good morning. my name is daphne. in the project coordinator for chinatown. in the fall we were accepting applications. personally, i had to turn away approximately 20 youth. we are talking about a youth who are interested in working during the school year, alongside balancing between a job in school as well. canned -- and at school as well. we focused on the financial literacy and resume building. thank you for the attention. >> could morning, supervisors. menem is stephanie in the in the coordinator at the youth

development center in the talent -- tenderloin. our youth is extremely high risk. last summer we had over 200 applications and we can only serve a fraction of that. it is very unfortunate. i am asking that we get more support from the city government. thank you very much. >> hello, supervisors. in the employment coordinator at the japanese community youth council. i wanted to bring a personal story i had encounters. -- encountered. what resonated with me was that their parents were unemployed in their having a difficult time finding a job. that their wage could not contribute to a family household.

as you know, in this economy it is typical for many individuals to find jobs. this program will be pivotal in helping the communities in the bay area. i have been working on this video for them and what i really was amazed with was 40% of the intern's share their family income. $35,000. barely enough to survive in the city. i applaud your efforts. thank you. >> we are fortunate in this city, thanks to the supervisor, who has formed the use commission. some of them sit behind me. the use commission should think

outside the box. you supervisors should know that you have a population of about 811,000. for every 28 constituents, we have a budget of 9.6 billion. i know that some are trying to pay attention to me in a convoluted manic, and others are not, that is ok. these are some pictures in my will follow up with an article that can expose those who are doing what they are supposed to do and those who do not want to do what they are supposed to do. we have to pay attention to our youth. if we do not pay attention to our youth, some of them are begging for money.

if we do not pay attention to our youth, then we have to focus on incarceration. that is on you. i am here to remind you that you are supposed to represent. if you really represent the population including the huge, you have to do it in a holistic manner. the youth should not be coming here year after year, begging for money. that should not be the case. thank you very much. supervisor chu: are there any other speakers have wish to comment? seeing no one, public comment is closed. colleagues, we have listened to public comment. i believe that there were a number of comments based on the legislation moving forward.

can we except in motion to amend the legislation and turn it into -- i would say after line 18, following the rest of the clauses. done without objection. colleagues, the item as amended? i would like to add my name as a co-sponsor. i think it is a great initiative. great work to get our use employed. break conversations will have to continue once we do move forward. i am very supportive of that. dunn of objection. item number four, please. -- done without objection. item number four, please. >> item #4.

ordinance amending the san francisco administrative code by adding chapter 14c, sections 14c.1 through 14c.3 to provide for a downward adjustment in price or upward adjustment in rating of a proposal or bid from a california benefit corporation for a competitively-solicited city contract. supervisor chu: thank you. colleagues, let's wait a minute to allow for supervisor shichiu to get here. would you like to say a few words? supervisor chiu: thank you for taking another look at this item. if you recall, at the last

meeting, the chairman and supervisor had asked for me to occlude a couple of additional amendments to accomplish a couple of things. the first was to expand the category of protected businesses. they wanted me to include regional businesses, defined as areas that have their principal place of business i am one of the eight surrounding counties. that is something that we have been hooted. the second thing the supervisor had asked for was to include an expiration date for this legislation to be three years from the effective date. the operative date would be 90 days after the ordinance. we have circulated the amendments of -- over the last few days. i would like to ask for your support and hopefully we might be able to put this legislation through.

supervisor chu: i believe we have already heard the budget analyst report. mr. rhodes, is there anything you would add? >> i have nothing additional to that. supervisor chu: i think that the other item that he shared with us was the number of and rolled california benefits had changed. we had originally heard that there were 21 benefits, and at last look there were 30. >> i am sorry, could you repeat? >> the last information provided was that there were 30? >> correct. our contact is not available. we did not get a call back yesterday. it was updated 30 as opposed to the 21 initially reported. supervisor chu: colleagues, we

have the amendments that have been passed out to less. let's take public comment before we take action on it. are there members of the public that wish to speak on item number four? >> i was here the last time this agenda item was the liberated. and we were debating at the last meeting a big operation. what happens in reality is that we do have people in not doing very well in this city or san francisco. i hope that we get some sort of analysis from the budget analyst controller, because in reality these are not doing very

well. i understand the supervisor wants to initiate this legislation. as a constituent, i want to know the role that the human rights commission is going to fly. i see, from talking to over 50 lbe's, something is not working at the human rights commission. many of the combined processors are stressed. i do not know if we need to address the health department to do something about it, but my concern is that if we have the big operation and they are suffering today, who is going to do the compliance?

all i am asking is whether quantity to be sold. if things do not work out, there was the belief that there needed to be a sunset cloud, which i do not see. thank you very much. supervisor chu: thank you. next speaker? >> thank you. i appreciate the opportunity to be here speaking in support of this desolation. i would like to stress the reason that my company changed was to legally protect our commitment and 10% of our gross profits being tent -- being donated to charity. a huge part of being a

california benefit organization means giving back to the community. another reason for this legislation is to make sure that there is adequate protection for nonprofit lbe's who are worthy recipients around these contracts. this legislation is in alignment with the commitments to the business and a strong statement of the types of businesses in san francisco that they want to recruit and do business with. lastly, encouraging more businesses to consider the type of impact they have had as a corporation in giving back to our community and shelve -- shareholders. thank you.

>> thank you, supervisors, for allowing me to speak. i wanted to talk quickly again about the advantages as an employee plan working in this organization. i know that amongst youngsters, working for companies that you have a motive with and are more aligned with, it is a great opportunity. for me, personally, it is like be -- it is why i came to san francisco we wanted to encourage this moving forward. i am fully in support of the legislation. thank you so much for your time. supervisor chu: thank you. >> my name is andy and i am the

director of community development at b lab. we have a few employees that were here earlier but had to leave because of time constraints. small businesses, primarily minority-owned, i have made contact with theresa sparks and want to make sure that it is known that this is a dual effort to evaluate impact and make it clear that this is -- i do a lot between the organization. especially with the private sector. it would be a great opportunity to see how there is a line in.

supervisor chu: thank you. -- alignment. supervisor chu: thank you. >> on your mark -- ♪ on your mark, cassette, go, you will make sure business dream come true and you will do it -- you will do it with a benefit discount and make your business dreams come true. there is nothing business you must try. they have not heard the word impossible this time. taking the discount and workout in the city. ♪ supervisor chu: thank you.

>> was that the theme song to alice? think it was. my name is david. i live in california and am in the process of starting a new unit co. in san francisco and i learned of the corporation last week, from antique, who had been quite intrigued by it. we are in full support of the legislation, the wilmot benefit us, we feel that pretty much like the u.s. green building council, it is a worthwhile effort. thank you. >> thank you. on behalf of better world telecom, i work with them in their corporation.

i definitely appreciate your efforts made to protect the local community to protect jobs. i feel like the certified benefit legislation is something that is going to help business-. i feel that my interests as a local businesswoman are being held up. i wanted to thank you for your time. supervisor chu: thank you. are there other speakers that wish to comment? seeing no one, public comment is closed. ins we have a motion to except the amendments. taken without objection. to the underlying item, colleagues? supervisor avalos: motion to move forward.

supervisor chu: we have a motion to move it forward as amendment -- as amended. speaking to my vote on it, regarding public comments made earlier to benefit corporations in the public call for private companies to help the board with our summary of the and jobs programs, i hope that the folks in here -- who are year today will go back to the corporations and find out his list interested in participating. i want to reiterate that i completely agree with the speaker in the hope that happens. in one area and other public speaker spoke to it. how benefiting corporations would be certified. understanding better than

letting a digest, a charge he would have to look at the rules around this. that is a legitimate concern. it would be an area where i would like more follow-up work. with regards to benefits of being conferred to san francisco, i know that is something i have brought up and that members of the public were going to volunteer organizations. it would be great if those contributions made it to the nonprofits were struggling. that is where my hesitation lies in the legislation. that being said, the areas where the improvements for the made a

difference, the fact that we do not have additive discounts is important. i appreciate and absolutely think it is important that we have not had -- edged out local businesses. i appreciate the language that the supervisor spoke of in previous meetings, making sure it is not a subsidiary organization, especially given help they came into play here. protecting regional employers, having a discount of this sort edge out the regional partners, i appreciate that work with regards to the expiration, which gives us a real good checkpoint

to look and see if the program is working based on changing definitions. i really do appreciate those movements. because of those reasons, i will be supportive of the legislation. thank you for making those changes. i know we have seen a motion to send the item forward, but before we do that, supervisor avalos? supervisor avalos: i wanted to thank the supervisors for his work in the committee. we are early in the process of corporations grafting or brains around this ordinance.

i appreciate that. supervisor chiu: colleagues, i very much appreciate your support in this process. the legislation that we are looking at today looks very different from the legislation last year. i want to take a moment in thank the budget analyst. mr. rose, your office made a lot of suggestions that we inc., including having them be responsible for many of the regulatory issues around this. certainly the chairman's suggestion around the most efficient way being open to possibilities in the future of doing this even better. one issue that we came up with, i know that this was whether we

were conferring specific benefits in san francisco and not one that we would be able to leave with. that being said, i think that stating that a non-san francisco benefit corporation or non- regional verses a regional company, that would be reasonable proxy to consider the impact of local businesses here in the bay area. i certainly, with reviews of this legislation every six months, but hopefully over the next few years we will have a good picture of whether it has the intended effect. because it was raised by the first speaker in public comment, it was important in this

legislation will not impact and we should be able to do more to think about how local business enterprises can flourish. they will not receive a discount if it would cause them to lose a particular bit. i am very committed to working with the community. i know that the supervisor is looking at this to figure out what we can do to streamline our process and making sure we can get what we want from disadvantaged communities in order to be competitive in the initial process, of which is a long-term perspective. with that, colleagues, i very much appreciate your support. supervisor kim: i wanted to

briefly thank the author of this ordinance today. both for your flexibility and patients. i am actually looking forward to seeing the outcome over the next few years. i thought that it would be evaluated as we went along. but the changes to the amendments, hopefully we will be minimally impacting the ability to retain contracts here in the city. i would be more than happy to work with the supervisors' committee to see how we can work with local businesses and disadvantaged communities that are able to benefit from city contracts here in san francisco. a think it is important. particularly along with

philosophical values here, that type of work with our local taxpayer dollar. supervisor chu: colleagues, we have a motion to send the item forward. as amended, without objection. thank you. are there any other items before us? >> [inaudible] supervisor chu: thank you, we are adjourned.

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today we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. since