at bay cat. i'm happy that you have given us the opportunity to share the wonderful impact that the program that bay cat has been able to provide. our new focus area opt committee that determines for the next five years for under served people and definitely the techsf program is filling that need an i see that everyday through my work at bay cat. what i wanted to bring up is the in network of people that people have been really able to leverage through program. when we are doing the piloting and creation of this program, i interviewed tons of businesses about what they are looking for and what the we provide interns that they are going to be able

to hire, the portfolio development, intent view skills, the inner personal skills are what they want. that's why we have employers we are working with the hard and soft skills education. i want to thank you for the at some point to share this program with you. >> thank you, very much. next, we have i man. >> hello. i thank you for having us at this hearing. i feel bay cat has improved my life and my passion where i

want to go as a career because throughout my life i have had many job experiences and volunteer experiences, but never have they been necessarily and where i wanted to go with my passion and career and video production and i feel like this program techsf has given me that leverage to eventually become the person i want to be and go on to be the next whoever in video production. that's the basis. [ laughter ] . >> that's a strong statement to end on. that's great. is albert sandoval here. no. are there any other members in the public that would like to comment. seeing none, public comment is

closed. i would like to give it back to supervisor breed. if there is any closing remarks, i would also like someone to make a motion or file to the chair. >> motion to file. >> okay. first we'll let breed talk. >> i want to thank everyone so much for being here. thank you supervisor cohen for an allowing this to take place in your community. i really appreciate the fact that it's been made clear that we care about what outreach actually is in this program and we care about making sure that there are tangible results as a part of techsf. seeing young folks, i know you are over 18 but i still think of you as young folks but seeing you come today and talk about your experience

and seeing the actual results of the labor, that's the most important thing for me. i want to know that this program is impacting people's lives that at the end of the day, the money and glamour goes away and does this lead to an actual career for people. especially the most vulnerable populations in our city. as someone who has worked with children, i know that there are a lot of challenges. i was one of those challenging kids that needing adults from places lie -- like bay cat and places like europe to help me and support me and encourage me when i didn't understand what those things meant. i want to make sure the

programs understand that and i also want to make sure the programs are actually connect with the tech companies and really getting tangible opportunities for young people. so, that's part of what i think is is there and clearly there has been someplace -- placements but i know there is room for more . the class hasn't graduated. i hope there is a significant number of people we are able to graduate and more important i hope the outreach efforts are targeting the population we care about and secondly that people are getting placed into real long-term job opportunities. i want to thank you for the

stories, for the information and this is the first step i think in making sure that we are working together in order to have the results that we all want to see as a result of this incredible opportunity through techsf and through our partner organizations and through the tech industry in general. thank you supervisor kim for allowing me to be co-response are sponsor in this hearing. >> i want to acknowledge that supervisor campos was here at this hearing because we do represent a set of different ethnicities. i think it's much more helpful to see the folks that are in the programs because i think it gives us a sense of what the outreach and outcomes are. some of my

feedback on how we can do deeper outreach. just sitting here and thinking about what bay vac does, i think maybe we can talk about how bay vac can actually train our cbo's either the staff members or youth leaders spending time in the program to run classes or if they can be the one teaching classes. the one thing that is a barrier if the instructors themselves don't look like you or aren't from the neighborhoods that they are from. i think being to have an instructor that went from the high school and they stand up here. i know the street you fwru up in. i went to the schools. i think that already takes away one barrier i feel. i think part of the -- i don't want to call it intimidation but feeling it's not your

place, your space in not seeing those folks. i think we have amazing organizations who is staff grew up in the neighborhoods that maybe can go to a different place and actually help one the programs from cyc or mow magic. just a couple ideas out there. they already know the youth and they will drive the young people themselves because they have that relationship alreadiment i think we need to go deeper than outreach. i don't know the to say go to the dbo organizations but we become the folks that live in the communicate. this is a $7 million grant for the

next few years and how we spend that money and if there is not enough for what we want it to dorks it's great to have participants here who saw the flyer and walked into bay vac or any of these organizations, but i think we want to see for folks who may not see the flyers. i think that's part of the feedback that they are giving. the second piece i'm saying is it would be great to get the young folks that were at zen last summer and talk to the folks in the neighborhood about what that experience is for them. and give one example, when i was a youth organizer i had one student really into technology. he was very self motivated and took apart computers and he ended up going to work for microsoft and nous is working he locally in san francisco. it's amazing because

in his class, a number of them are now hired in tech companies because of him. just having one friend that grew up in the valley or chinatown when there are job openings when they feel that their friends even if they are not a programmer like he was, he was able to open up jobs. i don't see need to see high numbers. but i know if you hire one person that really grew up in the neighborhood that they are going to be able to provide the network opportunity that is opportunity. the networking is the most important thing. i do want to thank zen for being here. i was hoping that others could be here today. i think it's important that tech companies who want to partner on this and give us feedback. it not to call them out and say

hey, we are investing in your companies, it's really to say how can we help you hire our folks because we are asking to you do it and we have these federal funds and let's make sure we are targeting the helpful ways to get this going. the last thing i will say. it's been great to work with rhonda and sitting down with sf city. it's gray on a personal level, it's great to work with rhonda's shop, i remember when i was a youth organizer and i also want to recognize the good work that you are doing. we are giving the feedback on what we would like to see better. i

have also visited all the other places. i want to see a deeper penetration into the neighborhoods that are harder to get access to. you know i visited our tech companies and this is not a dig at them but you can see when you walk in, the lack of diversity. i see very few african americans, i see very few latinos when you walk into a tech company. i know it's not the world that they live in so their out reaching to their friends to jobs and it's not a criticism. i just think that if we are talking about how we can improve our city an i get e-mails a lot of times from tech companies in how do we make the neighborhoods safer, how do ideal with homelessness issues. we have to be very real about what it is to really create economic opportunities in our community so they have

access to those jobs and employment. that is part of making our neighborhood safer. if we are going to make tenderloin safer, we have to hire people in that neighborhood to figure out what the job opportunities are. i'm sorry we went 2 1/2 hours. i think an important issue. thank you for your time and cosponsoring this. thank you supervisor kim. >> supervisor campos. final words. >> thank you. i'm not going to repeat everything that's been said. i want to thank everyone for the prrgs -- presentation and all the work that has been done and i really appreciate that you are really trying to do a lot with very little. the participants of the program, all of you are inspiring and it

was moving to hear your stories and i know that each and everyone of you has a very bright future ahead of you. i just want to make the general comment that what i think is striking about this hearing today is and i was surprised by it is i think as a whole, even though you have some pretty amazing companies like zen i think this industry is doing very little for creating job opportunity for young people especially the populations that we are talking about. we are talking about 150 people that are now participating in techsf. 26 jobs that have been found with respect to s f city

that was handful that did happy new year one individual. it's not a lot when you think about the kind of investment that the city has made in the tech industry. i really hope that this is a wake up call that we need to do more and i have a great deal of faith and the tech industry because i think a lot of it's values are san francisco values. and i hope that can be reflected in what actually happens in the hiring of people. i do see this hearing as a wake up call because i don't think we are seeing enough from the industry itself. the bulk of the work is being done because we got a federal grant from the federal government that is funding this effort. without that, we wouldn't be where we are. and so, you have companies over

night are creating millionaires and yet it just doesn't seem like the results are really there. that's really sad and i think it's sad especially given the kind of investment that the city has made in this industry and i just hope that this changes because clearly the talent is out there. i mean, look at anyone of the ones who spoke, there is talent out there. so i hope that we have a different reality in a few months because i think it's sad where we are right now. thank you. >> all right. have you very much. supervisor campos made a motion to file this and it second by supervisor katie tang. very much. >> madam chair is there any further business? >> there is no further

business. >> we are adjourned. thank you, people.

>> you're watching quick bites, the show that is san francisco. and today you're in for a real treat.

oh, my! food inspired by the mediterranean and middle east with a twist so unique you can only find it in one place in san francisco. we're at the 55th annual armenian festival and bizarre. this is extra special not only because i happen to be armenian, but there is so much delicious food here. and i can't wait to share it with all of you. let's go. armenia, culture and cusine has had much cultural exchanges with its neighbors. today armenian food infuses he flavor from the mediterranean, middle east, and eastern europe. >> this is our 55th year and in san francisco we're the largest armenian food festival and widely recognized as one of the best food festivals in the area. we have vendors that come up from fresno, from los angeles showing off their craft. we really feel like we have something for everyone in the neighborhood and that's really what it is, is drawing people

to see a little bit of our culture and experience what we experience weekend in and weekend out. >> we are behind the scenes now watching the chef at work preparing some delicious armenian kabob. this is a staple in armenian cooking, is that right? >> absolutely, since the beginning of time. our soldiers used to skewer it on the swords. we have a combination of beef and lam and parsley. and every september over 2000 pounds of meat being cooked in three days. >> after all that savory protein, i was ready to check out the fresh veggie options. >> this is armenian cheat sheet. it's tomatos and mint and olive oil. that makes summer food. and what i'm doing is i'm putting some nutmeg. it is kind of like cream

cheese. in armenia when they offer you food, you have to eat it. they would welcome you and food is very important for them. >> in every armenian community we feel like we're a "smallville"age and they come together to put on something like this. what i find really interesting about san francisco is the blends of armenia that come together. once they are here, the way people work together at any age, including our grandmothers, our grandfathers, skewering the meat, it's fun to see. fun to see everybody get together. >> we call it subarek. it's a cheese turn over if you want. we make the dough from scratch. we boil it like you do for la san i can't. >> the amount of love and karin fused in these foods is tremendous. they come in every day to prepare, cook and bake bread, all in preparation for this big festival. >> nobody says no. when you come them, they have

to come tomorrow for the feast. >> what a treat it is to taste a delicious recipe, all made from scratch and passed down through generations. it really makes you appreciate the little things. >> it's one of the best festivals. it's outstanding, a marvelous occasion. >> we're outside checking some of the food to go options. i grabbed myself a ka bob sandwich, all kinds of herbs and spices. i'm going to taste this. looking fantastic. one of the best i've had in a long time. you know it's delicious b i have just enough room for dessert, my favorite part. we're behind the scenes right now watching how all the pastries get made. and we've got a whole array of pastries here. honey and nuts and cinnamon, all kinds of great ingredients. this is amazing. here's another yummy pastry made with filo dough.

oh, my god. really sweet and similar, it's lighter. this is what i like. we have a lovely row here. looks like a very delicious and exciting surprise. i'm going to bite into it. here we go. um. this is great with armenian coffee. now we're making some incredible armenian coffee. >> we buy our coffee, they have the best coffee. they come from armenia, specially made. and would you like to try it? >> i would like to try. >> would you like sugar or no sugar? >> no sugar today. i'm so excited.

really earthy. you can really taste the grain. i think that's what makes it so special. really comes out. i hope you try it. we're having a great time at the armenian festival. we ate, we saw, and we definitely conquered. i don't know about you, but i have to go down to the food. check out our blog for so much more at sf bites at tums abler.com. until next time, may the force be with you. ♪ ♪ >> first of all, everybody is welcome and we ask two things when they get here. one, that they try something they've never tried before. be it food or be it dancing or doing something. and if they feel like it was worth their while to tell one person and bring that person, that family member, that friend down the street to come with them.

>> we're going to have to do a lot of eating so get ready. >> get ready. and you diet tomorrow.

>> on december 28, 1912. san francisco mayor, sonny jim

rolph stared into the crowds of those who have gathered. a moment in history. the birth of a publicly own transit system. san francisco municipal railway. muni as it would become to be known. happy birthday, muni, here is to the next 100 years. the birth of muni had been a long-time coming. over the years the city was disjointed privately owned companies. horses and steam and electric-powered vehicles. creating a hodgepodge of transit options. none of them particularly satisfying to city residents. the city transit system like the city itself would have changes

during the san francisco earthquake. the transition that will pursue from this aftermath would change san francisco's transportation system once again. facilitated by city boss, abe ruth, ushering in the electric city car. the writing was on the wall. the clammer had begun for the experiment including public transit people. owned by the people and for the people. the idea of a consolidated city-owned transit system had begun traction. and in 1909, voters went to the polls and created a bond measure to create the people's railway. would become a reality three years later.