>> everyone deserves a bank account. in san francisco, anyone can have a bank account, things to an innovative program, bank on s.f. >> everyone is welcome, even if you are not a citizen or have bad credit to qualify for a bank account is simple. just live or work in san francisco and have a form of id.

>> we started bank on s.f. six years ago to reach out to folks in the city who do not have a bank account. we wanted to make sure they know they have options which should be more low-cost, more successful to them and using chat catchers. >> check cashing stores can be found all over the city, but they're convenient locations come with a hidden price. >> these are big. >> i remember coming in to collect -- charged a fee to collect a monogram. >> people who use check catchers, particularly those who use them to cash their paychecks all year long, they can pay hundreds, even a thousand dollars a year just in fees to get access to their pay. >> i do not have that kind of money. >> i would not have to pay it if i had a bank account.

>> bank accounts are essential. they keep your money saved and that helps save for the future. most banks require information that may limit its pool of qualified applicants. encouraging to turn to costly and unsafe check captures. >> i do not feel safe carrying the money order that i get home. >> without a bank account, you are more vulnerable to loss, robbery, or theft. thankfully, the program was designed to meet the needs of every kind, so qualifying for a bank account is no longer a problem. even if you have had problems with an account in the past, have never had an account, or are not a u.s. citizen, bank on s.f. makes it easy for you to have an account. >> many people do not have a bank account because they might be in the check system, which means they had an account in the

past but had problems managing it and it was closed. that gives them no option but to go to a cash -- check catcher for up to seven years. you want to give these people second chance. >> to find account best for you, follow these three easy steps. first, find a participating bank or credit union. call 211 or call one of our partner banks or credit unions and ask about the bank on s.f. account. both -- most bridges will have a sign in their window. second, ask about opening an account through bank on s.f.. a financial partner will guide you through this process and connect you with the account that is best for you. third, bring some form of identification. the california id, for an id, or your passport is fine. >> now you have open your account. simple? that is exactly why it was designed. you can access your account

online, set up direct deposit, and make transfers. it is a real bank account. >> it is very exciting. we see people opening up second accounts. a lot of these people never had account before. people who have problems with bank accounts, people without two ids, no minimum deposit. we are excited to have these people. >> it has been a great partnership with bank on s.f. because we are able to offer checking, savings, minimarkets, certificates, and loans to people who might not be about to get accounts anywhere else. even if you have had a previous account at another financial institutions, we can still open an account for you, so you do not need to go to a check cashing place, which may turn to two percent of your monthly income. >> you can enroll in free educational services online. just as it -- visit

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account. open one today. >> the right to vote allows us to vote for candidates or party and it is a significant way to have our voice heard. exactly 100 years ago, women

were given the vote in california. the battle for women's suffrage was not an easy one. it took more than 70 years. a woman could run for president in new york. >> organizing this conference, basically it modeled itself on a declaration of independence for women. it marked the beginning of the women's equality movement in the united states. >> at that time, women were banned from holding property and voting in elections. >> susan b. anthony dedicated

her life to reform. >> suffrage in the middle of the 19th century accomplished one goal, it was diametrically opposed to this idea. >> many feared it would be corrupted by politics. >> women in the 19th century had to convince male voters that having the vote would not change anything. that woman would still be devoted to the home, the family, that they would remain pure and innocent, that having the vote would not corrupt them. >> support gradually grew in state and local campaigns.

>> leaders like ellen clark sgt come repeatedly stopping these meetings -- , repeatedly stopping these meetings as a politically active figure. doing everything they could to ground the campaign in domesticity. >> despite their efforts, the link made it tough whenever voters were in the big city. a specialist in francisco. >> the problem with san francisco is that women's suffrage as an idea was associated. >> susan b. anthony joined the provision party. a deadly idea in san francisco.

liquor was the foundation of the economy. and >> anything that touched on the possibility of prohibition was greatly and popular. >> the first campaign was a great effort, but not a success. >> the war was not over. less than one decade later, a graphic protests brought new life to the movement. >> women's suffrage, the republican convention in oakland, this time it was the private sector response. 300 marched down the streets of the convention center.

women were entitled to be here. >> joining together for another campaign. >> women opened a club in san francisco. it was called the votes for women club. if she could get the shopkeepers to have lunch, she could get them to be heard literature. the lunch room was a tremendous success. >> it was the way that people thought about women willing to fight for a successful campaign. what happened was, the social transformation increase the boundary of what was possible,

out word. >> there were parades and rallies, door to door candidacies, reaching every voter in the state. >> the eyes of the nation were on california in 1911, when we all voted. it was the sixth and largest state in the nation to approve this. one decade later, we have full voting rights in the united states. helping newly enfranchised women, a new political movement was founded. >> starting in the 1920's, it was a movement created by the suffragettes moving forward to getting the right to vote. all of the suffragettes were

interested in educating the new voters. >> non-partisan, not endorsing candidates >> -- endorsing candidates, getting the right to vote and one they have their voice heard. >> the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage is taking place throughout the state. bancroft library is having an exhibit that highlights the women's suffrage movement, chronicling what happened in california, bringing women the right to vote. >> how long does this mean going on? >> the week of the 20th. people do not realize that women were allowed to vote as early as the 1920's.

in the library collection we have a manuscript from the end of december, possibly longer. >> in commemoration of 100 years of voting in california. 100 years ago this year, we won the right to vote. around 1911, this is how it would have addressed. and here we are, dressed the same.

[chanting] >> we have the right to vote. >> whether you are marching for a cause or voting in the next election, make your voice heard. thank you for watching.

>> good morning and welcome to the joint powers authority board of directors meeting for thursday october ten. >> may we take roll call please? >> go ahead and for the record due to scheduling conflicts reiskin are absent and we expect metcalf shortly. >> harper. >> here. >> director lee. >> here. >> director sartipi?

>> present >> and chair, kim. >> present. >> thank you. >> so, are there any old or new business for the board of directors? >> pushing up item three, communications. >> sorry. >> any communications? >> none that i am aware of. >> let's move on to the executive director's report. >> good morning and good news that we are expecting to close on block 6 and 7. and that was purchased price of $30.6 million paid to the tjpa and another 20 million paid to the successor agency to construct affordable housing. and the as you recall the development calls for 479 units of residential housing, 409 market rate, and 7 new affordable built by the partner mercy housing and i want to thank cal transand the agencies for the continued collaboration and support of the tjpa and the

neighborhood plan. and secondly, i did want to mention that continue to work wither close with the veterans and hosting and supporting a fund-raiser for veterans this saturday, october 12, it is called the second annual veteran's arrive and it is for wounded warriors and so if anyone would like to participate please let me know and i am happy to send you information and thirdly more good news, we completed our archaeological investigations on the transbay site. and as you know, we got a number of wonderful items from gold to mammoth tooth and our exhibit has been traveling all over the bay area. and so those are the main items that i wanted to report on, and the next item that i have for the board is a presentation by paul pendergrass he does all of the work on the out reaching to

the small businesses and does a phenomenal job and new ideas and including most recently on september 26th he organized the first ever, public out reach to the lgbt community in the united states. it was very well attended and we were surprised by a visit by the lieutenant governor and other officials from washington, d.c., so i want to thank paul for his good work and thank you paul and your innovative ideas and we are proud to be part of this out reach event with the lgbt community and so i would like him to give a presentation on the good work that he does. >> thank you, everybody and we really are a very excited to be working on this project and have been working for the past year and a half and i have prepared a short powerpoint presentation if that could be brought up on to the screen. and the project, which we were

specifically on the construction aspects of the project and the architect you aral engineering handled by the tgpa but our program, specifically deals with three different certification types and the department of transportation which is the disadvantaged business enterprise and the minority woman owned businesses and we also accept the small business certification for the department on the general services on the state level and the thresholds for that is that the businesses were located in the state of california that make 14 billion or less a year, also accept the san francisco local business enterprise certification and so the three of those make-up what our program all about. san francisco and the state of california has done a great job as far as out reach to the small business community and so what we try to do on our project here is to make sure that every event and out reach and communication we put forward is really truly relevant to giving the small businesses information that

they need to be competitive even if we are evolving through the recession, and kind of getting on the better economic ground, the competition is still enormously stiff and the small businesses disadvantaged businesses need every tool that they can get at their advantage and so our programs are innovative to make sure that we help them get a competitive edge here. one of the things that we do is that each certification has a certain kind of data base that contains certain information and that is good information for the prime to access and we use something called the expression of interest, which is an on-line tool and whereby anybody who is interested from a small business perspective can go on-line to this tool on the website and gives the small business an opportunity to talk about what is great about their business, what their past projects are and what their clients are and really kind of helps to elevate them and their whole project structure and so we are not just looking at

certificatefiations but really talking about the qualifications are and the capacity of the small business. another tool that we use is something called the line car, because as we all know whenever we go to these out reach events, can you pass those out. >> the small businesses get 30 seconds in which they can pitch to the potential the best aspect about their business and you know when you only have 30 seconds you have to hit the high points and so we came up with an innovative program which is the creation of the line cards and what we have here is for quan wall is successful on the steel package and not only were they on the scanka but also listed on all of the other commissions that came in and so what you will see here is information which is really most relevant to the potential crimes and the contact information and past projects and their licenses and you know this flooring and her team she have remarkable very good certifications from the

steel industry. so they will be working with them in order to provide welding services so i believe that the initial entry is that they got 600,000 on the project and we did exceed the small business goal on that project. and so we are looking forward to working with them. we do obviously bonding is important and so we work with the u.s. department of transportation in the program and we do a lot with the mental protiche and one of the hall marks is that we work actively on all packages that come out with 72 different chambers of commerce, throughout san francisco and the bay area and northern california and these are just some of the organizations, the native americans and the american associations and asian ink and we do a lot with small business network and the african american chamber of commerce, as they mentioned we did this

event with the golden gate business association and the national gay and lesbian chamber of commerce which was exciting from the national perspective and let me take a step back because we work with the chambers in different ways, our mentor program is a wonderful gentleman brian stoper who works with our construction women executives to provide them some support so that they can actually compete better in the market place and so the program has delivered some good results, and the african american chamber and we about the workshop and don't just hold these here, we go to their offices and so we are taking the show on the road so to speak. the teaming workshops are important and the merp access and the group and really good ideas to get the people to team up because the contracts are very large and i mentioned dgba

workshop and it is hard to believe that in 2013 it took this project to step forward in the leadership role to invite the community to the table. and bottom line is, lgbt businesses fall under the small business certification under most categories but it is our job to make sure that there is a pool of qualified businesses is as large as possible and we are inviting new people to the table. we do a lot with the disabled veteran businesses and we think that it is critically important and you will see a couple of examples there and we also participate with the work group that web core has going. and really a great example which was just featured on cnn was anvil builders, local san francisco business based in the bay view hunters point and it was awarded the contract for the personnel and material hoist, 9.5. not a small contractor, really substantial contract, and he will be able to hire