: i know that if this is a public project, my

understanding is that the local hire ordinance would encompass that particular project. not sure if it would just cover pier 27 or the entire americas cup. >> thank you. i am from the city attorney's office. the determination of whether a project is covered or not by the local hire is made by whether or not the city contract requires -- all of our contracts, a construction contracts, to incorporate local hire in a stepped-up increases depending on the day. but it does not cover private contracts. the issue of whether it is public orchis a separate question in prevailing wages, and this come from different sources. local 622 applies to contracts for construction been awarded by city and county of san francisco. supervisor kim: awarded by city and county of san francisco. even if public taxpayer dollars

goes to the project, that is not the criteria for it to be covered by the local hire ordinance. >> not for to be covered by the x22g. supervisor kim: i'm sorry? >> no, that does not mean it is covered. it has to be awarded by the city and county of san francisco for 622g to apply. >supervisor kim: pier 27 is awarded by the city and county, correct? >> correct. 622g applies to pier 27. some money has been given to the city to pay for, demolition. 622g applies to that portion of the contract, because the contract is awarded by the city and county of san francisco. supervisor kim: so pier 27 will be under the local hire ordinance? >> it is, yes. supervisor kim: thank you.

supervisor avalos: this is something i explored already, ifd funding, and is the concern, almost like a catch-22. that is why i talk about apply in the spirit of local hire as well, how we can get the spirit of local hire to maximize what we can in terms of hiring for the event. that is what i am hoping we can accomplish today or the next few days. i have a number of cards. i will call them in the order received. we will start off with joshua r. say -- joshua arces, don marco is, eric brookes, jenny lamb, and kevin barry. >> thank you.

josh arces with a brightline. thank you for a lot of hard work. we need to recognize where we are with the twin messages. local hire, prevailing wage. we have seen partners in a labor step up to say let's do this together. the laborers, carpenters, engineers. it looks like we're on the verge of winning prevailing wage, and then they have already been won across the board. but we have not come to terms with local hire. we still stand here saying we want prevailing wage, and we want local hire. if you look through the document of the jobs plan, it has good faith efforts on just about every single page. he may not have heard it today, but this thing is good faith efforts which has failed. we developed in law. all of us in this room. we came together with you, supervisor, the board, and we're working with mayor lee to aggressively implement this law.

and whether you have a debate about public, quasi-public, clearly they're spending public money in different avenues and mechanisms, but when we talk about the spirit of local hire, supervisors, we want to go one step better. that is what we ask the andorra -- the authority. let's use the community's local hiring law. that is there. no good-faith efforts. as my friend espanola jackson said, who cannot be here, she said "good-faith efforts and never worked for san franciscans, particularly blacks and franciscans," and a thing she would say this never work for any workers of color to advance this mission. [bell rings] or workers to come together in a community-labor partnership. we have groups here today asking the authority again. let's walk together. we have a great moment here. community-labor partnership. a new vision. we are so close. this is bringing in contracts

under budget. $60 million in construction already. under budget. saves let's do it. thanks. >> thank you very much. >> if i can ask folks to hold the applause so we can get through the public speakers. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i have been in the front line for recruitment and referral. this all uses the good faith effort. the good faith effort at best is a catch up system and it takes a lot of money, a lot of effort to really deliver on. this local ordinance and goes through all of that.

we have to promote this ordinance because this is the one that will actually accomplish the goals of the compliance program. if felix was done and see, it would be called the america's cup. that is how big it is a pen to we have the best financing, a technology. we have the guts, the will. most of all, this is about pride. to use a good faith effort for hiring is just bush league mentality. this local ordinance is the strongest ordinance i have ever seen. thank you. >> i represent the green party

and local grassroots organization, our city. down in southern california, on the yacht races are not drawn in the crowds they are expecting and that we wondered about what will happen here in san francisco with the crowds. there was some speculation as to why this is happening. i can tell you why the numbers are not higher. the occupy movement has been out there for months reminded people that this country and even the planet is becoming a place where it is the wealthy people's playground and the working class and the lower classes do not get to participate. we don't get to play. when it comes to an exciting

sport like this, it is really crucial that if you want to make this a big event, you have to show the people that they get to play, all the people. they need to participate. the first way that you show them that is you make sure the people of san francisco know that they are: to control what happens to their waterfront and they will own tehran waterfront, not just investors and mr. ellison. the other zero is to make sure that we pegged the agreement that we make with the authorities so that it is pegged. just look and put it in the hiring ordinance. you will be sending a strong message that this is something that we can be excited about and

spend our money on. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. and the first thing i would like to say is that it is important for you to balance our budget and make sure that we have money circulating here in the city. if we are investing any money into america's cup, the residents, the taxpayers need to benefit from it. me, as a resident of san francisco, i need to be able to work so i can continue to pay into our city's tax base and we can support this a event. i am in support of the america's cup and also me working said that i can benefit from that. as a member of the coalition of

black trade unionists, this is a nationalization, we need to create opportunity for people of color here in san francisco to be able to obtain the skills in the construction industry. we need to be able to live and thrive here as well. that is all i have to say. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> get afternoon. -- good afternoon. i want to thank you for bringing this discussion forth today and knowing how critical and important local higher is. the america's cup is truly symbolic for the city to be able to hold an international sports event. we have hurt the economic development it will bring. it will mean what than 8000 jobs in a variety of reasons whether

it is construction, labor, skills in building. although we want to recognize that it has been a good start and a good process in working with the event authority involving commodities, we want to recognize that this is an important step to commit the prevailing wage across the board. at the same time, we believe that good faith has failed and the best way for america's cup to meet its goals is to embrace the city local hiring policy. we know that local hiring works. between strong partnerships with the community, labor, all elected officials, the city, and most importantly, the owner, is really critical. our concern is even with the best intentions of the event authority, the policy of good faith has no teeth. at the end of the day, who will be accountable if those jobs are

not realized and what are the consequences? what motivation will contractors and businesses have? we really are urge the event authority to work more closely with the city in the kit that adopted the local hiring ordinance. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> i and the program director for the nonprofit center and our goal is to make family more accessible to the community regardless of economic background. every year come of the partner with over 20 different user groups. they have gone sailing with us for free. some include the life learning academy, the boys' and girls' clubs, the ymca. we try to go into neighborhoods

and get people involved in sailing to have a positive outlet in their lives. i just want to talk about how we are in preliminary talks right now. we are excited for the potential like this. this can increase our throughout reach. we hope that this will benefit our classes and used leadership program which is something that we have had in place and teams can get access to job training and community youth organizations. a major component of the leadership program was to work with students that come from underserved backgrounds and give them opportunities to gain experience. in conclusion, we support what the event authority has been doing and we are excited about what they have been drafting out

and they will continue their strong efforts with the workforce development plan. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> i need second director of the san francisco conservation corps. we've established in 1983 with civic leaders and the help of its mayor to provide low income and a very low income will -- very low income adults the community to earn their high school diploma, and prepare for the world of work for post secondary education. 80% of our young people do not have their diploma and most of them have little or no job experience. more than 4000 adults have performed more than 4 million hours of community service projects all of the city. since 1988, we have helped the city reached its recycling and

waste goals with a grant from the state of california. since 2008, we established a program to provide the zero waste and recycling services as well as education of the public on these practices and the out large-scale venues. we're thrilled to be in conversation with the america's cup event authority to provide these recycle and educations and zero waste services to the public. providing the services will provide training jobs for our members. we make a commitment to gain skills, the diploma, and improve san francisco's neighborhoods. as a training program that helps for living wage jobs, we also support the local hire and prevailing wage proposal before

the board. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> i deal with community organizing and i want to speak in regards to the prevailing wage. the union efforts can organize the working conditions of how this is going to be. i also want to speak to the people that are not able to speak, the men and women getting out of prison. i want to be able to speak to those who don't have the opportunity to participate in this process. here, you have a trillion dollar

process. everyone would like to have a piece of it. unless you push yourself to the front of the line, there will be a lot of people left out of the process. unless we have the opportunity to deal with getting into these jobs and being able to have job training, being able to be afforded the same economic opportunities that everyone else in the city takes for granted, then we will constantly be left out. this has never worked for people such as myself, such as the people i speak for. i would kindly recommend that we deal with trying to deal with the prevailing wage and make certain that everyone is part of this process. >> thank you very much.

>> i represent the alliance from bayview and visitation valley. they want jobs, they want job training, they are san francisco residents, and they want to be a part of this event. notoriously, they are left out of these. according to the america's cup, public taxpayer dollars are being used on these projects. we want san francisco residents to be working on these projects. we want prevailing wage and local labor mandate hireling to be a part of it. i thank you. please pay attention to my clients who usually don't come up here and have a voice.

>> good afternoon. citizens of the great city and county of san francisco. my name is james bryant, i am the director of the randolph institute. i cover stays from colorado to the coast. let me give kudos to those who have agreed to supporting labor and providing the ability for wages to be gathered by the laws that allow workers to have the fullest account of human

numbers. -- account of union members. the union part is done. we don't feel that the community has been represented in this process. we have brought forward -- my colleagues have not brought forward the issues of how local hiring will work. let me tell you how it will work. you passed a law to make sure that local hiring was put in place because we know that the disadvantage will not be treated right, no matter what we say. we encourage you all again to put in some considerations for local hiring and this does apply to those of you from the

america's cup who are doing prevailing wages. i look forward to the next three days that we can get an agreeable agreement. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm the second director of the -- the executive director of the randolph institute of san francisco. we have served the bayview hunters point area since 1994. i'm here to speak on behalf of the community and the dozens of qualified out of four construction workers from the view hunters point that come into my office every day. apri san francisco, and many of those you see here today are supporters of strong and fair

wages. this would to be a win for labor. i look forward to seeing those beautiful works of art that will sail majestically through our san francisco the. why not leave a positive effect on our community by a honoring bill local hire ordinance that many of us in this room have worked diligently to approve and preserve? the reason san francisco has a local high lot is that we believe that good faith efforts have historically failed for