includes a number of program. first, we is had two staff members that get out of city hall and go to assistant the folks in the neighborhoods. we continue to have that outreach next week. many of you know that small businesses are subject to lawsuits that relate to 88 cinnamons. this is to insure that their aware of any plant issues they have. we had 39 assessments and this is the program in fiscal fourteen where we're going to expand. this that mini program provides 12 neighborhoods with the prajz

of the community market and street communication and we launched a vacancy program. the sf provides a tool online that allows us to track and the

and my neighbors in action and the inner city youth. we'd like to have a astrologer partnership and i think if we're going to have a one-size-fits-all that we expect to work for board and randolph we have to have a little bit of

a different tweak to this. >> we absolutely agree we think they need to be tailored to the neighborhood. for the past year we've been working for custom missed program. we have in coordination with the city's communities. we want to make sure that the positions we have are in line with your ideas. we know that the board street would be a candidate for that >> let me say that the minnie program would be great on that site. this would be serious relationship building.

i think that we can coordinate how we can work on the ground there would be fanatic. there are other parts of san francisco that are struggling economically and i want to be sure that we know where to reach out for at service >> i want to thank the staff for not only balancing the big economic issues but supporting the distressed neighborhoods. it's been a real help to the richmond district but the sf vacancy program is going to be helped hopefully, there will be better outreach so we know what

corridors have vacancies. i wanted to say on the ida the lawsuits that your staff and the office of small business and the office of disabilities have been promoting the new accessibility of the inspections and it's been great for small businesses in my neighborhood. i wanted to say your balance of the supporting the small guy and the work ethics are important >> as you know working with the offices and the business owners we hear from you the opportunity that we should be focused on.

in 2014 you'll see we're making sure that we're meeting the needs on the ground >> i know that one area of fiscal was around the loan programs. in 2013 we did a total of $9.4 million of loans for san franciscans.

you talk about that. about not putting nothing into the budget >> meaning why - did you want to speak to that or - >> susan robison's. >> i'm sorry, i didn't hear the

question and the funding for the program we're spoken at length about for this coming year, however, for the next year there's a decrease in funding. >> about expending it for the next year. >> no, it's extended for the next year but in 2014 and 2015 there's a decrease. you and i have not had conversations around the rebate program >> ms. howard from the mayor's office. >> mayor's office budget director. as you'll recall the rebate program was extended for two additional years. with legislation your office worked on.

in order to continue the budget it has to be authority. and pending additional information and final expenditure over the current year i think the thinking in the mayors budget was really to spend the next year working to determine the efficientness of the program. determine in the allocation was the right number and then to work with the board and the development to move it forward in t in the subsequent year >> thank you. >> so i wanted to go on to key programs and initiatives for the next fiscal year. one of the areas we're very focused on it working closely

with our take clerk's office. the deployment in 2014 will be a complex change that will kite all businesses in san francisco. we want to focus on small to midsize businesses particle those who don't have english as their primary language. we want to focus on central america and bringing those geographics into san francisco. we want to support manufactures who want to executor - export into our area. this would allow the development

of on online wizard we i couldn't where they want to locate and i'll provided a list of permits that they need to operate in san francisco. it's our goal s to have as many applications online to be submitted and filled out on line. it is across 16 departments. we think this is well worth it and an important initiative. weigh to continue our initiative of key activities we're going to you implement the custom missed

spellings program that targets a bunch of key businesses in the neighborhood and provided support to keep them in their locations. we understand those are anchors in our neighborhoods. we're going to be watching a new micro loan program. it's between 5 and $10 million. that the paperwork and process as well as the review of loans for some of our small businesses is a little bit intimidating. we want to be responsive to those needs and tints. and we'll continue to respond to the program and we'll expand them to union street and expand

the u da assess program >> supervisor wiener. sorry >> i have a question about the loan programs and i'm a glad to hear about the micro loan program. i'm a big fan of this program even when it was a little bit controversial. it's been helpful to a number of businesses. i guess one question i have is once the city makes the loan and helps invest in those businesses what kind of support does the city provided to the businesses in terms of regulatory challenges etc. i know your office is involved. one of the frshgsz if it wasn't the first time it was one of the

first reciprocates of the fund was a lady on myths street. i was out there with the mayor and we celebrate the loan at the opening of that business. after that, they have a wine and beer license and they took the outrageous step of wanting to sell that beer up to 10:00 p.m. and it's when most of the partying happens. i'm being facetious. it was a nightmare and we all advocated and ultimately, the city of granting the request one neighbor objected.

that's which one of the many things that the businesses encounter how can we help them? >> whether they're taking advantage of the loan program is the good thing is we know the owner and we have a relationship and a high level of awareness and know their facing changes. with with the office of small business we can provided direct avoidance. but you're speaking of boarder systematic issues. i often think about the others that have not be able to raise the issue.

there are some issues that could be solved systematicly but in terms of that particular instance i think that more office coordination to provide the assistance they need. i guess there's also i know there's a line to getting into advocacy i know we helped to advocate. i sent a staff member to talk to abc. sometimes, it goes beyond the information it's actually working with them >> in addition, to navigating we're seeing ourselves as advocates for the small business owners. so, yeah and a supervisor moore >> i had a question about the

international initiative. i know they have expanded from china cities. could you elaborate a little bit about why its cost efficient >> one of the things we developed the model for the asian initiatives. we put the focus on business attraction for china and establishing headquarters. we've seen 3 hundred jobs created at the end of this year. one of the important things that was developed is the public private partnerships. they're not having the total

weight of the private sector dollars to private investment and we've seen a concentration of businesses in san francisco that are using san francisco for a gateway of chinese markets coming here. we see the latino market with more than 15 percent of the cities being of latin decent. we see mexico and argentina and japan and vietnam and india. we're going looking to build on those relationships >> i'm almost done here. to just to continue on investing

in investing. we're going to sought 3 new neighborhoods with their feasibility and finally we're going continue with our innovation of our continued work on market and in the bay view and that wraps it up for the key issues. unless i have any questions on the workforce >> thank you. claegdz any questions. >> good afternoon. director of workforce development. i'm going to go over our program highlights and a our budget was

covered earlier. i'm going to cover the 2012 outcomes. we launched our academy this year with the help of funding from the department of labor. we received as many of you might know $500 million to launch an entry-level workers. we are finishing our graduation this summer. we have a fairly diverse number of folks and the average sill i skill set is just above the high school. and in addition we added a hospitality sector due to the increase in hospitality and tourism and our disability employment initiative is in full

gear for folks on a a multitude of disabilities. we continued our third year we do a procurement process. we applied that as of april of this year. we had 51 agencies apply the total dollar amount is lifting .8 million down from the previous years. some of our other initiatives mandatory local hiring requirement going from 25 percent to thirty percent. we issued our annual report as well. everything is going positive in terms of local higher implementation. we're currently in the process i

i know that supervisors avalos we're currently in the process of review and looking at and determining whether we want to bring forgot a set of recommendations around holly the percentages or moving forward. so we're going to be currently in that process which includes department head recommendation and karaoke representation and my own representation. so over the next three to four months we'll have a set of recommendations as to how we should precede. we have the fourteen initiatives we have department labor grants that are h1 b grants. we're in our second year and that grant will end june 30th of

2014 pardon our workforce grant is around technology in terms of workforce and being innovative we're in entrant two and that will end. and our disability grant will end actually - that one will end in september 2014 pr the only funding we receive is through another d l grant that will end june 30th on 2015 and that is for individuals that are in child support. the focus is to help them get on their feet. our key workforce areas are the academies. we have 4 now health care,

hospitality and technology. we also have a set of neighborhood assess points. we don't have one that covers all 11 district but we have 5 that we pope hope can cover those 11 district. in addition we have a couple of youth programs called ramp. those are for individuals that are typically in the age range of 20 to fourteen. and your overall outcomes however, around 3 thousand served. we place roughly about 2 thousand individuals through our all of our program areas. keeping in mind that the individuals we focus on the average skills are high school diplomas and geds. and we trained around 1 thousand

folks. we receive two new fte from the mayor's office for first, you source. one will be dedicated to end use and the other for professional services on the construction side and the other key financial budget issue we will receive some budget cuts from sequestration. i'll stop p there. i want to request questions about the two ftes. so if you could explain what the role of those two folks will be doing. i'm happy to hear we're beefing up our program. any experience in the past we have not had enough ftes with

experience. we had first source contracts for foods and they signed off they're to go through the mission and didn't do that. then we have america's cup experience which looks like it has not been upheld and it seems like we had the program within a w d it they worked the way they should we wouldn't have controversy >> on the cityville side we have 6 dedicated ftes. around construction. we now will be able to start with the same compliance with the end use for the america's cup. and in addition to any other what we call in use opportunity

due to construction we now will have to dedicated ftes. it's been a reduction of opportunities but this will allow us to start sort of beefing up contains for end use source. so we'll have two dedicated ftes that will focus on the whole food opportunities the america's cup. i would envision the inuse part of that wherecyville will do the construction we'll have some people power to do the end use >> it that making sure we have access to the jobs. >> no, this will be all around

enforcement. we have contracts that will help out on the crack side but the ftes are there to insure that the enforcement happens >> i know there's a lot of discussion on how to make sure theirs transparency were there had a ton neighbor folks involved but how we can have some relationship with the a o w d workforce to make sure we're hitting our milestones. >> yeah, we have that hearing later on today. i definitely met with the community group. there's a whole a lot of discussion around community involvement. we're in the works with a number of community groups to see what

that structure will look like >> i want to thank you for that. we have not had any significant workforce community groups. especially we're looking at moving objects to employment my district is dedicated to helping with that. >> okay and a supervisor mar. >> thank you, ms. simmons for the workforce development and the strategic workforce on the key factors you're working on that's been constant with the hospitality health care and also the construction and the end use jobs as well. i had a question about the

community workforce commission that is focus on really addressing the profound employment barriers that many people in the neighborhood have. for example, what sort of san franciscans have barely a high school diplomacy. i wonder if you could talk about the community pathway that i'm and how it, it's into the boarder citywide enforcement >> we're excuse me. many of the individuals or the community based orchestras that are part of that coalition are part of the protocol we fund. an