already working with united way. thank you very much. next we have winnie yu. if you are up next, if you could come up to the front, that would be helpful. >> good afternoon. thank you for the opportunity to present and introduce myself and my interest in serving on the workforce investment community advisory committee. i was born in china and at the age of seven, emigrated to the states. i am the first person in my family to go to college. in 2004, i received a degree from the university of california berkeley. in 2007, i was awarded a scholarship to attend leadership california. it is a professional leadership development program with exposure to the sectors, demographics, and the employers

of california. in 2011, i was selected by the office of economic and workforce development to participate in the work force leaders learning group to explore the gaps, according challenges, best practices, and solutions for workforce programs. i have long been an advocate. at age 18, i was the youngest member of the board of directors of the women's foundation in san francisco. as an advocate for public education, i was invited to speak on an educational panel the marist summit for women. after graduating from berkeley, i continue my work with marginalized populations. as a community advocate, i worked with the attorneys on issues that affect the community. i am currently the manager of the one-stop career center in san francisco chinatown and

oversee and manage a team of seven full-time staff. one stock is a comprehensive and integrated workforce development center, operated by to debut of nonprofit organizations. -- two nonprofit organizations. both agencies have more than 45 years of combined experience serving job-seekers and people with multiple barriers to obtaining economic sufficiency. we have those organizations with many training programs. it allows us to assess the needs of residents of san francisco and provide services to mitigate those needs with the goal of economic self-sufficiency for residents of san francisco. i am plunge in english and three dialects of chinese. -- i am fluent in english and three dialects of chinese.

i believe that my experience operating the one-stop center allows me to provide a voice for immigrants and other job- seekers who have multiple barriers to employment to be able to fully integrate. supervisor kim: what would be one of your priorities in serving an advisory capacity? >> the priority is to reflect on the debut of years i have been involved in the workforce -- in the two years i've been involved in the workforce system. to love expedite and better -- to help expedite and better match job-seekers to opportunities for earning income or internships with employers. i think we are matchmakers, so i think the closer been able to connect those opportunities to job-seekers would be my priority.

supervisor kim: i see no further questions. >> thank you for your time. supervisor kim: doug parrish and then erris edgerly. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for this opportunity. i wanted to let you know a little bit about the values that can bring to this organization. currently, the president and ceo of an alternative energy company. we provide -- we have a three- prong approach. solar panel installation, a solar panel installation training, and future plans to manufacture solar panels. i am also a member of the m3 organization. the mission of the movement is

to help create a healthier and safer community by providing guidance and support to the previously incarcerated and others who are looking to improve their lives. i attended the university of california. i have previous experience of starting small businesses. i am the president -- of a company that focuses on reducing carbon footprints and educating on the youth on what they can do to reduce their carbon footprints. there are thousands of young men and women who are coming home soon. the majority of them are african-american. our aim is to provide programs to support them, to have been in place prior to them stepping out. we are a solar panel

installation training organization. we recently graduated several individuals, 11, and i am proud to say that two of them were released from the system and graduated from our program. we feel like this type of programming will provide them with a job, the skill sets that lead directly into a job. i think that without programs such as solar installations and other alternative energy programs out there, it is going to be a situation where they will be back in the same scenario. in terms of creating jobs, we are looking at a program to employ the use -- youth to green the churches. we will collaborate with the faith based organizations to

focus in on putting solar panels up there, teaching them how to install, and giving them this bill sets to make that happen. -- skill sets to make that happen. the goal is to link brothers and sisters coming out of the system with the job training skills. we have several former community leaders and that organization that i will consult with to provide ideas from the community. i am very passionate about this organization because i have had family members to have been incarcerated. there are programs that are needed, particularly surrounding family counseling and we need economic opportunity, and a lack of jobs is leading to crime. i feel like my business acumen and my grassroots experience has resonated with the young adults.

coming from a sports background for six years will give me the platform to break through with fresh ideas. some of the programs that we have in the mentor of movement, we have programs that is led by community -- we have committed to programs. the community-based organizations. the lead with paradise baptist church, and it goes on and on. supervisor kim: thank you so much. what team did you used to play for? >> new york jets. supervisor kim: hopefully, there'll be no bias on the committee because of that. you mentioned a lot of different populations.

what do you feel like is your area of expertise? what would be your priority as an advisor? >> it would be to focus in on the programs. a lot of the people getting out are going to be acting loss. if we do not have some employment opportunities, they will be back in the same situation. supervisor kim: thank you very much. erris edgerly and the monique allen. >> my name it is erris edgerly. i represent a different population. i do do some youth work, but i worked the unemployed grown folks, 25 and up.

we have to understand that we do have a population that is reentering and we have a population that has already reentered and is still unemployed. one of the things i bring to the board, i do currently have an outreach contract with the mayor's office of economic workforce. i work with the economic side as well as the work force side. i do not know why they are not connected. i think that is one of the problems. we build housing, and that brings on work. construction work, but one thing we have not seen is the actual offer care. after the construction goes away. the restaurants are not hiring from our communities. one of the things i provide is job creation. i am currently working with usf

to build the culinary institute that will be a certified training program for the state of california. folks will get a certificate of training and be able to tap into the hospitality of san francisco. that is the backbone of san francisco. the hotels, restaurants. i know what is going on in san francisco as far as business. as far as the media, yahoo! and those groups coming to town. we're also supplying the job training for janitorial services also. that is who i am. i am still living and working. i have been office space, i am the cca -- a ceo. what i bring to the board is job

creation. we spend a lot of time trying to find jobs, but i am bringing the job creation. sustainable trend that will enhance jobs. hospitality is definitely the area. supervisor kim: something that comes up often in conversations with our tech companies, partnering with culinary and janitorial services. what are some of the barriers in getting folks into the culinary industry? that is doing a quite well in san francisco. what do you see as some of the challenges and ways to overcome those? >> the end result has to lead into not just training, but it'some type of end result.

not only are we doing a job training in the training field, we want to do it catering that will give people income. give you some experience, you know, you describe twitter from college and that is a big thing, but where is your expert -- you just graduated from college and that is a big thing, but where is your experience? supervisor kim: thank you. thank you very much. next we have monique allen. >> thank you for considering my application. i am one of the board of directors. our foundation started a program called the get hired tour.

we return to get a million people back to work a number of years ago. one of the things we have been seeing is that like many of the other applicants have indicated, people are not being hired. they're having a difficult time finding a job. reason why i have decided to apply to this committee is because i that a paradigm shift in how we may be able to fight this issue. one of the things i am looking at and what has become a passion for me is looking at our veterans and also just some folks who are on unemployment right now. what i would like to do is start a program where they can partner with a company that our nonprofit is working with right now and hire themselves. instead of it being get hired, you are creating your own job. the program will allow them to partner with developers and

experience the other side of the technical innovators themselves, where they can work with a team of developers. we would partnered them with a whole bunch of folks who already have the technical background to get them to the point of four they need to develop their own application. i think this is a wonderful program because a lot of times, what we have been seeing, situations where folks are looking for venture capitalists to invest in their ideas. instead of having to go out into the world and seeking funding, you can invest in yourself and work with this particular program that my nonprofit has been working with to get the ball rolling. at this point, we are in a situation where there are so many different populations affected by unemployment. it is hard to wrap our arms around how we will get people back to work. san francisco would be a great city to launch an initiative and

help the folks who are out here, like our veterans coming home, or the ones that are already home and cannot begin to turn their lives around because they did not have access to jobs. one of the other reasons why i wanted to apply for this position on the committee, i have experience as a federal employee. i never worked at the department of veterans affairs. my background as a federal employees, as a nonprofit board director, would help the committee in terms of steering the direction towards programs that would help these folks get back to work. i am looking into how we can apply for grants that would help programs out here in san francisco. and also help people in general. the population i would like to start with and i'll have become

very passionate about is the veterans. the second population is the folks who are currently on unemployment. then you have the other groups, youth and things like that. supervisor kim: you are our only applicant that neither lives or works here in san francisco. could you respond to the kind of -- >> i figured that would come up as an issue. i was actually born and raised here in san francisco. i ended up leaving the area to go to school at uc-davis. since then, i settled -- san francisco has been and always be home for me. i know the city quite well. i know what some of the issues are. i still follow san francisco. my love for the area has driven me to want to do something and be a part of the committee that

will take action. supervisor kim: ok, thank you. next we have sheryl davis. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for this opportunity. i thought i could give some insight into how i ended up here and what i hope to gain by being a part of the committee. i came to san francisco as a student of san francisco state. i became a part of a program called the multicultural allowance. it worked to put teachers of color in independent schools. i was very fortunate that the school had a commitment to social justice. i was able to create a program called heart to heart.

sharing resources, leveraging opportunities, opening the school doors and exposing kids to the same opportunities that the families in pacific heights had. after -- while still doing work, i was able to be a part of creating a program that focuses on building collaboration and bringing service providers together with community members. from that, last year, we were able to merge some of the efforts with opportunity impact to create another program. last fall, working with dcyf created a transitional program. it was supposed to be transitional age years, we ended up with over 50 participants and

more than half of them were above the age of 25. it stressed to us the importance of not focusing only on transitional age youth. we have to understand that most of the families are being headed by people over that age. one of the things we have been doing since that time is working with usf to come up with a way to empower the residents to do job creation and get some on the ground training. we have been working with them to do community mapping, assets mapping. they ought to look at what the gaps are in terms of economic development and jobs so that they use that to say, -- we need street cleaning, we need to create our own street cleaning program.

another one is looking at the idea of two or guides. -- tour guides. creating that as a job opportunity. one of the things that i hope to see happen is doing more, creating a data base around internship opportunities that actually exist in the city. one of the things that private schools do very well is prepare their students through internship opportunities. they do not always have to be paid. this idea that if it is not paid, it is not an official, is not always the way things have to go. i understand that students cannot of college or high school and they in turn in somebody's office. by the time they're ready for that job, there is a job opening and they get to move into that quickly. we need to create more of those opportunities within our low- income neighborhoods. critics are making sure that --

making sure that the program is developing relevant programs. it is really important. we just started to create an newsletter so that we have a way to share the information that has been discussed and get that information out to others. i would like to see a little bit more of a tie-in between some of the work that the local business enterprise does and what their recruitment looks like and how they share information. supervisor kim: thank you. you answered the questions i wanted to ask. i appreciate that. kai wilson forsley. >> i have worked on workforce development for a while.

i just have not necessarily worked on it, but i have had outcomes with it. i've cultivated training programs for age 14 to 18. i have also worked with adult populations. i've also worked to help document people's interactions when they are attempting to will join the workforce. a lot of times people forget that to discrimination in the workforce is a large barrier to workforce development. i think a lot of people do not give that aspect as much credence. i moved here from chicago. when i moved here it was kind of easy to see the work force challenges. it really has to do with the small business aspect of san francisco. it really hinders the black work force population. we do not own any small businesses here. part of my strategic planning for this committee would be to figure out where some of the

small business tax dollars are going in terms of the office of workforce development. i actually went to their office and got information about where their business dollars are going. under 5% were actually given to black americans. that is something that should be looked into, considering our state and san francisco. as far as my qualifications, i am sure you have reviewed my resume. i serve on the board for the france of the independent -- friends of the independent living skills program. we run programs for foster youth. we give them grants. we also work to ease them into

what people take for granted when they go to college to adulthood. i have also worked on summer youth employment programs. the one thing i noticed is that the allotted time -- a lot of times, the youth come and the leaders said, what do you what to do today? they should be filtered into leadership roles. as far as the adult population, i worked with chinatown as the service coordinator. that aspect has to do with workforce growth development because we provided services to connect our residents to all types of different things, including job creation. as someone said earlier, there needs to be a connection

between job training and job creation. we can have all the job training we want, but if it does not lead to any jobs, it is not going to do anything. another aspect is equal representation in networking. that is how the majority of people fall into the workforce, through networking. low-income black people and generally do not have that, you know, connection. as far as more strategic planning, i believe the library should be a focal point of this work force training. the library is a neutral meeting place and it has a wealth of information, not just books and materials, but it has items that a lot of people could benefit from. since the committee benefits districts are under the guard of the economic workforce

development, they receive a lot of fun from that entity. who was holding them accountable? i am still attempting to work through that, but they also need to be a part of this workforce development because they receive a lot of funds for our beautification of neighborhoods. that could be tied into workforce development as well. it could be more than moving homeless people along. i would also say that just looking back at some of the minutes i viewed for this committee, one thing that interested me was that there was a voting seat on the disf committee. because of some issue, there has not been. i am still interested in this position. i hope the board of supervisors does take this committee's recommendation seriously for people who actually want to have outcomes, as opposed to a lot of

credentials. supervisor kim: next we have jamie brewster. he said he would be here, but i do not see him. ok. we will open this up for public comment. if you like to speak on this item in favor of a candidate, please come up. >> ♪ after workforce delight started out today wanted to come to the rules committee looks so inviting going to light up in the night

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