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>> may 6, 2013, small business meeting, the time is 5:36 and the meeting is being called to record. item one is roll call. >> commissioner adams? here. commissioner white, when isinger dooley. >> dwight. >> o'brien. >> ortiz-cartagena. >> rilely? she had a prior commitment. i would like to ask the members of the public to silence or turn off all cell phones or portable device and we would like to take this opportunity to thank sfgov tv and the media to all media services for the continued support of our meetings.

>> to move on to item number two, mr. president. >> yes. commissioners, you are now in item number two, presentation of the small business commission certificate of honor recognizing the city employee treasurer as part of the city employee recognition program, this is a discussion item. >> commissioners, director of the office of small business. and we have with us, richard simons, our tax and treasurers, and pauline marks from the tax and treasurer's office and it is great pleasure and some what sadness and pleasure to honor him for his service and 13 and a half years with the tax and

treasurer's office and he has worked very closely with our office and our staff and when we opened the office of small business, provided training orientation, and for our staff, and for business services. and so, i am going to read this, on this monday, may 6th, 2013, the small business commission is honored to recognize richard simon to small businesss in san francisco. he will be retiring from the office of the tax and tres ses you arers after the career of serving businesses of san francisco for 13 and a half years. the success of a small business, assistance center would not have been possible for *f without the support and guidance of mr. simon, he is a great allie and a small business advocate and always goes above and beyond to help small business kliepts and he serves as an example of all

employees on how to serve the small businesses and the commission commends as attitude. the commission is pleased to have an opportunity to honor you, mr. simon and this is you, and your retirement. thank you. >> thank you very much, very worked for the tax directary office for many years i am more accustomed to being yelled at than honored. and it is on my wall in kentucky because i am moving to kentucky thank you very much. thank you. >> we want to get a picture. >> oh, great. okay.

>> with the commission's permission, we want to add our gratitude to the commission for this fine honor, that you are giving, retiring employee, richard simon. and as he said, the job that we do of collecting the taxes and

fees for the city is an important job. and not obviously appreciated i don't think by the folks that we deal with, but it really is the partnership with the small business assistance center and other departments that allow us to be successful and i want to commend your work and the commission's work and all of the staff of the city departments to partner with us to make sure that everyone understands why it is that we are asking them to pay their fair share and how important it is to play a level playing feel here in san francisco and thank you for all of the good work that you are doing and recognizing similar today. thank you. >> next, item. >> commissioners, you are now at number three, presentation of a small business commission certificate of honor, recognizing the local small business, bi rite market as part of the sbc small business recognition program. this is a discussion item.

>> all right. on this monday, may 6, 2013, the small business commission is honored to recognize sam logan and birite market to the contribution of vitality of san francisco and the missionaries. it has been a mission district institution since the 1940s and

the commission commends and applauds the family's expansion of bi rite earlier this year, creating communities demonstrates the commitment to the communities and the organizations that the stores support and which by extension supports thousands of individuals throughout san francisco. love, passion and integrity are the values that drive bi rite and excited to support these principles, these are extended throughout all of the businesses, and to the customer service and employment practice and beyond, the commission recognizes as a san francisco base business and wishes them success for generation to come. congratulations [ applause ] you guys are sf members and thank you very much and bi rite from my last reading employs over 250 people here in san francisco and that is

fantastic, in the spirit of job creation, thank you for that as well. [ applause ] thank you very much. and you know, as a native san francisco an, it is an honor to be here and having grown up in the city and have watched the city evolve and change, it is wonderful actually. being recognized for the work that we have done and you know my family has been on 18th street now for 50 years and i started working there in 74 as a tike and i have watched it evolve into a very important part of san francisco. and it would not be possible without all of the support that our community has given us in all of the tremendous work that our staff has put in and now the support of our city. and you guys make it possible, thank you. >> very much. >> thank you. >> thank you for that. thank you.

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congratulate sam and bi-rite. and i am a native as well as san francisco, and i have been going through the store over 20 years and over on the corner of 18th and i have known for a long time and just so happy to see that it has been able to evolve to in the community and i want to do a special thanks to what the family has done and created. thank you. >> director?

>> and i too want to congratulate you and thank you. and i have known sam my partner, irene and i celebrated several valentine days on the restaurant. and before, birite and so it has been wonderful to be part of your business experience and several different incarnations. so thank you for that. >> and i would like to add that your store is gorgeous and you guys did a great job. >> yes. >> next item, please? >> commissioners? item number four on general public comment? this allows members of the public to comment on matters in the commission purview and suggests new items and this is a discussion item. >> do we have any members of the public who would like to make a comment on items that are not on today's agenda? >> seeing none, public comment

is closed. next item threes? >> commissioners put you on item number five, presentation and discussion of putting youth to work, summer youth employment program by greg asay, office of economic and workforce development, this is a discuss item only. and i did put a hard copy of the presentation along in your binder. >> good evening, greg with the office of workforce development thanks to having me tonight, i have a short powerpoint presentation just to go over the summer jobs plus program that is in the second year here in san francisco. so, with that, let me start and i am going to go... and these slides, i think. and so, this last year as i mentioned it was a call to action, president obama last year to let the public and private sector to step up and create jobs for youth between

the ages of 16 and 24, as you may know the unemployment rate for that age group is significantly higher, than it is for the public at large. so it is definitely a population that the president and then here locally it is the mayor and the city family are focusing on. so, with that challenge, from the president, mayor lee in turn, challenged the city departments and the private sector to step up and to create a summer jobs program here in san francisco. it truly is a partnership of both the city and the private sector as well. so, here, in the city, our office at the economic workforce development with the mayor's office and the department of children, youth and their family have taken the lead, but across the city family there has been the departments stepping up to provide opportunities as well. and then the private sector has been a great out pouring from the employers last year and

this year, united way and the bay area is a key partner of ours in the non-profit sector as well. so, i just want to go over a couple of numbers, from last year, to set the stage for last year and last year, the mayor challenge us to have 5,000 opportunities for the youth and we are able to exceed that and there are work opportunities that were made available through the summer jobs plus program last year. the other data here if you are interested and i don't want to go into much in detail on it. but to say that it is available, and it shows kind of the spectrum of the folks who were served through the program. in terms of neighborhoods served, i think that one of the key, driving forces behind this is to try to reach out and make sure that the youth from neighborhoods that may be disadvantaged or may not have the connections and the

networking are served so that you can see that some of the neighborhoods at the top of the list in terms of participants are bay view hunter point and then it goes from there. so that was last year and i am going to take us to this year. and 5,000 was good. and so the mayor challenged us all to go up another 1,000 this year and so our goal this year is to have 6,000 job opportunities for youth in san francisco, this summer. the other part in terms of plans, the city has had for a while through many city departments its own summer jobs program and so one thing that we are doing the cinema presentation and the details of how it is going is the mapping of the city opportunities so that we are well positioned going into the future and the handle on the top of opportunities that we can provide. the next few slides are a

little bit inside baseball and it is for folks who are maybe participated or involved in the process, and so i will just go through them quickly and they might be an interest to the folks who were engaged last year. we have one year under our belt and so the goal is to take it to another level to increase our ability to serve efficiently and to that end there is a new on-line system and it is similar to the kind of systems that the hr departments used and it is a way that we are going to connect the youth with employers, using this on-line tracking system. and anyone who is interested, if you are youth or an employer, at the bottom there is a match bridge.org and/summer and the program of the you united way of the bay area and a key partner in this project. all right. so, just a couple of other

items of note. this year unlike last year, we have worked on the community based organizations that can help, go into the community and recruit but also do some prescreening and want to make sure that the youth that are placed through this program are screened and are work ready and that is part of the role that we are asking of the community organizations those in the process have been contracted with right now who should very soon be public with those organization names. this is the bottom and inperson readiness screening. we really want to tighten the program and make sure that there is some screening that the folks or the youth that are referred truly are work ready so that the employers have a good experience. >> and employer engagement. the mayor, has stepped up just last week has the mayers and employer challenge, over at city hall and it was an event where the employers were asked

to come and hear our appeal and step off and commit to employment opportunities or funding or also volunteering with the campaign, and i will talk more about that in a minute. and one thing that i do want to point out is that there are large employers who committed up to 40 or 50 jobs and employers who committed to a single job. and every job is important and that is how the programs go, and don't think that you too far small to participate if you can provide even one opportunity that is greatly appreciated. >> i am going to go to the next. slide. so, this saturday, it is a good timing and may 11th, there is a youth resource fair that is going to be mascone center and one thing that is encouraging is that the youth should register before going to the event and it is at that match bridge address and they will be screened for work readiness and get registered in the system.

youth can go to the match bridge remember sight and sign up directly there but there is a priority to the youth who do one of the community based organizations or get prescreened so that we know that they are work ready and when they are referred by united way that they would know that the employer is getting someone who is he is tranged from that. >> just a kick call ought to anyone and is available, it is a fun event and there is a need for volunteers at the event to do things like mock interviews and screening of youth at the event. so there is definitely a need for that as well. the key, of course is the hiring and we are asking employers as much as possible to make themselves available or make the opportunities available. so my last slide here, really or faqs for employers and understanding that is who you are. and i am grateful to have the opportunity, again, this youth ages 16 to 24, in san

francisco, are the potential employees, many do as i mentioned participate in job readiness programs. and which is the key to this. the types does not have to be a full time job and a permanent or a temporary summer job is great. part of the names of the summer jobs plus is that we are hoping to continue with this, beyond the summer time, and make it a year round program, this year as well. and it can be full or part time. so how to get involved, again, there is that website, and it is match bridge.org/summer and that is the website for either the youth who are interested in getting a job this summer or for employers that want to know how to connect and the employer section on the website so you can go ahead and connect there. and i should point out that on the public sector side, do you see why i am doing the heavy lifting in terms of creating the pathway for youth to connect with summer jobs through the city.

this year, the 6,000 jobs, the goal is 4,000 through the public sector and 2,000 through the private sector. the conduit to the private is united bay, if you are private and the youth who want to get involved and then the match bridge.org/summer is the right one to go to. thank you for your time, if you have any questions i am happy to entertain them or any suggestions for the program and we are up and going and love to get any thoughts that you have as well. but, thank you. >> and commissioner comments? >> commissioner ortiz? >> i just have a question on what is the out reach for more of it. but we are seeing it in san francisco? such as why do you see the manager and out reach program stores them, the more youth that probably needs the jobs the most. >> as you can see from last year we prioritized that population as well and this year one of the keys of the doorway organization and so they are going to be community

based organizations in communities that have been identified as the highest need and highest unemployment and poverty, and so that is the key con did you it is through them. and also there is the general population as well as, bus, ads that are going up in other literature, to go as well. but i do think that the key is going to be through the community based organizations and we have already had multiple meetings to let them know how to help us get folks involved. >> and then these are the deals that kind of screen and get them prepped. >> exactly. >> in the out reach in the office and the screening and the youth that are not ready, yet there are programs to help them get work ready, that is right. >> yeah. >> thank you. >> commissioner, white? >> i just want to add that i think that this is such a great program and i am from the city and actually my first job was through the city program. that helps me quite a bit. one of the questions that i had you had mentioned volunteers, and is that the same website on how to get involved or do you have to go somewhere else?

>> it is, you can find out information about volunteering through that website as well. >> all right. >> and the key for the volunteers is for this saturday and if you are able to do that, that is wonderful. >> thank you. >> that is at moscone north? >> yes. >> commissioner comments or questions? >> commissioner ortiz. >> just one comment, i really thank you for this program. you don't understand, like without the jobs, youth are sometimes wanting to shoot or don't have that structure, just last week, my nephew was shot and maybe if he had a job. you know he just got his work permit and was going to get a job. and just one life that you save. it makes a difference. >> thank you for that, i appreciate it. >> public comment? >> on item