those companies that have hired from that pool, 5 companies have come out of sf city and adobe, google and academy of arts. >> is it like one person per company? >> yes. it's one person per company. >> we have a video. we don't have any sound. >> okay. send us a link. we are

going to have to keep moving. okay. first up. colleagues, there is no other comment or questions? perfect. i'm going to open for public comment. i'm going to call a few names. please lineup to my right here. what we'll do first. okay. let's hustle. >> hello. my name is walden and i would like to submit a letter to the record. director of sf city. in the interest of the time i will only read a boars of the full letter. sf for technology and innovation was

established to harness innovative powers for students facing problems in san francisco. our 200 members represent over 30,000 employees in san francisco. in a short period of time we have at that period into the talents that have addressed issues in our city. job creation, transportation, education and public safety. sf city is committed to helping san francisco pursue career in our city's striving sector. improved critique los -- curriculum and local schools

and career opportunities with n the sector. letting the skill sets speak for themselves. we now hope to work with city and community leaders into these efforts into a cohesive pipeline to participate in our thriving sector. >> thank you very much. what's your affiliations? >> i work with sf city. i'm a project manager. >> next speaker is letty brown. you have two minutes. >> hello, i'm an intern at bay cat. i was born and raised in san francisco. growing up i didn't have access to the media industry and through bay cap i have been able to produce videos for clients and recently

i was hired as a production assistant for hbo. this experience has really given me just more than >> my name is john. i came to bay cat. in the last three months i have seen incredible growth in both their technical

skill sets and professional des demeanors. techsf has allowed us to get hands-on access to professional equipment, to real projects working with real clients and building a real professional portfolio and we've been able to gain training to a professional culture to start up large companies and tech corporations and as the field is changing we've been able to provide training and really provide and protect themselves in an industry where you are connected to the clients. i feel very grateful to be coordinator in the techsf program and please ask to please continue to give support to this program as it's really

an allowing them to gain experience they are not able to get anywhere else. >> thank you very much. okay, next speaker. >> edgar garcia. >> good afternoon everyone. i'm an intern at bay cat. some of the things i have learned here is how to operate a camera. how to produce and manage and work in a group environment and how to work as a leader. i feel it is my responsibility to share my knowledge with others and i work for an after school program in the mission district, jamestown. and pretty much i just have a quick story. we had this skateboarding event and i asked some of my fellow interns if they wanted to come

out and help me videotape this and they agreed and not only were the kids having fun and learning, but it just provided -- it was an awesome experience we had. i borrowed some of the equipment from bay cat and tripods and cameras and the kids were having a great time learning and being creative. i feel that bay cat provides a different type of creative outlet such as video making and recording and animation and what a great feeling it is to tell people and professionals that you can do that. thank you. >> thank you. next we have britney janis and following i

ammian. >> i'm the development manager 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.

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important because we can't do this. it's important to understand and a concept of learning how to take care of this park. we have almost a 160 acres in the district 10 area. >> it's fun to come out here. >> we have a park. it's better to take some of the stuff off the fences so people can look at the park. >> the street, every time, our friends. >> i think everybody should give back. we are very fortunate. we are successful with the company and it's time to give back. it's a great place for us. the weather is

nice. no rain. beautiful san francisco. >> it's a great way to be able to have fun and give back and walk away with a great feeling. for more opportunities we have volunteering every single day of the week. get in touch with the parks and recreation center so come >> the garden contains plants referred to by william shakespeare's plays and poems. located near the academy of sciences, shakespeare's garden

was designed in 1928 by the california spring and wild flower association. here is a truly enchanting and tranquil little garden tucked behind the path of a charming rot iron gate with romantic magic. the overarching cherry trees, the gorgeous big walkway and brick wall, the benches, the rustic sun dial. the pack picnic, lovely bench, enjoy the sunshine and soft breeze and let the >> good afternoon and wg welcome to the localation formation commission. across from me is david campos and

other commissioners as they arrive. clerk of the board is elisa miller and we are brought together by sfgtv staff whose name i don't have but i want to thank them for their service. >> madam clerk please call the next item >> item no. 2, march 25th, meeting with the san francisco commission. >> thank you. any comments or questions or changes? let's go to public complent -- comment on the last minutes on the march 25th meeting. seeing none