allow our high speed rail to sacramento and will stand our xaltd capacity jobs while relieving pressures on san franciscan this project can't take thirty years we must work together to come out through the bureaucracy leverage offhand u funds from every possible source and get this transbay two built our region overlook economy depends on that it we all know that how's and infrastructure are not enough when we think about the health of our cities and community we realize there are still too many people that are homeless on our streets in need of housing and too many in our system that haven't been to find a way up and out we can't and will not snelt this year the status quo we'll work together to lift the families up 0 insure they share in the

success of our city so we're launching a navigation program a navigation center in the mission district this is an innovative idea in the first in the nation and hours the people at the site and quickly move them into permanent rooms roanoke city centers and other locations they begin to lead stable lives with wrap around services and a chance to turn their lives around we'll support those in need with a program called project 5 hundred the layers light focus on immense resources wrap around services in case management with outcomes for the individuals and families at our forefront we will look at and find the least 5 hundred of our most at

risk families and give them meaningful pathways out of powerful thanks to our leadership with hud we're investing in our public haurgz housing and building stronger community for the fit we're urging resources like debt financing and the low income tax credits to complete the delipidated housing unit this is the ferries in the nation i know it will be successful and we will continue to be inspired to work with our great philanthropic leaders if some is a world-class city with a world-class heart i'm excited to co-host the most philanthropic superbowl in the history that takes place in the bay area next year the dominos from this event

will help support many, many family we'll continue to celebrate those who have path the way south shlgsz the greats like don fishing and the golden man's and those institutions that are great leaders in our city giving year after year like ida b. wells and union a bank and bank of america and the gap we look to our new 21st century philanthropic leaders like mark zuckerberg and dr. pricilla chan for the record breaking depends on to our general hospital to the conway doojs to u678s and mark and ben new hatch for homeless families and education

that brings us to the point of announcements for today education investment like marks investment is most relevant for the discussion all about talent the students in our public schools relevant the different off our city if their caught and prepared forces the 21st century workforce they'll help to diverse our public and private workforce making it stronger than ever the city has taken unprecedented steps to increase our investment in pubs public schools and children and family we'll continue that investment voters just authorized the children's and the public education be enrichment funds lou gehrig's disease us to allocate hundreds of millions to

through served folks in mr. sharp that superintendent carranza and the school district we'll continue to explore and invest in young people's cease to science and technology and market and in merntdships liking life skills training to criteria opportunity particularly where my middle school initiative and that's correct to the support of united way as well as so many hundreds of local bhrz last year, we reached our goal in providing over 7 thousand 6 hundred paid jobs and internships to our youth to our youth plus initiative we're centralizing our philanthropic partnerships to advance the opportunity for youth especially for boys and girls of color last

october we show cased our call to action inform president obama my brothers keepers challenge are are the secretary of education and 12rub9 superintendent carranza. >> philanthropic sf foundation fred black we will and here in san francisco we're calling it my brothers and my sisters keeper and adopting the 6 overarching goals to insure our boys and girls have the resources the community support and the opportunities they need to succeed we'll also been working to develop a jobs pipeline that focuses on knowledge and skill development we want to make sure that all our students are educated to take advantage of the opportunities our city office today, i'm proud to join the san francisco chamber of

commerce to announce this calculation call unity sf what a lovely name this will bring together partners around the goals one hundred percent graduation and seas and support to achieve higher education and pauthsdz to sustainable jobs and caesar's careers united sf and committed partners will leverage the partners and work in calculation with the business leaders i know we have the talent many of them in this room to help our students succeed everyone can come together and bring our lines and resources together to find real solutions that will forgive your students and city a bright future we're taking our first collaboration

with support with this new initiative has been overwhelming i want to peron thank my education council especially superintendent carranza what hospital show that tremendous supporting for united 70 that excludes landlord from our city college and amps and uc heather's the university of san francisco and the university of the patrick and golden state university many are here to unit with us i'd like them all to stand up if we can give them a special hand of applause to applaud them what they do everyday to help our children and youth please stand up our education leader

(clapping) i would also like to thank automobile nonprofit like united way and beyond 12 and year up to invest in our youth finally a special thank you to san francisco chamber of commerce and their board president and their president ceo bob for taking the lead on this important effort and strategize education well, i've said it before and i'll continue to say education is the best involvement of investment into our future and our chamber foundation will unit and keep education a priority 0 that san francisco students are prepared for careers here 90 in san francisco and prosper here together to make sure that everyone shares in the city's prosperity with that, let's take

a picture the trophies together and let's get back to work thank you very much >> i am jim lazarus with the chamber of commerce co-chairing the outreach effort as we transition to gross receipts. thank you for being here. this has been a huge effort for many years. in fact from the business community interest goes back decades with our ongoing concern that you don't tax job

creation. you tax economic success and although the city is limited -- cities and counties are lipted in california on the income side gross receipts is as close as we can get to a tax structure that allows us to tax economic activity and growth rather than jobs and certainly in this economy now when we made other steps to move job creation forward even with the payroll tax in place this is going to be a great transition as businesses look at their tax liabilities under the payroll tax transition the remaining four, and five years to a full gross receipts tax. supervisor christensen here today and members of the mayor's staff and the tax collector's office and the controller's office that really made this possible during years of work, research and many, many months two years ago of negotiations that lead to the

successful ballot measure so it's our pleasure representing part of the business community to be here and now the manufacturing community. >> so kate sous executive director and co-chair. i think creating this program was a great pleasure and a accomplishment when we worked on this together with kindred spirits and finance and tourism and hotel sectors and really brought all of the folks together around the same table including labor intensive businesses and manufacturers and i am proud about that and businesses that are labor intensive and manufacturers and those businesses this is a celebration and affirmation that san francisco is open for small business and manufacturing, and i couldn't be more excited about the kind of base this builds

for us as a city to continue to have these kinds of businesses start, stay and grow in san francisco so without further adieu i would like to introduce our hero of the day mayor ed lee. [applause] >> i have been called many names before but not hero. thank you. i was just walking in i was persuading jose to come over on this side because this group is about the people who generate the revenue and that group is about the people that spend the revenue. i am so glad to be here with all of the names announced and supervisors as well with the small business commission, our sf made movement and of course our chamber. today is all about great news. this is the first we've actually completed a full year of our new

gross receipts business tax as opposed to what both jim and kate described already and the job punishing payroll tax from before and it's a milestone. i said three years ago when we were putting proposition e i think of the alphabet, to convince everybody this was going to be better and scott you know for small businesses you create a million dollar exemption. that is pretty good and supportive and i know mary and everybody else here knows that we have been and wanting to make sure that we reflected our support for all of our small businesses while we change a tax structure that really inintized job creation. i am still passionate as three years ago about getting good jobs out there and as we see the innovation going on in our city

combined with i think the investor confidence that we have in the business community we're seeing a huge surge in job creation. we can then make sure on the promises to our youth that they're really going to have a good time if they stay with us and continue their education and by the way businesses is investing in education as well at the same time, and so is our great successful business leaders that you've heard this past week and too and philanthropy is also on the great rise and this is all part of that great story that a business friendly, investor friendly city can be a city that exemplifies its prosperity and equalizes everybody's live r life here and whether it's education and housing and the greatest jobs to produce. i want to give a personal thanks

that this year's success first of all has in large part has to do with early meetings that we had with our treasurer, jose cisneross and combined with great financial minds in the city and ben rosenfield and ted eagon and ted is here and he had the very difficult task joining with a whole team going around the entire city as i recall ted because i asked you to report back to us what was the business community saying big and small and he would have this group meeting and this meeting and this group would have so many cautious things about changing the business tax and the chamber weighed in and so many other groups that we were concerned about. industries that are all important to us and we had to weave together a collaborative reform that invited everybody to the table, and said not only set

-- said it but demonstrated we didn't want to lose any major industry in the city. the other thing we were informed of and came through in all of the meetings as a result of this was that they told the treasurer and told us you got to make it easy. you got to make it workable for everyone. if you have a complicated tax system even if you claim it will be helpful that's not going to be that helpful to everybody, and this is where i want to just really single out that this past year jose and his entire staff are to be congratulated because if you go on that website as i have done and we were here personally and walking me through, and by the way i am one of the few folks that still does my own taxes, and you know why i do my own taxes? because i'm not an asset rich individual like you

all here so that's why it's easy to do my taxes. it's a one pageer and i had to do that with the website and it's just as easy and we're getting kudos for it and easy to navigate and it was so easy and called out for one of the examples of innovation by our governor jerry brown and said this is the stuff you have to do in our cities to be successful. have that innovation and technology support from the group with us. have their commitment to be easy for all of the taxpayers, and then the benefits of this transition will be that much more felt so i want to give a hearty thanks to jose and his crew. i know he is dedicated in many ways to make our city succeed and on the cusp of education and certainly educating our immigrants and all of our under privileged that

they can our financial education that he wants to help them be even more successful, so he's much more than our treasurer tax collector. he's been showing a great heart they think goes along with all of our city employees. they always have a chance to demonstrate for more than what the job calls for and that's why we have such a great city and i want to say thank you to you and your staff. thank you to what you have done to make it easy for everybody and your commitment being engaged with our community, not just the business community, but i will tell you without this strong relationship that we are developing with our business community you won't get creative jobs. you won't get good conversations about investing in education, investing in our hospitals, investing in our communities, strong neighborhoods. all of that wouldn't happen unless there was a strong belief in our collaborative spirit in the city so i am very happy to just

sarks announcing this on valentines weekend and everybody make sure you grab a cookie and chew your way to a good heart and we announce this has been a very good successful launch of ongoing relationship we want to continue having with our business community so that we can create the kinds of local jobs that katie and scott and everybody wants to have in this city continue making a great city. thank you for being here today. [applause] >> i will introduce the treasurer tax collector jose cisneros. >> thank you mr. mayor. thank you so much for your kind words and your dedication and your partnership on launching this important new tax. as you mentioned mayor prop e was passed over two years ago, and i am here to report to you and to the entire city of san francisco that we are now at the point we

can say we have successfully deliver the gross tax receipts system on time and on budget. [applause] so believe me a lot of people deserve credit for that success and i will be honest it's not an easy road. our previous tax system was not just built to accommodate this kind of a measure and therefore we executed an agreement for a new tax system which configured almost all of our taxes including the new gross receipts tax. i would really like to recognize our great vendors on the project who are us today and let's acknowledge them for their great work. thank you so much. [applause] and last year in march we implemented one of the first important steps, the quarterly installments for the new business tax, which replaced a system we had for many years of

mailing out prepayment quarterly bills and a huge change communicated to 95,000 business taxpayers and they complied and in april of last year we rolled out a change to the annual business registration fees for all registered business in the city. this was a large change for all taxpayers and important for the city to bring in money during the year we're for implementation purposes. the collections of the business registration's fees were designed to increase from $8 million to $38 million and our businesses complied and we hit that target nearly exactly. so before taxpayers even file for the gross receipts tax now at the end of the year the new tax approved by voters brought in over $30 million to the city coffers. during the process we had many of the concerns that the mayor talked about that we needed to know what was in the new law and we worked with the

mayor's office of economic development and others to implement the most aggressive outreach strategy around a tax measure. this measure took an eacial of people to accomplish from the tax team in the city attorney's office and thank you to them. our experts at 311 and thank you nancy. the city administrator's office for hiring support and the controller's office and the mayor's office team and of course i am surrounded by the business community that never relented with their involvement making sure that the measure got passed and now engaged making sure it's implemented fairly and correctly in a way that people understand. i want to thank jim and kate and all of the tax advisory members for your guidance and help getting the word out. folks like jan at

the apartment association brought many more requirements and obligations to the members of her community and we're grateful for the partnership to make the transition as smooth as possible but i don't want to in any way forget the folks that took care of the lion's share of this and the staff from the tax controller's office and stand and be recognized. [applause] they have done the lion's share of this work and implementing this measure and i wouldn't be a good tax collector that the deadline is coming up and due and all returns must be filed and taxes paid by march 2 of this year. it's usually by the end of february mr. mayor, but that falls on a weekend so this year it's march 2, and i want to make sure that nobody misses that or at least file for an

extension because we want to see anybody in compliance and with that i want to thank you for your time and introduce why neata from the city administrator's office. [applause] >> hello. i am the program manager of the community challenge grant program and i am really here to encourage and ask that businesses check that box at the bottom of their tax forms designating 3% to the community challenge grant program. the program is also known and on the forms it's known as the neighborhood beautification and graffiti clean up fund. we provide grant toss organizations and nonprofits and residents and businesses to implement various greening and beautification projects in their neighborhood. many parks, community gardens, gathering spaces, and sidewalk and landscaping and public art just to name a few so with the

3% we can fund these projects throughout the city and i am sure a lot of you have already seen many of them around and you will know what this money we can continue to do so. thank you. [applause] >> tell people how to file. >> well, then this actually concludes it. thank you so much for coming out this afternoon and remember to file by march 2. thanks. [applause]

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