there's conflict. audits can we have a motion to accept the budget analysts recommendation. okay. so consider your scooted but if there's conflict we'll be in contact with our office >> okay. thank you very much. up next, we have our o e w d with todd

>> i'm with the office of economic development. i'm talk about some fiscal out comes. i'm going to hand it over to the director of the workforce. and then the america's cup. for the overview we had in

fiscal year we're down $3.9 million and the fiscal year down another million dollars dollars. it's mainly due to the $1.4 million crews ship removal. in fiscal 15 those are due to the america kidnap and due to the loan fund program and the removal of the work order for a project i'll explain shortly to go through some of the activities in fiscal 2014. the city had an employment rate of 9.4 percent which is the

lowest in 5 years. we have a job rate growth and this is like 2.8 percent over the natural average. we see that that national growth is from business services to tourism and trade and transportation as well as manufacturing. we have a dedicated report on the merchandising like manufacturing. it strengthens our manufacturing. it has a protocol in licenses that allowed business to assess on line permits.

this was launched in event and we've had almost a thousand users use this tool. this is in addition to the office that we do. this year we did direct services in san francisco over 1 thousand. we're seeing a marked increase in the film production for the film program. o e w d manages public and private projects this includes the warriors project. the large implementation 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 o