with oedwe. the mayor held a job challenge on april 30th. and i'll talk about what came out of that challenge. we've developed a new online application system, so it's easier for the young to apply on their own or through the support of our community providers. we're launching something called doorway organizations to increase access points for young people throughout the city, we selected six different nabld base organizations that young people can come, find out about what training is -- or what opportunities are available. get assessed and then refer to either appropriate training if they need that or help in accessing the private sector opportunities. finally we held a youth fail on may 11th. of the two events i talked about the employer challenge this year held in city haul, 569 jobs were pledged on the spot.

in addition to 368 public sector for a total of 218. we're beyond that in terms of the number of jobs. these were pledges and united way is working to followup with these to make sure they're jobs. dcf is working to analyze all the different sector opportunities available for the young people. there were well over 3,000 of those and we want to increase that from last year. and then -- >> i'm sorry mr. commissioner mendosa. >> sorry. >> i apologize. >> and we also received $356,000 in pledges at the event. that money is used to help support of the operations but also to help subsidized internships for a number of students and young people in the private sector. on may

11th we had a success youth resource fair. thank you commissioner for attending. we went through interview preparation and screening and received workshops on resumes and dress for success and the job search and enroll online on our online system this year. at the event we had a number of volunteers and employers and community based organizations that came out to provide information to young people and over 700 young people are screened for job readiness at the event. so one thing that's new about this year's system is we've really improved the online community for people to broaden on what's available. the system was launched and is available as a portal for youth, employers and our cbo

partners. we've also through the united way created a new tracking system which is where a young person can come on and find out about available opportunities and create a profile and apply to the opportunities directly. one of the things that the system allows us to do is actually track where a young person is in that process so find out what opportunities they've applied for and whether they're been offered employment and collect information throughout the program to get information back to any referring based information and help us collect data for those who are being served through the program. the other new initiative that was launched this was through united way with the support of the office of economic and work force development are our doorways, there's six based organizations that service neighborhood points for young people. there's opportunities

for young people to come in and find out about what is available to them, go through an initial work readiness screening and then get the support and rerl to what services they need and for young people that are not job ready, get some job training at the organization to help them get more ready. and here's a list of the six doorway organizations that we'll be funding this year. they're neighborhood based or reaching out to specific populations that might need moral support in accessing the system. young community developers, chalk, lyric, success center, san francisco which is located on the campus of youth guidance center, community sitter and the al might beaking. >> a quick question. i move onto commissioner mendosa. do you feel these organizations give you a good spread across the city in terms of accessing young people?

>> they do. >> different neighborhoods. >> they do. i don't have these on a map for the presentation. we did look at geographic reach, so a number of these organizations are serving more neighborhood based populations where some are serving city wide. cyc is serving those in richmond and china town. chalk has a specifically unique role in that given that they do a great deal of street outreach, they're reaching into all neighborhoods and have six other community based partners that they're working through. there's a number of other communities. >> thank you. commissioner mendosa. >> i'm a huge fan. i want to add a couple of things and thank you glen for your effort

on this. it has been a huge success with all of our departments and working closely with the district and united way. on the porter challenge, this year, the april 30, there was a job pledge of $138, that was the two departments that wanted to do a shout out for the jobs they he were going to create and that was rdpa. but the mayor did a department head meeting with all of the departments and did a similar presentation to the department heads to let them know the success of last year and did a call to action to make an effort whether you're doing one internship or 200 like our other two departments so we expect all our department heads to make an effort to coordinate either funding or opening

position for our youth within their department. so that's one of the key pieces and i wanted to say that this year's youth resource fair was remarkable. last year was really fun, but this year was even more fun and we had a lot of volunteers and it was extremely well organized and many of the employers came out including low's and starbucks and the 49ers and i think american eagle and so kids got -- were being hired on the spot. it was crazy. and the one area that i really liked a lot was going into the mock interviews where the kids had an opportunity to actually jump online right away and input all of their information so this was all them doing what they needed to do in order to get a job. and now there's a lot of interviews that are happening through match bridge. so all the kids that input their

information into the system are now being connected with both public and private employers and they're going through the process of interviews and meeting with folks so it was just an incredible event to just watch, the kids excitement. they came dressed really well and then we did kind of a rally and the warriors came in gave t shirts to all of the kids and we talked about team and we talked about the contributions that we could give so i want to give kudos to show who helped organize that event and as glen was saying, 500 last year and almost 900 year so we got the word out and many of the kids that didn't go last year didn't want to miss it this year because they heard from 900 year so we got the word out and many of the kids that didn't go last year didn't want to miss it this year because they heard from their friends that got jobs that this was the place to be and it was throughout the day and a great event for the kids. >> thank you, commissioner

norton. >> i just wanted to ask if there's been any efforts specifically to reach out to the youth with disabilities and there's any coordination with our special education department to get more eight with disability opportunities and job training over the summer. >> i don't know what specifically has been working with the office of special education, but one of the cbo partners we're working with, two were actually services and merit bridges for school to work, but i can find out what's going on with the school district. >> the other thing i wanted to mention, i a poll gees -- apologize, what are opportunities for young people that don't the right to work documented and the mayor has been committed to helping us find out what those are and expand those, so we're three

united way funding and have an internship for youth that don't have right to work documented and dcf funded a specific strategy called career awareness and we're prioritizing awareness for those young people and working with the youth work programs and including those offered through the other programs to find paid opportunities for those youth. >> i appreciate that update because that was i question i had for last month i forgot to add it. it's great we're trying to figure out a way to address our youth that's undocumented but want to participate in this incredible program. supervisor yee. >> a quick one. what are the five top private corporations

or companies that are providing jobs? or the top three. >> yeah, i don't want to miss speak, so a know last summer unique low. is that how you pronounce it? >> i don't wear those clothes. but they came in very heavily in hiring a large number of young people, starbucks has been an active partner for this summer and last summer. >> mr. ruffo. >> director, i second on the course development. i can speak to serve how business outreach and what someone's out take has been. >> i guess a lot of it is wondering if places like the giants for instance, there seems like there should be lots of opportunities there. that's why i asked. i'm wondering if

they're in the top 20. >> we can get the list for all the employers that have pledged to date but it includes a number of large companies, starbucks, job own, many of the manufacturing companies here in san francisco. >> twitter also. >> say it again? >> does it include twitter. >> they did attend the job and pledge jobs as well. if it's okay i love to talk through the business outreach that we're doing through the court force. good afternoon, todd. we're thrilled to be working with dcyf and the district and united way on summer jobs plus 2013. we're focused in the economic work force development

in insuring that they're engaged. we're focused on insuring that number includes small businesses and big businesses from retails and the hospital council, the hotel counsel, and manufacturing and all sorts of industry, and they're participating in this program and creating opportunities and if they're not creating opportunities, they're not table to become a sponsor like bank of america or providing opportunity, or volunteering or participating. from those watching from home or their businesses, there's a lot of ways you can engage this program. it's great for you to hire and great job opportunities but there's ways of you engage. we completed

the launching event and the youth resource fair. for owad we'll be getting an ongoing our outreach. we're focusing on leveraging our team and reaching out to our partners and the trade group and san francisco of chamber and to small business network to make sure they're reaching out. we remain focused on keeping the employers engaged and keeping the volume up and keeping participating and supervisor, we'll give you a list of those who have committed so far. okay. >> commissioner mendosa. thank you mr. ruffo. i'm really glad we got this presentation. it's great to hear about the successes of last year as well because putting on such an

ambitious pilot program, i'm sure many folks had their doubts if we can hit the numbers we had said we would hit. beginning to know we surpassed that number and that both of private and the public sector came together to participate to make this reality is incredibly important and i know the youth commission said employer, youth employment is one of their top priorities and it's what they hear from young people. it's great that we've had a success program and the mayor development was able to really go out into the outreach with our private sector to really engage them on the both jobs but the funding for the programs because they can provide jobs but also it's important that we pay our young people even in the public sector to get that training too. so this is really great to hear and i'm excited to hear about the outcome for this summer as well. and it's nice to see that -- was it 30

percent of the youth continued on employment. >> 39. >> 39 percent, wow! after the summer, that's great. in the future it would be great to hear from the young people. we got to hear from? of that tech job hearing, but that i think that would be great and their experience. >> i'm sorry. the youth have been coming to all the budget -- the district budget meeting and talking about the summer jobs piece as well, so it has been great to see them. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> so i don't see anymore colleagues that want to speak on this item. i'm going to open up for public comment on this item. seeing no public item. i'll close it. any other comments, feedback questions. seeing none. we will -- shall we file this item or take a motion to file or

motion to continue to the call of the chair? >> maybe what i want to update after the summer. >> okay. we'll continue to the call of the chair so we have a motion and we can do that without opposition. thank you. madam clerk, can we call item number three. >> thank you madam chair. it is item 13 -- i'm sorry. >> for two. >> 13404, it's an update on the willie brown middle school project. >> thank you. i know commissioner norton may need to leave before the end of this presentation. but this was an item we heard -- to hear about the current status of the willie brown middle school project and some of the architectural plants and timeline. i know some of the stem is wanting to learn more. just before folks leave because i know not everyone will be

able to stay i want to let everyone know we won't call this committee in june, july, and august. we have different resources on the board of supervisors, but we work hard to schedule a date for june and there were no available dates except for friday at 3:30 p.m. and i wanted to spare my colleagues of calling a meeting at that time, an hour and our department heads and staff. so i will not calling a meeting in june. but we do have on deck, surplus properties so i will be calling that in the fall instead of september so we'll have mr. golden back again in september but thank you for being here on presented on willie brown. >> good afternoon supervisors and commissioners, i'm chief the facility officer for the school district. i was running late so i will try to be

somewhat brief which is always hard for me. i want to introduce, two people that came with me. one was the project manager who is alberto. i'm going to give a brief presentation on the willie brown middle school. i'm going to be light about stem because that's not my area of expertise. and lewis val intin know were not able to come. and certainly that's something that we can bring back another day. just to give you a slight bit of history. we although the district was under a federal lawsuit for accessability. one of the

schools was the willie brown school. it was having some enrollment difficulties to say the least, the academic difficulties, and the board of education made a decision, rather to invest 10,000 to modernize a building that would be nothing but a bad building to look at demolishing that school and giving it a new birth. that's the path we have embarked on and we're pursuing that with, you know, warp spreed and looking toward the end when we have kids in the school. we have been working on the project for a year now and construction project has been awarded and the design is being finalized and let me walk you through the design. one of the things about the willie brown site obviously it was a

really badly designed building, setback from the street, had nothing to do with the community, the neighborhood was heavily vandalized and was never a good partner with anybody. we wanted to reinvent what the school can be. we looked at one site of the corner from another site and the ground slope is 75 feet. so it's a challenging slope willing site. the marshal is above the site and it does have spectacular views of the bay. it has some challenging streets, fast moving traffic, it has neighbors across the way that were someway disfranchised from the property. so all of these things -- architects like to talk in terms of bubbles so the first thing we did was look at what are the critical site

factors on the property. where does the traffic come from, where does the one come from, where are the views, where are the people's houses who are most impact and where are the children who are most likely to attend the school and so forth. out of that and a number of meetings and we'll talk about meeting in a minute came basic kind of bubble concept of where the logical place was to put the front door of the school. the classrooms, open spaces, big buildings like gymnasiums. all of that drive a central core idea. one is to move the building apart of the street and make it apart of the neighborhood and two to develop it as a campus, not as a

monumental building like apptos middle school or mission high school but develop it more like a residential style building, but it's difficult to do that when you imagine the old willie brown middle school is 35,000 square foot and the new willie brown school is going to be 85,000 square foot. so two and a half times the size because there's many more things going on. so the challenge was to take that volume, put it on the site and not make it look like home depot. and that's very hard to do. once we look at certain kinds of bubbles, architects like to look at relationships we look at where people want to resemble and where do they want to gather, where do they want to have a

wellness center and do science and where do they want to go. all those are inter related before you put solid lines on a piece of paper. meanwhile, while all of this is going on, we're meeting with the academic folks and meeting with the community in a wide range of participates and we'll talk about that in a second. the driving force before stem even came on the playing field was that willie brown was going to be pay school that focused on science, art, and music. those were the guidance perimeter that drove the design. some was based on what we felt we needed to do at that school to not just attract them from the community but all over the district so it's successful,

because we can build the world's beautiful school and if on opening day, there's 100 kids who have enrolled we would have failed. the challenge is everything needs to be in place on opening day on day one so we have 250, 6 graders, and we open with a six grade class or a partial seventh grade class and those enrollments are full and ready to go. all of those bubbles translate in real concepts and if you look at the next slide, you'll see the building of a generation of a plan. the front door being on the corner of silver and reveer. a central quad or hub because everybody we talk to in all aspects of the community talked about a place to gather and a place to meet, a lot of the conversations dealt around

certain african american traditions and restore of practices, a lot of which are circular and out of that came a plan. and those plans became real rooms where the six grade goes, where the seventh grade goes and the science goes and the campus is defined by a series of buildings where the classrooms are where the gymnasium is and the outdoor spaces point to go the views of the bay. if you look at the design, you see a gazillion meeting, so all the meeting love the line are community and public communities including the southeast commission and several meelting with former mayor brown, reverend brown and community meeting at mlk and other schools and the meetings

below the line shows what meeting they held with the academic staff. at the end of that road came a plan and the plan puts the building on the street, it puts the front door at the prow of silver and puts a space in the middle where everything focuses into. it put a green garden, science outdoor area in a place where the sun is most likely to shine. it puts the gym and the science technology piece as one building more buried in the back of the hill. and off of silver, off of its own driveway it puts what will be a wellness center hopefully with a link to ucfa and others to provide

dental and medical for those students throughout the district. what i want to show you briefly are a series of images of the new school and i'm going to put on the screen a computer generated video that will sort of if you're in a helicopter flying by, you can get a firsthand look at what this might look like if you were on a jet flying off to the wild blue underer. here's an image on silver. we're trying to keep the building down. the main entrance and its library and the multi purpose building and if you got to the end of the building, you would

drive to the wellness area. this can a community, farmers market on the weekend. if you're looking on reveer and the library, you're looking at the multi purpose room theater on the right with all the windows, we've made a conscious effort in the design not to build this as a fortress but build this as a welcoming building. we're taking a gamble. it's going to have glass and look hospitable and apart of the community and we hope they're going to like it and take care of it. and that's the responsible thing to do. q. there's a building and the multiple purpose room and the wellness center is on the right

and the arts is in the middle. this is a view of the gym looking past of the garden area. the central quad, central hub where we hope the life of the school will happen all the stiem. and looking back toward the central quad. the floorplan where we have a division of the 7th grade, 8th grade. we have a library and computer rooms and small theater, music, storage for musical instruments, it's going to be an exciting building. just for your reference, the entire project is hard to digest these numbers. to build a school like this is $500