having to file a lawsuit against a group called metro fuel in the city of san francisco. what we're talking about, we're talking about prop g, a ballot proposition we sponsored with the help of a few supervisors, passed with 79% of the vote. no new billboards in san francisco. and as i'm reading this today, it violates the law. it violates the law and rewrites the definition of what a bill board is. so, if this thing gets fast tracked on up to a meeting tuesday, we might be making a serious error and inadvertently be rewriting our sign definitions in violating prop g. so, i would say please let's go for a continuance and get the facts straight. >> thank you. chair yee and member tang, again, my name is patrick minot

shaw and i'm also advocating that you separate item 14 from [speaker not understood] consideration of all of these matters. last december 7th i wrote to the board of supervisors neighborhood services and safety committee of which supervisor yee and supervisor campos were then both assigned to that committee. and i submitted testimony to you this morning. i'm not sure it repeats the testimony i presented in december. the city controller has noted and advised the citizens general obligation bond oversight committee the unspent

funds from bond measures which [speaker not understood] by way of recoupment is a policy matter for the board of supervisors to decide how that money is going to be used. it does not need to be deposited directly into the general fund and my strong recommendation is that the mayor, 21% of the 70 million that the city attempted to recover, just 15 million being recovered. be used in one of three ways or a portion of it in all three ways. one, you should be paying down the debt on the general obligation bond so that the voter can have some relief. two, reserve the 15 million for [speaker not understood] problem at laguna honda. they have been eliminated in [inaudible].

>> thank you. good afternoon, supervisor yee and tackvthv. i'm jim rubin, rubin, junius and rose, and i am the attorney for contest promotions which is number 8 on your calendar and matter that mr. hanky spoke about. i wasn't intending to speak unless somebody spoke on this matter. so, here i am. this is the settlement of a lawsuit that started in 2008. the city frankly was losing that lawsuit because the law was pretty clear that these were on-site advertising billboards. the city attorney recognized that. we've negotiated a settlement that took over a year. i find it hard to believe that the planning department wasn't

available. they've always been available to answer any questions that anybody else wanted to ask. dan sider is the primary person that's been handling this and i know dan to return his calls and provide information. there is nothing that's been secretive about any of this. it's on your calendar. it's been properly noticed and san francisco beautiful could have called me or anybody else. this is the first i've heard of anybody paying any attention to this settlement at all and it's a last-minute. so, i urge you to proceed and recommend that the settlement be approved along with all the other settlements that you have on your calendar for next tuesday. thank you. >> thank you very much. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> is there a motion to convene in closed session? >> so moved. >> okay. no objection. [gavel] >> member of the public, we will now be convening in closed session and we would ask that you please leave the committee room. thank you very much. >>please stand by - meeting in

closed session >> [inaudible] the session the committee voted by a 2 to 0 vote to forward items 4 through 17 to the full board with recommendation. >> can i have a motion to not disclose what happened in closed session? >> so moved. >> okay. no objection, that motion is passed. [gavel] >> madam clerk, is there anything else on the agenda? >> no, that concludes our business for today. >> okay. so, the meeting is adjourned. [gavel]

>> here we are at the embarcadero. we are standing at one of locations for the street artists. can you tell me about this particular location, the program? >> this location is very significant. this was the very first and only location granted by the board of supervisors for the street artist when the program began in 1972. how does a person become a street artist? there are two major tenants.

you must make the work yourself and you must sell the work yourself. a street artist, the license, then submitting the work to a committee of artists. this committee actually watches them make the work in front of them so that we can verify that it is all their own work. >> what happened during the holiday to make this an exciting location? >> this would be a magic time of year. you would probably see this place is jammed with street artists. as the no, there is a lottery held at 6 in the morning. that is how sought after the spaces are. you might get as many as 150 street artists to show up for 50 spaces. >> what other areas can a licensed street artist go to? >> they can go to the fisherman's wharf area. they can go in and around union

square. we have space is now up in the castro, in fact. >> how many are there? >> we have about 420. >> are they here all year round? >> out of the 420, i know 150 to sell all year round. i mean like five-seven days a week. >> are they making their living of of this? >> this is their sole source of income for many. >> how long have you been with this program. how much has it changed? >> i have been with the program since it began 37 and a half years ago but i have seen changes in the trend. fashion comes and goes. >> i think that you can still find plenty of titis perhaps. >> this is because the 60's is

retro for a lot of people. i have seen that come back, yes. >> people still think of this city as the birth of that movement. great, thank you for talking about the background of the program. i'm excited to go shopping. >> i would like you to meet two street artists. this is linda and jeremy. >> night said to me to print them -- nice to meet you. >> can you talk to me about a variety of products that use cell? >> we have these lovely constructed platters. we make these wonderful powder

bowls. they can have a lot of color. >> york also using your license. -- you are also using your license. >> this means that i can register with the city. this makes sure that our family participated in making all of these. >> this comes by licensed artists. the person selling it is the person that made it. there is nothing better than the people that made it. >> i would like you to meet michael johnson. he has been in the program for over 8 years. >> nice to me you. what inspired your photography? >> i am inspired everything that i see.

the greatest thing about being a photographer is being able to show other people what i see. i have mostly worked in cuba and work that i shot here in san francisco. >> what is it about being a street artist that you particularly like? >> i liked it to the first day that i did it. i like talking to mentum people. talking about art or anything that comes to our minds. there is more visibility than i would see in any store front. this would cost us relatively very little. >> i am so happy to meet you. i wish you all of the best. >> you are the wonderful artist that makes these color coding. >> nice to me to.

>> i have been a street artist since 1976. >> how did you decide to be a street artist? >> i was working on union square. on lunch hours, i would be there visiting the artist. it was interesting, exciting, and i have a creative streak in me. it ranges from t-shirts, jackets, hats. what is the day of the life of a street artist? >> they have their 2536 in the morning. by the end of the day, the last people to pack the vehicle probably get on their own at 7:30 at night. >> nice to me to condemn the -- nice to meet you. >> it was a pleasure to share

this with you. i hope that the bay area will descend upon the plaza and go through these arts and crafts and by some holiday gifts. >> that would be amazing. thank you so much for the hard work that you do. (clapping.) >> we are thrilled thrilled thrilled to be here so good morning and thanks for your patience and so we're here to kickoff our 2014 summer jobs plus program say yeah. (clapping) so i'm eric mcdonald the chief of police operating officer

we're thrilled to be partnering with mayor ed lee it takes each one of us to effect the kind of changes in our community across our country we're thrilled our here your presence here represents we create a community and environment with our young people have the opportunity to grow and thrive and become their own leader in our community so we know that a summer job is more than a custodial kind of babysitting opportunity i was told you two weeks ago by a national fund we're not name who actually has a general disdain for the mayors youth program across the country they believe they're only custodian but those

0 transitional opportunity i know i have one of the jobs so we know it is possible and so again in addition to joining with the mayor to reach our goals but trying to have a national furnished to understand this opportunity. last year, we set a goal of 6 thousand summer jobs and interning for the young people and 17 to be exact yeah. (clapping) and you'll be hearing more about our plans and goals from the mayor shortly but before we go there let me pause and thank a number of people and partners who to make this possible first thanks to the mayor's office who's represented the leadership

team by hydra mcdonald. yeah. (clapping) the department of youth and families represented by maria sue yeah. (clapping) the office of economic workforce development represented on the leadership team by todd and ronda and thomas meyer's yeah. (clapping) and also our san francisco unified school district yeah. (clapping) now we also rely on a network of nonprofit partners that are workforce development entities so they're our door ways if you're representative of a doorway where young people are knocking on - (clapping)

thank each you good for your leadership in this partnership and thank our corporate sponsors so our premier sponsors in 2012 pg&e and jcpenney morgan chases and bank of america and starbucks thing them (clapping.) you would you have seen on the billboards a number of silver partners that the enterprise and all of the partners thank all of them (clapping) and then a special shout out one of the things we've built into the program and continue is we've asked companies to become champions when you're a champion

we ask you commit to hire young people and provide the financing finances but the other thing importantly is to reach out to other employers and tell them how wonderful to have the young people in their space wow. okay sorry >> my phone is calling someone. okay, here we go sorry. and so the opportunity to have to have employers reach out to other employers shout out to 3 that did it jimmy john by a juice and the hotel and starbucks thank you for your leading the charge (clapping) so as i said three years ago president obama issued a

challenge and mayor ed lee took it to a new level 5 thousand the first sum and 6 thousand the next summer and we've reached 78 hundred none of this happens but without the u knitted ways no other mayor does it like our mayor so, please welcome our mayor, mayor ed lee >> thank you, eric (clapping) welcome to san francisco employers city hall. well, you looked at what's happening in our city when it comes to job we got news our unemployment rate went inton down to 4.4 percent thanks to all of you working together we brought one of the lowest unemployment rates in the state,

in fact, we're just above our marina and san mateo i swear because of the san francisco they've got lower rates we've got the airport in san mateo and we buy the wine. thank you to everyone that is here today and again, thank you to eric and ann and u knitted way and to all our corporate sponsors here as well ginly thank you for me as mayor this is one of the most important things to do in our urban centers we can help our youths get jobs we enjoy the 4 approximately 4 percent unemployment they're probably the youth at 10 to 12 percent

unemployment to make sure we do everything we can to get the youth to earn their way it allows them to get the money net to help their families and get experience in our corporate settings and thank you to all the youth that are here as well that are peppered thought the audience we'll hear in them and thank you to kim she began and she'll talk later i want to give a shout out she's a rising star and she'll end up managing one the hotel and if not ownership it as she graduates from sf state and thank you to another hero on the stage that someone who's interception viewed ran it down to the other side of the

field and when i saw him my breath was about as short as his was when he jumped into the end zone that's mr. 49ers and he's going to speak (clapping) let me begin by saying this thank you to the departments that are with us today they're a great help. we're focused on the most challenged youth in our city and that's what makes our program special because yeah. it could be easy for kids that are successful and have jobs we're reaching into our public housing and the sectors of the city that hardly ever get touched and asking our employers to step up and whether hiring of slots lib

starbucks is doing or giving money so the resources are there or whether doing both with the combination of starbucks and the pastry shops. or whether jcpenney morgan chase or bank of america all the employers are funding this with the nonprofits. i want to ask you for a moment every year i'll tried to do this and third time i get a little bit better just recall for the next thirty seconds who helped you get our first job oftentimes we only think about that we realize someone helped you those are the times when you look at 70 thousand youth of san francisco that will never forget

the moment that someone helped them get they're first job and lout them to get the skills and turn from an interview they have their head down to how can i help our company be more expensive with my skills those are transitional periods of time like eric said and their transitional for our city i want to signal to the next generation of youth your future is here in the city and the best jobs exist in the city of san francisco and we're going to link you up to present you in the best way and allow you and your family to succeed so think about that for a moment who helped you get our

first job because oftentimes you're going to do that extra more to hire the youth in san francisco. finally, i want to say this in san francisco the other thing we do besides hire people when the door has been opened to us we keep the door open for everyone else this is about opportunity it's but also the suggestion that we are a community of people that care for each other this is a compassionate city and also not the economic success we all want but the ability to taller than and say who's next and who can i bring through the door you doorkeepers are there to keep the door open and we're going to use that door to bring success to other families. thank you for being here and in

anticipation for helping us to create 7 thousand jobs this summer for youth i appreciate it very much this city is going to be on fire for everyone. thank you (clapping.) thank you mr. mayor so for those who remember the first opportunity how many got it right the first time? yeah. we're creating opportunity to learn and grow. but with that it's a pleasure to introduce the ceo of the u knitted way of the bay area >> thank you very much (clapping) thanks mr. mayor and partners i want to add an extra note of what on exiled city this room is gathered and, yes the third year

and a and just as much love and excitement as the first day that we started 24 program together. and the keyword is together. across the city our nonprofits you can our employers and the city government working towards the opportunity for our young people. i want to give a special shout out two weeks ago the youth resource fair was held and over 4 hundred young people showed you up and got coaching for resumes and get ready for those who pledge jobs the nonprofits who work with the young people and create the pipeline of kurmentd who are there to encourage our young people to step forward and raise their hands and come for the first job

into you to get them prepared. a big shout out to our divining are partners this is not a one-time deal they work with the young people all summer long to be successful and add value to our company as they grow and learn. you know, i've seen a lot of phones go up and pictures taken into consideration this is the moment do is celibacy and post it this idea of going environmental with this effort the mayor has said we need to step up and bring others with us there is 7 thousand it's a biden big number and challenge in fact, we know there are more young people out there 0 so whatever you can do to turning around to our vendor you how

about one more young person with that, mr. mayor we're delighted for u knitted way to be your partner and work with the nonprofits and make this the year the best ever again >> all right. (clapping.) thanks ann. so i started by thanksgiving our premier sponsors those who are here with us day one one is able to be here please help me to welcome don with jcpenney morgan chase thank you, don >> thank you for those kind words i do remember the person that helped me out with my first job that's why i'm here. so this is very ininspiring seeing a the young faces i'm don

the oakland san francisco market manager i want to thank mayor ed lee and the u knitted way for this tremendous tremendous opportunity in the city of san francisco. with the creation of clear path workforce readiness training has a huge opportunity to transform the education in california while helping the students with 21st century careers and closing the scales gap and providing high paying job is important that's why jp morgan chase has $250 million for a readiness training called skills at the work our new initiative is the largest private sector i'm at