childcare center another part we need to take into account a lot of people to thank i'll entering first this if you have comments wait a minute. >> this was a very i'm not going into the gory details but a scomplashthd building more complicated than most you're sitting or standing on top of a garage a garage that is actually, the foundation for both it high-rise tower and ours so i would not say i should would build two buildings but in project sponsor couldn't have done it without the work of the team innovate because the most important but they did an amazing job i don't see the folks but chuck sorry chuck of k

l gordon and buck and others this was a labor of love sometimes a very peaceful a lot but you guys made that happen we appreciate that and our architect an amazing joint effort between solt solomon. >> prescott sanchez and societies they worked together well bruce we want to thank naomi and peter noon and i think that's our crew from the architects they did an amazing job not an easy project to coordinated but one of the things that the city and county takes an amount of prides and he certainly merry 1:00 when we opposite side one of the buildings in a neighborhood the goal no idea which one is the favorable i can tell you from the fact every time we open your

building with the ocii we have lots of people want to know how to rent our affordable housing units and people are shocked they can't sdwisht difference our partnering not only with the agencies decide this is the hallmark of work in california to make sure we make sure we're building the heist quality building for everyone involved so that leads me to a key if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer them for block 7 umgs the ins and outs of cap & trade with the climatic change within of the features of the climate plan is trying to invest in various different teaches initiative a key program the affordable housing sustainability community an hidden gem as jan explains to

tie in detail that will not be hidden by block 7 we are lucky enough to have 6 nature million dollars the first insulate of director rubke but not the last they'll have an award announcement and i'm sure san francisco will make more wonderful things happen correct me if i am wrong we believe this is the most at the time of trial rich project in all the projects in the stating base 6 commitment to the transit and caltrain and muni and with all the great bus services to that's why the state is investing in will the system and why 9 pocketbook is open and everyone project will continue to get more money so from the mooechlz. >> i can't get more excited

than that. >> happen /* happy birthday to all and everyone loves a birthday so heads up to everyone as we celebrate birthdays together you know this goes without assessing this was an election year how many of you really realize that today is an election day yes it is because in my world he hope it will be in yours everyday is an election day not the noise we hear an tv and social media by god but everyday is an elect day of making decisions it's a an election between self or others every day we make a decision

about our lives are we thinking of ourselves or others and amy doing something that is good for society or am i being passive or creating walls you know i'd like to introduce go preserves as we celebrate this day the perspective of a planner a funder act and then a resident unfortunately, he wouldn't have the privilege of being a resident like to do my best and talk about that you know because what we're experiencing today is a wonderful example of how transit development; right? is smart planning and best smart and they're not inclusive we realize we wrooks that planning and design must be sustainable for a future

we roles that affordable housing for families and seniors is smart housing and having san martin transportation refresh infrastructure is important because infrastructure binds us together doesn't it we walk the same paths we drink the same water and were there few diverse communities last week san francisco and people are riding at the time of trial; right? and living in transit developing together tied into density housing and active translation and getting at the time of trial passes you know murphy housing was one of 28 westerns in the first launch of this affordable housing and sustainable community program it was the pilot year we're now in the thrills of funding our second round in october you'll hear the

news about that in a few weeks i'm here to talk about planning and clefks i you know have a deft opinion he recognize that has we know the governor is forceful that climatic change is a big issue you can choose to ignore it just if i choose to ignore people in the so forth but and a change the existence you see a little description of the program the agency program it's not a program about projects we use projects a lot but actually a program about project areas translated communities because we believe in building homes and not walls amen and lightwells talk about community from the perspective

of a resident at the core of words community is unity; right? we realize today that all people deserve affordable housing are regardless of where they are in the economic scale so on this election daywear taking responsibility artists we to care and invest in our community in the residents of san francisco we vote for the associate quality to pull together they can work together as we're seeing it in front of us and will see it in just a few years. >> nearly 50 years ago a approximately candidate it was

1968 and he was on the commissioner antonini trail and that candidate was robert f kennedy junior and he had to give the hardest campaign speaking speech of his career on that day in pretty well of 1968 he had to announce to the crowd that martin luther king was assassinated there was no twitter and it was talking in front of a substantially black audience and know it was sparked into a firestorm that would further send the nation into certain racial populartion and those are his words that resounds like today what we need to the itself not division what we need in the united

states is not hatred what we need to the united states is not violence or lawlessness but wisdom and compassionate to one another and a feeling of justice towards those who suffer when they're in your country he knew the temptation of base violence was going to occur and i knew he was thinking whatever was in the minds of peep what is quality one the same law in the nation i'm sure that's where we are today you feel the recess alsoness the vast majority of whites blakz want to live together and insure the quality of life and want

justice for all human beings we declared and call on that day he would let us decade ourselves to what the greeks wrote to some years ago to tame the sageness of man and make gentle of the life of the world if we can only live that and make gentle the life of this world i think you all participating today you get that message you see the savageness and see the injustice and want to make gentle the lives of this world unfortunately about 60 days later that have speech he helping was taken down and it was o he was in la and there was an iconic picture of him lying on the ground in the

kitchen and the busboy cradling his head and told her monk his last words were is everybody okay? >> 3 simple words on election day is everybody okay. on any given day i'm not okay. he need smoking someone to say eugene are you okay please, please ask the question and do something about it last week doug and his team and this at the and your elected officials are doing something everyday thank you . >> (clapping.) >> i feel very fortunate to

work with someone like eugene people don't recognize the department of passion not feeling it agency a recovering public agency official myself i just want to acknowledge the great work that people in government do and not get enough crediting credit u dispense e general we appreciate that a lot of people at about adc i want to thank and objective the director (calling names) ellis and kim thank you for you guys making the trip appreciate our support we're also blessed to have private partners one standing relationship with silicon valley valley bank and want to bring up fiona if i

would. >> (clapping.) >> good afternoon, everyone on behalf of the silicon valley thanks an honor to be here and celebrate the grand opening our san francisco office is just a few blocks away this is a gleaming ray of light in our backyard we are proud to play a small roll in bringing this project to life and 69 new homes very worthy families that are well-designed and high quality and hopefully brings a wonderful opportunity let me share a quick joke so as a new mom he live by the words it takes a village some days my moerpgz are helped by the many helping hands this particular morning he was navigating around the world i was trying to practice gratitude

and my drive took me past our building and the engine kicked in, yes it takes a village to raise a child additional a takes a village to build an urban village and this village comprised of a qualified visionary team that led by the murphy housing and all the partners that are here today you know from the outset we knew the project will be inform testify as a first affordable housing project in is this transbay district and knew that had some unique features that at times to - moments as doug mentions the shared space with the market-rate project and underwrite a project like we've never done and moments we called

kwirm to ask his impression but keep our eye on the price pricing whether in the empire life sciences are community development we want to help our clients have you ever seen into uncharged territories and designer approaches that led to leave sxans results and today is complex problems we need mercy housing like the city of san francisco lied by the mayor and the supervisors and ocii and for your dedication to help the and make the impossible possible my team tuchd that project over the last few years and got the successful results (calling names)

and thanks also to dbi banks. >> in the presence of such commitment i'm truly grateful thank you so much everyone. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, fiona the widens is kicking up we'll get through 24 reach out and hug anybody to that will keep you warm and none will sue in this setting so we do want to thank a couple of other people katherine and the jshths they've been critically generous donors i want you thank you for your support and federal home loan bank a grant from the affordable housing program and silicon valley bank is an

important program and a peas to make the developments work and hopefully for transbay 7 as well if this is your fit on the grand opening not heard the work tax credit an ovsh secure part of irs tax code that is responsible to make those knowledge areas roobl if you don't know where their tax dollars go but this is the building plain clothes for all the affordable housing in the city and what comes with the tax credit the opportunity to work with an investor we have a long another long term fund that worked about mercy to make this work the more complicated we turn to tattooed they'll make sure it works i wanted to bring up todd and thank him. >> thank you doug it is a

obscure the tax credit a my family didn't know what i do everyone we're principles to actually be the tax credit investor mercy housing is one the long even though partners in our history 25 years doug i counted on the database and thirty odd projects across the country and is tax credits the national primary resemble to raise capital and invest into community that's right what we do on a daily basis for thirty years and $12 billion later i'd like to see is we can't do it without partners we have silicon valley bank not only provided the financing they were trusted us with $28 million of equity

thank you, fiona and thank the mercy team william i don't know where sheila with that i'll i'll leave it at that. >> so in my effort inform work it in while we're going there are projects recycle this mercy and your consultants do a lot of work together we are lucky enough to have a long term partner (calling names) all right. i can't find page 3 but someone on page 3 okay. he found it thank you very much for all that work. >> (clapping.) >> i also want to thank this was a project that required a

fair amount of trust our biggest partner the company out of chicago we took a chance we didn't know how big a chance but had we known who knows what we would have done we and the rest of the folks are fantastic people to work with and driven people it was a hard project we worked on that together and no moment did we separate from each other thank you to the company and obviously they're doing more work in san francisco and obviously b be a great interest rate to the san francisco skyline he wanted to take a moment sense it was raised earlier by the todd to thank the mercy staff this was a really recreate it started with julia and handed to william we've had

people touch this project at mercy tells us how hard it was we want to thank all the mercy staff (calling names) if you have not met the guys he's wonderful in you're from mercy if you wouldn't mind raising your hand to be acknowledged. >> also want to thank our chair the reality committee i don't see oh, and kres from the board members advisors and chris and obviously a nonprofit are driven by the volunteers that give me your time and expertise we're deeply appreciative of they are help there are two projects we mixed up some stuff quarry crazy like this so we heard from todd that led the

development investment on block 6 and block 7 we're happy to have a partner in wells fargo bank this is a tough couple of weeks this is truly a fantastic project and for us in the affordable housing there is wells fargo is a tremendous partner their construction lending and the investment that is similar to the projects and again, it takes someone with an understanding of our world and to me is excellent partner i'll bring up tim and i throughout the groundbreaking was simple lucky i don't dress last week this but confused i think we close construction in june and here it is built already that's a joke i'm from wells fargo the

equity manager and i think a number of people from wells fargo here terrance on my team and laura is here and maybe john he want to thank them and everybody and also to echo doug shoemaker i didn't have time to write everyone's name down (calling names) everybody at the mercy i appreciate your help thank you very much and thank our partners olsen lee and everyone at ocii and in the city and county of san francisco thank you so much for partnering with us along with h cd and silicon valley bank i appreciate all the financial parnsz and thank you to you all the members of the audience as fiona said it takes a village and everyone worked hard in affordable housing and i

know i think this project and to project across the street is the good work of all of us i didn't prepare a speech but thank you very much. >> (clapping.) >> and especially doug all right. we're in the homestretch i think as a said to a person none wanted to hear from us but other residents we're lucky we have two residents that have offered to share their story i don't think i bunched your last name she's with an of the newest resident and her boyfriend; right? and baby. >> hi, everyone and good afternoon. i'm a current resident all the way up to the 8 floor he heard about mercy housing through the friends when

we wereplegic for long term and couldn't get in i decided to give a shot and i applied i remember you were somewhere - sorry. >> it was my application that i turned in for housing i remember that was someplace in march he turned in any application in one today, i received a letter assessing he won and my lottery number was 54 i never won the lottery in any life i was pregnant at that time, and turned in any that application and life was hard before moving into this amazing place within living with a parent in a one-room apartment and really couldn't afford for

$2,000 to rent for every month he moved into this home right before giving birth and my baby was barron in my home we want to appreciate it and say thank you to mercy housing and they have a program that gives me opportunities to a young formally person - and helps us thank you very much >> (clapping.) >> all right. i forgot a couple of shout outs i have two more shout outs mercy one of the things to enable us to have success in san francisco this may be different we take a lot of pride in the work we do around making sure the ground

zero of uh our building contribute to the neighborhoods we have someone nancy who is in the back one of a kind person from mercy housing that does our leading thing if i like filled scoff nancy was on early adopter thank you for being on the ground floor and providing coffee and the south of market childcare that is moving in and thank you so much we're looking forward to having you in that space without further ado, a stylish guy i met him yesterday. >> (clapping.) >> it is windy. >> good afternoon

welcome everyone to my neighborhood and my name is leonard i won the lottery which is a program and he was displaced in the san jose from the western edition and me and my family had an opportunity to live here based on the cop and i reilly enjoy 24 place and people here i mean, the amenities the bus services and stuff like that but some things i'm disappointed with but this is a great place to live and he looks forward to living here many, many years and my wife and

daughter live here right there >> (clapping.) >> and they were inmental in - that my wife pushed me in putting in certificate of preference is a great place and clean and xhofsht he enjoy being here i think i have a great opportunity to enjoy this place thank you >> (clapping.) >> >> okay. not to put pressure on leonard it is amazing you think about the certificate of preference many of you are familiar in an earlier area of redevelopment

less gentle force people are displaced from the western edition and for 2, 3, or 4 is decades people had many disappoints we were critically happy to work with the staff of ocii that worked to track individuals over the year and 5 cop hollers from the commissioners to the staff thank you and letting us play a part with that, we're done with the official ceremony we have tours and a little bit of food for folks that are in the front right now come over and perch a shovel of dirt with us and everyone else thank you for coming take a tour and ask the mercy staff they're happy to tell you the details of this building thank you for

>> we're going to get started we have a lot of celebrating to do thank you everyone thanks for being here how great to be a the academy of sciences isn't this fantastic?. >> (clapping.) >> this is most certainly a jewel in our community and we thank the entire academy team for making us felt so welcome good evening. i'm ann wilson the ceo the invited bay area we're the

people in the initiative the mayor's job plus program this is one of favorite event and my pleasure to welcome you all here this is a giant effort and teamwork added it's best the city of san francisco and the mayor's office oh, my god and dcyf and if you don't know the outstanding department in our city that delivers support and services to our community families youth and children and we at the invited way are so very proud to be partners and celebrate and thank our sponsors who support this initiative in so many ways j.p. morgan chase is this year's presenting sponsor and been with the initiative since 2013 give up for chase.

>> (clapping.) >> our premium sponsors are pg&e, who is been with us from the beginning beginnings as a founding partner and starbuck's that fingerprint cards this project and offers jobs as pastor of the initiative let's hear it for the premium sponsors. >> (clapping.) >> bank of america is our gold sponsor and a bank of america has been with us a co-founder of this initiative let's hear it for bank of america >> (clapping.) >> entries e enterprise rents a car our silver sponsoring broujz is linked and development and our supporting sponsor is ernest and young let's thank them all. >> (clapping.) >> so tonight you'll get to meet a handful of the people that make this program work

this is a team effort in every way in hands and many hearts it come together every year to make sure that young people in our city have great experiences and introduced to the world of work in the most positive ways and i'm so happy to see here montreal tonight many young people and employers and nonprofit partners here who make that all possible i started out by thanking the california academy it my pleasure to thank cal academy and introduce you to their executive director doctor jonathan following will i. >> (clapping.) >> well, first of all, thank you, ann and mayor ed lee for bringing us to celebrate this incredible group of organizations they're working together to serve san francisco's youth we've been here since the 1850s and our

mission work with young people in san francisco and the great abag and couldn't be more proud to be part of a community that is passionate about serving youth in the city welcome to the academy i'm thrilled you're here this is the most beloved building in san francisco city hall sorry (laughter) by the way, we're very glad to center you in thought community and congratulation to the youth for all the work this summer thank you for all you're doing. >> (clapping.) >> eric is up next; right? >> yeah. so ann. >> no, i'm next sorry john i did not know you were done. >> (clapping.) >> so again welcome good evening thank you all for being here a great time to celebrate

all the partners represented it is the best of you'll august of public nonprofit public sector private sector engagement investing in one of our most valued treasures our young people so thank you very much for being here and so i want to make sure you didn't miss someone that was supposed to be here ann i didn't see her we'll chore so for her really, really loud we'll keep on going these things happen nonetheless because of partnerships and the institutions but when there is great leadership wouldn't have been possible celebrating 5 years hadn't been for the leadership of the giants figuratively our mayor please welcome mayor ed lee

>> (clapping.) >> wow. great audience here first of all, thank you for making sure he got out of city hall (laughter) you know they i know that doctor following will i and ike and everybody likes to invite me i have a long time friend claude and interested in looking to claude the albino alligator i'm looking at for him every time he get a chance i want to come in u come up and visit thank you to eric mcdonald to the entire invited way for your partnership you can 5 years ago we were thinking about all of our young people in san francisco and i was just starting out in this position and so people said

hey mayor can you you know if we're going to have a strong economy we need our youth may find about jobs i snanlt jumped on that and said we need to private sector and the training organized good in our community together with our government and our employers to have a unified message that the tenant of this city is every single one of you in this room i want to make sure you know we've been thinking about that a los angeles county and not just jobs so for jobs sake we want to make sure your life is fulfilled as a young person in the city so that's why while we're working we want to make sure you have 9 best experience and have working a r on a great school system working on pathways to college, scholarships for kids, open space for you to play in and

enjoy yourselves great experiences throughout your young life and this is why i invested in organizations like our investment in our children and youth and family working with the unified school district and ohio dwra and the superintendent of schools all the city colleges that's why i have an academic advisory council made up of councils advising me i know you that i'm going to talk about the jobs you know, i let me put away those notes and pend that moment yesterday, i had the opportunity to join with so many of the people on an announcement you may have read about in the local pages of newspapers that's when palin and mark zuckerberg's

annunciations a multi million dollars fund in mission bay and they suggested that in our lifetime as well as ours but more importantly in maxs lifetime you, you know, who that is their young child born less than a years ago to priscilla and mark thinking about their child and you will have you and how we can conquer the four diseases that cause the most deaths today the cancer death, the heart dedicate, the neurology stroke related deaths and they wanted to put their heart their technology mind, their dock roll medical approach and blend it to creating this center

and they choose san francisco to do that >> so i'm looking at all of you kids because i'm thinking about you and saying you're really lucky to be in this city i hope i appreciate it what is happening in the city is really marvelous you have the blends of the greatest technology minds, health minds, impure minds coming together in our lifetime solve and make sure we end or we manage the greatest diseases that placard us for century this is a maker thing and your witnessing it right here in our youthful years i want you to think about that has part of the environment i get to live and work in san francisco that with all the great

companies that have been looking at the stashed their offices here those are many of the companies that are right in this room where the bank or salesforce or coffee inadvertent or some of the greatest employers they're looking for talent they it focused on you and at the focused on the young people in san francisco so i want to tell you this is what makes me really excited but having the best and brightest in san francisco coming together and solving diseases and work with all of us in government in the private sector to create the best city in the world this is where your lucky to work i want you to know more than just getting a job never about a job but career pathways about supporting you in fact, we have programs funded by the city foundation and programs like my

path what kids like you, your saving and putting investment, in fact, seven hundred kids this summer pout over half a million dollars in savings account to have a future. >> (clapping.) >> you know, i can brag all i want about a 3 and a half percent employment rate hot economy, all the big businesses of all sizes wanted to be here and technology and health care and tourism but if i to take care of and help those without our help wouldn't have that chance of experiencing those types of things inch not done any job and other companies will agree we haven't reached out and made sure that all of our

residents can benefit from this prosperity we haven't done the job we were set out to do that's why i'm so proud of our summer youth of our youth plus jobs program because we're teaching everyone from time to tie doing a resume lifting their heads in their interviews this is all part of your future if you're successful and if you take those opportunities as they've presented and run with that this city and everybody associated with it is also going to be successful he truly mean it i'll be a more successful mayor if you golden state warriors guys get the careers and jobs in about 3 years i get do end this job then i'll be this old guy walking on the street hoping i'll run into a ceo of is a company of a kid that we helped

to get the job they'll tug any shoulders and suit hopefully and say hey mayor or thank you for creating and continue to create one of the best cities for people to be successful in this is what this job program means to me and everybody making sure that we have every opportunity and it comes with that fantastic opportunity to work with the private be sector all the companies and i know we had an injustice to name a few i'll name some of the leaders that's salesforce and j.p. morgan chase, pg&e, starbuck's bank of america enterprise rent a car anyone know who pa lodges is some of the companies you don't know the names they're probably some of the most successful do a lot of industrial workforce

stuff and their in charge of a lot of warehouses helping us do pdr space production, distribution and repair they're the ones he helping us with the new industries in san francisco that make san francisco made products i'm proud of that we're trying to create other industries a hot tourism we've got to hot health care, a hot tech but want things made in san francisco we'll be xoefrt products from this area a many countries and helping out sunset development companies 4ri7b8gd their mentioned in our portfolio but those are the companies in the great companies thinking about your future and recruiting you to be their talent so they can be the best companies in the world with

that, i say thank you and govern claude thank you to all the youth here for all of you taking care of our futures with us and continue investing counting it is over 6 thousand three hundred jobs we're counting and . >> counting and counting. >> and counting but i have to tell you in a short few years trying to get the 10 thousand jobs that are a jobs how about that >> (clapping.) >> again, thank you very much everybody and congratulations put money into our own pockets you know i also was thinking while i was coming over here it is great when i earned any own money so mom if you want me to buy the eggs and milk this week i'll do it i earned it. >> (clapping.) >> thank you very much

one more time mayor, mayor ed lee. >> (clapping.) >> as you can see we figured out the lighting we got to together we're all good so again, i probably heard it before but failure often an orphan success has many, many parents we're delighted to invite what we want to experience tonight acknowledge our champion partners and at the same time celebrate the young people happening and experiencing those intrerpz and jobs we'll bring up a series of participates an employer and young person for a short exchange about commitment of the employer and he is experience felt young people as you've heard from ann and the

mayor j.p. morgan chase, that's been one of the amazing pretending sponsors joined. >> us in 2013 and hadn't missed a beat $200,000 so we're thrilled this they're here to please welcome jim and your young person it >> patricia martinis. >> coming down patricia give us a coup of mike's. >> (clapping.) >> your to stand right there with jim get in the spotlight make sure this one is on - >> there we go. >> thank you. >> well, thank you urban design and nice to be with you. >> mentions jerry brown's is proud to be a continuing spore we're delighted of the impact on

the neighborhood and mayor ed lee thank you for your leadership and i hope you had a great summer that first job is a great thing thrumming before something about your experience. >> well, i endorsed a new career i was internship and something paw i don't think we can hear you there we go. >> yeah. i was internship for an event planner and did a lot of events planning and get to like venues and got to do a holiday party i did a walk there through like 2016 holiday party in december yeah. (laughter) mark yeah >> and has this changed our education path to the future do you have different plans paw

before this i had my mind on the study of body and everything now i'm like in marketing sports marketing and got a lot of connections although mark and connected to someone in new york for marketing so like yeah. >> did you have fun. >> i had a lot of fun yeah. >> great. >> (clapping.) >> thank you very much. >> thanks jim one of the exciting things about the initiative and one of our goals to create as many diverse opportunities and possible for young people to see and appreciate the wide array of job counties and career opportunities that exist in our city we are thrilled that one of our other are partners webcor stepped up with great opportunity we'll invite thomas a director at the webcor to come

up that his young person that is. >> eddy. >> uh-huh. >> how you do eddy and code compliant. >> excuse me - i got a a little frog in my athlete i'm battling a cold like mentioned a lot of companies in san francisco that employ people we're not a - we built 24 building right here (laughter) >> (clapping.) >> it's a project a landmark project in san francisco last week the mayor mentioned we're very proud a big advocate in this program with the companies of a product of san francisco unified school district myself wow. . >> (clapping.) >> very proud of it what i've accomplished and the education through the city and with that, i'd like to introduce north america dewey

understand you spent a summer at salesforce and wondering if you can share a little bit what you did. >> in salesforce he reason worked under global warming renewals and so various steps we had to pay attention we we renewed our business with other companies it was very cool (laughter) >> (clapping.) >> following this work experience what are you future plans for education and career. >> so my future plans to probably go into computer science in college but looking at the accounts how important data science is so my might take as a minor i really liked how for the work turned out to be.

>> wow. >> (clapping.) >> you know one of the big things about those programs is the impact it makes on you, the question is going through the management youth programs impacted the way you thought about your future. >> yeah. going through the program impacted how i thought about my future i mean, it was one of the experiences you reaching out ended up with that something tount so made me release how important for pro-active about your own future that's something i appreciated about jobs plus >> (clapping.) >> awesome. >> thank you both so for many of the young people this is a first job that means a first paycheck what do one do with the money burning the hole in the pocket. >> you remember you remember

it is easy to quickly spend self-on something one of the things we tried a overlay and we're very, very thrilled to be able to introduce a partnership with city for financial empowerment and we're thrilled this once again the city foundation led by vicky the senior vice president not only here but has been a wonderful champion supporting our young people and offering financial literacy to see how to use those those wonderful dollars their aribnb please welcome vicky. >> (clapping.) >> i want to pace. >> okay. >> okay. so adults how many of you guys remember getting our first paycheck how many of you remember the traumatic experience when you realized there was something called go

spike 0. >> who is that taking my money. >> last year, i shared with all of the students that went through the program last year the conversations that i had with my dad that showed no mercy when i said owe wanted the money back with the city foundation and the partnership with those 4 i never remember cities for empowerment what we did was released that through summer jobs that is another program with the pathway program you really need to look at what you do with the first pay check it is an opportunity for your parents and grandparents to close the bank of mom and dad and had you how you create really good savings the first opportunity to set that foot in the adult world of i, save

something so what we ditsdz to do in the pathways to progress invest in the goal for the program to invest one hundred thousand kids both the workforce program to gain the skills to be viable in the 21st century as part of the this we figured all right. the mayors job programs this is huge i remember my first job but i learned something; right? i know that if i get a paycheck you have to figure out what to do with it that's to be routine by the planning commission, and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote organization that's why i'm here called my path i know my path been working with them 10 years my job to bring 3450i my path up here the mayor gave you steps in his speech my guys gave me the

steps this year this summer in 8 weeks i think about 8 weeks over seven hundred young people opened their first bank account and saved over $460,000 in 8 weeks you guys are amazing my path helped to do that my path invested how to teach students and young people how to use their money wisely and create savings behavorial they helped to develop a mobile app to good afternoon people to develop better attitudes of money management and how you're spending and monitor your spending my son is 16 years old he needs help (laughter) he's going to be learning fast

so is my path here can we give them a round of lovely applause >> (clapping.) >> thank you, everyone we're so thrilled to be be able able to the partners that everybody in the room and all the young people across this wonderful city to show the power of what giving a young person a paycheck can do in the moment but for your future the work we're doing it having them take the first moment of money owe turn it into pathway for mobile upward mobility that's almost half a million dollars saving and that our community is being involved in our community as they're being saved with our

local on the ground financial partners in san francisco that are all communities all credit unions wow. those acronyms; right? vicky we couldn't have done it without them and without all of you and i all the work the young people did. >> thank you very much appreciate our partnership and supporting our young people all right. so we give them a wide. >> where a of opportunities and support them to manage people as they get them and a grant part of grant petition we create a pipeline pipeline of opportunities for young people and that we engage them earlier in the san francisco unified school district so we're supporting their educational foundation that that leads to great career opportunities so, of course, ear thrilled to have and be in partnership with the

san francisco unified school district so we're thrilled to have superintendant guerrero he'll bring one, 2 not one but two students up with him, please welcome superintendant guerrero. >> (clapping.) >> good evening, everybody i have to start off sharing our appreciation on behalf of 9 unified school district to our mayor, mayor ed lee thank you for your leadership i don't think your bragging we shear our pride and looking for that process peter and more importantly making us educators to insure our youth are prepared to be successful and lead in the 21st century i think what this program has permitted us to do provide on array of experiences for increasing numbers of our students so i have two students up here

we'll share a little bit about their experience so i feel like i'm standing between my kids with the same stature buses today i'll let me introduce to my right is 19 is alicia. >> i'm in the 12 john and attend john o'connor. >> (clapping.) >> hi, my name is daren a freshmen at san francisco state universi university. >> (clapping.) >> so the one thing they have in common their boiler makers currently always a boiler maker and john o'connor shout out to the mission they've played an important role how we create a model that helped to capitalize on all of you thank you for

being a key pardons to provide experience to our youth i have something in common with alicia i had my own official emergency room growing up any father worked so sometimes in the summer i joined him and work and up in the control tower with the federal administration alicia share with the audience what team you worked with and our experiences. >> my internship was with the trades i was meridian with an electronic engineer my intern we walked around the terminals and did the basic electrical needs needed and we were to go into all the control rooms in the buildings as well as the background ss r rooms -

>> so alicia you got to see a hidden the sxeenz look at the airport do you want to talk about connections perhaps you've started to see in our studies in high school. >> so john o'connor environment lab my main source what electrical utilities trout the interpreting i saw my book work from the - to go into real leave work how sfo uses engineering sections. >> thank you now the one thing about the summer jobs programs the mayor is doing a good job it makes it so much easier for the college and career team and others to connect to those kinds of opportunity we hope had will

develop an ass permission for pursuing some of the continued sectors so we have daren graduated if o'connell do you want to share where i spent our summer. >> i spent my summer at salesforce (laughter) great which department. >> i worked as salesforce i worked in the real estate department my manager was the project sponsor of san francisco salesforce she managed all buildings in no for the salesforce buildings. >> the one thing about daren i've been to a few events he keeps on popping up we have a young adult who and i valid himself for opportunities not

the first time and reilly that picking up experiences along the way as you begin our college studies what are you thinking modest be down the road of the interest for you. >> in interest down the road like from being at salesforce or - >> (inaudible). >> well when i applied to sf state before i applied i went wanted to be an architect but they don't have this so i had to do pick a career within my major like did design so i am studying creative arts anothers san francisco state university and may be getting to industrial arts designs but then summer at the salesforce i really thought about being in real estate now i realized what i did for 6 months

and were cumber doing because i'm still working at salesforce it is really fun what i do i enjoy what you did every single day so maybe creative arts or real estate your proposed to do what you love; right? that's why i love going to work everyday it is what i do it is really fun >> (clapping.) >> so one thing we've always tended to hear as a theme for some of the youth that work in the tech factor a magnet in the city they and realize those have an array of departments and getting exposure into areas not only about computer programs and graphic design and human

services alicia you'll be filling out college applications can do you think of studies. >> i'd like to continue with engineering sure. >> i feel like it fits me best when i first started the internship i wanted to do computer programming and 2450i that mentor took me need is a building to see if i wanted to do that and i didn't - i couldn't laura my mentor said in the weeks i attended i couldn't sit there i was a hands-on person so it, it's . >> (clapping.) >> and perfect. >> we're going to give you the final word you're a senior as other high schools students

think about their summer what if they asked you telling me about summer jobs do you think this is a good idea. >> for sure definitely intern always have the experience and say you wereably to try it out. >> thank you very much >> (clapping.) >> excellent. >> thank you so much one more pair coming before by the make final announcements so one of the important partners you heard them referenced as a group certainly all the nonprofits working with young people open a day to day year-round to support their development and getting in their job readiness one critically important participate in the mix is jc we'll welcome

up allen wu who will bring up his young person welcome. >> thank you. >> (clapping.) >> first dcyf we employ 2009 of these referenced been a part of initiative since 2012 and everyone who knows me is wondering why i am here he hate being on the stage but this is important that is about young people and about their experiences all the impacts so this is kyle i'll let him introduce himself and i go to gateway high school. >> okay. >> i interviewed with stephanie's and there i worked in h.r. and learned there are

two sides emotional and complaint side and accounting (laughter) yeah. >> no, no - yeah. when you're an employee and complaints and stuff like that and i worked on this side i learned about all types of benefits the employees get and how they're like plans are shut down and how their families are treated and how like the company cares about people so i was interested and i liked it. >> over the course of summer you had the experience had on or about impact on what you wanted to do. >> yes. but before i came to salesforce my first time this is my second time i don't know what exactly he wanted to study in i last week went through like

loves programs and seen like different group members and how like did coding and i enjoyed it i like problem solving and like data organizing that's my thing and i enjoyed i was like something i want to enjoy in college stuff like that what's the best thing about salesforce the best thing they treat you like an equal they didn't treat me like and high school student but an actual employee that they put me into the circle i worked well with them and it was a wonderful experience . >> (clapping.) >> thank you all again, our

employers their commitment earlier, you heard me reference ann ann had been she's in a new role didn't lose her but had been the leader of the workforce engagement inside of salesforce a be tremendous partner and since she's moved on i want to take the opportunity let's clap for anita she's here >> (clapping.) >> what we want to do a couple of more acknowledgements we call high you exclusiveers employers will above and beyond in creating opportunities one more announcement of folks in the room if you are a young person who experiences one of the jobs in

interpz please stand >> (clapping.) >> come on stand up cal academy come on stand upcoming. >> (clapping.) >> awesome, awesome thank you you can take your seats if you're an employer of one or one hundred spotting young people if you're an employer supporting young people wow. >> (clapping.) >> thank you so much 23 if you're an educator somewhere along that path your supporting young people please stand educators in the room >> (clapping.) >> awesome, awesome awesome and then he saw your youngest and he might not be in the room

is japanese junior in the room he was paying i wanted to acknowledge him because soon he'll be one we're investing in put a great career path let me invite a couple a few of our partners we want to shout and invite them and take a couple of pictures before i do that let me invite the director of the defendants department of children, youth here she comes and just to spread the love let me invite the director of office of economic workforce development michael carter stand

right here. >> (clapping.) >> what happens when they give me the mike we want to acknowledge those folks we'll do photo ops so allen get ready acknowledge the partners in one our city's departments stepped up in big ways san francisco unified school district, guatemala come up and acknowledge them and invited ways and wilson will come up and acknowledge in the category of city departments stepped up in a big way san francisco public library and the department of public works do we have representatives either or both of those come forward please. awesome thank you. congratulations you can join that group over there and then our private sector partners

(calling names) representatives from either of you. >> (clapping.) >> that light is killing me i can't see we love them anyway and finally enterprise and rent a car and bank of the west please. >> (clapping.) >> thank you so much and allen go. >> yes. >>