to leave my house very early due to the fact that i have to take the t. i have two routes. i can take the t and then the 30 on market street or i can take the t and switch to 8bx and then the 30 and both routes are really unreliable. the talways -- th -- the timer -- i don't know what to say. it says 10 minutes but really it comes five minutes later, so even when i leave my house earlier than i really should, and i need -- i'm a high school student. i need my sleep and if says it's

coming at that time. >> thank you. if i can ask you how long it takes on the best and slowest days? >> on the best day and i leave my house and there is a t there and i don't have to wait that long for the 30 it will take me 40 to 45 minutes to go to school early. >> commissioner fewer has a question as well. >> yes, i wanted to know

because of muni when you're late for school what happens when you tell them you're late because of muni? >> well, i can't tell them anything. i just go into class. >> don't you need a tardy pass or something. >> no. >> i think that's only if -- i don't know. i have never been that late, but -- >> you start at 615, but i am wondering what -- so that's okay. i was just wondering what a school policy is with students that arrive late to school and they're late for class what response the teachers have and how sympathetic are the schools are to the situation. that's all. thank you for sharing. >> my teachers don't really care. they see me enter a class and you're here. that's it. >> okay. they're probably really glad to see you. thanks. >> what is the start time for you? >> 8:00 o'clock. >> 8:00 o'clock. thank you.

>> good afternoon board of supervisors. i am steven chang from the bay view district and i currently attend galileo high school. personally when i take the bus to school it usually takes around 10 minutes to wait for the bus if one leaves and for the 54 it's very inconsistent and usually takes around 20 to 30 minutes. that's why when i come home from school i usually have to walk back home, so the inconsistency of the 54 really like makes the time for me to get home longer. besides that i see a cluster of buses every time i go to school

or go somewhere because when i go somewhere i see that the time waiting for the bus is around 10 minutes, and when the 10 minutes end i see that there are four or five buses coming together, and that was very strange for me because i always -- like i never see the people -- even when i get off the bus from that stop i never seen that before. more over the t it's -- i take it during from 630 to 650 and it usually -- there's usually isn't that many, so i would like more t's from 630 to 650 since

that's when most people are coming or going to school. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> hello sfmta boards. i am andy and a youth leader from ccdc. i take the 30 to galileo high school. by the time i get on the bus it's usually packed with seniors that buy groceries and students that go to marina and francisco and galileo. oftentimes there is a lack of buses which explains why it is densely populated. the bus can cause problems. i used to go to presidio middle school and by the time i leave school and get on the one california it's packed with seniors and students

that go to galileo presidio and washington. if a student or senior fall the rest of the students and seniors will fall. i like to request the sfmta boards to provide special buses with senior and students feel more safe and more enjoyable rides. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon everyone. my name is shirlee and also a youth leader from ccdc. as many of our youth leaders have said we think that school bus routes

are important, especially to those low income and transit dependent students who take the bus to school everyday and may be limited to the opportunity to go to the school of their choice. for many immigrant low income families many of the parents might not have the time to take their kids to school because they have to work for long hours so they might not have the time to drive them to school in the morning. if these students attend school that far away from their neighborhoods it would require them long commute hours and probably multiple bus transfers to get to school especially in the southeast neighborhood such as the bay view district or the visitacion valley and there are less schools for them to choose. also as one of the youth leaders have previously stated managing to get to school on time early is also an important and

difficult task to do because of some of the inaccuracy of the bus arrival times. for example, i am actually a sf state student and i go to -- i live in ocean view which is pretty near to school but because of the free muni for youth program that i am still part of i usually take the metro to get to school but one time it said that i had to wait for five or 10 minutes but i ended up waiting 30 minutes which i could have just walked to class. muni is a life line for many students. we know this by the fact that many youth fought for the free muni program and we know that many students rely on the public transportation to get to school, so this is why school bus routes are important to be well utilized and implemented into these student's travel patterns. dedicated school bus lines would create more convenience for

students and commute on school on a daily basis and we want to thank the city to provide safety to these students for commuting to school for funding for vision zero. thank you. >> thank you. >> hello am my name is emma and i'm a youth commissioner and i live 10 minutes walk from here and everyday i take the k or m at 645 and get to school around 730. what i have noticed that the buses are crowded both in the beginning and at the end of the school times, but especially after school because that's when extra curriculars end and there is sort of a heard herd of

people awk on the bus stop and i want to comment on the first week of school where the teachers give students books to bring home. >> >> and what i noticed that people will be holding their books and will have backpacks and it's hard to grab on to the handle bars and also i have noticed that people who are vertically challenged like me have trouble holding on to the bars sometimes and yeah thank you. >> thank you for that feedback . >> good afternoon. my name is [inaudible]. i'm a chinatown resident and at galileo high school. i think 30 is the bus that mta to extend service in the morning because i always take the 30 to galileo high school and every morning when the 30 gets to chinatown the first stop is always crowded with students. those students already stepping on the stairs so the youth and students can

get on and some of the bus will skip the stop because it's so crowded already so i just want the mta to extend the service because the 30 is so tiny. it's like the short one so limited space. i want them to have the longer space so more students can get on the bus and there's other problem. i know that because of the bus is so crowded many of the students that walk to school instead of taking the bus so i want you to pay more attention to the po tecialt safety and more students can get to school safely and thank you. >> thank you so much. are there any other members of the public that would like to speak so this item? seeing none. public comment is now closed. [gavel] . i just want to thank all of the students that came to speak today. it's important to have your actual voices heard at these hearings so thank you for making the time to be here, so

commissioners, supervisors any comments or questions? okay. again i know commissioner mendoza recognized that the staff from sfusd that mere to speak on the item and i want to thank you for being today to answer any questions if we had any so thank you for your time as well. i think that this is a really, really important discussion and this is the right committee to be having a discussion that talks about better agency coordination between sfusd and one of our city agencies. i think that i learned a lot in today's hearing based on the data presented today and i really love to continue to see coordination to work to improve especially upon some of the comments we heard today and what i think i largely heard partially of course was the time to get to school but seems like a larger issue is the frequency of the buses to

ensure that students it get on when buses are crowded and they're skipping stops and of course its connection to next muni which i love but can be very frustrated by when i see it go to zero and no bus and have to wait for the 15 minutes for the next bus but i am glad we had this first hearing. i hope we can continue the discussion today so seeing no further comments i would like to make a motion to continue this to the call of the chair. we have a motion. we can do that without opposition. madam clerk are there any other announcements? >> there are none supervisor. >> can i -- >> i'm sorry. commissioner wynns. >> thank you. i want to remind the committee i have asked several times that we have a hearing on the after school bra initiative. >> i am sorry i didn't get that. >> i would have liked it

before but i know we had scheduling conflicts with our own staff and i think they might have that for the next couple of months so i would like to ask that someone work with the staff to figure out a time for that. if we had that hearing prior to this month we would have been publicly discussing expanded after school opportunities for people in the school assignment process but if we do it later it would be before school starts when people are thinking about school. i don't know when is the best time but i think it's important since we did so much work and expansion of after school opportunities to be publicly discussed so people understand what we're doing before school starts next year. >> great. our office will work on that if you can let us know the appropriate staff person we will do that. just so the committee is aware there are at least four items pending for april and may. we have one on homeless families within the school district which i know

was a great discussion in december recently with a major grant from some of the private sector folks. we have a continuation of an item on the work that our planning department is doing with sfusd on the growing population and whether we need to plan also to build schools or grow schools with our population growing which is very exciting, and we do also have on the docket a hearing item on the health curriculum and sexual relationships in consent curriculum as well, so i know supervisor cohen also has a hearing on the docket we're we're trying to schedule and that is what is coming up over the next coming months. madam clerk are there any announcements? >> no, there are none supervisor. >> seeing none meeting is adjourned. [gavel] thank you everyone. i

>> can everybody hear me thank you for hosting us all i'm john the councilmember gloria vice president and along with my much nor talented colleagues and megan our program managers i offer see the responsibility of zen detect when we they moved no

inviting one of the things we've heard loud and clear was the importance of the hiring locally and many technology growing companies we're distancing in search of specific talents those are hard to find in the bay area in the neighborhood of san francisco but as you sit here now detection has a great relationship with the office of economic workforce development and currently sits on the investment board this is where we learned ambassador tech sf graduation and the local jobs training program to provide relevant skills several conversations led us to the

realized the faster way to create zen dick technology to train the san franciscans on our product that will fast track them to an important job in as you sit here now deck some of the tens of thousands of people that use as you sit here now deck if not employed while having still have a foundation in customer support and experience as well as the state of the art i'm to introduce mayor ed lee that as you sit here now deck has a terrific relationship the mayor ed lee has impressed on the importance of job creation like the opening up pathways in the tech industry

so welcome mayor ed lee (clapping) john thank you for that introduction and i'm glad to be here and this is great to see this is the third cohort of our folks coming through tech sf he want to go through the boat came but jonas passionate as i am i've not had to work that hard as you sit here now deck and it is a lot of passion for the building of strong neighborhoods thank you to the leadership give my best to the entire staff there because as strons as passionate in the job training for the 21st century jobs we need partners that are more experienced as you

that kind of citizens of volunteerism is takes the hours and weekends and the attitude to folks that are in the community looking to see if they can gain skill sets with the new jobs and what they're doing in the clooks with tech sf starbucks a good training for people to see i have the confidence i don't have to be at the best engineering schools to get a job and we've often said the tonnage industry establishments 4 or 5 jobs in their applications or establishing all the technology kinds of industries we're also

seeing happen in middle school middle market and throughout the city it is one of the many what did you say and he know that as you sit here now deck is not only focused on job training a huge amount of philanthropic work for the lowest incomes and the institutions allowing for the use of community space as a reflection of they're very strong volunteerism within the community agreement and their work is great because along with my again friend benny hoff set the standard for what we want to happy in the city and we need it technology for many years and i think people in the room remember those are room we talked about the digital divide

how we'll be able to catch with tomcast or those internet essentials they're providing or 12 companies they're going so fast he didn't think the jobs were going to be driver's license we need this link if you will, so those jobs i emphasis your programmers you can be folks helping with customer service center to be of great support and those days more and more as companies establish their companies they need the mechanism and this is why the third and i hope tenth cohorts of trainers that come out with the skill sets to

repeating really join in a comfortable way the movement towards the digital jobs that are present here in the city and that we also will signal to the companies that i look forward to their literally going through tech sf and hiring the folks that are out the basic training i'm all for a what he can excitingly see those weeks of boat camping is allotting a truly a boat camp you're going right into job opportunity there and our tech companies don't have to be looking across the water but right here in san francisco and be part the promise that the prosperity in the city can be shared with those basic things we're doing honoring training and having an open door policy and having a

good neighbor policy and go benefits as forefront as the success of a company as getting their points out and designed and engineered and sold i can't thank supervisor kim enough she's a strong advocate we start this confidence about mid-market and seeking strong, strong indications coming to fruition not everything is there it takes time we have a lot of folks on line their k59 their support i love the fact we're beginning to focus on the staff black women and other different groups that we know have gaps in their ability to connect up with our technology industry and with other jobs more and more we're

seeing the technology into the health care industry the hospitality address the local manufacturers you can't see a line of manufacturers without the ipad overlay and censoring autopsying all the aspects of merchandising so this is a great year to embrace those kinds of programs and thankful to the bay area coalition as well as tech sf for joining us as a city and partnering up with as you sit here now deck so provide support and congratulations (clapping.) >> thank you mayor ed lee for being here today. >> thank you to your staff and as you sit here now deck and especially to all the students who are graduating today from the zen deck train and i'm the executive director it is a

pleasure to see you when we partnered with czechoslovakia deck with the employer driven training it makes sense because not only because we're the coordinator for the city of san francisco but because they've actually been providing employer driven technically e tech and media industry for more than 15 years i was chatting with the folks and we trained folks from places like mother jones and all kinds of tech and media companies other than the city and we've been doing this for many years in many, many ways and another thing offering networking event like gloun this is something we came up with to provide opportunity for contract workers or who are newly trained to meet people that are hiring

and zen deck is generous for two of the flounz so for so so thank you to zen deck i want to mention little initiative through the sf tech program for the contractor workers and helping folk up their skills and help them with their taxes and with the full union in new york we have more than 5 hundred members are eligible to get health care and other kinds of insurance next year it the amazing program i feel like our mission of hoping folks to tell their stories has been happening for 39 years it is important to be a technology organization that's been around for that long the

reason we've been around that along bus of the as you sit here now deck train so thank you, again, for zen deck go with that i'm going to turn it over to the trainer from zen deck to start the graduation (clapping) and thanks i'm joe i work as zen deck about 3 years i'm going to present the certificates to the graduates first up patrick (clapping). rose marie (clapping) gary (clapping)

there's gary michael >> winston (clapping) sorry winston. (clapping.) >> now (clapping) kit (clapping) emmanuel (clapping) marseille (clapping) thank you, everyone all right.

>> (clapping) photo op. >> ready everyone here congratulations >>