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>> good afternoon and i would like to welcome you to our regularly scheduled meeting of the city and school district select committee. i am your chair supervisor jane kim. i will be joined soon by supervisor david campos and we're joined by board of education commissioners sand sandra lee fewer and jill wynns and i would like to thank sfgtv for broadcasting the meeting and making sure they're able online and recognize jennifer low and mr. jessie larsen and our clerks today. madam clerk are there any announcements? >> there are none. >> colleagues may i have a

motion to excuse supervisor yee this afternoon. >> so moved. >> we have a motion and madam clerk can you call the first item. >> i need to need to make a motion to excuse supervisor campos. >> [inaudible] >> no. >> [inaudible] >> okay i guess not. >> [inaudible] >> madam president i verified with our deputy that we need to make a motion to excuse mr. campos. >> okay. can we make a motion to excuse supervisor campos. >> so moved but it's my understanding that supervisor campos will be coming back here -- >> that's my understanding as well. >> at some point around 415. >> and supervisor avalos is here in supervisor campos' place and done by presidential action but supervisor campos will be coming back to take that seat.

>> okay. we will note that. okay. >> so we don't need a motion to excuse. >> okay. >> i am asking, sorry. i assume we don't. >> me neither. >> great. in the meantime madam clerk can we call the first item. >> thank you supervisor the first item is it's a hearing on summer jobs plus initiative and san francisco unified school district summer school programming options as sponsored by you supervisor. >> thank you madam clerk and i don't think i announced that supervisor avalos is here instead of supervisor campos and hopefully will be here for the second item but the first item is an annual item that we have heard at the select committee and i want to appreciate how important a youth sob pipeline is for the city and there we grow the program every year and

continue to make it more successful. this is a request by commissioner hydra mendoza-mcdonnell and she doesn't hear yet and wanted to make comments and i see past and current youth commissioners here thursday and working with the tech market to host a hearing with connection and intent to connect young people in san francisco to jobs and internships opportunities as well as to engage policy at city hall and each of the companies will be offering a workshop that will translate youth voice into tangible programs and opportunities and this town hall will be a pilot program for youth people to get engaged in the process and also our tech companies so i want to recognize that the presenter is glen

eagleson and we have other staff here from sfusd and thomas myer from office of workforce development as well as someone from united way and thank you for being here. >> is this on? all right thank you supervisors and commissioners. i my name is glen eagleson and with the department of children, youth and their families. i will kick off the presentation and then turn to the partners to fill in different pieces of the presentation from united way and office of workforce development

and the school district and i also have information at the end of the presentation about other activities that the department of children, youth and their families is doing this summer if you would like that information as well. provide more employment and internship opportunities for young people in the country. mayor lee launched the effort with united way and key partners throughout the initiative. it's lead by dcyf and the office of workforce development. brief takes the lead to coordinate activities with our community based partners and the office of

workforce development, works in partnership with the united way to coordinate employer outreach. and also we work very closely with the san francisco unified school district to align the efforts around their efforts and career technical programs and get young people engaged in the program. another partner that is not mentioned in here we have start working closely with the office of office of empowerment through the office in san francisco and my path usa. last year san francisco was fortunate to be one of the cities selected in the country to be selected by the cities foundation and empowerment to receive a grant to expand financial empowerment strategies for young people so they funded a number of work experiences for young people and a research component to look at what organizations were doing around financial literacy and banking and this summer we're rolling out an expanded eric mar

that all of the agencies will utilize so the people get financial literacy training as well as access to quality banking products so access to credit union accounts, direct deposits, split savings as a way to encourage them on a solid financial path so i will turn it over to matt pol an with the united way of the bay area to talk about the numbers we reached last year and our goals for this year. >> good afternoon supervisors, commissioners and thanks for having us today. we're excited to talk about the outs and later we will tell you about hinges we expect to add to the program this year so starting with last year and i made a slide to kind of compare last year to this year. we handed out copies of the report where you can see this year's data -- >> do you have a copy of the

powerpoint presentation as well? we do have a report. >> that i don't know. >> could we get a copy? >> do we have extra copies? yeah, i don't have one on me but yes, i can get a copy. >> it would be great if someone gets copy while you're doing the presentation. >> yeah. >> thank you. >> so in 2013 we had 6800 opportunities for young people and we went up to 7600 and the proportion is the same between the private and public sector and they kept pace going into 2014 and we hope in 2015 the private sector take a bigger share this year. the age break ground is shown here and better than last year and 76%

and a goal to serve older youth so we increase the the percentage of older youth and the race and ethnicity break down you can see and similar to last here and pretty representative too. we have the top 10 locations for youth being served and bay view and excelsior and where most of the youth came from in the summer and the family income level and measured at 30,000 per family and most of the youth we had dasta for were low income so i'm going to turn it over quickly to darlene from the san francisco unified school district, the career and technical program to do a deep dive into the program that they did last summer. sorry -- [inaudible] >> thank you. hi commissioners and supervisors. thank you for having us come

and report out to you today. i'm going to be speaking and i was asked to speak specifically about the project labor agreement, summer internship portion of the cte program so let me just tell that you this program is exciting because we go outside of cte and we enroll and recruit students from across the district because the skilled trades really require the facilities and at john o'connell and up at washington and there's not necessarily enough to go around so this is a great opportunity. we found students interested across the district lasted year so we're working with the contractors who access the bond money and they support the internship with a stipend and each of our students have the opportunity to spend three i das a week at a high school and

two days on a job shadow so as you know working in the skilled trades can be difficult with tools, and being able to have an authentic experience so that experience with the tools is happening at the school sites and then the visits to the businesses and the industries like muni, web core, san francisco airport and those are happening at a little more hands off and the students can put the two experiences together and it's been a really exciting program model and we're literally looking forward to expanding it. last year we had 60 students involved. 33 males, 27 females and we have 10 high schools, and i already told you how it's across the district and we're looking at just pushing the needle a little bit this year and have an apprenticeship day for the summer internship

and adding visiting bay area colleges and including some of the programs at skyline and city college. i will take some questions after this presentation if you have anymore but that is the two slides that i was talking about for the project labor agreement with the school district. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> so we have some exciting stuff we're planning for this upcoming summer. we're building on three years of success. we want to expand door way services and we started the last school year to provide work based learning experience and this is some of the cross over of school and work experience that we have been building with summer jobs plus and that is bringing employers into the classroom. an example of that is hour of

code and we worked with the department of to bring tech companies school to help writing code in january. this year at the youth resource fair which i will tell you about on the next slide we're going to have a focus on job interviews and in the past we did mock swriew interviews and employers there were and there is a push for that so we have at least 10 employers confirmed to do many job interviews and as many as 15 doing interviews some of which will offer jobs on the spot, and a reason that -- in the past we had the fair in may. we moved it to april so there is an opportunity to apply for work recreation and the of the programs and they agreed to hold some of their slots so youth will have access to those. in the past a lot of the applications were closed by the time we hit the resource fair

so the mayor's job college that is may 21 and we will cover that in the next slide. a couple other things we're trying out is experiments on the ground and one is a pilot program. we're hoping to do at mission school sestill in the planning stages but hopefully by this summer we will have internships and credit recovery. we found in the past students in this program didn't have the time to be in a job or internship so we're working with employers, sf made and linkedin and other tech companies to have internships just for them so they can go to that and in the morning go to the credit recovery and a connection between the two and see if what helps them the next year and more successful and likely to graw. hopefully we will do that for 30 young people and something we tried last year that again was successful and this year is neighborhood job fairs. we have young people from the neighborhood apply for

a small business in the neighborhood and we make matches : we did it in sunset and bay view and hopefully do to them this year and a great tool that we have supervisors involved. supervisor cohen, supervisor tang involved in sponsoring the events, small business from the district and young people and a nonprofit from the district and it's been successful in that way so we're hoping to continue those again this year. i will pass along to thomas myers who will talk about a couple of the big events upcoming. >> thank you and good afternoon supervisors and commissioners. you have a couple fliers in your hand outs, a couple color fliers. the one i want to pay attention to is now hiring and this where youth can come to the youth resource fair on april 11 and sign up online in advance at the address

which is 2015sf summer jobs. event br ite.com and they could sign up to attend the youth resource fair either by smartphones or online everywhere and in addition there is another flier there for individuals, adults and mentsors to come to the fair on april 11 where you can also sign up to assist with interviews and resources and providing some guidance to the youth that will be in attendance on april 11 and as matt mentioned earlier on may 21 at 830 at city hall this is the mayor's job challenge event which recognizes the funders and employer participants in the program, and it's an event where we recognize the employers for their contributions to the summer jobs program and this is the event where they also make commitments and they're recognized for those commitments. we will have more information about that as may 21

comes but i want to pay attention to the april 1110 to 2:00 o'clock the youth resource fair at moscone center and i am available for any questions that you have. thanks. >> thank you. >> so supervisors and commissioners that was the end of our presentation for summer jobs plus. i also have some additional information about other activities that dcyf is doing this summer but we thought to take a break if you have questions especially around the summer jobs plus initiative. >> that's great. i think it's a good time to take questions first and i have a few questions and i will open the floor to the rest of the committee as well. by the way the report was great and it was great to kind of see snapshots in terms of what individual youth and some of the employers, what they gain from the program. i am curious what mechanism is available for all

of the youth participants and report back about the experience and evaluate the work site or the city program effort? >> yes. so at the end of every summer we issue a survey so across summer jobs plus young people and employer s and the nonprofit partners get a survey and report back to us, so i would say a hew -- few highlights we would like to see more job opportunities especially for 16 and 17 year olds and most employers want to hire 18 and older and the credit recovery. they would like to see better coordination across the departments and knowing where the opportunities are so we're building out the website and the website has a lot of the programs and work recreation and puc listed on it and the youth were confused to go for which

program and at the fair there will be access for that so again this year we will do a survey. >> what were the top or general positive feedback and then things to improve? >> yeah so those were some of the things to improve. >> right. >> overall we definitely get a lot of feedback "thanks for helping me get a job and starting my career." they like the youth resource fair as an opportunity to build skills and they find a job and a nonprofit and in 2012 we didn't have door ways and not easy on the ground point to get help and since then we have a place for them to go we get good feedback. >> i know this isn't always true but sometimes the employers might have more support

mechanisms in place and train people for jobs and sometimes the private sector employers don't as much. what do we do to insure a higher level of consistency and getting experience from the program? >> yeah that's a good question. i think it starts with the screening that the door ways do and make sure that the young people are ready for that experience. not every person is ready for a private sector experience and another program that is more supportive and more counseling and things built in might be more appropriate but we have an internal internship we run and we have folks checking in on the young people and making sure the needs are met and use door ways for that and there are other programs we are active support for. >> and regarding the credit recover and he internship program which i think is a great plus to the program. are those paid as well? >> yeah. they are paid minimum

wage for that time. >> i hear from students they need the summer to earn wages and sometimes it's a choice between credit recover and he getting a summer job and hopefully this addresses that issue. >> also there might be administrative hurdles but we heard we might get credit for them this summer and if we play our cards right. >> since the introduction of the pilot program two years ago what gains have we made to have undocumented youth, and youth hard to reach -- homeless, undocumented and lgbt and foster youth. >> i think we made a lot of gains and the door ways is a significant part of that and there will be eight this summer and target demographics or neighborhoods to a couple of your questions and lyric as a

door way to meet lgbt youth and have developers reaching the bay view and as far as foster youth we opened a door way at city college with the guardian program that serves foster youth and that has been very successful -- >> [inaudible] excuse me supervisor the other thing is for a lot of young people that would need more support they're served more through our public programs. about 2/3 of the opportunities through the summer jobs plus umbrella are through city funded or city run programs so that's where people that might need more support get those services. in terms of undocumented youth for the last two years we were able to fund some opportunities through the private fundraising we had. that's still a commitment on behalf of the partnership and we're committed to make sure as is the mayor and mary su and these opportunities are available to all young people

in san francisco. we're still working on the fundraising plan and how many opportunities we can fund depends how much money we raise. >> that's great to hear and i know there is some education that needs to help with employers and even some of the regulars that work with youth and we had an intern and getting a stipend and the coordinator realized she was undocumented and tried to cut internship at the office and luckily we had an attorney on staff and i am sure that comes up in other cases and i it's fortunate that we have immigration expertise and that always doesn't happen and i assume there is education to happen as well as to what you can do and what you can't. >> dcyf also related to this is working with the office of immigration and civic affairs to support legal service access and legal education for our

immigrant communities so that's a part of the resource to tap into as well as funding a program for dreamers called the sf dream program. >> thank you. commissioner wynns. >> [inaudible] thank you. i want to know about the data for last year and this year, the number of jobs, list work opportunities, so i kind of want to know how well we're doing at filling all of those? by this do we mean this is how many young people -- >> work opportunities -- >> right. placement opportunities or -- >> actually placed. >> okay. actually placed. that's good. but is it -- are the numbers the same? in other words, is every summer job opportunity created filled? no. can you tell you at what -- >> no, those all represent

placement numbers. i thought you were asking is it the same opportunity and glen was saying they're different depending on which public program. >> yeah, what i want to know how do we do at filling every opportunity that we create? i hate to say this but if we were in a college we would say what kind of yield we have; right? >> right. >> and how is that related to the persistence -- i mean how many employers -- what kind of evaluations do we have from the employers? are they offering more summer jobs? >> i don't have hard data on it but we have more private sector than we can fill and when talking about entry level and there is a lot now and it's a buyer's market in the economy and we often don't have enough work ready and past muster with

the employers and that's what door ways is screening the people and i don't have a number for it but we have more opportunities on the private sector side. >> as a parent and all of the public sector job opportunities that we have, have we filled all of those? >> yeah, they're over subscribe the. we have no problem filling those. >> maybe for next year when we do it again to have the data how we're doing on that and that leads to the 2nd district which is for the school district. >> >> for instance what are we doing to get more kids available or being ready for the private sector jobs that we can't fill so they get work experience? that just came up from this answer but what i really want to know about is about connections and the summer job opportunities and their work in school, so

people have a job in the summer, great. i am happy they diso. i want them to make money and employment skills and do well, but then i also want that to be something that we leverage to increase their success in school and hopefully as i know you're working for, and we are all hoping to expand the opportunities for kids and how well are we making the connections? >> let me separate it and i commented on pla and 2,000 students in the c st. e academies and they get a lot of skills and within the two year program and we spend a lot of time this year helping them fill out the applications because we noticed who was filling out the applications for the internships and who wasn't, and we want the

district has access in equity lens on everything that we do so we made sure to reduce as many barriers as possible so they're filling them out a lot better this year. they're very complicated. it's new vocabulary for them and i-nine's and all of this stuff so they're doing a much better job. we will get a huge amount of applicants and that addresses who is filling it and for the students in the cte program how are they bringing it back? how does the experience bring it back? for some of the students we try to make sure they stay in the area they're studying but business, financing and banking -- we all need financial literacy and this is part of the program for the sfusd and we look at who is ready and a majority are private sector jobs so we have to support the businesses as well a