and sandwiches, and she is just amazing. here she is. [applause] >> hello. i went through the jobs now program, and it really helped me. i feel like f i would not have gone through the jobs now program, i will not be where i am today. as far as jobs now and the general assistance program, like, general assistance helped me pay for school and to get through school. if i did not go through general assistance, i would not be here. i would not be working with all these great people and seeing all these new faces if it was not for the jobs now program. and i really want to thank them for helping me better my life and not just be a kid at home playing on the game station, not doing anything with their life.

i want to thank them for that. [applause] >> we also have a few other employers here. representing a broader spectrum of who hired the jobs enough votes. we have a champion from the small business sector, who really was a proponent and supporter early on. that is scott hougi, e, who is here with one of his employees. a fabulous success. one of the biggest employers in san francisco, ucsf, is here. a supporter and a bit hirer of jobs now folks.

a local small businesses here as well. i welcome them to share their stories. anyone want to come out and say a few? scott. >> well, i was very fortunate. i hired a person with jobs now, who came into our office, and the most important asset to a business is their employees. and celia has proved that time and time again. she had a child early on and we had to throw her out of office because she wanted to come back to work the next day. but there's another side of this that played a very positive role in our business. because of the economy, we could not hire anybody, and it was

creating a lot of stress with our existing employees. being able to hire celia, and getting that payment allowed us to hire somebody about 10 months earlier than we would have otherwise. it took a lot of stress away from the other employees. it was a great program. i hope it can be reinstated at some point. thank you very much. >> first off, i would like to say thank you to everyone who pushed for the program. my boss, scott, the mayor, people at the career link office. this has been at not only the start of a new career, but it has helped me and my family in a lot of ways. i am and mother of four children. i have learned a lot. i have insurance. i first heard of this program when i was working temporary at the summer legend snack program.

so everyone was worried, you know, it is the last day of work, what are we going to do? and of this young lady said, well, i heard of this stimulus program, and it was september of 2009. and i said, yes, and i told everyone from then on. i said, there is a stimulus program, everyone, just go. the was so excited, and i was there every day trying to look for a job. i am very, very lucky to work for the insurance company. everyone there is just wonderful. i am thankful to be part of such a wonderful program, jobs now. he is hoping again, you know, push for it, because it is a wonderful program. thank you. [applause] >> hello. my name is charlotte. we are a book rental company. we started in 2009.

started by two couples. we funded it ourselves, worked ourselves, many hours away from my young baby and everything. this program helped us move towards six people total. some have gone on to other programs, have gone to college, have started businesses themselves. it has been an absolute success. we could not be almost breaking even now. we cannot do that unless we would be up to a fast forward our program with the help of this program. it has made an incredible difference for us. we supply books to kids all over the country. we helping local schools to have a shortfall of books. we have had a lot of opportunities to help our community. it has been a great process. everyone we have had has been outstanding. teshena, who has been with us here on valentine's day, i do

not know what we would have done without her. thank you. >> i just wanted to say thank you to the jobs now program. without it, i would not be where i am now. i was out of work for three years. i am a single mother of a 3- year-old boy. it was very hard. i started to lose hope for our future. this program gave me a better sense of hope for my future and my son's future. with the help of working for this company, my son did not like to read books at first, but now he loves to read books. you know, i am just really thankful for it. i would really appreciate if they can keep pushing the program. and, you know, thank you. [applause] >> all right, a couple minutes. i am with the university of california san francisco, one of the larger employers in san francisco. one of my roles is to coordinate

the community outreach internship program, which is a little program we have had for about a dozen years. we reconvened the program about two years ago. we were struggling with finding funding to help pay the stipends for community residents applying to the program. we were very fortunate and tremendously thankful that the jobs now program started around that time. that first year in 2010, i think we were able to tap into about $280,000 funding was allowed as to pay for 20 interns that year. this past year, we had 19 graduates of the program. 17 of those graduates who completed in september 2011 are still working at ucsf. we have been very fortunate. i am also proud to say that through the support of the jobs now program, we have been able

to leverage the funding. we have gotten quite a bit tough foundation funding, a private funding, that will allow us to rot two cycles for the program for 2012. it has been tremendous for us at the university. incredibly painful for the staff of hsa and the mayor. i will turn it over to one of our graduates from 2010. >> i just want to say thank you to everybody for the program, because it was a big chance for my -- a big change for my lai. a single mother with two kids. i lost my job. i was a carpenter for eight years, local 22 in the city. it was a live changing experience. i started the internship program, and now i am in a career position in the neurology department as a patient coordinator. it gives me the opportunity to go back to school and to pursue my career goals to be a radiologist. this is the opportunity of a

lifetime. i am is standing testimony of it. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, everyone, for coming in and sharing. i have to recognize the folks in human services agency. without them, there is no way this program would have been pulled off. jim, tony, and steve -- scott, were hiding. bernadette, as well. there were able to grow a program or we had initial goals of 1000, which we thought were too high. and to exceed that by four times is amazing. thank you for your innovation, creativity, the hard work. with that, i definitely want to thank again mr. sheldon for coming out from washington, d.c., to recognize our program. and of course to mayor lee, a

super supporter of this, and he will continue to be. it is not mentioned specifically in your 17-point jobs plan, but i will say that this is a key program to his goal of getting thousands of san franciscans back to work. with that, i will close. thank you for coming. [applause]

bsupervisor chu: the afternoon, and welcome to the budget and finance meeting for february 15. i am connie chu. with me, we have supervisors kim and avalos, and we have people from sfgtv and clerk young. clerk young: --

supervisor chu: please call item number 1. clerk young: do except and expend a grant for the kindergarten to college program participant incentive funds. supervisor chu: we have someone with us. kreskin afternoon. i am with the office of treasurer-tax collector. the i come before you is for a grant in the amount of $190,000 for the students to participate in the kindergarten to college program. there are currently two programs. one is a $100 bonus to the students and their families if they set up a direct deposit into the account and have acted for at least six months.

these are privately raised funds that are matched by $50 war all students and an additional $50 for those students who are participating in the free and reduced lunch program, and i am happy to take any questions. supervisor chu: i am wondering if you can share with us at the experience so far. >> there are a lot of exciting results from families the participating in the amount of funds that they have contributed so far. supervisor chu: thank you. i think that would give is a good idea of how successful the program is. there is no additional funding, correct? >> correct. supervisor chu: there is no budget analyst report on this. supervisor avalos? supervisor avalos: just to go to

the question from chair chu -- >> we had 1200 students in the first year of the program. we are currently in the second year of the program with the additional students, and next year, we plan to have a full rollout to all the kindergarten's throughout the city, and it will be approximately 4800 students in kindergarten next year. supervisor chu: thank you very much, and, again, if you could follow up with some of the statistics, that would be helpful. >> thank you very much. supervisor chu: thank you. why do we not open this up for public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item number one? seeing none, public comment is closed. we will send this without objection. thank you. item two, please. clerk young: item two, to

accept and expend a grant in the amount of $1,352,141, to participate in an incentive. supervisor chu: thank you very much. we have a dph representative on this item. >> good afternoon, or risers. my name is dr. joanie -- and i am with community programs at the san francisco department of public health. before you today, i am to see your approval and support for the initiative collaborative grant that we have with partners across community programs in dph. this is an effort that is a very integrated across our health system, and it is an effort to really address the need for health and behavioral health needs of our clients who are at risk for hiv or diagnosed with

hiv. this is a unique opportunity to have integrated care in settings that may have been more isolated in terms of the types of services they deliver. this grant provides the opportunity to provide mental health, substance abuse, and preventive services in areas such as primary care and drug treatment and prevention programs and others. these funds allow us to increase the staffing and really integrate some cutting edge evidence-based practices in these studies, so this is an opportunity to really address the population, the transgendered and reentry populations in general, because there you have a really high prevalence of hiv or those at risk for hiv, and this is an opportunity with the collaboration with the health department, which the city clinic, which is our std clinic, with the southeast health center and with others, like where we have the black women coe's and

others. mental health, substance abuse, and prevention, for a very high- risk population. supervisor chu: thank you. can you speak more about how the $1.30 million would be spent? >> sure. these funds would be allocated to increase staffing. here we have the opportunity to provide services on the side, the funds will be before providing licensed mental health clinicians. they already have high primary care as well as some other services. this is an opportunity to expand on that effort. they will also be a addressing some of a complicated issues that our clients may be addressing, so it is primarily for staffing and all of those sites for the funds for this initiative. supervisor chu: thank you.

and this does not require any matching city funds or staff? >> that is correct. supervisor chu: supervisor kim? supervisor kim: for the tenderloin, where are the service locations? >> city clinic, which is the std clinic that we have. supervisor kim: that is the only one? >> yes. supervisor chu: thank you, supervisor kim. this item does not of a budget analyst report with it. why do we not open it up to members of the public? either any members of the public wish to speak on item number two? please, . >> good morning. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is -- i have lived in san francisco's 60 years. i would like to speak in support

of this resolution, but, as usual, i have a cautionary note. since we're dealing with the department of public health and mental health services, given to clients, i am kinda wondering out why they have not been suspicious of a system that is being put up by the mental services unit. it was covered in three articles in "the bases and," and "the examiner" and another decided to not mention anything about it. -- it was covered in articles in "the bay citizen" and others.

thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. are there any other members of the public wish to speak on item number two? seeing none, it is closed. colleagues, been in motion? we have a motion to send it fourth and second, and we will do that without objection. item three. clerk young: and number three, to extend and expand a grand in the amount of $256,846 from the university of san francisco to participate in a program entitled center for disease control and prevention kenya monitoring and evaluation. supervisor chu: thank you.

we also have a representative from the department of public health. >> good afternoon, i am dr. sandy schwartz. this is for their surveillance section. the money that we receive from the university of california is used to support some of our staff, myself included, to provide technical assistance, for the capacity of the canyon ministry of health to conduct the sorts of activities that we here in san francisco have been doing so well for so many years, things like case reporting, conducting -- we are in the process of helping the ministry of helped develop -- help develop and conduct a door-to- door sort -- survey, starting at age 18 months and above regarding risk factors for hiv, hiv prevalence, canceling those who are affected, and looking at

recent infections. we are also in the process of assisting them through conducting surveys, including commercial sex workers. the population's beyond the general population in that country that have a higher burden of disease and carry risk factors for that. is there anything else i can answer for you? supervisor chu: just to confirm, this does not require any new positions? >> that is correct. >> ok, just another question. i think as people would take a look like this, the grant would allow us to provide technical assistance for training for the partners. when we think about our department, where we think the primary objective is to really take a look at this in san

francisco and the neighboring areas, could you just explain why it is important. >> absolutely. i have been doing surveillance for over 20 years, so i am both knowledgeable and biased and that san francisco conducts surveillance on all of the activities pertaining to the epidemic, better than anyplace, i would say, in the world, and it is why, in fact, the university of california provides so much of the technical assistance to kenya turns to us specifically for assistance in this arena, because in order to really understand, people with infectious diseases, that process, understanding the epidemic in that way is to

relieve the function of a local public health department, and that is why the university does not have that expertise, but we do. we really know how to do it, the hands on, ins and outs of it. it does not impact our ability to conduct our work here in the city. i think we do a really good job here in the city, and i personally, and i know the rest of us that work on this field is beneficial to help others understand how we do things, and also, it lets the world know what a great job we do here in san francisco. supervisor chu: thank you. this item does not have a budget analyst report, so why do we not open it up to members of the public? is there any member of the public to wishes to speak on item number three? >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is -- i would like to

speak out in favor of this. during college, i took courses in african history, and even though there are black politicians running south africa and zimbabwe, i want to point out for the record that they do have a noticeable aids program there, and we should not limit our consideration just to kenya, and we should look at the current situation in south africa and zimbabwe, and then, unfortunately, it is not getting too much better, and i will not bother to say the rest of my comments that i have already said earlier today. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. are there any other members of the comet -- public to wish to speak on item 3? seeing none, public comment is closed. we have a motion to send the item forward with a recommendation and a second, and we will do that without objection. item four. clerk young: item four, to

accept from the mayor's office of housing to enter into a standard agreement with the state department of housing and community development to accept and expand $4.70 million of transit-oriented development infrastructure funds, associated with 1180-4th street. supervisor chu: thank you. this was brought by the mayor and supervisor kim. supervisor kim, would you like to make any comments? supervisor kim: thank you, chair chu. supervisor kim: the infrastructure grant program, a very long and, in association with the affordable housing project in mission bay as part of the regal and the plant there. the infrastructure costs include design and utility improvements, and the projects include 150 residential units for very low

and low-income families, of which 25 units will be reserved for formerly homeless households. given the increasing needs, this grant is coming to us at an opportune time to help us complete this project. it will include one, two, and three-room bedrooms, and a common area, and i know that john mcnamara is year from the office on housing to answer any questions. -- is here from the office on housing. supervisor chu: thank you, supervisor jim. is there a representative from moh for the presentation? >> good afternoon. i do not have anything additional to act. supervisor kim, you did a wonderful job of summarizing it, so if you have any questions, i am available, and we also have

mercy housing here, the sponsor of the housing, and we also have the sponsor for the infrastructure grant. supervisor chu: great. it sounds like there is a matching fund that is required but that it is funded. can you speak to that? can you speak to the matching funds and the sources we are using to me to that? >> -- jimmy to that? -- to meet that? >> i can ask jennifer to come up, but we have previously funded the project with tax increment, and a number of other former of redevelopment agency funding sources, so -- supervisor chu: it looks like this is being paid for primarily through funds as well as transit oriented development. >> that or