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. >> good morning, everyone. i'm tailor stafford, president

and ceo of pier 39 and on behalf of our grateful water front family, it is my privilege to extend a sincere thank you to the port of san francisco for all that you have done, and continue to do to build the best water front in north america. pause plause [ applause ] >> from at&t, home from the world champion san francisco giants to the building, to the new exporatorium, and new cruise ship terminal to pier 39 and all of the restaurant and businesss in between, we are all proud to wish you, the port of san francisco a happy, 150th anniversary. today, project such as the new warriors arena establish the port as a world class destination, due for large part to the vision of mayor ed lee

and monique moyer and as well as the dedication of the port commissioners and staff. it is now my pleasure to introduce honorable ed lee, mayor of san francisco. [ applause ] >> good morning, everybody. happy birthday. i just want to make sure that you know that if you combine the ages of myself, or president chiu, and monique moyer we might get to 150 years, maybe. but i'm down here to have fun, today, get out of city hall, go to bubba gumps and make sure that i spend it with other people who love to have fun like our port commission and hers directors and the staff and the rec and parks here and i know that the fire chiefs had to lessen her fun time and go to a three alarm fire and thank you to her for being vigilant

for the city. and we would rec and park they have discovered yet another great partner to find water front open space that we can all enjoy, both in terms of getting our public to understand our bond program better, but also to create new spaces. so thank you, phil for being here as well. our port commissioners extend not to present but to past for commissioners and he knows that and i saw mike and others, because it takes generations of people to create things along the water front. it is incredibly expensive to restore a lot of our piers and monique is the first person to know that intimately and historically but we do have persons and entities that want to continue this fabulous water front experience and to make investments, where there is

jefferson street, brandon wharf and pier, 30, 32 and the exporatorium this wonderful opportunity. i want to thank, past and present port commissioners, and i see them here now. that they have earned the title of being the greatest stewarts of our water front and so thank you for your ongoing effort to do this. [ applause ] >> and the work incredibly well with the other agencies. i know that because this is pier 39 and one of the most iconic travel destinations, i understand that is why, john martin was here, because while he flies airplanes he is part of an incredible transportation center and we all know that and we all share in that wonderful experience with being clearly, the best nation for so many,

millions of people, every day. and as we do this, we reinvent and reinvest and find other reasons for people to enjoy themselves here. and those projects like the exporatorium and like the bay lights and renewed effort to create more water-base theds transportation to compliment the bridges that we build. we will create more bridges on the international level for our city. so, all of that in the context of a great anniversary, 150 years, there is going to be throughout this year, more stories to be told about what this 150 years means to our city, because, there is a lot of generations of people who came to this city, many, many years, built communities, built their small business and their livelihood and hopes and helped us to establish the fisherman's wharf and help us to establish

all of the maritime that they have created life times of reasons of why people want to continue visiting our city and we need to acknowledge all of that history. and all of it has not been easy, there have been difficult things and we have had fights over what is proper, and what is not proper, but we have always had in our sites in all of these different struggles, the success of our city, the golden gate bridge and the hope that it brings to many generations of immigrants that is what our city is built on and the honor that we have with all of our labor partners who also jimmy herman and the cruise ship terminal that they are honoring and built it through years of generations of struggle but also great celebrations that we have. and so this is wonderful year, and 150 years of history. let's learn it all and continue to appreciating, but let's look

forward to the next 150 years, because we are building the infrastructure to do that. we are laying the foundation to do that. we are creating partnerships among the agencies, but also public, private partnership to create it, because i will tell you that someone who is going to invest, $250,000 to $200 million on the piers it is an incredible to the faith that they have in the city and it is about investing confidence and why we exist in such a great wonderful city and so thank you monique and the port commission and to all of your wonderful partners and staff for working so hard with the entities like pier 39 and others who will continue to invest in the confidence here and along the water front and thank you to the labor and all of your partners thank you to all of the other agents for being here, happy 150th anniversary, to our great city.

>> thank you, we wish to continue your success. also, here with us today is the president of the board of supervisors, and the supervisor from our very own district three, david chiu. [ applause ] >> thank you, tailor. mr. mayor, if it is okay, could you and i just declare it a city holiday today so we don't have to go back to work and hang out here on pier 39? >> i want to thank all of you who are the incredible diversity of the community that is the port. the community that our water front peers and our wharfs. this is the story of our city. our port has really defined our past as i think that we all know, the first 49ers came right here to this spot to build this city, during world war ii, our military ships were recommissioned, right here from our port.

we know that our friends from labor as the mayor said, built our city, starting here with this water fort and this is the story of our city and we also know that the water front in the port defines who we are and it is amazing in 2013, if you just walk along the water front in my district, you will start at the fisherman's wharf street scape improvements and to the cruise ship terminal that we just cut the ribbon for and you walk down to the terminals and the ports where america's cup will entertain a million, international visitors within a few months. walk down a couple more blocks to piers 15, 17, where we are going to see a half a million kids come to go all the way down to what we know that will be the next site of the warrior's arena and down to the ballpark and the water phone and the port is our city's present and it is our city

story. but we also know that this is a story that is going to continue and one of the things that we love in pier 39. if you come here any day you will see the boys and girls playing with their parents who will come back a few years later as teenagers and young adults. and young men and women, flirting on the peers, dating each other, who will come back a few years later for their honeymoon, who will come back a few years later with their kids. and so, the cycle of the story of our city continues and that i know that in 50 years when we are celebrating the 200th birthday of this blai, when monique's grand daughter and ed lee's great grandson, are helping to run this city, they will look back on to the city leaders today, who are represented by all of you. and say, you know, in 2013, our city forefathers or city foremothers thought it appropriate to invest in our port and make sure that we are

building a 21st century port to last, happy birthday. thank you. >> i think that we all look forward to that moyer lee, administration. and finally, our good friend and dynamic leader, the executive director of the port of san francisco, monique moyer. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> okay, so raise your hands, how many of you would like to be me today? i am so humble and honored, what a great fortune to land my term right on the 150th year because the one thing that i will tell you about being 150 years old if you realize that your time is really short and insignificant, and if i were to dare to count how many port directors there have been before and how many there will be after it will become more of a second time, but, i get to be here with all of you and so many of you who have been here at this water front for

decades, all of you from fisherman's wharf thank you for coming today, because of you it is our water front that has evolved ahead of everywhere else in the world this is a perfect place to celebrate. because here we have a little bit of something of everything, in fisherman's wharf. it has been part of the port since its inception that is how we ate, and how we did commerce and how we paid for the fish we ate with gold but nonetheless we subsifted on fish and the agriculture that was born around the bay and san francisco to feed the miners who were farmers and to create a new economy for san francisco and haven't we brilliantly and completely made new economies and so many knew that we have to name the latest new economy of the economy of invention and creativity and isn't that what we were doing in the gold rush and so it was stunning to be here with all of you who have made this possible.

in 1900, the community worked with us to move up here in this area of a water front, and more of a lagoon area where we could congregate better and save the area where fisherman's wharf had been for the commerce that was needed to sustain our city. as the most of the logistics changed and as the needs changed as a community it was fisherman's wharf that helped us to envision what could be the future. in almost 50 years ago, the discussions began, how to enlifen our water front and how to keep it a working water front as we have here with all of us, as visitors, as those folks who are enjoying the great suit that they have to offer and the wonderful open space and also the working ferries that are helping to transport us around the bay and are here for us in times of emergency and celebration and so that is bha we stand for in san francisco, and this is a terrific place for us to celebrate, and i could not be more honored to be here with all of you, to celebrate those generations that went before us.

and as mayor lee, and president chiu said so eloquently, those generations that will come after us, it is a tremendous honor, and i thank you for being here to share in that honor and please happy birthday, to all of you, and to the board of san francisco. [ applause ] thank you, monique. >> and now the moment that we have all been waiting for. the birthday cake. >> i would like the speakers to gather on the cake and lead us all to sing happy birthday to the board of san francisco. ♪ [ applause ]

>> i have 2 job titles. i'm manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall.

this building is multifaceted to say the very least it's a municipal building that operates the city and county of san francisco. this building was a dream that became a reality of a man by the name of james junior elected mayor of san francisco in 1912. he didn't have a city hall because it was destroyed in the earth wake of 1906. construction began in april of 1913. in december 1915, the building was complete. it opened it's doors in january 1916. >> it's a wonderful experience to come to a building built like this. the building is built as a

palace. not for a king or queen. it's built for all people. this building is beautiful art. those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, san francisco had an enormous french population. therefore building a palace in the art tradition is not unusual. >> jimmie was an incredible individual he knew that san francisco had to regain it's place in the world. he decided to have the tallest dome built in the united states. it's now stands 307 feet 6 inches from the ground 40 feet taller than the united states capital.

>> you could spend days going around the building and finding something new. the embellishment, the carvings, it represents commerce, navigation, all of the things that san francisco is famous for. >> the wood you see in the board of supervisor's chambers is oak and all hand carved on site. interesting thing about the oak is there isn't anymore in the entire world. the floors in china was cleard and never replanted. if you look up at the seceiling

you would believe that's hand kof carved out of wood and it is a cast plaster sealing and the only spanish design in an arts building. there are no records about how many people worked on this building. the workman who worked on this building did not all speak the same language. and what happened was the person working next to the other person respected a skill a skill that was so wonderful that we have this masterpiece to show the this masterpiece to show the world today. [horns honking] announcer: the first step to getting into college

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